This Magazine articles from December 1 1994

This Magazine archives from December 1 1994

"Let's see some HIV ID": a Quebec company (International Labs Association Inc) markets AIDS-test cards.
December 1, 1994... These days, it's not enough to tell someone you're HIV negative. A Quebec company wants you to carry proof of your health status - in your wallet. International Labs Association Inc. of Laval has begun marketing HIV-negative cards to...

Free TM: paying a toll on the Infobahn.
December 1, 1994... Free, according to Michael Gillespie, means "free of toll charges. Free of usage charges. Free of hassle. Free of intimidation. Free of red tape. Free of timetables. Free of censorship." That is the philosophy Gillespie, vice-president of the...

Dirty tricks: Ottawa merchants want prostitutes off their streets.
December 1, 1994... Borrowing from the not-in-my-backyard lobbying tactics of community groups in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, a merchant association in Ottawa's upwardly-mobile Byward Market has goaded the police into driving prostitutes out of the popular...

Welcome to family values world!
December 1, 1994... It is a chilly autumn morning, and I am buying stamps for a letter to my sister, who lives a long way away. The postal clerk grins and asks if I'd like the pretty stamps, and I smile back and say, "Why not?" He hands me a colourful five-panel...

Nobody's victim.
December 1, 1994... The crowd at the Art Gallery of Hamilton is filled with grieving parents and spouses, but this speech is not about grief. In the three years since her 19-year-old daughter Nina was shot dead by a man out on bail, Priscilla de Villiers has...

Open season: a powerful "conservation" group wants you to believe there's a grave new threat to Ontario's wildlife -- native people.
December 1, 1994... I'm sitting in a smoky motel meeting room surrounded by a crowd comprised mainly of middle-aged men. Most, burly outdoor types, seem not quite at ease squeezed into the tight little rows of meeting chairs. Many wear khaki vests with badges...

On your mark! Get set! Go multi-culti! Neil Bissoondath wanted his new book (Selling illusions) to spark a race debate.
December 1, 1994... Ever since the Multiculturalism Act was instituted in the heady days of Trudeaumania and the "just society," it has been plagued both by critics who abhor the concept and those who support the concept but don't dig the way it has been...

They believed the hype (Liberal Party and immigration policy).
December 1, 1994... During the 1993 federal election campaign, Sergio Marchi wooed voters by saying he would be the "friend" refugees and immigrants never had under the Tories. His party, he claimed, would put immigration policy on the right track. The...

Lost in the technology triangle: if southwestern Ontario's "new economy" is a bowl of high-tech cherries, what is a fifth of the workforce doing in the pits?
December 1, 1994... "Welcome To Our Economic Miracle." That's not what the sign says on the sparkling office tower next to city hall in Waterloo, Ontario, but maybe it should. The building, which opened for business last spring, is equipped with two glass...

Hate in the afternoon: ecstasy goes underground on The young and the restless.
December 1, 1994... I remember watching television in a bar a few years ago and looking up to see a pomaded, mustachioed man wrestling amorously with an adolescent girl. "Who the hell is that?" I asked the waiter. "That's Victor Newman and his daughter, Victoria,"...

Day of the Clarke Farm Auction.
December 1, 1994... There are days you will remember forever, markers that change the direction of your life, days like this one of the Clarke Farm Auction. Remember the plain scaredness Brian Clarke admitted later, that today, twenty years of work would be...

White solids, pink shadows.
December 1, 1994... He gets me where I'm most vulnerable, in bed, early in the morning, sucking on my breasts and sprawling all over my body. You're too heavy for me, I mumble. Get off. Move over. Lay beside me. No, he wants to do it just like this. The...