Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 8, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Readers forum Winnipeg free press a 7 january warning shot hits Home 21 years later in the Canadian Confer ence of Catholic Bishops declared persistent High unemployment to be a moral disorder in the intervening decade has demonstrated that the moral disorder lies in the economic system evidence the Christ Mas season was ruined for Cana Das railway employees when they Learned that up to could lose their jobs As a result of a planned merger of Canadian National and Canadian Pacific East of in rails statement was a metaphor for the times to be come fully competitive with the trucking Industry and rail car the company must further re Duce its labor words like re downsizing and globalization Are being used As weapons in a propaganda War to convince the Public that the forces at work Are inevitable and immutable that Frances Russell there is no Choice but to submit that there is no either for Citi Zens or to have a let alone any free Market the so called free Market has be come the new in keeping with the Catholic Bish Ops moral and religious perspex the new it is a Tyr Anny in some ways worse than political despotism because it has none of the letters trademarks of imprisonment and death against which to but its effects Are no less lethal family and social break declining living standards and loss of human Worth and Dignin canadians recently witnessed the closest thing to a real War this new despotism Ever wages when the new Liberal government de voted a month to wrestling with it Over the governorship of the Bank of who won is a moot Bank of Canada governor John whose seven year term expires at the end of Wor ships Price stability the Way Span ish grand inquisitor Tomas de Torquemada worshipped the purity of 15th Century Catholic Doc Crow Hast burned Here tics at the stake but his zealotry contributed to another form of mass victimization million in a billion a billion debt and a billion Overall Trade according to University of Manitoba economists Costas Nicolaou and Paul another calculation by former Toronto Dominion Bank economist Doug now minister of state for International financial ins Titu is that billion in lost production was bled from the Economy Between 1990 and 1992 in order to Cut inflation from five per cent to two per lower interest rates in 1992 alone could have saved in employment insurance billion and generated billion in tax Rev he while the Bank governor was accepting pay raises of up to 21 per cent he added to his annual taking it to the to he was urging labor to accept wage concessions and dismiss ing the plight of the a confidential Bank of Canada memo responding to Peters criticisms noted that reducing this Mil lion unemployed by one million would take us Well below the Natu ral rat of despite crows legacy of eco nomic the incoming Liberal government was warned almost daily by International investors that it risked a currency crisis and worse should it dare fire Crow but the liberals and the new governor immediately declared Devotion to his How can International finance make profits in Canada if the econ omy is on its Knees How can it be in the interests of those who invest in us to see vast numbers of us impoverished University of Winnipeg political economist Jim Silver says capital is no longer tied to the fortunes of particular but is free to roam the world seeking the highest return on its that Means it no longer has to care about maintaining the Standard of living and purchasing Power of particular National what attracts capital today is the opposite of what gives Quality of life to the rest of capital approves of monetarist like Crow be cause it wants the lowest possible wages and taxes and the least Possi ble interference from in other it wants to set pub Lic in to and it will use its Power to shift billions of dollars in and out of nations to get its in the trilateral commis a shadowy organization representing the worlds largest corp conducted a symposium on its report declared that an excess of democracy Means a deficit in there Are potentially desirable Lim its to the indefinite Extension of political that was tyranny warning 21 years its Rogalski was reunited with Sui Van after almost so reunion with Soldier was incredible thank you for publishing the news about my finding my chocolate Soldier and the subsequent reunion with him in his native South Wales thanks to the generosity of the British broadcasting corporation South Wales and its Wales today program one Sweet free november since my Many people have been asking me How it saying they hoped there would be a followup a picture is Worth a thousand the saying and i thought perhaps it might help if your readers saw a photo of what Cornelius Osullivan looks like and heard a few highlights of that incredible Cornelius is disabled As a result of several strokes and is in a it was wonderful to meet the person whose act of kindness almost 50 years ago is the reason for one Happy memory of the horrible it was exciting to meet his wife Maureen and their children and but most of All it was special to finally have the Opportunity to Tell him personally in adequate English this time How much his going out of his Way to fulfil the birthday wish of a 12yearold refugee girl had meant to me at that one of the highlights was attending the armistice Day ceremonies with this War Veteran at the Cenotaph in honouring soldiers who have Given their lives for their j ust As we do Here in another highlight was sharing with students at Willows High school in the area where Cornelius grew Cornelius is a history Buff and has donated 800 tapes of his research about the War and the area of the school to the school recently your paper carried a report and photo of Grade 5 students of Paul school in vital chocolate tale captivates december 23 and How they wrote letters to Cornelius and to me about their reaction to our thank you for forwarding these letters to they Are unfortunately i was sick with the flu when your reporter Bill Redekop visited the class to receive these their teacher Karen Imhoff has been in touch with me and i am looking Forward to visiting this class in Jane producer of the Wales today television program said were always criticized for not having enough Good news on our and i just resist bringing together a woman who waited nearly 50 years to give a thank you to a Soldier who had Given her a Little bit of kindness those Many years i wanted to be Able to make the reunion make it happen for armistice Maria Rogalski Winnipeg this is the age of diplomacy one would i lip in Call thie the euro one would like to Call this the age of Justice and but with the example of Bosnia and countless other situations which have not received if me Dia coverage one is compelled to dub this the age of in which heinous crimes against fellow human beings Are still but Are artfully hidden through the mod Ern weapons of Media manipulation and diplomatic acrobat a harsh assessment but consider the f following in March the Small country of without is suing any threats of War or Daggres proclaimed its Independence which both the european Community and the United states readily chose to acknowledge this proclamation with nothing less than mass rape and the full Range of atrocities against bosnian muslims and croats by serb aggressors was extensively ranging from brutal raping of women to detention of thousands in concentration the world was witness to this horrendous outburst of violence and aggression what was our response essentially we pretended to do everything and succeeded to do Noth what was genocide and mass rape was euphemistically entitled ethnic what was a Clear and outright aggression of one peo ple Over parallel to that of the iraqis Over the kuwaitis just one year was erroneously termed a civil where Force was needed to Check bosnian Are involved in a situation that has evolved into a civil the Idle excuses were a bogus peace plan rewarding serb aggressors was drawn grandiose in resolutions were passed and serb civilians were punished with economic Sanc refugees were exported out of the country in the thousands and in peacekeepers were sent to keep peace under totally unreasonable and unworkable everything outside of what was actually needed to solve the prob Lem was and now that bosnian muslims and croats have been forced to take up arms to defend the situation has evolved into a civil most Likely to the Triumph of diplomats world the crisis in Bosnia compels one to wonder what is More amazing How cruel humans can be to each or How Clever they can be in succeeding to change genocide into civil thereby justifying their Lack of appropriate though politicians worldwide have won their Battle of they have Defeated the integrity of the entire human Jennifer Rahman Winnipeg to the editor the free press welcomes letters from letters must be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not All letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 Mountain Winnipeg letters can be sent to our fax number is my Money funding Arena Here i sit with a 26percent increase in my tax assessment for my Winnipeg is this How mayor Susan Thomp son is going to fund the new Arena if the boys want a new Arena to play in Why dont they use some of their own Money from their exorbitant salaries and let us Ordinary peo ple continue with our daily struggle Marygayle Cranberry Portage doonesbury Correct tools Are important i refer to be yeas letter in the free press on december 19 about i agree with him More his letter is Power explanatory and Speaks nothing but the the things which he thinks should be taught in school and which he and i both received in our he in Canada and i in England Are in fact the real tools which All Young sters need in order to live their lives fully and it in my better to be Able to speak the Queens English than to know How to use a the one takes a longish time to the other is a or else every nitwit be Able to use be yeas description of the shop assistant who count can be paralleled anywhere any Day of the week they cant give you change for put of a Bill without doing it on their silly the tellers at my whom i like very Are always surprised that Ive added up my Payin slips Why do we tolerate Why do we want such permissive ignorance to be the English language is tortured every Day by people who know no grammar and who cannot spell or speak fluently and the French do not torture their language this Way but we allow it to happen to English in Council school and on screen a Nasty mixture of Brooklyn and hol garnished with euphemistic cliches and slovenly it is True that my school Days finished almost 70 years ago but i at age matriculated had University Entrance and could speak fluently in decent English and in simple knew some latin and greek and a Little German and i had no local accent in my anyone Given careful and civilized teaching can do the dont Tell me its harder in a polyglot City like i grew up in a polyglot City Manchester where there were All nationalities and there was virtually no truancy and we did our work be cause we wanted to get on and also partly because we were being Given much that was interesting and re but you have to be Given Good tools and be realistically As this no fail stuff is Perni Cious and unrealistic the current idea that education consists of training Young people for specific jobs is Short and in any intellectually education and show what things Are around in the world How there is Beauty As Well As knowledge As Well As poetry As Well As literature As Well As morality As Well As Raissez and compassion As Well As in that this is a multitudinous above sophistication Doest mean talking the latest Vul Gar american Slang in so slovenly a manner As to be unintelligible to Ordinary people seem to have no a without some at Tention to these things we shall in due time produce a uniformly Dull and ignorant Leonard Isaacs Winnipeg by Garry Trudeau 50 what to you if it tuw5 out Pip continue hi5 Tain of erect Ionez pigu6ly Pip you Imam the in Peak the tru5tofnotonlyhi5wifb ;