News briefs Minister returns THREE MONTHS after he was suspended, Dan Miller is back in the provincial cabinet as forests minister. He was removed in Septem- ber after a report from conflict _of .interest commissioner Ted Hughes found Miller had a conflict over the sale of Westar's Carnaby mill to Skeena Cellulose. Miller used to work at Skeena Cellulose and although there is no expectation he will return, he was still on the mill’s employee seniority list at the time of the sale. There was no finding of per- sonal gain and Miller was not motivated by private interest, Hughes found. But he said that Miller was transferring some- thing of value to his employer. Death probed THE ONLY MINING industry death in the northwest so far this year is being investigated by the mines ministry, RCMP and coroner. James John Glover, of Penticton, was crushed and killed Dec. 11 by a scoop tram at the Golden Bear mine west of Dease Lake. Glover, a me- chanic, was working on the device in a mechanical shop at the time. Mines ministry official Doug Flynn said a full report of the accident could take up to a month to complete. Any in- formation gleaned from the in- vestigation of use to other mines will be sent to them. Glover's death is the only mining fatality in the north- western part of B.C. this year, said Flynn. The’ worst year in recent memory was in 1988 when 12 people died in either the ex- ploration, mining or excava- tion industry in northern B.C. Four of those people weére'y. geologists who died when a canoe in which they were travelling tipped in a northern lake. immigrants growing Immigrants make up 22 per cent of B.C.’s population while about 17 per cent of all of Can- ada’s immigrants live in the province, And there were 92,500 more immigrants in B.C. than in 1986, an increase of 15 per cent, indicate figures gleaned from the 1991 census, The ma- jority of the 723,000 im- migranis living in British Columbia came from the United Kingdom and Euro- peans totalled 54 per cent of all immigrants. | But that has changed as more and more immigrants are com- ing from Asia. European im- migrants made up 62 per cent of the immigrant population in 1986 and 67 per cent in 1981. Those from Asia increased to 25 per cent in 1991 compared to 18 per cent in 1986 and 14 per cent in 1981]. Three outof every 10 Van- couver residents in 1991 were immigrants while immigrants made up 20 per cent of the population in Victoria. Of the Canadian-born popu- lation of B.C., 1.5 million or 63 per cent were bom in B.C, Ten per cent came from