6- Neanesday, January 13, 1993 - North Shore News! * ania ae Pe Yiqon Ter(Guestr. QO f fD yey KAITING. wo regan os ey “ORELLAS ANDTHE WISTERIA 1060... | See ae une tT i } wee SS J 7 Pa Oo (we STILL HAVE THE HEWS a —_ ‘Another municipality — HE -NEW “ deat] betweoa North. the: Shore municipalities and “Squamish -Nation Indian Band establishing a framework that : allows’ the band to begin collecting taxes directly from - businesses and residents tiving on its North Shore properties should’ signal a new era of cooperation and interaction between the band and local municipalities. As reported in the Jun. 10 News, | ‘the , deal could direct between | ‘$3 million and $4 million into band coffers each year "from - such ° high-profile | properties as. .the south portion of the mi Royal Shopping - . » Centre. oF The interim agreement, is, as- West Van- ~couver Mayor Mark Sager told the News, a big’ step: forward in relations between the : band and. West Vancouver! CEMA TET it, in’ effect, recognizes the Squamish Nation for what it is: the North Shore’s fourth municipality. But while the tax revenues will’ help fi. i- mance greater self-sufficiency for the band - that increased self-sufficiency and increas- ed stake in its lands should push. the ‘Squamish Nation ‘to become more a’ part of the North Shore community not less. - I will require the band to get more in- volved in the North Shore community ‘as a whole, not just in the North Shore lands it controls and the people. who live on its reserves, Legitimizing Squamish “control ,over taxes on its property is merely the fi rst step in a long. process of - increasing,” com- ‘munication and understanding between all ; Nosth Shore residents. “LETTER ¢ OF THE DAY Windsor fai mily expe ensive political al fiction * Dear. Editor: : Hold on a minute, Mr. Wright. “You claim that a hereditary head «:’ Sof state is far: harder to displace. than a political appointee, Not. 50. a ‘when needs must... * | How, about .. King Alfonso X11 Of. Spain, . George If of Greece, or ~ Victor’, Emmanual of - Htaly,! : mention’ afew in ‘recent’ Retory: - Were they hard to. displace?” |. - And-when it comes.to madmen ‘sin power, I find it difficult to dif- ferentiate: between’ dictators | like” Stalin. or Hitter’’and tyrants: like - Czar’ Nicholas N° and Kaiser . Wilhelm I (both the grand - Publisher . .: Managing Editor . Associate Editor Sales & Marketing Director -\ “.: £.Peter Speck . Timothy Renshaw . Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 . ... Noet Wright: \Linda Stewart children of Queen Victoria). And how about Emperor ‘Franz’ Joseph of Austria who, through ‘the assassination of his nephew, ‘Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and brought - ‘along with . the Kaiser, about the: First: World War and the massacre of millions?, Are these sorts of people any better | than dictators? Are their.actions not responsible - for the creation of dictators? The ~ chaotic aftermath, of the» First: World War surely provided Hitler his opportunity. Royalty have. never provided a Shield for democracy; their being ’ Display Advertising 980-0511 . Classitied Advertising | 986-6222 _ Newsroom 985-2131 _ Distribution Subscriptions, 986-1337 | Fax-* : Administration 985-2131 there is the: opposite of. democracy. You admitted as much ‘when you mentioned Magna Car-' ta; ‘royalty. has always had to be *Sforced.”” °. Like King John at: Runnymede, Queen Elizabeth, over’ the: outcry — about.the fire at Wiiidsor, has,’ at long ‘last; been forced to: pay. taxes. Face ‘the fects, Mr. ‘Hunter. is right; Betty Windsor and family ‘provide nothing more than expen- ‘sive Political fiction. wee Denis Mason “ West Vancouver * 986-4397 "printed on 10% recycled |. newsprint 985-3227 |: Comptrotier. Doug Foot” North Shoro ' News, ‘founded’ in 1969 as an: independent suburban newspaper. and qualified urider Schedule 111, Paragraph Ill of the Excise‘ Tax Act, is published ‘each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on: the North Shore. ‘| Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. ‘Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing ‘rates . available on request. Submissiuns are welcome but we canno! accept ‘esponsibility, for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be V7M 2H4 fet YOrCE OF MONTH An WERT VAACOUVER '1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C, Neath Shore mana “MEMBER ~ a __ SDA DIVISION : 6, 582 (average ‘circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) ‘ accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope, « Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Lid. All I ighis reserved. SMARTENING UP is the watchword for ¢he New Year’ Ss season and it has taken a Yank to tell us Canadians the «. area’ in which we most need to smarten up — ‘bride in in ourselves and ia Canada's achievements, ° : The Yank is American con- sumer advocate Ralph Nader, who recently published a book that no. true Canadian would ever dare | write. It lists some of the many things Canadians have done that have made us first or foremost in the world, Like hockey — which we invented — basketball and lacrosse; Trivial Pursuit, ginger ale, green ink, the green garbage bag andthe Mcintosh apple. On a loftier plane our firsts or foremosts include the National Film Board, the world’s oldest ’ daycare centre and the first Prison Arts Foundation, In medicine we ‘gave the world insulin; to space science we gave . the Canadarm; to the environ- ment, Greenpeace. But if you study the record, these are only a a begirining.: Samuel de Champlain estab- lished the first Canadian settle- ment in 1605, giving us a history two years longer than the Ameri- cans, whose first settlement was — founded in 1607, : We went on to tame the second largest country on earth — with relatively little bloodshed. We share with our southern neighbor. a 4,000-mile undefended frontier ; -envied by the whole world for over a century... ; . ‘thinks we’ re tops. a - Many thousands of Canadians. “made the supreme sacrifice; 93... fighting tyranny in South Africa, .-” ‘two world wars and Korea. We’ve played key roles in every UN * : . peacekeeping mission since 1945. And we have dug deep into our , pockets with billions in. Third -World foreign aid. : Back to specifics,’ including _— _ in Stephen Leacock — our own Mark Twain. For good measure, _our Sir Sandford Fleming invented worldwide standard time in 1878. In 1897 Canada’s Adelaide: Hoodless founded the worldwide Women’s Institute..." | In communications, meanwhile, : we've been a world leader from the start — and still are — ever ‘since Alexander Graham Beli in- vented the telephone at Brantford, "Ont. in 1876, i Back in 1854 ed ‘already been : the first on'the continent to sort raail on a moving train.: In 1901 Marconi’ s first transat- antic radio signal wwas received at: (St. John’s, Nfld, ai We trailed the U, Ss. by only HITHER AND YON “three months with air mit in? : 1918, and by 1920 we were putting out the first radio entertainment” ' programs, two years ahead of, the U.K. _ The first multi- -purpose transa lantic cable between New- _ foundiand and Scotland was in- “ augurated by Canadians — + with U.S. and British partners — in 1956. By 1958 we'd built the a world’s longest microwave be-.., tween Nova Scotia and B.C. And three years later, aboard a CPA “ jet higi: over Vancouver Island,’ we introduced the world's first | fully automatic air-t phone service.) ° : Eric Nicol once described “Canada as the world’s boy scou - And looking around the globe . day that’s a pretty proud title to 5: hold; In its contributions to. "peaceful living on this troubled planet Canada'—~ despite our ‘present problems — has an unm: ched record os . Why. we had to wait for a Yank “2. in Canada First: Ralpli Nader’: ‘Salute to Canada and Canadi. Achievements (McLelland & :.: Stewart, $14. 99) — to remind " of where we're coming from is “one of the mysteries of our-n ' tional character. Until, of course, ' . you remember’ our other. un " Rod Clark, ‘seeking noniination’ the party’s North Vani candida! at the reconvened nomination meeting Jan. 18, holds‘a’ ‘get- acquainted coffee party Saturday; Jan. 16, from 10:30/a.m; to noon’ ‘at the Great Greek ‘Taverna, 167 ‘West Esplanade’... . Alternatively, on Saturday at 10 a.m., Allan. - Knight will tell you how to “Ge! - Motivated” in the Speakers U: ‘ limited iecture series at the Silk Purse, 1560 Argyle, West Van. call 922-2262 for info birthday today, Jan: 13, to Wes ‘Van Kiwanian Jack Wilks... And the same again tomorr “ Jan..14, to Levea Louise : Williams, aka ‘‘the Mayor o _- Wellington Crescent,’’ whose birthday gifts include an award’ ‘ from the RCMP. for. outstanding. ~ work on the © Block Watch pro-" : WRIGHT OR WRONG: Experi ence is what you get when’ you “were hoping for something dif. . ferent.”