6 = Wednesday. September, 4,.1985: - North -Shore News

Editorial Fage

Phone reprieve’
7 ‘hatever other free enterprisers may
a Ww say, the Canadian Radio-TV and
: Felecommunications Commission

% rejection of CNCP’s bid to compete in the long

- distance telephone market is good news for
Ss many. small business operators.

>" Had CNCP competition been allowed, B.C.
of Tel. and Bell would have been forced to slash

their. own long distance rates — pact of the /

evenue from which presently subsidizes low-
cost local: phone service. The result, according
t the. CRTC, could have been a 100-200% in-

rease-in local. rates, while. ie fons. distance rates :

making : a feitgts volume of long distance-calls. —

But the: majority of small business operations

~—- the country’s biggest source of new jobs — ©

are priharity concerned with local calls. Doubl-

ing: or: trebling’ ‘their phone bills at this time. :
would, in many cases, be a savage. financial

blow. :

The: same would. | “apply. to low-income _

groups,” UI and welfare’ job-hunters, old age

pensioners, charities- and: volunteer organiza- -
tions. ‘As the.CRTC noted, some Canadians ©

‘“would no longer be able to. afford basic local
telephone service.”* ae :

The reprieve, however, is, “temporary. ‘The :
CRIC rejected only: CNCP’s current applica- -.
‘tion, but NOT the actual. concept’ of long’.
distance competition. Meanwhile, it has pass-

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NEGLECTED COMPUTERS, in case you didn’t

know, are the latest problem to afflict North
American society. —- but a bright Ontario en-
trepreneur now has an answer.

A word of “explanation
while you reach for a tissue
to dab your tears.

Of 11 million home and
business computers sold last
year in North America, it’s
estimated that some two mil-
lion have since’ spent almost
all their days unplugged and

. unused.

. There’ are ‘numerous

- reasons for this tragic .waste*

: of lovable microchips. ;
Technological: progress in
“the: computer... industry. is
roaring ahead ‘at such a clip
that, a better system often
-becomes available’ almost
before’ the - purchaser ‘has

*. unpecked_ his $2,000 . baby.

“Se instead -of loving it: for
itself, he sulks and hides it in

a cupboard.

Small wonder most per-
‘sonal. computers reportedly
_ fose 50 per cent-of. the value
: the day they leave the store.

* Then “there .are the PC
purchasers who don't‘really
_ know why they want the
thing at-all, except to keep
up with the Joneses. And
they’re not encouraged to
find out: by the typical. per-

LETTER OF

‘it’s

‘sonak computer instruction

book — which tends to read:
translation. from -

like a
Swahili by a Japanese with
Grade 2 xinglish.
Compounding’ this whole
sad ‘situation has been the
complete absence so far of
any “organized market for
‘pre-owned’? * computers.
Stores won't accept them as
trades. °
private buyers automatically
assume. they’re being taken,
Why would any computer-
owner want to. offload his
prestigious electronic. toy
unless it was a lemon? -
_Enter Brian Keenan . of
Mississauga, Ont., who went
into action last year:
A former whiz salesman
from - Sperry Univac and
IBM products, Mr. Keenan

“is founder ‘and president of
International Computer Or-:

phanage Ltd. From unhappy
computers and their owners
it’s the ‘equivalent *
worldwide used car lot.

He'll relieve you of your

“ personal white elephant on

consignment, dig ‘out some-
bod. who's just aching to
own that very model, and

ThE DAY

‘And "prospective.

‘of a.

Ease conor fat

“focus §

Noel Wright.

pay you fess commisssion)
when the deal is clinched.

Keeping to the “orphan”?

image, he describes it as fin-
ding a new ‘parent’? to
‘“tadopt’? your unwanted
baby. He'll also try to inter-
est you in ‘‘adopting’’
someone else’s discarded
computer, which might pro-
ve, for your own ‘purposes,
to be a more lovable baby
than your first.

; a oopt™ is
‘small- home computer, ‘for up ;

-to, ‘three’ years: in.ordeF’ to...

. “fi nd out how. the ‘two of you “ Z

service plan “also:

- regional ‘adoption centres’’

“computer paramedics: to. ‘ix 2
faulty - equipment . and‘
phan-ware’”. = "usable. soft-
ware to lessen the chance ‘of
the orphan being abandoned
again. Bolt co
‘There’s-no “adoption cen-

tre’ yet'in’B.C.-But-you can
write’. or call). ICO, .6711

Mississauga Road, Suite 103,

Mississauga, Ont..LSN 2W3,

phone (416) 826-7955, ‘for :
full details.© °°

So dust off that sad, ‘he .
glected. little IBM. or- Com-
modore you've treated so
rottenly and take” “fresh
heart. . .

Both of you!

Military strike breakers

- Dear Editor:

The Department of Na-
-tional Defence has developed
a new task for the members
of our armed services. They
are now: being used as pro-
fessional strike breakers at
C.F.B. Valcartier.

The members of Canada’s
Forces have .had_ consider-
able amounts of our tax
money spent on them. They
were, up to now, trained-to
look after the security (both

inside and outside) of our
country. Now it appears that

the generals have embarked ~
upon a plan that will have’

our respected and well paid
armed forces packing gro-
ceries in a store.

I for one am_ totally
disgusted at this use of our
tax money by people like
General Garlick (Director
General, Personnel Services
for the Chief of the Defence
Staff). Perhaps we should
have General Garlick, and

others involved in this
shambies, sentenced. to
scrubbing and washing the

floors (while in uniform) of’

public buildings.

The department of na-
tional defence agreed
(through its representative)
with the results of the con-
ciliation teard which recent-
ly handed down its decision
on Valcartier. The use of
highly paid members of the
armed forces to break a
strike by clerks earning $5.01
per hour is a disgrace to the

Canadian public. Surely the
Canadian. public: has the
right to protection from the
Armed Forces being misused
in this fashion...
Consider the, potential of
the military if this infringe-
ment of one’s rights is not
challenged. Please contact -
your member of Parliament
(or the Prime Minister) and
complain about the improp-
er use of the military."
Gary J. Owen
Public Servie Alliance
Prince George -

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