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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Education
Message-ID: <894@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 19:51:08 EST
Article-I.D.: ubc-cs.894
Posted: Sat Mar  7 19:51:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 16:29:24 EST
Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science
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In response to Don Acton...

In 1984 and 1985, each time the BC Opposition criticised the economic
projections for Expo, the govt loudly announced that the NDP was opposed to
Expo. Mike Harcourt's early opposition to it, and Bob Skelly's later
criticism of it on economic grounds, were so damaging to the NDP that both
Skelly and Broadbent staged highly visible walkabouts during the fair to
show that they were in favour of it.

Then there's the noisy debate over who's going to get the next Skytrain
extension. I don't hear the mayors of Coquitlam and Richmond offering to pay
for it. 

(My apologies to those of you unfortunate enough to live outside BC;
however, I suspect that it is true everywhere in Canada that megaprojects
sell, regardless of whether they do any good).

In response to Dave Brewer...

No, I don't know how napalm was invented. You tell me. 

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"BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of 'Scientific Creationism'."