]),. Wty 6 - Sunday, March 24, 1991- North Shore News THE NEW BC. PACIFIC PARTY ANNOUNCED TT WILL BE RUNNING TS CANDIDATES INTHE UPCOMING BC. ELECTION, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE PARTY DOESNT HAVE A LEADER, OF A PLATFORM. SARE ONY RN me HANGON...\THOUGHT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE DIFFERENT FROM THE SOCREDS... SS NS WE Mm@k OMAN NEWS VIEWPOINT Express yourself echoing up and down the halls of the two North Shore school boards should be settled by the students, parents T HE condom controversy currently and residents of the area. But umiess those students, parents and residents make their opinions on condoms known at the two public meetings sched- uled by the North and West Vancouver school boards, the decision whether to in- stall condom machines in area high schools will be made for them by school board trustees or by vocal pressure groups. On Monday night starting at 7 p.m., the West Vancouver District 45 Schoo! Board will hear presentations from the public on the condom issue in the theatre of West Vancouver Secondary School; on May 7, the North Vancouver District 44 School Board will hold a similar meeting to gather will AIDS. secondary schools. public input on condoms in District 44 Written presentations must be submitted to the school board by April 19 for the District 44 meeting. The battle over machines in high schools has already raised ealls for sexual abstinence training and warnings that the availability of condoms increase teenage promiscuity and undermine the traditional family unit; on the other side there have been pleas for greater availability of condoms to help pro- tect students against what some parents see as the looming and terminal threat of installing Those who shout the loudest will likely settle the condom debate. But it would be unsatisfactory for all involved if that debate is decided merely on the basis of vocal minorities rather than reasonable majorities. 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Political leadership. Add the GST, young Johnny’s grades and that rattle in the transmission — yes Keith, them’s our concerns all right! “Canadians,”’ says the report, ““see themselves as peaceable, car- ing people who do not put their own economic self-interest ahead of caring for the disadvantaged, and will not countenance injustice within their borders. “There is the belief that the obligations of citizenship must be met in return for partaking of Canada’s abundance.”’ Apart from Quebec, most Ca- nadians ‘‘do not believe in going their own way ... without regard to the effect on the rest of the Canadian family.” And in case you didn’t know, there’s a widespread distrust of politicians. So what else is new? Most notably, the tab to date: $18.9 million spent out of a total budget of $27.4 million. For that sum the Forum gathered some 74,000 separate items of public input — phone calls, letters, briefs, group and in- KEITH SPICER... hotiine hosts could have told him. refer- Noel Wright HITHER AND YON dividual reports. So the average cost per item works out at about $255. Hopefully, Mr. Spicer will fall ~far short of his original target — ‘listening to one million Cana- dians’’ — which, at this clip, couid bring us a final bill of $255 million. That, mark you, merely to en- sure none of the myriad ideas, beefs and hopes about Canada’s future — expressed by Canadians ad nauseam over the past four years — are missed off the list. In Quebec, meanwhile, the Allaire report is already the of- ficial policy of Premier Bourassa’s Liberal Party. The Belanger- Campeau Commission’s report — likely even tougher — is due next week. Both demand, in effect, the vir- tual dismantling of our present Constitution to give Quebec sweeping new powers. And both hold a gun at anglo Canuda’s head — a deadline for a separa- tion referendum if the demands aren’t quite soon met. You have to admire the businesslike approach of the Quebecois, their agenda for the tussle now firmly in place. The Spicer circus, $18.9 million later, isn’t producing a single new fact of significance for the counter-agenda the feds must one day get around to. Gazing at a navel already gazed at for far too long won’t rescue Canada now from Quebec’s polit- ical gunmen. Some LEADERS just might. eee TAILPIECES: Lions Gate nurses regularly develop back problems from ‘‘cranking up’’ patients in traditional hospital beds — now slowly being replaced by electric beds adjustable by patients themselves. So West Van Kiwanis Club got a big thank-you last week when president Derrick Humphreys presented LGH presi- dent Bob Smith with a $5,000 cheque to buy the latest LGH **back-saver’’ ... West Van **Seniors in Action’* return to Park Roya! North March 26-28 with entertainment, art shows and fashion shows (Wednes- day-Thursday I1 a.m. and Thurs- day 7 p.m.) ... And Highlands United Church hosts ‘*Canada at the Crossroads’’ 7:30 p.m. Wed- nesday, March 27, with panelists Marie Bourgeois, Rev. J. Manly and Rev. B. Thorpe — call 980- 6071. A ee