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Taxed to death?

Did you know that the average Canadian fami- :ly works almost seven months just to pay for the cost of government? . : Sound like a fairy tale? A bad joke perhaps? Or just a complete fallacy? ‘ . it sounds like and what it is are two dif- ferent things. ener ; Infact, the above statement comes with little or no surprise to the average hard-working-always-

S giving taxpayer. Bi Sad but The, all levels of government are tak- ing more and more off of Canadians‘

eamed coin, and mam ers-are feeling the ; Symptoms of.a new and serious disease called BS Syndrome : :

¥: Taxed To Death Syndrome is sweeping across the Nation at an unbeleivable and is taking R its toll. F one coastline to the other. : E The's

initials GST or PST. mentally and physically, has 2s of yet, no proven cure, .

loweverin light’of their suffering+a few brave cae Sti ps to ‘maintain and carry with them a sense of unity and faimess in the Great North - not to mention a carefree smile and attitude. Imagine that'- after working seven months for someone else.

a ek 4, Little knowledge . . ~ 4) What is the name of that force which keeps A sta-, ‘| Wonary object standing still and which has to be.

come b

i ¥ ote.the *F

_ |... 3)For what reason are Houston Stewart Chamberlain:

i | and Count Gobineau chiefly zemembered?. 0.“ 4)'For-what ¢ Y

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cheques, (Qbody likes to give up so much of their hard-

n literally millions of Camicks from.

The disease, which affects the sufferer both:

Nostalgia i

Ron >

* this He:

Ah, yes, .., nostalgia! I remem- ber it well, even though I'm mak- ing heroic efforts to escape its soft

, Shan call and cloyiag sentimentali-

Vy. ahi s Nostalgia is a chronic sickness

and it can be terminal, So I fexr it, ’ It makes us ali Jive in & past that;

*. Once uncarthed.a stone that dated back atleast 25 centuries, Some remote invented past by condemning the

, present with this inscription: “Alas,

no longer

obey their. parents, and every’ man wants to write a book.” ’ : the exponential

never was. And with a past like

mine, that’s a real and present dan-

ger to the welfare of the nation; the «> -

rule of law and the price of regular rhe

We stole that word nostalgia, stole it from the ancient Greeks, without asterisk or foomote, with-

out even a reverential nod of the:

head in their direction: ‘nostos

present and praise the past, that friend of mine—the one with

only ey -: Almost can"unleash.a flood of nostalgia and sweep, us ; away, suddenly and inexplicably, to ‘another time, a time when: all men , Were noble and all women ‘virtu-

acid of cynicism in his‘ bones—:~ =

said: “Enough already! Enough of

leaden present and

1 Bis ie

ps from Memory’s Urn stuff, Jeffelst Stop with the: tears, You'd be doing us alla. favor.” Harsh ‘criticism,’ but—in:

P y.

i is an ancient disease, ’:: It's claimed that an archaeologist !

chiseler retumed to his own:

Y, dun

recall the golden past,

The merchants and the myth- makers know how to push the nos- talgia switch, on purp and for.

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S an ancient disease

national icon: After a few brief. years, he seems to have passed into the collective memory as 0 parag pe r

' profit. Why else would the ‘tube

show me that placid horse pulling a

“ wobbling cart down a Norman

1 lane if not to flog me the rich anti of their cheddar?

of political virtue and prop

So that poll I read recently claims. Well, Ican’t say that my hooded:

eye dims with tears when I recall

The Shrug. -I was living in the:

OL

Those'were the remote days of the

sacred cow, I suppose. before mod-

ern science. put all those ‘pagan 's fodder, -

»- the Age of Gold is gone. The world.: additives into Flossie’s fo ‘is in fall decay, Children ;

Trouble is that nostalgia keeps getting younger. Or as some wag once put it: “Our ancestors aren't living as.long as they used-to.”

lock, the war in Nam, the Beats, |

the hoola hoop and the 1962 Stude- And the Hippies, of course, even

| though they:now wear-navy blue:

Pinstripes, drive a BMW, carry a

‘crocodile: briefcase .and fret about

ifferen object: of: nostalgia,:a: kind of.

when he gave ‘the infa-: mous Salmon Arm salute. You know, index and middle fingers raised. No, not the Churchillian ;

intervention! ‘The other one: palm, .

facing in, arm braced, sudden stab- bing motion of the wrist; upwards. Some sort of commentary on the (Cro-Magnon intelligence and simi- an savoir faire of the locals, I think. ; Iwas one of them. :

That: friend of mine, the one I; mentioned earlier, had another slur-- ring description of nostalgia. He; called it .“Leaves from Little” Fanny’s Album.” I took that one as, a direct insult to my Y chromo- some and I objected. But here, Now, as I thumb through my scrap- book, the one that holds all those rich and cloying memories, it occurs to me that maybe, just maybe, he was right.

RR. Jeffels is a Richmond free-' lance writer and former principal of The Open Learning Institute. i

Mulroney z had been exposed by the likes of

‘his popularity rating; ws heading

-It probably seemed like a:good

idea af the time, whem Brian Mul-?

roney sent Keith Spicer off.on a media extravaganza around the Dominion. It was a sort of ‘bread and circuses’ - well it was a circus anyway - designed to give people an outlet for their feelings about

down to what must then “have

+f), Seemed a disastrous’

{, ootrse, that-would be:a;33 per'cen “improvement and therefore carries with it the alpenglow of happier So yes, by all-means' go to'the | People; recruit Mr Spicer, flamboy-

| Sant, mildly eccentric, a-public fig-

ure with goou' retbgnition’aht ‘2..powerful enthusiasm. Send. him on “an electronic'whistle-stop’‘tour'td y listen to the people and report on c the mood of Canada! While people were diverted with that, they might «Stop thinking about ‘Meech Lake rand one. might:even find oneself glad to use some line, “Well, we're

! Albin all, ai workable strategy: ifi one can use the time thus bought to: good effect... :

»| Forva whi

Costs of the:cperation became them-,

Selves the:subject, of hostile com- ;

ments \Xes; People: were diverted

Wasn't making: any,-points. for the

‘Tories with his free spending ways; .

it was all a bit too like the fed-

|. Had he however produced some

milque-toast panegyric:to:Canadian. nationalism,:.the sort of thing that: might be equally well sired by Mel Hurtig out of Multiculturalism Canada;-woll, that:(from Mr,Muls. roney’s point,of view) might still have been usdful.-A rhorale builder. A document with a vision that he could go and sell.

: But he didn’t. ,

. What Mr;$ Yocument that reported that Canadi- hns generally were sick of the fed-

though it might>work:i Indeed, -it:almost.: iworked too-well,:as;the mounting.:

from: Meech: Lake;; but'Mr Spicer,;

* this

picer produced was ae

such control as it acknowledged: Was not at the fingertips of the citi-, zenry and that Canadians needed, the power to oust unpopular lead- ers, .There was much in the same vein. None of it was of any comfort. to a prime minister trailing the Reform Party by three percentage Points, for it was an expression of the betrayal felt by those citizens who had rejoiced to see years of Liberal cynicism dethroned. They, had voted for change and they had got more of the same old thing.

:-It was his own fault; Mr Mul- roney. did not need to send Keith Spicer to the people. He could have considered listening to his own cau-

cus, for in 1988 they came to us and .

we: the people sent those MPs to advise and assist the government of

country. i But maybe that is the

Spon he won't but that really underscores Mr Spicer’s basic point - we need a ‘way to oust unpopular leaders.

Canada and to. biunt the call to .

‘waiting for Mr Spicer to report.”

TRYING. “T INTO CTHE |

#, eral government...They felt that

Jean still stirs

In a first anniversary Sunday Edition interview, Chretien was ‘candid about the events of the past year, and determinedly upbeat about our nation’s future. .

On his shaky start as leader: "You

know it was a problem of adjuste- « ment..I'd never been a leader in‘my | ees IT 7°. life, Ittook me time to adjust.". ‘What a difference a year makes! ©

On the perception he’s not the per he.

ecame expectations were too high. Some. people expected *

miracles, but I'm in the Opposition,

Chretien says he understands f appeal: “People are frus- trated with the lack of | ip in the country and they're looking for

: amiracle solution.

“They're looking for someone (like Preston Manning) who pre- tends he has all the answers, very. simplistic/answers, that make

mofortable,

perience important factor,” he said, Chretien says this should not

» Just be a.“Quebec round” of consti-

tutional talks, but rather a round for

* all Canadians. “As I said to Que-

if, we: , tell. you today, twe're:going' to, settle the ‘West

“problems. and-we'll come back (to. { your concerns) tw

that will

package $ make the West, Ontario, Quebec -<

o:years from...

your blood

He's lost sonie weight since his! ‘operation,’ but'as we chatted in his} office, Chretien looked tanned and!

‘fit, healthier than I've seen him in;

half a year. He appears to be more? Telaxed than he was even a couple of! ‘And as you listen to him talk pas-! tig a eiong ao Caled Coed the blood pia { from Shawinigan has been a tough year, but he's put Arte him, and appears to be ready—!

ing Canada—tike himself, healthy’ and whole again. “ fyaeea

The Castlegar Sun

Several’ Weeks ago I challenge: the Nonh' American Medical pro- fession. I questioned why doctors in the U:S. have not demanded the legalization of heroin.as‘:a painkiller in the’ treatment of ‘ter- minal cancer, And why Canadian physicians who can. legally use this humanitarian painkiller allow it-to collect’ dust on pharmacy shelves? The column struck a'sen- sitive note' with readers and they

ponded with a y Many asked how loved’ ones Could be assured of receiving ade- quate painkillers during their final days:

A’ man from Appleton, Wis- consin: writes, “I had the misfor- tune of watching a dear sister

suffer unbelievable pain from ~

cancer, I never dreamed I would be happy to see someone so young ‘die, The memories I carry. . to this day are of her suffering. Thank you for being brave enough to stand up and fight for this cause.” :

A’ woman: from. Toronto says,"Your article sure hit a nerve. My mother had cancer of the pan- creas ‘and although in severe pain was just given’Tylenol #3, Her doctor finally prescribed mor- Phine, but it did not relieve the suffering. A few days before her death he worried she. might become addicted to morphine if. he increased the dose! What abso- lute nonsense to worry about addiction ‘at such a time. I’m sure my mother could have explained to St. Peter at the Pearly Gate.”

A vexed reader from Texas says, “This is the first time “I’ve ever written to a newspaper.’ But I feel compelled to do so, My sister was forced from life on her hands and knees in horrific pain: Now that I know heroin might have éased her agony it leaves me with nothing but contempt for thos who withheld it from her.” - ‘

A ‘reader from’ Montreal

\..38 Words. T enquired ged'; “heroin ‘as I/knew, it‘had:been

ae

weto eniply the use “legalized for medical use in Cana:

da. And several'-years ago'a British doctor told me how, eff

—

usually fail, Everyone in under ‘

of ' ;tremendous stress at this time and , ‘the last thing one wants is to

alienate a doctor by'ch

ever end?

.” When politeness fails, switch- (dng doctors ar such'a critical

! why it’s important to discuss this

his treatment. My ‘advice is to talk to-your

tive heroin’ was, in combating pain. But the doctor still refused to'try heroin. We. were not even given an option. How. can-some physicians be so uncaring?”

Another reader. describes a

tragic expe that occurred 'in Germany. He writes,"My, mother died in a large West Berlin’ hospi- tal 'in terrible agony. If doctors Could feel the pain of terminal cancer for one hour they might not, fail their fellow man-in this final act of mercy. Keep writing about it.” stk From California; “Who says we live in enlightened times when dope addicts can buy heroin on the street and my mother died in pain without it. Let's all shout

going to take it any more.” f A British nurse: writes, “I was given heroin during my labor in London, England. After it took effect.they could have cut my head off without me caring. ‘I’m fed up hearing doctors say heroin

is no:better.than morphine.’ Mor-

Phine made me deathly ill.

‘A-funeral director:remarks, “The stories I hear from’ families never: change. How. their loved ones died in misery from terminal cancer. It’s an appalling and scan- dalous situation. How. can I help? a oe

Nor do the letters change that cross my: desk.every year. The Person-on-the-street simply. can't believe that common sense is-so lacking in both doctors and law- makers. As one reader says; “Of course heroin should be legalized in the'U.S. ‘and used by.Canadian physicians. It’s ridiculous that you even have to discuss this matter.”

What can be done when a

loved one is suffering from termi- nal cancer pain and not: receiving ‘painkillers? Unfortu-

writes,"I was moved by your column. My mother died last month from breast cancer that had spread to her bones, Everyone

assured me the pain would be* fO sreutema ye ke ae ‘

‘miners,, who last year staked more than 100,000 claims, have been given a 50-page user-friend- ly guidebook, Energy and Mines Minister Jack Weisgerber announced today. ;

“Locating the claim posts and boundary lines, doing paper work

nately, what:should happen and

what does are two. different: things. In one way it’s.under-

_ We're ‘mad as hell and we're not. -

phy » politely reqi an increase in dosage of painkiller : and instructions that the narcotic

“PRN” which means only.as the :

patient. needs it.. This is rarely adequate for. chronic severe: pain. And in Canada demand that hero- in be tried if all other painkillers fail to ease agonizing pain,

matter with your doctor long before pain strikts, Ask whether he or she shares your views on control of pain. Or will he worry about addiction on the deathbed. If you don’t get the answers you're looking for, that’s the time

to switch to a more compassion-

ate physician,

time ff. is casier said than done, That's”

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“Last year, there were over 200 claims disputes. The majori- ty could have been avoided if the tules had been followed correct- ly." ne The guidebook covers both’ placer and mineral claims“and ‘was prepared as part of the Ener- gy and Mines Ministry's empha- sis on providing service quality to its clients,

"This ‘plain-English' guide explains the rules for claim stak- ing in B.C.," noted Weisgerber.

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