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The talks have been under way, off and on, since Sunday after a six-day, round-the-clock filibuster persuaded both sides that they were not going to solve their differences in the house. Conservative and Liberal senators labored without success Tuesday on a package of rule changes and a legislative schedule that would see the upper house resume normal business for the first time this fall. The Liberals have offered a timetable that would allow a number of bills to clear the Senate, including changes to the unemployment in- surance program and a bill authorizing federal assistance for the Hibernia offshore oil program. only deepen the country’s woes, “It will be the best thing for the economy if we were not to have a GST on the first of January,”’ he said “It will just compound the recession.”’ While Chretien made his commen: ts, key figures from both sides in the Senate began another round of bargaining aimed at ending the Procedural stalemate that has paralysed the upper house since senators returned from their summer Be prepared for tax, Jelinek says VANCOUVER (CP) — The only businesses to be hurt by the goods and services tax will be those that haven't registered with federal officials trained to help firms deal with it, Revenue Minister Otto Jelinek said Tuesday. Jelinek said in an interview that the rate of registrations has slowed since the Senate began stalling two weeks ago on the proposed seven-per-cent consumption tax that will replace the federal sales tax on manufactured goods. “The people and businesses that are going to suffer the most as a result of the GST going ahead on Jan. | are those that aren’t prepared,’’ Jelinek COMMUNITY MEETINGS ON FORESTRY & THE ENVIRONMENT * DR. HAMISH KIMMINS, Professor of forest ecology at the University of B.C., will be speaking at a series of public meetings throughout the Southern Interior about the various impacts and consequences of logging and related forest activity. * Dr. Kimmins, who is recognized by his international peers as one of the top forest ecologists in the world, will be making an introductory presentation, after which he will respond to questions asked by the audience. GRAND FORKS DATE: Tues., Oct. 23, 1990 TIME: 7:00 p.m. PLACE: GFSS AUDITORIUM (1431 Central Avenue) NELSON DATE: Wed., October 24, 1990 TIME: 7:00 p.m. PLACE: Civic Centre Badminton Hall (719 Vernon St.) * As forestry issues are important to everyone, please take the time to attend! Sponsored by the member companies of the Interior Lumber Manufacturers’ Association a The ti also a vote on the GST report — the tax bill’s next-to-last vote in the Senate — by Oct. 30. The proposals were refused Mon- day because they did not address the Conservatives’ key demand — that the Liberals agree to set a date for a final vote on the GST bill The Liberals want a ruling by Speaker Guy Charbonneau — to hold a vote in their absence — stricken from the record so it doesn’t serve as a precedent. said. “If they’re not prepared, it’s only because they’re_—nott registered."’ Jelinek said about one million businesses have already registered and 600,000 have been assisted by his ministry to set up for the tax. Registrations are ahead of projec- tions, he said, but the rate of increase in registrations should have continued “the way it was prior to the Senate shenanigans.”’ “That's why I’m travelling the country telling businesses, ‘Don’t listen to those unelected, unaccoun- table 51 senators because we are going to get it through.’ It would be more disastrous if we didn’t get it through."’ Jelinek said hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent by Canadian businesses preparing for the change. “If the GST would be delayed, not to mention cancelled, that would BRIEFLY From Wire Service Canadian wins Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM — Canadian scientist Richard Taylor and Americans Jerome Friedman and Henry Kendall won the Nobel Prize in physics today for finding the first evidence of quarks, now believed to be basic building blocks of matter. The scientists showed that protons and neutrons, once thought to be fundamental particles, were made up of these smaller components called quarks. “Here was a repetition, although at a deeper level, of one of the most dramatic events in the history of physics, the discovery of the nucleus of the atom,” said the Swedish Academy of Sciences, which Presents the award. “Their experiments showed definitely that there were smaller nuclear particles than protons and neutrons,”’ said Prof: Cecelia Jareskog of the academy. Taylor, 60, born in Medicine Hat, Alta., is a professor at Stanford University. Friedman, 60, of Chicago, and Kendall, 63, of Boston, are at the N Institute of T . More defense cuts possible TORONTO — Defence Minister William McKnight is warning that financial constraints will mean further cutbacks in the size of the Canadian Armed Forces. McKnight told a defence industry meeting Tuesday in Ottawa the government cannot provide the ‘‘si icant annual increase’’ of funds needed to keep the military at current strength ‘‘while we tackle the deficit,’’ the Toronto Globe and Mail reported. Last year, Ottawa said it would trim $2.7 billion from defence spending for the next five years. Last month, it cut 1,400 troops from the 8,000-member European-based forces. While the Defence Department refuses to predict further troop cuts, some sources say a reduction of 5,000 to 15,000 troops is likely, with most of the cuts coming from Europe. Defence industry spokesmen said further reductions will hamper Canada’s efforts to exercise domestic sovereignty and implement its foreign military policy. United Mohawk team called for MONTREAL — The federal g won't begin to settle the land claim that sparked the Mohawk crisis until the Kahnesatake community resolves its differences, Indian Affairs Minister Tom Siddon said. Emerging from separate meetings in nearby Dorval with two rival factions from Kahnesatake, Siddon said the Mohawks will have to Presenta negotiating team that can prove it is speaking for the entire community near Oka. “‘We have not yet arrived at the point where we can commence those negotiations and I again today put the challenge to both groups to find a way to resolve the various differences which exist within the community,”’ Siddon said. He also reserved judgment on a request by a coalition of Kahnesatake groups to appoint a band administrator until the question of who leads the community can be answered The federal government bought the disputed land from the town of Oka which had planned to use it to expand the local golf course and Promised to turn it over to the Mohawks once the crisis ended. Refugee system called ‘cruel’ FORONTFO— Ottawa's plodding effort to clear a massive refugee backlog is among the worst human rights abuses in Canada’s post-war history, the Canadian Council of Churches says. It’s taking so long to decide the fate of at least 100,000 refugee claimants that families are breaking up, people are sliding into depression and some are even trying to kill themselves, the church group said. “The pattern of systematic abuse of the backlog claimants may be a misguided attempt to safeguard the integrity of the Canadian immigration system, or it may simply be a harsh form of deterrence,”” the council, which represents most of Canada’s Christian create a bureaucratic out there. We cannot afford, for the sake of the business community, to post- pone the implementation date."’ Earlier, Jelinek and reporters toured offices set up in suburban Burnaby to administer the tax. He said the machinery is on schedule to help business collect and report it. ‘‘We're satisfied that it’s there and it’s not going to be a bureaucratic nightmare.”” Jelinek, who with his sister Maria won the world pairs figure skating championship and performed in ice shows, later took centre stage at a theatre to tell the Vancouver arts community it won't suffer from the tax. “I never expected for me to sell them on GST. I think my point was to say ‘It’s going ahead, you're not going to be as badly off as you expec- ted to be because you're not looking at both sides of the equation.”’ One questioner among the 80 ar- tists, musicians, actors, dancers and managers of arts organizations told Jelinek that if they thought the public could pay an additional seven per cent, ticket prices would have gone up a long time ago. said in a report “‘In either case, the process has a cost in human terms that is simply too high. it is causing untold human misery and is an administrative system causing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.”’ The council has made a formal complaint about the backlog delays to the United Nations’ human rights committee in Geneva Crisis anniversary marked MONTREAL — Quebecers marked the 20th anniversary of the October Crisis on Tuesday with loud shouts for independence and quiet prayers. The shouts filled the air as about 300 demonstrators marched through city streets, decrying the 1970 imposition of the War Measures Act and denouncing then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau for having invoked the law. The prayers came a few hours earlier when about 60 people attended a funeral mass in a chapel for Pierre Laporte, the labor minister who was kidnapped and slain in 1907 by a call of the Front de liberation du Quebec. The slogan-chanting gathered at-D. in downtown Montreal, then trudged uphill for half an hour to Westmount and Trudeau's house. No one appeared to be home at the former prime minister’s house. Police urge tougher treatment OTTAWA — Government proposals to toughen the treatment of teenaged murderers and other youthful criminals don’t go far enough, says the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. Appearing before a Commons Tuesday, the urged MPs to make it easier to transfer youths to adult court for serious offences and to impose longer terms on those convicted in youth court. Square .. Here’s My Card... Castlegar News Wayne Stolz Caroline ADVERTISING OFFICE 365-521 Soukorott 0° FAX 365-3334 FaLtcon PAINTING & DECORATING 2649 FOURTH AVENUE CASTLEGAR @ gst 965 3563 v ———— MisnneRD, SALES LTD. TRA. BC vie am Sen Collect: 364.0202 TUEGAR CUSTOMERS Cais oe DENNIs BED; VE YOU Daven 4 FORD Lare.y Seles ond woring Seu Res. 367.7187 Experts say don't panic VICTORIA (CP) — Economic ex- perts suggest the British Columbia government should not over-react to the current economic downturn, Finance Minister Mel Couvelier said. Premier Bill Vander Zalm told delegates attending the Social Credit annual convention on Saturday that a restraint program was inevitable to deal with the recession and it could be harsh. He also said public sector wage controls are an option. But Couvelier told reporters he has received mixed signals about the state of the economy during an all-day meeting Monday in Vancouver, where he spoke with some 50 economic ex- Perts, including ones representing consumers and labor. “I didn’t get unanimity on the question of just how bad it is,"’ he said on his arrival back in Victoria. “The majority view was that government should not panic and that we shouldn't knee-jerk our reactions to the current situation. “On the other hand, it’s also true that the majority view was that it will be appropriate for government to take some short-term actions in an at- tempt to manage the current situation.’* Couvelier told a meeting of in- surance agents Oct. 2 that the gover- nment would ‘‘prime the pump’’ by accelerating its plans for $20 billion Jules Delaney of Nelson, a raku potter, holds one of his works which debuted at the recent B.C. Creative Arts Show in Vancouver. Delaney, who operates Clayplay in Nelson, says the show helped boost his busine: Potter boosts business A once-obscure Japanese art form got some star billing recently when raku potter Jules Delaney made his debut at the recent B.C. Creative Arts Show in Vancouver. Assisted by the Ministry of Regi and ic D under its Home-Based Business program, Jules and Katlin Delaney of Nelson learned how product marketing gets done in the professional leagues. “There are approximately 220,000 self-employed people in B.C. and more than half of them run a business right out of their homes . . . just like Jules and Katlin Delaney,’’ Stan Hagen, minister of regional and economic development, said in a news release. Their business, Clayplay, was among the 119 home-based businesses that exhibited their products at the show, part of the Southex Fall Gift Show at B.C. Place. “It was absolutely, totally in- credible,” said Delaney, who got $8,000 in orders for his raku lamps, vases and ceremonial tea bowls. ‘‘The ONLY 18,744 AND 10.9% future sure looks rosy. “‘There’s a huge market out there for Canadian art objects.’’ The recent trade show attracted ap- proximately 6,000 buyers from retail shops all over North America. Raku had its origins in the tea ceremonies of 15th century Japan, but was considered an art form with no until recently. Now, collectors worldwide seek out the brilliantly colored pots for their homes and of- fices. Delaney teaches cereamics at Nelson’s Canadian International College, which has an entirely Japanese student-body. Delaney, who did jewelry and gold- smith work for 12 years, returned to pottery in 1988. Although he follows many of the traditions of the craft — including developing and making his own glazes with metals like silver, titanium, copper and antimony — Delaney also strives to push the boundaries of artistic expression “Raku has evolved considerably in the last 10 years,”’ he said. ‘‘Some of the traditional stuff can be pretty boring.’” Raku is ceremonial and not fun- ctional, largely because raku’s low- firing temperature doesn’t seal the pot. Delaney fires between one and four pots at a time in a 55-gallon barrel, although he uses propane now instead of the traditional wood. Delaney’s wife, Katlin, does much of the glazing and also helps run the business. And Delaney is cogvinced that there*s-soon-going-to—be-a—tor more business to be managed. “The trade show convinced me that the potential is much bigger than | thought,’’ he said. ‘At this point, it looks like I’m going to have a real business."” The Home-Based Business program, offered by the Ministry of Regional and Economic Develop- ment, provides assistance to help these entrepreneurs succeed. For more information on business programs, contact your regional development liaison _ officer, economic development officer, chamber of commerce or Government Agent's office. October is TRUCK 1991 GMC SONOMA EXTENDED CAB 4x4 4.31. V-6 fuel injected engine 5-speed manual transmission AM/FM Cassette ding rear window ilt steering wheel intermittent wipers 48 MONTH FULL TERM FINANCING O.A.C Raised white lettered on off road tires See a Kalawsky Sales Professional Today! IKALAWSIKY PONTIAC BUICK GMC (1989) LTD. —THE KING OF CARS—— 1700 Columbia Ave. . 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