-A4 - The Terrace Standard, SRR AE October 31, 2001 ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988 PUBLISHER: ROD LINK ADDRESS: 3210 Clinton Street Terrace, B.C. * V8G 5R2 TELEPHONE: (250) 638-7283 * FAX: (250) 638-8432 - EMAIL: standard@kermode.net An invitation THE EXPERTS call it “cocooning,” the withdra- wal of people into the comfort and security of their own homes when faced with external wor- ries about their safety or economic circumstances. ~ Cocooning will be a big factor in decision-mak- ing about recreation and vacation opportunities “given the terrible events of Sept. 11 and the after- :math which is now being played on the world “Stage. This is where the northwest can play a role ‘through its bountiful tourism opportunities. We “live in a beautiful region, relatively unknown to the great number of people who live in North ’ America. We have clean air, clean water, good roads, “good air connections, ferry service and, from Via “Rail, a daytime service geared to tourists. We have a vibrant history waiting to be told and a rich and visible aboriginal presence. We have fishing, hunting, skiing, hiking and a variety of other out- ‘door adventure offerings. : We’re a safe place to visit. When it comes to our American cousins, we share a language, We ‘also share a culture with them that while close en- ‘ ough to be familiar, is also different enough to be : appealing. Our low dollar when compared to the : American one offers an immediate increase in : purchasing power. In short, the northwest has the chance to vault — ‘ahead when it comes to the potential of tourism. : ‘ We can offer our own version of cocooning. The : : job is now to promote this potential. Spread the : , word — ~ come to the great northwest. “pee “Good news .- “ata! ab aD febert ‘THERE? S MORE than ‘enough bad news to § go. “around when it comes to health care. . But there’s also good news. Last Saturday wit- “nessed the re-opening of the refurbished regional psychiatric unit at Mills Memorial Hospital. Even “better is that there are now two psychiatrists — soon to number three — to work there and to pro- “vide a regional service. A full range of telemedicine facilities are soon ~to become the norm at Mills Memorial for physi- “cian and nurse training and for emergency, psy- -chiatric and pediatric services. This will not only improve patient care but it will help recruit physi- cians and nurses by curing an often-heard criti- cism that it is hard for them to keep up with edu- cation in smaller locations such as Terrace. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, a kid- ney dialysis unit will be open next year at Mills which will bring about a vast quality of life im- provement. And up beside Terraceview Lodge, “work is progressing on the supportive housing “complex. All in all, this is an impressive list on the part ‘of local health care officials and physicians. | ae PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Rod Link ADVERTISING MANAGER: Brian Lindenbach PRODUCTION MANAGER: Edouard Credgeur NEWS: Jeff Nagel 2001 WINNER NEWS/SPORTS Sarah Zimmerman ee NEWS/COMMUNITY: Jennifer Lang COMPETITION FRONT OFFICE: Darlene Keeping & Carol McKay *. CIRCULATION SUPERVISOR: Terri Gordon ADVERTISING CONSULTANTS: . Mark Beaupre & Stacy Swettikoff " ' “TELEMARKETER: Stacy Swetlikoff ° DARKROOM/COMPOSING: Susan Credgeur AD ASSISTANT: Sandra Stefanik SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL: $55.15(+$3.86 GST) per year; Seniors $48.85 (+$3.42 GST); " Out of Province $61.98 (+$4.34 GST) : Outside of Canada (6 months) $152.34 (+$10.66 GST) MEMBER OF B.C, AND YUKON COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION, ~. GANADIAN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS ASSOCIATION AND B.C. PRESS COUNCIL (wew.bepresscouncil.crg} - Serving the Terrace and Thomhill araa, Published on Wednesday of each week at 3210 Clinton Street, Terrace, British Columbia, ¥8G SR2. Stores, pholographs, Iilustrations, designs and In the Terrace Standard are the property of the ~ copyright holders, including Cariboo Press (1969) Ltd., its illustration repro sefvicas and advertising agencies. ., Reproduction in whole or in pat, without written permission, is specifically prohibited. " hutherized as second-class mal pending the Pos! Office Departmani, for payrnant of postage in cash, CNA eee “Pret qnentes pet Fence THEY SAY THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH STRESS AND ANXIETY CAUSED BY THE WAR ON TERRORISM 15 To Go BACK To YouR NORMAL KOUTINE AND Focus ON LOCAL EVENTS... Special thanks to all our contributors and correspondents 7 for thelr time and talents ees oe ee op ey 60,... WHAT'S LATEST FROM ACGHANISTAN? ICE = SLASHED = = ovt nau = Exp = up hb CLARS FEMI = ae at 5 Freedom can‘t be a casualty VICTORIA — By now, I,m be- ginning to be only fractionally less frightened of our politi- cians than of bin Laden. Not that I don’t want the man caught and brought to justice. 1 do. What scares me are the losses to my personal freedom I appear to be forced to accept. In the name of protecting me from terrorism, I appear to have to make concessions that were unthinkable seven weeks ago, concessions that assault the very values that separate me from the bin Ladens. The anti-terrorist legisla- tion, tabled by federal justice minister Anne McLellan, pro- poses, among other things, to allow police to arrest anyone if they're about to commit a terrorist act — even without a warrant. Critics of the legislation, who say it's an affront to rights guaranteed under the. Charter “of Rights and Freedoms, say it __, makes for a slippery, slope... Slippery slope, indeed, and made even more slippery by _ Prime Minister Jean Chre- tien’s refusal to build a sunset clause into the legislation. David Loukidelis, B.C.’s in- formation and privacy com- missioner, has joined a grow- ing chorus of critics who say the anti-terrorism legislation, Bill C-36, infringes on the tights of Canadians by ereatly expanding government and po- lice powers. “I urge Parliament to move with caution and do only that which is minimally necessary The glo WHILE DISGUSTED readers fire off to the editor letters of outrage denouncing the current president of School District 82's District Parents’ Advisory Council, Ul snatch the lull to ship my ten-foot pole ta the Tepair shop. Most columnists own at least one ten-foot pole. Full time professionals like Allan Fotheringham have more than one, as poles do wear down quickly depending upon the flow of irresistible topics. Jack Webster used one pole for each comment category, similar to Tiger Woods’ array of golf clubs for varying ter- rains. ‘ Columnists who shrink from wriling anything that could whip up a backlash have no use for ten-foot poles. Other writers, though, couldn’t sur- vive without them. Susan Musgrave, author of almost two dozen published books and many more essays, and wife of bank robber Ste- | FROM. THE. CAPITAL HUBERT BEYER to boost the powers to invest- igate and deter terrorist acts, Loukidelis said. With police being on what is generally described as “high alert,” they are bound to arrest innocent people and hold them for investigation. I do not want police to have such powers. Arresting people without a Warrant. is what the Taliban does, ‘not we, : In the US. people 2 are so pumped by the mix of patriot- ism and wat coverage fed the populace 24 hours a day they'd accept just about any- thing to feel protected, In times of war, the first ca- sualty is truth. Freedom is a close second. During the FLQ ‘ crisis, Canadians meekly ac- cepted the fact that the War Measures Act, invoked by Pierre Elliot Trudeau, stripped the nation of its basic rights and freedoms. In their panic not to be con- sidered unpatriotic, the oppo- sition parties slavishly suppor- ‘THROUGH BIFOCALS CLAUDETTE SANDECKI phen Reid, thinks it’s the job of writers to silr things up, to make people think. Her pale has to be more scarred than mine. Rita Moir, a Kootenays creative non-fiction writer, for- merly a journalist, was told by her mother, “If you're not p.....g¢ somebody off, you’re nat doing you job as a columnist.” I rarely reach for my ten- ted the draconian law. I still remember being told by readers to “go back where the hell you came from,” when I spoke out against what I con- sidered an outrage. There are others signs that we’te on the proverbial slip- pery slope, Premier Gordon Campbell has criticized a judge's decision to release Ali Adham Ambhaz, a Canadian wanted in the United States on allegations of praviding sup- port to a terrorist organization. “T don't believe the decision will do anything to increase the public's confidence in these sorts af decisions,” Campbell said in Toronto, where he was giving a speech when Ambhaz was released. Campbell, who has made several speeches weeks call- ing for a security perimeter around North America in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in. the US.,, said: (tele ‘al a, time ‘right now, “where we have to have an ex. cess of caution.” He said the court should have detained Amhaz, of Bur- naby, until his extradition hearing. For his edification, Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg was not given one shred of evidence that would have al- lowed the man’s detention. 1 can understand when judges get pummelled by the beer parlour crowd, but I find it highly offensive when the pre- mie? starts criticizing the judi- ciary. There was another pre- mier once who did that. His in- itials were Bill Vander Zalm. foot pole when I’m contempla- ting a column topic. Mostly, féaders take umbrage at my writing where they see fit. And whenever they do, J suffer in- sults to my family and ances- tors; my pole shrinks another centimetre, Over the past 13 years, my ten-foot pole has been dented by the mother of drunken dri- ver, clawed by unwed teenage mothers, crimped by hairdres- sers, droned out by bagpipers, raked by a cafagana castiga- tor, and punctured by nurses. Most recently it was blamed by a grandmother for her court date. These poles can be made of any flexible but sturdy mater- ial. Hickory and yellow cedar top the ranks. Mine is bamboo. Stee! tips, while they preserve the length of the pole are frowned upon by editors for being too much to the point. My pole was originally a binder whip used by my Dad when he drove horses. He gave He compared British Colum- bia’s court system to that of Nazi Germany. He didn’t know any better. Campbell should. He should know how Hitler dealt with matters of law. The Nazi-dominated Reichstag pas- sed the infamous Nuremberg Laws, stripping Jews of all Tights, got himself the power to fire all judges, appointed his own cronies to the bench and, bingo, all that followed was os- tensibly legal. It is the very judicial system Campbell has lashed out at that stands between tyranny and freedom. This is a nation and a province governed by Jaw, not the premier’s whim. A cousin sent me an e-mail from Germany yesterday, say- ing that the PDS, the successor to the farmer Communist Party, led by the brilliant Gregor Gysi, had shown dismal results in the polls leading up to the recent elections in Berlin. The ‘PDS was the only party sup- Doosan porting a peaceful course in ~ déaling with the terrorist threat. When it was over, the PDS got 22.5 per cent overall and mere than 50 per cenit in the former East Berlin. Why the discrepancy between the polis and the actual results? Rudy believes that in the current climate of sabre-rat- tling, people were fearful ad- mitting publicly that they sup- ported the PDS. [f that was the reason, E think we’re in trouble. Beyer can be reached at: E-mail: hubert@coelcom.cam; Tel (250) 381-6900; Web http://www.hubertbeyer.com vy of a ten- foot pole it to me at age 19 when my first letter to the editor was published, anonymously. I didn’t have the guts to sign my name to the letter because everyone would have known [ was writing from Dad’s view- ~ point. The neighbours guessed anyway and gave Dad a hard time. but they never learned my identity until the commun- ity published a history 38 years later, Fortunately, columnists of the stature of Toronto’s Pierre Berton and Montreal’s Morde- cai Richler provided enough refinishing work to grow a spe- cially repair shop. Shipping a slender object of this length is a problem Cana- da Post would as soon process an envelope with a hand let- tered address and a New Jersey postmark. So it will have to travel by courier, Or hitchhike on a truck with a red flannel swatch taped to its protruding tip, Bye) | Side he eee 7 ' | CRACLING RAVEN YOSTEALING-| NO A CHANCE 2 Pan BONES THE DEATH One To ca JASE EY'RE SYINRE f } vr SQuAUIE !! _ Ain, 4 3