6 - Sunday, May 16, 1997 ~ North Shore News

forever, Unionized B.C, Ferries
workers are living testament to
that feudal philosophy,

Last Tuesday approximately 45
union meinbers crewing on the Spirit
of British Columbia flexed their union
muscle in a wildcat strike that incon-
venienced thousands of B,C, resi-

‘ dents, visitors, truck drivers and
‘other. travellers,

Gere t public: it’s solidarity

A synipathy strike followed aboard |

the Spirit of Vancouver Island.
The walkouts brought ferry traffic
toa standstill. a
All sailings from Tsawwassen and
Swartz Bay were cancelled from 3
_ p.m, to’7 p.m., leaving ferry-users to
“stew in the bot spring sun. 7
» The trigger for the appallingly irre-
sponsible action: two non-union
employces,, working .a newsstand

THE North Shore News Free Speech Defenice

__, Fund is now over $79,000...

‘To press time Friday, donations from News readers and free
supporters to the fund, which was initiated on March 26,

stood at $79,475, | s

* Alt funds received will help defray the legal costs faced by the

News in its battle with the Huraan Rights Tribunal over a com-

-” plsint laid against the newspaper and its columnist Doug
‘Collins by the Canadian Jewish Congress. The hearing.

into the matter began on May 12 at the Century Plaza

Hotel, 1015 Burrard St., Vancouver. It has since shifted

~ to the Police Commission boardroom, Room 407, 815

_ Homby St., Vancouver.

More excerpts ftom the hundreds of regondents to the

cause: :

“The opportunity for printing thought-provoking columns
«and readers’ letters ioe mandate of ‘any newspaper, and
_Sor the renders it is an opportunity to share others’ thoughts
and views and so maybe increase our knowledge.”
* a — M. Sawyer of North Vancouver
0 :

a O00. 7
"We may not agree with everything/inything Doug
uses, but in many/most cases he speaks for a
silent/tactturn: majority \snable/reticent!to speak their
hough”

“a Alan Christy of West Vancouver

» 900: ;

‘ “I don’t often agree with Doug Collins and believe that
more often than not, the language he ses ts excesive, as are the opin-
tons he writes and which you print. However, I also believe that the
Human Rights Tribunal vests power in its members which, in the

hands, could lead to the excesses of the Star Chamber. This

Collins

be a worse situations, subject to many abuses.”

— AR.W. Clayton of North Vancouver
Donations to the Morth Shore News Free Speech Defence
Fund can be sent to the News offices, 1139 Lonsdale Ave.,

north shore news

_EWPOINT
Strike farce

aboard the Spirit of British Columbia.
’ Serious stuff, right travellers?

Well it should be serious stuff, For
the union, that is.

‘ Reprimands, suspensions, outright
dismissals, Take your pick, Anyone
stranded on Tuesday is free to write
in with their choice.

And the issue is far from over.

B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers
representative Ken Michacl said a
recurrence of the job action is possi-
ble. Stay tuned.

With the mediator having now
been asked to book out of the dis-
pute, anything can happen.

Michael was quoted as saying the
union doesn’t support illegal job
action but it still sympathized with
the workers involved in that action.

The union would be alone in that
category.

THERE You Go,
MR. KASPAROV, HERE'S 5
THE VIRUS YOU

ORDERED.

| ONLY

HOPE You KNOW
WHAT You'RE

Campaign sleaze hits new low

THERE are creepies and crawlics,
and nasty things that go bump in
the night. Then there’s the dirty

tricks department of Warren
Kinsella’s North

Van Liberal cam-

paign office.

Its latest weapon to
come to light is a scur-
rilously defamatory letter
painting Kinselfa’s oppo-
nent, incumbent Reform
MP Ted White, as a
slavering “racist” who
uses his elected office to
provide a “soapbox for
his racist friends,”

— with the unwitting help of News
being arraigned before B.C.’s Star
Rights Tribunal, for annoying the

You might think this tired old “when-
did-you-stop-beating-your-wife” approach
was wearing a bit thin by now, even for
the ethically challenged Kinsella character
assassins. But bless them, they’ve found yet
another angle for exploiting their sleaze.

This time their target is the Jewish vote

columnist Doug Collins, who’s currently
Chamber, the comically named Human

Canadian Jewish Congress in a 1994 cal-
umn, Let me explain. The letter — on the
Kinsella Campaign letterhead and dated
May 5, 1997 ~- is addressed, with a per-
sonalized salutation, to an apparent mail-
ing list of North Van Jewish residents, It
purports to come from 12 “members of
the Nort!i Shore Jewish community” -:

tions, libellous innuendoes and outright
lies throughout the letter, 1 will spare
them for the moment the embarrassment
of identifying them. Suffice to say, eight of
the 12 are not North Van voters at all, but
live in West Van.
The Collins connection
is obvious. For the
North Van Liberal dirty
tricks team his “trial,”
due to outlast the elec-
tion campaign, seems
pure gold, It will obvi-
ously be followed close-
ly by the entire B.C.
Jewisk: community. So
promote, as the letter
does, Collins as
“Holocaust denier”
(one ofits numerous lies — Collins merely
questions the Holocaust numbers) and
insinuate that he influences Ted White's
campaign (Collins is not even in White’s
riding), and you've got yourself a fine-
mesh Liberal net with which to fish for
North Van Jewish votes,

Or so it might seem to the simple-
minded, which bully-boys like the Kinsella
mind-thugs often arc. So it’s interesting
thar White’s campaign office reports.
receiving ongoing calls trom Jewish recipi-
ents of the letter, angry about the Liberal
effort to manipulate thera with such bla-
tant propaganda,

‘The core of that propaganda is the
dog-eared old Kinsella charge that Ted
White, in 1983 a recent immigrant from
New Zealand, joined for a few months the
Western Canada Concept party whose

the rest. of Canada, He ran unsuccessfully
for the WCC in the 1983 provincial elec-
tion and quit shortly afterwards, End of
story. All of us are occasionally conned.
Fast-forward 14 years. During the past’
three and half North Van, as'a simple mat-
ter of record, has at least had an MP who |
‘kept his constituents informed in detail of
his doings every single week, canvassed
them constantly for their opinions and has
not been afraid to vote in Parliament for
those opinions — even on occasion against
his own party and his personal convictions,
Many of the letter’s snide slurs against :
White are so childish that one wonders
about its author’s mental standards. Then,
towards the end, comes this gem:
~ “Warren,” we're told, “knows the ins and :

outs of government ... He is the antithesis 2")...

of Ted White.” In short, a ready-made
Ottawa insider, _

Remembering the ignoring of B.C.’
interests by the six Liberal MPs we sent to
become Chretien’s trained seals in 1993,
that’s exactly what a lot of North Van vot-
ers are aftaid of; Warren!

‘f 900 :
HAPPY birthday today, May 18, to West
Van Fiwanian Graham. Senner ... Also in)
West Van many happy returns of Monday, :
May 19, to artist Daniel Izzard and film». -
producer Gary Payne, _

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appear at the end under “Yours truly.”
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platform (according to my media files at
that time) encouraged B.C. and Alberta
citizens to work for independence from

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