{HE CANADIAN public is getting Fightly fed. up .with court-approved £22. orders thut limit media access to ~ Canada’ $s court proceedings. The current: focus of that frustration is ‘an order that fad prevented Canadian newspapers. from. reporting. any details of what has new become a high-profile case. Even - though nobody - was originally sup-. “posed ‘to. know :.what the case was about, - where it was. being ‘heard and who was in- volved, its details have been published in _the- Denver Post newspaper.-The Post has ‘ encouraged its readers.to send a fax of its know something Canadians cazmot....” We should ail be similarly outraged ‘and equally concerned. Because there is a move afoot in this country to place: more limits “editorial to friends in Canada avd has con-' - “. sequently. been. deluged with calls from all ,over Canada from angry Canadians. : ‘A Denver Post ‘staff member has been “quoted - as saying that callers “think it’s _, Outrageous People here -in Colorado cam" And in the courts, publication bans continues undermining what is paramount in a free and oper: justice system: public scrutiny: ‘of the administration of justice. on information access. and more muzzies on reporters to limit the reporting of what goes on in our courtrooms. — Federal freedom of expression. muzzles: include the despicable Bill C-114, which: would limit public expression during elec- tions; provincial - government muzzies ‘in- clude B.C.’s own shameful! Bilt 33, which / limits public discussion based on what is” politically fashionable. if the _ number of to grow, (ETIER OF THE DAY Keep Collins’ fans from ‘polluting’ pages off-base that dignified with a reply. Dear Editor:: - As a longtime journalist in both ‘the U.K. and Canada, I find it: -hard: to. beiieve that any self- respecting newspaper editor can ‘bring himself to run the kind of fetter that the North Shore News published in the Sept. 8 edition. ' Wilfred -Blair’s fetter about Doug Collins’ jlatest attempt to rewrite history is nothing but an insulting diatribe. What is’ to | ‘be gained from defaming the memory of those six million poor, wretched souls that perished at the hands of Nazi butchers by suggesting that the Publisher . Managing Editor ‘Associate Editor Peter Speck Timothy Renshaw Noel Wright actual statistics represent “rela. tively happy demographics"? Whatever ancient statistics Blair may dig up that were supposedly produced ‘‘at war’s end’? by the International Red Cross must ‘surely be outweighed by the stun- ning preponderance of evidence in the camps themselves. Does he truly believe that Jews, gays, Czechs, blacks — and all other non-members of the “master race’? — erected Buchen- wald, Auschwitz and Belsen by themselves at the end of the war? Ordinarily, i would say that a letter such as Blair’s was so far Display Advertising 980-0511 Real Estate Advertising 985-6982 Distribution : Subscriptions 986-1337 # Classilied Advertising 986-6222 Fax it should not be But when such revolting quasi-Nazi nonsense appears in my own weekly newspaper, I find it hard to ignore. If you cannot’ bring yourselves to find a respectable pasture to which you can send dear old Doug, then at least do your ut- most to keep his fans from polluting the letters pages of the North Shore News with their vile ‘ brand of information. Geof Wheelwright North Vancouver RA te J Tris newspaper H = contains 986-1337 je 985-3227 TEN YEARS ago you probably thought nething of a short walk before bedtime around your neighborhood biock.: To- day? — Think twice! Too many people nowadays are mugged or worse at night in once peaceful residential areas, even within shouting distance of home. Once darkness falls, the streets where we live are no Jonger ours. For a shocking insight into what’s happening and why, I can- not recommend too strongly Streets of Fear: The Faiiure of the Canadian Criminal Justice System — the latest paper, published in ~ June, by the Toronto-based © Mackenz:2 Institute. The Institute is an independent body for research on terrorism, security, revolutionary politics, © radical ideologies, propaganda and conflict in general..It accepts no government grants and is funded solely from corporations, founda- _ tions and individual supporters. Streets of Fear author Patrick Brode, a Windsor lawyer, draws on massive official statistics and case histories to indict today’s judicial and correctional systemis. : Both, he charges, are failing in their primary duty to ensure - public safety by adequately punishing violent crime because liberal mythology has it that no - one is really bad and therefore no “one should be in prison. It is just - a matter of adjustment or persua- _ sion and the worst criminals can’ free.” That’s why the Canadian justice system has broken down, says * Brode. ‘Like a tired machine that’ has become clogged and useless, . the causes are legion: “We have a sentencing machine’ that does not adequately punish, a prison system that hands out day passes alrnost as soon as a convict enters, a Young Offenders Act ...- designed to tell youngsters they .: never have to pay for crime and a farcical arrangement of parole and automatic remission that makes a joke out of sentences handed down. “It is a system that does not face the reality that some people are bad, that they will commit .- :. crimes in the full knowledge of - what they are doing, and that mil- lions ... spent on haifway houses. and social workers will not ‘reform them.” Brode also blames the Charter of Rights ‘‘with its single-minded determination that the rights of HITHER AND-YON © - becoming ‘‘the most poweit ful too! _ at the criminal’s disposal te 3 defea the ends of justice.’” .The fi igures for violent ¢ cri notes, ; are increasing at’an appall record in-1979 of 1,012 per ” 100,000 persons to 1,097 pe: - 100, 7000 {an 8% jump) in 199 Last year, Statistics Canada ad- .. mitted it was up again by at least 2% —a figure. suspiciously low, being buried in a pre-election release trumpeting a3.2% decrease in OVERALL crime. The individual case-histories too many, and detailed to include here — give a graphic picture o how Canada’s present Justice’ system fails to protect lay “i ‘. “What is needed, ” declares Brode, “‘is a sense of outrage from the average citizen ..:'We need the determination to take’ back the streets.”” - .. Order Streets of Fear by: $20 (tax-deductible) to: The Mackenzie Institute, P.O. Box.” 338, Adelaide Street Postal Sta- tion, Toronto, Ontario M3C 23 ‘This will also bring you the stitute’s quarterly newsletter and -other special papers it publishes Sales & Marketing Director Linda Stewart Comptroller Doug Foot North Shore News, founded in 1969 as an independent suburban newspaper and qualified under Schedule 111, Paragraph Ilt of the Excise Tax Act. is published each Wednesday, Friday and Sunday by North Shore Free Press Ltd. and distributed to every door on the North Shore. Canada Post Canadian Publications Mail Sales Product Agreement No. 0087238. 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