A4 - Sunday News, November 30, 1980

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TORONTO (UPC) - British - Columbia is “completely opposed to separation,” but wants the federal government to take its constitutional proposals back to the negotiating table, a top B.C. official said.

Intergovernmental Re- lations Minister Garde _Gardom said Thursday it was traditionally under- stood that any move to create a Canadian consti- tution would have to be

unanimously approved by the the provinces. Gardom said_ the

federal government's uni-

government, _ w. should be the “wellspring

lateral action was “not the Canadian way” of solving problems and he criticized the administra- tion of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau for ignoring the Vancouver accord, a formula agreed upon by some of the pro- vinces for amendment of the constitution.

He urged the federal

It was too late in the evening to “get involved in Ottawa bashing” for North Vancouver District Alderman Mary Segal. But Alderman Peter Powell asked: “If we're not going to bash Ottawa, what are we going to do?”

These were just two of the responses to a request from the City of Kelowna to support their opposition to the federal proposal to enter the field of direct resource taxation.

of unity in our country,” and the provinces to “return to the table and try to agree as most of us feel that we can. Surely as Canadians we have to do that.”

‘Rental vacancies become scarcer

OTTAWA (UPC) - Apartments to rent are becoming scarcer, ac- cording to Central Mort- gage and Housing Corp. figures released Friday ‘which record a 2.3 per cent October vacancy rate in Canada’s 23 largest cities, down from 2.8 per

centin April. The lowest vacancy rates of all Canadian

cities were recorded in St. John’s and Victoria which each registered a 0.1 per cent rate: Van- couver had a 0.4 per cent rate while Toronto and

Saskatoon came in at 0.6 per cent.

CMHC said Windsor — the Ontario city hard hit by auto industry layoffs in recent months — recorded the highest vacancies among rental accommodation with a 7.5 per cent rate, a jump from 5.8 per cent last Apnil.

The booming Alberta cities of Calgary and Edmonton, where real estate prices have sored in recent years, registered rates of 0.8 per cent and 1.8 per cent respectively.

Groups to march to protest KKK

VANCOUVER (UPC) - group of ethnic minorities have formed an ad hoc committee to organize a march on the Legislature in Victoria to voice its opposition to the Klu Klux Klan, a_— group spokesman said

The march has been planned to show the minontics’ displeasure at the lack of governmeal action at’ the KKK’s recent move into BC, black Solidanty Associa tton member Paul Winn said Thursday

Winn said the date of the march will be decided

by the ad hoc committec, although he implied it could come next month during the government's

legislative muni-session which starts Dec. 4. Winn criticized the

provincial attorney general's office for not granting permission to police to lay charges under the scidom-uscd Hate Propagation Act of the Criminal Codec.

“H I was a member of the KKK looking at the pnvince, I'd say, “Hey. we've got a good chance of establishing ourselves here.” Winn said

Purges continue in South Korea

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“There's a temper in this council tonight that doesn't seem conducive’ to reasonable debate,” said Lakes.

Alderman Ernie Crist said his heart was not in it. “We are not well treated by our own provincial government

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He and the silent Scgat voted against Lakes’ resolution, which read:

“That this council go on record as opposing the

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