Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 24, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Editor John 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 january soldiers Iob has to be i would like to clarify some facts about soldiers in the Cana Dian armed including the tarnished airborne regiment that has caused distress to the sensibilities of the duty of a Canadian Soldier first and always is the defence of this Job Calls for soldiers to fight and kill their enemies and to be contrary to popular the de Fence of Canada does not mean pushing playing political games or having redundant colonels and generals trying to preserve their it Means soldiers training in c weather for Days and weeks on end going without sleep for Days on it Means driving the body and mind to the Edge of the business of the Canadian sol Dier is dont kid it has to the airborne with All its is the Best at that when you get into your Nice warm bed think of the Canadian Soldier in the High Arctic doing a foot patrol in 2200 wind or the Canadian soldiers in Bosnia being used for target maybe youll sleep a Little better knowing its not you out there doing the brutal and necessary Job of the Ca Nadian Soldier and you wont be so Quick to condemn him when he makes a mistake using the very skills Hes Learned in order to protect Gerry Finkle Winnipeg defending Good soldiers i like write in defence of All the Good soldiers in the airborne regi my son is an airborne and my husband and i Are extremely proud of his i dont think it is fair that the Media at tack a whole regiment because of the actions of a few Rotten where was this bandwagon jumping Media when these soldiers were working toward bettering Peoples lives in Somalia and Rwanda the sensational stories of the few Are More precious to the Media than the humanitarian stories of the Johanna Van Den Berg Winnipeg ski Hill not unique your doubtful invest ment free asserts that particular Hill is Home to an assortment of neotropical among the most diverse collection of such Birds anywhere in North including the rare yellow throated the evidence with respect to the uniqueness of this particular and the presence of the is the the Survey commissioned found the data clearly the ases Sippi ski Hill is not unique and is very similar to the other three Sites As far As Birds Are con it is not even the most popu lated of the four More to the an exhaustive Survey during july and August 1994 failed to find any Yel Low throated an identification in 1993 none were detected in 1992 May or May not be though any presence of vireos would Likely be since ase Sippi is at the extreme end of its in any the vireo is not classified As rare any except in the sense that it Doest nest where it Doest your economics is on a Par with your there is plenty of evidence that the ski As pre will be economically and there will be a couple of million dollars of private capital at risk if the project goes As far As us ing five per cent of the Park As a ski one can Only say this use was not Only contemplated when the Park was dedicated 25 years it was part of an Overall development plan arising out of the creation of the 64kilometre Lake of the and an equivalent space will be re dedicated by the area municipal Francis Winnipeg israels policy is very rational on the free press published an analysis of the problems of palestinians living under israeli of among other the Sahir charged that the israeli government continues to practise the same harassment As be using the same tired rationale of securing the life of israeli Citi brutal 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 Zens and fighting following is a partial list of major terrorist attacks palestinians have carried out against israelis since is Rael and the palestinian liberation organization signed a self Rule Accord in september the list was compiled by the jewish telegraphic Agency in new York april a 19yearold Mem Ber of the fundamentalist Hamas organizations armed Wing blew up a bus with a car bomb in the Northern israeli town of killing nine people and wounding More than 50 april 1994 a palestinian Sui cide terrorist with a bomb strapped to his body blew up a bus in the Cen trial israeli town of killing five israelis and wounding More than 50 Hamas claimed responsibility for the 1994 two heavily armed Hamas gunmen opened fire on a Jerusalem pedestrian killing two people and wounding 13 1994 a suicide bomber boarded a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv with More than 45 kilograms of the explosion killed 23 including the and left 42 others Hamas claimed 1994 a suicide bomber set off an explosion near a bus full of israeli soldiers near the Jerusalem Central bus wounding 13 the bomber was a Palestin Ian police officer who was a known Hamas this list does not include attacks exclusively against military targets or the dozens of axe and shoot ing attacks against the failed to submit to the palestinian National Council for formal approval changes Plo chairman Yasser Arafat promised to the palestinian covenant in a letter to israeli prime minister Yitzhak the changes involve affirm ing that those articles of the pales Tinian covenant which deny israels right to and the provisions of the covenant which Are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter Are now inoperative and no longer Arafat continued in that let in the context of the above devel contrary to what Dajani the israeli governments so called tired rationale of securing the life of israeli citizens and fighting terrorism is hardly and its very mat Bellan editor the jewish Post news Winnipeg Stop tinkering when will canadians finally Wake up and Tell the government to Stop tinkering with our social safety net the popular catch Canada can no longer afford its social sys tem at its current level of being bandied about by our politicians and their the business is an outright our taxes Are not squandered by a luxurious social welfare it represents Only a Small fraction of the total spending in this our corporations do not pay taxes but Benefit from them through Grants or Loans which Are often for foreign investors enrich themselves on our artificially High interest rates simply by investing in our Money thus contributing nothing to our labor but not our corporate elite creates jobs in developing countries to exploit their cheap la Bor and reap higher they also dont contribute to the Canadian labor but they sell us imported products at inflated these groups then Are the main contributors to Canadas failing they Are responsible for our National Birgh molinsk1 Winnipeg Winnipeg to prove itself with conference a Blue Winter City special to the free press i in a few Short the annual Bonspiel thaw will be upon Southern Curling aficionados with championship games in the offing will size up the ice on indoor organizers at the festival do Voyageur will stockpile huge chunks of ice in preparation for the annual Snow sculpture and the head scents of fresh baked Tourniere will Beckon us All towards life will be As Normal As it always is come february in were a Hardy Bunch we tend to look Forward to in a Core group of about two dozen Winni Eggers is looking Forward to the Winter a year from now even albeit not without the usual trepidation that goes along with hosting a huge the City of Winnipeg began chasing it seven years and next in it will finally the seventh International Winter cities conference will be held Winnipeg will be the worlds Winter City in that Core along with about 250 More volunteers serving on almost As Many is organizing the conference around the theme of global living in the year Winnipeg will be where mayors from All Over the Northern hemisphere meet to examine the theme of working and playing in the Winter the red carpet is being readied for somewhere Between and visitors who will be attending some part of this wide ranging the conference will unintentionally end up combining three of the Hallmarks of this City its its vibrant Volunteer and its unerring tendency to look a gift horse in the the latter can Only indicate Winni Eggers must possess a sort of collective inferiority Complex we should one Day gaze sternly upon and Why else would Media coverage have so far been either largely negative or when this event could carry As much Appeal As the wildly successful Grey cup of a few years ago negative coverage even the negative coverage had to manufacture inaccuracies to get that the two most highly publicized errors in fact should be corrected immediately the net Cost of hosting the mayors and aides for their meeting Here will not add up to More than it will be less than nor was it Ever a question of sacrificing libraries or bus routes to fund the civic portion of the budget for the As had been trumpeted on the pages of what has been presumed to be this cites newspaper of but Bridges and spilled milk the funding is moving and the conference is quietly being put together by a passel of volunteers who Are accepting not so much As a corned beef Sandwich for their it will be thanks to that hardworking cadre that downtown Winnipeg for More than a week in february turn into a Celebration of the icy outdoors the like of which has never been seen or possibly even in the other six cities scattered throughout the Northern hemisphere that have previously hosted this the mayors conference will bring some 60 civic with six different the global living Trade show will open up marketing opportunities for businesses involved in All the aspects of the global living forum will draw business people and t s free press file photo ice sculptures Are just one of the attractions of the festival do Voyageur Winter government leaders to hear dozens of and talk Over the issues surrounding working and playing in the Winter and for residents of this City As Well As there will be a whole lot of fun to be both with Winter sports and with the arts and just for the sports component of the event has never been done dust off the old skates that have been mouldering in a basement Corner theres a movement afoot to build a massive and lengthy skating possibly even the worlds dont worry about twisting an a Winter sports Medicine clinic will pull in experts from snowy cities All Over the Well versed in the various ligament pulls that can be expected on the Toboggan races being engineered will see University faculties testing out design concepts for Concrete toboggans helmets most assuredly seating for students at the University of Manitoba Are already at work hatching their aiming for a Home team win in this but an additional on a More serious looks for research free press file photo Curling is a favorite sport in a City that celebrates and development in a number of Fields related to col climate even More an infrastructure that spends months Frozen or close to ends up with unique like the differences Between a House in the tropics and a House in these differences mean its considerably More expensive to run a Northern imagine your Cost of living if your House were in Acapulco no no air no triple pane windows or weather no no driveway less to run your cities Are like that in and the global living forum will look at the Broad issues that develop out of and playing in a Winter City running a sustainable building and Urban for culture and fun adults seeking High culture and youngsters looking for fun will find it in the Market Street the performing arts showcase will run both indoors and with something for theres More the festival do Voyageur will be happening As always during the conference other conferences Are coming along in the Wake of this Many running almost at the same some 50 mayors from 20 countries will be buried in meeting talking about civic issues in common and looking for solutions to its almost a shame they have to but they will get Breaks for hot perhaps a Little or maybe to take in an exhibit or or the carnival on Market or the festival do they wont be Able to resist the lure of Winnipeg unique Judy is Media chairwoman of the seventh International Winter cities doonesbury by Garry Trudeau pon7wor by que i Vout goop Chiuz apakjyof24 mixe Prace ;