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Noise is constant, unbearable The Chronicle‘s front page article on Aug. 1 by Andrea Bailey was incorrect in stating that the noise (from the air conditioner atop one of the Barrel Warehouse loft buildâ€" ings) occurs only at night. It occurs constantly. There seems to be a design problem here. Perhaps with the air conditioner, but that‘s not what I mean. The noise began in April, when the weather was quite cool. 1 remember one cool night of nine degrees in early July. 1 thought perhaps the air condiâ€" tioner unit would shut down. It continued all night. When the enerâ€" It is strange that $50 million can be found for the elaborate RIM Park; $4 million for the jail renovation; $500,000 for the parkette on the Seagram land; $400,000 for a parkâ€" ing lot on the Epton property in Kitchener; and over $35,000 to gathâ€" er facts on homelessness which the homeless could have provided at no Vengeance not a substitute for justice Put more focus on lowâ€"cost housing cost homes! cost. _ A spokesman for ROOF was correct when he said, "All they do H:lmut Oberlander is to be tripped of his Canadian citiâ€" zenship. As Alice in Wonderland tells us, "Things are getting curiouser and curiouser." Rescued as a 17â€"yearâ€"old teenagâ€" er from Stalin‘s purges by the advancing German armies into the Ukraine, he finds himself conscriptâ€" ed as a junior translator for the infaâ€" mous Einsatzcommandant during the turmoil of war. _ It is alleged that Oberlander, upon applying for entry to Canada, did not tell all. No record appears to You said it QUESTION WHAT DO YOU MISS MOST ABOUT BEING A KID? Yet there is no money for lowâ€" BJ 14 gy crisis (which we got a small whiff of in 1973) really begins to pick up speed, the Barrel Warehouses will become too expensive (and too hot) to be inhabitable. The buildings cannot have been designed for sustainable habitaâ€" tion. Is there a need for guidelines for sustainable housing? The letter from Carol Ann Weaver, also in a recent edition of the Chronicle, is absolutely right about how aggravating the pitch of the noise is. In our house on Euclid Avenue, we sometimes operate window fans to drown out the noise. In other words, we opt for a higher is set up committees, talk, pass the buck, and disband." A company in Floradale renoâ€" vates portable classrooms. You should see what is available for $8,000. Another company in Kenilâ€" worth can build a very acceptable preâ€"fabricated house for $30,000. _ Where are we going to put these homes? Some could be located on the empty Seagram land; some on part of the parking lot across from be available to say conclusively whether or not he had lied to immiâ€" gration authorities. In the absence of such proof, "beyond a shadow of a doubt" this appears to have left Justice MacKay in a difficult position based on "probabilities." Had most of us, if not all, found ourselves in similar circumstances and at a similar age, with the desire to come to Canada, it is extremely doubtful whether any of us would have acted much differently than did Oberlander at the time. Ethical sensibilities need time to form. "I gave up the monâ€" key bars. That‘s about it. Everything else I still do." "I miss not having to worry about any thing. I miss knowâ€" ing my biggest problem is being home by 8 p.m." ) THE CHRONICL] COMMENT As with her, moving away from the noise has crossed my mind. It also crossed my mind that if the City of Waterloo didn‘t give adeâ€" quate support to householders on this issue, that any move should be into some other jurisdiction. noise level rather than that highâ€" pitched whine. _ It‘s too early to put any of these thoughts into action. Besides, I agree with Ms. Weaver that Kaye Crawford and other city staff have been doing an excellent job on the issue. the Swimplex on Father David Bauer Drive; some on the Epton land in downtown Kitchener; and some on the Bauer Skate property on Victoria Street. The ministers at St Andrew‘s Presybterian Church in Kitchener are investigating an ingenious design for a permanent outâ€"ofâ€" theâ€"cold shelter in the the Bauer Skate buildings on Victoria Street. Let‘s get some action! Unless specifically asked about my involvement with the Einsatzcommandant, 1 would most likely not have volunteered it. 1 believe that the 36 Cabinet Ministers who made the decision to strip him of his citizenship too would not have acted much differâ€" ently had they been in Oberlander‘s circumstances. Nor would most of the members of the Jewish commuâ€" nity who have lobbied against Oberlander. "I really don‘t miss the past much. I enjoy each summer as it comes along now." "Not having to worry about tuition or school in general. That‘s what I miss the most." Gary Marsland Carl Kaufman, Waterloo Ted Creese Waterloo Health Minister Tony Clement says that he "wants to hear from you" regarding the future of Ontario‘s health care system. In April‘s throne speech, his government promised what it called the widest ranging health care consultation in Ontario history. When pressed by reporters, Clement indicated that this consultation would include a series of public forums around the province, aimed at both providers and consumers of health care. A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. Clement soon started telling reporters that "I‘m a bit bogged down in the dayâ€"toâ€" day management of things," suggesting that he wouldn‘t have time to do the promised wideâ€"ranging consultation. Those fears were borne out when that consultation turned into a laughable little fourâ€"page questionnaire that arrived in our mailboxes in late July. Given that it was sandwiched between two pizza flyers, chances are that most copies of the pamphlet ended up in the same blue box as those pizza flyers (the destination of nearly all of the other Tory propaganda that we pay to mail out). In announcing the mail out, Clement gushed that "working together, we will help identify the most intelligent ways to spend health care dollars in the years to come." The questionnaire asks a total of 14 multipleâ€"choice questions and provides roughly 10 centimetres of space to add written comâ€" ments. By any standard, that‘s hardly an overwhelming opportuniâ€" ty for input. There‘s absolutely nothing iN . mammmaammame the questionnaire or preargBble docuâ€" e ® | ment indicating that people ca.r submit ANOTHER additional comments. { i » TV There are repeated references to a free background document called "You and [ your health care â€" Building the system . WRA F® for the 21st Century", which can be ie ordered by calling a toll free number. To [ c save time and postage, I went to the minâ€" ‘ istry website to see what the brochure [ [ o «ts had to say. I found more oneâ€"sided spin [ S# on the Tories health care record. For | example, the government actually takes | credit for the fact that "in 1921, average SC life expectancy for Canadians was 60; today it is 78 and rising. The infant morâ€" . | PIATK tality rate was 102 per 1,000 live births in‘ 1921; today the rate is about five per 1,000 live births." For another, more legitimate take on both the questionnaire and the Tories‘ record on health care, 1 decided to go to the Ontario _ Health _ Coalition‘s _ website, _ at http://www.web.net/ohc/. Incidentally, in February and March of 2001, the coalition itself conducted a series of provincewide hearâ€" ings on the future of health care (what a great idea‘). Thus, the coalition is on solid ground when it calls Clement‘s questionnaire "an extremely controlled, manipulative exercise that has much more to do with PR for the Ontario Conservatives than it has to do with democratic government." Here are some of the coalition‘s suggestions for questions that Clement COULD have asked, if he really wanted to know what Ontarians think about health care: * Do Ontarians support the hand over of homeâ€"care services to profitâ€"seeking companies instead of their community VON or Red Cross? * * Do Ontarians want the majority of the 20,000 new longâ€"term care beds to be given to private, profitâ€"seeking companies? _ * Do Ontarians want to see primary care reform that would put family doctors on salary in group practices with nurse practitionâ€" ers, therapists and other health professionals? _ _ â€" _ « Do Ontarians want to see cancer treatment run for profit? * Do Ontarians support the deâ€"listing of $100,000,000 of OHIP services? * Do Ontarians want to see the government address homelessâ€" ness, poverty, education, and access to public services, the enviâ€" ronment and other determinants of health in a meaningful way? * Do Ontarians support tax breaks for the wealthy over sustainâ€" able, universally accessible, publicly controlled health care for the next generation? e * Would Ontarians rather have access to nurses in emergency rooms in a public nonâ€"profit hospital system, or over the phone run by a private company as in the case of Telehealth Ontario? * Do Ontarians support the reduction in minimum staffing levâ€" els in long term care facilities? s S The only real advantage to participating in the Tories sham conâ€" sultation is that your comments will be a matter of public record. Then, hopefully, they will be accessible (through access to informaâ€" tion requests) to any reporter wanting to go beyond the way in which the Tories will try to spin and manipulate the survey results. So, by all means, complete the questionnaire and mail it in. Add as many additional pages as you want in order to answer some of the Ontario Health Coalition‘s questions. Just don‘t kid yourself that the Harris government is actually interested in what you have to say. * Do Ontarians support the cuts, merges and closures of comâ€" munity hospitals? â€" _ Tories don‘t really want to hear from you SCOTT PIATKOWSK