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vi0txtvr v t v twbonemvgusii youth will serve as legislative page this session kate gilderdale correspondent twelveyearold chris jull of stouffville learned last week that he has been accepted into the legislative page program at queens park during the fall session of the legislature lzij chris who attends orchard park public school was the sole representa tive selected from the riding of yorkdurham he was one of 72 grade 8 students accepted into the program out of a total of 443 applicants from across the province the program is aimed at astudents with an aptitude for teamwork and an outgoing personality as well as good academic skills chris applied after his name was drawn in a school ballot i i had to fill in an application with three questions on it he explained they asked why t wanted to be a page what clubs or associations i was involved in and what activities take up my spare time the four week term runs from sept 23 to oct 18 and the legislative pages spend much of their time in the house they also attend study periodsto help them keep up with school work each day runs from 830 am to 6 pm its a long day said chris but im really looking forvvard to it york region to offer thoughts on shopping from page1 time oakes said c s yhe also implied local council is more aware of where tourist exemp tions should be in their area oakes also suggested the sunday shopping legislation was an issue regional officials may not have time to handle we have a lot of problems facing this region that require solutions thought effort and time he noted should an old lady be entitled to sell pin cushions at a flea market on sunday i dont think this is something that should be occupying the time of our councillors he said as far as markham mayor tony roman is concerned the municipal ities never asked for the responsibility in the first place right now the issue is in the provinces hands and its nota badplace for it to be he suggested quite frankly i think thats where it should be he said if youre talking about universality it should be universal provincialwide so everyone should have a level playing field photoannetie buchkowski 50th anniversary merlin and helen baker cele- saturday the bakers have brated their 50th anniversary four children and 10 grandchll- at baker hill baptist church on dren practi photosjoerd witteveen alex waite and his friend brennan mitchell practice their guitar techniques at stouffville memorial park on saturday afternoon they were waiting for alexs brother who was playing in a ball tournament old phone books can now be recycled whitchurchstouffville residents can now recycle their telephone books on the latest telephone bill local residents are being encouraged to recycle the old telephone book once their new one arrives t v residents cantake the old hooks to the stouffville recycling depot south of the town hall on thursday or saturday mornings ar mp blasts liberal trade report enzo dl matted staff reporter the effects of free trade and the worldwide rationalization of the global economy will diminish canadas international competitiveness for at least the next decade says markham whitchurchstouffyille mp bill attewell responding to a recently released liberal task force report on the loss of jobs to free trade attewell argued that job losses in canadas manufacturing sector are largely a product of the cur rent recession higher taxes and a rationalization of the global econo my the liberal report estimates that 267000 manufacturing jobs have been lost in canada since the canadaunited states free trade agreement came into effect two and a half years ago the report which was drafted from more than 130 submissions from indi viduals and business groups calls for a renegotiation of the agreement liberal industry critic jim peterson said the agreement combined with the federal governments high interest rate policies has made it almost impossible for canadian industry to compete glob ally- attewell argued that the reports criti cism of the governments monetary policies as they relate to inflation and high interest rates no longer apply with steady decreases in both in recent months attewell said all the worlds leading industrialized nations are experiencing similar economic trends because of excess capacity he ventured that it would be 10 to 20 years before we really are lean and mean and able to compete effectively in the global marketplace its too expensive to do business in this country said attewell several measures are being taken in the interim attewell said to get cana da back on the right economic track the measures include die lowering of interest rates and the drafting of a report that will set a strategy for gana das future competitiveness a leaked discussion paper thats one of several documents expected to precede the releaise of the report calls for the estab lishment of national education stan dards to increase literacy and improve canadas international competitiveness a spokesperson for the canadian labor congress however character izes as absolute nonsense attewells argument linking job losses chiefly to the recession and global rationalization derik hodgson communications director for the ottawabased group said that unlike the last recession the most current job losses aire permanent hodgson also pointed out that the gov ernment has not lived up to its promise to establish job retraining programs for affected workers and has cut unem ployment insurance benefits to force workers to go on welfare this isnt what the government promised said hodgson remember jobs jobs jobs the industrial heart- land is being cut put of canada i hodgson added that the labor congress is preparing for a nationwide campaign against free trade this fall said attewell its too soon to start rejigging me agreement we said from the beginning that it would be five to 10 years before we start seeing its ben efits show there will be a craft show at the- vandbrf community cen ter on aug 11 from 1 0 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