TH the North Shore News boxing its way through round one of the provincial government’s Human Rights kanga- roo court, talk of hate crimes is very much in the news. ; The following is a cross-section of what would qualify under the NDP’s Bill 33 Human Rights Act amend- ‘ment as “likely to expose a person or group or class or persons to hatred and contempt” and therefore qualify to be grist for subsequent human rights tribunals. The quotes are all delivered by the self-righteous new media and its distributors of nouveau hatred, _ “he’s (Doug Collins) a bigot, an "oaf and an ignoramus of the highest “order... Not only is Collins a hateful homophobe and racist, he’s a plain «old-fashioned idiot!” — The Province r : THE North Shore News Free Speech Defence. Fund is closing in on'$80,000. » To press time Tuesday, donations from News readers and free rters to the find, which was initiated on March 26, speech su . Stood at $79,641. “All finds received will hip defray the legal costs faced by the % north shore news JTEWPOINT aermranareis nas le naesom ee nanemmnanarrOLANESLREMSSeINAeNNt 1 unyste Ore ReNIrapesoN AmaAse LARA: RTE Sun DOSES StINNY Ln MEN OHLRLEI ASANO (NAY ARRAS WRASSE GSLRORARSETRNSRHNCSRH STIS, RANTES a Hatred nouveau columnist Michacl Smyth, writing in | the newspaper's May 13 edition, “I know Doug Collins’ type. He’s old, he’s white, he’s British and he’s male, He’s homophobic, racist, sexist ve? —— Vancouver Sun Senior Editor Patricia Graham, during the May 16 Human Rights debate organized by the B.C, Press Council, “,.. Doug Collins, the contemptible columnist for the North Vancouver- based North Shore News.” — Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer, in his May 13 Sia column. Welcome to the post-Bill 33 world of hate witch-hunters, where the hunters become haters and honestly held opinion — if.it be of the wrong political strip — is vilified and ridiculed. , Muzzles at the ready, citizens, this is your new free press. et” cs aie story about the deadbeat 15 minutes later looking distinctly thoughtful? employee called one day into the boss’s office, whence he emerged OODN eee neerDenseceoeeensrereresonseecssnoooees "i JNews in its: battle with the Human Rights Tribunal over a com- *. Hotel, 1015 Burrard St., Vancouver. It has since shifted - plaint laid against the newspaper and its columnist Doug | Collins by the Canadian Jewish Congress, The hearing _ into the matter began on May 12 at the Century Plaza to the Police Commission boardroom, Room 407, 815 ’ Homby St., Vancouver, More excerpts ftom the hundreds of respondents to the cause; : : Hy de bros 4 OOO fT am bursting inside with admiration for this persecuted "For “ost their man, the only colemnist inthe Grater Vancouver media with the guts to say what the vast majority of Canadians think? os Ue = John Munt of Burnaby . : w n . " OOO “T abbor the taking away of any rights, especially the fin- ) damentals of fire expresion. Ifa newsman or a pulitician “makes a mistake in-bis views, he is,accountable to the paper's consumers or to an clection. But we don’t have the "right to stop anyone saving what they feel.” -— North Vancouver-Scymour MLA Daniel Jarvis : Qo00 a all the mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and sweethearts who loved ones, who gave thetr lives for ficedom and fice speech.” ; — M. Watson of West Vancouver Donations to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence . “North The North Shore News !s published by North Shore Free P Fund can bé-sent to the News offices, 1139 Lonsdale Ave, Vancouver, V7M 2H4. Cheques should be made out to the North Shore News Free Speech Defence Fund, — trenshaw@direct.ca Ne.th Shore Kews, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and quatified under Schedule 111, Paragraph 114 of the Excise Tax Act, is pubbshed each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd, and distrbuted to every door on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Pubtications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 0087238. Mailing rates available on request. ay Easern é G a] Distribution Manager cots ths rewspages reoyded Lyre Creative Services Mai pager Photography Manager 61,582 (average cicculation, Wednesday, Friday & Sunday) Almost immediately he became a model work- erand a joy to have around, “Whatever hap- pened in there?” his mys- tified fellow-employees eventually asked, “Oh,” he replied, Cit was just that I'd never before had things explained to me quite so clearly.” There's a fink here, during the final 12 days of this wacky election campaign, with Reform leader Preston Manning’s “tough love” approach to Quebec and rational unity — the’one issue which clearly distin- guishes Reform from all the other three parties. Manning flatly opposes “distinct society” status for Quebec. Instead, he insists‘on a Canada made up of 10 equal provinces, with Ottawa transferring many more of its powers to cach one of them, But there’s more, He also won't pussy- foot around the unpleasant consequences of'a separatist victory in the next Quebec referendum —- including such items as the protection of federal assets, the redrawing of Quebec boundaries and possible parti- tion of pro-Canada areas of the province. According to last week’s Southam News-COMPAS poll, many Canadians out- side Quebec are thinking along identical lines, with 73% feeling even armed force PETER SPECK Publisher $85-2131 (101) 985-2131 (193) by tee Dtialiwal da Stewart Human Resoutces Manager Sales & Marketing Ditector 985-2131 (177) 900-0511 (319) Display Managet 995-2137 (100) 900-0611 (1) Entire contents © 1997 North Shore Free Press Ltd. All rights reserved. might be necessary to safeguard Canadian interests — which Manning himself declines to discuss — is anywhere from “partly” to “completely” understandable, Does all this mean Manning's hardline Quebee policy — dia- metrically opposed to Grit, Tory and NDP wattling about “distinct society” status for Quebee — isa sure-fire winner in the rest of Canada? Don’t bet the farm on it yet. A help for Reform, maybe — especially in the West. But a knock- out blow to the party’s two main opponents across the land? Hardly, There are two rea- sons. _ hither and yon Hirst, Quebec — despite the unity issue ” now boiling asa result of the leader debates -— is still far from being a top voter priority in the rest of Canada, That place is still reserved for the four-letter word “Jobs w. jobs... jobs ...” All the tough love in the world towards Quebee won't help Reforin in Ontario and the Maritimes without a believable solution to unemployment, espe- cially for the young. Second, in Ontario (orginally “Upper Canada” to Quebee’s “Lower Canada”) and even the Maritimes (where so much of Canada’s early history unfolded) there remains a certain inborn sentimental attachment to the “two founding nations” concept that’s incomprehensible to western Canadians. Many of today’s Ontarians and Maritimers might deny it, bur it’s still in their genes, : Nevertheless, a valuable upside to LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters must Include your name, tull address & telephone number, VIA Internet: trenshaw @ direct.ca COMPUTER BBS - 980-8027 * User [D:mailbox Passwordiletlers qigntey & Real Estate Fax Doug Feat pathy Ronshaw Comptroller Managing Editor 905-2131 (116) Promotions Manager 985-2131 (218) Deals acl grove General Office Manager 985-2131 (185) Andrew McCredie - Sports/Commuity Editor tatoraet- http://jwerw. nsnews.com tess Ltd., Publisher Peter Speck, from 1139 Lonsdale Avenue North Vancouver, B.C., V7M 284 Tough love a Canada-saver? REMEMBER that happy-ending Manning’s Quebec policy appears to be emerging, even if that policy fails to trans-_, late into Reform votes in Ontario and Atlantic Canada, Latest polls show Gilles Duceppe’s Bloc Quebecois steadily losing ground in Quebec itself to federal Liberals and Tories. * The likeliest reason is that the “soft? nationalists among the approximately two million Quebecers who voted “Yes” in - 1996 for divorce with bedroom privileges are beginning to get cold eet as the harsh costs of unilateral separation are spelled out ever more clearly? Ot In that case, Reform — regardless of where it winds up in Ontario and the: Maritimes —~ will deserve much of the credit for dethroning the Bloc Quebecois ' as “Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition.” Simply because — like the hero of our opening story — Quebec separatists “never before Tad things explained to them quite so clearly.” " OQ HAPPY 79TH birthday Friday, May 23, to North Van City Mayor Jack Loucks. \ .. 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