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Recent &Matron in sonte canacrienCi
44.1 housing developments atfeast
must ke in the "affordable_PricwrOlge.%Sounds- good. fcn
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the most urgent problems facing Otirriatio 4s -the -provision
quate housing for Canadian fortifies'. - : •
However, the definition of the Word affordable may.net:
solution to many low-income familie,s. Affordable-1sdefifieff,
residence costing -no more than- $1-50000 to Construct
price there will:not be very many low-income-tafw* who
ford to move in.
We Might as well face the facts. Poor housing (in hoMes wjich
cost a great deal les than $1 50000) isprobably °nett
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causes �f many of the socialproblems- whit*,weare fry
avoid. We have read for years about housirig(ctin011korts,
Soviets -Union,. where4a.family: of .two,adults ,..-
quently has to live in a three-rooni apartment and share a bathr�orn'
at the end of the hall milli alt the other-tertant*onthe same ft�or.
Under such -conditions it must be VeryldifftOlt for , pier
vide the sort of Contentment and guidance which producehappy.
and productive children.
Housing shortages are among the bask-prOblerns.worldmide at
present. Canadian and American politicians are locked in debate'
with their European counterparts over the subsidies which govern-
ments across the Atlantic are paying to farmers. -One -of the -under-
lying reasons for those subsidies -is the effort to stem -the flooki-of
farm people into aireadi.,10ablarge_citias„where-tousing---has,---
become a nightmare.
High land prices in -the over -crowded countries of Europe is the
big contributing factor in the housing Shortage. But in Canada (and
indeed in Russia) the high priOe of -land is ludicrous. If there is any.
one thing we have in abundance it is living space. The only ptoblern,
is how to keep the price-0---bmliiinwlots3.friim -etreniOntt.,-- -94
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Sfrigie
A new spirit of cultural independence is being' fanned int* pro!
vince of Quebec, where the PO leader, Jacques Parikeau h
fired the question of street andretail signs in French.only. Bill 101
is ahangover from those, days when Renee, Levesque was trying to -
convince the QuebecOise that independence from the rest of
Canada was a worthwhile goal. His French -only- program was
defeated in a referendum. .
When that _vote was taken a majority of Frenclt-Canadians ap-
parently: reeked that - prosperity in Quebec might be severely
weakeh dgt ifs laws dematld tha _Ines& 4- conducted -
knit hue a
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difficult to believe that signs on plategtifOU
84.71*11,1kRu*,fi.Fr*PKVOltdr0 if theywere printed
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one language. -
M.ParizeaU should take,a-wilk aking.QtrietVt. West in Toren),
There he would see signs in almost evitifanguage front-PIOT
to Hindu. So far English-speaking CarolWS have not .protested
that those signs should be in the English langliage-only.
Quebec business people have, within recent years, begun to
emergeas a powerful and successful entity in Canade.i Surely the •
more their language can be merged with of -the English-.
speaking business world in the rest of Canada and the United_
States is the sensible way to 2P- ,
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DECEIVitskitie4i
In a letter from Itenuer Mitchell
Hepburn,- the Huron -Bruce
Liberal Associate" was Wormed
that no bi-election Will, be held in
this riding, which has had no
member Since the death of Charles
At• Robertson _nearly iwe:years ago:
Itiseipeatetttbat Ong year willsee
an Ontariiiketion. --
rive reeves seek the-- ar=
itenibitettlinteiri Cininty-
Two reeves from this end of th€
tailati'ireilithetace,Itatidd
of Turnberry. and W. J. Gamblee ol
flOwic,k. The other -three are frOni
Stanley Township, Hay To
and email.
Mies• Isabel Ilabldrk, a recent
graduate of Toronto General
WAWA' has. lotnix1.-the s
Wiell,b401 ,General
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Motor the past
sevenyears has been employed at
the 'branch of the
Deibiden,B�nit, left for London
where sheVilI take a p�sition at the
-at Whareaffe
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sand: 'board will *km. V?stlieritte
Crewson, David , Murray, Lorne
McDonald, Scott Held and
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held in- Wlnghpm in years, lack
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Arafat, so that tio",:cfan*IttOtef„,*CanadaUn,ted K.
peace in the 011- ":t,.
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