m Solidarity); another item on 8 - Friday, August 30, 1985 - North Shore News Tiny grants and tiny brains IF I WANT to waste my time I can always try to invent a trouble-free pesticide, so 1 didn’t go to the federally-funded anti-Socred play called The Enemy Within that ran at North Vancouver’s Neighborhood House from July 17 to August 10. staff’’ got ‘special thanks’’. Taking all this at face value, we might assume that the Mulroney Tories are in- In themselves, anti- government plays are to be applauded — provided | you and | aren’t.. paying , for.. them. For one thing, the po- litical play demands the wit’ of a'G.B, Shaw or-a Ber- thold’Brecht; and somehow. I, doubt: that Enemy Within’ man David Diamond is quite ‘ in that class. Irideed, if. the .., program, handed Out at the door. is/anything to go by, this‘ play was a soporific. :The program included a treatise on community ecoriomic development, a doom-saying item on the sad condition of British Colum- .bians (courtesy of Operation «the ‘terrible. state.of; human "> " rights: in:B.C.,: ‘and: an. in “ terested ‘in: ‘dishing. the. Ben- comprchensible - piece on. ‘nett Socreds: For we may be ~ by Doug Collins. Canadian Catholic Organization for Develop- ment and Peace, the South Pacific People's Foundation of Canda, the South African Action Coalition, the Inter- national Development Education Resources Association (IDERA), plus OXFAM and CUSO, the latter four of which all. nest get this at the same address. as Headlines Theatre (2524 5, A further pointer to the politics of it all is seen in unions like CUPE, the BCGEU, and the, BCTF also being financial supporters. Which is their business, they being private organizations. One may ask, though, whether Vancouver tax- payers approve of their commie-dominated council having contributed, and whether admirers of OX- FAM are aware of what is being done with their money. Curious about Pat Carney’s involvement, 1! called her special assistant, Ray McAllister. He said Carney’s office had helped expedite the cheque from Ottawa, which had already been granted. It was, he said, “a tiny . grant of $i, 500", And the. office had not known what the play: or. Theatre was Headlines about. That's the trouble. No one knows what -anything’s only a tiny grant. And Poo Bear had only a tiny brain. Money continues to g.. down - the drain, It was, of course, | vik dODASNA NVIGWNVOSH x 7 This year, give t em . “Social Conditions in Asian SEZ’s’’,.whatever they may. be.. The’ Russians: themselves“ couldi’t : have © turned. “Out anythi ig More, tractor-like.” . cal sure that The Enemy Within did not have a kind word to ay about:those villains in “Mictoria, it being ‘A Politi- ‘Comedy About The ~ Cypress St., Vancouver). about. And that’s why your rT: his your, givea Canadian Encyclopedia pift certifica for ‘Cheistnas, : nadia Encyclopedia is three volumes packed with -geagraphy, politics, sclenté, sports, arts, anid technology: emeaemmenaninel “Premier, His Cleaning Scoman, Restraint . and QU”? — if that doesn’t ‘tnake you laugh too much. At the very least, we. must conclude ‘that + worried about a huge deficit it care what company it left-wing’ group” you can -Even ‘more incomprehen- ‘sible: than | Asian . SEZ’s, : though, is why an allegedly. ent would be is. rate of. play”, tion, Woman. 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