Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 30, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press teenagers not All coarse scamps i wonder Why society automatically links violence and crime with i know we May be different from you business types and you think we Are coarse and but Why dont you open your eyes and see the Vio Lence committed by children and adults most of our society presumes All teenagers Are in gangs and Are out to kill each these people believe our generation is going Down the Drain and that we Are never going to if teenagers Are committing so much it May be because they Are victims of violence from the adults in their the Circle of violence didst suddenly Start in my it has been going on since the beginning of so Why Are the adults blaming the for All their worries it might be because they believe we Are stupid and that we Are the Easi est targets of but we Arent and we i admit most of us Are but who going through the changes from childhood to adult Hood to blame others May be the Easi est Way but you should consider the feelings of those you Are blam some of us May be but please dont judge us some teen agers Are really trying to Stop the i this is to All the adults put there who think teenagers Are just Trou dont judge a Book by its cover and take a look at your selves you May be the ones who have the Grade 10 College Louis Kiel Glamor izing cigars i am frankly outraged that your paper would print the article smoke screen free this attempting to Glamor ize smoking is a great Disser vice to your any attempt and this is what the article seems to imply to promote the use of tobacco products is Inex maybe your writer should tour our hospitals to see people who have lost their by their use of tobacco prod have lost my voice Box because of this horrible for your paper to devote a whole Page to the use of cigars is George Ackerman Winnipeg insidious addiction i have read with much dismay your feature article about cigars free 12 and feel i must write to express my concern with the favourable Coyer age Given to this insidious despite some marginalized acknowledgement that smoking is bad for your the Overall impression left by this article is that Cigar smoking is an enjoyable and relax ing instead of blandly noting that smoking is bad for your health and no one should be picking up the your author would have served the Public interest better by stating that smoking destroys your is responsible for More than Canadian deaths each far from being an innocuous is a deadly chemical Addic harder to kick than either co Caine or instead of blithely glossing Over the risk of Mouth the Public might have been better served if it was explained that tobacco use is responsible for 30 per cent of All can cer and specifically linked to 85 per cent of All lung to Bacco is also a contributing Factor to the development of cancer of the kidney and pan re your readership should also be aware that whenever smoke touches living it does a smokers have an increased risk of Mouth and Tongue those who have endured the arduous treatment of such cancers would surely take Issue with an Arti Cle 6y and portrays Cigar smoking As simply a pleasant it is disappointing that you would chose to publish such an ill advised tribute to an addiction what Ever its passing is responsible for so much disease and suffer ing in our Winnipeg Public education committee Canadian cancer society Manitoba division letters 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 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 Treyve gone too tar our tory politicians have gone too the latest intrusion into our Pri vate lives is smart a subsidiary of the Royal some time our social insurance number was exactly what it it was private and not to be divulged to then Revenue Canada got into the then Trust insurance companies and credit unions wanted your sin number when transactions were being our politicians and bureaucrats now have Pha Macare and each person has a individual identity that can be punched into your Friendly and your entire drug history is on now our Filmon government wants to go one step smart health has offered to computerize and put on file everyone health All of these intrusions smack of state i believe the time has come for Filmon to Tell his minister of health and the bureaucrats in the health enough is the arrogance of this government has become Union scion All governments must respect our democratic we Are individuals whose Freedom must be respect we Are not slaves of the smart health is stupid for get the sooner the Charles Mallie Winnipeg world seen through male eyes i would like to answer Paul Mck ies question posed on 17 do women need their own universities and to stations my answer is whether he re Alizes it or the world is seen through heterosexual male that even though universities Are not called White male they certainly re cent articles in the free press about Lack of female representation at these institutions support these con also note there Are native women Gay and lesbian any other causes not so named Are considered from a male there Are no White male if Mckie were to go into a Book store he would find the same thing holds there Are books from a Black perspective or a female unless otherwise stat the world is seen from the White male until women Point of View is Given the same amount of space hint see free press editorial Board women do need a space of ones Shannon Chrabaszcz Winnipeg no Deposit Means litter thanks to the foresight of our leg we Are blessed with Many including Nore turn bottles and great new recycling the sum total of their Good works amounts to the litter which blankets our a likelier solution surely would have been to require deposits on we dont often see Beer bottles or cans littering our roads for very i imagine wed be seeing soft drink or juice containers any longer if they were Worth our government could do us All a service by going one step further and demanding deposits on any takeout whether food or drink Job creation and a cleaner environment would be Only two of the immediate benefits which would a my beloved Home return to Ukraine after being away from his Homeland for 55 former Winnipeg Ger Peteri Michyn travelled Back to Ukraine for a visit in by Peter Pihi Chyn special to the free press my you Are As my and How 1 value the Only one who would know National poet Adam born in but who lived in exile in from his poetic novel Pau these words were engraved in my soul during my 55year absence from my own i lost my Ukraine in october when i was taken a political prisoner by the russian communist never in my wildest dreams did i Hope to see my Homeland yet it did the world shattering events of recent years made it possible for me to put my feet once again on my native time a free owned and ruled by ukrainian stepping on the free ukrainian soil for the first time last with my wife and i remembered the words of the polish Bard and i fully understood and appreciated their Boris pol Airport is about 40 Kilometres from it was an interesting journey As we crossed the River that is so dear to All the and drove through the suburbs with rows and rows of tenement blocks which House the working class of mingling with the people on the streets of one cannot help overhear their i was dismayed and disappointed that most of these conversations were in Only Here and there did i hear ukrainian spoken on the i feared that the majority of Kiev population was now i struck up a conversation with two Middle aged both spoke literate ukrainian when talking to but when they turned to each they spoke Why do you do that i said slightly we got into the it seems to be easier for us to communicate in after it was our official language under the soviet old habits Are hard to it crossing the Steppes and entering Western Ukraine from the East is like entering a different another the signs of the Russia cation of Ukraine that Are so dominant still in Kiev Are i did not hear or see any evidence of the russian language any after More than half a Century one notices Many changes changes for the better and for the travelling through a significant part of from Kiev or More from a ukrainian Yiv in the East to Lviv in the through Many towns and i noticed some material gone were the villages of thatched roof there were quite sizable similar to suburban cottages in there was electricity in every Village and i saw there were but More farm vehicles than i had the 600kilometre Highway Between Kiev and for the most a Good Road with four but in it is simply especially when approaching or driving through towns and there Are horse drawn carts still roam villages of Western photos by Joanne Dodge Pihi Chyn in Brothers Home at after 55 an indescribable collectives with what they Call Farmers free these Are As opposed to where All the Farmers work together gathering the fruits of their marketing their and sharing equally in the without state interference or if someone chooses to leave the he is Given his share of the land and becomes an Independent Western ukrainians Are More they Revere the memories of ukrainian heroes and Freedom they especially Revere the memories of the victims of foreign occupation and there Are no longer any statues of or the other heroes of communist these Are being by statues of the great figures of ukrainian history and men like the great poets Taras Shevchenko and Ivan during my i was invited to a special dedication of a commemorative Cross in the local cemetery at Jeremy Slaney for the victims of stains such crosses and memorials Are springing up in virtually every Village and town in Western this dedication is one i will never for was a victim of stains and Only by Luck and the Grace of am i still it is difficult to describe the reunion with my after 55 years of being Only those who have experienced similar occasions will be Able to understand the the which Are simply enough to say that i was and thankful to for this my Home the place of my birth exists it will remain a free and Independent nation As Long As the world accepts that the age of enslavement by one nation Over another is gone although one is left to Ponder the future of Eastern Europe in Light of russian latest adventure in for is a poor nation by Western but she is very Rich in her spiritual As my wife and who saw Ukraine for the first will to that my journey to see you in my declining years was a worthwhile and honorable Peter Pihi Chyn is a former Winnipeg editor and he now lives in retirement in holes in the roads that no one seems to care to people crossing the roads take their lives in their there Are no marked pedestrian there Are not Many private so the highways were easy to Speed every 100 Kilometres or so along the Highway you see a Marks a state automobile inspection Drivers Are obliged to Stop and report to the Highway police at each they inquire where you have where you Are the purpose of your they ask to see your i suppose thin intrusion into ones private travels is some leftover vestige from the communist after a six hour we reached the ancient City of where i spent the Best years of my i travelled on to the Small town of Jeremy Slaney where my brother i visited the Village where i was the Graves of my Mother and father and other members of my these were the most emotional moments of my pilgrimage there is a lot of difference Between Ukraine East of the River Bruch and the land to the the Little River was the ancient Border Between Eastern and Western the East was subjugated by Russia since following the Battle of Western once part of the great Syivan ukrainian was later and in turn by and again East and West were in by the invasion of Stalin and his russian Western ukrainians survived All of these foreign even the nazi occupation from 1941 in yet were spared the most horrible deprivations their Eastern Brothers suffered from 1709 until when the soviet Union ceased to it is not that there is a marked difference Between the Eastern and Western ukrainians in their philosophy of and their love of the westerners were under the russian Yoke for a Mere 50 while the easterners suffered for nearly 300 it was required by Law under the former soviet Union that when a citizen travelled to another for any he had to report his intentions to the local upon a further report was i had thought that such invasions of personal Freedom would cease when Ukraine declared its but not i was astonished when the Driver of the minivan which brought us from Kiev to upon asked for the nearest person of local authority who would sign and stamp his i am an employee of the they Send me to places where i have to take tourists and bring them for i need a written order stating that the vehicle i drive belongs to the state and that i go to the places indicated to deliver or fetch when i i need confirmation from the local authorities that i was actually and did my Job As i do not get this is called Wasyl this is the the old Laws and habits Are slow to die in the new in Eastern there still exist Many collective which remain under the control of the just As in communist in the Western Farmers have replaced the doonesbury by Garry Trudeau Winnipeg tank top with a ;