6 — Sunday, June 21, 1998 ~ North Shore News HE Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows bridge. That’s a mouthful. It takes about the same amount of time to say it as it does to cross the six-lane _ causeway connecting the North Shore to Vancouver. Which is precisely the reason so few people use the four-year-cld name when referring to the Second Narrows crossing. -.Then-premier Mike Harcourt offi- cially dedicated the wordy name to the bridge in 1994, and ever since then the relatives of the 23 men who lost their lives in the tragic collapse of the span back in 1958 have voiced ‘their. concern. over. the apparent ’ reluctance of people to use the new “name. This reluctance is borne more north shore news VIEWPOINT Name refrain er, than from any disrespect for the memorial name. For 36 years the bridge had a name that made sense to us all — geo- graphic-based monikers always do. Had the bridge been named the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge when it was opened back in the 50s — as it should have been ~— no doubt today it would go by some shortened form of that name. The Ironworkers Bridge. Memorial Bridge. Who knows, maybe even Second Narrows bridge. The simple fact is we like to use short names when describing things like bridges (one would guess map makers also like brevity). The new name, though perhaps appropriate, is just too long. HOW DO YOU FIND THE DEFENDENT? 18 RETROSPECT, os WERE HINTS THAT MEMEBERS OF - from familiarity and brevity, howev- You said it Tr’ S been a circus. it has no bearing on the justice raser F University criminologist Neil Boyd, on illian Guess trial. (From a June 17 News story.) ,O00 ¢ judge started looking good.” Gueis,in' preliminary. proceedings last year ‘ing her. attraction to Peter Gill after she had been involved in six x months’ of j jury duty. (Fr om a June 17 News Story.) doo “. Guess to be a victim, that would require you to turn athe : dictionary upside down; you’d have to amplify it, mod- fy it, just to describe her (Guess) as a victim — it dimin- ishés: the. Plight of real ‘victims (to suggest Guess is ‘ one): 7 a v ‘ator. Joe Bellow, during his summation in “the Gillian Guess obstriiction of j justice trial. (From a June 19 News story. . ; Lit just t saat up the river bottom. It (the wate) was so-biack’ you didn’t know if | ‘you were swim- ming up or ‘down.”. 7. The tu boat guys were screaming, literally scream- ing: ‘It’s fi pbos it’s falling on us.’ ” 5 North Vancouver inventor Phil Nuytten, who helped in _...the rescue. operation in the aftermath of the Second Narrows - collap (From a June i7 News ore) _ you knew Anne, you knew when she was onto : something, All of her sails were up and her gunports were Pon Davis’ describing, the determined look of Anne Macdonald as she marched into his office to begin the crusade ‘for a public municipal golf course in Northlands. (From a June 7 if News Ory, ) f north shore orth Shore Nears, founded ia 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualifisd undet Schedule 111. Paragraph 111 of the Exowse Tax Act, es guokshed each Wednesday, farday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press. Ltd and distributed to every door on the North ‘Suore Canada Post Canadran Pudticabons Mad ‘Sales Product Agreement No 0087238 Pn donsthan Bell Creative Services Manager 985-2131 (127) 61 582 (average ciresation, Wednesday, Frtay & Sunday) Distribution Manager 986-1337 (124) THE JURY MAY Nor HAVE BEEN ADEQUATELY INSTRUCTED... Grits never learn about the V sei BY going ballistic over Preston Manning’s warning that the native land claims mess is cost- ing B.C. millions, Indian Affairs Minister Jane Stewart proved herself a true Grit. That’s Grit as in Orttawa-based, Chretien- mode! Grit, for whom everything in Canada that matters stops at the Manitoba border. Chretien-model Grits exist, breathe and oper- ate for only two reasons: to obey their prime minister and to get re-elected. Hence, Ms Stewart's unquestioning acceptance of the Supreme Court’s Delgamuukw ruling last December, which has thrown the whole treaty-mak- ing process in B.C. into chaos. The ruling lays. down that, where aboriginal title is “proven,” natives are entitled to complete use and occupation of the land in question. And morcover, that title may be “proven” by purely oral history, handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth. No documentation needed. Since there are 51 land-claim cases presently pending in B.C. — and since, thanks to numerous overlaps, they cover some 110% of the total B.C. land mass — it hardly takes a rocket scientist to understand Manning’s alarm, ler alone that of many British Columbians. Dependent on how the settlements were eventually reached (land, cash or a mix), PETER SPECK Publisher 985-2131 (tot) 985-2131 (177) “Terry Peters. ” val Photography Manager 985-2131 (760) 985-231 (133) erie Stephenson Classitied Manager 985-6222 (202) Entire contents © 1997 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. a potential taxpayer liability of tens of billions of dollars is looming, if the Supreme Court decision stands. Meanwhile, there’s a more immedi- ately pressing concern. Because of the prolonged uncertainty created by the court over eventual owner- ship of B.C.'s natural resources and Crown lands —~ not to men- tion the lot on which your neat fittle North Shore rancher stands — investment in B.C. is now indefinitely on hold. Who wants to sink a single buck into something they’ve no guarantee of owning? Nor could all this have come about at a worse time. The deepening Asian eco- nomic crisis is sending investment worth billions of bucks fleecing from that region in search of safe havens — the safest of all, of course, being the U.S. and its dol- lar. Hence the collapse of our own loonie. And in the resultant unfavorable situation for Canada as a whole, the Delgamuukw ruling hanging over B.C."s head today makes this province, invest- ment-wise, the basket case of the nation. Manning’ s solution is for Parliament, the nation’s ultimate court, to pass legis- lation modifving the native rights pro- claimed by the Supreme Court — other- wise, he told the Commons, the impact of that ruling is “big cnough to literally cripple the. British Columbia economy.” This was the common-sense proposal thar sent Ms Stewart into orbit, howling LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters must include your name, - full address & telephone numbers. VIA e-mail: trenshaw @ direct.ca Timothy Renshaw Managing Editor 985-2131 (116) Doug Foot Comptroller Trix] Ayrios Promotions Manager 985-213 (218) Gait Snetgrove General Office Manager - 985-2131 {105) lnternet- http://www. Nsnews.con “preposterous!” Ata press confe nee Manning also warned that Delgamuukw Je could spark a federal-provincial crisis, : over use and ownership of resources — * now a provincial jurisdiction — and thus: | become * a serious threat to national oy unity.” ; The root of the problem i is clearly th ongoing failure of the Ontario/Que based Liberals to give a damn about western Canada, least of-all B. C. For’, Chretien and his acolytes the nation scill consists of “Upper” and “Lower"““ Canada, where the prime minister atené. picks the nine red-robed supreme jus- ~ tices whose > Delgamuukw ruling equally ignores B.C.’s viral and Jegitimate 1 inter-. ests. A majority of British Colambians sin- cerely beli¢ve compensation is owed to. their aboriginal fellow citizens for earli er. wrongs. But to bring lasting harmon: must be based on justice for al con-* cerned. oo Where would ‘be the justice in forcing : you to surrender freehoid title to your «:, home to the Squamish Band and become their tenant until such ‘time.as they needed your lot to build a potlatchi’ centre? . goo: MANY HAPPY returns of today, ‘June 21, to North Van birthday girl June ~ Martin ... Tomorrow, June 22, wish happy birthday to Mount Seymour ! Lion. a Joe Thornley ... And do it again. Tuesday, June 23, to his fellow birthday _ celebrant, Lion Bob Griffi in. o00 WRIGHT OR WRONG — today’s French proverb: A father is a banker provided by nature. : {HD WAT OGR) eROWIUS minis 985-2131 Administration : - Display Advertising - 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 995-6982. 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