A4 - Sunday, January 9, 1983 - North Shore News the world e@iutcida 2S GS G@iweEGEEe © &€ & By UNITED PRESS CANADA Post Office raises rates OTTAWA - A_ proposed Six per cent increase in postal rates announced by the Canada Post Corporation last October has been approved by Cabinet, Canada Post announced Friday. _ The new rates will be implemented in stages. On January 1S, the basic letter rate to the United States, will be 37 cents national letter rate will be 64 cents. . The basic Canadian 30 _ cent letter rate will rise to 32-cents on February 15, said Canada Post, adding the delay was to ensure that customers’ yearly letter mailing costs did not exceed the govern- ment’s 6 per cent guide- lines. Canada Post's 1983 fate, --which were an- nounced on October 22 of last year, were approved by - the-- Council following a 60- day period of public represeptations. Jobless figure continues to climb OTTAWA _ - Opposition critics urged the federal government Friday to wage war against unemployment after 56,000 more poeple lost jobs in December, swelling the jobiess ranks to a post-Depression record of 1.49 million. The jobless rate last month rose 0.1 per cent to a record high 12.8 per cent, Statistics Canada reported, bringing the total number of jobs lost since December 1981 toa staggemng 507,000. $ in some areas of the country, unemployment has soared to. un- precedented levels. The jobless rate in Sudbury, Ont... where slumping demand has sent the mining imdustry” reefing, hit 31 per cent last month. New Democratic party finance critic Nelson Rus said unemployment had reached “alarming proportions” and called on the government to “put the country on a war-ime footing to deal with this issue.” Salmon war brewing VICTORIA A group representing natives on Vancouver Island has delivered an ultimatum to federal fisherics authonties, warning them out and look for fish which isn't there,” Chef Tom Sampson, chairman, of the Bntish Columbia Tribal Council, told reporters Phursday FROM PAGE A3 justified. The building, he says, has reached the point where it needs major renovations — estimated at $500,000 - and he says he wants.to go ahead with the work. Originally, he says, he had hoped that the building could be renovated floor-by- floor, shuffling the tenants one floor at a time. But he says contractors for the various trades involved - have” totd “him that “the required work is so extensive that hydro and water will he and. rates, they would probably be better moving somewhere else anyway. As for the reason why they never did years ago, 71-year- old Luella Lindsay, explains: “We knew some other poor unfortunate would come in, get stuck and not know how to fight”. But after fighting for so many years the couple have reached ages where they don’t know how they would even go about moving. Harry Lindsay has had two strgl \ hea chronic bronchitis. His wife has arthritis of the spine cannot even and . move . Rentalsman. Through withholding 14 of his rents, the Rentalsman is depriving him of more than $4,000 a month, says Kristensen. As such, he claims he is defaulting on a mortgage on the building and that he is threatened with foreclosure. Such an he insists, would be(| neither the interests of the tenants nor Not so. says Rentalsman Jim Patterson. “The tenant __be affected... whether there is a, foreclosure or not.” ‘LAST RESORT’ _____ whether -have-to-be-shut off to the entire building for the four- month period it will take to do the job. So a few days Christmas, the along with all the other tenants in the _ building, including the manager, were served 119-day eviction notices. bef ore Lindsays, DESPAIR Even though the landlord says all the tenants will have the option of moving back afterwards, the Lindsays are at the point of despair over the bitter irony that the payoff for gaining an un- dertaking that the repairs wilt be “carried out is that they will no longer even be able to live there. They accept that in today’s rental market, with comparatively high vacancy household items. To them, the thought of moving is a trauma. As for they say they can’t even come up with removal expenses at the time, even though- the anadlerd -would - be required to refund their bill. Kristensen assures this is no problem, that since he has sO many tenants he will have to pay to be moved he does not want them all doing it individually and then claiming for reimbursement from him anyway. He'll get a contract price for moving all of them and pay the mover _ himself, hé says. Kristensen comes across very sympathetically to the tenants and their dilemma and. insists that the real villain of the piece is the Firebomb victim compensated A FOUR-FIGURE award has been granted to a young West Vancouver woman who was badly burned recently due to the action of an unidentified assailant The assailant threw a tube containing an explosive substance on a bonfire that the victim was standing close lo As a result, she suffered The award of $2,778 was made under the Criminal Injury Compensation Act admimstered by the Workers Compensation Board. The act entitles any vicam of crime in BC to apply for, and receive, compensation, regardless of any other action against the person or persons responsible for the He appears sceptical about the entire issue and says the reason his office is withholding rents is to pay for the cost of re-roofing the building - a job the landlord has refused to do. Patterson questions the landlord’s assertion that he cannot meet his mortgage without the rents. “It seems rather in- consistent that he is saying he can get by without any revenue (by having the building empty) and put large amounts of money into the building while he is trying to coordinate the improvements without any income but complains he is about to-be foreclosed on.” * The Office of the Ren- talsman-—--has — a hearing for Thursday, January 20, to ascertain needs vacant possession to carry out the repair work. After that, says Patterson, there will be the question to - settle of whether the landlord has genuine in- tentions of effecting the ~“We would prefer not t6 have to do it as we in effect end up having to manage the repair. It is only as a last resort we redirect funds.” “répair work after tenants are evicted. “There are a lot of in- consistencies in this,” he comments. ae OR JUST FIXING AND PAINTING YOUR CAR OUR SHOP IS *B.C.A.A. APPROVED *A.R.A. 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