nod i - @~ Sunday, June 25, 1995 - North Shore News TOD YoU” ae | UP. HES. s WHETHER A statue will © - ever be erected to Ontario's, oe new Tory Premier Mike: Harris is still debatable. But .. for one monumental feat: alome-he’s. already” earned © oo that honor. “He won his ‘June 8 landslide by 2 telling a bunch of the province's. ‘Most powerful special-interest), ‘.. groups to go jump in the. lake if they _ didn’t like his program. °- “4, When you can thumb your nos at labor unions, feminists, visible minorities, aboriginals, disabled ©: folks; rebellious youth and 80,000°. » Civil servants,— yet still wind up:., with 82 of the legislature’s:130 s nals something strange and exciting is’ suddenly happening on the © ; Canadian political scene.: : «3 Ever since the 6 p.m. TY news became.c our window:on the world beyond our own backyard, “Andy Warhal’s promise | that “everyone. infected us, with a potentially fatal political ' virus. 2: : : Its symptom is any, single-mind-, ed nut .who'has the phone nuiinber of. the 'T'V'news desk anda dozen’ chanti ‘placard. carriers on call at an hour's notice to perform before: the news- -hungry cameras." ett ‘a'society already suffering from’ a bad case of geal n " SUH Seer AM EY A HHT ORR RSS ARAN RTA CIO RAMA CEM OEE ROW NITE LNG AEE PAPER SUG IG REAL IEE DEPT CCAS RY oR TEP AMI EM ADs hae 1 : Ta far) © LOAD! RUHT (AN, Alba, a T’S A finite public resource anywhere, but in North V: ancouver it has all but disap- peared. : {tis North Shore waterfront, aad a report presented to North Council on Monday night lays oul some key ‘principles for-local council approach to the | future of North Vancouver waterfront access and development — two forces competing for the remnants of North Vancouver’s shoreline. In North Vancouver City, virtually the harbor waterfront has been allotted to industry, a key’ component. in the North Shore’s prosperity and its importance as a port facility and national rail terminus. But in North Vancouver District, residen- tial development threatens ty remove public access to remaining waterfront areas. The report from the district’s Waterfront Vancouver District © all of tions as to where the district should be going ‘in its approach to preserving the area’s pre- cious waterfront resource. Those recommendations include investi- gating innovative ways of financing the acqui-. sition of public waterfront lands, prohibiting ~ medium- or high-density waterfront redevel- opment, reducing the number of residential waterfront licences and extending - district waterfront planning. beyond the Deep Cove and Dollarton areas. North. Vancouver residents need look no further than West Vancouver's: seawalk to gauge the value of retaining waterfront for public use. The task force report deserves careful con- : sideration by everyone in North Vancouver _. District. As they say in the real estate trade, waterfront is an invaluable. commodity Task Force makes some key recemmenda- i quotes of the week Indians, bureaucrats and the like are best ignored by everyone else involved. We're talking about the / election campaign that comes every four or five years.’ oy This spring Mike Harris stuck it. to special-interest groups with no apologies. To the silent majority of Ontario he promised to slash taxes, eliminate the deficit and toughen “up law and order. And that; it seems, was exactly what the silent majority wanted. It remains to be seen whether ‘special interests will REALLY | " bleed much under the premier ‘ Being both noisy and highly visible, they scare the panis off the average politician, whom they con “. into.regarding them as vital voter. ° “constituencies”. The truth being _: that they. rarely, if ever, amount to: el anything much more than small - Warts on the body politic. Not that this is to suggest spe- . .. cial-interest; .Broups should ever be “ignored by’ the governmentin= ~~ “power. It owes them exactly the: - and ‘consideration .” ” y-Brivate citizen. ~., Democratic’ governments, elect- ed bya majority, of the people, are \ » then obligated to serve ALL the 5 people, : a "Failure to grasp that simple rule : explains why the poor numbskulls © are SO often turfed out Ht after a single : “eter! oot But there’ 's just one 1c period i in :.fat years been‘a disease ealing away "| at the very flesh ‘of democracy." : the democratic cycle when unions, feminists, Bays, immigrants, ‘whom Maclean’s calls “The Knife.” But for’ the majority he at: least got the priorities right at long last. / For ail other politicians this Sunday ~~ especially those gearing up for a'B.C. election — here endeth ‘the lesson according to St. ; Mike! f° Bain who's younger than indicated © here last Wednesday — save her =: “birthday greetings until JULY 21! : . Many happy returns of today, “June 25, to West Van’s Ron: - ' Sidaway .... And ditto tomorrow, - Sune 26, to his fellow. Kiwanian: : . Ken Mcintosh. e eo _ WRIGHT OR WRONG: Those _ - who can’t lead and won’t follow APOLOGIES to North Van's Joan | “Move slowly, talk slowly and drink lemonade.” Charlotte, Carolina, resident Karen May, on keeping cool in the southern United States. (From Kasey Wilson's Juste 21: Kasey at the Plate food colunin.) “Boys lost at'sea don’t ws even ‘have graves." ; Maggie Carpenter, on sailors killed in battle, during discussion on the upgrading of. the North Vancouver City cenotaph. (From a June 21 News story.) : “And they can put their . daughter ina proper grave where they, can visit and pay the propér respects to her and they can start to rebuild. They are far more.worth saving than any - criminal. ° Chris Simmonds, the B. c chairman of the victim-rights* . group CAVEAT, addressing a press” 1 railisex ‘because they just aren’t making it anymore. te conference prior to the search of - the Seymour Demonstration Forest .- for clues into the murder of Lynn Duggan, on the victims of crime - and criminals. (From a June 18 News story. ). : “For those pasple who think: that it is not worth it to keep . ‘criminals behind bars, obviously they aren’t getting the big pie. ture.” ve North Vancouver RCMP bur-s . glary section acting Cpl. Mike’, ’ Lidstone, detailing | the financial i: costs of a recent computer theft. on: “the value of keeping criminals i in: jail, (From a Site 18 News § story. ). “This grant i is like someone ; deposited a Mercedes at my door: . and said, ‘Would you like this?!” : Designer Patricia Fieldwalker, »" on receiving a grant from the: - Matinee Lid. Fashion’ Foundation. 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