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. "BC'S MANDATORY HEIMET LAW:
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| quotes of the

“When you are mayor you are
in it up to your cars and so is
your household, your family.”

‘North Vancouver District Mayor
* Murray Dykeman, on being mayor
‘and on his decision against seeking
a third term. (From a Sept. 1 News
_ sory, yo

* Former West Vancouver mayor
Derrick Humphreys, on his qualifi-
cations to run for the mayoral chair

.. again in West Vancouver. "(From the

t: 6 Trevor. Lautens Garden of

- Biases column. dp

‘ The salmon has always been:
avery, very ry important « creature to,

a eee mailbox

~;, Xt is a mystery to me why you et
this man’ have space in your paper.
His article on

news viewpoint

“out the worst in peopi

¢. New ‘Brunswick’
_ teacher who lost his job because of .
_ his racist views, shows Doug to be a =

week

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“us. It’s sign of new life.”

Nisga’a artist Norman Tait, on
the importance of the salmon to
the Nisga’a. (From a Sept. 1 News
special feature)

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“Not remotely interested.” —
Bob McKenzie, a shareholder in

_ McKenzie Barge and Marineways -
. Ltd., on the proposal forwarded by

North Vancouver District Coun.
Jim Cuthbert that the district pur-

chase the 6.25-acre site adjacent to |

Cates Park for $3.5 million. (From
a Sept. 6 News story.)

nao
_“You will find other disgusting

Tie euard Peter Williams, on find-

ing discarded needles and syringes.
_ and other unsavory refuse on

Ambleside Beach in West Vancouver. ' _

(From a Sept. 6 News story.)

man who is de ly bi goted. Pe

it is the et air that a

le. Don’t you

folks have an MP who attends
upremacist.. meetings held - in
istler?

‘Tim Trylinski@mindlink be.ca

ite:

DESPITE the frantic daily hype by /
cyber-priests promoting the won-
ders and glories of the Internet, it
continues to get a rotten press.

The questioning started last year with

Clifford Stoll’s book Silicon Snake Oil:

Second Thoughts On The Information

Highway, A disenchanted computer science

guru with impeccable credentials, Stoll had -
been surfing the I- -way for years before 99% of us had ever he

“The Internet,” he says, “[claims to] provide us with close,
ful relationships, with cheap, good information and with useful li
skills. Within cach one of those promises is a grain of t th, bi
ance they are simply false.”

Internet porn and violence — including bomb- aking cours
have been worrying governments around the globe for ine a
Starting this month, Singapore is making the world’s’ “
its citizens from cyber-pollution by ruling that all Intere
be routed via government-controlled net servers. If a.usex
to a site on the government’s banned list, it will be deni

But whether even Singapore’s discipine- demanding |
adequately police the systern without totalitarian invasions of p: pers
privacy is highly unlikely. So then what? .

Meanwhile, after “groundbreaking research! . Pittsburgh. Universi
psychologist. Kimberly Young puts'net-surfin; ‘4 right up therewith?

joze, nicotine and cocaine. She studied 406 cybe y
up to-14 hours glued to computers ~ without food ‘or:
When they final d, they suffered symp

en they finally stoppe cy suffere
as any drug addict’s. Some needed psychiatric treatment? Crhers:
resumed their abandonment of all recreational ‘and socia
including 5 spouses and children, i in order D
on- line. fe

week,. “is the room ‘where ther teach: them ‘math?:And the:
they teach them English?” . - -
_Maclean’s magazine ‘put a'similar: “questi

“depth cover story entitled “Surfing Back Te Schi
whether computerized education it “Hiyh-tec

On the question of whether the Internet’s limitless in:
ail knowledge and expericnce will ennoble
it to a race of bug-eyed, anti-social hermits

LOVEBIRDS cager to tig th kn

’ West Van’s picturesque St. Francis:In-The-|

vanishing right afterwards into the \ wild blu

Rey. Trevor Fisher; who's just ‘moved:

years on the Island, hints that some pe

may be sought from non-parishioners ‘after the: hone

: enough! .... Meanwhile, a warm salute:to,

Jackson today, Sept.-8, on their 55th annive

of this szme ay to North Van’ 's Bob Beoth'

The North Share d News believes somal
right of all sides in a debate to be heard.

ews present differing points of view, butithose views are not Bel
those of the newspaper isself. a

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Wednesday, Friday and Surubay by North Shore Froe Pross Lid,
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AISE channel-changers to the
heavens, goggle-box viewers:
other 23 channels have just
been added to your television universe.
In its electronic wisdom, the
Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) recently granted (23 .new TV
specialty channel licences. . b,
‘Canadians can now look forward to
such stimulating new televised fare as
Home and Garden __ Television,
MuchMoreMusic and Odyssey Greek
TY. .
‘Steady on though, faithful viewers:

Cie Cries tee eeeneenare

Video void
not all 23 channels will be up and run-
ning immediately,

Four — The Comedy Network, N1
Headline News, The History and
Entertainment Network and Teletoon
— have been given priority access to the
last remaining cable channels on your
dial.

' They could be filling your living
rooms with bracing subject matter by
next year.

-: The others will have to wait for the
next video goldrush that will be provid-
ed through digital distribution.

"Onward,

Shy twee ate,

then, to the 500-channet

Valhalla, where every conceivable:
pursuit will be available on
sets throughout the land
questionable glory.

behind relentless “channel expansion
Those weary” of

of lame human a ndeavors to igi ore.

In the sage words of Ernie’ ‘Kovac £S iB Sei

led

“Television is a medium,
because it is neither rare nor y