SK N , ASTIN NEWS VIEWPOINT Police praise OCAL POLICE recently took much public criticism over the han- ; diing of a drug investigation in which a young North Vancouver man was shot and killed by an officer. In 2 potentially dangerous situation, an officer was called upon to make a split- second decision. The consequences were tragic. ; in terms of the larger issue of drug- javestigation procedure, police conduct was rightly called inte question. * On the weekend police again were called upon to make a critical decision. Response to what seemingly was a routine business alarm call resulted in the arrest of a man | alleged to be responsible for robbery, ab- duction, attempted murder and sexual assault. Police and alarm company respondents intuitively felt. something was not right when the employee of the business phoned to cancel the alarm. . That decision may have saved a life. Police officers daily put themselves into dangerous situations on our behalf. Judgement regarding specific police ac- tion is determined by lawful procedure, the dictates of experience and basic gut in- Stinct. . The three elements came into play in the right way on Sunday morning. Thanks go out for a job well done. LETTER OF THE DAY WASPHM agrees with Noormohamed © Dear Editor: 1 would like to congratulate Taleeb Noormchamed for his contribution to the Zap! section of your paper on Friday, July 3. I agree with everything he said, and I speak as a white Ango- Saxon Protestant heterosexual male who had the good fortune to be born in this the best of all countries, and who has lived and worked in 15 others and visited many more. Publisher Editor agin: tor... Assoc ate Editor... Advertising Director .. Comptroller . . . Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Foot Considering their predominance in numbers and influence outside Quebec, it. would be of tremen- dous benefit to the future of this country if all WASPHMs were uniquely law abiding, hard work- ing, tolerant and loyal and so set an example to immigrants of the variety of ethnic and _ religious groups that are going to form an incrsasing portion of the popula- tion of our country. Unfortu- nately this is -observedly not the case. Display Advertising 980-0571 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Classified Advertising 986-6222 Fax Newsroom 985-2131 North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quahtied under Schedule 111, Parageaph iil of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Lid. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Distribution Subscriptions 986-1337 Administration 985-2131 But I must point out that Noormohamed errs slightly in his definition of Doug Collins’ criteria for ‘tthe only true Cana- dian."’ It would seem that he does not insist that they be Anglo- Saxon as on numerous occasions he has spoken out in defence of Messrs. Keegstra and Zundel, in- dividuais that I and many others feel make negative contributions to our society. J.F. Laurence North Vancouver 986-1337 Dr) Punted on 10% recycled newsprint Norin Snore managed 985-3227 MEMBER TaMt Oneen sere Why 11% jobless? Part 2 One-third of Canada’s work never paid for HOT NEW topic at last week’s G-7 Economic Summit in Munich was the 21% increase in unemployment over the past two years in the world’s seven leading industrial countries, to 23 million from 19 million. Days later Air Canada slashed 9% of its work force, effective November. Despite these 18,200 terminated jobs the airline says its goal is to carry MORE passengers, not less. . Canada’s jobless rate soared © last week to 11.6% from 11.2% the previous month, even theugh 30,000 new jobs were meanwhile ‘created. The trouble being that 97,000 new job-seekers entered the labor market during the same period. These examples illustrate the gut problem of the free enterprise system in providing paid work for everyone seeking it. Historically, all society’s peacetime consumer demands have been met by, at most, a wage-earning 50% of the working-age population. Yet to- day 70% or more of that group are competing for a share of paid employment. Worse still, the paid-work pie is becoming smaller all the time, as the technological revolution swallows more and more jobs. _ How else does Air Canada plan.to increase its business after laying off every tenth employee? Elec- tronics, robots and high tech management systems — once in place -- cost.much less to employ than warm bodies. Modest temporary improve- ments in the jobless picture will always occur, of course, because boom cycies in a free enterprise economy tempt employers, like individuals, to splurge. When the subsequent recession forces them to slash jobs, they often benefit in terms of efficiency and com- petitiveness. So over the long haul the jobless ‘‘highs’’ edge inex- __ orably upward — the Canadian pattern since 1965. Not that many people are actu- ally without work — only without PAID work. Meals always have to be cooked, clothes washed, homes cleaned, children cared for. Just recently StatsCan put a dollar value on the nation’s household labor. It came to a whopping $200 billion a year. That's about one-third of the total Gross Domestic Product, the annual value of all goods attd ser- vices produced in Canada. And since without this domestic infra- structure the paid work force could not function, some fascinating questions arise. If unpaid housework is one- Noel Wright | HITHER AND YON third of the’economy, those who do it are clearly being ripped off. Yet equally clearly there’s no way we can pay them by bumping up all prices 33% — any more than we can absorb masses of them in- to today’s shrinking paid work * force. The final colurnn of this series will explore the only possible ways of providing equitably paid work for ali who seek it. . Together with the price-tag! SCRATCHPAD: Adult cyclists anxious to survive in today’s traf- fic can learn the needed safety skills Thursdays, July 16 and 23, and Tuesday, July 21, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at West Van Rec Centre — call 926-3266 for details ... Sunday Drop-in again from 1 to 3 p.m. this Sunday, July 19, at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East ; 22nd, features ‘*Canada Coast To | Coast,’’ a video tribute to Canada’s 125th birthday ... and from the Better Late Dept. many happy returns of yesterday, July 14, to West Van's Esai Wintemute, a Royal Flying Corps pilot in the First World War, who celebrated his 93rd birthday with fellow members at the Kiwanis Club of Capilano. eee WRIGHT OR WRONG: Hind- sight is good. Foresight is better. - Insight is best. ews photo Peul McGrath Second Class Mail Registration Number 3885. Subscriptions North and West Vancouver, $25 per year. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannot accept fesponsibitily for unsolicited material including manuscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. V7M 2H4 SUNDAY | WEOMESUAY | FRIDAY 1139 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver, B.C. SDA DIVISION $1,582 (average circulation, Wednesday. Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1992 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. WINDSOR PRINCIPAL Bob Payne receives award for his and his school’s work in helping !earning disabled students from Orton Dyslectic Society members (left to right) Arlene Trividic, Gail Myers and Marjorie Gain.