A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 4, 1996 News in Brief Pension plea denied THE B.C. Council of Human Rights has turned down a complaint from the widow of a Kitimat worker who died before being eligible for early retirement. William O'Neill, a ship loader, died in 1992 at the age of 51, four ycars before being eligible for early retirement benefits. His widow, Helen O’Neill, said the age stipula- tion in a survivors’ benefit option in a plan run by the Canadian Paper Workers’ Union and the Pulp and Paper Industrial Relations Bureau was dis- criminatory. But council] member Susan Vallance found that age distinctions is allowable under the Human Rights Act which creates a special exemption for bona fide retirement and pension plans. If there were no minimum age, pension amounts would be very small and would defeat the goal of pension plans which is to provide income to people who retire, she ruled. The plan has now been changed to include sur- vivor benefits for spouses who die before reaching retirement age but that is different from the one based on eligibility, Vallance added. Back in business THE END of summer means Mills Memorial Hospital has re-opened one of its two operating rooms and re-opened beds on its main medical services floor, One operating room and the beds are traditional- ly closed between Canada Day and Labour Day to take into account vacations which reduce the workforce over the course of the summer. Booze to cost more A SIX-PACK of beer cosis an extra 10 cents and so is a bottle of wine as the provincial government hiked prices at its liquor stores effective yesterday, And hard liquor went up 20 cents a bollle courtesy of the provincial government which expecis to collect an additional $8 million in alcohol taxes, Government officials deny the price increases are a lax and instead say they are a mark up. More negotiators A PROVINCIAL aboriginal affairs official has been promated to the rank of assistant negotiator for treaty lalks with northwest native groups. John Pyper had been dealing with a large range of in- terest groups in his capacity as public consultation director. His main focus had been the Nisga’a talks. His appointment is one of several additions to the land claims industry in the northwest as both the provincial and federal governments shuffle pcople around, Skeena getting bigger REFORM MP Mike Scott is going to have to do more traveling to cover his Skeena federal riding, There’s a boundary redistribution going on to in- crease the number of federal seats in B.C. from 32 to 36 and part of that means adding the rural area east of Telkwa almost to Houston and Bella Bella in the south to Skeena. All of this is in aid of adding more seats to the Fraser Valley-Lower Mainland area Where population has in- creased greatly in the past decade. Scott doesn’t mind adding the rural area east of Telkwa to Skeena but says it doesn’t make any sense to add Bella Bella to the south. “There are no transportation services fom here to Bella Bella and the north has little connection with them,”’ he said. The Skeena riding will make up nearly one-quarter of the land mass of B.C, when the redistribution is made formal. Post opened THE BUILDING'S set up and Canada Customs officers have moved in as plans came together to open a border post in Stewart this week, Five officers are being based in that community for a two-year trial period in the attempt to curb the flow of smuggled goods coming in over the border from Hyder, Alaska, For years now the border has been ‘‘open,” creating a convenient ‘pipeline for smugglers moving commercial- size loads of goods. Law enforcement officials estimate the loss in tax revenues at millions of dollars a year from unreported al- cohol, tobacco traffic and from other goods. The post will be manned 24-hours a day during the sum- mer months and 12 hours a day in the fall and winter. It follows an attempt earlier by Canada Customs to con- vince people to report their border travels and purchases of goods by installing a 1-800 phone connection to a wall outside of the Stewart RCMP station. That caused complaints in the community from residents who said that Canada Customs should pul up a post or nothing at all, Up until now the job of enforcing excise duties and taxes has been handled by the Stewart RCMP detachment. Canada Customs official Dan McGrath said the five of- ficers moving to Stewart are coming from the agency’s ex- isting workforce. The post, called a port of entry by Canada Customs, con- sists of a modular building and is close to the actual bor- der. The post and its officers are also expected to act as an economic shot in the arm for Stewart because of the payroll being generated. 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