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for some dough to help
distribute your recipe
books, just ask the fed-
eral government. They
are also writing off
some questionable ex-
penditures of their own.

Excerpts from The Waste Report, circulated
by John Williams, MP, Ottawa

© $58,224.05 for a new image and

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neering Research Council found peo- »

ple kept referring to them.as the Na-

tional Sciences Engineering Research ©

Council. To correct’ this: ambiguity,

they decided to refer to themselves by

initials only: and. spent more than
$58,000 in doing so...
e $300,000 for Toonie Postcards: To

announce the new Nunavut. Toonie,.
“the Royal Canadian Mint mailed post-
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cards to approximately 11.5 million
households telling everyone that the
new coin is now in-circulation. .
¢ $7,500 from Canadian Heritage, in
1997, to Spirit Wrestlers Association to
- publish a book on healing songs, in-
cantations and spiritual poems.
¢ $263 for a cancelled golf trip for
the Solicitor General's office.
¢ $664 for “compensation for dam-
age to hand-made boots”, also for the
Solicitor General's department.
¢ $19,500 to the Department. of
Agriculture and Agri-Food for the loss
of sheep while under quarantine. ©
e $1,033 was reported under Public
Accounts, given to the Department of
National Defence for the loss of a “tri-
cycle with carrier basket.”
¢ This year, the DND lost “bicycle
trainer wheels” costing $825.
¢ $127,500 Millennium grant went
to the Onaping Falls Snowmobile Club
(located northwest of.Sudbury) to.
build a trail called the ‘voyageur route’
for winter touring and exploring. ~~.
“6 $70,247 went to the CAW to de-
velop a black and white photo album of
their workers involved ‘in their own -
communities.
-e $40,942 went to the Viking Sym-
-posium ‘in St: John’s Newfoundland,
where they will debate’ whether the
Vikings were the first to arrive in the

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¢ $36,509 is being spent on a 30-foot
square sundial to be on display in the
centre of Pinawa, Manitoba.

e $14,025 will be spent to print
160,000 copies ofa recipe book to be
distributed free in Manitoba.

e $25,500 for the Public Dreams So-
ciety in Vancouver to create a theatri-
cal event and to teach people how to
build fire box shrines (provided that
“the people participating promise to
protect the gift of fire, use it wisely and
share it with others.”)

e $11,249 to develop a simulated
site in Edmonton for people to dig up
imitation dinosaur: bones and. other
concrete fossils..

e $5,380 was spent to create a series
of four sets of 30 slides, 100 leaflets
and a manuscript on the history of
cranberries in Truro, Nova Scotia.

e $98,000 went to the Edimag pub-
lishing company to product the Dumb
Blonde Joke Book.

Over the past four years, the same
-company has received $279, 000 to

“publish: -

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