Dr. Inglis
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already given.

QUANTITIES.

we can do.

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‘Medical aid urgently
needed now in Vietnam’

The Canadian Aid for Vietnam Civilians, formed in Vancouver
last February has already raised over $15,000 for medical aid to
Vietnam. But with the extension of the war the need has become
greater. The committee is now circulating an appeal by its chairman,
Dr. A. M. Inglis for stepped-up aid. Following is Dr. Inglis’ appeal:

* KOK
THIS IS AN APPEAL TO YOUR CONSCIENCE. As you
read this message men, women and children are being kill-
ed and maimed in Vietnam. The war raging across their
land has caused much suffering. _

We may think what we like about the causes of the
war—but we cannot as human beings close our eyes to their
desperate need. That is why this appeal is addressed to you.

Recently, while in Europe, | had an opportunity to meet
medical aid officials from North and South Vietnam. They
told of the great suffering of their people, of the need for
more medical aid, and of their deep appreciation of the help

BUT MORE HELP IS NEEDED — AND IN LARGER

Many thousands of dollars worth of drugs and medical
supplies have already been seni by our Committee but we
must send more. That is why | am appealing to you NOW.

Please donate as much as you can to help relieve the
suffering of the people of this tortured land. That's the least

PLEASE CLIP AND MAIL

NAME

To: CANADIAN AID FOR VIETNAM CIVILIANS,
P.O. BOX #2543, VANCOUVER 3, B.C.

ADDRESS

DONATION ENCLOSED $

A RECEIPT WILL BE SENT FOR MONEY RECEIVED

UBC students hit City
Councils housing stand

: Charles Boylan, vice-presi-
_ dent of the University of B.C,
Alma Mater Society this week
sharply rebuked Vancouver City
Council for accepting its Plan-
ning Department’s recommen-

dation not to relax the zoning

bylaw for three years as re-
_ quested by the students,

“In view of the Economic
Council of Canada’s report high-
lighting the national housing
crisis I think City Council must
be either blind or stupid,” he
said. “It is completely out of
tune with the needs of Vancouver
citizens, We have said all along
the housing crisis was not simply
a student problem, Housing short-

Boylan’ said that the city’s
Planning Department analysis of

the 628-name petition for relax-.
ing the zoning bylaws was gross- ©

ly one-sided, “Those 600 names
were gathered in two days by
about 20 people, If we had the
time and resources we could have
two or three thousand names andI
suspect the Planning Department
know this,” Boylan added, “The
real blame, however, lies on
City Council itself,’”’

The UBC student leader said
that the request for re-zoning
was a temporary solution but that
if City Council really wanted to

eliminate illegal

he said,

suites they

should begin by construction of:
new low rental units now,

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Canadian

Tribune

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1966

protesis grow

against war in Vietnam

Canada and Canadians figured
actively in the news on the peace
front this past week.

-Peace._rallies and demonstra-
tions against the war in Vietnam
were held on Remembrance Day
in several cities,

The visit of External Affairs
Minister Paul Martin to Moscow
prompted a spate of articles and
editorials in the press and com-
mentary onthe TV and radio about
Canada’s foreign policy.

Canadian diplomats were re-
ported having consultations with
France, Japan and a number of
Far Eastern governments on

Housing |

Cont'd from pg. 1

in Canada; and rent ihcreases
could become a powerful new
factor accentuating the rise in
living costs and wage demands,”
said the report,

Putting its finger on the acute
housing crisis shaping upin Van-
couver and across Canada, the
ECC report says that new hous-
ing starts have declined consid-
erably “at a time of extremely
rapidly expanding family forma-
tion and of strongly rising single
households,”

It points out that a post-war

peak is being reached as aresult ,

of the “surging advance in the
number of young people in their
late teens and early 20s.’’

“In these circumstances,” says
the report, “the question of how
to accommodate a return to higher
levels of new housing construc-
tion within the near future is one
which needs very close attention,”
The report attributes the decline
in housing starts and the grow-
ing housing crisis to tight money
policies,

Lashing out at the slowness
with which City Councilhas acted
on the acute housing crisis, Harry
Rankin, independent candidate for
alderman andrunner up last year,
renewed his demand for a crash

program of public, low-rental

housing,

Rankin charged that tenants
are compelled to pay rents out
of proportion to their income
and that ruthless large land-
lords are taking advantage of the
acute housing shortage, He said
that City Council has been block-
ed from taking action on low rent-
al housing because it is domi-
nated by the big real estate in-
terests,

“With senior governments pay-
ing the capital costs and most of
the operating deficit of low-rental
public housing programs surely
there is no reason for any delay
on the part of the city,”
Rankin.

r

said:

bringing the People’s Republic of
China into the United Nations
through a so-called two-China
formula,

In Toronto, on Remembrance
Day, about 200 University of
Toronto students held a meeting
on the campus to protest the
war in Vietnam,

Next day, on Nov, 12, some
300 persons gathered in front

of the new-city hall at a rally

called by several Toronto peace
committees, The rally, made up
mostly of young people, heard
speeches by Rabbi A. L. Fein-
berg, of the Holy Blossom
Temple; Frank H. Epp, of Win-
nipeg, editor of a weekly Men-
nonite newspaper and a recent
visitor to Vietnam; Mrs, Kay
MacPherson, national president
of the Voice of Women; Rev,
Fumimaro Watanabe, of the Tor-
onto Buddhist Church, and Geroge
Nowack, a Socialist writer from
New York. Dr. Gustavo Tolen-
tino, a Toronto physician, was
chairman. ,

An organized gang of about
20-30 ultra-right fanatics tried
to provoke trouble by heckling the
speakers and crowding around the
platform with pro-war and red-
baiting signs but failed to achieve
their purpose,

After the meeting some 250 of
the participants, carrying signs
reading “Stop Canadian Arms
Exports to the USA for Vietnam”
and ‘‘Withdraw U.S. Troops,”
marched up Yonge Street to
Queen’s Park,

In Ottawa, students from Carle-
ton University who sought to
carry signs protesting the Viet-
nam war during the official Re-

“membrance Day ceremonies at

the National Memorial, were set
on by the RCMP, They were also
prevented from parading to the
Parliament Buildings,

In Kingston, 23 students of
Queen’s University, led by oneof
their professors, likewise joined
the Remembrance Day ceremon-
ies to protest the Vietnam war.

In Montreal, some 500 per-
sons, mainly students, gathered
at the Place du Canada to protest
the war and call for an immed-
iate .end to U.S. bombing, A
Quaker member of the Committee
for Peace andSelf-Determination
in Vietnam, which organized the
demonstration, laid a wreath at
the cenotaph “in memory of the
dead of the past two wars and
those killed today in Vietnam
by the U.S, troops.”

Participating in the demon-
stration were students from. the
University of Montreal, McGill,

Sir George Williams and other
colleges, the Voice of Women,

the Student Union for Peace Ac-
tion, the Parti Socialiste du
Quebec, the New Democratic
Party, the Communist Party and
a number of youth groups.

A declaration denouncing
American actions in Vietnam was
signed last week by 18 Canadian
mathematicians, The declaration”
was initiated by Japanese pro=
fessors of mathematics and cir-
culated to mathematicians around
the world. Of the 20 Canadians,
16 are from the University of
Toronto, one from York Univer-
sity and one from McMaster.

Protest rallies and demon-
strations against the war in Viet-
nam were held during the past
week in 30 United States cities.
In Cleveland, for example, 1,000
demonstrators mostly young
people, braved a chilling rain to
march through the city. They were |
led by Dr. Benjamin Spock, the
famed pediatrician and national
chairman of SANE, 2

In Britain, over 900 delegates,
representing 110 organizations,
including trade unions, churches,
universities, political parties and
many peace groups, attended 2
convention in London called by the
British Council for Peace in
Vietnam. The resolution passed -
by the meeting called for early —
withdrawal of U.S, and allied
troops, an end to the bombing
and direct representation for the
South Vietnam Liberation Front

RANKIN SAYS:
‘Take over
utilities’

The City of Vancouver could

make a mint if it were to take

over the sale and distribution
of electricity and natural gas
within Vancouver and operate it
as a public utility, with the bus
system included, said Alder-
manic candidate Harry. Rankin
this week,

“New Westminster, which con-
trols the sale of electricity to
domestic users only, is clearing
$700,000 a year on this operation.
If Vancouver, which has 113 times —
the population of New Westmin=- —
ster, were to dothe same, we
could conceivably clear eight
million dollars a year. If elec-
tricity to commercial and indus- —
trial users and natural gas were
included, this figure could probe
ably be doubled,” he said,

“Even if the annual deficit of a
subsidized bus system is de-
ducted, the annual profit to the —
city could still amount to between _
$10 and $15 million a year, This
operating profit could be used to —
keep down rates on gas and elec-
tricity, provide an efficient and
fast, low fare bus system, with
enough left over to take off some

of the tax burden on homeownessy
she added... - ap

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