A8 - Sunday, October 16, 1983 - North Shore News

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VICTORIA - Members of
the government and op-
position are ready to
plunge back into
acrimonious and long
legislative sessions follow-
ing a rare long weekend.
All MLAs got the
weekend off as far as deal-
ing with the government’s
controversial restraint
legislation is concerned
because of the annual con-
vention of the Social

VANCOUVER - Labor
peace reigns over the pro-
vince but it wouldn’t take
much to touch off a major
confrontation.

In the forest industry,
efforts of IWA president
Jack Munroe averted a
lock-out of pulp = and
paper workers earlier this
week.

Munroe’s appeal to the
companies to turn to
mediation instead of lock-
ing out pulp workers, who
have carried out a number
of wildcat work  stop-

OTTAWA -A_ Supreme
Court of Canada decision
Thursday may lead to
more widespread use of
telephone taps by law en-
forcement agencies.

The court, by a 5-4
vote, upheld the 1976 con-
viction of Cosimo Com-
misso of Vancouver on
charges of conspiring to

BAGHDAD The — Iraq-
lran war, which has been
underway now for almost
three years, is heating up
after an exchange of fierce
artillery fire this week

And there are growing
signs that) the conflict
could spread

Attention ts once again
turning to the war bet
ween the two as the result
of a French proposal to

necesaitous cClhcumstances

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Credit party.

The break in what have
become record-setting ses-
sions came at the end of a
week that saw closure us-
ed a dozen times and one
Sittmg stretch almost a full
24 hours.

Throughout that time
efforts to get ousted NDP
leader Dave Barrett back
into the legislature con-
tinued, without success.

Peace for now

Pages, was accepted.

On a second major
front, however, there is
continued unease as the
government and the union
representing its employees
attempts to reach com-
mon ground for
negotiating a new
contract.

The B.C. Government
Employees Union has ask-
ed the Labor Relations
Board to order the
government back to the
bargaining table to
‘*bargain in good faith.’

Wiretap use

possess
money.

The decision over-ruled
a previous B.C. Court of
Appeal decision to throw
out the conviction because
evidence of the counter-
feiting conspiracy was ob-
tained through wiretaps
armed at heroin
trafficking.

counterfeit

War heats up

sell five jet fighter planes
armed with Exocet
mussiles to Iraq.

Iran has said that if the

sale of the five war
machines ts allowed, it
will cut off ow tanker
movement through — the

Persian Gulf
The US , Britain and
West Germany are all

strongly opposing the pro
posed sale of the planes

ther sacnties will ever in

aptre us to labour on to the end that (hose who serve and nuw
need our ad may be assured of assistance

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BLACKBURN ‘ASTONISHED’ AT EDITORIAL...

Rebuts ‘Solidarity’ tag

Dear Editor:

It was with astonishment
that | read your editorial of
October 9. Criticism I am
willing to accept but not
when it ts based on
misinformation.

Fortunately the council
meeting was taped and the
facts are that the municipal
Community Services
Advisory Commission’s
recommendations regarding
the effect on services and
financial implications in
West Vancouver of
provincial legislation, made
to council several weeks ago,
were on the agenda to be
received on October 3 at
which time I introduced the
subject by saying:

**1 am sure that I reflect the
thinking of the whole council
when | say that we feel that
party politics have no place in
municipal affairs. Neither do
we feel that municipalities
should try to tell the
provincial government how
to run provincial affairs. We
know that they have serious
problems regarding lack of
funds. We recognize and
endorse the need for
constraint at all levels of
government. However, where
restraint is to be practised
provides alternatives. And as

mayor and aldermen elected
to look after the interests of
the people of West
Vancouver, it behooves us to
speak out when the welfare
of our people is adversely
affected — especially when it
is the elderly, the sick and the
disadvantaged.’’

My motion as approved by
council was as follows:

‘“*That Mayor D.

Humphreys be requested to
write to the Premier, with
copies to the appropriate
ministers and our MLA,
regarding the provincial
budget, stating the council of
West Vancouver’s position as
follows:
“‘1. The council recognizes
the financial constraints
under which the province is
currently operating and will
be for the next few years until
resource and other revenues
rise.

**2. The council recognizes
that in times such as these
there must be a re-allocation
of provincial funds and a
Trepriorizing of provincial
services.

**3. Council expresses its
concern that the reduction in
some of the human resource
programmes and funding in
this area may cause hardship
and may cause an immediate

Ban rubbish burning

Dear Editor:

Well here we are again —
beautiful fall weather only to
be clouded up by smoke com-
ing from a smoldering mass
of garbage from my
neighbor’s yard.

Obviously, the fools burn.
ing their rubbish are going to
continue doing so until our
city council bans this prac
tice) Why bundle up the gar
bage or take it to the dump
when you can just set fire to

it and merely
neighbor’s complaints. It’s
so easy if you don’t care
about polluting the environ-
ment or breathing fresh air.

I have lived in West Van-
couver for ten years and
every year 1 wonder just how
long this practice will be
allowed to continue in such a
beautiful area.

ignore your

Donna Kozak
West Vancouver

THE OPTICAL DEPARTMENT
OF LONDON DRUGS

PRICES
CAN'T BE

BEAT!

THE OPTICAL DEPT. OF
LONDON DRUGS WILL MEET
OR BEAT THE ADVERTISED
PRICE OF ANY OPTICAL
COMPANY LOCATED ON THE
NORTH SHORE.

IF YOU DON'T BUY FROM US ...
YOU'LL PROBABLY PAY TOO MUCH!

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LONDON DRUGS

INSIDE LONDON DRUGS
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increase in costs in other
areas financed by the local
and provincial
governments.”’

‘*4. Council expresses its
concern that the reduction in
public funds available for
preventative programmes will
cause, in the

inspections.’’

The aforesaid can hardly
be said to ‘‘read like an
Operation Solidarity
manifesto’’.

However, as this is the first
time I have had cause for
complaint to you in five years

long run, as an Alderman, there are no
additional costs for __ hard feelings on my behalf!
provincial taxpayers.
‘*§.The council Doreen Blackburn

recommends that for those
services which the provincial
government no longer desires
to subsidize, consideration be
given to the continuation of
the programmes but, where
appropriate, on a ‘‘user pay’’
basis, i.e. motor vehicle

Alderman, West Vancouver
(The Community _ services
Advisory Commission
report, endorsed by Ald.
Blackburn in the above
terms, was considerably more
specific in its opposition .
—Ed.)

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