“fone Stuart: (oP) =

“saya existing Jitel laws

* dén’t work for either party

-.— the media or those’ who.

feel libelled.

aberteen author of two en on media law, .

the’ new Charter of

“Mgnt. will _ encourage judges to review

, Situation and help make the

meiiia more accountable .

the: ‘rise in investigative: “Jour:

- “while reducing the mie Of lawsuits.

’ People viioss: names. ‘are:

‘broadcast - or “printed are.” taore aware of thelt rights: : _ than before and more ready - _ to enfores: them, ‘Rt

co them, ‘Robertson.

said: over: coffee during: a. busy day of. interviews. so

_ This rise in’ : Consumer:

awarkness coupled with the ;

align’. has led: toa

praliferation of Tawsiits;” ; As a -atalt lawyer for- the’. caC: ‘dn the. mid-1970s,

Robertson ‘found himself caught - in: the ‘gnidile. -

- Forced: ta teach: himself as’ : he. went along, . Robertson.” decided - there | was- 8 7 drowing market for a book on. media law.” - Now: in private practice in - ‘Ottawa, : jhe ‘produced The. -_ Courta, ‘and : ‘The. . Media ;

. Ghuniérworthi, i Gualeah: A

- publighed eartier this year.

the book and realizing it was foo high for’ most, jour-

“nalists, he jumped at. the -

chance. to. write a smaller

: volume for International .

Self-Counsel Press Ltd.

Media Law Handbook,

selling . for. $5.95, was the result.. ; * Robertson believes it will

“Appalled at ‘the price of .

help journalists get their’ ‘stories printed or: ‘broadens. -without-

infringing © someone’ 8 rights. |

* Too often the fear of a : bills ‘affects editors’ news _ judgment, he says... “They:

get into self-censorship

because management Sys .

the costs are too hi The court system’ is ‘slow

- and expensive, he says. He

advocates stronger press

“councils, _ portant to. get: quicker resolution’ of- ‘compiaints.- about the media: ..,. People .

would feel there is a greater accountability for ‘the

-media,” - He suggests the charter may help Canadian laws by-

_ Shifting it towards the system which exisis in, the

United States. Under Canadian lnw of

‘Bill Goetz leads his. Alliance congregation

‘ CLEARBROOK,’ B.C.. (CP) — Until the addition to

‘the Sevenoaks: Alliance completed, |

Church. is several hundred of the 2,000 members gather in a gymnasium next to the church sanctuary and

— wateh the Sunday morning

service yla closed-circult television,

The bulging congregation,

which Pastor. Bill Goetz °

says created the need for the new 2,500-seat hall, includes elght choirs and an 800-student Sunday: school.

Ten years age when Goetz -

began preaching, the congregation numbered about 450, : -

At Langley, another nearby. Fraser Valley community, the Christian

; periencing a

“Life. “Assembly ° “tg “ex similar boom Pastor. Leroy ‘Lebeck paiys

the, weekly ‘congregation ‘of - that, church has growi’ to 1,600 from 125in the tO years ~

he’s been there, - The building, which Lebeck says is physically .the . largest church in the province, has

‘ provisions for overflow accommodation — the back _

wall rolls back to expose 700 additional Seats.

“Many people believe that God. is going to send a

revival to the Fraser

Valley,’” says Lebeck,

But the evidence seems to suggest that the revival Lebeck envisions -— in

‘which the people will come

galloping back into the

llya Gerol’s HOT SPOTS —

Pear

ONE-SIDED DISARMAMENT? |

-arms Face. Compared with Europe, these demonstrations are like a drop in the ocean. Even more amusing [a the fact that demonstrations in Europe have already stopped - after it became clear that the overwhelming majority of British, French and West German people had realized that one cannot demand unilateral disarmament while facing the obvious threat from the USSR.

Hundreds of thousands of marchers in London, Paris and Bonn, which impressed the North American media 20: much, were the result of well prepared.organization by communists, the left wing of the Labour Party and often,

Merkitlov, the second-secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen. He was arrested while passing money. to Mr. Petersen, one of the local leaders of the World Peace Council in. Denmark.

Yet events in Poland and the appearance of a Soviet nucleai submarine in Swedish territogal waters made it ', lear, even to those who previously fad believed-com- munist propaganda, that the real dangér fot world peace |

‘but from missiles deployed in the UYSR -fnd directed — “towards Europe. : Our Canadian peaceniks were, as usta,

__ parties of Italy, Britain and Spain; which were the driy- ing force for all the peace marches, carried some slogans demanding the USSR as well as the U.S. start disarma- ment, Demonstrations in’ Canada were’. purely anti- American.

The fact that the USSR has absolute superiority é in con---

~ “ventional weaponry in. Europe and everywhere else in the - ~ - World. did -not~ bother’'the peaceful «priests, retired: professors and leaders of the Gay Liberation movement, _ who were the organizer's of marches and demonstrations. | _ But-40,000: Soviet tanks in Europe opposing 10,000 NATO “tanks déitiand that the-Western aliies be- ‘equipped by

Soviet submarines and warships are twice a3 well armed as American ones and, in the event of serious conflict, no

sophisticated missiles by NATO appears to be the only: way to prevent the Soviets from launching an attack.

. -Taking into consideration.the fact that the Canadian contribution to NATO's defence has reached the level of - Luxembourg, is it moral'to protest against the decision to” ‘permit ‘ihe U.S. to. test their - missiles. in_ Canadian territory? In particular knowing that the only purposé for “mantfacturing and testing these missiles Is protection of ” ‘Roth North American countries.” ~.

'. Alt is nice and decent to wish: tor total

z ‘throughout: ‘the world. The idea ‘should.

[Lo wholeheartedly, Unfortunately, only. one .

1: _ divided world really wants disarmament,

is always increasing its military budget. in |ts desire to -

oo ‘reach event. greater superiority than it has tow. =.

. [>> 2 The.only way to reacti disarmament is to demand from a ee Moscow agreement to joln mutual efforts to‘ban nuclear “9- weapons and to disarm. But Moscow is spinsoring the - World. Peace Council and clieating the World Council of "Churches just because such a development does hot sult

he Kremlin leadership. |:

- There Is no place for optimism in our “tines when the

idea of pressing both superpowers 4o stop ‘the. nuclear . -

‘madness is even less realistic than the idea ol'total disar- mament, Our peaceniks are prepared.-to. be anti- American. It is cheaper and does not ‘Tequire a lot of. courage. ; ; ; ero

OF tr

“churches "with renewed.

- Sterllag News Service. ;

Thirty-five, thousand demonstrators ‘in. Vancouver, a 2,000 angry. marchers in Ottawa and 6,000 peaceniks .-" walking the streets of Toronto - that was our contribution. - to the campaign announced by the World-Peace Coundil, . . the World Council of Churches and some ‘other: less well nt known organizations against nuclear wéapons. andthe: -. °

asin Denmark, by Soviet agitators such as- Vladimir

- comes not from American missiles deployed.in Europe °

too late to ‘realize this. Their motivations were kingly naive compared with those in Europe. Even the Communist.

‘Nuclear weapons as the only force able to stop them. -

-one would be able to stop their attack against North America. The possession of. nuclear weapons and -

° apicitual zest = = has already” "arrived. On”. thie: ‘other’ hand, “an equally strong case can be ‘made by those who contend |

that valley residents are not

reopening their Bibles —..

they've never been closed. Seventy-nine-year-oid

. Peter Loewen, who says he is one of the first Men-:

nonites to have settled In the vallay, says there are 13 Mennonite churches within

a nine-kilometre radius of

his home in this valley community, about 60 kilometres east of Van- couver. He says about & per

-eent of all B c. ‘Mennonites, i

drawn initially to. the area because of their. leaning toward agriculture, live in the Fraser Valley. The popularity of the Pentecostal, Mennonite Brethren and. evangelical Baptist churches in the area

' dubbed by ‘locals as. the

Bible Belt — is not a recent

phenomenon, says Loewen. ”

The. Mennonite ' settlement in nearby Yarrow began in 1928 and quickly expanded to Agaasiz. and Clearbraok. The Pentecoastal Assembly took root in the © valley community of Chilliwack. 60

years ago.

Lebeck says the Christian Life Assembly, which has its roots in the Pentecostal

all denominations,” is growing at its astonishing rate because of the church’s

basic, grassroots type : ‘of

ministry.

Goetz says his church has: grown to its present ‘size —

he calls it is’ part of a national upswing in the

‘popularity of conservative,

back-to-theBible ‘evange- lism — because of its prayer ministry and the stress it

places on missionary: work.”

and the gospel, However, he

_ does agree that the Fraser

‘Valley basically “ds avery Assembly but now: has .. absorbed “people of almost

religious area.” Adds Harolil -Pendray, administrator of the B.C.

-and Yukon district office of the Pentecostal Assembles

of: Canada: “I know..that

there are a lot of. Christian ‘people or people who have a ‘strong evangelical outlook who reside in the valley." -

Indeed, the Social Credit member. of _ the B.C.

legislature. for Chilliwack,

Harvey Schroeder, is an ordained minister,

rere

ve “most | im. ‘ defamation, a -perion, may . sue if he feela his reputation: ‘has been lowered by a story. It is up’ to the media to justify. what. bas been sald. -In the U.S: there is a .- distinction between a public and a non-public person. ‘Comments on public figures. . are treated differently since. the stories‘are viewed to be dn the public interest. This

\

|

~has been said is false. ° “With the -

_ bound to review.

actions,” says Robertson. “The second that happens the . lawsuits wil slow down.”

4, f

yplls the, onus on the pute” fas figure to prove that -what °°

charter, :

(Canadian) courts. are

the

- Situation ‘to put the onus on - - the plaintiff.in defamation

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