Castlegar September 7, 1988 Pickets on the move TORONTO (CP) — With the postal strike pared down this week to 1,200 workers from the original 5,800, the union representing striking workers decided Tuesday to change tactics and disrupt Canada Post's cou service with “flying picket squa Even though packages moved by Priority Post don’t go through the sorting machines maintained by the strikers, the Public Service Alliance of Canada says it can slow courier operations by transporting picket squads in vans. The aim is to hurt Canada Post finaneially so the Crown corporation will go back to the bargaining table with a new offer for the postal technicians who have been on strike since Aug. 24, said union spokesman Jim Chorostecki. Canada Post spdkesman Ida Irwin said Priority Post is a “lucrative and highly competitive” part of the agency's business, but the union can’t . slow it down because packages are not sorted by machine, Tuesday was the first day of work for most of the more than 4,000 administrative employees and 200 supervisory technicians who also walked out on Aug. 24. Both groups voted on Friday to ac. cept tentative agreements worked out last week, forcing them to cross their own union's picket line. The 1,200 technicians, who rejec- ted their contract, are seeking a work-week reduction from 40 hours to 87% through a daily half-hour paid lunch period. Despite the split ratification, the union says that with a readjustment of its strategy, it can still mount an effective strike. Chorostecki said union members who returned to work Tuesday morning found last Thursday's mail Legion, Br. 170 WEEKLY BINGO Commencing Sept. 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In Iqaluit at the end of campaign- style swing through the Northwest Territories, Mulroney congratulated Premier John Buchanan for his win. But the win “doesn't affect my deliberations at all,” Mulroney said. “It's just a very strong signal of confidence in regard to the Progres- sive Conservative party and the kind of issues Premier Buchanan stress- ed,” Mulroney said. “He made it very clear that the issues of the campaign there were leadership and economic renewal. “That's what it’s going to be about federally.” The Conservatives elected 28 members in the provincial election, a drop of 14; the Liberals geined 15 seats for a total of 21; the NDP fell by one to elect two and there will be one Independent member. Liberal Leader John Turner saw hope in the provincial gains. Provincial leader Vinee MacLean “has added 10 percentage points to the popular vote in Nova Scotia, almost quadrupled the Liberal seats in the legislature and will now form a vigorous opposition. “And, of course I note in passing the collapse in the expectations for the New Democratic Party. “We as a federal party hope to build on the momentum established by Mr. MacLean whenever Mr. Mulroney has the courage to call a general election.” Federal NDP Leader Ed Broad- bent said he “was delighted with our gutsy, honest campaign. “I had hoped we would do better.” Diabetes research advances LONDON, ONT. (CP) — “Phen- omenal” progress is being made in the quest to surgically replace de- fective insulin-producing cells in diabetics, a leading U.S. researcher says. Dr. Paul Lacey, professor of path ology at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., said Tuesday research has progressed from the animal phase to testing on humans in just four years. But he cautioned there is a long way to go before a simple surgical procedure allows diabetics to recover their ability to produce insulin and hopefully avoid debilitating compli- cations of the disease. Lacey, who discussed his research in a lecture to local doctors, is a leading expert in transplantation of insulin-producing cells found in the pancreas. In diabetic patients, these cells are destroyed by the body’s immune system, forcing the individual to rely on daily insulin injections and making them prone to a variety of compli- cations. For the last 15 years, Lacey has been working on isolating healthy insulin-producing cells from the pan. creas for transplantation. He said “phenomenal” progress has been made during the last four years alone. The next step, said Lacey, “is to show you can take away the insulin finjections). That hasn't been done yet.” .. + The Castlegar Proje-ts Society is holding a fund-raising dance this A wciliy 4 fais er The money raised will be put towards the Proposed aquatic facility. — cosnews photo by Bonne Morgan Mulroney inks deal By SYLVIA STROJEK YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. (CP) — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney soothed some of the anger in the Northwest Territories about the Meech Lake constitu- tional accord Tuesday with a proposal that could see the region get province-like responsibilities in energy matters. Dennis Patterson, territorial government leader, said the agreement-in-principle helps the region's efforts to gain provincial status. Among other things, the Meech Lake accord recognizes Quebec as a distinct society and gives the provinces a voice in the appointment of judges to the Supreme Court of Canada. But the territories and the Yukon have complained about another clause that requires consent of all 10 provinces before any new province can be created. The accord will die if it is not approved by all provinces by mid-1990. Only Manitoba and New Brunswick have yet to do so. Tuesday's energy agreement was signed’ by Mulroney, Patterson and Indian and Northern Affairs Minister Bill McKnight after a traditional Dene prayer chant. OPENS WAY The agreement opens the way for thé two sides to negotiate domestic oil and gas resource management by the territories. A final deal would also call for revenues from development to go into territorial coffers. A similar offer has been made to the Yukon territory. Patterson said Tuesday's energy agreement proves the Meech Lake accord is not an impassable obstacle, but it does not allay all of his government's concerns. “We still would like to see some issues regarding the territories resolved in a way that would not imperil the Meech Lake accord,” he said. “But I am very pleased that this very important agreement . .. was possible notwithstanding the Meech Lake accord. Meech Lake has not appeared to be a barrier to our assuming province-like responsibilities.” + Under the ag . those r ibilities would include exclusive management and authority over all onshore development of oil and natural gas. SHARE OFFSHORE All revenues collected — except those set aside for the Dene and Metis — would also belong to the territories. The two governments would share legislative and administrative power in offshore regions — similar to accords in Atlantic Canada. Patterson said revenues received by the region would help make it self-sufficient. Currently, the territories receive 75 per cent of their annual budget — $792 million in 1988-89 — from the federal, government. “We want to reduce this dependence,” Patterson said. “We want to start paying our own way.” The accord’s details are yet to be worked out and no deadline has been set for a final deal. But Ottawa has said it is ready to start negotiations immediately. It was the second important promise signed in the North in as many days. Mulroney signed another agreement-in-principle Monday that would give the 15,000 Dene and Metis outright ownership of 10,000 square kilometres (twice the size of Prince Edward Island) in the territories, special interest in another 180,000 square kilometres and $500 million cash. Mulroney said he was not trying to make political” hay by signing the two high-profile deals. He said the agreements were being discussed months ago and don't necessarily signal a federal election. “But I suppose politics being politics and time being time, you would not be unethical or unprofessional if you read something into th: Later in the day, Mulroney flew to Iqaluit, formerly called Frobisher Bay, where he told about 500 people “there will only be fairness and justice in the North if people here are treated with justice and (native) people control the levers of economic expansion. The community reception in Iqaluit was Mulroney's last scheduled engagement before his return to Ottawa Tuesday night. Use. of wiretaps declines OTTAWA (CP) — Wiretaps and other electronic bugs are being used less frequently in federal criminal investigations but are still a key weapon against the illicit drug trade, government statistics show. The latest annual report by Soli- citor General James Kelleher shows police and prosecutors sought judi- cial warrants to authorize electronic surveillance 406 times in 1987, the lowest total in the last five years. Applications have been remains tool in in- vestigating certain types of crime, especially organized crime and drug trafficking.” More than 90 per cent of warrants obtained over the last five years were aimed at drug traffickers, and in 1987 all but two of the applications made by federal authorities involved drug offences. Charges were laid against 4,782 people in the last five years following steadily since a peak of 735 in 1984. Judges continue to approve vir- tually all requests that come before them. Only one application was re- jected last year and only five of 2,982 have been turned down in five years. But since the Charter of Rights came into force in 1982, court rulings in several provinces have allowed investi that used wiretaps or bugs, and policesay more than 60 per cent of the accused could not have been identified by relying on other defendants to mount chalk during later trial proceedings and quash warrants that were initially approved on flimsy evidence. Kelleher insists, in a written statement that accompanied the report, that electronic surveillance Serving the Boaraary Area for all your SNOW MOBILE NEEDS! The statistics cover offences nor- mally prosecuted by federal author- ities, including drug violations, cus- toms and excise offences, certain types of commercial fraud and espionage and other offences against national security. The provinces usually prosecute other criminal offences. 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