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ABORTION GOING BACK TO COURT
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  WINNIPEG (CP) — Joe Borowski will proceed with his Supreme Court challenge of legal abortions but admits it appears futile now that the same court has wiped out even the old restrictions limiting access.
   “It’s clearly going to be a waste of money,” Borowski, an outspoken opponent of abortion in Canada, said Friday in an interview from his Winnipeg health food store.
   “They are not going to reverse themselves in a three-month period.”
   Borowski said nothing short of divine intervention could change things.
   “Unless there’s a lot of people praying out there to touch the hearts of the judges, I do not expect to win the court case. We have to go before the same judges. We’ve got as much chance as a snowball in hell or a peacenik in the Middle East.”
   In a case to be heard by the Supreme Court this spring, Borowski is seeking to have all abortions out-
 lawed on the grounds they violate the rights of unborn children to life, liberty and the security of the person.
   A decision in Borowski’s favor would be a reversal of the Supreme Court ruling Thursday, which declared Canada’s abortion law unconstitutional because it violated women’s rights.
   Borowski said the directors of his anti-abortion group, which started its case in Saskatchewan years ago, decided at an emergency meeting Thursday night to continue with the appeal of an adverse ruling handed down in a Regina courtroom.
   “Since we’ve spent all that money, we might as well go ahead,” Borowski added, estimating they have spent about $700,000 on the case.
   Borowski also said a federal decision not to override the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and restore the law made it almost certain his group will start a new political party dedicated to banning abortion.
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Premier lauds PM, shows Liberal split
by Edison Stewart
  MONTREAL (CP) — In a loud and unmistakable slap to his federal cousins, Liberal Premier Robert Bourassa lauded Prime Minister Brian-Mulroney on Friday as a “great artisan of national unity” who has governed with courage and determination.
   With the Conservative prime minister watching from the audience, Bourassa especially praised Mulroney for the free-trade agreement with the United States which the federal Liberals fiercely oppose and which he said is “so important” to Quebec’s future.
   He also hailed Mulroney for the Meech Lake constitutional accord and his agreement to allow Quebec a special role at summits of the world’s francophone countries.
   Introducing the prime minister at a noon business lunch, the premier also described Mulroney as “the country’s first citizen,” an honor federal Liberal president Michel Robert grumbled later is reserved for the Governor General.
   The extraordinary display continued afterward as the two leaders were interviewed together for a province-wide radio show to be broadcast Monday.
   The lunch was the first time in years — possibly decades — a Quebec premier has consented to introduce a prime minister of any political stripe to a public audience.
   Ronald Poupart, Bourassa’s press secretary, insisted to reporters it was a strictly non-partisan event. But he acknowledged he could not remember a precedent.
   Mulroney aides clearly revelled in what even some federal Liberals consider a coup in what may well be an election year.
   While Robert, who was in the audience, was admonishing reporters not to draw much significance from the event, one senior Mulro-
 ney aide grinned broadly, winked and then walked away.
  Mulroney and Bourassa entered the lunch side by side, yellow roses in the lapels of their blue suits.
  It was a Conservative strategist’s dream and a party video crew was there to record it. The footage may be used in the election campaign in which Quebec’s 75 seats are expected to be critical.
   An opinion poll published Friday suggested all three parties now are running neck and neck in the province and ihe Tories are counting on Bourassa’s friendship to help give them an edge.
   In his speech, devoted primarily to free trade, Mulroney was if anything even more effusive than Bourassa, praising the premier for his leadership and his devotion to Quebec.
   Recalling the 1981 constitutional talks which left Quebec “humiliated, isolated and alone,” Mulroney said: “Mr. Bourassa and I promised Quebec voters that we would redress this grievance . . . and the people responded by giving us both an overwhelming mandate.”
  Robert agreed Bourassa’s remarks will underline the split between the federal and provincial parties over trade and other issues but doubted it will have a significant impact.
   Montreal businessman Paul Martin Jr., who will run for the Liberals in the next election, described Bourassa’s introduction as “no more, no less than anybody would say introducing somebody else.”
  But asked if he agreed with Bourassa that Mulroney is a great artisan of national unity who has governed with courage and determination, Martin replied uncomfortably: “You must have a heard a different introduction.”
Meech
challenge
dismissed
   EDMONTON (CP) — An attempt by the Northwest Territories to legally challenge the Meech Lake accord was turned down Friday by the Northwest Territories Court of Appeal.
   The court agreed with a federal government request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Nick Sibbeston, the former government leader of / the N.W.T.
   In two days of hearings in Edmonton this week, Sibbeston’s lawyer argued that sections of the accord violate the Charter of Rights. He also said Ottawa shut the territories out of discussions which led to the agreement.
   Sibbeston said the accord is unfair because it requires all 10 premiers to agree to any constitutional changes, such as the creation of a new province. He said that eliminates any hope of the two territories becoming provinces.
    The hearing in the appeal court, made up of three Alberta Court of Appeal judges, was held to determine if further legal action was warranted.
    But the three judges rejected the arguments. They said in a written judgment the Charter can’t be used to challenge other parts of the Constitution.
   “The Constitution Act is not assailable . . . neither is the amending process it provides,” they wrote.
   They also decided Ottawa wasn’t required to invite the territories to last year’s Meech Lake meetings.
INDIAN ADOPTIONS
Bands must be involved
   VICTORIA (CP) — Indian bands in British Columbia will take a more active role in placing native children for adoption under a new policy announced Friday by the B.C. government.
   Under the policy, announced by Scoial Services Minister Claude Richmond, a social worker must include the child’s band in the adoption process from the time ot apprehension until permanent placement.
   Ed John, chief of the Carrier-Se-kani tribe, said the new policy “is a significant step for us and for the province.”
   The B.C. Association of Social Workers had urged a moratorium on adoption of native children by non-native families, saying the issue was on par with land claims among Indians.
   The child-welfare agreement was struck between the McLeod Lake band and the provincial government and is similar to projects with the Carrier-Sekani and Nuu-chah-nulth tribal councils.
   Richmond said the ministry has agreed that no child from any of those bands will be placed for adoption in a non-native home without consent of the band or tribal council.
  Legal guardianship may be transferred to the child’s extended family or to another band member.
 When no suitable home can be found within a child’s band, an adoption home will be sought in other bands.
    If there is no satisfactory alternative to placing a child in a nonnative home, the Social Services Ministry will require a commitment from the adoptive parents to ensure the child knows about his or her Indian heritage and to allow contact with the band, Richmond said.
    John said the issue of adoption has been a priority with tribal councils because many children
 placed outside of band homes have lost their Indian identity. He said the new policy will allow closer communication between adopting families and bands.
   “The significance is that this will allow us now to start bringing back our nation together and for that, we are very pleased with this announcement,” John said.
  Nuu-chah-Nulth chief George Watts said the adoption policy is important in the short term, and that self-government under the Canadian constitution is the long-term goal.
Bloze destroys home
   A city home is a t tal loss following an early morn; lg blaze, says the Prince Georgt Fire Department.
   Firefighters were called to the house at 1678 Aintree Ave. shortly after 4 a.m. today. ,
  A fire department spokesman says the fire started in the carport and spread to the house. Residents were awakened shortly after 4 a.m. when the front door bell began incessently ringing.
  When it was checked the blaze was spotted. The fire had short circuited the bell’s wiring.
   Owners Waine and Debbie Bailey and a male house guest fled to safety through the master bedroom window.
   The loss, estimated at more than $80,000, is covered by insurance.
   Two people were taken to the Prince George Regional Hospital and treated for minor smoke inhalation following an earlier fire in a basement suite at 4280 Queston Ave.
   Firefighters were called to the blaze about 2:50 a.m. The fire was contained to the suite.
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Citizen photo by Lisa Murdoch
 Eight-year-old Brad Price shows a lot of dexterity in doing a rope-skipping manoeuvre called “the egg beater” at Lakewood Smooth moves elementary school. Price was one of thousands of school children across the province participating in the B.C. Heart Foundation’s “jump rope for heart” fund-raising campaign.
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Fund social services not retirement: NDP
  VICTORIA (CP) — The provincial government should use the millions of dollars it plans to spend on early-retirement packages to instead fund social services and education programs, the New Democratic Party says.
  New Democrat member Glen Clark (Vancouver East) said he also suspects the early-retirement program will cost much more than the $30 million reported on Wednesday by a government official.
   “It’s really a restraint program except that they’re paying people to retire instead of firing them,”
 Clark said Thursday.
   “Much of the human capital that has been built up over the years, people with 20 and 30 years’ expe-iience, are being enticed into leaving.”
  The government expects 50 per cent of the more than 3,650 eligible employees to take advantage of early retirement.
   Under the plan, traditional early-retirement penalties have been waived and employees are offered immediate cash incentives of between six and eight months’ pay. Those retiring employees can also cash in any banked time off.
  TORONTO (CP) — A record number of people claiming refugee status arrived in Canada last year despite a government crackdown against what it described as a flood of bogus asylum-seekers.
   Almost 26,000 people petitioned to stay in Canada as refugees in 1987. That was three times the number that applied two years ago and more than 15 times the number that applied in 1980.
   Immigration officials said 25,944 people asked for refugee status last year, compared with 18,282 in 1986 and 8,374 in 1985. In 1980, only 1,600 asked for asylum as refugees.
   Of those seeking asylum last year, more were from El Salvador than any other country. In past years, more claims have come from Sri Lanka than other countries.
  Strict emergency rules were imposed Feb. 20, 1987, and people applying for refugee status at the U.S.-Canada border could be temporarily turned away pending a hearing.
   Citizens of some strife-torn countries were no longer automatically granted the right to work and stay in Canada. And citizens of some countries who planned to pass through Canada on their way to a third nation needed transit visas.
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