A2 - Sunday, May 15, 1983 - North Shore News outside... HALIFAX - A national veterans disarmament group siad Friday Pnme Minister Trudeau's open letter on cruise missle testing m Canada was “insulting and = un- becoming.” : Veterans for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament, a Halifax- based group supported by several former ranking service officers, said in a letter of reply Trudeau's tone suggested opponents of cruise missile testing were “hypocritical, anti- American and = pro- QUEBEC - Speaking French is the “price” people must pay to hive in Quebec. Immigration Minister Gerald Godin said Thursday he wished anglophones were willing to pay it. “The only price to pay for living in Toronto is to speak English. The only price in Quebec is to speak French,” he said. Godin, responsible for the implementation of Bill 101 to protect and OTTAWA Rental housing has become more available across most of Canada and will open up further as) construction increases and famuhies use federal grants to purchase homes, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp says The Crown corporation said Thursday the national vacancy rate in April stood at 31) per cent meaning about three of every 100 rental units surveyed by CMHC were available to rent The cate was the highest OLLAWA Prime Minister Peuse Lrudeau says the Senate Could be reformed oan dramaty style before the acat cles thon Speaking to Thursday annual belore a committec” Trudeau said the poverament would hihely subset a discussion paper before Une cad of the summer to) propouac some form of clecthon to reporters foblarwinp has appearaace Commons Trudeau’'s,letter ‘insulting’ Russian.” “On the subject of hypocrisy.” the group's letter said, “we made it clear by our actions in previous wars that we are not motivated by physical fear or cowardice. “Just as we feel that those who refer to your own war record are guilty of bad manners, so we feel that you have no right to cast slurs on the moral fortitude or the patriotism of those who express concern about the direction of Canada’s policy respecting the nuclear arms race.” Paying the price in Quebec strengthen Quebec's French language and culture, has been under pressure to ease certain aspects of the language law. He had promised a legislative committee would begin = studying possible changes this fall, but earlier this week indicated in an interview that. after reading demographic reports from the 1981 census, he was not convinced of the need for amendments. Rental housing more available since October 1979 when iw reached 3.2 percent. A vacancy rate of 3 to 4 percent is considered sufficient to allow the market to work normally. CMHC said. The highest rates were in Calgary. with 134 percent, and Edmonton, 8 Y percent: Calgary has an additional 2.870 units under Construchon Edmonton 1 799 CMH tates could butiders and units high dix ourage from mew construc ton said such Starting Senate reforms coming the upper house Heo sand othe which prasgrce would be presented to the joint Senate Commons comm tltce on reform would set the governments notions of what Senate should become apasl the “We intend to show the various types of reform whach are possible and even desabic and one of the types to put) for wards the clecton of the Senatc. ~ he sand IN MUNICH, it begins to dawn on me that there is no such a person as “a German.” Rather, everybody is a hyphenated German of some kind. This is because it was out of an incredibly fertile and diverse patchwork of 75 major principahties, 51 imperial cities and 1,475 territories ruled by imperial knights that Otto von Bismarck forged the First Reich. It wasn’t all that long ago, actually: 1871. The Dominion of Canada was already four years old. One quickly learns im modern West Germany that these ancient feudal ident- ities are very much at the heart of each German you meet. The borders of Germany shift. Those of Saxony, Hesse, Westphalia and Bavana do not. Having seen this. one begins to perceive the in- credible depth of the kaleid- escope of “German” culture. Just a glimpse is daunting. | have a fnend who lived two strictly personal by Bob Hunter years in Munich and ad- mitted he had only scratched the surface of the city’s soul. But there was a moment, ane evening m Munich, when a chance to under- stand came along in the form of a young lady insisting that 1 dance at a costume party attended by more than a thousand people, on the last night of the Fasching. The festival, which ends on Ash Wednesday, had been going on for months. One would think that the local Bavarian folk would be shghtly burned out by now. 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