Doug Collins get this straight @ THERE WAS an item on the CBC news last week in which { was shown in bad comevany. It was done by Rick Ouston, who thinks of himself as an investigative reporter. But a sloppier piece of work you never saw. Ouston’s targets were right- wing groups that do not fit into the CBC's idea of how the world should work, among which is Doug Christie’s Canadian Free Speech League. The itern opened on supporters of the Sandinista government of Nicaragua holding a picnic in Vic- t¢ ‘a to mark the coming to power ot chat commie government. But Ouston the investigator wasn’t in- vestigating the commies. Nossir! That’s not the CBC style. An actor as well as a reporter, Quston announced dramatically: “Suddenly, an interruption!’ Which turned out to be the sinister Doug Christie, walking around with a B.C. flag. The purpose of Christie’s pro- test, not explained by Ouston, was that the socialist mayor of Vic- toria had endorsed the Sandinista celebration while refusing to Iet the Hungarians erect a plaque in honor of those who fell in the 1956 uprising. But Ouston now has a peg for his villain, complete with ‘‘color’’. We cut toa public meeting held in North Vancouver in April. Christie is introducing Professor Gary Botting of Red Deer, another bad character who believes in free speech and who, \ like me, testified for the defence at the trial of Ernst Zundel. This { being a morality play disguised as news, Ouston explains what rot- ters are at this meeting and others like it; how anti-Semitic and “white supremacist’? they are, ete. it is to be hoped that this simpleton knows how to spell ‘reporter’? because I have secn i better reporting in the National Enquirer. The item was not only bad, but possibly libellous. He stated of the guest speaker, for example, that “Botting is a one-time teacher who was fired from his job at Alberta’s Red Deer College for teaching that the Holocaust never happened’. Botting was not fired. And he has never stated that the Holocaust never happened. He began to have trouble with the college after the Zundel trial, and was suspended. But the reasons for his suspension did not include NV woman rescued by painters PAINTERS CLEANING a three- storey apartment block rescued a woman after noticing smoke com- ing from one of the apartment windows. North Vancouver City Fire Department said painters from Alpha Painting helped a 48-year- old woman to safety by taking her out by the window. John Jakab, Frank Pavelka and Mike Zbruz were working on the south side of the building on West 2nd Street at the time. He noted, that unfortunately, no one from inside the 42-suite building thought to pull the fire alarm to warn others. No one was hurt in the fire, which was contained in suite 275. the Holocaust or the trials — in- cluding Keegstra’s — at which he gutsily gave evidence. Funny things like using ioo many typewriter ribbons were mentioned by the college, And personality conflicts seemed to come into it. No doupt he was seen as an embarrassment. But he was reinstated, whereupon he resigned. Ouston couldn't even get his facts right about the Zundel trial. “Each man,” he said in referring to Keegstra and Zundel ‘was charged with advocating hatred of an identifiable group — Jews.” Well, Keegstra was but Zundel wasn't. Zundel couldn't be ‘got’ under the hate Jaws. So an obscure section of the Criminal Code was used — “spreading false news’’. Half the politicians in the coun- try could be charged under that one, not to mention investigative teporters. Ouston identified two men at this public meeting who had been in the KKK in 1982 but weren't wearing their hoods that night. Burning crosses were shown. More ‘‘color’’ y'know. Next he fingered a guy who puts out a crummy newsletter, and then we saw my perplexed features on screen. Collins, he explained, courtesy of what 1 had told him, is a member of Citizens For Foreign Aid Reform (C-FAR) ‘‘another organization that talks of free speech’’! C-FAR, he said, uses stuff from the (sinister) Canadian League of Rights. Can‘t say that I’ve noticed that. But it does use a | lot of stuff from the Globe & Mail, The Star, Toronto Sun, and the North Shore News, all of which are suspiciously in favor of free speech. This investigator didn’t ask me why | was at the meeting. As it happens, 1 was there to get Bot- ting’s story -- see tiny column of April 25. Not that | need to make any excuses. I admit to being in favor of free speech, no matter where it comes from. But such omissions do diminish one’s faith in today’s ‘‘investigative reporting”’. More on Friday. 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