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- Gsrupted classes, Teachers had

- JRhey were expected 1 do
“whatever educating students re-

_ Recemly, when the Edim

ts build it.”
Three words sum up the Terrace
Regional Health Care Society’s plan for

; ‘a new kind of living accommodation
2 here,

~The concept is called supportive hous:

ing, ‘whereby a number of condominum-
~ Style units would be built adjacent to
Tertaceview Lodge on the bench. They
‘are meant for people who may have

some kind of disability but who general-
ly. can live-by themselves with a minimal

amount of assistance,

‘This idea first came up in the middle
of last year. It’s being promoted by the
health care society for a number of
reasons. There is a need for this kind of
housing. It would be directly beside Ter-

Taceview Lodge and so. residents could

use its services.
it’s cheaper because people who now

: only have the option of intermediate care
at Terraceview could live in supportive

Pension 1 plum

“any d doubt doctors aren’t the self-

employed professionals they claim to be
but instead are civil servants has been

erased with the planned creation of a
pension plan financed by taxpayers.
The plan — it'll cost $25 million in tax
monies — was part of a deal to strike a
new fee schedule between physicians and
the province, Doctors and the province
had up to the tentative pension deal
disagreed over r what the former should

crealive idea to bring toan end a lengthy
‘dispute, It shows a certain amount of
flexibility on the part of the government
‘and on the part of physicians. And it
‘reflects @ traditional problem of what to

do with rising costs by hitting at the one.

‘thing governments can control — the bill
‘for labour.

“Yet it’s a tough idea to sell to tax-

Pals:

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housing instead. One person in in-
termediate care costs the government $90

a day compared to the $20-$30 day it

would cost for supportive housing.
Provincial reaction has been mixed.
Various elected officials in Victoria and

their bureaucrats seem to like the idea ~

but say it doesn't fit any existing type of
program. So they've been bouncing it
back and forth.

“This is to be expected in that if
something doesn’t fit an established

government format, it’s treated with

suspicion. In government, the last thing
you want to do is break with tradition.

People in government think different-
ly.. Their job essentially is to spend
money as dictated by neat and tidy
guidelines, not to think of ways of spen-
ding it differently or more efficiently.

What’s needed here is some political
dyanamite to clear the log jam. That can
only come by community support for the
health care society.

— the vast, vast majority of
whom fall far behind physicians in in-
come. What we're being asked to do is
finance retirement income for one of the
highest paid professional groups in the
country.

The ability to provide retirement
monies is directly tied to current income.
The more you have after basic necessities
the more you have to tuck away. It’s a
stretch to ask poorer paid people to have
compassion onva.-vastly. more: affluent
‘segment of. SOCHEY. A= -5

Ski aes y ead

Yet approval ‘of the plan by doctors

means a loss of their independence
because it further connects them to the

province’s bank account. And with that,
the province can rightly move in to con-
tol other areas of physician expen-
ditures and income. In other words, doc-
tors are becoming much the same as
other civil servants the province

employs.

The good old days

-Ronty years ago teachers” oon

BO unions to limit thar roles.

Wherezs — said I

“sould be

‘Historical Society invited me to
‘eomribute to their histery of
“giatounding school districts, |
dag up the two-paged
‘pabmecgraphed contract I signed

‘Ue year I was 17.
Saskatchewan was short of
‘teachers the sammer |
. gtadkaned, toa young to eral
jm nursing school. Someone sug:
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paid 21 a rate of $7 per teacking
day”. A anal wechorace with a
phone, wood range and essen-
thal fermions ceme with the job.

BDespme my yooh 2nd imer-
ptionce, Twas put im sale
dhatge of the education, safeny,
and well-being of the suadents,
25 well as of the operatom and

upkeep of the school and pro-

had to be taken cot, amd a fire _
sasted ia Ube porhslly showe ear 2

ly enomeh to wanm dhe room
before the ids aorived: on

Premier ready for
the next election”

VICTORIA — With a Etile

help from the GST, the war in’

the Gulf, and “onside” party
man embers, Premier Vander

The GST factor has worn

od ia te Middle Eas, aking

cessful in warding off the ai-
tacks by Wander Zalm critics
who were trying to force a
keadership review, In the
morzh, it was a different kentie

quite surt whet lo make oft.

1 kmew that che executive was
as simmchiy pro-Vander Z2im,
BS it was amti-Jack Kempf, :
which raised the question: why

total membership.

dan geton wath his wonderful,
‘ph Tor: British Columbia,

| Kay saids

Ty all this feverish activity.

i he een sy

damaged image? It's possible,
but very. unlikdy. He my

; have beaten back the concertad
- attack on his kadership — and

even thal was 50% a very con-

" ‘winging show —- but he hasn't

done anything to convince the

public at lange. --

‘While Vander Zatm has been
busy putting out brush fires in

- his own party, the NDP has

kept a firm hold on its core

" Support ard continued 10

strengihen its position amoung

; uadesdel votes. .

‘wmembers are as Fearful as ever
that chances of winning an
-  dection with Vander Zaim are

very sim, but they see no way
of changing headers this bate m

John Jansen had one Last op-
potiamity to force the isone
when the premier embarrassed

“them over the doctors”: pension

plan, but be docidod against a

_ showdown.

con All of which means that Bil
Vander Zalm will take the

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