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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 2, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winded free july Brian editorials Liberty of religion Equality of civil nights subsidized pollution a project to revive the Oil Field in illustrates the problems governments face in balancing economic and environmental the billion project announced last week will see liquid Carbon dioxide transported by pipeline from North Dakota to where it will be mixed with water and pumped into the Earth to flush 122 million barrels of otherwise inaccessible Oil out of the depleted the technology can also be extended to revive other aging Oil it will we Are in Money for jobs All cheaper fuel for Consumers and an environmental Benefit to Boot Carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released into the air As a greenhouse Gas will be recycled in the Oil Field there is an environmental Down greater production Means greater use of Fos Sil and the govern ments concessions to the however Are a subsidy to the production Cost of the encouraging even greater As this project was being world Lead including prime minister Jean were in new York at the Earth Summit trying to come to grips with just this they were reviewing their records at cutting greenhouse Gas emissions according to goals set at the Rio de Janeiro Summit in of the industrialized Only Britain and Germany met the but not through any effect of environmental in Britain the Indus trial use of Coal dropped dramatically because the government stopped subsidizing the and in Germany unification closed much of East Ger Many highly polluting heavy which came out of Rio As an environmental went into new York As one of the Slack like the americans to a lesser the canadians have been unwilling to pay the economic costs of an environmental no nation seems willing to yet not the industrialized nations that Are biggest producers of Green House nor the developing who see their Hope for the future crimped when Environ mental concerns obstruct their most governments now recognize that the Price of failing to Stop global warming will be far heavier than the Cost of reducing greenhouse but both government and Public have yet to Muster the will to pay the smaller but More immediate the required sacrifices Are seen As too the solution that prime minister Chretien put Forward in new York last week is far from Ideal a method ical and relatively painless reduction achieved one Small step at a time but at least the Merit of being practical in a world that wont do bitter Medicine for years the world Bank has been attempting to use its financial clout to encourage free Market economies and democratic politics in the third world by linking its assistance to a commitment to Good government As the Bank defines the Bank can claim some Success stories among nations that follow its but Many govern ments object to the unpopular sacrifices those poli cies require from their perhaps in acknowledgement of the organizations recent world development report offers some advice for soothing Savage although it is hardly in keeping with the idea that economic Reform is supposed to enhance democracy rather than subvert or replace duplicity is it seems to and manipulation of Public opinion even better failing All there is something to be said for old fashioned the report also offers More constructive it urges poor nations to be realistic about what they can accomplish through the scarce resources Avail Able to governments by limiting involvement in health care and encouraging wholesale privatization and urging drastic reductions in pub Lic sector this kind of program does but it is bitter Medicine that can have Short term Side effects even in industrialized in the recent election in France one of the world Banks major shareholders voters rejected All of the above As being too painful to the Banks prescription for the poor was too Tough even for the that France has faltered is not an argument for the world Bank to change its it does that the Bank should remember when it is setting its terms although economic Reform May appear bloodless when it is set out As the pain it involves is real and is Felt by real Winnipeg free press Winnipeg free press St w7g Winnipeg Tribune ret 1999 Rudy Redekop publisher email . Ca Nicholas editor Brian Cole editorial Page editor directors Harry Brown sales and marketing Ian Cummins technology Laurie advertising Verne Kalichuk human resources Glenn Williams finance and administration 1997 Winnipeg free a division of newspapers division of the Assn Canada Ura wed published seven a week at 1 355 Mountain h 6977000 the Cigar keeps puffing Montreal after Wayne the great one Gretzky and his wife Janet each clutching cig ars great appeared on the Coyer of Cigar aficionado mag antismoking crusaders roasted him for setting a smelly example for hockey tykes who worship Toronto and Man Patrick said Gretzky was merely polishing his late baby Boomer cigars Are the now thing in popular Walsh Hes been associated with some pretty Shady Guys in the Bruce Mcnall and Peter so it might be a Good Way to get himself established As a credible Man of the Hes moving away from the hockey Wayne to set himself up As a Guy who part of the new Economy and the new like Cigar aficionado the idea that puffing on a Story can help a clearcut thirty some thing project an attractive image is evidence of the miraculous comeback of bouquets and Lons not Long the last thing youd do to disassociate yourself from Shady Guys was smoke cig ars because that what the Shady Guys were it want baby Boomers who puffed and chewed them till the butt ends were ragged and Slimy with but the Edward Robinsons of the real world card the fixers of prizefight and horse the robber Barons of big gangsters still smoke but now Treyve been joined by Young Manhattan investment Cigar smoking is not Only part of that broader now thing the naughtiness rebellion against politically Correct also the stickiest expression of conspicuous for two centuries after Spanish explorers met Cigar smoking cigars were a badge of wealth in and that what Treyve become in North Ameri if you dont believe pick up a copy of Cigar it costs dont buy unless your taste runs to magazines that offer 13 photos of Tom Selleck smoking just Leaf through it boasts so Many ads for pricey humidors and other stuff Ordi nary folks cant afford that it runs to 434 Glossy its so hefty you could use it to shovel speaking of such Toronto sportswriter James Christie says a braided cuban Cigar in one Cigar aficionado photo looks like congealed dog droppings but the impression is made that if youre Rich you can put it to your lips and no one will Point that since everyone already knows Gretzky what exactly is Cigar smoking supposed to do for his image if Hes moving away from the hockey Wayne Asad Man Walsh what is he moving toward it finally came to the comedian Wayne Groucho George Ernie and heaven knows How Many other comedians were All Cigar Milton Berle still Gretzky wants to stand before hundreds of puff on a examine its burning tap watch its ashes and snap off wisecracks Thall make audiences howl with laugh then his family can found a Magazine called i have in my hands the pre Mier Issue of its presi Dent is Milton its executive editor is his and its editor is her Susan Milton defiant Mission statement we we we from the opening a scantily Clad Model gazes suggestively at the Shes got a Cigar Between her Rosy five play ing cards in her left a Martini on the poker Vicki a daughter of Berles by an earlier tells Milton readers that when she was a the smell of Cigar smoke would signal my dads arrival How i would look Forward in the same Way that some people can smell cookies baking or a Ham in the oven and be immediately transported Back to i smell cigars and go directly Back to smoke filled meetings in the living room with it meant daddy was the Cigar Boom delights Wal ton because now i can smell daddy almost anywhere the tender blessings of secondary Cigar says he never puffs cigars near his three Chil How cruel when they grow what Chance will they have of smelling daddy almost anywhere Harry Bruce is an editor with the issues reasons for rioting need a look member of the us Lotta Frew go Wen vou25 n0 176 t Why do we have riots that and its How do we avoid has been puzzling Quebec politicians in the Wake of the smashing and looting that marked Jean Baptiste Day this year in Montreal and que Bec none of them seems to have a Good Quebec cites Jeanpaul took some Solace in a couple of facts the no rioters outnumbered the rioters on the Plains of Abraham and this years rioting was not As bad As last Premier Lucien Bouchard turned philosophical about the whole people in a democratic society just have to learn to accept riots like the ones that took place last he we have to accept the fact that there Are marginals in our that this is not a Bouchard might find it worthwhile to dig a Little a study of Quebec riots Over the past 30 years or so might provide some interesting insights into Why Large groups of people take it into their Heads to run up and Down City streets smashing Wii looting stores and setting other Canadian cities have had their share of mass but Quebec in recent years has become a sort of Laboratory of riotous the province has been the site of More riots of More different kinds than any other riots happen for a variety of reasons Large numbers of peo ple get frustrated Over govern ment actions or Lack of Large numbers of exuberant youths get drunk or stoned and go on a members of ethnic groups Square off against each the local team wins a championship or fails to win a Cham police mishandling of John Dafoe a situation turns a peaceful protest or a Rowdy Street party into a full scale political ideologues persuade their followers that the Way to political Power is in the All those elements have been blamed for riots in Quebec Over the past the most famous sports riot in Canadian history came in 1955 when angry hockey fans trashed much of catherines Street to protest the suspension of Mau Rice Richard during the Stanley cup hockey the brutal tactics of Quebec police forces were the cause of More than one political and ethnic pressures took to the streets during the 1960s and politics certainly played a role in the first of the Jean Baptiste riots the one in which demonstrators pelted an unflinching Pierre Trudeau with stones As parades passed the reviewing the fashionable explanation was that Trudeau presence on the reviewing stand was a provocation to Quebec National whatever the Trudeau won an overwhelm ing Victory in the election that that did not prevent a repeat riot on the following Jean Baptiste Day on june once the fashionable explanation was that the riot was provoked by the police or that it represented the justifiable anger of the exploited youth of Quebec at their anglophone i was in that particular riot and that is not How it looked to a tradition of the Jean Baptiste Parade was for members of the crowd lining the Parade route to add themselves to the rear of the once the official bands and floats had passed As the crowd behind the Parade police would line up across Street to break up the crowd into More manageable most of those tagging along simply moved Down the Side jogged Over a Block and rejoined the main forming those Brief barricades across the Street was As brutal As the police Ever everything was peaceful and cheerful until the Parade reached Bishop near the major downtown at that a Young Man emerged from the ran to the front of the Parade and knocked the head off the statue of As if on a the crowd turned into a ran Down the Side streets and looted every store along the none of the fashionable expos nations seemed to fit that if exploited youths were express ing their political they waited to express it until there was something Worth since that there have been Many Happy and peaceful Jean Baptiste celebrations in there have also been occasions of riotous destruction on various pretexts in other Canadian Premier Bouchard philosophical acceptance of a return of the rioting is but be might look 3 Little on All our to find an explanation and a politicians off Quebec i the column of John former 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