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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-10-04, Page 4Page 4 Times -Advocate, October 4, 1995 Publisher & Editor. Jim Beckett Business Manager: Don Smith Production Manager: Deb Lord dmm ms/ag; Barb Consitt News: Heather Mir, Chris Skalkos, Ross Haugh, Brenda Burke BoxItak?n; Alma Ballantyne, Mary McMurray, Barb Robertson Brenda Hem, Joyce Weber, Laurel Miner Transportation: AI Flynn, Al Hodgert fropt Office & Accounting; Elaine Pinder, Sue Rollins, Ruthanne Negrijn, Anita McDonald, Cassie Dalrymple The Exeter Times -Advocate Is a member of a family of community newspapers .•00,14 C 0.1.44providing news, advertising and Information leadership • • inion EDITOR 'REAL. Try to imagine being on the losing side hat's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Or is it? Canadians from coast to coast are losing patience with what's happening in this country. They have no time for the endless whining of those Quebecers who want to separate from Canada. They are intolerant of First Nations people in British Columbia, in Ontario, in Quebec, in New Brunswick who are agitating for what they consider to be their rights. Many Canadians are growing more belligerent and vengeful with each passing day as the problems of the French in Quebec and the Indians in many parts of the land are chronicled in the news. What's wrong? Why this constant and bitter struggle between the Quebec Separatist and other Canadians? Why do our native people complain and rebel though Canadian taxpayers pour millions of dollars every year into their communities? The average three -generation English speaking Canadian is unable to fathom the answers to these questions because they have always been on the winning team. They have never been, nor can they ever be, a part of the defeated French and native minority in Canada. Despite the fact their ancestors were , German or Dutch or Swiss or Scandanavian, they came to Canada after the First Peoples had been subdued and after the English had defeated the French. Though their ancestors were once in the minority too, they had no history with Canada - they simply threw in with the majority and became part of it. Their children were born to the majority. They gave little thought to the conquered minorities - the Indians and the French who were here long before them. They set about as the majority to make the laws, set the pace and build the nation, assuming that in time everyone would assimilate and be satisfied. Some did give up and give in. But many did not - and according to Lucien Bouchard, never will. If today's average Canadian is having difficulty understanding that, he needs only to think how he feels when more recent newcomers to Canada arrive here to demand change in our Canadian mores and traditions. Consider the frustration and the anger that still exists among Canadians over just one Mounted Police officer who asked to be permitted to wear a turban instead of a stetson with his regulation scarlet tunic. Imagine if you can, the extent of that frustration and anger if the Canadian people had to bear the equivalent of thousands of turbans in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police over decades of protest. That exercise should provide insight into the way some of the French and much of the native population view their Canadian brothers in 1995. What's sauce for the goose is not always sauce for the gander. It's a fact of life that Canadians of all backgrounds must accept if we're ever going to have a truly united Canada. Goderich Signal Star Your Views Letters to the editor Death penalty reinstatement "Is it not time you called your MP and informed him to get off his "high horse..." Dear Editor: It would seem very strange, that during the sum- mer recess, the Minister of Justice would advocate that it is not within, either, the agenda of the Liberal Party or that of himself, to even consider the rein- statement of the death penalty. I state this as a voter and citizen, whose wishes and desires, a Member of Parliament has been put in Ottawa, to fulfill. They may state it is not within their agenda; I merely say "who cares"; is it not the agenda of the "people" for which they are to repre- sent? We, the People, are tired of the "so-called" intel- lectuals who state that capital punishment is not a deterrent to capital crimes. Let us say for the mo- ment that they arc right. It is not a deterrent to that first murder, but how many ex -criminals leave pris- on to commit the same crime. It would definitely be a deterrent to that second murder, as the criminal in question, would have already been hung. The people are fatigued with all the "lame -duck" excuses used by the so-called "Members of Power." The Government is busy trying to cut Medicare ex- penses, while still paying over $60,000 each a year, for undesirable garbage such as Clifford Olsen and Paul (Teale) Bernardo. Is it not time you called your MP and informed him to get off his high horse and listen to the con- stituents in every riding in the country. The majority want Capital Punishment reinstated. Since they were put in office by the people within your, their riding to fulfill their wishes and act upon them, why do they not do as they wish? Inform them to put their own personal agendas in the garbage, and act upon the wishes of the people who put them there. G. Trude!! Hamilton, Ontario A View From TORONTO - Ontario's opposition Liberals have not had much to cheer about lately, but they have been offered a faint glimmer of hope in an unusual candidate for leader. Sean Conway, who was deputy leader when Lyn McLeod was trampled by Mike Harris's Progressive Conservatives in the June election, has the most impressive credentials on paper of any leadership candidate in a couple of dec- ades. Conway, an MPP for 20 years although still only 44, has been generally acknowledged for most of that time as the.best orator in the legis- lature. It was Conway who described the circumlo- cutious speaking style of the Tory premier, William Davis, as 'like the old Cononial Rail- way, which twisted and turned, chugged up hill and down dale and meandered through the re- motest sidings before eventually reaching its destination.' When earlier Tory governments gave most of their summer jobs to party members, Conway By Elio Dowd, Publications Mall Registration Number 0386 SBS =RIPTION RATE& CANADA Wallin 40 idles (88 km.) addressed to non lefts/ carrier addresses 033.00 plus 02.31 0.5.T. 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By walking vigorously three times a week for 45 minutes, blood pressure can be lowered by improving the heart's efficiency. Strength- ening your heart will also Walk for health lower resting heart rate, which means less work for the muscle. Walking is an activity which can be integrated into daily routines with relative ease. If you own a dog, you probably already walk and the length and intensity can be increased gradually. By choosing to walk to work or when running errands, this moderate exercise can help to fight illnesses such as dia- betes, osteoporosis and ath- erosclerosis (narrowed arter- ies). Diabetes is reaching epi- demic levels today in North America. According to medi- cal research, 90 per cent of diabetes is due to lifestyle. Every 40 seconds, a new dia- betic is diagnosed. Exercise can help to reduce - l.tt � �.�.�,.• ' the main cause of diabetes, obesity. The ability to me- tabolize sugar is compro- mised by obesity. Exercise has been found to improve glucose tolerance even with- out a decrease in weight. Attacks of migraines were found to be cut in half when sufferers were started on an exercise program which in- cluded walking for 30 min- utes, three times a week. Walking has been found to lower the demineralization of bones and it is an excellent way to fight •osteporosis. Walking also oxygenates blood which is brought to the muscles and "oils" the cardio- vascular system, decreasing the risk of a blood clot that can travel to the heart, Lungs or brain. quipped 'there are more young Tories in Al- gonquin Park this year than deer' and he de- scribed an abrasive New Democrat leader, Mi- chael Cassidy, as 'an ice -cube wrapped in sandpaper.' Conway was so admired the federal Liberals drafted him in the 1984 election to travel the country and introduce and warm up audiences for then price minister John Turner and listen- ers liked Conway more than Turner. Conway was house leader and education min- ister when the Liberals were in government. MPPs still commonly stay in the legislature to listen to him, a tribute Accorded few, and apolo- gize they may not be able to match him when forced to follow in debate. Only the current NDP leaderand former premier Bob Rae comes close to rivalling Conway's way with words. On the debit side, Conway's classic oratory with its long, flowing, grammatical sentences, well marshalled arguments, historical referenc- es and colorful phrases is a bit out of fashion, Under new management particularly because snappy one-liners suit TV better, and he needs substance as well as patter, which McLeod's Liberals were short of. But he would give Harris, who is not strong on rheto- ric, a good run in any argument. Conway also passed up several earlier oppor- tunities to run for leader. He could have run theoretically when Stuart Smith was chosen in 1976. Both entered the legislature at the same time. Conway would have been a credible candi- date when David Peterson became leader in 1982 and later premier and would have won in a walk in 1992 but encouraged McLeod to run, which also casts doubt on his judgement be- cause she was outmaneuvered by Hams. Con- way as well has mused often about leaving pol- itics for a new career. All this suggests Conway lacks ambition to be leader and staying power. He says he is run- ning for leader this time because he has been shocked by Harris's 'radical conservatism and mean spirit' in cutting services built over dec- ades by parties including the Tories and could never have got so worked up at earlier, moder- ate Tories led by Davis and John Robarts. Even more intriguing is why someone who turned down leadership when polls were more encouraging would feel he has a chance of de- feating a party that won by a landslide in June. Conway points to possibilities that Harris's cuts will offend many who by the next election will have had enough of being governed suc- cessively by extremist parties in the Harris To- ries and NDP. The NDP having had a turn at government also has lost its ability to promise paradise and is losing its stitr turn, Rae, torn by griping and not much of a rival so that voters will turn to Liberals expressing balance, moderation, com- passion and tolerance. This scenario is imaginative as one might ex- pect from a master story -teller, but it still can- not be written off as pure romantic fiction.