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The year is 2065. You died several decades ago. Your children are probably dead too, Your grand- children, though, are very much alive. °

In fact, one of your grandsons, whose job took him

to Montreai back in 2030,-has retired comfortably toa

suburb of the city. Now, he is told -by government officials that he must move, because in just a few years the city of Montreal will cease to exist! What was one of the world's great cities and much of the rest of Canada will be under water.

’. That scenario is not science fiction, It may well become reality; according to scientists, when the polar ice cap melts in less than a century. Possibly. ‘much sooner... —

- Increased demand for water has already slowed the flaw. of fresh water into the northern oceans, thereby increasing their salinity. The higher concentration of salt may melt the ice cap in less than a hundred years

‘says. Maurice Strong, Executive Director. of :the United Nations’ Environment Program...

‘-““This could be greatly accelerated as the result of . oil spills‘as one of the world’s largest petroleum |

reserves is exploited there”, adds Mr. Strong, a

Canadian. - -.

Guarded optimism was the basic message of the panel of distinguished: business leaders who discussed their formula for outwitting inflation with delegates to (he annual conference’of the Canadian‘Institute. of Chartered Accountants today (September Whe ‘

from inflation and their recommendations on how some of these difficulties may be resolved were T.S. Dobson, General Manager,

Loans, The Royal Bank of. Canada; A.A. MacNaughton, CA, .

President, Genstar Ltd.; and P.A, Salbaing, President, Liquid Air Corporation of North America. .

All three agreed on the general nature of the problems created for business by what Mr. Salbaing. (noting that inflation has long been with us) defined as ‘the Sudden and substantial change in the rate of infialian'’. .

It was agreed by all participants thal inflation creates excessive demands on available capital. Mr, Dobson of the Royal Bank of. Canada felt that *‘the liquidity of the system has been reduced lo the irreducible minimum”, and a rationing of existing credil is now afact, He also stated that the brunt of this rationing policy was now being borne by the large corporale borrower, ~~". -

* Alex Macdonald, the Attorney-General of British Columbia's New-Democralic Party Government, is a man respected for in- telligent level-headedness, for eschewing. the sort of scare statements uged to soften the way for heavy-handed law-and-order tactics. Knowing thal about him only makes what he has lad to say’ recently about narcotics in British Columbia all the more chilling:

He faces a monster of. a problem, —

Regardless of how the statistics might vary or where they come

from-the federal Bureau of Dangerous Drugs, the Royal Canadian ;

Mounted Police, vivilian drug research and treatment agencies or

Mr. Macdonald's ministry--they are in agreement on one point:

British Columbia, specifically metropolitan Vancouver is the

narcotics centre of Canada and a developing narcolics (rade centre for the world.

The ROMP and Vancouver city police estimate that: 10,000 of Canada’s 15,000 herain addicts are in tlie province, 6,500 of them in Vancouver, The Bureau of Dangerous Drugs uses more con-

’ servative figures bulwith a parallel ratio: of the 8,904 heroin users known to the bureau in 1973, it says 5,685 of them are in British Columbia, By the bureau's reckoning, British Columbja,,with only about a quarter of Ontarlo’s population has more than three times as many known heroin and hard-drug users. ~~ .

On the basis of Mr. Macdonal’s figures, the social cost of this most evil of businesses is appalling, He says that.65 per cent of all crime in the province is drug-related. This does not include alcohol. Only asmall proportion is accounted for by cannabis and

the other so-called soft drugs. This is, almost exclusively, crime:

‘ related ia hercin, cocaine, other opiates and, to a lesser extent, synthetics such as amphetsmine (speed), . This is crime, he says,. which ranges fram small - time street

* trafficking and thefl by addicts to support their habits (he puls a.

figure of $18: million a month - con- Servative by some police estimates -- on the value of goods stolen by the province’s addicts to pay for their drugs) through to prostitution, gambling, commercial fraud and the world-seale narcotics trade, In addition, crime {is life within the drug com- munity itself--with, according to police, murders going for as little as $500 a contract, : .

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“Much of Canada may be under water

The polar ice caps have stabilized th earth’s tem- perature during the 10,000 years of their existence; with their buffer, the climate could change wildly.

Meanwhile, other factors are already at work altering climatic condiiicns, Five billion tons of pollutants are spewed into the atmosphere each year ..lmost 3,000 pounds for every man, woman and child on earth. ; ot

Carbon dioxide gas is drifting to the equator where- it is trapping the sun's heat. Particles in the air, on the other hand, are drifting toward the poles where they are.causing cool temperatures. In fact, the melting of the northern ice cap, may be ali that prevents another ice age, oo

Severe droughts in West Africa that have killed hundred of thousands of people in-the past five years, lack of rain in northeast Brazil and flooding on the Indian subcontinent may all be attributable, at least partially, to atmospheric pollution. ._

‘This is not the first time the earth’s climate has undergone. dramatic changes. . The: Sahara, the world’s largest desert, was a lush.rain forest until — destroyed by severe climatic changes a few thousand years ago, po med (From Wildlife Report) . .

these, we feel these are responsible policies,’ Mr. Dobson said,

All three speakers also agreed thal the present rate of inflation puls strains on the viability of business. enterprises by. overstating taxable profits and, through a capital cost allowance system based,

Ceca . . on inadequate historical costs, taxing away the:funds needed to Presenting their yiews on the causes and problems resulting -

replace worn-out productive assets, Mr. MacNaughton called for a major effort by businessmen ‘'to convince our government to stop taxing the capital required to replace working capital and fixed investment during an inflationary ‘period. . Clearly our present system - which amounts to a laxation -on- capital - must be eliminated,” he said. . : oo

Mr. Salbaing also discussed necessary changes in accounting procedures to reflect the new realities: crealed by inflation. He called upon the accounting profession to “analyse and present business in such a way thal it promotes the widest understanding possible of the critical situation business faces in. times of in-

‘creased inflation” = = - ‘

In particular, the profession should “play an important role in convincing the government ta consider the adoption of measures such as changes in capital cost allowance if high inflation rates prevail for too long; changes in inventory valuation, to (he “LIFO" (last-in, first-out), melhod,.for instance,-to provide additional working capital out of taxable income; and tax incentives to en- courage investment in industries rather than _ in the short-term money market”, |. > —_ essing the general sense of the meeting, Mr, Dobson said: flation his not. created Adisaster yet. Putitis world-wide and it

Could undermine tha¢

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Mr. Macdonald calls Vancouver a centre for the operations of at least eigh! organized, crime syndicates. He ‘defines. organized crime this way: planned criminal activities carried out. by structured groups adhering to defined and Internally. enforced regulalions, groups which have arranged for Importing, packaging and distribution of drugs and for such details as the fencing of goods stolen by users. = a Te - These are organizations: which are increasingly flexible, sophisticated and, as a result, increasingly harder for the police to getat. According to Mr, Macdonald, they make fast and big money out of drugs and then go on.to more legitimate enterprises to be replaced by sucessor groups, ‘We have a high turnover out here."

Fixing Vancouver into the world trade, the LeDain Commission reported nine nine-nionths ago: “Recent evidence indicates that Vancouver now is a majer port of entry for the American heroin market.” The RCMP has pointed out that the whole heroin trade in Canada is shifting: instead of coming inte Montreal for distribution west! heroin increasingly ig coming into Vancouver for distribution east and south info the United States. The heroin comes from Southeast Asia; the cocaine comes from Latin America.

A manster. of a problem,

Having shaped its dimensions, Mr. Macdonald has set out ta tackle it. With.a budget of. $700,000 for the first two years of operations, he has organized a Co-ordinated Law Enforcement Unit with three brances--research, investigation and prosecution. It will be comprised of civilian officials and representalives of major municipal police forees and the remp.

Mr. Macdonald says he will not follow the route of other jurisdic-

tions - such as Quebec - in holding public inguiries to unveil the . ©

syndicate leaders where police and prosecution have failed (he referred to the Quebec crime probe as “sound and fury"). He says he might consider making public through the Legislature some af the socialogical structure of the tradé~but no more. What he aims {odo isserve the law, to goafter convictions of the big people so far removed fromthe street hawking that they never see the drugs they sell, ~ :

An incredibly tough goal, And Mr. Macdonald seems to be going after jt in a correct and brave way. .

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BY PUAL SCHULTE

(Mr. Schulte has been ‘trapping in this area for the past 40 years.’ . He isan active member. of the Rad and Gun Cub and a fervant naturalist).

I saw my first white Bear many years ago, al that lime the country. was heavyly tim- bered everywhere and it took 2 long ‘time before ane saw one again. . Nevertheless I knew they were around, [ found tufts of white hair cccasionally on

- small snags along my Trapline

Trails. So, in lime, | came to | know 5 or 6 of ‘these while or . Kermodel Bears, they were uite tame if I happened lo see them close by, no doubt because I never pursued or kill one of

” them as I was greatly interested

in propagating these Bears and increase their numbers because , .

the World, where they, occur.

_am aware that there aré some "

-of, their kind in other ldcalities near ‘by but I ‘aiso know thal their presense is “particularly

“strong in my Trapline area‘and

surrounding territory. Meanwhile lagging increased

- greatly afler 1950, Roads were

pushed all aver into the Wilderness and these Bears “were accasionaly seen by other people here: In the late 1950s I think it was, 2 Kermodei Bears were shot, by a logger in the employ of Columbia Cellulose Co., and I saw (hese Bear Pelts, Then 12 years (or so) ago the present. dump site was established on land donatedby Mr. Ernie Sande 1 believe to which I objected to the local representalive of the Game Branch, because of pollution at the Kalum River, 1 was ignored, but that is another story,"' Se, gradually, Bear began coming to the new dump and about 5-6 years ago the first white Bear arrived there, now there are several, and the.

‘general public began seelng

them, . Meanwhile I became aquainted with Mr. Alf Hodges’ the caretaker of the dump, he also: was greally interested in the..preservalion of the Ker- :modei Bear, and we co-operated in-keeplng an eye on the Bears so they would nat get shot, .Mr. Hodges helped greatly ‘there, in getting Municipal Council to prohibit hunting and shooting in the area, Also, Mr.

. Hodges spaced the burning of

refuse -in 4-6 big piles ofrefuse

“per day keeping 2 piles over

night for the Bearss to feed on, ° ‘these were then burned next day as new material came in. This .system..of burning was maintained - all: these -last 12

"years except for a week or twé ~ {in summer’ when there was

‘preal danger of fire. Therefore

the Bears ~ had’ always -’ something ta eat there, they did

“ot hangarcund the houses and '

Lonly. the add one was seen “passing through on his'way to “the dump, The same applied to

“the old. dump which was-in

existence for 15-19. years and >was situated ‘across the Road “from the new Cemetary. We

never had any serious trouble with Bear. a

~ Now several years ago we had 3 femate White Bear in the dump area here and. one. ‘massive. white male. Mr. Hodges and myself realised that there was an excellent chance of increasing their .number rather more quickly than outin the wilderness: where they are naturally scattered aver a number of miles, because the Bears were close together at lhe ‘Dump area and they seemed to ‘have a close affinity for each

‘squirrels,

other. This proved to be correct for the following Spring one female returned with a white cub, But then the big white male was captured and our private little initiative fell apart

because the year after that the

other 2 females had black and brown cubs. while male was around.” | = :

There was a second chance of ‘eventually increasing the white Bears -hy the.appearance of a

young white malelast year and ©

this year, 3 years old, but this Bear was killed September 5,

1974 and so this opportunity. Is

again destroyed. for the. time

being. . ee, . Some 8-9. years: ago on my

initiative and as-a member of the local. Rod-and Gun. Club I _

approached Lhe (hen President of the: Rod and Gun Club Mr.. Victor Bryant regarding a resolution by.cur Members for

rom .“hunting, “sald

accepted by the Game Branch in Victoria and the hunting or Killing of white or Kermodei Bear has since been prohibited.

Bears are not dangerous in the sense that they are looking for trouble, There would be an element of danger. if one-does not behave properly around the animals, but that applies lo other big animals wild’ or domestic. _ There are. some

people that do not get along with ©

any: animal. and as. 8 . con- sequence are bitten. by dogs

bunted by cows or, bitten. and

kicked by horses. Only In that

sense would there be.some_ danger with Bear, -With Grizzly"

Bear the situation would be more critical, if one encounters oneof ese al close range stand still. and do not’ shout par-

-ticularly if the animal was.”

Surprised.-‘Then the animal has time ‘lo -callect his senses and depart. Meanwhile the Bear

will sland there looking very .

powerful and - impressive watching you. He will ‘nat "go

_ away when you want him to he goes when he wanls, ‘All. the:

while he locks dangerous, . This

applies to real big old Bears: with a lot of experience, Young .

Bear -usually take off. right

away... : ae AGrizzly Female with cubs is

very. dangerous in the wild as

they are se very protective of. their cubs. Even at 100 yards distance or soit is very critical,

To avoid-unpleasant surprises

with. these: animals there is: a.

simple . salution make’ some ‘noise. The local old timers

usually Heda small lin'can with -

pebbles in it on their pack board

“as they went along or done a bit,

of chopping with {heir small axe.

‘or machete now and then, this . ' gives the animals time to get

OL OF Ihe way. to right or left. thing you sea are,

and the only Freak things

‘male Bear was always-camped.

_ on ane of my tralls one summer “some years ‘ago: but- he: was

friendly and he was used to me.

passing by, One day a skunk on ~ _the trail did not give the Bear: right of way and the old hear ‘ pulverized this skunk, there was

nothing but skunk halr ‘and fragments over a 26 feot area,* ‘another. time in .the local ‘mountalns [ got plastered by’a

- skunk, real bad, ] took. my oiler

clothes off and rubbed sod into

sthem, this helped some‘and_ I -wentonmy way I got intoheavy. ~-imber and. suddanly ‘saw: this- Bear to.the right at 40 yards: .

heading towards. me, I. stood.

No other: mature:

‘gan go around you in early”

rotection:of the Kermodei .

resolution was.'passed ‘and .

_dump are harmless, But these

_ all’ over. the place.’

happen toa,- Grizzly Bears hale skunks, and - - they like to walk on trails from one pace Lo the nexl this big‘old -.

-have never “seen a man and

A photo of the 3 to 4 year old Kermodei bear shot recently on the Kitsumgalum Indian Reserve.

hair on the back rase the ears were going back, he too thought I was skunk no doubt, fis

- behaviour was just not normal.

and 1 had to kill him right close .. to me. ett Also one should not camp on

Bear Trails or any other game -

trails, camp al least 100 yards

‘away. This is a particularly bad

practice when bear go fishing. Campa piece away so the bears’;

morning and at night, Stay

“away from heavy cover unless

you have lo ‘but then make- enough nolse. Keep in the open where there is visibility.

“Shouling ‘or. other big noise

works on Grizily Bear to divert them if they are at a distance bul not when they are surprised at close range, . . On wilderness ‘trips in the spring avoid’ promontories in the side- hills, or, slopes, also

ERNRRSDateehkape cover”

of brush and trees, Grizzly with

young often occupy these places = +

because of better visibility, also there is more air circulalion, wind to diminish the flies, and tye also in this way smell

‘danger approaching more

readily, Some’ cow-moaseé with young calves do the same and — those ‘can | really be troublesome, There are shy indifferent, friendly and unfriendly bears, and this applies to other animals as well, .:. Only. the

friendly type are onthe local

dump. Some of the other types

. appear once of twice and never

come back, I tan. recognize’ those by their manner... .They will stay in the vicinity of man.

For these-various subtle reasons the Bears on the local

friendly animals: must be trealed-right too,-they should not.be handfed ‘because that ~ way, if there. is no more food the anima} becomes demanting, he - waves his paws around and if the paws come in contact- with, clothing, off it- comes and one would get badly scratched, Only that: way ‘is there «an element of danger, These hear have not lost their fear they. only

‘have become trusting. Only

gross improper behaviour by man would destroy. thal trust °

‘and mutual tolerance. and " arouse fear and all animals are

capable of . and. will’ attack because of fear and nol because they lost their fear’; Ifa bear ° minds: his. awn business - one

‘should nol advance. on him ~

deliberately and staring at him, itarouses fear, Also no walking" Remain stationary andobserve. No‘loud

talking or: gesticulating. - “ar!

Stationary and a bear advances

leisurely and'his behaviour. is... normal’ and if the hair on his back ig not up or the ears back and his theet popping, well then he is just. curious and wants to investigate. This happens often

in the wilderness too and with .

other animals besides Bear. - Many animals in the wilderness

come right up. close uritil they -

- get the scent of man, when they

withdraw quietly, or.in alarm. ‘So, on the dump; individual. bears often approached directly up tous i.e,.Mr. Hodges, myself. and various other people. If ,-

angle: back. and forth and in- variably (he animal withdrew,

‘This has occurred hundreds of- . - mes and is the right way to. go

‘about dt, 0. -+

'

_ resent, It should be called Matt, Hout kad to ie White -Allards Place as we always did, is. me. - Thegame'a othe White 2 fect Peet

_-StIN_but he never stopped his” Bear that got killed, we- knew

that Bear well since he was a

.cub, He came directly up to-us:

any time he wanted, we moved --~ him any time we wanted, and we could shoo him away from. one pile to another any time, In- July this Bear mated. witha black along Kalum River below

the dump and headed south; - Then lately I heard reports of a white bear around. Kalum Reserveete. 1 rarely go to that

"area and so did not know there

was any garbage pile up in the Fishermans: Park -which - this Bear found there. I had a look — there, found where this man’s

-lent was pitched anly-16 steps

from the garbage and this is locking :for trouble, a tent in ‘ such close proximity to garbage is Just ahother garbage heap to an animal and convinced me that this person Intended to kill the animal in the first place.-

In camping out: in, nature under.canvas.one should. leave the tenl “flap ‘ppen “pnd: shave everything in nielal containers, Tuse 5 gallon oil or grease cans, they have a clinch lid and the bears can’l get. them:’open.” Cleaned and well aired for while they are the best. Sure, va the cans gel batted around bul: they. won't open. Sometimes the: collapses on top of: the bear” despite (he open tent flapand he: . will -take off with ft for some;. distance before getting out: but" that way ‘the canvas: is not’ damaged much while a tightly, closed tent gets badly ripped.; °

After such an experience; the - tent on top of -him, Uhat-par-:. ticular bear will not come back: for a long while. to 'avold-this. lent business, I started jusing: an open canvas sheel, riggedin - Jean to fashion, the camp site is: ©

‘wide. ‘and only the -cans ‘gel:

knocked around. This does‘nots happan often, only once in'2-33 years mostly young bear do this; bul Wolverine da it Loo. One can’: not have everything his way out in nature and I have never shat a bear on account of il.

My research over many years ..~ regarding the While: Bear. -in-' dicates that these Bear occur in; a-strain of black bear thal: is’ different’ from regular black: bear in that ‘their.underfur ‘is: ’ silver grey while ‘the ordinary. black’s under fur is -brown:to;, dark-brown, There. are also

‘some ‘brown bears with ‘the

Kermodei's whose under fur‘is real silver. grey. - Also ‘these Kermodei Bears are - built different than. the ordinary. - black, in (hat they are more’ squat in appearance more.. round bodied and broad chested: - when mature and. for,,that..°. ‘reasqn ‘appear. shorter legged .; ‘apparently;;- 00. 0 toe RES Added lo that.is a definitely different head conformatian.:

: ‘Thave seen in past years 2 30° - called Glacier Bear, Thest

silver gray allover and ‘in

A! certain light havea slight bluish’. sheen and | think are related’ta. the Kermodel’ because their: :

- appearance or general outline js --

thé same, - a ’ The first While Bears, 2, were. - killed. and taken in this‘area: by - Mr. Malt Aliard who told me 50. . himself: years (1038) ago; dn: 1916] belleve and he showed me 8’ picture of the hidas..o3 se |

_afler ashort interval we wanted >: )Mr, Allard was-the original: lo move. them, we ‘never ad- : : * vanced directly foward the bear ;

bul: moved. slowly ‘at, a right ‘his place is or. was on the so!

holder. of the’. Beaver: Rlyer.’ Trapling, a Pioneer Setiler‘and. © -

5 x

west end of ‘Kalum --

2." On ‘whal is called the Hart:Farm.

for. some“ year now which:

Paul Schulte me