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CALGARY HERALD Tuesday, December 17, 1996 A13 CANADA 'S liCGDICG ITG-GXaillilllGdl Ex-nresideirt wmts 1. -x opened the door to the appointment of Perrin Beatty as CBC president, has asked the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to examine the CBC's plans. There was no official comment "Recently announced cuts to the regions, such as the cancellation of all regional non-information programming, are of such magnitude that serious questions must be raised as to whether this aspect of the mandate can be respected." Manera also argued CBC French-language programs are a vital lifeline for francophones outside Quebec and reductions in services appear to violate the act. He said Ottawa could rescind some of the worst budget cuts or change the law to bring the CBC mandate in line with the broadcaster's realities. "The changes presently being implemented are the most massive in the corporation's history, and certainly warrant a thorough review by the CRTC," Manera said.

Plans made public don't provide enough information and there should be a rigorous open hearing, he added. Manera wrote that he doesn't think the CBC will be able to live up to its legislated commitment to provide regional services and programs for linguistic minorities. He pointed out the Broadcasting Act requires the CBC to serve special needs of the regions. tions made when CBC English and French TV licences were renewed in July 1994 are no longer valid. "The CBC's parliamentary appropriations have been reduced by significant amounts, well in excess of reductions known at the time of those renewals," Manera said.

Last week, the CBC announced 1,000 employees were being laid off next year and 700 more jobs were disappearing through buyouts and attrition. They were the latest in a series of cuts that sees the public broadcaster trying to cope with the loss of $414 million in federal subsidies. Broadcaster's ability to meet conditions of licence in question VIC PARSONS The Canadian Press OTTAWA A former CBC president wants the books of the federal broadcaster scrutinized to see if it still has the financial resources to meet conditions of its licence. Tony Manera, whose 1995 resignation TONY MANERA from the commission. Manera said in a letter to the commission Monday that financial assump- 7 than your bank.

Junk mail decision will bring more jobs' OTTAWA Some companies taking over Canada Post's junk mail business in the new year say there will be more than enough jobs for the 10,000 part-time workers being displaced. Ottawa's decision in October to kick Canada Post out of delivery of unad-dressed mail has sparked controversy because it will cost the jobs of so many people making little more than $7 an hour on average. But Mauro Pembianco, vice-president of operations of First Avenue, a Toronto marketing services company, predicts Ottawa's decision will mean an additional 10,000 jobs. That would bring the total work force involved in delivering unad-dressed mail to 20,000 across the country. That's because private-sector companies entering the market next month will have to develop their own networks and infrastructure, whereas Canada Post was able to use systems already developed for first-class mail to deliver flyers as a sideline, he said.

"They're going to have to develop their own channels," Pembianco said. "The 10,000 positions that were at Canada Post have become 20,000 in a month." First Avenue is developing a network of delivery firms that will offer companies national distribution. RCMP arrest, charge man in P.E.I. bombing cases CHARLOTTETOWN A man complained of a "Gestapo-like arrest" after he was charged Monday with setting off pipe bombs, including one outside the P.E.I, legislature. Roger Charles Bell of Charlottetown made the comments in provincial court mbar JC 1-800-639-4030 Full Service Banking by phone, fax, ABM and PC.

SMA62170-S Li cm 1 L.J I 1 Than after he was charged with one count of setting an explosive device that takes in bombings last year and in 1988. The 52-year-old man asked if he could speak after being remanded. "I wish to place on the record my displeasure with the RCMP since my Gestapo-like arrest around eight o'clock this morning," Bell told a justice of the peace. He said he was subjected to physical and psychological intimidation. "This behavior in my opinion is not in keeping with the public faith with which the RCMP tries to project." Bell was arrested after police searched an apartment.

He is to return to court Thursday for a formal arraignment. The search for a bomber began in 1988 after a pipe bomb exploded outside a city courthouse. No one was injured. Last year, a man was slightly injured when another bomb went off outside the legislature, shattering windows and causing politicians to scramble under their desks. A group calling itself Loki 7 took credit for both explosions in a letter to the media.

In June, an unexploded bomb was found in a Speedy Propane depot in the city. MD protests may continue despite deal TORONTO Ontirib taxpayers will pay $150 million more to doctors if the governnlent's new deal with them is implemented, acting Health Minister Dave Johnson said Monday The money will pay for reduced clawbacks on physicians' higher caps on how much they can earn and help for tiiose -working in remote areas, he said. But the cost may not buy an end to escalating job action by many physicians. At least two doctors' groups said Monday they have no immediate plans to end their protests and physicians appear divided on whether to endorse the agreement, reached Sunday after weeks of bargaining. Nothing in the deal between the province and the Ontario Medical Association addresses general underfunding of the system, complained Dr.

Sharla Lichtman of the Coalition of Family Physicians. "I don't see how I'm going to reassure my patients that (they'll) be able to see a specialist sooner, get a CAT scan sooner," she said. "We have no reason to change what we are doing just because the OMA and the government say the deal is wonderful." Meanwhile, the association is urging doctors to continue with job action that included barring new patients and no overtime. The Canadian Press Li lyiu vvCSiuv 4 It's packed with convenience! The Perfect Stocking Staffers The secret's out. TELUS is changing the way Albertans call Long Distance.

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