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the oxamlner Monay Moral28 1m on cable Few predictions pay TV before meeting EDMONTON CP Few predictions are being made by communications observers about what to expect from the federalprovincial commu nications ministers meeting here this week The last time the ministers got together two years ago they disagreed on everythingex cept the need to meet again in less formal and less conflict producing forum than full fledged federalprovincial con ference So they set up the council of communications ministers and the twoday Edmonton meeting which starts Tuesday is its first session But even before it began the meeting faced problems when Quebec refused to attend There is no point in talking to foreign powermeaning Ot tawaabout communications matters Louis ONeill Que becs communications minister said in announcing his provinces boycott of the meeting With Quebec absent Sas katchewan is expected to be at the meetings centre stage DISPLTES LAIM The province has disputed Ot tawas claim to control the in troduction of pay television and is proceeding with plans to in troduce its own system The fight started when the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Com mission tCRTCi the federal regulatory agency for telecom munications would not allow Saskatchewans provincially owned telephone company to in SYDNEY NS 4CPi Find ing job on Cape Breton Island was never snap But with the coal industry trying to recover from long sickness and the steel industry on its knees now its tougher for many February figures from the Sydney manpower office show more than 12000 or 16 per cent of the work force idle in indus trial Cape Breton MPs Andy Hogan and Robert Muir who represent the area in the Com mons say the figure should be 22 per cent or more That means about one of ev ery four ablebodied ape Bretoners is without job The shortterm outlook is not bright the only hope in the long stretch involves huge amounts of money from Ottawa to help finance new steel mill This community was built on steel Tom Kent the new president of the existing rprovincialIyowned Sydney steel mill which is badly out of date The industry must be saved The Cape Breton Develop ment Corp federal agency which runs the islands three coal mines says in its 1976 an nual report that its efforts to produce secure economy for Cape Breton have chance for success provided only if there is also rebirth of the steel industry SEE LITTLE IIOIIZ Labor leaders join Kent in saying they expect no solution to Cape Bretons unem ployment problems in the federal budget being brought down this week Unemployment will be fact of life here for years to come because of the steel situation The city of Sydneys social assistance program has in creased 37 per cent over last year and will hit an alltimc spending high of $1 million in 1977 In addition car insurance for theft and fire are double the rates of Halifax 90 miles away cautious insurance agent says there are other factors but there have been lot of sus picious fires And up to 40 cars year are reported stolen and wind up being pushed over cliff be tween Sydney and Glace Bay and into the Atlantic Ocean Robert Matheson the new president of the development corporation says Cape Breto ners are willingto work And he says despite of the hardships Cape Bretoners are not following the ckstorn of packing up for other parts of Canada LOSIIS OAL INIIS Cape Breton hit the skids more than 10 years ago when Dominion Steel and Coal Co le PM Trudeau doing all right says Munro TORONTO Cl Toronto lawyer John Turner former fi nance minister and the man many consider an cventua cori tcnder for the Liberal party leadership said Saturday that he thinks Prime Minister Trudeau is doing all right as the countrys leader However Turner added that the Liberals are going to need new leadership in Quebec to meet the challenges of the rise to power of separatist govern ment Cape Breton oneoffour without iob stall its own cable TV equip ment Ontario has also objected to Ottawas claim to have the right to control the introduction ofpayTV Pay TV and cable TV are principal items on the meetings agenda Also included is the federal governments proposed tele communications legislation which would allow Ottawa to negotiate agreements with the provinces to share powers to regulate telecommunications The sweeping bill was in troduced in the Commons last week by federal Commu nications Minister Jeanne Sauve Sauve says the meeting to be held behind closed doors is just for talking and no specific reso lutions are to be made But she said Ottawa is looking for the provinces suggestions about how to make cable television which is federallyregulated more responsive to regional needs James Snow Ontario minister of transportation and communication said he is con cerned with the distribution of responsibility between Ottawa and the provinces He said he will repeat Ontarios position that the provinces should be given more responsibility for cable television operators Newfoundland Commu nications Minister James Morlt gan said he will also be inter ested in diSCUSsions about Ot tawa sharing with the provin ces powers to regulate cable operators cided to close its coalmining operations Most of its colleries produced lowquality coal and miners travelled many miles to get at the seams That brought the ape Breton Development Agency onto the island Its mandate was to ra tionalize the coal industry and provide employment for those displaced Employment in the mines dropped from about 7000 tojust more than 4000 The corpo ration enticed small industry to Cape Breton with grants and loans But they all folded within few years and went else where As the corporation took new direction under Kentusing the islands natural resources to produce jobs the crushing blow was delivered On lay in October 1970 Do minion Steel announced it was closing the steel mill which then employed some 4000 workers your choice of frame from combination of li5 styles shapes and 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not changed Keith Nortons lifestyle Although his promotion has increased his annual salary to $40500 he still owns one pair of shoes which have holes in the soles drives rusty sixyearold car and lives in sparsely fur nished oneroom apartment in Toronto The 36yearold bachelor from the riding of Kingston and the Islands said in an interview that he is so totally committed to his job and improving the lot of others that he has no time for anything else Confederation new magazine tNTRIIAL II The far ettes editorial page editor Tim itcry will leave the newspaixir March 31 to launch magazine devoted to the ar nadian onfedcrationdebate recry an editor at the news paper for the past four years said he plans to develop 53 page monthly magazine called Report on Confederation which will be sold on newsstands across the country The first issuc will not be ready for some months lltl said in telephone interview His intention is to give con Norton said he usually orders the cheapest wine on restaurant menus and only had telephone installed in his apartment few weeks ago so that his ministry can phone him in emergencies OWNS BlNGALtHV In the modest fiverootii bun galow he owns in Kingston the television set he rarely watches is one he bought while at uni versity Sally Barnes chief media re lations officer for Premier Wil liam Davis said that Norton has got great combination of ability competence good looks Hes lthHtHurth un pretentious guy she said Keith realizes he can go as far ccrned citizens full account of the arguments for and against Quebec separation The Ping lishlanguagc magazine will be published in Montreal as he damn well pleases he could well be premier one day Lars Thompson who was the NDI candidate against Norton in the 1975 election race agrees Norton has potential Hes all the good things one could ask of young man on the rise he said He doesnt make too many commitments doesnt rock too many boats hes reasonable does his home work hes devoted to the notion of serving society SAYS NO ILAN MADE Norton said the path from di rector of Kingston lay care centre to city councillor to member of the legislature to parliamentary assistant and now cabinet minister was not the result of stepbystep plan am not young John Die fenbaker who set out and said am going to be Prime Minister of Canada Norton said he pursued each position at the urging of per sons in his community Ile taught high school for number of years before becom ing lawyer specializing in family and juvenile law despite his mothers insistence that lawyers are liars he said From the age of 16 he often filled in for the minister at the United Church in his hometown of Claremont about 30 miles northeast of Toronto Vance Soviet leaders in nucleararms talks MOSCOW AP US State Secretary Cyrus Vance and So viet leaders start their quest for new nucleararms agreement today with Vance eaking of reaching full accor by Octo her The problems that have blocked conclusion of the sec ond Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement SALT are some thing of the past the secretary told news con ference Sunday What Im looking forward to now is the future What Im looking for is SALT2 agreement It is possible to have com pzehensive agreement by Octo he said It will mean that everybody will have to work very hard SALT1 the first fiveyear treaty limiting the two super powers nuclear arsenals ex pires in October If it is not ex tended or replaced there will be no restraint on the nuclear arms race Vance planned to propose comprehensive treaty that would make substantial reduc tions in each countrys missiles and bombers that can deliver nuclear warheads Informed sources speculate that the Car ter administration wants to limit each country to about LEONID BREZHNEV go for it 800 strategic missiles and bom bers or 600 less than President Ford and Soviet Communist party chief Leonid Brezhnev agreed on at their Vladivostok meeting in November 1974 RUSSIANS HAVE MORE The United States now is esti mated to have about 2320 Says Parti Quebecois manipulated the figures on federal syphoning QUEBEC CPJ Raymond Garneau former Liberal fi nance minister says the Parti Quebecois government ma nipulated the figures in study indicating that the federal government siphoned at least $43 billion out of Quebec more than it spent in the province between 1961 and 1975 The official oppositions fi nance critic said Friday he would not dispute the figures themselves but questioned the thoroughness of the 222page re port and its interpretation by the government If we want to recover our losses we wont do it by sepa rating from Canada he said suggesting that the government should follow the Liberals lead and ask for taxpoint transfers and an improved equalization formula Garneau said the figures do not give complete picture noting that the study does not account for interest and divi dend payments as well as fed eral expenditures outside the country which he said totalled $1 billion in 1975 Also not considered are in visible payments such as in come generated from tourists it and other intangible ser vices he added The report based partly on Statistics Canada data con cludes that the $43 billion tak ing inflation into account equals almost $9 billion in 1975 dollar value EMPLOYERS When peeple are qualifiedhire them Thats iust good business The Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race colour religion place of origin sex marital status and age Talent and ability are neither black nor white male nor female young nor old Take the case of women on the job for example In most cases barriers against women in the work force are only traditional not intentionaland certainly not rational Or conSider people from other countries Canadians of every nationality have Job experience which can be used to great advantage by your company Dont let prejudice deprive you of the best employee for the job Once youve hired someone be sure to keep complete wage 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strategic missiles and bombers and the Russians about 2660 Efforts to write new treaty Since the Vladivostok meeting broke down because the two governments could not agree On whether to classify the new US Cruise missile system and the Soviet Backfire bomber as longrange strategic weapons If the Russians wont accept the comprehensive approach Vance wants an interim accord to freeze missile and bomber levels at about the 1974 level while work continues on com prehensive program including the Cruise and Backfire Vance received warm wel come from Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko on his arrival Saturday night and said he was encouraged by Gromykos cor dial and businesslike attitude The secretary said he is pre pared for Soviet complaints about the US crusades to pro mote human rights abroad RENT NEW TRUCK Tons Panels 12 Vans 018 Vans Power Tailgates Commercial rates Fociurlng GMC Truck RENT TRUCK 341 BAYFIELD ST Bavfield SUNDCO Car Washl 7370800 KITCHENER 824 King St N20 ltll SUDBURY 1538 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