Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 29, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A11 Winnie of free september 2000 rate Elliott Trudeau Tough exam seemed indestructible my refuses to fade away9 c Streisand turned Heads at Royal Winnipeg Ballet an he really have died the Pierre Trudeau i covered As a Young reporter in Ottawa in the Early 1970s was Tough and evidently inde showing no signs that he could be vulnerable to Parkinson disease or prostate cancer or the thousand other infirmities that vex the rest of his death at 80 yesterday seems terribly out of charac the front de liberation do Quebec had already kid napped British Trade commissioner James Cross but the War measures act had not yet been invoked when Michel fire breathing Radical labour Leader of the Montreal came to Ottawa and intercepted Pierre Trudeau in the corridors of i watched in amazement As Chartrand yelled in Trudeau face calling him a prostitute and a until the ramp escort moved Between the two that let your goons take you Chartrand Trudeau pushed the body guard aside and stepped closer to the labour in not afraid of he then turned and i had been pitched into Pierre Trudeau Ottawa in june while John Turner was moving the official languages act through the House of As correspondent for the Montreal from that privileged i saw Trudeau in his first before things turned i watched him in a hotel room in Vancouver where he was visiting briefly to open the Georges Bank shipping a committee of Young women demanding Reform of the abortion Laws asked to meet him and he engaged them in a socratic dialogue about Public uninterested in socratic the Young women restated their claims but won no concessions from Why dont we just go one of the Young women mustering her most insulting Why dont Trudeau but they did not they had his attention and they were not about to let Streisand i watched from the press gallery when barbra Streisand turned up in the Public gallery at question period and Trudeau put on a great show Down on the hamming and Pac ing making quite unnecessary trips about the floor to speak to col doing a great impression of a teenager in love putting on a show for his new that when he turned up with Streisand at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet performance in the National arts the audience politely welcomed the dancers and craned their necks for glimpses of the celebs in the then he turned around and mar ried their first child born at was not yet three months old when they brought him to his first Public appearance at a sugaring off party in Quebec Beauce the Friendly crowd devoured the tiny child with their eyes and pressed close to smile at him and touch accustomed to crowds and took it in stride but mar Garet shrank Back in evident fear for her baby he could be gentle and courteous when the occasion but the steel Core was never very deep beneath the velvet he was occasionally seeming to search for things to be unafraid like apprehended insurrections in he reshaped my gave it a constitutional charter of made French immersion the hottest educational trend for a few shattered the feeling that canadians have to be Boring and merely i am not sure that i liked but i am sure that i cannot get away from he got inside my All those years and he refuses to fade Terence Moore is a free press editorial his column appears on he covered Trudeau for the Montreal Star from 1969 to Trudeau stands to vote on repatriating the Constitution in 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 marketplace Doest provide regarding the minimum wage Issue we need to ask ourselves Why govern ments need to keep their Eye on the minimum there Are those who like to Perpetu ate the myth that the marketplace will take care of Many on the con the marketplace is Only interested in profits and taking care of As for what criteria is there that says what is enough it is because business Hast got a Good track record regarding wages that the minimum wage is discussed and it should be and ought to be reviewed and reevaluated from time to we Are All in the same business called so i would like to suggest to every business head to add a mantra to their weekly you dont have to be religious but being factual is the statement goes like this we thank the universe that humans need shelter and we have anyone to do the Rose Kowalchuk Winnipeg conductor must balance his talents in a rather veiled form and carefully forget the seek musical magic in a new conductor free 19 tries to answer the difficult question about the image of a successful orchestra director and tastes and expectations May vary and one might expect from a future conductor of the Winnipeg symphony As the author a balanced mixture of philos cabaret social worker and a doubt it would disturb the balance of these character traits if one or More of them were to dominate or supersede and thrust aside the ideally a conductor assists and underscores the musical talents of his orchestra members while allowing his personal talents As a conductor to act supportively in the conduct if he wants to promote his orches tras and his own talents must painfully abstain from any Type of self promoting self ingratiating showman like Winnipeg history made on parliament Hill history was made on parliament Hill when two political leaders were sworn in on the same Stockwell Days approach to politics is shaking up Long held traditions in Ottawa while bluster ing Joe is the same Clark condemned Days fresh approach by let him play by the rules of these not that he makes reference include jeering and heckling in the House making it impossible for the opposition to speak and be heard in question Day has ordered his maps to be polite and refrain from taking the Joe along with the liberals and members of the National have taken exception to Days ques Tiona answer periods location being changed to a room reserved for press conferences rather than the chaotic scrums in the foyer of the House of Day i will make myself available every Day after ques Tion period in an atmosphere in which questions can be asked and answers can be and everyone has an mainstream Media perhaps dont want any substance that they would have to relay to the dumb ing Down and dont be Happy policy is a bad not a Rule As Clark seems to same old Joe Clark Doest under stand that canadians want Good and not the same old political the Good old boys have grown accustomed to treating canadians As serfs and Are now threatened by the winds of the upcoming election May be the last Opportunity for canadians to escape Karen Lalonde Oak Bank parents in charge of their children regarding trustees responsible to get kids Home the writer Jody Kuzyk strongly believes that school trustees have the duty and even a moral responsibility to ensure that her child gets to and from but i always thought this was a parental it never occurred to me when i had children that somebody else would be responsible for i understand that some including is feel they cannot quit their if her daughter cannot Access a school bus from the current babysitters then alternate childcare arrangements must be sought to facilitate this child care closer to the school or one at which a school bus perhaps is Kuzyk could have a Sitter come to her Home to care for and to accompany her Daugh Ter to As since is Kuzyk indicates she is willing to there Are private companies that could pick up and transport her daughter from her current babysitters some parents arrange with each other to help children get to for i took other Small children to and from school along with my Breecher Winnipeg abortion debate Given new life As pro lifers who have been stifled by the majority of the Media and ignored by Tom Ole sons article How do you Tell a baby from a fetus is somewhat of a Miracle to i think almost everyone knows of an infertile couple who is on a waiting list to adopt a their wait is close to eight one of the reasons there Are fewer babies is because Many Young women keep their the main reason is because each hundreds of babies across Canada Are seven babies daily in Winnipeg women Pavilion surely this is what has happened in Canada since when the abortion Law was struck can Only be called a travesty of the worst for the first time in Many pro lifers feel that we have Hope that we will be Able to be a voice for the god bless Oleson for giving the abortion debate new Carol Slykerman Winnipeg assault on Golden lacks credibility i received the vital election news this an eight Page assault on Al if i had any doubts about Golden this relentless attack has assured him four votes from this this is the first time my son will my 20yearold could care less but i will assure you they will be at the polls drag or i am not about to give some grassroots Effort that does not list the names of the people responsible for this paper nor a phone number any you Are a Brave Bunch i will implement my own grassroots Effort to employ those i know to get out and a vote for Al in Case youre i have never met Gibb Winnipeg to Magazine impossible i agree entirely with Chivers new to Magazine the cur rent to scene is Kaminsky Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau w we 0ezn something of a manage ;