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i p 4 weekender janua stux sir brians settlement is only our money brian mulroney got his apol ogy and the taxpayer got to pay his court costs only in canada im so glad our millionaire former prime minister bravely stood up against the govern ment and fought for the rights of the little man why if they were able to railroad brian mulroney just imagine what might happen to the average person in a dispute with the government but now that brave sir brian has cleared the way for us justice and mercy shall prevail for all throughout the land stories like this just make me feel so good about my coun try viewpoint alan shackleton every once in a while i get deluded and start thinking were actually a democracy then something like the air bus scandal and mulroneys subsequent lawsuit comes along and i remember again that were a banana republic a frozen banana republic you may think im being a bit extreme here but lets look at the big picture the royal canadian mounted police are investigating reports of kick backs in the governments purchase of airplanes simple enough until the names of some high ranking politicians and civil servants start to crop up now we have a problem thinks the rcmp and what are we to do about it unfortunately instead of taking a strictly legal approach they involve the government of the day and the justice minister a politi cian at this point im afraid the rcmp has become little embarrass the government they then must find a fall guy and as surely as water flows downhill the blame for this thing does not rest upon the leaders of the force oh no it ends up in the lap of an rcmp sergeant in ottawa i guess they couldnt find any one driving a patrol car in flin flon to blame it on maybe next time as for the government it became obvious that to have mulroneys case go to trial would result in tremendous embarrassment what if it was discovered that a politi cian interfered with the police better than the private police investigation so instead they force of any tinpot dictator decide to apologize and settle the world over up the legal fees and as is often the case and why wouldnt they when that forces actions afterall its only our money one canadian hero still unsung the tribune weekender edition ametroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher joann stevenson editorinchief andrew mair general managereditor debraweller director of advertising barry goodyear director of distribution vivian otfett business manager pamela nichols operations manager stouffville all enquiries 905 6402100 fax 905 6405477 6244 main st stouffviue ont uxpripge all enquiries 905 8529741 fax 905 8524355 88 brock st w uxbridge ont httpwwwyorkregioncom the tribune published every wednesday and sat urday is one of the metroland printing publishing and distributing group of community newspapers which includes ajax pickering news advertiser barrie advance brampton guardian burlington post city- parent coliingwoouvwasaga connection east york mirror etobicoke guardian georgetown indepen dentacton free press kingston this week lindsay this week midlandpenetanguishene mirror milton canadian champion mississauga news newmar ketaurora erabanner northumberland news north york mirror oakville beaver orillia today oshawa- whitbyclarington this week peterborough this week richmond hillthornhillvaughan liberal scar borough mirrov todays seniors contents not to be reproduced without written permission from the pub lisher permit 1247 the weekender is a member of the ontario press council qui we are not good with heroes we canadians we shove them on the nearest available pedestal we leave them up there for a while and then we begin to throw things at them peter gzowski gzowskis right canada is very hard on its heroes weve got a canadian hero in our midst whos been around for as long as i can remember and never received his due trouble is hes not beautiful like pamela anderson lee nor articulate like joni mitchell or graceful like karen kain as a matter of fact hes middle- aged and built like a 260pound beer stein for those of you too young to remember george chuvalo was canadas gift to the world of heavyweight boxing he fought anybody who ever cared to lace editors mail time off doesnt compensate for stress dear editor while the time off seems attractive any it is obvious from s kellys derogatory potential teacher should be aware that letter that he feels great contempt for the courses to upgrade skills and knowledge teaching profession it is most unfortunate will have to be taken in the summer par- that anyone should deride another person ticularly if they wish to improve their for their chosen career salary since lesseducated teachers receive however if he believes that teaching is substantially less pay a fact usually such an easy task and offers such great hidden by the ridiculous assertion that all holidays then i suggest he try to enter the teachers make 65000 profession finally s kelly should be aware that any teachercandidate will require a about 20 per cent of new teachers quit the three year university degree with a b or profession within the first five years for a a average and numerous teaching experi- large number of individuals the time off ences particularly with children they does not compensate for the stress of an must have extreme patience and be able to extremely highpressured career explain concepts to students as young as four years of age in addition they must be willing to sac rifice most of their day between september and june using most evenings and week ends to assess student work and prepare for upcoming lessons anyone depending on the time off will not likely make it through their first year i know i personally considered quitting four or five times in that first year steve bull stouffviue on a pair of gloves and though he wasnt the most gifted pugilist the world has ever known nobody ever managed to knock him out or even down he fought 97 professional bouts and he fought the best floyd paterson couldnt take him out muhammad ali in his prime punched george till he couldnt lift his hands any more chuva lo never backed up and never went down george is not fighting these days not in boxing rings in any case fact is george is going 15 rounds in the toughest fight of his life he is trying to wring some good out of the fact that his wife and three of his sons have killed themselves heroin did the boys in they just couldnt handle the pres sure of being the offspring of canadas toughest man they took drugs they odd they died and insurmountable grief over their deaths claimed his wife lynne i knew mrs chuva lo slightly we worked at the same plant nursery north of toronto for a couple of summers lynne chuvalo was feisty funny and as strong a person as ive come across so george is left and what he does these days instead of suck ing on a bottle or turning into a miserable recluse what he does is go around to schools and talk to auditoriums full of kids to try and convince them to stay away from drugs it is not an easy thing for george chuvalo he is a man of action not a man of words he breaks into a sweat every time he has to haul his 260 pounds up onto those auditorium stages and face a room full of blank faces that have never heard of george chuvalo but thats not the tough part that comes when he has to talk basic black iiiiipiiiiiiiiiii arthur black about his boys he tells the school kids about the vomiting the screaming the rushing to hospitals in the mid dle of the night he tells them about the son who wanted to study russian literature the other son who wanted to be a game warden and how they both wound up dead on the floor with needles stuck in their arms he tells this tale to any high school that will have him he has spoken at high schools in ontario in alberta and in british columbia chuvalo tells the students that the little deci sions they make now will affect the rest of their lives he tells them that drug addic tion does not happen overnight he tells them that as young peo ple they simply do not know enough about the horrors of drug addiction the high school kids do not smirk whisper or nudge they listen in total silence and when its over there is not a single kid in that audience that will ever again regard hero in as glamorous or sexy as for george chuvalo he just does what hes done all his life he absorbs the pain sits on his stool waits for the bell and the next round the next high school audience then he goes out there wades in chin up and does it all again no canadian champions weve got at least one i know of ottawa you were looking for someone to pin an order of canada on