INDEX cyrus Greenall, of West Vancouver, has helped to create one of the most popular Web sites in the worid for people who play § games online. Fallen Angels is located ; at . : Piayers organize them- selves into units called clans. _ OF course clans do battle, “within and without. The are- . Has include ‘war © strategy In: non-digital, * real: -time » mat, :[Jctavion.is also now’, Cyrus. .Greenall, a: bright ‘Spark ina hurry living ‘in West. Vancouver. =~ If you ha appen to.be male, - omewhere between the ages £13. to’ 16,.and ‘plugged into the Net, ‘then you most likely” are immersed in the : ine gaming world. games, first-person shoot 7em ups and the like. They are dark ‘places of mayhem and deadly force ~— worlds where: young testosterone- riddled male teens can safely work their demons. The International Gaming Guild. Network (IGG) represents 7,000 clans all over the world. Clan site performance is voted’ on. Based on the popularity. of the Web site “I ‘work hard to remove buying pressure from our clients by educating them and explaining their options to them". - DAlt McCarthy about | and clan performance, Greenall’s site The Cathedral of Fallen Angels (www.fallen- angels.net): is regularly ranked number one in [GG’s top 10 gaming sites. As of Friday, the most immediate competition was from clan Web sites The Guardians Of Souls and “Maximum Overkill — a site that boasts as its motto “some people win, others lose...we kill”. Greenall operates The Cathedral of Fallen Angels. site along with 19-year-old Ryan Masanz, his partner in _a Web site development company they call NeXt Genesis. The Fallen Angels site specializes in StarCraft, Quake IH Arena, Diablo II, WarCraft,. Counter. Strike, Tribes, and includes’ clan members on the DreamCast gaming platform. There are about 600 members in. the clan. Greenall estimates the oldest Fallen Angel is about 29 to 30 years of age. The youngest is about 12 years old. The majority (about _ 80%) ranges in age from 13 to 16 years of age. Says Greenall, “Kids at that age See Making page 22 .C. case may politics change Stephen Harper Contributing Columnist IT seems like a thousand years ago that I went to Ottawa to assist Deborah Grey, Reform’s first and then only MP. No sooner had Deborah and I arrived in Ortawa than - I became aware of three political lies circulatin: Parliament Hill. The Fest” was that Deborah was homosexual. The second was that I was homosexual. And the third was that we were sleeping together! Any one who gets involved in the process will quickly come to.realize that lying and politics go togeth- er like scandalous dresses and Oscar night. Many political people will say (or whisper) any- thing, no matter how outra- geous or untrue, if they believe it will advance their political careers or ‘get them elected. Does it have to be that - way? No, it doesn’t. In fact, in British . Columbia a section of the Elections Act makes it illegal . for politicians to use “fraud- ulent means” to win office. . In the words of the B.C. Court of Appeal, it is against the law to engage in “fraudulent misrepresenta- tions of material fact, made knowingly or recklessly, which induce potential vot- ers to vote for a party or candidate.” Politicians found guilty of lying can be removed from public office. This law is getting its first major test in a highly publicized courc case. It. began in April when a group of citizens led by HELP - B.C. founder David ’ Stockell, with the financial - support of the National Citizens’ Coalition, sued the government for fraud in the DANCES WITH DOGS Suite Dreams Furniture is very proud to welcome North shore resident D'Alt McCarthy to our ownership team. D‘Alt started in the home furnishing industry in 1981 and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our already strong customer-focussed crew. 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Polls show that these claims of fiscal competence helped an oth- erwise unpopular govern- ment squeak back into power. « But shortly after that re-. : election the NDP. admitted © the truth: there never had been a balanced budget at all. There was actually a. $400 million deficit! . Evidence. then came to. li ht suggesting this series of events was no mistake...» All the while NDP jeaders. were crowing about their surplus, finance officials ' were telling them no such’: surplus existed. In other -~:: words, the NDP kriew it was: dispensing falsc facts about... - the pravince’s finances: Now, after nearly four years of legal battles, a judge will be asked to: decide if the NDP’s infa- mons “fudge-it budget” was: a case of election fraud. The case, which is 20; 2. expected to wrap up in late © June, | has already’ produced © See Court page’ 22. Suite Dreams Furniture. 1989 Boundary . ih | Rd. 320-2577 - just 2 minules over thes Second Narrows Bridge = ae 15,000 square foot Showroom |