Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!looking!clarinews From: clarinews@clarinet.com (Bird/Standard Broadcast News) Newsgroups: clari.canada.briefs Subject: British Columbia Briefs Keywords: canadian broadcast Message-ID: Date: 2 Feb 90 16:54:02 GMT Lines: 27 Approved: clarinews@clarinet.com Location: british columbia ACategory: reg-headlines Slugword: bcolumbia-2 Priority: regular Format: headlines ANPA: Wc: 275; Id: z1906; Sel: bcn..; Adate: bcolumbia-2-1aed Codes: jn..hbcm Note: BColumbia-2 (Border) The federal minister responsible for Canada Customs will be visiting a B-C crossing to investigate a complaint first-hand. Truckers want a separate lane for commercial vehicles at the Pacific crossing on the Lower Mainland. They say increasing traffic is creating delays. (Heart) B-C's Health Ministry continues to negotiate with hospitals in Washington state in a bid to cut the growing waiting list for open-heart surgery in the province. In the meantime, the B-C Cardiac Society claims as many as 20 British Columbians died last year while they waited for open-heart surgery. (E-and-N) Attorney General Brian Smith says he's still fighting to keep Vancouver Island's passenger rail service rolling. But Smith says he'll negotiate with the federal transport minister instead of dragging the issue through the costly court system. B-C has legally won the battle to save the E-and-N line, but Ottawa plans to appeal. (Godiva) Organizers with the annual Lady Godiva ride at U-B-C aren't saying if the engineering tradition will continue next week. University president David Strangway is threatening disciplinary action if a naked or half-naked woman is paraded around on horseback.