On behalf of the Canadian Amateur Swimming Association I would like to thank you for your story Eel-like Agony in a B.C. No tourist should be terrorized, but some of them with a licence for everything seem to have become victims of their own selfish desires. No amount of money can pay the price of not caring, which will lead to islands of discontent. Guaranteed sunshine, but not much of a place to party.Īccording to your article on islands in the Caribbean, most people don’t care about the standards of living or the problems that bedevil North America’s playgrounds. The cake has to be shared and the benefits distributed among everyone, or these islands in the sun are going to turn into another Miami. The tour operators, who face fewer and fewer profits, had better take heed and realize that they can no longer dismiss those hungry eyes behind the fence as just onlookers who will mind their own business. An ounce of foresight would tell most observers that sooner or later violence will break out between those islanders who live in poverty and the rich tourists who come once or twice a year to indulge in the good life and its vestiges. Your article Islands in the Sun (Travel, March 23) covered an ever increasing problem with great insight. If cutbacks are to be made, serious consideration should be given to making them at the articling or bar admission level, where lawyers actually enter the profession. The majority of Canadians seem to have lost sight of the fact that one goes to university for an education and not job training. I think it would be a crime to deny future generations the right to this type of education simply because the traditional job market is flooded.
A legal education is a valuable asset it is a way of thinking that can be applied to many other disciplines. True there are fewer positions as a traditional practising lawyer, but in exchange for a little flexibility there is a wealth of career paths for law graduates. Maclean’s regrets the error.Īnyone who thinks there is a shortage of jobs for law graduates is taking a very narrow view of the employment opportunities available (Job-Market Trials of Young Lawyers, Law, April 6). In an article in the April 6 issue (JobMarket Trials of Young Lawyers) Toronto lawyer Bruce Bailey was misquoted. As a final note, you spelled my name wrong. That operation, as far as can be determined, did not affect the existing fish population. Your reporters did not mention, either, that a mine operated in Alice Arm for five years up to 1972. These metals are present in background levels only.
As far as your reference to “highly toxic radium 226, arsenic, lead and mercury” is concerned, this is another case where you have misrepresented facts. In addition, the tailing will be deposited 50 metres below the surface of Alice Arm, below the upper surface areas where fish life exists. Heavy metals constitute a small part of the total output. Your writers elected to report our mill tailing as “toxic sludge.” The tailing is ground-up rock from the surrounding hills. I do not deny your right to print statements and claims issued by opponents to our project, but I suggest you have a right to present both sides of the case to offset the emotional, hysterical misrepresentations which our detractors make.
( Toxic Sludge in Davey Jones ’s Locker, Environment, March 30). I am writing to protest as forcefully as I can your magazine’s one-sided and completely baised report on our molybdenum mine development at Kitsualt, B.C. Until such time as the American people come to temper their constitutional right to bear fire-arms with an effective guncontrol program, prominent figures will soon be forced to don bulletproof vests at all public appearances.
Your account of the attempted assassination of American President Ronald Reagan clearly reveals the urgent need for greater regulation of the sale and ownership of handguns in the U.S. What about the people who pull the triggers? Is it not a cop-out to zealously attack an easily identifiable object and ignore the complex psychological/social problems that cause these people to become assassins? -WESLEY VAN NEST, Following so closely on the heels of the John Lennon murder, this latest assassination attempt on an American president is sure to raise a great hue and cry for laws against fire-arms.
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