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By PORTIA PRIEGERT Canadian Press

OTTAWA — You could try to buy a small bog in northern Alberta or enough land for a fence post in Toronto,

But beware: If you expect to fill one of the three Senate vacancies, you must own $4,000 worth of debt-free property.

The odd rule dates to 1867 and has sent several people scrambling to buy land before they joined the Senate. Some senators are trying to abolish the property requirement for the $67,700-a-year job.

The move is led by Senator Len Marchand, who argues the rule is an anachronism that discriminates against Indians who have to own property off their reserves in order to sit in the upper chamber.

“There's no reason in the world why they should have to go through this silly little exercise of having to go out and buy land off the reserve if they get appointed,” says Marchand, the only Indian now in the Senate.

Indians are issued certificates of possession to show their interest in reserve land, but the title remains with the Crown because the land is held in trust by the federal government.

It's also common for Quebec senators to rush out and buy land before their appointments, says Quebec Senator

Tom Lefebvre, another supporter of the change.

Quebec senators must live in or own property in one of the 24 electoral districts that existed in 1867. Unlike senators from other provinces, they represent the dis- tricts, not the province.

TABLES BILL

Marchand has tabled a private member's bill in the Senate to abolish the property qualification and the Quebec electoral district rules in the Constitution Act. It needs Senate and Commons approval to become law.

Marchand owned a home in Kamloops, B.C., when he was called to the Senate in 1984 by then prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

But his land on the Okanagan reserve near Vernon, B.C., didn't count, says the Liberal senator.

Canada's first Indian senator, James Gladstone, had to buy property outside the Blood reserve near Cardston, Alta., when he was appointed in 1960.

And Senator Charles Watt had to buy property because his home in northern Quebec was not part of the 1868 electoral map.

What could you buy for $4,000?

Certainly not a house. But Infohome, a national computer service run by Royal Lepage, lists a variety of small, rural and often unserviced bits of land.

You could buy some farmland the size of 12 city lots near Fournier, Ont., about 60 kilometres east of Ottawa. Or perhaps you would prefer a tiny, irregular-shaped lot suitable for a mobile home in Waskatenau, Alta., about 50 kilometres northeast of Edmonton?

The property qualification was established by the Fathers of Confederation who modelled the Senate on Britain's House of Lords.

Since Canada has no heriditary peers, senators were required to own what was then a substantial amount of property. In 1867, $4,000 was almost seven times the annual salary of an MP. One of today's dollars would have been worth $12.21 in 1867.

At that time, senators, who have to be 30 years old and live in the province they represent, were expected to protect the interests of the wealthy, leaving elected MPs to look out for ordinary folk.

Modest property qualifications for MPs were abolished in 1874. Women were allowed into the Senate in 1929, But the Senate's property qualification remains.

The situation has spawned a joke:

A would-be senator finds a piece of land worth $4,000 and begins chatting with the farmer who owns it. The politician is so charming, the farmer wants to give him a good deal.

“For you, it’s only $3,500,” the farmer says.

TORONTO (CP) — At Old River menswear stores, a customer can attire himself from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.

Old River carries under its label everything from shirts to shoes, pants to socks and everything in between, says Tony Cerone, owner of the Toronto-area outlet (the four other Canadian stores are in Montreal).

Cerone says the merchan dising approach offers cus: tomers one thing they are often short of.

“People are time poor,” says’ Cerone. ““They can't afford the time to look for all the pieces to create a look. So we carry all the little things.”

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The stores stock more than 80 different pant and 150 shirt styles, along with a wide variety of sweaters, jackets and coats. And, of tourse, there are the ac- cessories — belts, ties, scarves, socks, hats, and the list goes on.

Cerone says men aren't his only customers. About 20 per cent of sales are to women, and they aren't buying just for the men in their lives, but for themselves.

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By ROBERT PLASKIN Canadian Press

OTTAWA — Sure, the world is warming up. But Canadians should hang on to their snow shovels and storm windows, says a U.S. weather researcher.

A new Ice Age may be on the way.

Hugh Ellsaesser says some scientists don't accept the increasingly popular theory that the gradual warming of the globe will continue unabated because of the greenhouse effect caused by pollution.

The theory is that within a few decades most Canadians will enjoy weather like that in Virginia or Arkansas.

There's no doubt average world temperatures started rising near the beginning of this century, Ellsaesser, from the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, told an Agriculture Canada seminar recently.

But he says there are reasons to believe that could be a normal, cyclical fluctuation.

There's plenty of general data, Elisaesser says, to show that global temperatures have fluctuated over the centuries, gradually edging higher since the last Ice Age.

“The data prior to 1880 are too sparse to be relied upon, but mainly indicate slight progressive warming or only cyclical changes,” he says, “with unusually cool periods circa 1660-70, 1745-60, 1810-20, 1840-50 and 1870-90.

“Thus, they mainly indicate that the historical fact that our land record of temperature data starts in 1881 will tend to exaggerate the climatic warming derived from the record for the past century .

“Our (detailed) records start at the end of a cold period, so naturally they show a warming trend.” ACT AS BLANKET

The greenhouse effect theory is based on the pre- sumption that carbon dioxide, added to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels, will act as a blanket, preventing the planet from radiating heat into outer space.

The theorists say that as the planet gets warmer, weather patterns will change. They also predict the polar ice caps will melt, raising sea levels and extensively flooding many coastal areas.

Ellsaesser doesn’t deny there is a greenhouse effect. But he says the planet is actually entering another cooling period and the greenhouse effect is simply reducing the rate of cooling.

He told the Agriculture Canada seminar that data collected by satellites show carbon dioxide and other forms of pollution are acting as a blanket in the atmosphere. But they also show that the atmosphere is tending to radiate more heat into space.

Plotting the two sets of readings on the same graph, Ellsaesser says the effects just about balance each other, resulting in a fairly stable temperature in the upper atmosphere.

Geological data show the average period between ice ages is between 10,000 and 14,000 years. Ellsaesser says most scientists agree that about 12,000 to 13,500 years have passed since the end of the last Ice Age, so a new period of glaciation should be about to begin.

The impact of the greenhouse effect, then, should probably be welcomed because it will moderate the effects of increased glaciation and delay the onset of

COURT TO DECIDE

Alachlor challenged

OTTAWA (CP) — The Federal Court of Canada will be asked next week to quash major portions of a report recommending removal of a tan on the use of the con- troversial agricultural pesti- cide alachlor.

The motion, to be heard Monday in Toronto, was filed by Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd., which manufactures another chemical that once was ala- chlor’s main competitor.

The Ciba-Geigy pesticide — a chemical called meto- lachlor and sold under the brand name Dual — has in- herited ‘much of the market that alachlor enjoyed until Agriculture Canada cancelled its registration as an ap- proved pesticide in February 1985 on grounds that it posed unacceptable risks to human health.

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which manufactured alachlor and sold it under the name Lasso, appealed the decision. The government created the Alachlor Review Board to in- vestigate.

Last fall, the review board recommended alachlor’s reg- istration be reinstated, noting, “There is no valid basis for concluding that ala- chlor is a more or less pot- ent carcinogen . . . than metolachlor.”

‘PROTECTS INTEGRITY’

Ciba-Geigy spokesman Su- sanne Chir-Stimpson said the company’s only goal in taking the issue to court was “to protect the integrity of our own product.” The company has said in a statement that the review board “drew un- warranted conclusions on the safety of metolachlor .. . based on errors of fact.”

Ciba-Geigy's affidavit says

the court should “quash those portions of the report which deal with metolachlor” be- cause the review board “had no jurisdiction or authority to make findings or recom- mendations with respect to metolachlor.”

However, because the re- port dealt largely with a comparison of the two chem- icals — which are used pri- marily by corn and soybean producers to control grassy weeds — “the basic under- pinnings of the report's recommendations would be wiped out” if the court were to accede to Ciba-Geigy’s re- quest, said Toby Vigod of the Canadian Environmental Law Association.

The association has al. ready called on Wise to reject the r i and

federal court hearings on Ciba-Geigy’s motion.

Ciba-Geigy would not com- ment on the interpretation that its motion undermines the report’s recommenda- tions.

It's not clear whether the report’s recommendations would hold up if all ref- erences to metolachlor were erased, Hajo Versteeg, chairman of the federal Pest Management Advisory Board, said in an interview Tuesday.

Versteeg also noted that under the Pest Control Pro- ducts Act, a review board ceases to exist once it has presented its report to the minister. Since the review board was named as a re-

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maintain the ban on alachlor, and plans to intervene in the

legal status of the motion may therefore be in doubt.

Refugee family reunited

VANCOUVER (CP) — After years of waiting in a refugee camp, nine members of a Vietnamese family were reunited at Vancouver Inter- national Airport Monday amid hugs and nervous ex- citement.

Thi Minh Trang had tears in her eyes when she spotted her older brother who she hadn't seen for five years.

“He looks so different,” said the 16-year-old refugee as she stared at her brother, Hoa Nguyen, 19. “We're all so glad to be in Canada at last.”

The family was brought together under the sponsor- ship of the Church of Im- maculate Conception, whose parishioners have provided them with a furnished house and a year of financial sup- port.

“Everyone has helped — we had so many donations of money and furniture that all we had to buy was a few pots

and pans,” said Father Frank Landry as he waited to wel- come the family on behalf of his church.

Seven members of the family arrived Monday on a flight from Indonesia where they had been in a refugee camp for more than four years.

Looking bewildered but happy were Tung Thu Ngu- yen, 50, and his wife Thi Van, 38. Their only daughter, Thi Minh Trang, did most of the talking because she had taught English in the refugee camp.

Scampering around in great excitement were four younger brothers, aged five to 14.

Waiting to meet them was their elder brother, Hoa Nguyen, who left Vietnam ahead of the rest of the family in 1982. The ninth member of the family was the children's uncle, Ninh Ngu- yen, 36, who was the first to

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Students taking

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OTTAWA (CP) — Stu- dents are taking too long to get master's or PhD degrees, says the Canadian Associa- tion of Graduate Schools.

Funding is a major prob- lem, with graduate fellow- ships and scholarships often inadequate and many stu dents having to work while completing their degrees, says the association.

It says universities should provide facilities and services to conduct studies with min-

on PhDs

imal delays and should re. quire conciseness in grad. uate theses.

The work required to get a postgraduate degree should be tailored to the length of fellowships — two years for master’s degrees and four for PhDs, the association says.

It says it now takes four to six years for science and en gineering students to com plete PhDs — and an average of 10 years for humanities and social-science students.

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