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A7 The Vancouver Sun, Thursday, September 26, 1996 RESTAIRANTS from page 1 Bishop's takes second place CITY REGION .7 2 i aijO lid h. 1 yl It's this easy: if you make $40 or more in long distance calls each month, you con save 25'A off all those calls. If you make $15 worth of calls, you'll save 20. Automatically. that locks like Phyllis Diller's hair) That's J8.95 the most expensive ap-petizei on the menu, thanks to the fresh crab.

For a1 main course, try fully deboned cornisji game hen stuffed with herbed duxelfes (finely chopped mushrooms) served on fig, and pear pot barley, somewhat Jke a risotto. Add $19.50 to the tab. To Conclude, what Bond calls a "signature dish" that customers won't let off the menu: choux pastry (the stuff of which cream puffs are made) with Star Anise ice cream, chocolate sauce and Jpun sugar. Like all the desserts, it's $5.95. The combination of ingredients that makes Bond's restaurant work is similar to one that John Bishop has triumphed with for 11 years at his Bishop's Restaurant on West Fourth Avenue.

It's second only to Star Anise in the Gourmet poll, and consistently ranis in the top tier of a civilly competitive business. "We've been getting more and more American visitors from the East Coast, and I guess something like this will give more prominence to northwest cooking," Bishop said Wednesday. "I tend to think Vancouver is still one big secret when it comes to restaurants, but I guess this will change that." Some of that secret is obviously spreading. Star Anise owner Lalji is in San Antonio, right now, preparing to open his second restaurant. He PETER BATTISTONIVancouver Sun TOP CHEF: Julian Bond celebrates after Gourmet magazine named his Star Anise restaurant as Vancouver's best Rjirta Shopping? Ill Long Distance The easier.

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Eligible calls for Real Plus Extra savings include ODD and stotion to station long distance calls. Top 10 elsewhere 7. Les Chenetes 8. Le Piemontais 4. Lotus 5.

The Garden Dining Room Terrace 6. Centre Grill and Wine Bar 7. Boba 8. Trattoria Giancarlo 9. Pronto Ristorante 10.

Auberge du Pommier As judged by readers of Gourmet magazine. Montreal: 1. L'Eau a la Bouche 2. Auberge Hatley 3. Toque! 4.

Restaurant Les Halles 5. Claude Postel 6. Hotel la Sapinierre 9. The Beaver Club 10. Laloux Toronto: 1.

Truffles 2. Scaramouche 3. North 44 Do you want to talk car insurance one to one? or TV LICENCE from page 1 Clark supports VTV application "Kiji -4) t.i tie vl-a I One to 800? 1 You mav have heard that some banks areJ 1 4 v'-Jh I car insurance over the phone. Instead of a face to face conversation with vour insurance broken you'll be dealing with a telemarketer. be reached for comment Wednesday.

A consultant for one of the other ap- plicants, who asked not to be identified, said: "We would never do that. It's never done. It's in bad taste and it's inappropriate." applicant wouldt talk prtjhjp record about the premier's endorsement. But privately, the consultant said the norm in the broadcasting industry is that municipal politicians are fair, game for endorsements but federal and provincial ministers are off limits be-" cause they're expected to be neutral toward media companies. It's also considered dicey for senior politicians to appear to tell the CRTC what to do, although that would be more of a factor with federal politicians.

Since the CRTC is a federal regulator, Clark has no control over it. In the video, Clark appears outside the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, where the CRTC hearings are being held. With Coal Harbor and the North Shore mountains in the background, he says most mainstream media don't reflect the interests of youth. But VTV "gives young people a choice," he says. "That's why 1 support the VTV application." Pia Shandell, a member of the team fielded by parent company CHUM Ltd.

to lobby for VTV, said in an interview she understood several applicants had approached Clark for his endorsement, including Izzy Asper's CanWest Global Communications. When she and CrTY-TV executive producer Moses Znaimer met with Clark, Shandell said, "he had already come to a conclusion" and agreed to endorse the VTV bid. The video was filmed a few weeks ago. The CHUM team has been preparing its application and seeking endorsements for more than a year and has put together an effective lobby, Murray said. At the hearings Wednesday, CHUM officials said VTV has the best prospects of any of the applicants for "repatriating" advertising money from KVOS, the Bellingham, station that draws an estimated $25 million a year in ad revenue from the Vancouver-Victoria market.

KVOS buys Canadian rights for a big chunk of its programming from CHUM, including its highest-rated program, Seinfeld, the several Star Trek series, Canadian talk shows and Canadian movies. None of those will be available to it if VTV is licensed to broadcast in Vancouver. CanWest, meanwhile, played its Vancouver Island card. It is the only appli-'" tobaseajnew station in Victoria rather than Vancouver, where it already runs CKVU. CanWest official Jim Rusnak said Vancouver Island's 688,000 people don't have adequate local TV service.

'There's a huge appetite for news and a huge feeling that they're not being served properly." CanWest's station, to be called Vancouver Island TV, would produce 24 Vfe hours a week of island programming, including 15 hours of news. It would open news bureaus in five Vancouver Island centres. CanWest produced petitions and endorsements with the names of more than 60,000 islanders who back its ap- plication. Another applicant, Baton Broadcasting of Toronto, said it wants to represent "the new mainstream of Vancouver." It says it plans to place bilingual news reporters who can reflect the concerns of neighborhoods and ethnic communities in bureaus around Greater Vancouver. Its news operations would be directed by Cameron Bell, who ran BCTVs newsroom for many years.

Baton has also signed up Vancouver filmmaker Daryl Duke to sit on its board of directors. Duke directed productions such as The Thorn Birds and Tai Pan, and helped found CKVU. The other applicants are Craig Broadcasting of Manitoba and Rogers Broadcasting of Toronto. Rogers, which wants to buy pay-TV station Talentvision and turn it into an over-the-air multilingual station, received a nay vote Wednesday from the Korean community. Half a dozen young Korean-Canadians demonstrated in front of the convention centre holding a large banner saying, "Message to the CRTC: Please maintain Korean TV programming." The demonstrators explained that Talentvision now provides 14 hours a week of Korean programming.

But if Rogers buys the money-losing station, it plans only half an hour a week in Korean. They want the CRTC to deny Rogers' application. And if you buy optional insurance from a bank, they're unable to provide mandatory insurance from ICBC or your licence plate decal. So instead of one convenient purchase through your insurance broker, you'll be dealing with two different purchases and two different companies. Your Independent Insurance Broker works for you.

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