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but you turned back the hands

of time while you were sleep-
ing last night.

Of the two annual daylight savings
time adjustments, autumn’s is by far
the more appealing. After all, how
else can you setually turn back time?

Daylight Savings Time came about
in the latter half of the Sixties, and
was reinforced with the onset of the
energy crisis in the early Seventies.

The original concept behind
“springing forward” on the first
Sunday in April and “falling back”
on the last Sunday in October was to
establisk some uniformity to the
four-time zones of the North
American continent.

The energy crisis a few years later
entrenched Daylight Savings Time in
our national psyche as the bi-annual

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adjustments were regarded as logical
ways to adapt the clock to the light of
day, thus buying us precious time
before we turn on the lights to beat
back darkness. Call it a clever way to
kick at the darkness till it bleeds day-
Neht.

Time as a notion is a most puz-
zling thing.

It is as abstract a notion as one can
imagine, yet without a logical mark-
ing system of time society would
grind to a screeching halt.

And while we have 25 hours to
enjoy this autumn Sunday, just
remember that in six months’ time
we'll have a 23-hour day.

So, what are you going to do with
that additional hour, that magical 60
minutes, that spare 3,600 seconds?

Afterall, time waits for no one, and
it won't wait for you.

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“She had a panicked fook on her face, a ‘please help
me’ look.”

West Vancouver's Paul Zalesky, describing the face of a
small girl in a runaway BMW. Zalesky received a special
commendation from ICBC for his bravery in rescuing her.
(From an Oct. 23 News story.)

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“If somebody could at least be aware that this has
happened. | wouldn’t care about anything else, just my
photos of my children and grandkids. The other things
are just things.”

Karen Crawford on the theft of a van containing ail of
Crawford’s worldly possessions. She was in the process of
moving from Vancouver Island to North Vancouver. (From
an Oct. 21 News story.)

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“This is the wrong development at the wrong place at
the wrong time. If adopted, council accepts a major
financial responsibility for a road and bridge for a devel-
opment that is, at best, third rate.”

Coun. Ernie Crist on the decision to rezone part of the
bare land surrounding the CanOxy chlorine plant and
realign the Dollarton Highway. (From an Oct. 21 News

story.)

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“You're lying, Mayor Be%i ... You’re trying to get
yourself out of a corner ... ‘tour interpretation skills are
as good as President Clintor’s."

Coun. Lisa Muri during the ssme CanOxy debate when
Mayor Don Bell claimed he had never intended to include
industrial land in an ongoing Seymour planning process.
(From an Oct. 21 News story.)

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“I’ve seen some of these pilots come out and their
shirts are soaked. Of course their licence is riding on it.”
Mark Hatton describing the twice-yearly pressures of
flight simulator tests on pilots. (From an Oct. 21 News

story.) .

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“CHILDREN Of A Common
Mother” reads the Peace Arch
inscription at the Blaine crossing.
Nowadays there’s more than a
little talk about

mom herself rejoin-

ing her kids.

Across the Atlantic
the heat is on for Britain
to throw in its lot —
lock, stock and barrel —
with the ever more
demanding European
Union in the !atter’s
drive to become a
“United States of
Europe,” politically as
well as economically.

Burt although Britain has been a mem-
ber in good standing of the economic
alliance for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury, it still continues, for now, to resist
surrendering to the faceless bureaucrats in
Brussels and Strasbourg three vital cle-
ments of its 1,000 years of national sover-
eignty: defence, foreign policy and cur-
rency.

So in 1999, when the rest of the EU
launches its new common currency, the
“euro,” Britain will stick until further
notice with the pound sterling.

London's independent stance on this
issue underlines the fact that Britain —
alone among the other EU countries —
has a choice for its long-term future. Its
bonds of language, culture and concepts
of democratic government are far
stronger with North America than with
any of its European neighbois.

Partly as a result, its global trade pat-

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terns also differ from theirs. And as an
Adantic nation, it lies on the geographic
edge of the mighty English-speaking
world it founded.

So instead of eventual toral submer-
sion in a still alien and
unpredictable European
federation, the welcome
mat is out for Britain to
join, as an alternative
option, the North
American Free Trade
Association (NAFTA)
— possibly then
renamed the North
Atlantic Free Trade
Association — with no
loss of British sover-
cignty.

A top promoter of this scenario is that
ultimate Anglo-North American Conrad
Black, chairman of the Telegraph Group
of prestige British newspapers and of
Southam Inc. with its Canada-wide chain
of papers, whose new national daily, The
National Post, is scheduled to make its
debut this week.

In a recent speech to Britain’s Centre
for Policy Studies in London Mr. Black
maintained Brirain is still in a strong posi-
tion to exercise its choice. Its veto night
and big current account deficit with the
EU should enable it to negotiate com-
plete reciprocal access of goods and peo-
ple with EU members while withdrawing,
from all the fatter’s political and judicial
institutions.

At the same time Britain would apply
to enter NAFTA — a move, Black pre-
dicts, that would have a very positive
response from the U.S.A.

Stressing chat U.S. policy-makers lis-

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ten to Britain more seriously than any
other country, he argues that preventing
wars in Europe ~ though a laudable EU
aim — ultimately depends on an
American presence in Europe.

He aiso fears the cultural anti-
Americanism of many Europeans could
prevent a United Europe from ever eftee-
tively sharing the burden of global {eader-
ship with the U.S.A.

In fact, he sees such a Europe as
potentially a part of world problems
rather than of their solutions.

History has no lack of supporting
material tor his viewpoint. Not least, the
nine centuries when Britain was repeated-
ly at war with one or other of today’s EU
menibers.

In size and global spread none of the
latters’ empires eve approached that of
late 19th century Britain. None gave the
world the uciversal language English is
rapidly becoming.

And across the Atlantic the world’s
undisputed leader-nation today is a living
monument to the blessings of the mother
it shares with Canada.

In short — like Mr. Black says — we
could be doing both ourselves and Britain
a favor in striving to save mom from a
bad marriage by reminding her where her
natural home lies!

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Oct. 25, to Mt. Seymour Lions birthday
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tomorrow, Oct. 26 to West Van Kiwanian
Len Roth.

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