. New parking lot 7 - at the Desiderata Inn: CREWS levelled ground near the corner of Eby St, and Park Ave. last week as part of plans to turn the lot into an overflow parking area for the B.C. Ac- cess Centre. The land has been purchased by Manuel Da Silva, who oper- ates the access centre, Reform party suspended ANY CHANCE that Re- form B.C. candidates will tun in the next provincial election died last week when the party was sus- pended for six months for election finance irregulari- ties. . Elections B.C, fined the ‘party $31,286 for over- 9. spending its limits by -. $15,000 when Bill Vander Zalm ran in the 1999 Delta ‘South byelection, ~The outcome of the audit means the Reform name won't be on the bal- lot in the provincial elec- tion, which must be called by June. And ly succeeded in replacing Reform B.C. as the main Tight-wing alternative to the B.C. Liberals in the coming election. Many Reformers and Family Coalition Party members: are backing Unity B.C., although a fac- tion of Reformers have’ fought to keep the old - party alive. Even fractured, Reform has continued to attract as -fauch support in opinion polls as the governing Reform’s demise also ends NDP hopes the party might again split the right- wing vote - as it did in 1996 ~ and improve New Democrat chances against the B.C. Liberals, News of the audit came just a day after Port Co- quitlam resident Chris De- laney was elected leader of Unity B.C. by members at a leadership convention in Kamlcops. Delaney defeated Sur- t rey school trustee and Fa- mily Coalition Party lea- der Heather Stitwell. Delaney, formerly pre- sident of Reform B.C., called the Elections B.C. audit “fishy.” He alleges the Liberals overspent their limit by $360,000 in the same by- election but says auditors chose instead to focus on Reform B.C. Taken together, he says, Reform’s consti- tuency association and provincial party were with- in overall spending limits, although auditors found the - party overspent, ’ "Nobody did anything wrong,” he said. “There may have been some: in- “competence in terms. of: putting them in the. right: columns.” “| am not: quite sure where it’s all going to shake down,” he added. “It .o-- just shows more and more - how stinky things are in this province,” Unity B.C, will field a full slate of candidates and cwill begin nominations by mid-March, Delaney said. ~ He said Unity B.C. is “needed as a check against > the B.C. Liberals, who he ~. §aid are too close to their “+. federal counterparts. o> “Blecting them will be “like letting the long arm of : # :, Jean Chretien into the af- ares fairs of.B.C.,” he sald. Unity B.C. claims 5,000 paid members and was ori- the suspension. means Unity B.C. has like- § ginally formed as a new home for members of Re- form, Family Coalition, Social Credit, the B.C. Conservative party and the B.C. Party. But a number of So- creds ard Conservatives dropped out, and have threatened to form their own unity group within the B.C. Party. 5 VER the next F month, every . home i BC will receivea . copy of the BCHealthGuide Handbook. This addition to BC's public . 4 - health care system is the first. -.partofa new three part service ~~ endorsed by BC doctors, nurses and pharmacists ~ to help make it ~easier foryou to make important “health care choices. “You can look up over 190 common : health concerns inthe new - BCHealthGuide Handbook and get the answer $yOu need night athome. . 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