Bob Hunter ® strictly personal @ NORTH VANCOUVER City Council gave initial approval Tuesday to a joint city and district police liaison committee to address their common policing problems. But some aldermen charged the ‘ different problems of each municipality made a joint commit- tee unfeasible. Ald. Stella Jo Dean, chairman of the police liaison committee, said she had not been “‘too en- thused’’ with the joint committee. there be a topic of interest to the district, I think once or twice a year we could have a_ joint meeting."’ Ald. John Braithwaite supported the approval in principle, saying details of the joint city-district police liaison committee could be worked out later. Following a meeting between the two North Vancouver mayors, city staff will report on the joint com- I AM VERY happy a permanent IMAX theatre has opened in Vancouver. About time! And especially happy that its first feature is The Dream Is Alive. Il was among the handful of people who got to see the show in the more spectacular 360-degree overhead format at the False Creek geodesic dome before Ex- po opened last year. There was just one quick showing arranged by Young Astronauts of Canada. I pleaded then, bring it back! Let everyone see it! I know I had wonderful dreams for weeks afterwards of being ‘‘back’’ up in space. It still seems to me, all this time later, that 1 can remember what it was like ‘‘being in space’’. IMAX is, first of all, a new cinematography technique quite as revolutionary as the color camera in its own day. This is “living 3-D’’, you might say. ~ Whetever subject it touches, IMAX delivers it into your senses in a whole new way. For; this’ astonishing new camera to be taken up into orbit and turned on, well, there is no other word for it than to say that it is'a his- toric bit of cinema, folks. ; When the rocket twisled over into orbit 250 miles up and we aimed ourselves for the. edge of | the absolutely, gigantic silver arc of the earth, my stomach nearly lurched. For’the first time in my life’ the earth was above me and the sky below! It was a feeting that moved me as much as |.~ :7;: a whale song for the first .-.... years ago. A very primal feeling. A sense that you -are actually Jearning some big secret about life and the uni- verse. There is a painful dimension to the showing of The Dream Is Alive today that wasn’t the case when it slipped through town last year..The footage was obtained duririg three flights on board Challenger,’ the space shuttle that eventually blew up. This is a good time to see The. Dream Is Alive, to ask: Well, is the dream still alive? The ‘political debate . about Canada’s involvement in space is certainly alive. As things stand, take ja good look at Marc Garneau as he floats happily across the IMAX screen on board the Challenger. ; ‘There is no guarantee anywhere that he won’t turn out to have been the first and last Canadian in space for an awful long time. ‘ ’ Since the Challenger disaster, the Americans have been endur- ing a trauma about their space program. But they have picked up their shattered momentum and are casting restless looks skyward, where the Russians have taken up permanent abode. There is talk of a joint Soviet-American voyage to Mars to cap the build-down in arms. For Canadians, who have log- ged the sarne amount of time in space now as Saudi Arabians, the focus of the issue is Canada’s in- volvement in the space station which the Americans are still vowing to launch within a de- cade. Joe Clark has been bravely standing up to Caspar Weinberger, the hawkish U.S. defence boss, who wants to build a space station more like Darth Vader’s Deathstar than anything -you would want to play the Blue Danube about. For a while it looked like the Star Wars boys in the Pentagon were going to take over. It seems now that the space station project will go ahead as a peaceful orbiting platform, after all. The Russians did pull some- thing of a PR coup when they got the central component of their own space station up first and manned it Mir, meaning “peace”. / Cosmopolitics aside, Canada has had the technology and ex-- pertise since the Second World War to be a frontrunner in the race to become a spacefaring .na- tion, thus positicning our kids beautifully for the next century. We have fumbled the ball at just about every turn, from kneecapping the development of our own aerospace industry to farming out so many of our highest high-tech jobs. Far too many Canadians still think of the space race as science-fiction. It ain’t that any more. Space is where the megabucks have to happen. That’s also where the adventures of the next generation should (and can) be taking place. | There’s no good reason Cana- dians should miss the boat, par- don me, spaceship, entirely. It looks too interesting in orbit. We should be moving heaven, if you'll excuse the expression, and earth, to establish a niche up there. Go see The Dream Is Alive. If that doesn’t convert you into a space nut, nothing will. ACCOLADES “Every time | go on a cruise, people ask me where | get my (Tilley) pants... The pants are all-purpose. | wear them {o the dining room, to “We seem to have different mittee and present its findings for problems,’’ Dean said. ‘‘Should further debate. Cr rar a ea The First Day Of My Summer : Vacation I Went To Sylvan. | es & Summer is no time to take a vacation from learning. 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