pike Posen. Tha Worth Shore Wes is poiished by North " venir proms nearer Shore Free Press Ltd., Publisher Peter Spack, from 1139 Lonsdale Avenue . Worth Vancouver, B.G., V7M 2H4 STUNG BY FREQUENT COMPARISONS To HITLER, LUCIEN GOES IN SEARCH OF A NEW “30° Cypress Park site. for its life Dear Editor: It is disturbing to discover’ {that the B.C. Ministry of Parks ” - is in support of logging old” | growth in Cypress Provincial’ Park for the expansion of a: commercial ski operation. . In August, 1995, a govern-” ment commissioned report showed strong: public support for protection of the park’s old ' growth and ‘strong opposition to any development that might } result in a “mini- Whistler” ors PETER SPECK Publisher $85-2131 (101) wy Des Bhalla Human Resouttes Manager 985-2131 (77) ~ Doug Foot * Comptrotier 985-2131 (733) : . Be es e ronment. Support for protecting 1 park’s environment tock clear, precedence over “recreation, ‘job creation, investment, and increased tourism. R .The * Parks”. M : clearly’ ignored: public’ input f and is in the last stages ‘of com f: pleting a new: Master Plan -for Cypress : Provincial Park: that Managing Editor | on ja : or) wis Se WR ~ | y ££ ucation deficit \DUCATION is f or students, or so they are told. . ut students in North Vancouver must be ommercial development. will “ancludé:- a plaza: - lodges.” A f “pushes a classroom over class-size limits out- [with boardwatks, lined in the teachers’ collective agreement. 5 i it’s typical of what has transpired in Smith’s | | col ne. Of ; shed - Geet oe eea7 : 098-2131 (47) : : LETTERS VO THE EDITOR - . Lats uot nude out mane, lads “& teleptons number. “VIA linternat:-irenshaw @ direct.ca qualified 0 m0 nips. Paragraph VEL of the Excise Tax Act, is publishal exch 4 SMaltsuey, Fricke ana Suraday by Nocth Shure Free Pra Lat aad daxaibutod to every doce on North Shar, Carads Pst Canadian! Publican Mail Saks Product Agreement No” ‘ORTER aling ated erlatieon sepa, ~ - tion, forgiven if they believe education is not geared _ efforts to balance the cash-strapped school dis- oe / teict’s budget. The student pays.» : Smith’s hands were tied. by_ inadequate funding and‘a teachers’ contract’ the ‘union-' - friendly. provincial, government. extended for. towards them. Over the: past: few ‘months, in-the name of sound fiscal policy, students have been fleeced 2 of courses and teachers. Now, it’s their ical: "classrooms. Recently, ~ AN incacapable paradox in in" * all the “anti-discrimina- tion” laws inflicted on_us by cur’ temporary, politi- . cally correct. masters is ‘that they. create still more of exactly what they aspire to eliminate: disctimina- Latest example is Langley's Trinity Western University — a victim, along with its students, of Ottawa’ s Bill C- 4) recently § steam-rollered through Parliament to ~-entrench homosexual “rights.” An.unashamedly Christian institution, as befits its Bible-belt loca-. -ton, TWU requires its students to behave in accordance with Bible teachings, including the _ boad book’s strictures on homosexuality, For that reason the B.C, College of Teachers* "a branch plant of the politically correct BC: Teachers Federation — has reportedly rejected a ‘TWU proposal to add a.teaching certificate pro- « gram to. its growing list. In short, the watchdog - - -, body for teaching standards in this province has ; “given notice that, only’ teachers prepared to bow at, the altar of gay rights as proclaimed in Bil! C-41 need bother-to apply — that.the Bible nonsense -~ “peddled: by TWU ‘cannot be allowed to contami- : nate B.C. classrooms. So who now being discriminated aginst six-year-otd child. was denied. entry. to Highlands elementary — his” neigh- ; borhood school. He si still get in, but he will” two years. - ‘didn’t. health, Smith’s policies h _ Instead,: to return the district to financial - faste: growing cities in No! ‘Ameérica., ‘Smith was told | not to contraverie the con- tract in: his budget-balancing exercis ‘He “were logged under the guise | creating.a ski. area.:Lurge/thezs Bi offerings and Hmited Grade. iW and 12 students . to eight courses, He laid, off: some of the ‘stu. ’ ‘dents’ favorite teachers for, the. absu d reason . that they iad the least seniority. The budget is balanced, b but students have “an education deficit. all TWU students: « of’ course, who want to teach -and should logically be able to get their teaching certifi- cate from their own universi- ty. Ina wider sense, aspiring teachers with a Christian and.” family-values upbringing, in/ all other universities —: who'll be wise to keep their’ mouths shut about such an | upbringing if they ever want — : - to get B.C. College at! Teachers approval. Add to these.all parents who —- though long, _reconciled to the absence of any Christian and ‘family-values instruction if our public schools. — - do not particularly relish the possibility. of gays now being held up as role models in fictle Johnny’s classroom. Parents are funny, I know, But some do harbor those awkward things called personal beliefs. The College of Teachers rejection of TWU as a Where the hee school slaps such parents every- where in the face. : Personally, 1 accept without question that gays _ and lesbians are entitled to enjoy their tifestyle | without harmful discrimination ‘ind with all the ‘rights enjoyed by other members of society, What I don’t accept is that they — or any other special- , interest group — are entitled to special rights not shared with all other members of sociery. orn of te : A free society Noe not need tal interests: like gay rights, affirmative action and multicult alism to be promoted: with anti- “discrimination -faws that automatically di riminate € against i + OTS. enforced i poltczed star-cha jber tibiing sate Ke: “human rights” commissions even teachers’ college cial system. “RECLAIMING our trol governments” is International Society for Individual Liberties ; conference, Aug:,19-24 at Whistler, with'k * speakers from around’ the globe. Attendance, open _ to everyone — “details trom Kuirt P okrande,’ a 0396. WRIGHT OR WRONG: Siy,.wt -mean what you'say, but don’t say i —~,The North Shore News believes prong i " friedom of speech and she right of all sides in'a * “debate to be heard: The colurnnists published is the:; 7 News present differing points of view, bst.t “are not necessaraly those of the newspaper itsel)