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May 9, 1997
DROWNING INQUEST

in over
their
heads

By Anna Marle D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangclo@nsnews.conte

THE two young
rookie scuba divers
who drowned last
year off Whytecliff
Park were in water
too deep for their
training.

The pre-dive plan on thar
tragic Sunday afternoon in April
1996 was ro dive to 90 feet (27
metres).

“Sixty fect was spoken all the
time (during our diving course.)
ft was driven into us that that
was the limit that beginner
divers would go to,” testified
Kent Friesen, close friend of

| Acrimony between Reformer

White and Liberal Kinsella
heats up on NV campaign trail

By Andrew McCredie

Community Editor
andrew@nsnews.com

WHILE both Ted White and Warren
Kinsella say they want to debate issues
like jobs and the economy while on the
campaign trail, verbal jousting and letters
from lawyers have typified the contest for
North Vancouver’s seat in Parliament.

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orth Van

Earlier this week White’s lawyer sent the Liberal chal-
lenger a letter asking for an apology for comments
Kinsella made in an advertisement in a recent issue of
the Voice.

In that paid column, Liberal candidate Kinsella
took the Reform MP to task for his involvement in
the Western Canada Concept (WCC) party, and
specifically White’s recent comment that the west-
ern separatist party is “perfectly legitimate.”

Yesterday, Kinsella held a press conference at his
Upper Lonsdale constituency office, saying he would not
issue an apology.

“Mr. White’s lawyer sent me a letter threatening to sue me
if I didn’t apologize, pay his legal fees, pay him damages and
promise never to raise the subject again,” Kinsella said. “Last
night (Wednesday) my lawyer sent him a letter saying no to
all of his demands.”

But according to White, no lawsuit was mentioned in his
lawyer’s letter.

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“We haven’t issued a lawsuit against him,”
White said yesterday an hour before
Kinsella’s press conference. “We asked him
to apologize for comments we felt were
inappropriate. He hasn’t done so; he’s
made it clear he won’t.”
White added: “I think that says more
about him than it says about me.”
Back in October the tables were curned.
Following a Reform-sponsored forum at
Centennial Theatre, Kinsella sent White a Setter
asking for the Reform MP’s apology for something
Whit. published in his weekly paid column in the News that
Kinsella felt was inappropriate.
“I consider myselr reasonable and open, so I sent him a
letter apologizing and I printed it in the paper (the News),”
said White. “We asked him to apologize for something that I

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