i - North Shore News SECTS 6 93 > OH YEAH... GOTT MAKE IT WL OUB LEADERSHIP CONVENTION, »-1T> GONNA BE A REAL BARN-BIRNER, PACKED WIT SUSPENSE, EXGIEMENT AND INTRIGUE... IN SHORT, A REAL ~~ COFFARNBER! Ee LEE (a3 IF WE ELECTED statesmen (sorry, Judy Rebick, ‘“statespersons’’!) these days instead of vote-hungry polit- ical opportunists, we wouldn’t now have a major world crisis added to our looming national one. The latter — currently much in STADE the news ~ will be upon us the : day the finance minister informs a cabinet meeting that Canada’s lat- est bond issue won’t sell. Transla- tion: foreign lenders will finally have decided the country is too deep in the glue to be a safe haven any longer for their money. ere be When that happens, Ottawa will be unable to sign tomorrow’s — or next week’s or next month’s -~ cheques for pensions, health, welfare, Ul or whatever. Socialist New Zealand reached that point in 1984 and had a hor- rible time for years after. It’s only now clawing its way back to [i- nancial health. Canada’s turn to have a horri- ble time looms because our com- bined federal and provincial gov- ernaments today owe almost as much as the entire country earns in a year — our leaders for the past two decades having spent us, into bankruptcy by trying to buy the vates of every screaming in- terest group in the land, Thus, we really haven’t a spare dime left to assist anyone else in dire straits, And neither — in varying degree and for similar _ feasons — do the other leading industrial nations of the G-7 group. Nevertheless, the West will HAVE to find spare dimes — hundreds of billions of them — 10 help the new Russia this weekend, because the price of not doing so is simply too high to contemplate. Boris Yeltsin's reckless bid to transform 70 years of iron-fisted dle if HITHER AND YO None of the West's non-statesmen — preoccupied with domestic economic woes they themselves had often created — recognized the stakes involved for all of them: in the plight of the suddenly lib- crated Russia. Today, too many Russians are angrily recalling they were ‘‘better fed when red" for the West to repeat its mistake with Yeltsin. - i I ! ‘ e New party time | “ | 1 by forces beyond Canada. Voters also see provinces workiug at cross-purposes and often to the detriment of the. greater na- tional whole. © National Party evocation of self-reliance and independence, and a reduction of in- dividual taxes coupled. with increased cor- — porate taxes, will play well at street level. But ‘time is not on the side of the new: party for this year’s election. rE THE West Vancouver man respon- sible for setting up the grassroots in- frastructure nesessary to support. 32 ., candidates representing « new federal party “in B.C. is corvect jabout his recent com- ment that 30% of National Party of Canada members| are ex-Liberals, the fledgling force probably stands a chance of making some inroads in a country without Brian Mulroney. | it is arguabie that the relatively high . level of Liberal support posted recently is a . direct’ reflection of voter discontent with the fiscal policies: of .Mulropey and the Conservatives. | os ; important issues and providing additional. jimunist control into a free Voters see a country increasingly defined choice at the ballot box this year. market economy within (wo years boos. ‘ is on the brink of collapse. As his predecessor Mikhail Gorbachev warned, he tried to do too much too fast, reducing his 150 million citizens to an econoin- ic basket case in the process. As a result, communist forces — thought to have becn tamed along with Gorbachev’s ending of the Cold War — have regrouped, ready at the first opportunity to strike down Russia’s fragile democracy. In which case a new nuclear-armed dictatorship and eee even a Cold War Two could be , inflicted on a world with quite enough troubles already. Two years ago the G-7 sent eee SCRATCHPAD: Happiest woman in West Van this week has to be Chamber of Commerce inanager and self-styled ‘bag tady’* Joan Foster on moving into the : chamber’s new two-year-lease of- fice at 775-15th St. — her fourth such move in three years after suffering this past winter in that unheated goldfish bowl next door to the former Odeon:... West Van | senior secondary’s production of Shakespeare’s hit comedy A Mid-- summer Night’s Dream in 1960s setting is on again Thursday, Fri-: day and Saturday, April 1, 2 and 3, with curtain at 7:30 p.m. each evening — Happy birthday today, ~~ March 31, to North Van’s Art. ~ Weseen and Mount Seymour Lion Jack Mitchell ... And the same again tomorrow, April 1, to North Van's Carl Busby, Me! Hurtig and his adherents, however, will, have performed a valuable service simply by offering firm perspectives on REPAIRS, 1 Intolerance Dear Editer: : i , Year after ‘year, 1, | like most people, have grudgingly put up with Doug Csilins. ‘ publishing the hate and ignorance : advocated by this man? it | | hurts us all as a society telligence of your readership. What positive aspects do you as an editor feel are served by us all. Yet at the same time you would have us believe that we live in the most educated and respectable community in the Lower WRIGHT OR WRONG: All that’s needed to strip a gear is one In the past, | was quite apathet- ic to the controversy surrounding his column, despite the fact that I never liked him. ! Now, especially with all the problems of hate and discrintina- tion in our society, | feel an obligation to voice my extreme dissatisfaction with both him and your paper. It is his most recent columns in There is no purpose; intolerance hurts us all as a society. Collins is simply a bitter old man -~ which is fine; he has a right to be miserable if he wants. The problem is, though, that he has your blessing (unbelievably) to spew his redneck garbage at the public. . Because you claim to be the “voice of North and West Van- couver,’"’ your paper demeans Mainland. it is about time you realize that you're operating the most sleazy and unprofessional ‘‘newspaper’’~ in the area. The vast majority of us are not the morons you seem to cater to, and do not want Collins on your payroll any longer. Sheldon Gibson _ North Vancouver particular that truly insult the in- Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Nout Wright Linda Stewart ... Doug Foot Publisher... ... Managing Editor Associate Editor. ... Sales & Marketing Director Comptreiler . |. North Shure News, founded in 1962 as an independent Suburpan newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Iit of the Excise Tax Act, is publshea each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lta and distributed to every door on Ihe North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 0087238. Matting rates available on request, Submissions are tvelcome but we cannot accept responsituiity for unsolicited matenal including mares scripts and pictures which” should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. 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