9 - Wednesday, May 10, 1989 ~ North Shore News CITY ARTS SUPPORT Doug 4 ’ = COLLINS Head tax’ figures corrected FIGURES CONTAINED’ in a $108,000 as reported. Vancouver Symphony concert at Sunday May 7 News story And the city has earmarked the city’s Waterfront Park. chronicling a proposed ‘head tax’ $3,333, not $330,000, to support « The News regrets the errors. NF RRR Sune eypeceeeyt By IT BEING my eternal ambition to keep you informed of the strange things that lurk and lurch on this crazed planet, to- day we go on an oddities expedition. For there is no lack of the peculiar. In Ottawa, Mr. Edward Broad- bent received a kick in the snout from the Quebec branch of the NDP, which is being true to that province's separatist instincts by breaking away from the federal party. Grinning a sickly grin, the socialist functionary said he was pleased. Is there any hope that Quebec itself will break away? Then we could all be pleased. ’Tis an idea whose time has come. As the Bard said, ‘‘If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly’. In Delta, a handful of bilinguals have filed suit against the school board, Education Minister Tony Brummet, and the provincial gov- ernment. They want an entirely French-speaking school, plus ‘the eventual creation of a province- wide French school system.”’ They also squawk about “dual- tract’® schools and ‘‘uni-tract’’ schoois, which may be the educa- tional equivalent of French on the cornflake boxes. But such expres- sions are no more incomprehensi- ble than our playing the tame goose to the wild Quebec gander. Where is the man who will lead English Canada to freedom? Even @ woman would do... In Calgary, a ‘‘white suprema- cist’? from the U.S. has been denied refugee status, he being a member of the lunatic Aryan Na- tions and probably cross-eyed, too. He should have been a Muslim hijacker, like gentle Issa Moham- mad whom we cannot seem to toss out. Or a self-confessed Mexican mass executioner like Zacarias Cruz. Or a convicted criminal ‘wanted in the U.S., like Robert Satiacum the American indian. When will these dumb whites learn...? Meanwhile, on Nov. 4, 1988, out on the North Vancouver ranch, Mr. Chuck Cook, M.P., placed an ad in the North Shore News to tell a gaping public that he was ‘committed to people.’’ Yes. “‘We are a government that acts. More flexible, affordable quality child-care strategy creating 200,000 new day care spaces,’’ promised the happy Chuck. ' Alas! In Ottawa, on April 27, ‘1989, Mr. Brian Baloney and his accomplice, the unhappy Michael Wilson, announced there would not be 200,000 new day-care spaces. Good. Let parents look get sued for false advertising? In New York, black sprinter Carl Lewis, the fastest man in the world not on steroids, says black athletes are generally ‘‘made bet- ter’ than white athletes, and an- thropologist Robert Malina was heard to say that black children run faster and jump higher than white children. Great. But where are the massed battalions of indignation mer- chants who burst blood vessels when Professor Philippe Rushton of Ontario said whites have more in the head than blacks? Just askin’! In New York again, a young white woman who was jogging in Central Park was gang-raped and brutally beaten by a bunch of black, sub-human teenagers. She may never recover. Sociologists and other witch- doctors wrinkle their brows over this insanity and over the perpetrators’ total lack of pity. But there is no talk of ‘‘racist vio- lence,”’ which there was when three white kids set on three blacks in the same city and editorialists from coast to coast went on a spit- ting binge. Our Evening Wimp ran a page on the Central Park incident without mentioning that blacks were involved. But it was in the British papers... In the London Borough of Eal- ing, tuxpayers are going to have to pay for free self-defence classes for lesbians. Loony Left council leader Len Turner says those ladies should be able to discuss common experiences in a supportive at- mosphere... The North Shore figures in Hong Kong’s South China Morn- ing Post. Display ads in that paper refer to a $275,000 ‘‘beautiful modern home in sunny North Vancouver,’’ no less. Will anyone tell the Post that for most of the year, prospective buyers should bring their own sun with them? Did you know that part of the alleged deficit-reducing federal budget includes handing out $276.5 million to that twerp Gerry Weiner for his newly-created department of multiculturalism and citizenship? I thought not... And last, but not least, Sikhs in the RCMP may now wear their turbans. Scots, however, may not apply to wear the Glengarry... © for North Vancouver City residents to help support regional arts programs were incorrect. A 25-cent per-resident tax to help subsidize such regional arts programs as symphony, opera and theatre would amount to a lump $8,924.50 payment from North Vancouver City this year, not Gov't of Canada Treasury Bills "12.25% 3 month rate as of May 2, rates subject to change. Minimum $5,000 Cali James Mackle 669-6262 Walwyn Stodgell Cochran , Murray Limited 8 NURSERYLAND 20-20-20 TWO GO IN” FOR EVERY ABORTION ONLY ONE COMES OUT HER PAIN WILL LAST MUCH LONGER ABORTION RECOVERY CANADA (604) 640-7171 PO Gos 1328 Sin “A>, Suey, BC VIS 449 CORNER KEITH-BEWICKE-MARINE NORTH VANCOUVER 988-6535 or 988-8082 NURSERIES & FLORIST wn. Store Hours: 9am-9pm Mon. thru Fri; Sat, Yam-Gpm; Sun. & Hol. Sam-5pm FUCHSIA PLANTS 20 varieties to choose from NURSERYLAND STEER MANURE OR after their own little darlings. 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