An Interview with the Ex-DOA Leader Nd BCIT Staff Member
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An interview with the ex-DOA leader nd BCIT staff member anadians are currently • removing overlap and facing one of the most impor• • guaranteeing property discussing Proposals duplication tant challenges in our history. rights for the renewal of the Proposals have been put 4> ensure that provinces Canadian federation that • providing more local forward by the Government are consulted on the issuing are being reviewed by a input into The Bank of Canada of Canada to make improve• C of new licences and in the special Joint Parliainentary which sets monetary policy. ments to our constitution. Committee. The goal of the nomination of regional proposals is a stronger and commissioners to the more prosperous Canada in Canadian Radio-television which all Canadians can and Telecommunications feel al home. The committee Commission (CRTC) is touring the country to seek 4> reserve the power of the views of all Canadians - "peace, order and good individuals and groups - who IN THE DARK government" as a federal are interested in appearing responsibility before its meetings. • allow for the elimination The 28 proposals contained ABOUT of the federal declaratory in the document entitled. power that enables it to take "Shaping Canada's Future over provincial works when Together", are summarized it "declares" them to be below to help you join in CONSirrUTIONAL for the general advantage the discussion. of Canada recognize exclusive REFORM provincial jurisdiction in a DEFINING number of areas, including "CANADIAN" foresti-y and mining, toiuism HERE ARE and recreation, housing Proposals 1 to 7 deal with and municipal affairs, while what it means to be Canadian. maintaining Ottawa's respon• They include: sibilities for international THE FACTS and natives affairs • reaffirmation of the rights and freedoms of citizens • provide for the dele• gation of legislative powers • recognition of Quebec's IN BLACK & WHITE between pariiament and the distinctiveness and Canada's provincial legislatures where linguistic duality appropriate and reasonable ^ a provision for aboriginal These proposals, for a more THEWAYTOA united and prosperous Canada • streamline programs and participation in the current services so that Canadians constitutional talks MORE PROSPEROUS in which all Canadians can feel at home are currently are provided the best service a provision for aboriginal FUTURE being reviewed by a special at the lowest possible cost self-government Parliamentary committee. The purpose of proposals ^fr prevent the federal govemment from establishing 1^ a provision for a consti- 14 to 28 is to make Canada Some of the proposals any new Canada-wide shared hitional process for aboriginal a better-run country, more include: issues competitive internally and cost or conditional programs Canada Clause that internationally They are in areas of exclusive pro• 4* protection of property speaks of our hopes and designed to make it easier vincial jurisdiction without rights dreams as Canadians, our for Canadians to live where the approval of seven prov• values, our diversity, our • a "Canada Clause" in they choose, as they choose, inces representing 50% of tolerance and our generosity the constitution that affirms within their own country. the population of Canada. of spirit our sense of country and These proposals would: To receive more information values. • recognizing the right of on the proposals and the 4> ensure the free move• aboriginal people to govern ment of people, goods, process, or for your free themselves while being copy of the document MAKING services and capita] within protected by Canadian law Canada "Shaping Canada's Future GOVERNMENT • ensuring Quebecers • provide the legislative feel at home within Canada MORE RESPONSIVE power in cooperation with • reforming the Senate Proposals 8 to 13 are aimed the provinces to manage to make it elected, effective at making our federal insti• the economic union and much more equitable tutions more democTatic and ^ ensure a more open and than the one we have now I-800-56I-II88 more responsive to Canadians. visible budget-making This section proposes: process ^ strengthening Canada's ^^Id Deaf or hearing impaired call: economic union so Canadians rzm 1-800-567-1992 4> reform of the House of • recognize labour training can work and conduct busi• Commons as an area of exclusive Get involved. Ifs your country. ness anywhere in tiie counti-y It's your right , • an elected, effective and provincial jurisdiction much more equitable Senate • provide for the nego• Uian the one we have now tiations with provinces, at • Senate approval of their request, of appropriate cultural jurisdictions. Canada appointments to regulatory boards and agencies As Canadians, we are now ^ Shaping Canada's Future Together THE WHITE RIBBON CAMPAIGN CONTENTS CAMPUS NEWS 4 Breaking Men's Silence To End Men's Violence SCHOLARSHIPS 5 December 1-6, 1991 CUP NEWS 5 If it were between countries, we'd call it a war. if it were a disease, we'd call it an epidemic. If it EDirORIAL/LETTERS 6 were an oil spill, we'd call it a disaster. But it's happening to women, and it's just an everyday affair. It is violence against women. It is rape at home ancTon dates. It is the beating or the blow SPELLBINDER—MYSTIC OF THE DORITOS ..8 that one out of four Canadian women receive in their lifetime. It is sexual harassment at work and sexual abuse of the young. It is murder. BARTON RNK 9 There's no secret enemy pulling the trigger. No unseen virus that leads to death. It's just men. Men from all social backgrounds and of all colour and ages. Men in business suits and men in THE LIBRARY 10 blue collars. Men who plant the fields and men who sell furniture. No weirdos. Just regular guys. All those regular guys, though, have helped create a climate of fear and mistrust among MEDICAL SERVICES 11 women. Our sisters and our mothers, our daughters and our lovers can no longer fee! safe in their homes. At night they can't walk to the corner for milk without wondering who's walking JOE KEITHLEY'S/NSr/NCT 12 behind them. It's hard for them to turn on the TV without seeing men running amok in displays or brutality against women and other men. Even the women in relationships wilh that majority of CANDID CAMPUS 17 men who are gentle and caring feel they cannot totally trust men. All women are imprisoned in a culture of violence. ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 18 Men's violence against women isn't aberrant behaviour. Men have created cultures where men use violence against other men, where we wreak violence on the natural habitat, where we RECREATION & ATHLETICS 20 see violence as the best means to solve differences between nations, where every boy is forced to learn lo fight or to be branded a sissy, and where men have forms of power and privilege that AFTER MADRID? 22 women do not enjoy. CLASSIFIEDS 23 Men hove been defined as part of the problem. But we are writing this statement because we think men can also be part of the solution. Confronting men's violence requires nothing less than a commitment to full equality for women and a redefinition of what it means to be men, to discover a meaning to manhood that doesn't require blood to be spilled. V/ith all our love, respect, and support for the women in our lives: THE UNK IS... • We urge men across Canada to hang a white ribbon from their home, their EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE: car, or at their workplace and to wear a white ribbon or armband from Sunday, December 1 through Friday, December 6, the second anniversary Tessa Bartholomeusz Jennifer Philip of the Montreal massacre. Tne white ribbon symbolizes a call for all men to Kari Fredheim Jarrod Poon lay down their arms in the war against our sisters. Nimmi Gill Tim Reeve • V/e ask unions, professional associations, student councils, corporations and Kevin Lawrence Des Reid government bodies to moke this an issue priority, starting with the circulation Les Merson Susan Spence of this statement. • V/e urge all levels of government to increase radically their funding lo rope Pauline Meyer Dove Suggit crisis centres, shelters for battered women, and for services to treat men who Cheryl Peck Sharia Tempfe bolter. • V/e coll for large-scale educational programs for police officers and judges, MANAGING EDITOR: L. Merson in work places and schools on the issue of women's violence. • We commit ourselves to think about sexism in our own words and deeds and to challenge sexism around us. We urge all Canadian men to do the same. ADVERTISING SALES REP: Kevin Lawrence • We urge men to circulate this statement to other men, to send donations to women's groups or to the White Ribbon Campaign to help continue this ILLUSTRATOR: Jarrod Poon work. We asl< the media to show their concern by reprinting and broadcasting this statement in hill. COVER PHOTO; Allan Doner, Heritage Studios, Bumaby White Ribbon Campaign 253 College St., Box 231 SPECIAL THANKS TO Allan Doner. Toronto Onlcrio M5T1R5 PRINTED BY: College Printers The Linl( is on associate member ofthe Canadion University Press. Local Advertising: 432-8935. National Adverllsing: Campus Plus. The Link is owned by the BCIT Student Association 3700 Willingdon Avenue White Ribbons will be available at the Main & JW Inglis TNT from Bumaby, BC VSG 3H2 Dec. 2-Dec. 6, 1991. Donations for the Society of Transition Houses will be gratefully accepted. We apologize if we have been neither offensive nor thought-provoking. The UNK, Nov. 20-Doc. 3, 1991 AMPUS NEWS Qualley places third in the world! David Qualley, a student in 1st year Surveying and Mapping Technology, recently placed third in the world at an AutoCad competition in Amsterdam.