Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian focus Winnipeg free press october Harris government cuts will leave rubble All Over province second wave Rolls Over Ontario Toronto the second wave of provincial spending cuts will soon be rolling across Ontario and it will leave rubble in every Community it touch the conservative governments tide is running High these Days and More Waves Are in the years there will be More Long lists of cancelled or shrunken programs As Premier Mike Harris sweeps away spending to pay for his promised tax the Best thing the victims and opponents of this approach can do is exercise have to ration their and their because theres far worse to on the Harris government released a detailed list of the latest program reductions total million this year and another million for another million Worth of capital spending is gone or these reductions follow the first wave in june when finance minister Ernie Eves announced billion had been carved out of provincial the biggest hit was in reduced welfare pay to the tune of million in the current year and million in at the Eves said his Cabinet col leagues aka the wrecking Crew had been instructed to come up with another million in operating for a grand total of billion this they came through in or is it round ing up an extra million above that tar plus the million Worth of but this is Only the Harris pledged to Cut spending by billion Over three Hes got the first billion which Means Hes on third of the Way to his the tories will say this is All necessary in order to reduce the but that is Only 33 per cent the promised tax Cut is going to suck More than billion from provincial Rev Enue in the next three that two thirds of the savings target of the tax cuts Benefit the Selloff the of which Means they will be Able to replace their bows at a faster clip or buy a better Brand of seems like a fair the million women and Chil Dren on welfare get far less Money and Are pushed deeper into and that was the first this latest round includes such heart warming measures As the elimination of the lil beavers which is run in just about every native Friendship Cen tre in the it provides recreation programs for native and what would ontarian rather have rec programs for native kids or newer dishwashers the Choice seems same goes for the elimination of a million Community youth support pro and the hit on social service and million for expanded abortion and Mil lion less for Northern Ontario All of the announced cuts will mean not Only the elimination of a lot of jobs will be in communities across and with them will go the expertise these people have built up Over that a Lon term and Likely Perma nent even if a future government restores some of the social services fund it will be years before experience is returned to the and those who depend on those services will go that much longer without proper the tories seem to think that eliminating spending automatically eliminates the but that is not the expanded abortion for is a need that will not go those clinics will have to be at a far greater Cost due to the government is making every Effort to mute critical react onto the it released the list on the Friday of the thanksgiving Long providing an extra Day of Grace from opposition attacks because theres no question period on that Only one there will be Many More Gil Hardy is Queens Park columnist for Thomson news Ontario Premier Harris has instituted severe budget letters to the editor will that be Cash or love i wonder if Bonnie Mitchelson would be kind enough to Tell the working poor or those on Wel fare just where the grocery stores Are who will let you buy food or the landlords who will let you pay rent with the words i love my Chil and a More appropriate venue for the dinner for the welfare minister would have been the agape table or one of the main Street then she could have first How concerned groups do All they can to help those in Frances Hubbard Winnipeg can the Rich be poor Alice Krueger Banner article on a new kind of poverty citing statistics Canadas definition of poor is i poor is anyone who spends More than 56 per cent of family income on Basic necessities of shelter and my query is a businessman who earns million annually and spends 70 per cent of his on shelter and cloth is he poor it is worrisome that Warp think ing is pervading the Public offices of this Bob Gabuna Winnipeg did system work in Case i am responding to Chris Hladys letter that you published in your thursday paper Hlady asks what Are his defenders think ing what message can come out of this verdict but that we get All of the innocence we can i agree with if was a poor Man he would have been con because he had Money he could have bought his if he had hired second rate or Legal Aid lawyers the Case might have been finished within a they May not have been As Metic Ulous As highly paid we should be pleased that the system the Legal system in the West considers you innocent unless proven most of the people who Are disappointed about acquittal Are the ones who had already proven him guilty before the verdict was they Are ones who do not base their arguments on facts or reason but on gut feelings and fortunately our Legal system is not founded on these if i were a juror and Given the facts As presented i could not have found guilty in Clear con race played a big part in he is a Black Man and society has Black men Down As Ani Black people Are How to reach us 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 sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone untrustworthy who would believe him when a White police officer falsely frames police officer Mark Fuhrman was sure the sys tem would be on his and it people believed thanks to the excellent investigative work of Fuhrman was exposed As a Here is a Man who would line up niggers and shoot them would i believe him and his fabricated like most aspects of american the instant replay lifestyle is becoming a part of How police and the Justice system oper instead of working diligently on a ensuring that they looked at every they quickly Cook up something and present it to the lawyers exposed More than 60 mistakes in the prosecutions Case and in procedural All i can say is thanks to Money he has bought his inno i Hope the police would now try and find the real killer who is out there somewhere enjoying himself or herself at and tax payers and who should be brought to Justice and be punished for the despicable crime committed against two innocent Beatrice Archer Winnipeg same old wrong answers re rivals target youth crime in the free press review of Elmwood candidates for City coun when one gets beyond the bravado of Many Young people in conflict with the some of whom Are involved in youth one hears i wish i had someone who cared about who would spend time with me and love it is therefore regrettable that the suggested Quick fix solution from a number of would be councillors is to lock them up in Boot Graham Reddoch Winnipeg Bonnie Mitchel sons remark about the poverty line continues to draw where were they last summer As University of Manitoba Stu dents for whom walking is the major form of we would like to ask who was responsible for the decision to repave the sidewalks of University Crescent after classes had started for the instead of during the summer months when they Are not so heavily now and the Many other Stu dents who walk to class every Are forced to choose Between walk ing on the Busy or trampling doonesbury on the front lawns and through the Bushes of the people who live along University in order to avoid the construction and the wet As if the aggravation of having to Dodge heavy machinery we rent we also must endure the degrading com ments and whistles of the construction this combination does not make for an especially pleasant and we Are sure that students who drive to school have been affected by the construction As we Hope that the City of Winnipeg will use More foresight Dur ing its construction planning in the Tash Mcgimpsey Shaly Hrushowy Winnipeg prostrate rate should decline in the article on cancer of the prostate in the 27 the writer observes that the incidence of this disease has nearly doubled from 1988 to he projects that this increase will continue into the future and we Are left with the impression that we Are experienc ing an epidemic of cancer of the prostate in this there Are two plausible explanations for this increase in the Inci Dence of cancer of the a Small portion of the increase can be attributed to the fact that our seniors Are living since cancer of the prostate is a disease of elderly this increases the risk of developing the Dis ease before they a much More important reason for the apparent increase in the incidence has to do with earlier with the Advent of the Prostatic specific Antigen test spa and the Tran scr Ectal ultrasound guided method of we Are now detecting cancer of the prostate at least five to six years earlier than we did a decade it follows if we were to test All the men in the province in any Given and compare it with the incidence prior to the Advent of the spa we should expect to see a five to six fold increase in the number of cases that Are after this backlog of cases has been detected the incidence should go Back to where it was in some jurisdictions in the United where there has been extensive spa the Back log of new cases has now been exhausted and the incidence has declined quite Winnipeg by Garry Trudeau Heap Caszel Page rifk1n he feta myth doonesbury by 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