Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 20, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 Winnipeg free press a 7 april cab Drivers feel privacy in Revenue Canada has in credible Powers to scrutinize through audit any member of the Public and to elicit the assistance of people who could help them get on april Revenue Canada decided to swoop Down on the taxicabs that were in attendance for the taxicab Board Spring safety the ladies and gentle men of this Industry have not had a moments peace if people Are to be they Are informed of the audit and Are asked to produce the essential info on april Revenue can Ada chose to exercise its Powers in a much different members of this Industry have been told in no Uncertain terms by a staff member of the taxicab Board that the agents for Revenue Canada had received training in checking meters in order to obtain Correct this was not apparent when they implemented their on one one of the agents was seated in the Drivers seat of a taxi and turned to the operator who was standing at the open door and your meter int work As he punched the buttons does the car have to be As a re numerous members of the Industry Are asking questions about where and by whom this training was if in fact there was any in order for this Federal Agency to retrieve the proper it would have needed to know exactly How to do this correctly so As not to cause equipment to dump data which could not be retrieved indeed there Are some members of the different taxi companies who have been informed of pending a it is difficult to comprehend that it was Revenue Canadas intent to audit every taxi that attended the inspections on the Date in the reaction of the taxi operators is one that should not Surprise they though their privacy has been in fringed upon to a great and in fact were made to feel As though they Are cheaters and second class citizens who were deserving of Noth ing Revenue Canada went about their duties in an extremely Public and demeaning there is no member of our tax paying society who is beyond the reach and scrutiny of Revenue can Ada but Are we All not entitled to a snippet of privacy and confidentiality Susan Thomson general uni City taxi Winnipeg Stop blaming government Why is it that the Media want to have it both ways i have read a number of articles recently on organizations that Are hoping for More Money from the provincial this is not a totally new organizations always want More every without instead of always blaming the Why dont you ask yourselves and these organizations like universities and oth where they expect the Money to come from As a i know How much Money i have available to pay the i cant spend it if i Haven got Why cant these organizations show some accountability to the peo ple of Manitoba Allan Aitken Stonewall tougher stance is needed i concur 100 per cent with Brian Ethier lets try harder slap on the free april 13 whereby the lash should be used to help deter car theft any other related the lash to use would not necessarily but the perfect Sce Nario would be to have the thief sentenced to one lash you take him into this room take off his shirt in front of his gang if he has one and give him the one you quietly put on his shirt and Tell the next times have so too should the Protection Blanket accorded these knife carriers and the exposure to the fullest photos the it truly is time to get a handle on this today is the first Day of the rest of our lets make it the first Day to take serious action against these that one lash then letters such As plus state the in e press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a dearly and Telephone names will be in blushed but not All letters i Lay be edited for style and Short it tiers Are less Likely to be Condor please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax letter maybe submitted through the internet at letter sent via the signed and Telephone Itaev facile reality Stemet obviously cannot be but must include Home address by the Brian Ethier get any real action just agreed upon by but ment never word with no further their we cannot expect much in this watered Down society where we Are governed by less than hard hitting Alexander Gibb Winnipeg facts about atomic bombs Why Are the free press and other newspapers so Hung up about the various nations which have tried to devel p an atomic bomb when Israel has i d the atomic bomb since 1967 sloped the bomb at its Pomona Weli in Posedly secretly but in 11 known to the French and a Merican Seymour in his Book the Samsin explodes one of the worlds most closely guarded be Cret the secret of israels atomic arses it for the first the p and Mili repercussions that have for de been concealed from the to Cades world it is also about americas ability to see what it does not want to a american presidents since John Kennedy have turned a Blind Eye towards israels growing nuclear capacity while paying lip ser vice 19 the goal of nuclear no pro the nonproliferation compact by the caucasian nations is racism at its it is aimed at keeping the Rich nations Rich and the poor nations the propaganda might state her Wise but youll notice that India and China Are not pressured to development of their would Prepa snippet tells lots the caul in their own rights and to enforce nonproliferation Cost More than the club is Lorette snippet about wheres on april 9 seems to sum up wrong with the country to senator who shows up for 16 Ork and is paid by the ers should be ashamed of p by the like anyone Lould Only be paid a Basic and then an additional t for each Day he or she at it is wrong that people Etire from government ser Giuld be paid a full pension at when everyone else has to Pither Quarter Century to at in Blair Leighton fort Ontario dont tax Basic food with regard to the whatever decisions Are made on replacing this lamer shout april difficult Days in Washington poor people feel Tough times Washington these Are difficult political Days for District of Columbia mayor Sharon Pratt facing a contested primary election this fall and trying to put a Good face on some bad news about her the bad news underlines the fact that these Are difficult personal Days for some of the most vulnerable residents of this capital they Are the ones most Hurt by revelations of incompetence in repairing Public housing and corruption in the administering of rent subsidies for the the biggest Shock for families waiting their turn to get rent subsidy vouchers was hearing that others have been jumping the queue by paying department that hands out the vouchers have been charged with giving them to relatives or peddling them for bribes ranging from to the vouchers pay up to 70 per cent of monthly rental although legally available Only to individuals earning a maximum of or families earning a total they have been Given to some bribery earning Over a of 400 such vouchers awarded since the Fri estimates that Only 10 were Given without a one voucher went to an officials sister in fielded a Call investigation of the scheme began in after the head of the housing Agency fielded a Call from an irate citizen demanding to know Why he had not received the rent voucher for which he had paid the requested bartender Sharon homeless since 1977 and bringing up three said she wondered Why she saw people making and a year who were in Low income telemarketer Vanessa her disabled husband and two sons have been sleeping on the floor of a friends apartment since they were evicted from a House whose rent they could not she feels so does Joanne a recovering drug addict and mental patient living with her two sons in a homeless shelter because she cannot afford apartment the waiting list for subsidized Public housing is but a fifth of units Are too damaged to be repairing them is a slow As is shown by one development of 42 apartments in Ibur buildings in Northeast new York times photo mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly seems to be running out of Washington editor David Macdonald after 30 months and million in renovation Only three families have moved despite Federal Law requiring did not remove dangerous Lead based paint from common areas until told the buildings could not open until that was although the buildings were the District did not have the water and heating pipes resulting in floods and damage during the recent relatively Chilly Kelly volunteered to take on the Job of setting such problems a former executive at the local equivalent of Manitoba she came from political obscurity in 1990 to win the democratic party primary and then the general election for she won Strong Public support by attacking the districts administrative inefficiency and padded her Campaign Promise to clean House resonated with an electorate fed up with Rule by Marion crack cocaine smoking Star of a video taken during an Fri sting in so powerful was Public disgust with later convicted of cocaine Possession and that Kelly overcame a Strong prejudice in part of the Black male Community against a woman taking she was strongly supported by Black women and by most of the male and female White special problems now in her fourth and final year As Kelly has found Reform of District practices easier to Promise than to the current local consensus is that she will lose the september democratic primary if this it will reflect the difficult administrative problems she inherited and the special problems of As much As any of her own when she tried to trim the bloated District work padded by Barry in a successful attempt to buy votes that got him reelected she found it to be administratively her efforts to make ends meet have been hampered by the fact that Federal buildings and land downtown cannot be a Federal payment in lieu of property taxes was Frozen during the Reagan and Bush years and will not soon Rise significantly because the Federal government is deep in at 66 per has the highest percentage population of Blacks in any major its senior administrators and Public service employment reflect that there Are numerous economically successful and Well educated Blacks in Washington but there Are More poor with Many social the worst social problem is from which poor Blacks suffer More than directly and the 1990 census showed to have the highest crime rate in the at per the District also had the highest rate of violent property motor vehicle thefts and drug abuse the District also had the highest number of at per it spent the most per resident on police lawyers and a byproduct of the drug driven High crime rate is the spread of diseases through multiple use of infected Needles and the trading of sexual favors for had the highest rate in the country of his gonorrhoea and it also had the highest tuberculosis spending increases Between 1980 and social services spending Rose by 50 per tracking a drug epidemic and the disintegration of the family unit among poor the District had the highest number of live the highest infant mortality rate and the highest rate of these trends have changed Little during Kellys Given the limited real tools of a this is not seems to be attracting most of the blame for everything that is going she also seems to be running out of part of her Early popularity was based on the fact that her administration represented a clean break with that of her convicted of crack cocaine Possession and sent to last thursday the Man she appointed to head the office that monitors the financial and ethical conduct of Public officials was arrested a few blocks North of the mayors he was charged with Possession of crack police stand by the covered body of a Man shot to death in which has been plagued by fool is a Basic which Many especially Chil ire not Able to expanding credit to the poor in or Der to ensure that the Rich pay taxes on Lui Ury food items is not a Propri tax the luxury if Neces Shoul it is migh Unis arc Maue us replacing uus few table groceries not to Tav Cirl Proa draw not be taxed free by Garry Trudeau but under no circumstances Basic food items be handing out food at a food Bank is a Hilt by discomforting pressed upon me that some canadians and Many politicians Benefit from being similarly Helen Mccullough Winnipeg 5tanpin6 i i Ona country can Mark then its dont think ;