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Times-Advocate, June 27, 1979
Celebrate living is provincial theme for senior citizens week
put it out of commission had
gone undetected for up to 45
days. Hydro officials have
also acknowledged that one
of the biggest spills of
radioactive heavy water in
:he history of Canada’s
many ways, because of lack
of true accountability - its
over-expansion and ex
travagant spending policies,
its entire nuclear program.
Somehow, we must
acquire a degree of control.
Within two weeks the
Ministry of Environment
expects to begin screening
offers from several firms to
build at least two plants to
process millions of gallons of
liquid waste as an “at least
temporary solution to the
problem.’’ The government
has decided to try to solve
the liquid industrial waste
problem by turning the
liquids into solids. Based on
U.S. and British experience,
the process seems effective
and is not expensive. Certain
chemicals are added to the
wastes causing them to turn
into a solid mass similar to
asphalt.
Driving schools in Ontario
would be regulated and
licenced by the government
under proposed legislation,
with driving instructors
required to obtain a special
licence after passing a test
approved by the Ministry of
Transportation and Com
munications. Schools would
also require a licence, except
those affiliated with an
educational institution.
Liberal Leader Stuart
Smith has charged that the
chief counsel for Ontario’s
Royal Commission on Food
Discounts should be fired
bec?use he is protecting
supermarket chains instead
of digging out the facts. Both
Opposition Parties have
denounced comments made
by the lawyer, who said he
would not make public
details about discounts and
allowances given to stores by
food suppliers because it
might hurt the competitive
position of stores.
According to the Attorney-
General,
stepping
against
Ontario’s
Charges
members
exceed 1978 totals, when 37*0
bikers were charged with a
total of 440 offences. He also
vowed to monitor a Hamilton
court case in which mem
bers of biker gang called the
Wild Ones are charged with
rape. There have already
been two attempts to kill a
female witness scheduled to
testify in the case.
A Conservative motion to
have a select committee
investigate the safety of
Rolphton nuclear station
passed by a slim margin,
over pleas to delay the start
of the plant’s operation. The
station, located 190 km. N.W.
of Ottawa, is building up to
full power, and the in
vestigation will not interfere
with the schedule to begin its
operation.
“They’re pulling out the
control rods even as we
debate a matter as serious as
this,”
Liberal
Nixon.
There have been 18 shut
porta nt to the vitality of
Ontario’s senior population -
a freedom which I believe,
should be enshrined in our
Human Rights Code.
So during this week, let’s
‘t'-elebrate Living’ and let’s
resolve to ensure that every
senior in Ontario can con
tinue to celebrate and
contribute to our province as
long as he or she chooses.
Toronto Western
Hospital’s chief of internal
medicine believes it’s only a
matter of time before
someone dies needlessly
because of government cut
backs. His own department
is forced to provide “second-
class health care” and
jeopardize lives. A 57 year
old heart patient lay amid
the bedlam of the emergency
ward for more than six hours
recently while officials
scrambled desperately to
obtain a bed in the coronary
unit.
Other patients have had to
be transferred to other
hospitals in emergency
situations, risking fatal
heart attacks en route.
The president of Reed
Paper has told the
Legislature’s resources
development committee that
his company is prepared to
spend $130
modernize
pollution
equipment at its Dryden
plant between now and 1985,
and wants the government to
extend the pollution control
order from 1982 to 1985.
Earlier this year, the
government rejected Reed’s
request for $26 million in
financial assistance to help
pay for the modernization
and pollution abatement.
downs at Rolphton sinee 1978
- three for routine main
tenance and 15 forced
closings. Hydro recently
admitted that a stuck valve
in the emergency core
cooling system which I
nuclear power program
occurred at Pickering
generating station near
Toronto almost four months
ago, but the public was not
informed.
On June 15, during a
routine refuelling operation,
a fuelling machine hydraulic
ram stalled and remains
stuck to the fuel channel. The
reactor is to be shut down so
that local controls may be
used to retract it.
Developments in con
nection with Hydro’s nuclear
program continue to be very
much in the news, and I’d
like to summarize these for
you soon. Hydro seems to be
almost out of control in so
warned
Leader
former
Robert
million to
and install
abatement
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Ontarians of all ages. While
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us an opportunity to honour
our citizens who are 65 years
of age or older, it should also
cause each of us to recon
sider our attitudes about
older people.
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many of our greatest leaders
and citizens have con
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65th year: Winston Chur
chill, Pablo Picasso and
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as well as Canadians like Dr.
Robert McClure. Nellie
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