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a p4tribunej july27v1994 indifference sickening in rwanda yxf hy does it take thou- f sands to die before action is taken in the hall of government around the world the rwandan crisis is just the latest instance where officials have seen a catastrophe in the making and have refused to take action until thousands have perished the situa tion was the same in bosnia andin somalia it is sickening to view the results of bureaucratic delays from around the world on the front pages of newspapers thankfully there are groups and indi viduals willing to con tribute in the void left by the rest of the worlds fencesitting thanks to all the people in this area try ing to make a difference spoiled child quebec wants special treatment quebec politicians remind me of that fatfaced little girl i see at the grocery store from time to time who screams and kicks and dances around her mothers cart she does this every time she wants something sweet and it works her mother throws that exasperated stop embarrass ing me look and peels the wrapper off a bright red sucker the little girl stuffs it into her mouth and is content for a while until she sees some thing else she wants and the fits begin again thats what quebec is like at least its politicians are mak ing the province appear that way like a spoiled rotten little child who stamps her feet and screams until she gets what she wants only trouble is theres always something else she wants just around the cor ner canadas government is her parents the provinces her sib lings and quebec the spoiled little child and now quebec is getting the attention she wants as fed eralists and separatists coddle her needs and pander to her every whim stay in canada and we will make it worth your while the federalists say as they stroke quebecs ego come with us and well give you everything you want only more than youre getting now the separatists promise as if leaving the family would be the ultimate freedom all the while quebec is suck ing her thumb and rubbing wounded tears from her eyes reaching for another candy and hoping to get more toys than everyone else in her family called canada but spoiled children are never satisfied and experienced parents swear its true spoiled children learn to use their tem per and their embarrassing fits as a tool to control parents quebec is being like that too parents usually find whack ing a spoiled child doesnt do much good in the long run but that taking away privileges might work if its done consis tently each time the child acts up thats what canada should try with quebec in order to stop her endless barrage of special requests heres a few suggestions send quebec to her room and slam the door take away her canadian pension her provincial transfer payments and her unemployment insur ance or welfare benefits if she continues her threat to run away give her her share of the national debt though a debt she amply contributed to explain to quebec that if she wishes to leave home she must end all ties with her fam ily and that includes its curren cy citizenship and trade rights and our health care privileges remind quebec that living on her own is harder than she thinks without mommy and daddy to bail her out shell have to get a job and pay the bills all by herself tell quebec that everyone in this family is special because of their individuality and diver sity and that one is no better than anyone else and finally explain to que bec that her family loves her very much but that if she cant accept the fact that everyone in the family is to be treated the same than shell just have to pack her bags and experience life on her own then leave the room and see who comes running with open arms stouffville tribune publisher general manager editorinchief patricia pappas andrew mair jo ann stevenson debra weller vivian oneil pamela nichols advertising director business manager operations manager staff reporters tracy kibble julie caspersen roger belgrave photographers sjoerd witteveen 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uxbrldge tribune national sales representative metrotand corporate sales 4931300 im ready to throw in the trowel 6402100 6405477 fax my award for last weeks most descriptive headline goes to the globe and mail for the lawn as polyester leisure suit it seems that some people are coming out of the closet and admitting they would welcome an alternative to the boring expanses of pristine weedfree grass characterizing those neatly crafted landscapes which favor human organization over natural disarray to me many weeds are just flowers with an in your face attitude they insist on thriving despite neglect and they are the antithesis of order and design they grow in random natural patterns they intermingle with other species without regard to appropriate color schemes they require no mulching or pruning or dividing they just grow like well weeds weeds are as wel come in formal gardens as rober to baggioata postmortem on the kates corne world cup held by italian soccer fans their cardinal sin is their lack of neatness they have this terrible habit of filling in the bits of earth that are left over when all the serried ranks of color coordinated real flowers have been planted or when the lawn police have failed to vigilantly stamp out foreign flora which boldly grow where no weed has grown before mr wafiethead and i have a basic disagreement about species i regard as wild flowers but which he considers the floral equivalent of the house fly rogue dandelions are among his favorite targets and he uproots them with fierce efficien cy and a lethal twopronged metal implement whenever they show their bright yellow heads on our lawn dandelions clover pansies and the most beautiful yellow and purple species which arent in any of my gardening books because theyre weeds seem to grow wild in fields without help from anyone despite those experts who insist that a natural garden is hard to maintain as a foremost expert in the area of allowing nature to take its course i can assure them that benign neglect can lead to a most interesting garden the only pre requisites are laidback neigh bors and a willingness not to impose human order on natural chaos anyway as anon said tve had enough of gardening im about ready to throw in the trowel