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All rights reserved. ; “mailbox SP ZOSEG AN ORLA SAN SRTRLS BBA URE ENS AISAKEMUNE MOS EONAR PLY DOU E SSN TNA PE ELEN CR POLE “He ROYAL FAMILY EXPLAINED _quotes of the “It makes me want to get back Inte politics and run for the don't know party.” * - West Vancouver-Garibaldi Independent MLA David Mitchell, ‘on a News survey in which 56% of . Tespondents said they didn’t know who they would vote forina . °° provincial election. (From a March « (22 News. story. dQ: Qo00. x don’t believe, because of a : what he’s said in the past, that he shouid have the right to decide | “the future’ of myself or any other ~. politician he’s criticized before. I ‘ think that he’s in a conflict of. “interest himself": . -. North Vancouyer-Seymour ’ Liberal MEA Dan Jarvis, opposing ‘the! - appointment: of West , Vancouver-Garibaldi MLA. David - *Mitchell.as.B.C.’s new conflict-of-. | "interest commissioner. (From a’: Dear Editor: ao : The article “Midwife to ‘appeal ‘conduct decision,” which appeared’ in the Sunday, ; March 10, News failed to grasp the reasons for the |. Registered Nurses Association of ' B.C. (RNABC) conducting a disci- plinary hearing. - The hearing was not to investi- ~ gate Ms, Cynthia Milner's conduct as'a midwife, but her conduct as a nurse. The RNABC has a statutory week _ March 29 News story.) ' oo00 “We're elther going to bite the bullet now, and fix the delivery , system into a way that is sustain- — able over the lomg-run or we’re . going to be continually facing this problem just as we have over ’ dhe fast numberof years.” ‘Bob Smith, interim trustee for - North Vancouver School District 44, on the need to make some bud- get cuts to address the district's $5 million deficit. (From a March. 27 News story.) go Q “It's the wealthiest place in Canada and we don’t even have: a theatre.” West Vancouver Community Arts Council administrator Page _ Samis, on the failure of West : : Vancouver to secure itself a theatre: (F From a March 20 News stor ye : snorennetitrnnmmnntnemnnn Midwife decision defended obligation to inquire into the ‘con- duct of current and former regis- tered nurses for the protection of the public. Milner was incompetent because she did not conduct herself accord- : ing to the. stundards for nursing practice set by RNABC. ~ : . Arlen Bruce, BSN, RN ‘President, Association of B.C... news viewpoint FFIX THINKING caps, readers: fish mean less. . ings. The hearing concluded that Ms. eo Registered — Nurses Tangled US. grassroots | government iF ELECTIONS confuse you, thank your stars you’re not a Californian voter. A couple of weeks in San Diego amid the hullabaloo of this year’s March primary has left your scribe’s head still spinning... For the outside world the event signi- fied the coronation of Kansas Senator Bob Dole as Republican candidate in November's presidential election — he having already won enough delegates in earlier primaries to ensure his nomina- tion at the party’s August convention. — ag But that was merely the presidential primary. For the locals’ Dole wi little more than a side-show. Like Californians everywhere in the Unior largest state, last Tuesday's legislative primary brought San Diegans press- ing reasons for head-scratching much closer to home. The ballot sought: no less than 33 separate decisions from them. Up for election at city level were a mayor (with incumbent el Susan Golding the strong favorite) and four council members. The American preference for elected rather than appointed officials added city attorney and two municipal court judges to the ballot.“ At county level electors had to choose three members for the, board‘ Noel — Het a Supervisors and three more for the county school board. Picking these 14 elected local officials, however, was the: easy a . last. week's democratic. orgy. After that, citizens had to. 19 assorted “propositions” (American for referendums The seven San Diego city and couaty propositions were pretty mil housekeeping stuff: amendmeats to area plans, a couple of, financial pro- posals and a calf for the county tax ‘collector to be an appointed office. For ; drama you had io tum to the dozen state initiativ. - Propositions 192 to 203 covered subjects ranging | all the way from exemption on property inherited by a grandchild and the: phase-out of: _ mobile home rent controls to unrestricted mountain lion hunting ¢ and limit on unemployment benefits for prison parolees: Two others urged the death penalty for carjackings and drive-by s oot Three more —'on no-fault auto insurance, shareholde: lass-actior suits and attorneys’ contingency ‘fees * +. took a hefty swipe at lawyers: their often bloated remuneration.. of, 3 _. There were two multi-billion bond proposals | fo arthqu e ‘Measures and schvols.'‘And yet! ‘another called for “oO “mary. elections in which, contrary: to the present prac » Vote for any presidential candidate regardles democratic. system demanding | too much , Cultivating the seeds of its own decay? | ' From 88% of registered voters in 19 ly : slumped to around 35%. Well over: half the’ ‘voters now refuse;'even for a.’ few weeks, to burden their personal lives wi decision aking about . more than 30 public figures and widely di Grassroots government bie‘ideal ‘until the, grassroots’ tumble, the fact that all governmeri rd! - dog, you shouldn't necd to.always keep barking, _ Preston Manning and other referendum enthu an “MANY HAPPY RETURNS of oa Maych 31, to North Van via, ; boy Art ‘Weseen. : WRIGHT OR WRONG: ‘nba YS beware of. a doctor whose: office plaints have, died. . wet the plight of the West Coast fish- ing industry is bringing out experts and other deep thinkers. Theories are the new coin of the realm. Common sense counts for littfe. Greed and shortsightedness continue to prevail over Mother Nature. And the list of losers continues to grow. In the latest search for an answer to’ ’ disappearing salmon: stocks, experts pursue ever longer shots; -ever more» arcane theories. According to a March 24 News story, for example, a. University of British . Columbia professor contends that more Adjust . the wave-lengths on: that | thinking cap if you’ are having trouble ‘es following that: line of reasoning. And ' fear not: you are not alone. . ‘Professor Carl Walters says that evi- dence from somewhere indicates that: hatcheries such as the Capilano River facility are releasing too iany fish and ’ that “we may be exceeding the current capacity of the ocean to absorb so many fish.” ‘ You would not be alone in thinking _that the world’s oceans are rapidly being depleted of their fish populations everywhere and that space for addition- " the resource, the oversupply. an tication of fishing boats and fis g nology’ plundering .the marine’ food chain at every link and the segregation of fish harvesting based on race.’ =. Readers don’t. need an university: degree to figure out why there are fewer © fish in the ocean and. why action has.to » be taken ‘now, before fish: ‘populations reach the point of, no return. :