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CARDIFF, WALES —- Fanatical Cambridge United football team supporter Steve Gulley holds the team so dear to his heart, De Morgen reports, that he named his daughter after the club. Steve's newborn daughter has 16 names, each representing an intial of the football club: Carmel Anita Margaret Bridget Rebecca Irene Deidre Gaynor Evelyn Una Nicky isobel Terry Erica Davina.

A surprise the proud papa left for the babe's mother was inform- ing her of his choice of name. “It'll be a nice surprise for her when she gets out of the hospital.” he said,

Chino, California — Pilot Bob Martin’s World War I] vintage fighter plane recently developed engine trouble shortly after take- off, but the veteran aviator man- aged a soft landing from which he walked away with only bruises. The plane landed belly first in a 9-inch- deep bed of manure at a dairy farm about a half-mile from the runway.

The Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museums recently staged a contest to find the world’s largest hairball, with more than 300 being submit- ted, mostly from meat-processing piant personnel. The winning hair- ball was 84 cm (33 in.) in circum- ference. However, the Ripley’s people then discovered that the Finney County Historical Society Museum in Garden City, Kansas, had one that measured 94 cm (37 in.) but refused to part with it.

London, England — The Independent recently reported that Michael Sladek, who has a pen- chant for the night-life, spent one night too many on the town with his friends.

While he was sleeping, wife Dianne melted five candies and poured the hot wax over Michael’s privates. A painfully penitent

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At a recent Cable News Network (CNN) conference panel on “The Impact of TV on Indigenous People,” the Ted Turner-owned World Champion- ship Wrestling organization, whose TV programs are beamed worid- wide on Turner stations, was criti- cized by a Malaysian tribal spokesman. “Our value system has

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Medical Post magazine reported in March that Dr. Tariq Ahmed Mian, a British citizen educated in Pakistan, has been turned down for more than 1,000 hospital jobs in Great Britain.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -— Donita Jo Artis, 24, recently told prosecutors and the judge, after being denied custody of her threc- year-old son and sentenced to prison for beating him until he was blind, deaf and unable to walk: “You guys are so unfair."

Lyons, France — A French court has banned a 14-year-old babysitter from minding children after she inflicted an outrageous punishment on them. Babysitter Nicole Defereux, Le Soir reported recently, put her five and three- year-old charges into a tumble- dryer and gave them “a few spins” after she caught them misbehaving.

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SANTA FE AND QUEBEC IMMIGRATION

In April | wrote about the Canada/USA Parliamentary Association meeting to be held in Santa Fe in May and explained why | thought it was important that | attend. | received many calls ancl latters saying that | should go with only one call against the trip.

Having received positive voter input | prepared the required brief for Caucus to justify the trip in terms of cost and benefit to taxpayers. (Other parties automatically send MPs on trips at your expense. The Liberals sent 9 to Santa Fe, the Bloc sent 4)

However, about three weeks before departure MT&T convinced me to run the referendum on the Young Offenders Act with the result that | had to cancel the USA trip. Luckily Charlie Penson, MP for Peace River, agreed to go in my place.

Charlie has since filed his report confirming that other MPs tried to tell the Senators and Congressmen that Reform was a regional party with no desire to become the Government. He was able to dispel that myth while devetoping firm relationships with a number of the USA representatives.

There is absolutely no doubt that the trip helped a large group of Senators and Congressmen to bet- ter understand Reform and how the desires of Western voters fit into the federal scene. The fact that | was willing to turn the trip over to Charlie proves that it was definitely not a travel “junket”.

{MMIGRATION TO QUEBEC

Quebec recently announced that it will restrict immigration to 40,000 this year, well below the 62,500 mentioned in a Quebec-Ottawa

arrangement that allows Quebec to determine its own immigration lev- als.

Quebec Immigration Minister John Ciaccis said the lower target reflects a shortage of jobs and diffi- culties Integreting immigrants into the French culture. There have bean mounting complaints trom naiionalists in Montreal that French is threatened by large num- bers of non-francophones. The nationalists are demanding tough laws to force immigrants not only to speak French but to “tive in French’.

There seems to be a double standard here. Quebec can restrict immigration based on job avaitabill- ty and the integration of immigrants

~ into francophone society. But every

time we suggest to Sergio Marchi, Minister of immigration, that immi- gration to the rest of Canada should bs based on the same principles he aecuses us of being racists.

Meanwhils the federal Minister for the Asia Pacific Rim, Raymond Chan, addressing a conference on multiculturalism said that Vancouver's Chinese community of 250,000 is becoming efficient and self sustalning. They have three Chinese newspapers, two radio and two TV stations and “you can sur- vive and prosper without speaking a word of English.” (Globe and Mail April 16/94).

My wife and i had to earn the right to immigrate to Canada in 1979. We had to speak one of the two official languages and agree not to claitn Ul or welfare for five years. We came here ready to i-te- grate and to work hard to become Canadian. is it too much to ask for similar commitments from today's immigrants?