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Big Cookie
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Michael Becker

News Editor
michacl@nsnews.com

BIG Cookie is big, on
the Net.

The Laternet is providi

ary forum tar musicians such as
the local band to find a workdwide
audience —

file format, allows music to be tightly
compressed without losing quality.
The Web site MP3.com is one of
the hottest sites on the Interne
site contains a broad sel
music available for tree listening,
downloading or purchase in CD tor-
mat. Because of ils size and populan-
ty the MP3.com site offers musicians
a shut at protile on th, World Wide
Vel and a percentage of CD sales.
For Big Cookie, the technology
represents a new tease on lite. The
band, which has no label deal, com-
pleted its fourth independently
recorded CD — Clean — at the end
of April.
Most musicians who pest music at

LG

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Katharine Hamer

Contributing Writer

VICTORIA may be patting itself on the
back for providing an increase in health
funding, but doctors on the North Shore
aren’t so impressed.

The Ministry of Health announced funding for acute care and
continuing care services tor the North Shore Health Region on
May 21. NSHR staffare still analyzing the figures, but initial spec-
ulation is that while the core budg tis in line with the expected
amount, there is no provision for the health region to target its
problem areas, such as surgical waitlists and a thgging neuro-
surgery departinent.

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$4.2 million increase will not
shorten surgery waiting lists

by the budget,” said Dr. Paul Termansen, president of the med-
ical staff at Lions Gare. “There is an average lift tor the province
of 5%, but we’ got 3%."

“(This year's budget increase) is mostly spoken tor, We've had
no response te our proposal for surgical funding, and have
received no funding tor tertiary care. They've given us $200,000
tor orthopedics but we're already spending more than that ono
ing to reduce the surgical waitlist, If we don’t receiv ’

then we'll have to take it from other areas of the budget,
t health programs will sutter.”

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DECLAN Lane of North Vancouver, left to right, Adam Jinks, Dave Taylor and Andrew Yates are Big Cookie. The band’s latest release,
Clean, is finding fans on the Internet. The group plays live at the Railway Club tonight.

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$4.2 million over last year. Their projected budget for 1999-2000
is $185 million. Around 3.500 patients are currently on the sur-
gical waidlist at Lions Gate.
Ministry of Health representati
that the average provincial budget
that this was because the ministry w

Stephanie Slater confirmed
rease stood at 5%, but said

“targeting the reduction of
vy had gone to larger trauma

she said.

" Mlocned) isa , generous lift,”
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“T don't think anyone could say $4.2 million was a
amount, There is net an endless fund.”

But Termansen still wants to know where the funding request-
ed by ally for neurc urgery is voing to come
fram. “The money they've allocated doesn’t allow us any signifi-
cant room to address the major problems facing the hospital:

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