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the funny thing is that as kids we always just called it House of Frankenstein, i dont think any of us ever did realize or notice that it was actually frightenstien , at least i didnt till just now. thanks for pointing it out. my cousin was on the tiny talent time when she was a very small kid, it was a big deal to the family that one of our relatives got to go on tv. That show even though it may have looked very armature with all those kids performing was great local community programing and made alot of local kids feel like stars and their families and classmates proud of them. very sorry guyser to hear of your friends passing.

just for laughs gags - although its kinda a like the old candid camera show, i still think it comes up with some real funny and unique ideas for that genre ..

which do you think were the best Canadian made TV shows. your can pick which show you liked for different category such as music show, comedy show, action adventure, drama, family etc.. or just generally say what ever show or shows one you thought were the best Canadian made TV shows.. Beachcombers - i hated it when if first came out , but later it grew on me and I became a big fan, Last of the mohicans - great canadiana action show that i watched as a child, The Shulman File - was a great hard hitting current affair discussion show fifth estate - used to be a great show once W5 - used to also be a great show at one time nature of things - great documentary well done. hilarious house of Frankenstein - another that i watched as a kid , it was so weird and different, from everything else TVO's Studio Two - was a great mix of local and foriegn affairs, changed to Agenda and lost its appeal. this hour has 22 minutes - great comedy writing. .

Mod Squad ,,,, again great brass horns The Prisoner...was great too,,,and it had brass horns too http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBvc84J_F2E alot of those old tv show themes had great horn sections in the mix. As a kid i can recall the animal show themes that i liked Flipper littlest hobo

to add a slightly similar tidbit to the main topic, think i recall a few years back in Italy that a developer wanted to build on a piece of land that was protected by the Italian government for environmental or endangered species reasons. The news segment said that the developer went in and set fire to all the land when nobody was looking, if i recall it ended up being quite a large fire too. .

your rebuttals are good for the most , i wont challenge them as I agree with them as well to a degree. So perhaps full online direct democracy is an extreme and it too can be in some situations a very unfair way of trying to be fair, yet on the other hand to leave the decision making for many thousands of people in the hands of one elected or appointed individual who may or may not be honest is also an extremely flawed system,,,,I really do think its time especially with the internet present to try and work on a blend of both ways. so that perhaps the individual can be better kept honest, while the voice/opinion of the public can be better heard and acknowledged by the government and the rest of the public... let me give an example of what i mean by visibly acknowledging the public , We had a councilor in our region who used to never return phone calls to answer concerns/complaints from the residents but no body knew or had any way of knowing this was happening.. There arose an issue in the community, but each person in the community just thought that it was only themself who was concerned about the issue. Each person(great many of them) phoned the councilor to complain about that issue but never got a reply from the councilor. And so they just thought that only they had phoned and that it was just them self who were not getting a reply well time went by then something happened in the community and the community all came together at a meeting over a whole new separate issue altogether. When they came together they also began to talk to each other about that older past issue , and low and behold they all found out that they had all been calling the councilor about that same past issue and that nobody was getting any return calls back from the councilor,,,an entire community was being ignored by a delinquent councilor and nobody would have ever found out if not but for a separate tragedy that had brought the entire community together at a meeting where they could talk and share information. Now if their were a place online that people could post their complaints/requests/worries to the councilor or other branches of the government so that all the other citizens could also see it posted too then that would be a form of highly visible acknowledgment. The government and the public could openly view all the concerns in the community so there would be no excuse if an issue was of high concern to the public to go unaddressed one way or another... that may be one form of very basic transparency, simply to publicly acknowledge the concerns of the individual citizens and or the entire community and make their concerns visible and in public record via the net.

Having others eg "politicians" make decisions for us ? ... hmmmm IF we had direct democracy such as internet referendum for the masses then .... - Powerful Building developers might no longer be able to back and fund candidates at election time in order to get preferential treatment and their projects passed at city hall if the masses who cant be paid off have a say in passing that project. - Wasting Tax money on consulting firm studies/polls/surveys to find out what the public want might not be needed anymore. - Politicians might no longer be able to give sweet government contracts to their cousin Vinny from Jersey anymore. - the Public might actually have a say in what sidewalks on their street get repaired , instead of some lazy kickback city supervisor ordering his buddy's construction company to dig up all the good sidewalks (twice in some cases) and billing the public while never repairing the ones that are actually cracked and in need of repair. - the royal Ontario museum may have never been internationally voted as one of the top ten UGLIEST buildings in the world if the canadian public had a say in what is should look like.,,,Letting a fuel company sucker a northern canadian city into building a glass structure thats gonna cost the tax payers an arm and a leg to heat during our canadian winters, not likely if there was a referendum...canadians have been getting stung by rising cost of heating a home in the winter for some time now, so its not likely they would have voted in a referendum to waste their taxes on heating a glass house through a canadian winter...good move on behalf the fuel company.. - THEN POLITICIANS WOULD NO LONGER BE ABLE TO VOTE THEMSELVES A RAISE IN PAY IF THE PUBLIC HAD THE ABILITY TO HAVE A DIRECT SAY ON THE MATTER...and that is probably the main reason why no politician or government employee is ever gonna want to bring up the topic of Direct democracy...ever! will we the public be given the chance to vote in a online referendum on whether or not a politician can take his secretary out for a 250 dollar lunch or not ? .... LOL... which beckons the question what should we consider too small to justify having a referendum on,,,Yet enough of these "250" lunches and it certainly adds up especially if all the politicians are or have been doing it to some degree,,, the key is a mix of online transparency , referendum, and the ability of the public to have direct visible say on the issues.. direct say means that their voices/opinions on the matter are heard and recorded online for all to see, so that combined with online referendums and alot more transparency/account might be a way to get it to work ???...,,,maybe? cheers.

I have been hearing that Joe has been trying to get some sort of project passed downtown which could increase the value of land that he or his family own in that same area. And that city council has been refusing to give the OK for the project, and so thats why joe is trying to run so he can maybe as mayor put pressure on the rest of city council to finally approve the project when it comes before city council one last time before it is killed.... has anyone else heard this and exactly what project are they talking about that joe has been trying to get passed ..? and if there really is such a project then does he or his family actually own land or property downtown near it ? .