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Wilfrid laurier University and the has started even “1°98” the propos- by all “an“? _ , , But i declare the opposite, that heavy metal is alive and University ofWaterloo in the 19905 a] has not been officrally approved it seems to me that this Situation well. in fact. it's thriving in 2009 on the summer concert scene . So I was impressed when the by local planners or politicians. represents an internal contradiction as Megadeth and Slayer kick off their “Car'ladian Wu tour City deaterloo brought forward in my View, it is oxymoronic to at Waterloo City Hall. in Vancouver today. In the next two weeks, metal bands like their Environment First policy for observe these planners, councillors, I can only hope this oxymoron is ludas Priest, Whitesnalte. Def [2PM and Poison will be per- land use planning in 2002 and the Mayor ofWaterloo whom rectified when this matter is before forming at the Molson Amphitheatre. This policy stated the protection ran on an ‘environment first" plat- Waterloo city council in the coming Since the age of 12. I've been an unabashed metalhead at of natural resources such as water form, all on side With this mall, as weeks. heart. The first cassette l ever bought was “Mister Sister "Stay and trees and birds and fish was a suggested by a lack °f any clear Hungry." By the end of 1989. I had already seen numerous high priority. “We” °f°PP°dfi°"- . “a?” metal bands live in whom including Metallicti, Aerosmith. l was proud when Waterloo was This proposed mega mall. with ridge Skid Row, DefLeppard. Alice Cooper. AC/DC, and Ody designated as a place composed of pathng Sm f°' possibly 4,000 Osbourne. to name a few. very intelligent citizens m will use land that currently l've always said. heavy metal is the soundtrack of my youth. It seems that l learned in high PM“ M8 W" ‘° Water“ After all this time. l thinlt my nostalgia for the genre lies in the school that an oxymoron was not a through the wetlands of the Water- fact that the music brim back so many memories of my person but a statement that includ- loo Moraine . . teenage years. hanging out at the C05. (Central Ontario Exhi- ed an internal contradiction One “WY “3° "WM“ “31W“ f°' a bition) in Kitchener. V'rvidly. 1 can still see my wife (then-girl- familiar oxymoron is. “Pleasegive myriad ofspeciesincludingthe friendlSy'lviaandmeattheageofNâ€" _,,_*_ A? me the bigger half or that piece of “Manse“ Mini? 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