6 - Sunday, March 28, 1993 ~- North Shore News rat PEP RALCIPLAETTIAANT rT eal warnings HE FEDERAL government is tak- ing the wrong tack! with its latest proposals aimed /at reforming tobacco addicts. ! On March 19, federal Health Minister Benoit’ Bouchard unveiled proposed amendments to the Tobacco Products Control Regulations ¢hat will require tobacco companies to affix. a new line of starker, darker and bolder warnings on cigarette packages soid in Canada. The warnings include such = grim reminders as Cigarettes are addictive; Cig- arettes cause cancer; Smoking can kill you; ‘Cigarettes cause strokes and heart disease. ‘fhe messages are all designed to scare the pants off tobacco addicts everywhere. _ But smokers are a thick-skinned lot, They a i NEWS are used (o hearing warnings of similar or worse severity from their mothers, their doctors and just about everyone else they know. But, alas, they mean little to those under the tobacco yoke. Another approach is therefore needed to penetrate the tobac- co junkie’s tough hide. Dire warnings directed at common sense should be replaced with dire warnings directed at smokers’ vanity: Smoking ciga- rettes makes you look foolish or Smoking turns your teeth an appalling stiade of yellow or. Cigarette smoke makes your whole being smell like a nightclub at 5 a.m. ' it’s time to really take the gloves off in - the fight against smoking. West Vancouver-Capilanyo “I might cater only to five or! 10 or 15% of people ... the ones who give a: damn. Well I give a damn intensely, and 1 make clothes for people who do give ux damn.” | Alex Tilley, on his famous hats and frank philosophy. ” i “Store owners don’t have a re- sponsibility io stop those kids that “I'd like to think it’s a glamorous life, but I think it's what you make it. After you've done 40 shows and your feet are killing you and you've got eyelash glue stuck tu you from the, night be- fore, you sometimes wonder. North Vancouver dancer Sheena Alexandra, on the less glamorous side of dancing. MLA Jeremy Dalton, on the en- vironmental protesters who disrupted the March 18 reading of the throne speech, “Untess you say, ‘Hey there’s a knife, there’s a gun, somebody’s going to get shot,’ they won't come,’’ are smoking, but it is reprehensi- ble of them to be supplying th cigarettes to kids.”* 4 Airspace director Deborah Wotherspoon, on the sale of ciga- rettes to minors. : Publisher... ... Managing Editor . Associate Editor... . Sales & Marketing Director Comptroller ... North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualilied under Schedule 111, Paragraph #1 of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press ttd. and distributed to every door on ihe North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 0087238. Mailing rates available on reques!. 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All rights reserved. THEN THERE WERE SIX! Just as we were getting used to the idea of electing an Italian-style parliament later this year — split between five individually impotent parties — along comes Mel Hurtig again. “*Again,’’ because the Edmon- ton book publisher has enjoyed a high national profile for the past 13 years, since receiving the Order of Canada in 1980 and going on to collect six honorary doctorates from Canadian universities. Above all he is an unashamed, hard-core Canadian nationalist. His lifelong crusade has been to assert Canadian sovereignty by fighting tooth and nail against the economic and cultural conquest of Canada by the U.S., aided --- as Hurtig sees it — by the Mulroney Tories. . ; Along the way he launched two of the biggest and most ambitious ' projects in Canadian publishing history — the $12 million. Cana- dian Encyclopedia (1985-88) and the 1990 Junior Encyclopedia ef Canada, the first-ever en- cyclopedia for young Canadians. In 1985 he formed The Council of Canadians, now 21,000 strong and dedicated to preserving Ca- nadian independence. In October 1991 his book, The Betrayal of Canada, became an instant bestseller, today in its sixth prin- ting. He stumps the speaker cir- cuit up ta 20 times a month with his ‘‘take back the nation"’ message. No surprise, therefore, when Mel finally got around last fall to founding his own federal party, the National Party of Canada, So come the election (and dependent on where you live) and you may not be stuck with Tories, Grits, NDP, Reformers and Bloc-heads after all. ; If you've any red Canadian blood running in your veins — and especially if you oppose North American Free Trade — Mel wants your vote, provided he can put a candidate into your riding in time. | Given his late start, time is the enemy. Even with wide public ac- ceptance, the task of organizing, in six months or less, enough constituencies and candidates to give any hope of winning a viable impact in Parliament seems daun- ting, if not almost impossible. But in addition to nationalist fervor the fledgling party also has stimulating new proposals on how democracy should function, on equality, the just society, the en- vironment and education, All are areas where the public “il 9g HITHER AND YON | hungers for genuinely fresh idcas, which means the Nationa! Party agenda can, at the very least, add a valuable dimension to its own to the 1993 election debate... _ And with many voters tempted to write ‘tnone of the above’’ under the other five parties, the eventful payoff for Met Hurtig's « sixth could be even richer. WRAP-UP: Greeting the new scason, Vaucouver Waldorf Schoo) presents its Spring Festival of Arts Wednesday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m. in the Centennial Theatre — call 985-7435 for details ... Honor, B.C.’s top im- presario Friday, April 16, at 7 - * p.m..in the Orpheum by joining © . Hugh Pickett’s 80th birthday par- ty — call 280-4444 for tickets ($25) ... North Shore author and _ poet Jack Whyte participates ina dramatized lecture on ‘*The Scots Tradition in Canadian History’? at’ a Tartan Evening dinner April 24 |: in the Hotel Vancouver — tickets ($20) fron 261-4658 ... Many 3 | heppy returns of today, March 28, : to Mt. Seymour Lion Dave =. , Elphick who turns 47 ,.. And the same again tomorrew, March 29,. to West Yan's singing en- wa vironmentalist Terry Jacks at 49. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Before you walk in someone else’s shoes, make sure you take off your own. 3 A Photo submitted “FOR SIGNIFICANT contribution to community and Canada”... City Coun. Stella Jo Dean (front centre) receives Canada's 125th Anniversary medal from Senator Ray Perrault, watched by (back row) sons Tim and Tony, husband Rolly and daughter Tina.