Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 12, 1998, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bin focus of Fluray free press 4ft Sassy fib it i Gas Price gouging says who 0 says the Oil companies Are a Bane of Ami Crowle Oil at its lowest Price in a prices at the Pomps have by half a cent per maybe it will come Down even or half cent before going Back up again in time for the summer Holiday travel Ness Gordon eke atch Winnipeg so musicians Back Tovey the members of the Winnipeg symphony Are writing to excess our support and endorsement of a Maestro Bramwell Tovey and his advocacy on behalf of the it takes Many years of hard and commitment to build a Fine Maestro Tovey has demonstrated Over the last 10 years his commitment to this orchestra and this the same cannot be said for Richard Turner on behalf of the so musicians Winnipeg books balanced on backs of poor Premier Gary youve put your foot in your Mouth once again you have shown the poor people of this province that you Are arrogant and the poverty statistics Are go Tell that to the thou Sands of families struggling to make ends meet in i guess from where you and your government is things look pretty get your head out of the Sand and Stop shooting the Mes Senger and get Down to dealing with the it Doest matter How we measure there is an unacceptable level of poverty in you can tout All your so called economic but the end result is the Manitoba is the child poverty capital of you and your government have created this by balancing the books on the backs of the instead of blaming for a change Start listening to groups like the social planning Council and do something about this deplorable Situa Pauline Riley Winnipeg native diabetes being fought there has been much said and writ ten recently on diabetes in aboriginal and to some extent that is there Are some things sur rounding this Issue that i would like to bring Why is it so High in the aboriginal population aside from the biological there Are Many other issues that affect an aboriginal persons Well in the larger some of the other causes Are socioeconomic factors such As inadequate food Low unemployment and the residential school syndrome with its residual in the we were a people of Hunters and travelling with herds for food and gathering berries for according to aboriginal people were a very fit and ath Letic but in the past few generations this has eating How to reach us the fuse press my com Mars my Are less to be Plesse address letters Tai letters is the Winnipeg free Rex hmm Sefl be sen Ltd our fax maybe lehers@ffe8prsss.mb.cs, letters sent via the m must address and Telephone and exercise patterns have changed with the availability of modern transportation and convenience a study done in Manitoba shows sections that diabetes could triple in the next 20 from 1986 to the end of a total of is native Chil Dren age six16 years with Type 2 betes had been referred to the Manitoba diabetes education resource for children and adores the number of children diag nosed each year is increasing and in 1996 the number of new cases of Type 2 diabetes represented 16 per cent of All new cases of diabetes in children in diabetes is a but we Are doing something about there Are numerous aboriginal diabetes prevention programs and initiatives going on across the we Are getting our people they work on prevention and educating families who Are living with diabetes so that theres sup port for them at Home and at in there has been a lot of Good work done in the communities and at the provincial the nation Al aboriginal diabetes association has assisted at the National and International with and Community level we Are on a Healing path from past ills with the assistance of god our creator and our for most aboriginal ours is not a lifestyle of rather it is a lifestyle of we have survived much difficulty in the so we will survive Linda Brazeau executive National aboriginal diabetes Winnipeg ailing system made sicker if the Filmon government loses ground in the next it wont be because of vote rigging in the the inquiry into an alleged vote split Ting scheme is a Boring waste of time and better spent on realistic management of the it does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that closing Misericordia health centres operating rooms and some 600 treatment Beds can Only add to the backlog that How plagues the the governments own data shows that while the health sciences with an annual budget of performed 25 per cent of All Winnipeg Public sector surgery in mis with a budget of performed 21 per cent of All surgical the government Docu ment next Steps pathways to a healthy Manitoba goes on to say that it costs considerably More to treat a patient in a teaching Hospital than in another Urban facility and recommended shifting care to Community hospitals to provide care to patients in locations that Are As close to Home As the health minister appears to have a Reading and comprehension tossing reason to the Darren Praznik and the Winnipeg Hospital authority press seemingly deter mined to make an ailing system even Margaret Bjornson Winnipeg Media missed Grey cup service congratulations on your improved coverage of Faith issues sometimes even on the front Page since the Ferenee on Faith and Media in Ottawa several months i think someone missed a Best during Grey cup weekend the largest event outside of the Parade and the game itself was the contemporary worship at the Winnipeg convention Centre sponsored by the official 6rey cup it was truly the Church in the As adults rocked to a Lively Praise saw Drana and Beard football heroes Taibe up with red Winnipeg symphony orchestra musicians Are hacking Bramwell Tovey As a farm Aid first priority in the 28 free i read Sev eral articles by Manitoban condemn ing Premier Gary including one by editorial Page editor Brian it seems everyone is incensed about the premiers conduct regarding the 1995 provincial editor Nicholas Hirst also wrote about the e but in a More Ana tical i noted the editorial cartoon which was not intended to be humorous on the same Page As Cole and firsts articles the car Toon was entitled economic where Are our priorities when we focus hours of time trying to decide what really happened in an election three years ago while Farmers arid hog producers Are going bankrupt dont we really want our government to do what it can to help Farmers it seems an economic dust bowl should com Mand More of our attention than trying to find or did help the Premier get elected three years Teller Winnipeg let Filmon take responsibility i would like to respond to Roger Cathcart Russell errs by omission free i am glad to see that he recognizes Frances Russell As not Only his Favourite free press but one who is expert and who supports her stance with scholarship from respectable though not Well known to him sources in and he might quibble Over who said that the principals in the local conserva Tive party or government May have written or authorized but he does not deny that these cheques were he might even quibble Over those persons he does not ques Tion the use of those stating that the affidavit in question notes the to fund the conservatives Interlake Campaign and cover any of Aikens expenses organizing the efforts of the Independent aboriginal candidates As reported in the 3 free we Are All Well aware of the testimony in the i was also glad to see that he absolved Komg from any connection with this scandal when he pointed out that Julian Benson no longer has any affiliation with and that Ben son is not the former chairman of the pc Manitoba which has no spend ing it Falls on Premier Gary to take responsibility for Bensons actions and his admissions he is supervisor or Leader in Bensons actions in their real i take Issue with Cathcart implications that the nip controls unions and that these unions raise and spend Money on behalf of the this rhetoric is As classic As his attacks on is Russell for not naming those never named tory As a i can assure Cathcart that the nip controls neither my col leagues nor our David Harkness Winnipeg patients need Good food i was in the health sciences Centre after suffering a heart while in the they told me that by now they would be serving the new Type of which Are Frozen when arriving at the from All that i read in the press and see on the this Type of meal serving saves Hospital budgets by cutting the Cost of operating the Hospital and care when a person is in the it is a time when they require special Comfort and Good All of which goes to assisting in the persons recovery to Good one item that assists in their recovery process is Good food Well cooked and served in a acceptable it is a Well known fact that to serve food in a hos Pital is one hell of at the Best of if the government can save All this Money on their Why have they not started to serve this method of food services to All of their such As the remand Centre and is it because they Are concerned with prob lems within these the at the next can show the voters that they have Cut the Cost of medicare by x per but they will not show How they Cut god forbid that the truth should get out to the we have a minister of health that considers being in Hospital Only entitles you to institutionalized food service let the other provincial institutions have the same level of food noted that you do not get free to in Roy give people Freedom to choose in times of increasing indifference to the plight of the mentally and physically we truly need people like Laurie Beachell and David Martin to act As advocates and intercessors on but because of this same i differ the spiralling costs of health care and the continuing americanization of our healthcare i believe that we also need the Freedom to choose life or death for doctors alone should not have the right to pull the plug without the con sent of the nor should they have the right to aggressively postpone what after a natural event out the consent of those in Christian the Choice death Over life is not uniformly con dictionary of Chris Tian for cites the Case of wartime sacrifice As a legitimate reason for it further cites John Donne and sir Thomas Moore As apologists for the right to choose Over in Many including my own the privilege of sacrificing ones life for the Good of others is Paramount so is the privilege of saying enough is enough when the Quality of life deteriorates to the of no it is my belief that we should a put enough Money into health care so that no one has to suffer or die because Lack of and b that we decriminalize euthanasia by enacting Legisla Tion patterned on that of Northern or perhaps after the dutch Loewa Demoose doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;