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Tomorrow. _ . Monday, February 16 — is
Heritage Day. We suspect more ‘than a few
Canadians,:for whom it will be work as usual,
are not even aware of the fact. But it-may not
be too Tong before the date becomes as well
remembered as July Ist or Thanksgiving.

For’ five years the Heritage: Canada
Foundation has been pressing to have the
third ..Monday ‘of -February. declared a
national holiday celebrating our non-poll-
tical past (unlike Canada ‘Day, which is*con-

cerned with our political evolution). In 1976

the federal government actually. introduced a

bill to that ‘effect but dropped it 10 months

later because of the country’s economic
problems.

There was another try ‘in 1979 — tor-
pedoed.: that time by the defeat of the Tory
government. And last year, of course, Heri-
.tage Day coincided with the federal election.

Meanwhile, ceremonial observance of
Heritage Day. has continued to grow in many
communities. With evidence of increasing
public support, the Foundation is now
renewing its. efforts on Parliament Hill to
make ‘the third Monday of February into one
more official long weekend.

Coming during the final, most dreary
weeks of winter — halfway through the long,
dismal haul between Christmas and Easter —
the idea is pure gold. Canada still lags behind.
numerous western countries in its number of

- national holidays.: The Jeremiahs warn that
thousands of man-hours would be lost, but
that doesn’t seem’to: have harmed our more
fortunate economic partners..

Let's get Heritage Day on to the holiday
calendar fast. On a Monday like tomorrow
we need it in the worst way! .

Sound in heart

Good for the unions! Despite all the
current strikes and lockouts they decided to
withdraw pickets from the QE Theatre this
Valentine weekend. to allow the Variety
Club’s fund-raising Telethon to go ahead.

Victims of the work stoppages may some-
times argue whether management or unions
have their heads screwed on the right way.
But at least the labor movement has its heart
in the right place.

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LONDON - The coming
months promise to be ex-
ceptionally bloody ones for
Northern Ireland, _ where

both the IRA and the Rev.

Ian Paisley’s militant
Protestants are gearing for
*showdowns with British
Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher's government.

Paisley “was campaigning .

to frustrate what he alleges is
a plot being hatched by Mrs.
Thatcher and ‘her’ Irish
counterpart, Charles
Haughey, to integrate
Northern and Southern
Ireland.

Last week, Paisley took a

group of journalists at night |

_ to a lonely hillside to see a

bizarre parade by about 500 ©

men, all of whom held up
what he said were legal
firearms permits.

Paisley said the army was
representative of a force of
thousands who would
support him in a fight to stay
out of union with Ireland.

Paisley’s Democratic
Unionist Party met behind
closed doors during the
weekend to discuss further
actions in light of con-

sultations set up between _

Britain and Ireland following
Mrs.. Thatcher’s meeting
with Haughey in December.
The Republican
movement is cranking up
another propaganda
campaign on behalf of IRA
inmates at Maze Jail, who
are planning another hunger
strike March 1 to support
their demand for recognition

HAVE A HEART: Carson
Graham art students toiled
to produce two king-size
banners for this month's B.C.
Heart Foundation fund drive
on the North Shore (we had a
picture in last Wednesday's
News,)One was hung on the
overpass at Park Royal, the
other on the overpass at the
junction of Capilano Road
and the Upper Levels.

Early last week the latter
was cut down and has
disappeared. Considering
what the heart fund is all
about, it wasn’t a very nice
kind of prank and Marleen
Fadge of the Heart Foun-
dation is appealing to the
pranksters to have a change
of heart themselves — so
here's the deal.

Drop that banner off at the
reception desk of the North
Shore News, 1139 Lonsdale,
and scoot’ There'll be no
questions asked. Bit,
whoever you are, your
change of heart will bring a
lot of joy to hundreds of
hardworking Heart) Fund
volunteers, not to mention
Carson Graham artists And
the banner itself could belp
bring a tot of extra dollars
needed to aid heart attack

victims. Think about it.
You've had your fun ...
Meanwhile, Heart Weck

“as as political prisoners.

The government has said
it is determined not to give
way to
raising the prospect of a
violent reaction by part of
the Roman Catholic com-
munity if the strikers carry
out their threat to fast to
death.

Mrs.. Thatcher. and
Haughey were scheduled to
meet again in London in
May, and in the same month
Northern * Ireland‘ political

parties including Paisley’s
' will be contesting elections
- for 26 district councils."

The British government is
waiting until after the

elections before resuming

. attempts

such demands, .

. Freland’s

oe

Northern Irish | Parties into

forming some © kind” of

devolved assembly. ;
The province has been

ruled from London since,
Britain dissolved the Nor- -

thern Irish Assembly in 1972

conflicts.

Haughey publicly views
the consultations
‘Britain as a step towared-
‘constitutional
demand for unification. ‘But

with

Mrs. Thatcher has refused
comment, beyond saying the
talks with Ireland deal only
with institutional matters,
not constitutional ones.

sanilay brunch

by Noel Wright

kicks off today (Sunday) at
12:30 p.m. in Norgate Park.
Entertainment highlights
will include North Shore
mayors competing in a
Flipper and Umbrella Race
~ how they stand the pace
I'll never know.

How the Post Office
stands the pace is another
mystery. Last Wednesday

(Feb. 11) I received my
last(?) overseas Christmas
card. Properly stamped.

Correct postal codec. It was
mailed from York, England,
November 17, 1980 ... Still
with Canada Post, a roader
challenges my recedt
statement that U.S. postage
costs mpre at 18¢. True, you
use a 15¢ stamp below the
border, but with an 83¢
Canadian dollar that still
works out at 18¢ Canadian

... Which reminds me of
Erakine Blackburn's = con-
vincing argument = against

increased posta) rates He
figures it now costs only a
cent a day to sent a letter
from Vancouver to Toronto:
if the stamp = price were
raised to 20€, it would take
three days longer ...

a @¢ @
SIMMERING on the back
burner is North Van Legion's
biggest fund-raising idea to

N

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date — a scheme to join with
a neighboring law firm in
erecting a 12-storey highrise
on their valuable chunk of
real estate at 123 West 15th.
Legion committee members
Jim Millar, Bob Pappin and
Bill Cooper discussed it with
their legal nextdoors early
last month, but the latter
wanted to hold off for at
least a couple of years.
Meanwhile, the Legion-
naires are cycing other
development options ...

Jennings Corollary to the
Law of Selective Gravity:
The chance of the bread
falling with buttered side
down is directly propor-
tionate to the cost of the
carpet.

Theatre B.C. — Formerly
the B.C. Drama Festival
Association and = parent
organization of the
province's non-professional
theatre — has a strong North
Shore tinge this year Its
1981 president 1s Anne
Marsh of the North Van
Community Players, and
there’s a drama festival lined
up for April 21-25 in the
Studio Theatre at Presen-
tation House. Theatre

_groups from the Sunshine —

Coast, Squamish, Bowen

“to nudge: the -

Although Paisley’s. :threat
of force could be a campaign
ploy for the May elections, it
holds the danger of driving
the Catholic population —
with its collective memory of
repeated Protestant pogrom —

_ = behind the Provisional Irish
at the height of sectarian

Republican Army for

protection.

The fact the men
produced what appeared to
be ‘firearms certificates was
‘an’ ‘indication, not denied ‘by

. Paisley;"that his supporters

include off-duty police
reservists ‘and part-time
members..> of ‘the
predominantly Protestant
Ulster Defense Regiment.

If so, this increases the
government's difficulty ‘in
persuading the Catholic
minority to place confidence
in the police and army for
their protection..

The: five-yearly censuS of
Canada, which takes place
next June 3, will provide
temporary employment for
39,000 people. across the

country. Not -generally
known is the fact that —
Canada’s first modern census
-- conducted in 1655 by Jean
Talo who counted 3,215
people in the province of
Quebec -- was also the first
modern census in the world.
Under the BNA Act a census
must be held every 10 years,
but since 1956 heads have
been counted every five.

Island, Horseshoe Bay, West
Yan, North Van and Deep
Cove are expected to be
vying there And while
we're talking showbiz, don’t .
forget to tune today to
Channel 8 for the final
segment of the Variety
Club's star-studded 24-hour
Telethon — it continues to 5
p-m. to raise funds for the
Children's Hospital and
other charities.
MEMORY LANE — with
belated happy birthday
wishes to North Van's Al
Sutherland (Feb. 14) and
Ranjit Khosla (Feb. 11) .
the best is yet to come for
Harold Bryant of Sentinel |
Secondary, retiring this June
after 22 years in West Van
School District Many
happy returns of Wednesday
(Feb. 18) to West Van's Pip
Guard, wife of Dr. Michael
G...and have a great day
tomorrow, Jamie and Jenny
Disher, on the fourth an-
niversary of your hitching.
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WRIGHT OR WRONG: A
man with one watch knows
what time. it is,.A man with
two watches is never sure,