Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 1, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus a13 tin Mam ii 2001 Alberta Liberal Leader always in kleins Shadow has gender stalled the Macbeth express Edmonton think Anne Murray if the face of Nancy Leader of the Alberta does not Spring to you wont go wrong imagining the face of Canadas 1 her hair is Short and yesterday she wore a dark Blue Blazer Over a Pale cow neck sweater she stays trim by rising each morn ing at for a 40 minute walk with her Stock broker Hus whose ances tors were among the first Selkirk settlers to arrive in Sev ent generation Macbeth still own a cottage at Victo Ria she has a Toothy at she is a strikingly handsome and maybe that her maybe that Why the tories Lead in the polls despite a botched Energy deregulation scheme that will Cost the Treasury a staggering billion this year alone and despite a health privatization Bill that caused such a furore exactly one year ago that pre Mier Ralph Klein locked the doors of the legislature against protesters and invoked closure to Cut Short she thinks gender was the problem nine years ago after serving As education minister and then As minister of health in the tory she seemed poised to replace Don Getty As Premier of in the leadership she was ahead of Ralph Klein on the first bal during the week Between the first and second kleins team signed up new mostly in Rural Alberta where feminism was shall we rumours of skulduggery in draw ing up membership lists were never investigated the party destroyed the lists not Long after the leadership even polls find an 18 per cent gender Gap in support for Alberta with women less enamoured of the government than the truth she Alberta was ready for a female but the pc party was it still and women know not that things Arent ten years her gender was All reporters wanted to talk it comes up less she but it comes at a press conference yesterday attended by 19 male reporters and not a single female she was quizzed about and in particular about the sometimes shrill tone of her echoing concerns voiced in Manitoba 13 years ago when Sharon Carstairs was a real threat to win Macbeth problem might also be for a former she seems very much a Liberal in a province where Many see the word As an Epi with a a in French and russian languages and further studies in French Canadian literature at uni verite she says she was attracted to the tories of the Lougheed Era when emphasis was placed on the As opposed to the Side of the when Klein won the she offered to stay to heal the rift Between progressives and conserva Tives caused by the but he turned her she says she left when Hack and slash elements took Over the inner five years she joined the lib where she says she once again feels Macbeth problem could also be that most albertan simply dont As she that change is in the that attitude that things change very slowly in where tories have ruled for 30 years and where conservative governments have been elected for 65 years seems to be shared by the of the 19 reporters at the news con Ference Only three climbed on the Macbeth express to follow the Campaign to and of the Only one was an Alberta when the Leader of the official a party that collected votes Short of eclipsing the government in 1997 cant attract concerted Media Atten that a t in doomsday scenario i info reports Lead author asserts by Deborah Vondrak Washington chances Are youve never heard of John that somewhat because a director of the Earth system science Centre at the University of Alabama at is one of the worlds most respected climatology More to the also is the Lead author on latest report from the United nations intergovernmental panel on climate change that the report that garnered All the primetime publicity in mid january with its cataclysmic predictions of melting Polar malaria Epi midwestern sub merged islands and flooded coast lines from Maine to platoon a Small platoon of other americans on the panel made the rounds of the nations High profile they issued dire warnings about the horrible con sequences that global warming will wreak if the United states Doest sign the Kyoto protocol and agree to the draconian cutbacks in it Energy Christy was conspicuously absent from the United nations propaganda Given his undeniable expertise and his prominence on the in youd think the Media would be camping on his but Only one Barry Wigmore from the respected times of London bothered to Call for a com on the there appears to be Only one As it turns believes the United nations is putting an intellectually dishonest spin on the the world is in much better shape than this doomsday scenario Christy told the British adding there were 245 different results in that and this was the worst Case its the one that not going to it was the extreme Case of All the different things that can make the world misleading says most Long Range forecasts Are misleading in Many downright one reason is most of the worlds weather while they May initially have been placed in Remote now Are affected by Urban heat he have sprung up around them the initial ground cover of Trees and grass has been replaced with Asphalt and Concrete and Cool darkness has been replaced by electric lighting that generates heat throughout the Robert Watson chairman of the answers questions at a news Eudene Hoshiko associated press that Why temperatures in the Down towns of Large cities invariably Are Sev eral degrees warmer than the temperatures in the surrounding sub the two computer models the in relied on one from Canada and one from England were overloaded with data from Uretyan Christy making Analyse of the data because of the Over Reliance on warmer surface Christy Points today most advanced com Puter models dont even portray cur rent weather in an accurate they get progressively More inaccurate when they try to project next next next year let alone the next decade or the next the weather tests Christy runs with Polar orbiting satellites for Nasa and National oceanic and atmospheric administration scientists at the near by George Marshall space Centre Are far More accurate than the ones the in panel Christy uses satellites to measure the temperature of the lower troposphere the first eight Kilometres above the if global warming actually is then the troposphere should be heating up just As a rapidly As the surface of the so much for in the troposphere is Only marginally warmer than it confirming christs if the Earth was heating up like the giant greenhouse of popu Lar the temperatures christs satellites and weather bal loons record would parallel those being recorded on they because their measure ments dont suffer from Urban warmth and other so Why is the United nations investing so much Effort and Money to tout the totally unrealistic worst Case scenario the answer is simply wealth Transfer the Kyoto protocol Calls for a vast Transfer of wealth from the United Europe and Japan to emerging nations such As Indonesia As Well As the poorer nations of latin Africa and on would sacrifice thousands of dollars in lost in december the Senate took at Kyoto numbers and voted 95 to 0 in favour of a Resolution deploring the disaster the treaty would foist on the As a the Clinton administration never sent the treaty to the Senate for but initiated a sweep ing program to try to implement much of it by regulation and executive most of those Are Likely to be scrapped by the Bush hence the Only Chance for the United nations to superimpose its voodoo Sci ence requirements on the United states is to mount a Las ditch Effort to panic the american a in report just last year warned that global warming would Send temperatures soaring More than six degrees by the end of this that report produced a Public so now the same scientists have increased the prediction to More than 10 if that Doest produce the desired one wonders How far Are they prepared to go Twenty perhaps 40 stay the Earth May not be getting but the rhetoric is just starting to heat Deborah Vondrak is an Independent journalist who often writes about science based f n Tulp f it Iffla the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone he letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email Sals Deal prompts fond memories the frontage Story in the free press about the change in ownership of Salisbury House brought Back a flood of memories of a Sals Long gone but not it was the tiny Sals at the Corner of Portage Avenue and Spence Street in the Csc parking the dogs and shakes were a lifeline for the students in residence at Graham and Sparling Halls at United College now u of residence food left a lot to be desired and no food was available after the supper after a few hours of hitting the books some one would head Over to the Sals and return with a bag of i will never forget the Aroma of those wonderful i left in 1967 and a few years later the Csc demolished the Sals to expand its parking i have never forgiven the Robert Burkard Winnipeg let Taxa orders pay own medical Bills Lindor Reynolds column the truth is out there 24 discusses the goings on of an american tax avoid Ance David Wynn in he woos folks who dont Trust government or big business and believe the Little Guy is getting a Rotten Deal in for a of he tells them about a truth language and How to use it to confound the court this new language can Best be described As a one that has sucked in a number of quite a few from they feel the government is operating under a lie and therefore they have every right to defy the Levy of income if these same people truly believe what they Are let them donate Money to a new political party a non tax deductible of course and find out what the rest of the coun try thinks about their in the they should voluntarily remove themselves from any medicare program and pay their own Hospital and prescription Keith born Swan River rent controls Are insidious in the column ending rent controls Todd Scarth states category with no evidence to support his that rent controls did not cause the decay of Winnipeg inner the consequences of rent controls Are insidious their deleterious effects appear after years of deterioration caused by government imposed Price it will take some time to bring Back some investor Confidence to a restored Market Economy in the residential rental Dennis Souchay general manager Royal realty services Winnipeg time to lift Iraq sanctions your editorial Bush firm on Saddam prompted 19 me to elaborate on this nobody is in dispute with your Opin Ion about Saddam nor is there any second opinion about he is the most ruthless megalomaniac of the having said the question is Why he is still in Power every time Iraq is bombed by and so called Allied we see Many innocent civilians get i think these air raids and sanctions Are making Saddam More popular among his these Are not working against rather they Are making him look stronger than he is by taking a stand against the world last year during the election Cam president George Bush once said he will take him out if Neces it is necessary now to take him Stop bombing and lift the sanctions against he will help iraqis to alleviate their nobody will shed tears for Sadaqat Hussain Bokhari Winnipeg Union role Uncertain in versatile dispute i have followed the dispute at versa tile industries and Buhler with interest like Many of i have More questions than what i have read is that the Plant was on the Brink of closing its the employees were about to lose their jobs and if prospects for saving the company i have also read that Buhler took a risk in purchasing a company no one else was interested in As he has done in the tried to assist the company through transition in order to become competitive in today mar John Buhler has owned and operated vibrant companies in our province for Many his leadership in business has created countless jobs and opportunities for our on the other i am Uncertain As to the value of the unions role in this particular a Union member i recognize that the unions first priority is to Advance and protect the rights of its members and not those of the people of this i do know that Union leaders can be dedicated to the improvement of working i worry that in this they have overlooked the workers must the major Issue in this dispute is that of Job the Union insists that the workers already in place must remain regardless of function More the viability of the the result of such a i will have a powerful Impact on the lives of our fellow in the Good jobs will be actions will be questioned and families will perhaps our Economy can withstand the loss of one the greater lies in our need to understand the dynamic Between want and need on both sides of the Bill Telford Winnipeg doonesbury by Garry Trudeau what you a00n0 ;