Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 19, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba T1 a15 Winniw fms 2000 efforts aimed at children at abroad by Lloyd Axworthy in a recent pred piece in the free Lisa Labella questioned my priorities in bringing in win experts and ministers from around the world to address the problem of children affected by children in Winnipeg have problems she that must be addressed before other problems Are i am disappointed that Labella is Blind to the and our to address perhaps if she had taken the Opportunity to get involved in the Confer she might have met the two girls from Uganda who came to Winnipeg and shared with me and others their with the Hopes that others might be spared the horrors they had lived through ripped from their families by used As sex forced to it is impossible not to be motivated by such and there were Many told Over the course of the and i will always remember another Young girl i met in Sierra who had her hands Cut off by vicious rebels in that War torn when i asked what she most hoped she answered that she wanted a Chance to go to children Are children the Point is that children Are Chil wherever they May with Simi Lar Hopes and and we have a responsibility to All of As Canadas foreign i have Felt a particular responsibility to try and defend the rights of children everywhere in the the meeting in Winnipeg was an important step in mobilizing the world around an action plan to protect Chil Dren in War affected and Canada announced a number of con Crete initiatives in support of that action but in her claim that while focusing on International concerns i have completely ignored the plight of aboriginal Chil Dren and youth in is either mean minded or it was just Over a year ago that i participated in another significant meet ing in that meeting brought together aboriginal governments and Community groups to the challenges we face in our own at that i announced the Urban aboriginal strategy for win this unique in coordinates the efforts of 10 Federal departments and focuses on the social and economic needs of aboriginal these funds Are being used for health pro education cultural programs for preschool programs directed at those at risk of being in conflict with the earlier this year the Federal govern ment also committed an additional million to address the serious Issue of housing and homelessness in our inner in almost half of the million Federal commitment to the Winnipeg development agreement is targeted at the needs of our aboriginal from infrastructure projects such As the aboriginal to training and education to programs to support Young perhaps Labella might visit the Urban a federally sponsored program that trains aboriginal people in growth industries such As computer health care and the Finan Cial with a remarkable Success real challenges the challenges Labella Points out High rates of teen High rates of High rates of crime Are All but we Are work ing on and will continue to do with significant a few months i received one of the singular honours of my Public aboriginal leaders in Winnipeg granted me the rare privilege of a tradition Al to receive such an honour from our first nations people was a Gratifying indication that these efforts have been recognized and appreciated by the Winnipeg opened its arms to the world and showed tremendous support and generosity during the week of the conference on War affected with scores of Winni Eggers helping with the logistics and thousands attending the free concert and making generous contributions to War child Canada to help children in War zones across the it saddens me that in the midst of this a practitioner of the Healing could turn her Back on some of the worlds most vulnerable and victimized and coldly dismiss the importance of our efforts to address one of the most tragic and pressing International problems of our heal Lloyd Axworthy is Canadas foreign affairs chinese Eye lethal injection for its commercial value by Leslie Millen Vancouver anyone impressed by research done in China on an Ideal method of executing prisoners by lethal injection rather than the Bullet May have overlooked the fact that the motive for this is far less Likely to be humane than Shen Vic president of the supreme Peoples has been quoted in Wenhui daily As saying that drug researchers at the chinese Academy of medical sciences Are close to completing development of a combination of drugs for lethal inject after conditions Ripen a he this method of death penalty can be spread across the for the past half Century or prisoners in China sentenced to death have been shot while usually in the Back of the quite often their families have had to pay for the Bullet before being Given the body for but for the past three experiments have been made to find a Satis factory substitute in the form of some combination of lethal Liu a major general convicted of espionage for is said to have been one of the experimental subjects in August a distinction he might have been willing to at first it is puzzling Why the chinese would undertake a research program into lethal inject the official reasons Are Ludi these include i condemned convicts cannot be executed by gunshot within because it is considered inhumane for other inmates to hear the i lethal injections save manpower and we need not waste time on such Given that medical science has Long known How to administer lethal Why the need for a specifically chinese research program Why not just search the global medical literature the answer is not far to which for practical purposes has a Zero rate of Organ has a very thriving business of Organ trans especially in these organs come from executed since China executes at least associated press the chinese Are researching the Best Way to execute by lethal prisoners a year the figure comes from amnesty with a warning that the actual number could be far higher this represents a considerable potential and it is sold for hard prepared to pay people in need of especially from India and the Gulf Are quite prepared to pay in deutschmark or dollars for the the surgery and often a Vaca Tion package As but the traditional Bullet in the while a very effective Means of ending is not the Best Way to pre pare to Harvest human it is rather a traumatized brain can trigger off various reactions in its last much As decapitated chickens will run and some of these reactions May mean that har testable organs turn out to be in less than Pristine traditional techniques of lethal injection May similarly be cocaine or heroin for essentially kill by inducing massive heart which can also be rather hard on the bits that ailing wealthy Folk want to what the researchers at the Chi Nese Academy of medical sciences have obviously been looking for is some blend of drugs that will cause death reliably without compromising any organs that have a commercial quite this involves a sin Gle injection that works in two stages a first stage in which the victim is brain dead but otherwise alive Ideal for Organ removal and a Sec Ond stage when All life Why such delicacy when the victim is in any Case doomed perhaps an emerging concern about International this has rarely been a consideration in Chi Nese foreign policy the traditional culture has dictated that China quite the Centre of the world the Only translation for Ambas Sador is but times the desire for membership in the world Trade for exam makes senior decision makers in China aware of the importance of what others International opinion has worked against China for it has been suggested that persons about to be executed had their useful organs removed in Advance of receiving the traditional by about 24 hours or this could be deemed in conflict with various International codes of administrative Benefit but a suitably contrived lethal cock Tail replace the single shot of the pistol with a single shot of a and the fact that death was conveniently slow would simply be an administrative and it would meet the internationally acceptable definition of the death if Only China is by no Means the Only coun try where a traffic in human organs but it is an enormous source of such and the Only major country a population of where the government cannot deny that such traffic is not Only tolerated but serves National removal of organs within the chinese desecration of the harvesting and Selling the organs of convicted criminals is a Way of emphasizing their social profiting thereby to Western this is unlikely to matter to the government of but perhaps it should to the chinese medical researchers who participated in what despite its objective has to be called Leslie millin is an editor with 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 . Concert donations Only a person i was one of the people who attended the War child Benefit concert at the the planning was Excel the performances and music were astounding but in very disappointed by the your article quoted in Cash donations from those who Are the people of Winnipeg that incredibly cheap that on average they Only donated per lets put aside the Money drawn from con Cessions and merchandise and exam Ine donations to attend a tragically hip concert would be approximately per person Chan Tal Kre Liazuk would run in this Range As a surprising addition was the african pop Star Angelique so lets say were at to attend the two main attractions and we Only received per person my Friend and i were camped on the ground behind the disabled peo Ples platform and were horrified by the Way people were storming the platform to get this platform was designed for disabled not for anyone Security keep up to kicking people off and finally resorted to controlling those who snuck even one fellow in his wheelchair was actively trying to Dis courage people from entering their i am 26 years old and obviously have much More respect for those who organized and participated in this to those who made this Possi who donated their time and snared their i applaud unfortunately Ive lost Faith in win Nipges it was a Dis gusting display of Debbie k1epek Winnipeg Manitoba not alone in refusing Ynn in his haste to attack education min ister Drew Caldwell Ca Wehs logic hard to Fred Clever Ley May have left some readers with the impression that Manitoba is alone in resisting what ardent Ynn promoters suggest is the greatest innovation since printed far from the youth news network is also banned in Nova new Yukon and after lengthy campaigning in this third Effort to sell such a Ynn is reported to be available in just 16 Public schools across the coun this compares poorly with the 500 Ynn said it would need to be nor Are governments alone in resisting this attempt to Access Stu Dent among the Many National organizations opposed to Ynn Are Canadian Home and school Canadian association of social Canadia conference of Catholic Bishops and Canadian teachers with opposition so widespread and acceptance among schools and advertisers so is it possible Clev Erley is flogging a dead horse Murray Smith Canadian association of retired teachers Winnipeg Why Arent Consumers protected the 11 local supper hour television news reported on an incredible but presumably True Story that goes like this Winnipeg homeowners hire a for roof Shingle replacement and pay the Bills in despite a Lien is later placed on the homeowners apparently because the contractor did not pay its Bill to its where Are the minister of con Sumer affairs and the Consumers association of Canada in this province should Consumers worry that someone might snatch the goods and services they just paid for simply because the seller did not pay their Bills should we All rest easy since this nonsense applies Only to our most valuable our Home Costas Nicolaou University of Manitoba Winnipeg Gay activists show intolerance we hear much from Gay activists that other people should be More tolerant toward there is grow ing evidence of Gay activists Advocat ing intolerance toward people of different they do not Bear or put up with people out of religious take a position of refraining from homosexual behave an example can be found in the British Columbia College of teachers decision to deny certification of the teacher training program of Trinity Western University because its Community standards mean refraining from homosexual the acct has persisted in its position in spite of the recommendation of its own accreditation committee that the program be certified and two court rulings that the acct denial is Dis the acct has decided to persist in its intolerance and Appeal the court decision to the supreme court of the position of the acct is supported by two other Garcon trolled Equality for Gays and lesbians everywhere Egale and the Ontario secondary schools teachers federation All three of these organizations Are taking the position that a Public Agency should be permitted to stand in judgment of religious convictions and on that basis alone decide whether or not to approve professional licences or other Public they Are asking the supreme court to endorse Public Agency intolerance of selected religious if they obtain this it will be open season on orthodox jews and anyone else who believes that a person should refrain from homosexual Norton Golden decision to run a disgrace Al Golden decision to run in the vital by election is a disgrace to the City of people like Al Golden who abuse the tax system Are one of the reasons the rest of us have such a huge tax Bur by evading income Al Golden has effectively stolen potential transfers to the City from higher lev Els of vital i urge you not to fall for the smooth marketing Al Golden will employ in his election if you the City will have to 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