_"NAME YOUR POISON”

Need citizens views
on zoning changes

By ALD. HARRY RANKIN.

The Dunbar Homeowners’
Association is_ seriously
eoncerned over the action of City
Council in’ dealing with the
application of Climax Gardens
Ltd. to establish a ‘‘beer
garden’’ in the old Safeway store
at Dunbar and 18th.

Council quickly disposed of the
application on the grounds that it
contravened provincial liquor
laws. The Dunbar homeowners
are happy that the. application
was turned down, but they- are
disturbed at Council’s reasons.

Would the application have
been approved if it had not con-
travened liquor laws on some
technicality, they ask? They
strongly object, and with
justification, to the fact that the
statements and briefs submitted
by the Dunbar Homeowners and
others opposing the beer gardens
were not presented to or
considered by Council.

In a letter to Council, the
Dunbar Homeowners point out
that:

1. Under present zoning
regulations, any application for
major projects in a residential
area can be approved by the
Planning Department or other
administrative body without
reference to Council or the
citizens affected, as long as it
meets all legal requirements.

2. No machinery exists to
obtain the views of citizens on
applications for developments
in residential areas.

They propose that Council
establish a Development
Review Board, headed by the
Planning Department, and
composed of citizen groups. All
controversial developments
would require the approval of the
board.

My own views on this could be
summed up as follows: -

1. Council should establish
machinery without delay to.

solicit the views of citizens on all
and any controversial develop-
ments in residential areas.

2. The final decision on such
developments should rest with
Council, the elected representa-
tives of the people, and not with
any appointed board.

3. Council should establish the

principle that socially
necessary, non-profit and
publicly operated developments
such as low rental housing,
hostels and half way houses,
should be fairly distributed
throughout the city. In my
opinion no area has the right to
maintain itself as an exclusive
area physically separated from
the problems that confront the
majority of our citizens.

4. Council should have a

master plan for the city’s growth
and development. At present
development is unplanned;
Council: acts only when some
developer sees an opportunity to
make a financial killing and
presses Council to amend or
bend its zoning and other regula-
tions to meet his requirements.

The attempt to accommodate
the CPR, Woodwards and other
interests with an Arbutus
shopping centre is an example of
this. I’m certainly opposed to
private developers intruding
into any residential area against
the wishes of.its residents.

Burnaby’s BCA candidates, at
a news conference held on
Monday night released a joint
statement which charged that
the people of Burnaby are not
going to wait any longer for
action.

“The problems in the
municipality are too urgent to
shelve’, the statement said.
“Burnaby Citizens Association
candidates running in the
upcoming election are pledged to
do something instead of just
talking about the problems.”

Candidates were introduced,
and the BCA platform was
outlined. President Fred Randall
stated that the outlook for the
candidates in the December 12
election was very good. ‘‘We
have the policy, the candidates
and the workers. We will present
our ideas to the public and I think
December 12 will prove we have
the ‘‘support of the people.’’ *

Aldermanic candidates are
Tom Constable, a B.C. Hydro
serviceman; Hazel L’Estrange,
a former teacher; John Motiuk,
a lawyer, and Colin Snell, a
carpenter. :

The candidates for Council
stated one of the major issues in
the campaign is pollution.

‘*People in all areas of
Burnaby have complained to us
about Burnaby Lake, noise
pollution from trucks, and air
and water pollution from
industry and automobiles’’, said
Hazel L’Estrange. “‘It is our
policy to set up and enforce
strict controls.”

John Motiuk stressed
immediate establishment of a
Rental Review Board. under the
1954 Act and a door-to-door
enumeration of all residents, as
in Vancouver.

Tom Constable mentioned the
development of land on a lease-
hold basis for industrial use as
well as housing, and the
importance of a rapid transit
system.

Colin Snell called for an
elected Parks Board, and major
tax reforms to make the system
more equitable and take the
burden from home-owners.

School Board candidates for
the B.C.A. are Beth Chobotuck, a
former psychiatric nurse;
Maurits Mann, accountant and
incumbent, and Orest Moysiuk, a
high school teacher.

They are pledged to ‘‘establish
an educational climate in which
all students can develop to the
ultimate of their ability through
improved planning of physical
and staff resources and
encouraging the use of new ideas
by teachers of Burnaby,” said
Mrs. Chobotuk.

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“NATIONALIZATION — WHAT IT MEANS”
Lecturer — Emil Bjarnason
SUNDAY — NOVEMBER 8th at 7 P.M.
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“The. present school board has
made some significant ad-
vances’’, said school board
candidate Orest Moysiuk. ‘‘We
support their policies and will
continue with innovations like
the series of meetings with
electors, students, teachers and

improved employer-employee
relations.”
Maurits Mann, ,BCA

incumbent on the school board,
mentioned they would extend the
current drug education program,
beginning in the elementary

| Burnaby problems demand
. candidates who will act

grades. He said the BCA would
press for an improvement in the
provincial government
financing formula
substantially reduce the share of
cost of education borne by
property taxes. ;
Defeated in his attempt to get
an aldermanic candidature from
BCA, former Mayor Allan
Emmott has attempted to set uP
a splitting organization of his
own which will, in his ow?
words, represent the ‘‘business
section of the community.

y long a sacrifice makes a stone of the heart.’ S0
wrote the Irish poet Keats in tribute to the men who
died in the Dublin Easter Uprising in 1916, as many others had
died before them in the centurys-old struggle for Irish
freedom. :

Like the bourbons of old who ‘‘learn nothing and forget
nothing’’ the modern bourgeois Establishment makes a great
fanfare anent our vaunted ‘‘democratic-way-of-life,’’ but
whenever the people who elected them to government demand
redress for long-standing grievances and inequalities, or
unfulfilled promises, down comes their anti-democratic club
and what little democracy there is goes down for the count;
replaced by intimidation, terror and violence against the
people.

That is the only assessment that can be placed upon the
Trudeau government invoking the War Measures Act in times
of relative peace, ostensibly against Quebec, but in actuality
against all Canadians. Such an act against the Canadian people

_ does not denote a ‘‘strong’”’ government, supported by the

majority of the people. On the contrary, it is the tell-tale mark
of a weak hysterical government which must of necessity to
save its own political skin, resort to political violence, not only
against the people of French Canada, but against all
Canadians.

The Communist Party of Canada — or any other
Communist Party, never has, and never will condone or
support individuals and/or groups who advocate or practice

individual terrorism, assassination or cold-blooded murder —

against public representatives of the people.

These acts of hatred, fenzy and desperation are the
irresponsible acts of provocateurs, bourgeois agents, enemies
of the people. They do not advance the cause of social change,
the redress of long-standing grievances, or the cause of
Socialism. On the contrary, they retard and stifle all legitimate
struggles for social advance and the unity of peoples dedicated
to those ends. Moreover they provide a Section 98-minded
reactionary Establishment with a pseudo-legal pretext for
crushing all freedoms.

The rebels of Upper Canada felt its heavy hand in the
rebellion of 1837 against a hide-bound Family Compact
Establishment. Louis Riel felt its vengeance that snuffed his

life out on a scaffold. The leaders of the Winnipeg General |

Strike of 1919 felt the weight of its undemocratic jackboot for
trying to get a small measure of justice for an Ironworkers
Union which sought only the elementary right of collective

bargaining; who asked for bread— and got a stone — the stone .

of Section 98. :

And in 1930 the Communist Party of Canada, together with
hundreds of trade unionists and progressives all over Canada
felt this dead hand of a monopoly-dominated ruling class upon
their necks, where mass police terror, intimidation, and
persecution of individuals and progressive orgizations was the
order of the day. : ae

Even the attempted murder of the Communist leader Tim
Buck in his 8x8 foot cell in Kingston Penitentiary in October of
1932 was an integral part of this bourgeois class violence,
inherent in Section 98, and in Trudeau’s War Measures Act.

Meantime, the problem of Quebec remains, intensified
rather than mitigated by the government’s institution of a
virtual military-police state, and by its use of an outdated: War
Measures Act — and by its unavoidable responsibility for FLQ
murder and kidnapping. And the big and urgent problem of
English and French-Canadian unity for a two-nation state, each
enjoying the fullest democratic equality and responsibility —
the only corner stone upon which a new Confederation of
Canada can survive, and the road to progress remain open.

Trudeau and his Liberal heelers have set these goals back
for a decade— but the battle is not lost. In fact from this point
on, it is only really beginning.

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