TURNOUT is expected to be
heavy this evening (Wed-
nesday, September 1) at the
annual general meeting of
the North and West Van-
couver Hospital Society —
with the abortion issue again
dominating the election of
-directors to the four Lions
Gate Hospital board seats
coming vacant.

They include the seats of
all three Pro,Life directors

‘In-home

TUESDAY was a busy day for the North Vancouver RCMP, as they had to deal with a
bank robbery in Deep Cove, (see: picture, page A4), and am armed robbery at the
International Gold Mart at 130 West 14th Street. Above, police talk with store
employees after three men robbed the store, Tuesday afternoon. A one-barrellied gun

was seen and one of the men was bro ck, to (lan
Smith photo). carrying a wn sack, according to police

TOUGHER PENALTIES SOUGHT
Law reform crusade
comes to NV District

TOUGHER laws are needed

ALL

“Unfortunately,

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TONIGHT AT REC CENTRE
Full house seen
for LGH meeting

whose present terms on the
17-member board have now
expired.

Registration at the North
Van Recreation Centre
begins at 6:15 p.m. with
ballot boxes for voting
available from 6:30 p.m.
onward. The full meeting to
handle regular business and
hear short speeches from
board candidates starts at
7:30 p.m.

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the wording and whether
to protect Canadian people abolition of capital council could support such a D AYP AC KS
from violent crimes, North punishment has resultedin a general requisition calling
Vancouver District council loss of respect for society for reform.

heard Monday and in
response, council threw
support behind a petition to
pressure Ottawa to change
laws so the guilty are not
protected.

Council debated = the
merits of a petition sent
across Canada to politicians
by a Mississauga-based one-
man crusade bent on
reforming the Canadian
judicial system so the in-
nocent not the guilty will be
protected.

“People in Canada are sick
and tired of violent crime,”
said Alderman Peter Powell
responding to the petition’s
intent. “And they (the
petitioners) have ai good
idea.”

Included in the petition is
a call for tougher measures
for parole and an immediate
cancellation of mandatory
supervision rclease
programs which [frees
prisoners after they serve
two-thirds of their sentence.

Mayor Don Bell said the
lax penal system in Canada
towards criminals has
resulted in crosion of public
trust in the law network in
the country

and the judicial system” said
Bell.

However, Alderman Mary
Segal questioned the
vagueness of the petition's

“I don't think council is in
&@ position to endorse this
whole thing.” she said.

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