2
Free
Forum
Free
Forum
Volume
I
Edition
2
January
2003
Circulation
1,
000
Editor-in-Chief
Jolene
Brisbois
Features
Editor
Graham
Lazarovich
Copy
Editor
Dana
Evanyshyn
Ad
Manager
Tawnya
Heffner
Production
Editor
Erin
Munn
Inquiries
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College
of
New
Caledonia
Prince"George
BC
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loc.
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cncsncnc.bc.ca
Contributors
Graham
Lazarovich,
Fiona
Grisswell,
Victor
van
der
Mervve,
Anne
Blanchard,
Liana
Ziemer,
Dana
Evanyshyn,
Alex
Ternowetsky,
Erin
Munn,
Laura
Buchi,
Tawnya
Heffner,
Jolene
Brisbois,
Veronica
Murphy,
Sam
Stevenson,
and
Chelsea.
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Press.
News
February
2003
Blaikie
praises
Free
Forum,
urges
participation
Alex
Ternowetsky
Federal
NDP
leadership
candidate
Bill
Blaikie
is
a
Free
Forum
kind
of
guy.
Blaikie,
who
visited
Prince
George
in
January
as
part
of
his
national
campaign
tour,
was
pleased
to
learn
that
CNC
has
relaunched
its
independent,
student-run
newspaper
after
an
absence
of
two
years.
Though
Blaikie,
an
MP
in
the
WinnipegTranscona
riding,
was
unfamiliar
with
the
CNC
paper,
he
called
the
emergence
of
Free
Forum
"an
important
event"
in
the
local
process
of
democracy.
"The
more
independent
newspapers
the
better,"
Blaikie
said,
"because
we
do
have
an
incredible
amount
of
corporate
concentration
and
convergence
in
the
media,
with
different
forms
of
media
being
owned
by
the
same
people."
Blaikie
and
Toronto
city
councilor
Jack
Layton
are
widely
considered
the
two
front-runners
in
the
NDP
federal
leadership
race.
As
members
of
a
left
wing
party
rooted
in
working-class
social
activism,
both
Blaikie
and
Layton
know
what
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Bill
Blaikie
holds
up
the
Free
Forum
in
ent
media.
PICK
UP
A
HEART
O'GRAM
with
a
minimum
donation
of
only
$11
You
will
get:
a
Nestle
Kitkat
chunky
bar,
a
red
ribbon
or
tattoo,
and
a
scratch
n'win
card!
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courtesy
of
Alex
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of
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the
cafeteria
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monies
go
directly
to
HIVAIDS
research
it's
like
to
struggle,
often
in
vain,
for
a
voice
in
the
corporately
controlled
mainstream
media.
Speaking
before
a
group
of
NDP
members
at
the
Hospital
Employees
Union
in
downtown
Prince
George,
Blaikie
claimed
that
the
difficulties
attached
to
expressing
dissent
in
the
national
media
have
a
lot
to
do
with
the
growing
frustrations
and
fears
of
young
people
in
Canada.
"It's
getting
to
the
point
where
they
don't
participate
in
democracy
because
they
don't
believe
they
can
have
an
impact,"
he
said.
"They
can
have
an
impact,
but
the
way
our
media
is
set
up
it
isn't
always
easy."
"Blaikie
claimed
that
the
difficulties
attached
to
expressing
dissent
in
the
national
media
have
a
lot
to
do
with
the
growing
frustrations
and
fears
of
young
people
in
Canada.
"
Blaikie
believes
newspapers
like
Free
Forum
can
effectively
initiate
this
impact.
Though
he
has
his
own
ideas
of
what
he'd
like
to
see
written,
he
says
it's
more
important
that
alternative
media
remain
accessible
to
diverging
points
of
view:
"Obviously
I'd
like
newspapers
to
agree
with
what
I
have
to
say,
but
what
we
want
ultimately
in
a
democracy
is
a
variety
of
opinion."
Blaikie's
future
with
the
NDP
party
of
Canada
will
become
a
little
clearer
on
January
25
when
the
national
leadership
election
takes
place.
Whatever
the
result,
Blaikie
is
determined
to
remain
an
active
voice
in
the
Canadian
political
landscape
as
the
country's
future
unfolds.
He's
been
a
member
of
parliament
for
the
past
twenty
years,
so
his
participation
is
fairly
certain.
What
is
less
certain,
is
the
participation
of
CNC
students
in
issues
that
concern
them
directly.
As
Blaikie
would
attest,
the
existence
of
Free
Forum
places
members
of
the
student
body
in
the
enviable
position
of
having
a
public
voice.
Whether
they
use
it
or
not,
remains
to
be
seen.
English
101
Imagination,
Inspiration,
A
translation,
Manipulation,
Degradation,
Exorcise
of
the
exercise
Of
Interpretation.
G.T.
Ruckus