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WV stock promoter’s bid for publication ban quashed

INTERNATIONAL STOCK promoter Robert Friedland of
“West Vancouver is the mystery man behind an unprece-
dented media ban that has drawn public attention across
Nortii America in the past three weeks.

Friedland’s
court-ordered
Supreme Court
morning.

The uproar in the Canadian
media erupted after .CBC-TV’s
Fitth Estate program confronted
Friedland in Vancouver and New
York about his past.

Howard Shapray,

identity
secret -in
until

was oa
B.C,
Tuesday

Friedland’s

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NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

COMPETITORS IN the Grouse Grind race take off during the mass start last Saturday of the
2.2 mile (3.5 km) annual event. West Vancouver’s Shawn Robinson was the first man to cross
the finish line in a record-setting time of 31 minutes and 46 seconds. The overall women’s
winner was Aenea Cameron, of Vancouver, who finished the mountain climb in 40:52.

By Brent Mudry
Contributing Writer

lawyer, sought and was granted an
initial injunction by B.C. Supreme
Court Judge David Vickers on
Aug. 31 so broad-reaching that a
full publication ban was placed on

the mere existence of the ban,

The Globe and Mail resorted to
front-page notices stating to the
effect that ‘‘somewhere in some
court in Canada there is a ban,
but we cannot tell you anything
about anything.”’

The ban was later lifted to allow
mention of the B.C. Supreme
Court, but no other details. The
plaintiff remained known = as
“John Doe.””

But the full story was published
in the Denver Post newspaper in
Colorado earlier this month.

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After a one-week hearing,
totally closed (o the media and the
public, with both CBC and Globe
jawyers present, Madam Justice
Mary Ellen Boyd decided Monday
to overturn the injunction, but lit-
tle could legally be published be-
fore 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Shapray arranged, on one
hour’s notice, to have B.C. Mr.
Chief Justice Allan) McEachern
hear his appeal of the dismissal on
Monday afternoon, the first time

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