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WATERLOO canonrcuz - Wednesday. August 4. 20m . s filmm News“ \W ”MM“ annv war-on M' ' ”urnâ€"urn m W 319.579.4110 Resident worried Stage Theatre will be another booze can BY Cmnwrrc PROM; PM“; A“! , _ a ‘ his greatest concern. He's worried Chronicle Staff . . ‘ 4 ~ about fights. trespassing and other ’ , . ‘ ‘ sordid behaviour. . request for a liquor licence (- g ." . ‘ The Vault was the scene of mas- A§t the former Waterloo " - _’ sive brawl on NewYear‘s Eve, 2008. ‘tage Theatre has raised the ‘ - , ii 4 ~, ‘ ‘ ' - ‘ ' Last summer. 15 police officers ire ofat least one local resident. ‘ . Q)! a ‘ ' ”A g A ~ 7 responded when 10 to 15 men Chris Cabena is the superin~ . . .__ ‘ ‘ ' , " ‘ staned fightinginanearby parking tendent of a 12-unit apartment - ” . ' . lot just as about 200 patrons were building at King and Dupont " _ ‘ leavingthebarafterlastcall. streets, and he's already made a ' is Cabena said the management submission to the Alcohol and ' ~ ' at Chainsaw. right beside the Gaming Commission of Ontario , t “ Waterloo Stage Theatre. has done a asking them to deny the licence. 1 . , ‘ . , , . . - good job of keeping such activities “I believe uptown has enough , m... . . - - ~ , ~ ' - ' ' ' ' " ' 7 in check. an improvement over a bars. We don‘t need anymore," he .. " .£»‘ a: .. s . ‘. - former establishment said. ,- ' f l . “We used to have streams of Submissions on whether or not ‘ "l ‘ , ‘ ‘ . ’ people coming in behind our a liquor licence for that establish- 0 l i‘ I building, into the parking lot." he mem is in the public interest must ,. , P ~ said. be forwarded to the commission ' ‘ ' . “And people would just â€"- pee! by Aug. 5. ,,_ â€", ' . And they'd hang out. There was Cabena said he might feel dif- ' it"s ’ ‘ ' , lots of vandalism. They'd come ferently about the situation if he .... - ’ ' into our parking lot, get out oftheir had more information. The former Waterloo Stage Theatre has neighbours worried that it is being turned into another nightclub in an cars with their bottles, already Nicholas Georghiades. owner of already saturated uptown core. drinking. then go and get in line at , the building. remained tight- airâ€"now thebar." lipped on plans for the former the- upper-case B. be the Stage Theatre getting a become a nightclub.” Cabena has lived and worked atre. which is to be renamed Beta. “Something ‘B'ig is coming," licence. as it used to when it was Cabena said the nightclub The uptown for almost 10 years. He But a Facebook page dedicated announces the page. A July update under different management. And Vault “is absolutely terrible for appreciates the vibrant core, but to the former dance club Tabu, by administrators reads, “Sound that would be totally fine. if they noise." as is the nearby patio at the just doesn't want to see more which was completely destroyed in check. Possible to rumble more were just putting on plays or Royal Canadian Legion. watering holes. “I don't think we the Campus Court fire in the then Tabu & Guv? I think so." shows." Cabena said. But while the noise builds and need any more,“ he said. “We have spring, has a new logo â€" an “1 thought it was just going to “My concern is that it's going to grows over the evening, that's not enough trouble." O C 0 O 0 O O 0 Census changes W111 h1t mun1c1pa11t1es hard, say critics BndAmmanNoP/mmru cancels the census, said Don “This is not my idea of an tor of community services. said force survey and the agricultural Chronicle Staff McLeish. a professor in UW’s sta~ accountable government." he said. census data is fundamental in survey. tistics and actuarial science “You pass things. you approve planning everything from road And he thinks the change could Mayor Brenda Hallomn has sent department. things. and then you turn around and transit reports. to develop- lead to far more than $30 million a request to Industry Minister “What they've proposed is a and blameStatistics Canada?" ment and programs for seniors. . in additional costs. “What's the ' Tony Clement. very expensive survey. It‘s not a No complaints were made to “i couldn't imagine what kind of cost to a municipality if they build. Public Health. the department census.” he said. the Privacy Commissioner related costs there would be if we had to based on biased information, a of social services. and the planning That's because a voluntary sur- to the 2006 census. McLeish said. get the equivalent information on highway to nowhere?" he asked. department are bringing a joint vey will miss a substantial number “There were far more people hit our own," she said. “Secondly, we He also said that organizations report to regional council. of people in the population who by lightening. Maybe the govern- don’t have the authority to require which are funded based on flawed And a University of Waterloo are less likely to respond, leading mem should do something about people to respond." census information could poten- _ professor who is also the president to biased or inaccurate informa- that.” Bish said they treat information tially sue the federal government. of the Statistical Society of Canada tion. 1 European countries that don’t from the mandatory long'form leading to taxpayer dollars being has testified before a parliamen- McLeish calls the soundbites have a census still collect informa- census as fundamentally correct tied up in court cases. tary committee in Ottawa. that have been used, about privacy tion, mining it from linked govern- and valuable. “As a professional. The census controversy led Local voices are joining the concerns and the threat of impris- merit data bases on everything and personally, I can‘t seeany logic StatsCan head Munir Sheik to growing chorus demanding the onment or fines “a red herring." from health to education and here.“ she said. resign his position. federal government reverse its He points out that it is the gov- income levels. McLeish said the backlash Asked to guess the number of decision to make the long-form ernment. not Statistics Canada. “This is a degree of invasion of against the change could lead to accredited statisticians who will census voluntary, starting in 201 I. that has the power to change the privacy that Canadians. in my people refusing to fill out other apply for that job, McLeish The move. expected to cost an questions and the consequences view. would never accept." he said. mandatory census forms. such as replied.“Let's see. Rounded off? additional $30 million. effectively of not answering them. 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