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Getting older, your taste of music changes
Growing up in the city
and being a 80's baby,
my generation dates
back to the time kids pre-
ferred the genre of music
known as hip-hop or rap.
I can't speak for other places
in Canada, but in my neigh-
bourhood, that's what we
jammed through our boom
boxes. You know the loud
racket that has so much bass, it
knocks pictures off the wall and
leaves most grandparents ques-
tioning if it's an earthquake or
they're having a stroke.
It was the stuff that could
only be understood by the
youth and when mom and
dad gave the music a whirl,
they needed a language
translator because to them, it
was gibberish.
Most parents in those days
listened to rock and roll.
Everyday I would come
home from school and my
parents had the stereo
cranked with the radio set to
104.3 as their preferred sta-
tion. To this day I still remem-
ber the slogan, in this weird
Column
Shaun Gregory
woman's voice, "oldies 104.3
WMOC."
As I reached my teenage
years classic rock and oldies
just were not cool enough for
people of my age. If you got
caught with that playing on
your Walkman, you might get a
wedgie or even worse, have
some strips removed from your
popularity. Yet I noticed as my
birthdays passed this music
had begun to take hold of me.
My taste in music was trans-
forming into something I had
no control of. And just as a
human converted into a were-
wolf when the full moon
peaked, that's what I was doing
when the melody of rock hit
the radio airwaves. Just like a
beast howling at the sky, I was
doing the same and it pro-
ceeded to worsen, especially
when I first heard the talented
band known as ACDC.
What were these guys talk-
ing about? All they sing about
is explosives (you know
'TNT' -'dynamite') and other
unnecessary but catchy sci-
entific terms or phrases. It's
comical even the name
ACDC means alternating
current direct current.
Regardless of what they sang
about, these guys were it, my
new passageway to some-
thing different from what all
the other kids my age were
gravitating to. Are they British
like the handfuls of bands in
that era? It bewildered me
when I found out this musi-
cal powerhouse came from
the island of Australia. I could
careless where they
originated.
They could have been born
in outer space or a secluded
village in the Arctic, nothing
mattered to me because
Grits dump thriftless, bungled green plan
Peter Epp
It's difficult to put the
toothpaste back into the
tube, but the Ontario Lib-
erals are going to try. They've
suspended any plans for addi-
tional green energy projects
that originate from wind, solar
and energy -from -waste, con-
veniently citing a recent
report that says Ontario has
more than enough electricity
for the next decade.
The Liberals are cloaking
Tuesday's surprise decision
with a mantle of fiscal sobri-
ety, saying the suspension
will save the province $3.8
billion. But most anyone who
isn't part of Premier Kathleen
Wynne's caucus knows the
truth -- the Liberals' green
energy plan, while probably
well-intentioned, has been
horribly mismanaged and is
part of the reason for the sky-
rocketing electricity bills that
are angering citizens.
Wynne and her colleagues
hope calling a halt to new pro-
jects will increase their political
capital, but it won't. The
$3.8 -billion savings that Energy
Minister Glenn Thibeault is
touting is chump change when
compared to what has already
been spent, much of it foolishly.
Thibeault's savings amounts to
$2.45 a month for every Ontario
household -- at a time when
those same households are
struggling with inflated post -
summer utility bills that include
the cost of air conditioning.
This is a govemment that
hasn't balanced a budget in
years, and expends approxi-
mately $1 billion a month just to
service the provincial debt. Yet it
holds up $3.8 billion that won't
be spent on projects we don't
need as an example of frugality.
In this case, the damage
has already been done.
According to Auditor -Gen-
eral Bonnie Lysyk, over the
past eight years the Liberals
overspent $37 billion on new
power generation projects
because they ignored their
own planning process.
Lysyk also reports electric-
ity bills in Ontario rose by 70
per cent between 2006 and
2014, and has further warned
those rates will only continue
to climb, costing Ontarians
an additional $133 billion
these guys kicked butt. My
girlfriend's stepfather always
tells me, "oh they suck,"
because all their songs sound
the same. Yes, most of their
tracks have that similar tune
with the electric guitar. And
that's what I love about them.
As soon as the first five sec-
onds plays of any song, you
know its ACDC. They are
indeed my all-time favourite
band. It scares me how much
they can pump me up.
Just for fair warning folks,
if you see me cruising
through town with the win-
dows down and you are for-
tunate enough to see me
looking as if my head is going
to fall off my shoulders from
grooving, no need to worry.
It's just me, your local
reporter head banging to
Thunderstruck or Dirty
Deeds. Done For Cheap.
Signing out from my newly
owned bungalow Shaun AKA
the man who's on the "High-
way to Hell" while jiving to the
boys who in my eyes are the
true meaning of rock and roll.
over the next 17 years.
Moreover, for years it has
been reported that Ontario
routinely produces too much
electricity, frequently selling
the surplus at a loss to neigh-
bouring American states.
And yet the Independent
Electricity System Operator,
in its Sept. 1 outlook report,
indicates Ontario now has
enough generation capacity
for at least a decade.
Why has it taken so long to
make a determination that
has been apparent for some
time, and that the auditor -
general has highlighted in an
earlier report?
Conveniently, but more -so
ironically, the Wynne govern-
ment is using the IESO report
as its cue this week.
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