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A10 THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1998 HX I NATION 1 A WHALE OF A SHOW Prostate cancer surpasses lung cancer in men Tory race a numbers game Leadership candidates have just over a week to sign up new party members where there are now relatively few registered Tories. The reason: no matter the size of the riding or the size of the riding association, each riding will have 100 votes for leader apportioned to each candidate on the basis of the percentage of members' votes received by each within the riding. In other words, a rural constituency where there may not even be 100 Tories voting will still have 100 votes for the leadership, the same as some huge urban riding where the Tory association might boast thousands of members. So, it is one member, one vote, but with a hitch which was designed to prevent the big metro ridings from dictating who the next leader will be. That makes it more attractive for the less well-known candidates like Fortier to focus their energies on ridings where there are TERRANCE WILLS Gazette Ottawa Bureau OTTAWA-It looks like abookie joint just a few blocks from Parliament Hill, there's a big basement room with 20 phones on long tables, people talking into them steadily, jotting down names on slips of paper handed to runners who head for a smaller back room where a bank of computers are humming.

Either a bookie joint, a casual visitor might conclude, or one of those boiler-room operations where the high-octane sales people are hawking light bulbs or mining shares in some northern moose pasture. These folks are selling shares all right but in Joe Clark's campaign to once again lead the Progressive Conservative Party of There will not be the traditional hoopla laden convention with placard-waving delegates voting in a new chief. Canada. Ten bucks a vote -with the vote of someone who joins the party now for the first time worth just as much as the ballot of a Tory veteran or MP or senator. This time, there will not be the few Tories.

"If you go in and get 50 members you may end up getting 100 votes," Lauzon said. candidate Brian Pallis-ter, 44, a former Manitoba cabinet -I njt. w. lLJJhJLfj LYNN MOORE The Gazette Over the past decade, prostate cancer has surpassed lung cancer to become the most diagnosed cancer in Canadian men. That sobering fact is brought to you by the Canadian Cancer Society which has designated next week, Sept 21 to 27, as prostate cancer awareness week.

Across the nation yesterday, men were urging friends, colleagues and fellow citizens to take steps to ensure early detection of the cancer which, this year, is expected to claim 4300 lives in Canada. In its earliest stages, prostate cancer doesn't generate symptoms, Montreal urologist and Universite de Montreal professor Pierre Bertrand said during a press conference yesterday That's why regular medical checkups and specific tests for prostate cancer are so important, Bertrand said. Most men should have annual digital rectal examinations once they hit their 50s and should consider in consultation with their doctors a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test "If you do both the rectal and the PSA you detect at least 85 or 89 per cent of the cancer," Bertrand said in an interview. Unlike some other cancers, prostate cancer is relatively slow moving. It usually strikes men in their 50s but many aren't diagnosed until they are 70.

Estimates are that of 100 Canadian men who live to the age of 80, 12 will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Of those, four will die from it. Men at higher risk are those whose family medical history includes prostate cancer, and men of African heritage. TESTING ADVISED A number of American medical groups recommend that the PSA blood test be used as a routine screening device on healthy men. But me Canadian Cancer Society, the Quebec College of Physicians and the Quebec Urological Association believe that doctors should have the informed consent of their patients before it is administered.

The PSA tests are not foolproof and an abnormal PSA test result generally leads to a biopsy of the prostate or other interventions, urologists have noted. Yesterday, Bertrand stressed that emerging statistics indicate the value of the test in early detection and prevention. "By the year 2003 we should have some statistics that should confirm what most urologists now believe: that the tests will improve the diagnosis of early cancer and improve the mortality rate," he said. The prostate is a male sex gland located at the base of the penis, below the bladder and in front of the rectum. As part of the male reproductive system, it supplies the thick liquid that forms part of the semen.

The normal prostate, about the size of a walnut, grows with age. JASON HAY, ST. CATHARINES STANDARD Visitors watch as a baby killer whale, yet to be named, swims beside its mother, Kiska, in Marineland's friendship cove in Niagara Falls. Officials say the baby is doing well and has already begun nursing. Mayor reluctantly bows to Gay Pride decision minister, is concentrating his energies mainly on Ontario and the West, where he's from and where his message of fiscal conservatism resonates.

"This process is different it is more a marketing campaign. The idea is to sell as many memberships as you can. You can can sell to Pallister spokesman Asad Wall The same sentiment is captured by fifth candidate, David Orchard, in his plea to "join the $10 revolution" by buying a Tory membership to back his anti-free-trade campaign for the leadership. While supporters of the four other candidates offer widely varying assessments on how the four are doing, most agree that Orchard, a Saskatchewan farmer, will probably come in last. But he has put up the $30,000 entry fee, and a list of 250 supporters.

Besides that, Orchard and his anti-free trade enthusiasts are selling new memberships fo traditional left-of-centre foes of the free- traditional hoopla-laden convention with placard-waving delegates voting in a new chief. Rather, all party members will vote in their own ridings directly for their favoured candidate. One member, one vote. So the four other contenders for the job are, like Clark, recruiting new Tory party members to back their leadership bids. "Every campaign is selling memberships like crazy," said Graham Fox, spokesman for Hugh Segal, 47, a veteran Tory strategist who is also seekingthejob.

There's little more than one week left before an official halt will be called to the membership drive. The vote for the new Tory chief will come Oct. 24, and if needed, in a final runoff on Nov. 14 right in the middle of a probable Quebec election campaign. So far, the Tory contest has garnered few big news stories, other than the entry into the race of Clark, the 59-year-old former prime CHRIS MORRIS Canadian Press FREDERICTON Fredericton Mayor Brad Woodside has accepted "under protest" a human-rights decision ordering him to proclaim Gay Pride Weekend.

Woodside bowed to the order Thursday, but showed little grace in defeat and refused to have anything to do with the actual wording of the proclamation which must be read within one year. "I believe in free speech and I believe in having the freedom to express yourself," the five-term mayor told reporters. "I think it's important as a politician that you just don't do it unless you believe in it and therein lies the problem forme." A one-man Board of Inquiry appointed under the New Brunswick Human Rights Act ruled yesterday that Woodside discriminated against the gay and lesbian complainants in the case by refusing to proclaim Gay Pride Weekend. "It's a question of balancing rights, but the balance has been found to clearly favour the complainants," wrote commissioner Brian Bruce, a law professor at the University of New Brunswick. "They (gays and lesbians) are simply seeking to exercise their right to be equal members of the community as they are entitled to do by law." 1 Bruce referred in his decision to recent rulings under the Ontario Human Rights Code in which the mayors of London and Hamilton found themselves embroiled in similar actions.

In both cases, the arguments of the homosexual community carried the day. The Ontario mayors were ordered to make the proclamations, which Bruce said are viewed as a public service, 1 Woodside said he'll leave the proclamation's wontog to me mquky. minister. Under the old sys-, tern of picking a leader, each riding selected voting delegates to a convention, with MPs and senators and women's and youth groups being "It is more a marketing campaign. The idea is to sell as many memberships as you can.

You can sell to anyone." trade deal the Tories brought in under Brian Mul-roney. Orchard's people claim to have recruited several thousand dues-paying supporters, a threat that has spurred Peter Pringle Lynn Desjardins Patrick Normand Sunday, September 20 at 5 p.m. Channel 12 Gable 11 rtttvers Presented In part by Award awarded added votes. Under this new system, the contenders are keeping to themselves how many new memberships they have sold and even what ridings they are particularly targeting. New membership numbers are being closely guarded until they must be revealed to party headquarters, on Sept.

29, the deadline to sign up new voting members. This secrecy has fostered some Tory anxiety and media speculation that the candidates' recruiting drives, especially over the summer when people were vacationing and didn't want to be bothered, have not gone as well as expected. In interviews, spokesmen for the candidates rejected this interpretation but then they are supposed to sound enthusiastic. "We've had a wonderful response, even from people we've approached cold, right from the phone book, but especially from party members and former members," said Kathy Hollins-worth of the Clark campaign. But she refused to give numbers.

The party had about 25,000 to 30,000 members going into the leadership campaign brought on by Charest's departure to lead the Quebec Liberals. It hoped the leadership race would increase its ranks back over 100,000 the number going into the 1997 federal election. "I wouldn't be surprised if the membership swelled to 125,000," said Fred Lauzon, spokesman for candidate Michael Fortier, a 36-year-old Montreal lawyer. Like the other candidates except Clark, Fortier is relying more on local membership drives. Lauzon said the Fortier team is concentrating on about 100 ridings in Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia the other candidates in their own membership drives.

There is confusion as to just how the new voting system will work. "People are still talking about coming to a convention we spend a lot of time explaining the process," Fox said. Clark made the same point in an Ottawa speech this month. "What I need in this new process that nobody in our party understands people who want to help us don't understand what I need is people who will go out and sell memberships. What struck me is the number of people across the country who said: 'We're with you, we'll see you in Ottawa at the Ross Reid, the party's national director, said this leadership selection process has never been tried by a national party.

"It's trial and error it will not be faultless," Reid admitted. But with the end of summer distractions, and with the second of a series of five televised debates among the candidates scheduled for Drummondville tomorrow, Canadians will focus with more deliberation on the leadership race, including just how the the voting will work, Reid predicted. (The first debate in Vancouver last Sunday drew only about 200 spectators, many of them whooping it up for Orchard.) The victor needs a majority of votes to win. If Clark or Segal do not manage 50 per cent plus one on the Saturday, Oct. 24 ballot, a runoff in which Tories will vote not only for their first choice but their second and third pick -will be held on Saturday, Nov.

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The Sun reported that party organizers and consultants, senior government employees and a veteran labour activist from Ontario were quietly placed in the three NDP-held ridings to work the phones, organize volunteers and engage in such dirty tricks as writing fake letters for publication in newspapers. Canadian Press VANCOUVER B.C. Premier Glen Clark said today he will ask the province's chief electoral officer to review expenses from three recall campaigns last winter after a report the NDP government secretly worked to defeat them. The Vancouver Sun reported the New Democrats ran a covert campaign to ensure recall campaigns in three government-held ridings failed. The anti-recall effort included staff in Clark's office, the newspaper said.

"Clearly my political staff were monitoring the situation very closely and I MIUHU-BTItSLUUIUtlJ Personal UfffclMSlI JtHRUPHO I.