*’S TIME to pull the plug on daylight

time.

.. The. practice of adjusting clocks in
* spring .and: fall. began. in North. America
y.in the 20th century to reduce electrici-

ty demands at peak hours.

But as, we approach the.end of ‘the cen-
ry; Springing. aliead one kour:each April.
and’ falling: back:.one. hour’ each: October:

‘How can I argue with that? It’s
-pablum. [t's Mum and apple
pie... ;

- North Vancouver City Coun.

Rod Clark — after his motion to

establish a mayor’s task force to
‘probe ‘school’ violence ‘was

‘defeated

amendment to his original motion

suggesting that council “‘initiate-

community-based programs and
offer support to (North Van-
couver) School District.44 in. ad-
dressing issues of youth violence
in North Vancouver.”’ (From an

. Peter Speck

hy Renshaw

wo ....Noel Wright

Sales & Varkating Director Linda Stewart
Doug Foot

Comptroiier. _..

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NOW, TO THOSE

THRILLING DAYS OF
YESTERYEAR .....

ighten up

.As for electricity, the savings resulting
from turning clocks back and forth are
likely offset by the expenditures of personal
grief and aggravation invested in hauling
clocks off wails and grappling with instruc-

; tion books on how toe reset VCRs, micro-

waves and all other devices electronic.
. No, fellow citizens, it is time to shed the
chains of daylight timeliness and to carry

On 2S nature intended: rising in light, leav-
ing timepieces undisturbed. :
So set your clocks back this last time to-
.day and. put yourself back into Pacific
standard syach, but resist the call to return
to daylight time next spring. Join the
growing ranks of standard timers.

tea

' Oct. 29 News story.)

“I guess fer lack of a better term,
my outlook coming into this has
been relatively conservative. I'd
-worked hard for the Conservatives
in 1984 and became -very disillu-
sioned ... All the promises that
sounded so good were not materi-
alizing. Each budget that got pass-
ed was a bigger joke and a crue?
hoax on Canadians.”’

_ Darrell Frith, Reform party
coordinator. for the B.C. and
Yukon region; on Reform’s strong

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showing in the federal election and
why he joined the party in 1988,
(From an Oct, 27 News story.)

“The old parties are shaking.
Politics in Canada will ‘never be
the same again. Democracy has
been revitalized. The taboos of
political correctness have been
broken.’’

Capilano-Howe Sound MP
Herb Grubel, savoring victory on
federal election night. (From an
Oct. 27 News story.)

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IF YOU despair of Canada ever eliminating the deficit and
starting to reduce its half-trillion-doliar debt, a recently
published pocket-size pamphlet could jolt you out of your

fatalism.

Tales From The Tax Trough I
— the work of the National Citi-
zens Coalition (NCC), a 40,000-
member non-profit advocacy
group dedicated to ‘‘more
freedom through less government
— is a hair-raising (and some-
times hilarious) record of tax
dollars squandered by Ottawa on
programs and projects of no value
whatsoever to the average citizen.

Like the $400,000 spent to pro-
mote the 1990 World Hot Air
Balloon Championships in
Quebec. Or the $58,000 for an ex-
amination of what it’s like to
work for the Dominion grocery
stores. Or the $27,000 to study
“Fish unitilization in early
Pleistocene African sites.”’

The above, of course, are
chicken feed relative to a. $35
billion deficit. But not so the
TOTAL of the lunacies exposed
by the NCC under 30 expenditure
headings — a total just short of
$7 BILLION.

Here’s a mere handful of the
many other items that add up to
this whopping waste, accumulated
almost entirely between 1989 and
1992:

Studies of Peruvian guinea pigs

_ ($321,000), of the Philippines
garlic industry ($163,260) and of
“Religious and historical practice .
among northern Malagasy 4
speakers’’ ($208,286). Montreal’s
Museum of Humor got $3.3.mil-..
lion. Fiddlehead Magazine was
helped along to the tune of, . .;
$23,000. Janice and Lynn An- “y
drews received $8,000 for their .;
book Bloodifines: A Collection of
Writings by. Lesbian Sisters. |

Last year Ottawa paid out some
$107 million in phony UI claims.
In 1989-90 excess student Joans
cost taxpayers $39 million. Gver a
10-year period $500 million-was
wasted on language training for
non-bilingual civil service posts.

.And last year Ottawa splurged at.
east $43 million trying to make us

. Say ‘‘yes’’ to Charlottetown.

So it goes on: $131 million to
promote multiculturalism; $2.4
million for radical feminist
groups; $18 million to trade
unions for ‘labor education’’;
over $114 million in regional sup-
port plans and direct subsidies to
prop up private businesses. And
much more.

The good news, however, is that
— aside from fraud cases — none
of the items documented by the
‘NCC belong to the “‘sacred
trusts’? of government spending —

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HITHER AND YON

pensions, medicare, welfare and ©
education. . ;

No doubt the latter also offer
opportunities for skilful pruning.
But if simply ending blatant waste -
on items of zero value to 99% of
‘taxpayers could alone save $7

/ billion, it’s clear that eliminating

the deficit.is, after all, a perfectly

' realistic goal.

All that’s needed is the political
will to ‘‘just say no!’’

TAILPIECES: Child care is avail-
able when the North Shore Single
Parents Society: meets in Neigh-
bourhood House, 225 East 2nd .. ..:
St.; from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m: Mon-
day, Nov. { — cail Carol, 985-
“Attention at
jocal Vikings, the Sons of Norway’

_ Group is seeking members ‘to start »

a North Shore chapter — phone .
980-7626 for details. ... Learn to“
renew a sense of adventure in life,
free yourself from blocks of fear
that stop you being all you can be,’
with Patti and Dan Culver in the ‘
Speakers Unlimited series, 10:30.”
a.m.-noon Saturday, Nov. 6, at |
the Silk Purse, 1570 Argyle, West |
Van — call 926-3266 by 4 p.m. -
Wednesday to register. ...-Birth-
day greetings tomorrow, Nov. I,

’ te North Van MLA Dan Jarvis.

... And many happy returns of
Tuesday, Nov. 2, to our custodian
of The Vintage Years, Eleanor
Godley.

WRIGHT OR WRONG: Some
things have to be believed to be
seen.

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