TERRACE STANDARD ~ Business REVIEW | “Our City backs pubs against restaurants in booze fight & About Jobless © rate up THE UNEMPLOYMENT rate in northwestern B.C, has crept back up to double- digit levels. The jobless rate for the north coast/Nechako region hit 10.0 per cent in Decem- ber. That’s up from 9.9 per cent in November, and con- tinues a steady climb from the recent low mark of 8.8 per cent recorded in Sep- tember, The unemployment rate slill isu’t as high as it was a year ago, when the region was at 10.1 per cent in De- cember, 1997, The province-wide unem- ployment rale also moved up, tising from 7.9 per cent to 8.2 per cent. The worst numbers con- tinue to be in the Cariboo, where unemployment — is Steady at 15.8 per cent, and the Kootenays, which edged up 0.4 lo 12.1 per cent, Both Tegions are significantly harder hit than they were a year ago. The Lower Mainland is steady aL 6.5 per cenl unem- ployment. Northeastem B.C. con- tinues to enjoy its oil and gas-fired boom, with just 4.4 per cent unemployment. Even that’s up, though, from 3.6 per cent in November ad 2.7 per cent a year ago. FP NSayaey) Critics say idea would turn eateries into bars overnight TERRACE city council is backing the hotel and pub industry against the pro- vitice’s restaurants in a battle over lig- uor licensing changes. The B.C. Restaurant Association has proposed changes that would allaw restaurants to serve liquor without food — something that’s presently not allowed. The proposal is being considered as part. of a provincial government review of B.C, liquor laws. But the Hospitality Industry Coali- tion — made up of hotel, pub and bar owners — has mounted a fierce lobby campaign resisting that idea. — City council joined them last week, voling 3-2 to write the coalition a Ict- ter in opposition to liquor licensing changes for restaurants, Councillors Olga Power, Rich McDaniel and Val George were in support of the motion, with council- lors David Hull and Linda Hawes op- posed. James W. Radelet Phone: 604-689-0878 RADELET & COMPANY Boristers & Solicitors Tax Law ® Trusts © Corporate & Commercial 1330 - 1075 West Georgio Street, Vancouver, 8.C. V6E 3C9 Fox: 604-689-1386 SHELLEY HOWARD at the Best Western Terrace Inn serves drinks without food — something only bars, pubs and lounges can do. But a new proposal wauld also ex- tend that ability to restaurants. “It’s really just a back door method of creating more. pubs in the pro- vince,’’ George said. ‘We should leave it the way it is,’’ Hull said the provinee’s liquor laws ———_. | ive archaic and reform of those regulations shouldn’t be ruled out, particularly if that would case red tape and bureaucracy, Hawes agreed. ‘‘Sometimes change has to happen,’’ she said. The Hospitality Industry Coalition says the change would allow restaurants to get around the complex rules that must be followed when a hew pub or cabaret is proposed, Each of the 5,000 restaurants in the province could serve liquor. without food —~ essentially actijng: as a bar — without secking community approval, the group says, noting only 350 pub licences have been approved in B.C. in the last 22 years. “One of. our primary concerns is that the people serving alcohol in restaurants. are frequently underage, and having these youths in an unregu- lated bar environment where they may be pressured into serving other un- derage patrons is ‘highly — in- appropriate,’ said Vance Campbell of the Cabaret Owners’ Association. 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