Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 21, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Vib Flieg free january Winnipeg free press fee Edom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights published seven Days a week at 300 Carlton Winnipeg r3c 3c1 by newspapers division of Canadian newspapers company limited Telephone 9439331 a member of the Manitoba press Council Arthur Wood publisher John Dafoe editorial Page editor Murray Burt managing editor Rudy Redekop controller Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 the pattern of murder in Canada is mainly something men do to killings of though less Are More shocking because of women greater of the victims of homicide in Canada from the beginning of 1961 to the end of 1988 who have been counted by statistics per cent were male a fid per cent were in the latest year that has been police forces across the country reported 575 homicides to the Federal statisticians a distinct drop from the preceding of these 202 or per cent were female and 373 or per cent were the preceding years 226 female homicide victims represented per cent of the National Homi cide by any a drop in 1988 in killings of women in the homicide figures snowed nothing resembling an upsurge in violence against killings of women arouse angry expressions from some commentators about the extent of male violence against the mass murder of women students and employees at Montreal Ecol pol technique was difficult to accept As an isolated it seemed to suggest that women face greater risks of violent death than men the bizarre and tragic death of Carole Watson in the parking lot of her Portage Avenue apartment building invites a similar Steps to control and reduce homicide in Canada should Start from a Clear grasp of the Steps by women to protect themselves against violence should be related to a firm understanding of the threat Jiey of the 575 people murdered in Canada in were women and 373 were it May be were nearly twice As Likely As women to die by homicide that just As they were in most of the preceding 20 police forces identified 514 suspects in those murders 58 of them were women and 456 of them were the female killer is even More unusual than the female victim of homicide is an act of men and Only exceptionally an act of spousal homicide is a crime of men in the same Way that homicide in general is a crime of seventy women were killed by their husbands in 1988 while 21 men were killed by their those women killed by their husbands accounted for about half of the murders within a larger proportion than has been usual in recent almost 64 per cent of the killings of women happened in the victims own compared to 42 per cent of killings of women who were killed were slightly More Likely to die by beating or strangulation male victims better Able to fight off barehand attacks were slightly More Likely than female victims to die by knife or in that women really Are More murder is the most terrible crime known to Canadas criminal but it is Only a tiny Corner of the violence canadians inflict on themselves and on each five times As Many people die each year by suicide As by assault is far More frequent in 1988 compared to 575 homicides and the numbers of assaults reported to police forces have increased steadily and dramatically in each of the last ten the death of Carole tragic in is also a reminder of the violence that surrounds and threatens All though feeling poorly should not feel singled out for their statistical risk is nor should they live in mortal fear of stepping outside of their a failed gimmick it is now More than three months since the voters of Alberta decided that they would like Stan Waters to them in the Senate in Alert and perhaps even Premier Don will have noticed that the Senate seat is still hardly anybody seems to care any the Senate election attracted a Good Deal of attention at the time it was not Only in Alberta but across the it was supposed to be the first step in a great March towards an effective and equal 1 since Waters won his election last october the March has been Waters made a whirlwind visit to Ottawa and garnered some since nothing has prime minister Brian Mulroney has made no move to fill the empty Senate More recently he has been hinting that he might Challenge the election in court on the grounds that a province has no Power to legislate about the the court whoever would be As wasteful and pointless As the election neither has anything to do with the real issues of Senate if Ottawa won the the matter would be if it it could return to its policy of sitting on its nothing in the judgment could compel the prime minis Ter to seat whatever the the Case could easily take so Long that the whole Issue would become irrelevant by the time it was even if Mulroney succumbed to pressure and put Waters in the the cause of True Senate Reform would not have the chamber would have one More or less elected its representation would still be unequal and its effectiveness would still be constrained by the fact that almost All its members were the Alberta government appears to be beginning to understand the fruitless Ness of its Albertas Deputy Jim concedes that a court Battle would be a waste of i think wed be better off getting on with the whole Issue of Senate Reform in its broadest form than spending a Bunch of Money paying lawyers to go to court and tying this thing up for a very Long he said last he is Alberta and All the other prov inces ought to be getting on with the whole Issue of Senate Albertas election gimmick has nothing to contribute to that a voice from fantasy gardens trustworthy notebooks police officers make Good witnesses because they take careful they Are trained to do Winnipeg police needs to bestir itself to make sure that its officers will be believed in court when they consult their notebooks while 1 one officer told the aboriginal Justice inquiry that he had rewritten an entire notebook so As to Amend his notes on the events of the night when Harper was shot on Logan the Manitoba Justice depart ment is now considering whether that officer should be charged with an since he testified at the Harper inquest on the basis of his altered the has a wider problem to Deal idea of re copying a notebook May have Arisen spontaneously in the mind of that but it also possible that he picked up the idea from the department should find out where he got the idea and whether other members of the Force believe police officer can legitimately alter notes and testify on the basis of those altered chief Herb Stephen should be letting the Winnipeg Public know what Steps he is taking in that chief Stephen does not see a need for numbering the pages of police notebooks before they Are issued so that removal of pages would be unnumbered pages have been used for Many he and the practice has not produced the to be has not previously been aware of alterations to the chief be sure How his officers handle their notebooks if he does not make some Effort to find the present Case is the first time that a problem has come to but it May not be the first instance of altered the departments effectiveness in the prosecution end of its work depends on credible testimony from its there is Little Merit in paying for professional criminal investigation if the investigators will not be believed in by Christopher Dafoe special to the free press the late Frank under Bill once described Beautiful British Colum Bia As a kind of banana Republic without the he was Only partly right in Many of the West coast provinces glorious Lead ers from Amor de Cosmos on have managed to give convincing impersonations of banana Republic generals of the dreamlike Quality to observe British Columbia from without is one thing to actually live there and see it All at first hand is something else British co Lumbia political life for the recently arrived a kind of dreamlike Quality that often verges on is there something in the moist West coast air does some intoxicating substance Lurk in the water Supply Are there fairies at the Bottom of every Gar Den who can say one soon that British Columbia is unlike the other a sort of Cloud cuckoo land or bathed in its rain and verging on when i first settled on the curious coast in the late 1960s the great and powerful Generalissimo Bennett was presiding Over the prov inces mad Tea Wacky had been winning elections for but i could never find anybody who would admit to voting for social people said they stand old Man Bennett and were unable to understand How he kept the Bennett administration had been rocked by but seemed to endure All at election time it always seemed that social credit was about to be turfed the polls said the pundits said the Man in the Street said they were always Bennett had a simple explanation for his Long run of Success he he a direct line to when things looked Wacky picked up the Telephone and asked for the the heavenly operator put him right through while successive leaders of the nip were put on hold and then Cut that was Lotus land in its Golden but then a time came when the message from heaven was not the barbarians Are at the Premier Bennett he meant the they social credit went Down to defeat and members of the social credit ladies who had recently called for the circumcision sic of sexual fell Back in it did last Howe and soon a new dubbed mini Hack was leading the troops in and a new Era in West coast Loon Ness began with the Elevation to the Generalissimo ship of William Vander widely known As the Frum ious Vander largest majority Premier Vander who makes the Bennetts look like the elder and the younger resides in a place called fantasy gardens and has in the shortest time imagine the most mocked and controversial Premier in his True to the voters awarded him the largest majority in the provinces history in even members of his own party one might say especially members of his own party have called for his resignation on a number of Occa especially after social credit lost a string of some involving supposedly Safe sacred by last fall the pressure was in the phone Calls to god were possibly More but the connection seemed to be less reliable than it once god was putting social credit on hold or asking them to leave a message after the beep with alarming dark Clouds just before Christmas the embattled Premier retired to fantasy Gar Dens to contemplate his wrestle with his Angel and do what Ever it is he does when dark Clouds Roll Over the Windmill and the Dyke looks like there was widespread speculation that the Premier would announce that god had finally come on the line and advised him to step his great work weeks went by and the suspense would he quit would he stay last with the publicity orgy going full Premier Vander Zalm emerged from fantasy gardens and told his via a province wide after searching his soul and consulting the he had decided to stay on and do his was anybody really surprised How could anyone with Bill Vander Palms ego spend six weeks meditating in a place called fantasy Gar Dens and emerge admitting defeat a Mere que Becer might take a walk in a blizzard and decide the end had but they do things differently out in Lotus the phone line to heaven has been re Williams himself Candy project a few Points should be made to readers who might have been exposed to your editorial opinion on the Candy project in Romania aels Devilish 0 the condoning you impute to atomic Energy of Canada limited of a harsh labor system which you allege existed in Romania originated 10 a Southam news the same report spoke of an agreement with Romania which decl signed in be the agreement was so secret that decl issued a news release on it at the time it was if the news report could be so erroneous in the one is it not possible that it could be just As erroneous in an especially Given that the organization levelling the labor Allega Tion has Over the years made other wild unsubstantiated charges about Candy the Candy project which included misappropriation of Canadian Bank stolen technology and product dumping in Canada d if slavery existed at the Candy construction Why has there been no mass exodus now that the Gates Are open and the slaved Riv or is gone d if decl has acted so inhumane it most certainly is not the Only Canadian entity to do Romania has had a surplus Trade balance with All accomplished under the same labor d very few would list human rights among the higher priorities of the under its earlier bolshevik the indignation this aroused was not sufficient to Call off widespread trading with much of the commercial including Cana so desperate to peddle their goods As you say decl has been d since a Good portion of the Cana Dian wheat shipped was produced in the splendid growing Gumbo of the Portage Plains and areas Well within the free press circulation Circum undoubtedly some of the Revenue derived from the wheat Trade found itself recorded on the free press let he who is without sin d without Canadian How much greater the hunger among people without the other How much greater the hard ships would you deny the people because you disagree with their rulers judge d you Are Correct that the Candus will help the romanians by provid ing them with the electricity they so desperately when that Hap perhaps the free press will not take much Pride in but Many of the rest of us Mac Keillor communications Branch atomic Energy of Canada letters the Winnipeg free press welcomes letters from writers must give their name and names will be used and letters Are subject to Christmas errors in the january 7 family strives to maintain traditions free press South three errors were made regarding the Celebration of ukrainian Christ the article stated Trade the major celebrating takes place on when the Gregorian calender Marks Christmas for the ukrainian Catholic Community around the first of ukrainian Christmas is celebrated on 7 6 is Christmas this is according to the Julian calender not Christmas is celebrated at this time by ukrainians of the Eastern or greek Ortho Dax and Only partially by the ukrainian Eastern rite Catholic Natalie Krawchenko Winnipeg misleading the tvs Cene supplement provides an advertising route for the Sale of so called adult movies and Maga i View this As misleading advertising As the items for Sale cannot be described As adult in any the majority of adults have no interest in these the advertisement in question also features a drawing of the neck and head of a this also poorly represents the main focus of these i believe this advertisement misrepresents to the Public which includes children the nature of the product being the government of can Ada banned cigarette advertise ments because the product was deemed unhealthy for the Canadian prior to this Many pub Lishing organizations recognized the unhealthy nature of cigarettes and refused to use cigarette advertise ments As a source of i wish to encourage you to consider the social implications of your advertising policy regarding porno graphic or must i say the Small number of people who require such products will have no trouble finding the business establishments which provide these products and i personally do not appreciate the advertising pressure which is there to encourage the increased consumption of these products by Kennedy Winnipeg Lapel pins on Reading the 4 free press under heading racist Lapel pin Den i feel utterly dismayed about the pins its message and the Winnipeg wholesaler who has no qualms about cashing in on the Sale of such i Echo wholeheartedly with error president of the Manitoba association for rights and when he said the pins were in the area of propagating these pins Are by no Means he they Are the product of ignorance and ill promoting misunderstanding and reinforcing the already prejudiced perception of the so called visible minorities by a great Deal of peo the Sale of these products has to be stopped for Harmony to be Nur Stella a Winnipeg positive note Bravo to the Winnipeg free press for including women in the Humankind entering Era of instead of using the word on the front Page it gives Promise of ridding our selves of All sexist language and the insidious effect it has on the psyche of women and girls As mentioned basics is where its at and there is nothing More Basic than in which the female of the species has the right of being included in All of its thank free for the positive note on which to begin the new Lapp Winnipeg when life begins it is so sad to see canadians divided on this subject of the Bottom the Basic question when does life begin it has been proven by medical science that life begins at if it Doest begin when does it begin this being the to end its existence directly is Catholic Church is often credited with being the if not the Only opponent of it is proud to accept this incorrect As it it always has always must be opposed to be cause of the fifth commandment thou shall not but this commandment was Given by god ring before the Church came into the fact is that prolife members come from All walks of life and from members of All and even some with no religious let me quote a statement made by the renowned gynaecologist and of Heather whose practice embraces women College Hospital in and who is one of our wonderful fellow canadians of the jewish in a speech in circa she said any that any medical doctor who says that he or she does not know that life begins at Conception is just being a it is so according to the there will come a time when there Are not enough wage earners to support the Industry says it has to import skilled tradesmen because we dont have enough of our and yet at the same we Are preventing babies from being born statistics say last please let us Pray and think and Stop killing ourselves before our civilization goes Over the Brink into the pit of moral and National and economic father Vincent Shea Ambroise Church a Guy just sold me a piece of the 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