Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 3, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 readers forum Winnipeg free press pfc he o july m in Reform party not sinister or intolerant Knowles fight not Over keep up struggle Knowles started in response to headlines in june 10 edition of the Winnipeg free i would like to offer the following Obser on pages and a9 we find the following headlines and subtitles Flag flies Low for a great my tributes flow for elder statesman crusaders Battle Over my led fight for tireless worker an Ordinary social legacy lives on a Man of great while we can feel our country has been blessed and Well served by Knowles in his Many years As a constant and compassionate advocate within our country for the need to share wealth and resources with All we can also stand dismayed that contrary to his end less years of Effort to bring about social Equality and Justice for the following headline was also found in june 1997 edition of the free press poverty a major risk to study a13 it would seem that the Battle against poverty and injustice that our great dedicated his life to winning is far from let us not be lulled by headlines of Praise for Knowles into believing that the work to fulfil and sustain the legacy he has left us is now let us honour knowles1 life by continued vigilance and advocacy to do the work and share the resources of our Rich coun try with All so that by the year 2000 we will no longer read headlines such As those on Page nor will directors of food Banks have to lament the Suc Cess of their burgeoning work loads to feed the homeless and impoverished children and adults in Canada or other places in the when Owr country and communities can boast of True equal Ity and Justice for the citizens of then we will have honoured the memory of until we will not have paid True tribute to the majesty of Knowles exam ple and life As a citizen of Cana we have just elected a new May their Monu ment to mrk Nowles be the realization of the society he worked so diligently to Carole Winnipeg regarding Michael Richards letter Manning june it has the headline of a it bears the same characteristics exaggeration and misinformation from an individual whose stance is to discredit Man one can Only conclude from this writing that Canada is not in need of some serious myth and fact Are myth 1 the Reform party is in fact this statement denies the the Reform party moved from third party status to her majesty Loyal the nip gained the pcs gained the bloc and liberals lost look at the polling figures for a combined pc and Reform count would have decimated the liberals in 35 rid Ings 12 of these Ridings placed the pcs in second 23 put the Reform in second that is hardly a myth 2 there Are two National fact Reform has a Power base in the the nip and pcs share a Power base in the Atlantic the bloc is still the Power House in the liberals hold there is no party representative for All conclusion there is no real National myth 3 the Reform party is sending a message of intolerance toward fact that is a spin in any contemplated separation the consequences of such an action must be presented and there is nothing sinister or intolerant about setting an Agenda designed so that All parties will know what to expect if Quebec becomes a deliberation and settlement must include a set of negotiating participation by All the partition the aboriginal maritime citizen ship division of the Federal debt and assets to name myth 4 appeasement is the fact weve been on that Gam bit for and it Hast satisfied Charlottetown and Meech failed because politicians wont and still dont understand the wishes of the Canadian it was voted Down because they Are not prepared to offer outlandish concessions to the consensus weve had enough of the bloc and the pm jerking the rest of the country National reconciliation is not Calgary big act posters Bury local bands As i sat in the Exchange District on a sunny i noticed something that profoundly bothered All the Public notice including the Large ones on the Side of the arts Pace were completely covered in Marilyn Manson and Roch Voisine in whoever had done the fostering had put them up Over top of posters advertising local i find it distressing that bands which have their shows announced on the on and in Gigantic ads in the As Well As receive enormous amounts of tour support from their respective record Compa Nies and should take priority Over local artists who Are struggling to make a name for of the bands in question Are not to blame for the irresponsibility of the people in charge of their but As a member of a local band whose posters were covered up in this Fias think i Echo the feelings of bitterness that other local Independent artists must surely feel when their efforts Are belittled in such a Chris off Ibert Winnipeg Hospital facilities strained to the limit i must agree with the letter care cuts harm free june from May 29 to june was on the receiving end of similar treatment at the Grace in extreme abdominal i waited six hours to see a doctor then later wheeled on a Stretcher with a mattress too Short for into observation area and parked in roam the area lounge for the next five the now used to House extra a patient use Maga Zines and did not offer any the eurom closed or did it deter their visitors or staff from Waltzing int making it awkward to Wash sleep or to be treated by in Many i was still luckier than those left in the emergency and observation departments hallway throughout the tune i was although there were two i t Reader pleads for Federal Aid to be passed on so that flood victims can get lives Back in 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 maybe submitted through the internet at letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone it certainly want enough the 16 plus nonexistent door locks offered Little Protection from people repeatedly barging even with signs it was rather nurses were great under the Cir even though they Lack Many resources the wards should being in the nursing care profession for 24 i have never seen such facilities for emergency patient care coupled with a dehumanizing Lack of the government must make before it gets Cheryl Theobald Winnipeg yank plans return visit i spent a few Days on vacation in Winnipeg a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it very the people were very helpful with you have a wonderful City and i plan to visit again Harold plunk pass on that Federal flood Aid Paul Samyn quotes pre Mier of All Manitoba As in some people chose to live out Side the City to avoid higher taxes and they pay no premiums and now they Are having a lot of Money paid to them by the taxpayers at free june some of this is we flood sur who Are asking for will be assisted by the taxpayers at the taxpayers of through the Federal Are offering to assume 90 per cent of our taxpayers of Manitoba Are being asked for Only Jacent for this Aid seems like a lot of most who have not had to tally up have no True sense of the value of their the Cost of most modest Homes and their contents easily exceeds this does not include the Cost of repairing or replacing septic water or which we provide and maintain ourselves As parts of our chosen in most will not restore our but the lot of Money is not a tax Burden on even the but empty gesture to waive the deductible will Likely Cost Manitoba less than to obtain the maximum Benefit from this homeowners must have total eligible costs of exactly for and other flood related for losses of less than the deductible is for losses in excess of the owner is 100 per cent at the maximum the province will give the owner As its share of the waived deductible and the Federal government will provide there Are about 40 Homes to be torn Down at this so the maximum provincial Bill will be of Many tear Downs including the six i know sustained Over in eligible expenses and will not Benefit at All from this so the total Bill will be much smaller and ignores the other Homes that Are not to be torn the biggest fallacy in Hilmons statement is the underlying Assumption that the province of Manitoba Means the As City of Filmon sounds More like a mayor of Winnipeg grumbling about tax than the Leader of the Manitoban Are free to choose to live any place in the for whatever with out being relegated to second class citizens in their hour of greatest this should be particularly frighten ing for All voters outside the it is time for Filmon to heed the wishes of his his province and his pass on the Federal Aid to give us a reasonable Chance to get our lives Back in not an 80 percent life and not a life with an artificially imposed ceiling but a life resembling what we had four months Rob Stewart Frichot health fascists inappropriate the fascists imposed a reign of Ter ror on they rounded Tor tured and massacred six million of my people and Ever so Many from other religious and National the memory of the victims is besmirched by John Collison when he uses the word fascists to describe his opponents in the ing debate health fascists unlikely to Stop at free june 26 maybe that Collison should take some courses in history and civilization before he and the free press might even come to real ize that they should apologize to the survivors among Jesse Vorst Winnipeg psychology misrepresented Roy dudgeon and Lorraine in a letter to the editor leave critique to free june 16 rightfully object to a misrepresentation respecting the discipline of in their response they commit the same error in misrepresenting the discipline of to provide first the Label pop psychologist appears inappropriately tied to behavioural psychology alone without identification of what is meant or which books Are of con where is the evidence that behavioural psychology is falling out of favour in the academic world behavioural applications Are expand ing due to their documented with a behavioural orientation being endorsed by 50 per cent or More of child psychologists Martin dudgeon and is Gunther further misrepresent behavioural psychology As being restricted almost exclusively to aversion examination of publications demonstrates that the behavioural orientation advocates no aversive methods of behavioural change positive with aversive meth ods As procedures of last these primarily no aversive treatment methods have been successfully applied to a wide variety of problems in children and adults Depres academic and social skills in a wide variety of Fields health business in addition to we do not agree with what might be taken As a general suggestion particularly Given the head ing of the letter that the critique of academic concepts should be the exclusive property of critiques should be judged on their not on the position or status of their their own advice regarding enhanced scholarship before mudslinging is sound they should take it Darlene Stephen Garry Martin Usa Wright department of psychology University of Manitoba Winnipeg doonesbury flashbacks by Harry Trudeau m Inthis ;