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pmbmrmiem92 st stouffville dump issue affects all in thegta t t will come down to three x the long list of 57 dump sites proposed by the interim waste authority encompass the entire span of greater toronto area but be assured there are sites in this area being examined closely three will be chosen the most likely site for the 600 acre dump is at whitevale but stouffville brock township scugog and even markham are not out of the picture entirely only uxbridge township was left unscathed by the selection process no one in this area should be complacent howev er we must all stand up and be counted on this issue there is a community in northern ontario screaming for the money metros garbage would bring but the minister of the environment refuses to ship the trash there no garbage willbe transported to other municipalities she said what are we chopped liver it would appear so tittutfb uttle xvja luj m political correctness leaves me voicedisadvantaged t have been called a number a of things in my day but it seems the good folks who would propose we alter our language to suit the new trend toward political correctness have added a whole host of new labels i am hairdisadvantaged opticallychallenged melaninimpoverished and by some accounts i am pos sessing an alternative body image in other words i am losing my hair wear glasses on occasion am white- and could stand to lose a few pounds these days it seems political correctness pervades every aspect of our lives to ensure i stay on top of these changing trends the staff at the tribune presented me with a new book the offi cial politically correct dictio nary and handbook for my birthday recently it is both humorous and a tad disturbing disturbing in that there are actually people out there who advocate changing such com mon terms as dog and ugly and waitress to nonhuman companion cosmetically dif ferent and waitron respec tively while much of the book is minute with mair tongueincheek there are actual entries that have been suggested by various profes sors fringe groups and radi cals in the last few years after going over a dozen pages or so i began to realize that the book really only scratches the surface if these people wanted to they could really go to town some examples car could become human conveyance receptacle first names like saman- tha and carmen and last names like johnson thom son and manson would have to be changed to better reflect modern society like safemtha carfem john- ron thomron and ronron respectively places like manitoba indiana and blackstock would need new names like personitoba nativeiana arid person of colorstock okay im being a little glib but the whole political correct ness thing seems silly we have enough to worry about without having to gauge every word we utter for fear we are not being politically cor rect if these people had their way we would have to change the tribune to roman magistrate chosen by the people to champion their rights they already call newspapers 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damage in the tender psy che of a volatile young consumer or so my son informs me while i admit to being an illit erate in these matters im advised by the family expert that one can either scrape by with the regular pump mode which he owns or opt for the version which requires batteries batteries as all worldweary downtrodden parents know are seldom included in the price of anything and need replacing more often than john mcenroes tennis racquet i shared this insight with my son as he blasted away at thefar end of the garden inadvertently dousing the cat who has not been seen since what i wanted to know but not passionately was the point of putting batteries in a water gun he sighed indicating that it would be obvious to most people and explained that batterypow ered guns were great at firing in static bursts just like a machine gun naturally his best friend has the batteryoperated model but he acknowledged that his was pretty good too consider ing i could however detect a dangerous consumerist glint in his eye all right so he had agreed to keep his babysitting money in his bank account for the summer holidays but surely one little purchase couldnt make that much difference and sure ly hed be offered lots of jobs before we went away it was my turn to sigh wearily not only would i be subjected to an endless litany of the pros and cons of every water gun known to humanity i would also lose all visiting rights to my telephone as he spent the next day or two exhaustively researching the topic i can only hope this latest fad will soon be water under the bridge