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T LEAST someone is making’

tracks towards revitalizing Lower
Lonsdale. |
The North Shore’s original heart and
town centre is in desperate need of an
energy transfusion,
’ thas the potential to be a great draw

‘for shoppers and tourists: it’s got history,
it’s got harborside location, it's got great

industrial and commercial character.
But it’s short on dynamic civic aimee

tion. So when some rears its head i

should be enthusiastically encouraged.

_ Along with city heritage planner Gary

Penway, city museum director Robin

Inglis recently presented a report. to

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council promoting the return of the old
Pacific Great Eastern Railway station
building ‘to its original location at the
foot of Lonsdale Avenue.

The building, which originally opened
Jan. 1, 1914, currently serves as the
annex for the North Vancouver Museum
and Archives at Mahon Park,

Yawn,

As with a tot of things in the city, the
building's full potential is not being real-
ized. Its move to Lower Lonsdale could
he the spark that ignites interest: in
Lower Lonsdale rejuvenation.

The train station could be, for exam-
ple, the terminus for a Lonsdale tram

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line, which would carry shoppers and

tourists up and down the city’s main
commercial strip. It could set the tone:
for tapping the enormous potentiat’ of
the vacant Versatile Pacific Shipyards
site.

But nothing will happen if city fathers” x
don't seize the opportunity. to bet the’
Lower Lonsdale area roiling again,

Estimated cost to relocate the old rail-
way station to Lower Lonsdate is just
over $100,000 — a small investment that
offers a substantial community return,

Let's start tapping the enormous .
potential of Lower Lonsdale now for the”
benefit of all North Shore residents.

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YOU'LL BE surprised to
“ learn that I watch language
. quite a bit.

‘And you know what, reader? «-
Among other societal retreats and

‘collapses, most pointedly in our

paralysis in catching and punishing

. the monsters on our streets like the

horrible Abbotsford rapist, we are
even losing the language of indig-'
nation.

Our words are being leached of
legitimate anger — just as our will
to really do something about these
murderous psychopaths is flatulent.

A few days ago there was a

"tring of.arsons in Vancouver. Here,
verbatim, is what a firefighter said

in front of the TV camera:

“We don’t like having an arson-
ist running around like this, you
know.”

That must have scared hell out
of the guy.

In the much more serious case

" of the Abbotsford killer/rapist, who

at this writing remains at large
taunting police in a series of phone
calls, the law-enforcers released a
plea to this rotten man.

A plea indeed,

It didn’t threaten this brute with
the prospect of being shot on sight.
If the police shoot anyone on sight
these days, they end up in the dock,

_, the media tsk- tsk, and no one backs

them up.
Nor did the plea warn, , through a
tough cop’s clenched teeth, that the

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police wouldn't rest until this piece
of human filth was run down and
brought to justice.

Not that the police are slackers
— there are reportedly about 70 of
them on the case. But it would |
never do for our officials to say
anything that genuinely expresses
the emotions of the mere pubiic.

It might even violate the creep’s
Charter rights, prejudice a future —
jury, or something,

Nor did the police plea bring up
the touchy matter.of evil — the
wickedness that an older Canadian
generation learned about largely
from the Bible. That would be
shudderingly reactionary.

No, the police plea to this

wretch — sneering attacker of two. -

teenage girls, killer of one of them,
and possible attacker of a third

Clear Canadian vision:

Dear Editor:

In light of the Oct. 30 Quebec
neverendum, | am concerned,
along with countless — other
Canadians that our politicians will
start preparing for new concessions
for Quebec,

We believe that there is no man-
date for this type of change.

We believe that: most of the
average Quebevois will not want to
leave the country if they really
knew the truth about separation.
not to mention the benefits of liv-
ing within this nation’s borders,

We feel that! the silence of the

“past three decades has given. the

‘separatist the ammunition required
to mislead the people of Quebec to
the point where upto half of them
believe that they would be better
off as a separate country.

They seem to. have the misguid-

‘ed notion that they do not have a

say in this great country of ours,
The last time I looked, we have
had prime ministers for 28 or 29 of

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woman even while the police were -
scouring. the Abbotsford area for
him — bespoke the language of
Psychology 106.

It addressed the beast in the
trendy idiom of pop therapy, hardly
removed from the bilge one hears .
on afternoon TV talk shows.

Here, in part, is what the police
spokesman said:

“You have a very serious prob-
lem which has gone undetected or
been ignored over the years, and
you must be experiencing tremen-
dous emotional upheaval.

“You should take a moral inven-
tory of yourself and realize the
grave consequences of your
actions. There will be no peace or
serenily until you begin to deal
with your problem.

“The way to start that healing

' process is to come forward, where

you will be treated with fairness.
and respect.

“Absolutely nothing is accom-
plished or advanced by continuing
your criminal activity.”

Gee, the scoundrel must be
quivering in his boots.

At this very moment, he may be
taking a “moral inventory” of him-
self and rapidly heaving up and
down emotionally, yeaming | for a
start to the “healing process.”

Then he could gratefully look
forward to being | treated with “fair-
ness and respect” — of which he
has no doubt been deprived from
the instant of birth.

the past’ 30 years from La ‘Belle;
Province, not to mention the feder-
al government of Canada's cabinet’:
being loaded with ministers from’
that same province’ and :yet they.
still believe they have no say in this

Ido not want to see the country
break up, but { am not prepared to’
offer bribes to convince them ‘to
stay, | think they should/could stay:
based on the merits this wonderful
country has to offer. :

Could the hundreds ‘of ‘thou:
sands of immigrants, , not to men-
tion the United Nations, be wrong?.:

If we are such a greai’ place to
live, why on'earth would anybody:
in their right mind want to'leave?

We must make a stand, and w
must work together-as a proud:
nation and-not be divisive,. but we
must also do this: without giving
anybody preferential treatment. i

Jack Morris:
morris @ direct.ca

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I'm surprised the e police di didn
coo: “We understand — you're a
victim too,” thus filling in the last .
stroke of join-the- dots dopey, “Tib-:
eralism.”

No, I don’t want to mock the
police. one
Allowing that, yes, there are a
few sadists and bullies among .
them, they too are in the grip of
decades of exploded theories and
collapsed policies that have given
confirmed killers and rapists con-
trol of the streets and have locked :
up the fearful innocent in their own
homes, Even there, as the fantastic:
break-in of Prime Minister Jean
Chietien’s 24 Sussex Drive home
shows, they aren’t safe.

Vancouver Police Chief Ray
Canuel said recently: “The crimi-
nals laugh at the system." He's

othe fact is that virtually every- ;
one connected with the criminal “
justice system knows what a cha- .
rade it is.

The further fact is that nothing . .
will be done until the fulse-liberal ~
culture of excuse is smashed; until
the public massively revolts against
what former U.S. secretary of edu-
cation William Bennett calls the _
sexual perversion, cruelty, violence
and promiscuity that dominates TV °
and the other media; and until we |. |
geta grip on the vaiues that once °
made Canada a modestly good, a |
largely decent, and overwhelmingly.’
safe nation. :