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ministrys water guarantee bit of window dressing a verbal promise from the minister of the environment george kerr to guarantee whitchurchstouffvilles water supply in case of pollution from the york sanitation dump is being regarded by some as a major con cession in the fight against the 175 acre in dustrial dump we are not so sure we would in fact go so far as to say the guarantee like the ministrys record of protecting the people of ontario rrom pollution is pretty well worthless that is unless a carte blanche guarantee is given to replace any polluted water supply a guarantee that specifies the pollution must be from the york site would be meaningless how would one go about conclusively proving the pollution was caused by the company and not by some other industrial or even agricultural contamination throughout the long and pointless environmental hearing many cases of well contamination were cited and in every case the landfill companys experts maintained the contaminants were from some other source oil in the well casings for example in each case these arguments were supported bythe ministry and accepted by the environmental hearing board v even with a guarantee the onus to prove that the pollution was from the dump would still likely fall on the town or property owner unless the guarantee specifically states otherwise in ontario it is not against provincial law to spread waste under someone elses property and this has traditionally been a civil law matter the ministry may guarantee a water supply but if the onus of proving the source of the pollution is left with the municipality or individual then the guarantee could only be called on after spending thousands or hun dreds of thousands of dollars to hire lawyers and experts to prove the point in a civil court unless the wording of the guarantee is carefully scrutinized we might be stuck with a pretty piece of window dressing that will give the ministry a little better image in the months ahead as we come closer to an election but will be of no benefit to the municipality given the ministrys horrendously shoddy record when it comes to protecting the public mercury poisoned indians and whatnot it is not advisable to rely in any way on their good intentions sugar and spice centre could be an example information sent to us from eugene citizens dropin centre and mr rehill ad- oregon from jim rehill who is on sabbatical dressed himself to that idea leavefrom stouffville dist secondary school he told of a variety of seniors centres he was very relevant to the question of how the has observed and the great benefit they have towns old post office could be used been to the participants whitchurch stouffville has agreed to active participation by volunteers and rent the building from the federal pubhc municipal government but primarily by the worksdepartmentfof 100 a month over a 10- seniors themselves has caused the programs yeafj period the problem now is what tojio nin eugene to blossom and provide an example iti c i the vultures willsoonbe gorging themselves su has been ifor senior if aisim1larvogram initiated tker certainly isvfaint stench arising here aswell whatever scale perhaps we f the liberal party these days but it is not could be an example for other towns to follow the stench of death it is more like the odour of there are quite a few big black birds floating around these days or had you noticed no thev are not black geese on their way south they are vultures they may not look like it they may more closely resemble political pundits media manipulators or triumphant tories but they are vultures they are scrawny and hungry as they circle impatiently waiting for the moribund body to fall down and become a carcass on which they can fatten that staggering corpus on which their beady little eyes are fixed is the liberal party which composes the government of this fair land at the moment a gallup or some other poll revealed recently that the liberals would receive only 29 per cent of the vote should an election be held when the poll was taken add to that the increasingly virulent tone of the media toward the prime minister and a gaggle of fairly minor scandals involving prominent liberals and it would appear that trudeou will come out swinging by bill smiley rnjarty years ago excerptsfrom the tribune october 31 1946 howhalloween began f y we all know that november 1st is a11 saints day an holy dayall hallows as the saints were called in olden times but why the eve of that holy day should be given over to practical jokes pranks and roistering sometimes even to lawbreaking seems to need some explanation all saints day was not originally kept on november 1st some authorities say it was on maylst others that it on the now observed as trinity sunday and that it was as late as the seventh century that the church decreed november 1st as all saints day this being the ancient date when the northern tribes held a festival bewailing the departure ofthe sun sun worship the cult of baal was almost j universal in 4 prehistoric times and baal demanded human sacrifices one of the centres of this worship was phoenicia and the phoenicians were f great travellers of antiquity they carried their religion to the ends of the earth and the druids seem to have had something in common with it the departure of the sun for the winter was celebrated with much zeal and great fires anda human sacrifice were part of the ceremonies after the tribes were converted to christianity these festivals gradually passed away but shadows of them remained 1 and we can see in our halloween pranks the beliefs of two or three thousand years ago fthe idea that witches ghosts and bogies of all sorts are out seems to be another link swith the superstitions of heathen worship divination was thought to be at its easiest on october 31st and spirits from sea and land were invoked this obtains at present in the custom of seeing spirits in morrors and various other conjuring tricks practised here arid there v a body that needs both a strong purgative and a good hot bath i dont pretend to be a political seer nor do i owe any political prognostications to any political affiliation in short i dont give a diddle for any of them but it doesnt require more than a modicum of common sense to realize that the liberal party is far from being on its last legs anyone who thinks otherwise is indulging in wishful fantasies or a form of selfhypnosis that includes the political vultures i think they are going to go right on being scrawny and hungry remember you read it here first the liberals may have absorbed a few stiff punches in the solar plexus but they are a long way from going to the mat and being counted out why use your head man or lady forget about the polls and the press nobody ever won an election with either or both people not polls elect governments and people are the most unpredictable creatures nn the universe they dont base their votes on logic or reason they base them on all kinds of crazy things they base them on emotions like greed letters to the editor government ignores second airport mistake the ministry of transport in ottawa still presses for an airport that is not required based on their traffic suggestions of the mid 60s which are overly optimistic otto lang chooses to ignore that even now many flights in and out of toronto have been cancelled due to uneconomical operations over the last 24 months many aircraft are flying half full or less with an average passenger load in the range of 60 percent airlines have thus attempted to encourage traffic with inexpensive charters even developers are not funding mayoral bid dear john s it has come to my attention since beginning my campaign for mayor of whit church stouffville that some people think that my campaign is financed by developers or people other than myself i would like to take this opportunity to clarify my position to the electorate i am not and have not been soliciting or accepting donations from anyone my husband and i are paying for my brochures and signs entirely from our own resources and all of our workers are donating their time voluntarily i trust this will set the rumours to rest sincerely cathy joice changed the first class seats to economy in an effort to become more profitable with the major world airlines losing millions of dollars annually there will be less air traffic not more 4 it is ludicrous for the mot to ignore the facts we arc now facing related to fuel and energy shortages and it is even probable that mid 1980s fuel rationing will result they still continue to encourage the construction of this second airport this becomes yet another irresponsible waste of taxpayers money the air pilots association travel agencies and the science council of canada plus many other groups are being added to the ever in creasing opposition to this second airport it appears that otto lang and the mot are using this abortivs second airport to cover up the white elephant at mirabel by threatening the flying public with overflights to winnipeg etc from montreal thus bypassing toronto it sounds like blackmail to us the flying public the mot has a responsibility to the 20 per cent of canadians who do fly and that is to make flying a little more convenient for todays passengers so far the passengers at toronto international airport are being harassed by inept passenger handling facilities which appears on the surface to be designed to win support for another airport project for toronto when are the people in ottawa going to realize you cant force the canadian tax payers to accept something they dont want and dont need very truly yours a w stiver lowoottenway markham editorial echoes readers feeling dear sir congratulations on your editorial community spirit in town is apparently in short supply it echoes the feeling i have had since coming to live in stouffville three years ago any attempt to raise some enthusiasm in activities or projects other than hockey and baseball results in an almost negative response from my own personal experience the recycling depot has been the onejexception but even here the percentage of interested persons is much lower than it should be yours truly joyce nailer hawthorn ave stouffville and fear they base them on glibness and charisma they base them on such things as margaret making an ass of herself on tv or maureen having a hard time with her first baby in these days when the tube is so vital in a politicians getting to the people the latter base their votes in many many cases on dazzle rather than dependability on rhetoric rather than reliability a pitytis tis pity but tis true when the crunch comes who are you going to vote for earnest youthful joe with his jowls jumping like a junior john dief or suave elegant pierre of the gallic shrug the seemingly utterly reasonable approach and the charm of a professional actor be honest now add to that a few other facts trudeau has the solid support of his party if only because he has led it to two successful grabs at the gold ring clark was elected leader of the tories by barely more than one half of the convention delegates add again trudeau is skilled and ex- penenced politician he has shown that he can be at the same time loyal to his henchmen and ruthless when need be clark is comparatively untried in the politcal arena is rapidly gaining skill but hasnt had a chance to be either loyal or ruthless he hasnt dared add some more the government controls the purse strings this means patronage and post offices ana pension cheques ana dont tell me thats nineteenth century politics it aint look for some sudden benevolence by the government on the eve of election and again dont count too much on the prime ministers current unpopularity t mackenzie king was one of the most cordially 9 hated drime ministers we have ever had he suddenly v became very popular and won an election when he introduced the baby bonus see last paragraph another fact there are millions of die hard liberals r this country theyd vote liberal if king kong or idi amin not much to choose there were running for prime minister what do you think they will do in an election roll over and play dead add to this that quebec despite its disillusion with its own liberal government will go at least ninety per cent liberal they may not love trudeau but when it comes to a choice between a guy named pierre and a guy named joe there is no choice among french canadians trudeau will get a licking in the west but that is not where elections are won or lost while it may be on the ropes cut and bleeding the liberal party is a long long way from being carried out of the ring feet first heres my prediction pierre trudeau will eat joe clark for breakfast if he doesnt ill eat three copies of the high river times for my breakfast c i countdown stouffville centennial 18771977 britain struggling for survival pamphlet a total of 6000 pamphlets describing the founding of stouffville and listing centennial events have been mailed out the pamphlets 1 were to have been approved by jean barkey but were accidentally printed before being checked- they contained some historical inaccuracies v v jink j century puquesfsm- uu avt f according to centennial publicity com- v tnittee chairman bill murphy between 20 and 30 homes in stouffville will qualifyforlcen centennial song 500 copies of the centennial theme song written by grace foote powell will be printed events board 1 a second events board will be erected in the west end plaza centennial souvenirs morgan jewellers will have available pen and pencil sets spoons cuff links tie pins and charms with the centennial logo and municipal crest- 5 tsh mennonlte column i iv aserles of articles on the mennonites written by mahjcfl shantzwill be featured having just returned from britain i will pass along some of the impressions i noted of the chaotic economic conditions of which we hear so much to say that british industry and methods are oldfashioned is an understatement the country is definitely overunionized to the detriment of the nation as a whole and men are walking off jobs almost weekly at the slightest provocation however prime minister callaghan touched a prime root of trouble at the recent labour conference when he told the delegates as long as ten workers in europe and america can produce the same unit of work as britain requires twenty to produce we can never regain our competitive position- v vthe instances of three and four persons occupying a job that could easily be done by one are prevalent throughout the country v incentive appears to be waning and thousands n move onto the dole rather than seek lower- w i vj- i uyiaaiuontonamzwui oe leaiurca class jobs zz tssrt moouuy mfthetribune- throughout the jhwhfle i was iu the country the bank in- bew suggested- w centenrid yearl w t v i terest rate moved to 15 percent and with a rate like this the urge to borrow money for ex- pansion to produce more jobs is strictly nil the countrys giveaway programs are horrendous and continuous borrowing on the worlds money markets to pay these bills cannot continue for long nearly 70 per cent of the countrys income goes into government programs and these are all mm productive in canada we are unhappy that 48 per cent of our tax money goes the same way a large group of the government party continues to howl for the nationalization of still more industry something which does little or nothing for the economy since almost without exception nationalized industries operate in the red others favor the cutting off of more imports since trade is a twoway street such a move can be very tricky to say the least f income taxes are at levels which dismay any north american rates for a single in- dividual in britain are just double in tax rate in canada sales tax or value added tax as it is known there is 8 per cent with predictions of going to 10 per cent by c h nolan to the casual observer from this side of the water it would appear to be business as usual gasoline is 150 a gallon but highways are crowded and city traffic is as jammed as ever business appears good in restaurants and hotels even in country areas however there are signs of a rundown condition in some areas with an apparent lack of capital for renovations prices are high by british standards but many are low in comparison to canadian prices particularly ft with the pound at an alltime low of 165 this drastic fall of the pound has london money markets in a constant whirl but or- dinary britishers do not notice the change until newlypurchased imports begin to ap pear on the shelves at drastically higher prices sr politically the conservatives have been in a period of weakness and only the floundering of the labor government has provided them with some spark however as the countrys condition worsens polls indicate that even lacking a hundred percent confidence voters would cast their lot with the tories and 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