Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 17, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba I 3fran 1s9 editorials Liberty of Reh Glam bin Nulty of get rights lets play Ball the Deal struck by the Eity and promoter Sam Kate Foi a new baseball stadium next to the Exchange District is a Good one for All con it is also a prime example of what can pen when the Public and private sectors work together and May provide a Model for future Community development under the kat2 gets a new stadium to help ensure his baseball club remains the City gets a Public facility that will stimulate business in the area and provide a Fine venue for baseball ing and after the Panama the Best part of the Deal is that it is being achieved at reasonable Cost to the private investors will put at least million into the which is expected to Cost the province and the Panama games committee will put up the the City did make Cessions to Katz it provided a 25year lease on the waived the amusement tax at base Ball but not con and offered a partial exemption on property but it insisted that he pay the appropriate property and business tax on shops and restaurants located in the stadium and required that he pick up the Cost for reconstructing Pioneer Katz walked at the suggesting he would need in the he concluded it was enough to do the there have been a number of concerns about the some councillors were reportedly looking for a Chance to kill the Deal because they did not want to see a baseball stadium located on what is considered a prime piece of real estate next to the Exchange the is katzes proposal was the Best one on it made no sense to reject the Ball Park in the Hope that a better one might come the critics do make an important Point when they say the City must take care in the development of the downtown mayor Thompson and a number of including Glen have shown an interest in developing projects that showcase its people and its perhaps the sector develop ment Model used to fund the baseball Park can be used to help bring their ideas to upholding the Law the Winnipeg police services decision to appoint an Industrial Liaison officer is a useful and creative result of the departments review of the Way it handles disputes Between organized labour and management that arise from labour disputes Are always tense and emotional in involving As they do the livelihoods of individuals and and the More informed about and familiar with a situation the police can the More effectively they will be Able to play any part they might have in the same cannot be said about another decision arising from that which is that the police will no longer enforce the Law on the picket line without a court order specifically requiring them to do this would allow striking workers to deny Access to or exit from a building without police chief David Cassels says police will not intervene without a court order unless other Vio lations of the criminal code Are committed beyond denying Access or he does not want the police drawn into the Middle of a civil dispute Between the company and the Union like they have been in the past and believes the new policy will help pre vent violence during a the police should not be drawn into the Middle of a civil dispute and neither will they be if no Laws Are the chiefs concern stems from an incident during a strike at Boeing Canada last year when Vio Lence broke but As trucks attempted to Cross the picket and one can easily sympathize with As strikes they often become unreasonable and while labour and management will eventually the police Are Seldom Given any society allows the police some discretion in How they enforce various relying on their experience and Good judgment to know when and what action is society cannot allow the police to categorically refuse to enforce the As chief Cassels appears to be blocking other Peoples Access exit from a building is an Ille Gal the police need no court order to act when that happens and they have a responsibility to inter refusing to do their duty until the situation on the picket line has worsened to the Point that other violations of the criminal code occur is an invitation to More confrontations like the one at not and will bring the police no credit and the Public no Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free Affsa est 1671 Winnipeg Tribune est 1990 Ruey rep Kop publisher email Nicholas editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor Harry Brown circulation sales and marketing Laurie advertising Verne Kalichuk human resources Glenn Williams finance and administration a a publish Adum Energy policy rebuked we want to reduce the deficit but not by Cut Ting health and social pro one easy Way is to eliminate the annual billion subsidy to the Oil Art appalling Giveaway considering the wealth of the recipients and the negative Impact on the envy the suggestion for removing the subsidy comes from Jim chairman of the inter National Institute for sustainable he delivers a stinging rebuke of Ottawa for failing to live up to its pledge to reduce Carbon dioxide emissions that cause global Macneill feels strongly about Canada reneging on its Promise to curb he remembers the 1992 Earth sum Mit in there to the applause of other Canada announced it would slash emis Sions so that by the year they would be reduced to the 1990 present at the notes was Paul then the Liberal environment who endorsed the Canad an Val Werier Macneill was proud and for another reason As in 1987 he was the Secretary Gen eral of the in world commis Sion on environment and which set the land Mark principle of sustainable this would assure the use of resources for future generations by protecting the Carbon dioxide emissions will be 13 to 15 per cent higher by the year 2000 at the rate they Are Why did Canada fail we Haven even says Macneill and he adds few canadians know that the finance minister adds around billion to his deficit every year by subsidizing the Fossil fuel of billion goes to tax Breaks for develop ment and depletion the remainder goes to Grants for projects such As in Ottawa spends less than million a year on programs to encourage Energy in the Federal government spends 30 times More taxpayer dollars in ways to encourage greater consumption of Fossil fuels than ways to encourage More efficient use of a flee consequences i Are almost entirely Nega Tive for technological and inter National and of course it Means taxpayers spend 30 times More to promote global warming than to reduce Canada vies with the in consuming most Energy per capita in the Manitoba is the top user in North americans Are car the has More than 155 million cars and 35 millions trucks and vans on the if the entire american population went for a ride in these no one would have to sit in the Back reduction in use is an obvious step Forward but the answer lies with increased efficiency in Homes and Power Cali for is making elec tric cars mandatory for the the biggest gains in productivity came after world of prices shot up Between 1978 and says today european countries impose taxes to Force greater there is no such incentive in do you says Mac that Fossil fuel costs less than bottled water in Canada and More so in the we penalize he As an he Points to Federal subsidies to Alberta Oil Sands which produces Oil with a High Carbon dioxide How can Ottawa justify its position at the climate treaty to be signed this Decem Ber in Japan is the government More inter ested in subsidizing big Guys in the Oil Industry than conserving the planet Val Werier is a Winnipeg his column appears on avoiding the courthouse stink few a Sunset vol 125 190 at the Folk festival last a few Young women exercised their right to go Bare breasted in pub Lic by taking off their tops while they did whatever it is people do at Folk there was also a report of a few Young turks on cutting Edge of social who took off everything and went mud sliding but since they failed to get themselves arrested or charged with that phase of the revolution remains on the were instructed by Security officials to cover and it seems that they submitted meekly to this trampling of their fundamental civil right to expose at the time of this there had been no word that they were planning to sue such restraint is unusual considering the litigious mood of modern a mood encouraged by the fact that the Law can be an something the judiciary have never been Able to cover perhaps the women were inspired by the Folk music to invoke another right that is Dom used these the right to exercise common How rarely that right is used just How litigious we have become can be seen in two cases in the news this the Mother of a boy is thinking of suing the police because her son was bitten by a police it seems the lad was wandering the streets at 2 when he was stopped by police investigating a break Andente in the the who was in violation of a curfew imposed for a different break and fled and the dog pursued in another a parents Nat ural response might have been to whale the tar out of the Little but the modern Mother knows if she does she end up being sued by the kid herself a child in new Brunswick is trying to sue his Mother for negligence because she was involved w a ear Aee Tom Oleson Dent when she was pregnant with in another an american sportswriter is suing a basketball coach for calling him a mexican idiot Over something the journalist had i dont know whether it was the mexican or the idiot part that caused the alleged extreme humiliation and emotional distress but journalists must be much More delicate Flowers now than they used to whatever the merits of the one of the lawyers figures its Worth in the confusing matter of Bare breasts it seems rather a pity for common sense to stand in the Way of another Opportunity to add to the growing and bizarre body of bar breast edits a bit in that the courts have any time at All for other the supreme court has managed to squeeze on to its docket the consideration of whether Quebec has the right to but not before it dealt with the More urgent business of Lap this matter of Bare breasts is serious enough that Federal jus Tice minister Anne Mclellan has them at the top of her but in the it remains very because it is important to understand whats Legal and whats i will try to sum a woman at last weekends festival is asked to cover Marize the effects of recent court one court has decreed that a Bare breast bouncing Down Broadway is not a sex Ual but merely a Neutral anatomical the supreme in the landmark la dancing ruled that although the female breast May be innocently exposed in once it is the Barer of the breast becomes guilty of indecent of the person who is touching it is guilty of sexual a woman bar ing a breast thus can fall into three categories innocent exer Ciser of a Basic civil right lewd criminal or tragic men Are in an even More difficult touching or Brush ing against a Bare breast and dont try to say it was accidental makes them guilty of sexual previous court have decided that merely looking at a fully clothed woman constitutes sexual harassment noticing a Bare breast would seem to be a considerably More serious so until All of this is cleared men Are advised to Wear very dark glasses and occupy their hands by keeping them in their All of this could have been avoided if common sense had kept people out of the courts and out of the hands of the in the first but its too late for tha now its not too for anyone considering taking someone else to court Over foolish to take some advice from the ancient egyptians the Wisdom of recorded about 900 advises us go not in and out of the court of that thy name May not that Good and i certainly intend to take of some one with deep pockets publicly refers to me As a Canadian Jour in which Case i will get him on both Tom Odesm is g pm press Edi Tofil writer his of Kun of i ;