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its Halton Hills OUTLOOK published each Saturday by the HILLS HERALD Home Newspaper of Hills A Division of Canadian Newt papers Company Limited Georgetown Ontario 3Z6 Second CH Mall Registered Number WRITERS Brian MacLeod Cheryl P0RTS EDITOR ACCOUNTING Mike Turner Borne Pauline Miller MARKETING Sharon Rollings worth Cathy McGoqgh Beth MacGllllvary PRODUCTION Dave II Annie Oil en Mary Lou Tbeir Outlook Book review Good concept produces only soso results By ALLAN GOULD The concept la wonderful but execution is only soso The idea for one of this country major book publishers to put out annual anthology of writing in Canada The execution as seen in the Anthology 1 pages paperback edited by the experienced and talented writer John Me ten If and Leon ultimately quite unsatisfactory One would long for a more positive response because the thought of an annual anthology of Canada beat fiction poetry profiles and reviews flits one with hope and anticipation After all with most fiction costing between 20 and C5 In hardcover in this country and with so many fine poets and essayists being read by very few in any number of little magazines such as The Fid dlehead The Review and others a reasonably priced thick annual edition of prose and poetry could do wonders for our future At woods Laurences and Rlchlers and them with a wider audience they might ever dream of This sort of thing has been done before back In the Isle 19709 Doubleday published an annual col lection called Aurora It died a sad early death The editors of this new anthology had better show better and more consistent taste than they have exhibited in this collection should they hope to see The Mac Anthology I 3 and beyond EXPERIMENTS Still what Interesting ex perlmeats can be found between these soft covers 1 Short story writer Schoempcrlen has two quite fascinating entries both highly conscious but highly original One A Simple Story la anything but in ill presentation After a paragraph tells of a car accident the author then list dozen entries Describe the ex lover Jim ex lover after she does Describe the times Describe the daughter Her other story The Man of M Dreams consists of numbera paragraphs with which we plea together a failed relationship It nearly as daring and almost as sue Alas for every there are two rather dreadful failures The brilliant and gifted film critic of The Globe and Mall Jay Scott has a brief fictional entry that relics on a cheap gag and it belongs In a high school creative writing class rather than here The three stories by Vancouver Prase r are frankly quite unreadable Also disappointing when It had such marvelous potential the Darling an the University such marvelous lengthy essay by English professor at Date line of Western Ontario In London The idea once again Is better than the result Nothing less than a hatchet Job on Canadian Writing 1BBT It a fun to read a scathing attack on the highly praised critic Powe His style is a mixture of the ponderous and the elliptical and can best be described as Chatelaine edited by Margaret Atwood But alas the harsh words he has tor Is this supposed to pass or wit for Insight or informed reflection on the state of writing can be applied equally to himself All too often when Darling tries to be witty he ends up being on ly half that Between Men when reprinted In paperback will hap pily on the supermarket with the National Enquirer and the thly horoscope and go home In the same bag with the Lite Delight weight watcher dinners and the col or coordinated liners Enough Give us Insightful criticism RICHES Still the riches here must be noted The photographs of authors throughout by the great Sam Tata are richly satisfying The memoir by Sinclair Ross of his Impossible mother Is a touching and deeply felt study of The Making of an Artist Janice Kulyk Kerf profile of the brilliant writer Mavis Gallant Is both Intelligent and thought provoking and makes one long to read Gallant upcoming study of Alfred Dreyfus And best of all on actual short story by the profoundly gifted Gallant herself The Chosen Hus band with a Montreal locale and FrenchCa characters la alternately hilarious and moving Instead of praying for guidance Marie had fallen In love with one of the Greeks who were starting to move Into their port of Montreal There had never been a foreigner In the family let alone a pagan Her uncle Interrupted to remark that Greeks were usually Chrlstiani though of the wrong kind for Marie This la a remarkable abort story with an ending that will haunt the reader long after One cannot conclude discussing this uneven anthology without men tioning the fine poet Most of her poems ore very good but one of them Male Thrust If uproarious yet devastating the 1st ter In Its demolition of machi writing and macho men For poem and Gallant short alone his anthology is worth tin cost But oh how one longs of It be better and more consistent Maybe next year Allan Gcutd Is Torontobasei tooniallit and author Ills books include the cowritten Fin Stage The Making of The Festival and The Violent Years submarine Twos a Crowd Immigration By BILL BUTTLE Why not plant weed seeds and see rf they get overrun with vegetables Nickel prices skyrocket Sudbury miners demand a share of the profits A spectacular rise in spot nickel prices this spring Is posing a challenge for Ltd and Its unionized workers In Sudbury as they sit down to negotiate a new contract The old contract expires the end of the month Your Business On June IS SO the George Wash JJ each calendar day begins launched at director Mike Nichols won an Academ- Award as Best Director In 1SS7 Immigration to the United States Is Tbe limited to people per year Business Analyst Thomson News Service In the lean years of the early IBBOs Inco made a deal with its worker that when nickel prices and profit rebounded they would get a piece he action Well nickel prices have skyrocketed Spot nickel prices shot up from It a pound on the London Metal Exchange In early December to more than in first quarter The spot price Is desperate nickel users mutt pay or the commodity market for mediate delivery companies such as Inco sell most of their nickel under contract so the price they realise Is mora stable and much lower In the first quarter for example Inco realized an average of a pound for Its nickel In cluding occasional sales on the spot market UNEQUAL SHARES Workers shared In the windfall but not equally leaving some workers feeling decidedly disgruntl Some Sudbury mine managers foremen reaped a bonus of more than each thanks to the surge in nickel prices In Thompson Man miners walked away with a bonus of about ten But Sudbury miner who had struck a different deal with the company ended up with Their bonus formula had been cap ped at a realized nickel price of a pound When we took the deal three years ago our crystal ball dldn reveal til nickel Garry Patterson a union vice president said Membership Is livid Mr Patterson said We re going to get some of that profit and I don mean tied to the profitsharing have accepted flexi ble wage rates In other companies but union officials still seem un comfortable with the Idea 1 rather see an Increase on the basic wages that will hold up over the long term one union executive said But frankly the membership seems happy The Sudbury miners fed cheated understandably solution may be to ask for higher base wages or to strike a better deal on bonuses It will be Interesting to see which way Crying foul over fish Staff Comment BRIAN boiled over at the Ac ton quarry dump hearings May when several membirs of Ihe com ttee accused the proponents of try to rush through the meetings Councillor Sheldon sitting in on her meeting since they began discussing the technical aspects of the dump told Leo Logics Douglas there too much at one meet and not enough in advance Evidence of the heavy agendas was backed up by the Tact that only odors were discussed May The agenda called for dust and noise to Committee members also Ravi Dr a tonguelash for the complexity of the documents If as Ministry of the ron says these meetings ore sup posed to be on Information ex change forum then things must change How can the committee members possibly disseminate In formation to public when they con t understand the documents themselves Jim McColl drawing on his own engineering experience is becoming significant thorn In Logics wages OTHERS HAPPY The company of course Is reluc tant to raise wages In cose the nickel price rise does not stick Indeed realized prices will continue much lower than volatile spot price In a recent report Thomas Byrne analyst at McLcod Young the big Investment dealer forecast that prices to producers would average US a pound this year compared with In 1987 this could rise to about a pound In But and Its workers face a further test The Sudbury mine workers with the price cap are unhappy with the bonus scheme but everyone else seems to like tbe Idea side He says he works with the con Logic using and re perfectly capable of putting the Information In laymen terms In our system of free enterprise RSI has every right to attempt to use thdr land for a dump But they ve got to convince everyone involved that It sale They put their Intentions under suspicion right from he start In the eyes of the public when they first an nounced that the public tlon meetings were not going to be open to the press or the public Logic seems to want the meetings to wrap up in October Some people arc anticipating an lor the dump shortly reafter But after the May meeting one message seems clear residents are need many more meetings the nine remaining on the schedule before Ihey re satisfied Regional councillors are crying foul now that have to look at the effects of urban growth on fish in Halton streams and rivers The Ministry of Natural Resources has developed a new fisheries manage ment plan which Includes sport flsfamg and new salmon In Credit River The ministry has major con cerns about Georgetown growth end Its effects on the Credit It not fair to start throwing fish Into the equation now say Regional councillors Why not Call it bureaucracy but that a why tbe task of conservation falls into the hands of government Moat private firms wouldn give a inker a damn about fish In Credit Its to the MNRb credit thai they re at least thinking about the of growth on the environment Councillors should stop pouting and get on with proving their case for urban grow