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NORTH. SHORE-BASED Friends ‘of The
Watersheds host a public meeting on Thursday
‘to discuss watershed logging and road building.
The. gathering is set for 7 p.m. in the
. Potlatch Room of the Capilano District Library
in Edgemont Village.
__ Watershed historian Will Koop will talk
. about last year’s landslide in the Capilano
’ Watershed as well as the GVRD public process: Koop
on watershed management. speak.

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Press council
pushes for

law’s repeal

THE B.C. Press Council
continues to fuel the
bandwagon opposing the
NDP’s Human Rights
legislation.

By lan Noble
News Reporter
The North Shore News

has been fighting a case
under the legislation since

October 1994, when a com-
plaint regarding a March
1994 column on “Swindler’s
List” landed columnist Doug
Collins squarely in the com-
mission's sights.

The News has cam-
paigned against the Bill 33
legislation since it was
passed in 1993. Recently, the
B.C. Press Council called on
the B.C. government to take
immediate steps to amend its
“offensive” human rights leg-
islation and restore to the
press and people of the
province their fundamental
constitutional rights of free
expression.

In a letter to Attorney

Enter your cute little rubber
ducky in this fun-fitled
community event, featuring
40,000 courageous rubber ducks.

GRAND PRIZE
A $20,000 shopping spree at Park Royal Shopping Centre in
West Vancouver, The Winner will be escorted on a shopping
spree to spend $20,000 (Canadian) including taxes. (certain restrictions
may apply), Sponsored by Park Royal Merchants Assoc.
Also induded is a Travei Package to the retait value
of $5,000 including all applicable tances.
{certain restrictions may apply).

Value: $25,009

SECOND PRIZE
1996°GEO METRO car.
Sponsored in part by
Dick Irwin Chevrolet
Oldsmobile Ltd.

* Value: $15,000

THIRD PRIVE
An JBM Aptiva multimedia c. “puter with printer.
Donated by 18M Canada Services. * Value: $3,500

PLUS MANY MORE

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Save-on-Foods stores
Park Royal Mall

Lonsdale Quay Market

General Ujjal Dosanjh, press
council! chairman Robert
Yanow restated the council's
concern that the recently
amended Human Rights Act
is unconstitutional and con-
stitutes “an unwarranted and
unprecedented attack on free
speech and a free press in
British Columbia.”

Yanow, speaking on
behalf of the 126-newspaper
council, was responding to
the government's recent
refusal to amend its contro-
versial act.

He called the “unconstitu-
tional” act an “insult to the
people of this province, to its
free press, and to one of the

and open Mies ;
The press council, the fg
self-regulating body of B.C.’
newspaper industry, is partic-
ularly concerned with the§
recently amended act because §
it gives draconian powers to aj
newly expanded Human
Rights Council, including:
@ the power to lay its own
charges against newspapers j
on the flimsiest of pretexts, §
and: without waiting for a

‘complaint from the public;

Bi the power to issue “gag §
orders” against newspapers g
for frivolous offences;

See Schreck page 8

| At] p.m. on Sunday, March 24,
1996, come and see your rubber _
ducky cross the finish line on the -.
Capilano River at Park Royal South.

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Duck Race Headquarters,
Park Rayal South (Ist floor)

Capilatio Mali

Lynn Valley Mall

Throughout the history of the Race, the
Club has donated funds to a range of
charities and non-profit organisations, in

1996, The Rotary Club of North Vancouver

Sorensen Crane
Metropolitan Press
Daiwa Canada itd,

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National Trust
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Royal Bank branches on the North Shore
North Shore Credit Union Branches
- North Shore News

decided to select one very special
organisation to receive the largest share
of the proceeds, Canuck Place ~ B.C.'s

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hospice for terminally ill children.