A4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 13, 1997 TERRACE STANDAR 4647 Lazelia Ava,, Terrace, B.C. VBG 156 (604) 634-7289 Fax (604) 638-8432 ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 A Division of Caritoo Press (1969) Ltd. ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G SRZ TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 * FAX: (250) 638-8432 EMAIL: standard@kermode.net He’s the man ONE MAN isn’t getting the credit he deserves. for last week’s power agreement between Alcan’ and the provincia] government. : Step forward W.A.C. Bennett, the Social Credit premier who governed the province for 20 years beginning in 1952. For it’s Mr. Bennett’s long. term vision of British Columbia as a developer of its natural resources which enabled the current day provincial government and Alcan to forge a deal for a renewed industrial base and to avoid an ugly and horribly expensive court battle. Mr. Bennett and his government negotiated the Columbia River treaty in the early 1960s, build- ing hydro-electric projects in British Columbia which generated power for sale to the United States. The agreement is coming to a close and that power will soon revert back to British, Columbia. 1 It’s a chunk of this power which will be sold at | a cheap price to Alcan to replace that which the" company lost when a modern day provincial, government killed its Kemano Completion Pro- | ject. ; The irony is that Mr. Bennett ran the ultimate: free enterprise government while the man who: negoiated last week’s deal, Premier Glen Clark, , stands for everything Mr. Bennett opposed. : Yet both used and are using the ultimate’ authority of the state — ownership and control of the province’s natural resources — for a com- mon goal, industry and jobs for B.C. This proves once again that in the end, political | considerations are dwarfed when it comes to economic considerations. Mr. Bennett got it right decades ago. Mr. Clark is merely following. along in his fooisteps. Asickness. | THE BRUTUAL and savage deaths last week'of ' two women — one found murdered in her hus- band’s van in Alberta and the other found stuffed into the freezer of the Vancouver apartment she shared with her husband — are proof that the modern society in which we think we live does not exist. Both deaths were horrifying for the police of- ficers involved. The woman in Alberta was dragged from the home of a relative on a sunny weekend day. The woman in Vancouver was recently married to, as it turns out, a man with a past history of sexual assault who did the bare minimum jail time for one of those crimes. Each of the husbands have been charged in connection with the deaths. There are many who will point to the domestic violence aspects of these two deaths in that the husbands stand charged for the murders of their wives. They will say that modern men continue to treat their wives as mere property to be used and abused as they see fit. All this is true but categorizing these deaths in such a fashion would be far too easy. The simple reality is that underneath the shiny surface of our modern society there exists a rotten core of violence and ultimate disrespect for human life whether it involves male versus female, male versus male, mother and father versus child. PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link ADVERTISING MANAGER: Sam Collier PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur ! 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LINHA, Ww Speclal thanks to all our contributors and correspondents for their time and talents a VICTORIA — ‘Never before in the history of our people have we been so united in one spirit as on the journey the paddlers undertook,”’ said Chief Robert Sam of the Song- hees First Nation at the arrival of the Tribal Journey canoes at Victoria’s beautiful Inner Har- bour. More than 60 magnificently carved and decorated canoes from native communities up and down the coast of British Columbia, as well as five Vi- sion Quest canoes, had com- pleted the spiritual journey. Their arrival marked the begin- ning of the 1997 Indigenous Games, every four 5,000 aboriginal athletes fro FROM:THE CAPITAL. HUBERT BEYER The Indigenous Games, held years, across Canada, the U.S. and a brought . More than 20,000 spectators ....far away, as Australia io Vic-_, .., crowded ; the sharbour: torgreet.