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Wednesday, June 13 • 2012
Vol. 4 • Issue 99
Nelson residents fail latest Bear Aware test See Page 6
Six Selects teams earn right to fight for provincials See Pages 16-22
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Council erupts over pot motion
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Monday night motion to support Stop the Violence BC campaign sparks heated debate; Mayor Dooley says he will ‘go to the wall’ to keep it from happening
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Emotions ran high Monday night as Nelson city council debated a resolution that asked the mayor to write a letter in support of the Stop the Violence BC campaign. “I believe it will have a negative impact on our community,” said Mayor John Dooley. “The domestic market is only supporting a small portion of organized crime. The drugs that are being grown in British Columbia are being sold to the United States in exchange for cocaine that is being brought back to be sold to the youth in this community and the children in our schoolyards. I sit on the police board, I see the evidence and I can not put this community in that position.” Stop the Violence BC is a coalition of academics, past and present law enforcement members and the general public. Guided by scientific evidence this educational campaign is calling for “a strict regulatory framework aimed at limiting use while also starving organized crime of the profits they reap as a result of prohibition.” Councillor Donna Macdonald introduced Story continues to ‘Pot’ on Page 12
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