‘TERRACE STANDARD

BusingEss REvIEw
Jobless rate dives.

Out &
About

Hydro hires

natives
B.C HYDRO has hired the
first three people for its
aboriginal relations intern-
ship program which. is to
provide people with man-
agement training and ex-
perience.

The three were chosen
from 130 applicants. One
of the three is Alanna
Simmons from Hagwilget,
near Hazelton. She has a
diploma in hospitality ad-
ministralion and is com-
pleting working on her cer-
lified general accountant
designation. The internship
program lasts for two
years,

Building

numbers up

TERRACE kicked off 2000
with a faster pace of con-
struction than a year ago,

January saw the City of
Terrace issue $289,490
worth of building permits,
on a few sizable institu-
tional and commercial
renovations.

That was up consider-
ably from the $116,840 in
new construction recorded
the same month. a° year
ago.

Films top $1b

_ MOVIE AND TV produc-

ON ee eee ee gta eee

tion in B.C. broke through
the $1 billion barrier last
year.

The film industry rose
32 per cent in 1999 to

1.07 billion, up from’ $808
million in 1998,

The industry more than
quadrupled in value in the
past decade.

And it’s not all just 3 s0-
called runaway praduc-
tions coming from Holly-
wood because of the cheap
Canadian dollar.

Canadian productions
are also growing, up 14 per
cent to $405 million in

| BAC. last year.

Accountants

advance

TERRACE RESIDENT
Yvonne Katherine
Koerner graduated from

. the Certified Management

Accountants Socicty’s
Strategic Leadership Pro-
gram.

A controller with Cole

! Petroleum, Koerner was

one of 100 new CMA
grads in B.C.
Another local resident

is also advancing in the

accounting world.
Joanne Nyback has

_ passed.a key exam on her
‘ way to becoming a char-
' tered accountant.

She successfully com-
pleted the uniform final

- exam late last year. Those
‘ who earn the designation

chartered accountant must

' also work at a chartered

accountant firm for 30
months.

For the third year in a
row, the B.C, School of
Chartered Accountancy
had the highest pass rate

(75 per cent) of any CA ©

education system in Cana-
da in the uniform final
exam.

There are 7,800 char-
tered accountants in B.C.

MATCH THE
MERCHANT

THE UNEMPLOYMENT
rate in the northwest
dropped sharply in Janu-

_ ary, falling to 7.8 per cent

from 8.4 per cent in De-

' cember.
But since the number of...

people employed also fell,
the rate decline doesn't
mean many jobless people
have found work.

Instead an increase in.

the number of people who

‘count themselves as “not

in the labour force” sug-
gests significant numbers
of people who were count-
ed as unemployed are now
no longer looking for work.
They can include people.
who have given up trying
to find work, parents opt-
ing to stay at home, and
people retiring.

Labour market analyst
Karen Wienberg called the
sudden one-month drop

Northwest unemployment

Dec. 1998 to Jan 2000

puzzling, since the end of
the Christmas retail season
would usually mean a hike
in the unemployment rate.
The unemployment rate
in the region has fallen 1.8
per cent in the last 12

months from 9.6 per cent
in January, 1999.

The number employed
in the region, despite the
small drop last month, is
up 5.3 per cent over the
same 12 months,

Band sues over construction

THE GITLAKDAMIX band
is suing a contractor over
work done last summer on
the footings for the new
Nisga'a Government ad-
ministrative building,

The band and Gitzyon
Contracting Ltd. allege
subcontractor Paige Ray-
mond Smyth, of Prince
Rupert-based Smyth Engi-
neering Technical Servic-
es, failed to correctly posi-
tion the steel piles that
will support the $5 million
building in New Aiyansh,

“All or almost all of the
approximately 51 piles

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by more than the accept-
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band’s statement of claim,
filed Jan. 26.

That, it says, forced the
project to incur nearly
$44,000 in additional ex-
penses to fix the problem.

New poles had to be
driven, and reinforcements
placed, it says, and an ex-
tensive redesign of the
building took place to en-
sure il can be used safely.

The 23,000 square foot,

two-storey complex will
have offices for more than
50 workers, a foyer atrium
in the middle of the build-
ing, and a large cafeteria
downstairs.

-The building, once
complete, is lo house the

-future Nisga'a Govern-

ment, which takes over ju-
risdiction of 1,900 square
kilometres of land in the
Nass Valley on the effec-
tive date of the Nisga’a
treaty, That date has not
yel been set.

The treaty is now before
the Senate.

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