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us about it? We ask you, the people, to decide if Mr. Givens is communicating with the people of his riding. We are sure a man of his qualities is busy at work but why doesn‘t he tell In the Lakeshore riding Ken Robinson is in Etobicoke as much as he is in Ottawa it seems. He continues to sit on Etobicoke‘s council as a controller. In the bordering riding of Etobicoke, Alastair Gillespie has set up an office and writes a regular column in the Guardian. He is always very much in evidence in his riding on weekends. * * General Motors announced that as of January 1, the price of $3,000 deluxe Chevrolets will be hiked to $4,500 and service warranties will be discontinued to save GM $13 million a year. Several Etobicoke residents are in Mr. G;ve'm riding of York West and it is his solemn duty to inform them of what he is doing in Ottawa. Soon it will halt Saturday mail deliveries to save $13â€"million a year in PO expenses. Only an _ allâ€"powerful, uncontrollable agency â€" of government would dare pull a stunt like that. Imagine what would happen if: * Bell Telephone suddenly announced that as of December 1‘ Metro household subscriber rates will be increased from $6 to $9 a month and that the telephone system will shut down every weekend to save the company $13 million a year in operating costs. Since June 26 this newspaper and ;h;‘w-e-s'mn Times have heard far, far too little from Mr. Givens. And any contact was initia_(e‘d by the newspapers, not Mr. Givens. Our member of the federal house for Y great diuppearing‘qct. Is Phil Givens a my th? Ottawa has a _ virtual _ monopoly on _ the multiâ€"millionâ€"dollar mail industry. Due to poor management, outdated methods, and rising costs, the post office increased Novemberâ€"1 the price of first class letter deliveries in Metropolitan Toronto 33 per cent, four cents to six cents. i It has been said many times that if private business functioned in the bureaucratic and inefficient manner of the Federal government, our country would have been bankrupt years ago. Mr. McCarthy said he issued the building permits because the landowner could have obtained a court injunction. He had no business whatsoever making a decision of this sort. There is a highly competent legal department which is paid to make the legal decisions for the borough of York. We stand to be corrected, but it has always been our understanding that personnel in York‘s building department work for Mayor Jack Mould and his council and should therefore be taking orders from these people rather than from committee of adjustment. This excuse in our opinion is utter nonsense. What judge would order a municipality to issue building permits to a developer when three senior department heads state that safe construction on such a site is next to impossible? Mr. McCarthy should not have issued the building permits to the landowner despite the questionable and perhaps even irresponsible decision of Sydney M. Harris, Howard McLaughlin, James Mizzoni, George Jeffs and Dennis McCarthy. Mr. McCarthy said the reasonshe issued the building permits was that construction. was okayed by the committee of adjustment and had he refused the permits the owner of the Gooch site could have obtained a court order against the municipality. Are they incompetent, stupid, dishonest, conceited or do they really know more about building, zoning and planning matters than professional planners and engineers? Here are a few of the facts: An official in York borough‘s building department, William McCarthy, issued building permits to erect three detached houses and a semiâ€"detached unit on Gooch Ave., near Dundas, despite very firm statements from the planning director, the late building commissioner and the works commissioner that the site (gouged out from the side of a sand hill) was unfit and unsuitable for building. How do you explain the actions of five men who are supposed to be the pillars of society when they ignore some of the best advice that money can buy? Imagine what would happen if Published at 2159 Weston Rd., Weston by Principal Publishing Ltd., every Thursday Authorized as Second Class Mail, Post Office Dept. Ottews, Ont., and for payment of postage in cash. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $7.00 per year in advance to any address in Canada Other countries 39.01” TWesctonu / imes Who is Phil Givens? Telephone 241â€"521 1 Stewart Castle, Manager B.M, Moimes, Editor The Etobicoke Guardian York West has a Ontario has fallen to third place in forest products. "During recent years the province has been a net importer of lumber. The depletion of the old growth pine stands will reduce opportunities for expansion of the lumber industry in this province in the next 25 years," according to the Royal Commission on Canada‘s Economic Prospects, 1957. ‘"The Niagara district is as good a fruitâ€"growing area as there is on this continent, but if present trends continue, fruit growing in this area will Southern Ontario lacks parks and outdoor recreational facilities to an extent unparalleled by any other major population centre in North America, according to a study made for the Conservation Council of Ontario in 1964. "The rivers and streams of southern Ontario may have to be reserved in the future for waste disposal rather than as a source of water." Dr. James Vance, Chairman, Ontario Water Resources Commission, 26 March, 1968. ‘"There are reasonably accurate guesstimates from a variety of sources to the effect that by the years 2000 to 2020 there will be virtually none of the good farmlands left in Ontario. . .." Prof. Norman Pearson, University of Guelph, 26 March 1968. Ontario faces a conservation crisis surpassed in North America only by California and the eastern United States. Our prodigal province has allowed many of our precious natural resources to be exploited without thought for the future. For example: ‘"The fish fauna of the Great Lakes has been completely altered in a decade. The famous fishery on Lake Erie for blue pike, whitefish and cisco is gone." Dr. W.B. Scott, Royal Ontario Museum, in "The Freshwater Fishes of Eastern Canada," 1967. Ontario p THE WESTON TIMES Highâ€"level piece talks ays strip poker with nature Secondary schools offer four and fiveâ€"year programs with three course: Arts and Sciences; B‘Ilsiness and Commerce; and Science, Technology and Trades. A number odf vocational schools also include twoâ€"year junior clerical and junior industrial courses, and oneâ€"year special commercial and special technical courses. from Progress, a North York Board of Education publication. A pilot project "to study the effects of a .system of promotion by individual subject rather than by grades. . ." has been conducted since 1965 in â€" Newtonbrook secondary school. If successful, changes will be made to the present graded system with the result â€" that "graduation diplomas will be awarded when sufficient subject credits are obtained." In 1801 one of the earliest schools was built at Newton Brook on the Yonge St. road allowance. Two years later the population totaled 456, and today 425,000 North Yorkers send their 99,000 pupils to be taught by 5,000 teachers in these educational establishments. i From a few oneâ€"room log cabin structures to 147 modern, even luxurious, "centres of learning" (schoois if you prefer) in the past 150 years is the record chalked up by the combined efforts of educators, government and taxpayers in the present Borough of North York. disappear by 1980." Agricultural Marketing Enquiry Commission of Ontario Report, 1961. We have been playing a game of strip poker with the landscape of Ontario. A relatively few people have been winning the early hands â€"â€" people interested only in quick profits from the sale of conveniences â€"â€" and all but guaranteeing that our children will lose as the game goes on, not just conveniences, but necessities as well. For, according to the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, what we save of our wild landscape in our generation will be all that will remain to be passed on. There will never be another chance. (Mr. Woodford is a writer for the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.) 150 years of schooling By HANNAH BEDELL THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1963 Aet‘s drofp Hoeu. 11 In my opinion, these film strips of past wars should be shown in school, on November 11. Perhaps, if the students . need a holiday from the day to day school work, ways to peace and a better understanding of their felow man, no matter what their nationality or country, could be discussed, at their own grade level. At the Board of Education meeting Monday evening, nothing was discussed about the Remembrance Day program in the schools, except to say that some of the schools had excellent film strips at their assemblies on Friday. Opinion One would just have to go into the bowling alleys and shopping plazas and side streets with boys playing hockey and the like t o â€" realize t hat Remembrance Day means nothing to them. To the first question, I say a flat "no". To the second question, I say they (at least 99 per cent of them), do nothing at all related _ to _ Remembrance holiday. _ ~~ #3 By PEG GRANT "‘Why a school holiday on Remembrance Day"> This question is "old hat" to many parents who have had children in the school system for many years. Does it mean anything to the students to have the day off? What do they do with their time? w