eae NV COUNCIL MUST APPROVE PROPOSA Film studio slated for A §26-million film studio is slated to be built on part of North Vancouver’s Park and Tilford property, a major American production company announced this week. Built by The Cannell Studias, the facility -- to be named North Shore Studios — will include seven scund stages and will be the largest studio in the country. Company president Michael Dubclko said from Hollywood Thursday construction on the 14- acre facility could start by mid- 1987 with occupancy in May 1988. Cannell’s recent announcement completes the Park and Tilford development plan, setting the stage for a shopping centre-studio plan for the 30-acre property. A BCE Development Corp. (BCEDY $25-million shopping cen- tre development is slated for 15 acres of the site. Dubelko said Cannell Films of Reporter Canada Ltd. will be the studio’s major tenant, but rental space will be available to other television and film companies. Producer of such prime-time televisions hits as Riptide, Stingray and The A-Team, the company is building a studio here to support its locally filmed productions and to take advantage of the large rental market in the area. But the proposal still has to be approved by North Vancouver Ci- ty Council, which in the past has been essentially split on develop- ment for the 30-acre former distillery. Ald. Elko Kroon, the deciding vote on the proposal and the council member who stipulated at least five acres industrial use be in- cluded in the plan, said Thursday the plan is “very interesting’? and ‘aoks good” on the surface. mf ‘Producer of such prime-time television hits as Riptide, posal recently faltered before council when details of the studio were not made available, The latest proposal for the shopping centre includes a 70,000-square-foot Save-On-Foods store and a 30,000-square-foot Cineplex Qdeon cinema complex. Stee Sh NS Stingray and Tke A-Team, the company is building a studio here to support its locally filmed productions and to take advantage of the large rental market in the But Kroon wants to see details of the project before he will sup- port the new proposal. ‘There might be a lot of things under the surface,’* said Kroon. A previous joint BCED shopp- ing centre and movie studio pro- Dog owners beware AS THE sign indicates, a little extra fertilizer is definitely not wanted on this lawn at 2373 Lawson in West Vancouver. Using the supplied shovel, local dog owners are asked to clean up after their pets are finished on the Sawn. The provincial government, however, is revamping the 57-acre Dominion Bridge site in Burnzby to make way for the new B.C. Film Centre facility. “We really believe there is enough film business to support 3 - Friday, April 3, 1987 - North Shore News P&T site 1 - “yee ches 8 both (studios),"’ Dubelko said. North Shore Studios, he added, is to include post-production and editing facilities, while the B.C. Film Centre will be used mostly for filming. BCED and development consul- tant Hyland Turnkey refused to comment on the plan and will not say when they will be presenting their new proposal to council. “We're working on the dates right now...council wiil be the first to know,’ said Don Wright, BC- ED’s general manager of shopping centre development. Further details of the new plan could possibly be submitted to the city over the next few days, said Dubelko. ‘‘In terms of actually go-: ing in and working out anv kind of development agreement, it will be sometime in May,”’ he added. “REINSTATEMENT CAPILANO MP Mary Collins will vote for the reinstate- ment of capital punishment in Canada following results of a poll in her constituency that showed respondents 70 per cent in favor of its return. The poll, conducted last week by Vancouver’s CQ Research Corp., included 1,000 randomly selected eligible Capilano voters, 50 per cent of whom were male, 50 per cent female. Collins said prior to commis- sioning the poll that she would base her House of Commons capi- tal punishment vote on the poll’s resuits. ‘‘They (the results) are pretty much as were expected,” Collins said Thursday. ‘‘And I am com- fortable with the position | will be taking.”” The poli showed the percentage of those in favor of the reinstate- ment of capital punishment in- creased with the age of the respondents. In the 18 to 24 age group 61.8 per cent said they were in favor of capital punishment. That number rose to 75.5 per cent in favor for respondents over 65. Of those who said yes to capital punishment, 97.35 per cent said it should be used in cases where a police officer was murdered; 94.5 per cent said it should be used in cases where a prison guard was murdered; 92.7 per cent said it should be used for cases of premeditated murder; 96.7 per cent said convicted multiple or serial killers should be put to death; and 36.5 per cent said capital punish- ment should Be used in cases of treason. Only 14.4 per.cent of the poll’s respondents said capital punish- ment should be used solely for se- cond offences. As to whether capital punish- ment should be mandatory or used at the discretion of the judicial system, 36 per cent said it should be mandatory while 59.6 per cent By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter . said it should be discretionary. Sixty-eight per cent of poll respondents chose lethal injection as the preferred method of capital punishment, while three per cent chose hanging and 6.3 per cent chose electrocution. Collins said in addition to the poll, she received 263 letters in response to her special February parliamentary report outlining the capital punishment issue. Seventy-one per cent of those letters, she said, were in favor of reinstitution of capital punish- ment. She said she decided to base her vote on the results of the poll because capital punishment was an issue ‘‘totally different from any other. It’s something that people have definite views on one way or the other.’’ North Vancouver-Burnaby MP Chuck Cook, who has indicated he will vote in favor of capital punishment, said Thursday, writ- ten response to a call for a simple yes or no on the issue from his constituents has yet to be com- pleted, but 550 of 740, or 74 per cent, of letters received thus far have been in favor of capital punishment. Cock said the percentages reaf- firm past response in his riding to the issue. The capital punishment debate in the House of Commons js ex- pected to take place in May followed by a vote on the issue in June. Capital punishment was abol- ished in Canada in 1976. The last execution in Canada was in 1962.