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Jobs on Students’ agenda

Jolanda Waskito Contributing Writer

IS the federal government dolng enough to stimulate job opportunities for young people?

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Voters plugged in

@ WATCH for North Shore News election coverage Sunday, May 25 and Wednesday, May 28, On Sunday candidates in North Vancouver will share their positions on key issttes, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast candidates are fea- tured on Wednesday.

@ SEARCH and retrieve via the Internet, Hansard proceedings of MPs debating the issues in Parliament. ‘To learn who said what and when go to (wwwilibraxsus.com/web- hansard),

@AN all-candidates day, featuring candidates from both North Shore ridings, is scheduled for Saturday, May 24, at Park Royal Shopping Centre. Your chance to press-the-flesh with the flesh-pressing experts runs noon to 5 p.m.

For more information, call shopping centre marketing director Cindy Lone at 922-3211,

@ON Tuesday May 27, a West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast all-candidates meeting takes place at Irwin Park elementary school at 2455 Haywood. The 7:30 p.m, meeting will include introductions, opening and-closing candidate statements, and questions from the floor,

It’s being sponsored by the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce.

If you require more information, call Koger Cayford at 665-2755,

@ ON Tuesday May 27, a North Vancouver all-candidates meeting takes lace 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at Windsor secondary school.

The session is hosted by Roche Point Community Association, Blueridge

Community Association and Deep Cove Community Association, Phone

929-4367 or 929-6849 for more information.

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Stereotyping of minorities criticized

But McGill University professor warns against stifling free expression

By Andre Ramshaw Contributing Writer

CANADIAN media are guilty of stercotyp- ing minorities and that leads to discrimina- tion, an expert in ethuic studies said Tuesday at the North Shore News human rights hearing.

Professor Morton Weinfeld, chairman of Canadian ethnic studies at McGill University, wrote in a report: “Studies of the Canadian media find systemic patterns of stereotyping and bias which discriminates against minorities,

“While most of it is inadvertent, other studies have found stronger evidence of deliberate discriminatory coverage in certain outlets, such as the Toronto Sun.”

Weinfeld said media stereotyping feeds discrimina- tion: “It’s almost like self-fulfilling prophecies.”

In their pursuit of something that is newsworthy, the press may portray minorities as “ernaments” or worse, he told the hearing in Vancouver,

The North Shore News and Doug Collins are fac- ing a complaint under the B.C. human rights cod: brought by the Canadian Jewish Congress. The CJC claims a colunin written in 1994 by Collins headlined Hollywuod Propaganda exposes Jews to hatred or con tempt.

Weinfeld said the column specifically reinforces sev- eral well-known and well-documented anti-Semitic stereotypes,

In the column, Collins suggests the Holocaust death toll was exaggerated and that movies like Schindler’s List help to distort the truth because there is a powerful Jewish influence in Hollywood and the medta, ‘

Said Weinfeld in his reports “A clear if unstated undercurrent throughout the column is the suggestion of conspiratorial forces at work, to pull off this ‘swin- dle’ of the Holocaust and Hollywood's recognition of it.”

The report added: “All these stereotypes would clearly make employers wary of employing Jews for sensitive positions demanding loyalty and trust.

“They are the kind of stereotype which would rein- force a glass ceiling ... certainly in areas: where Jews have been historically under-represented in Canada such as banks, trusts and insurance companies.”

But Weinteld also expressed a cautionary note about the effectiveness of trying to stifle free speech. He said countries thac have tried to legislate against discrimina- tory statements — such as Weimar Germany and the former Soviet Union — were largely unsuccessful.

“So what is key is that if such prohibitions are never used or used ineffectively, they would not serve their example.”

Also on Tuesday, the man who investigated the complaint against Collins and the News continued to give eviderice.

Chris Finding, who is currently the manager of investigations and mediation with the B.C. Human Rights Commission, said the time he spent on the Collins file “was way out of the ordinary.”

He said he felt under pressure to conclude it as quickly as possible, despite having at the time about 140 other files on which to work.

He said he had no mandate to exclusively pursue the Collins inquiry.

The hearing continues,