rth Shore N * a a RT (PAN WIL IN BOSNIG.. SHANE ANAT SS. NEES SP RANA any: Now «: cans J SWAIN HAA TQ SRN RAAQHNY HHGTNAONTANTRTET Masn agg gangs hggeay: INS! | SEE ANOTHER Eta HAS tet vs — RR, ~ SY. a. ONS Ses ow, | VIEWPOINT Bigger not better construction of massive single-fami- ly homes on infill lots in established neighborhoods must be curtailed. A case in point before North Vancouver District Council this coming Monday, the plight of Saviile Crescent resident Harry Mayor, provides a local focus for the issue. . ‘} HE PRACTICE of allowing tie befow. In reaction to homeowner dissatisfaction with zoning bylaw regulations, district council and staff have, over the years, grappled with ways to control building height and bulk. But the fact is that as regulations cur- rently stand, the new infil! house, the one that has replaced a house Mayor once was Meayor’s Delbrook lived i. The area’s houses and southern views. neighborhood has bee: established . for decades. mountainside roads provides optimal Residents finding themselves living above a strip of houses generally look over the roofs of ‘those it is well- abie to share an unobstructed view with, could legally have been larger. , The value of many North Shore homes jayout of borhoods. is enhanced by view. Long-time residents and municipal tex- payers deserve some protection. Bigger is not better in established neigh- LETTER OF THE DAY Promoters of hatred endanger freedoms Dear Editor: What an insulting article Doug Collins wrote in ‘Something to remember” in his Remembrance Day column. Insulting to the memory of the soldiers who died for the freedom and dignity of all people; insulting to the day itself, and insulting to the Jewish peopie. With an acerbic tongue and distortion of facts, Doug Collins castigates the victims of hatred and at the same time offers Publisher Associate Editor Sales & Marketing Director Comptrotler year. Peter Speck | Managing Editor .. . Timothy Renshaw Noe! Wright Linda Stewart . Doug Foct North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and. qualified under Schedule 113, Paragraph 1} of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the Norin Shore. Second Class Mail Registration Nurnber 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept cesponsibility for unsolicited material including displaced sympathy for one who promotes it. FACT: David Irving entered Canada without disctosing that he had been previously barred from entering the country. 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David Irving promotes hatred and, even though no dynamite was found in his luggage, he is. pctentially more dangerous to freedom in Canada with the falsehoods he spreads, Lianne Peretz West Vancouver 986-1237 & Printed on 10% recycled newsprint North Shore managed 985-3227 CT EVAN e SDA DIVISION 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. ehtrope test with no safety t for likey? WILL MIKE Harcourt — three-and-something years down the road — suffer the same fate as Dave Barrett? Will he too be left to swing in the wind by powerful one-time allies he’s finally forced to abandon? Noel In 1975, you'll recall, Dave found himself compelled to do dirt on organized labor by ending a crippling industry-wide strike with back-to-work legislation. Shortly thereafter he became po- litical toast and the Socreds swept back to power for another 16 years. In varying degree the same kind of problem, of course, faces any political party supported by one or more special-interest groups. The latters’ price for their con- tinuing votes and/or money is an . unwritten demand to shape the government agenda to their liking. Tories and Grits have to woo big business (which has few votes but lots of campaign bucks). Lib- erals must also please a wide tange of do-gooders and bleeding hearts. Reformers need to placate their redneck fringe of noose- restorers and francophone- bashers. And all of them today bow low to feminists and environmentalists. None of the right-wing and centre parties, however, are heid so completely hostage to a single master as is the NDP — whose leaders would never glimpse the inside of a cabinet room anywhere in Canada without the backing of the all-powerful trade union movement. i So for the past 13 months Mikey and his labor lieutenant Moe Sihota have been busy paying off their debts to the B.C. Fed. First, by effectively barring non- union firms from government contracts. And now with a radical new labor bill that could eventual- ly bankrupt scores of small B.C. businesses, the source of 90% of all new jobs. True, the government is taking a comparatively tough stand so far on actual cash demaads — as witness the recent Langara strike, the ongoing face-off with doctors and the refusal! to double the min- imum wage. What else can you do when you’re broke? But the big test has yet to come. All it takes to bring Mikey his moment of truth is for the Fed to lean on him a bit TOO hard — with, say, a prolonged shutdown of the vita forest industry or essential public services. As such a strike dragged on, he * would finally have to choose be- tween escalating damage to all British Columbians — or, like his 1975 predecessor, back-to-work legislation guaranteed to earn him the unforgiving wrath of Ken MIKE HARCOURT... debt-pay- ing can be costly. HITHER AND YON Georgetti and labor’s brass. Either choice would doom the NDP at the 1995-95 ballot box. Even in October 1991 the party was rejected by 60% of B.C. voters. B.C.’s second NDP premier is a famed political tightrope walker. But an ultimate tightrope walk be- tween militant labor on a rampage and the helpless public it savages has no safety net. Ask Dave! TAILPIECES: Wish Michael Ceuway Baker a well-earned Christmas break! Highlights of the versatile North Van com- poser’s honors-filled year included . a Juno (best classical composition) for his Piano Concerto; his theme music for The Odyssey (the highly acclaimed 13-episode CBC-TV series, Mondays 7:30 p.m.); a dozen more film and TV themes; and numerous concert music te works. ... Monday, Dec. 14, sees the stage premiere cf DRAMAWCERKS students aged seven up at Presentation House. Tickets ($5) for their “Winter Celebration’ of fantasy, warmth and humor from 922-8963. ... And a big thank-you from . Capilano Community Services to | - the Royal Bank’s Gary Bader for’ his $500 donation to its programs — including the Dec. 16 Seniors’ Hub Christmas Party. WRIGHT OR WRONG — Definition of claustrophobia: Fear of buying Xmas gifts, or of get- ting stuck in a chimney. MICHAEL CONWAY BAKER... honors-filled years.