“West Vancouver 8 - Friday, March 21, 1986 - North Shore News - Doug Collins © get this straight e EVEN AN old horse like me can confirm a few things at a journalistic gab-session. He can confirm that the liberal bent of the media is with few ex- ceptions ingrained, that stepping out of the ranks is rare, and that swimming upstream is even rarer. We're talking about the Centre for Investigative Journalism con- ference held here last weekend, at which the session on South Africa | was a prime example of what | mean. (See Wednesday’s column.) There were two other sessions worthy of note. The first dealt f with the Keegstra and Zundel trials. The second was on ‘Nazis in Canada’. | . The Keegstra-Zundel stuff was f a bust. There was no scrutinizing ‘of the denials of freedom of f speech that those trials | represented. Believe it or not, the f session was mainly a counting of the column inches Keegstra and | Zundel got. t. “Zundel came out on top in the East, and Keegstra in the West. | But I could have told them that without even counting. A professor of journalism in- formed us that the media had not really been manipulated by those i two bad guys. He had thought : originally that they had been, but fcame. to. the conclusion they hadn't. On the other hand, they i had certainly been attracted by Zundel’s hard-hat and other theatrics.:: ; These findings gave me hope ; that - when pension-day dawns, perhaps I can become a professor, too. We did get the news that Jewish organizations in Toronto thought Zundel was getting too much press, and that ihey had sent delegations to editors in an at- tempt to mute his evidence. But | would have assumed that without being told about it. What, I asked, were the Jewish groups bitching about? Weren't they the ones who had brought the charges in the first place? Did they expect that the two men would be bundled off to clink without anyone’s reporting what they said? ’ 1. compared the ‘“‘spreading false news’’ section of our criminal code with the almost identically-worded section of the anti-free speech laws passed by Benito Mussolini in 1924. But that didn’t excite anyone. At the “Nazis in Canada’ ses- sion, I told two of the four panelists that they seemed to be not so much reporters as people on a mission. They were going to flush those Nazis out! I should have asked them why they weren’t on Simon Wiesen- thal’s payroll. One of them, Neil MacDonald of the Ottawa Citizen, made the loose'and ludricous statement that the senile old man who has just .been extradited from the U.S. for committing war crimes in FUNDRAISING FOR ‘STUDENTS Cap instructors lecture for scholarship do TWO Capilano College instructors will be exercising their vocal chords to raise money for science scholarships. . The coilege’s biology coor- ‘ dinator Dr, Keith Wade and biol- ogy instructor Dr. Malcolm Fitz- Earle. have volunteered their time ‘and ‘travel, experience to come up with a pair of lectures that will be given March 27 and April 10 at By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter near the amount of money for scholarships that universities _-have,"” Wade said, ‘‘so we are try-__ “Secondary | School. Both lectures will begin at 7:45 p.m, and run two hours. All monies raised will go towards pro- viding scholarship funds for the college's science program. . “Historically, colleges have not been able to provide anywhere ing to fir ind ways to provide those funds.”’ Wade, who initiated the science scholarship fund-raising concept last year when he spoke on his ex- periences in China, said the lec- tures have been organized by Capilano College’s natural sciences faculty specifically to raise funds NEWS photo Terry Peters CAPILANO College professor Keith Wade sorts through his slides in preparation for his lecture on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Wade and colleague Dr. Maicolm. Fitz-Earle are giving lectures to raise funds for scholarships. “millions of Jews’’ and Yugoslavia had killed ‘millions of Jews and others’’ in Croatia, That’s nonsense. There weren't in Croatia, there weren't millions of deaths there, either. (Which is not to say there weren't a hell of a lot.) This bandying around of numbers is common, which is why 1 don't swallow all the Holocaust figures. At the same conference, for in- stance, Peter Butler the eminent lawyer was discussing the libel laws, and told a story I had forgotten. Fifteen years ago, he said, the Vancouver Sun ran a front-pager alleging that an immigrant resi- dent of Vancouver had killed 15,000 Jews. But the man had kill- ed no one. The Sun settled out of court. it must have cost them a pretty penny. Panelist Richard Cleroux of the Globe & Mail claimed at the **Nazis'’ session that the Deschenes Commission, which was set up to find war criminals in Canada, is not a witch-hunt. Cleroux is a sensible fellow real- ly. But if. the commission isn’t a witch-hunt, then no witch-hunt ever existed, Come off it, E told him. It’s the first officially sanctioned post- war witch-hunt we’ve had in this country, aad it too is a present from the Canadian Jewish Con- gress. But to say such things is to make some people feel faint. liars for the natural sciences depart- ment. The initial goal, he said, is to establish two annual $500 science scholarships. His single lecture last year raised $1,000. In his March 27 lecture, Queen Charlotte Islands: The From Coastal,_Rain _Forest__to_Haida ~ Village, Wade will present a visual tour through the natural scenery, plant life, and Haida villages of the Queen Charlotte Islands. The lecture and its accompany- ing 200 color slides will cover most areas of the islands, but will be focused on South Moresby. Wade, who has twice been to the Queen Charlottes, said the islands are one of B.C.’s most interesting and unique ecological arcas. On April 10, Fitz-Earle will resent Impressions from a Year in Japan. The lecture will cover the chang- ing natural and social landscapes of Japan as seen through the eyes of the Capilano College professor. Fitz-Earle recently spent a year at Kyushu University in southern Japan doing research. His speech, he said, will cover the gradual westernization of the Pacific Rim country and focus on such dramatic developments as Japan’s huge highway system and the country’s experimentation with greenhouse agriculture. Tickets for the two lectures are available at Capilano College or at West Vancouver Secondary the day of the lecture. Call 986-1911 for information. RENT-A-CONTAINER istrict to offer garbage special GARDENERS IN North Vancouver District who cannot truck garden refuse to the dump can order their own per- sonal garbage container for a week next month. Ata minimum cost of $20 per week, the district will deliver and park the three cubic yard-sized containers at any district home. Municipal crews will haul away the garden refuse at the end of the one week period. Each additional pickup will cost the homeowner 8 But the offer is good only during the month of April. District council approved the scheme to offset residential disposal problems caused when council banned outdoor burning last fall. The burning ban forced homeowners either to haul refuse to a landfill or package the refuse in 35 kilogram garbage bags for regular municipal pickup. “This is a reasonable response to having to bundle the waste in garbage bags,’’ said Mayor Marilyn Baker. ‘‘I feel that it is appropriate.” The mayor said the solution would alleviate disposal problems MENS, LADIES, By NEIL LUCENTE Contributing Writer for the ‘‘one per cent of residences practicing outdoor burning”’ in the district. She added that the district had a responsibility to accommo- date those who are inconvenienced. by the burning ban. 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