6 — Wednesday, November 3, 1999 — North Shore News

Car aWare

NYONE interested in how to
reduce the North Shore’s bear
age would do well to plug
into the teachings of Steve Searles.
Dubbed the Bear Man, : Searles
-brought: his message to North
'- Vancouver last Friday.
We ‘can, only hope that those in
attendance were paying attention.
-  And.we can hope further that
~ Searies’ message makes it weli beyond
the walls of North Vancouver District
where he spoke.
‘is an advocate of scaring
_away rather than shooting black bears
that: wander into urban areas as their.
‘environment is increasingly despoiled
by.man:‘And on ‘the North Shore we
desperately need to hear what Searles’
has to. say: This year 28 black bears
‘killéd” on: the
North Shore. That’s an extremely dis-

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turbing number made more so by the
fact that many of those shootings
could have been avoided.

Bears are not at the heart of the
bear problem; humans are.

Searles’ approach, which he pio-
neered in his Californian hometown
of Mammoth Lakes and has since
been adopted in the Whistler area,
involves the use of fireworks, rubber
bullets, noise makers and pepper
spray to discourage bears.

Add to that a good dose of public
education about living at the edge of
a wilderness area and the program
could help cut the nuraber of bears
shot on the North Shore.

- Searles’ alternative cultivates a bet-
ter understanding of bears that could
help conserve their numbers. It might -
require more work on the part of the
public, but its payoff will be worth it.

IT’S high time our elected feder-

al and provincial servants gave
‘the vicious, totalitarian-inspired

Human Rights Commissions and

“| their one-person’
tribunals the bum’s -
7 rush.

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concept of “equal pay for work of equal -
value.”
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well documented “double jeopardy” trial
of fozmer North Shore News columnist
Doug Collins before the B.C. version of.
these kangaroo courts: Last: ‘February | tu
newspaper: arid Collins were “convicted”
and “sentenced” bya Human Rights’

Tribunal for four 1994 columns which an
carlier tribunal had found NOT. to violate -

the B.C! Human Rights Cod

An application to appeal’
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opposed, ‘of course, by B.C.’s-cen ship
‘happy: NDP government is presently
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