Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january destruction threatens nature Val Weiers articles re Garding the Earth and wildlife Are informative and focus at Tention on topics of wrestling with environmental and ecological one becomes aware of the Wanton disregard and destruction of the articles our Parks Are endangered places free 10 and finding ways to beat Bear poachers 14 raise important this is an other area where there is a Lack of creative leadership by Premier Gary Filmon and the Manitoba con native elders have always taught respect and care for the Earth and her born into a farming i have spent my life enjoying and learning from wildlife and a my dream is that my grandchildren and others will be Able to enjoy this to witness the rape of Mother Earth or View the remains of Butch ered bears and other one must ask probing questions about Priori ties and values of society and gov bears Are intelligent and powerful beings along with other streams and Are valuable members of our Earth offering plea sure and we Are Wise to listen to the Wisdom of the Black bears and to feel their pain and killing of bears to obtain Gall Blad Ders is a waste that runs contrary to the concept of utilizing every part of a killed animal so that nothing is it is reminiscent of the herds of Bison that once roamed the Prairies and were killed by the thou Sands so that their tongues could be Cut out and the future of planet Earth is dependent on learning to live in Harmony with All of creation and enabling the Equality of All life John Lawrence Moore Sun Bear Winnipeg vast difference in Manitoba the article is your House breath ing properly free 11 draws attention to the need for heat ing safety and indoor air Quality like so Many other articles that come from farther South in the United it is written for a Dif Ferent climate and different housing than we have in there it can be misleading to Home owners there is a vast difference in hous ing and heating requirements be tween places where january temperatures May be about to c generally and those where the temperatures Are in the to c the illustrations in the article show Oil fired a method that is now almost nonexistent in fresh air Supply ducts for All combustion furnaces Are advisable Are mandatory according to our building codes for new the article goes on to say in some older All the air might be exhausted and replaced As often As six times an i doubt if there is a single Home in Winnipeg that would be that Leaky one com plete air change every six hours would be More typical in most Mani Toba there is an scientific Way to determine whether there Are sufficient air changes in Homes or Carbon dioxide not monoxide monitoring will always indicate Overall air Quality and air change manager Canada cos needs More Money in response to auditor lashes Agency free i worked for Winnipeg child and family services for six years As a so called professional Foster working with High level abused Chil in All those six i never got As much As one week off for rest and there was never enough we had one of the Best Homes for children of this nature in for six we were praised and blessed by it was at the Point that things started that i will not because of extreme burnout is an understate ment for what i went All the Praise and encouragement was not we needed time off for to get our Heads and thoughts things started deteriorating for i had a total breakdown in the last 18 at one i had to be taken to seven Oaks Hospital by another i took my 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 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 self in for suffering a minor stroke because of All the pressure i was in there is no Money in the world that can repair the damage that has been and the auditor lashes out for if cos peo ple should get More Money to help people who Are in situations that i was Lawrence Sanderson Winnipeg wrong impression in wondering about the impression being generated by a television and promoting change for the an organized approach to reducing panhandling on Winnipeg since i dont own a i Haven been Able to see the and for my who has seen the has a my husband told me All the pan handlers depicted were he said he found the ads stereotypical is the word i would if his description of the and is ironic is another word which applies my who is of aboriginal lives in the Osborne Village in his neighbor All the panhandlers Are Debbie Thompson Winnipeg numbers dont add up the numbers dont add names Are target dates Are dollars and sales Are commitments Only and actual Cash in the Cost million to remember when the Manitoba entertainment Complex officials said they needed far in excess of million and they had to have it by and they had to have a site decision by the end of novem Ber 1994 do you remember just one month ago when the Mec chairman John Loewen said if the labor dispute which now cripples the nil is not settled in time to Start even a Short ened 199495 there is Little Hope that the option to Purchase the jets for million will be exer he added if that should Hap the Mecs Arena project would be if there is no nil i would think the Arena project the Bottom line the Arena and the jets both have to be economically he is Loewen a Man of his word As a High profile member of Winnipeg business Loewen must be because the politicians have said but where Are the Bellringer in the Media and at City Hall Winnipeg benefits won by unions in a recent letter to the Wright blames the unions for Rich i would like to remind Wright that benefits won by unions came to be As a result of the bargain ing City officials could have refused to sign these con but they in getting a Little sick and tired of people like Wright blaming unions for our cites and country there does not seem to be much out rage about the enormous salaries and benefits paid to such As the one at coca his reported salary and Benefit package was Worth More than million for one in sure thankful to be living in a country that still has rights and free and allows the working poor in our society some benefits through the collective bargaining Fowler Winnipeg u a file photo the process of Confidence building was thwarted by continuing terrorism against israelis last Assad remains uncompromising Mideast Hopes stagnant by Helen Davis special to the free press Londo Njust one year there was cautious optimism that a comprehensive Ara israeli settlement would propel the Middle East toward an Era of political and economic stability and those Hopes remain apart from the dramatic and unexpected breakthrough which led first to a no belligerency agreement and then to a full scale peace treaty Between Israel and Progress on the other Lebanon and the to have been effectively negotiations with As Well As with which is under syrian remain bogged Down by president Hafez assays refusal to embark on serious talks until Israel commits itself to a total withdrawal from the Golan neither conciliatory signals from Jerusalem nor a series of visits to Damascus by senior including president Bill appeared to be sufficient to nudge Assad toward a More compromising at the same Progress with the palestinians has been hampered by a failure of Plo chairman Yasser Arafat to create the appropriate political and financial structures to facilitate the expansion of self Rule in the West Bank and accelerate economic development within the autonomous negotiations the process of Confidence building during the interim phase of palestinian intended to prepare the ground for deep and painful concessions in final status was also thwarted by continuing terrorism that doubled the number of israeli casualties in the 12 months following the september 1993 declaration of there been Progress beyond the immediate Circle of negotiating partners who launched the peace process in Madrid on relations Between Israel and nonarae Muslim Turkey have made significant culminating in reciprocal visits by top political and economic officials which produced agreements on economic and military Assad refusing to in diplomatic breakthroughs have occurred in parts of the maghreb and Low level diplomatic the first Steps on the path to were established with Morocco and there has also been Progress in the with the six nation Gulf cooperation Council acc announcing its abandonment of the secondary and tertiary aspects of the Arab Trade Boycott that proscribes Trade Between third country companies and in the closing Days of israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin visited Oman for talks with Sultan Ibn said the first time an israeli Leader had been formally hosted by a Gulf this rapprochement is expected to Lead to the establishment of diplomatic relations Early next year Between Israel and most of the six member expanding the Circle of peace and precipitating the collapse of the the partial renunciation of the Boycott by the acc has already delivered an economic dividend to which is perceived As an increasingly attractive destination for investment and joint ventures by multinationals and foreign israels High Quality coupled with its sophisticated science based also makes it a prize regional service Centre for High tech companies which have interests throughout the Middle the israeli which grew by per cent in 1994 almost double the 1993 served As a catalyst for the unexpectedly Swift absorption into the workforce of most of the Hal million immigrants who arrived from the former soviet i with higher interest rates expected to drive Down inflation from 12 per cent in 1994 to a projected nine per cent in a Basket of fiscal measures is expected to assist the process of achieving sustained growth estimated at per among the measures Are the privatization of stat owned a reduction in corporation and personal the establishment of tax free exporting zones and a new Accord with the european Union that will Grant israeli firms improved Access to the european already a major foreign currency is expected to enjoy a boost next there Are plans to develop a joint Israel jordanian playground in the Arava desert and to create an International tourism project involving the contiguous red sea resort towns of israels Jordans Akaba and Egypt but economics and politics Are and the Pace of foreign investment and increased tourism will some at continued Progress in the peace As Wellas on the perception of regional one influential determinant of economic development will be a reduction in palestinian violence and Progress in implementing the declaration of Early empowerment and expanding self Rule in the West another will be Progress in peace talks with combined with firm action by Damascus to disarm islamic extremists in Lebanon and curb their attacks against israeli normalization of relations Between Israel and Arab states farther afield will also contribute to the atmospherics of eroding the Trade Boycott and creating the climate for accelerated economic All is contingent on political stability in Israel where the government of Yitzhak Rabin rests on a tiny it won widespread support for the peace treaty with but continuing violence is eroding support for the agreement with the even before the hard issues of jewish palestinian refugees and the status of Jerusalem Are More problematic still is a potential agreement with Syria that might involve a substantial withdrawal by Israel from the Golan the area is widely considered to be of prime importance to israels Security and Rabin has promised to put the Issue to a referendum before any such agreement is concluded Over the referendum in the absence of any tangible gestures of Goodwill by Rabin will have difficulty persuading a majority of israelis to agree to relinquish this valuable strategic if the referendum is and recent polls indicate that it might the credibility of rabins government and his vision of peace could be severely for All the facts on the ground indicate an if movement toward further agreements and in spite of the slow Pace of negotiations with the palestinians Are while the syrian track entered a new dimension last week when talks resumed in not Only at ambassadorial level but also at a technical level Between High ranking officials from both the importance of this development cannot be overstated for the bricks and mortar of any particularly with Are made up of the detailed arrangements that will ensure the Security of Israel in any future political and military while Progress on these negotiating fronts has fallen Short of the Hopes that were invested at the Start of there is a widespread expectation that the peace process is As 1995 a sense of cautious optimism once again characterizes the approach to Middle East Helen Davis is an israeli journalist living in doonesbury by Garry Trudeau it May put happeh5 of ;