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WESTCOASTNEWSII A9 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013 nRIJAKINGNEWSiVANCOUVERSUN.COM KAMLOOPS FROM PAGE A1 Election battle boils over on Wikipedia Kitten held hostage in apartment takeover Three men charged with assaulting and threatening roofer Disappearance of critical details The Wikipedia entry for Adrian Dix has been sanitized. Here's a look at some of the deletions. 0 1 9 The neutrality of this article Is disputed. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute Is resolved.

(Jmuaiy 2011 A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with Its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (Januay 2011) Adrian Dix Prom WiKipeois tut rree encyciopuo' Adrian Dix (born April 28, Canadian politician, serving as the ML A for Vancouver. Kingsvay In British coiumhia and as leader of th British Columbia New Democratic He was Tint elected to trie Legislative Assembly of Bntish Columbia In the 2005 provincial election, Contents (n.ae 1 Personal I 2 Car 3 Member of the Legislative Ase 3.1 Election results (partial) A 2011 MOP leadership race 8 Leader of the B0 NDP 6 References 7 External links Personal Aide to Glen Clark While serving as a Ministerial Assistant In 1994, Dix played a role in the Fast Ferry Scandal.

Auditor General George Morfitt's 1999 report on the scandal noted that Dix. "worked with consultants to develop a proposal for selecting fast ferry designers In March 1994, before either the BC Ferries board or cabinet had approved the From 1 996 to 1999 he served as Chief of Staff to Premier Glen Clark. He was forced to resign from that position after it was revealed that he had forged a memo and marked it with an official Executive Office of the Premier stamp In an effort to make it appear that Clark had Instructed him to keep him at arms-length from the process of awarding casino licenses. Clark himself was eventually forced to resign as a result of the scandal and was charged with criminal breach of trust, a charge he was ultimately acquitted of. l2l -r Adrian Dix was or end Hilda, imrnigr, its from Irela entsranlhi respectively.

His Agency Ltd. onW 4 1st Avery 2011whenhisftt retired ant uver, Dix was raised as an Incumbent Glowing up In Var Anglican and alter id Point Grey Secondary In the Fired from Job Due to Forging of Documents 1 980s. He then we onto study history and politic science at the Urn rsity of British Columbia. Dix two siblings and ci ently lives in Vancouver with wife RenSe Saklik a poet and wnter.IS! Dix is known forki ping In shape In order to In recent days, as the province gets ready for the May 14 provincial election, the digital fight over Dix's personal history reached a climax. Since April 6, details of the "memo to file" incident have been re-inserted at least 10 times, and just as quickly removed.

On Tuesday morning, a Wikipedia editor with powers to lock the page did so, leaving online a cleansed version that omits any negative bits of Dix's history. For the leader of the opposition that has stopped at least temporarily the problem of subjective editing that has befallen many politicians and celebrities. Premier Christy Clark isn't immune from this. Her Wiki page has had personal and sexist comments added, capitalizing in part on recent stories about her reaction to comments about her looks. Unlike Dix's page, there have been no efforts to remove a number of negative references, including her close connections in the BC Rail scandal.

The biography of Conservative leader John Cummins hasn't been tinkered with and all three party pages at Wik-iedia are not subject to the same level of attention as Dix's biography In the past 90 days, Dix's online history has been read at least 20,000 times, according to Wikipedia. Christy Clark's biography was viewed nearly 60,000 times in the same period. Both the NDP and the Liberals say they are not behind the constant editing of Dix's Wiki biography. Many of those adding in the "memo to file" information are newly-registered users or are hidden through Internet Protocol addresses that can't be easily traced. The Sun was unable to contact any of the people making changes on either side.

On Tuesday, Dix made light of the affair, saying he doesn't pay attention to his Wikipedia entry, but noted a recent Sun story citing his birth date used incorrect information that clearly came from Wikipedia. (His birthday is April 20, 1964, not April 26.) Dix said he has never shied away from admitting he made a mistake in 1998 when he was chief of staff and back-dated a In 1999 Dix was Chief of Staff to Premier Glen Clark. Dix was fired by Clark as Dix falsely backdated a memo with a stamp from the desk of Dix's secretary7! "Police raided Clark's home over potentially lucrative casino licence handed to one of the premier's pals. The memo, (falsely backdated eight months earlier, said Clark had personally instructed Dix to "ensure that he Clark take no part in any aspect of the decision" to award the casino manage his TypeJllabetes, with which he was diagnosed in his Career wservnri France as a young man I Religion Anglican UL, Fluently bilingual, Dix lived and then worked in Ottawa He then worked as the exei rNDPMPIanWadd CAM FORTEMS KAML00PS DAILY NCWS A B.C. Supreme Court jury trial began Monday for three men alleged to have taken over a roofer's apartment, where they threatened and assaulted him and took his kitten "hostage" so he wouldn't tell police.

Brandon Schell, Trevor Taylor and Jason Wolfe are all charged with break and enter, assault, uttering threats, unlawful confinement and use of a firearm for incidents alleged to have occurred Oct. 10, 2011. Schell faces additional charges of robbery and assault causing bodily harm for a separate incident nine days later. Crown lawyer Don Mann told the jury in his opening address that the three men, along with a woman, Rachel Smith, knocked on Darren Mills' apartment door. He recognized Schell, whom he knew only as "Brandon." When Mills opened the door, Jason Wolfe whom he identified by the nickname "Stash" f-punched him, Mann said in his outline to the jury.

The group claimed Mills, a roofing company owner, owed them money and said they were taking over his apartment. He ran errands for them, including a run for groceries. "In order to prevent him from going to the police and to ensure he came back, they held his cat hostage a cat that was highly regarded by him," Mann said. Mills was the first witness called by the Crown in a trial scheduled to last several weeks. But he failed to provide details and refuted Mann's claim in his opening address that two of the three brandished guns.

"Did you see a gun that night?" Mann asked Mills. Following a delay of at least 20 seconds, Mills replied with a "no." Mills failed to identify individual actions by the four, either blaming them on Smith who is not on trial or saying he wasn't sure. live director of Canai Scandal He served as Chief of Stat Premier Glen Clarr commentator and journalisilom 2001-2005. writlj The Source, a prominent nf cultural Tyeels; and the Member of the Legislative Asset Since 2005, Dix has served as the MLA for Vanci critic for Children and Families and then served ai opposing the closing of Carleton Elementary Sch In 1999 when Dix walked out of the west annex of the legislature, his place of work as Clark's chief of staff, to announce that after three years' service, he'd been fired. It was a dark time in the political history of the province.

Glen Clark himself was just a few months away from resigning because of a controversy involving an East Van neighbour who, it was alleged, traded renovations to Clark's home in exchange for a successful casino application. Clark would eventually be cleared of criminal charges, although he was found to be in violation of the province's conflict of interest laws. Dix, for his part, to insulate his boss from the whole mess, falsely backdated a memo with a stamp from the desk of his secretary the way a used car dealer fudges the odometer for an unsuspecting buyer. When the ploy went public, Clark fired Dix. He had to By that fall, both careers were in ruin.

The two started to look for work outside politics, though neither had any real experience. Dix, after completing his political science degree at UBC, had became an aide to federal New Democrat Ian Waddell in Ottawa, then returned to become ministerial assistant to Clark in the finance ministry. jS'-Ji- my biography would say that I was chief of staff to premier Glen Clark, that I left the job of chief of staff in March of 1999 and the "memo to file" was part of that controversy," Dix said. "I think that would be fair, as would be a discussion of how I came back from that and have done other things in my life." "There are a number of battlegrounds in B.C. politics, and the Web has become a major one.

The bottom line is that one has to be cautious and look for credible sources, and even though Wikipedia has become ubiquitous, it is not the most credible source of information," Ruff said. When and if Dix's biography opens again for editing, he has his own view of what it should say about his old mistake. "I think a fair description of memo to help Glen Clark. He has apologized for what he did, and he believes the electorate has forgiven him. "No one is harder on me than me.

People who know me know that. Obviously it was a serious mistake and one that I have never made excuses about," he said. Retired political science professor Norman Ruff said the Wiki wars show how influential the online world has become in shaping opinion. -1' There are a number of battlegrounds in B.C. politics, and the Web has become a major one.

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