ms Re reer ae nme ae recon te eaten

Registration No. 7820 4g47 ‘Lazelle Ave:, ‘Terrace, BC. eG. 198: (gna) 630-7203

_Survog he Torace area. Pubtahed on Wednesday of, wasn week by Carooo Press (189) LA, at 4647 Laroto Ave, Trace, British Coluenbie.
| Stores, shotographs, Huator, des and typelyes I fhe Teac Standard are the porary

lustration repro services and advertising agencies.
Reproduction in whole or In part, withicot written permission, is specitoaly ‘ponibited,

: Authorised as sacondclass mail pending the Post Office Department, for tof pesige i ash

ct the copyright hokle‘s, Inelucng Carino Press (1005) 42, its ih

oq

petition Manage
Edouard Cradg

Special-thanks to all”
ur-contributors and
Correspondents fo for
their time. and -
talents.»

DITORIAL, —

Js “PIE see your three salmon and raise
| “you $1 billion.”

_ That's high- stakes poker, Alcan- style,

as it put on its green eye shade last week,
arranged its cards and stared down the
opposition.

Alcan’s decision to ‘appeal a federal .
court ruling ordering an environmental
review into its half-finished Kemano
Completion Project and to cut back con-
struction isn’t surprising.

That court ruling tossed out a deal
reached between the company and the
federal government in 1987. It set out the
amount of water Alcan had to release in-
to the Nechako River to safeguard fish
populations. The amount is important
because the more water that flows into
the Nechako, the less the company can
divert into its Kemano generators and
the less attractive the project becomes.

Also reversed is a federal government
decision. of last fall which exempted
Alcan from the environmental review
process the court now says it. must
undergo.

A lot of this is not Alcan’ s fault. The
company began planning its Kemano
completion project based on a water
licence dating back 40 years. Back then it
was using a different set of cards and

fhadvaumuch al ‘different ‘hand dealt: iit than *

The bear facts

Y a

oo Heavens: to Betsy. Those new dump
hours could put in danger a prime tourist
draw in the area. For years, visitors have
been directed to the dump for an evening

‘viewing of our famous Kermodei bears.

.a bit of both... Bie yaphyee hoa

is the case today. ‘It had no ‘concept then
of how public and government en-.
vironmental attitudes would change.
And it couldn't be expected to, either.

Companies exist to make profits for
their shareholders. They aren’t formed
to be nice to the environment. They
make the best deal they can to ‘make the
most money they can. Any. company that
telis you any different is full of it.

So what happened here .is the in-—

troduction by the federal government of

a new set of playing cards. It, and the
provincial government, were- pressured
by environmental and other groups who’
wanted to play a different game. Alcan
figured out the new rules and went
along.

But those environmental and other
groups weren't happy with the winning
pot and brought. in their own wild card

— the courts, There is no dealer in this
kind of card game ‘and nobody ‘knows
what kind of hand is needed to win. The
court decides who gets. the pot.

Now Alcan has started a new game. It
thinks the winning hand is the future of
the project. It wants the other players to
fold or it’s going home. Is it bluffing or
is it serious? Past Alcan history suggests

It wasn’t that long ago that somebody
suggested building a bear viewing stand
at the dump. Such an effort would have
increased the potential for tourism

development.

With new environmental control —

regulations and hours of use at the dump

- — it’s closing at 8 p.m. — tourists are in -
danger of losing out on a prime viewing |

location.

Chalk this one up to yet another case

of environmental considerations

 outweighing economic development. It’s
asad situation indeed. _ a

: Pm fed up with women who set

Use common sense

_ themselves up to be raped.

Too many rape victims defied
‘common . sense.
- hoped to make a ‘love connec-
tion’. Instead they. connected

- with a vicious woman-hater —

Maybe _ they.

Through

_Bifocals
_ by Claudette Sandecki

: weilding a knife, a bhint instru- a 7

“ment, Or a gun.
Granted, the world ought to”

‘be a safer place, Women (kids
‘ and men, too) should be able to
‘ safely go where they like, when:

Alone. -However, .

- they like,
: grime statistics and daily media
: stories caution us not to,

Many reported rapes happen 7
‘ between midnight and six a.m., ~
‘ in isolated places, and involve
{ liquor. Here ‘are three: ‘typical “:.
“mothers gave us as teenagers:
’ Never hitchhike, never give, lifts

i + examples | from last week's
* newspapers: :
A. 2h-year-old - waitress hit-

‘ by. two. men driving a ‘pickup.
She is knocked unconscious,
dragged from the truck, raped,
‘ beaten black and blue, and: left
naked in, a ‘ditch.

stranger in a bar, jumps at his
inner Invitation, and tows him

happens nexti,*

alatholic :

oe re dee i ee a eT

and. ‘sereaming from ihe room
' by a fellow reveloer wlio clamps
4 one: Ahand; over’ her. mouth: whil

a

‘he rapés her.”

ching to Vancouver i is picked up«

A woman in her 30's meets a

di
home to her apartment while
i she changes clothes, Guess what

After a fun evening at an
house. party, add.’
: woman retires to a bedfoom to’. golfe

It’s frightening that every day

‘women are assualted ‘in their

homes, in their doctors’ offices,

on the jab — by men they know
“land: trust.
‘seliminate, or at least minimize,
-every opportunity for sex de-
‘yiants to

Women must

exploit their
-vulnerability.

‘The major percentage of

- rapists would be derailed if we

followed ' the: intructions our

to hitchhikers. ‘Stay: in: public
places; never be alone. with a
stranger. Don’t admit strangers
into’. your: home.- “Be, chome
before dark. Stay sober, *

I applaud every: victim who |
an reports her rape to police — im-
: mediately: c— and > perseveres
‘ through: ‘the; trial process,

ublicizing | rapes will make othr
amen aware.of.

ns, mia | also ‘dissuage
potenital rapists. Something our
d courti: ‘don’t

have too any
re

be assaulted _ . get no sympathy —
from me. | also resent being tax-
ed to pay the hefty expenditures *
these voluntary: victims run up .
for the police and courts, °
hospital care, and psychological |
causelling to deal - with. the
trauma of their assaults... a
The: law fines. motorists: who

leave their parked cars ‘unlock- °°
ed, Boating without a ‘life. jacket
is cause’ for a court’ ‘appeatarice. Vet

We're..even beginning to’ levy *

search and rescue casts. on skiers |
who. “knowingly « ski.‘ out-of-

bounds and end. up lost.

Perhaps women who defiant-

ly risk rape | should be, fined too,

.’ reporters’. questions, he’:

ARS FOR KipNbeING
DYEARS FOR. ean ASSAUL
"AND ]OYEARS FOR MPIE

NURTER

Dear Mike: Please
get off the fence |

“VICTORIA — I can see the _

headline now: NDP studies

women-plumber quota.

The New Democratic Party
has always been obsessed with
the outward trappings of -
equality. Having equal
representation by women in
politics is just the batest exam-
Pile. ;

At its recent national con-
Nention in Halifax," the federal
‘arm of the NDP’ voted in”
favour of achieving equal
“representation between men
and women among candidates
running for public office. The
question is: will the provincial
NDP. follow suit?

- ft will, if Darlene Marzari,
MLA for Vancouver-Point
Grey, can help it. Asked.
whether she endorsed the
affirmative-action policy
adopted by her party’s federal
arm, she said she did, whole-
heartedly. .

“The whole exercise is a bit
‘ofa female, backlash against
the idea ‘that “politics is a man’s
- game.” ‘the NDP’s status-Of- -
women’ 9 critic said.-

As proof: of i man’ s-
dominance. ‘over women in!
politi¢s,, Matzari, cited the fact

that: sorne’ Of the women’s’ .° > 2.
_ recovered from a Previous con- .

- Buildings stil: shave urinals in ~~ frontation with his women’s

washroonis. ‘in the: Parliament -

"them.

“too. shocked by the urinal ex-.

_ federal party’s affirmative-
_ action policy. Side-stepping

dismissed-the matter as just
one way of boosting women’s
“representation.

“But while Harcourt is sitting. .

' on the fence, his party is flir-
ting with the idea of following |
_ the federal NDP's, example. A

* task farce has already been set

“il

: y I'd like to offer Harcourt -
‘some. unsolicited advice: get.
off the fence and tell your par-
‘ty that, ag far as: you're con~

- cerned, this scheme of bringing
‘about equal fepresentation by ©
_ women is wrong.

. "Tell them, and.us, that you
don’ favour. achieving equality

- by Hubert Beyer .

From the
Capital

“NDP: leader. Mike ‘Harcourt,
. however, ‘doesn’t appear to be : * Yo

at the risk of having mediacri-
ty thrown into the deal,”

* because that'is'often’ srecisély
~ the price affirmative action eXx-

tracts.

The problem with affir
mative action is that a minori-
ty is favoured over the majori-
ty, regardless of qualification.
Forcing a 50-percent women- |
candidate ratio will'‘mean that :
some men, who may be far
more qualified, will not gel
nominated, not to mention .
charges of election-rigging the
party. might haye to answer..

I suspect though that Har- -
court might be a tad reluctant |
to climb down from his com- -
fortable fence and proclaim

..that-he won’t have any part of

the scheme, Some of the .

ay “women in his caucus could .
- Imake’ life very miserable for

him: :
“He has probably not yet

caucus. Yes; Virginia, there is
and NDP: women’s caucus with
its own imeetings and agenda.

day’ § question period would be
given over to the women.

: MLAs. Some.of the male” ,

caucus. ‘Members doit like: this
sort of segregation any more
than I do, ‘but to keep- the :-
peace, they go along with’ it.

_ All seemed well, when an
unforeseen event occurred:
Brian Smith resigned from his.
position as attorney general. Ii
was a bombshell that called for

inunediate response from the 70

sition." 280 oe
- Tt ig proper arid logi
would have been to'scrap j Hi"

previously discussed questions -
and use, the question: period in...
the House to get some-answers .

from then premier Bill. Vander
Zalm rears, Smith’

, confidence in the premier? =".

. and how to best atlack-the:

tearfully reminded their male -

"ed that day about Smith's),

At a general caucus meeting, .

pose or, for that matter, by. his: the NDp MLAs agreed. that the.

“Ana gourt possible medigcrity:

OE TOWN! T ALWAYS
| Bieta nn

resignation.

Olt was a golden opportunity,
to grill the premier. Why. hid?
his attorney ‘general, the 1dp
law man in the province, lost : 4

Was the premier prepared’ to
accept the blame? — :
That, as 1 said, would have —
been the proper and logical °:
line of questioning, but it.
didn’t happen. During discus- :
sion of the Smith resignation, -

government aver it, some of ~
the women caucus membets’

colleagues that the women’
swere 10. lead question period ‘
‘that day.
Harcourt and his merry men,
caved in to the women's plea, :
cand not one question was: sk:

resignation. It was one of the -
more inane manifestations of :
affirmative action 1 have come
across. .
Frankly, the whale thing ‘has .
mea bit worried. ‘Here: we are,
just climbing out of a receg--
sion, the causes of whi ch have:
“yet to be explained ta,me eby
anyone, and the. party ‘that: will
in all liklihood, form thé‘next ; -
_ government in British Colum '
“bia has.nothing better. to; ‘do

apistatate tl ‘than a ‘lot 0 ;
men who now. occupy

Far better. to let womei:
‘compete; in what they calla
man’s world and achieve! |

equality rather than have it 4
. forced on: them, oe

5
, FROST PLACENoRTA Uf