@ » Sunday, May 26, 1907 = North Shore Newu north shore news EWPOINT ™ River rescue OCAL waterways need all the protection = they can get Applause, then, to the provin- clal government and its new legisla tion aimed at preserving what is lett -Of British Columbia's wild river her Itage, Among the provisions of the new Fish Protection Act will be a ban on any new dams on the Fraser and other major B.C. rivers; protection for ereck and river banks in urban areass dind the allocation of more power to ‘municipal governnients so they can help protect fish habitat, “,[t’s.action that is better late than never, B,C.’s fish populations have been under relentless pressure for decades, Greedy, harvesters and processors coupled with inept Department of ‘Fisheries, and Oceans conservation and forecasting and destrustive tigh- erles such as the herring roe harvest have comblaed to undermine once tleli Weat Coast salmon stocks, An Outdoor Recreation Counell of B.C, survey released in carly March estimated that 142 stocks of wild B.C, salmon are now extinet, Many of those stocks could have been saved if habitat protection legis- lation had been instituted earlier, The North Shore is an urban West Coast area that le blessed with an abundance of waterways of all sizes that support coho, chinook, pink and chum salmon, along with steclhead, cutthroat and rainbow trout popula- tions, Each needs careful tending if it is to avoid permanent termination. The province's new Fish Protection Act is a good first step. BC. FISH TALKS CONTINUE... a QI, | See you in the hoo ‘e Wf vay ‘ Moy a «THE North Shore News Free Speech Deferice _ Fund keeps on growing... ty To press time Friday, donations from over 1,300 News “readers and free speech supporters to the fund, which was __ Initiated on March 26, stood at $85,536, "All funds received will help detray the legal costs feed by the News in its battle with the Human Rights Tribunal over a ay complaint laid against the newspaper and its ccitim- nist Doug Collins by the Canadian Jewish Congress: a ~The hearing into the matter began on May 12 at the “yh Century Plaza Hotel, 1015 Burrard St., Vancotver. “8. Tthas since shifted to the Police Commission board: 7 @ ~ room, Room 407, 815 Hornby St., Vancouver, “ @2 . More excerpts from the hundreds of respondents ve, tthe. cause: - ” SAlthoiigh we da not get the North Shore News up here, 1 1, _, doget articles by Doug Collins sent to me, even though the ,, Blood pressure soars after reading his columns, I lived on __, the’ Novth Shore for about 50 years before coming itp here. * "Thank God someone speaks out, Viva la Doug Collins!” mo, sy = Al Phillips of Keremeos E cis ligh thas at lea ate ipa , Be, . Tt is high time dat at least one newspaper supports a ""eriter who has the guts to stand wp. It is the alt oF Ws the :, hailene magority, who Jat sit there and watch all to vari ous pressure groups nibble awiy at our precious firedom. — fit. von Tiesenhausen of Vancouver 00 “Tgwess that throughout history there have been those ‘elite’ who would try to control the words and thoughts of the peasants. The, leftover Marxists in the B.C. bureaucracy continue this proud tradition of their forefathers, back past the Puritans of Salem, even to the Ingussition.”. ; . — WB. Avery of West Vancouver Donations to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence Fund can be sent to the News offices, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver, Y7M 2H4, Cheques should be made out to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence Fund. “ ; — trenshaw@direct.ca { fio . ra 3 north shore Worth Share Mews, founded in: 1969 as an Independent suburban newspaper am! quatied under Scladule 11§, Paragragis 141 of the Lose Tax Act, 6 published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press (Ud. and distributed fo wvery door on Ine Norttt Shore, Canada Fost Canadian Pubhcatons Mat Sales Product Agreement No. 008728. Maing rates avadable on request. suite at % he VEUMSBSES Distribution Managet 908-1337 (124) REPLYING to readers’ letters is not normally the business of us twice-a-week scribblers, In a free and open society it’s a job best left to other letter-writers, However, the fietual Haws and tortured logic of Mr, Crawford Kilian’s recent diatribe (Scorn and pity for the News and columnists, May 21) beg aloud for a gentle- manly comment on the all-too familiar outlook they represent, Which, in a nutshell, is to stifle all contrary opinions, Me. Kiltan’s opening volley against my alleged use of “hot-button” phrases (“bully boys”, “NDP thought.pofice”, “homo- sexual agenda”, ete.) makes one wonder whether he ever talks with any ordinary, decent, spade’s-a-spade Canadians — many of whom confine their thoughts on such matters nowadays to their own inti- mate circles for fear of what Mr, Kilian’s political pals might do to them. Then he launches his major —- and highly convoluted — broadside about Wright's comfortable and lengthy survival “while scores of millions of his fellow Europeans suffered and died in wars, pogroms, deliberately caused famines and mass deportations.” (“Scores of mil- lions”? ‘That has to mean at least 40 mil- ‘lion, likelier 60 to 80 million, Even with six million Jews plus millions of non- Jews, the Soviet Gulags and Bosnia the figure seems a tad high, Did you overheat that “button,” Crawford?) PROTO But back to Wright's “shameltl” sur- vival, I don’t know where — or even if— Mr. Kiltan was during the Second World War, But for the record, your humble scribe served for six years with the British army in the European theatre and for eight years thereafter as a senior intelligence offi- cer with the occupation authority, rebuilding democracy in defeated Germany, So I venture to suggest my first-hand knowl ea ¢ of the suffering and atrocities of that era is at least equal co Mr. Kilian’s, and possi- . bly.a little more . detailed, Certainly detailed enough for me, personally, to find Schindler's List boring ~ simply because ['d had close, real-life cons tact with that horror story for years, Contrary to Mr. Kilian’s peculiar ver- sion of history, what the North Shore News fights for today is exactly the same as Britain, Canada and their allies fought for in the war against Hitler: freedom for all people from oppression, atrocities and death at the hands of ruthless dictators. Because the Second World War and its aftermath gave us who were involved in it untorgettable lessons in how tyranny con- quiers, The price of freedom is eternal vigi- lance. Oppression and tyranny never arrive suddenly overnight, They creep upon a society gradually, in many hidden ways, until strong enough to pounce and seize control, The only defence against them during that stage is complete freedom of gulag, Crawford? ' speech and public discussion —- subject only to laws allowing individual suits or, class actions for tibel or defamation, As a human right, free speech and free- donv of the’ media supersede all other rights, because they alone guarantee all other rights, Does any. member of the Canadian Jewish Congress pretend the Holocaust could ever have happened, if Germany trom 1933 onward had enjoyed full, unfet- tered freedom of the press and public debate? And watching today’s steady ero- sion of democratic righis in Hong Keng by Beijing's puppet administrator, does any- one maintain it can no longes happen? - So no hard feelings, Crawford, Your right to pen rude and mentally mixed-up letters about things you don’t seem to ~ understand very well is what the News and its coluninists fight to defend, We believe everyone has a right to be wrong, objecs tionable, stupid or anything they wishs ‘Only if your Victoria pals ever remove that right will I stare worrying about meet- ing you one day in some Atlin gulag! fn) oo, MANY HAPPY RETURNS of tomor- row, May 26, to News publisher and free- dom fighter supreme Peter Speck ... Say it again Tuesday, May 27, to Mt. Seymour Lion Stan Kryszkiewicz. 000 . WRIGHT OR WRONG — the three lit- tle words that lave saved so many mar- rages: “Let's cat out!” . —~ The North Shore News believes arronaly in freedom of speech and the right of all sides ina debate to be heard, The columnists pub: lished in the News present differing points of view, bur those views ave not necessarily those of the newspaper itself, ‘MOW!TO) LETTERS TO THE EDITOR palammaan e213 (127) 61,582 (average circatation, Wednesday, Friday & Sundzy) Dhallwal a Ot PETER SPECK Homan Resources Manager Sales & Mating Oirecor Publisher ay ai Photography Manager Display Manager wet (10) wenn (103) Comptroller SUS 2134 (177) UNNI (318) SESZ131 (1) sem 2421 (159) Entire contents © 1997 North Shore Free Press Lid. All rights reserved. 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