Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 18, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A13 Winnipeg free May 2000 Well still be feel guilty but therell be More of us by David Grimes is your body ready for swimsuit season neither is nor is it ready for Loose fitting Pup tent but let us not if its any Comfort to you it certainly is to the Bab Shamu look is catching just As the anorexic cast of friends takes its leave for the television people Are rediscovering the Joys of fatty cheesecake snack Sweet Rolls that kids can carry to school for an enriched Power bar that carries eight times the saturated fat of the original and a calzone microwavable Sandwich that contains 12 Grams of saturated fat were among the More popular items at a recent supermarket Trade show in according to research International people Are less concerned about the fat Content of their food than they were four years at the same the number of americans who Are considered obese jumped barely hopped from one in eight in 1991 to one in five last according to the centers for disease control and if global warming does not cause the tides to we can do it ourselves by simultaneously jumping into the Gulf of most people now Are taking i doubt that the lat Elvis took managing their is going to take whole said Nancy Daigler of Over the popular creator of culture any time the new cheese Goon cake snack an open mouthed approach might be a better is the tub Ingup of North America a Good thing if you ignore the fact that you could keel Over at any moment from a stroke or heart the answer is unequivocally for doctors would see More allowing them to Stock a better Brand of Champagne on their sunscreen makers would As people discover they need twice As much spf15 As before to cover their double wide of the fashion Industry would profit As everyone shoves their Skinny clothes to the Back of the closet and discovers the care free Joys of togas and but there would be a people would have to grease them selves with Crisco before they could fit into an airline seat or a seat at a Ball while this might be Good news for the manufacturers of it would make a mess of the seats and also leave unsightly stains on our togas and As regular readers of the supermarket tabloids its one calzone Here and one Power bar there and before you know it youre too huge to get out of bed or fit through the door of your a diet that High in saturated fat May be in will sap but can buy no win to m awful it of More and More lean cuisines to commercials j j i devoted to junk strength electric As North americans eat More and eat its inevitable that we will see More and More to commercials devoted to junk food until All to programming basically consists of one Long twinkle whether this will represent an improvement or ration of program naming Quality Proba Bly depends on whether you identify More closely with Regis Philbin or with Creme filled sponge snack although my heart is filled with Pride not to mention plaque that North americans Are assuming the shape one normally associates with pregnant i doubt that the lat Elvis look is going to take Over the popular culture any time to actresses will still look like cel Ery stalks and they jul stir be paired with Guys who look like their idea of a fun afternoon is knocking off sit in other Well still feel Gusty there will just be More of us in the with be serving a paid Grimes is a columnist far the her old Canada versus new Canada Canadian political landscape split in two by patronage line Saint in the new says historian Michael government Doest matter much any my my Doest have to be seen doing things for his con he told me the other we dont need him governing is no longer about or rewarding your in the new that looked upon with Dis does that sound like the Canada you know if it might interest you to know that it Doest sound like that not if Bliss is Cor i dont live but Manito bans the University of Toronto professor argues that Canada is splitting along a new fault the Ottawa River Between Ontario and whats left is old Canada in the and new Canada in the Centre and the i they in his very Dif Ferent the political culture of old Canada is the culture of the government the subsidy to the handout to the the hand out to your political he wrote recently in the Globe and these areas of Canada hold conservatively to the last generations Faith that big government and tax and spend politics Are the answer to slow but what if old Canada is becom ing yesterdays Canada West of que Bec there is much More interest in generating growth by shrinking gov liberating individuals and the private and learning How to be truly competitive in a rapidly changing the politics of hand outs int nearly As popular in areas of the country where fewer canadians think they need where its no longer fashionable to tug the Forelock to the welled local Bliss is an and he traces old Canadas mindset Back to the Tom Hanson Canadian press the House of commons is split on new old Canada 17th and 18th a time when Canadas West was Terra even in the settled government was Small compared to but it was pervasive in the lives of people trying to make it in an isolated new Canadas ideas come from the 19th and 20th Only regional infighting kept them from jelling sooner into the polarized country he sees the idea on one Quebec and the Atlantic provinces would become an identifiable Region and on the other Ontario and the West would meld seemed preposterous so Long As two conditions he these were que becs extreme sense of ethnic distinct and the Western provinces intense sense of regional identity and All that has he he cites the sanguine attitude of Rich Ontario toward recent Sharp increases in the Price of in contrast to the 1970s when Energy policy drove a huge wedge Between Ontario and the and he notes the lassitude in both Quebec and the rest of Canada about which no longer dominates the National Agenda As in the Days of prime ministers Pierre Trudeau and Brian no one is better placed than an his Torian to Tell us How we got where we though he May not be the Guy youd ask to Analyse the so Bliss May be but what if Hes not a Little Jasic math is sobering to those of us in the in the House of new Canada has 193 seats old Canada has so guess Wholl Bliss written argument ignores the Point that three of the four provincial governments West of Ontario Are nip hardly a natural Home for the kinds of policies he ascribes to the new but he Points out in conversation that at least one of Roy Romanowsk adminis is at its heart and in the old Prairie socialism tradition is As fiscally conservative As any in the and he makes the Point that Politi Cal parties Are much More clearly differentiated in the the parties that Best embody the values and approaches he ascribes to the new Canada May not be in but at least there entrenched in poised to take the reins at some future by he characterizes East Ern elections As Mere contests Between the ins and the outs parties with and similarly ideologies that jockey for their turn at the i think Hes right on that while new Brunswick and Nova Scotia both have new governments that Are cutting spending like they seem Dri Ven by their dismal Bottom not any particular despite their determination to there is often a wide Gulf Between what they say and what they so it seems to me that Bliss is spot on in his analysis of the Canada i live is he also right about yours its hard from this distance to get a Han dle on your part of the so perhaps some readers will be kind enough to Tell me in a letter to the Edi Tor or a private Don Cayo is a writer in Saint 3 . 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Too Many people speak for god regarding god dear on sex practice free May having just read Giesbrecht response to Glenn Matyas letter about homosexuals and Giesbrecht Bible selections sup porting those i would like to Point out that the Bible was actually written by men and is their interpretation of gods word and in some does not even correlate properly with other books in the wrist ten by there Are just too Many articles by people who seem to believe they Are the voice and conscience of and As a i have to you Guys Are starting to scare what has christianity become a vehicle to terrorize everyone who is not a or someone who lives their life in a matter that some Christ Ian does not approve of if you dont approve of a per sons mate hair Choice of movies then ignore we seem to be Able to ignore All sorts of important issues Why not a few unimportant ones lastly and most scary of All to quote god appointed rulers and that includes the govern ment of Canada Over us to do his not to follow the variables of their human i would really like to see one of our politicians running on that id also like to know what other Reli Gions think when they read letters from christians laying Down the word of Glady Kusmack Winnipeg Bible Clear if you read it with reference to my previous let published May 8 that god him self not a figment of Ray imagination As another person implied disapproves of the practice of homosexual Ity seems to be lost on certain people who not Only give reasons for their but also attack christians with extreme would say by the you can read galatians and romans to get gods opinion of homosexuality As Well As other and if you want to know about Sodom and read genesis this is not out of my variables of my human it is found in the holy i am not it seems the vocal minority of the homosexual Community not Only wants it wants Giesbrecht Winnipeg Manitoba pcs choose dumb or dumber the movement by the provincial progressive conservative establishment to support the Canadian Alliance evokes memories of the last time they moved in Masse at the Federal to support the candidacy of Kim Campbell for the Federal pc Leader at least this time they have split their dumb and dumber Stockwell Day and Tom in any the provincial pc brain Trust has demonstrated that their political judgment has not improved Over the the Canadian Alliance is the right Wing joke of Canadian the provincial pcs would have us unite the what they do not under stand is that the Federal pc party has always shared the political Centre with the we Are the moderate rights Centre alternative to the moderate left of Centre Liberal just As the Cana Dian Public has never elected an nip government on the one they Are no More Likely to elect a Canadian Alliance government on the can the provincial pcs expect to hold the support of those who feel intimidated by the Canadian Alliance jews and other for example i think it appears to me that what the provincial pc party has accomplished is to virtually assure Gary doer of a second term in As you so shall you Tom Goodman Stonewall look ism last unchallenged prejudice the practice of prejudging people on the basis of their appear is the last unchallenged prejudice in our there is nothing natural about our society fear of in prehistoric the image of a fat woman was revered As the ultimate Symbol of throughout the Middle Ages and the the Ideal woman had a curvaceous shape that would be described by today standards As ancient greek statues depict sumptuous women and men with natural looking Muscles not Abs so rippled you could open a bottle Cap with the fat prejudice has nothing do with when someone sees a fat woman and says look at that fat they Are not that woman should consider a program of exercise and diet management in order to minimize her risk of heart they Are having a knee Jerk reaction to a body shape that we have been conditioned to think is ugly and this prejudice is insidious because most people cannot bring themselves to examine it or even admit that it the new Law in san Francisco will not put a end to discrimination against fat people and other people who dont look nor have exist ing Laws that prohibit discrimination on the basis of race or sex entirely removed racism and either in the United states or Here at these Laws Are important because the government has at least admitted that these forms of discrimination exist and has stated that they Are not legally As Long As look ism is not recognized As a real prejudice in it is easy for employers to make decisions based on physical appearance without even feeling that they have done anything i Hope that new Laws similar to the anti Lookis legislation in san fran Cisco will soon appear in so we As a society can begin to examine and hopefully Correct our dysfunctional attitudes towards body Katie Johnstone Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau ;