Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 3, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor David 6977042 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 october saving pennies costs us dollars while i fully understand and sympathize with the cites funding i must admit that i am both puzzled and disturbed by still another exam ple of saving pennies now to run up massive costs i am referring in particular to the Parks and recreation branches Deci Sion to Cut out the special rates for seniors in their fitness classes for Merly and now and to in crease the fees published in their brochures by 20 per cent when smokers showed up to Register for classes teaching them How to Stop let it be clearly understood that i in no Way need or desire that the fit Ness classes i take at the Panama Pool be Given to me at a lower i would willingly pay even More to continue to keep As fit As i can by taking classes i thoroughly rather i am thinking about these Nioras who cant afford to double the fitness component of their budget and Are being forced to give up the exercises which will improve their physical and mental in you see an Al most empty Pool and that More peo ple could be enrolled per class without any extra Burden on the in or any inconvenience to other members of the you wonder Why a facility built with tax payers dollars could not accommodate the people that the fee increase has turned when we know that for every of prevention per semester and for less per we would be saving thousands of health care dollars and assuring the province of a generation of Active and productive i Hope that such arguments will Sway the Powers that be to reverse what seems to be an unwise and costly eni Marantz Winnipeg keep tax Duars out of Arena according to the 28 free Manitoba has the worst rec Ord in Canada on the Issue of child poverty one child in three under age seven in Manitoba lives below the poverty line the highest rate in despite our civic and Provin Cial politicians squander millions of taxpayers dollars on the jets and studies for a new Arena that the tax payer does not want and cannot of it is my recommendation that we turf those responsible out of office at the earliest Dorothy Mcdonald Winnipeg government helps those who need it i feel that i must respond to an article written by Frances Russell on i am very pleased that Russell made note of the Manitoba govern ment and our commitment to Stop welfare our government believes in pro Viding the assistance required to Aid those who cannot fend for them we must do All that we can to ensure that the less fortunate in society will have the Opportunity to bet Ter we have enacted a pro Gram that will help ensure the tax payers of Manitoba that their Dol Lars will be going to those who truly warrant the services that Are provided by our i cannot believe that Russell would attempt to attack the Mani Toba government for saving the tax payers of Manitoba thousands of Gimli constituency take a look at other countries Lindor Reynolds article about Cuba depends on the 25 drips with moral self High she writes it makes it difficult to compre Hend tourists wanting to frolic along neighbouring Able to ignore the anguish of the cuban people and see Only the Palm Trees gently blowing in the empty maybe she would prefer to go to Mexico where poverty and despair compel thousands of mexicans to try to enter the illegally each Day and where the mayan indians have begun a guerrilla War to regain their land and achieve social she might prefer Al where the former activities of the governing party and their support letters to the editor the free press we tomes tetters from letters must be signed end should include a dearly 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 r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone ers slaughtered a Church workers and numerous civil causing a huge influx of Refu gees to Manitoba and other parts of then there Are Chile and Guate Mala where the with the help of the United turfed out democratically elected governments and carried out atrocities against civilians causing a flood of if she goes to the she can be smug about her Canadian medicare coverage ignoring the fact that 39 million people in the have no medical coverage at of course she will have to Dodge bullets in Florida and ignore the existence of Urban ghettos Rife with crime and i in the the poor and homeless have no country to Migrate to so they just withdraw into a life of glue sniffing and gang then she might just want to take her holidays Here in i am sure that like the most of can shut her eyes to the sad conditions in Many parts of the inner City and on some of the reserves where Young people try to reduce the Hurt of of chronic unemployment and of boredom by taking sniffing and even committing if Reynolds is so distressed by the situation in she should support the United nations Call to the to end the american economic embargo which is crippling the cuban resulting in the desperate situation the cubans want to As for i am off to Cuba once again to enjoy the Many Friend ships i have made Over the years and feeling that i am contributing in a Small Way to help the cuban econ omy and the cuban the rebirth of tourism after Cas Tro Defeated the Batista dictatorship was pioneered by thanks in part to the Commerce be tween Canada and Cuba and the hard currency Canadian and other tourists bring with them to the cubans can maintain their Universal health care and education system and the minimal Standard of living which they still Winnipeg historical parallel regarding William Nevilles Arti Cle thinking of Many things on 26 in considering Nevilles com ments on the american position from a Canadian heretical Point of View and the reference to the Paral Lel in history of the american Revo i was struck by a closer historical the american civil War could be described in very similar terms As the haitian problem a struggle for Power Between rival Domestic Politi Cal each with a constituency within the population and with some what different views on the Best form of in the american example it could be argued that the major Powers of the time Britain and France in particular had an obvious National in Terest in the speedy Resolution of the conflict and in its the Case for armed intervention by an outside party acting in its National interest is no More justifiable today than it was the Case for consensus action by the world at Large on humanitarian grounds May be better How because improved communications diminish the problems of geopolitical if Only we could collectively arrive at a mechanism for taking such we should All worry about the Prospect of a world in which the sole superpower considers it necessary to impose its views on others without an open forum for Clear and consistent rules of engage ment and the possibility of oppose Brian Finney an Winnipeg the grits in government under Paul Edwards would concentrate on education and healthcare break Down barriers Liberal Leader Paul Edwards seeks greater cooperation Ken free pwe88 Manitoba Liberal Leader Paul Edwards Aims to break Down some Barri ers if he forms a provincial gov the Liberal Leader is counting on joint efforts with other Western provinces to reduce provincial government costs for example through joint Purchase of drugs and school he Hopes to follow in the West the example that the Atlantic provinces have set in the where joint agencies of three or four provinces take an in Terest in economic transportation planning and Sev eral other provincial i have been a big and unabashed promoter of Western Ca Nadian Edwards said during a 70minute interview in his legislative building there has been a lot of talk but what i see is that were still about three years behind the Mari he wants to make sure Public school curriculum Are consistent among the Western prov i would name a minister responsible for forging those part i would not go to a West Ern premiers meeting without get Ting something that what new Brunswick Liberal Premier Frank Mckenna did in Atlantic Canada and it took our Guys 36 hours in 11 press release they were All written before they went every one of them crapped on the Federal govern no he would also aim to break Down department and Agency barriers in provision of social i would like to set up a Pilot project immediately with schools in this province to integrate free the teachers schools Are increasingly be coming Community we need to acknowledge we need to free up teachers to teach and to very much work on an integrated Community seeing Edu cation As a key component but also building in resources to provide the other we have never developed a team approach at a Community level to the Range of weve never pulled it in each Community Here you have child and family service health you have teachers teach you have Law enforcement of a myriad of people offering Public services sometimes exclusively related to often Terence Moore we need to integrate that in a Community team Effort that lets people talk to each other on a regu Lar the first budget of a Paul Edwards government would shift sections among departments in Hope of improving pos secondary and continuing education programs for Edwards said he would try to de crease or at least not increase proportion of Public school costs financed through realty tax he would prefer to use corporate income tax or sales tax Revenue to finance Public schools in order to reduce the education realty which strikes holders of real property and not holders of other kinds of tax fears voiced governments have been reluctant to increase the contribution to Public school finance from general government he be cause they fear that school boards will spend the extra Money without reducing local realty tax since the tax is collected by the provincial government is Able to col Lect and use the Revenue without bearing the political in the first budget of a Liberal he he would undertake to make no further in crease in the property tax proportion of education take Public its a billion Dol weve gone from 44 to 52 per cent Reliance on property that budgets been growing All As a percentage of the Over All budget for we would Stop an increase of 52 per cent and we would look in our first budget to get Down below 50 per he would try to negotiate first with school boards and municipalities to make sure that they would not raise their property taxes when the province reduced its the Filmon governments school Reform policy unveiled last Spring by education minister Clayton manness is Edwards to achieve excellence in the school system by the year Treyve had six you cant spend six years paring Down an education system and defining your self by the enemies you have within that system and then turn around and say give us another six years and Well provide a de cent education like Rose Vodrey Boot its the product of Reading a lot of polls and try ing to give the people what they at the said he the liberals support Many of the specifics in the policy such As increased parental standardized province wide tests Are appropriate As one Way to test a but there should also be local control of some elements of the provincial tests and local control Over the use that is made of the building partnerships with healthcare workers and he will be a first step to re forming the health and education if those people Funda mentally dont Trust you and dont think you respect your pro Cess of changing the system is Fin if nurses think youre out to take their jobs pack it people should look at the government and say who can Man age change that the Edwards would continue the Fil Mon governments moratorium on the spread of provincially licensed gambling in Manitoba and hold a Public review of gambling his governments policy would be guided by the results of the re he would achieve a balanced budget before the end of a four year term in Edwards he would accomplish this through the saving achieved by inter pro Vinci Al cooperation and by cutting Back Grants aimed at making industries locate in no inconsistency Edwards defended the appoint ment to the Senate of his Liberal leadership Sharon despite her prior insistence that senators should be elect i never nor did that the Senate was a useless he just because youre part of it Doest mean youre not in favor of reforming the a number of Sena tors Joyce Gil Mol people 1 know personally have fought Long and hard and were during the constitutional of Radical including an elected the Liberal Leader said he agreed with Premier Gary film on response to the election of the separatist parti quebecois to gov Ern the country has worked and can there Are of some peo ple Are no doubt people in Quebec More so than but the country has worked for que he the wrong thing to do in the period leading up to the referendum would be to try to buy off try to make deals the Way to approach this is just in All kinds of we have been Able to Craft unique arrangements for Quebec in areas such As i Migra agriculture and Many other the country has been flexible to accommodate to some very unique situations and that can occur Edwards said he has not recently tested the political winds in que my thinking about Quebec comes from my discussions with those at the Federal level who Are keenly interested and keenly in touch with whats going on in que a decision to build a new hockey Arena in Winnipeg cannot be Edwards until we have a Pri Mary tenant secured for the Long probably 15 if the owners of the Winnipeg who Ever they Are willing to sign that Lon term lease and pledge Security so that we have some As then essentially you can build an Arena that pays for it with a Lon term lease with the jets and if there were going to be no annual government Cost for operating we Are prepared to be partners As Long As it is Cost spending million on construction would produce about million in provincial tax reve the liberals would be willing to donate that amount to Ward the construction Cost As Manitoba governments often do for charitable and nonprofit Community organizations with construction projects in the build the overpass Edwards supports construction of the Kenaston the larg est item in the package of jointly funded Manitoba infrastructure projects negotiated among Feder provincial and local govern the overpass project has run into opposition from people Liv ing near Kenaston who doubt its usefulness and fear the effects of increased traffic it will Edwards said he had studied the interesting Points raised by critics of the overpass and did not agree with their doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Hap i Xiv Call i sitting Pouh Wiar Tasha Tali Ink ;