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p4 tribune janjuar13j993 stf stouffville another 7 to prop up ont hydro a nother seven per cent j have whitchurch-stouf- fville residents become so complacent about the inevitability of bill increases that this will pass unnoticed and unprotested ontario hydro has a great deal of questions to answer from the residents of this province and yes this town why continue with a megabillion dollar project stringing power lines from sudbury to toronto when the contract with manitoba for hydro power has been cancelled and what of the nuclear plants why are they not at full efficiency stouffville residents are asked every year to come up with more when in fact hydro is making business for itself and taking its monopoly directly to the local utility municipalities and homeowners it has to stop vlltu ukb1 coukjaiu rae you cant be serioujs jokes never are t ob rae is a joke a roll-your-head-back- andhowljoke a real gagster heres the punchline bobbyboy says he wants brian mulroney out of power and hell do whatever it takes to convince people the federal tories are a bunch of nogood losers who are taking advan tage of the people he said hell even go from province to province and tell everyone that its brian thats ruining the country well settle down bobber wake up and smell the poll findings the new democratic party is eating dust in the popularity race these days against even the illadmired conservatives i believe dear ole bob has lost so much credibility with the people at least in ontario that if he starts flappin his chops about big bad brian peo ple may actually want to vote the chinmeister back in i believe bob and his new dimocrats have proven to be such blundering basketcases that people dont care diddly squat what he says the nerve the unmitigated gall of the man to think that because he says something peo ple want to listen this is the same man who kibble bits kibble icks the boots of every union 30ss in the province and pan ders to the whims of every lobby group who camps out on his doorstep this is the same man whose caucas cant keep their girl friends or their wallets out of the daytoday government business this is the same man who stood on and wanted lands des tined for a park 10 years ago but is willing to place a 600- acre mega dump on those same lands today rae wants to tell ndp leader audrey mclaughlin that hes ready to do whatever she wants him to do to trash brian around the country ooh i bet the tories are pack ing their suitcases now influen tial bob is on the warpath afterall tee hee mulroney is probably rubbing his hands together in sheer glee at the thoughts of rae trying to ruin his already pathetic career hell tell mila tm a shoein if that clod goes around the country telling people not to vote for me bobs doing what every self- respecting politician does best though hes blaming high taxes on everyone else he blames brian the municipali ties blame rae and so on but get real bobby youre washed up and ill eat dirt if you and your 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the car radio first we had to endure the local news in which alleged police cor ruption was the story of the hour one officer involved was said the announcer a threeandahalf year veteran of the force veterans used to begin after about 20 years of service or so i thought now we have veteran ball players of 25 and veteran hockey players of 21 so on that basis im a veteran writer kates gorne q i i d or d a le unfortunately the fact that i have reached this exalted status doesnt necessarily guarantee empowerment this word is all over the place like a rash these days if youre not empowered in some way youre really five minutes ago empowered people have learned to say no without being gracious about it they are empowered to stamp out racism sexism smoking drinking and immoderate laughter caused by inappropriate jokes which shouldnt be funny but are workshops selfhelp books and reams of newspaper have lately been devoted to the subject of empowerment a state to which leaders of the womens movement are particularly prone perhaps thats why its taken over from dysfunctional as the most overused word of the 90s presumably youre no longer dys functional if empowerment allows you to behave in the manner approved by the selfappointed expertrof the month it certainly has helped me to say no to skiing although i love going to our friends chalet for a change of pace my preferred pace changes from not terribly fast to stationary skiing has no place on my agen da and id much rather look at blue mountain thancareen down it and even in todays parlance i guess one illfated attempt last year doesnt make me a veteran skier