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IFEX "COMMUNIQUE" # 6-48                9 December 1997

CANADA: RECOMMENDATIONS MADE AFTER JOURNALIST'S MURDER

A coroner's jury looking into the August 1995 fatal shooting
of popular television sportscaster Brian Smith by a man who
hated the media has come out with 72 recommendations to
overhaul the laws and programs dealing with the mentally
ill, reports the Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists
(CCPJ). In August 1995, Smith was shot as he left his
Ottawa-area TV station by Jeffery Arenburg, whom CCPJ
describes as "a paranoid schizophrenic with a history of
violence against members of the media associated with his
psychotic delusions." In May 1997, Arenburg was found not
criminally responsible for first-degree murder by a criminal
court. He is now at a maximum-security psychiatric hospital
indefinitely. [Updates IFEX "Communique" #4-31.]

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