Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 21, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 focus Winnipeg free press Wjk july Al i our politics based on too a t the nato prime minister Jean unaware an open criticized politics As a Bac scratch ing system in which leaders sell their there is Little difference in corporations Are handed Grants and subsidies for their support at election favours Are swapped Between provincial and Federal if a provincial party has Little representation in they need to play Ball for their fair share since tax Dol Lars flow to Ottawa first and then Back to the with the Liberal mar times playing Ball with their Federal consent was Given for tax harmonization in return for Feder Al it is common practice for maps to Dole out goodies to their Home Ridings prior to an prime minister Chretien stated that leaders have to Swap favours and handouts to members of Congress to obtain their support while leaders in a parliamentary like can exert exerting will leaves canadians with no voice in Ottawa because elected maps must vote party disregarding their the major difference Between the two countries is the americans Are a Strong vocal group who achieve results when government is Unac countable and Canad in Are so apathetic that proven to be blatant make Little canadians re elect them for More of the Cana Das present circumstances Are nothing to brag Karen Lalonde Oak Bank Reform members hypocritical whereas members of the medical profession abide by the hippocratic members of the Reform party abide by the hypocritical Robin Gibson Winnipeg cyclists pick first How to reach us the free press Welco ims letters from letters fiust be signed and should include a clearly printed address and Telephone names will be published but not a letters May be edited for style and Short letters Are less Likely to be please address letters to letters to the Winnipeg free 135s 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 on the july 15 there Are no other options Between Chevrier and Bishop Grandin in such areas there is absolutely no reason Why a bicycle cannot be operated reasonably on the sidewalk with the right of Way to pedestrians when they happen to be there but there is no doubt that society has no right to Force bicyclists onto the streets without providing reasonable safety City councils Lack of action in Mak ing the streets Safe for bicyclists is the surely a painted White line on the Osborne Bridge is insufficient Protection and explains Why cyclists often choose the sidewalk where they Are not outweighed by thousands of an occasional belligerent pedestrian or a Fine is preferable to life threatening Shane Nestruck Winnipeg circumcision wrong term safety it seems that the proponents of pedestrian safety and the proponents of All vehicles must abide by the Law Are not prepared to address the prob Lem of staying alive and healthy on a bikes should wait for the Light before entering an intersection but in doing so the cyclist has Learned to expect that Many Drivers of cars will Speed by him or cutting too close for safety of the if the bicyclist conducts himself like a vehicle perhaps one of the fronted Load ers would approximate the acceleration and Speed of a reasonably fit the bicyclist has Learned to expect that a great number of motorists will tailgate the Bike and honk their very few bicyclists choose the Side walk on a Street with reasonably Safe but Pembina Highway this Street is the worst highest Speed drag strip in even for a Strong Riding on this Street is tempting Katherine keep bicycles in the july 3 free an associated press article from referred to the creation of better behaved wives by curbing their sexual appetite by cutting off their female the term cutting actually creates female eunuchs and should not be referred to As circumcision As was done in the headline on the perhaps feminists interested in bringing about Freedom for women under humane begin by let Ting the world know what sort of free Dom eunuchs have and explain the difference Between castration and Cir Miller Winnipeg Panama games ask too much i read where the local paid employees of the 1999 Panama games Are demanding More taxpayer monies because their plans for fundraising have All fallen the budget was set and a business plan approved by All three Levels of spend ing Over million of Public dollars for a two week festival in 99 catering to the wealthy and elite from some of the poorest countries on the the appointed committee and Many High paid officials have been very unsuccessful in attracting sponsor Dol Lars and Are now attempting to Intima hate Marilyn Manson just stay at Home this is in response to a letter in your paper about a girl who was appalled that Marilyn Manson was allowed to play in in is and i waited in line for Manson tickets and expect it to be and one of the Best concerts that has Ever came to Wake up the world is always when something is Dif Ferent and expresses views that oppose your it does not mean you can Call it youre judging him on rumours and How the Media portrays you Are being prejudiced and Marilyn Manson is a Intro extremely intelligent and talented person who creates wonderful music with Pas Sion and which is More than i can say for the weak Sheryl Crow and repetitious Marilyn Manson is the the Strong one who will speak up and make society face the cruel reality of the his concert sold out so obviously he is doing something if you dont like dont go to the concert but dont demand he not play in Winnipeg when you have no appreciation or comprehension of his music or a Melesyk Warren protect kids from Rock slime nothing Gladden a Rock stars and fatten his like a sturdy denunciation from the Pul failing that at ail of outrage from the faithful will always do in a free press july this is Morley wallets opinion about Prip Mably who disagree with the proliferation of thoroughly Degen Erate Rock groups like Marilyn according to the Wisest move moralists towards not creating a ff1 likes of or gives is n Core is not about about tons that generate and headlines Are a if Tome and predictable outcome of their calculating marketing but Tell that to the legions of kids who scoop up the slime made by Manson and a Host of other to them the How Ever construed Mio is Rof the no Lon walk at its uts could not be degrading a workers and who Are left of Tali ing the it has been said that evil triumphs in a society when Good men do judging by the Sage advice Ley Good men s surely not p of pick by mor 8 few but he is cyclists must make safety their first a Winnipeg rider tells critics of local bicycle Date our elected politicians by giving them three All costing us More i Hope the politicos remember there is another none of the Ive lived Here almost my entire life and paid All my which consume the vast majority of my my property taxes climb annually while Street repairs Are almost non existent and services continue to decline or have a user fee tacked and because the 99 Panama peo ple appear to have grossly misjudged their reception from the corporate Community and May have to admit everything Treyve been feeding us has been they want More of my Money so these less than exciting games can continue in Chevrolet or Cadillac personally i dont care if the games Are scaled Back or i probably wont be Able to afford the tickets any Winnipeg let critics define their Art in responding to Evelyn Gordons attempt to explain her position regard ing the arts in Manitoba free july it seems i must first clarify a few Points of my it int necessary to push me off the Gravy caboose As i have never received Money from an arts funding government or while i in challenged the subsidized setup which sustains the i am neither a proponent nor an opponent of plug i did not to having created the alphabet it evolved Over thousands of an excellent chronology is presented in the Oxford reference Dic which shows How hieroglyphics became increasingly abstract and eventually letters for a Host of hieroglyphs originated in More elaborate images created by neolithic starting roughly years in spite of its vitriolic is Gor dons letter resurrects a very old Dis people often Lay claim to knowing what is and what int a handful of German philosophers started Pok ing their noses in the subject some 250 years since Many an Art the Orist or attempted to pin Art naive As it to its Art if it pleases me and not Art if it offends me is often How the Art world makes being that is Gordon and those who share her views Are Likely not influential Mem Bers of the Art their opinions on these matters Are dismissed As being As not those like de Janzen who insist that centres such As plug in Are indeed showing often support their claims with statements i Felt culturally enriched free june therefore is others make sweeping generalizations the Best Art is that which challenges the conventions and illusions of our Jeremy free june this last is simply not the Best Art is a decidedly relative and Michelangelo for inspired citizens of Florence to believe in Nelson goes on to speak of a sociopolitical Agenda being the emphasis behind by the displayed at plug which sparked this Anna Scott cries censorship when Mem Bers of the Public express outrage free june the More informed members of the Art world who presumably know better what is and what int Art react strongly to the threat of overt yet they fail to see that Covert censorship takes place regularly within the visual Art Community As it is defined by govern ment everything plug in and other such centres exhibit is carefully screened by so called peer most of which Are handpicked by arts officers employed at government funding the Point i thought i had made in my previous letter is through subsidiaries like plug government is manipulating visual Art in this country often using it to provide incidental targets to divert attention away from More serious or to test the Waters by floating issues to see who will get fussed by this is a far More serious concern than whether a few thousand tax dollars went to work that offended a few thousand tax there Are several questions should Art be used primarily to satisfy or flog sociopolitical agendas if then who sets the Agenda is work aimed at sparking some sort of meaningful debate Nelson on what the Public wants Public Money spent on is it possible for such work to be exhibited and such debate to occur without the support of government will artists and so be paid for their or expected to work for free does work have to have a sociopolitical statement in it for it to be Art neolithic Art makers and Art users Likely didst dispute whether a piece was Art or if it was serviceable they used if it visual is much in dispute and Dis perhaps Evelyn Myrna Jeremy Anna Lynn de Janzen and whomever else wants to venture an opinion could fill the rest of us in on what Art is for then we can worry about agendas and How the peo ple who make Art Are Robert Mears Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau if Mound in in a world ;