Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 17, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 Winnipeg Frek May 2000 editorials Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights dealing a new hand the dismissal of Bill president of the Manitoba lotteries creates a vacancy for Premier Gary doer to he will have plenty of applicants for the the dismissal May also provide an occasion for More far reaching changes in Manitoba manage ment of Funk was fired because the Public was Misin formed about the costs of building the Regent Avenue and Mcphillips Street casinos and because Funk and other executives received including Cut Price cars and Golf that Are not ordinarily available to civil whether Funk broke any rules or defied the instructions of the for Mer conservative administration can be debated when he claims damages for wrongful the lotteries operates the two a network of video lottery terminals and numerous from Gross sales Rev Enue of million in its various games in 199899 the latest year it has the corporation produced net income of just million for the Benefit of the provincial the other half of its sales Revenue was eaten up by the expenses of the various games and by rapidly Ris ing head office head office salaries and which stood at million in Rose to million the following before picking a new chief and an administrative Structure for the lotteries doer should find out Why the corporations expenses grew almost As fast As its sales so that 199899 Gross sales grew by million from the year before but net Revenue grew by less than on the the corporation is not producing profits As efficiently As since the people in charge do not own the corporation or pocket its they have an incentive to inflate their own benefits but Little incentive to minimize expense and increase the Bottom doer should consider whether Manitoba might be further ahead organizing lotteries in a Dif Ferent Way with the government raking off a tax and private owners dividing the rest of the income with the suppliers and then lottery managers could pocket benefits without robbing the taxpayers and the government could focus on regulating the honesty of the cube crime government and business leaders from the group of eight nations gathered in Paris this week to develop tools to fight this conference comes in the Wake of the insidious love Bug which shut Down email servers around the world last and the High profile web site hijacking earlier this year by closer to internet service provider video i has suffered Security breaches As hackers snooped for confidential there have been disturbing reports of youths being preyed upon in on line Chat rooms by sexual earlier this a treaty was drafted that would give new Powers to and european police to investigate and prosecute online the called draft convention on would help police in like the Ilov Eyou that Cross National the treaty among other make it illegal to create or Post software designed to gain Access to computer systems without permission and make it an International crime to possess child this proposed International legislation troubles some internet users and civil libertarians who argue that it might intrude on privacy rights and begin to control All that has been admired about the internet its free Brall its Freedom of expression is subject to reasonable limits in All other the use of computers and Telephone lines need not exempt the internet from those reasonable the internets its usefulness and its myriad benefits will not be diminished by legislation to protect users privacy and Security and punish those who stalk or prey upon the steal vandalize or sabotage overdue Appeal Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe this week finally set a Date june 2425 for a National that announcement followed by less than a week a Long overdue Appeal by Mugabe to his followers to cease the use of violence in their illegal occupation of White owned these two developments indicate that Mugabe is feeling International pressure to respect democracy and restore the Rule of Law in his coun polls indicate that his ruling Anu of party we suffer serious losses in any fair currently holds 147 of 150 seats in the Challenge for Zimbabwe is to ensure the elections Are in the sunup to the announcement the opposition movement for democratic change has been the target of increasing Mugabe seems ready and the Mac has the courage to Britain and South Africa pan help them meet the Challenge of a fair election by maintaining pressure on Mugabe and by freely and without Assis to emperor Bouchard prior to leaving for Montreal last i spied a Book entitled the Battle on the desk of Book Edi Tor Morley a translation of an award winning novel by Patrick initially published in the Battle is the Story of Napoleons first major land defeat to the austrians at a Village outside of in May of i cannot resist Good historical especially one about the Napoleonic but it seemed that this As i prepared to travel to Canadas constitutional Battlefield the Day after the pm in convention endorsed Lucien Bouchard held a special it was As if i had been fated to read and so i took it As you can there is a lot of Gore in the there after soldiers killed in two Days of most hacked or smashed to pieces at close quarters so that the ground was Slick with blood and another lost limbs which were heaped outside of surgeons tents and untold others were wounded in horrible it want the that caught and held my it was the mood of the times in which the Battle by May of it was Clear that Napoleon had overstayed his that he had abandoned All the idealism of the French revolution 20 years earlier and had pretty much bled France and most of Europe his first major Victory at Arcola was 13 years behind his armies increasingly were filled with child his generals were sick to death of everywhere in the Hope was that he would be failing that he would go but although that was the and although that was what was in the hearts and minds of his soldiers and few dared say they made great shows of support for the emperor and his megalomaniac Al to do otherwise was to risk charges of treason and certain but perhaps More compelling an explanation for carrying on Lay in the fact that Napoleons armies and countrymen had been through so much in Pursuit of Empire that there seemed no Way or they could Only continue until the Issue was settled once and for with ultimate Victory or something that would not occur until Waterloo in june of this it seemed to the prevailing mood in Montreal newspapers were filled with scorn for Bouchard and his declaration that he would win sovereignty for Quebec As soon As Lawrence who questioned Bouchard sanity in a biography a few years wrote in the Gazette that Bouchard was the picture of Pride and vanity at the Alain chief editorial writer for la Presse not won the National newspaper award for editorial writing on Fri Day told me that Bouchard is washed up in his 91 per cent approval rating at the convention in the old such conventions this time it we dont nobody gives its its he every few years he grabs a gun and Points it at our head and says in going to do every two or three its but while most everyone is fed up with Bouchard Sovereign list and while most everyone is fairly sure that outside of a pm hardcore no one wants to continue the everyone knows that As Long As the emperor is in the he can still Lead another Peter editorial Page editor of the for told me that Bouchard real skill is inciting nationalistic every one knows that and everyone is concerned that All that we have achieved since the 1995 referendum will be no one wants to go Back to the old destructive but i dont get a sense that the politicians Are ready to throw out the old Martin noted the big ego has been wounded and braying for a Long but it is saved now the 91 per and since there is no telling what it can do in such a recovered no francophone Canada must again prepare itself for whatever fake trauma he can the parallels Between 1809 and 2000 seem Clear to but perhaps it might help if i shared some quotes from the presented Here in the order they occur in its 313 i there will be another Paradis with this War will never i the Empire was already in they sensed yet still they i Basta the emperor had shouted with exas he was tired of hearing their he had no need of their i your men Are playing the Marseillaise Lannes asked its the austrians stationed on the Messena Lannes and Messina avoided each others they were Dukes and marshals they possessed As much land and Money As the nobility before but the Marseillaise had roused them to arms in the Lannes help mouthing the words to the refrain the enemy was either As a provocation or because they believed that it was their turn now to wage a War of liberation against i he understood the emperors methods and they Cut him to the did so much hatred have to be stirred up for him to Rule i on both ammunition was running i the stupidity of the Battle made him quiver with i the emperor took the Marshall in his the wounded Man whispered in his Stop this War As quickly As that what everyone i Only the old guard is your i our comparative setback seems to have Given fresh heart to our Berthier i for an in the full heat of Napoleon sat on his White dressed in the uniform of a colonel of with every Eye fixed on the emperor wanted to show far from having brought his army to its the Mur Derous fighting on the Banks of the Danube had been merely a such a display was sure to impress the inhabitants of Vienna and restore the soldiers Gerald flood is a free press editorial his column appears on dust mites nothing to sneeze at by Elizabeth Schuett Ohio Kerchof Haa Choo a Ahchoon that me on a Normal in used to it because i was born this according to my i came into the world sneezing and a condition predetermined at Conception by her allergies and my fathers Lousy sinus i was told to learn to live with and i have pretty theres a sepia photo in our family album of my Little Friend Tootie and me curled up on the front porch glider for a Summers afternoon lemonade we were each of us has a cup in one hand and a piece of Security in the Botie had her Blankey and i was never without my Hanky at least not after my Mother figured out that pinning it to the front of my dress would keep me from sneaking a wipe on my remember classmates chanting whenever id break into a particularly violent sneezing dont come near i dont want to catch your in an attempt to reassure them of their Well being and to keep my Circle of friends from dwindling with each i would Tell them it want a it was Hay they thought that was contagious one morning i woke up with a killer my i thought i was dying and from the Way i was carrying so did my she tossed my moaning self into the Chevy and hauled me to old Doc Potts office where he came up with the obvious had sinus cavities like the la Brea he said id inherited the condition from my father and that he could give me shots for Mother said that evening when daddy came in from work and hoisted me onto his Lap for a narration of the Days i wait to Tell i have sinuses and they made my head i much to my the Oracle of my Young life explained that every one has sinuses just in varying con i mentioned the Quick trip to Doc daddy seemed surprised when he asked what the doctor had done for Momma let him give me a Why he wanted to Hes an old Mother had my father didst buy into he called Doc Potts and signed the two of us up for the a week for three Mother muttered some thing about Witch doctoring and refused to let Roe that was in daddy lived to be 93 and never had another sinus every morning i take a Little White Pill the Doc has prescribed for he says till keep my allergies in Check and Stop sinus infections before they can slide into my Chest and turn into and in still sneezing my face off and wheezing like an old Church and now i read where 30 per cent of the adult population suffers from Runny red noses and watering allergic they Call along with the sad print news is a picture of a dust mite magnified about a zillion Ever seen one of those meaner looking than a junkyard and Jiu ions of them Gross wheres Doc Potts when j need him Euzabeth Shuett far Cox news Winnipeg re press Winnipeg frae press 187 if Winnipeg free a division of newspapers Al vision of Canto or ohs published seven Days a weak at 1355 Mountain Marwa m m my Moi ;