Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 31, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press a 7 july 1995 province blamed for Bird Slaughter the account of the Pelican and Cormorant destruction on Lake Manitoba is most Dis poachers kill free press july these activities Are All the More disgraceful because of the Lack of political will to investigate and prosecute the if Natur Al resources personnel had been instructed to investigate the last round of killings on Lake Winnipegosis in perhaps the lat est criminals would not have Felt so confident these senseless Why is there no Lon term fish eries management plan for these lakes and no education of the com Mercial fishermen about the effects of overfishing and the fact that they Are the cause of the Lack of commercial species the pub Lic should be demanding compliance with provincial and International obligations for the Protection of these rather than focusing on the destruction of habitat and wildlife in the poorer countries South of perhaps we should Start to demand Protection and enforcement of legislation in our own Alice Chambers Pinawa murder is murder i am astounded at the rationalizations coming from so called rational people on the Robert Latimer these include the likes of Arthur the director of a University ethics depart ment no who Calls Robert Latimer a Loving father Latimer Appeal rejected free july i thought the excuse of Loving had Long since been abandoned in the defence of abusive parents make no mistake about this is a Case of the ultimate child abuse if we accept latimers excuse that he did it out of How can we Ever again prosecute another child abuser no doubt Latimer was at his wits it was difficult to see his daughters to feel helpless in the face of his daughters suffer our society has decreed that murder is not an acceptable coping mechanism under any the Only reason the question of leniency has Arisen for Latimer is that his daughter was this is a Case of discrimination against disabled people and i am shocked that the editorial staff of the free press think that Justice requires a lighter sentence for this a question of Justice free july Ruthenne Sanford Good jobs go begging we Are constantly hearing about All these people being unemployed and unable to find yet there has been a shortage of air traffic not Only in but around the world for several this is a Job that offers paid train ing at a week to with a starting salary of Over at completion and Only requires Grade you would think the rewards would be Worth a Little apparently for months i offered a reentry for less than the first weeks training think ing that people would want into a Field that offered full full a maximum salary of and a living allowance up to a most of the responses i got were if i have to not if i have to leave Only a not if i have to work most of the seminars did not have enough people to pay the even though i guarantee a pass Mark on the qualifying interview math and a head Start in their to help them get into this rewarding i came to the conclusion that most people really dont want to work if it entails Bob Fitzsimmons new school irks student in writing about seven Oaks school the division is making changes for the upcoming school i was supposed to go to Jefferson High but because of the changes i have to go to Avery Middle Avery had grades next year it will have grades when the changes Are it will have grades now that i have told you ill 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 r2x letters can be sent to our fax number letters May be submitted through the internet at letters letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone Tell you Why i wrote the school will not be putting in Junior High we will get kindergarten Type known As without doors and usually in Junior High we get to leave the school and go wherever we next year we would either have to stay in the school or bring a i heard that we would be having intramural instead of inter school sports i want to know Why we need these Bren Richard Kideckel Winnipeg streets unsafe at night i recently read that a 13yearold Joseph was fatally shot in a Gan related incident at on july the idea of gangs is scary and it is extremely sad that someone so Young and Intelli gent had to die this parents should be extremely cautious not to allow their children out late at the streets Are unfortunately not Safe Krista Konevsky Winnipeg a change of opinion i used to think that Val Werier and other self appointed Environ mental critics who live in your City were All after Reading your front Page water Haz Ard free july 21 about the condition of the Rivers that flow through Winnipeg and the beaches North of i know Dave Sage Roblin Northern trip a Success in a group of 35 girl guides and leaders from Stony Teulon and Snow Lake passed through Thompson on our Way to we wish to thank the people of the City of Thompson for the hospitality we we would like to thank the staff at Chicken and Harwood who looked after our vehicles while we were in and the Harvard for providing lunch for us in their Lovely Back Winnipeg ramp action on target i am writing concerning the Arti Cle it was his own damned free july the incident occurred in Ama where a knife wielding Man began walking towards an ramp officer while making the officer called out to the Man to drop his weapon and then shot he is in critical but stable Condi and his wife and Mother have since questioned the ramp offi cers 1 believe the officer carried out the duty he was trained what should the ramp officer have done Why was the ramp officer called to the scene if not to help the people being threatened i also question How provincial court judge Manley Rusen can dare to reprimand a police officers actions in a previous similar Inci judge hits shooting free i truly believe that it is time the judges in our country have to be elected by the Public and Only hold their positions for a Short our supposed judicial system is the crime today the police and the victims have less rights than the Grant Winnipeg demrrwfpg10deiyro Dan free press Ravanera at checkpoint meant to Stop truckloads of hot even with military its no easy mining ravage philippine Island Industrial revolution creates Paradise lost Bagayan de Philip Pines in the Mountain Ous Countryside surrounding this bustling City of the Industrial revolution that transformed much of the world More than 150 years ago has finally begun to located on the Southern philippine Island of the Lush rain Forest surrounding Bagayan de Oro was once brim Ming with natural but rampant logging and min ing has left the land a Shadow of its former barely Able to support the millions of impoverished Farmers and fishermen who live in a Era when heavy Industry is fleeing developed countries for the cheap land and labor of the third min Danao has been transformed into the Cradle of the Philip Pines new Industrial several dozen Large factories have sprung including the largest contiguous pineapple Plantation in the an expansive hectare farm operated by Del concern Over the Pace and direction of the industrialization has prompted citizens groups to throw up major continuing Indus trial pollution and imprudent commercial development have put this revolution on a collision course with residents of this Orlan Ravanera is executive director of the Centre for alter native Rural technology a no government environmental group now legendary for its direct action against illegal logging and Industrial he says that despite widespread destruction from indiscriminate logging and president Fidel Ramoss government is considering rapid Industrial development through projects such As the Bagayan de Troili Gan Industrial corridor a government designated Indus trial zone on the North Shore of National reporter Ravanera said Mindanao proximity to foreign markets the Island is closer to Malaysia than Manila has politicians hailing it As the perfect site for a free Trade zone and Centre for value added Ravanera said the toll on the land and people has alerted Many people to the Downside of rapid economic this Island was an a now it is a Paradise senator Gloria a key supporter of the said critics of the civic have under estimated the economic Bene fits of the which is key to restructuring the Philip Pine Macapagal said it is True that existing environmental Laws have not been effectively enforced in Many areas of the country and bureaucratic corruption in some gone a shortage of resources in government has bogged Down Small investments in endless red tape while larger Environ mental offenders have been Able to stick handle through the system using influence Ped Macapagal she said the govern ment is still committed to allow ing Mindanao residents to determine the Pace and direction of future according to Ravanera and other Mindanao Maca pagans pledge rings rampant illegal logging continues almost unchecked in Many regions of the the log Ging is a critical concern because it has ravaged the watershed around Bagayan de located on the Northern coast of Ravanera believes part of the governments ineffectiveness in combating illegal logging comes from the fact that Many of the loggers Are partners with top regional military who receive lucrative kick backs to allow illegal logs through checkpoints and into the Bagayan de Oro the other major concern is the threat of which has made the authorities Hesi Tant about confronting the log last a local radio personality who crusade against illegal logging was shot to death on the listeners literally heard him die on the Ray Enera then just last a department of Energy and natural resources official who had refused a directive from Manila to release several truckloads of hot logs was found dead on a local Beach of mysterious the result of the illegal log Ging is in the total Bagayan de Oro watershed Forest essential for the maintenance of the water table and to resist soil erosion totalled More than unchecked much of it outside designated cutting and the Lack of an effective reforestation program has reduced the watershed for est to less than despite chronic water mudslides and other environmental con sequences of the government officials seem virtually powerless to Stop the this has prompted Community volunteers to take mat ters into their own blockading roads and operating checkpoints to Nab logging trucks carrying illegal at a series of Volunteer checkpoints on key Uplands Small posses of Environ mental deputies maintain a Ever on the Lookout for hot the currency of Ille Gal at one such checkpoint near Bagayan de a 10metre Bamboo pole stands ready to be lowered across the Road and Large rocks and Hardwood beams lie scattered around the checkpoint to Block the wheels of any vehicle carrying hot two philippine soldiers armed with m16 automatic rifles rest in a makeshift bar Racks in an unused school class even with the support of the stopping the flow of hot logs is no easy illegal logging is an intrinsic part of the philippine and rogue loggers and their armed henchmen Are desperate to get their logs to Industrial development continues to pick up Pace along the shores of Maca Jalar which has been polluted by the dozen Large Foo processing plants already on its activists concerned about the economic growth Point to the Bagayan Corn products which was built less than 20 metres from a fishing Community on the shores of Maca Jalar Bay in Bagayan de Plant construction began in january just two weeks after an application for an environmental clearance certificate was filed with government officials and 13 months before the certificate was actually a special investigation into the Plant by a team of no govern ment groups found City zoning Laws were relaxed substantially to allow the Plant to be built less than 20 metres from a residential Ravanera said he is hopeful More stringent standards for economic development can be but Only if the Philippines government can free itself from the influence of illegal loggers and foreign Dan Lett is the free press National he recently returned from assignment in the doonesbury by Garry Trudeau goop 7opayth5 on the s5nat5 two against a to pismantun6 in Mator Job poll i ill a ;