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The 200,000 kilowatt prototype 004 Converted iiit0 detailed
nuclear enetitin& station at wo k s eIteduJe s aimed' a t
,Douglas point is to be shut down improving the reactor and the
tetinpoi arily.ctn Friday, March•31, T rverall plant system
so -that -its h av
water canbe, .- : T 11 14P,P_ahutdwn of entllly,.
made avnxlable for the Startupof hasbeen scheduled ul ed specift 113to
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'5 000 kilowatt unit at allow the plant to operate.tlt.rough •
Pickering nuclear power station. the • s u nt m e r to p.r o y id e
' The announcement was'releasedw experience 'at• ,high power: Until •
T u.e s d a y March , 2 8 by "a ' recently, the power level had been
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s .okesman fcyr the Bruce Nuclear limite(P•,.�-; 40 per cent pending
modifications 'to the nuclear .
Power:Development.
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. , The`,transfer it'in apcordance .„,„ system. 'The' modifications Fhave
- with thedecision cion made in 1969 by . been completed and' the station is
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Atomic'Energy of Canada Li ited now .,ready for operation ,and
to give the Pi6kering station top increasing power rater.`
priority in the allocation of heavy
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water. Pickering is Canada's
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wer
firs .� p ss
Soar r. buys
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plant and as such is being counte
on as a major supplier of
• electricity.
In recognition of this, the 1969
., pro
pen
decision provided that, in the
a
heavywater. shortage,
e
vent o
f
f.r the -future
'�,.,. heavy water would be taken from
A; E.C.L.:s prototype station and ` BY WI'LMA QKE.
research reactors as needed to The Huron Perth County
meet the requirements. Roman Catholic Separate School.
Meavy water is in short supply Board passed a motion exercising
as a result of� the ,failure of the its option on 7.2 acres of land on
, heavy water plant at Glace Bay, the easterly limits of Seaforth
- N -S. and the shortage is expected when it met in regular; session in
to persist for another two years
Seaforth Monday:
until the output of Canadian plants The land will bea school site
begins to meet the demand. for future needs of the board. It is
• •
One plant is now in production; bordered by Goderich Street (No.
another is nearing completion and
work has started on the Street on the west and Gouinlock
' rehabilitation of the plant at Glace
,. Bay,
8 Highway) on the north, Coleman '
Street on the south. The price is
While the transfer of its heavy $40,000 with closing date on July
water to Pickering will take 31•
.' John Lane, Business
Douglas Point out of'service as a Administrator, revealed that a
power producer, A.E.C.L. has a saving of $4,196.24 would be made
:_.; —planned -program of- work that b the' b o a T cit _} f the 4 5
needs to be done to improve the Y
r municipalities paying it school .
• plants performance both in the
levies were to pay them in four
nuclear steam raising area ail
the conventional side. The turbine instalments each year.
in particular requires some At present, 30' municipalities
reblading and this has been put off pay them .in two instalments and
15 pay them on - yearly and none
for more than a year. pending a pay'them in he fo instalments
shutdown of some duration. as per Sec, ' ,(2) of the
There will be no layoff of staff Separate School Act.
and in fact, there may be some The study of the tax levies was
additional erriployment of authorized ata, board meeting two
particular specialists during the weeks ago when a Stratford
requirements' of the program of. trustee questioned his city paying •
maintenance and system changes. , its levy in four instalments.
The program is .expected to However; -,the business
improvements
rovements
administrator,., who' was absent
result in markedi p
next few'months to •menet the
from that meeting, assured board
n both _ th,e nuclear and members that Stratford paid its
conventional pQrtio`bs of the .plant- ,tax levy twice Yearly even though'
when ' it starts up again late. in taxes'were collected four times
1972. A major function then' will yeal•ly .
- be the supply' of steam to the
• Bruce heavy water plant. ••An stated "I think We should get a
' assured supply of 'steam is an repgrtsn the feeling of the public
•Trustee Joseph Looby, -Dublin,
sc oo •pard."
'�. 'performance -of the 'heavy_ water _ .._
Between Jack McCann. Ailsa Craig.
production facility. vice-chairman of the board, who.
Douglas Point ' and an oil -fired. presided for, the meeting,
auxiliary steam plant built n
nearby, the operators'csf the heavy 'suggested the matter be left over.
water plant are expecting a high for another meeting after Trustee,
Ted Geoffrey, Zurich, offered to
.. availability of steam., contact Charles Rau of Zurich,
Other A.E.C.L.owned reactors the separate school
Not. too long ago, 1 wrote'a
column suggesting what
would happen• if housewives
went on strike: A lQli , i-
telfiexit and often'witty let-
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President of the Ruron
County Federation of Agri-
culture tells me bluntly that
there is another species in
our society which, if it went
on strike, woiUd make a
housewives' strike look like.
a box luncheon.
' Naturally, .he is talking
about farmers. Farmer are
like the weather:' everybody
talks about them but no-
body does anything.
1'll quote bits from his,
letter, and make' some com-
ments. He asks tersely,
"What if all, the farmers
went -on strike? ... Most of
society and the majority of
columnists seem to have for-
gotten that farmers con-
tinue to exist. And that is
just what farniers are doing!
Existing! Net farm income
in Ontario has dropped over
thirty per' cent in. the last
three years. In 1971, Cana-,
dian farmers received less,
than fen per cent of the
money that Canadian con- '
srimers spent on food.”
Well, Mr. Bailey, 1'11 ac-
cept� your' figures, for a
certainly
start. And • they, � Y
don't make me want to, .
plunge into farming with a
thirty -thousand dollar mort-
gage and the -prospect of
working ten or twelve hours
a day, six days a week.
On the other hand, like
all figures, they can he mis-
leading. ljow many, Cana-
dian farmers grow. coffee,
,,tea, fish, sugar, pepper, pea-
nut butter, oranges; bananas
and all the other items that
beef up our food bills?
Another of your points
strikes a sympathetic chord
in me. "I was in a restaurant
last week. The .menu said
. one egg, 50q. Do yt u •know
what farmers got for eggs
last week? 22a a dozen for
Grade A 'large;'7g a dozen
for craciks." This is utterly
ridiculous, and somebody.
obviously the farmer. is
being shafted. The only so-
lution I can see is to de-
mand ""cracks" in restau
-rants;- Which- is prebal
what we get in sorri,e place,
anyway ....¢
1 share completely your
-burning' wrath 'at restaurant
prices. And now let's sit
back 'and hear a howl of
protest from the restaurant
owners;' who are starving to
death., The average one isn't,
and works' long hours for a
decent living. But those
room service prices in hotels
drive me right out of my'
skull. $1.65 for a sandwich.
$1.50 for a pot of lukewarm
cqffee.
You go back to the war,
when sugar and butter were
rationed and otherwise
honest people would cheat,
lie or steal to get enough or
more than enough. And you
say it would happen again if
farmers went on. strike. I
agree. Some would, but a
minority, in my opinion. I
will .be shut down at different
times and for varying periods to representative on .the Huron
• . meet Pickering heavy -water water Trustee Chris Walraven, St.
County Board of Education, and
requirements. These include
Marys, offered . . to contact
NPD'," a 25,0.00 kilowatt Y
demonstration plant at Rolphton; Leonard Feeney, Stratford.
separate school,. representative
ZED -.2, a small research reactor on the • Perth CountyoarzL`oiT
at Chalk River 'and the ,large
research and test reactor at
River,NRU
•. Education to get the feelings of
those public school boards. At
Chalk present both public school boards
Norie of these shutdowns will accept the school levies in two
result in• layoff of personnel and ' yearly payments.
programs of maintenance and
Accident insurance for parent
alterations are well in -hand. For
eitample, a long-standing plan to made . available by Pitts Life
change the main vessel of the NRU Insurance Company.
reactor will be put into effeot. The •
A study on the Family Life
'' • present vessel hasbeen repaired Advisory Committee program at
a number of times. A new vessel St. Jerome's' college in Waterloo
has been available for several
volunteers will be provided as
commencing in July will be
i years and the Chalk River staff ' attended by Sister Mary St. Louis,
, vaili tike good advantage of ttie 12 principal of fit. James- school,
_ to 14 month shutdown to remove Seaforth, At present the board,has
'- the old vessel, install the new ane' a committee studying the
and generally rehabilitate the 15- possibility of the Family- Life
•f
reactor• grogram tieing started in the
__Year-old Tile 250,000 - __o_.
kilowatt prototype schools under the Huron -Perth
9 Geiitilly reactor near Trois
i Rivieres will give up.its heavy 'board.
water later this ,year to
accommodate the Pickering
f ' • reactor program. Again there : ,
.� • will not be any layoff' of personnel
and already a major program ,of
, work has been identified and is,
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• think thee' farmers would wt
a .goad -cleat of sympathy
and support, just as:the ,coal
miners did in England, ales;
pite the •harrds�hipsK their
• 'strike irucicd`sed, o''ti millioais:
In such an eVont, you ..
suggest that "Bootlegging
food .at, inflated . prices
would become as: common'
as drag peddling. The 'boot
legging farmers would,,start
to show' a profit. Some.'
-,"might even be able to' hire,
help at the minimum wage."
Surely,, right there • is one
spot where government
could help - by subsidizing
farm wages•.
The government subsith
izes. • practically _ every.thtng.
else that even approaches
work, or simply pays people.
not to work. Surely, the
next logical step would be
to make farm work attrac-
t tive, financially, rather than
paying farmers not to ,grow
grain,• or spuds, or whatever.
However, we mustn't men-
tion government and logic
• in the same brrath.
You mention something
that depresses me - that the
average age of farmers in
Ontario is ,about 55; that
not many young men can
start farming under today's„
conditions, and that even if
1
they can, the liberated little
woman has other ideas. And
you also point out rather
pungently that if the aver-
age age- cif housewives "Was
55 and. no replacements
forthcoming, you • would
have something to scream
about." You're' right. • The
'scream that, would echo
across the land would he
apocalyptic.
•
Another point in.eyo•ur
argument 'is that' corpora-
tions may take ,ove•r 'food
production. "If wealthy cor-
porations ever replace the
family farm and hire organi-
zed labour, there probably
4. will he food strikes." That r.5
an appalling thought. ,
• Would that mean,that 1
couldn't• hut one Ott those
"chickens that taste - no
more like chicken than, my
old running -shoes. unless
,you plaster them with same
synthetic flavoring'' Would
' it mean 'Iha•t I could,:t buy
airy of •that enriched bread
that tastes like wet kleenex?
Life just wouldn't be worth
living. .
'However, -f• •:a'gree 'With
your•p emise that the farm-
er has been left sucking- the
hind teat in these years' 6f
inflation. l think the chief
trouble is the dame as that
of the housewives: farmers
are too stubborn and indi-
vidualistii to get really orga-
nized.' °They should:- per -
.set • up their own
co-ops, processing. handling
and ., sales organizations.
That, of c'.�'> se, would leave'
-us: with mobs of unemploy-
ed midttl•e-riielt. •
But • rpy heart is with
you, chaps, and will be even
the next time 1 °pick' up a
51,49 a pound hunk of
steak, look at it wistfully.
replace it, and reach for .the
hamburg.
•
Basic differences explained
Although they operate iia qui*
• 'different ways,' it is not too
surprising that people confuse the
services offered through tate
Claimant Assistance Program of -
the • Unerilploymebt Insurance
Cowl ss on with those of Canada
Manpower, since • both are
engaged, in helping .unemployed
,persons to find Work.
Ho eye>', there are• basic
techniques
differences •in . the tea n q e
employed' by these two agencies.
Canada Manpower Centres
.are involved'k itt a number of
,programs. Some of the more'
important activities with which
they arta occupied are mobility
grants, soliciting order's • for
workers from . employers,
affecting placement of workers to
fill these orders and 're-training
programer, explains John D.
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Welsh, of Belleville,. Ontario,'
regional chief of the Claimant
Assistance Programme.
• • C)n the other hand, the purpose
oL. the Claimant Assistance
Program is to assist the claimant
to film employment for himself by
supplying up to date labour
market information, providing
job search know-how, removing
obstacles of a personal or socio-
' econontic ,nature, building self
confidence in the person and by
re-inforcing positive aspects of,
his experience. •
• •So, while -the end result is the
same, that is, seeing to .it that
qualified people are in suitable
y d
People are invited to take part
in theinterviews, normally after
they have been on claim with the
UIC for six we+ ks or longer, ,Mr.
W Ish•.satd amt. -participation -11r
the• program. is entirely
voluntary.
,All information supplied to the
CAP -guidance- ' officers by
clainiants'�is strigtly eobfidential
tt,,nd is hot discussed .with other
i,IIC' officials nor. made available
10 other branches of the
. Cominission he .stressed.,
•' -The real ,strength. of our
'program is this person-to:�person
contact. It allows us to" find out
what problems the individual may
have, point out his strengths,' and
in general, give him a feeling of
confidence in his own ability to go
out and find - a job," Mr. Welsh
notes, .
During the interview, a
claimant is given- a .-portfolio
which contains four booklets
showing, step by step, -how to go
about finding a jdb.
The booklets contain the
,information the claimant needs to
prepare a record of work skills,
training and education, as well as
16 key sources of employment and
12 ways pf going into business for
oneself, A daily guide to
organizing a job search and
making maximum use of oneks
time, is also included, as well as
tips .,.on creating a favourable
impression in personal
interviews, by telephone and by
• jobs, the methods .are __entirely___ letter.
'diffareilt, °,Even though the "The Cjaimant Assistance
methods - are different they are Program is not a direct- bridge to
complementary," Mr. • Welsh the employer, as Manpower is,"
' adds. -CAP Guidance Officers- Mr;'Welsh explains. "Rather we
may identify persons with act as an+ agent to orient; the
employment difficulties which unemployed person, toward
••only CMC can deal with. conducting his own job search
•• For example, a 'person with a 'with assistance from our officers
'skill for which there is no demand as to hbw he should approach an
in a •particular area' might be employer, and what ,use can be
referred*CMC, for a discussion made of his, skills, regardless of
on tht'.possihllity of re-training or
a mobility grant in order that he
....move to an area where his -skills
. are marketable." he explains.
••ln „this case our primary
, purpose is to identify the problem
and once identified. the' action
taken w'as ons of a funnelling
nafui�t' tip where the 'problem or.
obstacle could be .removed.'''
,Although CAP is `not operated
with the specific idea of placing a
claimant_ in a -particular job
ol)hortunity,.Mr. Welsh explains.
all CAP guidan e•mployment '".-re-
w'thee m to ment
well aware of e p v
d will
. direct.pe.ople .vacancies which
they feel the particular individual
.could fi.11 if these exist.
More than 40,000 unemployed
persons iirOntario have received
job counselling advice through.the
Claimant Assistance Program
'since it began last July. About
2,000 claimants are. receiving
help each weak now,, Mr. W ylsh
stated, from 82 skilled guidance
officers in, 16 UIC offices across
the province.: -
Theprogram,was devised as a
self-help means 'of getting the
unemployed worker back into the
labour ,force under the revised
unemployment insurance system,
and is open to all persons Who
have filed claim's • -for
unemployment insurance.
whether he has ,been employing
these skills in previous jobs or
not." •
CAP officers are also in close
touch with various social
agencies in their areas; and are'
able to refer persons needing
special assistance to the most
appropriate agency for help
including ,, welfare, retraining
The program provides for two
interviews if necessary, the first
after the -fifth week of filing' a
claim for un'employlzient'
iiisurattce, and the, second in the
'12th week ` or earlier at the
d' aofficer.
is et'o oft i a
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CAP -guidance officers are
located in WC offices in Barrie:
Cornwall, Hamilton, Kingston,.
London,' Oshawa; Ottawa, •St.' •
Catharines, Sault Ste. Marie,
Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Timmins,
Toronto (two), Waterloo and
Windsor. The Ontario regional
offices are located in Belleville.
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