One thing that’s completely confusing though: they keep calling it the Bronx Park Community Centre, sometimes specifying a satellite or the “Kelvin site” (see http://winnipeg.ca/cao/media/news/nr_2012/nr_20121025.stm#3) — and this is really strange. Any insight into why it won’t simply be called the Kelvin Community Centre or some variation of that?

These facts guarantees it will not be done. Sorry, that’s just how City Hall does things.

Here is my chief concern – When you hold a meeting, discussion, forum, town hall, etc. Where you are discussing; ‘What women can do to prevent sexual violence against them’ (or a paraphrase of the previous statement) you have to expect people to answer.
I don’t understand why “carry a weapon” or “carry pepper spray” “Don’t walk alone at night” would be a much less offensive answer than “don’t dress ‘insert descriptive phrase here’ way.” In either case, the individual is making a statement that, underneath the words they use, says ‘If you behaved differently, you would not be raped. You would not be sexually abused if you did something differently.” Which, without any question, implies a sense of responsibility.
“What can women do to avoid being raped” – It is remarkably difficult to answer that question without implying that a woman’s behaviour is contributing to her being raped.
So, When a police officer answers that question – Why is he crucified for it?
Granted, a few intelligent debaters could probably first critique his remarkably poor and highly offensive choice of words, but they could also go on to demonstrate that his reason is false, and that, statistically, evidence does not back up his claim.

What can women do differently? Nothing. Rape occurs because some people are obscenely selfish, and have no regard or consideration for other living breathing human beings – which is why they deserve to go to prison.
The cause of rape has absolutely nothing to do with the victims actions. Period.

I would encourage demonstrations like the slut walk, and town halls, like the one that inspired the slut walk, to have a stronger focus on how we can eliminate the stigma associated with victims of sexual assault, how we can be more supportive of victims who come forward, and how we can prevent violent sexual offenders from acting out!
Yes, the police officer was guilty for his comments, but his mindset, ignorance, and line of thinking seemed surprisingly similar to the person who asked the question.

I am not argueing for or against, just wondering about the issue Regan is raising here about producers being forced into the ‘union’/mandatory licence required as a way of squeezing out small farmers that want to do their own thing, thereby restricting the freedom of others.
Its the mandatory licencing and central inc.(corporate) control of the small farmers now by the poster boy Regan mentions here that i am concerned about. I don’t know enough details about the wheat board and was not able to learn in the last election whether the government spent our tax money (yours is a good point here why should we??) to set up the CWB and why? (couldn’t they just do it on their own), Why would it now have to be mandatory for wheat growers to join if they don’t want to?? Why was it disbanded? Why dont they re-form. Ultimately, why can’t Manotobans choose to grow a different potatoe than the union??? Please help me to understand!