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Lda LE et rr os ci tak Ame Rr CORRES 16 -- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, July 4, 1990 Oshawa by-election crucial to COR Party From Page 15 (in Canada) which are diametri- cally opposite to each other," said Knutson. "Somebody has to stand up on the Quebec border facing east and shout we want one offi- cial language for Canada, and not be called a red-neck for do- ingso," he stated. COR wants to see a Triple E Senate (i.e., elected, equal and effective) and some checks and balances on the party in power, especially when that party has a large majority. utson, who declined to reveal his age, other than to say he's a grandfather nine times, began his crusade for change in the mid 70's. He had worked for both Liberal and Conservative Par- ties in the past, but by 1976, "1 started to see that this country was going to hell on a tobag- He says Canada was losing its democratic form of govern- ment, and "silence was con- sent." He started writing letters to newspapers, and then orga- nized the Western Federation, which he hoped would result in a co-alition of the western prov- inces to increase their power in Ottawa. . By 1984, he had formed the COR Party, and a following in Cou "Silence is a powerful weapon." ntry Lane Hwy 7A & High Street. Port Perry, Ontario id dd a Ly ese. 7 755 Compact ~Join the John Deere m No matter what your needs, you'll come out a winner with any of the John Deere diesel compact utility tractors. They're packed with power and fea- tures you're looking for without sacrificing John Deere's legendary quality. See the John Deere diesel line-up today. 855 Compact Utility Tractor 4 Sr Utility Tractor 1) 4 Utility Tractor i Nothing Runs Like a Deere® "Financing as low as 6.5% for 2 years OR Interest Free for 9 Months." western Canada. Since then, the Party has organized in both Ontario and New Brunswick, claiming near- ly 50,000 members. In the 1988 federal elec- tion, there were 13 COR candi- foiae in Ontario, none success- "We came second in several ridings. And in some we man- aged to get enough votes to de- feat the favourite," said Knut- son. He said that everywhere he goes people say to him "the country needs a new political party, a new direction." And that's why he feels it is so crucial to the party fortunes to field a strong, credible candi- date in the Oshawa by-election this August. Over the past 15 years, Knutson says he has spent $300,000 of his own money working and organizing. He's a wealthy man, having made his fortune in car dealer- ships, heavy machinery and in- vestments in Saskatchewan and Alberta. And he's a private man who shies away from talking about his accomplishments in private and publiclife. ~ 955 Compact 2 Miles West of Manchester uh AAG a SAW nb UTICA FARM EQUIPMENT LIMITED 985-9701 A Hl 34330 NHOfP He concedes that at his age, he should be spending his sum- mers on the golf course and his - winters in Florida, but he's driv- en by his political mission. He left Oshawa last Friday to return home to Edmonton, disappointed at not being able to line up a candidate for the by- election. But he said hell be back and the party will field a candi- date on August 13. "I gave myself an assign- ment 16 years ago to organize a party that would represent the rights of English (speaking) Canada," he said. Cattle diseas BSE confined to Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a new- ly (1985) recognized disease of cattle in the U.K. The disease is also referred to in the popular press as 'mad cow syndrome." This is a misnomer because af- fected cows do not go mad. It should be stressed that BSE has not been diagnosed outside the U.K. and the Republic of Ireland, with the exception of two cows in Oman that were imported from Britain. There is a ban on import of live cattle, beef and feeds containing animal products of British origin into Canada. The cause of BSE is a virus-like agent called a "prion" or "virino,'"' and it is similar to the agent that causes scrapie in sheep. The agent cannot be cultivated in the laboratory. There is not evidence of natural transmission of the BSE agent between cattle or to other species of domestic animals. The agent has been transmitted under ex- perimental conditions, using in- fected brains from cases of BSE, to mice and other cattle. Cattle affected with BSE show the following clinical signs. In- itially, they are nervous, have muscle twitching, and unsteady gait and lose weight or milk pro- g Please recycle | this newspaper United Kingdom duction. This is followed by pro- gressive incoordination, anxious disposition and excessive responses to any type of stimulus, e.g. noise or touch. These signs may progress over a period of weeks to months. Eventually, most affected cows become recumbent. The most likely. explanation, but not the only explanation, for the appearance of BSE in the U.K. is that recent changes in the preparation of animal feeds resulted in exposure of cattle through feed. Some workers sug- gested that tissues from scrapie- infected sheep contaminated high-protein feed supplements that were fed to cattle. Before BSE was recognized in cattle, a similar disease called scrapie had been known in sheep for centuries. There is no evidence that the scrapie agent is transmissible to man by an means including by eating lamb or mutton. Sporadic cases of scrapie occur in sheep in Ontario. Provisions are in place, under Agriculture Canada regulations, for the destruction of high-risk scrapie-infected sheep flocks. 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