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I prefer to think of
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» Process reaching into
our everyday’ lives

VIEWPOINT

_ Gambling on gambt

ULL SPEED ahead for Seaport Centre

Vancduver.

" ‘The.general public’s appetite for emptying

‘established;

“The ethical quéstion of whether gambling.

_e is in the best interest of those who partake of

it has already been answered by government .

in. the form of its backing of lotteries,
Many individuals have made their position
‘known by opening their wallets.”
+ Gne need onty look to the ritualistic
migratory habits of the thousands of B.C.
residents flocking south to Las Vegas and
‘Reno to confirm the hemorrhage of wayward
.tash that could be better spent here in B.C.
1, With 49% ownership of the proposed $750
‘“imillion, Vancouver harbor resort consplex in
the hands of Vegas casino giant Mirage

NEWS QUOTES OF

pockets at the behest of Lady Luck is well-”

Resorts and the balance split between VLC
Properties Ltd. B.C. at 20%, organized iabor

“at 10.5%, native Indian bands at 10% and

%.C. business and public ownership at

10.5%, provincial interests are well posi-
. tioned to'reap any benefit.

‘fhe complex will. further solidify

_,. Vancouver's burgeoning reputation as a first-

class tourist destination.

of) ¥he easina would keep a now transient

se season clientele in town lenger. Most
af Che money they spend now remains with

-the cruise companies. Benefits for the North
‘Shore, an immediate neighbor ef the pro-

posed comptex, will likely be a rise in the

dumber of tourists visiting local destinations.

It is now up to Victoria to complete a thor-
ought review of the impacts for B.C. of legal-
ized, profit-driven gambling. Public input
during the process is imperative.

THE

“Irs indescribable to see the
joy that (dying) people can have,"
Lions Gate Hospital paltiative
care staff. co-ordinator Susan
Hogman, on life and death in the
Hospital ward, (From a Feb, 28
News stary.) :
“Tt has an.effect on you when
you gojon a trip Hke that and

come back. You get kind of!

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had met the king of Norway yet,
and he said, ‘No, bat TP met the
Jamaican bobsled team.’ We
thought that was pretty good.”
Sharon Kariya. mother of Olympic
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FUN WITH figures —
specifically those of Finance
Minister Paul Martin whe
whistled past the graveyard
last week with his B-minus
budget.

B-minus because it did virtually
nothing cither to rescue Canada
from the glue nor to reduce unem-
ployment materially.

In 1994 we are promised a pal-
try $6 billion cut in the deficit -—
from its current Jevel of almost $46
billion to slightly less than $40 bil-
lion, And despite the Liberals*
much touted $6 billion job creation
program for ditch-diggers, unem-
ployment will drop by Jess than
half of-one percent next year —
from today’s 11.2% to 10.8%.

For the saoment, the good news,
of course, is that nobody got hurt
much except the military — clob-
bered with a $3.6 billion cut which
will kif] 16.500 jobs. But “for the
moment” are the operative words.

Many more of us have to hurt
quite at bit more in order to save
Canada from New Zealand's fate a
decade ago. By flinching from
much deeper spending cuts right
away, Martin, fike his Tory prede-
cessors, is merely storing up worse
pain for us down the road.

For 10 years the upbeat financial
forecasts of Michael Wilson and
Don Mazankowski never turned out
to be remotely on target. A hard:
Jook af Paul Martin’s numbers:
doesn’ Csuggest he’s any smarter,

Afler cutting the deficit by $6
billion this year, he plans to chop it
by a fucther $6 billion in 1995-96,

~ reducing it to around $33 billion. *
‘Then, for 1996-97 the plan is to

bring it down to 3% of the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) or about
$25 billion -~ which would call for
2 1996-07 GDP of roughly $833
billion, Starting with the current
GDP of just over $700 billion, this
would require an annual GDP
growth rate of some 6% angually
over the next three yours,

The average rate since 198A
(including jumps as high as [O8S's
9.7%) was 5.75%. But the average
of the past FOUR years was ortly
2.12%, with a $990 high of 3.5%,

*So go figure. Martin's delicit-
cutting to $25 bitlion’(he has no
plan beyond thay is based almost
entirely on growth in the GDP, with
minim spending cuts, Bur what
happens if 6% GDP growth ~ for
any of a whole host of valid reasons

atched ease
get pains:

HITHER AND YON’

— fails to materialize? | ;
To answer that, imagine you:

‘earn $60,000 a year,'spend $40,000 :

and now have an accumulated debt
of $250,000, rising by $20,008.

» annually, To solve.tie problem you

keep right on spending $80,000 and
pin your hopes on somehow carn-
ing $70,000 a year —- which would
cut the annual increase in your debt
to $10,000. : .
Counting unhatched chickens is
the HAPPY way to budget -~- just ---
provided you dont mind ending up
with egg all over your face! :
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95th. Many happy returns of”

tomorrow, Feb,28, to News:
Classified queen Valerie’
Stephenson ... The same again to
foriner Ambleside inn host. Willy
Brueekel, celebrating the sixth ©
uraiversary of his heart transplant .

i Aad happy Feb. 29. birthday
(make that tomorrow. or Tuesday as” fl

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