Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 10, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Magazine win is Joni Pau Samyn Blairs win has lessons for the left in Canada Ottawa there Are several things i enjoy whilst holidaying with my inlays in Southern there is the ample Supply of British Beer the father of my Bride shares with great in decidedly in British he even chills them in the fridge for a Clear sign of his and even though i was on the journalist in me cant help but enjoy pouring through the English papers and not because of the Page 3 but on this my inlays served up a special treat a National election to watch and learn there was the High drama of Deputy prime minister John Prescott punch up with a protester who threw an egg at his we Learned Geri the former Ginger spice of the spice had endorsed Tony but what is truly remarkable was the Way Blairs new labour had the British election sealed and delivered Long before the voters finally delivered their verdict last it want just that the polls showed Blair running away with the those same surveys revealed the policies of the left trumped those of the right Over and Over not Only did labour hold a commanding Lead among voters on social issues like health care and they also trounced the tories on what should be their strengths the Economy and Law and but what is surprising is How the left in Canada refuses to learn even the most Basic lessons which propelled new labour to its historic second straight majority i didst even have a Chance to properly Wash any Trace of foot and Mouth disease off of my shoes upon Landing Back in Canada when i was greeted by the lat est evidence of left Wing flights of this time it is the new politics a Union driven Effort to do away with the Federal nip and create a new party which will move even fur ther to the left in Hopes of combating corporate not Content with the fact the nip has the support of Only eight per cent of canadians and barely qualifies for official party status in the those rallying around Maverick my Svend Robinson Are keen to limbo even derailed two years the Robinsons and Buzz Hargroves of Canadas left derailed nip Leader Alexa Mcdo coughs timid efforts to reinvent the party in Hopes that it might actually have some Appeal to mainstream canadians instead of just special interest now they want to kill the nip and any real Chance for social democracy in for them the successes of Blair in England or even Roy Romanow in Saskatchewan Are not causes for Celebration but examples of political at the risk of offending their utopian lets for a moment consider for the past Canadian voters in their Wisdom have decided there not interested in much of what the nip has been voters want jobs and Quality health but they also dont want to pay higher taxes or return to the Days of politicians can try to deny that reality As Blair has they can respond to those pressures and earn the privilege to As Blair told the 1998 annual labour party the electorate wanted a government not in the pocket of the Trade not taxing them through the not chasing after every passing fad of the political that May sound like heresy to those behind the new politics but what i hear is a dose of pragmatism which the left in Canada desperately needs on the Federal idealism has its place in politics but governing in a democracy often boils Down to an Adoc series of Compro sure new labour May at times seem like an opportunistic political cocktail brilliantly served up by Blair which has everything to do with holding Power and Little to do with social the same can at times be said for the so called third Way approach Gary doer has brought to governing but for those who believe the third Way is the wrong consider the would social democratic dreams have a better Chance if Gary Hilmons tories were still running Manitoba would those who lean even remotely left prefer to be governed by thatchers offspring instead of Blair and what real Chance will there be for a More humane and decent Canada if the new politics initiative is the Best the country left can Muster 3 paul.8amyn@freepress.mb.ca press archives Steinem addresses a news conference in wedded to the cause at a married Gloria Steinem still carries a Torch for feminism by Robin finn new York Gloria Steinem let her hair Down a Long time and its still still still fanning out in free Fornall form above her Pinstripe Nar Row shoulder Blades having had a 300pound father and a runaway Sweet tooth is Why she watches her weight like a Hawk through those oversize smart Gal glasses she seems to have temporarily mis hence her squint and an apologetic admonition to sit at she is still carrying a Torch for feminism wednesday nights 13th annual Magazine foundation aka the Gloria Are evidence of and she lives in the same duplex on East 73rd Street that has served As her private and solitary Sanctum since probably have to take me out of Here feet says punctuating the prediction with a growl of laughter mortality has been in the Back of her mind since breast cancer treatment a dozen years a scare that inspired her to swear off men and meat she is still a but after 50 years of eluding marriage upon graduation from Smith College in she accepted a Fellowship to India partly to evade her then avoided cohabitation despite some High voltage affairs in the ensuing decades she is not still More on the Man thing she moved in As a renter with a bran new gig As a political columnist for the bran new new York Maga when her coverage of a 1969 abortion hearing produced her first feminist Flavoured writers like Jimmy Tom Wolfe and Dick Schaap urged her not to Type cast and Compromise her rep by taking up with women she didst pay attention she was 35 and finding her undercover it All made sense to says the woman notorious for going undercover As Bunny Marie in a 1963 expose of the Playboy instead of being a writer living a life but writing about separate it became id had so Many experiences i didst feelings of anger that had nowhere to go id worked in the civil rights the farm workers and what was a White Middle class woman doing that for it never dawned on me that maybe As a i Felt like an out in my i think a woman has two choices either Shes a feminist or a of those 20to 30somethings who dismiss feminism As outdated bag Steinem says with a it hurts three decades and three bestsellers she is a Magazine owner and founder which she began officially in 1972 and was rescued from extinction with a team of investors in and the owner of this inviting Coop with its Shady backyard and High Eilinger rooms jammed with foreign anchored by Kilim Robert press Gloria shown in 1997 has not mellowed with and rendered romantic by a free hand with these Are not spartan quarters where she is holed up to write another and these Days they Arent suddenly there Are two men in her life ones a Lively Mutt named Mojo that came with the both jostling for position to answer the Buzzer while she finishes up in her in at a reunion of the Cherokee Steinem and her David a twice divorced South Africa born entrepreneur jeans and skateboards who raised three of his four children Solo in Lon Don and los were linked in a she gets a touch Tongue tied explaining what came Over i had no desire to get married and neither did she he often in his life did what men Are not supposed to she alluding to his real life mom role one of his sons is the actor Christian Bale of american psycho and i spent mine doing what women Arent supposed to and i guess a Little bit of it too was that what seems conformist at 26 getting married seems rebellious at they met at a voters for Choice fundraiser she is and something clicked human Ani Mal you name they were both for hitherto a fan of the redeye to new York after speaking she segued into his Manhattan Beach lifestyle he reciprocated in motherhood never much appealed to whose own Mother had a mental meltdown she didst recover from after giving up a newspaper career in to marry and have two somebody once said theres no More reason that everybody with a womb should be a Mother than everybody with vocal cords should be an opera she its a or should she gave up her dreams to live his and became this broken per Steinem its but in sure that like so Many women of my but even Are living out the unlined lives of our and then the Day after the 2000 presidential Steinem found herself in Florida speaking at Palm Beach Community when 100 of her 900 listeners complained of botched she took numbers and Hes not the Hes the Resi she of George the topic of her speech that Day the usual revolution new York times news service Bear baiting crosses the ethical line a series of articles and letters in the free press focus ing on Bear Hunting around rid ing Mountain National got me thinking about Bear Hunting in in no save the baby seals i Ive Hunt Ive even i dont have a problem with the consumptive use of our natural As Doug Collicutt Long As species and habitats Are con served for the but i do have a problem with Bear Hunting As it operates in Manitoba right for me its a matter of and i hear some of you saying theres no such thing As ethical Hunt but i think the majority of Mani to bans respect the tradition of Hunting in this but the More i think about the facts and issues involved in Bear the More uneasy i Here Are my How Are Black bears being hunted International airshow tickets at the Gate parking is free but line to get into parking lot is usually an hour Wirf do emf enter off Saskatchewan Avenue West of route 90 North and South Gates open at 9 show starts at 1 in Manitoba the practice of baiting is allowed and that How All Black bears Are hunted in this people set up bait with spoiled meat or even human Well ahead of when they plan to Hunt and get the bears accustomed to coming to then Hunters set up tree stands near the bait and wait around to shoot a Bear when one shows which bears Are being taken Black bears of either sex May be hunted in killing female bears with attendant cubs is not but taking females is allowed if no cubs Are taking females is officially but not bait stations where Are they being hunted bait stations can be set up on most Crown or private lands subject to some you have to be at least 30 metres from Riding Mountain National Park to set up a bait station to lure inside provincial Parks you have to be at least 500 metres from cottage developments or picnic Bear Hunting is and is going on right in the game Bird Refuge in the South of White Shell provincial where no Bird or Deer Hunting is main show includes flying demonstrations of f cf18 Parachute drop Canadian sky Hawks parachutes shockwave Jet truck Princess Patricia Light infantry unit ground demonstration Manitoba hang gliders Griffon helicopter monster trucks ground show includes fl17anighthawk c130 Hercules kc135 mis29 bib Uncer c17 Aio Leimster f15 Eagle f14 tomcat cf18 Hornet Fedex Boeing 727 f16 Falcon world War ii Harvard who is Hunting them Manitoban themselves Arent big Bear compare these for the 1996 97 to 199899 Hunting there were More than White tailed Deer harvested annually in and 98 per cent were taken by resident in the same period roughly Black bears were taken each but 70 per cent of these were by nonresident Manitoban like their but there not big on bears Why Are they being hunted some May be hunted for but most bears killed by nonresidents Are hunted for that the majority of bears taken in this province Are killed so that the Hunter can go Home with a picture of himself holding the dead bears head up for the some people claim Hunting helps to control Bear numbers and prevents the conflict is already a one sided Issue and the bears Are bears attracted to bait stations May learn to associate the scent of humans with something that the rest of us try to discourage at our cottages and around picnic dealing with out who arrange for tourists to is a major Tim consumer for Park managers and natural resource a few Manitoban make a fair bit of Money As guides and outfitters bring ing in tourists to kill our while one part of me is a Little smug about fleecing Rich americans or germans for the privilege of shooting a i cant quite shake an analogy that struck me the other there Are other people out there who lure and procure Young innocents for the sport of and you know what there in not Happy with the notion of prostituting our wildlife to Well heeled tourists just because we at some Point on the ethical spectrum we All draw our own Bear baiting and sport Hunting Are Over my id be ashamed to Hunt anything that Way and in disgusted with killing bears for got an opinion on Bear Hunting in Manitoba for the sport of tourists let the minister of conservation know How you All Rural and Urban have a right to participate in decisions made about our people examine a Tow Antmann gun on display i ;