“Barbecue founder
’ Chamberlain was the first member of the
: public to drive across what .was then the
: longest suspension span in the British Em-
' pire.
Chamberlain’ § toll for that: initial cross-

if Jenalies (Ga
1 ef

AUTHOUGH You HAVE, AN
INTERESTING RESUME
BRIAN....WE. ONLY HAVE
AN OPENING. IN THE
KITCHEN...

NEWS VIEWPOINT

ridge tolls for thee

SK NOT for whom the bridge tolls.
If you plan on crossing the Lions
ate Bridge, it tolls for thee.

With the unstoppable effects of time,
salt alr and. metal fatique, the structure’s
days are numbered.

A muilti-million-dollar upgrade in the
1980s added but five years to its original
 §0-year lifespan. .

Qn Saturday, Noy. 12, 1938, ‘Tomahawk
C.H. ‘‘Chic’’

ing was 5¢; the cost to build the structure
was $6 million.
Fifty-five. years .

later the province's

minister .of highways has outraged ‘com-
muters with a’ proposal that a user-pay
system generate the $100 miliion needed to
bring the: First Narrows bridge into the
21st century.

In an age of staggering public debt, the
public must face facts and realize that to
avoid total insolvency at the provincial
level, measures such as toll booths to off-
sect infrastructure project repairs and con-
struction are necessary. -

But to make any Lions Gate Bridge toll
worthwhile, an upgrade of the structure
must include facility for rapid transit.

To ignore that component would be to

_ignore the basic reality that the private

automobile is fast becoming a transit Iux-

‘ury that has to be treated as such.

NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Fo jticket them is awfully Big
Brother, and | for one am not go-

the rigors of North Shore life. 4

really liked the program
_.,, because it made .me reatize how
the residential

ing to support that. it’s not some-
thing Big Sisters do.”

North Vancouver District Coun.

“Janice Harris, on the district's
bylaw imposing a $50 fine for
scavenging from dumpsters.

“When people ask me, I say I'm
10 minutes away from the office,
and if Pia in a: traffic: jam: then

i'm 12 minutes away from the of-—

fice’?

Phil Keller, North Shore Credit ©

Union Chief Executive Officer, on

ol,

Publisher
Managing Editor .
Assoctate Editor

-“The story of

--Peler Speck
- Timothy. Renshaw,
Noel Wright

school system“is so tragic. We're
tatking about native people who

“were tied up in. chairs and had |

broomsticks broken over their
heads. The specific ‘incidents of
abuse people describe in the show

- are horrific.’’,,

TV producer Peter von Put-
tkamer, on the atrocities suffered
by native peoples at the hands of
church-run, govérn-
ment- sanctioned residential
schools. ae ‘ i

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hard you have to work just for a
minimum wage.’’

Andrew Nichols, a participant
in Keith Lynn alternative school’s
Work Orientation Workshop pro-
gram for new workers, on work-
ing in the real world.

‘it. will keep me out of the
unemployment line.’’

Entrepreneur David Ratcliffe,
on his propegai*to North Van-

-couver City Council to ‘run: an

espresso kiosk i in the municipality.

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“WE HAVE SEEN the enemy and it is NOT ourselves,”’
they chant. “‘It’s the other guys — especially white. .
anglo-saxon males, happily married with nice kids, work-
ing hard and gratefully for a fair day’s s spay.’

Those are the wicked folks who
trample all over the rights of,
mutinous Quebec separatists, mili-
tant feminists, visible minorities,
native Indians, proud gays,

' deprived union workers and emo-

tional basket cascs. Those are the
oppressors who must be attacked
until finally exterminated to make
the world safe for their ‘‘victims.”’

Then what? Then another little
problem, of course — the problem
of finding replacements for the
exterminated oppressors.

Today — thanks to TV and the
ability of its cameramen to walk
backwards — any self-proclaimed
victim can enjoy instant power. If
a dozen of them get together with
picket signs in time for the prime
time news (with a photo follow-
up in the next day’s tab), their
MP's or MLA’s old ulcer starts to
act up again.

If 100 or more fellow victims
can be mustered to parade before
the Sony lenses, regional cabinet
ministers make a note on their ‘to
do" pads and may even mention
it to the prime minister or
premier,

Power, as Henry Kissinger cx-
plained, is like an aphrodisiac.
The snag being that, like an
aphrodisine, you must constantly
renew it, Which means that once a
victim, always a victim, Your
grievance becomes a lifelong ca-
reer — because without it, you're

_ once’again a nobody.

So ignore the fact that those
rotten white anglo-saxon mates
who banished women to the
kitchen and Indians to reserves a

century of more ago are long dead ~

— and that their heirs today, with
no personal guilt for long-ago in-
justices, are mostly a very dif- *
ferent and more sensitive breed.

Keep right on clobbering the fatter |

mercilessly. .

Forget that your sexual prefer-
ences — or the culture of the
native land you were so cager to
leave — do not necessarily appeal
to all other Canadians. Brand
them as bigots. Crucify any who
dare protest against your sacred

" goal of revenge through reverse

discrimination. And however
many of your demands are met,

* fight tooth and nail for more and

more, regardless of economic,
socia} and moral costs.

Thus, dear reader, our Canada
of 1993 — where individual rights
are trodden underfoot by the

HITHER AND YON

“collective” rights of innumerable ;

noisy special-interest groups;
many quite tiny, who've learned

with the help of the media how to -

_ terrify vote-hungry politicians.

And thus.i will continue until
the silently suffering majority: of
decent, tolerant, fair-minded Ca-
nadians decide to terrify.their
leaders back to their senses,

Or is your scribe himself just

-gnother squawking ininority?:

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Ron Sayer and West Van's Terry.”

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someone this Valentine Day. _ it’ 5

‘good for your ticker!

* Higgins ... With.-more of the same
Monday, Feb. 15, to North Van's».
Jay Firman and West Van’ s Fraink ,

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