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EW STATISTICS: Canada fip-
ures show © anada’s slack~ “Hays ee
army watches an average of 22.7
hours of television a week.
The good news is Chal whopping numn-

-ber has dropped by 90 minules a week

in the past decade and 30 minutes since
1990, ;
On the Wet Coast, we
that ihe average British Columbian

spends a meager. 20.6 hours i in front of

the boob tube weekly...
On the East Coast, the sorry story isa

‘bit different, Glassy-cyed residents of
© Newfoundland and Nova Scotia spend &

effort te

“an take pride

Quebec Francophones, ino a strong
further their contention’ that
they are indeed a distinet societyy grab
the title as Canada’s top television

addicts. Siey watch an average of 26.3
“hours per week.

French Canadians also, tune ‘in’ to

more Canadian news and public affairs.

programs than — their Anglophone

brethren.

Don't blame lazy ‘teens and ‘portly.

children for the huge number of: wasted

liours Canadians. spend with | their”

favorite entertainers: they trail only 18 -
io (24-year-olds: in viewing. the least

‘

‘Perhaps not. Maybe ‘they - pla

ratehed increases ‘vith ages
and over _wateh the most,’

sromen ‘aver 0 who: watch 48 8 0

per w eek. My
i,
290 mint og
Freed up in the past decade? 2)
Perhaps people ‘are becoming nere
active physically: or interacting ‘more
with real flesh. and blood: peop
video
L games. Beas
Whatever the case, further cutting 9
.. the cable. cord couldn’ t hart. ;

“scans & Marketing Director °

»mind- “numbing 24.1 hours tuned in.

IT’S NOT the last straw. The
‘last straw.was countless : mt
straws ago. :

The retum of Moe sihota to cabi-
net is just another last straw in the |».

 hayrick of last straws of the New” pee
““Democratic” Party government. - ue

‘ And ~ unless he really is in con-

© trol and therefore the guy where the
buck stops. which is doubted by:

informed observers like Province

- Victoria columnist Brian Kieran —

“straw boss” is the kindest accusa-

‘tion that canbe made of Premier.
:Mike Harcourt.

The cabinet rehabilitation of the

ethically seedy Sihota, while disgust- © >."
ing, isn’t the worst citation in the . "+"
‘indictment of arrogance, itutocracy’
and contempt for the people shown
’, by this government. It is only the |
. most recent and the most blatant.

Sihota’s slippery acts were mere-
ly personal. Governments of every.
political stripe have produced indi-°.

-vidual scoundrels. . °° ay

However, Sihoti’s misconduct

“was neither trifling nor.an isolated

case. The Law. Society of B.C.’s dis- :

‘; cipline commitee found him guilty

of professional misconduct concem-

: ing his trust relationship with a.
client. Lawyers don’t punish their;

peers lightly, or, as the Sihota case
showed, quickly. .
But years earlier Sihota, was vari-

. ously president und guarantor of’
some obligations of outfits called S.

& S. Stores and S. & ‘Ss. Appliances

amount of te tevision.

atu caring,

- Dear. Editor:

icism of the care given at Inglewood Private Hospital in West’ ‘Vancoiive

. From personal. experience, Vi
unwarranted and unfair: :

ao

cause distress toa dedicated staff, who are doing a tbe fob in the

of biases

(Penticton) Lid, founded by his

«father, Bas Sihota. And Bas Sihota

.. flatly cheated a small rug merchant... :

4° Ramed Jake Klippenstein of $15, O0D.;
»,, by writing a cheque that bounced “’

and kept bouncing from the day he.

’ wrote it in 1982 until he died i in’
1990.

Klippenstein got ‘ucourt :judg-
ment against the elder Sihoia but «
could never collect.

“Moe Sihota wouldn’t pony up the -

money when approached by.

'Klippenstein, knowing, lawyer that:

he is, that lie’ was under no legal

‘obligation to pay his father’s debts,” |.

Bas Sihota also got into the glue,

for unpaid taxes, for unpaid wages,

and — in Hull, Quebec, in 1978 —
for one of those operations that pays”
-’ sharply discounted amounts to hard-

“pres ssed people j in exchange tor their (4

‘ing field of senior’s ¢are.
Ken Herron: *.:
North Vancouver ;

re the joint. "Too
tors had vamoused. »

(An interjection here

: “restoration reportedly: was powerful-
vcly lobbied for by: some. Sikh inter-

- ‘head off any. iinuendo that I'm mo
~ vated by “racism,”: I will add that I:

- once interviewed the new attorney-
” general, Ujjal Dosanjh; also a Sikh;

-and, while I don't endorse his poli-:

tics, 1 thought he’ was a man ‘of out-

‘standing character and courage, )

The sins of the father can’t entire:
ly be visited on'the son. “certainly.:

But Moe Sihota, whose father's *

home.was on pricey Salish Drive

“cand who attended tony St. George's”

private schoo} while this sort of thing’
was going on; hasn't exactly cleaned |;
up the family | escutcheon.

{t would be’ astounding that, only.
months after being tossed from his.

» cabinet job, Sihota is restored to it
\ if this wasn’t the shameless and
- hypocriti

al NDP. governinent.
Butinore important is the gove

‘ernment 's slow-mo Maoism and fas- |

cism.: ;
‘| am sorrowfully Late i in stating in”

. this space | my unquatitied support of
‘this paper’s defence of democratic.
~ rights and defiance of the NDP’s

‘vicious anti-freedom legislation. The |

North Shore News has repeatedly.
* hammered away at: ;

- Bil 28, amending the Election

; ‘media of public opinion p

Bill 33, the grotesquely ni ned
which giv i
“wide, loose latitude for those HHO:

_ charge that will have the publi z

media constantly looking | ove the

te charges of, diserimination oO}
wn, even if the purported abject,
the discrimination doesn’t ‘compl:
For one example, “you can bet!
that ‘the the gay lobby, NDP allié
will shut down all public criticism of.
any homosexual activities.’.

rood by an aN postt ve. patient

‘against an Ottawa dentist becau

she took extra safety’ precautions:

during his 24-hour treatment. Mi
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should bes :

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