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SETTING TAE STANDARDS ON HUMAN RIGHTS

quotes of the

|, “Everything shakes. It feels
like you have sea legs when you
get up.” Pa
. Lorne Ewing, on the seismic -
/ vibrations rocking his apartment. ‘
_caused by heavy equipment
-preparing land along the North
~ Mancouver City waterfront. (From

i July 3 News story.) -

ved O00
2 Everyone is keen on justice
‘and the protection of society.
They want to hire more police. .
“It goes beyond the police.”
» :" Crown prosecutor C.B.
s-Johiison, oi the need for more

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St
ar Editor: Sos
A would like to thank the location
manager. for the ‘local - production
Bounty Hunters 1 for disruptiag my
‘i business Saturday, June 29.

When I approached him to dis-
'. cuss remuneration for this I was told

-my. inquiry was “inappropriate” as.’

filming had already began and I had

not worked out any remuneration

package with him beforehand.
I, guess I. was under ‘the :false

“impression that the business licence -

- for my location’ meant I would be
allowed to conduct business without

news viewpoint

lebt and

HE masters of deficit deception
have struck ‘again. The . socialist
book jugglers promised .a bal-

2amed ov

week oo

. “| want te raise my family in
a community of families. 1 don’t
want West Vancouver to become

~ g community of retired couples
and the ultra-rich.” .

Michael Dawes, speaking out
against 4 proposed West. -

“ Vancouver bylaw that would limit

house size in the municipality.
(From a June 26 News story.)

ona ’
“It was fairly exciting in

emergency.” ,

"Lions Gate Hospital chief oper-
ating officer Lynette Best, describ-
ing the emergency helicopter flight
of an infant from LGH to.”
Children's Hospital while it'also
prepared to receive the.victims of a
fire in West Vancouver. (Froma
July 5 News story.) ‘

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estes tet bmmen eS THON ONL ROE RACES ARELLANO A ANI

er show biz

a hindrance ‘like this arising every -

time: the ,motion picture industry
decides to “up and barge in.” -
1am sure this attitude is not prac-
tised by all production compariies in
this area or nobody would allow any
filming to take place anywhere.
However, merchants should be
aware that these types of attitudes do
exist and all transactions with these
people should .be discussed thor-
oughly before you allow them in.

. Tom Sanders

Wideband Radio & Cellular
North Vancouver . oo,

minister. ,

much fess important.

‘row!

of well-off go
out to work?

THE two-income family is Noel
essential nowadays for any
decent standard of living —

of so goes the conventional

_ wisdom of the 1990s.

Given B.C. housing costs, it’s
undoubtedly wue for many families
with a household income under .
$50,000, But there's solid evidence that
immediate financial survival is by no
means always the only reason why
wives and their unwed equivalents
flock to the work force. | a ae
Flocked they certainly have since the Second World War. In 1946
some 27% of married or single Canadian women held paid jobs outside
the home. Today, half.a century later, the figure stands at around 57%.
This despite the fact that real before-tax earnings for males have rise
by some 50% over the past 35 years. ; ee
Inflation and taxes, of course, have eaten into these gains — offse'
partly by an increase in free government benefits and services, and _b
average families now smaller than in the ‘60s. On balance, even.t
single-breadwinner household is undoubtedly somewhat better off than ‘a
generation ago, though often not sufficiently so... eae!
Everything depends — you'd think — on the.income lev
head of the household. If it is at the poverty line, there's clearlyjan
urgent incentive for the other spouse to join the labor force. But once
the $50,000-plus zone, a second income would presumably becor

. J i hon

“Not so, however, according to Statistics Canada ina study of over.
three million head-of-household incomes (Microdat of Ec
Families, 1993). ; ° ‘

‘Answers are as varied as the bewildering changes of t
decades which they mirror. Notably, the feminist revolution
women's hanger for fulfilment-and acceptance of their pers

stay-at-hom

EVERY WEDNESDAY is now blood donor day from. 1:00 to 8:30 p:
at Lions Gate Hospital. Info 879-6001: Add your “gift of life” soon!
ot OG ee,
WRIGHT OR WRONG: Spend your day looking for easy work;and :

you'll go to bed exhausted. Soe ‘ 7

‘Clark’s watch while he was investment

I didn’t know, he said.

anced budget; but delivered more deficit.
While Premier. Glen Clark dispensed
promises of more spending, tax cuts and
rate: freezes during the recent election
campaign, bean-counters in the
province’s capital were busily crunching
numbers that revealed promises of a bal-
anced budget were so much hot air.
. Clark now claims that he didn’t know
during the campaign that a deficit for
1995-96 loomed. It’s becoming a familiar
refrain from the premier. Recall the B.C.
‘Hydro fiasco that also took place under

ene ee me

New finance minister Andrew Petter

has adopted ‘on the same govern-by-

sleepwalking technique perfected by his

leader.

Petter blamed the $235-million 1995- .,
96 deficit on a shortfall in forestry rev-.
enue. But Petter, in his previous role as
“forestry minister, should have realized
that forestry ‘revenues were lower than.

anticipated. Instead, in a revised forecast
for 1995-96 released in April, the NDP.
‘government said forestry revenues

would increase from an anticipated -

Yous

With numbers like that, the only ones.
in B.C. sleeping. well will be Clark;

Petter, and their Cabinet colleagues

‘Alt other B.C: residents will be-lyin

‘awake in cold sweats .suffering from

nightmares of more socialist deceptions
tocome.,. 9 =