Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 3, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A6 Winnipeg free press August 1995 editorials Brian Cole 6977044 i Ami ii ii 11 Iii m Imam aim trading principles Tylor decades the United states has opposed the re regime in Cuba by every Means the govern ment of Fidel Castro in Washington a brutal communist a consistent and massive violator of human a subversive threat because of the United states has tried its Best to Iso late including a longstanding embargo on the Island nation that it tries to Force its allies to All of those accusations Are they Are also True of another communist nation that escapes any punitive action by the that nation is and Seldom has a superpower gone through the contortions of policy and principle that the has in trying to accommodate the blood soaked dictators in China does not even try to hide its systematic Viola Tion of the human rights of its it flaunts its oppression and then gloats Over the International com munits acquiescence to China after a major the massacre in Tianan men Square caused barely a Ripple in chivas Equa in Ottawa and Washington there was a Little Tutt utting and then it was business As Britain watches approvingly As China prepares to rape Hong violating All terms of the agreement that hands Over the Colony from Britain to China in less than two China is a major president Bill Clinton administration at the moment is desperately trying to mitigate the potential consequences of chivas arrest of Harry we is a leading chinese human rights activist who has been Liv ing in the United when he returned to China in he was charged with the charges Are patently ridiculous the United states has protested his arrest Beijing treats those protests with open contempt Washington is pathetically trying to find a face saving Way of letting business continue As usual we is left to twist in a chinese China is a major Back in Castro appears to have Learned a Les son from the free up the abandon communist principles of the Market and you can do Busi Ness with the International Community even while you continue to deny the fundamental freedoms to your peo you can jail them and kill them with that is what China is doing that is what castros government is trying to he has made a major Washington can take a stand in it can attempt to coerce Canada and its other allies to join Cuba is a very Small an explosive Issue t not careful safety prevented serious i personal injury last weekend when a Section of the pipeline ruptured and exploded sending balls of fire into the skies of Western the Compa the Federal government and its agencies would be Wise to rely less on Luck and More on stringent monitoring of the pipelines condition and speedy replacement of its weak sections if a More serious Accident is to be prevented in the five times during the past four a Section of the Cros Canada pipeline has sprung a in a 1994 the transportation safety Board of Canada the Federal Agency that investigates such Acci attributed the cause to stress corrosion cracking of the which turns out to be the cause of the rupture near Brandon As the process used to test a pipeline for stress fractures actually causes existing cracks to the More the line is the greater probability that new fractures will be formed or old ones will be the company is faced with a dilemma to test or not to the to Sec report says that existing regulations and standards do not provide standards or Good working practices with respect to the and repair of Stres Scorro Sion cracking As Well As those factors which contribute to those acts and regulations Are being studied but they have not yet been the complicated technical problems that Tran Canada pipeline faces will not be solved without a major invest the transportation safety Board wants it to find ways of reducing pressure where the line is under stress and to initiate detection programs to find out where those places but a report from the National Energy consulting a variety of finds that such reductions of pressure May not prevent the company is caught Between competing those five accidents did not injure thanks to their Remote the the company and the Industry must quicken the Pace to replace weak sections of the pipe and install epoxy coated pipe that is stronger and safer than the pipe currently in the ground in most of the too Many accidents Are making too Many people nervous for there to be any Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Rudy Duncan Mcmonagle executive editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Calvin Verne Kalichuk human resources Stephan Majorki operations Perry Glenn Williams finance 1995 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson newspapers company limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x pm 6977000 a member of the Manitoba press Council surviving four foot killers he is about four feet he is a bit at least As i see him in this he has red lights flashing on his Chest and on his he is stalking it seems that almost every time i turn around he is there with a gun in his he kills me incapacitating me for Between five and ten depending on where he hits we Are in the i never get a Chance to shoot him he is too Quick on his feet and he knows the Maze better than i he has recognized me As easy prey and he is taking advantage of it to enhance his body count and improve his score at the end of the and it is a it May be the worst Nightmare of silly people who think that Power rangers can turn their children into members of shot gun toting Street but it really is just a its a lot of a lot like the cowboys and indians or cops and robbers that we used to play when i was a except its More we used to Point our Finger and say bang youre dead and Hope that the other kid would obey the rules and stay dead for the allotted period of sometimes he did sometimes she there want really any Way of enforcing those rules and we never really there rules at the there Are the rules of behaviour that Are imposed on you when you go there Are rules of exigency when you get you Are you Are incapacitated until your compute controlled Belt officially resurrects i was in the place against my dragged there by my children and their an otherwise respectable first you get a briefing outlining the rules and How to play and Are divided into teams Green and yellow i was on the yellow then you get fitted with your beaming Vest the target for the killers on the other teams and your or your phas As they like to Call it in keeping with the Star trek technology that they i needed help even Buck Ling up my not a Good sign for what was to you Are thrown into the its a Jungle out the phases Are actually sort of like cast ing red beams of Light when you shoot so that you can see How far you have missed the target my four foot As far As i could never missed hitting me dead Centre every time i turned in full blood shot everybody in including members of my own among them my Small Chil and i enjoyed it every even if it did lower my score at the end of the it is dark in red beams crisscross the Maze As phases Are fired dead compute controlled vests litter the according to conventional pay both popular and proves this should be a violent instead of watching the mighty mor Phin Power rangers on television and thus corrupting yourself and your you get to act out the parts yourself no Kung fun kicks you should emerge from the reach into the trunk of your car for your magnum and Start blowing away an entertaining but it is not what the previously mentioned god aptly named in this con is As gentle a Man As one could inside the he became a fiendish a person who might have hoped that they would Issue laser knives so that he could act out the War in he want particularly Good at it As a real he last an he started with scores in the minus thousands but proved that he had some potential As a mass murderer by getting it up into the Low hundreds As the Day on the other proved to be naturally scoring positive in every game despite being stalked by the mighty the Odd the thing that con founds conventional is that this is not a violent there is no aggression if you dont count killing everyone you see at everybody is having a Good people Are even As they die Over and Over even i Bear no malice to the who shot by my at least twelve when people come they Are strangers Are talking to each comparing Many go Back in for a second game and they dont complain if the godfather and i tend to drag Down a teams score Are in their group this is and by every Indica Tion it is Good for it is television cartoons come to where you can act out fantasies and enjoy it gives the lie to the critics who argue that cartoon violence on Tele vision is bad for everyone even Graybeard like me is a kid once they enter the but the real kids Are just in there having they know the difference Between fantasy and reality it is too bad that More adult busybodies cant distinguish Tom Oleson is a free press editor Ial his column appears tues Day and Arena project needs Public airing a c to tuft As the Fate of the jets and the new Arena Hung in the balance Over a new report raises questions of the this is the environmental assess ment of the proposed sports entertainment Complex near the so inadequate that a Public review is required to bring out All the the prepared for the Federal Western economic diversification Canada wed does address the purely environmental issues such As use of the including traffic and Impact on the but the part dealing with socioeconomic effects is Remote from an objective it is in reality a promotion not an examination of All pro and demanded in a proper assess the report does not answer in a meaningful Way the questions asked by concerning economic viability of the for it does not Deal with a fundamental How Long will the jets stay in Winnipeg there is no guarantee How Long the jets will remain in but the report skirts this it claims without supporting Finan Cial that economic viability with or without the jets will be underwritten by the Good cheer endowment on the Issue of Cost the report talks of Job of Annu Al tax revenues of million going to the province and million going to As a result of retain ing the National hockey league franchise in but no mention is made of the negative a Cost Benefit study should examine the nature and con tent of Public funding and its Impact on Winnipeg contribution of million Doest deserve a a huge debt May be saddled on the City in time of economic restraint but the report is silent on the it Doest look into the likelihood of a Val Werier tax increase in Winnipeg to pay for the surely a Factor to be con what is lacking is an accounting in detail of Public and Pri vate the report says the new Complex is very unlikely to have any major financial Impact on future operations of the Winnipeg convention its hard to imagine that a new entertainment Complex will not Hurt the convention already suffering for Lack of the practice of requiring an assessment report is that the proponent pays the costs and hires the con this has Given Rise Over the years to complaints that with the Best intentions consultants Are not going to be Overly critical of their in the Case of the sports entertain ment Cam who is president of spirit of the is also president of Intel group which contributed to the i am not Sug Gesting undue but it adds fuel to the need for an Independent the Federal government requested the assessment a require ment because it is to provide million for the now a draft screening report has been made on the assessment by the screening report is merely a Brief for it offers no it does not question the deficiencies or shortcomings of the the wed is relying on the in to Analyse the assessment it is asking the Public to com ment on the assessment report and the draft screening in a timely once the wed receives the pub Lic it will Issue a final it has the authority to order an Independent assessment by a or a panel review in the form of a Public a Cornerstone of the Federal environment act is the need for full Public an High in environmental Cir who wants to retain his says if there was an Issue that is of Public this is it needs a Public indeed it there has been no analysis of the issues in the assess ment no test of the information Val Werier is a Winnipeg journal his column appears on thurs socioeconomic Impact of a new sports Complex near the Forks has not been file photo ;