w2__Castlégar News _Jonvary3, 1990

SPORTS

LaForge in deep again

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Players on the Western Hockey League Tri- City Americans won't boycott any more games,

In return, the players have been promised they won't have any more contact. this season with Bill LaForge, the team's director of operations.

Twenty American players decided Tuesday not to repeat the team revolt that resulted in a game Saturday between the Americans and Poftland Winter Hawks

in Kennewick not being played.

The players said LaForge, who was the centre br the players revolt, was ver-

bally abusive.

Gerry Johannson, the team’s assistant coach, said LaForge; who was hired about three weeks ago, may be reassigned to a job as an Americans scout in Ed-

jonton.

EARLY STARTERS . . . The SHSS boys curling team got the new year off to a good start by winning the 1990 West Kootenay

championships held he:

Back L-R Devin Turner (skip) Kelly Kittson

(lead). Front LaR Kurt Roberts (thied) and Russell Lundquist (second).

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SHSS curlers win West Kootenays

By CasNews Staff This is one win the Stanley Hum-

phries secondary school’s boys’

curling team can enjoy all year long.

The team of lead Kelly Kittson, second Russell Lundquist, third Kurt Roberts and skip Devin Turner won the 1990 West Kootenay Champion- ship at the Castlegar Curling Club in December.

It’s the third time in the last four years the téam has won the title and it couldn’t have been any easier than this year, according to the players.

The team outscored the competition in the six-team event 41-15 in going un- defeated through five straight games in acruise tothe championship.

The SHSS , girls’ curling team of Kerri Abietkoff, lead, second Laura Darnbrough, third Melissa LaBine and skip Kim Abietkoff, came close to duplicating the boys’ feat on the same weekend but lost in the B final of the championship.

The boys’-win qualifies the team for the East-West Kootenay champion- ships in Cranbrook tentatively set for Jan. 22.

The boys’ next action is the Pepsi Juniors championships being held here this weekend.

The junior tadies’ zone finals will also be here on Dec. 12-14. The Castlegar News will carry full results.

The Americans’ next scheduled game is Thursday night in Spokane. They played a game in Portland on Sunday night under a threat of suspension.

“Everything is resolved,’*

said Johannson.

“Everybody is happy.

Everything's back to the way it was in early December. Neither head coach Rick Kozuback nor LaForge was at Tuesday’s practice.

They could not be reached for cqmment.

“It's a win-win situation,’’ said one Americans players who requested that

his name not be used.

LaForge was fired last month as coach of the Niagara Falls Flyers of the On- tario Hockey League. He once coached 20 games with the NHL Vancouver. a

Canucks before he was fired.

Last Saturday? 20 Americans players boycotted their home game against Portland and said in a letter they would not play until LaForge was out of the

organization.

Bantam Reps win

The Castlegar Bantam Reps played -500 hockey and that was good enough to take the B final in the 13th annual Spokane Holiday Tournament last week.

Castlegar lost to Sylvan Lake, Alta., and league rivals fron Spokane but beat af all-star team from Northern California. and~ then bombed the Wenatchee entry to win the B side.

Castlegar's—first opponent was Sylvan Lake and although the local

MINOR LEAGUE ROUNDUP

Squad managed to stay close until the third period Sylvan Lake pushed their 2-1 lead toa 5-1 final score.

Dustin Rilcof scortd Castlegar’s lone goal on a fine solo effort and Vaughan Welychko made several fine saves in net for Castlegar.

Against the all-stars from Northern

Thompson collects the cash

By CasNews Staff All the Castlegar rinks got beaten out early in the Castlegar Realty Cashspiel here last weekend. But there

od

was a consolation watch the finals. Two-time Labatt’s Briar competitor Paul Devlin from Trail matched rocks with Fred Thompson of Nelson with $700 on the line for the winner and $300 for the loser in the finals at the

‘ize — they got to

Castlegar Curling Club Sunday.

And for a time, it didn’t appear either was going to lose’as the game went into extra ends tied at four

But Thompson jas to emerge on top, scoring one in the 10th to take the bucks and the bragging rights in the fir? st annual tourney

Castlegar rinks in the Cashspiel skipped by Kelly Johnson and Bill Perehudoff didn’t advance past the

round-robin portion of the tourney while a third Castlegar rink skipped by Bill Van Yzerloo Jr. was hammered by Thompson in the semi-finals.

Perehudoff’s rink had one win, two losses while Johnson's went without a win losing every game in extra ends.

Next upin men’s curling are the zone championships in Trail Jan. 12-14 in which. many/of the same tongs will meet again‘

Montreal is in decline. as our sports capital

By TERRY SCOTT The Canadian Press

Some of the falls from grace in the 1980s had more im- pact: Pete Rose becoming a hustler of a different sort and Ben Johnson running to ignominy comé immediately to mind in a reflection on the decade.

But the demise of Montreal as a prominent professional sports city and the crumbling public support of local athletic endeavors ranks among. the nastiest spills since Humpty Dumpty. And, tikethe storybook character, there is concern heading into the 1990s, whether the pieces can properly be put together again. -

How much have the mighty fallen? In 1980, Montreal was the Canadian boxing capital, the site of the first and finest of the Sugar Ray Leonard-Robert Duran bouts at Olympic Stadium.

In the years that followed, the Hilton family brought fight afficidnados flocking to the Forum, culminating in Matthew Hilton’s IBF world junior lightweight title victory over Buster Drayton in front of a delirious home crowd in 1987.

Now, Alex Hilton is serving a jail term, Dave Hilton Jr. is buried on undercards and Matthew’s biggest battle is of the bulge despite the fact he has a shot at a world title — albeit the World Boxing Organization’s middleweight crown — against titleholder Doug DeWitt later this month in Atlant ity: .

Bingos are likely to outdraw any fight card in Mon. treal.

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ATTENDANCE FALLS

No one was packing them in like the Montreal Expos in the early 1980s, when they were heralded as the team of that era. On a raw, overcast Monday in late October t98t, Olympic Stadium, for all its drabness, had enough elec tricity to light all of the country’s Christmas trees.

The Expos didn’t go to the World Series in 1981, and they haven’t been that close since. The team has been dissected, restructured and psychoanalysed but it seems as far away from a pennant as ever and fans maintain a corresponding distance.

As the 1990s dawn, the Expos’ only chance of selling ‘out Olympic Stadium is to book a post-game concert featuring the Rolling Stones.

In the early 1980s, the Rolling Stones would probably have played second guitar at the stadium to a North American Soccer League team called Le Manic. It was a

meteoric love affair: the franchise was awarded in 1980 an- ds ceased to exist by 1983, although in each of its first two seasons Le Manic averaged 21,000 spectators, second in the league only to the New York Cosnios-

Soccer registration among youngsters increased dramatically in the city, but perhaps they were too busy doing their own thing because the Manic’s attendance dwindled to an average of 6,000 and the team — named af- ter ariver — was sunk by debt

FRANCHISES FOLD

Le Manic’s iliness, ‘while terminat,wat2't nearly-as lingering as the Montreal Alouettes, once the cornerstone of the’Canadian Football League. Sagging interest was revived as the’ 19808 were ushered in, whcn Nelson Skalbania bought the franchise and spared-no expense for big-name personnel

But Skalbania’s wallet was as skimpy as his team’s record and as flimsy as the gate receipts, acombination that sent the Alouettes into bankruptcy following the 1981 season

Like a phoenix, they. would rise from the ashes and be known as the Concordes, but they were again the Alouettes on June 24, 1987 when, after $17 million in losses over the previous five years, they withdrew from theCFL.

In the first few years of the decade there were even — incredulous asit may seem — a noticeable number of empty Seats at the Forum for Canadiens’ games. But a Stanley Cup triumph in 1986 and the building of highly competitive teams since then have cemented whatever cracks had ap- peared.

Winning does a tot for the pysche of the sports fan, especially in , where the c i banners that hang from the Forum aretike candy to a sweet-toothed kid .

Theories to explain the demise of Montreal as a sports city would probabfy require a good portion of the next decade to enumerate: other outlets to spend leisure income, @ growing séciety of participants rather than observers, administrative bungling that alters a fan's view toward a@ Product

But maybe it’s simpler than that

In each of the above instances, public apathy incréased a setbacks rhounted. Montreal has always perceived itself as a city of champions and the 1986 Stanley Cup, the Hilton title and the Expos partial pennant in 1981 provided the decade’s only breast-beating.

California, John Strilaeff put Castlegar on the. board in the first period on a nice feed from lan Dudley. Nor Cal tied the game in the second period but Nino DaCosta pumped in three unanswered goals in the third period. lan Dudley picked up assists on all three of DaCosta’s goals to com- plete the 4-1 victory. Thomas Phipps and Chris Cavaghan also picked up assists in the third period.

Against Spokane, the U.S. squad opened the scoring and led 1-0 at the end of the first period. Spokane moved to 2-0 in the second before Cavaghan scored for Castlegar with Dudley and Strilaeff picking up assists.

Spokane scored to make it 3-1 as the second period ended.

Ken Skibinski raised Castlegar’s hopes in the third period when he backhanded the puck into the net on fine pases from DaCosta and

However, that was all

nage and Spokane

scored twice late inthe third to take the win 5-2.

Castlegar’s performance qualified them for, the B Final against Wenat- chee. Trailing 2-1 in the first period, Castlegar managed to pull ahead and eventually dominate Wenatchee win- ning 11-3.

Cavaghan had three goals, Strilaeff and Rilcof had two, and Welychko, Mike Hunter, DaCosta and Arron Voykin each contributed one goal. Assists went to DaCosta with four, Hunter, Cavaghan, Voykin and Welychko with two and Dudley with one. Goalie Jacey Moore played well in net for Castlegar.

Castlegar resumes league play Jan. 6 in Beaver Valley. The team is currently in second place in the West Kootenay Bantam Rep League.

Montana is NFL's best

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Joe Montana, who rasied his career to

i 1 ing

Jights in 1989 with the best all-around pass! I peviry - pots honor Tuesday when he was named the league’s most valual er by The Associated Press.

Thi : fter undergoing major back surgery and a year after his starting job was put up for grabs by Bill Walsh, Montana guided the San Francisco 49ers to four fourth-quarter comeback wins aiid the league's best record (14-2). . F :

He had a sixth season of 3,000-plus passing yards, tying Dan Fouts' league record, and at one point threw 150 passes without aninterception.

. Montana, completing a near-record 70.2 per cent of his passes for 26 anda low eight i pti also was an easy winner of the award as AP's offensive player of the year. ;

In balloting by a national media panel, Montana, 33, received 62 votes for MVP. Green Bay quarterback Don Majkowski was @ distant second with six. The only other vote-getter was defensive tackle Keith Millard of Minnesota with two. F

The 49ers led the league in total offence in 1987 and 1989 and were second last season, They have had a monopoly on honors as offensive player of the year for three years. 4 : ’

Jerry Rice was MVP and offensive player in 1987 and Roger Craig was selected for the offensive award last season

Nothing wrong with Wright

IRVING, Tex. (AP) — After leading the NFL in interceptions and still failing to make the Pro Bowl, Cleveland safety Felix Wright is con-, fused about what it takes to get noticed.

“It bothers me,”’ Wright aid after a workout at the Dallas Cowboys practice complex where the Browns are preparing for Saturday's AFC playoff game against Buffalo. ‘*When I got downtown, people will come up tome and say: ‘You should have madeit.’

“So people in Cleveland recognize that."’

He said it was frustrating to miss the Pro Bowl ‘‘becguse at least I thought I'd be an alternate or second team or something, an Ididn’teven getthat.""*

Wright, who played for the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats from 1982- 84, isn’t sure why he’s had to labor anonymously for two straight outstan- ding sedsons. Most likely, it’s because he’s the least famous member of a secondary that includes frequent Pro Bowl cornerbacks Frank Minnifield and Hanford Dixon.

Wright led the NFL with nine interceptions in 1989, after getting five a year earlier. He was third on the team in tackles this year with 118.

He compiled the big stats in spite of coach Bud Carson's decision to switch him from free safety to strong safety, a position he'd never played regularly before and one that doesn’t usually lend itself to as many inter- ceptions. .

t’s discouraging because, as Bud said, he thought I had the num- bers,’’ Wright said. ‘I had more tackles and more interceptions than any safety that was selected. »

“It just didn’t work out.’”

Chargers shake it up

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Owner Alex Spanos confirmed Tuesday that the entire scouting staff of the San Diego Chargers was fired as part-of a front-office shakeup that began with Steve Ortmayer’s dismissal as direc- tor of football operations.

“Everybody that Steve hired is gone, they're all gone,’’ Spanos said.

The owner also said that Bobby Beathard is the new general manager of the NFL club.

Beathard has been out of football for the last year, working as a net- work sports commentator, but he helped assemble the talent for five Super Bow! teams asa club executive with Washington and Miami.

He has been a regular og The Insiders segment of NBC’s NFL Live, joining the pre-game show soon after leaving Washington, where he was general manager for 10 years

Spanos said he fired Ortmayer because he couldg’t build a consistent winner. =

The Chargers were 19-27 during Ortmayer’s tenure, which lasted almost three full seasons. They were 5-10 at the time of his dismissal and

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won their final game to finish 1989 at 6-10 under first-year coach Dan ~

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Job stress in '90s may

By CLYDEGRAHAM The Canadh ress

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Some Canadian such as, wii ing and textiles, must fight to survive as more provisions of the free

Stash a bottle of antacid in the I And forget about coasting to a gold watch,

The 1990s may well be the decade of the ulcer for Canadian workers.

Jobs in the '90s will continue to be stressful and even more competitive, experts predict.

Business is going global and that’s putting pressure on

, Companies to be leaner and meaner as they face greater

competition athome and abroad.

Employees may have to go back to school, change jobs or even careers to fit new corporate strategies.

There will be rewards for a few. But for most there will be little'in the pay envelope to compensate for relentless change, uncertainty and even fear.

“1 think the anxiety and pressure and stress are going to be quite brutal,’’ says Senator Lorna Marsden, a sociology professor at University of Toronto.

FLEXIBLE TIME.

Meanwhile, there are already signs that many workers want to put family ahead of the office or factory. There are demands for more flexibility — from job sharing to reduced work weeks. , g

Canadian business is being pressed to rethink the P-to- § time clock at the same time the world economy is changing.

Helene Paris, a researcher with the Conference Board of Canada, i big cor and governments, have been trying to make the’ job fit the worker.

During the '80s, firms Offered more flexible work hours, and even began tailoring benefits such as dental plans to fit the differing needs of their workers + par- ticularly women with children

Paris said she expects that trend will continue into the 1990s. Rg

Companies are also paying more attention to the workplace. Ergonomics — the study of how office and fac- tory design affects workers — became #buzzwort in the 1980s.

_Everything from computer desks to light fixtures are being redesigned to put less stress on workers. *

But Paris said companies that want to accommodate their workers may find it toughter as they face new com- petitive pressures.

“*I don’t know how they’ re going to solve it,’’ she said.

It’s not just the new free trade deal with the United States and international talks in Geneva aimed at lowering tariffs and other commercial barriers in about 100 coun- tries as early as 1991.

‘Workers will also have to spend more time training for changing technology.

‘Crown corporations such as Air Canada have already been privatized and more may follow. Government is regulating industry less;while corporations are merging more to become international in scale.

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take effect over the next decade.

The pace of change will vary. se

Brewery workers are already sampling the 1990s, Earlier last year, Molson and Carling O’Keefe-merged to create North America’s fifthargest beermaker.

The companies, seeing barriers to foreign brews about to fall, will close seven of their 16 breweries across Canada, About 1,400 jobs will eventually be cut. e

“1 think what is.really a source of stress is the uncer-

inty that exists in many industries,"’ observes Graham Léwe, a sociologist at the University of Alberta, now visiting at Carleton University in Ottawa.

The question a lot of workers should be asking them- selves is, ‘‘Is my job going to be around?"’ said Lowe, who is studying the changing workplace

The 1980s ended in Canada with a record spyrt of mergers, echoing a trend around the world. The first six months of 1989 saw a $20-billion corporate buying spree — compared with the total of $23.7 billion for albof 1988 in Canada.

That merger pace coojed recently as the economy slowed down. But Howard Wetston, diréctor of the federal bureau of competition policy, says a second wave is inevitable.

After months of looking into ¢hallenges created by free trade, telecommunications executive Jean de Gran- dpre warned that captains of industry will be piling pressure on workers. .

“*Canadian companies will adopt a varity of strategies

. . to be in the best position to compete internationally. « These activities could lead to anxiety and uncertainty for Canadian workers."’ ~

{ED RETRAININ'

De Grandpre urged Ottawa to turn its social safety net — especially unemployment insurance — into a trampoline to bounce displaced workers into new jobs through retraining.

The Economic Council of Canada~says working Canadians are only marginally better off in real disposable income than a decade ago. The 1990s may be bleak for everyone except professionals and top executives, it adds.

There will be a lot of jobs that only allow workers to support their families *‘at minimal levels, with little oppor- tunity to save for old age,"’ said the council

One reason is the growth of the service sector. Work in banks, stores, hotels and restaurants often involves lower wages, fewer benefits and part-time hours.

Seven out of 10 Canadians now, work in service in- dustries

“They are simply not full-time, career-long positions as we used to think about them,"’ said Lowe.

Picture a Toronto office tower on Bay street. On the 40th floor, there’s a handful of cofporate lawyers. Far below, next to the subway stop, dozens of people work part time serving doughnuts and flipping hamburgers.

Grits, NDP aim

for revival in 1990

OTTAWA (CP) — Out with the old, in with the new.

Canadians will remember 1989 as the year they said. goodbye to Ed Broadbent and were readied politically for a new decade with the election of Audrey McLaughlin, the precedent-setting leader of the New Democrats.

Meanwhile, John Turner, weary after five years of leading a divided Liberal party, will step down in June in Calgary and a new leader will try to achieve what eluded Turner: return the Liberals to power.

Both opposition parties hope fresh faces — and time to prepare the ground — wilt prevent Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's Conservatives from posting a third straight vic- tory in the next general election, expected in 1992

Turner and Broadbent, casualties of losing party ef- forts in the last two elections, leave their successors facing a government that will be trying to promote an unpopular agenda

The Tories have three: years to implement tough measures — including higher taxes, cuts to services and reduced government spending — before looser government wallets can be brandished closer to election day

GST AND MORE

‘A key Tory program is the controversial sales tax, which will cast a net over everything from haircuts to dry cleaning and is set to come into effect in January 1991.

There are also massive subsidy cuts coming to Via Rail, changes to the unemployment insurance program and cuts in other government services as the Tories try to trim the budget deficit. ¢

Whomever the Liberals choose on June 23 as their leader — it will likely be one of Jean Chretien, Paul Martin Jr., Lloyd Axworthy and Sheila Copps — will have ready- made issues to work with °

~ But that doesn’t guarantee the Liberals a path to power.

Hugh Thorburn, a political scientist at Queen's University, says the timing is all wrong for a sudden Liberal resurgence.

“Unfortunately for them, they are coming to this wonderful time in a year with no election,’’ Thorburn said

“‘The Liberals need to develop some sensible alter- natives and they have to sell themselves as a credible op: position."”

What are Canadians looking for?

They want a better blend of public and private enter- prise and leaders who will express Canadians’ desire for a united country, says pollster Michael Adams, president of Environics Research Group in Toronto.

“Canadians want national leaders . . . who represent qualities and articulate values that unite us all as Canadians.”

Broadbent gave his last speech as NDP leader at the convention in Winnipeg, and on Dec. 2 McLaughlin was elected Canada’s first female national party leader. The former mink rancher with the chiselled cheekbones also became the first northerner totead a federal party.

Ass 1989 ended, the NDP was trying to rally around her, hoping she will be moulded by the office into a dyhamic leader after what observers found to be an unin- spiring leadership campaign

Liberals, on the other hand, are preparing for what could bea bitter fight for their party's leadership.

Right now, the only real heavyweight contender is Chretien, the gravel-voiced populist from Shawinigan, Que., who has been quietly planning his run since 1984, when he came second to Turner

Witty and engaging — yet ruthless in a political fight as he showed in his behind-the-scenes campaign to topple

JEAN CHRETIEN ... likely successor?

Turner at a leadership review in 1986 — Chretien would win easily if the convention were held today

The second-best bet for political handicappers is Mar- tin, the urbane Montreal shipping baron who has been working stubbornly to improve his media image. First elec- ted in 1988, the son and namesake of a minor Liberal legend, Martin has a better-organized team in place than Chretien.

OUT OF WEST

Or a westerner. could lead the Liberals, if Axworthy captures the imagination of delegates taghe party's leader- ship convention in Calgary. Serious and ambitious, the sandy-haired, bespectacled Axworthy will attract Liberals seeking a nationalist, left-of-centre leader

Or the Liberals could follow the NDP’s lead in electing a woman, if Copps can overcome her scrappy, rough-edged image as a former member of the Liberal Rat Pack

An alternative might be Clifford Lincoln, the former Quebec cabinet minister who has been quietly travelling the country, meeting delegates at small gatherings. He will be a candidate in the federal byelection in the Quebec riding of Chambly in February

“*In the near run, things for the government are going to be on the down side, the NDP will appear to be in disarray and the Liberals will be incipient,’ says Mark Graesser, a political scientist at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's.

REFORM IN WEST

The Tories might also be looking over their shoulders at the Reform partyin the West — whdse candidate won a disputed Senate election in Alberta. Mulroney has yet to decide whether Stan Waters will be allowed to sit in the up: per chamber

The ruling party will ignore Reform’'s call for a stronger western voice at its own peril, says Richard John ston, @ political scientist at the University of British Columbia.

* “Asa result, the Multoneyites might see an erosion of

their western base from forces of the left and right,"’ John ston said in an interview,

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HIGH STRESS . . . the 1990s may be the decade of the ulcer as workers fac:

anxiety, pressure and stress, expects say.

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Competition for some of the best jobs will be intense as the baby boom, the wave of humanity born after the Second World: War, hits}ts mid-life stage A bak of the century

As work changes, so will attitudes.

Baby boomers are beginning to lock up a lot of rungs on the corporate ladder. ‘That is leading to a questioning of work values, because people used to think in the past you had to be continually moving ahead,” said Lowe

Smart managers will start making it easier for workers who can’t or won't stay in the fast track, he said. That means giving people new challenges, instead of promotions.

It also means being more willing to accept employees who have to leave work to pick up children at day care or take a day off when the kids aresick.

incteasing

Two-thirds of Canadian workers have already had at least some Problems juggling work and family, a recent survey by the Conference Board of Canada suggests.

Somé companies, such as London Life Insurance Co., have already acted. Since 1984 the company has had a national policy of job sharing — where two people split the hours for one job.

Meanwhile, Lipton’s International Ltd., a women’s retail clothing company, has extended its sick leave plan to include time off to tend to “family needs.”

But they’re still the exception

Marsden, co-author of a new book on the lives of adujt women, is worried the emphasis on competition in the ’90s will limit those kinds of programs and turn work into a grind : 3 .

“I think it’s going to be an extremely difficult and not creative period.””

By DENNIS BUECKERT The Canadian Press loth diapers will be in. Plastic drinking cups will be out. And love letters will be written on recycled paper :

If envir are right, Canadians will un- dergo a profound change in the 1990s. Born and raised as consumers, they will be transformed into conservers.

But this trend will affect more than households. Concérn over such issues as the warming of the at- mosphere — known as the greenhouse effect — acid rain and industrial pollution will be uppermost in the minds of politicians and business executives

“We're just on the edge of fundamentally reorien- ting the system,”” says Derek Stephenson, the president of Toronto-based RIS, which has designed recycling programs for many major cities in the United States and Canada

Other possible changes?

TRASH FEE?

Canadians can expect to spend more time separating their garbage: orange peel and coffee groun ds in one container, plastic wrappers in another

And if their dedication to a cleaner environment fades, they'll be prodded by the monthly garbage bill

Yes, Canadians may have to pay a fee for trash that can’t pe salvaged, say experts. .

Disposable diapers may not make it in the '90s Waste-management experts consider them to be sewage — not what landfill sites were intended for ae

Some diapers on the market are biodegradable, meaning they will gradually rot when exposed to the weather. But Stephenson says modern landfill sites are engineered to keep out air, sun and water, so virtually nothing rots

In the years ahead, people may think twice before taking a shower. And they won't linger too long. Rates charged for water will rise sharply to promote conser

vation, environmentalists forecast

Worried about your body odor? Greens, as en vironmental activists are known, have a possible an answer: acornstarch-based deodorant

For government and business, safeguarding the en vironment will be the order of the day throughout the 1990s

TOXIC CONCERNS

After years of trying, the United States and Canada will probably work out an agreement to limit acid rain, which is killing thousands of lakes across the continent, say environmentalists

But in the minds of many Canadians, acid rain will be replaced by angther werrisome problem — toxic wastes

U.S. factories and vehicles are belching out as much as three billion kilograms of toxic substances every year. Canadian plants and cars pump out their share 100, though estimates aren't available.

These compounds can travel long distances in the air, just like acid rain. Eventually they wind up in water, in food — and in people's lungs.

“Airborne toxics will be a big issue in the 1990s," says Paul Hansen, an official with the Isaac Walton League of America, a U.S. conservation organization

Researchers will think of ways to clean up factory smoke to get rid of such poisons. Companies that ex ploit the new discoveries will thrive. Those that don’t will be left behind, say experts.

Environmental changes loom in next decade

The greenhouse effect will also occupy the minds of Canadians. :

Every exhaust pipe and chimney in the world is spewing out agas knownas carbon dioxide. It’s building up in the atmosphere everywhere, from Hawaii to Baf-

Pin Island

Scientists say carbon dioxide traps solar radiation in the same way as the glass of a greenhqusé captures heat. So do ¢ertain other gases which are also building up.

The result, says the United Nations Environment Program is that -‘‘unprecedented climate disruptions could affect the’ lives of thousands of millions of people.”’

Few scientists dispute the theory of the greenhouse effect, but there is disagreement over how fast it will happen and how specific regions will be affected

MILDER WINTERS

Forecasts published by Environment Canada predict more frequent drought on the Prairies, more forest fires in Northern Canada, flooding in low-lying areas on both coasts, and hotter summers and milder winters everywhere

The first unmistakable signal of the change is ex- pected in the '90s, and it will bring a massive political reaction, says Jim MacNeill of the Ottawa-based In- stitute for Research on Public Policy

Every voter will become aware that we are ‘‘in a process of rapid and to some extent preventable climate change,"’ said MacNeill

“Once citizens become aware of that — really aware of that — in their gut, I think the clamor for Political action will be deafening,** MacNeill recently told the Commons environment commiitee

In 1987, the United Nations published a study known as the Brundtland Report, which graphically described the planet's environmental woes

But it offered a cure a new way of running the - world’s economies, known as sustainable development

Simply put, the idea is to have growth that won't limi, the ability of future generations to meet their needs. For example, forests should not be cut more! quickly than they are renewed

CUT FOSSIL FUELS

MacNeill, who wrote most of the Brundtland report, says it’s vital to reduce the use of fossil fuels like gil, gasoline and coal. They are the prime source of car bon dioxide — qe main cause of the greenhouse effect

“The future of our planet aand the future of fossil fuels, the two are totally interlocked,"’ says MacNeill

But no country can fix the global problem on its own

China and India — witha combined population of close to two billion people — hold the key to what will happen to the world's atmosphere, says climatologist Kenneth Hare, an expert on the greenhouse effect

“If China and India choose to industrialize using fossit fuels, the rest of us can just go hame,"* says Hare, chairman of the federal-provincial committee on the climate

However, countries in the Third World think that the industrialized countries should help pay for sub: stitutes. From the perspective of the Third World, it looks as if the industrialized countries, having grown rich by destroying the environment; now want again to prevent othér countries from gaming economic in- dependence