#@)n Island Publishers Newsmagazine

March 14, 1990

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reater Victoria renters are flexing

their muscles after being pushed to

the wall with rent hikes they just
can’t take. Home ownership is a fading
dream for many as the cost of real estate
spirals upward. Developers just aren't

building affordable rental housing because

there isn’t any profit in it. We examine the
housing crunch in our Top Story /3

1 DR. TOMORROW: Is the key to British

Columbia’s economic future in California?
To futurist Frank Ogden, a north-south
trade corridor makes a lot more sense than
east to west /4

= LIFE’S LIKE THAT: Everyone's as Irish as
Paddy’s pig on March 17, even if you
thought the Blarney Stone was a new
designer drug. Have a wee peek, begorra,
at Joan Myles /5

‘& BASIC BLACK: Royal loonies, monarchs

with a bubble in their dream box — that’s
the topic of King Arthur's latest decree this
week /6 :

m= GOLDENROD: Ivy Kent describes what
it’s like when time and circumstance
conspire to project you into the ranks of
the invisible / 7