Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 31, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a15 i May 2000 letters to the editor the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email . Dont mess with Alliance in Between a letter for Joe Clark to help you on the comeback and with All due respect to the late Johnny accentuate the eliminate the Latch onto the conservatives dont mess with the Alliance in Between Ted Cates Winnipeg unprotected sex simply irresponsible regarding David Kuxhause i positive Man gets 8 years for hav ing unprotected free May i have been a longtime critic of the Justice but this latest Case takes the cake Raymond Peter Miron will be dead in four yet the judge gave him an Lightyear prison this is just another example of How stupid lawmakers and judges Are in this i am not excusing Mirons but it takes two to Why should i feel sorry for irresponsible people do i feel sorry for Miron no Way do i feel sorry for the women he infected Why should i aids has been around for 20 maybe if people Are going to have sex with they should at least use no the bleed ing heart liberals will be on my but since when do we promote and Reward irresponsible behaviour the Media also have a lot to answer they took a on sided View of this Case from the very mean while accepting advertising that suggests that the Only Way to have fun nowadays is to drink Beer and to have lots of one would think in this Day and age that people would not have to feel embarrassed about buying condoms at the local drug i guess people Are not As open minded As they think they i am not Happy that these women lives Are but maybe this should be a makeup Call to those who continue to engage in such risky it is also time for schools to do a better Job teaching Safe sex practices when teaching sex education to the schools put too much emphasis on rights and How to have a Good and not enough emphasis on response condom manufacturers should look into making better con Doms and contraceptives for Tom Bode Winnipeg most oppose secondhand smoke in secondhand smoke Survey Melnyk writes that the joint Manitoba medical of Winnipeg Survey on secondhand smoke is biased because it Doest include information about the positives of second hand that is simply there Are More than canadians and More than americans will die this year from Jung cancer and heart disease related to exposure to secondhand hundreds of thou Sands will suffer from serious diseases related to secondhand including various forms of acute respiratory illness and impaired lung Neu bronchitis and to name but a All of this suffering is completely and much could be eliminated through a ban on smoking in indoor Public regarding Melniks assertion that allowing smoking increases Busi Ness in restaurants and Independent studies show that in jurisdictions such As new York and where comprehensive smoking bans have been there has been no significant Impact on bar and restaurant in in Many there have been margin Al increases in and marginal increases in Melnyk implies that a smoking ban u not what the population i draw his attention to an inde pendent study conducted earlier this year that shows that 93 per cent of Manitoban agree that secondhand smoke is ninety per cent agree that workers Are entitled to a smoke free More than of per cent support a bylaw prohibiting smoking in All indoor Public and More than 70 per cent support a ban on smoking in fifty per cent support a ban on smoking in these Survey results Are very Simi Lar to those conducted in other Juris wherever the question is the results Are Snow ing that a significant majority of the population supports a ban on smoke a in indoor Public the Good health of Owr should he our highest it is time to ban smoking in All indoor pub Lic Tejere Are to v pest control products curtail use of pesticides Fred Greenslade Winnipeg free prom governments at All Levels should impose stronger Laws governing the use of a concerned Reader As a concerned i urge All lev Els of government to support the implementation of a stronger Law on i believe this matter is very governments must begin taking stronger leadership roles in matters that concern Public health and the both common sense and evidence from scientific research All Point to the dangers of not Only As a Factor in increasing the risk of can but even More As an agent of unpredictable genetic changes through their suspected Hor Mon mimicking it is tune that the government comes to terms with the devastation of our environment at the hands of through the insidious effects of the numerous manmade chemicals released into the bios Why is there no government support for Farmers whose methods of farming do not harm the Earth with pesticides and other but replenish and enrich the soil when will provincial and City governments take a Strong stand and encourage environmental responsibility i urge All elected officials to take seriously the voiced concerns of informed and dedicated citizens who Call for environmental change and the pest control products act should be amended and strengthened to protect the most vulnerable from risk sensitive children and automatically ban pesticides when critical health and environmental problems Are identified and require monitoring and followup on Adverse effects caused by Pesti taking an informed leadership role in curtailing the use of pesticides is an important tool in changing attitudes from that of dominating and destroying to ones of responsible stewardship and respect for the Earth and its diversity of life Mary Jane Eason Winnipeg secondhand Mark Lubosch North Kildonan Ward Winnipeg smoking addict wants to be left alone i am a cigarette smoker and have been addicted for at least 20 the Federal and provincial tax increases infuriate its bad enough that we addicts Are forced to smoke outdoors in the searing heat of summer and the bitter winds of Winter leaving our Butts littering the ground for All to now we Are being raped i understand that smoking is harm Ful to those who smoke and to those that have to inhale secondhand it is also believed that smoking has burdened the medical system although i question that because there Are so Many other Aller Gens and respiratory irritants out when is this going to end we Are not we Are and i feel that increasing prices like this does not solve the it Only makes it worse financially for those who Are if government is so concerned about Public Why Are cigarettes on the Market at All is it so the government can continue to take advantage of those who Are weak just to line then coffers where is All the extra tax Money on cigarettes going it certainly int going into our medicare smoking cigarettes is not mind alter if there Are so Many people ill because of How do the Fig ures compare to the number of people hospitalized with brain damage or liver damage from booze and or who Are violently injured or killed by peo ple who Are intoxicated i dont know what the solution if cigarettes were taken off the Market a Ripple effect would take people would begin a lot of cigarette smuggling which has already tobacco companies would be put out of affecting All those who work for these including the Farmers who grow the there would also be a lot of people suf Fering withdrawal stress with tensions running maybe government should take cigarettes off the it could use the Money from taxes collected since All of this began to subsidise the tobacco companies conversion to food product ing they could also make like the available through medicare to combat the withdrawal symptoms that would be experienced by millions of this May be an off Thelwall and be the but there must be some other Way to Deal with this As a i wish that government would just leave us alone Deann Whitesell gun control step in right direction with much we read the Arti thousands demand tougher gun Laws angry moms take to free May the million mom will renew Calls for greater gun control in the United there will be much but unfortunately and most nothing will be on a per use guns wreak More injury and death than any other consumer studies tend to show that a Home with a gun is three times More Likely to be scene of homicide and five times More Likely to be the scene of a suicide than a Home without a and family and other intimate assaults Are 12 times More Likely to result in death if a firearm is unrelated deaths and injuries Are linked to a Complex set of including the culture of but strict gun predicated on a commitment to Public health and safety As Well As the detection and deter rence of criminal is a step in the right stricter gun control is a critical part of the Educa Tion to counter the culture of in effect to undermine the primary is also Canada safety Ottawa parents too selfish to raise children regarding Day care should be societal free May there is a very simple solution to the daycare parents should not have children until they Are prepared to raise the fact that a huge proportion of our population would rather have a stranger be the most important person in their Childs Early years is evidence of a monumental Lack of parental responsibility in our parents Are too selfish to take the time to raise their own children and then turn around and wonder Why youth crime is such a the recent studies indicating the extreme importance of Early childhood stand As evidence to reduce the use of Day not increase children should be raised by their not those of us who Are responsible enough to postpone having children until they can raise them should not be forced to pay for those who irresponsibly pop out babies then ship them off to Day Blair Kissel Winnipeg let irate Driver try Urban cycling in response to Hieberto in which he complains about cyclists passing automobiles Between the line of stationary cars and the curb cyclists must obey free May i think that most Urban cyclists would agree with me in Sug Gesting that the author actually give Urban cycling a he or she will then see at once that one of the Many advantages that Bicy cles afford As Urban transportation is the ability to filter through station congested automobile this is an advantage that if cyclists would be eager to forsake for the Opportunity to remain motionless behind an idling inhaling lethal this is an unrealistic expectation and demonstrates a misunderstanding of the nature of the bicycle As a a Lane that car Drivers Are willing to allow cyclists when it suits them should be free for cyclists to continue to use to their advantage while automobile Drivers Are As traffic congestion worsens in the this advantage of the bicycle and Many others besides will Hope fully become More apparent to Auto Mobile Michael Dudley Winnipeg humans persecute eco Friendly Beaver it is appalling that Manitoba government encourages the persecution and mass killing of our National the Bounty i belonged to another such As when the Buffalo were still in numerous i almost believed that we had actually come a Long Way in evolving As tolerant but this int i truly wonder when we will finally Wake up and Stop blaming other animal species for All of our we Are to this even in other blaming sea otters and wild Birds for taking our and we Are hellbent on beating and shooting them to we became outraged when sporadically claimed a Small number our and we punished them by teaching them the agonies of ing because weve seen fit to so drastically diminish their natural beavers Are next on our pre Cious beavers Are remarkable creatures to anyone who has made their acquaint they work together As a cohesive family teaching their Young skills and guiding them patiently to they Are productive and and they have been noted As being one of the most intelligent species outside of biologists have observed these and have been amazed at their skills in Hunters trappers have come to know these and have Laid Down their weapons in deference to the intelligence of these the Beaver has unforgivable flaw it builds dams sometimes flood i had to ask myself what gives us the right to persecute we after the most advanced species on Earth Ceri mainly the most and the highest order of the food we have shaved dumped sewage into Rivers and spewed poisons into the Atmos phere and littered up the weve created wars and generated even More pollution with atomic bombs and various other we have plundered drained marshes and made generous contributions to the greenhouse not to mention that weve also overpopulated this planet with our eve increasing the lowly Beaver does not even come our Are since we Are the great rulers on this and this is a darn Good if we were the punishment we would face from our superiors would be far too horrifying to even Winnipeg doonesbury Bygar Trudeau ;