... and an hour by street-car whatnot each way and ah organized um various union, left-wing meetings, groups ... with them, around the community, very active in the community affairs, as was my brother and ...

... I feel like I got a very good, um, grounding in, if not science-journalism, at least medical- journalism, because I have things now, I have knowledge now, that I can fall back-on when- in- in the job that I 'm in right now, which is public-affairs but I 'm specifically media relations, but it 's specifically about science and technology, because I knew I had to stay in something that had to do with science or else I 'd just get bored.

... the S-C-M is the student-Christian-movement and they theoretically are both Christian but the V-C-F is a more fundamentalist group and the S-C-M is a more radical political sort-of orientated group. It still exists, it 's more interested in religion and current affairs or religion and- and people or- or dealing with you-know jobs and- and- and Christianity or whatever ...

... we 've known Jack for a long time so, anyway we- if we ever- if he ever gets to be prime-minister then we 'll know the Prime-Minister of Canada, anyway so we 're into politics and we 're into sort-of local community affairs. My husband was the president of the local resident's- association twice in the seventies and we are still involved in- actually right now the issue is the expansion of that private school down the street and they want to build in their whole open area.

And I found all the cu-- extra-curriculars self-perpetuating in that they didn 't have like the Red-Cross and- and- let 's say Habitat-for-Humanity, or anything outside of what the school needed. It was all like religious-affairs-committee and- you know spirit-committee, so it was all very internal.

I- I was the co-chair of the religious-affairs-committee in grade-nine. Um, I got trained as a peer-counsellor. Um, I don't think I actually did much peer-counselling. But I got trained and it was a very worthwhile experience.

Speaker: Oh we did a lot of skipping, played a lot of tag, played with alleys. Interviewer: Played with alleys? What does it- sorry I don 't understand? Speaker: Marbles, you-know?

I don't think (inc) parents were overly strict. Trust me (inc) and they weren 't afraid to put a boot on your arse.

You know how many times (inc) his boot right down me arse. You-know?

And it was a half-a-dozen apartment type apartment building with some unusual architecture to it. It had a little uh cone-shaped section built out on one corner of it and it was a three level apartment building. It was kind-of fun. It had the old ah, ah auger electric power system, coal fire, hot water system and the- had a coal bin in- in the basement where ah they brought the fuel in and dumped it in the window and filled up this coal bin and- and then the heating had to be stoked and shoveled ...

Speaker: It was so normal to go "Oh well that one, one guy died, and that one, oh two guys died, and-" Interviewer: right Speaker: just seemed to be ah the casualty rate seem to be- now that I look back on it, seem to be awfully high. People were- there guys were dying, the workers, you-know

Interviewer: What do you think of an American figure having that much impact on the Canadian culture? Speaker: Well, we are awfully close to the U-S and um, Canada tends to favour Democratic presidents so, there was a relationship there.

Interviewer: Yeah. Is that- is there any other significant job that you 've held that you feel is something that you 've- Speaker: I used to work for Admiral, that 's how I ended up at Chrysler. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I worked there for six years, and then uh, went belly up.

Like mine, in regards to London, as where someone smaller thinks that- thinks London's like big-time. And I mean, I guess in a way that can turn you into a bit of a snob, and maybe that's what they mean, but I don't know.

We were like I suppose girlfriend and boyfriend. Like what does that even mean? And then my best friend stole him. Wait a minute. Yeah. big-time, okay.

It was like the worst thing ever. It was like death. Yeah. That 's where you have your problem. big-time problem. Not-to-mention I have obsessive-compulsive- disorder which only happens when I 'm in my house.

But what, what is really really upsetting me is urban-sprawl. Is- it 's out- of-control big-time.

Interviewer: Hide-and-go-seek. Those were the games. Speaker: Yeah. That was like- that was big-time.

And he offered me eighty dollars a week. So- so I- now I 'm in the big-time. And I says, "Okay." And I went and did that job and I told the- the- the guy, "I'm ah not going" to be here.

Interviewer: Did they have fun? Speaker: Yeah, yeah. They say- 'cause they 're big time fucking chronic pot-heads right so they 're fucking loving it.