SS ss Castlegar News August 30, 1989 Suzuki won't duck controversy That morning's edition of the Toronto newspaper By GWEN DAMBROFSAY BANFF, Alta, (CP) Ask David Suzuki for his opinion on'darned near anything. He'll have one, And i'll get somebody riled up, Suzuki, $3, hasn't just courted controversy, he has made a career of if Along the way, by mixing television with research and Castlegar United Church SUNDAY SCHOOL For Children 3 Years and Up Starts Sunday, September 10 — 10a.m 2224-6th Avenue BABYSITTING SERVICE Castlegar AVAILABLE activism, the Vancouver geneticist concocted of himself a wholly new creation; scientist as media superstar He has been on television since the early 1970s: Suzuki onScienge, A Planet for the Taking, The Nature of Things. Every one it a While the curly ”salt-and-pepper hair, dropping moustache and scraggly goatee show up on something like Celebrity Cooks or The Beachcombers. High-tech bills in works TORONTO (CP) — While counter feiters are getting more sophisticated, the Bank of Canada is determined. to stay one step ahead by introducing new contained Suzuki's last sei stint ¢ column after a 2-year WANTED MORE Christopher Waddell, associate editor of the Globe and Mail, said later that the gewspaper didn't mind if Suzuki occasionally wrote on environmental issues. It just wanted him to cover other scientific topics too. Suzuki admits he hadbeen given plenty of warning “They wanted me to broaden it out,’’ he says. “For me the environment is now subsuming everything else. But sure, | was absolutely devastated because it was a wonder ful audience. It’s the only paper that’s sold right across the DAVID SUZUKI academics ‘snotty’ country A lot of Suzuki's drive stems from his childhood. A second-generation Canadian, he was born in a Vancouver suburb, but at the age of six he was uprooted with his family and forced into an internment camp in the B.C Interior. It was a fate that befell thousands of Japanese-Canadians who were branded as a security threat during the Second World War complete the provincial government's Superhost program. Left to right are David i Jord Bystrom, Wayne McCarthy, Andrew Groom and Peter Blackwell, INTERNATIONAL K-9 CENTRE Offers DOG OBEDIENCE Classes CLASSES OFFERE! Puppy. beginner, advanced INSTRUCTOR: Chr Cross DATES: Thurs., Sept, 7 10 Hhurs,, Oct, 12 TIME: 7 p.m LOCATION: Arena Complex, Soccer Field FOR INFORMATION CALL CHRIS AT 399-4121 OR LEAVE A MESSAGE. 2649 FOURTH AVENUE casTieGaR 8 & \ vin 2s? Suzuki has said that for a small boy like himself the in terment was fun, a kind of adventure. Not for his father, though. Carr Suzuki's livelihood was taken from him. To put his children through school, security measures this fall that include printing hologram-like images on bills, Munroe quits as adry-cleaning business SHERYL SALIKEN is joining our staff. 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ACADEMIC HEAT The reception was less friendly when Suzuki offered to debate with a professor at the university of Western On tario who claimed he could prove some races are superior to others A lot of academics had decided that dignifying the protessor a public forum tor racist theories. Some turned the attack ‘a performer’ and on Suzuki, derisively calling him questioning his motives. Naturally, Suzuki has strong opinions about it all I think Canadian academics are very snotty, bluntly during an interview in Banff sial. But I've got far more arrows in my back trom my academic colleagues than I do in the front from people in the general public who disagree with what I say And on this parti¢ular day, he’s also feeling shatted by some of his colleagues in the news media. ‘I've just been fired by the Globe and Mail, darkly s assertions with comment would simply provide I'm perceived as being too environmental he worked as a laborer, a farmer, a worker in other men’s dry-cleaning businesses. story ‘We were give GIVEN CHOICE “Probably not many Canadians know this, but at the end of the war the B.C any more Japanese in the province, government said they didn’t want Suzuki begins the two choices. Sign up to ‘repatriate’ to Japan, whith for us meant going to a foreign country. Or stay in Canada, and if you stayed in Canada, you had to go east of the Rockies. ‘My father almost caved in, actually, at one point There was enormous pressure in the camps for everybody to sign up for Japan, because they were so angry at Canada. They said, ‘Let's do this as a gesture there against that pressure and Said, ‘No we are Canadians He simply hung in and this is where our future lies. optimist he said “But he was, | think, essentially destroyed by the war He lost his faith in Canada, in democracy. We kids were the only hope for him, and he never lost faith in us Despite his father’s bitterness, Suzuki lays claim to none himself. What he sees in the mirror is an idealist, an adreamer THICK RESUME He received a lifetime achievement award in June from Many of the things I’ve done have been controver the Banff Television Festival and modestly credits the public for his success, But he’s not exactly devoid of ego a request from festival staff for a resume was answered with a lengthy biography about the size of a technical manual It lists six full pages of awards and honors, from being named a delegate to a genetics conference in the Netherlan: he says ds in 1963 to being given the prestigious Kalinga science prize by UNESCO in 1986 Road deaths could be reduced, CMA says QUEBEC (CP) About half a million people die and 15 million are injured in traftic accidents around the world each year, and experts predict those numbers could double in the next decade as more vehicles take to the road and the driving population ages But the number of road deaths and injuries could be prevented reaching those tragic proportions if traffic safety policies are overhauled around the world, a public health from COMMUNITY Bulletin Board ton Rec. 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Shortening the day will allow students an opportunity to become acquainted with their school, while at the same time to finalize their preparations tor September 6, the first full Registration of students new to the District will take place on this day B. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1989 tor the full day. Buses will operate on their regular of the time that your ¢ tact the Maintenance Office of 365-8331 Kindergarten students will not attend school on September 5 who have pre-registered the: y by the school regarding class as or guardians or Kindergarten students who have NOT registered thei ible child are urged to do so at thew neighborhood sche (365-7731) for turther intormation jated to routes, times, bus stops. etc hild will be picked up, con child for Kindergarten will nment and hours of in call 365-8331 between BOARD OF SCHOOL TRI School Dis! specialist told the closing session of the meeting of the Canadian Medical Association “We can be innovative and not just annual Petruceili of the Advancement. of reactive,” Elaine Association for Automotive Medicine in Chicago said “We can plan what our next moves are going to be based on data and science (gathered from) 20 years of treating real people in real car crashes for real injuries." More than 600 million cars, trucks and buses and about 100 million motorcycles are vying for space on the world’s roads and Petrucelli, By the year 2000, that num ber is predicted to rise to I é billion highways, said vehicles “‘It is safe to assume that by the year 2000 — and that’s only 10 years away traffic fatalities will exceed one she said, adding that for every road death, there are at least 10 people with injuries serious enough to need hospital treatment and another 25 who require some medical million every year, care LEADING KILLER In Canada ahd the [United States, traffic accidents are the fourth leading cause of death for all age groups and the leading killer of males in their late teens and early 20s, she said. One of every 10 hospital beds is taken up by someone injured in an automobile crash, and caring for accident victims eats up five to 10 per cent all money spent on health care More years of life are lost from traf fic fatalities than from cancer and car- diovascular disease combined (road deaths usually occur at an earlier age), Petrucelli said, But hundreds of millions of dollars more are spent on research into those diseases than on research to improve road safety Petrucelli said a number of steps need to be taken to stop the upward spiral in traffic deaths and injuries, in cluding Improve road quality and traf fic pattern management Increase funding for research in to accident prevention and treatment of injuries Form national and international traffic safety agencies to oversee research, collect accident data for use in future prevention programs and co ordinate trauma centre networks to transport and treat injured accident victims Improve safety standards of motor vehicles Petrucelli said the last step is par ticularly agine population important because of the commission chairman VICTORIA (CP) — of the provincial resources commission has quit just two months onthe job. Don Munroe said he didn’t realize the $90,000-a-year position was full- time “In our initial discussions it was an- ticipated by government officials and I accepted the appointment on the basis that the chairman would not be a full- time position,” Munroe said in a prepared statement. “Upon meeting with the members and reviewing the issues assigned to the commission, 1 believe that chairing the commission must be done on a full-time basis. Based on that fact and my other long term commitments I have reluctantly come to the conclusion that I can not devote the time required to effectively chair the commission.” Munroe, a labor mediator and for mer chairman of the defunct labor relations board, said he has too many other commitments in labor ar- bitration to chair the 11-member commission. 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