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It Singer Burton Cummings brandishes his second Juno Award of the night to cheering crowd at cere monies in Toronto Wednes day night Cummings for mer lead singer with the iuess Who won Best New Iale Vocalist of the Year award as well as the one hes holding here Best Iale ocalist oi the Year Photo Two awards for Cummings in annual Juno ceremonies TORONTO rCPr By his own admission singer Burton Cummings was the most stir prised person at this years Juno Awards presentation Wed nesday when he walked away with two trophies Cummings who made his mark internationally as lead vocalist in the nowdefunct band The Guess Who took the awards for best male singer and best new male singer He qualified for the latter category because of his new career as soloist When he received the second awardfor best vocalisteat the end of the twohour ceremony Cummings told the crowded Itoyal York Hotel ballroom Dont let anybody tell yoti things dont happen fast in an ada because in 75 minutes Ive gone from best new vocalist to vocalist of the year In an interview he said it was strange to win both categories thought Iliad fair chance as far as best new male singer was concerned because Stand Tall IhlS recent single was pretty big record all around the world But the other award caught New law proposed on company mergers OTTAWA rCPr The gov ernment proposed new legislav tion Wednesday that would al low companies to merge or form monopolies as long as they could show that they were operating more efficiently Tony Abbott consumer and corporate affairs minister said new legislation was needed be causa Canadian companies may be forced to join together to face an increasingly hostile international environment As long as companies can show they will be more efficient by merging or by acting as monopolies even if competition in home markets suffers then they should be allowed to do so Abbott said Along with relaxed federal merger policies would be new competition policy advo cate federal official to as sess proposed mergers with powers to refer them to com petition board These reforms are part or proposed legislation that makes up the second and final stage ol government overhaul of fed eral combines law started more than 10 years ago Also proposed in the legisla tion are consumers rights to start class actions against com panies that allegedly violate combines laws This means that an iridiyid ual who feels he has been wronged by company may start civil suit for recovery of damages that entitles everyone similarly wronged to collect damages without proving they have suffered me totally off guard mean we really covered the board as far as male singers were con cerned tonight Others nomi naterl iii the category were yaldy lino arinelli Paul Anka aridtlordon Lightloot Lightfoot also took pair of awards this year the orin other artist to win in more than one riltegol lie was lodged lust folk singer and was named com poser ot the year for his ballad Wreck of the IZdinund llI gerald The 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find that theyll be really scratching to The 59yearold prime minis ter said the opposition and the press have broken promises made to the government two months ago when it eased the national state of emergency restored political activity and lifted press censorship Fighting stiff challenge to her 11year hold on power Mrs Gandhi said the opposition has taken advantage of the relaxa tion of the emergency to at tempt preelection violence and not end of world come up with other things to do Also exploration companies might decide to move else where creating hardship for communities in the Mackenzie River DeltaBeaufort Sea area where exploration for oil and gas is concentrated dont think it would be the end of the world by any stretch of the imagination but it would make it much more difficult llodgson said that if explor alion drilling rigs moved out serviceswould dry up and the tax base Would be eroded until someone came up with alterna tive industries And from where Ive been There is no 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