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TERRACE — The province won't
negotiate land claims that result’ in
separate, sovereign states, says Premier Bill ;
Vander Zalm.

‘We've said we're not prepared to
negotiate that, on that issue,” said : the

has given the latter a form. of enhanced.
municipal government, the premier added,
Vander Zalm ‘said one of the difficulties
"in negotiating | land claims is that aboriginal
title and aboriginal rights ‘mean ‘different
things to different native groups.

leave negotiations “dead before we start.”
At the same time, Vander Zalm said the
primary responsibility for settling Jand
- Claims rests with the federal government.
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The ‘provincial government isn’t ready

premier while here last week on tour with ;
cabinet. ~ ;
He added that the government ‘ji ‘ig: also
committed to protecting existing title for
others in the province, _
That includes, the premier, s said ‘tenure - A
and rights given by the province to  FESOUTCE..
extraction companies,

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yet, to release what it calls principles for
‘Negotiation of land claims, says native’ af-
“fairs minister, Jack Weisgerber, *

ack Weisgerber,- one of the cabinet
embers to accompany Vander Zalni.on-a
our here last week, said the province is still
‘ speaking, with industrial and other groups

The government is, however, prepared to-.
negotiate settlements that give -native |
groups measures of : self-government,
economic self-reliance and control over -
social, cultural and other affairs, he said.

Qne model that could be used are
agreements between the province and the
Sechelt band on the Sunshine Coast which

. Vander Zalm ‘added:

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_ ‘Basically what they” re. saying:
the land; it’s the resources under the lanid,.
on the land, what's in the water and the z air
— the whole bit,” he'said. ao .

““T realize we have-a tough: row, ‘to hoe,”

He said: preconditions.by. native groups
such as recognizing title and rights’ could

‘on * their opinions About : settling land
‘claims. . ;

“We want to: do this “properly,
- thoughtfully, with the intent ofa -fair and
last. resolution,” said Weisgerber, . .

"We'll release the principles - ‘when
~ they? ve been made — when they’ve been
established, ” said Weisgerber-

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Angling
licence
changes
to come

TERRACE — Following loud
complaints by fish licence sales
outlets and tourists, the pro-

vince’s environment minister
has promised changes will be
made to the new angling guide
management policy.

In making that commitment
during last week’s cabinet visit
to Terrace, John Reynolds add-
ed those changes would-not take
place without..the public first
having an opportunity to voice
its opinion.

Introduced in March of this
year, the policy requires out-of-
province anglers to purchase an
additional licence for rivers the
fish ‘and wildlife branch has
designated either Class | or 11.
These licences cost $20 and $10
a day. respectively.

Because they are good for a
single: day only, sales outlets
have complained they find
themselves filling out numerous
forms for the same person.
While equally critical of the
paperwork involved, tourists
have also said the policy makes
fishing: too expensive and are
threatening not to return.

Reynolds said a mid-May trip
to Terrace had included a visit
to a local sporting goods store
where he ‘‘saw the problems we
were causing’ and heard tourist
complaints at first hand.

With the 1990 season already .
six weeks old, he-said any at-
tempt to change the system at
that point would only have
created more confusion.

Now, however, he had in-
structed his deputy minister to
arrange al public meeting, likely
to be held in Terrace, ‘‘as quick-
ly as possible.” The session
would be chaired by Jim
Walker, | i assistant. deputy
minister of wildlife, and other
ministry staff would be on hand
"*to listen to people and find out
what their ‘concerns are.”

Staff would make recommen-
dations based on the results of
that meeting and any changes
would be in'place in time for the
199] season.

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SMITHERS — A Hazelton

PREMIER BILL VANDER ZALM maintained his government's land
claims position in Terrace last week, stating that B.C. cannot
recognize native title as a prerequisite to negotiations. He also pro-

mised third parties will be represented in taiks, but gave no details.
on how that will work,

CBC called
pro-native

TERRACE — The CBC’s news
coverage of native issues is
slanted in favour of natives,
United Northern Citizens
spokesman Brian Hobenshield
charges.

“CBC coverage of natives is
biased — for them and against
us,”” he said last week, ‘They
give native groups way more
airtime than any other group.
That's free coverage for them
on their side, If’ we want
coverage like that, we have to
pay for it.”

The Hazeltons-based group
says it represents. area loggers
and local citizens who “want
native land claims settled, but
fear governments will cave in
under pressure to unreasonable
native demands. The group
formed in response to blockades
by Gitksan and Wet'suwet’en
natives in the Kitwanga-
Hazeltons area this surmmer.

Hobenshield attacked CBC's
television coverage of the stan-
doff between armed Mohawks
and the army this summer at
Oka, Quebec. ‘'For weeks on
end, every time you turned on
the TV, there'd be native
coverage on,”’ he said. ‘“Most
of the newscast was often spent
on it.’”

He said CBC reporters are
quick to cover the native point
of view, but aren't as diligent
about finding other angles, such
as the effects of land claim sel-
tlements on other area
residents.

“The reporters often don't
even know they're being used.
Every time the natives talk to
them they go stand beside some
old rickety building with the TV
cameras on. They make a point:
of standing beside a bad
building — not one of the new
buildings the government gave
them money to build.’’

Hobenshield said the CBC
must look for the other side of
the story, because native
groups, like any lobby groups,
are looking out for their own in-
terests.

“They (natives) know how to
manipulate the media — they’ ve
been doing it for 20 or 30 years.
Every time they get a chance,

they manipulate. And CBC br-
ings it out. If they don’t realize
they’re being manipulated, they
better start looking at
themselves as reporters.’’

He also criticized the an-
nouncement last week of a
$100,000 provincial grant to the
Northern Native Broadcasting
station based in Terrace.

*T don’t feel very good about
the natives getting that $100,000
fer nalive broadcasting,” he
said. ‘Do. the natives really
need their own radio station?”

Hobenshield said government
assistance for natives may be
appropriate for some projects,
but it shouldn’t be extended to
nalive radio stations. He said
taxpayers’ money shouldn’t be
spent helping natives influence
public opinion,

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and advertising deadlines‘at
The Terrace Standard for the
October 10 issue.

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ment with no chance of parole

man found guilty of murdering
his commop-law wife, started
serving a lif prison term Friday
following ‘his ‘Supreme Court
trial in Smithers...

Randy Lemky, 40, was con-
victed by jury of second-degree
murder in the shooting death of
23-year-old Mich
on Oct. 21, 989

‘Lemky: dahce
the accused aN ta :

for 10 years,

‘Last. week’s. five-day . trial -

heard evidence Lemky and
Cummins quarrelled after retur-
ning to their £2th-Avenue New

‘Hazelton: home from an. Oc- ~
toberfest party. Cummins'died ..
around If p.m. that night, of a.
single. gunshot. ‘wound to the’. }-
“neck. from: Leinky's: Winchester :

as lever-action rifle. {.

“Lemky, ‘who admitted drink -
, ing “about . at

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~ PRINCE RUPERT — It will
cost.more than $50 million to
build’ 2 sewage treatment
.., System and-do away with let-
ting It pour'inte the harbour,

‘Stamhuis.

a elty: engineer Mike

‘At the ‘same time, a city:
ort: indicates there is no
vidence ‘connecting what”
int t vt Telkwa; ' say.

: Hicent ;

’ coutits, the city is extending
its sewer pipes out Into the
harbour, said Stambhuis.

‘He sald that in other out-
_fall: locations, the sewage Is
well-diluted and so decom-
position takes place naturaly.

. SMITHERS — Three moun-

tain goats have been shot Il-
‘legally:in mountains west of
conservation of-

‘yough time of
shootings © took

. continies.:

place based on witnesses who >
saw somebody. with a goat
that had already been killed.

Conservation officers later
found: two other goat car-
casses in the same general
area,

In: the meantime; an in-
vestigation into the killing of
caribou in; a protected
woodlands area Just: west of
where, the ‘goats were killed

HOUSTO “Houston

‘because of poor lumber

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Forest Products is closing
down its mill for two weeks

market conditions.

Mill manager Roger
Falkiner said 200 people will
be affected by. the closure.

He sald the closure, the
first such one at the mill since
1982, is because the price it”
pays for logs it buys not
under licence doesn’t cover.
what it receives when selling

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