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CBC a.m. 640 Newfoundland & Labrador Regional News - Wednesday, April 19, 2000 AM NEWS
     The leader of the Green Party of Canada says she's surprised the Newfoundland affiliate went public with an internal party dispute.
     Jean Russow says the party's national council hadn't even addressed the issue when the Terra Nova Greens contacted the media.
     The Newfoundland Greens want to run a candidate in next month's federal byelection in St. John's west.
     But all three candidates they proposed for nomination were rejected by the federal party because of their support for the seal hunt.
     Russow says her party is also concerned about the terra Nova greens' support for Voiseys' Bay and fish farming.
 

CBC a.m. 640 Newfoundland & Labrador Regional News - Tuesday, April 18, 2000 AM NEWS

     A feud is brewing between the federal Green Party of Canada and its Newfoundland affiliate.
     The Terra Nova Greens want to run a candidate in next month's federal byelection in St. John's West.
     But spokesman Jason Crummey says the federal wing has rejected all three names proposed for nomination.
     He says the dispute is over the Newfoundland party's support for the seal fishery.
     Crummey says the federal party doesn't understand the fishery.
     Federal party president Jean Russow says she just wants to make sure any potential candidates comply with party policy on the issue.

 Green party wants Power's federal seat  The Telegram 2/25/00

The Terra Nova Green Party says it will run a candidate in the federal riding of St. John's West when the time comes.

Party spokesman Jason Crummey said the party's motto will once again be "Ban Draggers," referring to the large factory freezer trawlers they say contributed to the demise of the North Atlantic fishery bio-mass.

"The three issues that we wanted to stress are overfishing on the nose and tail of the Grand Banks, guaranteed annual income for all Canadians, and the issue of federal/provincial transfer payments," added Crummey.
 
 

PUBL- DENVER POST
-SLUG- MAIN2
-DATE- 01/02/00
-EDIT- SUN1
-SECT- A
-PAGE- A-01
-SUBJ- millennium; holidays; computers; behavior; Colorado
-HEAD- A New Era It's Y2K, and we're still here: What's next?
 

-BYLN- By Michael Booth Denver Post Staff Writer
 

   Will the worriers who spent the last part of last year taking crisp twenties out of all the ATMs spend the first part of this year taking any of it back to the bank?  Does a freeze-dried meal bought to be eaten in a cold, dark house taste as good when it's consumed instead on a backpacking vacation in the mountains?  Can the people at the power company catch up on some sleep? Please?

    As Colorado and the world on New Year's Day woke up to a planet largely the same as they'd left it the night before, only with fewer snacks, those questions lingered in air surprisingly free of tear gas. When you've bet the farm planning for the worst, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion in Y2K spending worldwide, is the proper emotion when proven wrong supposed to be sheepishness, vindication or opportunism?

    Absent any problems bigger than resetting a few power-plant clocks and reprinting a few jury notices in South Korea, relieved citizens resolved not to feel guilty about their excessive fretting and turned their attention to the non-apocalyptic challenges of 2000.
   New York said it was happy about spending $270 million preparing for disaster because it now had counted every computer in the state.  Stores hoped people would start spending the extra cash they took out of their banks before Friday; many bar owners in LoDo and elsewhere still fumed that everyone was so scared on New Year's Eve that they stayed away in droves. Denver banks prepared for heavy lobby traffic on Monday in the hope that some of those hoarders might actually bring the money back.  Relief agencies in some states encouraged everyone who had  bought extra supplies for Y2K to bring them into donation centers and share them with the poor who face emergencies every day.

   Richard and Marie Ruster of Lafeyette looked forward to using  their laid-in supplies for happier times this year and next. They had bought freeze-dried food for a year and a kerosene stove; they now plan to use the food on backpacking trips and the stove for a cabin they want to build in New Mexico. They had no regrets for thinking ahead, a practice that was new to many Americans in the past year. "I think there's just a fundamental wisdom" to planning ahead for any emergency, Richard Ruster said. "I didn't even have a clue about it until Y2K tuned me into it. It's wise to have health insurance, life insurance and car insurance. Having a little extra food and a backup supply of heat is just in my mind a type of insurance, only a lot more basic." Party cleanup occupied cities big and little across all time zones, as many crowds had swelled to record levels when wary revelers watched television broadcasts from the Pacific and realized nothing had gone wrong to keep them away.

    Newfoundland Green Party member Jason Crummey  watched the spectacular harbor fireworks show on the waterfront of his eastern Canadian province, then resolved to spend the rest of 2000 waking his nation up to a far bigger issue than balky computers: fighting ocean-dragging
fish trawlers that are wiping out life on the Grand Banks.    "That's our most important thing for us to do in the next 1,000 years," Crummey  said. "We want to go back to good old-fashioned fixed gear and lines."

   At the U.S. government's Y2K command center in Washington, D.C., worldwide glitches fit on a few pages of old-fashioned white paper, and many of those could not be attributed to the feared Y2K computer bug. The president's Y2K czar, John Koskinen, repeatedthe unprovable theorem that the only reason nothing went wrong was that so many people had spent so much time and money in such fear that something would go wrong. "And I think those (countries) that did not spend enough took a much greater risk, and some of them are yet to be heard from," Koskinen said at a wrapup briefing Saturday.

   One of the few true Y2K problems in the world was reported back home at Denver Health Medical Center, where an internal system for handling drug supplies and lab reports couldn't speak to an East Coast mainframe computer that had already passed midnight into the next century. The computer had been tested for other Y2K problems, but not that one. Time heals most wounds, and he arrival of midnight in Denver fixed that particular one.

   In Denver, the company at the focus of perhaps the biggest Y2K fear, that of a panic-inducing power blackout, turned on the answering machine and asked to be left alone until at least 10 a.m. on New Year's Day so that everyone could get some sleep. Public Service Company of Colorado suffered no computer problems in the rollover to 2000, and minor power outages that night were unrelated to Y2K and no more serious than a normal day on its complicated grid.

   "The system held together just lovely," said spokesman Mark  Severts.   Police throughout Colorado reported fewer acts of senselessness than you might find on an average Friday night, let alone the party night of the century. Grand Junction emergency officials ate pizza and reflected on how the government-mandated worrying had made them better people.   "I think we can handle any disaster better than we could before because we know each other better," said Grand Junction  Police Chief Martyn Currie. "We have confidence in each other. If nothing else, this has been a great exercise."

   Denver Post staff writers Ricky Young, Jim Hughes, Mike Soraghan and Stacie Oulton contributed to this report.
 
 
 

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