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the move, but many also want Canadian law changed to
recognize same-sex marriages. While some zroups are
fighting to preserve the traditional family, two gay men
in Ontario have launched a court battle to win the right
to be legally married. They claim their equality rights
have been violated.

WEDDING BELLS are ringing across Canada this
month — but not for same-sex couples. Last Monday,
the provincial government introduced amendments to
the Human Rights Act, which will protect homosexuals
in B.C. from discrimination in areas such as employ-
ment and tenancy. Gay and lesbian activists applauded

marriages be made legal?

Maureen Should same-sex

Gannon

INQUIRING REPORTER

Teahouse applicants to make

presentations to WV council
19th Street proposal raises local concerns

PROPOSALS FOR a teahouse at the foot of 19th
Street in West Vancouver will be aired in three 15-
minute presentations from short-listed applicants at

Tracey Baris

North Vancouver

No. [ don’t agree,
because 1 don’t think it
gives the right rele model
for our young children
today.

John O'Neil

San Francisco

Legally, I'd say yes. I
think everybody’s got
their right to choose their
own way.

Monday night’s West Vancouver District Council

meeting.

“There will be the opportu-
nity for anyone to comment on
the idea if they wish,” parks
director Kevin Pike told the
News.

The Wells waterfront home,

- recently purchased by the

municipality, would be the

: location of the teahouse, which

Pike said is envisioned as a

small operation catering mostly
to pedestrian traffic.

But residents living in the
area have already expressed
some concerns about the
teahouse’s possible impact on
them.

“Council is to be commend-
ed for acquiring the Wells
property, which can serve to
greatly enhance the beauty of
the seawalk and its enjoyment
by all who use it,’? submitted
John Southcott, the chairman

EE
WEST VANCOUVER

DISTRICT COUNCIL 15.

The Winnipeg South-Centre
MP will address the North Van-
couver federal and provincial Lib-

Kim Burdett

Vancouver

Yes, I think they should
get married, if they’re in
love. It’s none of our
business. It’s up to them.

Brenda Humber

West Vancouver

All couples deserve to
have their union
recognized. The word
marriage carries
heterosexual connota-
tions. I'd prefer to have

Gigi Hocller

North Vancouver

I don’t think that there’s
a problem with that.
Everybody has their own
sexual preference. I don't
see how it threatens the
regular family.

a different word, but to
have the union as en-
compassing as marriage.

MP Axworthy to address
N. Van Liberal dinner

ASIA PACIFIC trade and
world economics will be the
discussed by Liberal
Lloyd Axworthy when he
speaks to party members in
North Vancouver on June

Old Lillooet Rd., North Van-
couver.

Axworthy has served as a
former employment and immigra-
tion minister, transport minister
and the minister responsible for
the status of women.

He was appointed the Liberal
critic for external affairs and na-
tional defence in September 1990
and was nominated vice-chairman
of the House of Commons’

MP

By Maureen Curtis
Contributing Writer

of the Seawind apartment’s
strata council.

But the apartment’s council
wants the property to be used
for additional municipal
parkland rather than a com-
mercial venture.

Southcott said that the
owners of The Mariner, a new
development on Bellevue, and
the residents of a townhouse at
19th and Bellevue are also op-
posed to the teahouse proposal.

“Any commercial operation
on the Wells property would be
a flagrant case of spot zon-
ing,’’ wrote Southcott, who
noted that the area is currently
zoned residential.

West Vancouver has ac-
quired a number of waterfront

properties along the seawalk
that have been used either as
park extensions, or, in the case
of houses, as meeting space for
local arts groups.

The Welis property, which is
not connected to the other ac-
quisitions, was seen as the
possible location for a low-key
teahouse operation serving
primarily sewalk users.

But Southcott said teahouse
customers would stiil have to
use local parking and would
generate extra traffic and its
accompanying noise and
disturbance to the area.

He added that the teahouse
might evolve into another
commercial operation, such as
a neighborhood pub.

Southcott said a teahouse
could be developed in another
location, such as Lawson Park
or further east in West Van-
couver.

eral associations, the North Van-
couver Women’s Liberal Commis-
sion and the New Westminster-
Burnaby federal Liberal Associa-
tion at a dinner scheduled for 6:30

May 1991.

p.m. at the Coach House Inr., 700 0922.

ARDAGH HUNTER TURNER

Barristers & Solicitors

Standing Committee on External
Affairs and International Trade in

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