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Monty who appears to have "utfh-teqd Jutioe' J Minister re Lalonde's ttttt in his attitude ters wards the ladies of the night. min. nudge, wink: wink. Know what] men? Know what I mean? 1ntim-tthiiiettigrtedhrMr.Laimtdetoetyt- the ground rules for prostitutes passes through the Commons, every young lady who winks in your dim tion in a public place runs the risk of being judged in the courts for soliciting. _ What about the guys? Wis mean I could bring embarrassment and shame upon my family if I get caught' winking at one of the mayor's secretaries? Dale Carnegie spent a lifetime trying to put a smile on everybody’s face, to win friends and influence people, and Mr: Lalonde intends to wipe it off in one swell loop. Can you imagine Maurice Chevalier strutting around Parisian music halls and not being able to wink. It's enough to set music and Frenchmen back at least 100 years. . I ' Apparently the whole /p;oblem dates back to 1975 when an Ottawa woman avoided a sentence for solicit- ing because an Ontain appeal court ruled her wink in a bar was not an uplicit enough inditation of what she was after. The proposed bill would make it an of- fence for a man or woman to offer his or her services as a prostitute in any manner, including a wink or a Last year the Supreme Court of Canada made the job of policing prostitution more difficult with a ruling that a prostitute had to be "pressing and consistent" in soliciting to have committed the criminal offence. At that stage, anything less than a nervous eye-twitch I'm not saying that I, personally. suffer when Cana- da's primary export, hockey players. is no longer marketable. rm not saying that. rm just saying that l bleed a little. internally, when a bunch of rotten red. pinko communists make a group of fine, young. li- beral. capitalists look like a bunch of old-age pen- sioners whose Geritol has been cut off. Right after the second game, I went to the clinic and had a'car- diogram. just in case. By the time this appears in print, the worst of the suffering in Canada will be over. And I don't mean that dreadful February cold snap which turned us into our annual winter condition. a nation of misanthropes. Burst water pipes. cars so cold you can't even put them into reverse to back out in the morning, and temperatures that would freeze the brains of a brags monkey are bad enough. But we're used to them. We know that in another four months, we'll be gasping in a heat wave and beating off mosquitoes. Talk about blue Monday. That Monday in Feb.. after them Rooshians had kicked the living stuffing out of Canada's finest. was so blue it was almost purple. I must say we took it well. as a nation. For once. there were no alibis. How could there be, when hundreds of millions of people saw our collective Can- adian noses being rubbed in it? Sports writers. their guts churning, praised the play of the Russians and intimated that they knew all along what would happen, As they always do. after the event No. that's not the suffering we did this February. It was being smugly satisfied on a Thursday night. mild- ly dismayed on a Saturday afternoon, and utterly hu- miliated on a Sunday night that caused the suffering. The Canadian players showed more grace, The best of them simply admitted they were beaten soundly by a superior team, But they knew in their hearts that February 10th was supposed to be our "ski through Nature" weekend. Maybe we should have planned it as water skiing or ice skating time. Here I was assured by some of Mother Nature's signs that we would have quite a lot of that white stuff for a long time, for it was supposed to be a long, hard winter. After all, the woolly bears (caterpillars) had lots of Nach, and apple skins were thick, and our white-tailed buck deer were cleaning their antlers quite high. on the tree, in most cases, at least a metre above the ground. a sure sign of the depth of snow. Nuts had thick coats and that was a sure sign of cold weather. Oh well, keep your fingers crossed; it may snow again and enough to ski on. If it does snow, come with us on a nture ski and see what nature has in store for us this coming spring. After, come into the Nature Centre, the water is hot for chocolate or tea etc. Be- sides the request that you bring snow, you will also have to supply your own skis, for we don't have any to use here. This has been a very interesting winter for weathér. The fact is that, had all the rain we have had this far been in the form pf snow, we should likely have at least fifty centimetres more on the ground, and that is above most of our knees. So far, in addition, all we Aeeitrdittg, to Hallo. Nature notes Bill Smiley Mr. Lalonde‘s bill may move the prostitutes from between the sheets-to behind bars in the short term, but if he' wants to be the politician to stamp out prosti- tution once and for all, he has a better chance if his bill dishes out stiff penalties and publicity to the pur- chaser of the product. But that‘s not likely. Laws made to protect the public in theory aren't always drafted in a democratic form. To paraphrase the Every red-blooded middle-aged male in Canada has hockey in his veins. He personally knows. or his best friend does, or he lives in, or lives in the next town to, ggtgttre,tthittttttie,up,,ttttr ; = .7 ", V customer would still leave a sidewa k playmate ', . beyoetdttstutnr'atm-ett. . . . v wr T v.' Mr.Lttloetde'sttiii'rillelt-atitttatartd,irtattlt.i- ' t- . " _ k.” tion,wiilladawfl~frorneasafll*l.m , c". ”~“"-’... . . 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It wasn't all that long ago they . his way. or if she maybe had a bit (1 duh! in her eye. ,antMthetIlrutorIettr uniforms todistittq1istt1hem Ontheotharhandittakestwowttoogiemndmostd from' the ordinary winkers. those winked upon who take up the challeue doq't According to a Canadian Press story datelined anally appear te',':,','.",',',',',', for their hare h the Toronto, March 2, a spokeswoman for a group calling action." After all, pros are only doing what their" itself CASH (Committee Against Street Harassment) best cmtomers. some at the moeeatment politicians claims the new legislation will fill our jails with pros- . and businessmen, have teen doing to the rest of us for titutes. The same group was active in the Toronto b years. . area underthenameBEAVERtBetter‘EndAllVi- Beirtga,haAtitr-iqdinartwhoeartttaeetyattemt cious Erotic Repression.) the weekly grocery bill. never mind any of that high- Mr. Lalonde‘s bill may move the prostitutes from priced hankypttatky,iartrmore than slightly reluctant between the sheets-to behind bars in the short term, tortethttliqee1eart_qttttttaetiytoetthestreetsand but if he'wants to be the politician to stamp out prosti- put the girls into our jails where I'll have to pay their thtion once and for all, he has a better chance if his grocery bills " well " my own. V " bill dishes out stiff penalties and publicity to the pur- And with the Canadian tourist figures showing a chaser of the product. But that's not likely. Laws whopping deficit this year, it seems umtridtic tttdis- made to protect the public in theory aren't always _ courage visiting businessmen. thge. nudge,' wink, drafted in a democratic form. To paraphrase the wink; know what I mean? According to a Canadian Press story datelined Toronto, March 2, a spokeswoman for a group calling itself CASH (Committee Against Street Harassment) claims the new legislation will fill our Jails with Pros- titutes. The same group was active in the Toronto area under the name BEAVER (Better'End All Vi- cious Erotic Repression.) they, and all their highly paid buddies, were facing not a physical Siberia, but a Siberia of the soul Not for me to ask, "How did it happen?" All the ex- perts have agreed that the Russians skate better. pass better, and are infinitely superior in physical condi- tion to the pampered Canadian pros, who weighed an average of nine pounds more than their qpponents. they were the Best in the West, and they had not been just beaten but thoroughly trounced, by the Best in the East, where hockey is a relatively new sport. It is'only for the to ask, "Why do we suffer so much when weYe licked in hockey?" And I think I know the answer to that. For a century or so, Canadians have been'hewers of wood and drawers of water. Fair enough. We had lots of wood and water. and still have and other people need them. b But we also had three superior finished products. manufactured at home, that nobody else in the world could touch..when it came to quality: maple syrup. rye whiskey. and hockey players. Our supremacy in these departments is virtually ended. Our whiskey has been watered more and more. our maple syrup has been thinned to the consistency of greasy-spoon gravy. and our hockey players, with a few stalwart exceptions, are more impressed with their hair-dos. their press clippings. and their finan- cial statements than they are with beating their op- ponents. There is a sadness here. Rye whiskey is bad for the liver. maple syrup bad for the teeth. so perhaps their denigration is not a national disaster. But to have a hockey team that is the second or third or fourth best in the world? That is unthinkable have done this month past, is to set a record or two for minimum temperatures. Nope of the other extremes is new to the weather records of thisarea. It has all happened before. However, we do have trouble pre- dieting it, in spite of all the old wives tales and their predictions. (We wonder why "old wives" - are they more reputable than old "husbands" or do they just last longer to pass on these gems of wisdom?) - Not to belittle these sayings, though. They do often work but with two provisions first: they reflect only the average or usualoccurrence: second: they apply only in the area in which they were researched or ntF ticed. One thing that is apparent when one studies me- teorology or weather, is that there are a large number of "tales" that do not hold for the areas immediately around the Great Lakes. This largest mass of fresh water in the world causes more inconsistencies in heat exchange and moisture take-up than almost any place else. In fact, once a weather person gets to the point of thinking of infallibility, he/she is sent to this area to. become humble. We don't want to say that forecasting is bad for the Great Lakes-area, but it sure is good that forecasters aren't paid by the number of times they are right. (Of course, local spe- cities are hard to apply from large weather systems.) By Rick Dawson 5 I!“ Roll: J tAtt ' Definite signs of spring are startingto show up around Laurel Creek new. Witness the birds. There are more frequent squabbles and displacements around the feeder station, " peck-order is re-es- tablished prior to pairing for the spring season of re- production. During the cold of winter, the order was pretty loose, and only now, as increasing light brings on changing hormone levels, is there a need fordo- minances within the flock to be reset. lit the case of the Chicadees, the family unit is starting to scatter a bit and there is more solitary journeying. Both the Blue Jays and the Cardinals are becoming quite vocal, with the Cardinal staking out elevated perches from which it will begin to establish territory limits and attract its spouse. Sightings of both Canada Geese and Herring Gulls around the Laurel reservoir area also heighten the expectation of imminent spr- ing. As well, where-ever a maple (sugar) has been damaged during the winter, one may well see the signs of leakage which foretell: of maple syrup opera- tions coming on tap in the very near future. You might see the operation run by the two Waterloo school boards in the Laurel area and then take part in the proceedings yourself at the end of the month with our What she should do is support an Order-in-council which proclaims that. with the emergence of Red China. Russia is now a second-rate power, not worthy to be faced-off against. Then Allan Eagleson can organize another Series of the Century with China, where they learned to skate about eight years ago, We'd probably win it by one goal in 1900. And lose it by 10 in '81. To add insult to injury. this idiotic idea of Iona Cam- pagnolo, Minister of Jocks. has popped up. She wants to give $18.5 million of my money and yours to four Canadian cities. so that they can build big arenas to accommodate four more losers in an NHL that is already so watered-down with mediocre talent that 60 per cent of them couldn't have made a Senior A team 30 years ago. public display. around the floor with gr‘at vigor and a certain lack of control. IShe finally put er foot down when he insist- ed on scrimmaging around the piano while she was giving lessons) Two of the quarterbacks on my high school football team, Les Douglas and Tony Licari. made it to the De- troit Red Wings organization. My brother-in-law, Jack Buell, played Junior A and Senior A ‘and became a referee. My grandson. at the age of two, was given a hockey stick and demolished his grandmother's hard- wood floors in the living-room. smashing a puck or is sixth cousin of, or grew up with, or was preceded by only 10 years by. in school, a genuine hockey player, who made it to Junior A, or Senior A, or even the NHL. or one of its farm teams. _At