rnaiibox octor upset over ex-CEC’s severance bid Dear Editor: Re: Ex-heaith boss sues for more money (Sept. 22 News). Remember mc? I wrote to you on Cct. 3, 1997, describing how I felt betra’ ved by the members of the North Shore Health Region board when it renewed the contract for the Politicians at heart of problem From page 7 propaganda blitzes to con- vince us they really do know what they’re doing. Or foot- ing the legal bills of yet “another premier in hot “water..Or paying off the _ 1 Jabour unions without 2 whom they wouldn’t be the re in the first place. ; 2 ++ Judges are the casy tar-~ gets in this debate and yes, - » they must start shouldcring - the responsibility society _confers upon them. | “. But, at the end of the day, it is our elected repre- * sentatives who have failed -- us. Let’s not forget them as - we cluck our:tongues about the habitual offender. who — "just got set free — again. . —_ Uenightirec.c ca region’s CEO Inge Schamborzki amid cries of outrage. There had been plenty in the way of evidence to sug- gest there were better candi- dates for the job, but she got the nod anyway. As she continued her reign and = dismantled, among other things, the cohesive relationship = the North Shore physicians and the board had enjoyed, it became even more obvious she had “to go” and she and the regional board were ter- minated. What happened doesn’t make sense. She was given a hefty sev- erance package ... for a job next Keep it ship shape Dear Editor: Re: HMCS Annapolis (Aug. 15 News page 4). Thave just read your arti- cle on the Annapolis and have discovered _ several errors, Annapolis was never a Second World War vessel. The forerunner of that whole class HMCS St. Laurent was not launched until approxi- mately 1955 and commis- sioned a year later. This whole class of vessel was post-Second World War. The Annapolis was never of the Liberty ship class. The former HMCS Cape Breton was. 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Boileau, M.D. North Vancouver advertorial, October 6/1999 THE SECRET CENSUS Way back in 1918, the federal gov- ernment of the day passed Into law a new Statistics Act, perhaps without even realizing that the full effect of one of the clauses in the Sil! would not be felt for almost 80 years. That Clause, 15(1), reads, in part: “No individual return, and no part of an individual return inade, and no answer to any question put, for the pur- poses of this Act, shall, without the pre- vious consent in writing of the person... be published, nor, except for the pur- poses of a prosecution under this Act, any person not engaged in connection with the Census be permitted te see any such individual return or any such part of any individual return”. So what, you. may ask, has haen tis... effect of this clause so many years later? PROTECTING PRIVACY —- The obvious intent of Clause'15(1) was to entrench into the law of the land ’a-pi- vacy guarantee | for individuals who provid-. . ed information’. -for ” the - purpose % the | Census. The provision had actijally'been - introduced as a regulation in'1906, so Was in force for the 1966, 1911; and 1916 Census taking prior to becoming part of | the new Statistics Act. The effect of the regulation, and its subsequent entrench: \.. ment into law, is to prevent access to indi- a vidual census records by any individual except the person, who. completed.:th retum:: So while al of this happened. ‘ ‘and: “may not. even soun very important in 1999, it is only just beg ‘ning to have a tremendous impact on‘th work “of genealogisis, demograr nt researchers, and historians. ..- Up until’ now, . anyone caitying- out geneaiogical research in Canada has. - wf been able to access individual ‘census data after 92 years. This meant that; for’ example,’ someone trying to trace iso her familly: tree, could ‘work back the. old. census. records, once they! w released; finding’ ‘out where relatives ha lived, ‘Who married who, and so-on Linfortunately ‘for researchers though because the privacy regulation took effect © prior to the 1906 census,. the last set of census records which could be released © were those associated with the 1901 cen- . sus. They were. reieased: in. 1983 as expected, but whan 1998 rolisd around, - | and researche' an:jooking for the 1906 records, they’ experienced: for the first time the impact of the 1906 reguiation. oa : : PROTESTS