Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 7, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Readers forum Winnipeg free press a 7 january Ridd on thin ice about Meg group Carl Ridd is really on thin ice when he subjectively and wrongly states that the action by our corporate Community is corporate citizenship at its the opposite is without the positive action of Manitoba entertainment Complex and the business Community in there would be no Opportunity to keep the is not inter ested in the Quality of life of our Manitoba is basically a on City when its business Community rises to the anything can be without it nothing will i imagine Ridd would have also criticized the business Community for its leadership in assuring that our concert Hall and planetarium and museum were the late Maitland Steinkopf would turn Over in his grave if he read rides i imagine Ridd cares not for the existence of facilities that House our Art gallery and permits major entertainers to please our these Are Quality life they make us they lift our they make living Here bet its not As Paul Mckie wrote that the boys want a new its that the boys want the Quality of life to How can especially an academic like describe the efforts and dollars raised As a it is a very Large Pool of capital that Only a Small number of participants raised in a Short time based on schematic As one Mec member they sold it is the kind of air that this Community needs to sustain its life and criticism of those who put their efforts and Money where their Mouth is by Ridd and most of his win confreres is most rides kind of air is the Type that paralyses and to criticize leadership by example is left to those who do not be Lieve that worthy efforts result in worthy achievements for everyone including the everything in life is a we risk our letting the future be indebted to ourselves if we permit the naysayers like Ridd to have their Hes really on thin Winnipeg propaganda machines right to privacy ignored by Media up spotlight for actor in sure Many Winni Eggers will feel Well represented by Carl rides recent article Arena debate angers free sat in stunned disbelief this past fall As local ulary the free press and chewed their mandate for fair re porting on the Issue and simply be came propaganda machines for the Manitoba entertainment theres room for me Dia support and but what about a journalists responsibility to Point out the strengths and weaknesses of projects such As the Mec there Are several groups with much different visions for an Arena in Why didst they get the same Quantity and Quality of coverage As especially in Light of the fact that none of them had Small town thinking although Winnipeg would like to be considered As a big the apparent mentality is that of a group of Small when Are our citizens going to Start thinking As one and Endeavor to bring the City into the next Century with some imaginative projects where would we be now if the City had the same group of negative thinkers 100 years ago that we appear to have almost every Large project that comes along is downplayed by some group or there was the Moray Street Bridge project that had numerous delays before finally be ing we now have the Kenaston underpass which can Only be beneficial in the Long run but is being our downtown area can Only be considered As a disgrace and badly in need of some stimulus for devel the Arena proposal would be one such but we again have a negative Outlook on the sub this building should be looked upon not As strictly a hockey but As a multiuse property which could be the drawing card to help clean up our How do cities such As Minneapolis manage to move and to get not but two freeways built right through the heart of town what Hope would there be in Winnipeg to get approval for such a land acquisition our politicians and administrators Are too subject to pressure from Small interest it is about time that they took the bit in their Teeth and voted to move this City Arthur Winnipeg million to spend on Media Advertis ing Why didst we see their Pic Tures on the front Page Why didst your writers gush All Over them every time they issued a press re lease and most importantly Why we rent the results of Public opinion polls that showed a Lack of Public support for the Mec reported with More careful and then Fol Lowed up with interviews or forums conducted by your reporters that kind of honest journalism would have been far More effective in persuading me to rally behind a new i would have Felt there had been real with the Best argument suggesting the future course of As it i Felt i dont think in Greg Glatz Winnipeg its unfortunate that Keanu Reeves wont see the respect people in Winnipeg seem to have for each Keanu adoration debates women come on Winnipeg its time to Wake up and smell the Keanu Reeves is just a Man those of you who Are going crazy Over him Are making us levelheaded ones look As bad As you no wonder men have such big egos and consider themselves gods gifts to All of you who have complained at least once in your life about a Guy cat calling at you or commenting about your please raise your Tell me what you think you Are doing to Keanu it May feel Good for awhile to have women falling at your but it must get tiring after did you Ever think about How Many other girls have groped touched kissed its enough to make me sick if you dont want to be drooled Over All the dont do it to other no matter How famous they Staci Neufeld Winnipeg Joe free press i have lived in Winnipeg for the past 15 having moved Here from a Large i have established myself have a family and am proud to Call Winnipeg my one of the things that has always impressed me about this place has been the sense of respect the people seem to have for each for this sense of respect has always been reflected in the free press until quite somehow the Powers that be seem to have taken it upon themselves to be the spotlight that illuminates the daily activities of visiting actor Keanu one might expect such preoccupation from members of the general Public unaccustomed to dealing with but not from a supposedly mature and sensitive journalistic How unfortunate for Reeves that he will not have the Opportunity to experience the Side of Winnipeg that has appealed so much to How unfortunate for him that he is continually hounded by members of the those who write the articles and take the pictures do not have to worry about being subjected to such intense they can do their go Home at the end of the Day and never think twice about the effect of their probing if it is the intention of the free press to take itself from being an in socially sensitive newspaper Down to the level of most super Market then congrats la you Are Well on the Way reach ing your Jamie Oliviero 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 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Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone City a sorry site for tourists w Winnipeg needs a Symbol like the Eiffel Tower in Here Are our Sites the thing that bugs me about Winnipeg is that we have no Toronto has the sky dome and the in Paris has the Eiffel new York has the statue of Liberty and the twin Las vegas is known for its British Columbia has the sky India has the Taj i could go on but what do we have kids ask their where Are we going for holidays can we go to Florida because they have Disney world hardly anyone wants to go to we have no we have no we have no we have no we have some people May disagree with me and that not we have the Forks and the Assiniboine Park i doubt that anyone even knows i think we should build something and it will catch i know maybe something that we could we could build a huge Globe with the flags of every City and we should Call it in flags we if we build the site that i thought of or any other Winnipeg will be a lot More noticeable and Well be More respected by other people and Satin a Kubrak grades Valley gardens Junior High tax loopholes Are exaggerated 1 would like to respond to Nel son Riis and other politicians who continually rant about All these profitable corporations which dont pay income tax because of All the loopholes in the Cana Dian tax nip warns of tax free Riis needs to examine the income tax act of Canada be fore lecturing about since he refers to the kind of loopholes where you have your backup yacht in Case the first yacht Doest work for your regular meetings out of i this comment is misleading be cause any expense relating to the Purchase or servicing of a yacht is already prohibited As a deduction from income by corporations or individuals by subsection of the income tax meetings held in Florida regularly would be disallowed if a Canadian company had no business reason for meeting Friiss provincial colleague Gary doer has also misled the pub Lic by referring to corporations owing millions in unpaid referred to As deferred in sure doer is aware that deferred taxes do not represent Federal in come taxes currently but rather represent the difference Between the tax effect of income according to the generally accepted accounting principles and income calculated in accordance with the rules of the income tax the main difference is usually that cer Tain assets can be written off More Joy outweighs the traffic Doon Syufy quickly under the tax act manufacturing assets than is suggested by accounting it does not represent taxes in the fast write off of the assets just Means that the company will pay More taxes in the despite All the there Are not a lot of tax Breaks left for corp the Federal conservatives ensured All Large corporations pay some tax when they instituted the Large corporations they also instituted several other limitations on luxury car meals and which have now been limited even further by the comments that refer to profitable companies paying no tax Are often most of them will have to pay the Large corporations which is a tax on Capi not a company May have had losses in the previous year that were higher than the current years prof so it Only makes sense that Over the two which in the aggregate were not they should pay no individuals have this same ability to carry Forward so this is not some loophole Only available to the mighty corp politicians have a duty to present the True picture to the Public to stir meaningful misleading comments such As those made by Riis and others Only serve to promote bad decisions and bad leg Brian Janzen Winnipeg by Garry Trudeau we Are sorry that the heavy traffic created by people viewing the Beautiful lights caused problems for some residents on Highland Park As we drove along in the slow but steady moving line of we recognized that this could be a Nui Sance to some folks in the neighbor but hoped that they would be Able to focus on the obvious pleasure the lights were giving to so Many people instead of the inconvenience to if Only they could have witnessed the Delight in the eyes of our Niney Earold As Well As 90yearold father not to mention our own perhaps they would find it easier to endure the we years when Kingston Row attracted similar Long lines of cars including special Tran sit buses As do Cloutier drive and other areas their neighbors have managed to Cope for we have never read of a complaint to the neighbors who Are so we ask you to please compare your discomfort to the pleasure of hundreds and take heart in the fact it is a Short to All in our pity who provide the Lovely Light thank you for your special Holiday Don Susan Mclaren Winnipeg ;