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@ ~ Friday, July 11, 1997 ~ North Shore News

WO. North Vancouver City

councillors and a bureaucrat

will soon be winging their way
to Helsinki on Taxpayer Air,

‘It’s the airline of choice for those
. Wanting to go to interesting places
but not wishing to pay their own
way, ;

The ‘councillors — Darrell
Mussatto and Bob Fearnley — will
- whisk off to the Finnish capital to
participate in a week-long look at
thermal energy — billed as being
environmentally and economically
beneficial.|,°

Lhe cost to send the duo and their
sidekick, ‘conumunity energy itcering
; comirhittee member Ray Fung, on the
excursion tops out at $7,500.

Yes, thermal energy for Lower,
Lonsdale is. a’neat idea, but do we
need to D tend, three. people over the

rd News'Free Speech Defence:

“over the halfway: point.
Top

her, All: funds, received will help.

Hl ‘the

. “of tinal argu

rae Tuesday, donations from over 1,300 News’
:geaders’and free-speech supporters ‘to “the fund stood at
02,071. Legal fees expended thus far by thi. News have
Hit approximately $178,000, The final bill will. be
Bt p.defray the legal
costs’ faced by..the News. in: its ‘battle with the °
Haman’ Rights Tribunal over a*comptaint, laid
against ‘the teach and, its columnist Doug
nadian Jewish: ‘Congress. The
aring into the matter, whict began on May 12,
wrapped up on-June 27. following the, submission
iments, The: decision from: Nitya lyer,

,

north shore news

__ VIEWPOINT

i holiday

pond to poke their noses around?

The answer is no,

One person with a pen, paper and
briefcase would do the trick.

That person, whether a councillor
or bureaucrat, could bring back just
as much information as all three.

City council, which recently voted
to target more than half a million
dollars to spruce up a perfectly ade-
quate city hall plaza, has forgotten
that we're in a time of restraint.

Perhaps if the Helsinki holiday
had been scheduled for January
councillors would have thought dif-
ferently about their decision to trav-
el to.northern Europe. .

Unnecessary expenses should .be
relegated to the deep freeze.

And this one is certainly unneces-
sary. «,

Bon voyage, Darrell and Bob.

. constantly assure everyone that
‘I’m one of the sweetest people

God ever put on carth.

the re welcome to keep
him «— the neighbors bit-;
terly complain stvout the \
smell). ‘

’ The government’ 5
biggest | department of all
is the Try to Fool People ;

,, Into Believing
‘Government, Is On: Top of
“E verything Ministry.”
Of course government
edoesn't admit its exis,

he tribunal, of one ‘hearing, the omplaint, will be «tence. But it's. real. And ity

rendered later this year. *

:.More excerpts from the hundreds of respondents

to the causes

: ”
a

speech.

B

Doxa Collins i isa a brave, courageous man who has

- literally ‘fought for freedom and is still doing so only

it is by way ‘of journalism. Many of the zealous puritans
the simply naive who condemn the views of. Doug Collins

ig just cannot accept t to fe t informed of ax opposing point of .
{ jorth Vancouver —

view,”

Donatidins to ‘the® North Shore News’ Free Speech
- Delfence ‘Fund’ “can'-be’ sent to’ the News ‘office, 1139
‘North Vancouver, V7M 2H4, Cheques
_ should be made out.to the North Shore News Free Speech

” Lonsdale - Ave.,
Defence Fund:

.
Wei ‘are behind j you and | your great work in protect:
ing the right to Sree speech.” — Joan Lesicy, Peter
et i Booth, North rh af re
le a ort ur fig t to preserve onr right of free
oa le cannot afford to les + Doug Coilins be.
& silenced, the one, voice of sanity.” — Carol and Jim

—_ renshaw@direct. ca

“pumps out the’official ideology of the
collectivist state, tirelessly. expanded by”
i the socialists of all parties bat especially

‘

beloved by the New Democrats | in
Victorias

‘ her decomposin body,
Paterson

language. Children's Commissioner |

ing” of our time.)
In April Children and Families

tard-keen.

Werth Stars News, founded in 1969 as an =

__ Indepndent suburban newspaper 200 qualified
nde Sefredude 141, Paragraph 111 of the os”
Excise Tax Ack, ls pubtshed each Wednesday,
_ ca Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press. -
° Ltd, ane cestrbutedt fo every door on she Hortn ~*~

“But the loving gets my. ‘goat (and

Example: The Mavis Flanders case.

This is the drug alcoholic who died in
her apartment, where her 22-month-old
son was found six days later crawling over

(TFPIBGIOTEM — pronounced
Thingamajig —~ shrinks from using plain

Cynthia Morton said Flanders had “issues
‘of alcohol and drug-abuse.” Behind the
bafflegab words are the fabblegaff: “think-

Minister Penny Priddy gave the legisla-
ture gold-plated assuriince that social
workers had been right on top of the
Flanders case — aler*, attentive and mus- .

Then Morton released a devastating

MORE. TROUBLES at we MIR R SIME 51

i

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report effectively refuting Priddy’ 3 claims,
asserting that Flanders had craftil manip-
ulated and misled ministry staff. P tidy
* climbed way down from her April assur-
aices, Premier Glen Clark vowed that
“ staff who had tnisin-
formed his minister
vould be fired, :
And the social workers’ *
ns union rep'shot back that
the ficld ‘worker involved
was iiew to the job and
-, had'30 cases to deal
“with, Such overloads, |

44 Said the rep, created hun”

“dreds of sitiiations like
de

* just “waiting to,

"Which of the above do you believe?
“The blunt truth is that people like
Flanders —. thousands of tottering,

dazed, doped, drunken human wrecks —

don’t need social workers, They need
full-time keepers, 7

The state cati’t do that. Bur it must be.
scen to be doing, something.-We are too

~ kind a society to do nothing, but it's’

impossible to do‘anything or people —
ric »,poor,. ‘high, low or middle — who
won't start with the prerequisite help
that’s needed: helping themselves.

That's the secret of the truly great

‘organization Alcoholics Anonymous,

' which knows that'sobriety begins with
the drunk himself. If he also ‘needs the
he of a Higher Power, it’s a whole lot

er than Penny Priddy or’Glen Clark.

eB ut the huge, costly apparatus‘of the

secular state can’t admit impuience. That.
would destroy its legitimacy. A humon: °

navel: staring, the breast-be
#ger-pointing 3 ‘and the investigation into?
the investigations ;

The Somalia in

7 same, with guns. ce

up is disgusting.. ‘
No one heeded me when.I wrote 7."

’ from the start that Canada shiould ev

send its soldiers into such"no-win situ
tions, without a democratic leader:
sight to support r defend,

And the most forgotten of. all ‘press
stories out ‘of Somalia is that’after the.
Canadians so brutally killed the-twe

Somalis — thieves ~— the ch
of their supplies stopped,

Our Reform MP John Repnaht

mnoved foursquare behind the woodwork:
‘ers? union picisniviahens on belpaeee

: nst tly recognifable actor
Jackson Davies was playing: golf the

“. morning that he hosted the warm ind-

off party for CBC Radio’s Vicki’

~,  Gabereau. With him were B

’” Senator.Ed Lawson, powe

* head of the Teamsters Union

1, parts... . F

4] drove the golf cart for iis,” quip

gous screw-up? Call in the spin doctors of. i Davies. “But I had‘to take out a

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