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Kee ‘AON 901 we 1701) u} 81804 98 Jeyy ‘vobuWVeEg HOBYOIN “WHOS yez80 aon @ 3HL 40 LHV3H Bos e6n0goey LEMeIS umoig yweg v0Us 10 WOH OUL, yeoseju) 0} peproep eey doo peyooo & vey) swee) Apeuvey, pus coe LOVLNOO 1-2-6 @ 06: =D 28! NVIOLNY ONVUNSNI J0HO9 s0Boyse> ‘00205 Yr - ZZI1 S3SNIDI7 GNW JDNVSNSNI NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) — John Plummer is living the dream of every teenage boy who sneaked into his parents” bedroom to peek at his father’s Playboy A sofvapaken Englishman with a pinch we “boudoir ase — sassy, sensual phar ey risque pin-ups of ordinary women, from the boss's secretary to the mother of three. Without a~trace of boastfulness, Plummer says “something in me seems to bring out the exhibitionist in women,” but photographing ladies in their next-to- nothings.— and less — is strictly business. | SELDOM EROTIC “Whatever the popular feeling might be,” he says, “whatever other guys might think reading this, for the overwhelming majority of the time it’s not erotic.” Which isn't to say he doesn’t enjoy his work. He clearly does. “Lots of women say that I make them feel very comfortable and they feel very safe here,” says Plummer as he busily clips negatives for his files. “My wife tells me I should take that as an insult, because I'm only 38.” HE SPECIALIZES Boudoir portraits have. become more common in recent years, although most photographers do them only as-a sideline. But except for shooting the occasionaly summer weekend wedding, Plummer restricts his work to the boudoir studio. Business is burgeoning. He was so busy in November that he had to stop taking bookings for Christmas. Plummer says he benefits from the free-spirit West Coast atmosphere, something he didn’t find in.Calgary when he first started shooting scantily clad ladies four years ago. Women in the buff ‘uninhibited type of photography,” ea the former civil servant who emigrated to Canada with his wife and two children in 1981, For the last three years Plummer has operated a second- studio on North Vancouver's main street. Marked by a small overhanging’ sign, the studio shares a dimly lit stairway with a couple of other businesses. ‘The studio's tiny reception area is brightened with poster-sized prints of his more discreet work. Behind the panelled wall is his hacia photography area, by a large by lights, props and his $3,000 tavenian of of feather boas, fishnet stockings, silky teddies and skimpy, cherry-red maids’ outfits. At first glance, it’s hard to imagine a near-naked woman relaxing enough in such a setting to deliver a convincing ’come-hither look. That they do is credit to Plummer’s engaging personality and British-proper demeanor. “Normally just a few minutes of talking and seeing all these other pictures around relaxes her and gives her the confidence she needs to do it. “And the primary rule of boudoir portraits is that when she comes out of the changing room for the first time in whatever lingerie she’s wearing, you never look at her. “That's the time she feels the most vulnerable . . . 30 T'm always fiddling with the camera or the props, talking to her, but almost ignoring her.” Donna McGeachie, a 87-year-old executive secretary, posed last summer, partly for herself — “I figured I'm never going to look as good as I do now” — and partly for a boyfriend, who took home an album of prints. “The whole idea appealed to me because I'm sort of a “The prairie culture doesn't lend itself to this showoff anyway. It was so much fun.” Canadian Press Assessment, burden, duty, excise, levy, load, toll; tariff, tithe — faxes by any other name sound just as ominous. But Revenue Canada, in its continuing attempt to make tax filing a lighter — if not cheaper -- burden, says 1996 personal return forms should save people time. ‘This doésn't mean the taxman has decided to return to the, medieval method of tax collecting, when peasants — bs ore into the joys of T-4 slips, capital gains or investment income — simply “donated” a cow or a couple of sacks of grain to their lord. But Revenue Canada is pretiy proud, all the same,’ of the new forms. “We think this is one of the best tax packages of any administration,” says spokesman Don Brooks, who adds, however, that “we'll bee be trying to improve it.” CE MISTAKES Simpler forms, pt says, mean fewer mistakes. And fewer mistakes mean faster payouts of tax refunds. “You see, there is a reward.” * About 16 million personal tax forms will be filed for the 1986 year, Brooks says. Six million will be the so-called T-1 special — for those who have no special claims or deductions or ber complications. The rest are the more common T-1 genert Both forms have been simplified, days Brooks, adding that the T-1 special now “truly is a one-page return.” The biggest change this year is a “no-calculation ee on both special and general forms for the estimated 1. million Canadians who have no income but file a form . claim the child tax credit.or the proposed federal sales tax credit. CHECK A BOX, All that these taxpayers need to do is provide some personal information, then check a box to indicate they want Revenue Canada to do the calculations for them. “If it is popular, we would consider expanding it to cover more people,” says Brooks. However, the Quebec Ae y| ‘uo ‘Aopseupem 0} yBnosy g “uor ‘Aopsuny) f TANLLNGS LN \ 106014805 Ay BIquINjOD LS¥L 8~7S-S9E AOA 404 BWOY O HIM, [ / panujyjuos Anpsnjos y\ ‘uor ‘Appseupem oF yBnosys g “uor ‘Aopsinyl Pension reform stalled OTTAWA (CP) — Some 2.2 million workers who have been waiting for years to get a better deal from their company pension plans will have to wait still _longer because of foot pol- roughly 2.4 million members of ‘company pension plans. Another 2.2 million plan members are in jurisdictions which are dragging their feet. and Mani- iticians. Higher standards for plans that were first endorsed by Ottawa and the provinces in 1984.were supposed to come into force Jan. 1, but most governments are running a year or more behind sched- ule. The Canadian Life and Health I A jati toba went ahead on their own and amended their pension legislation earlier in the decade and aren't in any hurry to make further im- provements. On the other hand, British Columbia, New. Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have no standards at all, and doesn't like the delays. “I just think that the de- bate on pension reform has gone on for 10 years now, and it shouldn't take 10 years to make some of these changes,” says Frank W. Speed, vice-president for life insurance and annuities. Bob Baldwin, pensions specialist for the Canadian Labor Congress, says he would be willing to wait another year if the wait resulted in guarantees of in flation protection for retired workers, an issue still being debated in Ontario. But he adds: “Any provin- cial government that has no intention of following On- tario’s cue has no reason to delay this stuff.” ALBERTA ACTS To date, only Alberta and the federal government have passed legislation to take ef fect Jan. 1 that reflects the federal-provincial consensus on pension reform. Ontario recently _intro- duced similar legislation that gislation in other p is considered by many to be badly outdated. Even Ottawa is late in enacting reforms for some 400,000 federal employees. The pension bill passed by Parliament last summer cov- ered only employees of fed- erally regulated industries such as banking, interprovin- cial transportation and broadcasting. Pension reform dates back to 1976, but it wasn’t until until June 1984 that federal and provincial officials agreed on a plan expected to be enacted in all parts of the country in 1985. CHANGES TARGETS The target date got pushed back to Jan. 1, 1987, and now it may not even be met by Jan. 1, 1988. The federal-provincial con- be eligible to join plans after two years of employment. ~ — Plans will have to pro- vide for survivor's benefits equal to at least 60 per cent of a deceased plan member's pension. — Sexual discrimination is prohibited. After Jan. 1, men and women must pay the same contributions to their pension plans and must re- ceive the same benefits from those plans. é With some variations here and there, all these changes are intended to apply to workers across the country under both federal and pro- vineial jurisdiction once the necessary legislation is However, issues like infla- tion protection, gaps in pen- sion plan coverage and the use of surplus money held by pension funds are likely to be debated for years to come. Gunman pleads guilty to murder QUEBEC (CP) — Former Canadian Forces corporal Denis Lortie pleaded guilty Tuesday to reduced charges of second-degree murder in the deaths of three people in a submachine-gun attack at the Quebec legislature in May 1984. The surprise plea came as Lortie, 26, was about to undergo his second trial on charges of first-degree mur- der. Pre-trial arguments were schéduled to be pre- sented Tuesday, but the Crown announced it was withdrawing the first-degree charges and replacing them sensus was reflected in the new Pension Benefits Stan- dards Act passed by Parlia- ment last summer. It pro~ vides for higher minimum standards in a number of areas. with d-degree charges. Both charges carry life sentences, but parole for first-degree murder is set at a minimum of 25 years while parole for second-degree murder can be set at 10 years. main chamber_with bullets before being ed into sur- rendering the sergeant-at- arms Rene Jalbert. Evidence at the four-week trial which ended in Feb- ruary, 1985, indicated Lortie was bent on destroying the Parti Quebecois government when he made his murderous attack on the legislature. Defence lawyers argued during his trial that Lortie was insane at the time of the attack. They presented psychiatr- ists’ testimony that Lortie had been the victim of a brutal and incestuous father, goverriment ii d the option last year and usage “was not that impressive.” Studies have indicated some people “don’t like it because they want to know what the rebate will be “before they get it, Brooks says. He says the phil behind the si i has been to tailor the tax return format to better suit the varying needs of individual taxpayers. ADD FOLDERS The 1986 forms will be packaged in plastic bags, rather than paper envelopes, which will allow the government to insert more folders on specific tax subjects. This means the government can develop personalized packages 6n,a “building-block approach,” says Brooks. For instance, a tax filer who claimed a capital gains last year will receive information dealing with the exemption this year. Previously he had to go to a regional tax office to pick up the form. His neighbor, who did not claim capital gains, won't get that.insert, but might get one explaining, for instance, dividend income, if he declared some in 1985. ALSO EXPECT Other changes: e The T-1 general instruction booklet will be bigger, with larger print and an easier-to-follow format for some of @ The tax tables have been etended from an upper limit, @ Those who like to do their taxes on their home computer can use it to prepare their final copy, instead of transferring the figures to the government-supplied form. «The 2.5 million taxpayers who hire professional tax will not receive a return package, but will get a personal information that can be attached to the computer-prepared forms their accountants or tax firms use. If they decide to prepare the forms themselves, they can pick up a at the post office. 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