Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 15, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian readers forum Winnipeg free press a my i Pinawa Story too Bleak i found two things wrong with your Story in sundays free press on Pinawa pinatas Only Gas station recently closed its doors due to Lack of the Pinawa Esso actually closed its doors due to a squabble Between the Independent owner and the landlord on How much rent is to be when the Gas station didst open without notice the owner just its closed and it might be closed Tomor now plans Are in the making for a Transfer of meaning the Gas station should be up and running at the Pinawa hockey Arena there will be no and no minor an emergency meeting was held last year to figure out How to save minor and what was done was that the Arena became separated from the towns i Hope you will consider making these corrections in a future Brent Stokes Pinawa cyclists ignore traffic signals there Are two concerns that i have regarding general safety on the local and at present there seems to be Little in the Way of control with respect to one is the Lack of regard by Many cyclists of traffic control signs and Sig recently i was witness to one near Accident at Mary Avenue and Carlton Street when the traffic was stopped by the Light on Mary and a with total disregard of the travelled into the intersection and came within inches of being hit by a southbound another instance was at Portage Avenue and Moray Street when again traffic was stopped on but without any hesitation a cyclist proceeded through the intersection and fortunately missed any crossing Lehi i have had close Calls when exiting a Lane onto a main Street Only to have a cyclist Riding on the sidewalk in front of me far too close for As far As i the Side walks Are not for use by adults on Bicy education of cyclists and enforce ment of our Laws is urgently another concern is the use of cell phones by Drivers in the first thing one is told when learn ing to drive is that two hands Are required on the steering wheel to safely control the is it permissible to hold and use a phone with one hand when your vehicle is moving must we await a fatal Acci Dent due to this problem before any thing is done to regulate this matter Bolton Winnipeg keep bicycles on the Road cyclists belong on the Road and police need to reinforce this last i watched one cyclist after another Speed along Pembina Highway sidewalks while patrol cars drove by oblivious to this infraction of the this irritation has prompted my general commentary on the safest Way to Cycle in the safest place to ride your Bike is on the not the when you Are bicycling in a stay off the sidewalks and be courteous to Pedes bicycles Are a vehicle and belong Only on the just As cyclists can feel persecuted How to reach us the free press we Homes 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 13ss Mountain Winnipeg r2x letters can be sent to our Pax number letters May be submitted through the internet at letters sent via the internet obviously cannot be but must include Home address and Telephone by hostile pedestrians or in line skaters often feel their safety threatened by cyclists zooming by on a Riding on the sidewalk or Riding on the wrong Side of the Road and sur prising pedestrians when they step off the curb can make pedestrians hos tile to cyclists and can even injure peo ple walking or if the Street has heavy take a Les travelled As an avid i take Pride that i am allowed to travel on the streets where i rightfully Katherine Thompson Winnipeg Dot is banned chemical in the photo showing the helicopter free july the caption in spread of the chemical Long since i believe that is still on the mar i think that the caption should have said that the Long since banned chemical is Klassen Winnipeg let professors compete for pay Katherine Kowalchuk salary Dis closure Sparks free july 12 correctly Points out that at the University of Manitoba the vast discrepancy Between senior administrators and professors in relation to subordinates stems from a promotion sys tem that rewards seniority As opposed to despite identical Job there is a Gap of or More Between highly productive Junior professors and their Many senior counterparts who have published Little or nothing Over an entire but have still stumbled through the if it occurred outside the Ivory their salaries for a teach ing week would be called a at the u of m its called providing an exemplary environment for work and Kowalchuk cautions for those who Are rewarded for their relative Lack of productivity by excessive enjoy it while it Given the recent refusal of the faculty Union to answer a request from the Central administration to reopen the contract to negotiate the mandatory retirement of the most elderly and inactive of pro this is just Wishful the competitive Merit pay system that existed up to the late 1970s was replaced during Union contract negotiations by nearly automatic career Progress increments that Bear Little City has to become serious about educating dog owners i would like to thank Bruce Owen for his article on the Rottweiler attack and How it could have been info Stu it is going to take a lot More than one article to change the average dog owners Igno Rance of dog behaviour and Hus Bandry in the animal services officer David Prudhomme stated that people have to take More but Why should people take responsibility when it is not required of them nor is it defined by the dog control bylaw except in negative terms your dog should How one prevents the dog from acting aggressively or doing any thing objectionable is left up to the responsibility in dog ownership really requires that owners Edu Cate themselves and their educate themselves in How to and control their dog and educate the dog in Basic obedience and social the animal services advisory committee wanted the bylaw revised so a More proactive approach would be taken through an owner licensing requirement that would emphasize education t and the City seems More interested in get Ting licensing Revenue than in doing anything useful with the animal services Branc the City has even debated removing the rabies vaccination requirement in order to facilitate since the original excuse for licensing was to encourage rabies vaccine this would have been even More of an abdication of responsibility by the since far More people vaccinated their dogs than licensed them approximately seven times As the ineffectiveness of the present licensing system in encouraging responsible ownerships clearly Demon even it should be noted that dogs dont bite because they Are and whether a dog bites or not is far More dependent on the Type of owner than it is on the of dog or whether the dog is licensed or until the City starts taking owner education nothing is going to change except the names and the mangled belljwh4m Manitoba association of dog owners 1 Winnipeg cyclists Are taken to task for their noncompliance with the rules of the relation to a mindless Contr darwinian equity ethos that says All professors Are created equal and the faculty Union is Only As Strong As its weakest member has replaced the traditional academic achievement ethos based on differential contribution to the intellectual in the present True Merit awards amount to a no cumulative Bonus granted annually to a maximum of 30 the con tract also states in exceptional circumstances a Job offer at another the University May provide an increase to a members base salary the sum total of All such increases shall not exceed in any contract with such Art uncompetitive Reward is it any wonder that the u of m lost 46 top performers to other institutions in 1996 alone with such an uncompetitive Reward How can the u of m possibly attract distinguished mid career professors from other universities to replace any of those who have left Hymie Rubenstein of University of Manitoba nip deserves to be fooled there is an old expression a per son fools me their fault a per son fools me my last provincial speaker Louise Lacquay made fools of the last week she made fools of them since they accepted her As speaker after the debacle Over the Privateer ing of they deserved to be Herb Schulz Winnipeg enterprises claim debunked having just read the All drop the peanuts Story on the front Page of the july 8 free i am disgusted by the Way Jim Wake director of finance and administration of Winnipeg enterprises attempts to portray Winnipeg enter Prises in a charitable Light by we were the Only venue in North America that allowed outside but not surprised that Winnipeg enterprises would try to repair its corroded Public image by making such a ridiculous per haps Wakeham should read Scott Taylors article on the cover of the july 7 free press sports Tay Lor directly contradicts Wakeham when speaking of Jacobs Field in downtown Ohio you can buy a Sandwich at subway just Down the Street and take it into the As a matter of the people who own and operate Jacobs Field encourage fans to bring their own food into the Taylors article goes on fur ther to quote Dick Cleveland indians we know How important it is for families to live with in a so we have no problem with people bringing in their own food and what a marketing lighten up on the food restrictions to put a few More people in the but there is the True greed of Winnipeg enterprises any change to the concessions would Cut into its whereas More ticket Revenue would have to be shared with its Doug Stoyko Winnipeg Sanctity of life not up to courts i applaud your editorial of july the value of a your conclusion was Many canadians today fear that the Law is coming to place too Little value on i did not disagree with anything that was however it appeared to me that the underlying tone of the article was that the court system was responsible for the erosion of the concept of Sanctity of the underlying conclusion would then appear to be that the court system could simply reverse its approach to reflect an increased respect for human with All due i do not think it is All that difficult to see where our Lack of respect for the Sanctity of human life has been our society has a double sided View of the Sanctity of on one most Well intentioned people would profess a belief in the on the other Many Well intentioned peo ple accept that mothers have the right to end the life of their unborn child doctors have the right to end the life of patients whose Quality of life is poor and there Are certainly some of us who Are even accepting the proposition that parents have the right to end the life of their severely disabled children the Latimer certain pressure groups among us have created a belief that certain lives Are not Worth once you enshrine the right of one individual decide for another individual when their life will How can you Tell where the Sanctity of human life begins and where it ends i applaud your courage in stating a troubling trend of our will you have the courage to look beyond the court system for the Root causes of the moral decay Michael Waldron Boissevain on meaning Robert president of the Royal society of was indignant that a reporter attempted to Pike an Issue of title fellow being other word five u of m professors entered hallowed balls free july of the 96 lines of copy in this Only 29 Are devoted the subject under the Twenty three lines were written about one of the pro but Only half of these had anything to do with Why he was elected a six lines were written on the other four recipients who were Only mentioned by name and Field and they should feel insulted bythe scarce amount of copy Given to especially considering the length of the since the reporter bad taken the time to Contact Nancy Leo Robert Haynes and Marsha surely he could have obtained More Bio on John Klaus John Nichols and Vaclav to be fleeced a fellow is indeed the highest of honours to be bestowed Upcraf All who Are recipients Are High achievers in their chosen Field of too bad that staff Mae Kemsie didst elaborate on Why each of these professors hallowed Halls and merited this the thrust of the article seemed to focus on whether an Issue could be made with the title fellow being other than As Haynes stated when this is a its just hopefully will note that articles written in this manner convey a style seen in tabloid newspapers and is neither a credit to self nor the Christ Winnipeg dome Bury by Harry Trudeau ;