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Hate it or love it,
Ontario needs GM
Hate it or love it, the fact is that Ontarians are on
the hook for General Motors in one way or another.
Though there has been gnashing of teeth in some
quarters about the soundness of funnelling the cor-
poration some much needed cash, the news has now
hit the fan in the form of a pension deal signed by
both the province and GM in the 1990s, which will
put Ontario taxpayers on the $6 -billion hook as the
insurers for GM's pension Wan.
Scarier still is the fact the province's Pension Ben-
efits Guarantee Fund has only $ 100 million in the
kitty - a far cry from $600,000,000,000.
Tb his credit, Ontario Finance Minister Dwight
Duncan recognizes the smart shop> is move is to
dee GM in business. After all, the autoworkers -
!whose wages countless Canadians jealously covet -
_ ump millions into the economy each year.
Furthermore, GM's existence spurs jobs in count
}_ Mess other sectors, ranging from restaurants to parts
yup Hers to dealerships to insurance companies to
.barks.
Indeed, GM's collapse would have a domino effect
that few seem to grasp the scope of.
;Doubting Thomases wondering if the collapse of
M, and the other Big Two, would actually impact
them should do themselves a favour and take an
A' educational tour of the City of Windsor, once hailed
the automotive capital of Canada.
From countless abandoned homes toroperties
ghat have seen their values halved (including,ironi-
cally, Casino Windsor), that southern city is feeling
the pinch the hardest.
Statistics suggest Windsor's unemployment ent rate
hovers around the 10 per cent mark but anyone
with a passing acquaintance with the place knows
the number is much higher. Furthermore, jobs once
shunned for their labour intensity and relative low
wage now have hundreds of people competing for
them.
There are those, of course, that argue Windsor is
an anomaly that can be ignored but such is not the
case. The city is just feeling it first.
The collapse of the Big Three would thrust the
province into a downward spiral that will take de-
cades to recover from.
Those who espouse the ridiculous notion that al-
lowing GM to go bankrupt would allow a new leaner
company rise from the ashes are forgetting an im-
portant fact: Someone making $80K/year is putting
a lot more dollars into the economy than someone
scraping by at $20K/year.
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Winter sports edition a celebration of
everything a team's season brings ,
The ice is gone at the arena
but the sun has not warmed
up enough yet to lure baseball
and soccer players out into the
fields.
Skates, helmets, sticks and
other gear are being stored
away for another year while
cleats and balls are being un-
earthed and dusted off in anticipation of long
summer evenings of outdoor activity.
It's the season of transition from winter to
summer sports and with that comes the an-
nual ritual of recognizing the hundreds of
athletes who spend their winters skating,
running and sliding on ice or heaving a ball
at a bunch of pins with our winter sports' edi-
tion.
For weeks now, we've been gathering team
photos and chasing down coaches to identify
the players on their teams to be able to dis-
play their smiling faces on the pages of your
local newspaper.
It's always a big job but an important one
that, I think, celebrates everyone, regardless
of their win -loss record, for joining a team and
experiencing both the joys and frustration of
competition.
Within that one team photo are the memo-
ries of a season - skills learned, passes con-
nected, points scored or blocked, artistry de-
veloped, friendships forged.
Any coach will tell you that on the path to
the playoffs, the journey is far more impor-
Ron bave
Acts 2:44 says:
"And all that believed
were together, and had
all things common:
And sold their possessions
and goods, and parted
them to all, as
every man had need."
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tant than the ultimate desti-
nation.
Kids who started the
season barely able to skate
are now gliding confidently
across the ice. Puck or ball
hogs have learned to engage
their teammates, learning
more complicated plays that,,
lead to greater success during the game. Ba-' , -
sic athletic skills have been combined with a
sense of strategy and a deeper understanding
of the game.
In the stands, parents and other faithful
fans have been given the pleasure of watch-
ing the progress of the team and sharing its
triumphs and defeats.
Even if it's just from the effort of lugging
sports equipment to and from the arena on
a regular basis and participating in practices
and games, kids have been getting exercise
and learning how to develop a healthy life-
style. With any luck, everyone is just a little
bit faster, a little bit stronger and a little bit
more accomplished at their sport of choice.
While muscles, hearts and lungs got a work-
out, so too did players' character with lessons
learned in persistence, effort, confidence,
teamwork and sportsmanship.
But, more than anything, we hope that
team photo will be a reminder of the fun, the
friendship and the sense of belonging to a
' team can create.
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