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4 wfeekentter jloes495 stux t3 opinion send your letters to the editor to 9 heritage rd markham l3p 1m3 or ax them to 2941538 s changes to young offenders act fall short finally after years of anguished cries for changes the government has amend ed the young offenders act but has it gone far enough the new law which could receive royal assent this week will make firstdegree murder sentences by young offenders climb to 10 years from the current five anyone convicted of second- degree murder would face a maximum seven years behind bars teens aged 16 and 17 con victed of murder will under the new law will have to con vince the court that they should be tried in juvenile court rather than adult viewpoint andrew mair court the penalty in adult court is of course life in prison they would have the chance for parole after serv ing between five and 10 years justice minister allan rock who introduced the new bill said he was pleased by the passage of the bill through the senate this week saying it would strengthen the criminal jus tice system juvenile murder is on the rise the new law may not be strong enough to deter this trend if five years in prison is not sufficient to curb such violence why would 10 when you are a 16 year old you are invincible time matters little to you when youve got your whole life ahead of you a 10year prison sentence is hardly the first thing to pop into a young persons head in the commission of a capital crime murderers should be tried as murderers to say a 12 year old does not compre- adam sucmntownicks tlfcqntmgoisohr 5 whumkjrehbdswbe bmhthatiowlt jo hoyukraesnnci oust be okerjl it spobatlbmemkxg i by brian basset itwohtleweahkifbi tvetrfflltalrbdr wditbslnoawboff bijusrsuwkiltup akblmtofmrunl the sme here fcamcmonlers 60 orweulbeiate 10tmepun hbr hend the difference between right and wrong is absurd and simply coddles the offenders the entire young offenders act has to be rethought while the new law will defi nitely strengthen the courts powers it will not put an end to killing the yoahas been a source of amusement for teens bent on crime the punishments handed down are ludicrously lenient and the criminals know it in many cases violent dangerous criminals are on the street in a matter of weeks following their convic tion on a major crime the tribune weekender edition a metroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher jo ann stevenson editorinchief andrew mair general managereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian oneo business manager pamela nichols operations manager smurtvnik au enquiries g4o210o fax g40m77 0211 main st stouffvilie ont l4a1e2 uxbrtoge all enquiries 8529741 fax 8529741 88 brock st w uxbridge onl l9p1p4 the tribune published every wednesday and saturday is one of the metrotand printing pub lishing and distributing group of suburban newspapers which includes markham econo mist and sun ajax pickering news advertiser auroranewmarket era banner barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post cityparcnt collingwood connection etobicoke guardian georgetown independentacton free press kingston tnis week lindsay this week milton canadian champion misissauga news northumberland news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshawa-whitby- clarington this week peterborough this week richmond fiiltfthomhillvaughan liber al scarborough mirror todays seniors con tents not to be reproduced without written per mission from the publisher permit f 1247 icebeer party at tuk is dry few people at the beginning of the 19th century needed an adver tising man to tell them what they wanted john kenneth galbraith if s true you know when future chroniclers come to record the 20th century chances are well be immortalized as the folks who lived through the first age of advertising the irony age if you will i harbor an ambivalent attitude toward the beast there are 30- second commercials on tv that can make me laugh out loud sometimes the ads i see in maga zines are more creative and artis tic than the editorial fodder that interrupts them but there are also commercials that make me want to throw a potted plant through the tv screen and fve stopped buying magazines that smell like cheap cologne and the commodities that advertising sells im looking right now at a newspaper photo of a blond model in new york wear ing a pair of miracleboost jeans miracleboost jeans feature a swatch of spandex in the bum area this says the ad lifts the buttocks to make the wearer look shapelier to quote the fuel conservation ads from the second world war is this trip really necessary and dont try to escape by turn ing to the boob tube advertising there is blooming faster than the flesheating virus with 500-sta- tion broadcasting on the horizon advertising is taking over whole channels thus we can look for ward to or askance at a tv watching future that will include a game show channel a golf channel a therapy channel and my favorite the military chan- nel as of this summer cable watchers will be able to tune into a channel that offers 24hour cov erage of wars ongoing wars past arthur black wars future wars not to men tion war documentaries and of course john wayne war movies oh yes and there will also be a home shopping program offering combat and adventure gear for couch potatoes with a mercenary bent last month the philip morris tobacco company took out full page ads in hundreds of newspa pers to announce that it was recalling some eight billion ciga rettes why well the cigarettes may have had defective filters folks at philip morris were concerned that the faulty filters might make their customers wheeze or fee dizzy a cigarette thats dangerous to the health is nothing sacred last month was also when molson breweries usa announced that its throwing a party this summer big party theyre flying in metallica and three alternative rock bands plus a by-invitation- only audience of 500 to tuktoyaktuk a tiny village 320 miles north of the arctic cir cle why well molson makes molson ice as anyone who watches any tv at all knows only too well the pr boys at molson thought it would be great to stage an icebeersponsored rock concert smack dab in the middle of the land where ice is born shouldnt cost more than a few million bucks whafs neat is that you cant buy a molson ice beer in tuktoy aktuk tuk is dry i told you we live in the irony age