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Chih"iificle Waterloo Town qumrc 75 ng St 'iouth, ‘11:"ch Watcrhv, Unlarm \ll H'? Elephant: 886-2830 Fax: 886-9383 Email; _ yvshrqnjclreseytex.nr ll governments want to support alhlcucs. there Is certainly an argument m be made for suhsuhes lo amalcur sport But, as the Toronto Star's Lhns Young argued m a column last weekend, "sports used to be d sacred trust, but that all ended a long lune ago The pohticrans m Ottawa have made a common meaake. They've bought the same bug lie that Toronto's sports fan has bought that the NHL IS hockey. that the NBA is basketball, that the malors is baseball. All these Icagues art nothmg more Ihan businesses Meanwhile, lecnll members of a Parliamentary Commntee pro- posed last weck that Canada's profcsoional sports learns be guru special tax breaks lo allow (hem ln‘mmpelc with the" American cousins. Thu Idea mulls the hkyDomc m the magnitude of us wrong- headedness. Professional sports (cams are already subsidized by huge lax wnte-offs for corporate boxes and seals Yes, American nuts arc provldmg even bigger subsidies lo aunt! or keep pro learns, but [here IS no pamcular pride m competing m the biglcagucs of corporal»: sioogcs, Thcur malor tenant. the Toronto Blue Jays (also owned bv L1lrats und L IBL.X p, own "threatcning" to mmc out If ll carit get .1 better deal Why should we should are about this? We should are bunny: smut of the same people ilndudmg recently-resigned Sky- [he Ilrsl atrcmpid robbery way 1hr mow by Toronto':, blu'Domc m get mun pmluuun wluch would allow rhem to avood pump, their debts, Including ll million dollars m unpaid 1998 properly [axes Lohan', Brcwenes mwncd by Belgian guru Inlcrbrew). GEL, comrolled Mcdo brruerpnses tcontrolled by Conrad Black) and the group ol pension funds that ogether own SkyDorne are pleading pmeny In the face of "mauve losses brought on by huge cost over- runs and the swccihean duds they made wuh the suthurny, spon- sorsv Did Situ hear about the raeh ol attempted robbenes Le,t week? No, H wasnt a Petr) unm- aprce on our greets (the klnd that Mike Har us Ge, to play up lo lumiy hmng more cops Ill spur of falkng (nine mes! lhe aucmptcd robbertes I'm talking about occurred In mun numb and purlomcrtory wmmmee mums With the cndorsemeru oi t ansdus wrpnmlr and pnhuml slur 3; MM‘IIEH mm (hrs-tnip-i; rd; Dome directors Trevor Eylun andPaul Godfrcy) " ho luld us that 5h Dome m5 .1 great ldtd In lhc 1980s are now trymg In sell tly an ANOTHER big sudlum as par! of Toromo's hid for [ht 200$ Olympics, This after lprJV CB swallmwd A S300 loss when the Onldrlu govcrnmcnl badcd out of Salts Suprnimr (WNW Mmto_ Display Advertising NH ham“ \mnna ( y: a Rrporlcrs, In (“mlnrr KAI" Vrlvn." Np. TH fditor Di'immh C mum The only concession IS that regional counol will ask Queen's Park about a few erwaronmental concerns. Somehow the episode recalls 'mages of King Gmute trymg to hold back lhc sea It's a Gas Mnabdc mu' Gas prices have been down to 19 cents And Just when gab was getting so expensive the women didn'l know whether to put It m the car or behind the ears. Road's Scholar: A relative corporal's guard of cnllcs has lost an allcmpl lo hall plans for a $90-milhon highway between ketchener and Guelph, -- As " 1GC KW custom, thud demand the quart he saved .1\ a big part of our glorious iiiiii past and he mnwrlcd to (I) a theatre, ll) a muwum Cr'! J rllzy residuranl, or (4) an annex to the Clay andGlassC,allerv Don't laugh Remember that tourist towns begin wnh little things After all, whal was Venice until somebody?; bathtub ran over? There?, horn another offer for the squat, and It came just m [me A couple of more ahunive oflcrs might have brought the stigma of white elephant. and the save-our-hwy chorus might have begun, . Che toughest pan ofthe redevelopment may be gemng Waterloo Town Square Involved m the mm Bug chunks of the mall need deOll- [Inn and replacement, and that may be drificult to ensure One More Time Wuterloi, deal for the trcagram Lind has, Hunt unstuck and lets hope councillors kcep [hle cool [hm still haw .1 wunnmg hand as long JS then: are develop- crx reads to play Ihcrn this about tt NIB tune courrcGt, “am he InsNIng on Indusn-n of a hotel Whs GT were obsessed wuh one agamsl my best (tig advice. heaven onlv knows ' There's at least some months unul election day but a poll shows that m megacny Toronto the Tories are lrallmg the Lib- erals badly. And lwrers the ireude on how things got that war Dr jack Kmorkun has been Mung as PC consultant. council should keen Its cool in the Seunmm land deul ( irrulation: Icm f N her Matthew Haws ( irodaiiortioffire Manager: ( lassified [3.1m] tlhrrr s.ohirs I .1.th lvn Ansln VfCte . ' . u.- Waterloo Region Intel supply. ft 's your choice... TFIhA] Group Advcn'uing Manager: BuLih 911m - - A ' Group Publisher: ( hm} Mdi-snum Min]; Mano Rum Miller Production J'OCHLWVMLT 5c . 39.1mm S " ' (NE own _ ”sum The Fairway Croup Marla] \uhw nplmn nun A division of $65 warh In l armada : Snulham Int $00 warh nuNdr t unad, o (, N I [hf \‘Irux of um u-Iumqu arc tho, nwn and 110 nnl mu rxmnh n‘pn‘wnl Ihr. 'lr'ws, of thr nrw~paprr 1 _ Waterloo Chronicle is published every Wednesday by Seriously, m K-W we dont heed lo worry about crime i', the streets The mlscmams make house calls But declining crime rates are st1ll the biggest persuader against the provincial largesse. For example, you dont hear much about Tim Horton's shops bang held up, " shows what police can do when they keep a close vigil on something. Most of all, It's truly saddenmg to set the glee wnth which local politicos accept the "gift" from the prowncc Who, pray tell, do they think IS the source of provincial money? Yes Mr, it's you and me and the rest of the denizens of this place to stand. There's another haartoG,easim, piinc The iiggcr a police dcpanmem gets the more it's prone to have "specralized" hangers-on who do very llllle :- Declining cnmc rates arc only part of the reason that this IS a gtft horse whose mouth Baird descrves a lot ofexammauon, m thc outset the province sphts the cost, but ultimately the whines become the mumcTalityr, rcspontuhthty Sick Call: MP? Gary lieudslvon has "everyone confused by his private members bill askmg the government lo pay for a feasibility study for a new. hospital m the mgmnv Heaven knows, the crttics' motives are worthy, but they should be campaigning for abolmon of the wheel, Or at least hghxing for legislaliun mqumng n he square Instead of round, Observers see no logic In the bell Sure, there ts, ll's the same logic that drctated colleague Wayne Wettlaukr's bill lo declare :nLomwzo f What a palpable bid for votes-and a mighty expensive one. Anyone who Ihinks police people come cheaply hasn't canvassed their compensation and perks lately. Arm of the Law: In the face of declining crime rates, Mike Harris IS oikring Loft) more police personnel to Ontario's municipalities a Gcrman Pioneers' Day or some such The lugtc behind both bills Is to get rc- elected. Say, come lo think of ll, as far as the average man can tell _ the mam purpose of the three-party system Is lo start arguments m .uc HLaNtArr21 mums . um: "I Chm-d: let