A2 - Sunday, January 30, 1983 - North Shore News

of operation in Canada.

This is one of the more
amazing mp-offs of Johnny
Canuck .I've ever seen,
although I've -get to admire
the sheer gall of the guys
who put this scam together.
Get this. The corporate

Canadian Communications
Corporation, which won the
CRTC'S blessing Iast March
to print money via a 24-hour
national entertainment pay
television license, is a maple
leaf with the number “1” in

place of the stem.
Yet in the first month of
programming, actual

Canadian content amounts
to one  show--comedian
David Steinberg in concert

strictly personal

by Bob Hunter

‘Maple Leaf’ Pay-TV

I'VE JUST LOOKED over a copy of First
Choice Pay-TV’s program guide for its first month

at Toronto’s York
University.
Is_ that

means?

what the “!”

I guess the-maple leafisie -

meet the CRTC’s Canadian
content regulations. Why

Ey Freie vant +6

the programming itself.

‘Surely the commissioners
could have seen this coming
from miles away. The rest of
us had no way of knowing for
sure until the release of the
February program guide--
although we might have
suspected as much.

It took the announcement
that First Choice had made a
deal with Hugh Hefner's

Playboy empire to produce
good old American giggle-
and-jiggle for the burghers
of the Great White North
before I could be sure that
we had been done-to again--
but by mid-January, the
news was out.

ust at
tume when we're being told
that Canadian culture and

does the company "that s
pay-TV licence do? It gets in
bed with Playboy to produce

feather-brained soft
porn.

There is a difference, by
the way, between art and
pap. The former aspires to
raise our consciousness, the
later to lower it. Playboy
isn’t into consciousness-
raising.

core

W. Van backs new route

ONCE MORE into the
breach ... West Vancovuer
Council is giving whole-
hearted support to a
Squamish delegation lob-
bying for an alternate route
to Highway 99.

And in aé_e resolution
Monday it urged the
provincial government to

move quickly on coming up

with a= solution “to. the
present congested = and
hazardous situation” on
Highway 99.

Representing a Squamish
Chamber of Commerce task
force on the tssue, Ryan
Sclyecher, president, and
Dr LC. Kindree presented
the need for an alternate
route. also beanny in mind
the need to ensure the Lower
Mainland’s
supply areca

The lobby group has been

future water

doing the rounds of nearby
councils to enlist their
support. “We think that if we
do our homework and apply
sufficient pressure, the

provincial government will
act instead of waffling as it
has done since 1950. We
can't afford to lose any more
lives,” said Schlyecher.

Were you lucky

Winning numbers in the
Wednesday, January 26
draw of the Western Express
lottery were:

$10,000 1193192,
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2947495.

$100,000
1763163,
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Jackpot winning number
764B749 wins $416,000.

Last 3 digits of the Jack pot
number (749) wins $25.

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And neither is First
Choice, that’s for sure.

I love the message from
First Choice’s president,
Don MacPherson, on the
third page of the program
guide, after a two-page ad
for Star Wars.

Quoth he:

“First Choice’s primary
purpose is to provide the
highest quality, most en-
tertaining programs
available. This selection will
include the finest feature
films from Canada,
Hollywood, and film centres
around the world.”

Really? The offerings for
February are: Airplane, On
Golden Pond, The Muppet’s

—Caper,—_-Popeye,

in Greatest ;

The Legend of "The Lone
Ranger, Red Skelton’ s More

The Nutshell

Deep Cove

Nighthawks, Escape from

_New York, Charlie Chan

And The Curse Of The
Dragon Queen, Dirty Tricks,
Urban Cowboy, Atlantic
City, On The Right Track,
Mommie Dearest--and for
the international set,

Gallipoli, a film made in
Australia.
Where are these fine

feature films from Canada,
again?

Oh, pardon me. The
program guide quotes Elliott
Gould, who stars in Dirty
Tricks (shot in Montreal,
eh?) as saying: “I just luvved
Montreal...reminds me, in
fact. of Brooklyn when I was
growing up.”

And Atlantic City, lest I
forget includes a girl in the
cast who is supposed to have
come from Saskatchewan.
So what am | complaining
about?

Just call me
Schmuck.

Johnny

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the dock ......... for

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Why is my school closing?

Did you know that

GLENMORE SCHOOL

in West

Vancouver

may be closing effective

September 1983? Let's fight to keep our neigh-
bourhood school open There will be a public

meeting on

Thurs. Feb. 3rd

7:00 pm

at Glenmore School
70 Morven Drive
West Vancouver

to make our views known to the Superintendent of
Schools and to the West Vancouver School Board

We urge all interested parties to attend this Impor
tant meeting

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