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hat the Forget Commission’s report on
unemployment insurance leaves UNSAID is
more significant than what it says.

The Commission would return UI to being a true
INSURANCE scheme, funded entirely by premiums,
instead of a taxpayer-funded social welfare operation.
Benefits would be geared to earnings over 52 weeks in-
Stead of 10-20 weeks (so only half benefits if you’ve
worked only 26 weeks before becoming jobiess). The
Commission would also hike employee premiums,
eliminate special UI treatment in high unemployment
areas and no longer cover self-employed fishermen.

If we stop at that point, taxpayers’ contributions to
UIC would be cut by $3 billion a year and many of
Canada's huge army of jobless would suffer severe
hardship. Short of massive (and unlikely) new job cre-
ation—especially in the West and the Maritimes—
many could eventually be left with only two options:
moving to a more prosperous area or lining up for

welfare in their own.

The reality is likely to be different. Forced worker
migrations and/or major increases in present welfare
rolls spell political suicide. But just how ‘‘livable’’ an
income are the 85% of employed taxpayers obligated
to provide for those who, despite every effort, remain
jobless? What form should such a program take and
what should it be called—current ‘‘UI’’ and ‘‘welfare”’
labels both being clearly the wrong names?

That’s ihe silent challenge the Forget report has
flung down. The Mulroney government’s response to it
will shape our whole economic and social future.

“HOLLYWOOD NORTH” is a
name that fits the North Shore like
a $150 million glove—the
estimated value of filin production
in B.C. this year, much of it local.
Airwolf, being shot at the Park
& Tilford site, was chronicled in
the News last weekend. Mean-
while, the power-generating van,
cameras, lights, mobile catering
unit, plush motor homes and other
paraphernalia of location filming
are also camping out at Bowen
Island’s remote Cowan Bay, which
you reach via 6 km of muddy
washboard road. The epic they’re
shooting there, with stars Rod
Steiger and Vancouver-born
Yvonne de Carlo is American
Gothic, an Anglo-Canadian pro-
duction directed by John Hough
and produced by John Quested.
The decaying old house on the

NEWS pho! Terry Peters
TERRY BULLMAN ... “I’ve been
here before.”’

bleak cliff was exactly what Hough
and Quested were seeking for their
scary story of murder on a mystery
island. Such endless location
possibilities are luring more and
more filming money (in this case
alone $75,000 a day for five weeks)
tight into our own backyard—
making last week’s courtesy visit
by West Van MLA Jack Reynolds
well worthwhile.

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ESCAPE the frenzied Christmas
shopping mob, says Karen Love,
at the 10th annual Christmas Craft
Fair running until Dec. 21 at North
Van’s Presentation House. Over 50
B.C. craftsfolk are displaying and
selling originals never before
shown and at affordable prices. As
well, there are a dozen craft
demonstrations, ranging from
machine quilting and face painting
to goathair spinning and food gift
wrapping, plus entertainment (in-
cluding Antony Holland reading A
Child’s Christmas in Wales) and a
cafe serving homemade treats. Free
admission weekdays noon-8 p.m.,
weekends noon-6 p.m., but closed
tomorrow (Dec. 8) and Monday,
Dec. 15. Call Karen or Linda
Melville, 986-1351, for program
details.

HITHER AND YON: For long
term planners Dave Catton, direc-
tor of development at the B.C.

LETTER OF THE DAY

Dear Editor:

Can someone please tell me why
victims of AIDS have become
mini-celebrities and the disease
glamorized? The spectacle of
famous people raising money for
victims of this self-inflicted disease
is hard to stomach. It is, after all,
just another form of venereal
disease.

I don’t see a big rush by the
media to interview victims and
heir families afflicted with gonor-
tea or syphilis. The media are

guilty of gross discrimination in
this regard. Why don’t the rich
and famous promote benefit con-
certs and support groups for the
syphilitics of this world?

While AIDS infects heterosex-
uals and homosexuals, the disease
is caused by homosexual acts of
buggery, which is perverted anal
sex.

Buggery, by the way, is against
the law whenever it is committed
with any participant under 2! years
of age. It carries a punishment of

$7,656 (average, Wednesday 2
fiday & Sunday)

SI Danette gty

NEWS photo Noo! Wright

TOUR OF “AMERICAN GOTHIC” filming location on Bowen Island
by John Reynolds (r), West Van-Howe Sound MLA and Legislature
Speaker, brought together owners of his favorite name—wife Yvonne (})
and movie star Yvonne de Carlo (centre).

Noel Wright

Cancer Foundation, reports that
the foundation has taken 1,000
seats at the Queen E. for the last
night of the fabulously popular
British show Cats, Sept. 12, 1987.
Fund-raising tickets at $100 ($50
tax deductible) include a reception
where you get to meet the cast. To
reserve, call Dave at 877-6010 ...
Still looking ahead, it will definite-
ly be a case of deja vu for Terry
Bullman when North Van's
Ridgeway School celebrates its
75th anniversary April 11, 1987.
Terry entered it as a student in
1922, returned as a teacher for

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four years in 1938 and came back
again as principal from 1951 to
1972 Getting back to this
month’s diary, Jill Flemons,
committee chairman for the inau-
gural North Shore Family Service
Society family dinner and bail,
Dec. 21 at the Bayshore, stresses
that you don’t need to have receiv-
ed an invitation to be welcome.
For tickets ($40 per person and
now going fast) call 926-3502 or
988-5281 ... Lovebirds get hitched
in the queerest spots these days
and a new record may have been
set last Saturday when Rob Mor-

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NEWS photo Neil Lucente
VOWS amid the dryers ... Rob
Morrison and bride Omega tie the
knot.

rison and bride Omega ticd the
knot at Omega’s workplace. The
civil ceremony attended by some
35 guests took place amid mirrors,
curlers and clippers in Donald
James Hair Design salon in Park
Royal North while other staff
looked after the customers ... Ver-
bal slugfest of the year took place
Nov. 28 in the UBC Students
Union Auditorium, where News
columnist Doug Collins claims to
have delivered a technical K.O. to
naughty Paul Watson for sinking
those Icelandic whaling ships.
Read Doug’s own story of the bout
elsewhere in this issue—but we
thought you'd like to see the action
pictures as well ... And the
deadline for nominations for the
1987 YWCA ‘‘Women of Distinc-
tion’’ awards is Feb. 13, committee
co-chairperson Louise Donovan
tells us. Gala dinner and presentat-
fons take place May 28 at the
Hyatt. For full details call Louise
at 683-2531.

ee
WRIGHT OR WRONG: Funny

how often closed minds are the
ones with open mouths.

Photos Mike Wakefield

“NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, PAUL!" ... Columnist Doug Collins (1) squares off against self-confessed whaling
ship sinker Paul Watson (r) during UBC Student Society debate.

up to 14 years in prison.

\t is tragic and sad that there are
innocent victims of AIDS. But
then, as in all forms of venereal
disease, there are the innocent who
suffer from the sins of the guilty.
And I make no apology for calling
despicable homosexual acts
“‘sins’’. The Bible is very clear on
the subject:

Leviticus 20.13: ‘If a man fies
with a male as with a woman, both
of them shall be put to death for
their abominable deed; they have

forfeited their lives.”’

Romans 1.18-32: ‘... God
abandoned them to passions which
brought dishonor to themselves.
Their women exchanged natural
for unnatura) intercourse. And the
men, on their side, giving up natu-
ral intercourse with women, were
burnt up with desire for each
other; men practising vileness with
their fellow men. Thus they have
received a fitting retribution for
their false belief ... they never
grasped the truth that.chose who so

live are deserving of death; not on-
ly those who commit such acts, but
those who countenance such a
manner of living.”

In closing 1 would suggest the
perpetrators of this dread disease
be quarantined and Canada once
again outlaw this vulgar perversion
which Pierre Trudeau and the Lib-
eral government legalized shortly
after he became prime minister,
Angela Sheremeta
Maple Ridge