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i ftagtt2agafl osilwi tl thanksgiving food drive brown bag ft this in this weeks paper read ers came across a brown paper bag that fell onto their laps when they opened their copy some may have tossed the bag in the recycling bin but it is our hope the bags will be put to great use the foodbahks in our cov erage area the whitchurch- stouffville foodbank loaves and fishes food- bank in uxbridge and the markham foodbank are struggling to make ends meet once again donations of nonperish able foodstuffs are required to get the banks through until the christmas drive the daily bread food- bank in toronto is also in some rather dire straits and some of the food collected locally will go to help the needy this thanksgiving we have placed the bags in our paper to remind resi dents of the notsofortu nate in these tough econom ic times food can be brought to any fire hall in the area or to various other depots including our offices in stouffville and uxbridge peanut butter eggs pasta and other canned goods must be obtained to replen ish the rapidly depleting shelves the demand on the food- bank system is growing steadily but because of the recessionand belttighten ing by most residents sup ply is hot keeping pace the fall is a time of year when the demand seems to be highest m by brian basset irmhttkiwued m-v- 4- v r9pbjifbfi v m w the colder weather is set ting in summer employ ment has dropped off heat ing bills are beginning to mount and the end of sum mer food supplies at the foodbanks spell tough times for foodbank users please use the bags enclosed in wednesdays paper with your help the food- bank system can help qur neighbors help themselves markham economist and sun stouffville tribune uxbridge tribune weekender edition a lietrotand community newspaper patricia pappaspubusher jo ann stevenson editorinchief paulacroweluedha r andrew ualrefflor debraweller director of advertising jennifer hutt director of distribution promotions vivian onsl business manager pamela 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imagination of the british people british prime minister james callaghan sept 1976 in a bulldogs eye arthur black canadian columnist oct 1991 actually im being unkind the idea of canada does trigger the imagination of the british people- but only in the wildest and most hallucinatory way consider this passage from a recent edition of the manchester guardian one of britains quality newspapers a correspondent by the name of ralph whitlock is musing over the contents of a letter he has received from a canadian friend ralph writes in the guardian some of the encounters of man with wildlife are frightening elks sic moose and other ungulates are known to be unpredictable bears overturn beehives and frighten every bodyalso coyotes are getting familiar with man and losing their fear of himoneeven dragged a 16yearold from a campsite iri banff the amountbf sheer balder- dash in the foregoing passage is quite astounding the only bears most canadians ever see play football for chicago your average canuck wouldnt know a live elk from a tame rotarian and a coyote dragging a 16yearold from a campsite arf a mo ther ralph lad my encyclopedia tells me the average coyote runs about three and a half free from pointy snout to tip of fluffy tail and a mature adult weighs mat a whopping 30 pounds soaking wet the queens wussiest corgi could clean a coyotes clock old ralph isnt the only brit to view canada through holly woodcolored sunglasses or to blab about it in the daily papers a british actor by the name of john sessions recently whined and mewled all over the pages of the independent about his terrible four year ordeal in canada mister sessions did not take well to life in the great white north as a matter of fact it drove him to the slough of despair the edge of madness and beguiling thoughts of sui cide would he ever come to canada again he would rather go to new york arid be shot or stabbed to death he told slack- jawed independent readers at least he sniffed new york is civilized what bothered mister ses sions most about his sanitysap ping prison sentence in canada the hideous blizzards he wrote you simply couldnt walk above ground from november to march well ive never passed a win ter squatting on an arctic ice floe or crouched shivering in a log cabin listening to the trees crack and the wolves howl in the wilds of bcs northern inte rior but then neither has mister sessions those ghastly lost years he moans about were all spent within the city limits of hamilton ontario clearly mister sessions hatred of canada goes beyond stupidi ty or even malevolence the man is deluded but why why do the brits get canada so wrong i think the rest of europe is to blame continental europeans have never been kind about the english they laugh at english stuffiness and the wretched english cuisine worse euro- peans joke about english you know sex a woman french cabinet min ister calls les anglais the worlds most undersexed peov pie a czech humorist cracks continental people have sex lives the english have hot water bottles that explains the english pen chant for fantasy canada is a mere plaything for a sexually deprived dirty old country canucks unite we have noth ing to lose but our harem pyja mas