Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 10, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january n Impi p i i him Juu Luumi Jimina Umbi Huim Whyl Temh narrow minds narrow casting will Lead to narrow world 1 read with much and some your 19 feature on project the joint Effort be tween the free press and red River Community College to develop an electronic As a graduate member of the first Rocc creative communications a u of m graduate student in the humanities and a High school i feel compelled to comment on the role this new technology might play in our the traditional print newspaper already caters to a wide variety of Reader some readers use the paper As a window on the a source of balanced and detailed information on National and global issues and these readers Are Mak ing the Effort required to become Alert Consumers and contributors to other readers approach the paper with a More or even hedonistic they Are looking for Stock Market social and entertainment contests and a third class of readers Are Sensa Tion following the Sim son the House of Windsor soap and the Keanu Reeves hotline out of some sort of vicarious desire for a less mundane it looks like project Mcluhan is designed to be a service of the third with its prototype package about the burgeoning career of a Young Manitoba i wish Scott Bairstow every Success in his acting but celebrity gossip is celeb Rity Mcluhan had talked about a global resulting from elec tronic Media bringing the life Strug Gles and concerns of people in re Mote parts of the world into our Liv ing at least with a print people can be educated by which would Al Low readers to screen out whole Broad subject areas of information and accept Only a custom tailored selection of would Render inoperative this accidental global the news coming into my Home is already preselected and pre screened to a disturbing be cause of the flood of information that combined with the limited resources and the editorial slants of mass Media owned by a Small number of huge to be further blinkered by having to select news items from a the contents of which Are Only Sketchly known to would be Tim consuming and ultimately unsatisfying to any person of wide and pluralistic Winnipeg Long wait in Hospital in response to the 27 free press article health care study seeks More i disagree with the Hospital cuts appear not to have affected patients great on Christmas i sat with my sister As she waited about five hours to be seen by a doctor at the Grace Hospital emergency we waited along with Many other patients who were sick and had to wait much longer than they should this is not written to criticize the medical i am sure if their staffing Levels had been they would not have been so Over worked and the patients would have been attended to in better this is to criticize the government for cutbacks in health care and for not adequately staffing the hospitals to provide proper care for the at one time or will include All of Anthony Martinenko Winnipeg no representation without taxation there have been nearly daily re ports of acts of civil disobedience and threats of court action from groups of first nations protesters and their political leaders Over Rev Enue Canadas plan to Start collect ing income tax from status indians who Are employed by no Reserve these protests Are not going to gather any popular support from nonnative maintaining an exemption from a commonly collected tax could be counterproductive to the desire of the first nations people for increased political control of their communities and influence on Canadian one of the rallying Calls during the develop ment of democratic government was the no taxation without the in verse of this phrase also True no 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 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 representation without i invite the first nations people to join the larger Canadian society and share both the rights and responsibilities of this Winnipeg child seizure Case familiar can it be that Manitoba child and family services is finally going to be exposed for using dubious Means of legitimizing its apprehension of children Kevin Roll sons article Story men sue free 31 highlights a cos experience that is very familiar to As members of parents helping an organization formed to combat the Power of we can relate to the experiences of the men suing cos Over accusations of sexual several elements in the Story Are so common in the stories of horror we hear that we believe they indicate significant problems in the social work practices of this the Public does not want to be Lieve that when cos has acted too quickly to disband a a social worker feels pressured to induce sexual abuse claims from the Chil in the old teenage rebellion was commonplace and no one saw the need for the state to we believe that cos is operating As a runaway Bureau for these instead of allowing parents the Lati tude to handle this common family problem As it has been handled for the men pursuing their lawsuit against cos were Lucky enough to have been provided with a report that exonerated them of sexual abuse Lucky is the operative word for we believe it is common practice for cos to sup press such forcing parents to pursue them through the lengthy court a legitimate question to ask would be Why Why does cos feel compelled to create More Foster Chil Dren parents helping parents suggests in the course of dealing with the child abuse hysteria which sur faced in the the Agency began equating its effective identification of child abuse with the number of Foster children it our sys tem analysis suggests that cos treats allegations As objective and uses the investigative process to confirm instead of the truth finding procedure most of us would want it to they put the cart before the leaving them selves no room to eliminate false Al Louise Malenfant parents helping parents questions about the Odds in trying to get answers to the question Many people Are asking Are the Manitoba lotteries corporations casinos honest i ask myself Why it refuses to give information on How much Money is taken by a Slot when the Mac says the slots pay out 92 to 97 per that a bit hard to i have Good reason to think it would be nearer 57 per this figure seems to be a Little More based on the fact that several per sons i talked to had the same 57 per cent the have the right to know the Odds of yet the minister in charge of the Mac ref uses to release the it might just show that the Public has had the Wool pulled Over their took the Mac to Small claims court after being told the Slot machine i had spent on was Bro the Day of the court Mac gave me my they did not want the and in not the Only one that this happened Maurice Winnipeg Joe free press traffic on Kenaston Boulevard approaches the in tracks just South of Wilkes proposed site for an in backs underpass traffic transportation benefits to City cited the future of the proposed Kenaston Boulevard underpass is in doubt As support for the project by Winnipeg City Council is in rail believes the project should go ahead because of the benefits it will bring to the cites transportation in the following Jim in rails Public affairs manager in describes cons Point of by Jim Feeny special to the free press in fully supports the construction of an or Grade at Kenaston the existing combination of rail and Road traffic already significantly exceeds the volume at which regulatory authorities advise Grade separations be in terms of Public convenience and the potential improvement to the efficiency of Winnipeg transportation the proposed underpass is a sound the underpass would improve the North South flow of commercial traffic in the and its major beneficiaries would be private recent studies indicate that trucks make up under eight per cent of the total traffic volume on North of Wilkes Only 10 per cent of those or less that one per cent of the total traffic on consist of vehicles entering or leaving cons inter modal major Hub cons Winnipeg inter modal terminal wit is a major Hub in the company transcontinental wit handles some carrying manufactured products such As furniture and clothing from Winnipeg businesses to markets around the As Well As bringing in High value products to Winnipeg at the containers and truck trailers Are transferred Between rail car f flatbeds and Highway trains move goods to and from Winnipeg Over Long while trucks cover the Shorter its an cos effective Way to and makes up one of cons fastest growing business wit must be improved if it is to reach its full it is the Only inter modal terminal in cons network which is yet to be cons plans for the needed improvements Are still being but they will Likely include a proposal to extend wits working tracks from the current length of feet to running from East to at the same improvements would be made to the existing handling this will be a multimillion Dollar investment by old idea extending the current tracks West from the present facility will divert North South Road traffic on that traffic will have to Detour around the expanded wit this is not a new idea in first made this proposal to City planners in the improving wit would not Only increase cons ability to serve the needs of its but would also Benefit City at inter modal trains entering and leaving Winnipeg Are staged at the fort Rouge Yards because the tracks at wit Arent Long enough to accommodate an entire flatbed a few at a Are shuttled Back and Forth Between fort Rouge and there Are 20 or More such moves every which create Many of the tie ups now experienced by Road expanding the tracks at wit would put an end to the shuttling of rail traffic and related rail operations at fort some observers claim that proceeding with the underpass project Means an automatic Green Light for the wit that is not the in has already begun preliminary environmental but will still have to go through All the necessary environmental screening and Public consultation if any underpass is built at in is required by Federal Law to contribute to the the City of Winnipeg has asked the National transportation Agency to set cons share of the underpass itself at in addition to that required the City also asked in to contribute a further million to the underpass and the associated roadwork proposed for the this contribution is based on a previous obligation by in to help build an underpass at Waverley the City bases the value of that obligation at approximately and asked in to put the Money into the Kenaston project in indicated it is willing to discuss the but Only if the City is willing to address the Shaftesbury Mccreary if the City fails to close or Detour traffic on those then in is unable to make the needed improvements at it simply does not make sense for in to invest and additional million in the Kenaston project with Shaftesbury Mccreary casting a Long Shadow Over the Long term future of it has also been suggested that a decision on Kenaston be deferred because of the proposal to build a new Container traffic Gateway near Winnipeg International the proposition is tied to the establishment of the Northern hemisphere distribution Alliance or win port to promote the handling of global air cargoes through the in is a shareholder in the consortium which is spearheading the project because it will Benefit the local in does not anticipate it will generate Large volumes of rail the Alliance estimates it will begin operations with one cargo Jet arriving at the Airport each unloading its full capacity of seven inter modal in a typical in inter modal train has the capacity to carry approximately 175 such an average of 10 in inter modal trains now pass through Winnipeg every for the foreseeable there wont be enough extra traffic coming in through the Airport to justify cons shifting its inter modal operations to a new on the other the Airport proposal depends on an efficient Road Many of the goods Likely to come in by air will be destined for the United and will need to move South on route an underpass at Kenaston would be a significant Benefit to Winnipeg history is that of an East West transportation Road and that role and there Are opportunities to expand other opportunities Are now emerging As the North american free Trade agreement adds North South traffic to the prime examples Winnipeg will Only Benefit from those opportunities if it improves its existing transportation the Kenaston underpass and wit improvements Are prime examples of projects that would make Winnipeg better Able to compete As a transportation in has shown its willingness to make the investments needed to build Winnipeg it recently opened new corporate offices at 433 main in the heart of it is now establishing its National account service Centre in Eaton this new facility will serve As the nerve Centre for cons operations across the and will employ 400 approximately half of them will be transferred from other cities or newly hired in is willing to make further its wit facility and in the cites Kenaston the Overall project would help consolidate Winnipeg position As a vital Crossroads for inter modal Beneking its customers and local trucking partners As Well As the general but in can Only make investments where it believes there will be an economic cons investing in the beyond the Legal makes no financial sense unless wit is improved at the same doonesbury by Garry Trudeau 90 you think Wanwa youth la00rlaw5 wits off Riuz main ;