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a Anna Marie D'Angelo
. News Reporter. dangelo@nsnews.com

WEST Vancouver Police brass do not want
. to take fired constable Glen Mason back.
Mason’s dismissal from the police department was overtumed by
the B.C. Police Commission last October.
The B.C. Police Conimission found that Mason did not have a fir
hearing concerning 1995 charges that he improperly took out his gun
vara Block Watch meeting, Mason denied he took out his gun, But he
~ Was charged with deceit after then-Ser. Barry Nickerson concluded
© Mason’s defence was 2 lie.

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complaint, but were dealt with by police management as an internal dis-
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The West Vancouver Police Board upheld the firing decision. Mason
appealed to the B.C. Police Commission, an agency funded under the
attomey gencral’s ministry

Conduded the commission's finding, “The appellant (Mason) was
never charged with, Ict alone convicted of, perjury, yet he was sentenced

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Canada
grows
by 100

Liam Lahey

Contributing Writer

STAFF and students
at Balmoral Jr.
Secondary School
welcomed 100 new
Canadians at a for-
mal citizenship cere-
mony on Wednesday.

The climax of the North
Vancouver school’s Celebrate
Canada month was an enchusi-
astic and emotionally charged
sceasion for the immigrants and

ie student body.

Credit the festive atmos:
phere to the cheering students
in the packed gymnasium and
the Balmoral school band, con-
ducted by Craig Drew.

Draped in. Canadian flags
and oozing with genuine school
spirit, the gym was transformed
into a Canadian court for a one-
hour ceremony.

Presiding Citizenship Judge
Marguerite Ford told the new
citizens what it meant to be a
Canadian.

Sce Pride page &

as if had been.” The diree-member commission said a five-day suspen-
sion was the appropriate sanction in Mason’s case. /

The commission dismissed the deceit conviction, which meant that
Mason was no longer fired.

In December, West Vancouver Police Chi
not say whether the police department would as
the B.C, Police Commission’s finding,

No step towards a judicial review was taken by the police depart-
ment management in the six months after the B.C. Police
Conmission’s finding,

On “Tuesday, Mason filed a wrongful dismissal lawsuit in’ B.C.

rant Churchill would
for a judicial review of

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