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Alan Fotheringhani and
the Vancouver Sun may soon
be parting company, cue to a
slight discrepancy between

Stu Keate’s view of Pierre.

‘Tradeau and friends, and
that of Senior Editor Gather-

ingfroth. a
It seems that it is ail very
well for Foth to land a few

blunted arrows in the ample .

flesh of the Liberal. flank,

‘provided he does so from the

second front page of the
Vancouver Sun,

loose upon-his. typewriter. .

But to take - a poke at the
feds. on
Sorry - Al, ‘that’ S not done
under the ~ “ Marquis
Queensberry rules — espec-
ially when the jibe contra-
dicts editorial ‘policy.

A memo was issued in the _.

Sun’s newsroom to the effect
that Foth has been demoted
from senior

of dropping from sight. ~

where. he =
can be carefully inspected for.
cyanide before. being ‘turned. -

‘local television?

of .

_to associate.
editor, with his thrice-weekly oo
column showing every. sign -

- February 18, 1976 - North Shore News ©

_The memo apparently also
acknowledged that _ Fother-.

_ ingham was. considering the

current situation along with
**several. offers’’

that effect. , be

This should. be interesting. .
Considerations of current
loyalty aside, the Sun is not
my favorite newspaper, edit-
orially speaking, -and my
outlock on life is eons away
frora. Fotheringham’ s.. But it
would be petty of me to deny

-. that he is the best pomposity-

pricking penpusher to hit this
or any other Canadian burg
-in a-long time. He is rivalled ©

. (or exceeded, if you prefer)

-only by the’ likes of ‘Ron.
Haggart and -George Bain —

both Easterners.

_ Yet for -that- very. ‘reason, .
his departure from the Sun, :
(where. he.~ Started . as--.a.

: sportswriter, -. if: memory ser

ves), i is inevitable. .

‘Fotheringham -secured his.
-reputation by confining. him-. .
self to attacks upon the

Save the s seals

Dear Sir:
In past years you have-.
been in the forefront of. the. :

battle to end the barbarous -

‘seal hunt. I wonder if you

could give some publicity to .

the enclosed leaflets from the
International ; Fund::for Ani-
mal Welfare (IFAW), with |
whom ‘‘Greenpeace”’
operating this year.
It seems unbelievable that

- Canadian and Norwegian seal hunters plan to take. 130,000 ms
baby harp seals in March, Brian Davies of the IFAW sit
concerned persons write to the Norw

‘is. co--

Canada continues to parti-

cipate ‘so- enthusiastically
with: ‘Norway: in this terrible
-cruelty.:
readers. to_ protest to our
Prime Minister or the. Min-

ister-of: Fisheries in Ottawa, .

and also to the Norwegian

.ambassador at the: address... -
given in the back ‘age of the _

larger leaflet::
Mrs. J.M. Gellison

* the time”
- Bennett and the old "Socred

in the .
- journalistic field, cr words to

‘Please. urge your-

é

2 preed; ‘hypocrisy. and_ stu:
_. pidity of politicians ‘in Van- :

couver and © Victoria” —* a"
sound move when. you recall
that the fish in his barrel at
were  W.A.C.

gang-in Victoria, and Tom
(Terrific) Campbell and the
creaky NPA gang” in Van-'
couver, -

Fotheringham_
you and I ate it up, and the

Sun. grew richer. Inevitably, .

Fotheringham ‘did, too.

"Prosperity dulls the hun- .

ter’s Knife. Hunting for sport
and prestige just isn’t the
same as tracking your daily
bread, and Fotheringham
has been off his mark of late,
frustrated by smaller targets
and blunted ‘weapons, ;

At ‘the’ same. time, tie has

-widened his field of :battle, ©

-tackling far-off. Ottawa and.
writing for: ‘Eastern, publica- |
- tions, as he. once, swore he.
“would not do. an :

“Ht had. to: happen: If, you ~
want to become a4 national
- -political analyst, rather than
* just a provincial. sharpshoot-
“er, you have to take on the
feds — andthe feds are the
friends of .FP Publications,
who run Stu: Keate; who runs
-the.. Vancouvér -.Sun- and

Save deer

‘Dear Sir:

Two weeks ago my friends
‘and I spotted a deer on the
- schoolgrounds of.: Hamilton
Jr. Secondary © School. We
- went up to the deer and. fed it.
apples. me 2

Oneof my. friends reported
the: deer’ to. one of his

‘2. teachers; ‘who: then - phoned

‘the B.C. Wildlife Service,
.. 2531 Ottawa Ave, .- +
. West Vancouver

-They’ phoned. back ‘and said

. they. wouldn’t do. anything

about it “because there is a
way for the deer to get back
to where she came from. As

runs. by ‘the. school, my
friends_and I were worried

So we-.haye been keeping
watch for her.

- On the: morning of Feb. 7,
_two friends found the deer
~ lying dead.in the ditch by the
upper Levels.

The: reason we are writing
Service should try at least to
* safe .and we are. concerned
should : be: protected as ‘we

“enjoy seeing them in a safe
and happy ehvironment.

egian Ambassador, ot

A. Skaratein, 140 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario, KIP. SA2, ;

or to Fishorios Minister Romeo Leblanc and Prime Minister:
Trudeau, House of Commons; P Parliament ee Ottawa, |

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this article in your paper.

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“dashed, :

“the letter from Mrs. White |
‘ regarding the unsatisfactory

- I fully agree with her. .
the Upper . Levels: Highway

that the’deer might get hurt,”

. day care. -

‘this letter to you is because ~
we feel that the B.C. Wildlife

_ take the deer back where it is -
that wildlife ‘in ‘this. area

_ do we not have the right to

: Mrs. A. Bodwell .

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Patricia Cardio, | age. of © our.

 voluntecrs ‘in Kiwanis’ ‘Lynn

Jan... 28)and in’ What's
1 Going On” (Feb. 4)."

including. . Alan Fothering-
tem, senior editor or no.

” ‘The parting is necessary.
The Sun, rich: and fat, has
*no-need to hustle anymore, | rar
especially if hustling ontails | os
alienating old en 1 on 9 5 ;
Fotheringham, rich and lean- | only $1 49
ing toward the pudgy side, : an

Feb. only
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doesn’t have to hustle, to be
sure. He could stay. at the
Sun, don the muzzle and rest
on his laurels. .

- But the man has ability,
ambition, and Pride luring :
him on. :

Two questions ’a “arise . here.
With Fotheringham gone,
how will the Sun even
pretend to perform the daily
duty! of watchdog over the -
politicos? And with the. Sun’:
_gone, how will Foth wax {-
wroth?:At the. Province? ‘Not .|| ”
‘likely’ they havé ‘neither ..
‘the means nor the ‘inclina-
_tion. At the. CBC? .He’s not ©
exactly: ‘an ‘electric presence .
“on” screen. or. behind a
‘microphone. . _

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