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NVROVERSY over the $210-
milion fast-ferry project has been
iusistent, much to the chagrin of
; B.C, Ferries and the NDP,
oa ~ You can hear it in the voices of ferry
managers and employees when they
ave asked questions probing fast-ferry
onstruction.
“, The questions have already been
answered, they say, Everything is fine.
Unvortunately, however, the debt-
denying antics of Premier Glen Clark,
who approved ‘the fast-ferry project as
a. dogmatic. employment | and invest-
ment. minister in 1994, mevn évery-
4 thing i is in doubt until the last cheque
‘is signed...
. Critics can n point to the fact that the
. first’ ferry, was ; ‘initially expected in’
a 1996, : but won't be in service until
“1998. And B.C.’ Ferries suffered a
“ * public relations black eye when it paid

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Defence Fund i is just over the: halfway point. Library sale of books that,
- is. a scandalous waste of tue

“To press: tine Thursday, donations from*over 1,300 taxpayers’ money and logs

_ News readers and free speech supporters to the fund... many fine books for far
stood at $101,091; -Legal fees expended thus far by the ‘less than the cost of the

~ News have, : ‘already © hit” approximately ‘paper they're printed | ons
+ $178,000.’The final bill will’be much higher, It’s equally scandalous

All funds ‘feceived will help defray the legal «who gets to cream off
Costs faced: “by the: News in Nes battle with “the
" Human’ Rights. Tribunal over ‘a: scomplaint laid, West Vancoiver,coun-:
“against. the newspaper’ and its columnist Doug cil, and councils wherever: :
Collins by the Canadian Jewish Congress. The public libraries “dispose”
heating into the matter, which began on May — of unwanted books this ...

2, wrapped up on June’ 27 following the sub- — way, should step in and put sarne
- smission ‘of final arguments, The decision from.
« Nitya Iyer, the tribunal of one: hearing tiie. com- net this practices "4
1p aint, ‘will herendered later this year.

ore’ excerpts. fram the hundreds of respon-

. “aT hisj is my fi irst letter toan publication but I feel this
Sh nonsense has gone far enough. I enclose a contribution that .-
Tcan ill afford in the belief that Mr. Collins will be exon-.

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__ VIEWPOINT

areas bantam shane eemmteneena oO

ry gamble

for technical help and expertise from a
Finnish firny last year,

B.C. Ferries decided to go with fast
ferries even though a 1994 report to
the Crown corporation said such fer-
ties would require more fuel and can
be expected to hike maititenance and
crew costs.

The report added that local ship-
yards were better equipped to handle
steel rather than aluminum construc-
tion, Still B.C, Ferries and the NDP
pushed on with aluminum and a mas-
sive retraining effort, They said fast
ferries allow for smalier parking lots at
terminals and lower capital and oper-
ating costs per vehicle carried,

‘It’s a huge gamble, with.,the poten-

tial payoff being a revived. Shipbuitd-

ing industry in B.C.

. Just don’t ‘place. your bets on the .

program *5 success yet.

war

4” on my old biases.

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And have few stronger ones ss than my =, Most painful are the novels, now, dead

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THATS RIGHT, QUA.
ON THE WEST C09 ERY FAS OF Horie-te
by: rvs. ye WANE COLLAPSED ON OUR.
di | WORORNIC POT.
| A GROWING COERATION.

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No criticism of thents,That's thelr
books, Selling them‘makes setise. ~~ legitimate ‘business, The, poi

Also date’ science and other, educational

Speech disapproval of the annual Friends of the as rauttan, of once-poptilar authors, Tt fair, ‘ignoring rarity ©

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“these books,

questions to the fibrary administration ;;, your, Blue Box.

a puts one in mind of woe, _aMonishingly ig
is Robert W, Service's oo nomic polic a
lamentis $25 andy

Like dogs we penmen Inie %
our day te
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«Aud then, thumbs dowit}
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* Tp die forgorten and
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“newspaperman,: withaur —- $1,000 to rat be
illusions: Tonight these words will be i rid it had also gi
; ent for mayor, Jim.

Buz many of the books are simply

yes, this ysar, for the first time in years: older, A-handsome cream-colored set of

woe

Hesketh Pearson.

_ Lattended myself. 1 picked up seven
books’'— six for $1 cach and one picture

The Encyclopedia Britannica (1956), the ”
last scholarly Britannica, was offered this

. book for the top price of §5: (Paperbacks ~~ year at just $20, A few years ago | | or ay compan registry.
s As a detived senior and exservice, 1 ‘a pleased to are halfa buck. ;
enclose my cheque towards the News Free Speech ..
Defence ‘und and compliment the News on pro-
‘ysding this support. for free. speech,”

fine set ofthe Americana, which has are maid compahy-

One was a biograph of WS. Gilbert © countless entries of lesser American and jis ve asked sah can
(you know, Sir Arthur Sullivan’s uncordial © Canadian figures missing from newsr
— Gil collaborator) by. Hesketh Pearson, who ene clog dia. T paid $20.

“220°.” needs no introduction if you kriow | _-

ong thought that West’ Van :
library i is far too trendy. A superior library - guess ‘they don’t know, .’

But any attendee of the’sale, this year. — can{be defined as one that includes books 2°" a have no reason to think the!

‘held in the West Vani library itself (grow, sellom asked for. Ours isn't, for all its 5 thing sinister going on here,
ivy, grow, a and cover up that hideous *,
“new” wing!), could make up his/her’:

boasts about having the highest cieculas: <.. “ONS. Any Fesponse?
tidn figures in Canada etc. It lacks depth, ,

erated from this ridiculous charge.” -— A.J. Mitchell, «own bargain list. “s . Hs content to remain a small-town)" + “On Saturday, june
_ West Vancouver ” “ow 7" fTo.be sure, some of them are dona: itbrary. é sto ped his purple van on Thi
Wes SAF ‘t ey. tions from private Jibraries. [salute one! ‘And who gets the cream.of the crop? lashed to a 1964 Pontiac convertible
Dg naa, * 4 ~ Don King, whose fiterary,tastes were “The Friends themselves, For $10 they get eet ‘on Lonsdale, and turned off its:
7 "Thask vidness there are still: peo, ole who believe i in ~~ excellent, since they coincide with mine a year’s membership — and first shot at» headlights. ‘Then he’ dashed back’ and
free speech, have enclosed a cheque and hope-you get more —I bought several books fom his library. the. books before the doors open to “hoi “drove off,

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