And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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>Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:32:41 -0500
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>From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Tsuu T'ina Reserve deaths of mother & son by RCMP - inquiry
> will be televised nationally
>
>Tuesday, January 19, 1999
>
> Jacobs inquiry televised
>
> By KEVIN MARTIN, CALGARY SUN
> The fatality inquiry into the police shooting deaths of Connie and
> Ty Jacobs can be shown on national TV, the judge hearing the
> case ruled yesterday.
>
> "This is a matter which has an intense interest amongst all
> aboriginal people in this country," said Judge Tom Goodson, in
> making what's believed to be the first such ruling of its kind.
>
> "The most effective way, and in some way the only way ...
> aboriginal people have access will be by television."
>
> Tsuu T'ina lawyer Don MacLeod said he is unaware of another
> case where cameras have been allowed into a fatality inquiry.
>
> Goodson granted the application by Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
> lawyer Fred Kozak, in part because other public inquiries have
> been televised.
>
> "It would appear that to refuse television coverage in this day and
> age is really indefensible when it comes to public inquiries," he
> said.
>
> Lawyer Will Willier, who represents two Tsuu T'ina social workers
> and a tribal police officer, opposed the application.
>
> Willier said televising the proceedings would do more harm than
> good to an already divided community on the reserve on the
> southwest corner of Calgary.
>
> "It would not respect the dead, it would not allow this community to
> heal," he said.
>
> But Goodson said Natives in remote areas of Canada which would
> otherwise get little or no information about the hearing deserve
> access.
>
> "The greater good is served by television coverage," he said.
>
> The eight-week hearing to determine the circumstances
> surrounding the deaths of Connie Jacobs, 37, and her son Ty, 9,
> begins Feb. 1.
>
>
>
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> +++ we're not going to fall over in rows +++
>
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