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p 4 weekender saturday april 25 1998 st the tribune saturday april 25 1998 vol 14 no 17 the tribune is a member of the ontario press council opinions 905 6402100 fax- 905 6405477 email thetribistarca editorial tories at least sticking to guns the ontario government promised a kinder and gentler province in its speech from the throne at queens park on thursday lets hope so while full of the appropriate pomp and circumstance the problem with throne speeches is that they are simply one long commercial for the government in power having the speech delivered by lieutenantgovernor hilary weston helps make the governments promise to implement its policies carefully and well and that it is listening more believable the proof however will be in the actions of the government on the surface thursdays speech seems to have the govern ment headed in the right direction the tories have promised to spend 100 million on longterm health care to increase funding to the classroom while continu ing to attack educational bureaucracy to get tough on health care and welfare fraud and to provide more support for victims of crime who could be against such policies on the otherhandthe government is not backing down from its controversial workfare program rather its expanding the program its taking the same approach with its boot camps for young offenders the tories are not backing away from the common sense revolution love them or hate them you have to at least givethem credit for sticking to their guns k new labtmomhk i23 an alternative tomirfor au those thirsty pregnant welfare recipient 53v pepsi rebel stands out at coca cola school the power of movies to make us want almost any product is a life style development that says some thing about us new york times i know i must be the last one on my block but ive just seen a movie called tomorrow never dies correction ive just seen a video advertising catalogue called tomor row never dies it stars hollywood pretty boy pierce brosnan as james bond and more brand name products than youd find in the west edmonton mall as bond brosnan drives a hyper gadgeted bmw his martinis shak en not stirred are made with smirnoff vodka he tells the time by looking at his omega wristwatch and so on as a matter of fact the most enjoyable way to watch this otherwise forgettable spool of cellu loid fluff is to play spot the tiein see how many brand names you can spot and speculate with your date about how many millions they paid to have their products appear in a bond movie but its not just movies i read in a new york magazine that kurt vonnegut one of my favourite authors is now in the beer business hes putting out a vanity brew with his mug pasted on the label and called kurts milehigh malt what next farley mowat opens a bakery to market his new line of stoneground bread farleys bar ley basic black premier continues efforts to criminalize the poor says reader dear editor re your editorial premier caught by silly comment on april 18 yes indeed citizens have good reason to be outraged by premier mike harris boorish comments about expecting mothers on social assistance wasting their prenatal allowance on beer i find his attitude abhorrent and whether it is expected or not does nothing to redeem mr harris consistent efforts to criminalize the letters poor mr harris slash and burn tactics are well known he has simply found a new group to penalize the unborn fitz matheson chair york region child poverty action network arthur black advertising is everywhere you look and its there whether you like it or not there was a time when you could choose to avoid ads by closing the magazine switching off the televi sion or throwing a book at the radio but alas not anymore in new york advertisers are using light beams to cast images of logos and ads onto manhattan sidewalks advertisers love it because its cheap and inescapable critics hate it for the same reasons this is colonizing your cornea for advertising says author james twitchell whats the advantage youre getting from somebody mucking up your public space would that it were only sidewalks i read also that there are plans afoot though not approved so far to have nasa launch what amounts to huge discs into orbit around the earth discs which would for those who could afford the rates become giant floating billboards exhorting us to wear nikes or drink sprite 24 houcs a day isnt that a beautiful full moon tonight darling yeahahd that windows 95 ads pretty nice too you have to wonder when if ever human beings are going to turn on these relentless moneygrubbing eroders of peace and quiet and snarl get the outta my face perhaps its already happening recently mike cameron a 19-year- old high school senior in evans georgia was suspended from school by the principal his crime living in evans geor gia really evans you see is only an hour or so east of atlanta geor gia and atlanta is the world head quarters of coca cola the staff of greenbrier high school good corporate foreiock- tuggers that they are decided to have a i am not making this up coke in education day in which they would honour coca cola exec utives by among other things hav ing the entire student body wear shirts with the coca cola emblem emblazoned on them at the conclusion of the celebra- tions the student body was to swarm en masse on the school football field in such a way as to spell out c o k e for the visiting atlanta poobahs which is where mike cameron threw a bottle cap in the works he showed up in a shirt that featured gasp the pepsi logo cameron was immediately hauled off to the principals office told by the principal that he might have cost the school ten grand and sent home under suspension mike cameron may be persona non grata with the principal of greenbrier high school but hes a hero to me a trailblazer for the faceless flocks of consumer sheep that seldom utter a bleat a guy with the gonads to stand up and say ive had enough stephen leacock once defined advertising as the science of arrest ing human intelligence long enough to get money from it perhaps were seeing the first signs that human intelligence is getting sick and tired of being under arrest stouffvjlle tribune weekender a metroland community newspaper patricia pappas publisher andrew mair editorinchief tracy kibble 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 news 9056402100 retail sales 905 6402100 is classifieds m 18007433353 distribution 9056402100 fax 905 6405477 email thetribistarca 6244 main st stoiifrvme ont l4a1e2 th stouffviuo thbune published every tuesday thursday and day one of the metroland printing publishing and distribution group of community newspapers if includes ajajcpickering newsadveiv user auiston iferaldcourler barrle dian burlington shopping new burlington post 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