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p4 fmumt9fim st jjjjjwfeisjsjc vywx sainsbury moving up whitchurchstouffville mayor fran sainsbury caused quite a stir in local provincial political circles last week in announcing her bid to seek the nomination for the liberal party in markham and though incumbent tory mpp don cousens questions her knowl edge of markham area issues and her place of residence outside the riding the mayors move would benefit voters in markham a respected veteran politician mr cousens handily won markham riding in the last provincial elec tion but there were no serious grit contenders that he was up against with mayor sainsburys hat in the ring that could change assuming she wins the nomination shes principled honest and hard working and brings with her years of municipal experience further mayor sainsbury was a champion of the environment before it was politically rewarding there are no official contenders for the grit nomination in markham yet which will force her hand but from here the move is one that spells action for markham voters our loss however would be their gain broken dreams in atlantic city i spent a day recently noting all the streets on a monopoly board as they appear in real life in the seedy centre of atlantic city new jersey someone once told me that atlantic city was the model for the legendary board game and i found that it is true all the streets on the monopoly board can be found in the citys core the only difference of course is that in atlantic city its real money youre likely to lose and that i did i went with three coworkers to the famed atlantic city boardwalk via worldways airlines and spent a day taking in the sights sounds and unpleasant smells of the city the boardwalk lined with casi nos expensive eateries souvenir shops and more casinos was filled with tourists from the moment we arrived at random sliiiiiiiila steve houston and hidden behind many of those faces were surely a number of bro ken dreams hidden in their pockets were surely many empty wallets the casinos themselves reek of money and excess outside city fathers have done little to keep up appearances for every chandelier in trumps new taj mahal there are as many boarded up storefronts for every payoff in a slot machine there are twice as many outofpocket donations with my substantial 75 gam bling stake i thought like a thou- sand others that day i would find stouffvilleuxbridge publisher triduilg patricia pappas editorinchief editor director of advertising retail advertising mgr administration mgr dir of promotionsdistribution operations mgr don bernard stephen houston debraweller susan berry chris bertram jennifer hutt pam nicholis my fortune i took my chances at a black jack table to see if my stake would grow it didnt and as most people here know 75 american translates roughly into 3500 canadian it still didnt take me very far early on i thought i might bump into donald trump seeing as he just sunk a fortune into his latest casino instead i saw people pose beside cardboard images of his richness so they could spend 20 1100 canadian for a deceptive black and white photograph there was no sign of ivana or editors mail maria maples after losing my whopping 75 1 wandered around various casinos counting the stacks of chips other gamblers held jealously before them most stacks dwindled quick ly but i did see a few fortunate gamblers win one brave soul withdrew 3000 from a slot machine in one pull i later found out from another curious bystander that the player had dropped more than 1000 into the machine before it paid off i also learned that he was paying 75 a crack to play i had fun while i was there but wouldnt consider spending more than a day in atlantic city for one i would have tat save for about 10 years before i could put together a stake large enough to play by that time of course i would be so afraid of losing it the trip would be out of the question but the most disturbingpart of my day came when i recognized a fel low at the ticket counter at atlantic citys pomona airport on the way home earlier in the day the person in question was on a winning streak judging by the stack of 25 chips spread out before him when i saw him later i could tell his pockets werent lined with prof its his tie was loosened and hang ing askew one shirt tail hung care lessly out of his pinstriped pants his shoulders were now slumped as he shuffled toward the boarding line it was then i realized i was indeed lucky lucky that i didnt have more than 75 to throw away on trumps tables give me pennyante poker any old time nofault proposal illconceived published every wednesday by metrotand printing publishing and distributing at 9 heritage rd markham ontario l3p 1m3 tel 2942200 second class registration number 1247 the stouftvillo tribune published every wednesday at 54 main st w stouttville is one of the metroland group of suburban newspapers which includes the acton free printing pubiswng and distributirv press ajaxpfckanng news advei 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is not listening to the wishes of the people of ontario there is a situation which is bound to arise frequently under the new legislation and i would like to know what you suggest people do about it frequently when people of limited means are injured and have a valid claim but cannot afford a lawsuit and do not qualify for legal aid their lawyer will finance the suit by not charging for his time and may even pay out thousands of dollars in expenses out of his own pocket then when the action is settled or tried the lawyer is reimbursed for his expenses and compensated for his time and effort for those clients of more substantial means the client will pay for the expenses as they occur waiting until completion of the matter forpayment of their lawyers fees under existing legislation an experienced personal injury lawyer usually has a pretty good idea what a court will decide if there is an issue as to liability for the acci dent with bill 68 there will be an added measure of uncer tainty it will be several years before the court has provided clear guidelines as to how serious the injury must be before a person is entitled to bring legal action for proper compensation the great shame of this situation will be that many peo ple would probably pass the threshold ie be entitled to proper compensation but would hot be able to risk the financial ruin that would result from being unsuccessful the theoretical and conceptual harms of this illcon ceived legislation are apparent to anyone who looks close ly at it sometimes it seems like your government is living in a dream world sincerely dwmonteith chairman of the fair committee