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Just so much bureaucratic gibberish Perhaps their parents could unâ€" derstand their children‘s bad days. The staff proposal deals with things that are computers, physical sciences, the creativity of the young mind. This further through strong structuring involving the basics. The basics are enhanced with *‘hands on."" They prompt the child to want to learn and feel concern. The committee says the proposal is not that overly different than what they are doing now. This may be true but because of bureaucratic channels theâ€"idea is given the back burner to Process Place. This proâ€" posal Process Place has been out on the floor for years. The public meeting on Nov. 10 concerning the alternatives to closâ€" ing Alexandra School was bureauâ€" cratic gibberish in action. The committee was obviously biased to the proposal Process Place. Grantâ€" ed this proposal is good but fails to meet the children‘s education. The children assume a status as nothing more than guinea pigs. Instead it is a teacher‘s learning experience. The teachers are taught to exhibit false concern about student probâ€" lems. The Alexandra Staff proposal was shot down by Bureaucratic Flak, because of not going through proper channels. The staff proposal deals with a choice for parents and children. They learn through expeâ€" rience and experience is the best teacher. The staff proposal also deals with the need for parent‘s getting involved. This is a very valid need. The parent needs to know what is going on with their son‘s or daughter‘s education. The Elmira and District Associaâ€" tion for the Retarded would like to express our most sincere thanks to Process Place says it deals with student feelings. How can this be when the teachers are busy themâ€" It is a fingerâ€"nail sized wafer, containing hundreds of electronic circuits. The miâ€" crochip is revolutionizing the Canadian work place Machines, products, proâ€" cesses, and office organization have been undergoing dramatic technological changes since the advent of "the chip‘", which is a major component in computers. Following years of refinement, much done at the University of Waterloo, the power of the chip has increased a hundred times since 1970. Meanwhile its costs have dropped. Microelectronics can now be introduced in almost any sector of society. It is directly affectingjobs in Waterioo Reâ€" auction sale held on November 6, The sale was a complete success and we realize that advertising is invaluable in projects such as this. Thank you for caring‘! Microâ€"technology offers increase in effiâ€" ciency and productivity. It is sparking economic growth. Computers are now pocket sized... but at the same time it may have a damaging impact on the labour The Hon. Charles Caccia, M.P., Minister of Labour, released a few weeks ago a Task Force Report aimed at guiding microelectronics into the Canadian work WALTER McLEAN Bryan Bitton A.R.C. Vocational Director selves learning? All teachers are to be taught the same. Process Place, it sounds like a factory line. Al the teachers teaching the same way won‘t create individuals instead it will be cardboard individuals. The variety of styles prepares the Both Process Place and the staff proposal have merits. However what Process Place stresses should be taught in Teachers‘ College not on the job in the school. It is the childrens‘ education, give them experiences that will remain, allow them to choose their own ways. Telling an angry kid to say why he is angry about not being able to do math won‘t help him. Instead give him some guidance but let him find his own way. He may not hear the same drummer and this is good. Returning to the improper chanâ€" nels, the staff was shot quickly down when the committee also stressed the point that it is the board that can put down any and all proposals. Who put the board there? The citizens. Who should have a greater say six or seven people on the board or the community? Is this democracy or dictatorship? they will all do one thing differently . It promotes the children helping themselives. This in turn promotes selfâ€"esteem and self confidence. With seifâ€"confidence no student will sit passively and not contribute his ideas,. The staff proposal stresses teachers and volunteers, with more volunteers more one on one can occur. Process Place is filled with the cream of the teaching profession. Perhaps this is good but it doesn‘t touch reality. Life is composed of different morals and beliefs. Teachâ€" ers all the same are going to promote the same morals and beâ€" liefs and again we return to the stagnant cardboard individual. learn to be a group person. However few university or even high school Feigning concérn is useless. ‘"Hands Bougquet for a job well done I would like you to know how much I appreciated your article in your newspaper regarding the School of Horticulture. Your reporter should be given a word of thanks for a job well done. Again, many thanks. The report recommends that a Canaâ€" dianâ€"owned industry be developed to create jobs. It suggests labour laws be changed to retrain men and women who have been displaced by rapid technologiâ€" cal advances. It advocates the setting up of an independent Canadian Centre of Technology, Work and Human Priorities. The Centre‘s governing body would inâ€" clude representatives of government, laâ€" bour industry, and special interests groups (such as women‘s organizations). The Centre would study the social and economâ€" ic impact of new technology . It would then try to increase public awareness. The Task Force Report pays special attention to the fact that twoâ€"thirds of women in the work force are concentrated in jobs that are prime targets for technoâ€" force. The report entitled, In the Chips: Opportunities, People and Partnerships takes a stab at identifying the immediate and longâ€"range priorities of the industry. It makes recommendations to offâ€"set the negative aspects of the transition period. Waterioo, Ont. Tom Patience Kâ€"W School of townhouses to Greymac, Greymac said in a one sentence press release, it transferred its rights to purchase the properties to Kilderkin Investments Ltd. The Mississaugaâ€"base Kilderkin which now manages the buildings has bought the rights from Greymac Credit Corp for about $312 million. To complete the quick flip triple sale, 60 Saudis threw in $500 million and effectively got purchase rights to the buildings from Kilderkin. It is reported that the whiriwind sales netted $230 million total profit for Greymac and Kilderkin. In the wake of Toronto‘s chronic shortage of rental homes, with nearly 4,000 people on the waiting list for subsidized units in the City Home projects, the spectre of whopâ€" ping rent increases, along comes another storm of discontent for the beleaguered tenâ€" ants. It started innocently enough with Greyâ€" mac Credit Corp. purchasing Cadiliacâ€"Fairâ€" view buildings for $270 "million. Twenty four Residents of the 10,931 units face possible hikes of 30 to 60 per cent as the new owners try to finance their purchase. In response to David Peterson‘s questions concerning the minister of consumer and commercial relations, Robert Elgie‘s clever pussyâ€"footâ€" ing as to rent increases resulting from the sales, the minister declined to discuss the ramifications, preférring to delay (stall?) until next week. completion of the sale of 65 apartments and The minister suggested that possible changes in rent review guidclines might result in order to ease the impact of crushing rent hikes on tenants by new landlords. Under Ontario‘s rent review laws, 85% of financing costs of such sales may be passed on to tenants over a threeâ€"year period. The new legisilation could be amended so that new owners would have 10 years to recoup investment costs. Already, one tenants‘ association in the city is calling for an independent inquiry. The machinations behind the real estate drama no doubt caught renters by surprise but the real mood is more one of confusion and anger and powerlessness to watch homes traded as if they were commodity futures. A temporary 5 per cent limit on rent increases claimed for higher financing costs arising from a change of ownership has been imposed by the Ontario Governâ€" ment, although owners of such properties would still be entitled to the automatic annual 6 per cent increase allowed under the province‘s rent control laws. The Minister of Consumer and Commerâ€" cial Relations has aiso announced an increase in the length of time landlords can be required by the provincial Residential in the chips Queen‘s Park report Steps have been taken to offâ€"set the possible health effects video display terâ€" minals may cause. As a precaution, the report suggests that a fiveâ€"hour limit should be enforced for VDT operators. Companies should give pregnant women the right to be assigned to other duties without a loss of pay, seniority or benefits. And all VDT operators should get hourly rest breaks. Canadian women are espeâ€" cially vuinertable because their jobs are focused in areas being swept away by the information technology. Their ability to adapt is threatened z the lack of financial and educational y. A Waterioo Regional Group, the Comâ€" munity Resources for Women is closely monitoring the developments in the miâ€" logical change. Women workers are likely to bear an unfair share of the costs of transition. The report, therefore, recomâ€" mends that while the same job may not continue to exist, ‘"‘adjustment mechaâ€" nisms" (such as training and retraining) are critical in order not to upset our employment structure. WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY. NOVE said, evidence to suggest that the principals involved in the three way sale may not have been dealing at arm‘s length (the buyers and sellers may have shared financial interests). ‘""Some people who have looked at the deal say there are no Saudis involved at all", he said. "There‘s a good chance it‘s just a series of internal transactions." Liberal Leader David Peterson has charged that the government is refusing to investigate all aspects of the controversial Cadillacâ€"Fairview sale because it has something to hide. ‘"I don‘t have much faith in their objective view of these transacâ€" tions‘" he said. ‘‘Who knows what they know November 9, the Minister had announced that the apartment buildings had been purchased by Saudi Arabian investors. However, he later said he was not certain of this information and that he had been relying on a conversation with a Toronto lawyer who says he represents Saudi interâ€" or don‘t know?" There is apparently, be Tenancy Commission. to phase in higher rents caused by financing costs when a building is sold. If a building is sold twice within three years, the new owner will have to wait at least three more years before involved in the second sale. The Minister said he wanted to prevent Ontario from becoming a "happy hunting ground for fast *‘Events have been moving very quickly in connection with the controversial Cadilâ€" lacâ€"Fairviewâ€"Greymacâ€"Kilderkinâ€"Saudi Arabian sale. The Residential Tenancy Commission has set up a special team to deal with all rent hike applications for the 11,000 former Cadillacâ€"Fairview units, in the hope of ensuring that there is no confusion or duplication. The nine member team, including three commissioners and six support staff is being set up in Toronto, as one of a number of proposals following the controversial triple sale which ended in the purchase of the units by a consortium, reported to be Saudi Arabian, represented by a series of numbered companies. A Royal Commission, headed by lawyer Stuart Thom, will examine all aspects of Ontario‘s rent control legislation in effect since 1976. A second inquiry will investigate the role of Greymac Trust Co., Crown Trust Co., and Seaway Trust Co. which provided mortgages for the sale of the apartments. The Minister rejected calls for a broader investigation with the power to subpoena witnesses and information, saying such an inquiry would result in a "witch hunt" of private companies whose privacy is proâ€" tected under law. He said he would take further action only if there were reasonable and probable grounds to suspect wrongdoâ€" My colleagues in the Progressive Conâ€" servative Party and I intend to press the Minister of Labour for a timetable for the introduction of regulations in the House of Commons. Time is of the essence. With each day, the industry is making quantum leaps forward. There will be new conâ€" siderations to be answered. Many recomâ€" mendations will have to be reworked ... The challenge of our microelectronic future is to stay one step ahead of the game! Jobs are at stake. cessing. Her findings will be shared and discussed at a workshop in the spring. crochip industry. Wendy Newberry of CRW says that in our communities alone, hundreds of working women, primarily in the insurance industry will be affected by the transition to word processors from typewriters to electronically based inforâ€" mation systems from manual data proâ€" The Task Force Report is a positive step forward. It lacks, however, a commitment from the government to the implementaâ€" tion of its recommendations.