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By CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTON
The Canadian Press

If we all took the advice of Bart
Simpson — ‘‘Give a bum a cupcake
so he won’t mug you later’? — there
wouldn’t be any need for Comic
Relief.

The charity effort, involving
dozens of North America’s best
stand-up.gomigs,,saised $8.7 million,
for the homeless in 23 U.S. cities.

Now, Best of Comic Relief 1990
(Rhino Video), a two-hour made-for-
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home video.

Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg
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The featured comedians range from
campus favorite George Carlin to
new talents like Canada’s Kids on
the Hall (introduced as ‘the hottest
thing out of Canada since Margaret
Trudeau’’).

The trouble is, so many funny folk
are involved that each gets a mere
three minutes on stage. In most
Cases, that leaves you wanting more,

Circuitry Man (RCA-Columbia) —
Welcome to Los Angeles of the
future — a society of humans and
androids forced to live underground
because the city is a toxic wasteland.

This is the world of Plughead, a
robot villain who deals in the nar-
cotics of tomorrow — illegal com-
puter chips. You don’t shoot up in

this futuristic nightmare world. You
simply press pleasure chips into plugs
in your head.

Director Steven Lovy is generous
with both action and humor in this
enjoyable sci-fi comedy thriller. Ver-
non Wells’s Plughead matches Elm
Street's ‘Freddy for diabolical
nastiness, and his rival Lori (Dana
Wheeler Nicholson) is a comic-book
heroine with cover-girl appeal.

Chicago Joe and the Showgirl
(Live Home Video) — An American
serviceman and a dreamy-eyed strip-
per team up for deadly thrills in this
film by director Bernard Rose,

But instead of letting the chilling
true events set the tone, Rose choses
an almost surreal route that deadens

the impact and makes a strong story
appear almost trivial.

The mood plays havor with the
performances of Kiefer Sutherland
and Emily Lloyd as Bonnie-and-
Clyde couple on the loose in Second
World War London.

Although not a bad film, it
doesn’t do justice to a larger-than-
life murder story that shocked
Britons.

After savagely beating a girl, hit-
chhiker for her fur coat and mur-
dering a cabbie just for fun, Ricky
(Sutherland) was the only American
serviceman to be tried and then
hanged by the British during the war.
Stripper Georgina (Lloyd) was also
sentenced to death but was granted a
last-minute reprieve.

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ceremonies to retire the jersey of
Trail native Steve Tambellini.
Produced by Shaw Cable staff and
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Canada joins trade talks

OTTAWA (CP) — Canada is
joining Mexico and the United States
in talks on a North American free-
trade area that would be a major
step toward greater ties

areas such as beer or patent protec-
tion for drugs.

The Canadian Chamber of Com-
merce applauded the move, labor

initiative could contribute greatly to
the ultimate goal of hemispheric
trade integration,’’ said Jim Taylor,
president of the Canadian Exporters’

with Latin America, Trade Minister
John Crosbie said Tuesday.

A North American trade deal
would cover 360 million

it-and parties
questioned it.
**This Canada-U.S.-Mexico

But Jim McCambly, president of
the Canadian Federation of Labor,

said ‘*Canada is putting thousands of
jobs in jeopardy.”’

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three languages and $7 trillion a year
in commerce that would rival the
European Community.

Crosbie said Mexico already has
started sweeping economic reforms
in trade and investment that could
make it a powerhouse by the end of
the century,

*s important that we participate
in this economic revolution from the
outset,’’ said Crosbie.

“If Canada were not involved in
the enlarged free-trade agreement,
f ia ee

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could well decide to go elsewhere."’
In Washington, U.S. - President
George Bush said a North American
agreement ‘would be a dramatic fir-
st step toward the ion of a

WA (CP) — Free trade
ja, the United States

manufacturing job.

Or it could turn your employer
into a giant company striding
across the North American con-
tinent.

It all depends on who you
listen to.

The prospect of a three-way
trade deal conjures up wildly op-
posing visions of the Canadian
economy: one of a devastated

hemispheric free-trade zone."

Formal talks could begin in April
after approval by the U.S. Congress.

A deal would gradually phase out
tariffs — important taxes — and
other regulations that stifle the flow
of. goods, services and investment
among the countries. There would
also be a system to settle trade
disputes.

Crosbie said the three-way deal
would build on the 1989 Canada-
U.S. free-trade agreement, which
covers about $200 billion a year in
commerce.

But Canada’s stake in talks with
Mexico, a poverty-ridden country of
about 85 million, is. far smaller —
about one per cent.

Simon Reisman, who negotiated
Canada’s_ free-trade agreement with
the United States, said it will take
time for the average person to see

impact.

‘In the short run this is not a very
big deal,’’ said Reisman, now an Ot-
tawa consultant.

Crosbie said Canada can pull out
of the talks at any time and could
opt out of discussions of purely
U.S.-Mexican issues.

“We are Mot going to renegotiate
the free-trade deal,"’ he said at a
news conference.

U.S. and Canadian officials said
the continental talks would use the
Canada-U.S. agreement as a floor or
minimum.

But Canada could opt out where
Mexico might accept freer trade in

Wealth
shifts into
fewer hands

OTTAWA (CP) — The ranks of
the Canadian middle class are
shrinking as wealth shifts into fewer
and fewer hands, a parliamentary
committee heard Tuesday.

And middle-income earners must
work harder to afford the comforts
they're used to, several groups told
MPs studying child poverty.

“The choices that they thought
they were going to have as part of
the middle class have eroded,"” said
Alan Mirabelli, administration co-
ordinator for the Vanier Institute of
the Family.

“You have grown up thinking that
you were going to be a middle class
family and that you were going to*be
able to stay home with your kids at
least for the first six, seven years of
your lives and then go back to work,
and suddenly that choice isn't there
any more."*

Mirabelli said a couple must work
65 to 80 hours a week to earn the
average family income of about
$50,000 annually. In 1979, the same
couple had to work 48 hours a week
to earn an average family income.

“Consequently, families are

ing sector and one of
strong multinational companies
firmly rooted in Canada.

But for most Canadians, three-
way trade talks probably won't
mean much.

“In the short run, this is not a
very big deal,’’ said Simon
Reisman, who represented
Canada in free trade talks with
the United States.

Canadian trade with Mexico
amounts to a drop in the bucket,
compared to the lion’s share of
exports sent to U.S. customers.

Last year, Canadian companies

shipped $510 million in exports to
Mexico, mostly car parts, wheat,
wood pulp, steel and telecom-
munications equipment.

Canada imported $1.5 billion
from Mexico, also mostly car

Deal concerns critics

migration of Canadian com?
panies.

“The saine government that let
Canadians down so badly in the
free-trade negotiations with the
United States is now in a position

parts and
equipment.

But critics, including those
who blame Canada-U.S. free
trade for the current recession
and the loss of more than
180,000 manufacturing jobs ih
the: past two years, will try to
reopen old wounds.

The bitter 1988 election cam-
paign hinged on free trade.

Some say the issue propelled
former Liberal leader John Tur-
ner to his finest hour as he im-
plored Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney during a televised
debate not to throw Canada into
the powerful north-south pull
from the United States.

Free trade opponents fear a
north-south market entom-
passing 360 million North
Americans and low wages in
Mexico could lead to a mass

to d the damage it has
already done to Canada,"’ said
Liberal MP Jim Peterson.
Canadian companies will find
profitable to uproot
production facilities here, move
to low-wage Mexico and sell their

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He says Canadian firms with
highly educated employees and
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Crosbie cites the example of
Northern Telecom which expects
to sell $60 million of telephone
equipment in Mexico this year,
up from $4 million in 1988.

‘We can’t see any possibility
of loss on our side,’’ Crosbie
said.

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THE SECOND OF TWO EDUCATION SYSTEM REPORTS:

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How are we preparing B.C's
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Why are the schools changing?

B BCC. is changing — ical:
socially, and very rapidly. Through public
consultation in the 1988 Royal Commission
on Education, you made one thing clear. You
warited changes in our school system to
match the changes in our world.
We listened, and responded with a new
approach to learning that will prepare our

ildren for the Year 2000 and beyond. We're

as an enjoyable experience. And more, they
learn to make decisions, solve problems,
communicate effectively and care for each
other, as well as the world around them.

Dual entry, a key part of the new Primary
Program, demonstrates how public consen-
sus contributes to our new school system.
The Royal Commission learned that parents
wanted more choices about when to enrol
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time to a maximum of four months. This
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With its flexibility, dual entry typifies a
school system that is based on the individual
needs and abilities of the child.

Tomorrow's changes.
The Intermediate and Graduation Programs.
As part of the consultative process, drafts
of these proposed programs were circulated
in September 1990 to parent groups,
teachers and other members of the public
with interests in the education system. In
response to their comments, the Inter-
mediate Program will be phased in begin-
ning optionally in the 1991-92 school year;
the new Graduation Program will begin
in 1995-96.

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