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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 26 Oct 1994, p. 1

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YOUR BMW DEALER HAS AN EXCEPTIONAL LEASE RATE ON THE 1995 BMW 3201, â€" _ _ _ _ it ghould come as no surprise that BMW put as much thinking into their innovative lease price as they put into thair innlovative technology. Because, until December 31st, the classic 6â€"sylinder, 150 hp performance of the 8 1“”320ilsyountor8331monmthhmm.hfafimhodmflnwwbyumm BE â€"£: omm n ) 485 King $ n%d.lqmmbem «woad will cost $980,000 to build, but when costs of dealing with the affected landowners is taken into account, the total is That is because under the terms of the agreement, the city has agreed to pay Transamerica Life $527,886 for 7.1 acres of land. goning and his access road, now all Lutherwood t needs to get the Lutherwood seniors village underway is regional approval. 1 city council lifted the development‘s major roadblock â€"@liberally â€"â€" on Monday by approving a complex real estate deal between the city, Transamerica Life (Lutherwood‘s landlord) and ".e’nvgy.vapbue(_lflfipnid. ; The deal will allow the city to punch Father David Bauer Drive wnmm«wmtwmww ‘thus providing the only access road to the seniors village -yu.mwmmmthewawmnmfimmm Seniors village gets its road Matt:Reinhart, 11, takes a close at floating bails during a di at the University of Waterloo‘s F: of Sciâ€" ”w:‘sz;mmmwmmmmmmemmmm <â€" _ ITP STOPS ON A DIME AND 485 King St. North Waterioo, O h g! (519) 885â€"5090 rose offered by BMW Fmancial Services only. and are available at participating doak A securtty deposit of apprésimataly one manth‘s reatal wil be required. Customer ‘ ~EYE ON THE BALL K MOTORS Of that land, one block will be set aside for future expansion of the Waterloo Recreation Complex, one is the required parkland dedication block, one will be annexed to Waterloo Park and the fourth piece will be transferred to Canada Life as compensation for the land beneath the new road that Canada Life must give up. Because of the proximity of the new road to the Westmount Road Shell station, the city will provide $90,000 (90 per cent) for the relocation of the station‘s pumps. Waterloo Region has agreed to provide the $75,000 needed for new traffic signals at the Westmount/Westcourt/Father David Bauer Drive intersection. s "The alignment with Westcourt makes an awful lot of sense," Kays said, referring to council‘s decision not to reroute Father David Bauer Drive north of the Westmount fire station in order to save $400,000. en The road is expected to be extended early next spring, with construction of the seniors centre not far behind. oo Cuitbodlintes ME desiars r gased c-u-uw-bqq hn BME s m otone Pm it GeB ons omm o7 Sn neloe t mc baae mo can velaqareiige a d 9X 4 OÂ¥ o oi uen y ct cBaR ce ut on ut ut ul 00 B0 ce c o ut u8 000 6 24 s1 03 20 wl ce u400 100 engingering will be propelied by unprecedented leasing. a Y IR $396 A MONTH "he ost of us think twice before trusting & 4 someone with our lives or our money f But what about our names? Oddly, in this information age full of debit and credit cards, cellular phones, electronic databases and computers that can make phone calls, many people continue to offer their name, address and phone number at every turn. } Is it any wonder, then, that privacy protection 595e has become one of the hottest issues of the ‘90s? oac., / ie A 1993 poll conducted by Ekos Research found V EC rR scame, . Wl __ __that 81 per cent of those polled felt strongly that it urech >‘ * "f ~â€" they should be notified in advance when informaâ€" yR g 9 tion about them is being collected, while 72 per ' cent said that being in control of who can get * s l information about them is extremely important f & In the wake of these and other findings, 4 Ontario‘s Information and Privacy Commission C 4 WY _ (an agency of the S e ane S Se] . provincial legislaâ€" ture mandated to do research and offer comment on privacy 1 1 issues) released a paper this vear entitled "Priâ€" :.;: m% vacy Alert: A Consumer‘s Guide to Privacy in the Marketplace, and a followâ€"up document for busi nesses entitled, Privacy Protection Makes Good 485 King St. North Waterioo, Ont. 885â€"5090 m;.wmn Taxs. transportation. pre . month. Deskee may leawe ar dies. This off is timeâ€"hnited and appicable on "One of the reasons we prepared the checklist." he explained, "is that at present, there is no legisâ€" lation in Ontario that looks at the issues surâ€" What consumers must not forget, he said. is that someone‘s personal information belongs only to that person. "It is yours. You may turn it over to a particular company with which you are involved in a transâ€" action, (but) should that mean that that company is then free to do as they wish with that informaâ€" tion? I think not." Unfortunately, even if your personal informaâ€" tion is sold or used without your knowledge, there is little that you, or the privacy commission, can do about it. _ "Personal information is the commodity of the ‘90s," says Wright. "It‘s traded, pulled, used, sold â€" it is, in fact, truly the lifeblood of some busiâ€" Commissioner Tom Wright included his pmvacy protection checklist (excerpted on page 15) in both Chronicle Staff Do you know how much they know? 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