It’s 6:30 a.m., Saturday,
ug. 31, 1996, and I am
ading the North Shore
ews in my den, in my house,
hich is just across the street
‘om the recycled “south cam-
fus” of West Van High. It’s a
ttle early for me but I-was
oken up by the sound of
mcavy machinery being
inloaded from: a truck, and
hi is now rumbling
around a gravel field, over
Which hurried workmen carry

s.

The News article is on the
Aew Rock Ridge school, its
hew technology, its grade-A
fonstruction, . its grade-A
architecture, °..and ~ its
escaldaferri’s cafeteria. Indeed

iT get up and 00k 2 across at
south ¢ j

fifth year, with no.
ie tO lack of"

in: Caulfeild, :you go":

choo! ‘in ‘a: technological
If you'are a kid i in

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Grade 8 and you live in
Ambleside, you go to school
in a bunch of huts,

I guess it’s all about priori-
ties, I guess the priority of the
school authorities is to get the
technology, get it now, get it
any way it can, even if it’s only
a little amount, even if it has

to sell an irreplaceable, ever-

appreciating school site like
Hillside, even if it has to sacri-
fice the quality of its biggest
high school, even if it has to,
albeit temporarily, screw the
kids who live in the wrong
place at the wrong time.

I go back to my den and I
try to forget about it, and take
some comfort in the thought
that my kid is only in Grade 2
and that I am sure the south
campus huts will be gone in
five years, and that even if they
are not, Aristotle managed to
teach effectively in the open
air with no facilities or com-
puters at all.

I start reading the paper
again. This time the article is
on a kid trying to get into
East Ridge school but can’t
because it is too full, Hmm...
priorities...

Eric Carlson
West Vancouver

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§ and now that the third year of the present

mandate is close to completion, more and

| mors people are asking me when | think the
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:‘Uberals at 34%. .

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figures, just-like Reform. This implies that
if an election’ were

and the Bloc Quebecois, ‘with neither the

‘PCs or Reform being a significant factor.

An Angus Reid ‘Poll released on
September 6, 1996: seams to confirm that
the race is between the Bloc and Liberals in |
Quebec, although support for the Liberals
has been ‘dropping over the past. few |
months’ while the Bloc has. increased in’
popularity. In addition, although he enjoys
high levels of support in English Canada, § -
support for the Prime Minister in Quebec §
has been dropping and was recently j
measured at only 24%. One Bloc MP even q
told ma that Chretien would probably lose
his own Riding if an election were held
today. :
These poll results fead me ‘to ‘suspect i

that as long as it looks like Mr. Chretien ¥~

might lose~ some seats to the Bloc :
Quebecois, possibly including his own, he. }
will not call an election. Ha is more likely te. J.
opt instead for a waiting game, hoping that §
the Bloc will drop dramatically in popularity §-
sometime in the next two years. This could §
be quite a gamble, but an increase in the‘ J.
number of Bloc Quebecois seats in the
Parliament of Canada would carry
enormous implications for the future of the [
country.

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watch over the next few months will be
the ones in Quebec. If the Bloc
Quebecois: continues to. increase in
popularity, | doubt thet we will go the.
polis anytime a soon. .

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