MAYBE WE SHOULD STAY (N BOSNIA ... AT LEAST WE GET MORE RESPECT HERE. NEWS. VIEWPOINT Great Games HE FLAME may be extinguished for another two years, but images from the 1994 Lillehammer Olympic Games continue to burn brightly. -Canada’s‘ medal haul — 13 »- in Norway. Likewise, few could deny a dump in. their “throat.last Sunday morning as North : Vancouver’s Paul Kariya was stopped by - ‘Swedish goaltender Tommy. Salo in the gold’ “medal hockey game’s sudden-death shootout. . But emotional extremes are’ what. the “Games are all about. Celebrating their 100th anniversary,in — represents ‘ the country’s best Winter Games showing cever. And while Canadians will forever be . ; second-guessing skating judges, hockey «Shootout formats and biathlon targets, few would admit that their chests hadn’t swelled . with pride at least once during the two weeks/ 1994, the Olympics consistently succeed where the world's politicians and business leaders consistently fail: they bring countries together in the spizit of peace and respect for each other, Even our own Olympic team represented a truce between Canada’s solitudes. For two glorious weeks in February, the ‘people of all 10 provinces cheered as one, regarding Myriam Bedard as a Canadian and not as a Quebecer, Kurt Browning as : Canadian and not as an Albertan. ~. And therein lies the charm of the Olympic’ movement, The pursitit of gold, silver, and ‘bronze is the goal of every athlete at the Olympics. The pursuit of a better under- standing between nations is the goal of the Olympics themselves. / From all accounts, the Lillehammer Games succeeded on both fronts. : LETTER OF THE DAY ‘Betobey will generate more jobs Dear Editor: |; ‘. 1 found Noel Wright’ s article -“Superhighways to Joblessness — ‘opening soon,” incomplete and a “vast distortion of the facts. “No disrespect to Mr. Wright's journalistic integrity, but he obvi- ously has not researched this sub- “ject thoroughly. , On the eve.of the 2tst century ‘we can see the many benefits that technology is providing us..The article did point out some. of the benefits as seen by many organiza- “ tions’ that have purchased equily inteiests in the coming electronic highway. I transmitted this letter Publisher........ Sales & Marketing Comptrotier..... _..Peter Speck electronically for far less than the “rip-off” price 1 would have paid had J used Canada Post. But the prospect that so many jobs will be lost as a result of tech- nology is just sheer silliness. Mr. Wright's words remind me of the best buggy whip at the turn of the last century, When the automobile arrived, so did a jot of new jobs. And so it will be with this change. We don't need to waste the delivery boy’s time delivering the newspaper when it can be sum- moned up. clectronically on demand, not when it must be deliv- ered. Jobs may be lost, but many Display Advertising 980-0511 986-6222 Fax 985-2131 Classified Advertising Newsroom Oistnbution Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Subscriptions Administration North Shore News, tounded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualilied under Schedule 111, Paragral ph 111 of the Excise Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by Norih Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Praduct Agreement No. 0087238. Mailing rates available on request. Submissions are welcome but we cannal accept responsibility for unsolicited material including maouscripts and pictures which should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. | . 1139 Lonsdale ‘Avonue : North Vancouver B.C. V7M 2H4 North Share Managed -more will be created because the information necessary for us to make decisions quickly and accu- rately will depend on how quickly we access that information, and at what costs. Many more of us can travel and communicate via the electronic highway, rather than waiting for someone else to decide to deliver it to us. Before you pronounce the death of one job, look around and see » what other job may take its plice, and how it will enhance the way we communicate with one another. Dennis Gross West Vancouver 986-1337 986-1337 965-3227 985-2131 contans” recycled hore MEMBER SDA oe 61,582 (average circulation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Entire contents © 1994 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. is noo SUBSTANCE ABUSE at every level of government is numpant from cous to coast, That's why Vancouver will wind up as Las Vegas North. The-substince being abused, year in and year out, by all elected leaders - prime ministers tnd their colleagues, pronsicns wal their cabi- fets, mayors and councils ba costly bat legal hallucinogen, The “wip: - evperionced by its wditiets create illusions af eternal life with power and authority ever af lesser mortils, Ws called OTHERS FOLA'S MONEY — prabbed by tue iien ta be spent recklessly by politiciuns whose first duty is to get re-elected, Ciramed, part of the money ts used to fulfil their second duty — providing thee and mie with essen: - tial services, But the balance is devoted to the higher purpose of Irying fo ensure Unit Que leaders = once chosen — and their friends control the rest of us forever, The trouble ds that this higher purpose of self-perpetuttion has come lo require more money than the peasants — more than half of whose income is already seized by the tax nian — are willing to pay. Time and time again the tax mia nowadays is coming up short, as more and more peasants thumb their noses at him cither by earning and spending less, or by escaping te othe underground economy. What can a poor politician then do? Happily, there’s always a solu- tion when compulsory tuxation hits the point of diminishing returns, The answer is “voluntary taxation” — otherwise known.as gambling. with the government claiming its cul. Citizens in their tens of thou- sands may threaten to take to the barricades to resist any new taxes. But they can always be trusted to Nock with equal fervor to the bingo hall, the lotto counter, the pari- |” mutucel, the blackjack and the roulette tables. : Hence the shameless shuttle now being performed by Mike Harcourt and his government since the Vancouver Port Corporation gave the nod fast week to'a $750 million downtown waterfront. development that is conditional upon the inclusion of a huge Las Vegas-type casino. For-profit gambling is presently ittegal in B.C. When the Sccreds proposed introducing it in 1986, nobody attacked it more vigorously than Mikey, at that time mayor of Vancouver. “It’s an open invitation to the mob, and all that it will bring with it.” he thundered. “All the dirty money in terms of raking-off from, gambling. the corruption of offt- cials, extortion, prostitution, drugs and money being laundered.” My, my. what a change seven years can mak+ when you're now the government, strapped for money with which to buy yoursell a second term in power and facing a taxpayer rebellion. Especially when you own 16% of VLC Properties Lid. — the waterfront development company in question — und stand to rake in $250 mil- lion a year in new revenue if the oe project goes ahead. Lust week Government Services Minister Robert Blencoe — an equally outraged opponent of for- HITHER AND YON profit casinos seven yeuts ago announced i six-meath review and “possible expansion” at H.C. game | ing laws. 7" R “We'll proceed with duc dill. genes and caution,’ “Harcourt purrs mildly. And that’s bow, in about it yeue, fram now, VLC Properties wileget = the nod to start building Las Vegus' North kere, _ When you're hooked: ont drug! tn this case money for political self-preservation — and | your norte mal source dries up, yoo pay what ever the street price is fora fresh supply. Go ask ainy Junkie! TAILPIECES: Only three dys” left to buy. your ‘ubber tlucky fora one in 3,000 chance to share, i in: $38,000 worth of prizes in ‘ne: Sunday's Great Capilano. River Duck Race — or charge it on, Visa, or Maste rCard by calling 980- DUCK..2. Friday, March 4, brings the installation at 7:30 pny of Pal Reeves as Master of Burrard . Masonic. Lodge in the Masonic Hall 1140 Lonsdale «.. “State District Message” will be‘ delivered to West Van. Chamber yof Commerec’ by Mayor Mark Sager Tuesday, March 8, dit the 7:30 acm. meeting: in: Pat Restaurant — book at 926-6614 before Friday ... Happy, 63rd birth-: day today, March 2,to Mikhail ‘ Gorbachev (hi there, ‘embattled " Boris Yeltsin!) ... And many happy, i returns of tomorrow, March’ 3, 10 % MtSeymour Lion Dudley Kill. ? v4 een ‘ WRIGHT OR WRONG: The: defeated always remember the bat- tle longer than the winners, : MIKE HARCOURT... paying the “street price.”