Dear Editor:

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Friday, January 28, 2000 — North Shore News - 9

new non-smoking businesses

Vm part of that 75% and J urge people who support this
measure fo patronize these newly smoke-free places.

The Canadiin Cancer Society has just finished promoting
National Non-Smoking Week, and the timing couldn't be bet-
ter for us to publicly congratulate those hospitality businesses
that are committed to protecting the health of their employees.

They have done so by complying with the Worker's
Compensation Board standards tor s“oke-free workplaces, and

we say “Bravo!”

Since April 15, 1998, most businesses in B.C. have operat-
ed in a smoke-free environment; the public entertainment and
hospicality industries were given until Jan. 1, 2000, to match

them.

Many of the chemicals to which these workers have been
exposed to daily are preven carcinogens.

How to turn superstitions Hospital chapel is important
into some windfall profits

Dear Editor:
Re: how to have success in

life and business.

_ Want to have good luck
and success in fife? Foliaw us
to the Orient, where, in Hong
Kong for example, they take
their superstitions seriously.
Especially when billions of
dollars are a stake. So, as
Hong Kong starts to unload
. some of the stock it bought in
1998 to head off a crash then,
the numbers surrounding the
sale seem suspiciously lucky.

The government is offer:

ing $33.3 billion HK ($4.3
billion GS) of stock in Hong
Kong companies. The num-
ber three in the Cantonese

dialect sounds like the word
for life. Shares worth $9.99
billion HK ($1.3 billion US)
are reserved for institutions,
nine connotes longevity.

Local buyers get the
remaining $23.3 billion HK
($3 billion US). The numerals
233 suggest “casy to live.”

The stock is packaged in
fund shares, with each unit
priced at $12.88 HK — which
stands for and sounds like
“easy to prosper.”

And, trading started Nov.
12, a good day to exercise
authority, says Steven Post,
CEO of the Geomancy-Feng
Shui education organization
in San Francisco. So, did

Fair Comment far

Dear Editor: ;
- Re: Jan. 16 News letter
“to. editor ‘(ana Mercer is
misguided about | feminist
ideology)... i
I need to ask, “What’s fair
about Ms. Mercer’s fair com-
ment?” fe’s not in accor-
dance-ro ‘the: rules, it’s ot :

favourable, nor is it satisfac- .:
tory, lean, unblemished, fair

and ‘square. It’s not even a
fair crack of the whip.
It’s not fair game, it’s not
‘fair play, it's unrelinquished
opinions, unexplanitory (sic)
remarks.
lana, Mercer, reality for

_ Any, human ‘being : that
consumes. » food “today. “is
‘unquestionably an. unwitting, |

inca pig. 9-0). . :

” Witt our. beloved govern-

ment:;fully supporting: and
permitting such an atrocity.

--Genetically-engineered
foods is such an intrusion into
our ‘lifestyle that it has’ the
potential for so much harni to
humanity it is mind-boggling.
|, Murated genes from these
“improved”. foods (tomatoes,
corn; >,potatoes, etc.) can
cross-pollinate : other wild or
cultivated crops up to as much
‘or more as a mile distant. So
it’s goodbye to all “normal”
foods, including organic!

“: One’ claim’ made by those
instigating. this: revolution in
food production. is that. less
herbicide will be seen as nec-"
‘essary on crops in the field.

Do you trust Monsanto et
“al herbicide manufacturers

-wind, bird and insect

some people is broader than
it is for others. You my dear

have tunnel vision because.

others have looked more,
lived more, read more, expe-
rienced more and. thought
more. . :
. It takes only one genera-
tion for a good thing to
become 3:bad thing, for an
inference to become dogma.
Dogina is the enemy of
truth and the enemy of per-

sons. Dogma is bad in itself

because it is accepted as

good without examination.
Canned dogma — resi-

dential ~ schools force-fed

who so claim? If so, phone me
for a great deal on moon

acreage.

it is ‘not enough to
demand a government action
to specifically label,. G.E.

+ foods.

Wher point is this when
there will be (due to cross-
Hina-
tion) no “clean” food to. be
had anywhere but on some
“uncivilized”. isle ‘in mid-
Pacific? ; .

There’s more yet! What
minuscule percentage _ of

‘meat-eaters realize they (in

Canada and U.S.) are con-
suming livestock that are fed
the same cannibalistic food
mix that created “Mad Cow”
disease in Britain?

Britain has long banned all

- unnatural feeding of its live-
stock but the feared humar .

damage is seen as yet to come.

Our government rakes no .
such . action’. to _ protect”

It's been great to see the comments from workers who
appreciate the new protection; obviously their companies are
places where employees feel free to speak out.

Pm convinced that this standard will bring positive returns
tor both the employees and their companies.

We know how heavy the lobbying of both the Workers’
Compensation Board and the government was to soften or

delay the implementation.

“Bravo” again to those who had the ability co withstand the

pressure and who worked with the staff of the WCB to make

this standard a reality.

Perhaps the facilities which are loudly defying this health
measure could look at the 75% of British Columbians who
don’t smoke as a potential market.

Hong Kong authorities plan it
all this way? Just a coinci-
dence, they say, with a big
smile on their faces. Adds a
banker involved in the offer-
ing, “superstition is never the
basis for pricing a capitz! mar-
kets transaction.” Still, the
offering was oversubscribed
by a factor of three (remem-

ber? three connotes “good:

life”).

Go figure it out!

And good luck to you in
your life and your dusiness!
(Especially in the upcoming
tucky and prosperous year of
the dragon!)

Perry Dane
North Vancouver

from fair

alien dogma.

I think it’s time now, to
keep your disagreeable opin-
ions to yourself.

Doug Collins was found
guilty of breaching the
Human Rights Code by pub-
lishiag opinion ruled to be
offensive.

He was fined $2,000 to
compensate the government-
funded complainant for hurt
feelings. He was prohibited
from publishing any similarly
disagreeable opinions in the
future.

Cheryl Cathcart
North Vancouver

Don’t fool with our food

Canada’s population.
The lesson is demonstrably
obvious. .
But it should also be obvi-
us to anyone with an 1.Q. of

50 or better thac Ottawa’s ©

rulers are far more interested
in a healthy ‘industrial /med-
‘ical bottom line than in popu-
lation protection. .

Who knows? Perhaps in
years to come all - this
“progress” may herald. the
demise of all humanity from
our planet. :

Can Mr. Monsanto and his

peers promise. us anything

bordering on optimism?
Wake up Canadians. But it
may well be too fate, so per-

haps 2 continuance of blissful- ~

ly ignorant sleep is an option.

This ignorance is our govern-

ment’s creation: | Soy
And it will remain dight-

lipped with the truth.

A.B. Griffis |.

North Vas:couver .

to well-be

Dear Editor:

I was shocked when | read
Timothy Renshaw’s column,
(Jan. 16, Hospital in need of
some spiritual healing) about
the chapel at Lions Gate
Hospital.

1 was in the hospital twice
in the last couple of years, and
1 know how important the
chapel is.

On neither occasion was J
able to get around.

Now diat 1 am home again
[ am still unable to get to
church.

There is no one co take
me, so I watch Daily Mass on
Channel 40 at 8 a.m.

You can’t know how much
it means to be deprived of
going to mass.

When 1 lived — in
Springfield, Mo., 1 met a
priest there at the hospital
who was the chaplain.

He had gone on vacation
and while there contracted
polio.

When he was able he was
brought back home to
Springfield, where he lived in
the hospital.

He said mass cvery morn-
ing in his wheelchair and visit-
ed the bed-bound during the

Friday, Saturda:

One final comment about the WCB recently inspecting 39
establishments: the WCB was correct in taking such action.

It has bent over backwards to give these businesses tinw to
adjust, but when faced with wilful non-compliance, the WCB
has no option but to uphold the regulations created for work-

ers health.

This isn't a game of chicken — we're talking abour the

health of our fellow citizens.

Employers have long asked for a fevel playing field — it’s

time to get on with it!
Barbara Kaminsky, CEO

Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon Division

ing of LGH paiienis

It meant so much to the
patients.

[have been in other hospi-
tals that have chapels and I, a
visitor to one of the patients,
found the chapel a very good
place to go and pray for them

and the others £ saw that sure-
ly needed praying for.

Mass is satd in the airport
in Chicago, and surely every
nationality under the sun goes
through there.

Mary Lafrinicre
North Vancouver

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