“t I | 6- Sunday, January 30, 1994 - North Shore News THIS IS. CANNON 18 ARMED FORCE woes RENEWED TAK me TAKING iT FROM ALL SIDES... CANT. HOLD OUT VERY MICH LONGER... » MORALE AT AN ALL TIME LOW... NO, LIBERAL . BUDGET CUITERS. ‘N:a i pungently prudish move Monday, North Vancouver City Council decided to take on local’ purveyors of pornography by running to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for help. The sex industry is a dirty and unhealthy affair: ‘and:has no place in such a clean place as: North: Vancouver, the righteous majority of councillors seem tobe saying. . “ Communities across North America have a had to contend ‘with the issue ever since video ‘ technoiogy made possible the widespread dis- ‘. tribution of movies. ' The. unseemly genius of. people like San _Francisco’s notorious vulgarian Mitchell “brothers brought Marilyn Chambers out from !Behind The Green Door and into the -living rooms of voyeuristic dilettantes every- where, Like it or net, pornography is a main- Px ae SERS WENN SSN RSSSSSES RAS HANG IN THERE MAN! ARE YOU BEING OVERRU BY SERBS? “sped pa er AWW EAN AN ao: = eo ao th icked d rights stream phenomenon. Set aside the questions of moral validity and that ephemeral ghost we like to call Community Values. The issue raised by councii’s half-baked reactionary action this week has more to do with individual rights. Coun. Bill Bell is correct when he argues that council's attempt to deny a legal’ busi- ness from opening in the ‘municipality smacks of ian attenipt to circumvent the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Council is by all means within its right to regulate such business nes so that access is lim- ‘ited. But when we see a resolution produced to the effect that “adult video sales and movie theatres ¢ on the local community.” council is simply showing usa Puritan streak. | "Individuals have a right to,.be wicked. an have a Significant impact { | NEWS QUOTES OF THE WEEK “I suppose that’s why artists ace so lucky — we're able to mirror ourselves." >. North Vancouver visual artist . Patricia Johnston, on artists. (From the dan. 26 Nol Spotlight.) “The least you can do as a good corporate citizen is clean up the bloody mess down there: *. ro North Vancouver C * Coun. Suall Bell, urging Shieldings tue, “the Toronto-based company that _ owns the ant Versatile Pacifie _ Shipyards site on the city’s water- front —.to get.on with its cleanup of the site. (From a Jan. 26 News story.) Publisher Managing Editor. . ,Associate Editor Sales & Marketing Director Comptroller . “entrance at the h . Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright Linda Stewart Doug Foot “don't get it” Unidentified woman at Science World exhibition dealing with the fate of the Lions:'Gate Bridge — on a photo depicting a proposed tunnel ead of Georgia Street. (From a Jan. 26 News Story.) “Don’t worry, neither witl we.” Another unidentified person at the same Science World shaw — in. response to the preceding woman's comment! (Fram a Jan, 26 News story} “The scientific world view: tried to eradicate mystery from the world, Bul the things we know through science are just modes. Display Advertising 980-0511 986.6222 Fax 985-2131 “Classited Advertising Newsroom Distribution Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Subscriptions 986-1337 Administration 985-2131 There isa mystery beyond that.” Rev, Bill Crockett, professor.of systemic theology atthe Vancouver School of Theology, on ethereal matters, (Frogt the Jan, 28 dust Add Water coliuni.) . ! i t “The good works are to be applauded, but they are not the rationale far i increasing financing capacity by the sale of alcohol.” Coun, Dow Bell, during debate anan application by the Lynn Valley Legion for more seating, on weighing the legion’s good com- munity works against as increased availability of alcohol in the neigh- horhood. (From a Jan, 28 News story. 7] \ , i 986-1337 andcg adat Ra This newshicel 985-3227 4 aay recycled fivee Narth Shore managed Superhighways to joblessness “YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTH.- IN* YET” — that is, when it comes to galloping technolo- gy that kills jobs. So today take a peek at the “home electronic superhighway.” The first HES in Canada-——and technologically a leader in North America — was launched last week in Montreal by a Canadian-U.S, consortium. It will be up and run- ning, serving an initial 34,000 households in Quebec's Saguenay region, ina little over a year. By the turn of the century it will be an everyday living tool for 1.2 million Quebec cable subscribers, and spreading fast elsewhere. Ownership of the $750 million project is 90% Canadian, with the Quebec cable-TV company Groupe Videotron and Hydro- Quebec holding a 50% share. A further 40% is held by Canada Post, Loto-Quebec and the National Bank of Canada, leaving 10% for New York-based . Hearst Corp. The service to be provided i is called UBI, standing for Universal Bi-directional Interactive. In plain English it means cable TV you can not only talk back to, but which actually DOES things for you. In short, UBI will change dra- matically the way people receive and use many everyday services. _ Tomorrow's HES user will be uble to shop, do banking, receive electronic misil and take tutored courses without ever stirring from the den or kitchen. An electronic “Yellow Pages” will enable him to reserve tables at restaurants, purchase theatre tickets and buy an infinite variety of listed goods, All you'll need is + iwo-way video terminal, a bank card reader like thase now available in some supermarkets for making payments with your bank or credit card, and a printer to provide you with transic- tion receipts and E-mail, Moreover, the service will be free — the suppliers will pick up the costs, No degree in rocket science is needed, however, to figure out the long-term effect on unemployment of home electronic superhighways. They WH altimately decinvate the jobs available for store workers, bank personnel, billing clezks, stenographers. printers, lever carri- ers and community college instruc- tors, to mention just a fe As TV shopping catches on, bus. *. drivers and gas station employees : could be laid off. . With no new malls needed, con-. struction workers could end up on" pogey. Falling demand for paper could close mills. 1. - And so it will go on. In fact, delivery boys to bring your pur- « chases from the warehouse to your: home will be one of the few fire- _proof occupations left in this brave new electronic world. ay Plus physiotherapists — 10 teach . you how to use your legs again! «+, co SCRATCHPAD: Coming up Monday, Feb. 7, is a-reunion of all former volunteer dotents of the. Vancouver Museusit, many of them North Shore résidents, to Ttenew memories and friendships — gather at 10 a.m. ay the museum, and for further info cal Dianne Ward, 988-5742... I's bargain: month at Mouitt Seymour United Church Thrift Shop, 1200 7. Parkgate, which is holding ahalf- price sale each Thursday in rebruary ave a life Tuesday, * Feb. 1, at the Red Cross blood : donor clinic from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the North Campus cafeteria of Cap College ... And many happy returns of today, Jan. 30, to veteran News photographer Mike , Wakefi eld. WRIGHT OR WRONG — AS. Confucius said: Chip'on shoulder may came from wood between North Shore’ News, founded in 1965 as .an MEMBER independent ‘suburban ‘newspape: and qualitied / under Schedule 111, Paragfaph {i of the Excisn ? Tax Act, is published each Wednesday, Friday and; “Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and .. distributed to.every door.on-the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No, 0097238. Mailing rates available on request. 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