The Times Advocate, 2005-01-05, Page 44
Exeter Times—Advocate
Wednesday, January 5, 2005
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EDITORIAL
How lucky
we are
Iis during cataclysmic events such as the
recent deadly tsunami that Canadians
should really count themselves among the
luckiest citizens in the world.
The death toll from the south Asia tragedy is
at about the 150,000 mark. Only five of those
are Canadians, with 150 Canucks still miss-
ing.
Constant complainers about everything — the
government, the weather, taxes, health care,
education and the judicial system, Canadians
should be thankful nothing even close to the
devastation in Asia has happened in this coun-
try.
We truly live a sheltered existence in
Canada. Sure it gets cold here and most
Canadians are over -taxed, but unlike most
people on this planet, we don't have to
worry about hurricanes, earthquakes,
monsoons and other beastly attacks by
Mother Nature.
Sure, we get snow storms and the odd
tornado, but most Canadians prefer our
weather inconveniences compared with
what much of the rest of the world suf-
fers.
To top it all off, we've managed to live this
charmed existence and still be universally
liked by the rest of the world, so we've also
managed to stay under the radar of terror-
ists.
Indeed, the problems Canadians have to
endure pale in comparison with those our
friends around the globe face on a daily basis.
The next time you're angry you have to shovel
your driveway or pay your obscenely high
income taxes, just remember the devastation
those living in south Asia recently went
through.
And the suffering isn't over — disease,
famine, viruses and continued hardship will
no doubt spread as the storm -ravaged
nations pick up the pieces and try to
rebuild.
We should thank our lucky stars. And do
whatever we can to help.
Editorial Opinion
Three cheers for the CBC
While there aren't many things I can agree on
with my long-haired colleague with his well
known liberal/pinko/commie views, as opposed
to my own well thought and logical arguments
like why the Leafs have been/are/will be a bet-
ter hockey team than the bleu, blanc et rouge
and why George W Bush should be nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize and/or Rhodes
Scholar, we do agree on one thing.
If the CBC can't come up with some-
thing other than Kevin Costner golf
movies maybe it's time to rethink
whether it is really worth the $1 billion
or so tossed at it every year.
I don't really expect a lot out of the
CBC, which seems to have as its man-
date two types of programming, anti
American and blatantly anti American.
And this is the network that decided to
tape over the tapes of the 1972 Canada
versus Russia series. ("No one will want
ever want to see these games again.")
But it's hard to take seriously a network that
thinks it's a wise idea or at least a ratings draw,
to point a camera at Antonia Zerbias, or that
the CBC choose to replace HNIC with Disney
programming, or the fact CBC can't come up
with three hours worth of Canadian content for
a Saturday night.
While it it might not be necessary to have Slap
Shot on every Saturday night a blank screen
would be preferable to "The Legend of Baggar
Vance."
As usual, it's left to private industry to respond
to the market, with TSN giving viewers classic
hockey games, although not all viewers are sat-
isfied with the games being shown with a heavy
emphasis on games from the Forum.
There are viewers who shall go
unnamed who might like to see the best
bench clearing brawls of 1974 or the
Flyers taking skill to a new level to club
the Red Army into submission just to hear
Bob Cole's call of the century, "they're
going home," before the economic facts of
life were explained to Igor, Ivan and the
rest of the Red hordes that if they wanted
to get paid they had to go back out and
face Bobby, Dave, Moose and and the
boys for another half a game.
Another game worth seeing would be the
1976 final when Larry Robinson tried to make
Gary Dornhoefer a permanent part of the
Forum boards.
As for the small matter of the quality of CBC
programming in general, all is not lost because
Bill and company are on the way with some
fair and balanced programming.
PAT B
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