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Discusses the latest closure of commercial shellfish fisheries in Howe Sound, north of Vancouver, British Columbia. The pollution has been blamed on local pulp-and-paper mills. New provincial pollution-control standards; Power of the pulp-and-paper industry; Comments by environmentalists.

Observations on various news events in Canada are presented. With 850 wildfires in British Columbia--some caused by cigarettes--smokers are under scrutiny. Smoking bans were imposed in dry wilderness areas, including Vancouver's Stanley Park. Conrad Black enraged shareholders by spending $12 million of Hollinger money on personal papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the subject of Black's new book. Brenda Chamberlain, a Guelph, Ontario MP among Liberals, ran to the U.S. drug czar's office to complain about Canada's plan to decriminalize marijuana. A Nova Scotia sod farm was ordered to stop using human sewage sludge as fertilizer.

Presents news briefs. Fears of chemical attack prompt Americans to build safe rooms of tape and plastic sheeting. Sheila Copps uses Tim Hortons donut shop to sell her bid for Liberal leadership to a party membership glazed with indifference. Luna the killer whale's attention-seeking lingering presence turns docks at Vancouver Island town of Gold River into petting zoo.

Discusses an 80th birthday celebration for the University of British Columbia's campus newspaper, `The Ubyssey.' Some of the writers who worked on the paper; The story of Danny Stoffman, one of the past editors and how he became a millionaire; The Sing Tao School of Journalism at the university.

States that Pacific Press resolved a labor dispute that stopped the presses at Vancouver's two major daily papers for over a week. Settlement involving `The Vancouver Sun' and `The Province.'

Discusses Whistler in January, 90 minutes north of Vancouver, where condos march up the benchlands year by year and at $44-a-day for a lift ticket, the skiers just keep coming. Signs on the ski runs on Blackcomb are in English and Japanese, the Japanese travel in packs down the slopes, costumes in wild psychedelic colors, sushi bars are filled and Japanese papers share shelf space with the `New York Times.' Background of Whistler Village; The Rendezvous Restaurant; More.

The article reports that the government of British Columbia has taken over the operation of a pulp mill in Mackenzie, Northwest Territories to stop a chemical spill. Mill workers had to trade empty barrels with local residents for gasoline to continue operations at the facility. They alerted the government that over a million litres of chlorine could freeze and cause an environmental disaster.