at of Queens Bench,
"Art Smith, a" self
deseribed “hired gun for.
political - parties” who
- helped Peter
Premier ter Lougheed,
- Ontaris Premier... Bill,

Davis ‘and former
Saskatchewan ” Premier

“Alberta .

‘system then T. nuggeat we
Bo" back to
where there.’ are | mp
rules.’* | oo

“Ross Thatcher, defended
amendments ‘to the —
~Canads . Elecilons Act
that.becomeé law May 17. :
“If there are.nof these — -

the jungle.

bers,’ is

turn the amendments. Ip Se 19704 that worked on

cave © against t the federal

government
. Monday and is expected

, a to lnst two weeks,’ .
the public: is’ stupid"! a
The National Citizens .
restraints: to protect the Co

A former. .Calgary
alderman, member of the

’. Alberta: legislature and -
biémber of Parliament,

‘Sialth owned a. public
tions firm in the 1960s

a

~ Ontario Credit Unions shaky

provincial. regulatory

bgeriey's chief executive:

officer.

Ed'Grad said Tuesday
4 of. the troubled credit
unions’

He said the other 41 still
face deficits, adding the
‘Industry is getting back
on ite feet after years of
losing money.

But Camaron Doherty,
general manager of tha
Waterloo Regional Credit
Union, says Ontario's
credit-union business “ig
a very, very
dustry” and many unlong
are. “no long

ene had a deficit

St. Bernard not dangerous enough.

~ severity of mental Illness

negligence after his dog. -
allegedly attacked five’

told a county court
tal fundey that he did.

Fey

Sick in- .

“af about $100, 00 when it

went to the Ontario Share

and Depoalt “Corp, for

help in 1979, now has a -
deficit of $1.6. ‘million,

ye." brought in last year -to

help get the organization

back on its feet, © ~
Credit Union Central

assumed a

‘ Management. ‘of

Toromo Board © of

"given to the developers of
the Lake Rosseau Village -

Inn resort in: Ontario's
Muskoka district.
As well, Grad- said,

Credit Union Central has
; . Share and Deposit
- Insurance Corp. could

investigate the activities

of. the Etobicoke Com-
munity: Credit Union in
suburban Toronto.

_ Doherty _ Said other

not consider the dog
dangerous enough to
destroy it.

James “Don Dixon, 54, :
of Surrey, B.C., | told
Judge William S. Selbie
that his St. Bernard

.PEOPLE.

a all
About

Liberal atrategist tht) stbaieballt fave Sentai? Keltir
Davey-has. fulfilled a lifetime dream;-it seems; by -

y being featured on his very own Big ‘League bub-
blegum baseball card,

the card made up by a thoughtful Ottawa

frierid, Davey admits that being a baseball star was a
childhood yearning. |

"Kelth's nickname is The Rainmaker,” the card

says..“‘He also enjoys rooting for Blue Jays and Grits.

. Keith {a chairman of the Bobby Cox and Pierre

m Trudeau fan clubs. His goal is to win every election ©
and every ball game.’

The nifty card is not the only ‘bit of big league
baseball paraphernalia Davey has in his possession.
It seems he’s also the proud owner of a complete Blue
Jaya uniform, even though the waist is a bit tight
these days.

Ontario Attorney General Roy McMurtry may light
political fires from tle to time, but when it comes to
smoking his pipe, he's'a real gentleman. - -

After’ visiting the Northern. Ontario town of

Cochrane a few weeks.ago, MeMurtry sent a char-
ming noteto Mayor Ray Fortier, who chauffered him
around town.
“it was a real pleaaure to-visit.you and the wone
derful people of Cochrane,” McMurtry wrote. “I
enjoyed our discussion very much. It was’ nice to
meet with the staff at the courthouse.

“You will have to forgive mefor lighting my pipe in
your car.”

Fortier, a not-smoker, was not there to comment
when the letter was read ata council meeting.

Even though she wore black leather pants when she
was interviewed, singer Marie Osmond says she's
proud to be considered a “goody-goody.”

- Osmond, 25; now a wife and mother, told McCall's
magazine her image represents happiness and
success ‘and that's fine with her.

“In the past, when I'd see people make fun of me
and laugh atme, it disturbed me,” shesaid,
~ “But then I realized that if being 8B goody-goody
means you're happy and like who you are, and you're
successful at what you do, then I’m proud to be a

Goody: goody.”

"Dana Anderson, the 11-year-old ‘ringette star from
Oshawa, Ont., has her hopes set on competing in the °
Olympics as a speed skater. But she's already °

wowing them on theice in Oshawa, having notched an

incrédible 310 goals in 51 games this season. .

The sixth. grader has led her Central Ontario
Ringette team.to.a pair of provincial titles and has
collected more than 100 trophies and medals for her
athletic-endeavors.

“My coaches taught me my wrist-shot ‘and my dad
taught me how to skate. I think: these are the most,
important parts of my game,” Anderson says.

Her advice to others who want to emulate her goal-
scoring record: “I get a lot of goals: by picking tt
comers.’ oe

' ae

4, ie ey i iP
"Workaholics; take nie.
American "punk-funk?

hospital after viet treated, for a- spell of un-

consciousness attributed to “an accidental overdose
of Valium and alcohol.

Police‘said stress and fatigue were also to blame
for “the singer’s ailment. James was found ua-
conscious in bed at his home near Buffalo, N. ¥

Friends of the 34-year-old entertainer sai
incident was the result of overwork stemming wom a
marathon recording session in his basement studio.

Police spokesman James Wilson said: “His people
said it wax not at allunusual for him to disappear into -
ne recording studlo for three and four days at a

me.”” _-

ar einer Rick James is out of

d the

financially : ‘troubled.
credit unions © include
" Beaver Valley Credit

, Barrie .
munity’
Holy Rosary Credit Union
in Thorold on the Niagara
P la, ‘and Owen
Sound Credit Union, The

list was confirmed by —

Grad.
‘PLAY |
ROLE’
Doherty said 28 Ontario
credit unions have a total
deficit of $69 million. He
added the province must

play greater part- in .
policing the industry or it:

will only continue to
deteriorate.

Under. previous
legislation, the ‘Ontario

-move in to direct credit
unions facing deficits
‘exceeding their revenues..
But current legislation
‘took away much of the
corporation's power and

would have had to have
severely |
someone before he would
consider the 65-kilogram
‘aimal a menace. -

In my mind, the dog
was not the vicious and
wild animal the Crown
has tried to prove it to
be,” said Dixon, a

. railway machinist.

Dixon, who chose trial
by judge alone, told
Selble that an attack
would have to be ag
severe as one suffered by
_ Shawn, Fraser, a young

¢ boy who loat much:of-his
__Sealp and whose-arm was'-
following an

attack by two Rottweiler
dogs iri Kelowna, B.C., In

Rottweilers’
owners, Manfred and
Vera Mayerhofer ‘were
convicted of «criminal
negligence May. 26, 1983,
were fined $2,000 each

and prohibited . from
owning dogs for two
years.. ;

BOY BITTEN

Dixon was charged -.

Dec. 31, 1992, about two
months after an elght-
year-old Surrey boy was
- attacked by a dog while
walking’ -home ” from
school

past Dixon's ©

moblie home, The boy
required two stltches to
close the wound. |

The attack..was one of

five that occurred bet-
ween February and.
* November: 1962 court was

told.

In another incident, a
15-year-old Surrey boy
“ he was bitten on the

while . riding’ his
bityele and required 13
atitches. - Three other
people, including an
SPCA inspector, have
sald they were also bitten -
by Dixon's dog.”

Dixon told court he kept
the dog, named Bernie,
on a: 7.6-metre chain and
had a special muzzle
made up several years
ago for the animal. But
“court was told that the
dog was not wearing the
muzzle and waa running
loose when it attacked
some of the victims.

Union. in Thornbury,’
Orillia Community Credit
Union “Com: |
Credit “Union, |

GREATER .

gave the Gredit " untons
business more power ‘to:

Police .. itself. ‘The in- .

surance corporation now
acts as an outside watch-
dog and. also ~ protects
credit: union accounts for
up to $60,000 of deposits.

In the. case’ of - the

ay

Central

handing over those reins
to Credit Union Central.
. But Doherty sald the
es weren't etotgh.

_ changes
-“{’ don't: believe the

people belng hired by
~ have the

capabilities . of even
‘ beginning to correct the

Waterloo Regional Credit ,

Union, the © insurance

corporation allowed the =

same ' management

the - same. poor - In-

vestments’ to. continue, a.

. said Doherty. |

‘Stricter rules were:

imposed by the province
last summer in the wake
of a trust companies
scandal which saw the
provincial government
takeover Greymat Trust

ineffictencles togo.on and

.Co,, Seaway ‘Trust o- .

and Crown Trust Co. in

the ‘wake of the ‘con-
troversial sale of almost
11,000 «Toronto = area
apartment ‘units. ‘The

changes were aimed at .

tightening the hold on
credit _ Unions while

Crown Prosecutor Ravi:

ravaged + Hira told Selbie that

Dixon acted with
“reckless and wanton

disregard for the safety ’

of others” — the legal
definition of . criminal
negligence — by. not

major problems we have
in this province.”

‘The 808 credit unions
associated with Credit
Union Central sre worth
$4.4 billion, lon, up to 13 per
cent December
1082, Gred said. ;

‘Doherty said there are

- about 900 credit unions in .

Ontario. ‘Maybe 400 or
500 would be a- better
number."

Ontario's two largest
credit unions, — Civil

‘Service Co-op of Ottawa

with 100,000 members
and HEPCOE, Ontario
Hydro’s credit union with
50,000— are not members
of Credit Union Central.

Heavenly bodies determinelunacy

NEW YORK (AP) —
new study linking: the

to the motions of the sun
and: moon. shows that
some people might in-

_ deed be, li Shakespeare's

words, ‘fools by
heavenly compulsion.”
Pie study of 4,000

. mental patients found

having the dog destroyed |

following the attacks,

SEVERAL WARNINGS
He said Dixon had been

warned several times by

authorities, Including the

SPCA, tna his dog hocal

dangero

cit on told court thalihe
~ ha the: dog néuterdd’
bid ‘to deter: him ‘ Foe
jumping up on people and
calm the animal's
temperament. —

However, Hira said ‘the
neutering ‘‘was not good ;
enough" and that Dixon,

had.‘an absolute duty to
destroy the animal.

Selbie said. it appeared .

obvious to him that Dixon
“had the dog ‘neutered to
avoid =. having ©

- destroyed,

Dixon’s lawyer Peter
Young, quoting previous
negligence cases, said the
Crown had not proven
that Dixon acted with
“indifference and
unrestrained disregard”
in the matter. Dixon, he

sald, “had attempted to —

remedy the dog's

propensities with: the «

neutering.”

Young said it is
irrelevant in determining
if Dixon was guilty of
criminal . negligence
whether or not neutering
‘the dog would solve the
biting problem. What is

important was that “he .

(Dixon) did not show
callous disregard and

was not indifferent ta the ©
of the.

consequences”

animal’s actions. .
Court was told earlier

that Dixon had given the

dog away to a Lyndon, .

Wash., hobby farmer and
that a few months ago it
was hit and killed by a
car while chasing an
animal.

_ Selbie is expected to
hand down a

verdict |

‘that at the time of the full

moon, and especially
during the full moons of
the summer and ‘fall,
psychotic mental patients
display their most
inappropriate  appear-
ance and  atrongest

.: irrational fears, said Dr,
Charles Mirabile, a
. psychiatrist - at.

ahs

the -

sere mp
Smith. was also a
member of the

parliamentary .comm-

ittee ‘that prepared the
“1566 Barbeau |

report. thrée
That document led to the -

"elections act eight years
later.

‘Amendments to‘ that
act ban. electlon cam-

or against a party or
‘candidate, or unless the
organization registers
a party and eminates
candidates in at least 50
ridings.
Penalties. + Include
maximum $5,000 fines or
jail terms of up to five
-years or both. -
- All three major federal
parties approved the

_ changes last Nov. 1 after

less than: 40 minutes of
debate. They sald Bill C-
163‘ would
American-style electi-
oneering in which’ the
established parties
circumvent spending”
limits by setting up slush.
funds through third-party
organizations.

The -coalltion, which
has critized a variety of
Liberal . government.

Polleies to unlimited
policies. to ited’
immigration of

Indochinese _— refugees,
hopes to convince the

become ill during par
ticular seasons: of Phe
year," Mirabile said at a
symposium in New York
sponsored by the Institute
for Child Develepment
Research.

But the new research
suggests “that seasonal
effects are much more
pervasive than has
generally been realized,”
he said.

Mirabile’s study has
found, for example, that
disease severity climbs
not only when the moon is |
full but also at the time of
the new moon, when the
lunar image disappears,

 egurt | “the
_ violate’ “ reedom-of-op- ‘
.eech guarantees in the

. Just want that soap to be
interest groups either for...

combat .

This effect is most: ope

Constitution. « ~
Coalition lawyer Al

Hunler argued that the

. federal: parties
quickly approved’ . the
amendments because
‘they have determined
we should only hear their:
side of the story.”

He told. Smith: “You

packaged by candidates
and parties.” =

The legislation does not
stop. citizens or groups
from spending money on

anything | they .want |

between elections; nor .
does it prohibit spending
money’ to promote or

Oppose issues, or to speak-
out without incurring
costs during election
campaigns. :

These freedoms alone
are substantial, Smith
said, +
CHAOTIC IN U.85.

Be said the Barbeau
report recommended
strict controle on third-
party donations —
recommendations ign-
ored for 17 years —
because a “somewhat
ehaotic situation’? had
arisen in the United

. 1 _ States.
causes ranging from the
‘ there to establish third-
" party spending controls

Smith noted that efforts

have been repeatedly
overturned in the courts
constitutional

patients, but were al

evident in patients with
other mental disorders,
he said. Psychosis is
defined as a mental
disorder. marked by
deranged personality and

“loss of contact with

reality.

Dr. Norman Gesch- .
wind, a neurologist at the
Harvard Medical School,
sald Mirabile’s work
confirms previous studies
on the effect of the solar
cycle on behavior, ‘What

‘is particularly interesting

in his work," he said, “is
the. "suggestion there's so
a lunar’cycle!':<
“yéagatch

’ knows of no

* iy derstand ;
changes: in: ‘light on the .

- grévnts, ms
‘Earlier, an expert on
election expenses said he
; reali or
perceived instances: of
corruption ‘that

necessitated .

act amendments,.... ...,
‘ Leslie _ Seldile,

on the history -of

‘Canadian and: British: wo

advantage over |

portions of a report that _

Seidle co-authored which

said 93 per cent ofall.
government ©

federal
money relmbursed . to
candidates after the 197)

and 1880 general elections -

went to the big three
en:

“There were many
cases throughout ‘the
country when candidates
had large surpluses after
the election,”

where they were indeed
huge. ” .

In the same report, he
characterized Canadian
election campaigns as

events in which “issues |
and substance have been *

almost completely
replaced by the image

makers’ vacuous slogans .

and symbols.”

about by the position of
‘the sunt relative to the |

Because variations . in
illness have been Hnked
by. Mirabile to the new

' moon, which sheds no

light, they may be due in

part to the gravitational —
effects of the moon,

which are responsible for
rising and fallirig tides,

“Perhaps, during the
course of evolution, the
brain organized its

development around
these geophysical cues,”
Mirabile said.
Researchers te
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