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RULING ON CCLLINS CASE

B.C. Press Council members ‘should

be removed from their positions’

Dear Editor:

Hypocritical, unprofessional,
dishonest, cowardly, illogical are
words which spring to mind when
one reads the B.C. Press Council’s
pathetic attempt to excuse the in-
excusable.

I refer to the council’s dismissal
of Doug Collins’ complaints of
‘bad reporting’ which he laid
against Nicole Parton and, ‘a
denial of his right to reply’ which
he laid against the Vancouver Sun.

In the North Shore News, July
9, under the heading B.C. Press

Canada suffers
from apathy

Dear Editor:

Doug Collins is right. Canada as
we have known it is doomed.

‘When I decided to leave Britain
in 1954 and chose Canada I could
never have known what imbecilic
and traitcrous governments —
with opposition help — would
eventually decide to do to that
country,

At least for my descendants I
now realize I made a poor choice.

Surely Trudeau, Mulroney,
Turner and Broadbent and their
legions of so-called ‘politicians’
uniquely qualify for the Guinness
Book of Records? For certainly no
other country in history has seen
governments so surely hellbent on
reducing their country to utter
nuination,

In time of war such behavior
would be seen as treason and
perpetrators shot. Even today,
without war, that remedy is fully
deserved.

For those who can get out —
and are awake — now is the time
to go. The ship is sinking fst.
Truly, Parliament Hill needs its
own Guy Fawkes. But a successful
one this time.

But perhaps Canada’s greatest
danger comes from ttc nlague that
afflicts most of its population. It is
called Canadapathy.

Albert B. Griffin
North Vancouver

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Council, not up in arms demand-
ing that this denial of freedem of
expression be eliminated instead of
using it as an excuse to deny simple
justice?

if members of the council are so
lacking in understanding of
elementary civilized conduct as to
believe that people in Canada can
be attacked and denied the right to
defend themselves, they demon-
Strate their unfitness as leaders in
our society.

They should resign, or, failing
that, they should be removed from
their positions of influence and be
replaced by people who are more
aware of Canadian standards of
fair play and common decency.
Kenneth Foster
North Vanccuver

Council dismisses News colum-
nist’s complaint, the council is
reported as follows: ‘‘Council
regretfully dismisses this part of
the complaint (referring to the
‘right of reply') on the technical
grounds that newspapers are not
obliged to grant automatic right of
response.’’ How interesting. How
revealing. How convenient. How
disgusting.

So, according to the B.C. Press
Council, the Nicole Partons and
Vancouver Suns of the world can
attack anyone or anything at any
time for any or no reason and, in
Canada, they have no obligation to
give the victims of their abuse the
‘right of reply.’

If this is true, why is that para-
gon of virtue, the B.C. Press

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DONNA AND DANIEL MARK

Donna and Daniel live in Lynn Valley and deliver North Shore News
papers in the British Properties on Wednesdays and Fridays. They are
driven there by their mother and after delivering 160 papers on
Wednesdays and 155 papers on Fridays, they catch the bus home.

Donna, who is 12 this month, is going into grade 7 at Eastview School
in September, where her favourite subjects are Socials, Math, Art and
Language Arts. She also enjoys playing basketball and volleyball. Outside
of school, she loves to rollerskate, swim, and spend time with friends.
With her earings from the North Shore News, Donna has bought clothes,
hair adornments and slurpees. She has also saved some of her money
in the bank. Daniel, who is 14 in September, will be going into grade
9 in the Fall. His favourite subject at school is PE., particularly rubgy,
but he also enjoys volleyball and basketball. Outside of school he likes
to play arcade games and being in the sun. He also enjoys going to movies,
his most recent favourite oeing Batman. He too likes to spend his eamings
on clothes and has put some in the bank.

We thank Donna and Daniel for being our Star Carriers this week and
for a job well done.

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