Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free november 1981 the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to readers Back policeman we have been following the Sobkowicz Case from the begin newspapers such As the free press seem to print what they want to no matter whom it hurts police use of excessive free november a few years a Constable shake Speare was killed in Boniface an ramp officer carrying out duties at Virden was killed and two other offi cers seriously does a Man have to be a dead policeman to be a Good Guy on june Justice John Hunt of the court of Queens Bench when passing sentence stated the actions of the police in and Constable Bell in were proper and he also said that Constable William Bell was entirely justified in taking measures to protect himself and we have known Bill Bell All his he was Well behaved and respected his who taught him right from wrong in a Christian Constable Bell was a sunday school teacher for several years he was in school basketball and later he took up judo and we Are had he not been that he could have handled six men like these we Are also sure he would have preferred it that Way than to use his and Johnston garbage i think it is a sorry Day when a policeman has to pay to a person who was threatening his what judge Jewers is saying is a policeman or any other does not have the right to protect them selves when they feel their life is in Constable Bell had already been stabbed in the Abdomen when Organ struck him on the head with a tire what Normal human being would not fear for his life under these circumstances the reference to a glancing blow on the head with a tire is absolutely i would think that any blow on the especially with a Metal could be serious if not speaking As the wife of a i would rather be told that my husband had shot someone while protecting himself or someone else than to have someone Tell your husband is it is no wonder that policemen ask themselves Why they bother risking their lives to protect the citizens of Winnipeg when they have to put up with this kind of garbage Claire Walker Winnipeg the Only course we Are the parents of Constable Bill and proud of our son is not allowed to speak to the news but we we have been quiet for too and you have been crucifying us for far too the fear of a police officer being injured in the line of duty is always on a parents from the night our son was and we waited in the Hospital to see if he would live or we have suffered untold if the knife wound had gone on half Inch either Way he would have who would you have championed then never once have we doubted the action that our son it was the Only course open to he is a Fine and a Fine it is not fair for a newspaper to print the Story the Way in which the free press we have much anger and heartache inside and no Way to release How can you be so cruel and Bell Winnipeg Back on track i would like to express my disgust at the article police use of Force excess free november i am 80 years of age and have never seen such a fuss made Over a Case of this kind it is a shame that policemen Are bound by protocol not to give their Side of the it is unfair of the press to take advantage of this by dramatizing the facts in favor of one Side Over the i feel sympathy for police offi cers such As Constable Bell who must work in the crime Ridden sections of in my the police were respected by the nowadays it seems even the courts cannot show the respect to the police that they so rightly lets get Back on track and give poli Cemen the Benefit of the i think they Are doing a great Chester Winnipeg appalled the Case of Constable Bell versus Organ shocked i watched William Bell grow from a Little boy to a concerned teenage sunday school teach and then on to become an excellent i am appalled that a judge of our courts should chastise a peace officer during his tour of was stabbed in the hit on the head with a tire Iron and while lying in a Pool of his own defended himself in the manner in which he had been Constable Bell risked his life to make the City streets Safe from dangerous persons carrying lethal and yet he was Given such shoddy i am ashamed of our courts of Law until i had Calder great afterthought i wish to congratulate Howard Pawley on the Confidence the peo ple of Manitoba have shown him by electing the nip As the next govern ment of the i am the regional representative for the prospectors and developers association of at the present the level of Mineral exploration in our province is very and is one of the few Bright spots in the provinces this exploration is largely taking place in the Remote sections of our As a it creates employment in the areas where it is most Many of our native people Are engaged in this employment As Well As others who live in the it would be a disaster for the North and our Lon term out look for future development if this exploration activity were to be cur the Money being spent on exploration is largely generated out Side the province As a has a direct Benefit to our the Mineral exploration game is a High risk venture and the chances of any Success Are at least 95 per cent against any return on your if an exploration venture is then you Are looking five to ten years Down the Road before any economic return is during the previous tenure of the the government decided to go into the exploration business with the private sector carte to do this again would be at that the intention was to bring the level of exploration up in the prov this it failed to and the opposite effect was exploration went in the nip position paper sent out to candidates this was How the facts Are there to the exploration level today can be Veri fied by the mines the mining Industry readily accepts voluntary participation with it would be a very Retro Grade and costly step to make this joint venture in the first a Large new staff would have to be usually without much experience it would Only serve to drive the exploration dollars out of with regard to taxes on the mining which were brought More in line with the rest of Canada under the conservative this also had a great effect on renewed any return to the old system would Only serve to curtail the exploration now taking the mining Industry is waiting for guidance and is at present in a hold ing a positive Outlook on the part of the new nip government ties in much the same Way that they shop around for anything voter allegiance is largely especially among the under45 age which has been brought up in an age of Madison Avenue where superficiality is the in the Long nothing about Mani Toba politics is Given the fact that such a Large part of our economic destiny is beyond our control because of such factors As inter est the Only reasonable As sumption is that the voters Are Likely to be just As fickle four years Bernie Bellan Winnipeg a first Howard Pawley offered advice on mining exploration would give notice that the benefits or to be created by Mineral would be Bruce Bruce Dunlop Winnipeg wimp better the election of the new democrats by such a wide margin May have surprised the so called but it should not for several first among these is the fact that so Many Manitoban held Sterling Lyon in such Clear for those of us who worked for one party or another during the one word came to be associated with Premier Lyon on the other Howard Pawley did not exactly capture the voters imagination Many people with whom i spoke described him As a it that a wimp is More acceptable than a Jerk to a greater number of can any great significance be attached to the nip Victory not real All that it indicates is in times when the Economy is voters will be quite willing to toss out the current whether provincial or in the nip and the tories Are not that far apart on most Ster Ling Lyon May have professed to be a but in terms of actual policies the level of government spending in Manitoba has remained quite comparable with other prov both of the major parties ended up promising Dent icare pro expanded and so a great Many people pick and choose among political Par this is the first time in the history of Manitoba that a government was not Given a second the conservatives did enough damage in one they scrapped the nip plan to build Auto acs head office on main Street and also a new court House Between Rupert Street and James these projects were badly needed in the Core the free press Falls victim to its own the so called me a projects will but now the Peoples interests will be Well pro Eph Portigal Winnipeg pay the Piper congratulations to the Winnipeg especially the free press and the for running such a wonder Ful election Campaign on behalf of the new democratic while the nip did not pay you for your Manitoban will be pay ing the Piper for the next Long Ryan Winnipeg nip Boogie Edas Premier of Manito thought of having the beatles at tend his one wonders which Rock group Howard Pawley would like to do the nip Boogie at the Start of his peo Ples Congress Vern Charnetski not deserved whatever has River Heights done to deserve Warren Steen and Dan Mckenzie Willaine Kroft Winnipeg budget threatens the Middle class child safety finance minister Allan Mac each ens budget of november 12 contains the mechanism for the eventual but speedy elimination of the Middle class in this budget will entrench the principle of taxation of no realized monetary immediate taxation on deemed and possible future and effective retroactive taxation in some the related provisions As babies Riding in the front seat of a car on their mothers and Young children jumping All Over the pressing their noses against the win Dow common sights in a Young sitting on someones knee will absorb All the Shock should an Accident he will also protect the person he is sitting i cannot help but feel anger and frustration when i am witness to Chil Dren not being properly secured while Riding in the Purchase of a car seat May represent a considerable sex but is a child not Worth it parents must realize that an Acci Dent happening at 50 Kilometres and hour represents for their child the same risk As a fall from a third Storey for those who wish to know More on the subject of car the Manitoba motor league has a film called secure your Childs and it is available for any group interested in seeing franc01se Cameron Winnipeg not newsworthy on october a modern air training school was officially opened at Portage la it was a very impressive at the Entrance to the building there is a Large Bronze dedicated to the memory of who was a i was at the opening with two of my two Sisters from and other relatives whom the air Force was Able to that the number of voters in six swing Ridings who gave the nip 34 or who could have Given the conservatives 29 seats had they voted the other its the second time in As Many elections that a seeming massive Vic tory has hinged on a few votes in a Small number of key in when the conservatives won 33 seats with 49 per cent of the popular an even smaller shift of votes in six Ridings would have kept the nip in Power with 29 despite the fact the nip popular vote was Only 38 per these which would prejudice the electoral system and constitute a miscarriage of political Justice if they Haven they Are avoided be cause of what political experts Call a pattern in the electorate favouring one party Over another in a particular redistribution makes it impossible to draw exact comparisons of vote distributions Between 1977 and How a glance at the electoral map reveals that the narrow wins in both cases occurred in Ridings along Manito Bas Diagonal that imaginary line divides the province into two solitudes the largely ethnic North and East and the largely Anglo politics a i am curious to know Why the people of who May have wished to attend this event in Honor of one of Manitoba War were not Given the Opportunity to do to my knowl Edge there was no mention of the event in the newspaper or on i personally notified the free press on october was the opening just not newsworthy Barker Winnipeg the budget Are nothing Short of legalized although highlighted under the Guise of a budget to ensure that the super Rich pay their fair share of the new taxation methods introduced to plug supposed loopholes Are really de signed to emasculate and subjugate canadians from All walks of with the immediate result of loss of incentive and the Only positive note connected to the budget is that it provides the Feder Al opposition parties with an Opportunity to possibly defeat the government on the budget unless we Are past the Point of canadians should make their concerns known to their maps and to the government in As Strong a Man Ner As this is the government that sponsored the Kent commission with its resultant recommendations for advisory editorial committees for All which would be answer Able to a government appointed press rights this same government sponsored hearings earlier this year regarding the possibility of establish ing a a Belike newspaper in does that sound like Freedom of the press is to be curtailed it is better to have government by rather than govern ment by John Mcleod president Bearcat explorations birthdays Myrta Manito Nina Selkirk Mani Toba twins born Sas november Frances Russell Saxon and mennonite South and this line is not both in 1977 and there were exceptions which saw one or the other party taking a seat or two outside its in for the tories won Thompson and came close to taking flin flon in the Dps Northern while the nip held onto Brandon deep in the conservative southwestern Strone this the nip had three narrow victories within its territory Thomp River East and the tories came close to defeat in Swan River and lost both Riel and Brandon West which had been their traditional in the six seats which put the tories Over the top by a cumulative margin of Only votes were Birtle Russell Crescent Wood Dau Phin Matthews 124 and Wolseley on the six Ridings which put the nip Over the top by a cumulative total of votes based on initial returns were Brandon West Riel River East Rose Springfield 482 and Thompson the narrow wins along the Diagonal line and in unique outside Ridings Tell Only half the tale of Manitoba fascinating electoral the rest is visible in the enormous margins both parties have in their Safe while the nip vote remains More efficient it elects More members be cause it is More widely 17 election reveals that the new democrats also Are starting to squander their votes in the City just As the conservatives have always wasted their votes in Rural southwestern Mani according to initial the nip took 50 per cent of the vote in Winni pegs 29 in the 20winnipeg seats they the new democrats wracked up 58 per cent of the the tories took 54 per cent of the vote in Rural Manitoba 21 seats excluding Brandon and the in the 13 Rural seats the conservatives they enjoyed a whopping 63 per cent of the total within which now has a majority of the Legislatures 57 the tory vote was extremely concentrated in the nine seats the party for while the tory vote across the City was Only 39 per in Ritwo the cites South and it was 55 per the vote percentages province wide saw the nip with 47 per the conservatives with 44 per the with seven per cent and the progressives with two per the not obtained their highest score in where they received nine per cent of the popular the liberals biggest count of All occurred in the City Ridings won by the conserva in those nine the liberals had nearly 11 per cent of the popular in the 20 Ridings taken by the the Liberal vote was Only seven per this confirms earlier private polling which showed the lib doonesbury eral vote collapsing towards the new in the Liberal vote dropped from 18 per cent to 12 per and the majority of it went to the no doubt All parties will be pouring Over these statistics in the months to come to decide what they mean for the future and How they can rebuild or break into one another despite its the nip cannot afford to be in four at tempts dating Back to the party remains singularly unable to crack Manitoba agricultural it is closed out of the base of Manitoba most important the tories have even More to worry they Are shut out of every Urban Centre outside Winnipeg and into the Southwest suburbs of the City containing Over half Manitoba popu they also have failed to make significant inroads into the ethnic and new immigrant Community the Community which is now the the Liberal party faces what appears to be an impossible As the history of Western Canada once liberals have Given away the Centre to the they Manitoba electorate is now fully but because the polarization has created two almost impenetrable geographic it seems apparent that Manitoba elections will continue to be decided by a tiny group of voters living in a tiny number of seats along the line of r 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