December 11,1994. 60 pag

inside
the news

events

@ Christmas Carols
ships’ schedule: 42

@ Enjoying holiday
pantomimes: 45

@ Classified.................
a Cresswor
8 inside Stories
a Municipal Affairs.......11
@ North Shore Alert....12
Sports ......

“Sunshine BOY. 2D

@ TV Listings.....0000.......36

A i. :

fashion

@ Getting him that
perfact present: 24

@ U.K. fashions hit the
North Shore: 25

Monday and Tuesday:
periods of rain, windy.
high 7°C, law 2C

tee ick tet

BRAVERY AWARD
RCMP Cpl. Pat Dickson
receives B.C. police honor
for bravery in action.

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NEWS photo Mike Waketield

Gifts needed |

THE TOY store of the North Vancouver Christmas Bureau needs donations now. Volunteer
Barbara Nagle is surrounded by some of the toys slated for children of hundreds of needy
local families. Unwrapped toys can be dropped off at any North Vancouver Christmas
Bureau box tocated throughout the community. See story page 3.

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BEATLE BITS

Loads of fab four deals
available for the group's
fans on the Internet.

NV arrest
at f

sparks MP's
investigation
THE ARREST of a local: man
who was recently granted
Canadian citizenship has led
to calls from the community
to revoke his citizenship if he
is found guilty, said North

Vancouver Reform MP Ted
White.

By lan Noble

News Reporter

_ And White has said if that is what
the community wants, he will pursue
it.

“If they want me to push it, |
wi said White, adding that the
case involving former refugee:
chimant Siamak Ashrafinia, is nota
personal vendetta on his part.

Ashrafinia was arrested Dec. |
and charged with two counts of
forgery and twa charges of conspir-
ing to effect illegal immigration with
false passports.

He is scheduled to uppear in court
for the third time Dec. 14 at 9 a.m,

Ina Dec. 8 letter to immigration
tninister Sergio Marchi, White stated
that if Ashrafinia is found guilty, “he
will have been shown to be unsuit-
able for admission to Canada. Should
this happen, J will be strongly sup-
portive of calls by my constituents
for his citizenship to be revoked.”

One of those calls came. from
North. Vancouver resident Judy
Nadon, who is the caretaker of the
building Ashrafinia and his wife and
two children live in.

Nadon attended the family's
swearing-in ceremony in citizenship
court the day before Ashrafinia was
arrested,

She called the ceremony moving.
“{ tell so wonderful. They are atove-
ty family.”

However, she became concerned
when reading in the News about
Ashratinia’s atest the next day.

Nadon wants to know if any
cross-checking is done during the cit-
venship application process between
the erizenship court and the police
and if not, why not. “How did he
receive Canadian citizenship if an
iwesligation was going on. in his

she ask

She said she would dike to see
Ashrafinia lose his Canadian citizen-
ship if he is proven guilty, although
she realizes that would be hard on his
family. They wouldn't be able to go
back to fran, she said.

isan awful predicament for

Jay Strath, a federal Crown

See Trail page 5

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