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Forger
in court
again

By Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

CONVICTED pass-
\ port forger Siamak
: Ashrafinia was found
guilty on Monday of
. oo concealing the fact
that he had been
deported when he
applied to be a
Canadian citizen in

1993.

The Tranian refugee lied to a
Canadian Citizenship officer on
Nov, 23, 1993, iu Vancouver.

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\ for him to became a Canadian cit-
oo izen a year later, “The North
: Vancouver tin was under surveil- : seein a ne ; :
Jance. by North Vancouver NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge
tr Mounties investigating — the p )
forgery of Canadian passports aul S Da rly
when he swore an oath to be loyal
to this country. CANADIAN Action Party leader Paul Hellyer (left) and North Vancouver candidate Wayne Mulherin plan to eliminate the national
debt by changing the Bank of Canada. The federal government should borrow money at no interest from the Bank of Canada. The
See Fraud page 31 party wants to phase out the government's reliance on interest-charging commercial banks. See story on page 5.
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H H ~ before felt the need to have Collins cohimns “because of uncertainty” of Bill 33,
= News ma naging editor tells of them exantined by an attor: Sutherland is trying to prove that the legislation created a
H . ney. chill — or fear of printing controversial articles — for newspa-
uncertainty caused by Bill 33 “Doug isa piofessional per editors,
writer and knows the bound- Collins is well read and is reecived with “extreme emotions
By Andre Ramshaw aries that exist,” Renshaw on either side” Renshaw, 43, offered,
. Contributing Writer said. But Renshaw said the News refused to settle with the C)C
tg, But a 1994 complaint by -~ the group had asked fora retraction of the piece — because
IT was the news editor’s turn to be news- ihe CIC brought under Bill “it’s difficult to apologize for an opinion.”
maker on Tuesday. 33, the NDP amendment to He said the paper strives to provide a balanced voice in the
the province's human rights community which has “generally harmonious race relations.”
Timothy Renshaw, managing editor of the North Shore — code, caused the editor to put On Monday, globe-trotting law professor Kathleen
“ News since 1990, took the stand at « Vancouver human rights the 76-year-old writer's free- Mahoney gave the tribunal a lesson in international law.
tribunal. lance opinion pieces to closer The, University of Calgary law professor and: expert in
a The tribunal is hearing a complaint by the Canadian Jewish — scrutiny. human rights said B.C.’s human rights code compares “faver-
: Congress (CJC) against the paper and columnist Doug Collins. Renshaw said he found the ably” with those of other countries.
“ Under questioning by News lawyer David Sutherland, — bill confusing and vague and decided to kill a later Collins col- Some of the worst racism in Canada has taken place in B.C,
Renshaw said Collins had probably written more than 2,000 umn after spending about $4,000 on legal opinions.
Be, columns for the News and the managing editor had never Renshaw estimated he spiked — or squashed — three other See Collins page 10
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