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HE whiz-bang $14.5-million
Rockridge Middle School opening
in West Vancouver next week is

but an interim step in the technological-
ly triggered revolution on the way in the
field of education.

Governments, school administrators,
teachers, parents and students will have
to radically rethink the concept of
schooling.

The North Shore’s own education
guru Crawford. Kilian is not cxaggerat-
ing when he offers the opinion that the
Internet and computers “will be the
most. valuable learning tool since the

idren wired

printing press.”

The new West Vancouver schocl is
beautiful and the students attending are
lucky to live in a community that can
provide the best of everything.

¥et the facility is really a marriage
between the old and new.

In coming years, schools will no
longer necessarily have to be the compre-
hensive physical facilities we've tradition-
ally built.

- Virtual schooling is already possible
and it’s being carried out with good
results. Schooling via modem and com-
puter with e-mail and the Internet as the
resource hub represents cost-saving

DEAR MUM AND DAD,

GREETINGS FROM NORTHERN
IRELAND. 11'S SO NICE 70 BE.IN A
COUNTRY WHERE RELIGION AND
TRADITION ARE So IMPORTANT.

CANADA should get '
tougher on bad irmmmi-

" grants. Canad will never

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There is a huge abundance of
evidence to support the first state-
ment. I have only a theory to
expiain the seccrid. ‘

What brings this issue to mind
is the horrendous accident last year on the North
Shore on that.scary feel-like-a-drop; ing-stone sec-
tion of the Upper Levels Highway fea ing to the
Second Narrows Bridge.

This steep grade is known as The Cut. And a
witness to the accident told a coroner's jury 10
days ago that the truck that caused the accident
pulled off the side of the road and “aggressively”
sped cP to 160 clicks an hour — about 100 ’
m.p.h,

The truck went out of control. It forced half a

‘ dozen cars onto or over the median. A car driver,

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Wayde Police, age 34, was killed.

.So was the socially sick driver of the truck. He
was Baijinder Singh, aged 37.

The truck's brakes were faulry — though not
nearly as faulty as the process that allowed Singh
to be at the wheel of any vehicle in this country.

Singh, according to police evidence, had six
convictions involving speed, four in 1994 alone.
‘And he had been ordered deported for a criminal
offence that the testifying officer couldn’t disclose.

What the hell was this guy doing on our roads
at all — a road used by just about every North
Shore driver at one time or another, where any
one of us and our families could have been. vic-

~ tims?

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TOES 2 VEY D FLEES SS ES EES TE at tert es ne re be

ishment Canada paralyze

> It’s my view — hardly original,
probabiy shared by most
Canadians — that immigrants
should have to. meet a far tougher

standard to remain in this country, .

including a much longer condi-
tional period before they’re grant-
ed citizenship.

During that time they should
be promptly deported, with a min-
imum of procedure and limited

avenues of appeal, if they err. .

And that would include violations well short of
criminal. Singh’s flagrant speeding convictions
alone should have besn enough to give him the
thumb.

But immigrants can get away with murder and
still successfully throw themselves on the mercy of
our meck, compliant system. Like the imaginative
German wito roto-tilled his wife’s body into their
garden a few years ago. aa

Only days before the Baljinder Singh case,
Judge James Jerome of the Federal Court upheld
the decision of the aforementioned board not to
deport Satpal Singh Jhatoo, or Jhatu.

This guy was enlisted by his employer, Jagraj
Singh Toors, to kill Toore’s wife, Ranjit Kaur

Toore, 45, on the promise of a car, cash and other

benefits. Jhatoo beat her to death with a baseball
bat. =

The immigration and refugee appeal board —
whose members are overwhelmingly from what -
are (or were?) called minorities, and who enjoy a
shroud of obscurity that judges themselves don’t
have — said [hatoo was genuinely remorseful and

at his age, 18, “has never really had an opportuni-.

ty to prove that he can be a productive member
of society.” :

potential too powerful to ignore. —

Virtua! schooling wili have to be aug-
mented by a socially interactive compo-
nent — there will still be 2 need for
schoois for children to go to but they will
likely look much different than the stan-
dard classroom and gym configurations
that are the norm today. -

The role of teachers will change in a
profound way. There is much re-educa-
tion ahead for those already in the sys-
tem. -

They need to be in.a position to rec- -
ognize the potential of emerging tech-
nologies and they must know how to
guide the use of them in the best of ways.

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Dear Editor: —~
Pve just had a thought. fs
Suppose all buses in B.C. were”.
required to carry bike racks. |
And suppose that all buses cross-.
ing the “Lions ‘Gate Bridge were
required to stop at-a'bike bay at the,
north end of the bridge and pick up =
two cyclists and carry them, at..n
charge to the downtown area.) *
And suppose that all buses cross-.
ing the 2nd Narrows, the Por
Mann, the Oak, the Burrard bridge:
were required to pick up two cyclis
. and carry them at no. charge to the:
downtown area. s
- And suppose that we stopped -
this insane idea of destroying our.
citi¢s for the sake of the car and that
we required our politicians to make
a U-turn and return the: streets to,
~ ., pedestrians and cyclists. we
Je is time that we gave our cities
back to the people. Soe
al J. Colin W. Sinclaire
4... Richmond

My view: Let him prove. that. In his own
country, Both the planner and the executioner of, 7,
this‘heinous crime should be extremely unwei-
come in Canada...” Co a

Stop press: Just days ago an escaped convict
from Montana was let go because of confusion
between an immigration officer and the board... :

So, going back co that second stazement at the:
top of this column, why, is nothing done}...

It's my belief that Establishment Canada is so
paralyzed with fear of the slightest appearance of.
racism, so anxious to keep its No. nation status
— as chosen, with some dubious measuring sticks,
by the countries of the also-dubious United +.
Nations — that it doesn’t dare shape a sensible...”
policy. = : :

And we — the native-born, and equally the -
many good immigrants ~ pay for the establish-
ment’s cowardice and obsequiousness.

aga
Ona fnuch happier note: Rich congratulations ‘

to North Vancouver's Monty McFarlane, one ¢
Winnipeg's finest sons, for being among those

immortalized in “Starwalk” near the Omheum
Theatre by the B.C. Entertainment Hail of Fame.

‘Monty was the witriest. morning show. host
(fer CJOR) of them all. And for a while in recen

: years he hosted an excellent Saturday morning: -

jazz and swing show on CISL that proved there”
was fine musical taste behind that engaging ban-,
ter,” Ad : " i a
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