WE couldn't fit the entire question, as we asked it, into
the box above. The stats iisted below reflect the answer
to the question: Do you agree with the Supreme Court
decision granting spousal rights to same sex couples?
Even that question over-simplifies what the Supreme
Court actually did — which was to say that the defin-
ition of “spouse” in Ontario’s Family Law Act was

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unconstitutional because it excluded gays and lesbians.
British Columbia already includes same-sex couples in
its definition of spouse and Quebec has similar legisla-

tion in the works. It now looks as though the rest of
Canada will also have to rewrite family law so that same sex couples are included.
We asked a similar question of our readers almost one year ago when B.C. was
changing its legislation. At that time, 31% of you with an opinion favoured same sex
spousal benefits and 37% did not. It may not be statistically reliable, bur it would
appear that heterosexual exclusivity is hardening.

NORTH SHORE DEMOGRAPHICS

Horseshoc Bay
Dundarave/Ambleside

British Properties
Norgate/Pemberton Heights
Capilano/Delbrook Highlands
Lower Lonsdale

YES
29%
25%
42%
26%
33%
20%

NO
31%
40%
49%
42%
47%
38%

NO
OPINION

Central and Upper Lonsdale
Lynn Valley

Blueridge/Deep Cove
TOTAL .......scccessoeee

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West Van fe

Catherine Barr
Contributing Writer

A proposal for a West
Vancouver commuter
ferry service has been
sunk by a municipal
staff report.

The commuter ferry idea
was floated in January by
Coun. Russ Fraser. He pro-
posed starting the service to
ferry people across Burrard
Inlet during the upgrade to
the Lions Gate Bridge. He
called the proposal a
“serendipity idea.”

Bur an April 22 report
from staff determined that the
risks of the service would be

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17%
22%
30%

60%
42%
47%

46%

COUN. Russ Fraser ... “a
vehicle of delight and
reunion” :

too great and its cost too
high.
Staff identified a number

HERITAGE ADVISORY
COMMISSION

ls requesting nominations for '999 Heritage
Awards in the following 4 categories:

f north vancouver

city o

|, Residential Heritage Conservation

“Honouring the outstanding restoration
or adaptive re-use of a residential heritage
bisiiding or its historic landscaping.” ,

Commerdial Heritage Conservation
“Honouring the outstanding restoration or adaptive

_. re-use of a commercial or industrial heritage building or its historic landscaping.”

Small Scale Heritage Improvement .
“Honouring the outstanding maintenance or partial restoration of a heritage
building or heritage landscaping” .

Heritage Achievement

“Honouring an individual or corporation for outstanding community
achievement in support of heritage conservation.”

City of North Vancouver
heart off gous community

DON'T
KNOW
4%

25%
9%
13%
8%
17%
11%
22%
12%

14%

16%
10%
0%

19%
12%
25%
12%
14%
11%

13%

service pr

COUN. Liz Byrd ... “I'd
like to go back to the
good old days.”

of reasons for not going ahead
with the project, including
transportation connections,

Nomination forms are available at City Hali - Development Services Department, or by
calling 983-7357. Nominations will be accepted until Noon, June 7, 1999. The awards will
be presented by City Council during Folk Festival at che end of June.

Linda Davies
West Vancouver
Yes. I do.
Love is love, regardless of
the gender.

Bill Sailer

North Vancouver

No. | don’t necessarily agree
with it.

It’s just my own belief, but if
you get married, you get
thase rights. [f you’re not,
you don’t.

Dawn Glyckherr

Vancouver

For me, the ruling is valida-
tion for the effort and work
they put into their relation-
ships — which is the same, I
believe, as any other human
being.

lack of shelters, pier and dock-
ing problems, and insurance
hiabilities.

The service’s projected
startup costs totalled an esti-
mated $608,000. The esti-
mated cost of a one-way trip
using the service ranged
around $8 per person.

Some councillors said it
was too bad that the idea had
to be abandoned.

Fraser said it was supposed
to be “mainly a vehicle of
delight and reunion” and was
an attempt to return to the
“good old days” when a ferry
service used to operate from
West Vancouver.

Coun. Liz Byrd agreed.

“This is bureaucracy gone

Neotel
Mayor John E. Loucks
Councillor John Braithwaite
Councillor Stetia Jo Dean
Councillor Bob Fearnley
Councillor Darre!i Mussatto
Councillor Barbara Perrauit
Councillor Barbara Sharp

141 West 14th Strest, North Vancouver BC V7M THY

Phone: 985-7761 Fax: 985-9437

mad,” she said about the
report. “I'd like to go back to
the good old days.”

Byrd said she was really
disappointed and felt bur-

ain

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dened by the “layers and lay-
ers of people telling us why we
can’t do (things).”

Bridge upgrades are
expected to start in January.

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