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p 4 tribune may 11996 st comment take time to talk to young job applicants if the energy of our youth could be harnessed into potential for this coun try where would the borders stop this is the time of year when young graduates look for summer employ ment to help pay for further educa tion its also the time when college graduates look for full time work dreaming for a job related even remotelyto their field this newspaper has a longstanding policy to give future journalists a chance to get experience in their cho sen careers we offer cooperative positions to both high school and col lege students as well we offer local readers the chance to write an article or take a photograph for publication this helps them create a portfolio which in turn helps impress prospec tive employers young people today need more industries to open up their policy and stretch out a welcoming hand to stu dents if not to hire them at least to give them a taste of the business top many graduates are discour aged they are sending hundreds of resumes and receiving few in reply how much better to take the time to telephone or interview the ones in your own neighborhood take the time to tell them about your business and any ideas you may have to help a young person gain a foothold it is difficult for the inex perienced to realize that they have skills attitudes and kribwledge that are in demand energy and enthu siasm are not taught in school they can be har nessed first into a job search and then into the career of choice when you receive that resume or telephone call take time it could be just the tonic your company needs rv stouffville tribune 6244 main st stouffville ont l4a1e2 905 6402100 905 6492292 classified 905 6402874 fax 905 6405477 publisher patricia pappus general managereditor andrew mair editorinchief jo ann stevenson director of advertising debra weller retail manager mike rogerson distribution manager barry j goodyear administration vivian oneil operations mgr pamela nichols 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liberal scarborough mirror todays seniors uxbridge tribune contents cannot be reprinted without written permission from the publisher ccab federal provincial and municipal politicians lie okay lets talk about lying nobody on the planet goes through life without telling a lie uttering a fib or fudging the truth at least once heck i remember once as a teenager claiming i was at school when i was really in the city watching an xrated movie but today as an adult i could never get away with lying not to fellow journalists not to my friends and never to my family lying is the highest form of hypocrisy and a civilized society doesnt tolerate it unless youre a politician last week the federal liberals got into hot water over their 1993 election promise to scrap the goods and services tax all the top ministers have now claimed they promised no such thing and while the liberal reneging cost john nunziata his caucus seat because he wouldnt go back on the campaign promise ministers chretien martin and copps carry on in a kind of virtual reality devoid of consequences what is it about political life that gives its personalities immunity from the socially unacceptable practice of lying how come they can do it and nobody else can ironically it is the legislative assembly which displays absolutely no tolerance for any accusation of lying members are regularly tossed for calling one another liars and yet it is the occupants of that assembly whether premier harris claiming he would never make health and education cuts or sheila copps claiming she never threatened to resign over t e d b a r r the gst who have made a mockery of truth there is the same kind of insti tutionalized hypocrisy rampant at the board of education cham ber in oshawa at a recent pub lic questionandanswer session there representations were made by various groups in sup port of programs destined to become part of mr harriss non existent education cuts parents and students who spoke before the board were rudely dismissed by the chair and told their questions would be addressed by the boards budget committee addressed is a fancy way of saying that the publics questions would not be answered at all merely collect ed filed and forgotten in other words the chair and the board have no intention of answering the questioners criticisms or constructive inquiries in plain english they lied i am not advocating revolution here canada is civilized enough to correct the imperfections of governance without having to resort to the kind of antigovern ment paramilitary paranoia weve seen in the united states lately but we cannot allow any among us to live above the law or to administer without truth lying is wrong if it is unac ceptable and unethical for citi zens to go back on promises or to dodge legitimate questions that affect the lives of others it should be the same for our elect ed representatives poets mysteriously silent on subject of cheese once reviled as a subversive antifamilyvalues pre-adoles- cent fink bart simpson is now being hailed in some quarters as one of the great visionaries of the late 20th century his deeply thoughtout philo sophical entreaty dont have a cow man has become the essential endofmillennium caveat for the thinking person who wants to live long and prosper and what was initially regarded as a mindless if amusing little rant has been transformed by recent events into a sort of mission state ment for humanity fail to follow barts sage advice and you dice with death in a variety of ways just because your brisket isnt british doesnt mean it wont kill you or at the very least cause lasting damage to your health undercooking your steak or burger even if its canadian- could give you a nasty dose of salmonella overcooking it by contrast increases the risk of stomach cancer threefold according to yet another gloom and doom scientific report released last week but maybe all this furor is just a political ploy to take the bite out of the cheese crisis my fatherinlaw who died at the age of 80 risked his life daily by consuming vast amounts of killer cheese the riper and smellier the better some of it was so mature it would come when you whis tled every time we visited my inlaws we unknowingly laid our own lives on the line as several people have point ed out however the controver sy over raw milk is not new its been a number of years since the specialty cheeses available at most commercial outlets have resembled the delicious camemberts and bries of yore in every aspect except taste kates corner ka t e q i i d erd a i e made with the nonhomicidal milk which renders them not only blameless but bland and boring they provide all the evidence you need to under stand why people persist in eating the stuff which has not bjsen purified to government standards and which there fore contains a minuscule health risk since most people who prefer cheese with real flavor are adults perhaps the answer would be to stock such rogue combustibles behind the counter in pharmacies the risks of consumption could be documented in detail by the pharmacist and the pur chaser required to sign a waiv er absolving the seller from any blame attached to sudden death by dairy product or maybe we should get doc tors to prescribe a controlled amount of flavorful cheese for true addicts who find them selves unable to kick the habit while it is surely true as gk chesterton observed that poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese it can still inspire intense pas sion in the heart of the serious foodie as i recall this government was elected in no small mea sure on its promise to ban the gst not brie a mandate it has sadly failed to honor perhaps it should focus on its original cause celebre and leave grownups to take some responsibility for their own wellbeing dont have a cow mr ding wall let them eat cheese