i | news The North Shore News is published by Korth | Shore Free Press Ltd., Poblisher Peter Speck, from 1139 Lonsdale Avense Worth Vancouver, 8.C., V7M 214 PETER SPECK Publisher 985-2131 (101) Dee Dhaltwal Human Resousces Manager 985-2131 (1 BO ATR hate Foot Comptroller 585-2131 (133) = 885-2131 (114) MeCregie-Spetts/Commonity Edi 985-2131 (147) Letters must include your name, full address ws ~+ telephone number. suburban newspaper and quiified under Schedkle 111, Pangraph 111 of the Excie Tax Act, is published each ‘Wedemty, Fridoy andi Sunday by North Shere Free Press Lad. " and deartuned s0 every door an the Novth Shave. Carsales Ret 61,582 (averaye citouation, Wednesday Friday & Sunday) ° Entire contents © 1996 North Shore & Ge Free Press Ltd. besoin All rights reserved. naet THE iDEAL CONDITIONS To SUPPORT Life PIS VA EET B.C. Supreme Court decision last week upholding an age-restrictive venant in a North Vancouver resi- . dential tower was a good cail. tence. The municipality supported the develop- the development was seen as 2 necessary component of the club’s continued exis- j “Sierg7 gow] eyobth 4 . Burning wood is not good Dear Editor: . “Wonders of wood-burning heat (Dec. 27 News letter)” seems to have missed the point entirely, The current effort for:. a smoke-free North Shore has - nothing to do with whether: wood stoves give off a good. hear. Bur i is based on recent! scientific evidence that wood “smoke is a serious threat: to health. .. Stopping only the burners who are causing visible pallu- tion, as the writer suggests, would be a‘ totally. inadequate measure, because call pane are causing pollution,’ regard- less of how efficiently. they are- burning. ; boot Even woodstoves that meet the strict new standards of EPA: Phase II certified units, have been found to be ineffective in protecting our lungs from par ticulates. _ The writer. also’ expressed concern about lack of heat du ing power failures if he. stops burning wood. As one assum he must know about gas fire places, it raises the question of. why he has not included them: as a clean, economical alterni tive, a Most of the polhiti On the surface it might seem somewhat odious even to have such a stipulation attached to living conditions. It smacks of discrimination, pitting young against old. The truth is that the original developer of the 182-unit Carlton At The Club received permission from North Vancouver ‘District to build the tower on the grounds that at least one person living in each suite would be 50 years of age or more. The North Shore Winter Club and Co- Operators General Insurance Company received the rezoning necessary for the . building on the grounds that active seniors would live there and become club members. The club was faltering at the time and ment. Seniors housing was in short supply in the district. : A new partner, Marksearch Properties, entered the scene and successfully converted the rentals inte strata lots. Thirty of the units are now occupied by younger people who are not in accordance with the covenant. The court ruled the covenant is not dis- criminatory. It’s a logical conclusion. The rules were there for each buyer to consider. The covenant was no mystery. Within lezislated bounds, as property owners we have the basic right to live as we choose. wood smoke onthe: Ni Shore is being cause hearth burning in con ; fireplaces. And,* while, these:2|7 stage-prop, _ security-blanketz, fires are highly.’ polluting, uneconomic «and inefficien any type of wood burning < cause serious health ‘reactions= and premature death. |: For the same health that make cigarette smokin unacceptable, it’s time to douis the fire in wood-burning and fireplaces. “ Karen Lewis : “North Vancouver." |” Of bunglers, mutiny and ethnics DID BRIAN MULRONEY, as prime minister, take cash kickbacks for help- -ing sell the European Airbus to Air -Canada — as alleged by the Mounties in a supposedly - confidential let- ter leaked to the media? The Chretien government has formally apologized to Mulroney and will reimburse his estimated $1 mil- lion in legal fees to date. But for many the ques- tion still persists, because at the same time Ottawa announced that the RCMP investigation of the Airbus “scandal” will continue. A triumphant Mulroney says they can investi- gate “until the cows come home” but will find nothing to implicate him. J, for one, believe that. Hate Mulroney the politician as you will, but stupid he is not. The same can’t be said for the Grits, whose hamfisted fishing expedition to dis- credit him ended in last week's red-faced fiasco. Nor is it the only mess they've landed in thanks to their ceaseless efforts to destroy the last rem- nants of the Tory party and its policies. Just wait for the court ruling in the Pearson Airport development. case. The potential dam- ages bill for taxpayers, arising from Chretien’s bungled cancellation of the Tory contract, could top $500 million. Qo0g : NOWHERE IS ARROGANT flouting of B.C. interests by the Chretien government better exemplified than in retired rear admiral Fred Mifflin. The federal fisheries minister stubbornly -rejects any review of his salmon-saving plan — devised by Ottawa bureaucrats who may well have never been closer to the B.C. coastline than Ontario’s Georgian Bay. _. That suspicion is not unfounded. No one ’ denies the need to conserve salmon stocks, but not the way Mifflin insists on doing it — by cut- ting out the small commercial fisherman and con- centrating the catch in the hands of a few large companies. Already almost 25% of the boats in the B.C. salmon fleet have been removed and several thousand more jobs stand to be lost before this year’s fishing season opens. : B.C. Fisheries Minister Corky Evans believes there are better methods of conservation than the “death blow to small coastal communities” dealt by Admiral Mifflin, as he shouts orders from the bridge. A jong overdue mutiny would be a good start. It’s high time B.C. took over complete, indepen- dent control of its own west coast fishery. 900 CONDEMNING last weekend’s mayhem by a few turbaned, sword-wielding fanatics at Surrey’s Sikh Temple has nothing to do with.. “racism.” . Ses ._ It has everything to do with the Canadian of life which draws so many immigrants to‘a be! ter life in this country — a way of life the pe trators of the riot‘obviously reject. It is ‘also a wake-up call for the vast majority of exemplary Canadian citizens of Sikh ongin. = ~~ : Unless the Sikh community can tame its few - * - wild elements, there’s a growing danger that the. .. latter may encourage racist hostility towards not. only ad Sikhs but other law-abiding immigrants of color as well. i immigrants of every culture are welcome in. Canada. Bur they must stand up and disown their -’ lunatic fringes — or be lumped in with them.- ; They should never forget how one bad apple can * ruin the whole box. 000 STILL TIME to enjoy the “Dance Of The * Ink” arnwork by Helen Kwok, Tsing Chow, Jennie Cheng and K.C. Chung at West Van Library until Feb, 2. 00 O WRIGHT OR WRONG: Aspire to inspire before you expire. : — The North Shove News believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides in a dchate to be heard. The columnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those ; views are not necessarily thase of the newspaper itself.