A TALE of two persecuted
men... Both Canadians. ©

They of course don’t face any-
thing like tlie tanks and tortures
unleashed by the scumsucking
Commies in China. Good old
Canada, for ail its goofy ways, is
Still about as free a country as
‘you’re going to get.

But we sometimes do things that
aren’t in essence all that different
from what is being done by the
fascists in Beijing.

“If this were truly a democratic
country — as opposed to a
parliamentary oligarchy — impor-
las tant national voices couldn’t be

cote silenced overnight by disapp: oving
ae bosses.

If this were truly a land of free
choice, a land without hypocrisy,
we wouldn’t have kangaroo courts
2 A in the name of ‘‘sport.”*

, The biggest sport in Canada for
the last several months has been
the baiting and tormenting of Ben
Johnson, subjected to nothing less
than an Inquisition-like public trial
— a “show trial,’’ in fact — and
forced to grovel in front of the
cameras.

Of course, the whole Dubin in-
quiry was a dismal exercise, reveal-
ing moral rot at every level of the

‘Booze who’

RECENT CONVICTIONS in
North Shore courts have resulted
‘in the following fines and penalties
for drinking and driving related
offences.
WEST VANCOUVER: Michael
Allan Mather, 23, 4640 Woodburn
Road, West Vancouver (over .08,
$650 fine, one-year driving suspen-
‘ . sion); Colin Fraser, 20, 866
: Nicolum Court, North Vancouver
(over .08, $450 fine).

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government-subsidized sports
establishment.

But to put the finger on Ben,
when he was surrounded by am-
biticus bureaucrats, doctors and
groupies, is ultimately so unfair

that it makes a mockery of the idea

of fair play.

Watching the big day of the
Dubin inquiry, when Ben appeared
on the stand, I was appalled by the
obviousness of the way he had
been brain-washed to reply.

The questions and answers had

W atching the big day of the
Dubin inquiry, when Ben
appeared on the stand, I was
appalled by the obviousness of
the way he had been brain-
washed to reply.’’

plainly been agreed upon and

rehearsed, God knows how many
times, long before the runner
climbed into the dock.

It was an echo of the scene in
China as the ‘‘counter-revolu-
tionaries’’ were paraded before the
TV cameras to confess their politi-
cal crimes. They had been physi-
cally tortured. Ben hadn’t. That
was the big difference.

But he had sure as hell been
psychologically battered to a pulp,
repeatedly mobbed, and, in fact,
clobbered by strangers.

Of course, what he did ‘was
wrong. But what we did to him
was worse. Normally, when caught
cheating, one is dismissed and
forgotten, not hounded from pillar
to post, made into a scapegoat.

THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY
OF NORTH VANCOUVER

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING

A Policy Committee Meeting will be held
in Council Chamber, City Hall
141 West 14th Sireet
On

MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1989
AT 7:30 P.M.

Members of the public are invited to attend
the third Public Policy Committee meeting
concerning View Preservation. The meeting
will provide a Staff review of the View
Study and proposals for new regulations
based on the View Study.
The meeting will also provide the public
with a further opportunity to present
their opinions to Council.

Yet, disgusting as the Johnson
media Star Chamber has been, a
by far more important event has
been the chopping of David
Suzuki’s column from The Globe
& Mail.

It was, in fact, the only thing I
tread with pleasure in that dismal
rag, even if I do use it as a source
of raw material for my files.

This is not to say that I believe
everything I read in it.

Certainly not. There have been
far too many cases of puffed-up
stories in The Globe whose main
function was political, rather than
serving the public record In any
meaningful way.

The Globe is the “national —
newspaper’’ purely by default. But

since it is the only paper published .

daily across Canada, it has a
unique social function as well as a
unique opportunity to make
money,

It goes without saying that The
Globe’s publisher, A. Roy
Megarry, has the right to decide
whose prose shall grace his paper’s

ages.

The problem is that while his
paper may publish daily across
Canada, he himse?f rcsides in
Toronto, swishes abou‘ socially in
Toronto, and hangs out with
bankers, politicians, celebrities and
other media moguls who also live
in Toronto.

David Suzuki’s column, which
began as a general science column,
had evolved over the last couple of
years into something almost as
radical as the kind of columns
yours truly has been writing about
ecology for 20 years.

In fact, a couple of months ago,
I wrote a piece about the evolution
of Suzuki’s thinking from the pure
empirical scientist to Green ac-
tivist.

i thought he was great. With on-
ly one national newspaper, we
were fortunate indeed to have a
voice (a West Coast voice!) that
spoke for ecological sanity in a
still-mad world of industrial
avarice and bullheaded corporate
irresponsibility.

Suzuki had looked the future in
the face and was terrified by what

he saw. There was, in his writing, a

barely-controlled despasr about the
world his children would inherit.
Boy, do I ever know that feeling.

With Suzuki silenced, The
Globe's coverage of ecology has
moved mainly to the business
pages, where the corporate point
of view determines the slant of
every story.

I guess David Suzuki got too
real, too close to the bone, for The
Globe’s Bay Street symps. Maybe
he’ll write a book about what
happened to him the moment he
turned serious crusader @

To EY woes Done

Top students honored at lunch

THE TOP 100 graduating Grade
12 students in North Vancouver
were treated to a special luncheon
recently.

The event, which was hosted by
the local business community, took

place at the Seymour Golf and
Country Club.

Sutherland Secondary vice-prin-
cipal Don Peters organized the
luncheon, which is planned to be
the first of many.

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