Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press january editorials editor John 6977044 muddled Over Bosnia not much emerged with any clarity from the nato Summit in Brussels this except that the Lead ers of the Western Alliance Are deeply embarrassed by their failure to take any action whatsoever to Stop the carnage in the former that May account for a unanimous decision by the 16 members of the organization to authorize air strikes in if directed to do so by the United Canadas position on this is not exactly although this with a Contin gent of attached to the in is directly affected by foreign minister Andre Ouellet originally said i want to say quite clearly that Canada does not support air after Canada supported the nato he claimed that Canada had always said that strikes might be needed in certain prime minister Chretien says that he sees no need for them now but that they May be required in the we should ask him in a few the declaration expresses concern about two particular where 150 Canadian soldiers Are trapped by serb forces which refuse to allow their re placements in and the Airport at which serves As a distribution Centre and which serb gunners have closed in the canadians Are especially Vulner Able to nato first threatened air strikes against the serbs in but that threat was never carried out because of fears that they would prompt reprisals against the peace that danger still and canadians Are at the heart of this president who has been burned by this Issue in the cautioned that no threats should be made unless there is the will to carry them More empty rhetoric will simply erode natos the threat has now been although whether it will be carried out is questionable few members of the Alli Ance Are really enthusiastic about the the real ques is whether it should be carried can air strikes accomplish their goal air strikes would make a but they would also raise the level of commitment by particularly its european in the if they fail to achieve their what is the next step that As it is pondered in the capitals of the is probably enough to ensure that the serb gunners need fear nothing from the skies and to justify Chretien worthless polls prime minister Jean Chretien has asked the privy Council office to prepare new guidelines on Public opinion polling by Federal government the responsible officials should study the matter careful receive reports from working parties and policy analysts and then write a Clear and succinct instruction on governmental polling dont Public opinion polling has abundantly proven its worthlessness As a tool of government in the Mulroney government spent million on opinion polls during the sunup to the october 1992 Constitution the result was rejection of the governments policy in every Region of polling is a precious instrument for the marketing of politicians and political political Par ties often make excellent use of polls in planning election if they can find contributors willing to pay for the there can be no objection to such but government departments Are created to advise ministers and to carry out their they have no business commissioning polls to Tell the minister what policy can be sold to the Public and How it should be pack timid and ignorant Public officials still crave the Comfort and moral support that can sometimes be found in opinion Survey and so the practice the Mulroney government tried to keep its polls on the Constitution revealing them when ordered to do so by the Manitoba Premier Gary who shares Mulroney principles on this keeps secret the polls on which he spends Manitoba taxpayers but if the polls Are going to be kept Why Are the governments conducting them the Mulroney govern ments Constitution polling was commissioned mainly from the conservative party polling firm Decima re without competitive governmental polling is a Way of making the govern ment pay the party friends for doing the party it serves the party and not the government a distinction that soon becomes blurred in the eyes of a party too Long in governmental opinion polling is an abuse of Power by the ruling Chretien should order his ministers to conduct no opinion if some have been the results should be published Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Maurice Switzer publisher Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor John Dafoe editorial Page editor directors John Craig Barnard oct Eaton de Beu Dumeur human resources Bill Brian c01tom finance step Ian major production Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson newspapers company limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member of the Manitoba press Council lets consider the source one of the reasons for the solid Ity of the Canadian banking sys tem is unlike the All deposits of under Are fully insured by the Canada Deposit insurance this protects the savings of the vast majority of canadians while guarding the system itself from consumer panic occasioned by the unscrupulous activities of a if the Howe Institute has its All that will the a righting economic think tank headed by former stockbroker Tom will publish a report shortly proposing that the Chic reduce its coverage from 100 per cent to just 80 per cent of deposits under so called the Institute would bring increased mar Ket discipline to the canadians would be forced to pay More Atten Tion to How their Trust company or credit Union is managed and take personal responsibility for their Sav at the same time the Howe expects widows and orphans to decipher the intricacies of the Bank it wants the Chic deregulated its manage ment taken away from the government and Given to the financial institutions it is designed to Kierans should find this report personally when he Frances Russell was president of Mcleod Young Weir Scotia Mcleod in the Early Kierans enthusiastically backed the no bankrupt East coast Energy and encouraged his company reluctant Halifax office to help it get off the the company was formed in 1981 by Fred who went on to become former prime minister Brian mul moneys chief of his Ger Ald and Gordon it failed in costing More than share holders a total of among the big investors were Mulroney himself and his financier Walter Wolfe and Michel the col lapse prompted an ramp i Vestiga the affair is catalogued in detail in the new a life in Nova Scotia by Donald once chief fundraiser for former Nova Scotia Premier John was a National director of Mcleod Young Weir and Vic Epresi Dent of its Atlantic he subsequently lost his stockbrokers licence for allegedly leaking details of former tory Cabinet minister Stewart Mcinnes Blind Trust to the Media and the he insists and there is published evidence backing him up that it was a Frame concocted by a Nova Scotia journalist and a Junior Mcleod Young who writes with a dash of humor and has since turned to writing and Bagman is his fourth in the chapter entitled the Atlan tic sea Ripley says that East coast Energy was All Siz and a lot of Small and quite a few big got burned Tom and Alfred Doucet were both and smart and adept at verbal persuasion each was Able to make anything he said come across with such conviction it was almost always Ripley writes that Kierans urged the Halifax office to help Doucet find his seed capital privately on the Promise if the company went Mcleod Young would get the although doubts mounted in the Kierans remained keen and in some went out himself to sell the Deal to institutions and Large the trouble started in Ripley when Wolfe wanted out because he needed Ripley Felt the Market was too thin to sell that amount of Specula Tive so Cogger went to Tom Kierans agreed to help Wolfe and Cogger out by making a Stock mar Gin loan to them of against their shares in East coast my notes and those of Suzanne an assistant at and the Ontario court record would later confirm the exact nature of Kierans Deal and cog Gers even though Kierans hated to be reminded that he had made the loan to impress who was close to Brian a Man Kier ans correctly judged would soon be prime Cogger refused to pay Back the Money because Wolfe knew that East coast was already in a Cash Kierans went to Montreal and met with Cogger for Mcleod Young successfully sued but no repayment was contacted at his Home in Nova Ripley said Kierans position on the Chic is he was great pals with set the stage for East coast Energy and Cre ated the climate to make it and he thinks widows and orphans should look out for its always easy for those with wealth to say those without should be More careful with their warm Winnipeg with Fence of Trees even in the coldest Days of this deep freeze there Are pockets of warmth in a a solid Fence blocking the prevailing wind and facing the Sun is a pleasant Surprise on a similar to entering a warm dependent on the color and species of a Fence abutting a sidewalk acts As a heat i tried an Experiment one placing my Bare hand on different coloured an exer Cise no doubt confounding to passers the White reflecting the Sun was the Brown Fence Felt warm to the warmer it seemed than a Green a Fence of unpainted and aged with was the warmest of them sufficient to serve As a hand it illustrates that microclimate can be so different from the the thermometer was at minus 26 and the wind chill hovering around sufficient it is said to freeze exposed flesh in three but the temperature on the Cedar Fence under a Bright must have been 25 degrees i must remember that and use the Fence As a heat restorer on a Long now i wont deny it was but i got a glow from the its warmer top when walking with a Friend on a frigid i came upon Jack erect on his daily with the de Meanor of one who could plow through any i joined him and its a strange thing but conversation dispels time and tem the winds lost their it As we once chief of police of Webster recalled at one time the City insisted civic staff reside in Winnipeg As a condition of Pitts he today has a tax on All who work in the so those who live elsewhere have to pay for the services they the Rule that police officers had to live in the City made them part of the v file photo evergreens around the City would offer natural break against the cold winds of Val Werier Community and in a More intimate Way than today when he was a cop on the beat Iii people in the neighbourhood knew he was a policeman and it want unusual to be called at Home there was a disorderly party or a broken the parents could be asked to pay for the there was no for Mal charge invoking the elaborate and weighty process of the Justice the kids behaved he re if a policeman lived in their police were respected and trusted and on Public View because most were on the a system that provokes images of the Keystone cops of comedy was used to Alert constables on the each carried a key to phone boxes attached to certain when Headquarters wanted to get in touch with cops on the it would activate the red lights would Flash alerting the cop to get out his trusty open the phone Box and Call the if it were an say a Bank Bells would ring out As calling for an immediate the Bells were so loud and persistent that businesses complained and silence was restored to the Webster remembers the phone boxes downtown were located at Portage and Sherbrook and Webster is a Walker of Long when he was transferred to Cruiser cars he made up for his Lack of exercise by walking to and from his Home on Lipton to Rupert mind his Mother had set a Good sex she would walk daily to Eaton to do her grocery now on our walk we passed Pat and her dog a Walker probably without peer in the no matter How she goes out daily for two 20minute walks with and then an hour on her and always in Good so is int it wonder he said of the frosty so in the Sun is shining and the sky is the air so and he meant every word of on my Way Home i thought of my Experiment with the is Here any Way we can ameliorate our Winter climate the solution is quite Plant a couple of million Spruce Trees in and around a Grove of Spruce enclosing habitation would eliminate wind that would create a special microclimate with a taste of summer in Winter and a Lovely splash of color is that farfetched not at just the Fence in my neighbor Hood was warmed by the Sun 150 Mil lion Kilometres out in the a Forest at hand can do ;