Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1978-06-28
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0420924/source.json
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note: warn mmm HE'S IN DISTINCTIVE COMPANY legislative Library Parliament Bide, Victoria, B.C. Jan 79 LANGLEY — A writ has been .issued in the supreme court naming Fraser Valley West MP Bob Wenman and a host of other well-known Canadian individuals and firms as co-defendants in a libel action. The plaintiffs are poets Bill Bissett and Bertrand Lachance. Along with Wenman, the two controversial poets as well as Wenman is being sued by poets their publishers and printers Talon Books and Blcwointment Press, are suing five other members of parliament, radio hotliner Ed Murphy- and radio station CJOR, the Toronto Globe and Mail, the Toronto Sun, and Eatons and Woodwards stores. They are seeking punitive damages for alleged libel and for having been subjected to public scandal and damage to their reputation. Wenman, who says he still finds Bissett's and Lachance's poetry "repulsive to a large portion", is being sued along with the Toronto Globe and Mail for an article in that, newspaper published on December 3, 1977. Murphy, the crusading publisher of a best-selling book; 'A Legacy of Spending', is being sued for reproducing some of the more raunchy poems, along with his own comments, in this book; Eatons and Woodwards for distributing it. The remainder of the defendants are being sued for remarks made in newspaper interviews in the two Toronto papers. The Aldergrove Star, in its December 21, 1977 issue printed a sampler of Bissett's poetry, but because of the nature of same had to substitute most of the words with dot-dots. The poets' efforts were largely subsidized by the Canadian public through Canada Council grants. The AldergrovaStar Vol.21 No. 26 16 pages Elegitimus non carborundum Wednesday, June 28,1978 25'per copy Young cowpokes were thicker than bugs on porchlight over the weekend at the 14th Annual Little Britches Rodeo. Young rodeo performers from all over B.C. and Washington state gathered to vie for trophies and prize money at what is rapidly becoming the most Imp…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420924
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text