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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1992, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ith6 Wolti Peg free press welcomes looters from writers finist gw6 the if name and names will be Tessa and letters am to readers forum Winnipeg free press 1992 Antipoverty views wrongly attributed i have no quarrel with Andrew Allen tucks obvious enthusiasm of Christopher Sarlos Little Book on poverty in Canada free August i do when this enthusiasm results in a gratuitous attack on Antipoverty organizations and a Complete misrepresentation of the views of the late Michael Allentuck introduces his review with a sweeping condemnation of individuals and organizations involved in seeking changes to programs and policies that would reduce poverty and inequality in Canadian society poverty is an Industry in which social poverty politicians and the press profit at the expense of the usually inarticulate no evidence is offered in support of this it is simply presented As a self evident pre to set the stage for what follows a summary of Sarlos argument contrary to what the people in the poverty Industry poverty is not a Seri Ous problem in Allentuck May think his introduction in it mis fires because it creates the impression that and the books publisher the Fraser Institute dont give a Damn about the poor they Are merely using the poor As a pretext for an attack on anti poverty organizations and government pro Grams that Are intended to help the Allentuck misguided attack on Antipov erty May simply reflect bad his deliberate distortion of the views of Michael on the other is in his Allentuck claims that Michael Harrington suggested that poor organize coops to create economic Power for he saw poverty solution As getting free of Harrington did support the ideas of organizing he most emphatically did not see poverty solution As get Ting free of on the he insisted that the Federal government must play a Central role in the abolition of by the process of there is no place to look except toward the Federal and even if there were alternate Washington would have to play an important if Only because of the need for a comprehensive program and for National but in any Case there is no for there is Only one Realis tic possibility Only the Federal government has the Power to abolish the other America poverty in the United re Vised Harrington addressed the poverty Issue again in a Book published in 1984 the new american in this Book he reiterated his views on the role of the Federal government and called for a Broad Range of including full employment Mas Sive Urban renewal programs restrictions on the ability of corporations to close relocate plants and production and drastic Reform of social welfare and healthcare As he suggested that Resolution to the poverty problem would require the redistribution of income and wealth in the concluding pages his 1984 Book Harrington called for a new Antipoverty politics in the and stressed that a new Campaign for social decency is not simply Good and but is also a necessity if we Are to solve the problems that bedevil not just the but almost All of us clearly Harrington analysis and vision offer no support for the views of Sarlo and the Fraser Harrington would have dismissed Sarlo and the Fraser Institute As crude manipulating numbers and concepts for the purpose of justifying the inequalities that exist in Ca Nadian Errol Lack Brandon say no to Accord As the Reform party of our goal is to help the Public make an informed Deci Sion on the constitutional referendum ques it does not help matters when your Edi tors print a spurious editorial on our position phoney you attrib Ute to Preston Manning As having said a no vote in the referendum would put an end to constitutional negotiations for All time to what he did say was actually the arid i All provinces and All parties will use a yes vote to pursue relent Lessly the future constitutional negotiations outlined in this consensus a Solu Tion to endless constitutional wrangling was to vote no and to commit themselves to a moratorium on constitutional at least through the life of the next you do a disservice to this important referendum Campaign by not accurately representing the arguments on both sides of the we have been led to believe that a yes vote on the october 26 referendum will put the Constitution to bed once and for it is Only those who have not had the Opportunity to review the text of the Charlottetown Accord who might just be trusting enough to believe those who actually read the text of the Accord will immediately realize this package is nothing less than a Pandora Box of constitutional out of the 60 sections in the 27 explicitly Call for further negotiation by first ministers con Federal provincial bilateral Nego consultations with aboriginal Lead As just one most people believe the Deal Calls for a 62 seat in actual this is Only a starting the Deal guarantees aboriginal Senate seats on top of the 62 yet gives no further specifics whats these additional seats will have to be the subject of future constitutional Neotia open ended guarantees of this sort go on and on through the including such areas As the prize social the eco nomic the supreme and so our current leaders continue to underestimate the intelligence of the voting a yes vote on october 26 will do Little More than prolong constitutional wrangling until sometime into the next mar Hughes Winnipeg South Reform party of Canada sickening frankly it makes me sick to hear about the Constitution every imagine the Cost to our country of holding these what they Are proposing is not a triple e Senate at Ontario and Quebec will hold 25 per cent of the seats they will continue to dominate this we in the West and the maritime will be second class of they will throw us a few scraps once in we will be Hewers of Wood and drawers of As for the i will definitely vote others should seriously con Sider it already government leaders Are Brand ing those that disagree As being Joe Clark cant seem to realize that we dont All agree with we still have a free will to John Dyck Winnipeg Pale indians roamed and hunted Over North America Many thousands of years looking behind veils of time As someone with a longstanding inter est in the Early history of i was very pleased indeed to read about the out standing archaeological discovery made recently in the Tiger Hills archaeological team finds sign of free August perhaps your readers would be interested in some text Book information that will help put the find in Broad historical Contact and fur ther emphasize its the discovery is referred to in the news paper article As the base of an Agate Basin in an expedition from the smithsonian institution of unearthed a Large Deposit of Bison Bones in Moss Agate a tributary of Moss Agate Creek in associated with the Bones was a Quantity of Bullet shaped Stone Spear Points that obviously had been used by Hunters in slaughtering the animals whose Bones littered the ancient ground because the find was made within the drainage Basin of Moss Agate the archaeologists named the Stone Points Agate we also apply the name to the ancient people Over the archaeologists have found Agate Basin Points and their derivatives distributed Over a vast area of grass boreal Forest and Tundra regions of Western North they have been dated to years ago 8500 by in the Plains of new Mexico and to years ago 6000 by in the Northwest Territo the Agate Basin culture was part of the chapter of history that scholars refer to As the paleo prefix Means old or ancient of Indian refers to the fact that the people in ques Tion were so the paleo Indi ans were the very ancient or Early Peoples of North the Pale Indian stage equates with the upper palaeolithic of eur around years Southern Manitoba was undergoing some rather dra Matic environmental the Cli mate was becoming warmer and As a the ice age Glacier was slowly diminishing and the meltwater from this still massive Block of ice was feeding the voracious appetite of Lake the worlds largest Inland Freshwater an extensive Spruce Forest that originally covered the de glaciated landscape West of Lake Agassiz rapidly it was replaced by extensive Grassland As a southwestern Manitoba became prime Buffalo this was Good news to the highly expert Pale Indian by so Hunters and their families of the High Plains to the who were Quick to expand into this new land of in the they left behind numerous silent witnesses to their presence Signa Tures in so to speak and one of them waste Agate Basin Point fragment recently found by Allen Nee pin in the site in the Tiger even at this very preliminary stage of the recently found artefact has a Story to the fact that it is a and not a whole is the fact that it is the or Bottom of a and not the pointed business is even More with these facts in it is not difficult to reconstruct the sequence of events sur rounding its use and heres what i think happened in the course of a Hunting a Hunter either hurled his Spear or thrust it into the body of a wounded or mired be cause the Spear Point was made of a Flint like Stone and therefore somewhat it snapped in two after becoming lodged in the body of the animal or hitting the if the Hunter threw it and missed his while it is impossible to know just what happened to the pointed the segment of the Point that was securely bound to the end of the Spear Shaft remained in and it was still there when the Hunter returned to in the process of refurbishing his he extracted the fragment from the cast it aside and replaced it with a new Spear in some the fragment of the Spear Point can be compared to a Bullet Shell from a modern single shot Rifle after the Bullet has been the spent Shell is removed from the discarded and replaced with a new of overriding importance is the fact that the discovery came from undisturbed deposits containing material that can be radiocarbon until Nee pin made his All of the Agate Basin Points on record from South Western Manitoba were surface finds exposed to View by cultivation or natural these Circum stances precluded any Chance of radio car Bon dating the and although we could say with Confidence that the Agate Basin people and their direct descendants lived in southwestern we were unable to say exactly the Opportunity exists to determine another prospective Benefit of the project is the Chance it provides for learning details of the peo Ples lifestyle details that Are also very difficult if not impossible to determine at Sites where the original deposits in the soil Are with further study at the it May turn out that the culture of the Agate Basin people of southwestern Mani Toba differed somewhat from that of their counterparts living elsewhere on the in any Only care fully excavated archaeological such As those available at the Wapiti Sak Itaw will provided that kind of info at Long archaeologists appear to be on the verge of answering some key questions and learning some truly remarkable things about the very Early peo Ples of southwestern Manitoba that were hitherto beyond their i would like to congratulate Bev the project for his enduring commitment to Manitoba archaeology and culture i applaud his Manitoba first approach to research and his highly appropriate involvement of aboriginal students in the study of the his tory of the first i can appreciate the feeling Nee pin must have had when be became the first person in Many thousands of years to hold that artefact in realize that he had established a link and had come to possess something in common with another human being who lived literally Ages the Federal Access to archaeology pro Gram which funded the project is clearly having worthwhile results in and i Hope that Nicholson endeavours to continue the work will receive the positive response they deserve from the granting Leo Pettipas Filmon s anti nip rhetoric does t help Hydro Deal this is a Day for All Manitoban to be on a cold december morning in Manitoba Premier Gary Filmon clasped on Tario Premier David Petersons hand in the Legislatures ornate confederation room and uttered those clinching a Bil megawatt Power Sale to Ontario no doubt he had visions of clinching something an electoral dynasty for himself and his conservatives triggered by the economic Boom accompanying construction of the provinces big Gest Ever billion the premiers dreams May be on and his own political style May be As much to blame As Ontario saddled with a huge debt and benefiting from successful conservation is considering a five year that the Mani Toba Deal May be one of the first on the chop Ping Block could be attributable to the Mani Toba premiers conservatives Pride themselves on being sound it is there that Filmon didst realize that Deni grating your customer is not the Best Way to encourage and keep Ever since Bob Raes democrats re placed Petersons liberals in Fil Mon and his senior ministers have made on Tario a Symbol of everything that is wrong about nip ideology and a whipping boy for everything thatis wrong nationally and in Manitoba concluding the throne speech debate Filmon contrasted his Low paid political staff with Frances Russell Ontario i picked up some information about re cent appointments in and of course i noted Ontario Hydro chairman Marc Liesen was getting and he is getting there and a chaff Feu driven limousine and a possible Bonus of for his he May perhaps even get paid for his eyeglasses from time to i am not sure about later on in the same the Premier referred to Ontario cutbacks in health hospitals and does that have a familiar ring to it Hospital Beds being closed under new democratic adm Nistra five thousand health care jobs poor shout catcalls from gallery Over slight Ontario welfare rate hikes that is what they Are Filmon excoriated Ontario Hydro for wasting Money on Energy noting a report by the Ontario Energy Filmon said the neighbouring with which Manitoba had the biggest Power Deal of its intended to squander billion to save As a result of this kind of Ottar ios Hydro rates went up per cent this part of it i am to pay the Sal Ary of on March during the daily question be Filmon defended his government against opposition Leader Gary doers accusations it want spending enough on i have Given him comparisons to the havoc that has been wreaked in Ontario by an nip government that raised health care funding to hospitals by one per cent causing the Layoff of thousands and thousands of people in the health care that is what happens when you get new demo cratic policies wreaking havoc on the health care closing debate on the budget vote March Filmon Tore into a few Days following the first minis ters conference on the Filmon was at it Ontario of seeking to end Federal provincial cos sharing and the guilty party in fed Era provincial was praised by the the fact is that Ontario Economy and budget Are in serious trouble our con Cern is that they seem to be responding to those problems in a very parochial severe As they i do not believe Ontario problems should be used As an excuse for threatening the Cornerstones of federalism such As on april Filmon accused Ontario of ruining the National because of the huge debts and higher they Are destroying the Opportunity for recovery not Only in but elsewhere in the country because of the tremendous effect that this has right across the according to these outbursts have found their Way to Queens Filmon be partisanship that makes for bad business is hardly Good doonesbury by Garry Trudeau forms an dinner Pys Hync a shave Iain Tow this thing in a hottu0 talk about Ooi emissions the mans of 40 ypar5 Only just Central or5anizing and they i muffs always Hap a organizing ;