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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 1, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Brian Cole 6977044 readers9 forum Winnipeg free press 4 o october m i not too smart to be fooled t i his is a word of warning about forget any thought of Small Fry sleaze bags in Toronto hunched Over their phones pulling dirty tricks on unsuspecting Prairie think High profile International companies right Here in 1ft my ignorant i thought 1 was too smart to be but 1 was and 1 fell right into a Meres what happened 1 was in Winnipeg International air ports departure area on the Way to an air Canada flight for a Long weekend in two Businesslike women standing at a table in the corridor stopped me to ask if 1 was interested in an air Miles plan used for air Canada 1 my air Miles card applied Only to Canadian 1 was so our conversation want a Long 1 signed the application put my copy in my purse and hurried i forgot All about it one about a week after my return to my phone it was a Manitoba telecoms services rep she told me my Long Dis Tance service had been switched from its to another i its had made a i haunt switched anything i argued a then the its rep asked me if id had a Call from i had i accepted a Coupon for Worth of free shopping at Kmart i racked my All i could think of that had anything to do with Tele phones was the aeroplane the women has asked me How much Long distance Telephone time i used in a that said have you read your copy of the aeroplane application i haunt then and i found it and read it for the first sure there it my Sig nature authorizes Canada Long distance services company to notify my local Telephone company of my decision to use Canada As my primary Long distance i acknowledge that the aeroplane Miles Are managed by air Canada and i release Canada from any liability Howsoever caused arising out of the redemption of such aeroplane had me i was then then How could a corporation id regarded As reputable do such a thing not a word had been said by the two women at the Airport about switching my Long distance not a single How to reach us pus Holt Sec torn for style and Short Are less Likely to be please address to letters to the Winnipeg free 1355 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 but now words like duplicitous and Scummy came to when id calmed Down a 1 asked its How i could get unhooked from it was a nuisance and it took several its had a third party verification company named integrated Messing ing Call the company rep asked me questions was i the person authorized to make Telephone Deci Sions at my House did i want All my Lon distance Calls handled by its after waiting several i checked with i was Back in the fold and could safely make some Long distance needless to the calling card i received from and the aeroplane card from air Canada Are going Back to their places of i was an but Ive relearned an old lesson never sign anything in a hurry or without Reading it from top to its too bad the Good names of the Winnipeg International Airport and air Canada Are being besmirched by these id kick Canada out the door and off the premises if i were a More Marion Lepkin Winnipeg premiers act like greedy child i would like to comment on the pre Miers of they have Given the Brilliant comment that comes right from the Mouth of Preston Manning poverty just one Factor in education Benjamin Dean of continuing Edu cation focus should be 23 makes some assertions about education that he says cannot be specific Al he claims that the relationship Between socioeconomic status of parents and the performances of their children is very he argues also that this relationship is and that schools and teachers do not have effects that equal or surpass the effect of socioeconomic in this he writes what cannot be by anyone who looks at the evidence is that by far the strongest predictor of students achievement As it has been for at least 30 socioeconomic contrary to Levins these assertions can be the correlations Between the socioeconomic status of parents and the performances of their children on Well designed mathematical and science tests Range Between and Over a number of studies conducted in a variety of Western the correlations Are slightly higher for tests of in other the socioeconomic status of parents explains Between two Ana nine per cent of the variance in mathematics and sciences tests and slightly More in language in his Book Christo Pher Jencks says if we merely equalize everyone economic Sta test score inequality would fall by six per cent or less How Well students have been How much they have stud and a number of other Vari Ables explain Over 90 per cent of the variance in their school Levin claims that the relationship Between the socioeconomic status of parents Ana the performances of their Chil Dren in school is in the a series of studies by Stephen Heyneman illustrated thai in the less developed coun tries of the relationship Between the socioeconomic Sta Tus of parents and the performances of their children in schools on in other none of the differences Between children on these tests could be explained by their socioeconomic this Evi Dence suggests that even in situations where there is extreme the organization of schools and teaching methods can compensate for the socioeconomic status of considerable evidence from a number of studies Cole Man and his colleagues in the and Williams and his colleagues in among others Illus trates that the Way schools Are organized Catholic schools Public for example explain As much variance in the performances of students As does socioeconomic status when other important variables Are con other research Illus trates that the Way that teachers organize their lessons increasing the amount of time students spend on task and using Mastery learn ing for instance also explain As much variance in the performances of students As does so economic it is True that socioeconomic status of parents has an effect on the performances of but it is also True that this effect is about the same As the effects of other variables that Are controlled by administrators and administrators and teachers can improve the formantes of students by focusing on these important organizational and teaching such improvements Are Likely to be More Over the Short than Levins suggestion those interested in improving achieve ment in our schools should focus More attention on unemployment and a Good example of effective teaching strategies is presented by Edward James dimes in the movie stand and deliver student teachers need to spend More time on modelling the strategies presented in this movie than in pre occupying themselves with ways to eradicate Rodney Cut ten St Johns University of Manitoba boy with the Boot statue welcomes visitors to the English that All canadians Are i raised two when my eldest was seven years and my youngest three years i had Given them a bottle of pop to be one Glass was filled to the brim and the other one was half the seven Earold quickly took the full drank half of it and then measured it with his Brothers drink and we Are unless treaties Are honoured and All the recommendations of the Royal commission on aboriginal Peoples Are the premiers of Canada have the same mentality of a seven year old who happened to be labelled a slow demise Manson Winnipeg careless owners show bylaw need i am totally in favour of passing the proposed cat bylaw and Here Are my reasons we Are owners of two both Are spayed and declawed and Are obviously House during the Nice we allow them to go outside in our own Yard Only and with a har Ness and tied to a rope which allows them Liberal they Are Only allowed out when we Are within hear ing we have lived in Ottawa and Nova Scotia we Are military where cat bylaws Are before moving to due to some Peoples carelessness and irresponsibility where their cats Are we have had to pay numerous veterinary an Bills to tend to wounds caused by Loose when i approached the owner of a cat that bit and scratched one of i was told i let my cat out of the help me to understand this she was on our property sitting in our backyard when she was As i we have had both cats spayed and allow them out Only in the daytime and when we Are however if others cannot take responsibility for their own i dont feel they should be privileged in having Brigitte Lennox Winnipeg thank City staff for Beautiful Parks in not sure what it is the or a bigger but i had to Pinch myself each time i set foot in Assini Boine or Kildonan Parks this they have in my 18 years Resi looked is it the the types of a better a Happy staff i dont but show ing these Beautiful spots to our Ger Man House and hearing their High Praise moved me to pen this letter and pass the Heartfelt than yous we Are so most cities in the world charge Money to see such Fine botanical works of but we get to see it for the persons responsible should receive some show of recognition a complimentary dinner More Good and thanks a Unda Penner Winnipeg jobless rate employment in Manitoba at around per cent and in Canada Between per cent and eight per 1 think you readers should know that this View is in no Way Universal among Many of whom myself included believe that the full employment Fate is much lower than that suggested by the notion that the natural rate of unemployment is seven of eight flex cent was the product of the school of economics whose Theof ies have largely been discredited in of in the United states it used to be argued that the comparable Fate of full employment was six of More per cent out of of that was until the jobless Fate fell below six per cent and then below five per without any at least to of it May be More difficult in Canada to reach rates because of the Structure of ouf if the difference in rates that used to exist Between Canada and the were this suggests an unemployment rate nationally of five or six per cent and in around four per so per cent is hardly the terrific news that Mccallum Paul Phillips i Winnipeg healthcare Praise endorsed t am to writing to Correct an error in Morey Rubiss article Canadian health care praised in the Portage main Section of the free press i was not involved in the decision to undertake cardiac surgery on Rubiss nor did i give the thetic for the i definitely cannot take credit for the medical care provided in this i share Rubiss enthusiasm for Canadas Universal care and was pleased that he took time to so eloquently express his the misunderstanding arose from a recent meeting in which Bubis and i i renewed our Friendship after a lapse of 20 he expressed pleasant sur prise at How readily an elderly patient like his father was accepted for heart in i mentioned a discussion i had with an outstanding anaesthesia resident in which we vigorously debated the risks and fits of proceeding with heart surgery in a similarly elderly patient with Seri Ous medical because of the complexity of the there were cogent medical reasons for a thought Ful resident to contemplate postponing although my advice was to that opinion reflected my Bias in favour of aggressive manage this patient was not Rubiss although i did not provide medical care for Rubiss i am extremely proud to be associated with the and health care system that i am also legend to work with an outstanding group of resident physicians specialists in their and thoughtful challenging of accepted inspires me and bodes Well for the future of our medical Ian my Section cardiac anaesthesia Boniface general Hospital hardly Good news More evidence in a 6 article on the jobless rate in your reporter quoted John Mccallum of the manage ment faculty not in economics As the article suggests As defining full needed Penni Mitchell continues to display her superficial knowledge with respect to the product where is the evidence to support the assertion that dhea can alleviate stress prolong the life of people with where is the evidence to support the statement that More vulnerable the More effective and popular it reports attesting to popularity and testimonials front alternative practitioners Are not proof of while singing praises of a chemical for which safety and of ficut by data Are she wants the fed eral health Protection Branch Hub to protect the Public from drugs whose safety has not been corroborated by Independent it is not reasonable to ask the Hub to exercise its mandate and Damn it when it Mitchell wants to have her cake and eat it Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;