BUSINESS NEWS photo Tom Burley JOFFRE BRONDGEEST, Lonsdale berber, gives his last hair cut to friend Kart Olson before retiring. Other friends and former customers spanning four generations dropped by last week to say goodbye. N. Shore publisher prints mew useful business books NORTH VANCOUVER-based Self-Counsel Press has recently Teleased three books of interest to people cir- culating in the B.C. corporate crucible. An excellent reference on work standards is Employee/Employer Rights, by James E. Dorsey, an active lawyer and partner in a business briefcase Michael Becker Vancouver law firm. Dorsey is a former vice-chairman of the Ca- nadian Labor Relations Board, an arbitrator and an_ extensively published author on employment law issues. The book examines labor stan- dards of minimum wage, work hours, rest periods, holidays, min- imum age of employment, mater- nity leave, health and safety, se- niority, termination and resigna- tion. A section on workers’ compen- sation looks at everything from who’s covered to appealing a deci- sion. Addresses and relevant of- fices are listed in the appendix. The book also offers insight into the new Industrial Relations Act. Assertiveness For Managers, by Diana Cawood, presents a com- plete guide to learning how to ef- fectively manage people. Cawood is an organizational consultant and part-time faculty member at the UBC Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration. An updated new chapter focuses on assertiveness skills for women managers, Other chapters include How To Do It: The Basic Give Skills of Assertive Behavior; Set- ting Goals that Work; and The Manager as Career Coach. The third book, Business Eti- quette Today, by Jacqueline Dun- ckel, summarizes new business manners for a fast-paced interna- tional market. Dunckel has a B.A. in Com- munication from Brigham Young University and degrees in Perfor- mance Speaking and Public Speak- ing from the Toronto Conservato- Hydro division not for sale ENERGY MINISTER and North Vancouver-Seymour MLA Jack Davis recently tabled in the legislature an amendment that in- dicates the electrical division of B.C. Hydro will not be privatized. The amendment applies to Bill 45, the Hydro and Power Authori- ty Privatization Act, which is cur- rently at the second-reading stage in the Legislature. “JT have said, both in the Legislature and outside, that B.C. Hydro’s power business is not for sale,’’ said Davis. ‘‘This governm- ent is not selling power dams, tur- bines, transmission lines or elec- tricity distribution systems anywhere in B.C. No mention was made of electricity in Bill 45. This terse amendment excludes Hydro’s power side altogether.’’ Davis introduced a total of six amendments. The others are technical in nature and do not significantly alter the thrust of the legislation which privatizes B.C. Hydro’s Lower Mainland Gas and Victoria Gas divisions, B.C. Hydro Rail and B.C. Hydro’s Research and Development laboratory. “Six per cent of B.C. Hydro’s total investment in plants and equipment is up for sale. The big 94 per cent is not,’’ Davis said.‘‘We are selling activities which are in the private sector in other provinces.” ry of Music and Speech and Trini- ty College in London, England. The book answers such ques- tions as: *How should you behave on a corporate jet? eHow low should you bow when you are in Japan? Who bows first? *How do you refuse an inappro- priate business gift? The chapters address issues such as firing and being fired, telephone manners, boardroom behavior, of- fice entertzining at home and ap- propriate dress. . 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Qualifies for RRSP’s. A fund that lets you get involved in your investment future. Baga Robert Beaty 1800 - 609 Granville St., 669-1 600 Vancouver, B.C. V7Y 1A3 The Fa ree Trade You can never go home OTTAWA; Our children will be the big winners from the Free Trade Agreement. For them it will mean more g jobs, more secure jobs and more better paying jobs. The agreement will also bring lower prices on consumer goods; U.S. imports will cost less, and so will many Canadian products. F Political rhetoric? No, just a statement of facts supported by the Canadian Manufacturers Association, and the Consumer’s Association of Canada. e It's a fact that Canada’s economy depends on our exports, azid more than 80% of these go to the United § States. They enter that country subject to whatever tariff rates and other restrictions the Americans decide to unilateraly impose. (We saw what this can do to BC. industries and jobs when the U.S. decided to penalize § our Softwood Lumber, and Shakes & Shingles producers). : It’s a fact that increasing world competition is forcing the Americans to adopt more and more protectionist § legislation. Right now there are literaly hundreds of unfair competition bills and applications for countervail- § ing duties circulating within the U.S. Congress. 3 The Free Trade Agreement makes Canada the envy of every other trading nation in the world, because the | Americans have agreed to fix the tariff rates it will impose on future Canadian trade goods ... by reducing § them to zero! We will be the only country to have guaranteed terms of access to the world’s biggest and wealthiest ff consumer market. This unique position will make Canadian industries very attractive to capital investors, and ; that means more jobs, and more secure jobs. Other provisions in the Agreement will increase secondary manufac- § turing in Canada, and that means more skilled jobs. ; Because the Free Trade Bill now before Parliament is a highly technical document, very few Canadians have § actually read it. That, of course, makes it a sitting duck for anyone who wants to misrepresent it. The NDP J have given many reasoris why they’re against this agreement, but not the real one; that it’s a fundamental policy § of socialism to oppose any advancement of free enterprise. Liberals, of course, don’t have a policy on anything § right now except, that if the government is for it, they’re against it. H The critics, however, are noticeably less eloquent about practical alternatives to free trade. They speak vaguely § of ‘maintaining the status quo’, as if there was some imaginary, secure past we can ‘go home’ to. Well, its a § nice thought, but the reality is that a lot of Canadian jobs are already at risk, and unless this pact is ratified, § many more will be in jeopardy. Without the Free Trade Agreement, our children will be the big losers. This space paid for by North Vancouver Progressive Conservative Riding Association.