6 — Friday, July 16, 1999 - North Shore News

NSTALLING red light cameras
on Lower Mainland streets is
long overdue.

About 45% of collisions in B.C.
occur at intersections, according to
ICBC traffic collision statistics.

At intersections with signals, the
most severe collisions are caused by
drivers who deliberately run
through red lights.

The installation of red light cam-
eras has been proposed as part of a
provincial strategy to improve road
safety through road improvements,
public education and enforcement.

-According to Integrated Traffic
Camera Unit information, world-
wide experience shows that red light
cameras can bring about real safety
improvements.

New York City, for example, real-
ized a 10% reduction in collisions. In

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Union responds to
NSAMH complaint |

Re: Labour complaint laid (July 9 News).
. » Twas intrigued by the
executive director of the

” “organizatio

ns. ;
Perhaps he can explain how the new tentative community

rceptions held by Mr. Mowles,
orth Shore Association for the
Mentally Handicapped {NSAMH) and apparently 33 other

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VIEWPOINT

London, England, that city posted
an incredible 69% reduction in the
number of collisions that brought
about fatatities,

There are 120 high-collision
intersections being targeted by the
red light camera program in B.C.

Thirty red light cameras will be
rotated among the 120 intersections.
Seventy percent will be placed with-
in the Lower Mainland.

It’s no secret that Lower
Mainland drivers are a surly, reckless
bunch. Drivers daily witness others
on the road running red lights.

Defensive driving can only carry
the rest of us so far in the quest to
move from point A to B with Sodies
intact.

It’s time to hit the boneheads
where it hurts: heavy fines to lighten
their pocketbooks.

ing your husbands?

The old “joke” has been turned
upside down.

Yes, the truth is out.
And thus more radical
feminist’s distortions and
lics are exposed.

The unfashionable
bits of a 1987 survey of

I oursce ss

Committee of the Status of Women that
“one million” Canadian men beat their
wives — a claim triumphantly seized
upon and publicized by the Soviet

Communists.

Questioned, NACSOW
later admitted its figure
included men who
shouted very, very
loudly at their wives,
By that definition the

Trever

. social services collective agreement has managed to eliminate
’ 24-hour shifts and poorly paid sleep shifts. To my knowledge,
these shifts still exist in the non-unionized sector. If they have
been cancelled in that sector, then I would suggest it is due to
the long, hard struggle of unionized employees fulfilling the
labour maxim of “what we desire for ourselves we wish for all.”
-- Tara surprised by Mr. Mowles’ assertion that. the
NSAMH’s contracts are atypical. As an employee of a com-
faunity health non-profit agency the contracting situation he

~ describes sounds exactly like findings of my and other commu-

‘nity agencies, ‘The valid point that employces will leave for
higher paying jobs only demonstrates th

the NSAMHi as transitional due to its low wages.

‘The. suggestion thatthe B.C. government is rewarding

- unions ignores the fact that the community social services ten-

‘tative: collective agreement came about only after a three

month strike. It was by:no means a handout to this govern- :

. What really mmc is the belief espoused that if 8,100

i non-union employees joincd a union it

-would rr “windfall” to unions. The $3.79 million fig-

ure Mr. Mowles refers to would be approximately $468 per

employee, and would go toward servicing those members —
to some overfiowing bank account.

»:+ Trade unions do more than increase their members’ finan- '
cial gain.’ They give members a say in their vocational reality, _,

safer workplaces and protection against unfair, even abusive,

++ Wer Shave Rowe, founded i 1909.3 an

:. under Sohadule 111, Paragragts 111 of the

. Grpine Tax Act, is pubdicrsd each Wecnsediay,
+” Feideg end Sunday by North Shows Free Press,
” Usth and distributed to every door on the Noith

taark Fancher
Crealive Services Director

985-2134 (127)
61,582 (average circulation, Wednestiay, Friday & Sunday)

Distribution Manager
. SBS-1337 (124)

at employees them-.
toward unionized jobs and/or sce employment with |

Alberta men and women
were suppressed because
they didn’t fit in with
the feminist agenda, the
National Post discovered
~— and ran as its top
page-one story last
Saturday.

“What was the cost to the taxpayer of
these decades of fabrication, manipulation
(womanipulation?) of data, and massive
government intrusion into the labor mar-

; ket, the office, marital relations and the
_» Wome? And to children? : :

This selective information was used as
part of the justification for then-Prime

inister Brian Mulroney — a false “con-
servative” if there ever was one — to
launch a two-year, $10-million study of
men’s violence against women. .

Ics recommendations supported the
feminists’ propaganda of the brutish,

triarchal” man, and the oppressed,
physically and sexually abused woman.

The craziest feminists declared women
had been as much victims of historica}
injustice as blacks. (Some enraged black
be smartly told them where to get
off.

The rt fed off the bogus claim in
the 19802 of the National ‘Acion

figure should have been
far larger.
The National Post story
said the 1987 survey of
705 Albcrza men and
women showed that
women, by their own
reckoning, were almost
three times as likely as men to start the
violence.

When the violence rose to severe levels
— choking, kicking, using a weapon —
the women out-assaulted the men almost
two to one.

Unsurprisingly, at the end women
usually ended up far more battered than
men. Which only supported the feminist
thesis.

But it turns out that the academics
who made the study simpiv said they
were more interested in ma‘e-to-female
violence. So they ped the women’s
violence and selectively reported male
violence in a professional journal. Stats
Canada too began reporting such data in
1993 — explaining today that it ignored
women’s violence against men simply.
because it thought it was less prevalent.

These perceptions therefore created
the reality.”

But radical feminism and its sub-

istortions of radical fems expose

LADIES: have ycu stopped beat-

sidiaries are being exposed. :

For example, “recovered memory syn-:
drome,” almost exclusively a fantasy of :
muddled, depressed females pumped by
mostly female therapists, has been proven
a hoax.

“Equal pay for work of equal valuc,” a
lucrative field day for left-wing, consul-
tants and social engincers, unfortunately
is still alive and demanding about $5 bil-
lion in compensation from Ottawa, i.c.,
you and me.

Note well: No woman could be more |
extreme than I in advocating locking up
forever men who are truly brutal toward
women and have the records to prove it.

But feminists who stereoryped all men .
as woman-beaters and women as their”

‘frail, virtuous victims not only alienated. :
the vast male majority that didn’ fir their
ridiculous picture; they also insulted and .
demeaned women. . ee

As any check of the real world proves...’

Q29 *

A touching sight and sound: Coming’ *
round the corner at the 16th Street
liquor store in West Vancouver to the °.:*
lovely music of Robert, recently returned :
with his family after three years in Japan

Robert’s violin seems more moving «:

~ than ever, though there’s a sadness for

those who remember. his beautifill dog. |?
Fariey who was always at his side. °°:
Robert, one of God’s unique souls, = =...
was shocked at the evidence of slump in. =...
downtown Vancouver, ~ ay
_ How famous is our premier’s role‘in
thar? “On the plane from Japan,” Robert °
said seriously, “I heard Japanese’ and * +":
American businessmen tell
jokes.” a wes

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