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p4 tribune april 26 1995 pool or pad could go private st with simple math skills its plain that skaters swimmers and civic centre users can not all have then- day in the sun ivanka bradleys expected motion to withdraw the design plan expen diture for a new civic centre from the council agenda is a graceful and well timed admission to this fact recreation facilities in town are lagging behind the demand yet the expenditures for swimming pool and ice pad are not readily afford able its always a delicate balance between providing services and facilities that can reasonably be expected in a town this size with the fact that such facilities often our view need to be built before they can be fully profitable a facility such as an arena is at its best in profitability when it is outgrown consider the predicament of council when pressures for a public works depot a fire hall and a library expansion are also before it its no wonder the town has put its fiveyear capital budget on hold these decisions will need careful consideration and planning and theyll need the input of residents who will ultimately be paying for them theyve made a good start with the twoday strategy session planned for midmay perhaps its time to investigate private ownership or cooperative ventures with business fast food franchises could be one way of helping to finance an indoor pool or a second ice pad private ice pads could be investi gated too either fully owned or in partnership with the public corporate sponsorship could be rewarded with overhead signage or in the case of the ice pad around the boards a fact finding committee could be struck to check out other communi ties which have gone this route and to assess corporate or business interest where theres a will theres a way stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 905 6402100 905 6492292 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappas general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann stevenson director of advertising debra 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richmond hillthorn- hillvaughan liberal scarborough mirror todays seniors uxbridge tribune contents cannot be reprinted without written permission from the publisher internet info contains sick stuff hate and smut including kiddie porn are travelling free and clear on the information highway at the moment the cops cant stop it welcome to one of the downsides of the 90s welcome to one of the down sides of internet while were at it welcome to yet another example of wishy washy worldwide govern ment in case youre wondering what this is all about heres a sampling of whats popping up uninvited and unan nounced on computer screens in livingrooms across canada a 10yearold nude boy accompanying a text graphi cally describing the joys of sex with children a man appears on the screen has he got a story to tell according to him all white women want to have sex with black men another character tells us that blacks are intellectually inferior a man appears and with out blinking an eye babbles away in his quest to have us believe that jews bankrolled adolf hitler a woman appears to tell us about a bonafide case of puppy love shes in bed with a dog the woman is taking a few minutes away from the pooch to tell us that shes interested in finding more sex partners of course after a night with fido only dogs will do when these little surprises started appearing on the com puter screen the royal cana dian mounted police and canadian police chiefs checked the law books in the hopes of finding a way to reg ulate the net the cops admit theyre pow erless it appears as if an any- thinggoes mentality has taken shape worldwide the question is when kid die porn is downloaded from another country what can a cop in canada do about it i dont for a minute believe that this situation caught the makers and shakers off guard while the powersthatbe may be shy on spunk theyre not stupid they knew full well that when it comes to internet or anything for that matter misuse and abuse goes with the territory of course the trick is to stop it before it gets started government officials know all about preventive mea sures the catch is govern- off the record jo an ransberry ment officials lack the courage to stand up and state that this is absolutely unac ceptable in this country id like to remind our mps that were talking about canada and were talking about my canada ill also remind the mps that in canada the principles of law under the charter of rights the human rights act and the criminal code also apply to computer communi cations i am quite aware that this sick stuff is coming from other countries im also aware that it is a very complex issue excuse me international rules have been put in place before also complex is com plex it is not impossible while i would rather fido and his lady didnt occupy the computer screen im more interested in keeping children out of harms way also we must pay close attention to any flow of high tech hate send us your letters to the editor the tribune welcomes your letters to the editor letters should be no more than 500 words in length and can be typed or neatly hand written your letters can be on any topic but the tribune reserves the right to edit for length libel grammar and spelling and good taste letters will not be returned unless requested of the editor due to space constraints not all letters may be published however we endeavor to print as many as possible within a time frame that maintains news value and topicality please find our address and fax number in the masthead top right on this page having antiblack antichi nese or antigay messages on the internet is scary we could have a hate epidemic on our hands if you wonder if hate is a big deal ill remind you of the bodies of the dead kids still trapped in oklahoma you no longer have to lure a kid to a pronazi rally you can just feed him daily doses of hate through the computer im told the mps are waiting for the public to speak out and suggest what society will or will not tolerate im game here goes dear whoevers in charge of canada as a canadian i will not tolerate child pornography nor will i put up with hate high tech or otherwise the spreading of antisemitic or antiblack or antigay or anti- chinese or antiwomen mes sages is not acceptable in fairnes to some i know that solicitor general herb grey wants to recommend an international agreement to control the flow of informa tion coming through internet im also aware that the rcmp is now taking part in a united nations task force aimed at curbing the criminal use of the internet and i know an alberta mp has introduced a motion in the house of commons call ing for a clampdown on spreading hate on the inter net meanwhile groups are also taking issue bnai brith canada is monitoring anti- semitic messages and holo caust denials on the net i suggest that when dealing with how to stop ads for chil dren to act as sex slaves you spend less time listening to lawyers and more time listen ing to your conscience technology holds but scant appeal flnethanhsom 1hadareally600p dayw classes were interesting andihum6 out with my friends at lunch- then after school i wemttotoe 6ym but enough about me how was urlw mom why is mom talklmtd herself w t3 1 who knows parents are strange in springtime an aging housewifes thoughts turn to dust but because this subject is too much for my fragile selfesteem to handle and i really hate to be caught doing anything as bour geois as housework i switch to considering evo lution and pondering whether within the next few millennia babies will be born with cellphones grafted to their ears after all prepeople peo ple used to lope about on all fours before they learned to stand on their own two feet and now theyre probably wonder ing how on earth they got by on subways and city streets when they werent bipeds well now that weve been programmed to suf fer withdrawal symptoms after missing even the most annoying call wouldnt it make sense for us to come equipped with the requisite technology built in incredibly there are peo ple who resist such pro gressive ideas i have one friend for instance for whom this form of evolu tion has scant appeal stubbornly refusing to embrace the treasures of high tech in all its glorious invasiveness she insists on disconnecting her answering machine when ever she feels like tuning out the world for some reason she resents returning from a weekend away and having to plow through myriad messages from carpet cleaning salespersons charities selling light bulbs irate clients a score of her offsprings buddies surveyors who really only want your opinion but while youre on the line anyway they just happen to have an incredible deal on magazine subscrip tions she insists that her free time shes so out of touch kates she still sets aside time for herself is too precious to waste on the demands of an inanimate object like the telephone but all she does instead of returning important calls is read books and go for walks well talk about wasting time when you could be doing something meaning ful like closing a deal for the office standing on a lobby group soap box or improving your sagging abdominal muscles all of which incidental ly can be done within easy reach of a cellphone or your personal beeper at least she has a touch tone phone unlike some people who insist on retaining their prehistoric dial which means they miss out on all the fun of interacting with machines which give you maybe six options when you call none of which is what you want after youve hung on grimly for maybe 10 min utes the machine will occasionally relent and offer you the opportunity of talking to a real person the phone rings your excitement mounts it is picked up at the other end and a recorded message announces im sorry im away from my desk right now but if you want to leave a message press one if you want to slam your head against the wall press two ah technology you can run you can hide but you can never escape it com pletely bring me that duster hand over that broom im going to turn off the phone turn up the stereo and tackle the spring cleaning