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, DECISION ‘this week in North : Fishing for crabs is a fast-growing

Vancouver provincial court to jail a . crab: poacher for ‘flagrant. violations

of federal Fisheries Act regulations sends a.

‘clear and: much-needed message to those '.whoe choose te play fast and joose with an “aver-stressed local shellfish stock. |. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans ‘manages the crab fishery with the intent to

. ‘protect and ensure the conservation of the.

‘fishery. oo my AH who fish for crab. must adhere to

“' yepulations that set out size limits, trap

_ limits, “daily. catch limits and posted closures. . 7 “

«.": The Fisheries and Oceans Crab Watch

_- program, initiated. last. year to protect - undersized crabs, ‘was a good first step.

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pastime in the Lower Mainland.

The crab fishery in Burrard Inlet and Indian Arm is consequentiy feeling the pinch, and federal fisheries enforcement? staff are being stretched thin.

Assistance. by members of the public who witness the overharvesting of crab is important. Call the Crab Watch hotline. at 666-3500 or local police. :

The court is following through with in-

‘creased penalties. Fines have been the rule

in the past. Repeat offenders are now spending time in jail.

Continued aggressive enforcement of fisheries regulations is needed if the local

fishery is to survive for all to share.

sd AEFTER OF THE DAY ty to imagine what ignorance costs

Dear Editor:. . : -

- ~ As hard as I try to ignore Doug: ‘Collins, the problem remains. ©". . “They ‘say one cannot expect

problems to ‘be solved. by

themselves and ‘clearly Collins: is no exception. Ss You have the authority to cen-° 1.

Economist?

verbal diarrhea.

tions like Time magazine, or The

‘You elected to let him have his say to coincide with his Canada. 125 award to lend credence to his

Perfect timing Mr. Editor! am a Jewish man-in-the-

bigots ‘like’ Collins were able to vent their frustrations by beating up ‘‘Kaffirs.”*

It seems to me that Collins does not know the difference between criticism and anti-semitism.

Why not send him back to school, and during his practicum,

sor Collins but choose not to ex- . ercise it, as you probably condone it and think it sells papers.

If. there were an alternative community ‘newspaper on the North Shore, perhaps your adver- tisers would have an option not to support you.

- Why ‘not - take reproduce’ what real columnists ‘have to say about the Museum of Tolerance in respectable publica-

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the time to

and ‘firmly believe ° in freedom of speech.

If the Canadian Jewish Con- gress does not try to limit the {conniving antics of people like : Collins or Ernst Zundel, who will?

Hitler was elected by the peo- iple, but his absolute power cor- ‘rupted absolutely.

{ was raised in a police state without freedom of speech or an- ti-semitism, perhaps because the

let him visit Europe to see the remnants of European Jewry and the concentration camps — perhaps speak to some survivors of the Holocaust — to dispel the

myth in his own mind?

If you think education is expen- sive, imagine what ignorance costs.

Errol Lipschitz North Vancouver

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Canada urgently needs a Senate once we fix it!

rightiy outraged though you are over that extra $6,000 in allowances they voted themselves last month.

After a prod from Kim Camp- bell they’re meeting again next

_ week to un-vote it. Even if they

do, of course, it still won’t excuse their gall in trying to rob us tax- payers of another $624,000 a year. Let’s not get so blind mad, how- ever, that we shoot ourselves in the foot.

The truth is that we NEED a Senate. Not this one, for sure. But a democratically constituted se-

- cond chamber is the only way to

protect ourselves from five-year .

’ prime ministerial dictators and a

House of Commons where three out.of five MPs hail from Gntario and Quebec.

Americans, Germans and Australians, among others, view their own properly functioning Senate or second chamber as ab- solutely vital to democratic gov- ernment.

By contrast, Canada’s present, pathetic Senate functions IM- PROPERLY in every way. But - it’s we who'll lose if we,simply. throw out the baby with the bath water. fo,

For obvious reasons Central Canada fights stubbornly against . the only realistic solution — a reformed Triple-E Senate.

Between them, Ontario and Quebec with 62% of Canada’s population elect 59% of its MPs. Fair enough under the Commons election system of ‘‘rep by pep.”

* But it’s grossly unfair that 48% of

the Senate seats are also held by those two provinces. .

The whole purpose of a Senate or.‘‘upper house’? is to represent equally all provinces or states as a counterbalance to the rep-by-pop of the lower house.

So basically the Canadian Senate should consist of, say, 10 senators for each province -~ with Prince Edward Island equal to | Ontario, just as California and Rhode Island each have the same number of senators in the U.S. Senate. j ;

Clearly, they should be elected — just like MPs — by the pro- vinces they represent, and for set terms. The appointment of senators until age 75 by the prime minister ‘of the day is the worst abomination of all in our present system. ve ;

And finally, of course, the third ‘E’ — effective powers. Most, if not all, bills should be required to pass in the Senate as well as in the Commons before becoming law.

Somehow, some day, that’s the

"the 28%..

HITHER AND YON . counterbalancing of powers Canada inust achieve for the 38% of Canadians outside Ontario and‘

“Quebec ever to have a meaningful ¢

say in how their country is run. That should be'a top priority for Kim Campbell if she manages

to hang in this fall! as Canada’s °-—

first ELECTED prime minister | from B.C. CSE ‘ After all, she herself is one of

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‘TAILPIECES: Hats off to the |.”

- Eagles Ladies Auxiliary Northwest

#2368, which this year has do- ¢ nated over $38,000 to the Cancer,

- Heart, M-D , Alzheimers, ©)

Diabetes and Children’s Funds,:. | / plus numerous local charities.:...°.. A federal government re-employ-: ment training program is now. available for ESL immigrants aged 40 and older; and presently on UI

— call Nancy, 684-2561, for info.

... Attention all former Mount!’ Pleasant elementary students . :

hereabouts — the school *. ;

celebrates its 100th birthday Oct. 1-2 and wants to hear from you’: at 879-4637. ...‘And welcome to |. the ““Golden 50 Club’’. West Van’s Dr. Louis and Patricia Hague,’ ‘

_who tomorrow, July 10, celebrate

their first half-century of marital bliss. : a

WRIGHT OR WRONG: Today’s greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow. vet

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KIWANIS CLUB of Evergreen president Glenn Vardle presents cheques (totalling $5,000) to Lions Gate. Hospital president Beb Smith. The funds will go to the Children’s’ Ward and Evergreen’

House extended Care unit. :