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Hullabaloo it =
;waterfront ferry tale with a out answers in this ferry tale.
happy ending? The North Thus far, for example, only one
hore can only cross its collec. ferry is under construction in North
tive fingers and hope that a happy Vancouver's new $9 million water-
ending will be the case when it comes front assembly shop.
‘to local’ shipbuilding, © North It is already over a year behind
Vancouver’s once high-octane water- schedule. ;
front economic engine, Hercus said he anticipates an order
The tale, in case you missed it, for another of the huge aluminum-
appeared in the May 25 News, hulled vessels this summer from a wae
It chronicled the local development buyer outside of B.C, . bWEXT WACKO
vk of fast-ferry technology, which will be And he believes that the ferry F SURFACING.
employed first in providing high- corp.’s Catamaran Ferries i AUING
speed ferry catamarans on the International subsidiary could devel-
Horseshoe Bay-to-Nanaimo BC op an international niche market in
Ferry Corp. run. Project boss Phil the construction of large catamaran
Hecus of Australia’s Incat Designs ferries.
/_, ptedicted that there could be signifi- But, to co-opt a now well-worn
; cant international market spinoff phrase from Hollywood, “Show me
: from B.C.’s $210 million fast ferry the orders! ; ;
program, . Without those, this ferry tale is just
But many questions remain with- another waterfront feutasy. . :
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| Handicapping political horse race
” : * PEOPLE have fought, died and —_ncously stating that the colorful Murray » (An exception might be Paul Hellyer, .
a hace m= sweated for democracy. Pezim me whom | have a soft spot, by head of the nasty, slung;together :
ery veh C1 “on Leas “ the way) is his father-in-law, Not so. anadian Action Party, whom I inter-
_ "THE North Shore News Free Speech Defence ‘Especially sweated, . Reynolds’ finesse, hitched to the viewed Saturday at Park Royal, I listened» '
. Fund is closing in on $90,000. 8 Like the hundreds of West Vancouver- — Reform wagon that scems to be rolling to Heilyer's radical economic-fiscal plan
ae ‘_ "To: press time Thursday, donations from over 1,300 Sunshine Coast voters triumphanely over and imagined I heard echoes of ear ly
Bo _ News readers and free speech supporters to the fund, which ~— who crammed into the Hoenn Alberta and B.C., was Social Credit theory — internation vo
adh , was initiated on March 26, stood at $89,972. Legal fees painfully inadequate, Irwin strongly evident at the banking conspiracy and all.)
Bot expended thus far by the News are now over $120,000, Park school auditorium meeting, sponsored by =, The Tories are still struggling with
" :, All funds received will help defray the legal costs faced by — Tuesday night for an all- the West Vancouver their divisive 1993 defeat. Thomas wine”
2. x, ithe News in its battle with the Human Rights candidates meeting, filled Chamber of Commerce." sorely recalled that at aparty meeting
' ve cag gg ‘dribunal over a complaint laid against the newspa- . the seats (except for two But Liberal Phil Boname, “an ofd Tory put his face in and said ‘I
vie co "UB per and its columnist Doug Collins by the — in the front row that'a though a political new- ‘ooked around and didn’t sce a single
a ‘QR Canadian Jewish Congress, The hearing into the couple of apparently comer, acquitted himself person 1 knew, so 1 came in,’ ” ;
oy i qe. Matter began on May ‘12 at the, Century Plaza socially unconscious peo- like a veteran, and he The joker is that redistribution has
. : « Hotel, 1015 Burrard St., Vancouver, It then shift- Ie used to sit their won respect when asked = made this riding very different from the
. Wo edito the Police Commission boardroom, Room rochures on), strung out if — defying Liberal gov- one (Capilano-Howe Sound) thar Herb
: Wa 407,815 Hornby St., Vancouver, On Wednesday, along the walls, and over- ernment policy — he'd Grube! held for Reform. a
“ _ -tit moved sto the Columbia room of the Holiday flowed into the hallway and outdoors. support manned lighthouses, an emotion- The Liberals are sharply aware that».
fo _ Inn, 1110 Howe St., Vancouver for Doug Collins’ And sweated. al issue in a riding that contains only.43% of its people live in ‘West’. _
ho ge ES coootestimony. [t has since moved back to the 815 Mayor Patricia Boname was among Lighthouse Park, ' Vancouver. Geographically it’s a brute of =":
. of. Horaby St. venue, the SRO crowd until «folding, chair He would, he would, The Liberals, a riding that fans out to include Powell...
_ - More excerpts froni the hundreds of respondents materialized from somewhere for her, .. Boname said in so many words, expect River as well as tony Whistler, where few >"
mo ~ tothe cause: North Shore News publisher Peter their MPs to stand up for their con- of the tony set actually live, and tradition...
PS Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever — Speck and wife Mary were scouting for stituents’ interests. ally New Democratic but increasingly
f * ‘dave to defend such a basic right in this country, The chairs when I left to stand at an open Let’s not touch that. gentrified Squamish. (NDP hopeful Clar
eo , socialist NDP horde is. baying at the door, and I hope — door. ; The spoiler in this race could be tall anks charmed Tuesday’s crowd when he" -..
one » the general population soon wakes up to realize the Great character and inveterate traveller Conservative Dave Thomas, also a new- allowed that New Democrats are “an?
DG insidious means being used to take away our basic Cornelius Burke chose the hallway, comer, who brought along the loudest endangered species” in these parts.)
B freedoms.” ' J And sweated, cheering squad and has campaigned with Those demographics might hurt
-~ Mario Tancredi It was one of those strangely still dash.  Boname ori his left and Thomas might «
- a 900 nights. The air was heavy with good When I interviewed him a fortnight nibble at his right. a
“Your lone defence of the free speech cornerstone of all intentions and earnest rhetoric, ago he came across as cager and charm- I'd pick Reynolds to win this riding
democratic socéeties deserves wide support.” At such meetings the voters pick up ingly ingenuous — a bit sheepish when and Reformer Ted White to crunch?
~— George Pownall and Stefanie Stevenson of on the music, not the words of the candi- he admitted he’d never met party leader = Warren Kinsella in North Vancouver. But
' ... Altamonte Springs, Florida. dates. Each phrase is set adrift and bobs Jean Charest. what do I know? ; wos
Donations to the North Shore’ News Free Speech — ona sea of promises. (Last week | asked Charest in person, — The North Shore News believes
Defence Fund can be sent ‘to the News offices, 1139 I swam ashore early. and | like him in person, why he hadn’t srongly in freedom of speech and the right
«4, Bonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, V7M_ 2H4. Cheques But some observations: met such an appealing candidate as of all sides tn a debate to be heard. The, .
‘ _o should.be made out to the North Shore News Free Speech First, my deep apologies to Reform Thomas, His reply, roughly: He can’t columnists published in the News present | ~

Defence Fund. candidate and man-to-beat John

meet all the candidates, and neither can
Reynolds and especially his wife far erco-

differing points of view, but those views are
other party leaders.

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