6 - Friday, February 24, 1989 - North Shore News INSIGHTS ‘Miulticult’ comes home to roost, burning books EVERYTHING HAS NOW BEEN SAID about the mad Ayatollah and his $6 million contract to kill Salman Rushdie, British author of ‘‘The Satanic Verses.”’ The neatest idea came from which last year meant 66 per cent another British Moslem writer and of all B.C. immigrants came from friend of Rushdie. ‘‘Ask Inter- Asia. But that gives them no pol,’ he said, ‘‘to arrest the licence to try to impose the culture Ayatollah and extradite him here and politics of their homeland on on an attempted murder charge.’’ — their new country — with intini- But one or two things still need dation, street gangs, the torch and to be said about Canada’s gutless the bomb. leaders and that distorted word As Dong Collins reported last “‘racism."’ For a week — while Sunday, things are mighty dif- Mulroney kept his lips buttoned — ferent in another racially mixed Joe Clark and Otto Jelinek state, Singapore, under its demo- dithered between banning cratic dictator Lee Kwan Yew. Any Rushviie’s book and, finally, fol- attempts by militant minorities to lowing the Europeans by recalling drag Singaporeans into cultural or our man in Iran, Meanwhile, political battles that have nothing booksellers are withdrawing the to do with Singapore are strictly book — already burned in a banned. At the slightest hint of Toronto store — for fear of vio- such nonsense, the police crack lence by a crazed Moslem minori- down in a jiffy. ty. No wonder, given Ottawa’s “Tough love’’ of this kind actu- disastrous multicult policy which ally helps immigrants from alien says to all immigrants: ‘‘Feel free cultures, because it removes to behave here exactly as you FEAR, the main cause of racism would back home!” among the rest of the population. The governments we elect have tn Canada it might also help some opted for a racially mixed society, of them learn more quickly about NEWS photo Terry Peters WINNING SWEETHEARTS...Jeri Jans (eft) of Capilano Mal! shows photo which bronght Kim and Brace Nicholson (right) their prize in the recent News Sweetheart Contest. Space squeeze F THE provincial government is serious about making education a priority, it must consider such projects as the overhaul of Capilano College now. According to a draft report on Capilano’s space needs, the college, which services Howe Sound, Sechelt, the North Shore and increasingly, Burnaby ard Vancouver, is already faced with one of the worst facility space squeezes of all of B.C.’s community col- eS. reas immediate needs inciude 15, 40-seat classroon::, replacement of its old inefficient portable classrooms and more space for students and faculty. Projections combining the growing college’s popu- larity and increasingly high educational standards with projected population growth on the North Shore in general and in the Seymour area in particular make the need for improved college facilities all the more urgent. Gverali, planning officials estimate the college will have to increase its present facilities 60 per cent by the year 2001 if it is to accommodate projected and current demand for services. Provincial officials have recognized access to post- secondary education in the Lower Mainland area as a major problem. Expanding the capacity of Capilano College repre- sents a major part of the solution to that problem. Quality Jearning conditions make for quality educa- tions, which should be the priority of any college and any government education ministry. what they presumably came here to be — CANADIANS, living by Canadian traditions and values. And Coles and W.H. Smith would never have to worry about ar- sonists in the store. But as long as votes take precedence over values in Ottawa, don’t hold your breath for Singapore-style sanity in ‘‘the true north strong and free’’! nee UMPIRES UNLIMITED: Re- elected directors of the B.C. Ar- bitration & Mediation Institute at its recent a.g.m. were 2.9 West Van residents — lawyer Harry Henter, consultant Peter Rowbotham and P.Enz David Bakewell. The ‘‘0.9"’ is David, a longtime West Vancouverite well known for his many community activities, who moved 10 days ago to his new Sunshine Coast home. One of four new directors is in- surance man Joha Glavin of North Van. And the North Shore is also home to five of the 11 new Chartered Arbitrators (C.Arb.) named at the meeting — Merrill Leckie, Eric Ralph, Martin Roberts, Christopher Walker and Toby Symes. What do C.Arb.s do? They um- pire civil disputes of ail types, faster and at less cost than the overloaded courts — and their rul- ings are equally binding on disputing parties choosing that route, eee POSTSCRIPTS: Another piece of West Van's “‘living history”’ has been lost to us with the death of native son Ken (“‘T.K."") Camp- bell, retired executive vice-presi- dent of Woodward's who built seven of the western chain's stores and whose father, Tom Campbell, was the first manager of West Van Ferries. Ken died the same day, Feb. 12, as his longtime friend Hal Publisher Managing Editor Associate Editor Paragraph Snore Second Glass Matt Subscriptions Nurth ang Ae weicome «ee cannot UNSChEteS Maternal incuang MMUSCHpIS and gICtUTES e which should De aC Companes oy 4 Stamped, addressed enveigne Straight, the distinguished news- paperman who's also part of North Shore history ... Did some- thing funny ever happen to you on the bus? If so, please tell transit operator Heinz Hammer, 588- 3055, who’s writing a book, to be published next December, on the lighter side of public transit. He’s collected stories hilarious and bizarre from over 150 transit systems around the world, but still needs more local ones ... And do NOT miss ‘‘The Story of 2 Com- munity,’’ North Van School District’s A.D. 1900-2000 heritage display which continues until Monday in Park Royal South, then moves to Capilano Mall for another 10 days from March 1. The advance ‘‘Expo-quality”’ hype was NO exaggeration — at our 1986 world fair it would have been among the better shows. eat WRIGHT OR WRONG: “‘Bosses” figure most people want to shirk responsibility. Leaders know most people want to accept it. { & NEWS pheto Cindy Ballamy Peter Speck Barrett Fisher Noel Wright Advertising Directur Linda Stewart North Shore News, founded in 1959 as an independent Suburban Pewspaper and dualified unger Schedule 111. aph Hof tre Excise Tae Act 18 pupisned vacn Wednecday, Friday and Sunday by Nerin Snore Free Press Lid and disinduted to every door on the North THE IMPORTANCE of education in the development of North Van- couver was highlighted at the opening of The Story of a Community ex- hibition which opened Monday night at Park Royal. Susan Marshall, the daughter of the late North Vancouver Schoo! Superintendent Dr. Leo Marshall, cut the ribbon in attendance with, left to right, local MLA Angus Ree, North Vancouver Schoo! 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