The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 2000 - AS : cmisenani

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Dear Sir:

Several billion dollars were spend by the private and business sector to avoid the ¥2K bug. ho

However, I cannot understand why a provincial government allows the Workers Compensation Board to develop a Y2K bug years in advance that will destroy British Columbia’s infrastructure.

Without doubt that anti-smoking rule will cause i much debate around kiichen tables in B.C, whether. ° to go and play. Bingo, visit the mall to play Keno. while drinking a cap of coffee in-a smoke-free en- _ vironment. ‘

By the way that smoke free environment rule was unleashed several years ago on some indepen- dently living senior citizens. when the local jail quit delivering firewood to them.

That rule certainly took a few wood particles * out of the atmosphere while the July fireworks put arsenic material right back in the atmosphere and the Skeena River.

What about the fishers who pay a lot of money for a license to caught the fish? I have to ask our provincial rulers, is the air I breathe more import- . ant than the water ] drink or the odd fish I eat?

If we want to be that squeaky clean then we’ ‘better look at all probable materials that can cause cancer. 1 have the distinct feeling all this calm from the opposition points toward the possibility to sail into office while that Y2K cloud hangs over British Columbia and then continue this experi- ment. How about it, what is the stand? Voters like to fi nd out before the election and not after:

Manfred. Bader Thornhill B.C.

MP Scott needs support Dear Sir: are I'm hoping the people who support Mike Scott

and the good job he’s doing will come forward now

THE OLD DAYS: Children stand on the board walk out front of the the Al- berni Indian Resi- dential School, circa 1906. Native child- ren from across B.C. attended resi- dential school in the early part of the century. Photo from Canada; A Portrait, a Statistics Canada publication.

he Canada Quiz

Test your knowledge of the nation with a quiz from Statistics Canada 92%

14) ~The baby boom has had, and contin- c) _ ues to have, a massive effect on social trends in this country. What fraction of Canada's

- population do the boomers make up?

1) = Which is wider? a) Canada

’) the Atlantic Ocean 22) Today, each of Canada's three largest

cities is a world-renowned urban centre, In 1911, however, the combined populations of

2) Which is closer to St John’ 8 Nid? a) a fifth ot and give him some encouragement. If you don’t ‘ay Victoria, B.C. b} just overa quarter Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver numbered: you're going to lose one of the best MPs we've b) Casablanca, Morocco c) about half me a) mimon ever had,

; ‘b) 1.5 million I would like to hear from the critics of Mike

c) less than a million Scolt and hear their reasons for supparting the Nis- ga’a Treaty. Other than a few Terrace merchants and politicians standing to gain financial or politi-

cal status from the treaty, the treaty has no effect |

15) In Nunavut, it is relatively rare to be | pulled over to the side of the highway for speeding. Perhaps this is because the terri-

-3). Nunavut, Canada’s newest territory, is about the same size as:

2) the United Kingdom 23) On New Year's Day 1914, 1 out of

every 20 people in Canada had:

by) France tory: ° ived j ; any non-Nisga’a citizens other than us living on - Germany a) has no speed limit ae arrived in the country just the year Ni ny \ nd Isga a cluzen 8 : efore isga’a lands. » dd) Spain b) has no police Before you jump on the pro-treaty band wagon

=) all four countries put together

.4) — More than 50% of Canada’s popula- tion lives on less than 2% of its land: a) ‘True - “~b) > False

; 5) No place in Nova Scotia i is more

than: i a Fats he id! hi iit ad't éiig

-ioacery opti c)

.8) 65 km from the oceait ; ‘b)’ 80 km from the ocean’ =) 110.km from the ocean

6) ‘St John’s, Nfld. is the Canadian city

“a) most days with freezing rain b) ~—s most fog

‘c) most consistent winds

‘d) alll three of the above

7) A.A. Milne’s fictional bear, Wintie- the-Pooh:

a) was modelled on a real bear cub -- Named in honour of Winnipeg, Man.

“b). was named after Canadian Prime

Minister Robert Borden’s Aunt Winnie

> =e) ‘was named after British Prime Min- “ister Winston Churchill

.8) Canada’s most northerly community is known by two names: Grise Fiord and Ausuittuq In Inuktitut, “Ausuittuq” means

=) “far north” b) “the place that never thaws out” .¢) “always wear a scarf”

- 9) The Arctic Wooly Bear is a caterpil- ' lar that stays alive during the Arctic winter

by: i) living as a parasite in the bodies of polar bears

-b) burrowing deep under the snow _:¢) producing a kind of natural antifreeze

10). Sir Sandford Fleming came up with _ the idea of creating world time zones in 1876: :a). after finding out the hard way that his 5:35 train would be coming at 5:35 p.m., ' instead of a.m.

‘b), while trying to arrange long distance phone calls with his brother-in-law in Sicily ‘c}. after having a dream about crossing the International Date Line

-11) About a third of the energy used by Canadians each year is used:

a) _ to offset the cold of winter -*b) to cool the ice surface in hockey

.€) __ by family vans on local trips

12) . Today, a trip from Ottawa to Van- couver takes about five hours by plane In 1867, the same trip might have taken:

ta) a week “p) two or three weeks -c) one or two months

3 lcin and racoon all have in common? a)... They all appear in survivalist cook- books : “b) They are all words from indigenous North American languages c),.. . They have all been suggested as Ce “hadian national symbols .

What do tomato, potato, mukluk,

-). has only 21 km of paved roads d) has no paved roads

16) Today, we take it for granted that al- most every Canadian has the right to vote. At the time of Confederation in 1867, however:

a) just over a tenth of the population had the right

‘py ve just‘dver a quarter of the, ‘Population: yt

gio re shat + “Slightly less.than half the population.” had the Tight

17) What structure did social historian William Kilbourn describe in 1984 as “the most important religious building in Cana-

- da”?

a) — the Oratoire St-Joseph in Montréal b) —- Toronto’s Anglican cathedral c) Maple Leaf Gardens

18) In 1996-97, Quebec had 155 of these ~ far more than any other province:

a) __ theatre companies

b) _—_ drive-in movie parks

c) botanical gardens

19) How many hours of TV does the average Canadian watch each day?

a) 15 hours ;

b) 32 hours

ce) 4 hours

20) Between 1996 and 1997, the number of Canadian homes with Internet, Access in- creased by:

a) 25%

b) 60%

c) 85%

21) What percentage of Canadians aged 12 and older exercise regularly? —

a) 34%

by. 67%

b) —_ a subscription to Maclean's c) a hangover

24) = In 1996, the most common occupa- tion for Canadian men was:

a) accountancy

b) truck driving

i) used car sales |

19515 “lumber of women entering’the -work force, increased dramatically Between 1938 and

_ 1945, the female work force in Canada grew

by:

a) 76%

b) | 57%

¢) 35%

26) NASA’ launched two Voyager

spacecraft into deep space in the 1970s Among the artefacts of earth carried by the spacecraft was an item with a Canadian con- nection That item was:

a) a copy of a Glenn Gould recording of a Bach prelude and fugue

b) a copy of the song “Snowbird” sung by Anne Murray

c) a copy of the 1974 Eaton’s winter catalogue

27) Ontario’s Yonge Street holds the record for being the longest street in the world. [t measures

a) = 100 km

b) = 617 km

c) =: 1,900 km

28) - Canadians throw out a lot of garbage

~ approximately 670 kg per person every year, How many countries produce more garbage per capita? a

a) 15 b) 23 co 862 29)

Which of the following was invented by a Canadian? .

a) — ginger ale

b) _ the paint roller .¢) the zipper

qd) all of the above

30) Who said, upon leaving California . for British Columbia in 1983, “I'm going home to Canada tomorrow”? 2s,

a) Sarah McLachlan

b) Michael J Fox

c) Queen Elizabeth IL.

AND NOW, THE ANSWERS...

.l.a,2b,3e, 4a, 5 a, 6d, 7 9 (First World War Canadian army veterinarian Harry Cole-

‘bourn named his regiment's mascot after his

hometown of Winnipeg), 8 b, 9 c, 10 a, LI a, 12 c, 13 b, 14 b, 15 c, 16a, 17 c, 18 a, 19 b, 20 ¢ (In 1996, 7% of Canadian homes had In- ternet access; in 1997, the figure was 13%) , 21 ¢, 22 ¢, 23 a, 24 b, 25 a, 26a, 27 ¢ (from Toronto to the Ontario-Minnesota border), 28 c (Only the US (730 kg/yr) and Australia pro- duce more (690 key) 29 a 30¢

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_ learning to drive?

of alder, supposedly more experienced, drivers who

you should analyze your reasons for doing so. Is it because you would like to help the poor underdog Indian? If so be sure you are helping and. not hin- dering. Nisga’a citizens will have to pay property tax on his house and lot.

How can they afford this when they’re on wel- fare? How can there suddenly be jobs available for 2,000 Nisga’a citizens when the timber is nearly gone?

- You‘must remember thatthe Nisga’a ‘Vote’ in favor for the treaty was almost equal to those op---. _posing it. Which group of Nisga’ a are you support ‘ing? Why?

The Reform party says if the Nisga’'a want self- government they have no objections but it must not have constitutional protection. All. treaties have constitutional protection and thus distinct societies

_are born. Do you want British Coiumbia, divided

into 50 different distinct societies and open the door for Quebec to separate as well?

Mike is standing up for British Columbia and Canada, don't you think il’s time we stood up for. him? ;

Lloyd Brinson Nass Camp B.C.

Give new drivers a break

Dear Sir:

It was interesting to read the letter from J.R. Gray (Terrace Standard, Dec. 29, 1999). It's pood to know that there are some people aut there who want action taken against the atrocious driving habits of certain individuals. But why blame the new drivers for all: the problems?

You sec, J.R. Gray, these new drivers have learned to drive by watching others who have. speeded before them, When ] was taking my son on driving expeditions after he got his learner's per- mit, I was appalled at the insensitivity of others to- wards those who are trying to learn.

We are fortunate to have a double driveway at our house, but my son had no choice but to venture’ out onto the roadways. And I got very upset at some of the stunts supposed experienced drivers would pull when they spotied the little sign on the back of our vehicle.

We were horned, cursed at, passed left and right, and laughed at when his attempts at parallel parking were somewhat cockeyed. Hey, maybe if the next driver in back would have stopped and al- lowed lots of room, my son would have done much better. ,

Strange as this may sound, teenagers are very willing to learn, and they learn really well by watching and listening, How are your driving habits

—all-you folks with years of accident-free cruising

out there? Do you swerve around cars with little signs in the back window?

Do you give the Trudeau salute to a young per- son trying to follow the rules or simply being extra cautious? Do you honk your horn at these new driv- ers when they stop so as to avoid plowing down someone sauntering across in mid-block?

Yes, strange as it may sound, our teenagers learn very well. And they learn just the same way little children learn: by watching! Think about it, older drivers, how polite and respectful are you to learners? I wonder, would a teenager make fun of an older person trying to learn about computa much as the older person makes fun of a _

True, there are bozos out there who drive at two rates of speed: fast and furious. But there are a lot

make. some major dumb maves, too. Our young people will learn respect if we teach them by our

actions.

Joan Roy Terrace B.C,.