Cops seek park flasher NORTH Vancouver RCMP are searching for a man who fag exposed himself to two 13- year-old girls in Heywood Park. ‘The incident occurred at about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday. The suspect is a mid-20s white male with shaggy, blond shoulder- “length hair and a beard. He was wearing white shorts with a slit up the side, running shoes and no B socks. Five stolen cars torched FIVE cars. weve burgled “and burned in North Vancouver late Wednesday. The cars were recovered Thursday morning in -North Van, Burnaby and Whistler. Police believe the inci- deéats are related. The cars include a Buick | ousine, two Mustangs down veal ) GVRD statistics show Capilano ‘reservoir is at 72% ‘pacity, 16% lower than the three-year average. - Seymour i is at 53%, or lower. Residents used Monday to Wednesday, 11 billion litres ‘above average. ur B7-3. 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Grubel disagreed. “They are trying to discredit what By Bob Mackin Contributing Writer | is a powerful movement in both Canada and the U.S, for a smaller, decentralized government and political system by saying = that anybody who believes in this is part of what most Canadians believe to be extreme right wing — reac- tions of the sort that produced mili- tia standoffs and the Oklahoma bombing,” Grubel said. “It is a total non sequitur.” The speakers’ roster also includes former Grateful Dead fyricist and Electronic Frontier Foundation co- GRUBEL: set to speak at Whistler on Tuesday. Sunday, Auguit 18, 1996 — North Shore News — 5° P Grubel supports session — founder John Perry Barlow; marijua- | na legalization activist Marc Emery of Hemp B.C. and Leon Louw and Frances Kendall, South African economists. and three-time Nobel Prize nominees. Louw and Kendall were prominent opponents of apartheid. Pokrandt said the sociery has “the greatest: variation of skin color” among its members. “We are being accused of being racist,” Pokrandt said. “Do you see how ludicrous the accusation is?” North Shore News columnist Doug Collins said opposition to the conference comes from free speech opponents who practice “reverse McCarthyism.” “They're a libertarian organiza- tion, far from being racist.” Collins. said. “They (stand for open door immigration.” Collins, a late addition to the schedule, will be speaking Tuesday 1), TMPRAPIDIUBE 299 - APBSOVED —5 irs of 1030 ail, lube & new fitter about censorship. “Whar people better realize is the atrack on freedom of speech in this country — and B.C. in’ particufar with the NDP -—is a very serious matter,” he said. “Irs about time people woke up to what’s going on.” The San Francisco-based organi- zation has held past conventions in such diverse locales as Switzerland, Swaziland, Estonia, and Mexico. This is ISIL’s first time in Canada. : Meanwhile, the B.C. Human Rights Council has accepted a com- plaint against Collins by the Canadian Jewish Congress and will be announcing a hearing date soon. Collins said he’s not surprised. “It was to be expected,” he said. “] didn’t expect they’d ignore the complaint. The Canadian Jewish Kongress and others lobbied for this legislation and they got it. 1 was the first one (investigated), as I predict- ed when the law passed.” - Free 20 Paint Visual inspection - Ho Appointment Necessary ~ New Car Warranty Approved - On the Road in about 10 Minutes ~ Mest cars & pickups Coupon may rot be combined with any other otter. - Soupon expires Aug, 25., 1896 =o hss tune fem leey IF only the Lions Gate H Bridge could be built j this quick. / Surespan Construction of West Vancouver erected /a temporary bridge overnight across Westview Drive on the eastbound detour of. the ongoing Westyiew Interchange project. 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