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to recycling, you just rhat they‘ve done with what they call a snow if they heed what the walks. let‘s not have the old . They get it done. My the walks are always provincial grant is 10 Not many Canadians it 20 Canadian millionâ€" ires on your vacuum scrutinizing walks, it block sidewalks and iors, into the street. t bothers me. Why st me an extra $800 is me 85 cents? it been cold? By the tpmperlyinmh@ mess to me. Inflation is still a lot of dough. de, it‘s 11 1/2 days. xd on the idea that a holes ome tax in 1991. Or more than $250,000 ‘s blueâ€"box program reprieve from the could ever discover loopholes should be ER LIGHTLY Worse, I say, because she was forced to lose her digâ€" se nity before losing her life, _ Having resolved not to allow doctors to keep her _ Some coldâ€"he: alive by artificial means, she asked them to help end ply because of her life when she was no longer able to take it patients alive, unaided. But doctors consider assisting suicide to be rights of the pa eofitmyhtbe!fiwoqnficonfl\'.wd).egxnohlp. ilized society. Fortunately, the Right to Die Society of Canada, _ ‘Most others s along with New Democratic MP Svend Robinson, fused, misled, stood by Rodriguez through the protracted legal battle _ meant freedom. she was forced to endure. Not so fortunate was the tain, she fierce result: she was declared to have no legal control over good enough for her own body. 4 I say she simp There are good intentions behind the law prohibitâ€" _ as she had lived ing assisted suicide â€" to protect those who are menâ€" _ Chances are: tally incompetent or in need of treatment for clinical down with Lou depression â€" but the law doesn‘t suit all cases. â€" guch fatal afflict Rodriguez was an intelligent woman who, through be your friend, 3 careful reasoning, had concluded that she had sufâ€" _ â€" try to imagine fered enough and was ready to die. own rights? It‘s time we showed some respect for the individual _ In her posth in such situations. What gives us the right, as a §0¢iâ€" _ said: "It was a I ety, to dictate what terminally ill people, or pregnant . of physicianâ€"ass women, or prostitutes or anyone else must not do with _ time in my life. their bodies. It‘s none of our business. been in vain ..." There are those who believe the courts were right. So do I, Sue. gradually becoming a completely lucid prisoner in her own increasingly useless body â€" a fate worse than u m h € Whose life is it anyway : At long last, Sue Rodriguez of British Columbia can rest in peace. How it happened I don‘t care, I‘m just happy that her suffering has ended. Rodrigm;.zspentthehstt.breeofberfiyea_rswith ANGLES + amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig‘s disease), hea , 41 / y &uc@hbmhlfl,hhmn breathtaking expansion in the province‘s gambling mdufiy,ranmfinmthoWhflmrud:;?otpo- ject to a growing reliance on lotteries to governâ€" ment programs. Rather than adopting a more progressive policy that would use tax revenue to fund mthltmdemdwbahpmn-:,hhu continued to rely on "voluntary taxes on the poor". He has continued to allow the Ontario Lottery Corporaâ€" tion to promise "freedom for a dollar" rather than introducing programs that would give Ontarians a better than one in 14 million chance of escaping poverty. > Leading the growth in lotteries has been Proâ€"Line, which allows both hardâ€"core gamblers and genuine sports fans to bet on the outcome of sporting contests, including NBA games. Last year, in its first year of operation, Proâ€"Line raised over $210 million, 10 per cent of which came from the basketball portion of the to bring a basketball franchise to Toronto, it saw a chance to clean up its gamblingâ€"tainted image by beating up on Ontario, the only bookmaker small enough to be bullied. It did so by making the franchise conditional on the end of Proâ€"Line betting on basketâ€" use of lottery and other gambling revenue to fund govâ€" nd clapping for the NBA tal question of the ANGLES , w a2 ‘n&W a . o 8 ) Most others say Rodriguez was just depressed, conâ€" fused, misled, or manipulated into believing death meant freedom. While no one will ever know for cerâ€" tain, she fiercely denied all of the above, and that‘s good enough for me. I say she simply wanted to die with as much dignity as she had lived. Don‘t we all? Chances are someone, somewhere is being struck down with Lou Gehrig‘s disease, AIDS or another such fatal affliction, as you read these words. It could be your friend, your mother, your brother or even you â€" try to imagine it. Would you hesitate to defend your own rights? In her posthumous public statement, Rodriguez said: "It was a long, hard struggle to bring this issue of physicianâ€"assisted suicide to the public at a critical time in my life. I hope that my efforts will not have ply because of the high cost of keeping terminally ill patients alive, but one would hope the wishes and rights of the patient would carry more weight in a civâ€" ball. In essence, it threatened to "take its ball and go home" if it didn‘t get its way. The tactics being used by the NBA are not new, and certainly not unique to professional sports. Peter Pocklington, the right wing owner of the Edmonton Oilers, and assorted other National Hockey League kingpins are currently trying to exploit both the sentiâ€" mental attachment felt by hometown fans and the reputed economic benefits of pro sports in a bid to extract huge concessions from local governments. On a broader scale, large corporations across Canada and elsewhere are demanding (and getting) incentives and tax breaks in order to locate or stay in communities. While economic blackmail may have become a comâ€" mon negotiating tool in the business community, the actions of the NBA stand out as a particularly blatant mmpleofhune-hemngumpwvunmmt what itâ€"can and cannot do. Lottery sceptics like me can rejoice at the prospect of another lottery biting the dust (other sports are already following the NBA‘s example and demanding an end to Proâ€"Line betting). On the other hand, the death of Proâ€"Line will do nothing to undermine the government‘s overall support for the idea that gamâ€" bling is an acceptable way to fund government proâ€" grams, Watching the government cave in to corporate imperialism (even partially) is hardly the means by which I want to see lotteries ended. 105 UNIVERSTTY AVE. E. 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