6 — Sunday, September 21, 19897 — North Shore News ;
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VIEWPOINT
Buck passing

dust-up over fiscal download- unable to balance the province’s
ing is fast approaching. North books, have chosen a less onerous
Vancouver District is Jeading route to economic expediency: pass
the charge on this one because as the the buck.
now well-worn phrase goes it “is mad Or lack of bucks.
as hell and is not going to take it any Pass it on down to lower levels of
“more.” government who are obliged by law
"The district’s pockets are being to balance their books.
picked by the free-spending jackals in The provincial government’s $113
Victoria. and: it is*beginning tofeel million cut in municipal grants repre-
like “another . taxpayer, squeezed . at sents about 2 third of the funds the
province, provides to B.C.’s towns
and cities. And more downloading is
on the horizon.

Municipalities are struggling to
come up with ways to absorb these
latest hits to the bettem line. ;
'~ But whichever way you slice it, the

.. dweller..at the ‘bottom end of the
“money ; food chain — the lowly tax-

. payer.—— is going to teke the fall for
eo the: fiscal irresponsibility on high. ©

District ‘pols
: ehieie al tievsion © ‘denuncia-

= “hate” laws. Finally, the NDP nailed him
-and the News under their in :

ttle-with the Human
; r.a. complaint laid against the
paperand i is ‘ol -Dou Lins by'the

diait Jewish’: Congress." The' hearing into the --
12; ‘concluded on’

37 with -final- arguments at. the .Century ©
rd he decision: from:

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ithere’s a great big i gaping ‘hole.
- The hole left by Doug Collins ©
after 13 years of:
“informing, infuriat-
bat ing and delighting
defray. the Ie costs. us.

He joined the News.

‘back i in 1984 when I was"
editor-in-chief. After his
. more than ‘30 years of lit-
_erary and verbal :

-pyrotechnics lighting up":
Canada’s journalistic sky _
we were prepared for
some fun. We got it --- in’:

“s$pades. Within months Doug w was hauled -

"before the B.C. Press Council by 2 UBC.

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to the ca

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a lase ah we don’e win this together.”
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f lore-excerpts from the hundreds of apo : half an hour.w'

" anthropology professor.’:

The hearing had to be adjourned for |

le Mounties ejected a -
noisy pressure Foe demonstrating about
some enti-ely rent grievance, and in.

- the end Doug was “acquitted.” Over the
> next few years he landed twice more,

before the press council —- once to have’

“the complaint again dismissed and once to

on the wrist. :
anting Doug-haters
¢ News office —

receive a mild sla
Meanwhile,
demonstrated outside

once sponsored by the Anglican archbish-

open no less, with letters to all advertisers
‘them to boycort the paper (which
the a advertisers ignored).
wa mother time a battalion of placard- -
marched all the way.to

» laws, resultin
“before a one-woman “human rights”

a __ inquisition.

“dom-lovers: In soday’s
increasingly’ sick ¥

. of political correc a
he is one of the fas

mutter. oe ut ar
~ affaid ever to say out loud about such vital

n, hypocritical
“know Doug :

ced character, a meticulc US

Military Medal. Later, though our |
never crossed at the time, we both’

- for a number of years with the British
occupation autho i

Germany.
“ that period of “dé aziti

7 ©. proceedings and war crimes. trials that
“gave one a tingside view of the horro
made poly the total suppression of,

biel de m Vancouver’s West End.:
Lae, the Soczed attorney general mum-

made’ out to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence
: bled about charging Doug t under the

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