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You'd have to ask about at least a billion to grabany Canada to the United States, assuming a Canadian Standard-Guif deal was made public and reflects concern attention. purchaser is found. about that U.S. deficit. Item: The Canadian government is facing a deficit of On the other hand, Gulf Canada's dividends, 60 per cent More importantly, Standard is hardly a fly-by-night $31.5 billion this year; the United States, $189 billion. of which now flow to the United States, could be retained in corporation. Item:Interest payments alone on Canada’s gross debt Canada. If U.S. investors don’t want to pick up a potential debt, this year will total more than $18 billion, or 20 per cent of Is the deal likely to affeet the price of gasoline, as assuining Standard decides to finance the proposal that way, Ottawa's outlays. Standard tries to recover its huge investment? it's a safe bet there will be more than enough foreign Item: The sixth-largest oil company in the Ualted Obviously, no. Whether in Canada or in United investors standing in line to put their cash into a gilt-lined States has offered $13.2 billion to buy the fifth larges States, gasoline prices are determined by interna’ costs U.S. corporation. deal which, if it goes through, will be the biggest corporsie for crude oil and — especially in Canada — government That country still is seen internationally as the best and merger ever — surpassing by $3 billion the recent takeover regulations. Anyway, both governments are highly sensitive safest investment in the world. of another U.S. oil company. REACH MOON? So what, indeed, is a billion? If you stacked one billion MONEY, TIME OFF Shift workers: why they do it Now Open Til 7 p.m. ¢, IN OUR BURGERS. y “Drive a Little to Save a Lot” WE USE ONLY WATCH FOR WEEKLY SPECIAL BLUE TOP BURGER PURE BEEF PATTIES POSTED AT OUR LOCATION WORKING STIFF .. . Shift work around Castlegar is dollar bills on top ofeach other, would they reach the moon? Does anyone worry about this? Profits drop for TSE firms TORONTO (CP) — Profit of member firms of the Tor- onto Stock Exchange drop- ped sharply in the final three months of 1983 to $2.096 million from $11.255 million in the third quarter of the year, the exchange says. For 1983, members had total profits of $110,427 mil- lion with 67 firms reporting profits and 12 reporting losses. The exchange didn't provide year-earlier figures. Exchange members made most of their profits in the first half of the year, with earnings for the first six months totalling $97.07 mil- lion. That left second-half profits at only $13.351 mil lion. The exchange defines profits as the amount left over after accounting for all expenses, including bonuses, interest on internal subor- dinated debt and income tax- es. Bonuses are usually paid in the fourth quarter, a factor that could distort compar. isons. FOR DOLLAR'S FALL Tories blame federal deficit OTTAWA (CP) — The current sorry state of the dollar is the inevitable result of excessive government borrowing and financial mis- management, sayS Conser- vative industry and trade critic Michael Wilson. Wilson said thg slide in the Canadian dollar against U.S. and other currencies is dir- ectly related to the burgeon- ing deficit, estimated at $31.5 billion for fiscal 1984-85, id the Liberal government's stubborn adherence to U.S. interest rate policies. At the moment the gov- ernment lacks the flexibility to take an independent stand on interest rates, he told the Commons during debate on a $29.5-billion borrowing re- quest. But if the deficit were reduced, the government could make its own policies “without slavishly following what's going on in the United States when their economy is performing different than our economy.” Wilson said the American economic recovery since the 1981-82 recession has been stronger than the Canadian response and now the U.S. is moving to control the re- covery by increasing interest rates. If Canada follows suit, it will further dampen what has proved to be a sluggish re- covery at best. And such ac- tion could foree the country back into another recession by the end of the year or early next year, Wilson said. The Canadian dollar posted a one-day rally against the American dollar Monday, the first time in eight trading sessions that it has earned value against that currency. 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This story, the second of two, looks at the biological effects of working certain shifts. By JANICE WLASICHUK WINNIPEG (CP) — People who complain about working nights or rotating shifts are not necessarily chronic gripers who sound off without reason. Tiene Stones, a project officer with the Hamilton, Ont.-based Canadian Centre fer-Occupational Health and Safety, says research has shown that for hk common, not only at BC Timber's Celgar saw and pulp operations and Cominco, but at hotels, restaurants and other businesses. — couews Photo Tara Little, an assistant manager at the Ola Spaghetti Factory restaurant in Winnipeg, said she has had to work day and night shifts in the same week and found it difficult. “You seem to get your second wind after midnight and it was hard to go home and go to bed and be really effective the next day,” said Little, 24. “If you're (working) all days and all nights it’s fine, but if you're (working) both, it's hard.” Muhammad Jamal, a professor of Human Resources reasons some people just can't work certain shifts. “People who complain about it have a good biological or physiological basis for the complaint,” Stones said in an interview. “There's something real to it. It’s not just that they can't adjust or that there's something wrong with them.” Stones is referring to a biological clock which controls each person's body temperature, blood pressure and pulse. This clock, which doctors call circadian rhythms from the Latin circa dies meaning about a day, is affected by light and dark and for the shift worker may cause some real problems. Stones said studies have shown that the clock gets turned around in night workers each time they break their routines with days off. “You have your five nights and then two days off,” she said. “In those two days, your circadian rhythms are all confused and they go back to your day schedule very quickly and then you're back into nights again. “It’s a problem because your body gets confused, and rotating shift workers are continually changing, and things like meal times and sleep patterns are disturbed.” at Ce gia University in |, said a study he did showed that people who work rotating shifts suffer in terms of social relationships, job satisfaction and job performance. ‘The study, done as a questionnaire in 1980 and 1981, included about 1,200 nurses and blue-collar workers in Montreal and Vancouver. “I asked their supervisors to rate them in terms of their performance and I discovered that people who were working on rotating shifts were sy ically put down As much as 25 per cent of the Canadian workforce works nights or rotating shifts, some by choice, come be- cause they must. This story, the first of two, considers the pluses and minuses of night and shift work. By JANICE WLASICHUK WINNIPEG (CP) — It's 10:30 a.m. and many workers across Winnipeg are on their coffee breaks. But Grant Prue is in a pool hall, winding down after a long night on the job. Prue, 25, is the night auditor at a downtown hotel and one of thousands of Canadians who have chosen — or been chosen — to make their living after most of the country’s workers have gone to bed. Between 11:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m., Sunday to Thurs. day, Prue is responsible for balancing all the cash that flows through the tills at the 148-room hotel. Prue, who has done the job for about six years, likes night work. AVOIDS PRESSURES “I've had day jobs, but I just don’t have anything in common with them,” he said in an interview one morning after work. “I'm mostly a night person anyway. I can’t handle the pressures of the constant movement of the day — the people, the bosses. The night shift gives me complete privacy to do my work.” While some may cringe at the thought of going to work at 11 p.m. or even four in the afternoon, many find it an attractive alternative to the nine-tofive routine. The variety of evening and night jobs has been increasing over the years. Besides the traditional night shift and “back shift” factory jobs, today’s night workers include computer programmers, nurses, doctors, restaurant managers, and reporters and editors at newspapers, radio and television stations. Labor Canada estimates that about 25 per cent of the country’s 12 million workers work night or rotating shifts. MAY HARM SOME While many shift workers say they prefer night jobs, studies of everything from potash mine workers to people isolated in lightless caves have shown that a prolonged period on night or rotating shifts may actually harm the worker. Scientists, including experts at Harvard Medical School and Stanford University School of Medicine, say a person's biological clock is affected by light and darkness and each time workers change shifts or revert to a day in terms of performance by their own supervisors,” he said. MORE DEPRESSED Jamal said he also found that shift workers had higher rates of absenteeism, higher turnover and were depressed more often because they had less time with their families and friends. He said one problem is that Canadian workers are not given enough incentive to work shifts. While most Canadian shift workers receive differentials of about four to six per cent, Jamal said British employers pay 25-per-cent premiums to those who work rotating shifts. “There’s no motivation here,” he said. hedule on their days off, they are confusing this clock. Those who choose to work nights have different reasons for doing so. Some say it contributes to a more relaxed lifestyle while others are interested in the higher pay that goes with many night jobs. Prue said the night shift keeps him out of the politicking that goes on among the workers at his hotel. “I think I'm fairly outspoken, so I think politically it does me better to work nights,” he said. “I can control what I'm saying with less people around.” LIKED MONEY When Helen Douglas was looking for a job 10 years ago, it was the money that made her choose the night shift. “At that time, money was the biggest attraction,” said Douglas, a postal clerk for Canada Post in Winnipeg. Douglas, who works 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. Monday to Friday, estimates that postal workers on the night shift earn about $1,000 more a year than their daytime counterparts. “I definitely prefer midnights,” said Douglas, a divorced mother of two who is in her 60s. “I think I'm a night person. I raised two chidren and even when they were small I found I did things better at night.” Contrary to popular belief, Douglas said her social life is not affected by working nights. “If you work days, you're usually too tired to go out at night,” she said. “This way you can do things in the evening before you go to work.” SLEEP AFTERNOON After finishing work at 7 a.m., Douglas does errands or her laundry until mid-afternoon, and then goes to bed until about 9 p.m., which still leaves her a couple of hours before her shift starts. She said she has problems sleeping sometimes, but some people who sleep at night also toss and turn. She takes her first coffee break at 1:30 a.m., lunch is at 3:30 a.m. and her final coffee break is at 6 a.m. Douglas said she had the opportunity to work days, but turned it down. “I didn't need the hassle, I was happy where I was.” Jim Tuckett is a shift supervisor of computer opera- tions at Great West Life Assurance Co. in Winnipeg, one of about 45 people who work a shift schedule that includes five days of working 4 p.m. to midnight, six days of midnight to 8 a.m. and seven days of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. At one point in the rotation, workers are given five consecutive days off before starting a new shift. “Given the chance to work rotating shifts is a lot more beneficial,” said the 25-year-old Tuckett, who has been doing it for about five years. “You get more days off, more weekends off. I didn't like the idea of getting up and going to work. This is a lot more relaxing. aS: Tuckett said people who work the night shift to- gether tend to develop stronger bonds than day workers. FEEL LOSS “You feel a loss when somebody goes (to start another rotation). It’s almost like losing a member of your family.” Others choose a later shift because they see it as an opportunity to get ahead. Barbara Huck, 36, a reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press, said she spent five years working two jobs. Huck, a divorced mother of four, worked as a radio sportscaster from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day, went home to have dinner with her family and then went to The Free Press at 7:30 p.m. where she worked as a sports writer until about 3 a.m. One summer, Huck also worked as a sports commentator for a morning radio show which meant she had to be at the station at 4:45 a.m. “Those are the forgotten years of my life — I was so tired,” she said. “But I got about 15 years of experience in about six years. It also gives me tremendous contacts.” Huck, who is working days now after seven years on the evening shift, said “It took me a while to be really alert in the morning.” STORE HOURS Monday to Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Frdsons Bay Company Mp Cs lope’ an a lt Snowarama raises $3,200 Some $3,200 was raised in the seventh annual West Kootenay Snowarama for the B.C. Society for the Handi- capped. The event, which ran Jan. 29 at Nancy Greene junction, was sponsored by the’Rossland and Castlegar Lions clubs and the West Kootenay Sno-goers. All 18 snowmobilers who took part completed the 100 nioowty circuit. ‘op pledge collector was Dwayne Hartson of oe who "ited $1,066. Youngest rider was th Lions Club spokesman Alex Cheveldave said: “We . . - would like to mention that without the full cooperation of the West Kootenay Sno-goers, this event might not have taken place. “These gentlemen made sure the trail was properly set ind groomed, provided the use of their cabin, filled out pledge sheets and provided a concession with hot coffee.” Ch also thanked Ci Forestry for the use Albert Benson who completed the 100 km round trip wan he his dad. of its radios and Mike's Mobile Homes for the use of one of the trailers. FUNDRAISER . Owayne Hartson (above) wos top tundroiser at the West Kootenay Snowarama collec- ting $1.066 for handicapped children, while Albert Benson (photo, left) was. verngert participant. Protos to: CasMiows by Keon Prot: