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The Sunday Edition
In the 1960's,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], an Ontario government film called One on Every Street was shown regularly to parents of intellectually disabled children. The goal was to reassure them and to persuade parents that committing their children to the care of an institution for the mentally retarded,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as these children were known, was the best thing they could do.
Their children would be well cared for,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
The children who grew up in those institions are middle aged men and women now and they are looking for recompense,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. They have launched class action law suits against the province of Ontario.
They are asking for 3 billion dollars in damages to be split among 12,000 former residents and their families.
This is the largest legal action on behalf of the intellectually disabled every undertaken in Canada.
It started with two women,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Patsy Seth and Marie Slark.
Today they live - independently - in down town Toronto but they grew up at Huronia,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the oldest and biggest Ontario instittution for the intellectually impaired,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in Orillia a couple of hours north of Toronto.
Here is David Gutnick's documentary "The Gristle in the Stew ,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
And out of it comes such grace.
There are many things that are important to a ballerina, but probably nothing more than her shoes, her pink pointe shoes.
Legend has it that 19th century sensation Maria Taglioni was the first to throw away her slippers and leap and land on the much tougher pointe shoe that now rules ballet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. After she danced her last dance in glamorous St. The shelves are crammed from floor to ceiling with thousands of pairs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
And there's a keeper, a watcher, a guardian of the shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there to make sure that every single pair is exactly right for the dancers who depend on them. Lorna Geddes knows shoes and she knows feet. Here is "On Their Toes."
There is a business monopoly in this country unlike any other.
It centres around fine workmanship, tiny bottles of decorative paints and hard working, usually glamorous,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], women.
I am talking about nail salons. Nail salons that have popped up in every mall in the country,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], many of them run by Vietnamese women.
The domination of the Vietnamese in the nail business started back in the mid 70's when Hollywood actress Tippi Hedren befriended 20 women in a refugee tent city in California. She brought in her manicurist to teach them the business. Today, 80% of California nail technicians,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as they're known,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], are of Vietnamese heritage.
It's much the same in Canada.
Take Lavish nail salon on Whyte Avenue in Edmonton. It had its grand opening a few weeks ago. There are five brown shiny leatherette massaging pedicure chairs with built in stereos, rows of nail tables, a potted orchid on the front desk. Everything about the place is - well - lavish. But a regular manicure is only 20 dollars.
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