12 ~— Sunday, December 22. 1996 — North Shore News

Help save the CFL from extinction

By Steve Burgess
Contributing Writer
PLAYING as they do
at GM Place, the
Canucks ought to be
the ones having trouble
with an airbag. But it’s
the Lions who are
struggling to fill B.C.
Place Stadium.

The Lions are in dire
trouble at the moment.
Popular coach foe Paopao is
moving on, and prospective
new owner David Braley
wants 15,000 season tickets
sold by New Year’s. Maybe it
will happen. Maybe Tiny Tim
faked his own death.

Anything’s possible.

The local CFL team is not
the only sports franchise in
trouble right now, Look at
the poor Calgary Flames —

they play in a building offi-
cially named the Canadian
Airlines Saddledome. Visiting,
teams are demanding conces-
sions amounting to two goals
a game betore thev'll agree to
play.

Back in the CFL, the
Ottawa Rough Riders are in
worse shape than the Lions,
having folded tor at feast the

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No Fault? The_ premier
wants to change ICBC to a
No-Fault system. Why? To
Keep auto insurance rates
down, or is it to access a
potential reserve — fund
amounting to millions of dol-
lars for general coffers, or
both? No-Fault essentially

does not require a legal sys-
tem, estimated to be 20% of
the reserves.

Basically, a No-Fault plan
means that you give up your
right to sue for 2 previously
established serdement, set out
by the government (common-
ly known as a meat chart).

If you or your family are
injured, regardless of the
extent, you are left at the
mercy of ICBC to make all
your decisions for the future.
If ICBC was the great bene-
factor insurance company that
ensured victims received enti-
ted benefits without acrimo-

based on their inj
there would be no need for
Jawyers. Yer we Know this is
not what happens, and that
there is a reason why insureds
and victims seck representa
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the judge who makes the final

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to be dead. As it turns oar,
thar guy could pha tor the
Riders atter all
The CEE will now be
forced to stay atloar with
a single team cailed the
Rough Riders. HF Ottawa
does field a CFE team in
1998, it will be a whole new
franchise, with 2 new name.
Thevh probably call them:
selves the Saskatchewan
Roughriders.
Financial uncertainty is an
tor the CFE Vhic er
the league thar odds an extra
element of excitement lacking

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whether the quarterback can
vet the ball into the end zone
before the finance company
repossesses the uniforms.

o-Fault

decision, not your legal advi-
sor.

1 will not support No-
Fault at this time. Pending
what variation is proposed,
there is no evidence that pre-
miums will decrease or acci-
dents and injuries go down,

The conclusion appears to
be that this government will
be using the legal profession
as the whipping post to gath-
er support for a potential
crash grab and to offset the
premier’s political interfer-
ence in ICBC.

I shudder at the thought of
ICBC and the government
making decisions tor our eco-
nomic disability future. Stay
tuned.

Daniel M. Jarvis, MLA
North Vancouver-Seynmour

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pall is a preat game thar
deserves Our support.

The difference between
our version and the tedious
NEL product is that
Canadian football can offer
excitement, rather than juse
marketing.

The No Fun League is
probably the most boring of
all major sports circuits; the

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speech and the right of all sides
in a debate to be heard. The
colusanists published in the
News present differiag points
of view, but those views are nat
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