t 1 r rio -_ 4 GOOD OLD Manitoba can atways be counted on, jusi as |. you've decided again that it doesn’t really exist, to rekindle; a sense of Canada as an exciting country, after all. By ex- citing, of course, I mean weird. There is a ayjality ofa : Wagnerian opera about that pro- vince’s ‘polities Talk about theatre! A disgruntled NDP Member of, Yarliament brings: down his own government ata time when’ the Manitoba New Democrat's are:so low in the polls they don’ ‘have a chance, barrine a miracle, ().win an election. Howard: Pawley inakes the dramatic geilure of resigning as leader, rather than face certain defeat at’ the polls. By his nobility — some would say his craftiness — he offers his party a slim chance of picking a dynamic new leader to fend off the resurgent Tories. Ehappen tw have grown up in St. Vilal, the riding that elected the NOP traitor, and i think J can , waiderstand the type of character who would do such a thing. St/Vital i is a mixed working- to- -tniddie-class district with a few ipockets of wealth. Louis Riel is evered as the original citizen. A - ittle hut where he once lived serves °?/as a shrine. Although the fields used to cross to get from home to school - have,tong since been covered over with lsuburbs, there is apparently one thing about St. Vital that has _ hot changed: it breeds a peculiar, sense of independence. 4 / thas to do with the isolation: ", All Canadian cities are isolated, ~ ‘-but on the Prairies you can sec the - * distances, see the emptiness — and © 80 you feel it in a way you don’t © where there are mountains or forests in the way. , ‘ it also has to do with having entered provincehood by means of *, a rebellion — probably the same sort of thing the Yukon and the Northwest, Territories will have to . ‘do now if they ever expect to gain: full eee in Confederation, “1 Walk for ak - Africa short of having to sell their souls to the cabal of southern provinces that has seized control of their fate. A federal-provincial structure, | just to keep this point in mind, means a dual citizenship, or, better. yet, a double citizenship, a system of checks and balances. i oo T.. are many industries — L, movies and publishing industries not least among thern — that hate the idea of free trade, and it is always barely possible that a strengthening of Manitoba's position in favor of free trade might just make the difference when the crunch comes next autumn,’ SEER It:pits the powers above us against cach other, making cach of us slightly frezr in the political sens¢, even if it does mean suppor- ting a double bureaucratic burden and therefore more taxes, ’ Not to make too fine'a point of — it, but there i is such a thing. as spirit of place, and the outragcous renegade MP from St. Vital per- sonifies that beautifully, I think. That he toppled his own gov- ernment) makes perfect sense. He stared at the horizon too long and forgot that he belonged to anything. Something like that. A | syndrome, at any rate, The St. Vital Syndrome. i _ Besides, maybe he’s done the ; world a favor, = There are many industries — the movie and publishing industries ’ not least among them — that hate’ THE MAYORS? Walk for Africa is fast approaching. . Sponsored by 21 Greaver Van- " couver Regional District mayors, _including’ North Vancouver City 3 » Mayor. ‘Jack Loucks, North Van-~ -couver’ District : Mayor * Marilyn . Baker, | “West Vancouver . District Mayor Don; Lanskail “and Lions ‘Bay Mayor Gordon Prescott, the - i May.7 walk! will help raise money ~ for the over six million people in Africa faced with starvation. '. Pledge. forms are~- available ‘at schools, ‘libraries, communities centres, municipal halls and, from May . 1:to'7, at local Safeway ‘stores.’ | Walk registration begins at 7 a.m. ‘the day of the walk at the Ik Plaza of Nations onthe old Expo | "86 site. . Participants . have the choice of “walking a: five or 20-kilometre ® -Foute. .. 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