Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press november 1987 Page 7 the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and the authors name will be used and letters Are subject to opinions on the arts Why do we As taxpayers allow our Public owned facilities such As the Arena and convention Centre to be used by groups who obviously put on degrading performances groups such As Motley who recently again performed at our Arena and other such groups when we know that hard Rock music and drug use and illicit sex go hand i Appeal to All who Are concerned for our especially grandparents and Church leaders to write or phone our civic such As our mayor and and also Premier Howard Pawley and our Las to state their views and let us Stop this attempt to Lead our youth Down the wrong Road that leads to John Dyck Winnipeg this was a sculpture that symbolized the life and our Western society through a great Deal of foolish political it was eventually removed from what is happening to us have we been so completely acculturated to accept death and destruction As a Norm within our society that we should without the significance of this Type of Jack Moscovitch Winnipeg More strings the article Rainbow stage affair will have major effect on arts Community free november 1 mentioned the fact that the Winnipeg symphony orchestra has a Budge tary if this is surely it is time for the so to rebuild the orchestra to its former size of 76 or 77 full time the orchestra could Benefit from a substantial in crease in the string while i commend the so for its prudent fiscal it seems to me that any surplus funds should now be directed toward improving the Quality of music for those of us who support the orches tra through contributions and Atten certainly the administrative staff has grown according to the financial report tabled at the annual a corresponding attention to the needs of the audience would be re Ila Throckmorton Winnipeg even understand that the Hauseux skit is about one who works for a cause and not a As he May the Cercle continue its great work and May Clark Start read ing theatre reviews so that he might understand what it is he should be Richard Mccarthy Winnipeg Rock music ludicrous i have been Reading big City news papers for the past 20 years and never have i seen such a ludicrous example of photo journalism on the front Page As your paper displayed on october were you so desperate for front Page news that you took up on equal Ter of the Page to show us two participants of the phony and entertaining sport of professional wrestling perhaps but please for the Benefit of this and i Hope Many would you confine these types of photos to the sports if any at Dan Schellenberg revolting every time i pass Mcgregor bar i am left with a sense of revulsion and have wondered Why those who live in this part of the City have not risen up in i refer to the new Metal sculpture that has been erected on the North West Corner of the Barracks Parade Square parking it is the disembowel led freshly painted and mounted on a new Concrete pad with its gun pointed outwards at the quiet residential it is a Symbol of death and destruction placed in an area peo pled by hardworking or re tired individuals in the have spent the greater part of their lives in peaceful when i think Back to the fuss and juror that was raised a few years ago about another Metal Sculp Ture i think it was entitled North Ern lights that was placed in front of the Grain commission i cannot help but wonder about the Basic character traits of our human so needs entertaining be Cercle Moliere has launched another season with a highly enter Well mounted Avant rules autres be the free press has seen fit to print another no review of a Cercle show by Philip i refer to the article franc Manitoban satire translates sense of deja free october rather than babbling on incomprehensibly about a skit which was not part of the Clark would have better used the space allowed him to review what he did or didst he notice that there were actual directed by a on a set and in costumes by a lit by a lighting singing songs by com set by a choreographer his lessening of the Impact of the show by doubting that it might ruffle feathers in the franc Manitoban Community is proof of his Lack of involvement or even knowl Edge that feathers were ruffled of he did not logo for bigots Csc racist now that the Csc has a three year plan to increase Canadian could a taxpayer comment on the present Canadian Content i endured a recent episode of not my in which the was is were portrayed As oafish buffoons with traces of English a the Wise of is a two Days i watched another of those religiously ethnic series that portray wasps As buffoons or which the Csc excels at Street aired on the Csc but made i believe by the National film portrayed the Anglo couple As socially emotionally and the husband As a child Raper and i was once a Good Friend of the the final blow to that Friend ship came three or four years ago on a Csc drama special when a fag Gotty Anglo banker began fondling two six Inch statuettes on his one of the other of i knew than that the bigots and racists had taken Over the Glenn Taylor Toronto missed Point cant Paul Mckie get anything right Tapopo is a romantic spoof of a Mckie hates it he Calls it cd How on Earth did Mckie miss All the movie jokes Tapopo Paro Dies westerns like Shane and fist full of Bunuel French bedroom and perhaps it is no wonder Mckie misses references to other he cannot even remember the begin Ning of his own the use of Cowboy movie conventions is Clear enough for even him to but hardly squares with his Early con Tention that Tapopo is largely in to any but a japanese the Only purely Japa Nese element in Tapopo Are the the free press should get some one to review movies who can appreciate movie Loving fun when he sees Michael Feld Catherine Stewart Winnipeg readers forum transit service will not improve until buses Are replaced by better time to junk buses reserved curbside bus lanes and related changes to the Highway traffic act recently requested by Winnipeg while Wellin mentioned mildly amount to purely operational they pump no new vigor into a chronically underdeveloped system which Long ago reached the limits of its Cap Abili Many potential riders especially those who operate autos resist using Winnipeg transit because they consider its service insufficient and this perception exists because of the sys tems Reliance on diesel transit patrons commonly find themselves fallen prey to the Vicissitudes of both Adverse weather and traffic Winnipeg transits latest pack age of initiatives would do nothing to alter the essentials of that prob because with All their familiar will continue to perform the Workhorse role for the it is unlikely that significant ridership gains will re you can paint wings on a pig but you cant make him to the extent this prophecy comes the planners stated goal of there by reducing surging traffic congestion whether in or elsewhere is foreordained to if buses Are finding themselves bogged so is everybody that is symptomatic of the fact that the Public transit component of Winnipeg Urban passenger transport system is inadequate to uphold its required this should Send out a signal to plan ners and Public alike that a More More com More advanced alternative is the should be a rail rapid transit net work for along the lines of those already successfully in operation in Edmonton and Cal Jeff Lowe Winnipeg missed boat it seems to me this so called committee studying the speedup of bus service in downtown Winni Peg has missed the boat and has a lot More Homework to the Only solution is the Elimina Tion of All messenger ser private cars and armoured cars stopping to service people and let them use the Back most if not All buildings have rear armoured cars and Banks should look into rescheduling their pickup and Deli very the biggest tie up is righthand especially off Portage ave nue along the South just watch if Only for one eliminate righthand turns and make motorists turn left and go around the a parking ban during Rush hours will solve absolutely Day Winnipeg i service is worthwhile it is time the free press looked for other sources of information regard ing education in Manitoba besides Lionel or at least provide an alternative viewpoint to the one he readers of his Wordy articles May be taken when in fact there May be no truth in what he it is simply one mans rhetoric without statistics rarely proves any rhetoric without suggested alter natives leaves us angry and worse off than on october the free press carried an article by Lionel Orlikov about the Sag schools close Down for a or teachers attend sessions All Over the place for which they pay a registration fee of to simply Orlikov says teacher i service has never made much of an Impact on school to this he for Lack of i service has been reduced to a Day off from the As a Parent that kind of statement angers me As a i know it is not Sag conference is not a total Panacea of solutions to our educational woes but it does earn Many value i spend a lot of time choosing from the Many hundreds of sessions being offered at most teachers i know choose wisely whether they will attend a workshop on the gifted and one on special needs children or one on storytelling for Young there is something for including make Andrake Type ses my Choice was to attend the conference run by the Manitoba association of teachers of held at Dakota i arrived at 8 and found Many eager teachers already there going through a Well organized display of books arranged in cooperation with Canadian by midday there were Over teachers in looking for ways to improve teaching language in the the Sag conference is not the Only Means we teachers have to gain insight into new methods and curriculum it give us one Opportunity to spend time with colleagues from other schools and division who have similar lines of while it is True that six or seven Days of our 11 i service Days Are planned from the top and include Parent teacher and administrative the balance of these Days is planned by professional develop ment committees in most of our parents need not fear the Inser vice nine out of every 10 Are Arnold Ross Winnipeg free Trade deadline does not give enough time free Trade is infringing on Canadian sovereignty even before it if prime minister Brian Mulroney wants to convince canadians sovereignty int threatened by the he could Start by saying Canada will ratify it by our timetable not the Law has been dictating the deadlines on free Trade from the it was american Law that dictated the Midnight Kentucky Fried Chicken session producing the initial agreement it is american Law that is dictating the signing ceremony for sealing the pact before the commons committee and parliament can grasp the Fine the True Impact of free Trade cannot be assessed until the provinces do sector by sector no such detailed Examina Tion can begin without the final it wont be released at one month before the treaty is that month includes Christmas and new tory maps once stormed the speakers chair in the House of commons for less at least the provinces were Able to take Ottawa to court Over its constitutional Patria Tion this canadians Are hostage solely to a parliamentary majority elected in free Trade was not mentioned in that Cam having been rejected out of hand by Mulroney a year the extraterritorial application of Law is choking off Domestic Canadian examination of the most seminal question Ever to face this country for unspecified and Uncertain economic benefits we Are prepared to commence the process of Continental i would like to have a lot More confessed tory my William Frances Russell chairman of the commons committee on external affairs and International he had just bowed to the governments wishes last week to Start hearings on the pact without the Legal Winegard had agreed to Cut off committee examination just four Days after the final text is expected to be is this the open government the tories promised or is it convenient to use Ameri can deadlines to Stop canadians from finding out the import of free Trade before it is too late i Hope we would report on time so that there would be at least three or four Days debate in the House before Christmas said everybody would like More he but 2 or 3 for president Ronald Reagan to sign the Deal is apparently a fixed so i think what is imperative is that we do the Best we can on the principles of the free Trade agreement As it is now the Best we can int Good enough for a Sovereign dangerous and was Liberal Leader John Turners assess Bob Manitoba Trade represent says Canadas willingness to be jerked around by american Trade Law poses another they Are the ones in control of the it is a substantive As Well As a symbolic As each Day goes the has us in a consistently weakening provincial suspicions Are con firmed by Media reports from that the delay in producing the final document Means the Hasty 4 Deal is being negotiated All Over the stage is being set for another Mulron Estyle let hour Mulroney is now so far out on the free Trade limb he will accept the final document could be worse than the 4 outline which compromised Canadas Energy Security and ability to control the ownership of its once Reagan and Mulroney put their Sig natures to the Deal the process is very Clear for the and anything but Clear for in the the Congress can either accept or reject the treaty negotiated by the in the government Doest have to present the pact to the its majority will carry the Day on the enabling canadians Are Likely to be treated to a rerun of the Meech Lake constitutional Accord catch22 you cant change it before it exists its too As with the premiers unanimous agree we will be told that what the president has signed is a seamless garment that will unravel if one thread is proponents of the free Trade Deal say the Mulroney government Doest need to accede to opposition demands and Call an election on free they Are but in a there is also the question of political legitimacy the moral right of a government to free Trade is an Issue unlike any one besides is the unique situation of the Mulroney since the Gallup organization began Sam pling Public opinion in no Canadian government has Ever run third in popular even for a until this that in years after Gallup began taking Canadas political the Mulroney government Sank to third since it has chalked up another unenviable not Only is it the first third place it has stayed Las for ten Mulroney cannot be forced to Call an at he should have the Grace to Tell the americans that canadians will decide about free Trade in their own Good doonesbury by Garry Trudeau a Guy Down which 6uy cad who calling for thbon5 its my 0rqkbr r mums Wuhan a favor Miz Baqui Typo sit Ion ;