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editorial
Federal parties all
favouring the middle
uling from the centre always has been
the secret sauce in Canadian politics,
the formula for the longest and most
successful winning streaks in government.
But there's a world of difference between a
government canting its overall orientation
toward the widest possible spectrum of the
population, the middle ground, and overtly
pitching its election wares to those same vot-
ers, the so-called middle class, to the appar-
ent exclusion of the rest of the population.
As Canada gets closer to a federal election
that must be held by October, all kinds of
voters — students, the poor, aging baby
boomers, the elderly — might be forgiven for
thinking they don't count this time, that
they're being overshadowed at the very least
and, at worst, even ignored.
All the Big Three political parties have staked
out the economic middle class as the high
ground for the general election battle, evident
in the pre-election advertising we've all seen
and in niche news and social media tactics
the parties also use to get their messages out.
Day care, tax breaks for families, extra
elbow room for tax-free savings, billions of
dollars in goodies are out there from the
Conservatives, the Liberals and the NDP.
Like Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, even NDP
Leader Thomas Mulcair is making the mid-
dle class a priority in a new ad from his party
that has long cast itself as working class.
In a country where the median family
income is just north of $75,000, with as
many households above that level as below
it, even defining what's middle-class can be
tough. But those who aren't in it know who
they are, and it's unlikely they see them-
selves reflected in the burst of pre-election
advertising.
Winning governments — the decades -
long provincial Conservative dynasties of
Alberta and Ontario, Jean Chretien's federal
Liberals and, it must be said, Harper's Con-
servatives to this point — did well with a big -
tent approach to the electorate even if their
poles were staked in the middle.
Now, what we're seeing is a political ver-
sion of boutique shopping, not the depart-
ment store approach of old with something
for everyone.
With voter turnout in elections falling,
that's the worst kind of retail politics
IN THE YEARS AGONE
Seaforth Manor completes
renovations in 1990
June 6,1890
• Two children of a Brussels M.D. were
playing store. In their stock of goods
was a box of pills. To the surprise and
alarm of the parents, they ascertained
that the youngsters had swallowed
the whole supply of the pills. Fortu-
nately no evil results followed. When
asked why they did it, one of the chil-
dren replied that there did not appear
to be any sale for them in the store so
they just took them themselves. The
above might serve as a pointer to
business men when their trade is dull.
IN On Monday of last week Joohn Del
bridge, of Winchelsea, delivered in
Exeter a beef cow weighing 1,925
pounds.
• A heavy thunderstorm passed over
Clinton early Friday morning last
week, doing some slight damage to the
Rattenbury Street Methodist Church.
■ W.J. Norton of Brussels has sold his
fancy driving mare, three-year-old, to
John Nicholson of McKillop for $150.
June 4,1915
• Mr. Richard Morrison of the 6th conces-
sion of Hullett had the misfortune to
meet with a bad accident on Clinton last
week He was starting home when a por-
tion of the hamess broke and the buggy,
striking the horses' heels. It started off on
the jump. Itis a hardbitted animal, diffi-
cult to control and when over the brow
of Vinegar Hill it left the road and the
buggy, striking a telegraph post. Mr.
Morrison was thrown out, sustaining the
fracture of two ribs and a bad shaking up.
• Samuel McBurney of the 10th conces-
sion of Turnberry had a narrow escape
from death on Friday morning during
the thunder storm. While working at
the barn with a horse, both were struck
by lightning and the horse was killed.
Mr. McBurney received a severe shock
but recovered in a short time.
• The town of Galt, Waterloo County, with
a population 12,000, has been organ-
ized into a city. It is fifty years since its
first incorporation as a village. Before
that, it was known as Shades Mills.
June 7 194
■
Struck by an auto wreck as he was filling
in an excavation at the Supertest Ser-
vice Station, Peter Bale of Seaforth suf-
fered a fracture vertabrae of the spine.
He is in Scott Memorial Hospital. Bale
was filling in on top of a gas storage
tank when the wrecker, which had been
used to lower the tank in the ground,
slipped and dropped into the hole.
• The Salvation Army Self -Denial cam-
paign, which concluded this week,
resulted in a contribution from the
Seaforth district of $1,032.80..
• Former Seaforth Collegiate graduates
Mary Holmes, Dorothy Godling and
Douglas Stewart all graduated this
week at the University of Western
Ontario, Miss Holmes with honours in
Secretarial Science, Miss Golding with
the Gold Medal in Business Adminis-
tration and Secretarial Science and Mr.
Stewart with a Bachelor of Arts.
June 10,1965
• Set for June 30 to July 2, a month earlier
than usual, the Seaforth Lions Summer
Carnival this year will provide special
entertainmnt highlights, according to
Lion President Lee Learn. Among the
planned events will be a beauty contest
and log rolling competition.
• A feature of the Clinton Spring Fair
was the Dairy Princess contest. Last
year's winner, Brenda Houston, 19, of
Brussels, was once again crowned
Huron County's dairy princess, win-
ning over Barbara Watkins of Londes-
boro, Majorie Hopper of Brussels and
Barbara Doig of Wroxeter.
June 6, 1990
• Huron County Board of Education voted
to allow the Town of Seaforth to put a sign
on the Seaforth Public School grounds,
despite safety concerns raised by several
trustees. As part of the Streetscape pro-
posal the town wants a parkette and a
decorative entry sign feature on the SPS
grounds, adajacent to Hwy 8. The sign
would be about 28 feet wide, facign west.
The town would bear all costs.
• Sixty-five eager participants laced up
their sneakers and kicked up their
heels on Wednesday night for Sea-
forth's fourth annual Dance for Hearth.
Three hours of aerobics, stretching and
groaning later, $3,341 had been raised
for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
• The Seaforth Manor Nursing Home and
Retirement Apartments is finally finished
after three years of renovations and is
ready to show itself off at the grand open-
ing gala on June 4. The massive undertak-
ing
ndertaking has added anew two storeywing and
completely renovated the original three-
storeybuildingwhile residents, staff, lived
on the site. The work began in October
1987 and had several delays, mainly due
to weather or redtape, before completion
in June 1990. Most of the work was done
by local contractors and tradepeople.
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