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By PORTIA PRIEGERT
The Canadian Press

Say hello to the Joneses of the 1990s.

You may have trouble recognizing the fictional
family of popular lore — and keeping track of them in
the coming decade will be no mean feat.

Families will be leaner — often minus a father or
children — and relationships more fickle as people opt
out of lifetime vows.

The way we live has changed dramatically in the
past decade and experts predict the changes will con-
tinue in the 90s.

So don’t expect to borrow nails from Mr. Jones,
trade meatloaf recipes with Mrs. Jones or fork over

dy to their
In 1986, when Statistics Canada did its last census,
only 55 per cent of families were traditional — defined
as two parents and at least one child.
And when the agency looks into its crystal ball — at
population projections based on complex statistical
analysis — it sees this figure slumping to 47 per cent by

MS. AND‘OTHER’

Rising divorce rates will create a surge of single-
parent families.

Say hellotoMs. Jones.

will become
place.
Say hello to ‘*her significant other," Mr. Smith.

At the same time, the vast influx of women into the
workplace will result in smaller families and some
women will choose to have noc!

Say goodbye to playmates for Spnior.

We make our lifestyle choices individually. But
collectively those deci
that will keep demographers — people who study
population trends — busy for years.

The falling birthrate. The greying population.
Blended families.

Even our language is falling behind. Remember the
debate over how to introduce someone you're shacked
up with? Friend?

Roommate? Significant other? Even now that
"t seem to be resolved.

And remember the confusion over blended families
— his step-son from a previous marriage, her daughter
from a common-law relationship, their new baby?

Sociologists and demographers think we'll play the
same tune into the new millennium.

TERMS SHORTER
2001. “| don’t see anything to suggest there would be a
sudden turnaround,
professor at the University of Toronto.

Jeanine Perreault, who oversees population
projections at Statistics Canada, agrees.

“The whole concept of time has changed,
says. ‘Before people married for life, bought a house
for life and chose a career far life.

ns have created shifting tides

says Warren Kalbach, sociology

she

* “Now people go for short-term relationships, more

segmented time."”

All these changes have immense implications for

public policy.

With the declining importance of the family,
Canadians will expect society to help them raise children

and care for aging parents.

One big concern is the falling birthrate.

In 1987 — the latest year for which statistics are
available — women, on average, had 1.66 children.

That's down from 1.75 in 1980 and well below the

2.17 needed to replace the population.

The level is expected to hover around 1.7 — or even

fall alittle — in the next decade.
COST AFACTOR

“Factors such as the cost of raising children — in.
cluding the cost arising from the interruption of a
woman's career — could contribute to a continued
downward trend,”’ the Economic Council of Canada

warned this year in its annual review.

Canada’s population — now about 26 million — is
still growing, but slower than in the past.

Assuming Ottawa doesn’t dramatically boost im>
migration — 150,000 people were admitted in 1988 —
the population is expected to begin declining by 2025.

Many believe the government has little choice but
to admit more immigrants, continuing to increase our
ethnic diversity with people from Asia, Africa and Latin

Lifestyle changes expected to continue

The low birthrate is worrisome for Quebec, where
women receive $3,000 from the provincial government
for having a third child, a move aimed at maintaining
the province's distinctive French character

Other trends to watch in the "90s? The good news is
that people can expect to live longer.

Girls born in 1986 have a life expectancy of 80
years, on average, while boys born the same year can ex-
pect to live 73 years.

Children born in 2001 will probably live three years
longer, baring any catastrophic environmental or health
disaster

But longer life spans and lower birthrates mean the
population is rapidly getting greyer.

With fewer young people paying taxes, governmen-
ts will have to take a hard look at.how they will pay for
old-age pensions, nursing homes and social services for
seniors.

And with medical advances allowing seniors to lead
fuller lives into thier 70s, 80s or even 90s, their expec-
tations will mount

Ottawa, casting a nervous eye on the burgeoning
federal deficit, decided this year to begin forcing seniors
with incomes over $50,000 to pay back at least a portion
of their federal old-age pensions at tax time.

Policy makers still have time to plan, however.

The full impact of the aging population won't be
felt for another 20 years — when the baby-boom
generation begins to hit retirement age.

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Forbes, a matter-of-fact American business magazine,
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3292, Castlegar. 365-5167 104/17. eat too much brown rice.””

Globe and Mail cotumnist Bronwyn Drainie says it's

‘rather like spiritual Silly Putty.”
Nevertheless, it’s catching on
Defining New Age is difficult

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goodwill for one’s fellow man,”

“*It’s a search,””
OWNER: Ministry of Trasportation

This amorphous cluster of spiritualistic thought and
practice has made its way from California and Colorado,
where the trend has its firmist grip, and is settling in

Most say New Age is just a marketing classification,
tagged onto ideas too loosely associated to be called a
movement. Followers say it’s a quest for unity and balance
— with oneself, with the environment, and with others.

“It means becoming a better person and harboring
said a woman employed at
ah Ontario New Age magazine who refused to be named
said Michael Bertrand, co-publisher

settling in Canada

SASKATOON (CP) — Whether it’s truly ihe dawning
of the Aquarian Age or just a full-service crackpot

were into (the rock-musical) Hair, have come onto this,”
said Dale Beyerstein, a University of British Columbia

sessional lecturer in philosophy and a founder of the New

Age debunking organization, B.C. Skeptics.
The result is what used to be a fringe movement is
becoming part of the mainstream culture, endorsed by

public personalities like actress Shirley MacLaine.

“You find a lot from the "60s who were in the
barricades of the new left are now in corporate board

rooms. That’s where the New Age ideas are rising,” said

Beyerstein.

In Boulder, Colo. — what some call the New Age
Athens — as many as 80,000 residents have undergone
some form of New Age training.

executives have

mational experience,”

““Meditational techniques have become common fare
in the state’s public and private schools. Thousands of
workers in some of Colorado’s most pre:
porations regularly attend management motivation courses
based on the teachings of New Age theorists.

By one estimate, as many as 50 per cent of Denver
undergone some kind of

ious cor-

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Central Kootenay Highways District

PUBLIC NOTICE
BRIDGE CLOSURE

Slocan City Bridge #188,
Slocan Park West Road

Due to deterioration in carrying capacity, Slocan City Bridge
#188 was closed to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic at 10:00
a.m. Saturday, November 25, 1989

Vehicular traffic is detoured via TRI-PAC Bridge approximately
1 km downstream. The Ministry plans to restore pedestrian ac-
cess near the existing Slocan City bridge site in the near future.

1 regret any inconvenience that this unannounced closure may
cause.

Further information may be obtained from the Central
Kootenay District Highways Office at 354-6521.

D.P. WILLIAMS
District Highways Manager
Central Kootenay District

Minister of Transportation and Highways

ond Highways. of Common Ground,
GENERAL CONTRACTOR: Wm. Berg
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FREEDOM “wae
MOVE Honourable Rita Johnson, Minister
PUBLIC NOTICE

Giving You the Freedom to Move
VERNON-SLOCAN HIGHWAY No. 6

CAPE HORN-CORY CREEK RECONSTRUCTION
Highway No. 6 at Slocan Bluffs will be open to traffic
Saturday, December 9. As construction continues 3
HOUR CLOSURES between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and
12:00 noon will be in effect Monday to Friday in-
clusive. MINOR DELAYS of up to 20 minutes may be
expected at all other times weekends included.
As of D ber 9 the P Ferry Service will be
discontinued.
Please obey all signs and flagpersons when
travelling through the construction zone.

An alternate route is available via Highway 31A,
Kaslo-New Denver.

R.E. MATTHEWS
Project Manager
Kootenay Region

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a Vancouver-based magazine
dealing with New Age ideals. ‘“The whole idea (behind New
Age) is people want responsibility for their own health,

Skeptics and followers agree, there’s nothing new in
this life philosophy. It’s largely common sense. What is dif-
ferent, and what causes some religious groups and skep-
tics to question the trend, is how some people look for this

REJECTS TRADITION

While Sunday sermons from the pulpit are a common
and accepted spiritual practice, those people known as New
Agers don’t follow traditional Western religions.

Their spiritual search is highly individualized. Rather
than believing in God, most New Agers presume everyone
possesses a God-like or divine force.

Fo-reach that force within themselves they may prac+
spirits (where the dead
speak through a living medium), vegetarianism, speak to
plants, examine their auras (glow around the body created
by energy) and chakras (energy zones).
oe ae They also believe in reincarnation, astrology, the
relationship of color and feeling and use herbs to medicate

New Age borrows from Eastern mysticism and in-
cludes a strong respect for the environment

While adherents may not necessarily engage in all of
these pursuits — some of which followers feel discredit the
movement — many believe a better time is coming — atime
where Earth will be populated by superior beings who have
undergone an inner transformation

“The waking up is coming from an essential part
within ourselves. It’s taking place in communities, politics,
said Troy Lenard, a parap-
3672.3 sychologist who conducts seminars and retreats through his
Calgary business, Transformation Seminars.
“Everything has to synthesize these phildsophies.”
Lenard said this awakening will make the universe

“I’m not just talking about (communication with) ex
traterrestrial beings. I'm talking about_ relationships
that result in direct communication with other forms of
nature. The animal, plant and mineral kingdoms."’
Although some segments of the Western population
engaged in New Age thinking long before the experimental
1960s, not until that decade did these views gain widespread

York Times

NOW AVAILABLE!

In mainstream U.S.A., a recent Gallup poll indicated
33 per cent of Americans have had a ‘‘moment of sudden

religious insight or awakening,” up 20 per cent from 1962

ted these ideals.

Meanwhile, in Canada one estimate placed the num-
ber of hardcore New Agers from 50,000 to 60,000.
Residents of British Columbia have most readily adop-

Vancouver's Banyen Books is one of the largest

age tastes.

bookstores in North America catering to people with new

SUPPLIES EXPLORERS

In Saskatoon, Rainbow Books and Records supplies
the city’s spiritual explorers. Although owner and manager
Elsie Mah said she wouldn’t label her stock New Age

because these philosophies are age-old, for some reason

books.

Saskatonians have a revived interest in spiritually oriented

“1 guess percentage wise there’s more awareness
There has also been an expansion of material in the last few

years. Because there’s more books, there’s more interest

generated.”

Although New Age thought is transmitted through

videos and workshops, books are the movement's main

forum
According

same titles.

— the Age of

Vista magazine, 2,500 New Age

bookstores have opened in the United States since 1983 and
many more chain stores and health food outlets carry the

New Age analysts and followers suggest the
movement has become so popular so quickly because the
Western world’s
people’s spiritual needs.

Our world has become steeped in science and reasonjat
the expense of spirituality

Maureen O'Hara, associate editor of a psychology
journal and a psychology. teacher at San Diego State
University, gave her explanation for New Age popularity in
the magazine The Skeptical Inquirer

traditional religions don’t address

REPRESENTS ATTEMPT

“The New Age movement,”
an attempi to create a world-view that can ease the pain of
the alienation felt by a population that has discovered the
limitations of its science, that has lost faith in its religious
traditions, that recognizes that its reality is at least in part a
social construction, that has seen its government
authorities caught in lies and corruption, that has been

she wrote, ‘‘represents

psychologically manipulated by millions of manufactured

images.

Divorce difficult

VANCOUVER (CP) — Men un:
willing or unable to get help with severe
psychological trauma sometimes
associated with the stress of divorce
could become homicidal or suicidal,
says a university psychiatry professor
who has written a book on Men and
Divorce

“The abandoned husband tends to
isolate himself, repressing, even sup:
pressing his pain and rage,"” says
Michael Myers of the University of
British Columbia. “This type of man is
capable of violence against himself or
others."”

More commonly, men will over
work, become substance abusers and
fall prey to physical ailments such as
migraines, rheumatoid arthritis and
coronary disease, Myers said in a
release.

The connection between illness and
divorce is rarely made, he added

Myers believes men aren't being
properly helped in their efforts to cope
with the stress of divorce. They ex
perience more difficulty than they or
mental health professionals realize,
resulting in improper diagnosis, he
sat

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Trail, B.C. VIR 418

Phone: (604) 364-4135

FAX: (604) 364-4109