March 1, 1991, carnegie newsletter

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POVERTY v s . P O L I T I C S (again) On F e b r u a r y 21, 1991, t h e two r e s o l u t i o n s concerning a ) r a i s i n g welfare r a t e s t o t h e p o v e r t y l i n e and b ) raisi n g t h e minimum wage t o $7.50 a n hour came b e f o r e C i t y C o u n c i l i n Vancouver.

To r e p s from End L e g i s l a t e d P o v e r t y & member g r o u p s , whether you r e c e i v e q o v e r n a r n t a s s i s t a n c e o r have a job

p a y i n g t h e minimum wage, t h e e f f e c t s o f t r y i n g t o s u r v i v e on s u c h m i s e r a b l e incomes a r e t h e same.

P a u l T a y l o r (ELP) spoke o f G A I N regu l a t i o n s caking long overdue support payments t h a t , b e c a u s e a c o u r t o r d e r f i n a l l y f o r c e d them, came i n a lump sum o v e r t h e $100 ' e a r n i n g s ' l i m i t

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{{oneen Harcoux ('IKAC) s p o k e of r e n t s b e i n g 60%-75% of t h e incomes o f p e o p l e on w e l f a r e and e a r n i n g t h e minimum wage, f o o d money b e i n g s p e n t on a room and s i n g l e p a r e n t s , m o s t l y women, being t h e f i r s t t o l o s e j o b s . .

Sam Snobelen (DERA) rocked C o u n c i l w i t h a s i m p l e f a c t : C h i l d r e n a r e t o be found s l e e p i n g u n d e r b r i d g e s and i n abandoned b u i l d i n g s when t h e i r p a r e n t s a r e made homeless by o b s c e n e r e n t i n c r e a s e s . NPA C o u n c i l l o r Bellamy exp r e s s e d ' d i s b e l i e f ' , t h e n ouLrage ha^ he was 'unaware' o f t h i s . R i t a , C h i l d Advocate (and a u t h o r of a n e x c e l l e n t report on-poverty submitted t o council) backed Sam's s t a t e m e n t s a y i n g t h a t k i d s (when found i n t h e s e c o n d i t i o n s ) a r e apprehended and p u t i n f o s t e r homes.. where f o s t e r p a r e n t s a r e g i v e n 3 t i m e s t h e money t o c a r e f o r them a s t h e i r ' natural pgrents are.

Pat Chauncey ( C h i l d P o v e r t y ) s h a t t e r ed d e l u s i o n s a b o u t k i d s b e i n g s u r e o f s o c i a l s a f e t y n e t s . I n h e r words, t h e worst t h i n g wasn' t f o r MSSH L O a p p r e h6nd your k i d s b e c a u s e you d o n ' t g e t t h e worst thing o r have enough money was when your c h i l d d i e s and t h e c a u s e i s i n GAIN r e g u l a t i o n s & p i t i f u l wages G red tape & m a l n u t r i t i o n & c h r o n i c s i c k n e s s & r u n n i n g away from p o v e r t y & dying o r being k i l l e d .

Kobin (BC C o a l i t i o n of P e o p l e w i t h D i s a b i l i t i e s ) spoke of a t a s k f o r c e he i s on, l o o k i n g a t Lhe d i f f i c u l t i e s p e o p l e f a c e when low income p u ~ sthem i n d e g r a d i n g and d a n g e r o u s s i t u a t i o n s .

Karen T u l l y (DE Women's C e n t r e ) t o l d of t h e s t r u g g l e women and t h e i r k i d s go through d a i l y j u s t t o s u r v i v e .

The r e s o l u t i o n on r a i s i n g w e l f a r e r a t e s t o t h e p o v e r t y l i n e p a s s e d unanimously.

Tung Chan, t h e r o o k i e , s a i d "Making w e l f a r e more p a i n f u l would be an i n c e n t i v e L O t h o s e on i t t o g e t a job He had n o t h i n g t o s a y when t o l d t h a t j o b s a v a i l a b l e a r e m o s t l y 6 month d e a d e n d s w i t h companies c a p i t a l i z i n g

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on s u b s i d i z e d wages & cheap l a b o u r o r hat t h e minimum wage p a i d l e a v e s he 'employed' with l e s s than w e l f a r e no a s s i s t a n c e , however meagre, w i t h daycare, medical, d e n t a l , c l o t h e s e t c .

When i t came t o r a i s i n g t h e minimum wage t o $7.50 a n h o u r , t h e NPA s i d e of Council chose t o f o r g e t t h a t poverty i s c a u s e d by low-paying j o b s a s w e l l .

Chan showed h i s l e v e l of s e n s i t i v i t y a g a i n by r e f e r r i n g t o o u r n e i g h b o u r t h e U.S. - and how we'd l o s e i f we had t o pay p e o p l e more by law. Again he s a i d n o t h i n g when t o l d of s'outhern s t a t e s h a v i n g minimum wages a s low a s $1.60 a n h o u r ( o r no minimum wage).

P u i l s a i d i t was " t h e wrong timet' t o i n c r e a s e t h e minimum wage, even though more p u r c h a s i n g power would b e n e f i t b u s i n e s s e s . (PROFITfirstlastalways!)

Wilson r e t o r t e d t h a t i t was c l e a r we wanted t o have t h e p u r c h a s i n g power of t h e 1975 minimum wage r e s t o r e d . " P e o p l e j u s t want t o g e t back t o t h e l e v e l t h e y had 16 y e a r s ago!"

Chan t r i e d t o i n t r o d u c e a motion g i v i n g k i d s more money - d i r e c t l y ! Rankin l a u g h e d and a s k e d where a 2 y e a r - o l d c o u l d c a s h a cheque.

Libby D a v i e s , p e r h a p s s e e i n g t h e NPA c o u n c i l l o r s were g o i n g t o c o v e r t h e i r a s s e s , made a m o t i o n t h a t a l l informat i o n on t h e minimum wage - how many p e o p l e g e t i t , t h e companies t h a t pay i t , t h e i r p r o f i t s , the r e a l l i v i n g c o s t of minimum wage e a r n e r s - be b r o u g h ~ back L O C o u n c i l a n d , wiLh t h i s informa t i o n , C o u n c i l make a n e f f e c t i v e p r e s e n t a t i o n t o V i c t o r i a on r a i s i n g i t . . bringing a l l t o the poverty l i n e .

Cordon Campbell, a g a i n r e p e a t i n g ~ i b b y ' smotion ' i n h i s own w n r d s ' , demanded a f u l l r e p o r t on ' c a u s e & e f f e c t ' of t h e minimum wage. A l l a g r e e d t h a t i t ' s e s s e n t i a l Lhat C o u n c i l supp o r t had t o be much more t h a n a n o t h e r l e t t e r t o t h e socreds.

The NPA b r e a t h e d a shaky s i g h .

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d e a r Carnegie people,

A b e l a t e d happy b i r t h d a y t o a l l of you.

The C a r n e g i e N e w s l e t t e r , which P a u l s e n d s me f a i t h f u l l y , i n s p i r e s & d e p r e s s e s me.

It i n s p i r e s because of its determination t o t a l k t r u t h , t o express h e a r t & t o c o n t i n u a l l y speak of & f i g h t f o r j u s t i c e . It d e p r e s s e s me b e c a u s e I s e e t h e s t r u g g l e s f o r b a s i c human r i g h t s continlre.

I keep thinking & f e e l i n g t h a t t h e s e struggl e s s h o u l d n o t be n e c e s s a r y i n Canada.

I keep wondering why more p e o p l e d o n ' t t h i n k & f e e l t h i s way.

A s e a c h y e a r p a s s e s I a m amazed t h a t my b i r t h d a y w i s h e s f o r C a r n e g i e c o n t i nue t o be t h e same. Peace & j u s t i c e .

An end Lo..hunger. Decent, a f f o r d a b l e houses.

Equal a c c e s s t o f r e e education.

Enough money t o l i v e w i t h d i g n i t y . Meaningful work w i t h good I d o n ' t t h i n k t h e s e w i s h e s are wages. outlandish.

About me.

I ' v e moved a g a i n . Transp l a n t e d t b ' OtLawa, on Hallowe'en o f 1990. OiLawa i s where I s p e n t t h e f i r s L 2 2 y e a r s o f my l i f e . I e x p e c t e d i t t o be h a u n t e d .

No g h o s t s , y e t , & s o 1 ' m b e g i n n i n g t o f e e l t h a t I may be more aL p e a c e w i t h myself t h a n I realize. My s o n , Noah, i s 15 months o l d now.

How t h e time h a s flown. He i s a s o u r c e o f joy & l o v e t h a t I n e v e r r e a l i z e d l d r e a m e d was p o s s i b l e . I f e e l v e r y l u c k y t o have him.

I ' m a f u l l - t i m e mother t h e s e d a y s ' and p r e s i d - e n t of my own f l e d g i n g , socially rksponsible business enterI t ' s s m a l l , home-based, m a i l prise. order.

E n v i r o n m e n t a l l y sound p r o d u c t s & i t ' s a l o t o f work b u t I hope t o make enough money t o s u p p o r t myself & Noah.

R i c h a r d & I are b o t h i n c r e d i b l y busy. We need t o t a k e more time t o touch t h e t r e e s & s m e l l the r o s e s . . .

A day d o e s n ' t go by t h a t C a r n e g i e d o e s n ' t w a r m my h e a r t . I t h i n k of you collectively fighting for survival & b a s i c j u s t i c e s . I t h i n k of i n d i v i d u a l s . . s o many o f you, s o o f t e n - Andy s e l l i n g c o f f e e i n t h e S e n i o r s ' Lounge, Desmond i n h i s cowboy h a t p l a y i n g c h e s s , A l , George White, Tom Burke, Mary B . , C e c i l , Danny K . , S h e i l a & S h e i l a , T o r a , George, S t a n , L i l l i a n , B i l l D . , Lau (where i s he t h e s e d a y s ? ) & t h e l i s t g o e s on & on & on.

Last names f a d e . . . f a c e s d o n ' t .

Muggs i s g r e a t i s n ' t s h e ? Sometimes when I g e t d i s c o u r a g e d w i t h " t h e " s t r u g g l e s I j u s t t h i n k of h e r .

See t h a t b e a u t i f u l , warm, i n t e l l i g e n t smile.

F e e l h e r h e a r t & h e r r e s o l v e "never t o g i v e in.''

And, I keep t r y i n g !

We a l l have t o keep f i g h t i n g in' t h e ways we can. Change i s p o s s i b l e ! .

Happy b i r t h d a y , e v e r y o n e !

Much l o v e , Nancy J e n n i n g s

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was just to listen. John wasn't going to speak. . No sir. He'd decided that before he ever got to " the seventh floor. zt, He took his seat on a cafeteria chair beside Ken, ,the young guy in his 50s shaking with Parkinson's disease. ' At the top of the circle old Sydney had his hand .cupped to his ear straining to hear the prim lady beside him explain that there were little groups -like this all over the country nattering a t each oth-

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explained Jo-Anne Birnie-Danzker, the lady from the forum. "There's no wrong answer, and no foolish answers. What you believe is important."

She explained how Mr. Keith Spicer, the forum ch:irman, all the 11 commissionen and the entire /government of Canada needed advice to get the country out of its little predicament. ,=. 'l'his being the Central City Mission, in the roughest part of East End Vancouver, it has been a

Poetry fades to gritty honesty

To the point: Many groups, including natives and minorities, delivered hard-hitting opmions on Canada

mean streets Citizens' Forum takes to Vancouver's Reibin is the executive director of this live-in while since anybody outside this building much cared whether some of these folks were still breathing, let alone about their opinions.

Alex Reibin reserves judgment on the value of this exercise, but he was pleasantly surprised when the Forum people approached 'him about having a "discussion group."

treatment and chronic care facility for 125 exstreet people and oihers laid waste by booze or. drugs.

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"They're trying," said ~ e i b i n "They're . giving a try at reaching the unreachables."

The meeting of about 30 started slowly, with p r e dictable gripes about the GST and fat cats in Otta-

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~+&JG wa. "What about the ozone layer?" asked a guy in a browq check shirt. ' It, took, John, who is pushing 80, just a few minb k ' t o break his drence. .-i ,: .

"I think the.maidquestion for Canada is lack of communication," he'said in a frail voice. "Ask an Englishman what Quebec wants and he doesn't know. Ask a Quebecker @at we want . . ."

Somebody else jumped when John paused to collect his thoughts. He stewed about this for a couple of minutes, then John took back the floor.

"We don't undersknd our native people. How can a native tell whites what he wants when I don't think the native,lpows." Pause. "He just wants jus- . . . -_. tice -- " Native land c l a i m s ~ - h omany immigrants, or not enough. Too much attention on Quebec, or not enough. What a??! us?.: There were impfibable little 'discussion groups like this all oveet$e fjmvince: h!atsqui Prison, the Vancouver Food Bank, among street kids in Victo.L

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education. She's got thls dream. against s u d row. , She wants to be a bank teller.

Here, in the cluttered meeting Thts day, however, she was con- ' room of the United Chinese Comsulted about the future of Canada. munity Enrfchmat:Sewices h i . She wondered whether her Lid ety, the dlylmlon is held over the 'wffl rUU be fighting for aboriginal rumble of commercial p i c k s and dgbk Webeckem aren't the only ..the chatter of Mandarin and 'Can-ym$Onb 'adnatives: ' ' . ' neglected group. i tonese outside the window. ' ' For the We of her, thou& she . Mostt i. a p immii k?-;Splcer,' the commissio~~~froirS~outeii$space,, s nt cannot, ye' the wisdom of .Quebec,;grants from ~ o n gUng, ,working ':.Isipue&,: leaving. :That doesn't mean they to settle themselve~md:to help e ea ,a to cut o f t h e g a to o ~ e m in the u a n w.ve-ut bs d&g a na- k t US,~ D O Wbow tbeg feel," .be raahtyj o m ~ ~ ~ & u 1- ~ e. r . ' . . . Many, likc??lmn SzeWanThan, r U o m R J F ~ e ~ ka@lite. ;: broad-. ' e i d . ' +&&$/q;; *eg&tlon is asother r n ~ ~ k r, arrived y boP$inda racist bakklash @lniSg,C, however,. f?. com- .to many la the room, and foreign and a country breaking apart be: . .. ' .&one$ and staff kept his 'aid. "Clean up our act here," said fore their eyes. . e . T b e y boldly went wkre Durocher.

"We e x p e c t e d a u n i f i e d Stephen Arcand, a plains Cree, q n t r y , " he said, puzzled. "Does s a q . c o e o nhad gone Wore. ;:..:ne&wa none s of p e peetry I glared an@$ t?rough a shock of Canada just belong to the Rench 4a$!e#% ,:,($dmnan Secer. ' ; black hair: e s twed of being and English? What,iabaut, the mi:~&,;JO*W&,'$ gritty ho~S" l ~ ~ k e~jd~d:ps d a d r u d Indian; ~ ~ ..n~ritia?~: i , .. , ;.i::;Lp iw: ,.- t r * There a r e ' divisions among esb;about4 it all, w e n among tired of being elbowed out of j o k themselves on many of the issues thm;$Pth the most Lenuous bold by immigrants.

"Half the time I ' nee people until the discussion leader asks ion the Camidian'dream. ' Dsm corning in, they think they own about the wisdom of equalization .Cree with this country. They spit on It like payments to the poorer provirces.

Rice and buns, said T. N. Foo, a ~mrn,;Qu&hhblood oh Lsr ia- it's just a bit of dii. It isn't just a W s side, sat in a c1;ursroom of piece of dirt, we've lived off it for middle-aged man in a rumpled pinstriped ~ u i t . Would you der:g the. Yapcouver Native Education many moons."

A different group now. This one food to your family, to even your ccqlltrU1, ... . . .,r,Wra many fn the rod& she is is in Chhabwn. On the cusp of poorest cousins?

A man wean two hats. He will ChiPatown, really, where it bumps W g NAB native adult basic ---.

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contribute to my own need&must contribute to the satisfa;$lon of my family.":.

Back at Central City hid$% men who've lost too many ygasf are griping, about immigratipn "You don't sp? too many grants out oq the street but, you see lots of Canadian%'; said $i?4 who's in the alcohol recovery ,pr& gram,. . ..6.. ' :, , -. . .*We had .the ilpn\igrstio%"'&~ John with, . a flash - of defiq-. llNow put it.together and maQ it I

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I went to a one-day conference "Healthier Tomorrow" (BC Medical Association 1 5 / 2 / 9 1 ) - 'Toxic Poverty: its effects on health.'

Elijah Harper was the main speaker.

He told how, as a child, he had been forced to go to a residential school where children as young as 9 were strapped because they spoke their native tongue.- One 15 year-old girl was severely punished and made an example

Even if that ' were' possiqje, what is there ld learn? Are rjce and buns enough to keep this im3 *a. probeble family together?

John shuffled towards the vator, old and tired. "I wasn't,t%' ing to say a thing," he said

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of because she wrote to her mot;her.

He said that now, aboriginal selfgovernment must be recognised that aboriginal people must run their own that for health & welfare programs far too long other people had made decisions for aboriginal people.

He said its time for aboriginal people to take charge of their own destiny. He said, "We can walk this path alone or with you."

He said there are many different kinds of land claims all over Canada; that people don't need to be scared to settle land claims. He said it's in the interest of all people to settle land claims and that it will cost aren' t settled. more if .tho_se Elijah said, "Man destroys the environment. We aborlginals live holis-

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the land. .We are sensitive not to pollute..We are close to Mother Earth..Control pollution of the Earth or the Earth will fight back. .I1 "Our elders say take care of Mother Earth - it's the substance of life."

"Y0.u are raping your own mother when you pollute Mother Earth."

"I have good knowledge of government bureaucracy - in the last 100 years nothing has changed much. Enough is enough: It's time for action."

11 Remember we have never relinquished our right to self-government. We are not a conquered people."

The rest of the conference wasn't too great, but it was worth it to hear this great man speak.

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Under the Viaduct Homeless in Beautiftrl B.C. One hundred m i l l i o n p e o p l e i n t h e world have no s h e l t e r o f any k i n d .

Even i n t h e United S t a t e s , e s t i m a t e s p l a c e t h e number o f homeless p e o p l e a t between 2 and 3 m i l l i o n .

While s ~ i l nl o t a t t h e U.S. l e v e l , home - 1 e s s n e s s i s becoming a v i s i b l e and f r i g h t e n i n g problem i n Canada, mocking t h e c o u n t r y ' s p r i d e i n i t s s o c i a l programs and h i g h s t a n d a r d o f l i v i n g .

Sheila Baxter, an anti-poverty a c t i v i s t i n Vancouver, went t o t h e s t r e e t s t o t a l k t o t h e p e o p l e who have been, and who a r c , homeless.

She t e l l s t h e i r s t o r i e s i n Under t h e V i a d u c t , and shows t h e r e a d e r t h e r e a l i t y of l i v i n g - in Skid Road h o t e l s , under b r i d g e s , and on t h e s L r e e t s more v i v i d l y t h a n would a thousand t a b l e s o f s t a t s and a p i l e of government r e p o r t s .

Men and women t a l k a b o u t why t h e y have been f o r c e d o u t o f t h e i r homes; s q u a t t e r s e x p l a i n t h e i r c h o i c e of a no-rent l i f e s t y l e ; s t r e e c n u r s e s and h o u s i n g a c t i v i s t s des c r i b e t h e t r a g e d i e s and s u c c e s s e s t h e y have' s e e n on t h e s t r e e t .

B a x t e r l o o k s a t what i t means t o b e homeless, and d e l v e s i n t o t h e economic, p o l i L i c a l , and s o c i a l c a u s e s o f homelessncss.

She c o n c l u d e s w i t h c a u t i o u s optimism, a c a l l t o a c t i o n , and a sele c t i o n o f i - n n o v a t i v e and r e a l i s t i c s o l u t i o n s from homeless p e o p l e , from worke r s , and from h o u s i n g a c t i v i s t s a c r o s s the country.

Under the Viaduct also includes a resource guide of shelters and support agencies across Canada.

Sheila Baxter is the author of No Way to Live: Poor Women Speak Out, published by New Star.

234 pages $12.95 paper ISBN 0-921586-15-9 $24.95 hardcover ISBN 0-921586-16-7

V B.C. media V ads in B.C. Bookworld, Books in Canada V available APRIL

The ~ ~ v e l o p m e noft Downtown South Very q u i e t l y . . o n e a t a t i m e . . b u s i n e s s is business. leave t h e s o c i a l i s s u e s t o t h e s o c i a l i s t s . . d e f l e c t q u e s t i o n s about " O f f i c i a l Development P l a n s (ODPs) (we made s u r e t h e r e n e v e r w a s o n e -Ha!).. answer any s p e c i f i c q u e s t i o n s w i t h a n ' I d o n ' t know' o r 'Ask t h i s o r t h a t dep a r t m e n t a t C i t y H a l l ' o r even "You'll have t o t a l k t o t h e d e v e l o p e r s a b o u t i t ' and make Damn S u r e t h i s i s k e p t q u i e t a t e l e c t i o n time!

Gordon Campbell, i n h i s a c c e p t a n c e s p e e c h , aped t h e COPE p l a n t o e n c o u r a g e neighbourhood i n p u t and have l o c a l d e v e l opment c o u n c i l s where c i t i z e n i n p u t c a n be h e a r d from t h e ground up and on and on and on, s m i l i n g a l l t h e time.

I n J a n u a r y , 1991, t h e t r u e n a t u r e of t h e planned changes on South G r a n v i l l e was p u t t o g e t h e r and made p u b l i c .

A t a meeting o f t h e Housing Sub-Commit t e e of t h e S p e c i a l C p u n c i l Committee f o r S e n i o r s , J i l l Davidson was p r e s e n t t o b r i n g t h e S e n i o r s ' r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s up t o d a t e and answer a l l q u e s t i o n s . The f o l l o w i n g l i s t i s quoted from m i n u t e s of t h i s meeting: Are a l l Downtown South s i t e s going t o be VLC s i t e s ? (VLC i s t h e scam t h a t Campbell p u l l e d , g i v i n g l a n d and b u i l d i n g program o p t i o n s t o h i s f r i e n d w i t h o u t g o i n g t h r o u g h any k i n d of p u b l i c p r o c e s s a t a l l ; Campbell's buddy 'promi s e d ' . 1-bedrooms as low as $600 a month then a year l a t e r , with nothing b u i l t anywhere, s a i d t h a t "a few 1-bd. would be a v a i l a b l e f o r $800 a month" and THEN o u t came s t u d i o - s i z e rooms t w i c e t h e s i z e of a p a r k i n g s t d l l f o r $475/month!)

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Are t h e r e going t o be any Wheelchair accessible suites? &IS. S i n c e most of t h e b u i l d i n g s a r e bei n g b u i l t by d e v e l o p e r s , t h a t would have t o be t a k e n up w i t h them.

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any p r o v i s i o n been made f o r "Agi n g i n P l a c e Housing f o r S e n i o r s " ?

Ans. So f a r no thought h a s been g i v e n ; you w i l l have t o t a k e L ~ Z Lup w i t h t h e d e v e l o p e r s and t h e i r s t a i f .

CJJ What a b o u t shopping & g r o c e r y s c o r e s ?

Ans. Where t h e by-law p e r m i t s lier re w i l l be r e t a i l s t o r e s . Maybe n o t an I G A o r a Safeway b u t s m a l l r e t a i l s t o r e s . ( 6 ) W i l l Downtown South a s s h i l a t e people from G r a n v i l l e S t . , who now l i v e i n s i n g l e rooms i n o l d e r h o t e l s (SROS)?

Ans. Some. Most w i l l be r e l o c a t e d w h i l e renovations take place.

17)HOW w i l l bhe D.S. s o l v e t h e problems t h a t e x i s t a t p r e s e n t on G r a n v i l l e ?

Ans. S o c i a l P l a n n i n g i s working on h t a t r i g h t now.

(8) I f n o t i n t h e D.S., where w i l l he p e o p l e p r e s e n t l y l i v i n g i n SROs go?

Ans. -The Housing Dept. c a n answer t h a t .

(9) W i l l many of t h e h o t e l s on G r a n v i l l e undergo r e n o v a t i o n s ?

Ans. Q u i t e a f e w . . I j u s t d o n ' t have a l i s t f o r you b u t my u n d e r s t a n d i n g i s q u i t e a few.

(10) What a b o u t s o c i a l housing i n t h e DS? Ans. Some, where p o s s i b l e . I t a l l depends on t h e c o s t of t h e l a n d .

There a r e a t p r e s e n t p l a n s t o b u i l d 22 b u i l d i n g s i n t h e D.S. : 9 a r e between 1118 s t o r i e s , 4 a r e between20-25, 7 a r e between 26-30, 1 i s 4 s t o r i e s , 1 i s 5 s t o r i e s , t h e r e w i l l be 417 h o t e l u n i t s , 6 townhouses, and a t o t a l of 2050 of what a r e c a l l e d 'Dwelling U n i t s ' and a t o t a l o f 447 s t o r i e s i n a l l 22 b u i l d i n g s .

The Empire S t a t e B u i l d i n g i s 110 s t o r i e s high. I n t h e D.S., w i t h a minimu~nof development, t h e y a r e a l r e a d y p r o j e c t i n g o v e r f o u r t i m e s t h e b u l k of t h a t one .. b u i l d i n g w i t h o u t a w h i s p e r of s o c i a l housing.

Over 1 , 0 0 0 rooms w i l l b e l o s t when i t g e t s i n t o f u l l swing, and any ' p u b l i c p r o c e s s ' on what would be c o n c e r n s o r i n p u t w i l l be a sham.

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AGING IN PLACE WORKSHOP

9:OO-9:30 Coffee Simon Fraser Harbour Centre Campus Room 2200.515 West Hastings Street .ble 9 :30-9 :35 Welcome, pat Rafferty Vancouver. B.C. V6B 5fC3 s~e55' 9 : 35-9 : 45 Introduction, Jean McMurdo a 9:45-10:15 Gloria Gutman SFU Gerantology Department 10:15-10:45 Thoughts and Ideas 10:45-11:OO Coffee 11 :00-12 :00 Discussion Groups 12:OO-12:30 Recommendations

W a s t i n g My Time: By t h e t i m e you r e a d t h i s , w e ' l l a l l be p a y i n g 4 0 ~f o r o u r c u p s o f c o f f e e a t Carnegie.

The r e a s o n f o r r a i s i n g t h e p r i c e i s g i v e n by Diane MacKenzie a s a " d e f i c i t " of $ 2 , 7 0 0 i n t h e k i t c h en.

I a s k e d h e r i f t h e p r i c e would come back down t o 3 5 ~ a s soon a s t h e " d e f i c i t " i s p a i d o f f , & s h e s a i d "No." So, c l e a r l y , t h e p u r p o s e o f r a i s i n g t h e p r i c e i s not j u s t t o pay o f f t h i s v e r y s m a l l k i t c h e n d e b t . Whatever t h e r e a l reason f o r r a i s i n g p r i c e s is, i t i s a p p a r e n t l y b e h i n d t h e s c e n e s somewhere, h i d d e n i n t h e u s u a l b u r e a u c r a t i c u n w i l l i n g n e s s t o c a l l a spade a spade.

Reading D i a n e ' s l e t t e r e x p l a i n i n g her reasons f o r w i s i n g - t h e p r i c e , i t seemed t o me s h e was a c t u a l l y s a y i n g t h a t s h e was d o i n g i t s i m p l y t o c o v e r f o r t h e f a c t t h a t she c a n ' t balance t h e books.

The C i t y p a y s h e r a v e r y s u b s t a n t i a l s a l a r y t o do a c e r t a i n j o b & i f s h e c a n ' t do h e r j o b c o r r e c t l y t h a t i s , produce n e i t h e r p r o f i t , n o r a d e f i c i t b u t j u s t break even ( r e q u i r e d t o j u s t i f y non-profit operation) - is t h i s a s e r i o u s reason t o r a i s e the p r i c e of c o f f e e ? Is t h i s p a r t of Carne g i e ' s "War on P o v e r t y " ?

A p e t i t i o n against r a i s i n g the price was c i r c u l a t e d f o r o n l y a few h o u r s , & came up w i t h a b o u t 65 s i g n a t u r e s . . s o m e p e o p l e l a u g h e d a t me f o r d o i n g i t , o t h e r s were v e r y c o n c e r n e d & s i g n e d r i g h t away, b u t most o f them knew not h i n g about i t .

A f t e r t a l k i n g t o Diane MacKenzie t h e n e x t d a y I g a v e up on t h e p e t i t i o n . I t was o b v i o u s from h e r a t t i t u d e t h a t no m a t t e r what was s a i d o r d o n e , t h e p r i c e o f c o f f e e would go up. She i s det e r m i n e d t o add a n i c k e l f r o m your pock e t t o t h e k i t c h e n f u n d , e v e r y t i m e you d r i n k a cup o f c o f f e e i n C a r n e g i e . '

I n s t e a d o f r a i s i n g t h e p r i c e of cake o r some l u x u r y i t e m s , i t ' s c o f f e e t h a t g e t s i t . Diane p r o b a b l y c a n ' t rememb e r t h e l a s t time s h e c o u l d n ' t a f f o r d a cup o f c o f f e e a t any p r i c e . But most of u s go t h r o u g h t h i s e v e r y month.

I t ' s one t h i n g t o have a n image of " h e l p i n g t h e poor" -& draw a s u b s t a n but i t ' s t i a l s a l a r y f o r doing i t s o m e t h i n g e l s e t o be o r d e r i n g p o o r p e o p l e t o pay f o r your own m i s t a k e s & inefficiency.

I f we r a i s e d t h e p r i c e o f c o f f e e t o a d o l l a r f o r s t a f f only, the d e f i c i t would soon be p a i d o f f , & we c o u l d a l l keep o u r e x t r a n i c k e l s .

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Numbers f i g u r e i n on t h e scheme of t h i n g s : 2,700 a c r e s on t h e mountains of Columbia g i v e u s . 4 pounds of coff e e p e r second a f t e r s o r t i n g ; 15 bored donkeys t a k e t h e bean bags t o t h e a i r p o r t where t h e y are flown d i r e c t l y i n t o your c o f f e e p o t s t o s o o t h e your a d d i c t i o n f o r i t s p o t e n t drug caffeine.

Remember, c o f f e e makes you happy d e s p i t e what your nervous system s a y s .

So i f you h e a r someone s a y i n g bad things about coffee, j u s t s l i p four t a b s of e x l a x i n t h e i r p e p s i e and c h a l l e n g e them t o a n arm-wrestling contest.

By t h e way, i f any of you bean heads would c a r e t o do v o l u n t e e r work on one of o u r p l a n t a t i o n s , c o n t a c t Senor Sland e r s behin-fl t h e S m i l i n g Buddha a t midn i g h t . Adios muchachos

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My h e a r t i s t u r n i n g b l a c k M y soul is dying I only' s e e h a t r e d Through e y e s t h a t a r e f o r s a k e n M y f a i t h i s going t o h e l l M y s o u l i s damned You have k i l l e d m e Without t o u c h i n g m e The t e a r s t h a t f a l l down my f a c e Are h o t w i t h h a t r e d gnd disappointment What I once was I am no l o n g e r

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The t e a r s s p a r k l e on my f a c e But my h e a r t b l e e d s and w i t h e r s .and d i e s alone and a f r a i d My s o u l and s p i r i t a r e l o s t In t h i s concrete jungle c a l l e d j a i l I c a n ' t f i n d your l o v e But I ' v e found t h e h a t r e d you aimed a t me You've t a k e n t h e o n l y t h i n g I ' v e had i n my l i f e That had meaning Your l o v e .

You've chosen t o t u r n your back on me L e f t me t o d i e a l o n e i n t h i s c o n c r e t e h e l l You r o b m e of my w i l l t o l i v e 1 f o r g i v e you, as I d i e a l o n e !

John Fabian Gutor

How much do I l o v e you I ' l l t e l l you no l i e s How deep i s t h e ocean?

How wide i s t h e s k y ?

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How deep i s t h e ocean?

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Hello Carnegie F r i e n d s ,'ve been coming t o Carnegie f or^ over 3 y e a r s now. I ' v e always enjoyed coming t o s e e my many f r i e n d s . . s i t down, have a c o f f e e , t a l k about.1 t h i s and t h a t . who I ' d l i k e t o . f o c u s :on now a r e t h e Volunteers in o u r f i n e Centre.+.like in t h e 1ew e have Norm, Danny -*:seniors ' ~ o u n ~4 and t h e rest who s e r v e c o f f e e & j u i c e .

Also you 'can s i t ~d watch TV o r t a l k .

Lobby ' a r e a we , u s u a l l y have someone a t t h e F r e e phone making s u r e people u s e i t ' n o more t h a n 3 minutes, as w e l l a s t a k e members' c a r d s i f they want t o p l a y c a r d s , c h e s s o r o t h e r games.

Downstairs t h e r e ' s t h e weight room and a room t o do ceramics and, probably, much more. (I never go down t h e r e . ) Front d e s k w e c a n ' t f o r g e t our s t a f f people g i v i n g information t o a l l p a t r o n s o r even j u s t l e n d i n g a n ear...sometimes p u t t i n g up w i t h more.

Second f l o o r up h e r e i s r e a l l y where i t ' s happening. There a r e Volunteers & s t a f f in t h e k i t c h e n preparing h e a l t h y meals, sandwiches, veggik p l a t e s ,(sometimes) and much, much more. I n t h e Conc e s s i o n , a Volunteer s e r v e s p a t r o n s and (sometimes) p u t t i n g up w i t h much more.. most of t h e time w i t h a smile and even with laughter! & p o o l Room run jby Volunteers, a t iimes c l o s e d f o r % :hour u n t i l a volunte e r shows up. There are tournaments once a month, ' t h e l a s t one was won by Flora! '

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a p o l o g i z e t o our g u e s t s t o Carnegie. I can never say i t won't happen a g a i n because, a s i t i s , i t ' s h a r d t o c l e a n o f f .

Even a p a i n t job w i l l n o t make i t look n i c e a g a i n u n l e s s we p a i n t i t black. But then we'd have people s c r a t c h i n g t h e ~ i n i t i a l s i n t o t h e wall. So t h e r e ' s a c t u a l l y no end t o this dilemma. > j u s t a s k i n g : n i c e l y t o whomever i s doing i t t o PLEASE s t o p , because your ,boyfriend i s never goi n g t o s e e i t . Why n o t be honest w i t h yourself and t e l l him you l o v e him? Not everyone h a s t o know, because w e ' l l a l l see i t i n t h e make..) i ! i Third f l o o r

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alo,ne, i t speaks f o r its e l f . All-you need , t o do i s apply yours e l f and y o u ' l l a c h i e v e what you need. h e l l o t o Lex and a s k him Drop u p ' & t o w s a y how h i s , J i t t l e one !is doing. Then t h e r e ' s Claude, !Brenda andb!ther e s t of t h e s t a f f and Volunteers. : *'Program o f f i c e -' and L i s a , Kathy and, down t h e h a l l , S i b y l and I r e n e . Donalda is.moving:down t o t h e S e n i o r s , & Atiba and N a t , nqw have a! genuine Volunteers Off i c e . - " ~ r u c e l e s s ! l i s my p e t name f o r Bruce; V i o l a , who i s doing a wonderful j o b w h i l e ' A l i c i a is! away on s i c k l e a v e .

I wish A l i c i a t h e b ~ s t . . h o p e s h e i s f e e l i n g b e t t e r , s o o n . We,mustntt f o r g e t Donald who f i l l e d I l i a n e t s I shoes while s h e was h a n g i n g A o u ta t S t . P a u l ' s H o s p i t a l ( . . f o r t h o s e of you who don't know, s h e a c t u a l l y w e n t in't o - g e t a f a c e l i f t (haha) ) Well s h e ' s b e t t e r now "I!think" b u t you know Donald never d i d wear a d r e s s , o r hobble around.'.although he1d i d a good job while Diane w a s a b s e n t .

We mustn't f o r g e t t h e people who cleanCarnegie while i t i s c l o s e d , mopping & washing t h e f l o o r s , c l e a n i n g everything f o r t h e next day. Also Dave, who w a t e r s t h e p l a n t s i n t h e b u i l d i n g , because i f he d i d n ' t do i t our p l a c e would be greenless!

I guess what I ' m t r y i n g t o s a y i s Thanks t o you f o r making i t happen. I f you're n o t p a r t of making i t happen t a l k t o Atiba o r Nat about Volunteering Have a n i c e day.

Margaret, a f r i e n d of Carnegie.

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Song of t h e C i r c l e i s a s t o r y about abuse. I t i s t h e s t o r y of James & Mary and t h e b a b y they a r e t r y i n g t o r a i s e beneath t h e shadow of t h e i r haunted p a s t s . T h e i r f u t u r e becomes o n l y a r e f k e c t i o n of t h e i r p a i n f u l childhood memories. James s e e k s r e l e a s e by hangi n g o u t w i t h h i s buddies and d r i n k i n g w h i l e Mary i s l e f t a l o n e w i t h t h e baby and t h e memory of h e r mother's t r a g i c d e a t h which s h e l i v e s and r e - l i v e s unt i l s h e too becomes a v i c t i m o f h e r own circumstances.

James' grandmother, Anmah, t o o i s haunted by a t e r r i b l e s e c r e t t h a t s h e h a s k e p t hidden f o r 7 5 y e a r s . "We never t o l d anyone," s h e s a y s . "What d i f f e r ence would i t make now f o r me t o t e l l ? " It i s through t h e t e l l i n g o f t h i s secr e t t h a t r h e h e a l i n g begins. T h e . s t r e n g t h emerges i n t h e form of t h e grandmother's h e a l i n g song, i n t h e knowledge s h e c a r r i e s and t h e answers s h e h o l d s f o r t h e f u t u r e g e n e r a t i o n s t o come.

Song of t h e Circle i s a s t o r y about abuse, y e t i t i s a l s o a s t o r y about h e a l i n g . Song of t h e Circle d e p i c t s p u r i f i c a t i o n ; t h e time t h a t w e Native people a r e i n r i g h t now, as w e s t r i v e and s e a r c h f o r h e a l i n g and s p i r i t u a l growth. The hope i s t h a t w e s t a r t w i t h t h i s s m a l l c i r c l e o f h e a l i n g and from t h i s c i r c l e o t h e r c i r c l e s w i l l grow and o o n t i n u e t o grow, u n t i l i t s t r e t c h e s a c r o s s t h i s e n t i r e c o n t i n e n t and beyond, s o t h a t a l l o u r p e o p l e a r e joined together i n s t r e n g t h , d i g n i t y and h e a l t h .

Artwork by over 20 wirn~nin on display hlarch 11 to April 7 at the D o ~ town w Eastside Il'o~rte~ts Cerl ter 4 1 E . Cordova

Firehall Theater Lobby 280 E. Cordova During hours of operation

Openin Night Cabaret %larch I1

Closing Night Cabaret April 6 8 pm

cabarets of poetry, music, dance, storytelling Sr surprises in a drug and alcohol free space

Video Nights

hIarch 18 & Rlarch 27 8 pm

all evening events at the dowtown eastside womens'center

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all boundaries has been wiped out in the development of long-range strategic nuclear weapons and the potential for producing the neutron bomb.

Who will survive this war now unleashed, if it is not now brought to a halt before irreparable damage is done?

Obviously, no one. For the object is control over oil supplies; and whoever wins - assuming this could happen without ultimate destruction - what is the victory? Ownership of a commodity, whiah, if used, will destroy the naturalenvironment already suffering badly from the burning of fossil fuels?

Sanity? This war? Hardly.

What is the first priority of life of each and every one of us?

Is it not survival?

And are we not now in the Persian ~ u l fengaged in'guaranteeing our rapid total, world-wide self annihilation?

Has not history clearly demonstrated that self-interest has always been the motivating force of all individuals, groups, companies, associations, corporations, nations and international combinations, cartels and multinational corporations of whatever kind?

Is it not true that history proves that this struggle for survival lies at the root of the emergence of all social phenomena..being the origin of the expanded family, gens, tribe, related or scattered families recognising blood ties?

Is it not true that alliances then arose among those sharing common interest? And so, onto the extension of clearly bounded private interests, on personal, associate, corporate, national and multinational boundaries (boundaries within boundaries) up to the presegt Persian Gulf confrontation of individual, group and corporate private interests? Meanwhile the reality of

WE CAN ALL SURVIVE AND GO ON TO LIVE WELL TOGETHER IF WE STOP THIS WAR NOW! Proposals for peace: 1. An immediate ceasefire on land, sea and in the air, and withdrawal of all armed forces to their bases.

2. Declaration of a truce, binding until the convening & holding of a conference through the good offices of the UN Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar, of all interests presently involved in the Gulf war..to settle all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations in good faith, with the object of establishing the broad popular basis for a democratic and lasting peace in luthe Middle East and as far as its in•’ ence'can reach - hopefully around the world.

I would add: 3. Labour's resolve to convert all warrelated production and services to peace-time, life-supporting activity; a similar decision by investors; 4. The decision to call a Special Session of the UN General Assembly (some 150 member-states) to pronounce upon its Middle East Settlement arising •’roo this post-war conference.

By BEA FERNEYHOUGH

PAYS FOR WAR? THE SKY'S THE LIMIT "War is dangerous to children and other living things!'

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That's bad enough. But the anger of war also occurs a long way from the battlefield - in the families m d schools and hospitals of the homefront, in our rivers and forests, in the very air we breathe.

The money that goes to the war industry is money diverted from meeting the pressing social needs that face us. The children and the weak and sick are the most vulnerable. It's a tragic waste of human potential.

In a high tech war, where millions of dollars go up in smoke every time a barrage ~f missiles is launched, the war industry has a very big appetite. The costs of the new weapons, like the smart bombs, the laser guided missiles, the all-weather planes and tanks, are astronomical.

On a day-to-day basis, the Gulf War is the most expensive killing spree in history. The numbers boggle the mind: $1 billion a day for the U.S.-led coalition. That's $669,000 a minute and that doesn't count the Iraqi side.

Most of the expense is for hardware.

The Pentagon estimates a cost of up to $86 billion for a few months.

Apparently, the sky's the limit.

How can we comprehend such huge figures? How can we get a handle on it so we can make rational decisions about where we should be spending our money?

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The cost of two machine gun bullets would provide a hot meal to a hungry child. One Canadian guided missile would buy lunch for a schoolful of hungry kids for five years.

You could clean up Buward Inlet, Howe Sound and Boundary Bay for what the war costs for just one day.

Twenty-one minutes of the world's arms race would pay to wipe out six childhood diseases that kill four million kids a year.

With the thaw in the Cold War, the hopes of ordinary people everywhere was for a reduction in arms spending by the superpowers. This was the so-called peace dividend meaning more money for health care and education and housing, and for fighting poverty and pollution and the decay of the inner cities.

But recent events have cast a cloud over those hopes. George Bush says the Gulf War proves the future of war belongs to high-tech gadgetry.

"We are going to have a high-tech, a highly mobile force," he says. "and it ain't going to come cheap."

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Bush is proposing to take more money Ottawa was budgetting $90 from programs that serve pregnant million a month for the war, or a total women, the homeless and poor chilof $450 million, before the shooting dren. If his administration gets its way, even started. That total is enough to AIDS will receive almost no more pay for the elimination of dioxins from every pulp mill B.C. - yet it was money next year, and a cost-of-living increase in unemployment benefits will have to be offset by cuts in other programs.

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One Patriot missile would pay 'fora year's worth of Head Start programs for 500 poor pre-schoolers in the U.S. Two days of the war would clean up the Fraser River; three days would reforest every logged-over area in B.C. Less than 36 hours of the war would pay for decent housing for every senior citizen, disabled person and low-income family who needs i t in the Lower Mainland.

Already, we are seeing signs that the Canadian government intends to use the Gulf War as a pretext to deepen its cuts on social services.

Transfer payments to the provinces to pay for medicare and other social programs were cut recently. Bill C-69, just passed, will make it easier for the Feds to dump medicare onto the provinces, leading to creation of two health

wasted on a token force that can't possibly have any effect on the final outcome, except to mark Canada as a warmonger in the eyes of many Third World countries.

Treasury Board president Gilles Loiselle has already admitted that most of the $450 million for the preshooting stage is being hijacked from this year's federal programs in 26 government departments and agencies, including the departments of the environment, Indian affairs, fisheries and

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forestry. Even before these cuts, the Tories were spending only $1 on the environment for every $14 dollars they handed over to the military. (The figures in the US.are $1-to-$300).

Said Loislle: "Because of the major and unanticipated expenditures, mostly to support Canadian troops in the Persian Gulf, current spending levels in departments had to be reduced to keep program spending on " track."

The government isn't saying -I how much it intends to spend in fu... ture. That depends in part on how long the troops stay in the Gulf, and how many CF-18's, at $25 million apiece, get shot down. But Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has said he will give the troops whatever they need "to do the job in a first-class manner." That includes $20 million for a new field hospital and other items, and $30 million to put new guns and missiles on two more destroyers heading for the Gulf.

This is the same mean-spirited government that couldn't find $1.5 million to fund women's centres across the country.

Defense Minister Bill McKnight figures the bill will total $646 million by the end of March. Some cabinet ministers have warned Canadians to brace for a war tax, but Finance Minister Michael Wilson is still considering his options. "My preference is to first look at the reallocation of spending,"

he said, meaning cuts to social programs. "That's the priority I will continue to have."

Continued war spending will inevitably lead to a larger deficit. But that's okay with the big business lobby, despite years of dire predictions that the demise of Canada is imminent if the national debt (now approaching $400 billion) isn't pared drastically.

"This is a national emergency and one has to do what one has to do," says Darcy Rezac, head of the Vancouver Board of Trade, which displays a huge clock in a downtown bank window ticking off Canada's mounting debt.

"Obviously there will be some impact on the deficit. I am more concerned about the war."

Canadians won a significant victory over the military establishment two years ago by forcing the scuttling of the $16 billion nuclear submarine boondoggle.

Continued pressure by an ti-war activists (and economic realities) has helped reduce military spending by $3.25 billion over last five years. But the defense budget is still in need of drastic pruning. With the lessening of tensions in Europe, there is no reason for Canada to continue to maintain its very expensive tank force there. In fact, Canada's proper military role is patrol and defense of our shores and participation in international peacekeeping efforts (real peacekeeping, not Bush's

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bomb-back-themback- to-the-stoneage attacks). We could do that on half of the $12 billion a year we are spending now.

A saving of $6 billion a year, spread proportionally among the provinces, would mean an extra $600 million in B.C. That's a lot of hospital beds and schoolrooms.

But emboldened by the "success" of the Gulf operation, and by the military glory earned at Oka last summer, the military establishment is launching a domestic counterattack.

The wargamers in the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies and the Canadian Defense Quarterly are already arguing that the post-war situation will

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arms race would provide clean water to evey b o d y in the Third World; 18 days would wipe out malnutrition worldwide.

Eve y emergency patient in B.C. who needs open heart surgey or cancer radiation therapy would get it for niue minutes of the war.

One Canadian Cf-18 jet fighter costs $25 million, carries $1 million worth of bombs, bullets and missiles, and guzzles $10,000 worth of gas every time it takes off.

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Estimated cost of cleaning up the 10,000 worst hazardous waste dumps in the US.

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Two Thirds of estimated costs' to meet US clean water goals by year 2000.

Requested SDI funding for fiscal years 1988-92

Disposal of highly radioactive waste in US.

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Annual cost of the proposed UN Water and Sanitation Decade.

German outlays for military procurement and R&D, fiscal year 1985

Estimated costs to clean up the former West German sector of the North Sea.

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6 months of US outlays for nuclear warheads, fiscal year 1986

$4,000,000,000

US government spending on energy efficiency, fiscal year 1980-87.

10 days of European Economic Community military spending

$2,000,000,000

Annual costs to clean up hazardous waste sites in 10 EEC countries by the year 2000.

1Trident Submarine

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Global 5 year child immunization program against 6 deadly diseases, preventing 1million deaths a year.

$12,000,000

Installation of 80,000 hand pumps to give 3rd World villages access to safe water

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Community-based maternal health care in 10 African villages, to reduce maternal deaths by half in one decade.

dian firms that are making big bucks out of the Gulf War: The international arms industry * Litton Systems Canada of doesn't play favorities. It's a $1 trillion- Toronto - electronic guidance system a-year business, and the two largest for the Tomahawk cruise missile. buyers of military hardware in the * Computing Devices Co. of Third World by far are Saudi Arabia Ottawa - firing and control computers and Iraq, which are now making war for the M-1 Abrams tank. against each other with state-of-the-art * Canadian Marconi Co. - radar jet fighters, tanks, missiles and antisystem for the Cf-18 Hornets and ; aircraft batteries obligingly supplied control systemn for the Apache attack respectively by the world's two biggest helicopter. arms sellers, the U.S. and.the Soviet * General Motors Diesel DiviUnion. France and West Germany sion of London, Ont. - eight-wheeled - ' were also among Iraq's suppliers, armored vehicles for the U.S. Marines hopeful of gaining a political or ecoin Saudi Arabia. nomic toehold. * Heroux Inc. of Longueuil, A total of $92 billion in Saudi Que. - landing gear for E l 5 Eagle. and Iraqi oil revenues that should have * Pratt and Whitney Canada Inc. - been used for economic development of Montreal - turbine enghes for were squandered on a wasteful and military helicopters. destructive arms race between those * Don't forget the oil companies. two countries in a seven year period - a Tensions in the ~ u l proved f a windfall dishearteningly familiar scenario for Shell Canada, with profits up by 50 among the poorer countries of the per cent in 1990 over trhe previous world. year.Imperia1 oil Ltd. also did very Peaceful old Canada is no well In the U.S., profits for the nine slouch in the arms industry. In fact, largest firms increased by 69 per cent. according to project Ploughshares, Canada supplied weaponry, directly or indirectly, to 22 of the 35 major conflicts around the globe in 1990. Canada The tropical rainforest could be produces $3 billion a year in arms, saved for the price of three days of the selling half of them to the U.S. and its arms race. allies.

Every single mother in B.C. Here's a roll-call of some Cana- could be brought up t o the poverty lirie 1991 for the eauivalent o f less than

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half a day of the war.

The bill for the boots for U.S. army soldiers in the Gulf is $8.8 milZion. Socks cost $437,000. One army division requires 240 tons of fuel, 48 tons of food and 20 tons of spare parts every day - and that's before the ground war starts.

A myth has been fostered by governments and the arms industry that spending huge amounts of money on items that have no other use than to be blown up or shot to pieces is good

for the economy and creates jobs. The reality is quite different. In fact, it is clear that military spending is a very ineffective way of improving our economic well-being.

For instance, it has been estimated in the U.S. that $1 billion (that's about 36 hours of the proposed U.S. "defense" budget for next year) spent on guided missile production would yield 9,000 jobs; for military aircraft, the figure would be 14,000 jobs.

But spending the same amount on air, water and solid waste pollution control would create 16,500 jobs; on local transit, 21,500 jobs; and on educa-

the figure would be 14,000 jobs.

But spending the same amount on air, water and solid waste pollution control would create 16,500 jobs; on local transit, 21,500 jobs; and on educational services, 63,000 jobs.

Even if we didn't spend any money, we would still be better off in terms of job creation. The money saved would be returned to taxpayers in the form of tax cuts. That would spur consumer spending, which in turn would boost retail sales and production - creating 20,000 jobs.

Studies in other countries have showed similar results. In the old West Germany, a one billion deutchmark cut in the military budget ($570 million U.S.) would have created up to 6,500 more civilian jobs than would have been lost in the military sector. A Third World example? In India, it costs $13,500 to create one job in an ordinance factory, compared $3,800 in industry generally, and a mere $80-90 in road construction or agriculture.

The reason military spending is so inefficient is that it is incredibly high-tech and capital-intensive, creating more hardware than employment.

But that is just what makes it appealing to large investors. Military contractors enjoy low-risk operations, rich costplus contracts and high profits. In comparison to other industries, the profits are not spread through the economy, but are concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of

wealthy shareholders and investors. In effect, it's a trickle-up effect, with the poor and the middle class paying the taxes to make the rich even richer. A tight web of kickbacks, pork-barrelling and power politics keeps the system in place.

Following the Second World War, thousands of factories in North America and Europe were converted from wartime production to peaceful uses. But this was a relatively simple task, since many of the factories had been in civilian production before the

war. Today's arms industry is deeply ingrained, with no concept of a "market" economy, no experience in dealing with customers except for their friends in government and little inclination to change.

The idea that military factories can be transformed into civilian production facilities is called Peace Conversion. It's a movement that is still in its infancy. The two societies that have made the-most progress toward con' version are China and the Soviet Union. For both, it was a question of

economic necessity - their bloated defense budgets were causing great hardship.

In China, the size of the armed forces has been reduced by one-third in the past decade. Most military factories are now partially into production of consumer items - possibly up to 50 per cent nationwide. They produce nearly 400 items, from bicycles and cars to television sets and washing machines. Unfortunately, the situation has become unclear since the crackdown on the democracy movement.

In Gorbachev's Soviet Union, the savings from demilitarization in Europe have been been passed on in part to the civilian sector. The $468 million saved in the 1989 in termedi- , date missile treaty was used to build'.' '" up to 40,000 apariments. Missile factories have been converted in part to building washing machines and bicycles. Some 200 factories are slated for conversion.

In the West, there is no such progress toward conversion. Peace activists are still at the stage of trying to raise the issue; educate the public and prove on paper that conversion is economically feasible. Groups like Project Ploughshares in Canada and Jobs With Peace in the U.S. are active in efforts to build coalitions with trade unions, community groups and political organizations. If peace conversion is to become a reality, we need a broad realization on the part of ordinary citizens just how much we are

P a y i n g - a n d g i v i n g u p - t o p r e p a r e far wax n e x t g e n e r a t i o n is d e p e n d i n g o n u s .

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This pamphlet produced by the Camegie Community Centre Association, 401 Main, Vancouver, B.C. V6A 2T7. Phone: 665-2220. All figures used in this pamphlet were taken from journalistic sources, including the Vancouver Sun, the Province, the Globe and Mail and Time magazine, as well as from The State of the World, published by the Worldwatch Institute.

For more information: Middle East Peace Action Coalition, PO Box 69202, Station K, Vancouver, BC V5K 4W4,298-9638 End the Arms Race, 736-2366 Greenpeace, 1726 Commercial Dr., Vancouver, B.C., 253-7701.

Project Ploughshares, 433-6583 B.C. Students Against The Gulf War, Box 26, S.U.B., UBC,Vancouver, B.C., 222-8616.

Taxes for Peace, 1672 East Tenth, Vancouver, B.C. The Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.; Washington, D.C. 20036.

Women on welfare pirate the airwaves!

Single p a r e n t s on w e l f a r e and ELP f e l t like we p i r a t e d t h e airwaves on Feb. 16 a s we watched BCTV.and CBC coverage f o r the "Full H e a r t s & Empty P l a t e s Brunch". & staged a t y p i c a l end-of -the-month breakfast .of a t a l e puffed wheat and lumpy foodbank skimmed milk f o r media and politicians t j %'Sandwiched between coverage of t h e war a d y e t i a n o t h e r Vanderzalm s c a n d a l , BCTV and CBC a c t u a l l y showed women on w e l f a r e t d l i n g ; t h e i r s t o r i e s a b o u t . f o r c e d employment ~::d.- t h e d i f f,iculties of t r y i n g t o raise k i d s w i t h t h e p r e s s u r e of w e l f a r e t e l l i n g 2 t h e m t o get, jobs o r be c u t o f f .

Debbie E l l i s o n : . "I r a i s e d f o u r k i d s on welfare f o r 6 y e a r s . I am now employed but s t i l l below t h e poverty l i n e . The forced employment l e g i s l a t i o n e n f o r c e s continued dependency on w e l f a r e i n t h e longnin.' S i n g l e p a r e n t s deserve t o be t r e a t e d w i t h d i g n i t y and r e s p e c t . " Maureen 'Ahearn: "Tr,ying t o r a i s e c h i l d ren on a ,low-paying job pays l e s s than welfare. ' When t h e 1 2 month b r i d g i n g bene f i t s a r e ' o v e r , I would have t o go back on welfare." .

'I Marianna'Yous: "It's t o o much work t o r a i s e f o u r c h i l d r e n alone. I need more m~ney'and!support."^ ~Gni-ca~ o s e n b e r ~1'H : ow can we b r e a k t h e l i n k between s i n g l i motbers and poverty?

We need'to h a v e o p t i o n s , n o t be pushed i n t o deadends." =; i] Joan' S h u l t z : "We u v t t h e r i g h t f o r a l l women t o raise our:own c h i l d r e n a t home ' II i f we want' to."

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T r e s s i d e r : :''I a l r e a d y have f u l l _ - - - - - - . time work r a i s i n g 3. children." ' Guest s i n g e r , Gail Bauman from Kaslo and h e r daughter sang t h e i r own songs about solo-income f a m i l i e s The w e l f a r e brunch was p a r t of a longterm canpaign t o s t o p f o r c e d employment.

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Lawyer, David Mossop: "Theresa T r e s s i d e r t h r e e c h i l d r e n a r e s u i n g MSSH t o prohibi t age d i s c r i m i n a i i o n . F a m i l i e s should have t h e r i g h t t o d e c i d e how they a r e going t o live. It i s o n l y i n t h e l a s t 10 y e a r s t h a t p a r e n t s on w e l f a r e a r e f o r c e d t o s e e k employment."

P o l i t i c i a n s o f b o t h major p r o v i n c i a l p a r t i e s w e r e i n v i t e d . Jacobsen had pneumonia s o had a n a i r t i g h t a l i b i f o r n o t showing up. Not one s o c i a l c r e d i t r e p came, though several were i n v i t e d .

Karen T u l l y , ELP d e l e g a t e : u . l I ~ ~ ~ , . r ; r-. ill work t o end f o r c e d employment of s i n g l e p a r F n t s ,on . v e l f are./ T h i s i s u n f i n i s h e d has- thqcworsc~law.;in.Canada; f Q~,-ELP;,,BC. w e - s t i l a ' u a n t a meeting w i t h Jacobsen.

W e want, a " c o d t m e n t from t h e NDP and a f a i r l e g i s l a t i o n t o give single parents choice. R a i s i n g c h i l d r e n i s work. We a r e determined t o make t h i s government recognize t h i s . t -T-h e h a Barkeley, MSSH Area Manager: "I will t a k e your concerns t o t h e M i n i s t - . er's o f f i c e on Monday."

Ald. Harry ~ a n k i njj'l[oulve : 'got f i v e aldermen a t . c i t y . h a l l ; ,who w i l l . back you."

Ald. P a t r i c i a Wilson: "Continue t o s h a r e your s t o r i e s and n o t l e t p a l i t i c i a n s o f f the hook."; ; MLA ~ o a n mallw wood,' NDP---------. c r i t i c of MSSH: "I w a n t ' t o make t h = commitment v e r y strongly t h a t we w i l l change t h e *ernployment l e g i s l a t i o n and work f o r r e a l options f o r families."

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MLA P o i n t Grey: "The r o o t s of poor h e a l t h s t a t u s l i e i n poverty."

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a r e being f o r c e d t o do t r a i n i n g f o r c h i l d c a r e a t minimum wage. The NDP want s a f e , l i c e n s e d c h i l d c a r e and t r a i n i n g , i n t e g r a ted w i t h high-paying jobs."

The forced employment l e g i s l a t i o n d i r e c t l y a f f e c t s about 90,000 people i n BC, i n c l u d i n g moms and k i d s . Why were a l l t h e i n v i t e d s o c r e d s too busy t o come t o ELP's "Full H e a r t s & Empty P l a t e s " b r e a k f a s t ?

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Dear C a r n e g i e , On Feb.15, ELP h a d a s a n c t u a r y f o r s i n g l e p a r e n t s on w e l f a r e who w a n t t o s t o p f o r c e d employment (see "Women on w e l f a r e p i r a t e t h e Airwaves").

Our foodmaker became s i c k b e f o r e t h e e v e n t . "Oh no!" w e e x c l a i m e d . "What are w e g o i n g t o do?"

Thanks t o t h e f i n a g l i n g o f S h e l i a B a x t e r and Bob S a r t i , t h e famous Carn e g i e c h i l i maker, C h r i s I v e r s o n came t o our rescue!

A n t i c i p a t i n g h o r d e s o f p e o p l e , ELP In a s k e d f o r a whole p o t o f c h i l i . r e a l i t y , l e s s t h a n 20 p e o p l e came. BUT t h e moms and k i d s b r o u g h t y o g u r t t u b s t h e next d a y and e v e r y d r o p o f c h i l i went home t o . moms n' k i d s f r i d g e s . We a l s o had a ' g r e a t media e v e n t . W e t h i n k i t was b e c a u s e t h e moms w e r e a l l f i r e d up o n c a r n e g i e c h i l i ! t h a n k s ever s o much f o r t h e n u m b l i e s i n our tumblies Pam Fleming f o r ELP

Editor, The r e c e n t high p r o f i l e given t o t h e p o l i c i n g / f u n d i n g c r i s i s i n t h i s province i s c a u s e f o r t h e p u h l i c ' s concern. Some r e p o r t s i n d i c a t e "common crimes" such a s t h e f t under $1,000, o r "fender benders", w i l l simply n o t be i n v e s t i g a t e d because "the p o t i s t i g h t e r and w e ( p o l i c e ) have t o do more w i t h l e s s . " (Sun, 6/2/91) It i s i n t e r e s t i n g t o n o t e what i s , and i s n o t , g e t t i n g t h e chop when i t comes t o p o l i c i n g p r i o r i t i e s . What we know is t h a t p o l i c e do have t h e s t a f f and t h e time t o a t t e n d t o cracked windshields &

worn weather s t r i p p i n g a t r o v i n g roadblocks i n many a r e a s of t h e province. We a r e t o l d t h a t t h i s i s i m p e r a t i v e t o enf o r c e o s t e n s i b l y n e c e s s a r y s a f e t y standa r d s of v e h i c l e mechanical c o n d i t i o n .

Is t h i s t h e r e a l m o t i v a t i o n ? Roadblocks f o r whatever reason a r e p r o d u c t i v e from a c o s t - e f f e c t i v e and revenue g e n e r a t i o n p o i n t of view. Under t h e g u i s e of mecha n i c a l s a f e t y s t a n d a r d s , roadblocks a r e absorbing p o l i c e a c t i v i t y . Rather than c o n c e n t r a t e on crimes t h a t produce vectims a s opposed t o revenue, t h e aim of policing a c t i v i t y is turning t o target a d i f f e r e n t and more v u l n e r a b l e s e c t o r of t h e public;' 'John Q. P u b l i c ' f a c e s t h e p r o s p e c t of c r i m i n a l d e f i n i t i o n i f he i s f o r c e d through one of t h e s e roadblock g a u n t l e t s . T h i s method of enforcement, around a chimera of s a f e t y standa r d s , i s being imposed upon an e n t i r e aggregate of v e h i c l e s ( o l d e r than 5 y r s ) f o r which t h e r e c o r d of t h e i r s a f e t y of movement, a s a f f e c t e d by mechanical cond i t i o n , has n o t been found t o be l a c k i n g a t all.

This roadblock m e n t a l i t y does n o t s t o p w i t h a c o u p l e - o f c o n s t a b l e s checking a few p a s s i n g v e h i c l e s a t t h e c i t y limits., Lest we seem unduly a l a r m i s t , one has only t o c o n s i d e r t h a t t h e roadblocks staged each y e a r i n t h e Rogers P a s s have mushroomed from t n v o l v i n g o n l y t h e poli c e and t h e Motor V e h i c l e Branch i n t h e e a r l y 1980s, t o today i n v o l v i n g t h e RCMP p l u s 1 0 F e d e r a l and P r o v i n c i a l a g e n c i e s running t h e p u b l i c through a n e n f o r c e ment g a u n t l e t f o r 4 o r 5 days a t a time.

This s p e c t r e of l a t e n t c r i m i n a l i z a t i o n w a i t i n g dormant t o s n a r e t h e unsuspecti n g motoring p u b l i c , i s t y p i c a l of a p r e d a t o r y s t a n d a r d of law enforcement we s e e i n t h i r d world c o u n t r i e s . Should we allow enforcement a g e n c i e s , who a r e exp e r i e n c i n g problems making t h e c a s e f o r more r e s o u r c e s from t h e v a r i o u s l e v e l s of government, t o e s t a b l i s h d e f a c t o ' t a x a t i o n ' systems?

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( E d i t o r ' s n o t e : The name 'Jimmy i s used r e f e r t o a l l m u l t i - m i l l i o n a i r e s and b i l l i o n a i r e s who s e l l c a r s .

'Jimmy' wants t o s e l l c a r s . P e o p l e a r e d r i v i n g o l d c a r s o r t r u c k s , some a s o l d a s 5 y e a r s o r o l d e r ! 'Jimmy' and s o c r e d p o l i t i c i a n s l i k e each o t h e r .

'Jimmy' g e t s t h e s o c r e d s t o p a s s a l a w making a l m o s t a n y t h i n g - a r u s t y h a n d l e , a t e a r i n a s e a t - r e a s o n enough f o r declaring a vehicle u n f i t t o drive. Police have t o r u n r o a d b l o c k s a l l t h e time t o enforce t h e s e c r u c i a l s a f e t y s t a n d a r d s .

Owners of t h e s e dangerous d e r e l i c t s now have two choices: pay hundreds o r thousands of d o l l a r s t o f i x a l l t h e 'def e c t s ' .OR buy a n o t h e r c a r . .from f i'rAmyY1/!

'Jimmy' a l s o owns used c a r s and s e l l s p a r t s and h a s r e p a i r shops.

The s o c r e d s r e f u s e t o make p u b l i c how accident-prone c a r s o l d e r than 5 y e a r s a r e , a s opposed t o c a r s younger t h a n 5 , even when asked l o t s of times.

More and more p o l i c e time & energy h a s t o go t o t h e s e s a f e t y r o a d b l o c k s . 'Jimmy' wants o n l y h i s new c a r s on t h e r o a d .

Things l i k e t h e f t , m i s c h i e f , d o m e s t i c v i o l e n c e - small-time s t u f f c a n ' c be given t i m e by t h e p o l i c e ; t h e y have t o inspect cars!

'Jimmy' g e t s a l o t of f r i e n d s i n c o r p ? ~ o t a t e 4 off i c e s :oE.~casl.~manufacrurers who, a l o n g w i t h 'Jimmy', g e t r i c h e r when new c a r s H trucks & p a r t s a r e sold.

Cars & t r u c k s & p a r t s s t a r t t o be made i n Mexico. Poor p e o p l e t h e r e w i l l work f o r $4 a day. I f t h e y d o n ' t t h e y s t a r v e .

'Jimmy1 i s a l s o r e a l concerned a b o u t t h e Gulf War. H e t h i n k s i f ' ' t h o s e Arabs" mess w i t h o i l , p e o p l e might d r i v e l e s s 'cause g a s c o s t s s o much.

'Jimmy' w i l l t a l k t o h i s s o c r e d f r i e n d s t o reduce o r s e l l o f f p u b l i c t r a n s i t and jump t h e p r i c e of whatever t h e y 1 e a v e . w pats himself on t h e back; h e ' s s o smart!)

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I d o n ' t know w h a t y o u g o t t o s a y tomorrow i s a n o t h e r d a y memories f a r gone & l o s t .

WHY ! s e r i o u s f e a t u r e s - day dreams our u n l o s t world, another. world d o e s i t h a v e t o b e tomorrow!

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POLICE UNIVERSITY EDUCATION E x p e c t a t i o n s f o r a Changing World A few months ago I r e n e Froyland d i d a s u r v e y a s p a r t of h e r work t o d e s i g n u n i v e r s i t y l e v e l courses f o r people i n ( o r wanting i n t o ) p o l i c i n g . Copies of t h e s u r v e y found t h e i r way i n t o DERA, Carnegie, F i r s t United Church i n t h i s a r e a and o v e r h a l f of t h e o n e s r e t u r n ed by- " c i t i z e n s " came from p e o p l e i n one o f t h e s e t h r e e p l a c e s .

I r e n e g o t r e s p o n s e s from p o l i c e and people i n p o l i c e - r e l a t e d j o b s , s c h o l a r s , r e c r u i t s ( i n t r a i n i n g academies b r criminology c o u r s e s ) , o t h e r s i n t h e j u s t i c e system, mayors and c i t i z e n s .

On Feb.19 about 20 p e o p l e who had responded, i n v a t e d t o p r o v i d e a s wide a cross-section a s possible, attended a day-long seminar a t SFU w i t h I r e n e .

I n t h e morning p a r t , s h e p r e s e n t e d t h e r e s u l t s of t h e s u r v e y and showed what t h e e x p e c t a t i o n s of t h e v a r i o u s i n terms of s o c i e t y , t h e groups a r e p o l i c e r o l e and f u n c t i o n i n i t , and what a s p e c t s of h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n and t r a i n i n g s h o u l d have p r i o r i t y .

The f i r s t q u e s t i o n asked a b o u t t h e changes i n B.C. o v e r t h e n e x t 30 y r s . and what f a c t o r s would most i n f l u e n c e policing.

The t o p 4 , from a l i s t of 23, were: The c u l t u r a l and l i n g u i s t i c d i v e r s i t y of t h e p o p u l a t i o n ; Canadian C h a r t e r of R i g h t s & Freedoms I l l e g a l drugs; T i g h t b u d g e t s and i n a d e q u a t e f u n d i n g f o r police.

The second p a r t asked p e o p l e t o show t h e i r agreement o r d i s a g r e e m e n t w i t h a number o f s t a t e m e n t s a b o u t changes.

R e s u l t s show t h a t a l l groups s t r o n g l y agree t h a t education, i n t e r p e r s o n a l c o n f l i c t r e s o l u t i o n , t h e use of res e a r c h , p r o a c t i v e p o l i c i n g , community involvement i n p o l i c i n g & t h e i n v o l v e ment of p o l i c e i n t h e community, t h e i n c r e a s e of v i s i b l e m i n o r i t i e s i n t h e

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p o l i c e f o r c e and t h e ' g r e y i n g ' ( a g i n g ) of t h e p o p u l a t i o n w i l l a l l have s t r o n g i n f l u e n c e s . A n i n t e r e s t i n g comment on t h e c y n i c i s m growing i n a l l o f u s was t h a t few p e o p l e e x p e c t t h e p o l i c e t o p l a y much o f a r o l e i n e n f o r c i n g t h e e n v i r o n m e n t a l p r o t e c t i o n laws.

The t h i r d p a r t had t o do w i t h what k i n d s o f l e a r n i n g and e x p e r i e n c e s a u n i v e r s i t y education should provide.. t o make g r a d u a t e s b e t t e r s u i t e d t o be police.

The most i m p o r t a n t a r e a was A t t i t u d e s & V a l u e s , f o l l o w e d by P e o p l e S k i l l s , Decision-making a b i l i t y , gene r a l knowledge, t o l e r a n c e & f l e x i b i l i t y . . a l l of which l e d t o us g i v i n g i d e a s on t h e a c t u a l c o n t e n t of s u c h educat i v e courses/workshops/experiences.

I n t h e a f t e r n o o n came t h e b r a i n s t o r ming p a r t , where we g o t t o t h e b a s i c q u e s t i o n : What k i n d o f p o l i c e p e r s o n s h o u l d be b o t h needed and s e e n a s a r e s u l t of t h e p e r c e i v e d need.

A s o n e p e r s o n from Vancouver P o l i c e Department s a i d , "We d o n ' t need 'eggh e a d s l . . a n d i f a p e r s o n i s a b i g o t bef o r e g o i n g t o u n i v e r s i t y , we d o n ' t need t o have a n e d u c a t e d b i g o t a s a p o l i c e person."

C i t i z e n s involved ( l i k e us) s a w t h e g r e a t e s t need f o r p o l i c e p e o p l e who would/could t e a c h by p e r s o n a l exampl@ i n showing r e s p e c t f o r o t h e r s , f a i r n e s s and i n t e g r i t y .

Throughout t h e day, t h a n k f u l l y , were c o n s t a n t r e m i n d e r s t o s t a y real..made by t h e p o l i c e p r e s e n t , by s c h o l a r s and e s p e c i a l l y by t h e c i t i z e n s .

One man, who was a t r a i n e r a t t h e p o l i c e academy, s a i d h i g h e r e d u c a t i o n was necessa r y b u t p o l i c e c o u l d n ' t be caught tryi n g t o p s y c h o a n a l y z e someone p o i n t i n g a gun a t t h e i r head.

I r e n e Froyland s a i d t h a t s h e ' d l e a r n e d from a l l t h e p e o p l e s h e ' d t a l k e d t o and who had responded t o t h e s u r v e y t h a t t h e b e s t e d u c a t i o n i s one t h a t w o n ' t g e t l o s t i n t h e d a i l y r e a l i t i e s of p o l i c i n g .

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On Wednesday, J a n u a r y 30, 1991 a t 4:15 am, I was s t o p p e d on Robson S t . a couple of d o o r s e a s t o f B i d w e l l S t .

I was r i d i n g my mountain b i k e .

After responding t o t h e s t a n d a r d questions o f 'Where a r e you coming from/going t o ' , I was asked t o produce I D and g i v i n g my a d d r e s s o f Main & Has t i n g s (375 Main), I was m e t by a serie? of h o s t i l e and i r r e s p o n s i b l e questions which, you w i l l a g r e e , v e r g e on s l a n d e r and d e f a m a t i o n o f c h a r a c t e r .

A f t e r dismounting & p a r k i n g my b i k e and b e i n g s u b j e c t e d t o a thorough search, I was asked t h e f o l l o w i n g "questions : ?: Where a r e your t o o l s ? ( r e f e r r i n g t o B & E equipment) ; 4: You're going t o be a r r e s t e d anyways, s o why d o n ' t you j u s t t e l l u s where your d r u g s a r e ? ; 9: Where d i d you s t e a l t h a t b i k e ? : 9: What a r e you d o i n g i n t h i s area of town? ' A l l of t h e s e q u e s t i o n s were a s k e d jwhile Cons t a b l e was s t a n d ing l e s s t h a n one f o o t i n f r o n t o f me.

Meanwhile, h i s p a r t n e r was r e l a y i n g info o v e r t h e p a t r o l c a r J s computer system. None of t h e s e q u e s t i o n s were asked i n a j o k i n g manner.

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h a r a s s m e n t and d i s c r i m i n a t i o n .

I was t e r r o r i z e d and i n s u l t e d by t h e experi e n c e and I have a few q u e s t i o n s of my own. I f e e l ' s a f e ' enough now t o a s k them, a l t h o u g h on t h a t n i g h t , a t t h a t time, I d i d n ' t .

Were t h e s e s t a n d a r d p o l i c e procedu r e s ? What are s t a n d a r d p o l i c e proc e d u r e s ? Are p o l i c e p r o c e d u r e s s t a n d a r d i z e d towards a l l c i t i z e n s r e g a r d l e s s of c l a s s and r a c e ? I f s o , why t h e n d i d t h i s happen? I would l i k e t o know i f t h e r e p o r t f i l e d by Const a b l e c o i n c i d e s w i t h mine.

As you c a n see, I do need a n explana t i o n , a l t h o u g h a n apology would be more a p p r o p r i a t e .

I would a l s o r e c ommend h a v i n g a p s y c h o l o g i c a l p r o f i l e done of C o n s t a b l e so that you may b e b e t t e r a b l e t o u n d e r s t a n d what h i s l i m i t s and t o l e r a n c e a r e w h i l e on d u t y .

I t r u s t t h a t you w i l l s e e t o t h i s m a t t e r and respond w i t h t h e name and badge number o f t h i s o f f i c e r . I f e e l l i t t l e c h o i c e b u t t o make t h i s comp l a i n t as p u b l i c a s p o s s i b l e , s o a s t o i n s u r e t h a t such behaviour i s n o t t o l e r a t e d , now o r e v e r . '

Michael Cross

Anatomy of Loving

The Chinese New Year in Chinatown

"I can' t ,I' she said, responding to my questio3.

"Oaky doke, thanks," I said in a somewhat cheerful voice. She remained sitting at her desk, our eyes disengaged, and I left the building.

I soon found myself pondering on the path at Crab beach. "I can't" kept echoing in my mind. "I can't ." Not "I won't," or "I don't want to," ..just I INo, I can't."

My mental analyzer was buzzing with questions and answers, but what really mystified me was why did I say "thanks" with such sincerity?

Then it struck me; the clear picture of the whole episode and why I asked the question in the first place: I w& testing the waters of my imagination's river of desire, and got a cold toes "Bnswer.

DEside Joe

There are three traditional, important festivals in China; one of them is Chinese Lunar New Year. When this festival approaches every year, all Chi,nese have to hold a ceremony which celebrates everywhere throughout China, also including some other countries' Chinatowns. For example, the Chinatown in Vancouver, not excepting, holds a celebration of Chinese New Year.

In order to celebrate it, on the eve, the Chinese here are the same as in China, because the festival is a family get-together.

All members of family long to return home for celebration. They are sitting around a round table for dinner. After dinner, the eldest person gives lucky, money-filled red envelopes to the young ones..the aim is for family reunion.

In addition, the 5th day of the I live my life as fast as I can first moon is believed to be the God Ignoring society and its hypocritical of Fortune's birthday. It is said that plan on this day he brings a bag of fortune Allethe politicians and their feeble to Earth to spend around; at that time, little scams the merchants, who live in Chinatown, light off firecrackers and bottle rockThe world's destiny held in their to - manicured hands ets. Their purposes are not 4 ~ attract his attention but also to welIn the peoples' mind they want to come the lion dancers coming in front Speak out of their gates. The lucky money and vegetables are taken by the lion dancBut you can't hear the mind shout ers. They felt very lucky.

So screw the world & its plastic plan In short, although the custom of Chinese New Year has a little changed, hat's why I live as fast as I can we still enjoy it.

Greg Bushel1

By SHANG LUNG LIAO

My dog & I A s Jimmy & I go f o r w a l k s i n Logan Lake i n t h e e a r l y morning and l o o k i n g ' to, t h e e a s t , we s e e t h e most b e a u t i f u l s u n r i s e down i n t h e v a l l e y towards Merritt.

I g e t i t c h y f e e t t o go f o r a d r i v e s o we go g e t 'me l o v e ' . .I head o u t i n t o t h e highways & byways and d e c i d e t o t a k e t h e new c o n n e c t o r highway between M e r r i t t and P e a c h l a n d .

I t ' s j u s t been snowing and t h e snow on the f r u i t t r e e s , with j u s t a l i t t l e i c e , makes f o r t h e most b e a u t i f u l s i g h t s .

Jimmy d e c i d e s h e h a s t o g e t o u t o f the c a r and he l a y s down and e a t s t h e f r e s h snow.. i t ' s s o c l e a n and w h i t e , ' w i t h no p o l l u t i o n on i t .

My w i f e & I go w a l k i n g i n t h e snow md I j u s t g i v e t h a n k s t o God f o r g i v ing me a second c h a n c e a t l i f e s o I c a n I just see t h e most b e a u t i f u l s i g h t s . wish you a l l c o u l d come up and s e a , Nature i n a l l i t s s p l e n d o r .

George The llagnif i c e n t Moose On J a n . 2 7 we were g o i n g i n t o Kamloops t o t a k e George t o t h e h o s p i t a l for t e s t s when t o o u r r i g h t i n a c l e a r ing of l o t s of p i n e t r e e s we was t h e most b e a u t i f u l young moose !

My t h o u g h t s were how l o n g would s u c h a b e a u t i f u l a n i m a l l i v e b e f o r e someone would s h o o t i t . . n o t f o r food b u t f o r fun.; and I f e l t s o s a d b e c a u s e t h i s i s happening a l o t i n t h i s a r e a and they a r e j u s ~l e f t i n t h e f i e l d s

Then on J a n . 2 9 Chuck, my s o n , and I were on o u r way home from s e e i n g George when we saw a n o t h e r one s t a n d i n g on a h i l l e a t i n g l e a v e s w i t h a most b e a u t i f u l s u n s e t of y e l l o w , o r a n g e , mauve & b l u e b e h i n d h e r - t h e r e was no more b e a u t i f u l s i g h t i n t h e world.

Lillian

Hi, To a l l o u r C a r n e g i e Family.

Just a n o t e t o s a y Thanks f o r a l l y o u r praye r s f o r George and now t o t e l l you a l l t h a t t h e s p e c i a l i s t found n o t h i n g . . o n l y o l d s c a r t i s s u e from when George was a d e p u t y f i r e c h i e f , c a u s e d by smoke i n h a l a t i o n .

So t h e d o c t o r s a i d a f t e r a l l t h e t e s t s t h a t George s h o u l d l i v e t o be a t l e a s t 110 o r s o ! We w i l l be spendi n g l o t s of a n n i v e r s a r i e s w i t h o u r C a r n e g i e Family.

J u s t want t o s a y w e l o v e you a l l and m i s s you v e r y much.

We a l s o \ y o u c o u l d be h e r e i n Logan L k . t o s e e N a t u r e a t i t s most b e a u t i f u l .

When you s e e b e a r , d e e r , moose, longhorned m o u n t a i n g o a t s p l u s s u n s e t s h s u n r i s e s , i t ' s easy t o imagine t h a t t h e r e ' s n o t h i n g s o f i n e anywhere.

Love you a l l !

George & L i l l i a n

f YET THE WALL STILL C;KOWS H I G l l E I I

'I'hrough t h e p a i n and s u f f e r i n g Tlle s u n d o e s n o t s h i n e t h r o u g h c o n c r e t e But t h e w a l l grows h i g h e r Itazor w i r e i n c i r c l e y o u r s u f f e r i n g L t h o l d s you back on t h a t what yo; s e e k , Freedom, l o v e , r e v e n g e .

Yet t h e w a l l s grow h i g h e r Doors t h a t e n c l o s e your s u f f e r i n g The p a i n and r a g e you f e e l a r e i n c l o s e d i n concrete.

But t h e w a l l s grow h i g h e r You l o o k o u t t h r o u g h v a c a n t e y e s and o n l y See t h a t which i s b e f o r e you.

But t h e w a l l s grow h i g h e r You have no f e e l i n g s you watch The s e a s o n s change t h r o u g h g l a s s Your f e e l i n g s a r e numb.

But t h e w a l l s grow h i g h e r You s t u m b l e t h r o u g h your t i m e Enclosed i n a c o n c r e t e tomb.

But t h e w a l l s grow h i g h e r You hold your s u f f e r i n g and p a i n I n check, behind c l o s e d d o o r s Time i s your enemy.

Yet t h e w a l l s t i l l grows h i g h e r .

John F a b i a n G u t o r

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Where tile h e l l i s L a r w i l l P a r k ?

Even i f y o u ' v e l i v e d i n Vancouver f o r y e a r s , t h e answer t o t h i s m i g h t come a s a s u r p r i s e . L a r w i l l P a r k i s t h e l a n d t h a t t h e Greyhound Bus Termi n a l s i t s o n , a b o u t a b l o c k s o u t h of Victory Square.

T h i s l a n d isvnow b e i n g c a l l e d by i t s o l d name b 3 c a u s e Greyhound w a n t s t o move t h e e n t i r e o p e r a t i o n t o a d j o i n t h e V I A (CN) R a i l g r o u n d s a t T e r m i n a l and Main.

They've asked Council t o a l l o w t h e move AND pay f o r c h a n g e s i n t r a f f i c a c c e s s AND pay f o r d e m o l i t i o n of t h e L a r w i l l P a r k t e r m i n a l . I n a d d i t i o n t o t h i s , Greyhound a s k s C o u n c i l t o a c c e p t l o s i n g a b o u t $2 m i l l i o n i n l e a s e and p r o p e r t y t a x r e v e n u e . . i f 7 t h e y a r e g i v e n p e r m i s s i o n t o move e a r l y (Nov. 1 9 9 1 ) .

I Now t h e CiLy o f Vancouver c u t i t s I budget by h a l f , s e l l i n g t h e f i r e b o a t and t e r m i n a t i n g j o b s ; i t c u t t h e budg e t f o r P a r k s & R e c r e a t i o n by h a l f , meaning t h a t a l o t o f needed improvements and s e r v i c e s d i d n ' t happen - a t t h e same t i m e t h a t t h e NPA wanted t o spend $40 m i l l i o n on making S t a n l e y Park a t o u r i s t t r a p The p o i n t i s t h a t Greyhbund i s a b i g c o r p o r a t i o n and s h o u l d pay i t s own w a y . . n o t want t a x p a y e r s t o pay f o r them.

1,AltWILL PARK i s j u s t t h a t - a PARK! I n c a s e you h a v e n ' t n o t i c e d , t h e Downtown E a s t s i d e i s r e a l l y s h o r t on accessable green space.

Crab P a r k i s 7?5 a c r e s , b u i o v e r 1 1 3 o f o u r n e i g h bourhood's r e s i d e n t s can' t g e t t o i t .

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e C o u n c i l Committee on p r o d u c i n g c e p t i b l e a c c e s s h a s been m e e t i n g f o r er 3 y e a r s but t h e foot-dragging is s g u s t i n g . (A l e t t e r i s w r i t t e n . . a ply comes back i n 3 months..a meeti s c a l l e d a f t e r a n o t h e r month.. e p l y t o t h e r e p l y . . a n d summer i s t around t h e c o r n e r a g a i n . ) i t h International Village raising s h e a d , w i t h t h e Expo l a n d s d e v e l ment promising l i t t l e b u t P o i s o n r k ( t h e most t o x i c l a n d , which che r k e r s won't be s u b j e c t e d t o , i s to. a c h i l d r e n ' s p l a y a r e a ) . . w i t h Bosa t Main & Terminal and a f e n c e d i n reen s p a c e t h e r e . . . L a r w i l l P a r k i s s t u s e d , when Greyhound goes i t s e r r y way, as a p a r k and +s-ize f o r reIt c o u l d b e a :reational activity. i t e f o r a much-needed swimming p o o l (below ground l e v e l ) , topped w i t h a umber of r o o m s / a c t i v i t i e s l i k e exer:ise & w e i g h t s & h a n d b a l l & whatever . a l l of which c o u l d b e u s e d by t h e ~ e i g h b o u r h o o dr e s i d e n t s .

I n t h e r e p o r t t o Council, t h e author 3 f i t o n l y s e e s i t b e i n g used f o r residential/office/light i n d u s t r i a l .

Keep your e a r s open. When a p u b l i c nearing is c a l l e d , l e t ' s s a y what we #ant i n o u r community. CRAB P a r k i s the r e s u l t of many p e o p l e ' s d e d i c a r i o n t o a n i d e a , and t h a t f i g h t went on f o r 5 y e a r s . C a r n e g i e i t s e l f would aow be a p a r k i n g l o t o r a p r i v a t e c l u b but f o r many p e o p l e ' s d e d i c a t i o n t o the i d e a of i t b e i n g p e r f e c t f o r a community c e n t r e .

LARWILL PARK c a n b e t h e s i t e f o r our swimming/recreaizion c e n t r e .

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(PS: H a s t i n g s Park, t h e PNE grounds, is i n t h e middle of j u s t t h i s kind of f i g h t . The r e s i d e n t s want i t returned t o p u b l i c use w i t h playing fields, trees, grass... 'entrepreneurs want gambling j o i n t s , a r a c e t r a c k . ; . )

The f o l l o w i n g i s a n o t h e r l e t t e r i n r e s p o n s e t o t h e one w r i t t e n by S t e v e Rose.

Dear S t e v e , Okay, I ' l l admit a f t e r r e a d i n g your l e t t e r I, t o o , was a b i t u p s e t , b u t a f t e r m u l l i n g e v e r y t h i n g o v e r I wanted t o respond as w e l l , u n d e r t h e imp r e s s i o n your q u e s t i o n s a r e s i n c e r e and n o t i n m a l i c e .

I a p p r e c i a t e your r e q u e s t f o r enl i g h t e n m e n t on t h e Native Land Claims i s s u e and I w i l l t r y t o h e l p you l e a r n a n d u n d e r s t a n d w i t h t h e followi n g l e t t e r , b e a r i n g i n mind t h a t I am n o t a p o l i t i c a l e x p e r t of any s o r t and t h a t t h e e n s u i n g b e l i e f s are my own i n t e r p r e t a t i o n of w h a t ' s g o i n g on from a young Native woman's perspec. tive.

Yes, i t ' s t r u e I want t o c h e r i s h and m a i n t a i n my h e r i t a g e , c u l t u r e and l a n g u a g e and i t ' s a l s o t r u e N a t i v e s want s o v e r e i g n t y , freedom and s e l f d e t e r m i n a t i o n . As f o r your q u e s t i o n ,

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Do we count?" I am assuming you mean white people. Well, o b v i o u s l y EVERYI d o n ' t know i f i t ' s a ONE counts. :typo o r your owniignorance of h i s t o r y ,. but "2,000 y e a r s o f a b o r i g i n a l existence" f a l l s s h o r t of a r c h e o l o g i c a l evidence which s a y s Native people were l i v i n g h e r e w e l l o v e r 20,000 . . years! On t h e o t h e r hand I too a m e n t i t l e d t o my own p e r s o n a l o p i n i o n and b e l i e f s , which i s I choose n o t t o r e l y on s c i e n c e o r a n t h r o p o l o g i c a l d a t a but b e l i e v e my p e o p l e were h e r e s i n c e time immemorial and d i d n o t c r o s s over any b r i d g e s .

Furthermore, I d o n ' t b e l i e v e your a n c e s t o r s , s p e c i f i c a l l y , were oppress o r s of my a n c e s t o r s b u t , c a n you prove o t h e r w i s e ? Where d i d t h e y come from? Where d i d t h e y s e t t l e ? Did your g r e a t , g r e a t , g r e a t , g r e a t grandmother o r f a t h e r ever c h e a t mine o u t of f u r s o r k i l l a b u f f a l o j u s t f o r s p o r t ? O r were any of them a missionary?

Of c o u r s e I understand t h e Canadian government d e a l t u n f a i r l y w i t h nonn a t i v e s but n o t on t h e s c a l e as t h e i r a t r o c i t i e s a g a i n s t N a t i v e s . Did you know t h a t one e a r l y government memo had s a i d t o t h e e f f e c t t h a t N a t i v e s should be wiped o u t completely? Ano t h e r example i s t h e Beothucks. Look what happened t o them. Does t h a t mean anything? Does i t m a t t e r ?

Sorry, I cannot answer your n e x t question r e f e r r i n g t o "the f a c t t h a t Natives were raped of e v e r y t h i n g "

b e i n g " t h e only i s s u e i n modern day s o v e r e i g n t y " because I t h o u g h t i t was a b i t absurd f o r an answer.

What w i l l happen when N a t i v e s g e t t h e i r l a n d i s t h a t t h e r e s t of t h e world w i l l s e e what r e a l l i v i n g i s about. What I mean by t h i s i s t h a t once N a t i v e s g e t t h e i r l a n d back then t h e y w i l l always have a b a s e t o pract i c e t h e i r r e l i g i o u s b e l i e f s on sacr e d ground n o t contaminated by c a b i n s o r f a c t o r i e s . T h e r e f o r e , a s Tewa Pue b l o Alfonso O r t i z s a y s "The remaini n g N a t i v e American c o s m o l o g i c a l worldview w i l l be models f o r responsi b i l i t y i n the future. " I d o n ' t know what w h i t e p e o p l e w i l l do when N a t i v e s g e t t h e i r l a n d .

I t h i n k , and l e t ' s g e t r e a l now, t h a t Native l e a d e r s w i l l use t h e resources and u s e them r e s p o n s i b l y , n o t powered by greed. Native l e a d e r s a r e d i f f e r e n t from w h i t e people i n t h e s e n s e t h a t they won't k i c k w h i t e people o u t of t h e i r homes and c o r r a l them i n t o l i t t l e p a r c e l s of u s e l e s s l a n d , e t c .

A f t e r a l l , we know how i t i s t o be opp r e s s e d . W i l l t h e o p p r e s s o r become t h e o p p r e s s e d ? That i s n o t p a r t of N a t i v e c u l t u r e . What i s r i g h t ? You w i l l have t o answer t h a t one f o r youtself.

Of c o u r s e a l l of u s w i l l b e n e f i t .

Y o u ' l l j u s t have t o t r u s t me on t h a t one. I t ' s n o t rude t o a s k because I'in s u r e . t h e r e a r e o t h e r p e o p l e who r e a l l y d o n ' t understand t h e Land Claims Issues f u l l y , o r Native'people i n general f o r t h a t matter.

I , t o o , need t o l e a r n more a b o u t my c u l t u r e . Your wanting t o l e a r n more is a l s o a step i n the r i g h t direction.

I o n l y hope what l i t t l e I ' v e s h a r e d w i t h you h e l p s . For more i n f o r m a t i o n i t i s up t o you t o s e e k o u t knowledge w i t h an open mind and good h e a r t . .

May good s p i r i t s g u i d e you.

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These i s no d o u b t a t r a d e d e a l w i l l f u r t h e r e n c o u r a g e t h e r a p i d growth of m a n u f a c t u r i n g i n Mexico where wages a r e $3.25 a day and e n v i r o n m e n i a l regulations a r e non-existent.

T h i s k i n d of d e v e l o p m e n t , where Mexi c a n s a r e l e f t i n p o v e r t y and t h e l a r g e corporations b e n e f i t with increased p r o f i t s , does l i t t l e t o s o l v e M e x i c o ' s problems.

The h i g h e s t p r i c e w i l l be p a i d by women, who make up t h e v a s t m a j o r i t y 'of t h e w o r k f o r c e i n t h e M a q u i l a d o r a ' s ( t h e zone j u s t below t h e U.S. b o r d e r where m u l t i n a t i o n a l s r e l o c a t e , p o l l u t e and pay n e x t t o n o t h i n g ) and h e r e i n Canada, w i l l be h a r d e s t h i t a s j o b s 7 flow s o u t h .

F r e e t r a d e assumes t h e c o m p l e t e c o n t r o l of s o c i e t y by t h e f o r c e s o f the m a r k e t .

The p r o p o s e d Mexico t r a d e d e a l , ased on a p u r e l y m a r k e t economy, i s nacceptable.

It i s a l i f e l e s s model that c a n n o t s u s t a i n t h e p l a n e t o r i t s peoples.

It w i l l o n l y s e r v e t o r e I colonize Mexico and f u r t h e r o u r own 1 /olonization.

A new r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h Mexico i s I e c e s s a r y , b u t i t s h o u l d be b a s e d on u t u a l r e s p e c t f o r s o v e r e i g n t y and a ommitment t o a h e a l t h y , d i v e r s e soclety t h a t m e e t s t h e n e e d s o f t h e maj1 ority o f i t s p e o p l e . / (For more i n f o r m a t i o n on t h e B . C . lorking Group on Canada-Mexico F r e e Trade: J i m S i n c l a i r 255-1336 J e a n Swanson 879-1209

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"Free Trade with Mexico is coming.

We've just done a study that determined that we can manufacture in Mexico and ship to Vancouver, including duty and freright cheaper than we can manufacture in Vancouver."

"There are going to be dislocations in businesses that can't make it.

But its like castor oil you have to get it over with."

Jimmy Pattison, Chairman Jim Pattison Group

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"I hope some day that the majority of the world will start to think about the fact that our wealth is not how much we own , but how much we can give."

George Watts, Chief Nuu-Chah-Nulth Tribal Council To t h e p e o p l e of C a r n e g i e

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I d i d n ' t e v e n want t o g e t o u t of bed and wasn' L e a t i n g a n y t h i n g . My doct o r wanted t o g i v e me m e d i c i n e b u t I was d y i n g . p i l l s make i t worse.

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I got t h i s b i g c a r d from you p e o p l e , and I r e a d i t and l a u g h e d and l a u g h e d !

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