Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 27, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba A 1 a 3 free june 1997 Rian Cole 6977044 editorials Ricc dam of Trade Liberty of religion f Quality of civil rights another Hail Mary its third and Long for the Canadian football league perhaps the Montreal Alou ettes will survive the summer with Only season ticket perhaps perhaps the Toronto argonauts will fill the seats that usually remain empty at perhaps perhaps the Saskatchewan roughriders will follow the Ottawa rough riders into the perhaps perhaps the struggling eight team league will find competent personnel to fill All the empty offices at Cal perhaps perhaps a Grey cup game will be played at the end of the season in perhaps perhaps Jeff Reinebold dramatic personnel changes will create the winning harass foot Ball team he perhaps not Well have a better idea when the bombers play Toronto Only time will Tell just How this Hail Mary sea son will which brings us to the most important perhaps of them All perhaps it is time to get on with the business of ensuring the future of football for the people who want it Western Toronto and Vancouver no longer give much to the league other than teams to play All three big cities now have big ideas that do not include three Down they have big league baseball and All of which make the Cal seem bus league to in Many believe the Only reason owners maintain teams in those markets certainly its the Case in Toronto is so that they will have football rights in the event the National football league decides to expand into they want to so let it would be unfortunate for which still seems to have a love for the but the continued presence of the big three simply saps the league of its Energy and makes Western markets less not that the Western markets Are booming there were Only for the season opener Between rivals Calgary and Edmonton on wednes Day Down about from a decade ago and the bombers have sold Only season tickets so Down from last but there is a Market in Western Canada that will there were Only six teams during the Nils glory rival Ries made it a the same would happen in a Western play would improve fewer teams chasing More players and travel costs would or perhaps the Western teams could form a Cana Dian division of the world league of american foot the league is backed by the deep pockets of the so the Era of rollercoaster financing would As Odd As it May travel costs to play other Olaf teams in Europe Are not much greater than travel within North and theres a Bonus we would be forging important links with cities like London and Amsterdam with expansion potential to Australia and new life downtown if there is one single requirement that has been needed to get a realistic plan of action to redevelop Portage it is that the private Sec Tor Lead the Urban renewal is not accomplished by government can but the leadership must come from those whose livelihood depends on that was True of the rebuilding on Corydon it will be True of the attempts to revitalize North main and it is equally True of Portage a private sector organization to end the decay on Portage and bring new life and new tenants to what was once the Pride of Winnipeg is now in As the new organization led by businessmen John Hodgert of Portage consultant Hart Mallin and Harvey Pfeffer of Black Armstrong has neither private sector Money nor City govern ment but it deserves the City will need to know far More about the details of the new organizations plans before it commits Money and it will want to know How those plans fit into the development envisaged for the downtown As a whole by a coordinating body that is the cites own but councillors should declare their support in if the new property owners association is successful it will spend million of private and Public sector Money and within two years Portage Avenue could change from a Street facing abandon ment to a thriving this City needs a thriving downtown if it is going to continue to attract the businesses and skills it it is True that renovations alone cannot create a new downtown Only people can do lets give the Portage Avenue property owners a Chance to bring the people Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press est 1872 Winnipeg Tribune est 1890 Rudy Redekop publisher email Ca Nicholas editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Harry Brown circulation sales and marketing Ian Cummins technology Laurie Verne Kalichuk human resources Glenn Williams finance and administration 1997 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of Thomson Canada limited published seven Days a week at 1355 Mountain Manitoba r2x Fth 6977000 a member of the Manitoba press Council Vui a Iju ne2h its debate gets hotter jaguars for Stock Bro the Cost of Basic phone service up 200 to 300 per cent for this is the outcome of privatizing the Manitoba Telephone according to the opposition new their argument triggered a raucous today debate that rekindled All the animosity that accompanied passage of the legislation last speaker Louise Lacquay Drew another motion of non conf Dence from the she ruled that nip House Leader Steve Ash tons comment last novem Ber that Premier Gary Filmon was not Happy enough lining the pockets of Bay Street brokers and his political friends was out of none of the words is prohibited in any parliamentary Ashton withdrew them but then put them Back on the record dozens of times As he told the speaker that her conduct threat ened the legislature and she was incapable of the objectivity required by her this Issue is one of Funda mental democracy in this Ashton Madame Are not competent to be a further reason for the Dps anger was that Lacquay appeared to be acting As a Tacti Cian for the government As she did last fall when she ignored the Frances Russell Basic rules of parliament to help the tories drive the privatization Bill through the she refused to recognize the opposition for two Days and moved the governments motions from the on the nip planned to Call for an emergency debate on mass submission to the Canadian radio television telecommunications commis which the opposition says vindicates every argument it advanced against the submission asks for a per cent profit for its share holders and holds out the likelihood of the rate Shock the corporations Ross predicted last at the the Premier said Nugent was the speaker must be Given notice of an emergency the new democrats believe Lacquay decided to deliver her ruling on Ash tons november remark hoping to be Able to name and eject the nip House Leader from the Legisla Ture for the rest of the pre Empting the its in its crts its joins other members of the Sten Tor Telephone group Saskatchewan Crow owned Utility being the Only exception requesting a a month rate increase effective next it also asks for a Par tial exemption from the Forth coming rate Cap and future increases exceeding the rate of inflation to help it address a million Revenue the nip says the Revenue shortfall is the Price of Pri while its wants a per cent profit for its sask Tel is con tent with a six per cent rate of most of which is turned Back to the prior to its also had a six per cent and before three per the Premier pointed out that the per cent profit was Only a request by its and would have to be approved by the Filmon refused nip Leader Gary doers request to instruct the four gov Enmen appointed its Board members to oppose the Applina the nip on the basis of the future rate hike for Mula suggested in the its sub that particularly those in Rural and Remote could be facing rate hikes of at least a month on top of the slated for Janu just on the basis of the increase the Cost of Basic phone service in Brandon will have risen from a month in 1995 to a month next year in Morden from to in Madoule Lake from to and in Winnipeg from to quoting from a article in the financial Ashton said stockbrokers made million on the first Day its went on within the first a majority of the shares were the brokers earned upwards of million out of the Sale that is now going to have to be paid for by the people of the nip House Leader Ashton also referred to another news Story quoting a local luxury car dealer saying he had enjoyed a spinoff from the its three stockbrokers traded in their jaguars on models costing up to and we Are hearing from some of our particularly that they cant afford a any he this is it rep resents a Complete Lack of ethics and Frances Russell covers politics for the free her column appears wednesdays and those crazy Days of summer nudity is the big Story this other years it might be shark attacks or contaminated but this summer it is from Calgary conies word that the Western Canadian association for nude recreation is organizing a nude Pancake breakfast during the the people frying the pancakes and sausages will be encouraged to Wear the people eating them will be encouraged to come in their birthday the nudists feel that they were slightly ahead of the curve on this Young women in or some of have been bursting out of the custom Ary constraints this summer since the Ontario Appeal court decided that women and men must be equally free to display their chests in Alberta nudists had recognized this Long though they have always been careful not to present their nudity to those it might nudism is a whole some Way of whether you choose it As a weekend a vacation option or As a lifestyle said Alberta nudist spokesman Tom the View in How was less Heather Genereaux pleaded guilty tues Day to assaulting her nextdoor formerly her Best who persisted in doing Yard work with no shirt judge Stephen Hunter gave a suspended sentence and put her on probation for 18 is Genereaux was upset because Jennifer was going topless in full View of Genereaux Young the Inci Dent occurred three weeks ago when is Fitzgibbon Lay topless in her is Genereaux had earlier pleaded with is Fitzgibbon to keep her shirt on Terence Moore when doing Yard work because she was in the habit of cutting her washing her car and sunbathing court but is Fitzgibbon insisted it was her right to doff her a Neighbour who watched the assault said is Genereaux scaled a kicked is Fitzgibbon in the stomach and ripped her Bikini Bottom Clear off her the naked Fitzgibbon managed to give is Genereaux a Black Eye in the when the first jaws movie was being we suddenly started noticing All the shark and there appeared to be a great Many of this sum we Are getting nudity reports from All this May mean that there is More nudity than but i suspect i suspect that we Are just noticing it More because of something in the something about the pub Lic mood of this when you go looking for some you Are very Likely to find not every time or every place Calls for if you look for kindness you will find it and if you look for Cru Elty you will find if you look for Sharks biting the legs of swimmers you May not find them in Winnipeg but you will find them this sum for some we Are looking for nudity and so we find nude Pancake eaters in Calgary and nude Neighbours in they May have been there last but we were not paying the quarrelling Neighbours in Trenton need not have quarrelled if they had profited from the experience of the mainstream Ordinary common sense tells you that you May offend someone if you pre sent your nude body in a place where others Are clothed and where nudity is not in the Shower room at the gym a no one objects to the nudity of others because All Are in the same so to and everyone knows what to but in the backyards of you do not ordinarily expect to see women mowing their lawns with no shirt the Alberta nudists have taken the trouble to announce publicly that people at their Pancake breakfast will be no one arriving there will be surprised and anyone who pretends to be offended will get no the Point seems to be that if you want to try nudism or if you want to try swimming at shark infested beaches or if you want to try next Summers sea Sonal fad when we get there it May be Worth consulting others who have tried it they May know How it should be Terence Moore is a free press editorial his column appears on ;