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p 4 weekender saturday june 14 1997 rr st vf saturday june 14 1997 vol 13 no 24 the tribune comments 905 6402100 fax- 905 6405477 email thetribistarca i it 1 i ill is 13 i i i iefi 1 editorial encryption is simply wrong the ontario government has introduced what it calls encrypted biometric technologies to combat welfare fraud and misuse of the government systems read the handmaids tale by margaret atwood or 1984 by george orwell or brave new world by aldous huxley then read the changes to ontario works act sci ence fiction has just become reality the horrors- which are endemic in these works of fiction are becoming the norm in mike harris ontario encrypted biometric technology amounts to fingerprint ing its all part of a grander scheme to have everyone on file we feel putting a stop to welfare fraud is a good thing cataloguing human beings is a bad thing our own government is now turning to a systematic cat egorizing and labeling of people the provincial government will likely eventually revamp its entire system so your drivers licence health card and a great deal of other pertinent personal informa tion will be on a single card with your finger print on it which can be scanned and examined by almost any gov ernment body though it may sound extreme are we far from having microchips implanted in our skulls we are all being reduced to a faceless meaningless number its frightening its dehumanizing and its wrong tgg life of jeandominique bauby an inspiration work fascinates me lean sit and look at it for hours anon its an old bromide but a true one there is nothing quite as delicious as having something to do knowing you have to do it eventually realizing that you should get started right now and then not doing it i dont wish to brag but you are reading the lazily pecked out words ofan expert in idle ness psychologists divide mankind into type a and type b personalities type a being the upandatm goget ters who cant sit still type b being the more laidback basic black arthur black easygoing folks who take life as it comes i am type l for lazy im so laid back total strangers come up and take my pulse birds check me out as a possi ble nesting site gangs of kids invite me to join their hockey games as a goal post my grade 5 report card said it all under teachers com ments can do better but is lazy it read its true thats just the way i am and then theres jean- dominique bauby mr bauby aged 42 was pursuing a very successful career as a journal ist chief editor of elle mag azine in paris when life threw a little crosscheck his way one minute bauby was tooling down the highway dri ving his son into paris when he began to feelqueer he pulled to the side of the road and sent his child for help before col lapsing in the back seat of his car bauby emerged from a coma three weeks later sort of i a special fathers day message for grandpa dear editor a grandfather is a man who is loving caring and warm a man who gives all he has for the happiness of his family a grandfather tells stories of his life experiences and adventures a person who thinks of everyone else but him self always thinking of his family first and putting himself last this is my wonderful grandfather michael schiralli my grandfather isjhe best his life revolves around his familys life happiness and comfort he is con stantly watching out for me us mak ing sure im okay hes always there when i need him no matter what babysitting homework to talk or just to lend a helping hand he is uncondi- letters tionally devoted to his family in every way our contentment makes him happy he makes me happy he makes us all happy at 72 my nonno mike is still young at heart and full of vigour ice cream is still his favourite and he can keep up with all of us on this special day and all the days of the year i ask god to bless you and keep you well happy grandfathers day nonno mike all my love to you your granddaughter jessica martini 14 years old emerged the new jean- dominique bauby was totally deaf utterly mute and all but completely paralyzed so para lyzed that all he could move was his left eyelid so it goes one minute youre a hyperenergetic maga zine editor surfing the wave of life the next youre a helpless hospital vegetable what would you do if you awoke one day to find yourself deaf speechless and all but totally paralyzed im not sure what i would do but i know what jeandominique bauby did he wrote a book a best sell er called le scaphandre et le papillon the diving suit and the butterfly its a fantasy novel about the mental voy ages a man embarks on after his body is rendered immobile bauby wrote of driving a maserati down a formula one racetrack he imagined what it was like to land as a soldier under withering fire on nor mandy beach on dday he wrote about the haunting savory taste of a lyonnais sausage the bouquet of a glass of provencal wine he wrote about grinding up mountains as a cyclist in the grueling tour de france race well hold on a second i hear you saying you thought this guy was para lyzed how does a deafmute quadriplegic write a book for crying out loud no problem for bauby he wrote it with the only part of his body he could write with his left eyelid first he invented a simpli fied alphabet in which the let ters were represented by eye- blinks then mr bauby dic tated ie blinked the entire 137 page text to an edi tor friend they worked at it three hours a day six days a week all last summer his friends estimate that mr bauby blinked more than 200000 times to write his novel not content to rest on his laurels mr bauby turned his attentions to other con cerns he founded an associa tion to help other paralyzed victims and their families i wish there was a happy ending to this story i wish i could say that jeandominique bauby won the nobel prize for literature and that some french medical genius discov ered a miracle cure and that mr bauby today can be found behind his chief editors desk at elle barking out orders and negotiating with writers and photographers but i cant lifes depart ment of dirty tricks wasnt quite finished with jean- dominique bauby one week after his novel was published and received wonderful reviews mr bauby got hit with a second massive stroke and died it is tempting to hand ones head and mourn jean- dominique baubys terrible luck to rage against the injustice and mutter about the tragedy of it all except it would be wrong there was nothing tragic about the life of jean- dominique bauby he would nt permit it stouffville tribune weekender a metreland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher andrew mair editorinchief julie caspersen editor debra weller director of advertising mike rogerson retail advertising manager stacey allen classified manager barry goodyear director of distribution vivian oneil business manager pamela nichols operations manager about us 905 6402100 retail sales 9056402100 clas 905 6402874 eusmfehmfia 905 6402100 fax 9056405477 thetribistarca 6244 main 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