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Michael Becker

News Editor
michacl@nsnews.com

LAST week’s court
decision to allow the
possession of child
pornography is a slap
in the face of all child-
porn victims, says a
North Vancouver man
who hunts pedophiles
on the Internet.

Said GOCHP (Guarding, Our
Childre Innocence against
Pedophilss) founder Alan Walker,
“[ see as a wake-up call for
British Cohumbians to start look
ing at what's going on) around
them when it comes to pedophile
activity. Being a victim) of
pedophiles, knowing my pictures
are on the Internet, this judye has
given permission to every pervert
in Canada to enjoy himself at the

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Robert Galster
News Reporter rabert@usnews.com

THE recent disclosure of massive cost
overruns is threatening to sink the
provincial government’s much-vaunted
fast ferry program.

On Sunda, BC Ferries CEO and president ‘Tom Ward
resigned from his post after he revealed to the corporation's
board that the cost of the first fast ferry has ballooned to a stag-
gering $113 million.

Catamaran Ferries International (CFE) was set up as a BC
Ferries subsidiary to build three alaminum-hulled fast ferries for
the Crown corporation and later to compete for future fast
ferry contracts on the international market. The initial proj

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“S Anna Shahriani looks skyward as she attempts to pin Grackendale's Tammy Lessard during a recent warm-up meet
tor today's North Shore high school wrestling championships at Balmoral. Shahriani won the match.

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BC Ferries boss Tom Ward
resigns as pricetag for first
fast ferry balloons to $113m

s pegged the cost of the vessels at $70 million cach; the
vessel cost was adjusted to $86 million last year. According to
the government, the 250-car and 1,000-passenger ships will
shave 30 minutes from the current 1% hour voyage berween
Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo,

On Monday, the figures were presented to the public during
a press conference attended by deputy premier and minister
responsible for BC Ferries Dan Miller, CFE board chairman
Jack Munro and Ward's replacement Philip Halkertt.

Miller deflected blame tor the praject’s runaway cost even as

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opposition Liberal politicians called for his re!
provincial legislaturs

“As the minister, Pdo rely ¢
me by the protessionals,” Miller said shortly after the pr:
fereste

He added that he plans on beiag mo: eplical in the
future: “TE must say, given the information Pve now rece
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nites).

Ward was nowhere to be found on Monday as the poli
and BC Ferries officials attempted to explain the fiasco.

Miller refused to be drawn into a discussion of Ward's per-
formance and repeated an obviously prepared statement that
Ward had enjoyed a “long and distinguished career in the
marine sector, And T wish him well.”

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