Buy your tickets now for the Castlegar Kiwanis Duck Race + ————_ Total $1500 in prizes Tickets $5.00 each hj Maximum number of tickets : 1000 Duck race will be beld at the Pass Creek Park on Sunday June 3, 1990 at 1;00 p.m. First duck $1000, Second Duck $300, Third Duck $2007 Tickets available from Pharmasave, Jenny's Cafe, Carl's Drugs or from any member of the Kiwanis Club B.C. Lottery Licence #761326 FHBiDB SN Funding cut, NDP claims OTTAWA (CP) — The federal government quietly has cut $4 million from a program that finances special projects for seniors, New Democrat MP Chris Axworthy said Tuesday. **It was done secretly, it was done unilaterally and it requires seniors to have to bear some of the brunt of the deficit which they shouldn’t have to,”” Axworthy said. The federal Health Department says-money_hasn’t been cut from the New Horizons program, instead, it has been frozen pending a review of the criteria for grants. "NO decision OF the $4-miltion-will be made until the review is _com- pleted,” said an official in Health Minister Perrin Beatty's office. The freeze affects every province Quebec. The New Horizons program has $15 million in its budget this year, but only $11 million has been allocated. Beatty confirmed last week that the rest of the money has been “‘set He told a Commons committee that in the past grants have been made on criteria which were very loose and were hard to justify. Horizons are based and one of the things that we want to do is to ensure that at a time of constraint that any money_given out is very "much justified,” Beatty said. Axworthy called the move “*another one of those cynical attacks on seniors. There’s no enough money in it to make it worthwhile to the government, but it really does hurt senior citizens and their community activities across the country."’ No=change has been made to the $3.4 million originally allocated to seniors’ groups in Quebec. But other provinces and territories have had their allocations reduced by between 33 and 39 per cent. The amount for Ontario has been cut to $3.4 million from $5.1 million while money for British Columbia has been chopped to $1.3 million from $1.9 million. Beatty said Quebec was spared because New Horizons “is a par- ticularly popular program there where we have had a long waiting list of people who have had to be denied ap- plications in the past. Reductions to other provinces in- clude: Newfoundland (to $241,000 from $376,000), Prince Edward Island (to $126,000 from $202,000), Nova Scotia (to $412,000 from $635,000), New Brunswick (to $337,000- from $519,000), Manitoba (to $507,000 from $778,000), Saskat- chewan (to $489,000 from $750,000), Alberta (to $719,000 from $1.1 Million), “Yukon (to—$41,000—from- $67,000) and Northwest Territories {to $43,000 from $69,000). A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE BANK WILL BE IN CRESTON . 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Special interest groups, which offer diverse opinions not always shared by political parties, played a major role in the last federal election, he told the five-member panel. “The dynamic debate over the free- trade agreement in the 1988 election was an outstanding example of how we would like to see democracy fun- ction,’’ said Somerville, whose 40,000-member group supports free trade. Somerville didn’t say how much the coalition spent_to promote the deal or the amount it contributed to the elec- g the. Elec- role’’ in voting patterns, said Michael Adams, president of En- vironics Research Group. Adams said his poll suggested 27 per cent of voters surveyed were swayed by advocacy, or third-party advertising. Advertising by these groups may explain how- the Tories made a “‘remarkable” recovery following the leadership debates, said Adams, who also defended the publication of public opinion polls during election. campaigns. Somerville’s position on advocacy advertising was supported by Tim Kotcheff, CTV Television Network tion coffers of who sup- ported the passage of free-trade. The commission, which is holding public hearings across Canada, wrap- Fe Please recycle The NEWS of news, and by Paul Wilson, chairman of the Canadian Daily Newspaper Publishers Association. **We believe this to be a fundamen- tal issue of freedom of expression and these views, whoever they are from, and whatever they say, ought to be in the public domain,”’ Wilson said. Advocacy advertising was banned from federal elections in-1974 but the law was ruled by the EDMONTON (CP) — Canada’s top scientific organization has been-asked to critique an environmental review panel report on-@ $1.3- billion pulp mill proposed for northern Alberta. The Royal Society of Canada, a fraternity of 1,200 eminent scien- tists, is considering the request made by an Ottawa organization that opposes the Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Ltd. pulp mill project slated for the Athab: north of region 100 ki The Rawson Academy of Aquatic Science wrote the society in late April some of the ding the review panel's work since it was released in early March. The review panel recommended delaying approval of the pulp mill until more evidence could be gathered on the effects that toxic effluents from the, Alberta-Pacific mill would have on the Athabasca River system. ‘Dam supporter bashes Ottawa ESTEVAN (CP) — Ottawa’s handling of the Rafferty-Alameda dam project has been a disaster from the beginning, a project official told supporters of the project Tuesday night in Estevan. George Hood said it has been a “‘long litany of screw-ups” as he chronicled the federal government's involvement in the $140-million project about 180 kilometres from Estevan, a long-time hotbed of sup- port for the project. The environmental impacts of the project are the subject of an in- dependent panel review under the federal government's Environmental Assessment Review Process ordered by Federal Court Justice Francis Muldoon in December. Mulroney carries food tester OTTAWA (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has a food tester when he travels outside Ottawa. Food testers are provided by Health and Welfare Canada on the advice of the RCMP, the prime minister’s office confirmed Tuesday. “*It’s not a decision taken by the prime. minister,’’ Said press spokesman Sunni Locatelli. ‘*It’s a judgment call by the RCMP.” Locateltisaid the decision to-call in two food testers during Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench in 1983. The federal government has never d that ruling. slump in popularity. *s recent tour of Atlantic Canada was not triggered by his T'S TIME FOR A NEW SCHEDULE. CASTLEGAR: TO VANCOUVER FROM VANCOUVER | | It's time for convenient daily service to and from Vancouver and Calgary! With new and better flight times to meet your schedule. Days of Week 12345 0900 12345 6 1234567 12345 -7 T Departure Time | Days of Week Week I Departure Time | Days of of Week | TO CALGARY FROM CALGARY — Departure Time | Days of Week Departure Time 0700 12345 -7 0715 1310 1234567 1130 1750 1130 1520 1620 Company named as wage target MONTREAL (CP) — The paper- workers’ union has named Stone- Consolidated Inc., owned by har- dnosed U.S. industrialist Roger Stone, as the target for contract negotiations to set the wage pattern for the ailing pulp and paper industry. The Canadian Paperworkers Union said Tuesday it wants pay increases of eight per cent a year in a two-year contract, plus cost-of-living protec tion against next January’s goods and services tax. At the start of each negotiating round, the union picks a company whose settlement can serve as the in- dustry pace-setter but its choice this year of the Montreal-based company startled many. Doctors begin series of rotating protests NORTH VANCOUVER (CP) — Some B.C. doctors laced on combat boots and practised under canvas Tuesday as they set up an army-style field clinic to publicize their fee dispute with the provincial gover~ mment. More than 200 family practitioners and specialists in North Vancouver and West Vancouver closed their of- fices for four hours and held a so- called study session to protest the government's refusal to go to binding arbitration over fees. While surgery continued as normal and hospital emergency wards remained staffed, the physicians abandoned their consulting rooms to work in a facility resembling a unit from the MASH television series. Three tents with burlap floors and catalytic heaters were put up in a cor- ner of ‘a ‘city park next''to’ a’ tawn bowling green. Two jeeps and a 2.5- tonne truck in camouflage paint were parked outside. Inside, several doctors wearing white smocks and stethoscopes, over army fatigues rented from a company that supplies costumes to the film in- dustry, waited for patients. “Public attention is what we're trying to garner, and I think this is ac- complishing it,’’ David Gray, a general practitioner and B.C. Medical Association board member, said in an interview over the drone of portable \ generators. **We're providing very minor ser- vices . . . earaches, sore throats. . . we might put a Band-Aid on but anything requiring X-rays or anything of a more serious nature is going to the emergency ward (at a hospital six blocks away).”” Most-of the doctors were equipped with pagers in case of an emergency call from a patient or hospital. Gray had already made his hospital roundsand was expecting to deliver a ‘baby in about two hours. The first patient was Fenella Bran- dvold, 4, of nearby Lions Bay, who was treated for an earache. Her mother Teresa was directed to the clinic when she arrived at her family doctor’s office. After her daughter was examined in a tent and in front of a isi The doctors are seeking fee in- creases of six, 5.5 and 5.5 per cent ina three-year contract retroactive to April 1989. The government has of- fered a 3.5 per cent annual increase to the health plan budget in the first year of the contract. The government has not made an offer on the second and third year, the B.C. Medical Assocation says. Doctors say they wouldn’t get all of that increase in fees and need more than five per cent to keep up with in- flation. The government says its last proposal would cost $70 million over the next two years but the increase sought by the doctors would cost $220 million. John And of the camera, Brandvold said she suppor- ted the doctors. “1 think they have to-do what they are doing in their situation. It’s nice they are providing some (service).’” A spokesman for the B.C. Medicat Association said the next study ‘session will take place next Tuesday in Burnaby. In Victoria, Health Minister John Jansen said he was disappointed that the doctors had begun the first of a series of rotating protests. “I’m somewhat discouraged and dismayed to some extent that they will be doing this in the middie of negotiations. We hoped we set a base of co-operation and this certainly doesn’t help.”” B.C. Medical Association, says B.C. doctors are the fifth-highest paid in § Canada, gross about $90,000 a year and work an average of 50 hours a week. There are about 6,000 doctors in the-province and more than 4,500- belong to the association. Beth Hildebrandt, another general practioner who closed her office, said her patients generally didn’t ind when she told them she wouldn’t be there for a few hours. 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