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Will it really work?
There's a new court procedure available this
week to citizens who run afoul of the law in a minor
way. It's the Provincial Offences Court which will
handle offences under the Highway Traffic Act
such as speeding, failure to wear seat belts and
violations involving vehicle safety; certain offences
under the liquor laws, the game and fish laws and
the law governing the operation of snowmobiles;
some municipal bylaws; and eventually, parking
offences.
This week as well, there are also new and simple
procedures for appeal.
The Provincial Offences Act came into effect
March 31. It is designed to streamline court
procedures without diminishing the legal rights of
- the province's people. 1
Previously, there were only two basic choices for
persons charged with any kind of a minor offence.
The first was to appear in court at the specified
time, to plead not guilty and to dispute the charge.
The second choice was to sign the guilty plea on the
back of the ticket and to send it to the court with the
specified fine.
Under the new system, however, there is a new
option. If a person does not wish to dispute the
charge, but does want to explain the circumstances
surrounding the incident, that person may, go to the
new Provincial Offences Court, actually the Justice
of the Peace, to explain why the fine should be
reduced or time for payment should be extended:
No appointment is necesary. Persons may go to
the court within the times specified on the back of
the ticket. If the offendor can't get there, he or she'
may send someone to act as an agent.
The Hon. R. Roy McMurtry, the Attorney
General for Ontario, warns a person must exercise
one of the three basic options within 15 days. If the
charge is ignored, the court will assume the of-
fendor does not wish to defend or explain himself
' and herself. The court will register a conviction and
impose the fine. -
According to the Attorney General, the new law
establishes a procedure which suits the minor of-
fences that make up such a large part of the court's
busy schedule. Most citizens will appreciate any
change which will effectively speed up the court
procedure while keeping the accumulated costs low
and the quality of justice high. .
Question is, will it work? Only time - and trial -.
will provide the answer. -SJK • '
Brainy beat inflation
A , Signal -Star reader this week sends along a•
sample brochure from one of the country's best
known banks urging people to take advantage of
special reduced rates until the end of. April on
personal plan loans "for any worthwhile purpose".
With the brochure, the reader enclosed a' note
which stated: ''In my opinion, the attached in
vitation is the continuing root cause of our high
inflation'. Why does -the government allow this type
of advertising?"
There's no doubt . the bank's brochure is ap-
pealling: It is probably effective, too. What's more,
for people with legitimate borrowing needs the
brochure will be highly beneficial in this time of
hefty interest rates,;
The fear of the reader who sent the brochure,
however, is not for the people with • legitimate•
borrowing needs. The concern was for the unwary
borrower who may be tempted to go too far in debt
for an unnecessary purchase. And this contributes
. to inflation. .
In an article in Monday's finance section of The.,
London Free Press, financial editor Emerson
Creed wrote: "The floating bank rate last week,
rose to 15.59 per cent, a move that helped the
Canadian dollar which was showing signs of
weakness. Japan, West Germany, the United
Kingdom and virtually all 'other industrial coun-
tries similarly have raised interest rates and taken
other actions to slow inflation."
Creed's column continued: "This over-all assault
on inflation . is being taken seriously—b-y people
generally. For about a year and a, half few people
seemed to respond to any of the anti-inflationary
actions. Now • that interest rates A are so high,
however, and the squeeze ,is hurting, people are
reacting."
'There is a desperate need for people to react
sensibly in today's difficult economy. The object
• should be for persons with money not to stop
spending and borrowing for necessary.' items, but to
be discerning in their spending and borrowing.
It is to be hoped that lending institutions will be
even more diligent in screening loan applicants -
determining their present level of debt, their ability
to repay., their actual need for money. Despite the
current competition for business., it would be nice to
know that lenders were aware that inflation can
only be licked if people everywhere learn again to
live within • their- financial -means -and •»were
working to that end. - SJK
Canada's
own giant
A little known fact in Canada may be that in I846,
a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alexander
Swan of New Annan, Nova Scotia, weighing 18
pounds. When she stopped growing, Anna Swan was
eight feet and one inch tall.
At age 17, Anna weighed 350 pounds and later in
life she tipped the scales at 500 pounds. She was
featured by Barnum and Bailey circus as the
biggest woman in the world.
She married a giant of a man - Captain Martin
an-Burerr-Bates-eff e Lky--w-ho--w,a-s--eight-feet _.•._.
tall, one inch shorter than his wife. They had two
children - a boy who weighed 221/2 pounds at birth
and a girl who weighed 18 pounds. Both children
died soon after they were born.
The Bates frequently visited Anna's home in New
Annan until her death in 1888. Her super large
dresses, bonnets and shoes are still in the Sunrise
Museum in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia. - By SJK
from information in John Fisher's Canada Column.
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Cornplete
atonemen t
by Eleanor Harris
We marvel at the completeness of the
Atonement 7
When Jesus said 'It is finis'hed'-
It was
and it is.
11 was then -
it is now.
It was there
it is here.
There are no supplements or afterthoughts
No secrets yet 'to be disclosed.
The Good News has been given un-
changing and complete.
_The only inconstant _•
Is ourtresponse.
What shall we do?
Confronted by the magnitude of God's love
as revealed in Jesus
We must decide for or against, the Truth.
The choice is ours to make
Our acceptance is in God's hand alone.
We need no references or recom-
mendations
No one can disqualify us.
Jesus paid the price
His blood speaks to God on our behalf.
When we believe the great transaction is
done.
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The photo at the left is the stark, rugged
cross at Camp Menesetung, Goderich.
Photo by Cath Wooden
The Three Mile Island
incident taught lessons
BY DAVID MOSEY -
ONTARIO HYDRO
Enrico Fermi, who designed and
•built the world's first nuclear reactor,
once remarked that he learned far
more 'from an experiment that failed
than -one in which all went as ex-
tpected. ,
Although the reactor at Three Mile
Island is hardly an experiment,'
Fermi's •observation could just as
easily apply to the• accident there a
year.ago.
What have we learned from the
Three Mile Island accident?
For one thing, we learned that
"defence in depth" really does work:.
At Three Mile Island, the reactor
suffered numerous equipment
failures and "operator. errors — in-
struments went-off-•scale;-0lamp s -were -
switched off, efficient fuel cooling
couldn't be established, fuel sheaths
melted and fuel tumbled to the bottom
of the reactor vessel.
And yet minimal radio -activity was
released from the station. "Defence
in depth" — the concept that the
whole system must be able to absorb,
the impact of mechanical and human
errors and still contain radioactive
materials — worked.
In a way that's the most important
lesson of all.
For Canada, and especially
Ontario, where 10 CANDU reactors
are currently in operation, with
another 12 planned or under con-
struction, there's another reassuring
message: 'the Canadian CANDU
reactor is much more resilient than
the U,S,-designed Pressurized Water.
Reactor. -
In other words, the events which
caused such serious problems at
`Three—Male Island would have very
much less impact on a CANDU
reactor. It's not that "it can't happen
here", but if it did happen here, the"
consequences .would be very much'
less serious.
Consider: At Three Mile Island the
initiating event „was a loss of feed -
water to a• boiler. In about four
minutes the boiler ran dry, despite the
fact that the reactor shut down
automatic ally..
CANDU boilers contain enough
water so they will not dry out for 20 to
30 minutes after reactor shutdown
and loss of feedwater.
The feedwater at Three Mile Island
wi:s restored within eight minutes. If
the main... circulating pumps, .are
turned' off (and they were at Three
'•Mile Island) a CANDU reactor will
cool itself through natural circulation
in the same way that an old-fashioned
domestic hot water heating system
works water gets hot in the reactor
What about building
more nuclear reactors?
and rises to the boilers,' where it's
cooled and returns to the reactor.
The process- is called' "thereto-
syphoning". Because of the layout of
the Three Mile Island reactor (the
boilers are not placed above- the
reactor) thermo-syphoning could not
take place.
These, and several other significant
differences between the CANDU and
Three Mile Island design were the
subject of detailed reports to the
Atomic Energy Control . Board
(AECB). Th'e same reports were
bathed in the limelight of the special
public sessions of the Ontario
Legislature's Select Committee on
Hydro Affairs. ' .
Perhaps this was one of the most
palpable benefits of the accident -
public attention became firmly
focuse-d on nuclear safety and the
media began to make a serious effort
to understand the engineering details'
of nuclear -reactors. The un-
derstanding might not be complete -
but it's developing, and it's vital.
While the reports from the several
inquiries into the Three Mile Island
accident are not all . complete, one
interesting feature seems •. to . be
emerging.. Licensing of nuclear
reactors in the United States has been
characterized by minute attention to
engineering detail - and has, in the
opinion of many nuclear engineers
(on both sides of the border), caused a
`situation where station design
becomes oriented to comply with a
host of.legislated specifications.
In contrast, the AECB's licensing
requirements 'can be spelled out on
one sheet of paper.
While the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission approach is to say:
"Sho>wv us that you_v_e_cs2r }zlied.._ with
all, the specifications and you can
have your licence", the Atomic
Energy Control Board says: "Show us
how you intend to meet our criteria
and if we are satisfied we will give
you your licence, and then you must
continue to show 'us that your
operations ' maintain those safety
standards."
DEAR
READER
faster helps people forget today's "me -first" society
Ninety per cent of what is in the
news, in organizations people belong
to, even in the home, is not problem
solving but power struggle..
The ego of the unregenerate man or
woman is as raw and destructive as a
grizzly bear on a rampage. Instead of
focusing on inexpensive and undelayed
solutions, it revels in complications and
crises that inflate its status.
Hockey fans look for fast skating and
precision skills; . they get sports page
battles between players and
management.
Canadians want relief from inflation
and a chance to own a home; they get
politicians who are more concerned
about the Gallup polls than they are
about their election promises.
The earth is a tinder dry arsenal of
atomic weapons; the world gets an
embassy full of Iranian students
playing with international snatches!
Man consistently takes structures
that were meant to serve others and
perverts their processes into self-
serving ladders of success. And those
— the citizens, the club members, the
kids in the family '— that the whole
thing was designed to serve, get
minimum attention.
Not so God.
Containing within Himself the
greatest personal power in the
universe, He condescended to act with
utter' simplicity, • humility, and ef-
fectiveness in order to save sinners.
He identified the problem, knew the
most direct solution, and submitted to
all the shame that it meant,
God knew that blood must be..shed to
cover the guilt of sin. The euphemisms
of psychology wouldn't do. Nor would a
series of diplomatic non -
communications. Nor a mid -game
change to easier rules.
Sin was in the blood of tna.n;
Salvation had to be through the blood of
God.
A simple, direct, but humiliating
solution. It meant that God would have
to choose to forfeit the privileges of His
position as universal Number One, take
the flesh of fallen man upon Himself,
and carry the world's sins to a cursed
cross, the disgraceful end of common
criminals.
And so He met the entire world's
need at His own expense.
Time and time again in this world
people are disappointed by those to
whom they give their vote, their
loyalty, their love. They were people on
their way to the top and others were
just rungs in their ladder.
So much crude oil to fuel their power
trips.
Easter is our annual reminder of a
once and forever divine power trip. A
journey from power to pain. A costly
communication of the love of Him `up
there' for His creatures, 'down here.'
Very uncomplicated. Very unselfish.
Very unavoidable.
`...Christ Jesus: who; being in the
form of God, thought it not robbery to
be equal with God: But made himself of
no reputation, and took upon him the
form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: And being found in
fashidn as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross.' Philippians 2: 5-8
Reprint from The War Cry