Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 22, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Focus re Jumi 2001 i decline Chance to Rule ecosystem this week at while i was putting together this a fish bit my there Are few things As upsetting to the concentration of a writer As biting especially if youre not holding a fishing which i i was using As my office the Small Lake in front of the and reclining on an air mat Tress with the offending toe dipping in the any encounter Between Man and wild animal is not actually a pleas ant but a it is natures ways of seeing who should have dominance in an this was made Clear to me when i read last months National which has a cover Story about grizzly in an alaskan guide specializing in Bear Hunts explains his method of showing City Folk the real Way to Hunt i want to get to be where the Bear has a Chance to hit says Fred the idea is to purposefully place ones self in harms find out whats in a of course you get close enough to a grizzly Bear and eventually you will find out what is inside in great since Large parts of you will be spilled since my Girlfriend and i moved to the Laurentian from Montreal 1 last we have been con stantly testing the limits of our dominance As humans in the since we have not yet seen a i have had to Settle with get Ting As close to the Rainbow Trout As i this is not a difficult As my landlord recently dumped 550 fish in our which is the size of a football Field tailored for to put myself in harms All i have to do is lean Over the Dock with a frying it May not be the most sportsmanlike but it saves All the bothersome time which can Lead to a person thinking that perhaps they should be writing instead of which somewhat spoils the for the outdoor which is the polite Way of saying animal the thrill of the Chase is the Best because then you dont have time to feel guilty about except perhaps killing but there have been other encounters with wild for a battalion of ants set up Headquarters in Pur House this putting myself in harms i stomped on them until my legs got i found out what was inside me i am not a natural born because of my weakness we had to Call the who is a big Man with a Large Spray gun full of Poi son and a startling the terminator has spent his life placing himself in harms and for All his efforts has now found whats inside him thus the it is important when testing your relationship with wild animals to know where to draw the a few Days ago we noticed strange round holes in our outdoor stairs the next night i heard an aggressive chomping noise and the House began to i wondered would this be my Chance to truly find out what was inside me of i imagine Why a Bear would want to attack our but i was just As surprised when i poked my head out the door and Dis covered it want a grizzly after but a there Are Between and quills in a each of which has a microscopic Barb on the end when the Needle comes in Contact with the body heat causes the Barb to swell and lodges it the Tail can be swung to drive the quills in i declined the Chance to be the ruler of the ecosystem i threw a clump of dirt the porcupines diet Usu ally consists of tree bark and Green but if he wanted to have an occasional night snack of stairs with a Little left Over Salt from the he was Welcome to i know whats inside of and it aint Porcupine any encounter Between Man and wild animal is not actually a pleasant but a it is natures ways of seeing who should have dominance in an Day reduces party to a fringe Hes eminently suitable to Lead Over the last two Stock Well Day has taken several initiatives aimed at reasserting his authority Over the Canadian though some of these might strike the uninitiated As rather perverse on their they May in fact have a certain quixotic Day has proposed that both the Alliance and the progressive conservative party hold internal re Ferenda in the next 90 in which their members could express their opinions on a prospective merger of the two judging from the reaction to this Day appears to have consulted with very few people in either not Only was the suggestion dismissed by Joe Clark and other it was severely criticized by a number of prominent members of the Alliance caucus As a to Down decision made in a party that fancies itself As one where such initiatives come from the Bottom could it be that this initiative was one rather carefully calculated to be rejected or is this just yet another in the exceedingly Long catalogue of Days failures of judgment Side of the Angels at the same time Day made these he also created a team to negotiate with the tories on the possibilities of greater cooperation and by Extension on the possibilities of on its there would be nothing unusual in this move except that in making this he sidelined those members of his Cau Cus who were already independently discussing these matters with the and replaced them with maps whose first loyalty is to since the conventional Wisdom of the moment and of several years past is that the conservative parties must Day needs to be seen As being on the Side of the Given the catastrophic year he has had As the Leader of the party created to unite the for Day to argue against merger would be to insist that everything is All right Fred Chartrand Canadian press Stockwell Day stands in the House before it starts summer pretty Well every thing is All in the real world of to express support for merger does not necessarily mean one is seriously committed to Day surely has a far better Chance of retaining the leadership of the Alliance than he would of winning the leadership of any new conserva Tive party there would exist Strong anyone burday this latter sentiment is hardly difficult to with a Large part of his caucus in with the party form ing into pro and anti Day and with support for the Alliance now standing at less than 10 per cent in opinion the Alliance could be on the verge of reverting to a fringe regional movement for the Federal social credit party of the 1940s and Early the Alliance is being reduced and driven Back to its hardest Core of those ardent True believers who on Many issues speak largely for the fringes of Canadian Many years Richard Nixon nominated for the supreme court a person whom the american bar association and others assessed As in the subsequent debates Over whether the nominee would be a senator from South Dakota defended the Nomina Tion on the ground that there were Many mediocre people in the and that they deserved representation on the by there Are in Canada As in All countries people with narrow perspectives whose Polit ical views Are often shaped by prejudice or hostility to other parts of the country and who regard Compromise As a betrayal of such people frequently have Little judgment or common sense when it comes to understanding the complexities of the modern Era or the challenges of living in pluralistic these Are peo ple Given to reducing Complex Phenomena to simplistic and the Alliance my who could Only see in Nelson Mandela the labels terrorist and communist typifies this state of there Are people in one aspect of life or wish to turn Back the clock to some earlier Golden age and who Are United by a sense of grievance against various aspects of the modern unlike the mediocrities defended by the late these profoundly disaffected canadians May Well deserve their own led by someone who broadly reflects their however and As the stripped of its moderating is their Ideal so is Stockwell Day their Ideal near perfect match to accept both the necessity of this kind of party reflecting these kinds of attitudes is to accept the necessity and inevitability of Stockwell Days continuing the alliances Central premise a year ago was to broaden its base beyond the to go beyond simple appeals to the the disaffected and the and to Appeal to a great Many More moderate voters on substantive but the social conservatives Are naturally unwilling to relinquish their dominant position within the Alliance or to Jettison who Speaks for Day and the Alliance Are becom ing a near perfect thus Days proposal to merge a party a Large part of which is no longer within his control with a party to which he no longer is surely a diversionary tactic to help him retain his it must be having reduced the Alliance to its essentially fringe ele he has made himself eminently suitable to Lead ill full Fly the free press welcomes letters from they must include the authors address and Telephone m ulv letters May be letters to the 1355 Mountain r2x fax email Calgary lacks unlicensed stuffed dogs we moved to Calgary last year because of the Large number of uni a neutered stuffed dogs roaming the i can honestly say i Haven seen one unleashed stuffed licensed or since we got glad to see that whats really important Hast changed much Back Tom Harrison Calgary Stop buy dog licence dog quit you knew that the City requires a dog licence when you obtained your so quit whining when you Are asked to pay for the City has to run a Pound because people keep pets and the owners of these pets Are some times irresponsible and the City has to pick up and care for and destroy unwanted quit be a responsible pet owner and pay for your dog pay your share towards running the your licensed pet can be returned if it is there is a penalty for repeated so that will encourage you to take greater care to secure your the Pound is there for the Good and humane treat ment of animals that Are often left on the Don Bailey Winnipeg Fine seems reasonable the City has been licensing dogs for Many years and yet most interviewed were ignorant of the a Fine sounds reasonable to Jim Cullen Winnipeg majority More tolerant than Cleverley this letter int about Joe the Leader of what charitably can be called a significant Canadian political it is about a newspaper Colum nist whose insights Are better suited to a past we Are moving rapidly Fred Cleverley Joe Clark still As dumb As june 18 gets some of it right prime minister Jean Chretien political smarts Are not in the conservative party is million in and its Core support did manage to elect 12 what he does not understand is that the majority of those born during and after the baby Are far More tolerant than and will in fact elect the next maybe Clarks strategy int so bad locally he supports those who elected him and nationally he reaches out to the voters who have elected three consecutive Liberal Doug Bergman Winnipeg keep signals operating at deadly intersection we Are appalled to hear that after nine accidents at the intersection of the perimeter Highway and the Assiniboia Downs it is being reopened this we certainly if it must be that the lights Are operational at All times we lost two precious members of our family last october and do not want another such Accident to happen to anyone Lynn Waterman Winnipeg Manitoba Flag held in High esteem we want to Tell the people of Manitoba that we hold your provincial Flag in the highest of esteem from that moment in 1998 when we took 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