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Could there be any opposition to such an_— enlightened approach to breathing economic and cultural life back into North Varicouver City’s most strategic slice of industrial waterfront? If there is, bind it in red tape and abandon it in the basement of North Vancouver City hall. North Vancouver City Council has _chosen to do just that. Good for it. The time has long since passed for further delay on doing something with North Vancouver’s most significant Give thanks you don’t TT is Thanksgiving Weekend, and let us give thanks we do not live in the fairly crazy city of Vancouver. You have proba- bly heard the rumor that the lett is dead in Canada. However, it still lives in Vancouver (and — needless to say — it lingers in the contemptuous faux “New” “Democratic” gov- ernment in Victoria, a.fine bunch of wannabe repressors). Take the Pacific National Exhibition. ; Led by the East Vancouver left, City Hall — whatever the stripe of political party in power -- has obligingly gone along for a generation or more with the movement to exile the PNE toa suburb, like some shametul family secret. Why? The province’s biggest city should exult in having the PNE within its borders. A million people — despite all the sniffings of the Better People who look down on it — attended the fair this year. Environmentally, thousands can walk or take public transit to it. Job-wise, it’s wise too — the PNE claims it hires more young people every summer than any other sin- gle employer in B.C, Oh, yes — and kids love it. So do those “lit- tle people” the NDP and COPE yap about and pretend to represent, who wave cars practically on to their front porches during, the fair. Why have non-left councils bowed to pres- sure from the left to hand over this money-spin- ner to some rustic suburb? Beats me. Take the Vancouver Aquarium. picce of waterfront real estate. Alain Dubreuil agrecs. His plan is for Versatile action. The current operator of the 16- hectare site lobbied city council for a temporary-use permit that would allow for such uses as business and professional offices, retail outlets, an art gallery, museum, dance studios, fes- tivals and conference facilities. In short, a shot of life for the mori- bund acreage. Council approved the permit on Monday night, thereby agreeing that the once robust Versatile shipyard site has been an industrial ghost town for far too long. Fitm production companies use it regularly, The old shipyard makes an : ideal backdrop for decay and dilapida- tion, Dubreuil’s plan could help retire that image for good. It expands the Versatile’s horizons from shipyard eye- sore to a host for business and commu- nity possibilities. Some might prove to be practical; others might not. The key is to let the community breathe some. local: life back into Versatile now. , The evolution of the city’s water- front demands it. ms matbox Doug fires blanks | in his own defence Dear Editor: I wish to thank Jack Chivo for his response to Doug Collins’ thinly disguised Holocaust denial. Typically, Collins’ response to Chivo’s argument docs not deal with Chivo’s argument. Instead, Collins’ attacks are per- sonal because Collins can not deal with the substance of Chivo’s argu- ment. For Collins, Chivo is simply “a "Jewish gent,” “little old Chivo,” just * another one. of “she (my emphasis) - Chivos.” The News decided to place a let- ‘ter by Michael Wood, steeped in similar sarcasm and lacking even a shred of substance, beside Collins’ attack on Chivo. Over many years, the News has . given Collins space to wilfully pro- mote the most malicious liars and their lies, Collins’ expression, does not inhabit the ‘grey’ area‘in which. debate occurs when we seek truth, Indeed, it is ridiculously ‘easy: to. expose and to refuic his Jew-hatred, his racism: towards non-whites, and. his hatred of homosexuals. When dealing with ‘these “groups, ,’his expression can only be seen as; th promotion of hatred against: them. However, both your ‘publisher. you allow Collins to be ’ : vo * The - News. say: ng your: ” strongly’ in .freedom/ of; expressiai and the right of all sides in a-debate. to be heard.” I ask Mr. Speck and _Mr. Renshaw: . of ‘what: value. arc Doug Collins’ wilful and calculated lies in the free promotion ‘of expres- sion and debate? ges David Hunnings ‘This wonderful and popular institution, the bold creation of visionaries and big-time private donations by “angels” like H.R. MacMillan, has been hounded for decades by envious, small- _minded park boards led by a few envious, small- ‘minded members — several of them Communist Party members or sympathizers. . |: Which brings us to the whales, I yield to no man, or woman, in my love of animals. As for the outdoors, [ hold them in such high affection that [ seldom disturb them, unlike the zealots who claim to worship them and then hike ; through them, frightening the wildlife and tram- pling plants that may quietly be crying “Ouch!” No, really, fie on the arrogance of the free- / the-whales lobbyist who insist they know what .” goes on in the whales’ heads, and who anthro- pomurphise about their yearnings for a life in - the’ ,reat seas. Well, if kilier whales and porpoises are intelli- gent cnough to “know” their existential situa- tion, with a consciousness not far short of that of a Sartre or a Camus, then maybe they're also intelligent enough not only to accept the boundaries of their lives, like people, or be happy in those lives like Camus’s Sisyphus — even take pleasure in giving pleasure to audi- ences, Watching them at San Diego’s Sea World this year, as Ehave at the — scouver Aquarium, I marvelled again at their cooperation and team- work. Yet, as the sensible park board chairman David Chesman said recently — before the deci- sion to prohibit the aquarium from acquiring new whales but allow it to accept them from other aquaria —— fully 25% of the board’s time is taken up with the aquarium issue. Why does the Vancouver park board perenni- ally snipe at this popular institution, jacked North Vancouver - ive in Vancouver around by a few lobbies with little more than,a letterhead arid big raouths and access to the media? 7 ; eT Es Again, beats me. Why not put the issuc to a- vote —-restricted to voters wader age 182. And then there are wards... Ta This is another hobby-horse ridden largely by cast-end leftists who, mercifully, have been largely rejected by the voters for decades except for the repulsive socialist council of the 1980s, . ; which snarlingly denounced and individually” 0-2.” “ boycotted (so some declared) a great triumph in ©, Vancouver history —- Expo 86. \ en What if your ward clects someone you don’t, like, or, worse, vice versa — especially if you - have openly opposed or campaigned against him/her? And do you think petty patronage would rise, fall or remain static under neighbor- hood political bosses? . Vancouver should reject wards. Oh, by the _” way, with an opposition split three ways, Philip -., Owen, a sound mayor, is a shoo-in, isn’t he? 000 Speaking of mayor: The envelopes, please, Can’t wait to sce who filed for West Vancouver municipal council (closing time: 4 p.in. today)-- Especially for mayor, opposing the only early-. declared candidate, Patricia Boname. At this writing Jim Hogan was confirmed and those rumored to be thinking very hard, all tight- lipped, were: Brice Macdougall (who ran in 1990) and — a popular dark horse — butcher Peter Black. Fed the excitement, | — The North Shore News believes strongly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides ina debate to be heard. The colemnists published in the News present differing points of view, but those views are not necessarily those of the newspaper itself. a, ;