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A2 THK VANCOUVKR SUN, FRIDAY, OCTOBF.k 31. 1W7 OFF THE FRONT PENSIONS from Al JUSTICE from Al Trial delayed for 17 months QUICK TAKES World Nation more power for police Court of Appeal, which ruled the 17-month trial delay had infringed his rights. Court officials said the ruling means cases delayed for 17 months or longer will likely be thrown out by judges if an application for dismissal is made by the defence. In the Cocker case, the father of the complainant noted, the prosecution wasn't entirely responsible for the delay. The trial had been scheduled for March 1995, but the defence asked for an adjournment be cause the Crown hadn't made full disclosure of its case.

The trial was rescheduled for July 25, 1995, but on the eve of the trial, the Crown learned one of the complainants was working for the attorney-general's ministry, so an ad-hoc prosecutor had to be hired. The matter was put over to August, but the judge was on holidays, so it was put over to Sept 7, when the defence lawyer told the judge he couldn't be available for trial until February 1996. The trial eventually went ahead in March The appeal court's ruling that the delay was unreasonable was appealed by the attorney-general's ministry to the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled two weeks ago that it would not hear the appeal. The mother of one of the girls who complained about being abused by Cocker said she is outraged that the abuser got off. "The highest authority in this country cares more for the rights of the evil and perverse than for the vulnerable innocent," she said.

"There is no justice." trips with Cocker, who was charged in August 1994 with five counts of sexual assault, one of assault and one of sexual touching. Cocker, now 52, went to trial in provincial court in Victoria on March 27, 1996. He was later convicted on five counts and sentenced to 14 months in jail. Cocker's lawyer had applied at the trial for a stay of proceedings, claiming his client's Charter right to a trial within a reasonable time had been denied. The trial judge dismissed the defence application.

Cocker appealed in the B.C. TELEVISION from Al Pledges stand, VTV says mSmJfSBl P-U. IIIIIIIIIM lHHyP MB 1 4 1 fi "Hot-pursuit" police across Canada would gain the power to enter a home to arrest someone without a judge's permission under a proposed law. All DISORDERS GENE FOUND Scientists have identified a gene that they say increases the risk of schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. A study to be released today sheds more light on the discovery.

A14 City Region big-buyout ceo lands job Ron Mulchey, the St. Paul's Hospital administrator whose early retirement last sparked a $500,000 nandsnake and a rewr B.C.'s severance rules for public officials, has landed a job in Ontario. Bl Insight holiday for the times Halloween is hot because it's the perfect holiday for our times. It seems Halloween isn't so much a special and anomalous day as it is an event that crystallizes our fears and a chance to celebrate our obsession with the Gothic. A17 Business TAXES STIFLE INVESTMENT British Columbia's corporation capital tax and onerous red tape are stifling investment in the province's year-round tourist resorts, Masayoshi Ohkubo, president and chief executive officer of Nippon Cable, said in an interview.

Thursday. Dl i fe IB- i xk.A Living I wa LfeAVING THE RAT RACE Former Western Living editor Paula Brook left her full-time work two years ago. Now the author of Work Less, Live More, she has some advice for others wanting to break out of the mainstream and return home. CI Entertainment 'i CINEMATIC TWIST TO THE SEVENTIES The return of the 70s is taking a cinematic twist unearthing a moral code. Where the decade was mined for its comic elements in films like Dazed and Confused, both Ice Storm, opening today, and last week's Boogie Nights are what you'd call "serious films." Dl Sports new grizzlie in den Tony Massenburg, acquired from Boston this week by the Grizzlies, worked out with his new teammates for the first time on Thursday, glad to be in a more traditional NBA offence and away from the frenetic style new Celtics' coach Rick Pitino has imported from his college days at Kentucky.

F4 INSIDE Duke said he agreed to back VTV's licence application last year because it appeared to be the bid that offered the most local controL A founder of CKVU 20 years ago, Duke said he was told by Baton the VTV board would consist of four local directors and two directors each appointed by Baton and Electrohome. "Making us board members seemed to give a strong voice to Vancouver and the West," he explained. "We thought the legal position of being a board member would give us oversight of the station, its policies, its programming profile, its whole sort of raison d'etre why things were being done, the budget, the publicity, community relationships, how the money was spent." As a result of that commitment, Duke said he helped drum up support for the Baton bid by writing letters, making personal appeals and appearing before the CRTC. "My name was on the Duke emphasized. Festinger said that at the time the CRTC application was made, "there were things put on the table to Daryl and to people," but circumstances changed and "the originally incorporated company that was Vancouver Television came to no longer exist as a corporate entity so there was no separate board of directors." Festinger said the commitment of the station to the city and the undertakings to the CRTC have not been compromised.

"The point is the foundation of the station is accessibility, ac WILDLIFE from Al JIM YOUNGReuter FISHING WARS: Fisheries Minister David Anderson (left) and Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy leave news conference. TREATY from Al Salmon fund viewed as a partial solution than they get out of plan "Although the cost of the CPP is considerable, so are the benefits, particularly when the non-pension benefits are taken into account," Slater says. "And the myth that everybody is going to pay nearly 10 per cent of their income for benefits is, in my opinion, just that a myth, an exaggeration." However, it does mean that all contributors near-retirees, the middle-aged and the young will be paying on average more than they get out of the plan in benefits to build up the fund, which raises an issue of fairness that he admits the report doesn't address. His report also expresses concerns about the operation of the investment fund, including con-flicts of interest among the fund's private-sector directors and the potential for interference by the federal and provincial governments. Although the directors will operate at arm's length from gov-.

ernment, what is "certain" is that "governments together, could be very heavy-handed in controlling the activities of the board." The agreement between Ottawa and the provinces to reform the CPP suggests that's not the intention, the report notes, but stresses the details of the regulations need to be known now rather than after the legislation implementing the deal is passed. "The balance between management at arm's length from governments and ultimate government power and responsibility has been difficult to achieve in the public pension funds of many developed countries." The report also notes that "po-tential conflicts of interest would be inherent" in the work of board members who will come from the private sector and whose job will be to ensure investments are prudent and in the best interest of the plan's contributors and beneficiaries. "Since there is no escaping some actual conflicts of interest, they must be expected and arrangements made, in advance of the establishment of.jthe board, to deal with themJ Still, the report notes the "severity" of the proposed provision for identifying and dealing with such conflicts in the proposed legislation, which is, now being studied at the Commons committee level. That provision "may be a deterrent to recruiting good directors," it says, noting that the success of their investments will affect the future level of contributions. It also questions the wisdom of applying the 20-per-cent ceiling on foreign holdings in pension funds to the CPP.

"The limit is too confining," Slater says. "Indeed it is paradoxical that the investment board is expected to achieve high earnings without undue risk while the foreign-property rule would make the attainment of these goals more difficult." i Southam News Modem Trade-in 28.8k External. Fax. Data Modem 33.6k Voice.Fax.Data Modem 56k Vor Far Daf3 Modprn to city countability and interactivity," he said. "We've done a whole bunch of things from being on the corner of Robson and Burrard itself, having salons every Thursday, having our parties on Wednesday night, Wonderful Wednesdays, some interactive things, the nature of our programming itself all go towards that goal "The other fact is there's going to be a continuing board with local representation and our feet will definitely be held to the fire.

This is a licensed undertaking and the CRTC has very serious accountability procedures." Vancouver Television won the licence on Jan. 31 and on Feb. 3 Duke said he and the other three directors asked for a board meeting. Throughout the spring and summer, their continued requests for a meeting were rebuffed. "We never to this day have had a properly constituted board meeting," he said.

"Not one. We asked for it, we wrote memos, we made telephone calls, when they appointed a general manager we told him that we needed one. We kept saying 'this is outrageous, this is incredible, how can you go on like He said he was told he and the others could be members of an ad hoc advisory committee, but he and Murray rejected that. "It all belongs to Baton and the mind and management of that is in Toronto," Duke said. "An advisory committee is nothing." Murray could not be reached for comment particularly bear-prone.

Although attacks are rare, bears that get hooked on garbage and human food are killed or relocated as a precautionary measure. There are an estimated 120,000 to 160,000 black bears in the province and 10,000 to 13,000 grizzlies, according to the ministry. Fall is peak time for human bear con flicts. Aside from tar geting those who won't take precautions to keep bears away, the law would also help deal with the surprising number of people who knowingly leave out food for bears because they like to watch them. 16MB RAM I edge past overfishing by the Americans, but he would never accept a fund intended to compensate for future overfishing.

"That's not acceptable to me because it would be trading fish for money and it means that the livelihood of people here would be jeopardized," he said. "And frankly, any money that's given to us to be reinvested in conservation won't survive very long if we're growing fish for other people to catch. So I think it's really dangerous to go down that road." Yves Fortier, Canada's salmon-treaty negotiator for the past four years, said Canada "enthusiastically" embraced the idea of a fund when it was proposed last spring but he said it's only part of the solution. U.S. treaty negotiator Mary Beth West, in testimony before a congressional sub-committee last month, said the fund would include contributions from the U.S.

government and "perhaps" other public or private bodies. It would be used for salmon conservation, management, research, enhancement and habitat restoration likely both in Canada and the U.S., she said. Get-tough approach urged to save bears heart of the failure to set quotas. One of the main arguments in favor of equity is that without it, there's less incentive to implement strict conservation measures since the benefits are enjoyed by foreigners. The federal and B.C.

governments have indicated that a fund would be acceptable as long as the Americans still recognize that Canada wants to curb Alaskan interception of salmon spawned in Canada. "This issue is about fish, we want fish," Fisheries Minister David Anderson said Thursday, after a meeting with William Ruckleshaus, former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and David Strangway, former UBC president, the special envoys assigned to get negotiations started. Anderson (Victoria) wouldn't rule out a financial settlement, only because he said he's seen no firm offer from the Americans. "What is the U.S.

offering? A billion dollars?" B.C Premier Glen Clark, scheduled to meet today with Ruckleshaus and Strangway, said he's willing to consider a compensation fund that would acknowl $289.83 $389.88 $499.88 SURREY 408 King George Hwy. 501.0328 Amazingftlftsjl THESE PRICES 233MHz with MHX" 32MB EDO 24X CD ROM Sound and 33 6K The get-tough approach is driven by frustration over the 800 to 900 bears killed each year to protect the public. A recent government study says most of these deaths could be prevented if people took precautions not to attract bears. Relocating bears to the wild isn't working because they frequently don't survive in their new homes. And, despite education programs such as the "Be Bear Aware" campaign, many people still aren't bear-proofing their backyards.

"Most people, once it's pointed out to them that their bird feeder or plum tree is what's causing the bear to come around, they're quite good about it and the problem goes away," said Rick Hahn, senior conservation officer for the Surrey-Coastal region. "But there are people who insist that they have the right to leave their garbage out, to put their bird feeders out, regardless. And that sort of person has to have a stronger measure taken to get them to clean up." As development in the Lower Mainland creeps deeper into the surrounding forests, bear encounters are becoming common. The northeast communities of Coquitlam and Port Moody are Births Deaths B6 Kids' Page C7 Bond E8 Landers Dll Boyd C2 Letters A18 Bridge G6 Lotteries A2 Business El Movies D8 Careers NA Nation Provinces City Limits B5 A9 Classified Gl, HI Palmer A18 Comics C7 Parry A3 Crossword G4, G5 Persky A19 Editorials A18 Sports Fl Entertainment Dl Theatres D10 Family CI Weather B2 Ferry Schedule B2 Wheels HI Gherson A9 World A12 Horoscope G7 Insight A17 166MHz Intel Pentium processor wrth MMX'" technology i vt JMilI JiiiLl JbSwOjJ pentium AVAILABLE IN LOWER MAINLAND LOCATIONS ONLY IN TOUCH 1-200 Granville Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6C 3N3 Publisher Don Editor-irvctiief. John Managing editor Paul Sullivan Senior editor Patricia Graham Deputy managing editor Shelley Ffalia.605-2170 Chief news editor Nicholas Palmer 605-2167 City Desk Newsroom fax trie 605-2323 Library Woline (9 a.m.

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