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“If you were to go to any
other “municipality. in the
Lower Mainland and look at
what recreation facilities they
had available, you'd be very
surprised how far we are
behind,” Thomas said.

Preliminary cost. estimates
identified in the Recreation
Facilities Master Plan for the
highest priority reconsmenda-
tions add up to abour $25
million. Topping the list in no
particular order: upgrading
the ice arena; replacing the
central, community centre;
upgrading sports fieids and
building new ones; building a
Western community centre;
expanding the aquatic centre;
and upgrading the Glencagles
Golf facility.

Said Thomas, “The real
tricky part is which ones to do
first. I think that will be deter-
mined more on the financial
side rather than in terms of
picking a priority. What we'd
ideally like to see is all of these
Projects completed or under
way in_the next five to seven
years. Council just can’t spend
ail the money to do that all at

= CONTROVERSIAL

ex-North Shore News

columnist Doug Collins

may soon. get a judicial
review of an _

- unfavourable Human

Rights Tribunal deci-
sion. -

“The administrative body
found Collins and the News

E . violated -a..Human. Rights

Code law prohibiting publica-

‘ton of a statement likely to.

expose "a person or group to
hatred or contempt.

‘A complaint was made by
Harry Abrams of Victoria over
a series of 1994 ‘columns by
Collins about the Holocaust.

“In the Feb. 2, 1999, decision,
"the News was ordered to pub-

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SNOWBOARDERS Naomi Harden and Amanda Stonehouse, both 13, test their sur-
vival skills by digging a snow pit Saturday on Grouse while waiting for friends.

wins right to appeai

lish the tribunal’s decision and
pay Abrams $2,000 to com-
pensate the man for his hurt
feelings.

Collins filed for appeal last
April contending that the tri-
bunal is unconstitutional, He
said the decision contravened
the protection of free expres-
sion contained in the
Canadian Charter of Rights
and Freedoms.

In December, Collins lost
a bid in B.C. Supreme Court
to have a section of the code
declared unconstitutional.
The judge hearing the matter
referred Collins back to the
tribunal for a ruling on the
constitutional matter.

“We thought that was a bit
ridiculous,” Collins said.
“There’s no way the, B.C.

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Human Rights Trivunal is
going to find against i itself.”

On Monday, B.C. Court
of Appeai Justice “wiltem
Esson agreed with Collins and
his Victoria lawyer Doug
Christie that the appeal
should be heard by the full
Court of Appeal sometime
this spring.

The application was unsuc-
cessfully opposed by lawyers
from the Ministry of
Attorncy-General and Human
Rights Commission.

The B.C. Court of Appeal
will decide whether another
hearing on the constitutional-
ity of the tribunal can be held
in B.C. Supreme Court.

“It’s a very important vic-
tory,” Collins said. “(Esson)
said this should take place as
soon as possible. Obviously he
thinks that we’ve been (hard)
done by.”

Neither the Morth Shore
News nor publisher Hollinger
intervened in the matter.

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