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In peace

EMEMBER BLOGD shed in the

past. Remember that killing con-

tinues in many countries throughout
the world. Commit yourself to peace this
Remembrance Day.

Yesterday's news — a state of emergen-
cy declared in Coiombia as the government
there does battle with guerrilla groups;
civil war in Angola; ANC and Inkatha
supporters slaughtering each other in
South Africa; vicious ethnic warfare in
Bosnia-Herzegovina; Israel and Lebanon
exchanging aircraft and rocket fire — is
just a small sampling of the canstant
background level of warfare we live with
asa matter of daily business.

The tens of thousands of Canadians who
lost their lives im the world wars earlier

this century likely believed they were
fighting the decisive war that would end all
wars.

If that concept held meaning at all for
any of the men and women who fought
the fight and came up against the wrong
side of a bullet, then we have let them
down.

Too many of us have not learned from
the past. War, the many-headed hydra,
will be with us as long as we have a place
for it in our hearts.

At 11 a.m, on this 2ay 74 years ago,
armistice was declared. Siany a good heart
was stilled in that grinsing and brutal
European war.

With our hearts in the right piace, we
will mark Remembrance Day in peace.

LETTER OF THE DAY
Collins should hold own referendum

Open letter to Mary Collins, MP, you have

**improved’’

com- ment. You are not representing

Capilano-Howe Sound:

You may remember me as one
of your early supporters at the
beginning of your political career.
I helped you into office, then with
the greatest of expectations
towards future representation of
the people of Capilano-Howe
Sound.

There was to be much improved
communication with Ottawa, once
you settled there, and I had ex-
pected such to mean two-way
communication.

To my great disappointment,

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munication only in volume, with a
steady flow of reports from Ot-
tawa. Not once have you asked
your constituents, the people who
you have undertaken to represent,
for their opinion as input for your
expected reports to Ottawa.

Instead, you took it upon
yourself to choose the Yes side,
although you had no such man-
date from your constituents.

Had you listened to the people
earlier, you might have been able
to stem the waste of millions of
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Unlike your North Vancouver
colleague, you have never yet sent
a questionnaire to your constitu-
ents. Why not do so now, by ask-
ing your constituents as to
whether Yes or No they would
vote for you again? This could be
your very own referendum!

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Tomorrow’s air
fare could cost
you your shirt

CLIP THOSE ads for $329 return airfares to Toronto.
They’lf soon be collectors’ items when the unholy mess in
which Canada’s two major airlines are wallowing is clean-
ed up —- as it now must be in weeks.

During on-off-again talks since
early summer debt-laden Air
Canada and Canadian Airlines
have been dickering over a possi-
ble merger to stem their life-
threatening joint financial hemor-
rhage.

But since a merger plan collaps-
ed this fall, both are now looking
south of the border. Air Canada
is exploring a possible deal with
Continental Airlines. Canadian is
reappraising an earlier offer by
American Airlines to buy 25% of
the company — subject to Cana-
dian’s employees buying a further
$150 million worth of Canadian’s
shares through payroll deductions
over the next few years.

The employees — who stand to
lose 2,000 jobs in Vancouver
alone, and many more in Calgary,
from a merger with Air Canada
~~ back the scheme. But so far
western provincial governments
won't guarantee a bridge financ-
ing loan to produce the needed
cash up front.

AA also wants Canadian to
transfer some support service
needs like maintenance and com-
puter reservations to under-used
capacity which the U.S. airline
presently has below the border.

How in heaven’s name did
Canada’s two airlines wind up
drowning in glue this deep — a
combined debt of $7.7 billion to
which, between them, they're ad-
ding a further $2 million every 24
hours?

The same way as governments
— by spending far more money |
than they earned, Trudeau’s Lib-
erals let Air Canada, then a
Crown corporation, borrow
billions while remaining ineffi-
cient. Canadian, no smarter,

EMMIE LEUNG... top
entrepreneur.

STELLA JO DEAN... Wednes-
day birthday girl.

: &
HITHER AND YON

splurged on too many debt- :
financed takeovers like Wardair. ©
Then came Air Canada’s
privatization and the Tories’
deregulation policy.

Financially, the latter was the.
final straw — though a temporary |
bonanza for air travellers. Air
Canada and Canadian entered in- -
to a suicidal price war with the
endless ‘‘seat sales’’ of recent
years, aimed simply at filling -
planes with warm bodies at almost:
any cost. :

Those days are almost over. An -
Air Canada-Canadian merger .
would, cf course, end competition
and create a monopoly charging
traveliers whatever it took, which
is obviously a bundie, Even a Ca-
nadian-AA deal — which would
preserve competition within
Canada and at least save some of
the 12,000 airline jobs now at
stake country-wide — couid clear- .
ly never fly without tough new
thinking on fares. a

So don’t put off any longer that
trip to dear old mom and dadin®
Brantford — unless you're happy .
to turn up there without your
shirt!

POSTSCRIPTS: A smart salute to
North Van’s Emmie Leung, one
of four winners of the Canadian
Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
awards last week in Toronto for
“providing the most impact on a
local economy.”’ Her International
Paper Industries Ltd. of North
Van — founded in 1976 to collect
and sell waste paper to offshore
recyclers — now has 125
employees, $12 million-plus sales
and was the first successful curb-
side collection recycling program
in B.C. ... Opening 8 p.m. tonight
at Presentation House is Theatre
West Va:2’s production of Oscar
Wilde’s Salome with Tuesday-
Saturday performances and ticket
reservations (‘‘two-for-one’’
Tuesdays) at 983-2995. ... Many
happy returns of today, Nov. 11,
to longtime City Councillor Stella
Jo Dean. ... Together with double
happy birthday wishes to Horse-
shoe Bay’s oldest entrepreneur,
81-year-old Tam Sewell, and its
youngest, 26-year-old Jason
Trolt,

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WRIGHT OR WRONG: Make
someone happy today. Mind your
own business.

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