Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 21, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a17 win Mph Iii Slit Jimim 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 school Board should obey Law to some of us concerned that parents wishes Are not paid enough attention in the educational the action pro posed by Winnipeg school division Board chairman Lori Johnson to pre vent extracurricular Bible instruction is alarming Winnipeg one chair wants trustees to reject parents this action would be illegal and an abuse of the boards the Law is Clear Manitoba Public schools act allows for religious instruction when requested by a significant number of parents or is the great crisis causing this Board to consider such drastic action apparently several child evangelism Fellowship Cef promoting a parents on sorted extracurricular Bible have stood outside the Inkster school distributing information to other boards have facilitated this information process through Parent newsletters or i class the Winnipeg school division Board has refused to cooperate with Cef by helping to announce the extracurricular the boards action has forced Cef onto the thus creat ing their own this is not an Issue of overzealous it is an Issue of respecting the legally protected rights of parents to have significant input into their childrens in this particular the school Board appears to have created its own crisis and is now using that crisis to override the religious and academic rights of the parents and students they were elected to Board needs to consider its next step the proposed action sends a dangerous and intolerant Mes Sage to our seeing our elected officials solve their conflicts by selectively disobey ing the Law is the last thing this coun try and our children we encourage the minister of Educa Tion to enforce the and urge the Winnipeg school division Board to find creative solutions to its differences with child evangelism set Ting a Good precedent for Darrel pad focus on the family Canada let families get the message i am responding to the article in your tuesday lunch hour Bible studies in it Lori chairwoman of the Winnipeg school division Board is suggesting the Only Way to end the practice of evangelical groups standing just outside school property to recruit kids is to have education minister Drew Cald Well ban their right to hold religious sessions within it seems to me that there Are other alternatives available if there is a i dont understand Why the school would not be Able to Send the inform prepared by the Home with the that Way there need be no Contact with the Chil Dren until they meet at the designated time and it would seem to me that the school District would be Happy to accommodate any attempt to help make better citizens of its student pop sending information Home with students is a common Why would it be contrary to policy to Send information regarding lunch hour Bible studies Home Norman Brown Winnipeg dont throw Money at new Arena once status thinking inside the Bird in the myopic is displayed by those who would Lead our a Little Arena will not help downtown if its closed 275 Days a the mayor recently stated one out of every two nights would have to present an event in order to be end of discussion from a taxpayers if the Arena proponents cannot guar Antee is Oplus events then there should be no More either we make Progress or we remain but moving Back wards will Only Hurt us Ive noticed that there appears to be no new businesses operating in Down town Winnipeg due to the two years of baseball at can West global dipping into the Public trough to finance pet projects and nonviable enterprises is not acceptable lets look Forward with optimism and believe we will not in tired of hearing about an Imp act hockey Only Arena jammed now at the Eaton without enough no room for no room for spinoffs and needing huge t aboriginal treaty rights Tell treaty tale accurately according to Dennis White the new head of the Assembly of Manitoba the Indian treaties were signed in Good Faith by our we did it give up our right to govern our grand chief Calls for that Canadas native peo Ples did not surrender their political sovereignty when they signed land treaties with various British and Canadian governments is also asserted by James a policy adviser to the new Brunswick Burnt Church band in its fishing dispute with the Federal Ward claims that the Only solution to the crisis is for International Media Tion on a nation donation basis if you have a conflict Between two conflict Resolution has to take place in an International forum with an objective third party Media Tor former Ontario Premier dips into fishing such assertions and they Are gaining More and More currency in the native Community give leave to Assembly of first nations head Matthew Coon come to i am not a Canadian and to declare that All of Canada still belongs to the native these proclamations May make Good sound bites like assertions of inherent aboriginal self Are contrary to historical like All other treaties i am familiar treaty signed in 1876 with the Cree speaking people of Western says and the undersigned chiefs on their own behalf and on behalf of All other Indi ans inhabiting the tract of land within do hereby solemnly Promise and engage to strictly observe this and also to con duct and behave themselves As Good and Loyal subjects of her majesty the Queen they Promise and engage that they will in All respects obey and abide by the claiming that native sovereignty or lands were never surrendered and that native Peoples Are not canadians will Only serve to inflame the Pas Sions of those who do not know other Canadas native leaders and advisers owe it to native and non native Peoples alike to uphold the country Laws and to fairly and accurately report on the contents of the treaties they argue were signed in Good Faith by their Hymie Rubenstein professor of anthropology u of Winnipeg Public Money up front and annual sub How can the papers editor pro Mote this kind of foolish store Winnipeg lenient sentence sends wrong message wow talk about another example of Manitoba Tough anti drunk driving a Young Man kills a woman in Portage la Prairie with a motor vehicle he was driving while drunk and High on drugs and he gets four i guess judge Robert Cummings must not be aware that Manitoba is bragging about being Tough on drunk this sentence begs the question How Many people does judge Cummings think he is going to discourage from driving while impaired with such a puny sentence it is frustrating when you realize that organizations such As Madd Are doing More to deter drunk Drivers than our Justice our ramp officers must also be getting frustrated work ing to Nab drunk Drivers who kill or injure then seeing them get away with such lenient and Chiasson Portage la Prairie mural brightens trip to work Bravo Charles Johnston thank you for the Beautiful mural on the army Navy air Force veterans t building on Garry i get to enjoy in every morning when i go to and thank you to the fort Garry unit for commis Sioning the Lynelle Hebert Winnipeg Security Council must mend ways the testimony of Romeo Dallaire free former in com Mander in regarding his frustrations that he was let Down by his the in Security Council is poignant but not if we look around and scrutinize the countries be they in latin Eastern the Middle East and Africa that Are plagued with domes tic its not difficult to deduce these problematic countries were the former colonies of Imperial and who Are the ruling Imperial Powers Are they not the permanent members of the in Council the International conference for War affected children will come to naught if the perpetrators of this global prob Lem refuse to pay restitution to their and accentuate their positive influence around the Bob Gabuna Winnipeg too much Ink spent on Clark now that the Stockwell Day touring Road show and the Joe Clark mystery theatre Are finally i guess we can breathe a great big sigh of Relief and get on with our your cover age of these two politicians reminds me of those Grade 1 fun with Dick and lets get there Are More pressing matters facing this country besides these William Cave Winnipeg Send surfer dude Back to Alberta Stockwell Days Media debut As the Federal governments Leader of the opposition exposed him and his party for the greedy charlatans that they splashing up to the shores of Lake Okanagan on the most environmentally vile water toy that was Ever invented spoke volumes of what this Man is All Only someone who is completely out of touch with the most Basic needs of Ordinary canadians would use such an extravagant prop to hold his first news and what a conference it on the one hand he claimed that no one attends parliamentary sessions on fridays and then he contradicted himself by stating that members of parliament have to endure redeye flights on Friday evenings to get Back to their huh it sounds to me that what Day really wants is an extra Day to play at the thank you Day for showing us exactly who you Are a Rich albertan who Doest have an inkling of the incredibly serious environmental issues that threaten this country and and an individual who lacks the Good sense not to flaunt his take your Jet spandex water and three Day weekends and go Back to Day Ordi nary canadians need politicians who Are prepared to represent their inter ests and not act As surfer dude mouthpieces for the economically Jack Hermiston Winnipeg foreign Aid change Good news the recent announcement that Cana Das foreign Aid for Basic health and education in poor countries is being increased is Good the increase comes not from new but from a reallocation of existing Aid to increase spending on Basic human needs from 20 per cent to almost 40 per cent of the Aid this is Posi Tive from both economic and humanitarian the return on investment for Money spent on primary education is up to four times higher than expenditures on Trade and according to United nations returns from investing in Basic health care Are also very the world Bank recently found that investing a Basic nutrition programs at a Cost of per cent of Gnu yielded a five per cent increase in Gnu 15fold of measured in human the gains in Quality of life and Opportunity Are International cooperation minister Maria Minna is obviously on the right track with these the question what took so Long and Why Stop at 40 per cent Blaise Salmon vote for integrity in vital by election i am urging All fellow residents of vital to make the most of their Chance to vote in the upcoming by election for City we should not stand by and let a convicted Felon represent us and our inter throughout the last 12 Al Golden has done some Good things and bad it seems that he has come to be a bit too comfortable in his his crime against Rev Enue Canada displays an attitude of being above the Golden will not work in Council with the same effectiveness As before his several other members of Council have openly said that he should not run for office under these without the respect of the other Council Golden stands Little Chance of having his ideas heard or acted the mayor has openly criticized his reelection causing us to assume that should Golden be victorious on he stands Little Hope of sitting on any com let alone chairing we in vital need to show Golden that just because he puts his name on the Doest mean he will come on lets get out and vote and vote for Ryan Poetker vital concert freeloaders should stay Home i am writing to concur with Kieper free 19 regarding the generosity of Many Winnipeg people at the War child Benefit concert recently held at the it appears that the Winnipeg reputation for loathing to pay retail was clearly in Many people truly saw it As a free con As in the Vicinity where i was sit Ting the majority of the people were not displaying tags indicating that they had made any donation at i should Point out that this included people of All Ages and Many wearing designer clothes who could obviously afford at least a Small the musicians and volunteers kindly donated their time and the musicians even had to travel great Dis Tances to get if members of the Community were not prepared to make a donation they should have stayed at Home and left the venue to those who did William pad Winnipeg doonesbury that Mosquito ;