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‘ONE OF ‘the few. pleasant ‘side-effects ‘of hopping back |
and forth to the other side. of the planet. ‘is ‘that you pick |

i ‘up some perspective.
‘Sure, we enjoy ‘‘perspective”’

all the time, but the trouble is,:

unless it changes you don’t really

have any. Follow? Like, it is

good for your head to look at the

world through —different-colored
; cultural glasses for a moment.

‘While I was in New Zealand.

‘the past couple. of weeks, there:

were only two news items that.
Bonnie:
Prince Charlie and the svelt Lady.

‘concerned Canada.

i put Expo on the map. And the.

news flashed ‘across “the . Pacific-

) that there had) been. an’ earth
quake. and that a tidal -
might mack |

there actually: IS:

; “Pacific: Rim’

sneaking around in Asia renee
nuclear. ‘reaciors, “was he. not?
f How: 's that for gross sleaze? |
“Vet. 1 ‘didn’t .hear about. that

| until I got’. home.-A curtain’ of
media black-out’, surrounds’ ‘the
country, truly. On a clear day,
J-even, you...can’t. see anything
| from: afar...In. terms of global
event horizons, as ‘far. as

can tell: from outside,
Canada seems to rank somewhere
between Romania and Venezuela.’

“It wasn’t until I ‘got back home
E-that-I found. out, for instance,
about Sinclair Stevens, one of the
very. most powerful men in the
| Mulroney government, having ‘to
resign...

A suggestion. of corruption in
high places | in Canada just
doesn’t [have the ring of
apocalypse. beyond our. borders.

‘I'm _not_sure how to take this,
. rs

“-... ““eonicerned,
“Canada.”

Either the assumption is that Ca-

nadian politicians, like politicians
everywhere else, are more or less
corrupt . by nature — minister
caught with hand in till, ho hum

“= or ‘it  just.doesn’t matter

beyond. the: asylum ‘of Ottawa
and: the network of. Canadian
wire services,

It also wasn’t. until 1 got ‘back

-home that. I learned: about the

dangerous escalation: of the
lumber. trade war ‘with the United

| ‘of the B.C. economy.

“there’s -a fantastic

7 Story:: while ‘we all | carp about
Japan's . outrageous. ‘trade: im--
-* balance’ with Canada, thanks to:

protectionist measures, who cries:
‘foul! in Canada about our own
trade: tricks when’-it comes, to
softwood exports to the U.S.?:
And= here. we ‘are, “EXPAN-’

“f DING'our, markets in ‘the U.S. by’

So far as: he rest if the world is is
“Winnipeg, ” tead

Don’ t get.me “wrong: No: news.

‘is good" news. 1 understand that’
. perfectly.

‘To - generate world
headlines, you've got’ to blow

ankrupt. Look’ at all the places:

“that are constantly ‘in the news: |
Libya,\ South Africa,

_ Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, . Israel,
i : i American,

To become a~ big story, The |

Philippines had to have an unap-
prehended . insurrection, Haiti
had to-rsevolt, Argentina had to
go to war, Austria had to run an.
ex-Nazi. for president, Honduras

-had to. enjoy an invasion, and

New Zealand, for that matter,
had to sutfer an attack by French |
commandos.' ... =:

I rest my case. Who in his right
mind wants to be in the news?

At is. with a happy heart that I
turn to the last page of a news-
paper far from home and still
find no mention of | things
Canuck.

You couwid never write. a
dramatic novel . about. Canada
with a stirring title like Cry Thy
‘Beloved Country, but you might
get away with: something like.
Nod Off, Beloved Land.

Stay dull, True North! ‘Boring
is where it’s at.

«Shore school ‘districts by. ‘the
“provincial government. °

‘roofs on district

et
A PLAN TO allow mobile
vending kiosks on the plaza
outside the Lonsdale Quay
Market has been given the

green light by North Van-
couver City Council. -

By STEFHEN BARRINGTON
News Reporter.

. But there’s a limit.

Council gave first reading Tues-
day to a proposal that would
restrict’ the number of mobile
kiosks at the market to 20, with a
maximum of 12 being permitted on
the plaza outside the market.

Council also voted to schedule a

’ public hearingon the matter,

which city.clerk Bruce Hawkshaw

estimated would likely. be” “held

June 9.

Speaking “against the . kiosks,
Ald.: Stella Jo’ Dean ‘charged that
the mobile carts amounted to un-

fair competition for:the merchants

in the market. “The ood peo-

having’ competition from. people

selling ‘the same . produce | from
- mobile. carts,”” she said as ‘an “@X-
oa ample.

Vendors with: “mobile carts pay
$300 a month rent,, Dean said. ‘‘I
‘think it’s: unfair: ‘competition and

powe’ re just aiding this.””
; * But: Ald. Dana Taylor disagreed. :
he:

“CAPITAL “expenditures
|. totalling over a
. have been allocated. to North’ —

_ $1... million

“ Qn behalf of Education Minister
James Hewitt, North Vancouver-
Seymour MLA Jack. Davis and
North Vancouver-Capilano MLA

» Angus Ree announced government

approval of 1986-87 minor capital

- expenditures of $779,800 for North

Vancouver School District 44,
West

‘of 1986-87 capital expenditure

funding of $237,700 for West.

Vancouver School District 45.

Of the North Vancouver allot-.

ment, $360,000 is to go toward
replacing deteriorated and leaking
schools, . and
$220,000 is to. pay for upgrading
fire safety systems in the district.

Of the West Vancouver funding, '

$152,600 will go toward replacing
deteriorated and leaking roofs on
district schools, and the balance of
$84,400 will be ‘used for minor
renovations.

Vancouver .MLA John.
Reynolds announced the approval

“presumably those shopkeepers
will be at the public hearing.”
Later in the meeting, council

green. light

decided that mobile vendors will
have to pay $72 a year for a city
business licence.

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