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wdernqyel j31993 stux or fax us numbers at right garbage is in crisis so lets bash bob no one can be expected to welcome a mega dump to their community but it was disappointing to see the polit ical grandstanding that went on when the iwa announced the three preferred sites in vaughan yesterday the col lective pouts were profuse it was a bash bob event from the start york region politicians formed a united front against the york region site in vaughan mpp don cousens said hes disgusted with the selection of sites announced he and markham mayor frank scarpitti said theyll fight with lorna jackson against dumps in york region and viewpoint jo ann stevenson will reverse the million dollar iwa process given a torylib eral win at the province the war has just begun was their battle cry pickering mayor wayne arthurs had a prepared press release with him saying we have a government in queens park we cant even trust to take out the garbage the ee11 site announced in his jurisdiction sits where east and west duffins creeks join it is just out of range enough to scatter oppo sition he must have envied that ferocious flank of solidar ity the stage seems set for the exit of the bob rae govern ment the defeat of bill 143 and for the selection process to begin anew millions of taxpayers dollars later we should all be angry about landfill sites threaten ing the communities and environs we love and depend on but direct that anger to the real problem which is not the iwa or the bob rae gov ernment in the absence of leadership on the persistent problem of garbage the public must pay for its chosen throwaway lifestyle the solution has to deal with political and economic realities politicians should rise above this hypocritical hysteria not pander to it long term solutions will take leadership and vision sorry bashing bob doesnt cut it markham economist and sun stouffville tribune uxbridge tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patmcttpappas publisher jo ann stevenson 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contents not to be reproduced without written permission from the publisher adam by brian basset 9nxbbaam bibbfcttej rr owanowna mquhqmb xlflrtamtwewmw natural law party good comic relief the 1993 canadian federal election results are already growing mould on the sanitary landfill site called history and already im filled with regret not because the new gang of sobs are turning out to be no better than the old gang of sobs i wasnt expecting mira cles whats made me sad is the realization that i will probably never again hear from the natu ral law party they were big in the past federal election they fielded some 230 candidates from bella coola to bonavista the party spent untold hundreds of thousands of dollars on newspa per magazine radio and televi sion ads they vowed that once elected they would end war pestilence disease poverty crime the deficit and waxy yel low buildup overnight they didnt alas elect a single candidate canadian voters detected some thing a little fuzzy in the natural law party election platform perhaps it was the utter lack of detail from the natural law can didates who dismissed all skep ticism with the explanation that natural law had been scientifi cally proven maybe it was the stated plan to replace our armed forces aircraft with 7000 medi tating disciples levitating cross- legged in harmonious formation canadian voters may be naive we did hoist mulroney into the saddle two terms in a row but were not bone stupid the natu ral law party never ahem got off the ground and thats a pity we need all the comic relief we can get we always have each decade has given humankind at least one predominating fad or folly to take our minds off our troubles back in the roaring twenties we had dance marathons and flag pole sitting in the dirty thirties somebody invented miniature golf and bathtub gin to help us forget that the country was broke and so were we in the 1940s the cult of the lawn was born and north american weekends were ruined forever more what did the 50s bring us by way of diversion in the immor tal word of the businessman to dustin hoffman in the gradu ate plastic specifically the credit card for the first time in history you didnt have to have wampum beaver pelts gold dust or cash on the barrel all you had to have was a wafer of plastic and suffi cient linguistic dexterity to pro nounce the words charge it the rest was magic at least until the end of the month in the 70s it was horoscopes it became difficult to meet some one and not be greeted with hi whats your sign it was annoying but it pro pelled us to the 80s which were really a pain in the astrology department or rather its related offshoots of crystal thera py harmonic convergence and the chance to be channelled by the ghost of some 8000 yearold mayan priest who knew no bet ter way to spend eternity than to help you and shirley maclaine get to know your real selves which got us to the 90s a decade which showed real promise what with the natural law party looking to take over 24 sussex alas no such luck the party appears to have vanished more thoroughly than one of magician doug hennings stage elephants so what now well ihate to raise false hopes but theres a rising young religion in japan right now called taisokyo it only has one tenet its disciples must laugh at everything house burn down snort your loved one kick the bucket chor tle famine flood nuclear war stop it youre killing me laughter is the way to god says a taisokyan spokesman there is no reason for sorrow only selfish people think about their own loss do i see a place foe taisokyo in the canadian parliament dont see why not its got all the attractiveness of the natural law party plus a sense of humour itll be good for a laugh basic black arthur black 4 i r- rfr t v r r v v twmwiw vmm17f mlffiltt4 t i i a