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eye WEEKLY                                            September 8 1994
Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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MEDIA HIT LIST                                          MEDIA HIT LIST

                                  by
                               GREG BOYD
postition
this week / last week

1/ BACK-ASSWARD TO THE FUTURE

NO NEWS: CBC marks the end of the silly season by shifting Peter and 
Pam back to 10 p.m. After announcing the change would take place on 
a Tuesday night, CBC brass sandbag TV critics by actually doing it on 
Monday.

2/3 LIFE OF BRIAN

SPOOKS: With only a week before a Commons committee wades into 
the CSIS/Heritage Front fray, ex-aide Brian McInnis retains his 
interview cachet as the only connection to a story whose real actors 
can't even be found. (And an apology: The infamous CSIS memo was 
not, as was implied in the List of Sept. 1, fed to The Sun. Better luck 
next time.)

3/ FREE AGAIN

INDIAN SUMMER: Davis Inlet Innu leaders repel a plan to resume 
provincial court proceedings in their dismal hometown. The RCMP 
back down as citizens trash the cop shop, blockade the airstrip and 
get back to sniffing gasoline unmolested.

4/ NUMBERS GAMES

GOD: The U.N.'s Cairo population conference begins, as Catholics and 
Muslim fellow-hardliners oppose the industrial world's preference 
that poor people not overly outnumber the rich.

5/8 JOHNSON OVERBOARD

QUELECTION: The televised leadership debate having failed to move 
voters, the thoughts of Liberals turn to a swift and merciful 
execution of their leader.

6/4 COMPANY TOWN

KOPS: Hundreds of provincial cops raid a Montreal suburb, arresting 
its entire police force and more than 100 people suspected of 
involvement with drugs, sex and contraband rackets.

7/ HOT FOR TEACHERS

KIDS THESE DAYS: It's back-to-school time, with the usual raft of 
think pieces on how to fix our ailing school system.

8/ WORLD POWER

MOSCOW CIRCUS: U.S. troops conduct manoeuvres in Russia, enraging 
patriots. Russians re-enter the Balkan imbroglio with a warning to 
the U.S. not to let the Bosnian government buy arms with which to 
kill Serbs.

9/ PISS 'N' VINEGAR

DRUGS: The Canadian Civil Liberties Association demands a court 
hearing on the Toronto Dominion Bank's plan to test the urine of job 
applicants for drug use.

10/4	EXCUSE THE SKIDMARKS

POLITENESS: Newmarket skydiving neophyte falls 10,000 feet with a 
tangled chute. She hits the ground and survives to apologize for 
giving everyone a fright.


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