ay oa Castlegar News March 15, 1989 Hormone eases blood pressure MONTREAL winning (cP) Award Mare Cantin is Whether his scientist ANXIOUS LO see 1-year study of a heart hormone will turn into the biggest breakthrough yet. jin treating high blood pressure I think it’s going to.work,”* Cantin said in an interview in his Montreal lab It's gorto work h.worked on rat We've got another year of pre-clinical and monkeys trial in humans. Ht utkes @ long, tong time Cantin and his team at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal were honored recently by the Quebec Hear which has funded much of his work in proving that the heart ac Foundation ts asa gland as wellas a pump The discovery American Heart prompted the Association him and his team the Research Achievement Award in November The heart foundation noted that it was the first time the award was given toaCanadian What Cantin and. his 20-member team have discovered is (Hat the heart, as a glantl mone containing.a peptide that keeps produces a cardiac hor blood pressure down NOTHING BETTER “Nothing itt the-world i known to eliminate high blood pressure as well as thiscan,” Cantin said Ir is also thought the peptide plays a role in the treatment of other deadly heart ailments and possibly kidney failure and cirrhosis of the liver The peptide now is being ad ministered inyavenoustyin Montreal to.15 test patients who have high blood Sleeping pill linked to amnesia (CP) A pill has widely MONTREAL prescribed sleeping been associated with loss of memory in hundreds of patients and Quebec doctors are being warned to think twice before prescribing it Scommitce oF Chrehee prvsictans hundreds of sleeping _pill and. pharmacists say's reports associate the Halcion with amnesia About 300 such reports have ‘been » the Health Protection Branch of Health and Welfare Depart ment in Ottawa sbout for the pill, marketed by Toronto based Upjohn Co. of Canada We want doctors to think twice gets Halcion dosage and duration: they said Dr. Pierre Biron, a University of about’ who and the select pressure, Cantin said “Over a 12-hour period, it can decrease. their systolic blood pressure level by 10 per cent. Now we're going to.try itover 24 hours, then 48 hours."* He thinks the peptide will control blood pressure with an injection once a month “For many-years'T worked on it not knowing the’ function of the peptide but I felt if nature put it there, it wasn't Cantinsaid Heart Foundation foramusement,” The Quebec gave money to this research before it was popular, when it was a mere curiosity Interest in the area took off in 1980 after significant discoveries by other A lab Canadian scientists, Cantin said. run by Philip Needleman at University of St. Louis reached the same conclusions and shares the {eart Foundation award NG TREATMENT Cantin’s group is also testing a treatment_to,stop-the-bady-from destroying the peptide “We want it to stay in ‘people's system ‘to keep their blood pressure down.” Clinical trials of a drug to block “the enzymatic degradation’? of the peptide will begin in-4990,-he said, Scientists will find ways to alter the peptide to make it work more effec tively, he said, which may result in many forms being available on the market Cantin’s work has been funded over Medical Research Council of Canada, the National Research Council, the Quebec Heart the years by’ the Foundation and maceutical companies Royalties mado from commer sializing a product developed by an in private. phar tl News b FOR RENT Office or Retail Space Street-level air-conditioned office or small retail space in stitute lab vary from three to eight per cent.ghe said, with the rest going to the pharmaceutical company applying.the research toa marketable product will’ do some redecorating swering ). 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Lighting Supplies 2317-6th Avenue, Castlegar Phone 365-7702 COLEMAN COUNTRY BOY SERVICE Sump & Septic Tank Pumping Phone 365-5013 3400-4th Avenue Castlegar By CLAUDETTESANDECKI : Staff Writer “(Soviet people) read to seek answers to the most vital, the most fundamental questions of life — it is a tradition and only writers that give in this respect, only with us they become popular That’s How Soviet author Victor Petelin explains how, in a country where writers have had their freedom to ex press ideas severely curtailed for years, there is still voracious interest in the work that is published and the opinions of writers Petelin was speaking at the Writers in Their Society conference being held this weekend in Castlegar. Writers from Canada and the U.S.S.R., speaking in Englijh and Russian, with written and verbal translations, have _ been brought together to share experiences and discuss the roles writers play in each society B.C. author Tom Wayman said the reason Canadians are not as involved in literature as Soviet readers is because of our school system. If you set out to design a system totally against learning to love reading ‘‘you'd be hard pressed to come up with anything worse’ than what we have now, he said. “We teach a system of values that says reading good literature is useless to peoples’ lives’ and that leads to a sen se in our culture that writers are doing something ‘‘socially unacceptable and maybe even perverse,”” he said Wayman told a story of discussing a fellow writer with aman from the writer's small home town. The man said he knew Wayman’s friend, and then, ‘‘in a tone we generally reserve for discussing in-laws and child molesters,” the man said, ‘Sure, | know him. Doesn't he write?"” Wayman told the audience that in Canada hardcover sates of 2,000 copies over two years is considered good anc the numbers for poetry books are even worse. American writers, except the few at the top, have it almost as bad, he said The writers also discussed their roles as interpreters of the world around them for others. “‘How is it possible to be separated from life, if you yourself are alive?”’ asked poet Olga Fokina in an address to the conference. ‘Life is so diversified, expressing itself onso many levels, that it simply is impossible not to express group interests, no matter how personal in nature they may be. And if the matter of personal intereSt does not con tradict the interests of the majority of the writer's fellow citizens, it will certainly be published, read and liked,’ she said Egor Isaev expressed similar feelings at a press con ference later. “‘Flived it (the Second World War) and I must give it back to the people — give them the truth,”’ he said Writers from both countries said part of their role is to speak out and try to make changes in their societies “We are not only entertainers, recorders and infor mers, but we serve another important role in society as social change agents,” Canadian author Koozma Tarasoff told the conference. One of the changes writers can help bring about is to bridge the gap between East and West, he said “The words of writers have a magic quality about Like birds flying across the ocean, words can fly across political boundaries and bridge the communication gap between the West and the Soviets,” he said. “By Soviet and Canadians coming together in this community, we have contributed to this vital global. human endeavor of getting to know the stranger,” he said them Fokina, in an: interview with Castlegar News, ex- pressed hope that writers like the anes at the conference can make people more aware of literature and the state of writing today “Because of such opinions (such as those expressed by Wayman) and such pain at the situation of literature in Canada, there is a big potential for change,” she said. Isaev told the conference writers need readers to exist: “The writer is defined by the reader — he needs to be needed by ‘the reader. Then he feels himself to be a. good writer,’’ the Soviet author said In his opening remarks, Selkirk College instructor Gordon Turner, redding a quote, said ‘Writers are not the patient of society, writers are not the disease of society, writers are the pain of society.”* Wayman drew laughter later with his remark that “‘ifa writer is the pain of society, in Canada he’s a very small pain." But despite the problems, “‘it’s worth a lifetime of struggle with only small achievements,’* Wayman said The-Soviet_uriters_had—good_things1o—.ay_about Canada and the Canadians they had met “People we have met have been very sincere, very very warm. We have the feeling they are all like that maybe we’re making a mistake,"’ Fokina said witha laugh, Isaev said the conference-was helping to break down the fears the two cultures have had of each other ‘If you know the tiger, you are not afraid of him,”’ he said at the press conference The Soviet writers have been in Canada since March 10. They flew to Calgary from Montreal and took a bus to the Kootenays. The trip has been paid for by a $64,000 grant from the Department of External Affairs and Secretary of State Canadian writers are U.S.S.R spokesman for the East-West Passage, the committee that organized the conference, said. The conference continues today with a speech by scheduled to travel to the within a year to complete the exchange, a respected Sovict novelist, poet and playwright Vasilii Belov NORTHERN RESIDENTS BENEFIT = Elimination of tax deduction upsets MP By CasNews Staff Kootenay West-Revelstoke MP Lyle Kristiansen has blasted the Conser vative government for its elimination of northern residents deduction benefits for thousands of West Kootehay residents. In a letter to Finance Minister Michael Wilson, Kristiansen, Democrat, calls the elimination of the income tax deductions “‘unfair."” Revenue Canada eliminated the benefits — as much a $5,400 depen. ding ona person's or a family’s income when it rectassified Trail as an ‘ur ban centre’ with a population of more than 10,000. That eliminated the tax benefit for people living within 160 road kilometres of Trail “Trait does not people,"’ Kristiansen prepared news release from Ottawa. “Ht didn’t have 10,000 in 1987 and it doesn't have 10,000 now. By merging have 10,000 says in a and Trail some LYLE KRISTIANSEN elimination ‘unfair’ municipalities to falsely make it so, the government has lifted benefits out of the pockets of thousands of people It’s unfair and I've told Michael Wilson so in no uncertain terms." Bob Maloney, a public affairs of ficer for Revenue Canada in Pentic ton, told the Castlegar News this week Revenue Canada eliminated the deduction —.which was available for the 1987 tax year — based on updated population figures from Statistics Canada. Maloney said that when Rossland’s population is lumped in with Trail’s the area includes more than 10,000 people, shus climinating the deduction for residents in many West Kootenay communities Maloney said allowing the deduc tions for the 1987 tax year was an error He added that a task force has been formed to examine the northern residents deductions. But Kristiansen said the deduction should have stayed of its nearby continued on page A2 officially starts at 7 City of Castlegar employee Brad Spender gets the lawns around city hall in shape for spring despite the persistent smatterings of snow which linger in the area. Spring 8 a.m. Monday. Casews photo by Simon Birch oliticians disagree on byelection signals By CasNews Staff and News Services Local politicians agree NDP vic tories in two byelections Wednesday are a message to Victoria, but they disagree on what the message says Chris D’Arcy, NDP MLA for Rossland-Trail, said the message in dicates: little has changed in the political climate of B.C ““Byclection wins are often more likely to indicate a strong candidate than atrend,”’ D’Arcy said of the victories is more apparent than real," he added. Castlegar Mayor Audrey who ran for the Socreds against D’Ar cy in the last provincial election, said the message to the Social Credit gover nment isa sobering one “If L were the government and I'd Tost several byelections, I think | would be rethinking some of my programs and figuring out where | was out of step withthe people,” Moore said: Social Credit MLA Howard Dirks. who represents the fiding of Nelson “The size Moore, Creston, said the message is 4 positive nier Bill Vander Zalm and his government The good showing by the Socreds in the Nanaimo riding NDP stronghold are pleased with government policies Dirks said. And the NDP couver-Point Grey because the Socred candidate, Michael himself publicly from Vander Zalm Dirks said one for Pre a long-time indicates voters won Van Levy, distanced “He (Levy) eliminated the oppor tunity for the someone-in-faver of what the gover nment isdoing.”’ New Democrat Tom Perry, 37, distanced Levy by more than a iwo-to one margin in Vancouver-Point Grey electorate to elect CHRIS D'ARCY _ -little has changed Perry received 13,967 votes to Levy's 6,324. don Wilson finished third with 5,376 In Nanaimo, Jan Provincial Liberal leader Gor 42-year-old Pullinger 14,289 Socred Larry McNabb garnered 8,844 and Liberal Ray Brookbank distant third with 1,870. The two new NDP MLAs won't change the balance of power in the legislature where the Socreds have 44 members and the NDP now have 24 received votes; was a There Independent: member The legislature reconvened Thursday is one with a speech from the throne. NDP Jeader Mike Harcourt said his party’s candidates won because of their party platform — not because people voted against Vander Zalm Harcourt challenged the premier to a HOWARD DIRKS «+s Message positive al election but the So gene reds date has 2! years remaining The government has lo byelections since last June formance of the gover rent in general and Vander Zalm in particular h been cited as reasons the NDP Ina byelec LF Bou e NDP fc first time in its 22-year iste November, the NDP hef aseat in Alberni June Similkameen went tc Vander Zain Boundary Similkameen five times during campaign. During the most recent elec tions, he stayed away from Nanair and visited Vancouver-Point only briefly continued on page AZ Grey