Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 9, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Winnipeg free press August editorials Brian Cole 6977044 Canadian hostages the vignettes of misery Are All too familiar thousands of refugees in desperate circumstances fleeing another bloody War in the this time it happens to be tens of thousands of them running in front of a croatian offensive that has resulted in the recapture of the ser held enclave of in the last few years the same scenes have been played 1 out with different actors mostly croats or bosnian muslims in flight from serb aggression and the ethnic cleansing that inevitably followed serb the serb refugees have Good reason to fear the deeds of their various armies have left Many scores to and the desire for vengeance appears to run deep in the the croats for the moment Are the bosnian Are Rei Vigo the serbs Are in flight and willing now to but in the years since the collapse of negotiations have meant nothing beyond desperate efforts on the part of whichever faction happened to be los ing at the moment to buy time or regain some Adan the United the West All Hope once again that negotiations will bring a resold but there Are no realistic grounds to believe that they the fighting is Likely to the return of Croatia to the conflict changes the nature of the Situa opening the possibility of a much wider War than we have previously in the worst the present composed of Serbia and would openly enter the War in Aid of its serb cousins in Croatia and Bosnia Albania would take the Opportunity to move to the Aid of the albanians in the serb province of Koso to Greece would be tempted to go into Macedonia would look to relieve the bosnian muslims and two nato allies might find themselves looking at each other Down barrels of guns in a ground War in All of this leaves the in and Canada with a major decision to there was never much peace to keep in the Balkans today it is pointless even to make the pre the in in which Canada has a Strong has done Noble but mostly humanitarian under extremely difficult and then Only at the Sufferance of the warring the helmets Are potential pawns in the of a wider their presence does Little to Aid the victims of the Balkan fighting and Handcuffs nato and the which fear to intervene in that fighting because of what might happen to the l foreign affairs minister Andre Ouellet has said the widening of the War Means Canada must review its Posi Tion As a peacekeeper it certainly the Royal Canadian horse artillery from Shilo and Winnipeg Sec Ond battalion of the Princess Patricia Canadian Light infantry Are scheduled to go the Balkans this that will Exchange one group of hostages for a fresh the in has failed in the if it will not change its mandate then it is time to bring our soldiers skinning Churchill its Nice that a Broa based task Force of stakeholders came up with the name Gateway North for a marketing Agency that would promote use of the port of it would be nicer still if Canada ports would support the promotion Effort by keeping a manager in the the Federal Harbor Agency elimination of the Post of manager of the port of Churchill shows dramatically How much of a future the Agency sees for the it also sabotages the work that the mooted Gateway North Agency might do if it were allowed to see the Light of when the promoters of Churchill find a Prospect who wants to talk to the manager of the the prospective customer will learn that the manager of the port of works in port a Mere pm South Southeast of the manager in port col borne will have the Chance to visit Churchill now and then by driving to Toronto hopping a plane to Winnipeg and catching flight to it will be no More difficult in practice than managing Sable Island or Goose Bay from an office in Southern prospective users May also wonder if the port and the rail line will be improved the Broa based task Force of stakeholders found that the port needs million of work right away and the rail line needs million of shoring it was whispered that human resources development minister Lloyd Axworthy thought he knew where he could get part of the but there has not been so much As a whisper about a Start on the rail ways the lines does not have million for such an unprofitable a temporary quirk in the Grain freight rates is giving Churchill a Brief advantage Over the Lawrence ports for shipping Prairie Church ills defenders had bet Ter stir their stumps and round up customers while that advantage the Lawrence route shipping inter ests that cant wait to strangle Churchill never Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Rudy Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Calvin James circulation Verne Kalichuk human resources Stephan Majorki operations Perry Glenn 1995 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 in a Brilliant Public relations the French government decides to conduct nuclear tests Over serbian positions in Ottawa doing More with less is a refrain heard in the in the supermarket most in the seat of fed eral when someone tries to sell you something with the less is More be there is a Subtle difference Between doing More with less and another related giving them less and telling them its while the former is something we All aspire to a com the latter is nothing More than intellectual imagine lumber jacks who wont admit they Cut Down Trees for a just the More is less slogan appeared on parliament Hill when human resources minister Lloyd Manitoba senior Cabinet minister and architect of the country new and improved social Security unveiled a new look for Canada employment centres which offer a myriad of fed eral programs including unemployment retraining old age and the Canada pension to help meet a goal of massively downsizing the Axworthy Cut jobs and closed 150 Canada employment at a time when the Federal government and Axworthy Are preaching the importance of government directed Job training and one had to wonder whether cutting this Many jobs and offices was really doing More with or just asking people to make do with at closer examination there appears to be More than just a Little method to Axworthy mad the Cec Model and attached training programs eventually evolved into a bureaucratic night Mare of Stephen King Many can attest to the limited fun Factor in trying to sort out an administrative problem with a bureaucrat who Hast seen a pay raise since the Maple Leafs last won the Stanley Axworthy has already gone on National reporter at great length describing the myriad of misguided training programs that did Little else but ease the con science of employment counsellors charged with finding new jobs for their Many who have been through the system Tell their own tales of 10week computer training courses that did nothing else but put them behind in the Story lines of their favorite soap in the new leaner Cec clients will Access much of their information Over the phone and by Way of electronic kiosks which will allow people to get file claims and even make appointments for Job interviews without having to negotiate the labyrinth of queues and wickets that Are the hallmark of modern government perhaps the real Gem in Axworthy proposal could be his idea to Lump All employment and income Security services including those from the provincial and municipal level into one creating a social service quickie Mart that would not Only provide bet Ter but Cost a whole lot less to Axworthy already has plans to turn the former Revenue Canada building on York Street in downtown Winnipeg into a prototype Axworthy quickie marts will provide useful i sense quickie Mart where those who need government assistance can do so in convenient As a newcomer to Ontario just last i went through the painful experience of registering my new residency with various provincial and municipal by the end of a two week i was forced to visit no less than four offices of the motor vehicles two offices of provincial health along with Vari Ous trips to municipal although this hardly qualifies As pro found putting everything under one roof seems to be a Good idea to this single idea is so and so it could signal Good things for the rest of Axworthy social Security the human resources minister must prove that he has a realistic plan to reshape Job training programs and that unemployment insurance can really become a temporary employ ment insurance aimed at getting peo ple Back to the inherent logic in what Axworthy has proposed seems to indicate we Are All pointed in the right there will be critics As Axworthy noted in his address to some will complain that getting rid of people and replacing them with electronic kiosks can never produce better Axworthy noted that Many said the same thing about automatic Bank Teller machines and like Many of in the last i Haven seen a Bank Teller with All due respect to those fed eral Public servants who will lose their Axworthy May have proven once and for All that it is pos sible for government to give us More with less tax dollars if Only Axworthy could be con Vinced to include a dry cleaner and a place to drop off our Cable Bills in his new on Estop government life would be Dan Lett is free press National tracking the amazing Marie Curie by David Leibowitz Cox news service the conversation enters hour and the professor picks up his he has a Point to make about wants the visitor to know now what he has known for 15 he thumbs right to Page we cannot build a better world without improving the her quote the professor reads but the words go you Are watching the Way he holds the in both cradling it to his Chest like an he closes the cover gently and Low ers the Book to his his hands from just a Small she Rose to become the greatest woman who Ever Robert Woznicki explains with 15 years Worth of con i cant find anyone else who even comes she is Madame Marie born Maria the great est woman who Ever get it there is not space enough for the Ladys life the meagre youth in the move to the two Nobel the husband killed by a horse drawn the five duels fought Over consider that the professor has spent 15 of his 72 years getting it written Madame daughter of made a and still he left 7 for three weeks in to knot Loose Warsaw is where they Madame curies life and Robert Woznicki for her it was 1867 for him the Kosciuszko foun a polish heritage had grown sick of hearing about the they wanted to hear about Marias first 24 years As a Woznicki was awarded a he researched for a haunted the polish nation Al the University of War saw for the next he wrote and she had a phenomenal he i was in Awe when i found out such a great woman had so Little writ ten about the essentials of that life occupy the 20 years Between 1891 and in that Marie studied at the sorbonne and married Pierre they had two girls and shared a Nobel prize in for their discovery of by the second decades Marie had been become a women rights and won a Nobel prize in chemistry for isolating pure a substance used to treat cancer and to find buried the five duels came of not Only suitors journalists the Media always antagonized each the professor when someone would write some thing the other fellow disagreed he would be challenged to a while there were no the Story is still so Hollywood even hol Lywood is in a miniseries for which Woznicki is the tech Nical Loretta Swit from Mash is set to is a Small Victory amid 15 years of defeats the professors Book has lost As has his he wrote to College libraries offering the seminal Curie there were two responses and no he even offered to take time off from teaching history at Northern Arizona University to lec Ture in local High no a lesser Man might be Madonna and All these other Crea Tures walk around getting All this Woznicki if you ask 100 High school kids who Madame Curie Only a Small percentage might be Able to Tell in the conversation dwindles Down to the question that brought the visitor to the whats in it for whats the return for those 15 years you have scratched at Learned that the professor has a a a students in 45 adventures of his own he was in Poland when Solidarity in Bei Jing for Tia Namen he shines telling those but the Madame dead since produces a higher the it turns is that love really will do that to a my Brothers a says Robert he gives me far away that i could do All this and not make any but a lot of people forget about the Joy of research and in an Academe that been my in that what gets me you see his at rest on some unsold Madame Curie the professor swears once on his stack of its been a great in a very Happy David Leibowitz is a columnist for Tribune newspapers in metropolitan ;