Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 standing behind the police service regarding a Case of Good bad Guys free press the citizens of and especially mayor Rick Are to be commended for rallying behind their police and Constable John Luteran in Martin pollocks statement that this support is an knee Jerk reaction that Doest speak Well of the people in and it is particularly contemptuous when you have an elected official like the mayor supporting a City employee who has been found to have abused his a indicate an arrogance exceeded Only by his apparent Igno Rance of the danger to our police officers when they must answer Calls about Domestic let Pollock and judge Manley Rusen answer such Calls for the next six months and they might not be so to initiate Law suits or pronounce such a perhaps it is time that Zero Toler Ance be adopted toward frivolous lawsuits brought against police offi cers called to enforce the Law of Zero tolerance toward Domestic Helen Mcnaughton Kemnay Lef Libs without end your publication remains a Reposi tory of predictable and tiresome left lib Jim Frances Val Chris Gopher Litany is tory Bill Neville is no Fred Cleverley has now been reduced to a Token although this undoubtedly represents balance in the eyes of your the always facile and self serving Carr displayed his searing wit in your 30 wherein he in tones that it has been said that a Yel Low dog could win for the conserva Tives in Don Orchards bark was always More menacing than his observes i get Orchard is a yellow in Point of Orchard is a Capa honest and forthright the Callow and Chippy Carr no with Francis Trueman Winnipeg a special thanks this is a special than you note to a special Man from Portage la Prai Rie named on was returning to Winnipeg from Regina when i started having car my car was barely crawling along the shoulder As i desperately tried to make it into it was dark and and i was a Little afraid when a Van pulled in behind i made it to the Gas station with the Van still behind a Man got out of the he had recognized i was having alternator so he followed to make sure i made it to the nearest service there was no Mechanic on duty at the so he offered to boost the Battery so i could continue each time along the when the Bat Tery was Brian would pull his Van around and boost it we finally made it to where my Friend was Brian boosted the Battery one More time so i could make it into As we parted i tried to offer him Money for his troubles and his kind but he politely declined and said it was no what a great Guy my family and i thank you Brian for All your help in getting me Back to Winnipeg it is a Story 1 will be telling for years to sue Murphy Winnipeg in support of pm Farmers i am writing in support of Farmers either As their single enter prise or As a complementary enter prise to other production col Lect pregnant Mare urine for delivery and Sale to ayerst organics As Many people Are ayerst processes the extracting the Active ingredient used in a drug that primarily is used by menopausal women As an oestrogen the Industry receives criticism in two lobby groups oppose the use of this form of intervention and suggest women use different Means to regulate oestrogen Levels in their including Chemi Cally developed these groups also oppose the collection of citing mistreatment of the my concern is with the latter i do not condone the mistreatment of in situations where this does i support any action that would Correct the what i object is the collective painting 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 letters can be sent to our fax number letters maybe submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone of a whole Industry with the same it is unprofessional to View one situation and then proceed to discredit a whole Industry with inaccuracies and rather than present counterarguments to each claim made by lobby groups against the pm i will Tell about a personal experience i not All pm Farmers keep their mares tethered for the duration of the urine collection in More and More Farmers Are allow ing their mares to go outdoors for a period of time on a regular on a particularly cold Winter i was in a barn where the Farmer had let a few mares out a Short time before i got in less than an the mares were at the trying to get Back into the no animal will voluntarily go where it knows it will be if these animals were so cruelly then Why were these mares trying to get into the barn i believe this barn is indicative of the majority of pm it was dry and and the Ani Mals receive but not re feed and it makes no sense to mistreat an animal that is your bread and i am not so naive As to believe there Are no exceptions in the rather than collectively attack All pm attempts should be made to alter specific situations where Mare treatment could be in this approach would be More positive and More Terr Betker Souris no blood in Power rangers some television stations made a big mistake when they stopped broadcasting Power rangers be cause of its people think the Power rangers Are too i think that Ridick there is never any Only when the Power rangers get i think the world wrestling federation is much More there Are three new the reason the three old ones got re placed was they had to become i think the Only influence kids get from Power rangers is to make friends and have righteous after the Power rangers commercial there Are Small segments which distinguish the Dif Ference Between fantasy and Reali the segments also teach kids about being friends and my Little brother Doest seem to fight More or act More violent since he started watching Power i think the Power rangers deserve to be put Back on the Richardpu general Wolfe school Doest speak for All disabled disabled want their say at Appeal free 3 indicates that Theresa Leader of peo ple in equal participation wants donations to help her pay for her trip to the Latimer Duch arme incorrectly believes she can speak for All the the handicapped support sen tence free 5 has the provincial coordinator of the Mani Toba league of the physically hand David speaking for the i have been disabled or Handi capped for More than 15 i have fond memories of life on the other Side of the Martin and Ducharme cannot and will not speak for in i question the Neces sity of the the mentioned articles concentrated on the Latimer Latimer was convicted for second degree murder of his 12yearold Tracy had a severe Case of cerebral had Tracy been in would her life have ended earlier Cam roue Winnipeg Winnipeg free press photo illustration Colin Rogers Cable systems on screen was on Many minds As channels like win prepared to go on new channels have much we have seen before Cable smorgasbord special to the free press the smorgasbord of new viewing brought to canadians Courtesy of the Cable companies has kept Many of us up late at much on the eight new channels is not some is very All have shows we have seen life network is reprising a few of the chatty programs viewers will have seen not very Long ago on the like that Chap from Regina who asks what on Earth of the discovery Channel is dishing up and sem scientific the substitution of a Canadian country music Channel for an american one will Likely cause Little furore among the genre is showcase television runs a crosscut of films from other and one More French language Channel ought not to bother even diehard particularly since Les Langlais dont have to scan past it while seeking most of the other new thin ice but perhaps the most interesting of the Bunch Are Bravo and the women television these two Are venturing onto some thin ice in terms of audience Bravo is doing exactly what its proud said it would do covering the and so Bravo has come up with some intriguing visual contemporary dance a few Fine music and an assortment of visual brain Candy that has been at worst a Little at Best riveting some of the material May be what Early pioneers of Cal television might have secretly envisioned for the Public if they had dared to then there is the women television the one that held much of the spotlight of the one that based right and the one that women across Canada Are but there is a contradiction inherent in a to network strictly for and about and it has to be even at the risk of noting the emperor has no or of being branded politically being accused of disloyalty to ones own its the same conflict embedded in the concept of the Indian the segregated school either by race or and the idea of separate unequal its even before the Channel went on the it was in one Way by its own organizers and and in another by some of whom Are quietly calling it the tampon Niche when win was granted its Niche on the some asked where were the to channels for for aboriginals for the physically challenged hairs can be split and but the logic has to be women have advanced remarkably in the past 25 years in journalism and in at least one television station in this City has almost As Many women sitting around its management table As Winnipeg saw the first woman appointed a to news director in Winnipeg was the Only City at one to news at All three local stations was managed by did women need their own network perhaps it is possible that Only in a workplace 70 per cent female can women fulfil their own creative perhaps television programming in the broader world has for so Long held women captive that it is time for the and that one a Small after should be captured by but perhaps there is reason also for a nagging concern that decades of discrimination against women and their advancement in television will not be made right now by decreeing there is a piece of video turf that is and it is time now for men to sit shut and listen not that they will despite the Advance publicity exhorting men to tune its difficult to envision men watching lines of poetry on a waxing lyrical about female writing on the one of the programs is liable to be of Little interest to or to most women for that and that is the second the programming appeals to an appallingly narrow spectrum of potential female let alone the impression was not helped by a self indulgent opening aired Over and combining the observations of the women working All were while the other specially channels got Down to business and starting showing their among it there have been some but sifting through the sawdust for the occasional gleam could prove there is More Boring television than there is in the women television network is in equal one begins to wonder what the exact saturation level is for cooking shows and Home and there Are Only so Many hours daily in which a viewer can spend time before the the difference with the specially some might is that now there is More and that is they also Appeal to specially which Means much of what we will see on them will never be broadcast on the major this is As Martha the american goddess of Domestic engineering on Daz at three times tuesday on and again on sunday on would a Good if people actually watch these further fracturing of potential audience will drive Down numbers for each program on every those hoary old single digit ones this will shrink advertising Revenue in two ways rates will drop because there Are fewer viewers and More channels chasing the same and it will be More difficult for to and executives to obtain advertising this will result in less Money to create programming and fewer original our Canadian specially which in their first rely on imports to an astonishing will do so even one opposing argument suggests More and More Independent production houses will Spring like mushrooms in summer All across churning out programs for Sale to All other networks in other nations canadians will see More of themselves reflected on television than Ever and other nations will see us As we see instead of filtered through the occasional american network foray up these arguments assume people will buy into the eight new human nature being what it few who order them up when the free run expires at the end of february will bother to cancel them its that negative option thing that caught Rogers Cable with its or away on holidays in much of so its a Safe guess that initial orders by february end wont much change later on for the new kids on the at that Well know whether canadians even want these the friends of Canadian broadcasting very much want us to want so much that they rail against the Cable companies for placing the new offerings Way up in the because old to sets that Only get to 13 cant reach one wonders whether the percentage of viewers hobbled by this problem especially since attached Vars generally take you soaring into sixty channels and More is even so has anybody mentioned that the emperor is wearing no clothing Judy Woytiuk is a Winnipeg freelance writer and former to doonesbury by Garry Trudeau King qua How abut Sal Hothi but ;