6 - Friday, January 3, 1986 - North Shore News

Who decides?

nti-abortionists George Carruthers and

Michrel- Whelton recently lost. their

. appeal to file a suit against Lions Gate
_ Hospital over. its abortion policies.

The. two. ‘former hospital board members
‘and life: ‘members of the North and West
‘Vancouver. ‘Hospital Society, launched their
“original . suit-in 1982, disputing the hospital
beard’s, definition of health. ;

‘Yn “their: interpretation,. Carruthers and_

* Whelcon say health means the absence of
- disease;. and ‘Pregnancy,’ they maintain, is not
‘a disease.”

But the tvvo. have. failed to address the fatal
side ‘effects of an unwanted pregnancy.

Backstreet butchering is:not a myth, it is a

y. As. lateas 1968, when abortion was

- Still illegal: in Canada, women . were being

into the emergency wards : of

exceptions:

has become preg-
or if an unborn, child

‘got ‘pregnant “due: to Me

gle mother of-four cannot

OFEC OIL PRICE
SAVINGS

; It’s s time to; be riasty again, ‘and today’ Professor

~ Collins is going to: be nasty about the high stan-

“dard of illiteracy i in the media. For although the
kids now go to school until they’ re almost ready
to. draw pensions; they still can’t ‘master elemen-‘

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. tary English.

, “Let me stress that Vr mnot
talking about

‘bricklayers or bus drivers —
_[. who may not need to know:
about the mysteries of him
“and her,...

who- and whom,
it’s and.

living: “with

language ‘and. don’t even
know

*By comparison,

: Skytrain looks good com-
‘pared to
© Mugger Mover.”
Lf; at the ageof.11, Thad .
.. written a sentence like that, .

the (Chicago)

Old: Daddy. Parsons. would

“have made me stay behind
: after school,
. first. comparison is redun-

dant and Skytrain should be -.
Not 10..~

compared. with,
(It’s OK to compare one’s
love to a summer's day,:as
Shakespeare did, but only if
you saying she’s like a sutn-

engineers, -°'

“ds. Lr n talking ~
i piece on trailers, the word -
came out four’ times~as°.
«trailors, which,,.means you.
‘they should. write .
media are; not media és.
This sentence in the Mor-:
ning Wimp of December 29
_ will give you an idea of how -
- bad things are:

because the -

“mer *s day.)
“In the Vancouver Sun we
see ‘the amazing. headline:
‘:**Sunken:. Galleon .. Yields
“Gold Horde."’ Oh well, let’s
+ hope they all survived.
In a North Shore: News

can’t’ blame the.. print

" gremlins. Someone couldn't :

‘spell.
Unsurprisingly, Van-
couver ‘Community College

has the ‘same ‘difficulty. It'.

‘placed’ an advertisement

telling us -- twice -- that if,
~ we.were bilingual.we couid’
earn “extra”

‘‘interpretors”

‘A: Canada‘ Post ‘ad "pro.

_ vided the news that the days
are long gone when the mail
was comprised ‘of only a

. few regular services. The

‘days .are'long gone, : too,
when ‘overpaid -post office

“public ~

, ween comprise arid consist.
The marrying ‘of subjects

" Dear Editor: :
Thank: goodness for: Mr.

Clancey’s.. sympathetic. and

“scholarly summary ‘of the

history of the ‘‘white man”

‘and the Indian in Canada (or

A perhaps © N.... America”. a8. a

J whole).

‘outsmarted®:

acquired. from: reading’ other

‘material on this subject...

“Yes, of course. the: Indian.
-the’- French, ..
~ British; - Russians," Spanish,

a

money as.
- same” way,’ -
. stantly that something is:

relations people’
oknew the’ difference-’ bet-"-

‘It has» cleared up:
Many misconceptions I have:

ched the globe...

. frey. Melyneax.

doubles. as book ma’
The. Wimp, for’ God's sake,.
wrote that ‘Mulroney i is lik :

into reverse when it hits an‘
object. (So’ ‘does Geoff; it: ;
seems.) In. Maclean's, we:

read that Eaton’s is one of.-
those chains.that Aas suce
cessfully adapted.

Many who masquerade «.,
as wordsmiths ‘and

therefore cheat the

customer have never. learn-:

ed when to‘double a: final
consonant and when not to.

Thus,- again in Maclean’ Sy
we ‘read that. someone’ is
targetting Khadafy. Inthe
‘we. read con-

benefitting someone, just as °

if the someone’ is being fit-

ted for a new suit.

You -would. think. that -

‘ word-wielders: would’ know.

that neither goes with‘ nor, ;
and either, with or.:But!my~

‘hate file tells me. otherwise.
.And.| have even seen: which .
., used: with people. People

Portuguese: and whoever elge
when they came here, - even
though he was‘almost wiped

‘out by some of the delightful
‘discases they imported; and

so’ he has ’.already received

more than he deserves..."
“His: ‘persistent, attempts at

maintaining his identity and

culture. in the face: of - the
totally - peaceful,”

unac-
quisitive . and ecologically
sensitive ‘culture. brought. by
the: White thant! are“indeed

-Bad . English:zean cost, :
Ask the English nurse who °
wrote.. to’, her \ employer, .
stating: “1 have come to the
opinion t that Mrs. Pepperel.
is out to make my life hell,

- so I give in-my. notice.”

The comma and the miss- ¢
ing that after so caused the
boss. to think - she / was
resigning. What she meant
was that: Pepperel was try-
ing to push-her into resign-
ing, but the employer ace
gepted the. ‘‘résignation”’

‘and was backed. by the

labor board.

In Professor Collins's
perfect world, all: applicants
for media ‘jobs would have
to take a test in elementary
English. Those who failed
would be: sent to see Old
Daddy Parsons.

an outrage to the. impover-
ished . Canadian.

ject of universal pity.
‘! Whatever else he may be,

Mr. Clancey is evidently a-
seventh generation Canadian
with no bleeding heart. We
must alt be.a little wiser for

having read his article.

HB. Smith ‘
West Vancouver

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particular, should be the ob- |