Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press at january gifted education a Bright idea thank you for the article Bright pupils put on the shelf of december 13 and inside Story report entitled excellence takes Back they made an important contribution to the Community by supplying details regarding the ministerial committees efforts to advise on gifted education in Man As you pointed the committees recommendations and also the handbook for parents were shelved by education minister Clayton manness and also his Pride Rosemary i Man aged to borrow a copy of the Summa Tive pages of the committees re its first statement a policy on gifted education will validate and support current initiatives and encourage further action on a system Atic and consistent basis throughout the this recognizes the Good work currently being done and urges the implementation of a systematic and consistent Provin Cial the remaining Points provide excellent guidelines which Are encouraging special supports to meet the needs of exceptionally Able Stu How can we do this when funds Are Short i would urge read ers to support the equitable Alloca Tion of available funds for All special needs including the some teachers Are Able to manage a classroom of students at Many lev Els and can create an atmosphere of acceptance for exceptionally Bright children without alienating the other however with the Broad Range of and academic con Cerns in today nor Mally teachers need a support or catalyst teacher in the school who can assist in providing supplementary activity where As a i would ask educators to sup port their colleagues who have developed alternatives to the enrich ment pullout pullout enrichment classes Are a Welcome addition where no other program is in but they can be disruptive to regular classroom and they most certainly do not meet the needs of the in some school until now children have been tested at Grade and from Grade 4 Onward those recommended for enrichment activities Are taken out of class a half Day per week for supplementary an curriculum based approach is since giftedness does not Start in Grade and May be manifested in subjects taught Dur ing regular classroom manness should implement the advisory committees recommendations on gifted release the parents handbook which will give information and guidance to parents seeking to sup port their childrens set up provincial establish provincial guidelines for the Equita ble allocation of funds for special education which includes the i am not asking for an aide for each exceptional child trained catalyst teachers in each school who can advise and support the Karen Jensen Winnipeg Golden advice a shining example the spirit of the positive press has a tremendous influence on the lives of tie Power of positive by Norman Vincent was written to have a definite positive effect on the people who read this worthwhile the free press on december 28 had the same the Beautiful color photo of and Jakob both and married for 75 left me with a Beautiful their advice Iron things for get and forgive and stay is Golden advice for today this is the time to get Back to some old fashioned like commitment and sacrifice and responsibility and purity and love and the straight not Only will our children Benefit from our self discipline and Perse Verance but we adults will live in a less neurotic thank you for positively influencing the hearts of your Winnipeg out of step with the times Morley walkers article arts should stay diverse aids obsession May kill support of december 3 places him sadly out step with the when Walker states his opinion that homosexuals Are Over repro 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 maybe 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 seated in the he draws Atten Tion to his own sad his comment implies that he has personally taken an inventory of homosexuals in the arts based upon he finds their manifestation All out of of course All measures depend on and Walker has strict for he links the cultural aids and homosexuals in a murky manner that implies that aids is a Gay one that affects those Gay work ing Over in that unimportant world of the his virus and aids do not Stop to consider so Cial sexual gender or aids cannot be viewed outside the quest for sexual and therefore it affects most sexually Active people in the modern Only some of whom Are Gay and also happen to work in the the cultural Community proudly encourages greater openness and tolerance of sexuality As part of an integrated our Community does not encourage people to camouflage their sexual and we do not suggest that our homosexual or heterosexual col leagues and audience members need die in from a Dis ease connected to we want our audiences to have a better understanding of his and aids and what they mean for the Many kinds of people affected be in a profound and practical aids will not go when he discourages Gay artists who insist on focusing on aids by stating that they risk courting fur ther Walker Dis plays his More canadians attend cultural events then sports so artists in this country Are not the cultural industries Garner varied National and International a artists Are the most appropriate and creative ambassadors of messages that Mir ror and reflect society looming is whether that concern is about the or we will take those risks to turn de Spair into Hope and and to encourage prevention and cure of a contemporary the risks and will help us All Maureen Sevanik Winnipeg this cant be for real after claims of the population crime quadrupling and police Force a third of was it was free december i am some what surprised that the police had the time and the people to investigate Early openers on Box ing in the december 27 free press the Story on the front Page reports that police went to numerous what was the crime opening too if i am sure that the provincial bureaucrats have More than one reason on hand for the stores to be opening after the Public has a right to be protected from this activity that brings about a Fine of up to who knows what can result from a store that would open As Early As 8 or 9 in the morning and have people walk ing away with a to or a Var at bar gain As i write this there might be someone right who has a cordless phone bought at one of these a phone that was sold before lunch time by one of the of come on this cant be for where is free Enterprise where is business savvy the kind of plan Ning that will increase if you can open 15 minutes before the competitor and sell at a better you luring the customers your Way and All that this is a sad Day indeed when this is considered illegal and deserves its Day in Winnipeg local residents look on As mexican soldiers take up positions in the town of Al Canada at a Crossroads uprising creates Chance for Chretien to show path country taking by Roy Culpeper andean Weston special to the free press if should Canada As one of the three parties to about the mexican governments brutal response to the mayan uprising in Chiapas state the insurrection in one of Mexico poorest states took place just As the North american free Trade agreement Naftal came into effect on january the mexican armed forces responded with shocking brutalizing Large numbers of innocent this use of state terror has surprised Many foreigners unfamiliar with the ways in which Mexico has traditionally dealt with civil already among the most Downtrodden in the insurgents were sending a Clear message Naftal would Only make things worse for the indigenous population and others toiling at the margin of Many appear to agree with this Competition in the agricultural the principal mexican beneficiaries will be those agribusiness entities poised to Export More Citrus and vegetables to the and smallholders like the mayan Farmers producing food crops for local markets will face increasing Competition from highly efficient Canadian and american producers of wheat and the land of these poor Farmers will be acquired by mexican forcing the peasants and their families to seek employment in the Urban once they will frequently have to accept poor working conditions and to live in environmentally hazardous economic Accord some might argue that Naftal is Only an economic designed to enhance commercial prospects and to improve the Standard of living of the 365 million citizens living in the three in this it would be wrong for Canada to intervene in the internal political affairs of its such a View is both misguided and Naftal inaugurates a new political in which the internal policies of each of the three countries Are inevitably of greater concern to the other to begin How can Canadian businesses contemplate investment in Mexico when faced with the Prospect of civil strife surely the Prospect of a growing and prosperous mexican Market is a As Long As the Basic needs of a Large part of the population As Well As their civil and human rights Are thwarted by the party which has ruled Mexico for Over six As we approach the 21st a rising Standard of living is coming to mean something different from the endless consumption of goods and it has to mean a rising Quality of including the right to enjoy political and social and the ability to live in an unpolluted there is an Opportunity for the new Liberal government to put its own stamp not just on but also to indicate the directions it wishes to pursue in Canadas foreign policy Over the rest of the and most the government should express its grave concern to the mexican prime minister Chretien should urge president Salinas to Stop the assault by the mexican armed forces on the Canada should offer to Send an official delegation along with the United states and possibly other members of the organization of american observe the situation in Chiapas and to help bring about a peaceful Canada should also Send official observers to the elections in Mexico later this the incident exposes the fundamental weakness of Naftal its indifference to the Cost of adjustment to the new economic realities by the most vulnerable segments of the and its failure to tackle broader social policy this contrasts sharply with the approach adopted by the european Community and its free Trade partners in the european economic which also came into being on january the Canadian government must demonstrate that much More needs to be both at Home and to assist workers who lose their livelihood and to ensure they become not of the new economic expanded Access to Basic social services like housing and health and productive assets land and credit Are essential to empower the poor and ensure they become not in the key role National governments must clearly play the key but there is scope for International cooperation and assistance in Mexico As among other potential Naftal members through the inter american development without such enlightened intervention on the part of Canada and like minded economic liberalization and globalization through Naftal and other regional agreements and the Gatt will pose a threat to the most rather than a Promise of a better Roy Culpeper is Vic president and Ann Weston program director of the North South heavily armed mexican soldiers prepare to do Battle As they attempt to put Down doonesbury by Garry Trudeau 7dnk cd Krout a5 you 50 what our trying com Gilf Doht Sulli ;