Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

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August 28th, 2003 at 10:22 am

Vancouver radio tonight

Our editor is scheduled to appear this evening at 8 p.m. Pacific time on Vancouver’s CKNW, am 980, with host David Berner. The main topic on the agenda — is Canada going the litigious way of the U.S.? — plays off a feature article that ran yesterday in the Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen and other CanWest newspapers but doesn’t seem to be online yet.

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