Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 18, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press at january boosting Arena beats impeding it that was a though Provok ing article by John Douglas let pm win this face free its unfortunate it be must Reading for groups such As thin ice who appear to be anti most the comments regarding the Progress experienced in the twin cities Economy subsequent to their construction of various sports facilities should be an indication to Winni pegs no Prog restive groups of just what is Possi ble if they would boost instead of in the presumably Selfa pointed spokesman for thin whose letters in your paper appear much too should exert his Energy toward attempting to resolve the problems of the theological group he is associated and Dis continue impeding a group which appears to have Winnipeg future Well being at Rogers Lac Dubonnet jets Saga continues the Saga of the jets and the need for a new Arena and the roles of some of the major support ers Are becoming of critical interest for Winnipeg councillor Amaro Silva discloses that part of the losses the province and the City Are being asked to cover include the payment of interest on a loan that was made in 1979 to cover the nil franchise according to Only interest has been paid on this this almost suggests the Bank owns the franchise and rents it to the owners at a rate equal to the interest it has also been suggested that staff from the jets marketing department have been assigned to the new Arena the subsidy of the jets losses provides Public funds in support of that com Mittee through the Back the lengths to which politicians will go to justify the unconscionable agreement with the to cover their losses and provide a return on the owners is indicated by the explanation Given by Council Lor Bill who cites As his source statements made by finance minister Eric that the jets generated some million in Revenue for government while the losses covered by the agreement have not exceeded that it will no doubt come As great com fort to those in private business to know when in they can draw on tax revenues previously paid to help them out of financial Dif this is a whole new concept in tax taxes become similar to de posits in the a Pool of Money to be drawn Back in times of if Stephanson indeed believes and Clement certainly subscribes to the look out Middle class taxpayers Frank Price Winnipeg what Are the basics this letter is written from the Point of View of a teacher and a Par there recently has been a lot of talk about going Back to but what basics Are they referring to it is not known whether those who make these utterances really know what they mean by do they mean school children should not be Given Large amounts of Money for allowances do they mean boys and girls should not stay up until mid night to watch the lat night movie do they mean boys and girls should be like boys and girls were in the Good old Days they could not mean we should go Back to the teaching of social studies or what then do they mean personally and i can Only speak for i cannot remember any time that social studies or science were not taught at so what exactly Are we going Back to one May argue we have relaxed our standards in order to Cope with individual differences to meet the needs of some students at the level at which they Are but we Are not going Back to the teaching of or because they have never ceased to be taught at school children require a certain amount of and Struc Ture in order to if they Are asked to come in Early for extra then they if they Are asked to do their then they if they Are asked to capitalize proper then they and if they Are asked to learn 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 letter maybe submitted through the internet at . Letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone their multiplication they what then do teachers need in or Der to carry out their task effectively who can help parents and society it is by no Means unusual for students to either hesitate or refuse to do what they Are asked by what we need to is go Back to the social and Cul Tural organization in which we do what we Are my is what i mean by going Back to the and when we have gone Back to these we can go Forward with the Emanuel Sylvester science teacher James Wood school rumours of War i would like to put in my 43 cents Worth in regard to gun its a Long Road from my fathers when doors were Seldom to my doors Are double locked and the door windows covered with heavy steel if our guns Are homemade ones will with disastrous even the Cave people had to protect even though it might just be with a sharpened stick or a handful of didst the Bible remind us there will be wars and rumours of How Many family quarrels Are settled with the gun they make too much it would make More sense to ask us for our Butcher knives or our choking per haps we should turn in our pillows As perhaps half of our Citi Zens Are Good marksmen or Marks in Case of we have a standing it takes years to be come skilled at any Art its downright madness to take away our Only countrywide defensive Dan Moore Glenboro gun owners Are orderly has anyone noticed that demonstrations by groups of responsible firearms owners Are remarkably re strained and by comparison to those of other activists we dont scream and set up dump or occupy it certainly belies the perception constantly portrayed by the anti firearms groups and their Media Al lies that we Are a Bunch of right Wing of they would rather have that misperception in place in the minds of fearful people who do not own this is not a righting it is one of simple respect for property legally responsibly used and and the fact that there Are More than enough Laws already in place to accomplish any crime control that May be if Only those Laws were used As intend Laird Crawford Pine Falls let Quebec use Dollar most canadians oppose a separate Quebec use of our Canadian i suggest it is in our Best interests that a separate Quebec be allowed the use of our monetary if Quebec were to separate and Institute its own monetary there is no guarantee keeping in mind its stressed Economy and heavy debt the new que Bec currency would be any More valuable than the russian Many great nations have had their monetary system falter and col lapse the most recent Are Russia and Quebec has stated it is prepared to share our National How would you like this National debt to be paid in Canadian Dol Lars or Quebec rubles Ron Steinbart Dugaw poor All he really wants is a Nice review Reeves Best when acting like a movie Star critic unimpressed Bruce Monk photo visitors from around the world came to Winnipeg last week to see the Manitoba theatre centres production Ofshak speares Hamlet featuring the film Star Keanu one of them was Jonathan Freedland of the Here is what he told British by Jonathan Freedland the t excellent not you we rent meant to notice the muscled thighs and firm buttocks squeezed into velvet you we rent meant to Giggle when he cried excellent just like his alter ego or chuckle at wicked even if it did sound like an attack on the film that made him a when Keanu Reeves made his debut in Hamlet in a 789seat theatre in on thursday you were supposed to listen to the follow the Story and believe Hollywood favorite had truly become the All seats for the 29day run May have sold out in to Crews May have camped out in the theatre and teenybopper from Japan to Argentina May have flown in especially to see but Keanu Reeves wanted to be treated not As a movie but As an whole Point after was the whole Why he was rumoured to have waived a movie offer in order to tread the boards in his native Canada for scale rates of less than a last Summers smash hit about a a bum and a moving has made Reeves cinemas hottest Young but what he really wants is respect you know it be taken a stage Hamlet shortcut to especially when so few actors Ever go anywhere near a the Winnipeg audience even the mainly female front holding in its cooing and aching As the hero rippled and the Manitoba theatre Centre played the the program notes buried the stars potted biography Between Forti bras and the and Reeves took no curtain Calls a lot was Riding on this first Winnipeg mayor and Manitoba lieutenant governor turned they came to see if Kean us Prince will deliver on projections that the show will bring in million to the local for the actor nothing less than his reputation was at Challenge the play had been hyped As the 30yearold actors Chance to prove that there is More to Keanu Reeves than a Handy Knack for air guitar and a Long scar Down his his Challenge was to show that an action Man could play the inaction it turned out to be Kean us not wholly excellent for most of the first act he was and visibly Lead actor in a school he garbled his oblivious to metre like a learner Driver falling on the but once he let his hair and revealed the Buzz Cut unveiled in launching into hamlets Antic disposition found his a pattern emerged whenever he was physical and he came alive when he acting from the neck Wordy and he was reduced to wooden Reeves to be or not to be was bored and duelling with he was a High octane Errol a dashing and a magnetic stage the lad will probably be gutted to realize but he was great when he was a movie and Ropey when he was just Plain Hes no Daniel judged one Amateur while the professionals conjured other the name which came to mind most often was Marilyn like Keanu Reeves image is that of the it has been since he played a dude in Bill and teds excellent adventure and a surfer in Point like he makes Knees go weak with his he has a Beauty that not Eastern or sighed Bernardo Bertolucci when he cast Reeves in the title role in Little his face is the product of a chinese hawaiian father and a British for Good he was born in Beirut and grew up in just like Marilyn he is not satisfied with Mere he wants to make up for his Lack of education and craves Hes very said Donald who plays Horatio in the new he talks a lot about does a lot of brings some pretty weighty tomes into Carrier added that Reeves kept several texts of the play to hand and was fond of dropping in references to the Folio perhaps that gave the extra resonance to Reeves rendering i have of late lost All my mirth and explained the Stony face Reeves showed the firs night audience As it gave him a standing director Lewis Baumander said the Star was not taking congratulations but wanted to talk about tomorrow he is such a said the Reeves did not show at the pos performance Hamlet was a perfect Choice for since the 1993 death of River has become the leading Man of generation relate younger faces look on sympathetically at the Twenty something hero unable to do the slacker Prince ably backed by a Rosencrantz and Guildenstein who could have passed for Grundies Eddie Vedder and Kurt if not Bill and Ted As the Post divorced the hers seem to relate to a Domestic situation in which a Guy lives at hates his Stepdad and rows with his you see him in movies and you sort of identify with him As a person when you see him said Erin you feel like you know behind Fraser were the other kids who had flown to the Snow covered Middle of Canada c is mild for the time of from Hong Kong to Reeves has committed fans Wendy had jetted in from Melbourne to spend the month in seeing Hamlet twice a she can amuse herself during the Day Reading the Hamlet trivia guide published in the Winnipeg free what All this Means is that Reeves has phenomenal Star poor All he really wants is a Nice door Lesbury by Garry Trudeau might a5 twin Xvi 1 fit into ;