Rose – New Year’s resolutions. To the countless numbers of “ordinary” Canadians whose New Year’s resolution will be to speak up for the voiceless in 1994. Let’s hope they keep this promise and that everyone has a very happy and blessed New Year.

Thorn – Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies. For being a $28 million waste of taxpayers’ money. Among its many questionable suggestions, the report recommended that human beings be created for the sole purpose of experimentation. The report which was dogged by infighting and controversy has not pleased anyone.