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p4 weekender may 3 1997 stux aid to manitoba flood victims a top priority the harshness of the world has been softened somewhat by the obvious outpouring of sympathy and aid for the people of southern manito ba rallying around the down trodden is something cana dians are known for espe cially when they are our own people in crisis as with the hands extended in aid for the people of chicoutimi last year all across the nation people are reaching out to floodrstricken manito ba one senior sent premier gary filman a 100 bill tacked to a note asking him to do what he could with the money this on the same day he received a cheque viewpoint andrew mair from the liberal govern ment for 25 million but the aid comes in more forms than just cash and cheques people all across the country have been send ing everything from long distance cards to sleeping bags baby food to rubber boots as the waters crested on the red river thursday the residents of southern manitoba were claiming a victory of sorts over the flood waters the dykes built to hold back the con verging waters of the red and assiniboine in winnipeg were fulfilling their role admirably now residents will be shoring up the walls as the river recedes and the 1000squarekilometre lake sinks into the spring earth and they will be praying for the rains to hold off as they wait canadians are coming to manitobans rescue in a heartfelt ges ture to relieve what we in the east can only imagine canadian tire dealers must be commended for supplying trucks to transport the tons of goods being shipped to the shelters and aid agencies in the stricken province and as always our fire depart ments are more than willing to open their doors for dona tions your local cibc branch is also accepting cash donations this newspaper will also accept any supplies you wish to donate to the flood relief we will see the goods are shipped to the canadian tire depots for shipment to manitoba drop off your donations at any of our offices in markham stouf- fville or uxbridge or at the local fire hall bring cash donations to the cibc the outpouring of support from the rest of the country demonstrates once again the strength of the nation when we act as neighbors the tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patmpappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorinchief andrew mair general managereditor debra welles director of advertising barky goodyear director of distribution vivian oneil busmen manater pamela nichols operations manager stotiffville all enquiries 905 6402100 fax 905 6405477 6244 main st stouflvule ont oxbridge all enquiries 905 8529741 fax 905 8524355 88 brock st w uxbridge ont the tribune published every wednesday and satur day is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of community newspapers which includes ajax pickering news advertiser auiston her ald barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparent collingwoodwasaga beach connec tion east york mirror etobicoke guardian george 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their prissy stiff- upperlippish ways anglosaxon sangfroid is universally acknowledged uni versally disparaged and as an englishman himself might say a load of utter rubbish the british arent passion less they just have better man ners soccer louts excluded than the rest of us as for lacking a sex drive youve got to be wondering what bushel basket milos for- man has been living under for the past quarter of a century did he miss the profumo scan- editors mail children need systemic change to the editor in response to the editorial the childrens aid society cas cant do the job of child pro tection alone much of my adult life i have spent on the cas boards as well as the board of the ontario association of cas during this time many children have been helped but unfortunately a few have died from abuse one is too many changes required that all persons who know of or have rea son to suspect child abuse will be held libel if they do not report this to the cas that every cas have available to them a highly skilled physician in the field of child abuse as well as a radiologist familiar with all forms of imagery and particularly skilled in child injuries that child injuries where abuse is suspect ed must appear in court before any signs of the injuries have diminished that any child that dies from an injury must be examined by a qualified child abuse physician a radiologist experienced in child abuse and any autopsy by an experienced child injury pathologist a child is a person and must be afforded all the rights of any other human being even though this might come in conflict with an adult a great deal of emphasis is presently placed on the family and the rights of the adults involved there are dysfunctional families where the rights of the child does not have a chance where child abuse ends up in death the fin ger is all too often pointed at the childrens aid society and when the cas intervenes when abuse has occurred they are characterized as child snatchers we certainly agree to give sup port to the family but we also agree that we as a society must support the rights of the child our present system too often fails the child sam bowman markham dal fergie duchess of toes prince charles and lady tam pon the veritable daisy chain of british members of parlia ment who get caught at a rate of about once a fortnight with their oxfords under the wrong beds near as i can tell the british are about as randy a lot as this hormonally overcharged planet has ever spawned consider the news from exeter college at oxford university where under graduates have voted to ban heavy petting in the dining room they also voted in favour of splitting the junior common room into two areas one for heavy petting and one for light petting oh yes and they also support ed a motion that banned inter course in the library between 3 am and 8 am one has to assume that for the other 19 hours of the day boffing in the books enjoys the exeter college seal of approval doesnt sound like a sex-drive- challenged nation to me the norwegians theres another group that gets held up to ridicule in the sexier than thou department the norse are cold the cliche goes distant aloof they got no rhythm well you couldnt prove it by the story thats rocking norway right now norwegian media are busy chronicling the ongoing public quarrel between two women over just exactly whose breasts appeared in a norwe gian magazine recently seems an enterprising photog rapher snapped a picture of a norwegian lass strolling along a canary island beach with only the bottom part of her bikini performing its function when the photo appeared in a weekly magazine back home a distraught woman named aud stos sued the publisher for 150000 kroner claiming she was the woman who belonged to basic black arthur black those breasts and the publica tion of the photo had subjected her to ridicule in her rural home town whereupon a second norse nymph by the name of inger marie maylam surfaced to say that hers not ms stos were the breasts that graced the photo in question ms maylam also said the breasts are mine and they are for free it is wrong for somebody else to try to make 150000 kroner on them sounds pretty sexually well- adjusted to me nope if you want to see sexu al uptightness in action you dont have to leave home pecksniffian prudery is alive and well here in the great white north just last month some upright citizens in toronto tried to have a woman arrested for breast feeding her child in public what is the problem here why is it i can turn on my tv and see severed heads full- frontal nhl punchups and bul letriddled bodies on channel after channel but something as beautiful unthreatening and utterly healthy as human female breasts instantly tighten the sphincters of canadas self- appointed censors maybe its not the breasts at all maybe its the idea of breast milk that offends them dunno why we are talking lit erally about the staff of life here besides human breast milk enjoys one advantage that the stuff our dairies sell us will never be able to equal outstanding packaging