Sunday, Januaryrt8;1 998 >» North Shore News743 © > Press council head steps down imothy Renshaw Seetanagsing Edstor SE HIE Admiral has left he B.C. Press Council Bepridge. Robert Yanow, the retired o-star fear admiral who has Suided the B.C. Press Council its chairman for the past ight; years, has officially mstcpped down from his posi- mon. .- +. 7 Yanow, 64, announced his Macdecision at the press council's meernual gencral siecting last November. His official press council idutics ended as of Dec. I. > Taking .over.-as. the new il chairman will be ghes, B.C.’s former of "interest commis- retarv'Gerald Porter. called Yazsow “a superb chairman.” » -Andy-as with any good an, Yanow_ ran a tight Mm press council experience, fair- ness reigned; manners pre- dominated. Even in the roughest of press council weather. Some of that heavy weath- er was generated by the North Shore News itscif and those who registered com- plaints over what the News stood for and the opinions it published. There was an air of military precision to hearings and the procedures surrounding them. At one point in the most ‘recent News press council hearing, for example, retired News colusnnist Doug Collins had shifted into high emotional gear. Heated = words expressed. Chairman Yanow, adopt- ing his best navy officer’s tone, cautioned the Second World War veteran, “Remember, Mr. Collins, you are an officer and a gentle- man.” The room = snapped to were “attention. Decisions handed down by the council under Yanow’s chairmanship . were routinely characterized by a fair-minded thoughtfulness. But it was not only at hear- ings that the press council dis- tinguished itself. In the North Shore News’ battle against the NDP’s censorship legislation contained in bills 33 and 32, the first ally to chrow its fot in with the News was the B.C. Press Council. The Yanow-led council was eventually granted intervenor status on behalf of the News at the 1997 human nights tri- bunal hearing that pitted the newspaper against — the Canadian Jewish Congress. As Porter points out, Yanow led the charge against what remains extremely dan- gerous and bad provincial leg- islation. “Bob really galvanized the newspaper industry to the dangers posed by the legisla- tion, not just to the press, but to the public,” said Porter. Freedom of speech has always been more than just 2 catch phrase for Yanow; it is one of the press council’s | guiding principles. That and keeping govern- ment out of the free market- place of open discussion. In its opening salvo fired at the NDP’s Bill 32. amend- ments to the province’s human rights act, the press council stated that it was: “alarmed at the recent ~ changes in human rights iegis- ladon in B.C. that will give Services receive grants a TWON h’. Shore support services were services will enable the association to offer a the provincial government new tools to harass newspa- pers and force them to toe a politically conect line.” “As far as the council is concerned,” Yanow said, “the new Human Rights Amendment Act is unconsti- tutional, totaily unwarranted and a danger to ice speech and a free press in British Coijumbia.” No mincer of words is the good admiral. Yanow, who has been appointed a member of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board, served 36 years with the Royal Canadian Navy. During the course of his navy career, he served aboard 13 Canadian and Allied war- ships, and in 1984 assumed the appointment of comman- der of maritime forces for the Pacific. He began his term as press council chairman in 1990. Terms traditionally run six years, but two years ago, with the press council expanding its mandate and moving its oper- ation to its current West Gcorgia locale, Yanow was asked ro stay on for another three years. Yanow said he loved his time as press council chair- man. Ir was an experience, he said that, “opened my eyes to a tremendous amount of things. “I got to know the indus- try and (developed) wemen- dous respect for the people in it.” Mr. Hughes is scheduled to take over his chairman’s duties as of Feb. ]. Let's hope he guides the vessel with the same sense of purpose as his predecessor. Your free press will be bet- ter for it. TZU CHI INSTITUTE FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Participants Wanted for Mind-Body Research Program The Tzu Chi Institute tor Complementary and Alternative Medicine is seeking individuals to participate in a Mind-Body Research Program. A Mind-Body research study combines a program of individual complementary care with group exercises in breathing, mindful meditation, movement and communications as well as managing emotions and strategies for maintaining wellness and improving health status. 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