6 - Wednesday, August 19, 1998 - North Shore News north shore news VIEWPOINT Gar care EARS are under the gun again. Drawn down from the mountains by the plentiful berries this time of year they also feast on the garbage and unsecured compost thac is readily available in our neighborhoods. Ideally bears are trapped, tran- quilized and relocated. In recent weeks the North Shore has become a killing field. It’s a dis- turbing annual ritual. This time one bear was shot in the Deep Cove area following a three-hour chase by conservation officers and the North Vancouver RCMP. Ancther was shot. neaz Eagle Harbor in West Vancouver after its legs were severely injured while being trapped. They are the sorry victims of natural desires. While bears have not attacked anybody, there’s always the poten- tial of something nasty happeniug. Mostly, the bears are interested in garbage and fruit trees, but once a bear is habituated to a garbage diet, it will continue to eat the junk food. August is the busiest time for bear complaints on the North Shore. Residents should put their garbage out on the morning that it will be picked up, not the night before. Garbage shouldn’t be placed near doors. Bears that are shot are deter- mined to be, unacceptable public safety risks. We play a role in creating prob- lem bears. We bear « responsibility to reduce sach risk. human ignorance and their own mailbox - NDP’s flawed gag iaw ; nee pn we a e a allows public whining “Dede Editor: “" The law implemented by the NDP in order to gag Doug Collins and any other writer of politically incorrect view- points (including politically incorrect truths) has a serious flaw, 2 In the grievance brought by Harry Abrams and the B’Nai : B’rith, Mr. Abrams has exposed himself publicly as a whiner. This in itself may tend to bring Mr.-Abrams and the B’Nai ’ B’rith into disrepute. : 4 Anyone who has fears of another holocaust (and I am not | Making light of past, ‘present, or fiiture events) should go to Mat the Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JFPO) Website and read the actual, documented extent of govern- iménc genocide. ; 2 Nazi Germany is not the only Perpetrator of this crime ~ and Jews are not the only victims. The solution proposed by this group does not include whining to commanist dictator- ships. : Clive Edwards | Cedwards@aniserve.com ~ Killing not an option Dear. Editor: My family and I are very upset to read about the two (Ed: three) black bears shot on the North shore. Killing is simply not an option. " “The bear in Deep Cove was shot in front of the local kids who had named it “Yogi.” What kind of message about con- servation is this sending to those kids? The bear accidental- ly.wandered out of its regular habitat and paid the ultimate rice. We feel sorry for all the animals that perish at the ands of the human race. Terry Roberge terryr@imag.net fmnorth shore: Worth Shore Hews, tounded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quaitied under Schedule 111, Paragraph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, is pubsished esch Wednesday. Friday and Sunday by Morth Shore Free Press. ‘Utd and distributed to every door on the North ‘Shore. Canada Post Canssien Publicatons Mail Could Supreme Court ki FORGET Preston Manning’s woes for a moment. Tomorrow we could be back to biting our nails once more about whether Canada (1867 edi- tion) will be around for much longer. Tomorrow th~ Supreme Court of Canada will announce whether Quebec can unilateraily separate. Its surprisingly early ruling on a query by thie feder- al government had not been expected until the fall. The response will be based on four days of legal arguments !ast February from lawyers representing Ottawa, sever- al provinces and. numerous other inter- venor groups — while the Quebec gov- ernment, true to form, firmly boycotted the entire proceedings. The questions: (1) Does the constitu- tion entitle Quebec to unilaterally sepa- rate? (2) Does Quebec have that right under international law? (3) If the two laws conflict, which takes precedence? Whatever the answers, Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard is widely expected to use the ruling as an excuse for a fall vote to return his separatist Parti Quebecois to power for a further term. With the opposition Liberals under their newly transplanted leader Jean Charest currently slumping in the polls the PQ’s chances look quite healthy at the moment. And if a fall gamble by Bouchard succeeded, could a ‘ 984-2131 (127) ; 61,582 (average reulation, Wedresdoy, Friday & Sunday) new sovereignty referendum be far Lehind — especially if the court rules in Ottawa's favor? The likelihood is that you'll have to wade through a sea of fiue print before you can figure out exactly what the court docs favor. Even if it” essentially sides with Ottawa, it may well try to sweeten the word- ing so as'to give mini- mal offence to - Bouchard — maybe by conceding his claim that Quebce has an absolute right to. decide its own furure but urging him, never- theless, to behave like a gentlernan.. Then again, you never know nowa- days with Canada’s ninc top judicial - beavers, the folks who last December inflicted on us the convoluted and yon. Delgamuukw decision on aboriginal-land °c claims — now interpreted by our native fellow-Canadians as their right to carve up B.C. into over 50 “mini-nations” at a: cost of billions and loss of vital local vot- ing rights for the non-native 96% of the population. “Never.ask a question, old dear, beture you know the answer,” Rumpole - of the Bailey would warn his fellow bar- risters in the British TV series of that name. Onc can only hope Ortawa heed- ed his advice before it passed the puck . to the nation’s ermine-robed leg supremos. eee GET-IT-RIGHT DEPT. Vancouver's two dailies, in announcing the. current . MANY HAPPY od * Adige-1?, to West. Van birthdsy’girl.: : Jennifer Adams : _ exhibition’ by artist. Daniel . Izzard ‘at Gallery, 1570° Argyle * thar it’s “the first ti painter. not from the North exhibit there this year.” * Bless them, they at least got.D. ich'o 30. 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