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p 4 weekendeh june 17 1995 stux on send your letters to ttie editor to 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1 m3 or fax them to 2941538 insurance firm walks fine line with public it was a small story buried in the back pages of the daily news paper but it made me wonder the insurance company carry ing the 50000 policy on a man murdered in connection with a sporting goods store robbery last year will not pay out benefits to the mans widow because he did not report a previous heart attack on his application ken thomas car was used as the getaway vehicle by the armed robbers who hit gagnon sports in oshawa on sept 14 1994 those robbers shot store owner roger pardy dead thomas a bystander was abducted and his dead body was nt found until january of this year the killers are still at large the insurance company said that because mr thomas did not viewpoint alan shackleton report his earlier heart attack in facthe probably lied ori his appli cation he is not eligible for any death benefits they have refunded to his widow the fami lys 2700 in benefit payments the insurance company said that if mr thomas had reported his heart attack they would not have sold him insurance in the first place ifs one of those situa tions where the insurance com pany is within its rights but thats little comfort to the widow thomas insurance companies tread a thin enough line with the public as it is at least with me they do fm not happy with how much car insurance i pay and i havent met anyone who thinks were dealing with a fair system in ontario everybody says theyre being hurt by the present car insur ance system including the com panies however when the pre vious ontario government offered to relieve the cash- strapped insurance industry of this onerous burden they fought toothandnail to keep it in their domain it makes you wonder who the system is really bad for but i could rant about car insurance till the cows come i i i l i i i i i i l i i i r i l mr- foto i 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 filmdeveloped whileuwait adam by brian basset l utethsj that soke hicke1 km hm shuvw15i wt we it nwwfenwat nicks sjoon well irttwkb 1 it io0k 6eeeze locattrte tirae cmolyiefieggnna home todays issue is the treat ment of mrs danielle thomas i wonder about the person who found the loophole in mr thomas policy which would legally allow the company to not pay his widow were they proud of them selves will they get a bonus from head office i realize a lot of people will say this insurance company did absolutely nothing wrong to many their reasons for not pay ing the policy are legally and morally valid they are under no obligation to find a compromise or a middleground in this situa tion still the poor womans hus band was murdered he didnt die of a heart attack while mow ing the lawn the tribune weekender edition ametroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher jo ann stevenson editor inchief andrew ma1r general managereditor debrawellkr director of advertising barry goodyear 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canadian passport of value canadas national bird should be the grouse anon okay fellow canuckslets whine lefs complain lefs beat our breasts and gnash our teeth and tell each other one more time how miserable it is to be canadi an the countrys too cold too big too developed too raw the inhab itants are too coarse too nice too unimaginative our politicians stink our armed forces are a joke we dont make very good wine wed rather watch threes company on the boob tube than colm fiore on the stratford stage our taxes are too high our wages are too low our golfers never win the pga our tennis players blow it at wimbledon our nags always fade in the stretch in the ken tucky derby we cant even keep an nhl franchise in quebec city then theres quebec always threatening to leave home and asking for the car keys theres newfoundland an economic bas ket case theres the west ever ready to mount up and ride off into the sunset with the preston manning posse theres the robber barons of bay street bleeding the rest of the country white oh its pretty tough living in canada right you think so tell it to alfred nasseri alfreds not hard to track down youll find him sitting on a plastic bench at the charles de gaulle airport in paris terminal one boutique level to be precise how do i know hes there easy thats where hes been for the past six years mister nasseris predicament his nightmare began with the accident of his birth he was born in 1944 in part of iran which was under british jurisdiction at the time because of the british con- arthur black nection he got to leave iran to go to university in britain when he was 18 but when he returned to iran he was delcared a traitor and thrown in jail the iranians eventually let him out but con fiscated his passport and gave him exit papers it meant he could leave iran but he couldnt return mister nasseri appealed to the united nations the un office granted him asylum and gave him pre cious papers that allowed him to apply for residence in any coun try in europe which is when nasseris bad luck really started to unfold his papers were in a suitcase which was stolen in paris mis ter nasseri got a flight to lon don but the british refused to take him they popped him right back on to a flight bound for charles de gaulle airport that was in 1988 mister nasseri is still at the airport he sits on his plastic bench guard ing a luggage cart which holds all his worldly possessions a cardboard suitcase some garbage bags full of clothes and a diary that now runs to 6000 pages what i want he says is a passport you want to do something pos itive drop nasseri a line his address is charles de gaulle air port terminal one boutique level paris france enclose a few bucks if youre feeling flush and then count your blessings starting with that little blue book with your name in it