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UR community stands or falls
onthe. strength of the many
who call “the North Shore
home vat
© Guy and Linda Bradfield have sul
= fered" profound loss. "Their eldest
child committed suicide a few short
weeks agon. ce
It is a time of soul-searching and:
“grieving, In. most’ cases we tend to
“hide from suicide, Unless we are
., directly connected to a family suffer:
itig such a. catastrophic event’ we
know little oft fo
-E“Bor: “whatever “reasons — society
.. attaches stigma and!shame to suicide.
=o. The Bradfields have bravely chosen:
.. to come forward and share the partic:
ulars'of their loss. an

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» He was troubled at home, Drugs
and alcohol got the better of him, A.
v* Me came from a good family living’
comfortably ina good neighborhood,
He could have been your son, or
daughter, oy ne
The family is wrestling with! the,
big, possibly unanswerable, question — :}
of why te
"They wish..that. some good «will:
come from the logs, 9008) eg
In her heart Loren’s mother knows
this: young people who may be in.
_ that dark place her son found himself -
in-must think of.the many who love
them. |
Reach out,
Share the pain’ and
who love
help

son Loren is

honor those:
you by allowing them to, -

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AS ‘readers of the North Shore
= News have good reason to know,
‘> the language around here’is "1.

Freespeak, a healthily growing

1,300 ever-changing tonguc,

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readers and free speech supporters to the fund; which was ini-. So you will nut be sur
‘tiated :on: March 26, stood at $96,384. Legal fees expended... prised if I nomisiate in the? ~.
thus. far: by, the News! are now over "$120,000, All finds - category of Newspaper of

«received will help defray.the tegal costs faced by

to be determined:
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the. News in’. Courage for 1997... wait

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to“ Rights ‘Tribunal — the Star Chamber of
* our times — under shameful legislation
‘passed by a shameless New Democratic;
_ Party government (hey, what millenaium
‘will we be in when the charity-rebbing
“> NDP insiders of the Nanaimo
~ Commonwealth Holding Society are
brought to book, hmmm?) 2.
Bur few readers will be aware that the
Bulletin, published in Vancouver under
“associate publisher Rick Wolk and owned »
~~ by the American-based Buerger family, has
* covered the Collins‘tase with praiseworth
conscientiousness in its news columns and
with brave comment in its editorials (even a
letter to the editor by Doug).
_«. Since the complaint to the Human
" Rights Commission by the Canadian -,
Jewish Congress involves a Collins column’
jecring at the Holccaust movie Schindler's
oy List, this hearing has an intense, and for,
many intensely emotional, interest for the
Jewish community.

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Herth Shore ftews, founded in 1969 as 29
independent suburban newspaper and quakhed

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Excise Tas Act, ig published each Wednesstay,
Friday and Sunday by Notth Shove Free Press =

Utd. and destnbuted to every doot on the North —~ :

Shore. Canada Post Canadian Pubscabons Mad - 4
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Bulletin deserves

and.

your standard smoath executive types.

Entite coments © 1997 Noth Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved.

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SALMON WAR TACTIC

the customers, the “core.
'o expropriate a remark by:.,
an old Frenchman, ‘the secret of journalistic
uccess is knowing how far to go tod far.) -
‘The’ Bulletin has clearly:
y done that: Fy
On its news payes, it has
run coverage ©

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» front-page story it is: And
it has dug up real news.
and run it undiluted, °
In its June 6 edition the |
Bulletin said right up
front: “Southam Ine. «
“executive David Radler:
slammed [the CJC] for-turning ... Doug
‘Collins into what he calls a martyr; «

“ sCanadian Jewish Congress is really;
more responsible for the creation of what I:
would cail the Collins phenomenon,’ said
Mr. Radler, deputy chairman and associate’
CEO of Southam Ine., which owns 62% of
the North Shore News, ... ‘They just went:
ahead, barrelled ahead as they so often do.’ ”

-Radler then offered this admirably blunt
advice == on how to take action on a mat:
ter his own company has an economic
stake in :

“The way tor this community to deal >
with people that they don’t like in newspa--
pers is to stop supporting those advertisers.
that are supporting that newspaper.”

Radler is not a personality Ruy, not a

schmoozer, not doing, personal PR like

ry

Asked, he'll tell you, And listen, By the tp

ray, he's Jewish son be?
Editonially, the Bedletin dismisses Collins
as an “old coot.” But it scorches the legics i

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‘ic, : Most papers think twice before really, ©

“really upset
readership.” (

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“Some prominent Bs

¢ the hear. «
ing — complete with pic...
tures. of Collins — as the...’

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sed against him, It too argues
that withdrawing advertising and ‘reader-
ship is the route to go for the affronted,

Uletin readers are
uutraged; including Harry Abranis in’

~Vietoria and North Vancouver's Lione

Kenner, One, Stan Goldman, of Varicou
wanted “some condemnation of Collins’:
views, ... Instead what I found was:
defence of freedom of the press, iii

certain that the Jewish commini

i tunity
~ your readers would like a clarification o

your priorities: are you [the Bislletin} a

“ yournalist who happens to be a Jew, or a |

Jew who happens to be a journalist?

" Tthink the Bulletin is forthe ntl
answering that question, not without:
agony and perhaps to its cast, I sympathi
‘The Collins case is agonizing me too, like |

Coincidentally (1 hope), productio

~ equipment was stolen in two recent bu

. Blaries at the Badletin, delaying publication
of the June 6 issue fortwo days, I'm send:
ing the paper.a smal! donation for any loss
not covered by insurance, E warmly urge
‘the same readers who generously suppor

» the Collins defence find to do hkewise

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Also deserving support: Judy Stone's
Animal Advocates Soctety of B,C;; whi
saves mistreated animals, is holding a’tar .

‘in freedom of

in wt debate to

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