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p4 weekender stux create a vision for canada and hold it fast canada what a country what a challenge from the ashes of the 126th canada day fireworks ottawa and stouffville went wild we must construct a vision to herald our country into the next century we know its great beauty its diverse peoples its strug gles for communication geo graphically politically per sonally we know its strengths and hold them close to our hearts and theres pride too living in the keystone province of ontario the refer endum played out unfamiliar scenarios as never before we focussed on the mechanics of viewpoint jo ann stevenson how our government works and doesnt work we saw the open sores in the west in the aboriginal peoples and que bec that have yet to be healed in the words of the late jeanne sauve the refer endum was one of the great est crises in our history and with a federal election expected this fall the party leaders are pointing out their visions and asking us to be a part kim campbell blames the long liberal reign for todays staggering 458 billion feder al debt higher per capita than the us she believes the steps taken such as gst to put the economic house back in order are working jean chretien blames free trade for unemployment and would repeal it his vision is to pull canada back to inde pendence and self reliance whoever we elect as prime minister twoway dialogue with the people of canada will be essential to keep our vision on track take the language issue for an example a healthy cana da is the surest path to the survival of the french lan guage and culture in north america likewise our economic diffi culties are better solved together the hour is critical so we must forge ahead together each pursuing his or her own vision for that is truly good government together we do have the power to solve our problems markham economist and sun stouffville tribune uxbridge tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher jo ann stevenson 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banner contents not to be reproduced without written permission from the publisher must our meltdowns really go galactic pud it was excellent rrvws v ayes0meuwtstje5crjrjl itwasatbestwof sch00llhfmrf t i i i 1 i i 1 l wptittalsoy0ur ytw of school 1 v ii i i i i vflfeffi we live in perilous times nowadays the simple act of reading your newspaper can be dangerous to your health the other day for instance i read in my newspaper that japanese boffins are working on a project to put a nuclear power station on the moon the same edition of the news paper informs me that russian scientists have already man aged to launch a mirror into space that can be used to reflect the suns rays to turn night into day here on earth i have only one response to these brave new technological breakthroughs are we nuts has mankind long the looni est of earthly critters finally come completely unhinged chernobyl and three mile island werent big enough toxic playgrounds now we have to go galactic with our meltdowns truth to tell im not really worried about the japanese plan yet its still at the blue sky stage ironic cliche that the japanese science and tech nology agency is merely setting up a five year project to study the feasibility of their inter planetary reactor brainwave a lot of things can happen in five years including common sense no its the russian mirror-in- space initiative that really gets my goat because theyve already done it one night last month while you and i slept snug in our beds an unmanned russian spacecraft winging around the earth deployed a very thin plas tic mirror about 65 feet wide the mirror was angled to pick up the suns rays and deflect them down to the darkened european continent below it worked that night across europe something happened that has never occurred in the history of the planet there was sunlight in the middle of the night not a whole lot of it and not for very long it was more like a twomilewide flashlight beam that skipped across france germany austria and what used to be yugoslavia for a grand total of about six min- utes v v i ystili itwasanhistorical occa- basic black arthur black sion and it must have been something to see from the ground an insomniac in lyons described the flashing strobe that emanated from the satel lite as looking like luminous diamonds following one another across the sky and it appar ently lit up the earth like a pho tographers flash nevertheless i repeat my ear lier question are we nuts the theory behind the space mirror rests on the same guid ing principle that drives our approach to all things agricul tural namely how can we milk a little more juice out of this sucker we pump our cat tle full of steroids to fatten em up we pump our wheat fields full of fertilizer and pesticides to accomplish the same thing the space mirror once per fected will mean we can put our farmlands on unpaid over time extend harvest and planting periods resulting in bigger more frequent harvests oh yes and it would save electricity too by turning dawn and dusk into more hours of daylight billions of dollars in electric lighting would be saved so by extending daylight we would save on electric light which was created to extend daylight truth is we dont know what were meddling with the earth and all the creatures on it have marched to an unseen biological rhythm since life began fool with the cadence of life itself and who knows what franken- steinian consequences you unleash but we will fool with it were human and we can convenient ly label it progress that guar antees that we will fool with it and some day i imagine well have the planet wired up just like a corner convenience store floodlit open 24 hours personally i prefer going out in the inkblacknighttoldbk