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eye WEEKLY                                           September 15 1994
Toronto's arts newspaper                      .....free every Thursday
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MEDIA HIT LIST                                          MEDIA HIT LIST

                            VOTES AND NOTES

                                  by
                               GREG BOYD

List rating
this week/last week

1/9	OFFSIDE

Qu�lection: Victorious Parizeau gleefully announces the start of the 
third period of the great independence hockey game. Everyone else 
nods indulgently and switches to Murphy Brown.

2/	STEAMED HEAT

Bernardo/Teale: The Toronto Sun gets its mitts on Karla Homolka's 
letters. Paul Teale's lawyer quits, raising the likelihood of an even 
longer wait for his trial.

3/	RINGSIDE SEATS

Pax Americana: The Cuban raft exodus slows as crowding in boat 
people camps worsens. There are now 17 nations signed up to watch 
first-hand while U.S. forces beat the hell out of Haiti's 7,000-strong 
army, sometime real soon.

4/	DOOR-TO-DOOR CANVASSING

Glitter: Bob Rae attends the moneyed elite's event of the year, the 
opening party for the Barnes Collection at the AGO. It's "the official 
end of the recession," he crows.

5/2	BOOMTIMES

Civics: Metro Councillor Kay Gardner gets a bomb in the mail. No one 
can say who wants to kill the ineffectual pol.

6/	STRONG MEDICINE

Greed: Maurice Strong quits his $425,000 a year job as CEO of 
Ontario Hydro, but will stay on as chairman of the board for $1 a 
year. At last, hydro bill payers will get what they pay for.

7/5	NAME CHECKS

Kops: Hearing resumes into accusation that Metro officers strip-
searched Audrey Smith on a street corner. The cops' lawyer 
harrumphs that "Audrey Smith" appears 17 times in police files, a 
fact seized on by enforcement lapdog Christie Blatchford. There are 
211 entries for "A Smith" in the Metro phone book.

8/4	RETURN TO SENDER

Spooks: Bad news for the CBC's report that CSIS spied on postal 
workers, as high-profile whistle-blower Brian McInnis says there 
was no such operation.

9/	HOISTING THE STANDARDS

True North: American environmental agency suggests there's no safe 
level of exposure to dioxin, a substance deemed tolerable in tiny 
amounts by our pulp-and-paper-happy bureaucrats. The Canadian Red 
Cross gets a tongue-lashing from U.S. blood authorities, who 
pronounce our blood supply tainted by mismanagement.

10/2	OUR TOWN

Kids these days: On a Sunday night in two different parts of Toronto, 
two different Calgarians are shot. This List would like to point out 
that it hasn't been to a Flames game since 1992.


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