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SPECIALTY GAMES i, of Bird 6 p.m., Regular Bingo 7 p.m. Castlegar ris ot oe to right) Bob “pve Jake Koenig, Bob Pakula and Bob Dickson m I Fir ards service Pakula also Bob Turley (right) for their ro) ong serves sok Par iti Mona received # 30-yeor federal exemplary modal while Koenig, Pakula and Dickson received 20-year federal exemplary medals. Koenig and recognized d 25-year p Y Medals, — cosnews photo by lim Ascrot f Ag December 6, 1989 Castlegar News az Stevens pleads guilty SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A for mer law student recently cleared of any involvement in the Green River serial killings pleaded guilty Tuesday to an unrelated federal firearms charge. William Stevens, 39, pleaded guilty before U.S. District. Judge Justin Quackenbush to one count of being a felon and fugitive in possession of a firearm. OTTAWA (CP) — Jim Keegstra would be free to lie to high school students again about Jews if the hate- propaganda law is invalidated, a lawyer told the Supreme Court of Canada on Tuesday. The warning was issued by Kathleen Mahoney, acting for the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund, one of seven interveners in the appeal by the province of Alberta against a ruling that the hate law infringes on the constitutionally guaranteed right to free expression Keegstra, of Eckville, convicted in 1985 of Alta., was wilfully In exchange, assistant U.S. attor ney Ron Skibbie said he would seek dismissal of two other similar firearms counts. The government will also recommend a sentence within the standard range of two to eight months in prison, Skibbie said. An affidavit filed by King County police investigators last July ‘labeled Stevens a ‘viable suspect”. in the Green River case, which involves the deaths and disappearances of as many as 49 young women inithe Pacific Nor- thwest from 1982-84 But after months of poring through receipts, family / Potluck | Dinner Ham and MIR Provided _ seized documents, OTTAWA (CP) — Despite talk about the greening of the boardroom, environmental protection has been a low spending priority for Canadian companies and institutions, a Statistics Canada study shows. Spending on pollution ~abatement and energy efficiency accounted for an average of two per cent of capital in-_ Tickets= Pharmas: * Carl's Drugs phovographsancoth ce investigators announced last week they could not link Stevens to any of the deaths. He was never charged in the case Quackenbush tentatively set senten- cing for Jan. 18 and ordered a pre- sentence report REPLACEMENT CARRIER REQUIRED OVER XMAS VACATION — Earn Extra Money — Earn Extra Money — The Castlegar News requires a replacement carrier from December 23 to January 13 for a route on 2nd & 3rd Ave. in North Castlegar. If you are interested call 365-7266 Mon.-Fri. and ask for Circulation. vestment from 1985 to 1987, says a report released Tuesday “It’s not a lot of dollars in relation to the other categories,” said Justin Lacroix, senior investment statistician at Statistics Canada. Lacroix said the study, based on a sample of 2,900 responses from com panies and public organizations in most sectors of the economy, is the fir- st to measure investrhent in environ mental protection Preliminary figures for 1988 don’t indicate a significant increase in spen- ding on environmental protection, he added NEW CAPACITY The survey respondents directed 52 per cent of capital investment to new production capacity, and 39 per cent to replacement or modernization of existing facilities, Jim Fulton, NDP environment critic, said the two-per-cent figure for environmental factors ‘‘seems awfully low’? considering costs of industrial pollution such as closed polluted fisheries on the West Coast, or cleanups of toxic deposits in the Great Lakes “T think the boardrooms are still more interested in greening the balance sheet,”” said Fulton TUTTI eeetetedetetetedetateteds NOVEMBER DECEMBER 3 USA -vs- USSR 3 “NUTCRACKER” Matinee n Heavyweight sunning proxtuction with Invitational bal " BOXING Package includes Brahm's rthday 07 © “German Requiem” . 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Spokane Hotel The hospitality people of 1-800-848-9600 OR YOUR TRAVEL AGENT TTTITITINILT TUUTITIIIIII III IIIT III III Warning issued promoting hatred against an iden- tifiable group by teaching Grade 12 social studies students that Jews are ‘out to destroy Christianity Alberta Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in 1988, ruling that the law infringes on freedom of ex pression Mahoney comment I'd like to see them prove I told any."’ only a minute infringement” Mahoney said people such as Whichcandoonly harm. Keegstra portray themselves as victims of the law, “but they are aggressors."” If the law fell, she said, there would be nothing to prevent Keegstra from teaching children lies again “She's a liar,"’ Keegstra said quietly when reporters asked him about the preted in multicultural heritage, Fraser urged He defined hate as “* tune harm to the multicultural munity." Green spending found low Thomas d’ Aquino, president of the Business Council on National Issues, | He declined comment on whether the two- per-cent figure shows adequate in- added that some can be misleading “I never taught lies to my students. Show me any lies. A federal government lawyer, Bruce Fraser, argued Tuesday that if the hate law limits freedom of expression, ‘itis and is aimed at expression with no value CP News Analysis By Clyde Graham OTTAWA (CP) — Every February, it’s the same mad rush at banks and trust companies. Canadians line up in droves as the March | deadline approaches to sock away a few extra bucks in a tered retirement savings plan for the previous tax year. It's.a case of use it or lose it every yea The maximum $7,500 RRSP contribution an in- dividual can shelter from the taxman each year is a perishable commodity. But under proposed legislation Finance Minister Michael Wilson says he'll table in the Commons Dec. 11, a taxpayer could carry over unused eligibility for up to seven years, That would give taxpayers — especially those with acompany pension plan — more fle: y to make use of that tax room, as accountants call it. They could bank it in lean years when they can’t af- ford to buy RRSPs and top up their plans in good years. If passed by Parliament, the change would take ef- fect in the 1991 tax year. The new legislation would also increase annual limits for RRSP contributions. The maximum level would rise from the current $7,500 — or 20 per cent of earned income — to $11,500 in 1991. It would continue climbing to reach $15,000 by 1995. After that, it would be indexed to inflation. SWEEPING PLAN The RRSP changes are part of a sweeping, long- awaited package designed to give everyone equal ability to save through RRSPs, no matter how they are building \ aretirement nest egg. Tom Delany, a Toronto retirement specialist, said Constitutional rights must be inter: the changes will be a boost for the 50 per cent of Legislation to give pension flexibility Canadians who contribute to RRSPs. But companies that administer pension plans have been less enthusiastic, calling the legislation an ad- ministrative nightmare. While the maximums would increase, only those without a company pension plan can contribute the full amount to an RRSP. Employees with a company pen- sion plan are limitéd to $3,500 minus the amount they contribute to the company scheme. The proposed legislation would adjust that, cutting the level even more depending how valuable the pension plan would be in retirement. Employees with a rich pension plan would have lit- tle or no RRSP contribution room, Workers with less generous plans would have more room. Finance Department officials say the tax money it will have to give up because of the seven-year carryover will be balanced by reducing RRSP eligibility for em- ployees with generous company pension plans. In other words, it won't increase the federal deficit. SHELVED FOR YEAR The sweeping pension reform legislation was brought forward in 1988, but was shelved for more than a year while the department worked out the com- plexities. The changes would benefit anyone who has the right to contribute to an RRSP in a given year but can’t or doesn’t want to come up with the cash. Temporary unemployment, new braces for the kids or a host of other problems can prevent people from contributing to an RRSP. The incomes of many people — for instance far- mers — fluctuate from year to year, said a Finance Department official who didn’t want to be named. The official said there’s nothing special about a term of seven years. Originally, the department had proposed allowing a lifetime carryover. But they were persuaded that too many Canadians might procrastinate until they were in their 50s. They might never catch up even though their income would be higher. with Canada’s a non-physical form of violent expréssion that causes com- Westar awarded costs VANCOUVER (CP).— B.C. Resources Investment Corp. and Westar Mining are to receive the entire replacement costs for $13 million wor- th of equipment lost in a 1985 coal mine closure. A B.C. Supreme Court judgment released Monday found Protection Mutual Insurance Co. claim of about $8.5 million for “‘dewatering complex"’ equipment abandoned when the Balmer South liable for a underground hydraulic coal mine was sealed due to toxic gases. Recession probable, experts say OTTAWA (CP) — Canada is almost certain to head into a recession during the next few months unless John Crow, governor of the Bank of Canada, relaxes interest rates, economists said. But, they added, prospects for lower borrowing charges have never ap- peared dimmer than in recent days. “I would fear that a recession is get- ting to be more of a probability now than it has ever been,’’ said Doug Peters, chief economist at Toronto- Dominion Bank. “I'm not forecasting a recession, but it’s getting closer and closer.’” ‘Crow has kept interest rates high to slow the economy and cool inflation. The Bank of Canada’s influential bank rate, which generally charts the course for borrowing charges, has hovered between 12.3 per cent and 12.5 per cent since last April, about four percentage points higher than similar rates in the United States. As well as increasing the cost of doing business, high interest rates boost the Canadian dollar against its U.S. counterpart. The Canadian currency topped 86 cents US Tuesday. That makes it tougher for exporters tocompete. “There is a point of no return where the combination of high interest rates, a high dollar and the general slowing in the econ@my is going to tip you over,”’ said George Saba, chief economist at Montreal Trust. Most economists aren’t forecasting a recession — two consecutive quarters of economic shrinkage — but that depends on Crow lowering interest rates. The investment dealer Burns Fry still believes the Bank of Canada will lower borrowing charges, but perhaps not until well into next year “Speculation that Crow will play Santa Claus and permit lower short- term interest rates is still premature,”” Burns Fry said in an investment letter. Strtrineins=Shi/uhaekoe te Port O' Call's KIDS’ CLUB Free for children ages 5 - 12 years when guests-at the Port O'Call. Organized activities with experienced super: vision, so Mom and Dad can enjoy a leisurely brunch, have time:togethér, go shopping. Two 2% hour sessions each Saturday and Sunday. 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