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No new retailers stepping up to fill Zellers’ departure

BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

As major retailer Zellers continues to wind down its operations in Trail the quest for another business to fill the vacuum mirrors the state of the retail industry in general, says the Waneta Plaza general manager.

Linda MacDermid said the 67,000-square-foot space will be vacated by Zellers March 16 but there are no suitors lining up right now to wed to the expanse of retail space.

“It’s not the time of year to be asking, because nothing happens in January and February, most major businesses are still looking at the fallout from Christmas,” she said. “It takes long for retailers to get over that post-Christmas slow down.”

The retail sector has been extremely challenging, not just in the Silver City but throughout the whole province, said Sandy Santori, the regional director of Lower Columbia Initiatives Centre (LCIC).

Any leads the LCIC has made on national outlets for the region have been met with statements of merging, downsizing or closing.

“Obviously that has to do with the overall economy right now,” he said. “A lot of major stores are downsizing in those marginal type markets ... and most of the companies I have spoken to aren’t in the expansion mode at this time.”

The area is a bit more challenged in the business realm, he added, as beyond the drain on local business from online purchasing, Trail’s close relation to the border is taxing.

He said it is encouraging to see some smaller new businesses opening in the downtown core.

“Small, but granted they are taking a risk and making an investment and they are

employing some people,” he said.

Hopefully some of the 84 employees displaced by the closure of the Zellers store in March.

Tiffany Bourre, Hudson’s Bay Company external communications manager, said nothing is planned by the company after Zellers moves out of the space, even though it still holds the lease for a few more years.

“We don’t have any plans to announce additional locations that will operate beyond what we have announced already. So that store will definitely close,” she said. “The store is currently in liquidation so all inventory would be on sale.”

The mall will continue to look for a tenant in its massive end location, as well as a franchisee for a potential Mr. Mike’s restaurant for the facility.

The Mr. Mike’s franchise wants to be in the mall at this point, said MacDermid, but they can’t find a person in the region to pick up the reins of the operation.

“They know that Trail is just the place for them to be,” she said.

And Trail could just be the place for a new manufacturing plant. Two manufacturing plants looking to locate here feel the same way, said Santori, and the identity of one could be revealed at the end of the month The dialogue and follow up meetings with a long established business looking to expand into the west are nearly over, he added.

“I can say Trail does meet their needs and they are undergoing due diligence at this time,” he explained. “It is looking quite positive but no decision has been made.”

The proponents in the deal have asked for their identity to be kept confidential at this time, Santori said.

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The meter is still running on the city’s only cab company but it might not be for long.

Nearly one year after Champion Cabs had requested an increase to their rates, the company has had to make further changes to deal with the bleeding.

Company owner John Foglia said, although the rates for his fares have risen, the economy has “slid backwards” and the company has had to cut its hours of services.

Since the rate increase in February, the service has gone from operating 24 hours per day, seven days per week to 16 hours per day to now to putting cabs on the road for eight hours per day only on certain days.

There is no taxi service available at all after 7 p.m. from Monday to Wednesday in Trail, With longer service available later in the week and on weekends.

“It’s getting worse and worse,” he said about the business situation. “It’s not that it’s not enough (the rate increase), but there’s not enough volume to make it worthwhile.”

He said the company has had to keep cutting back and did not know how the situation could be improved. Although his company is up for sale, he said there was no danger of it closing right now, as long as it continued to break even.

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Contracts quell labour unrest

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BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff

The potentials storms of labour unrest in B.C. have been quelled with two separate union contracts finding approval in December.

Health care workers from 11 unions in the province voted 91 per cent in favour of a two-year contract.

They include assistants in X-ray departments and pharmacies, trades and maintenance staff and administrative workers in various settings such as hospitals, long-term care facilities and health authority offices.

In early December brief job action by hospital pharmacists and medical imaging technicians impacted patient services at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital.

The contract gives the 46,000 employees a three-per-cent wage hike and ensures a moratorium on layoffs due to contracting out until March 2014, when the deal expires.

In mid-Decembermembers of the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, local 378 (COPE 378) employed at BC Hydro voted to ratify their tentative agreement.

The agreement contains an overall four per cent wage lift, staggered throughout the two years of the collective agreement.

The agreement affects three Trail-based B.C. Hydro employees and 12 in Castlegar. Trail service is covered by FortisBC. The agreement contains an overall four per cent wage lift.

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Another delicious burger finds it way onto a bun in the Coffee Coop as Patty Palmer flips the grilled morsel. The Coop has been an anchor in the downtown business district for 27 years.

Board granted company a rate hike FROM PAGE 1 could erode the bottom line this year and put the service in jeopardy once again.

Without demand, Champion Cabs went from having six operational vehicles in Trail and Castlegar to three but only had one on the road between the two communities for this past month.

In February Foglia threatened to close his company after requesting a 35 per cent rate

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increase from the Passenger Transportation Board because rising minimum wage, high gas prices and growing insurance costs was driving him into debt to the tune of $22,000.

He was granted an accumulative hike to his service rates and decided to keep his business in motion.

Customers paid 10 per cent more ($3.45 instead of $3.15) for a start-up fee; 22 per cent more on travel time—$2.51 per

kilometre rather than $2.06— and three per cent more for wait time.

Trail Taxi began in the mid1960s but when Foglia took over the company in 2000, he changed the name to Champion Cabs and later combined the service with Castlegar Taxi, which he bought six years ago.

He felt the two companies would support each other enough to survive as the lone cab company.

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City makes switch in wireless service

By Timothy Schafer

BV Communications and Rock Island Tape It pays to shop Centre for vendors— around.

City of Trail informaThe City of Trail is tion systems coordinmoving to a new cel- ator Duane Birnie lular service provider, initially found that saving them hundreds Telus offered the best of dollars in the pro- pricing and service cess. choices.

City council agreed Citing reliability during their Nov. 26 and coverage as key general government considerations, Birnie committee meeting said the city had been to a contract with “very satisfied with the Bell for the city’s cell service and response phone services, mov- coming from Telus as ing away from Telus, well as Rock Island.” a provider the muniBut a Nov. 22 report cipal body had been from Birnie turned up with for several years. a miscommunication According to a from the communicareport from city staff, tions company Telus the city’s operations and the quote was have become entirely changed. dependent on cellular Through an analyservice. sis of city usage over There are vary- a 10-month period— ing levels of usage to estimate the costs depending on the of each offer—it was area of operation. found Bell came in Some employees ahead by approxiare equipped with mately $90 per month a basic phone for after taxes. The Bell c o m m u n i c a t i o n offer also had a better from the field while plan for text messaothers are equipped ging. with Blackberry “The City of Trail’s Smartphones for the use of text messapurpose of retrieving ging has been steadily emails and having increasing and Bell’s other office applica- offer ensures less tions synced from the coverage charges verdesktop to the phone. sus the Telus plan,” The city has in Birnie wrote. excess of 30 devices As well, Bell offered operating at any given the city a significant time, which include credit for changing administration, pub- from Telus, offering lic works, parks and the city a net benefit recreation as well as of $1,785. Telus also several members of came in $500 more council. in hardware costs over Currently the city Bell. spends approximately Birnie warned $20,000 per year on council about issues cell phone and associ- of availability of ated wireless services. replacement phones, In a review of cell hidden charges and phone service provid- service related issues, ers and local vend- but said both companors—including Bell ies operated on the Canada and Telus for same physical infraservice, Soundwest, structure.

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Columbia Basin Trust’s Board. Back row (left to right): Paul Peterson; Denise Birdstone; Garry Merkel, (retired); Laurie Page, Vice-Chair; Gord DeRosa; David Raven. Seated left (left to right): Cindy Gallinger; Andru McCracken; Am Naqvi; Kim Dean.

Seated right (left to right): Greg Deck, Chair; Wendy Booth. Missing Rick Jensen.

CBT name new board chairperson

CASTLEGAR – The Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) board of directors has welcomed Greg Deck as its new board chair.

Deck replaces former chair Garry Merkel, who served as vice-chair from 1995 to 2006, then chair from 2006 to 2012.

Merkel was instrumental in the formation of CBT, first as part of the committee that negotiated with the province for the establish-

ment of CBT, and then as a founding member of CBT’s board.

“On behalf of CBT’s Board and staff, I would like to thank Garry and acknowledge his many contributions; his input and leadership over the course of 18 years has been invaluable,” said Greg Deck. “Garry’s impact on CBT-and through CBT, on the Columbia Basincannot be overemphasized.”

Deck, from Radium Hot

Springs, has been on the Board since CBT’s inception in 1995, serving as vicechair from 2008 to the end of 2012. Nakusp’s Laurie Page, who joined the board in January 2012, is taking over as vice-chair.

“Greg helped found CBT and throughout the years has provided expert guidance and leadership to CBT, as well as to other local governments and organizations,” said Merkel.

Rick Jensen joins the board from Cranbrook, where he is President and CEO of Panorama Mountain Village.

CBT’s 12-member board consists of qualified individuals appointed by the provincial government: six from among the nominees of the five regional districts and the Ktunaxa Nation Council and six others. All directors must be residents of the Basin.

Columbia Power seeks public input

By Timothy Schafer Times Staff

Consider it a make work project.

With the end in sight for the Waneta Dam expansion project in early 2015, Columbia Power has turned to the public to get an idea of what to do next.

Columbia Power executive director Jane Bird said the start of the Waneta project signalled the completion of the Crown company’s original mandate—dating back 16 years ago—to develop three core power projects.

And with Waneta started, and the Brilliant expansion and the Arrow Lakes generating station completed, a new plan needs to be developed for the commercial Crown corporation.

Bird said the five-year plan has to be accountable to the shareholders, the province of B.C and its people.

“As a company we have had to ask what is our strategy to take us through the next five years and beyond,” she told Trail city council in its last meeting of 2012.

“It tells us whether it makes sense to continue to invest in these projects like an Elko Dam, for example.”

The plan would show Columbia Power how to re-invest in hydroelectric power generation in the area, she added.

A plan would also allow Columbia Power to proceed to undertake feasibility work to assess the commercial and environmental viability of potential projects, deter-

mine the level of interest of possible partners, assemble human resources and undertake further consultation on specific projects.

As a result, Columbia Power embarked on a public consultation project to gather feedback and insight from the public.

Through a 12-page booklet, Columbia Power has invited feedback on its strategy.

It is available at libraries and community centres in Trail and Castlegar, as well as online at www.columbiapower.org/StrategicPlan.

Bird said the company intends to build on its strengths in the strategy and continue to develop and operate hydroelectric generation projects in the

Columbia Basin.

“We intend to capitalize on our key strengths, including low overheads, hydro project management expertise—particularly in design/build contracts— strong support from local government, the community and First Nations, and our tradition of partnering: with BC Hydro, Columbia Basin Trust and Fortis,” she said.

Specifically, the strategy over the next five years for Columbia Power includes: finishing Waneta—safely, on time and on budget—reinvesting income from existing facilities in new hydro generation projects in the Columbia Basin, and continue to use income to pay dividends to the province and to B.C. Taxpayers.

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Provincial

U.S. reviews proposed increase in B.C. tanker traffic

THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER - Concerns south of the border over oil tanker traffic from British Columbia have spurred a U.S. Coast Guard review of proposed increases in Canadian oil exports.

A legislative amendment proposed by Washington state Sen. Maria Cantwell and signed into law by President Barack Obama a couple of weeks ago gives the U.S. marine safety agency six months to conduct a risk assessment of the planned expansion of oil pipeline capacity to the West Coast.

While several proposed projects would see oil from the Alberta oil sands brought to the B.C. coast for export primarily to China, the legislation deals specifically with tanker traffic out of the Vancouver area.

“According to reports, Canada is poised to increase oil tanker traffic through the waters around the San Juan Islands and the Juan de Fuca by up to 300 per cent,” said a statement issued by Cantwell’s office.

“A supertanker oil spill near our shores would threaten Washington state’s thriving coastal economy and thousands of jobs,” the Democratic senator said in the statement. “This bill will provide crucial information for Washington coastal communities by requiring a detailed risk analysis....”

The Coast Guard will study the risk of transporting oil via super-

tanker, tanker and barge through the Salish Sea waterways, which encompasses U.S. and Canadian territorial waters between southern Vancouver Island and the mainland.

It includes Juan de Fuca Strait, the Strait of Georgia, Haro and Rosario Straits and Puget Sound.

In order for ships to arrive at port in Vancouver, they usually sail through U.S. waters next to a national marine sanctuary.

The Coast Guard will examine which rules and regulations apply to oil tankers heading to B.C. ports, as well as analyze the toxicity of what is referred to in the legislation as “tar sands” oil - a derogatory moniker much opposed by the Canadian industry.

Cantwell said the diluted bitumen that will form part of the Canadian oil exports are likely to require special cleanup technology, and the Coast Guard will also assess the spill response capability.

There are two major oil pipeline proposals currently on the table in British Columbia.

Calgary-based Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline would transport oil from the Edmonton area to a tanker port in Kitimat, on the north coast.

But the U.S. legislation appears to affect mainly Kinder Morgan’s proposal to expand the capacity of its existing oil pipeline from Alberta to the Vancouver area.

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Emergency personnel search the water around a sailing boat that ran aground Monday afternoon. A man survived but RCMP are investigating the death of a woman who was on board.

Police investigate death after boat runs aground

THE CANADIAN PRESS COURTENAY, B.C. - One woman is dead and a man is recovering after a bizarre incident aboard a sailboat off the east coast of Vancouver Island.

Rescuers were called on Monday just after 3 p.m. when the listing nine-metre sailboat was spotted

aground on rocks near Union Bay, just south of Courtenay, B.C. Air force search and rescue technicians from the base in nearby Comox were among the first on the scene.

They pulled a

HAVE YOUR SAY Monday, January 14, 2013 At 6:30 p.m.

RDKB Board Room 843 Rossland Avenue, Trail

Public Hearing (Second)

What is the purpose of OCP Bylaw No. 1470, 2012?

The revised Electoral Area ‘B’ Official Community Plan (OCP) will replace the current OCP that was adopted in 2001.

The OCP contains objectives and policies to guide future development for Electoral Area ‘B’.

By Tom Fletcher VICTORIA – After shaking up the B.C. government’s financial affairs, Auditor General John Doyle will be replaced by a new financial watchdog when his six-year term expires at the end of May. Rules for the fivemember MLA committee that appoints auditors require them to maintain secrecy on who didn’t support

Why is a second Public Hearing being held?

Based on input received at the Public Hearing, an alteration to the bylaw was made that involves a land use change thereby requiring that a second Public Hearing be held.

Doyle’s reappointment, which required unanimous support.

NDP leader Adrian Dix said it’s clear it was one or more B.C. Liberal MLAs who voted against Doyle’s reappointment.

“This is clearly a bad decision, not one that the NDP supports, not one that I support,” Dix said Monday.

Opposition MLAs cite Doyle’s reports criticizing the recent buildup of BC Hydro

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Who will be at the Open House/Public Hearing?

Director Linda Worley, who has been delegated by the RDKB Board of Directors to preside over the hearing, and RDKB staff.

How do I get more information?

A copy of the bylaw, the Board’s resolution delegating the public hearing to Linda Worley, along with supporting documents is available for inspection at the RDKB office (843 Rossland Avenue, Trail) from now to the date of the Public Hearing between 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday and also on-line at www.rdkb.com.

How does the public hearing work?

Those in attendance will be given the opportunity to speak.

Alternatively written submissions can be submitted to the RDKB office until 4 p.m. on the day of the hearing, or at the hearing. All verbal and written submissions will become part of the public record. The RDKB Board cannot accept presentations after the public hearing has closed.

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in Comox, but could not be revived.

Mounties and the coroner continue to investigate and police say the names of the victims have not been released, at the request of their families.

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44-year-old Courtenay man to safety and also located a 40 year-old Courtenay woman in waters near the grounded boat.

RCMP say the woman was rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital

Notice of Public Forum Tuesday, January 15, 2013

6:30pm at Rossland Secondary School Gym 2390 Jubilee Street, Rossland

The Board is considering potential school closure and/or reconfiguration potentially impacting Rossland Secondary School, MacLean Elementary School and J. Lloyd Crowe Secondary School. The public forum will provide information and allow members of the public to provide input to the Board about the potentially effected Rossland and greater Trail area schools.

Background information about the various configurations and details about the opportunity to make written submissions can be found on the district website at www.sd20.bc.ca/facilities.

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debt and the state of B.C.’s forest inventory in the wake of a devastating pine beetle epidemic as likely reasons why Doyle wasn’t reappointed.

Doyle is also leading a court action seeking release of detailed defence lawyer billings for former ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bobby Virk, whose $6 million in legal costs were covered by the province after they pleaded guilty to breach of trust in the 2002 sale of BC Rail operations.

Dix called Monday for Premier Christy Clark to intervene and ask the MLA committee to reconsider its decision to hire a new auditor. A spokesman for the premier quickly ruled that option out.

Ben Chin, Clark’s communications director, said Clark has maintained a policy of not interfering in legislative committees, such as a cosmetic pesticide committee that disagreed with her call for a ban.

“You can’t send the committee back to work because you don’t like the conclusion they reach,” Chin said.

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National

Court clarifies status of Metis and non-status Indians

Leaders meet

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrives with Thomas Boni Yayi, President of the Republic of Benin and Chairperson of the African Union to a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. Harper says Canada is not looking at any military intervention in Mali. He says Canada will work diplomatically with western allies and African countries to seek a solution.

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Misconduct case against G20 commander put over THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - A senior police officer responsible for two notorious “kettling” incidents at the infamous G20 summit in 2010 had his case put over for two months Tuesday to allow time for disclosure.

Supt. Mark Fenton faces five separate charges related to the incidents in which police boxed in and arrested numerous people in the downtown core.

Fenton, who was the major incident commander at the time, is accused of making an illegal arrest, unlawful detention and harming the reputation of the police force.

He has pleaded not guilty and none of the allegations has been proven.

Speaking for the prosecution, lawyer Brendan van Niejenhuis asked Tuesday that the case be put over until March 4, saying the disclosure process was a “laborious process.”

According to the notice of hearing, the first incident occurred on Saturday June 26, 2010, hours after a small group of vandals rampaged through the downtown, smashing windows and setting police cruisers alight.

Fenton is alleged to have ordered officers to box in a “large group of civilians” on the Esplanade, arrest them for breaching the peace, and take the detainees to a notorious detention east-end centre set up for the summit.

“You gave and maintained these orders notwithstanding that you neither found those so contained committing a breach of the peace nor did you have reasonable grounds to believe that those so

contained had committed or were about to join in or resume a breach of the peace,” the charge states.

According to the allegations, Fenton directed those arrested to be held for 24 hours without assessing whether there were grounds to do so and “failed to monitor the status of the detentions.”

In the second incident, the following afternoon, police kept scores of people - many who happened to be in the area for reasons unrelated to the G20 - standing for hours at a downtown intersection despite a torrential downpour.

Fenton gave the kettling orders just six minutes into assuming command that day.

He is alleged to have ordered those detained to be arrested for conspiracy to commit mischief or breach of the peace and taken to the detention centre without reasonable grounds to do so.

“You repeated and maintained these orders notwithstanding the onset of sustained, severe and inclement weather,” the charge states.

It was only when Chief Bill Blair intervened four hours later that those still kettled, soaked and shivering in the cold, were released.

Van Niejenhuis also asked the case against Insp. Gary Meissner be put over for the same reason to the same date.

Meissner is charged for allegedly ordering officers to arrest five people at a University of Toronto early Sunday, June 27, and charge them with participating in an unlawful assembly, allegedly without doing anything to confirm the suspects had done anything illegal.

THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - Thanks to a single court decision, the federal government’s responsibilities for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples have suddenly become a whole lot bigger.

After more than 13 years of legal wrangling, the Federal Court ruled on Tuesday that Metis and non-status Indians are indeed “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act, and fall under federal jurisdiction.

The decision adds to the mounting pressure on Stephen Harper to rethink the way Ottawa deals with native populations, who are among the most impoverished in Canada.

The ruling helps to clarify the relationship between Ottawa and the more than 600,000 aboriginal people who are not affiliated with specific reserves and have essentially no access to First Nations programs, services and rights.

“This is huge and it ends the denial of aboriginal birthrights that has existed for far too long among off-reserve Metis and non-status Indians,” said Betty Ann Lavallee, national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

“Today is a very emotional day for me and a very hopeful day for all off-reserve aboriginal peoples.”

In his decision, Federal Court Judge Michael Phelan rejected the federal government’s attempts to maintain a narrow definition of who can be considered Indian. He waded through centuries of aboriginal history to look at definitions of who has been considered Indian in the past, and how they were treated - by native communities and by various levels of government.

The case for Canada’s 400,000 non-status Indians was more clear-cut than the case for the 200,000 Metis, but on balance, historical evidence weighs in favour of the Metis too, he wrote.

“The recognition of Metis and non-status Indian as Indians under section 91(24) should accord a further level of respect and reconciliation by removing the constitutional uncertainty surrounding these groups,” Phelan writes.

While the decision does not go so far as to declare that the federal government has a fiduciary responsibility to the group, it says such duties would flow automatically now that their

standing has been clarified.

“There is no dispute that the Crown has a fiduciary relationship with aboriginal people both historically and pursuant to section 35 (of the Constitution),” Phelan writes.

However, he adds: “That duty is not an openended undefined obligation but must be focused on a specific interest.”

Legal experts expect the federal government to appeal the decision, partly because its implications are major - and complicated.

If left to stand, the ruling would affect a wide range of provincial and federal policies, said Robert Janes, a Victoria lawyer who focuses on aboriginal issues but was not involved in the case.

Governments would now have a duty to consult with non-status Indians and Metis on changes to law and policy, he said. And they will have to revisit the scope of their social services, economic development and protections for aboriginals.

“This is going to require a lot of bureaucratic re-thinking and policy development, and it’s going to be years of figuring this out.”

Until now, he said, many non-status or Metis people have grown up in households where their half-brothers and half-sisters on reserves had access to hunting and fishing rights, or funding for post-secondary education - services they themselves were denied because of their parentage. Instead, they were told they were a provincial responsibility, only to have the provinces tell them they were the purview of the federal government - leaving a growing number of people in a jurisdictional limbo.

The Congress of Aboriginal Peoples and several Metis and non-status Indians took the federal government to court in 1999 alleging discrimination because they are not considered “Indians” under a section of the Constitution Act.

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t’s as if Paul Newman and Jane Fonda had fled the US in protest at something or other – they were always protesting – and sought Russian citizenship instead. Americans would be surprised, but would they really care? It’s a free country, as they say.

Whereas the French are quite cross about the decision of Oscar-winning actor Gerard Depardieu, who received Russian citizenship at the hands of President Vladimir Putin personally last Saturday. A taxi driver in Paris went on at me about it for the whole ride yesterday. (Talking to taxi drivers is how we journalists keep our fingers on the pulse of the nation.)

After 42 years of starring in French films, Depardieu had acquired the status of “national treasure” in the eyes of the public, but he clearly does not reciprocate their loyalty and pride.

And hard on the heels of Depardieu’s defection comes the news that actress Brigitte Bardot, France’s leading sex symbol for the generation who are now drawing their pensions, is also threatening to give up her French citizenship and go Russian.

Depardieu, who was described by director

Marguerite Duras as “a big, beautiful runaway truck of a man,” is much larger than life – about the size of a baby whale, in fact. He is over the top in every sense: 180 films and TV credits, 17 motorbike accidents, five or six bottles of wine a day by his own reckoning.

He reckons he has paid 145 million euros ($190 million) in taxes since he started work at 14, and he doesn’t want to pay any more.

France’s Socialist government is bringing in a new 75 per cent tax rate for people earning more than one million euros ($1.3 million) per year, and so Depardieu is leaving.

Initially he was just moving to Belgium, to a village 800 metres from the French border that already hosts a number of other super-rich tax exiles, but then French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that his decision was “shabby and unpatriotic.”

At this point, the truck ran away again. Belgium was no longer far enough.

When the outraged actor declared that he would ask for Russian citizenship, Putin (who knows how to play to the gallery) announced that he could have it at once. By the weekend it was a done

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deal. “I adore your country, Russia, your people, your history, your writers,” the actor burbled. “...Russia is a country of great democracy.”

It is also a country with a 13 per cent flat tax rate, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin crowed on Twitter: “In the West, they are not well acquainted with our tax system. When they find out, we can expect a mass migration of rich Europeans into Russia.” He had barely finished tweeting when another French celebrity said she was also thinking of moving to Russia.

It wasn’t high taxes that obsessed Brigitte Bardot, however; it was animal rights. She was protesting a court order Friday in Lyon ordering that two circus elephants that have been suffering from tuberculosis

since 2010 be put down. “If those in power are cowardly and impudent enough to kill the elephants,” she raged, “then I will ask for Russian nationality to get out of this country which has become nothing more than an animal cemetery.”

It’s always wise, when threatening to flounce out, to make sure first that they really want you to stay, and in BB’s case that may not actually be the case. She is better known to the present generation not as a sex symbol but as a crazy old lady who believes Muslims are “destroying our country” and has been convicted five times for incitement to racial hatred. Some people (including my cab driver) think the Russians would be welcome to her.

But elephants aside, going Russian opens up a huge new opportunity for avoiding burdensome taxation.

All those American millionaires who have been condemned by recent events to live under the rule of that foreign-born Muslim Communist, Barack Obama, and pay an appalling 39.6 per cent tax on the portion of their annual earnings that exceeds $400,000, have an alternative at last.

They can do exactly what

they have been telling anybody who complains about the gulf between the rich and the poor in America to do for decades: they can go to Russia.

The only problem is that they will actually have to live there for six months of the year to qualify for the 13 per cent Russian tax rate.

Well, actually, there is another problem. Some Russians may not welcome them with open arms. Even the arrival of Depardieu, who is world-famous in Russia as a result of acting in several high-profile Franco-Russian co-productions and appearing in television ads for credit cards from the Sovietski Bank, is being greeted with mixed feelings.

Fellow celebrity Tina Kandelaki, the celebrated host of the celebrity talk show “Details” for the past 11 years, has no reservations about him at all: he can stay in her apartment.

“Let’s not divide up Depardieu,” she tweeted.

“Simply give him to me.”

But a less starry-eyed observer replied: “Haven’t we got enough alcoholics?”

Evidently not.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Common sense needed in school discipline policies

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he horrific school There are more immediate shooting at Sandy safety concerns. Rather than Hook Elementary in obsessing about the remote Newtown, Connecticut possibility of deranged gunmen sparked a continent-wide dis- entering schools, administracussion about school safety. tors should instead focus their This renewed interest in secur- attention on student discipline. ity is understandable, since Cracking down on bullying, everyone wants maintaining students to be orderly classsafe at school. rooms, and preUnfortunately, venting physiccommon sense al altercations seems to be in in the hallways short supply as are the types many proposed of things on measures are not which all school particularly helpadministrators MIKE ful. should focus, For example, which would Ontario Premier have an effectTroy Media Dalton McGuinty ive impact on reacted to the safety. Students Newtown massacre with a hasty have the right to a safe and pledge to implement a “locked- orderly learning environment. door policy” in all elementary Sadly, when it comes to stuschools. Along with requir- dent discipline, schools often ing schools to lock their front veer into one of two extremes, doors when classes are in ses- neither of which is particusion, McGuinty’s government larly helpful. At one end, some will spend $10 million to make school districts implement drasure all schools come equipped conian zero-tolerance policies with security cameras, buzzers, that remove all discretion from and locking doors. students, teachers and princiHowever, turning schools pals. While zero-tolerance poliinto miniature fortresses will cies may look good on paper, not guarantee student safe- they often lead to absurd discity. The front doors at Sandy plinary actions.

Hook Elementary were already For example, a public school locked – the killer simply shot in Maryland recently susthrough the front door and pended a six-year-old boy for forced his way into the build- pointing his finger at another ing. Short of turning every student and saying “Pow.” It school into Fort Knox, it is is unlikely that his fellow stunearly impossible to keep out dents feel much safer knowing a madman intent on inflicting their school is cracking down damage. on dangerous finger guns!

Any public place, whether a Other zero-tolerance movie theatre, shopping mall, absurdities abound in the pubchurch, or school is a possible lic school system. Students target for someone determined have been suspended for things to harm as many people as pos- ranging from bringing a butter sible. No amount of planning knife to school to drawing a can make any of these loca- picture of a gun. These incitions absolutely secure against dents demonstrate how zerointruders. The public needs tolerance removes the ability of to guard against politicians teachers and principals to use overreacting to tragedies that, their professional judgment fortunately, remain extremely and leads to ridiculous decirare, particularly in Canada. sions that make a mockery of The last thing we need is to the rules. turn our schools into virtual At the opposite extreme, garrisons. some schools bend over

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backwards to accommodate troublemakers, even those who persistently disrupt the learning environment of others.

Progressive educators often place so much emphasis on keeping troublemakers with their peers that they refuse to punish students who repeatedly disregard the most basic rules.

Alfie Kohn, a regular speaker at teacher professional development sessions, is a key proponent of this soft approach. In Kohn’s view, schools should be fully egalitarian communities where rewards and punishments for students are nonexistent. According to Kohn, behaviour problems in schools disappear when teachers provide students with engaging lessons.

However, Kohn’s permissive idealism is based on a hopelessly naive understanding of human nature. Some students intentionally choose to disrupt class, bully their classmates, and destroy property, regardless of the quality of instruction they receive. Teachers who fail to enforce clear boundaries from the outset often end up with unruly classrooms.

In order to provide safer settings and more stable learning environments, schools must avoid the equally misguided extremes of zero tolerance policies and permissive idealism. Rather, school administrators should set and enforce clear standards of behaviour for all students, and do so in a way that allows teachers to use their professional judgment.

While no school can devise a foolproof plan to protect against every outside violent attack, all schools can and should establish effectively safe and orderly environment learning for their students. When it comes to school discipline, common sense is needed now more than ever.

Michael Zwaagstra is a research fellow with the Frontier Centre (fcpp.org) and a Manitoba high school teacher.

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OBITUARIES OLSON, JEAN FLORENCE — passed away January 6, 2013 at Rosewood Village, Trail.

Jean was born June 14, 1926 in Nelson, BC. Jean became a teacher and taught plus substituted in Fruitvale from 1946 to 1967.

Jean married Austin Olson in 1947 and resided in Fruitvale until 1967, the family then moved to Kelowna and later to Winfield, BC. Mom loved playing cards right up until recently. In her younger years she loved reading, gardening, preserving, needle point, knitting and ceramics.

In the 1970’s, Mom started up J&J Ceramics in Winfield with her eldest son, Jim. One of mom’s dreams was to trace the genealogy on both sides of the family. This was accomplished by contacting many relatives in Canada and USA plus a trip to Europe.

Jean was predeceased by her husband Austin in 2008, parents Violet and Jimmy Duck, sister-in-laws Anne & Pat Olson, brother-in-laws Elburn Olson, Peter Heathcote and great niece Katie Hanik. Jean is survived by her sons: Jim (Lumby), Russ (Lorrie) (Rivervale), and Stan (Surrey); grandsons: Mark and Shawn; Sister Marie Heathcote (Vancouver) and her family, brother Jack (Helen) (Coquitlam) and their family; brother-in-law Ken Olson (Fruitvale) and his family, Dolly Olson (Fruitvale), and Elburn’s family (California & Washington); and her dear friend June Hall (Grand Forks).

As an expression of sympathy, in lieu of flowers, the family would greatly appreciate memorial donations be made to: Rosewood Resident Council Fund, Rosewood Village, 8125 Devito Drive, Trail, BC VlR 4X9 The family extends a very special thank you to the Rosewood staff for their love and compassion towards Jean for the past 2 years. Also thank you to the volunteer musicians and singers who donate their time to Rosewood recreation - mom loved the music and sometimes wouldn’t give the program material up.

The family wishes to thank Dr. Gwen Campbell and the staff at Trail Regional Hospital for their gentle care given to mom.

At a later date, a private family graveyard service will be held in Kelowna where Mom will rest with her love and devoted husband Austin. God Bless you mom, rest in peace. *** DOHERTY, JULIE ANNE — passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013 at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital at the age of 51 after a battle

with cancer.

She will be sadly missed but never forgotten by her husband of 34 years Bernie Doherty, her three children Michelle (James) Gibson, Ryan (Janice) Doherty, Kyle (Amber) Doherty and her loving grandchildren Braeden Adie, Nathen Doherty, Chevelle Ross Doherty, her parents Verna and Jack Finlay, mother-in-law Frances Doherty, as well as her sisters Gloria (Ian) DeWitt, Bonnie (Gordon) Tjader and numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

A Memorial Service will be held at the Trail Alliance Church in Glenmerry on Monday, January 14, 2013 at 11:00 am with Reverend Ken Siemens, Celebrant. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

As an expression of sympathy, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society at 908 Rossland Avenue Trail, BC V1R 3N6 or online at www.cancer.ca *** RASMUSSEN, PAUL FREDEBO — of Fruitvale, passed away peacefully at the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital on January 5, 2013. He was surrounded by his loving family.

Paul was born in Hammer, Denmark on December 11, 1935. He made Canada his home in 1959 and met his wife Sina at the Viking Sports Club in Calgary in the spring of ‘61.

While Paul spent his life working in construction, his focus was always on building and strengthening his family, which was his greatest joy and deepest treasure.

Paul is survived by Sina, his loving wife of 51 years, their children: June (Darcy) Samulak, Jan (Carol) Rasmussen, Cindy (Charles) Christopher, Kim (Richard) Deane, Paul (Toni) Rasmussen, and his precious grandchildren: Tom, Claire, Paula, Ben, Jake, Julia, Kara, Graham, Stefany and Ian as well as his siblings in Denmark: Kirsten, Ruth, Bodil and Mogens. He was predeceased by his siblings in Denmark: Erhardt, Arne, and Else.

A Memorial Service will be held at “Carberry’s Chapel” 1298 Pine Avenue, Trail on Saturday, January 12, 2013 at 2:00 pm with Pastor Bryan Henry officiating. Al Grywacheski of Alternatives Funeral and Cremation Services™ has been entrusted with arrangements.

A heartfelt thank you to the staff at

the KBRH and visiting clergy: Pastor Henry and Majors Wilf and Heather Harbin for all their loving support.

As an expression of sympathy, donations in Paul’s name may be made to the Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital Foundation (Family Room) at 1200 Hospital Bench, Trail, BC V1R 4M1 or online at www.kbrhhealthfoundation.ca You are invited to leave a personal message of condolence at the family’s online register at www.myalternatives.ca *** MCQUARRIE, JAMES NEIL — Sunrise April 15, 1920. Sunset January 2, 2013 James Neil McQuarrie of Trail BC passed away on Jan. 2, 2013 in the arms of his loving children.

Dad was born April 15, 1920 in Oak Lake, Manitoba.

He is survived by children; Robert McQuarrie (Elsa), Colleen McQuarrie (Keith Halbauer), Donna Ferguson (Robert), sister Peggy Peel, sister Jean McQuarrie, brother Dan McQuarrie (Laura).

Dad is also survived by grandchildren; Dustin Zimmerman, Chelsea Rota (Lance), Joshua Halbauer, Rebecca Pepin (Andy), Joseph Ferguson, Jessica McQuarrie, James McQuarrie and numerous nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by his beloved wife Mary, brother Kenneth, father John, mother Agnes, sister Gwen, and brother Murray.

Dad enlisted in the army in 1939 and served overseas in WW 2. After the war he worked for the Ontario Forest Service and then reenlisted with the army until his discharge in 1968. In 1969 he went to work for the BC Forest Service in Nelson until his retirement in 1984.

He was very active throughout his retirement. He loved the outdoors, hunting, dogs, skeet shooting and fishing.

The family is extremely grateful to the staff of Rosewood Village who have cared for him like family for the last ten years.

Dad, we will miss your sense of humor and love and support. You will always be our hero, forever in our hearts.

Rest in Peace.

Cremation has taken place. Service to follow in the spring in Oak Lake, Manitoba.

As an expression of sympathy family and friends may make a donation to PAWS, 2805 Lower Wynndel Rd., Creston, B.C. V0G 1B8 Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Valley Funeral Home Ltd. On-line condolences may be expressed at www.valleyfh.ca

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Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak whose work became a worldwide icon of the Canadian Arctic has died.

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Inuit artist gained worldwide attention

THE CANADIAN PRESS CAPE DORSET, Nunavut - An artist whose work gained worldwide recognition as an icon of the Canadian Arctic has died.

Kenojuak Ashevak, believed to be the last living link to the birth of Inuit printmaking, died Tuesday at her home in Cape Dorset, Nunavut, at the age of 85.

Over a career that spanned more than 50 years, Ashevak’s bold, harmonious images of Arctic animals and lives became calling cards for Canadian art around the world. Her image “The Enchanted Owl” was used on a 1970 postage stamp.

By the time of her death, the Ashevak was a member of the Order of Canada, the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and Canada’s Walk of Fame. She held several honorary degrees and was the subject of biographies and film documentaries.

Born in 1927 in a traditional camp on south Baffin Island, she lived life on the land before moving to the tiny community of Cape Dorset.

There, in 1958, she encountered James Houston, a government administrator who was encouraging Inuit to make art as a way of earning money. Houston noticed an interesting design that Ashevak had created on a sealskin bag a rabbit thinking about eating seaweed, she explained.

“Rabbit Eating Seaweed” was Ashevak’s first print, part of a debut exhibition of Inuit graphics.

The young woman from the remote Canadian North was an immediate success, said Christine Lalonde, an expert in Inuit art with the National Gallery of Canada.

Ashevak herself was matter of fact about her working methods.

“When I started drawing my artwork, I was just given a pencil and I started to draw,” she said in a 2008 video. “For drawing animals, or something like that, it’s not really coming from the animals but from how I feel.”

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It may not be the Garden, but a Boston native has found a new home in a Hawks Nest deep in the wilds of British Columbia.

U.S. import and Boston native Dan Holland joined the Beaver Valley Nitehawks Nov. 27 and since then the Hawks have lost just twice in 16 games, including taking two of three games this weekend.

“I love it,” said Holland. “It’s so much different (than Boston). I’m use to the city, this is like the countryside, it’s awesome out here.”

With nine goals and 12 assists, the 19-yearold forward has helped the Hawks move up the standings, from 10-points out of first to just two.

After dropping a 3-1 decision to Kimberley Friday night, Beaver Valley responded with an offensive outburst in back-to-back wins over the Kimberley Dynamiters, 5-1, Saturday, and the Revelstoke Grizzlies, 8-2, Sunday.

Both Holland and stalwart veteran

defenceman Derek Lashuk had a goal and two assists to lead the Nitehawks to a thrashing of the Grizzlies.

“Even when he’s off, he’s still the hardest working guy out there, he just skates and skates and skates,” said assistant coach Kevin Limbert. “I love watching that kid play, just the effort and intensity . . . he earns a lot of respect that way.”

After setting up Connor BrownMaloski’s goal to open the scoring, Holland scored on a breakaway in the third period and also set up AP Sam Swanson of Fruitvale to put the Hawks up 5-1.

It was Swanson’s first goal as a Nitehawk in just his second game.

“For an AP, he showed a lot of confidence and poise out there,” said Limbert.

Coincidentally or not, since Holland joined the team and was put on a line with Dallas Calvin, and Brown-Maloski, the trio has been one of the most devastating lines in the KIJHL. “I couldn’t ask for more, they’re great

linemates,” said Holland. “Dallas sees the ice so well, shoots the puck like anything.

I just stand in front of the net, screen the goalie, the puck goes by my head, always in the net, a real accurate shooter, and CBM sees the ice really well, he is one of the best passers out there.”

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The line has netted 77 points in those 16 games, including an amazing 34 points for Calvin, who in his past 13 matches has 18 goals and 16 assists, including two goals against Revelstoke and a three-point night (2G, 1A) against Kimberley.

The Hawks are currently tied with Castlegar and are two points behind Nelson that leads the

league with 55 points, but both Nelson and Castlegar have two games in hand.

With only 12 games remaining in the regular season for the Hawks, a push for first is definitely in the cards.

The Smokies play Castlegar and Nelson two more times in the regular season schedule, in addition to five division games remaining with Spokane and one with Grand Forks.

The Hawks would prefer to overtake Nelson and finish first in the Neil Murdoch division, and most likely play Spokane in the first round rather than Castlegar or Nelson.

“At the end of the day all we can do is control what we can control,” said assistant coach Kevin Limbert. “But if you finish second or third it makes for a longer road.”

Though still impacted by injuries, with five players sitting out Sunday’s game, and the trade deadline looming on Thursday, coach Terry Jones says there may

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Greater Trail Bantam AA Smoke Eaters goalie Brandon Youngson follows the bouncing puck Sunday, as Trail rebounded in the second game of a two-game tilt against Salmon Arm on the weekend. After dropping the opening game 2-1 Saturday, the team bounced back with a 6-2 victory Sunday at the Cominco Arena.

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be some movement, but that he was happy with the team and would prefer to stand pat, if possible.

The Nitehawks next home game goes Sunday at 1 p.m. against the Grand Forks Border Bruins.

KIJHL notes: Nelson recently made some moves to shore up both ends of the ice.

After losing Colton McCarthy to the WHL Moose Jaw Warriors last month, Mathew Naka also went down with a broken ankle sustained in an off-ice injury.

The Leafs acquired 18-year-old forward Connor Gross from the Grand Forks Border Bruins who has 20 goals and 17 assists on the season to give them some more punch heading down the stretch.

The Leafs also sent goalie Cody Boekman to the Columbia Valley Rockies, and picked up veteran puck-stopper Markus Beesley from the Kamloops Storm.

Beesley is a 20-yearold goalie who has an 11-19-2 record, with a 3.36 GAA and a solid .914 save percentage this season.

BY TIMES STAFF Black Jack junior men’s cross-country skier David Palmer took a giant stride forward as he qualified for the Canadian Junior National ski team last weekend.

Palmer skied to second in the 15-kilometre free ski at the Haywood-NorAm U23 Trials at the Nordic Ski Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., Sunday.

Palmer completed the three-lap course in 38 minutes, 45.7 seconds, 24.3 seconds back of winner Raphael Couturier of Quebec, and 16 seconds in front of bronze medalist Ezekial Williams from the Nakketok Nordique club in Quebec.

“It was a good series for the club,” said Black Jack ski coach Dave Wood. “David (Palmer) was really good . . . There were guys looking good that came into the trials that came up short, but I think that he kept focused on task very well and delivered on his strengths, and came out in the end.”

With the finish, Palmer qualifies for the Canadian Junior team that travels to the Czech Republic for the FIS Nordic World Junior championship, from Jan. 20-27.

Another Black Jack junior men’s skier Julien Locke narrowly missed qualifying for the Worlds with a fourth-place finish in the 1.4-km classic sprint and a 13th place finish in the 15-km free ski.

“Julien was really good too, he was fourth ranked but it was a really closely fought sprint,” said Wood. “It was inches from first to fourth.”

Black Jack’s Geoffrey Richards who now trains in Whistler placed 11th overall in senior men’s 15-km free ski, while Rossland’s Rebecca Reid who trains in Canmore also competed, finishing 12th in the senior women’s 10 km free ski and 16th in the 1.2-km classic sprint.

It’s the first trip for Palmer to an international event like the World Junior championships, where he will compete in a number of events including the 10-km free ski, the sprint, a skiathlon that combines both free-ski and classic techniques, and a 4x5-km. relay.

“A top 20 would be good, but it’s difficult when you’ve never raced internationally, you don’t know what to expect,” added Wood.

But the Black Jack coach is happy with the progress of the 19-year-old skier this season, as they look forward to a B.C. Cup race in Kelowna this weekend.

The Junior World Ski Championships are attended by 650 participants from 35 countries of four continents. Each country may register four athletes.

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Retirees ready for spiel

BY TIMES CONTRIBUTOR In Trail Retiree Men’s Curling action last week the Cal McKerracker rink completed an unlikely comeback over the Dan Horan foursome, as teams are in fine-tuning mode for their upcoming bonspiel this weekend.

Horan’s team scored three in the second, then stole another one in the third to take an early 4-1 lead. However, back-to-back deuce’s for McKerracker vaulted them into the lead. All tied up at six going into the last end, Cal under pressure drew into the rings for the 7 - 6 win.

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GP W L T OL GF GA Pt Penticton 37 24 10 0 3 123 89 51 Merritt 34 21 11 1 1 114 89 44 WKelowna 35 14 11 2 8 122 100 38 Salm Arm 36 16 15 2 3 89 103 37 Trail 39 16 22 0 1 115 171 33 Vernon 36 12 17 0 7 88 112 31 Island Division

GP W L T OL GF GA Pt Victoria 36 24 9 0 3 122 96 51 Nanaimo 35 19 14 0 2 106 106 40 Alberni 36 17 13 1 5 115 123 40 Powell R. 38 15 17 2 4 104 107 36 Cowichan 33 9 20 1 3 93 116 22 Mainland Division

GP W L T OL GF GA Pt Chilliwack 35 22 11 1 1 118 93 46 Surrey 35 21 10 1 3 109 94 46 Pr George 36 18 12 1 5 104 110 42 Langley 35 15 14 1 5 124 122 36 Coquitlam 36 16 19 1 0 104 119 33 Note: Two points for a win, one for a tie Wednesday’s games Coquitlam at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Trail at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Penticton at Surrey, 7 p.m.

Victoria at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.

Powell River at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.

Merritt at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Cowichan Valley at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 12 Nanaimo at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.

Prince George at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.

Powell River at Vernon, 7 p.m.

Penticton at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

Chilliwack at Victoria, 7:15 p.m.

West Kelowna at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

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At Kapalua Resort (Plantation Course) Purse: $5.7 mililon Yardage: 7,452; Par: 73 Final (FedExCup points in parentheses) Dustin Johnson (500), $1,140,000 69-66-68-203 Steve Stricker (300), $665,000 71-67-69-207 Brandt Snedeker (190), $432,000 70-70-69-209 Bubba Watson (123), $304,000 70-69-71-210 Keegan Bradley (123), $304,000 71-69-70-210 Rickie Fowler (95), $212,500 70-74-67-211 Tommy Gainey (95), $212,500 72-69-70-211 Carl Pettersson (85), $190,000 70-72-70-212 Ian Poulter (78), $175,000 71-74-69-214 Matt Kuchar (78), $175,000 74-71-69-214 Mark Wilson (68), $155,000 69-76-70-215 Webb Simpson (68), $155,000 72-72-71-215 J.J. Henry (56), $120,400 71-74-71-216 Johnson Wagner (56), $120,400 72-72-72-216 Scott Stallings (56), $120,400 72-74-70-216 Scott Piercy (56), $120,400 72-71-73-216 Nick Watney (56), $120,400 69-73-74-216 Jonas Blixt (51), $87,600 72-74-72-218

Stewart steals victory FROM PAGE 9 In another tight game, Tom Hall’s rink faced Jim Stewart’s team.

The Hall rink jumped out to an early lead until the fifth end but the Stewart team rallied for four points to tie the game.

Deadlocked coming home, the Hall team with hammer had to execute a double for the win, but the Stewart rock hung on for the steal and a 9 – 8 victory.

The Robin Siddall rink faced Lefty Gould, and it was a tight game through three ends.

The keen ice fooled both teams, deep guards, and out the back draws were common. The Siddall rink then found the magic, taking three in the fourth end, and stealing two in the fifth on its way to a 13-4 drubbing.

Cliff Tyson, winner of the first two sessions, faced Primo Secco in an age old battle. After a slow start the Secco team came on strong. Skip Primo Secco was unconscious, with much credit to his sweepers, he didn’t miss a draw all game as the Secco

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team went onto a 10 3 final.

In a game for the ages, or at least one that took that long.

Clair Coleman faced Serge Pasquali.

In a back-and-forth game, that saw lots of rocks in play, it came down to the final end.

The Pasquali team was ahead by one, with the Coleman team holding hammer.

Coleman had to make a double takeout on his last shot for the win. With the rest of the teams already behind the glass, he executed the double perfectly to make the final score 7-6.

The Trail Retiree Men’s annual bonspiel goes this weekend, with 30 teams vying for top spot.

Spectators are always welcome, the action begins at 8:30 a.m. each morning and continues to 5 p.m.

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BC Hockey held its girls U16 Team Kootenay tryouts this weekend in Nelson and nine West Kootenay girls cracked the lineup. The next stop is the BC Cup in Duncan in April. Back row from left: Reese McCrory (Nakusp), Catalina Hartland (Kaslo), Emma Wheeldon (Nelson), Merissa Dawson (Nelson), Kendra Waterstreet (Beaver Valley). Front from left: Emilie teBulte (Castlegar), Maddie Fisher (Rossland), Hailey Herridge (Nakusp), and Kali Horner (Nelson).

Winter Olympics

NHL now faces Olympic issue

THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK - If NHL players are to continue participating in the Olympics, it’s going to involve a delicate political dance.

The issue was not resolved as part of the tentative collective bargaining agreement reached by the NHL and NHL Players’ Association early Sunday morning and will now need to be hammered out between those parties and two others with strong ties to Rene Fasel - the International Ice Hockey Federation, of which Fasel is president, and the International Olympic Committee, of which he is an influential member.

It’s been clear for some time the NHL is seeking to receive more of a direct benefit for closing its doors every four years in February and handing over its most important assets.

The tension was evident when NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and Fasel held a joint press conference at the 2010 Vancouver Games and Bettman lamented being nothing more than an “invited guest” at the Olympics with no say in how the event was run.

Fasel has stepped lightly around the issue ever since and acknowledged to The Canadian Press on Tuesday that he’s prepared to start addressing some of the NHL’s concerns soon.

“Once the CBA is ratified and there has been some cooling-down period, we will sit together with the IOC, the NHL and NHLPA to find solutions how to make sure that Sochi 2014 becomes the fifth consecutive best-on-best Olympic event,” said Fasel. “As I have always pointed (out) whenever asked questions about NHL players’ participation, our doors are always open and I am confident that we will find ways like we did in Nagano, Salt Lake City, Turin and

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Vancouver - to stage this event on the biggest sporting stage there is.”

The NHL is expected to continue making a big international push over the course of its new CBA, as evidenced by an article devoted to that topic in the document. Not only does it include a clause saying every team in the league has to make at least one international trip before the deal expires in 2022, but there is also a section covering “new international business ventures.”

That is the only place where Olympic participation is mentioned, which is unusual since the Games have not been a money-making venture for the league. Essentially, the NHL has provided the players while the IOC reaped the financial benefits.

Now the NHL is looking to get a little more out of that relationship. According to sources, the changes it is expected to seek range from smaller issues such as access to tickets, hotels and better hospitality for team owners to larger things like sponsor recognition and a loosening of the IOC’s notoriously strict guidelines on images, video and media.

This is where it could get tricky for Fasel, who heads up the IOC’s winter sports committee and is rumoured to be interested in running for that organization’s presidency later in the year. He would obviously love to see the NHLers return, but at what cost? And if the IOC was to loosen some of its rules for the NHL, what kind of trickle-down effect might that have for pro tennis and basketball players?

Another highly interested party in the process is Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson, who recently became a vice-president with the IIHF. He’s also expected to be included in meetings regarding the future of NHLers and the Olympics, which could start at some point in the next few weeks.

“This is so important for all of us - Hockey Canada, the IIHF, the NHL - to grow our brands and more importantly to grow hockey,” said Nicholson.

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children and never experienced this type of thing with my kids.

I feel she needs to do something to curb this behavior. Am I being insecure or territorial or something? I love my girlfriend and don’t want this to be an issue, but I have no idea what to do. Any suggestions?

-- Don’t Want a Contest Dear Contest: Many boys at 13 are still children, and the cuddling with Mommy is not indicative of an aberration. However, this is also a time when Mom should be setting sensible boundaries and gently discouraging too much intimacy.

Some boys can confuse their love for Mom

the urn with her ashes.

I told Vern I thought this was a little odd, but he said it would be disrespectful to put her ashes in a closet. What do you think? -- Second Wife Dear Wife: Vern was thoughtful enough to remove these photos from your presence, and his office is his own private space. And we can understand why he wouldn’t want to stick the urn in a closet. You can gently encourage Vern to scatter his late wife’s ashes somewhere that has significance for him or ask whether he’d like to bury them.

But if he is resistant, we suggest you leave this alone. Neither the photos nor the ashes are in your shared space. You have no reason to be jealous.

Dear Annie: “Frustrated in Michigan” said she sent her college-aged nieces very generous checks and didn’t get a thank-you note. She then called the mother

of one of the recipients to see whether it had been lost. The check was then cashed, but still no thank-you note.

In a situation like this, I wonder whether the giver is begging for attention. The gift was unsolicited.

It almost seems as if the nieces are saying, “No, thanks, I’d rather do this myself.” I have been the recipient of unasked-for gifts, and they almost always come with strings attached. -- No Strings for Me

Dear Strings: If a gift comes with unwanted strings, it need only be returned -- along with a note of thanks. But not to send any acknowledgement at all is extremely inconsiderate.

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with their developing sexual feelings. Please approach this carefully.

Suggest that the two of you talk to the boy’s pediatrician about appropriate behavior, and make sure your girlfriend understands that her son’s longterm best interests must take precedence.

For information and assistance, we suggest the National Stepfamily Resource Center at stepfamilies.info.

Dear Annie: I married a wonderful widower nine months ago. We are both in our 60s, and he treats me like a queen.

“Vern’s” previous marriage of 34 years was a great one. When we married, he had lots of photos of his late wife. He thoughtfully removed them, but what upsets me is that he put a lot of them, including their wedding picture, in his home office where he spends 40 hours a week.

Worse, the centerpiece of his bookshelves is

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Dear Annie: I am a 56-year-old male dating a woman with a 13-year-old son. We plan to marry in the near future.

The boy has no relationship with his father and is very fond of me, as I am of him.

The problem is that he’s a mama’s boy. I think he is jealous of me. He competes for his mother’s attention and goes so far as to crawl into bed with us in the morning in order to snuggle with her. When we sit on the sofa, he joins us and places his mother’s arm around his neck as if to say, “Hey, what about me?”

I’ve tried to ignore this behavior, but it is starting to wear on me. My girlfriend sees nothing wrong with it, saying they have always been close and it’s always been just the two of them. But I think this isn’t quite right. I want her son to grow up a bit.

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YourByhoroscope Francis Drake For Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013 ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Upsets with authority figures are likely today, especially this morning. Watch what you say, and don’t anger anyone.

Stay flexible on your feet, and be ready to run.

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Travel plans will be canceled or delayed this morning. Ditto for plans related to higher education, the media, publishing and the law. Expect detours and snafus.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Keep in touch with your bank account or with anything regarding insurance matters, inheritances and the responsibility you have for the wealth of others. Know what is happening. Something unexpected might catch you off guard.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Minor arguments with partners and friends might occur, especially this morning,

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because people feel frustrated. Why are they frustrated?

Because things aren’t going their way.

LEO (July 23 to Aug. 22) Your job routine will be interrupted today due to computer crashes, power outages, staff shortages and canceled meetings. Everything is up for grabs. It’s a crapshoot.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22) This is an accident-prone day for your children, so be careful. Be extra vigilant and keep them away from potential hazards, especially with electricity and explosives.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) Small appliances might break down, or minor breakages could occur. You might run out of coffee at breakfast. (“Oh no!”) Family disputes are likely. Just maintain your cool.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21) This is an accident-prone day for you, especially in the

morning. It’s probably minor, but you might get hung up on something or caught in a traffic jam. Allow extra time for everything.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21) Keep an eye on your money and finances today, because surprises might occur this morning. You also might find money or lose money. You might lose or break a possession. Caution!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19) The Moon is in your sign today at odds with unpredictable Uranus. This makes you feel rebellious and impulsive.

Guard against knee-jerk reactions to things.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18) This is definitely a restless day. You feel like you’re waiting for something to happen.

Don’t let your distractions (mental or emotional) cause

mistakes.

PISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20) A friend might surprise you today, either pleasantly or unpleasantly. People in group situations definitely are unpredictable. If you sense this, give these people a wide berth. (Ya think?)

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Birthdate of: Jim Croce, musician; Pat Benetar, musician; Rod Stewart, musician.

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How to minimize Seasonal Affective Disorder

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fter waking up last Saturday morning to a brilliant blue sky, I couldn’t help but jump out of bed and go for a backcountry ski up at the pass and absorb that bluebird day up at the top of Crowe!

I still hadn’t had enough of that sunshine, so, I went for a cross-country ski on Sunday afternoon up at Paulson!!!!!! I felt like I had been sunshine starved for a few weeks!!!! It’s hard to look forward to winter if you don’t like the snow sports and are affected by the grey lowhanging clouds and the Kootenay fog. However, if you can’t get outside there is an effective solution.

Seasonal Affectie Disorder (SAD) is seasonal problem that affects about 2-5% of Canadians and is 8x more common in women especially in their 20’s and 30’s. The number of people over 65 suffering from this disorder is lower, with the rate beginning to decline around 50 years old.

The severity and symptoms

vary from person light into the to person, however, retina. Most of the most common the time, it is symptoms are: good to refrain • Low mood, from wearing decreased interest sunglasses, since in normally pleasurthe intensity of able activities sunlight at this • Decreased contime of year is centration minimal and we • Over-sleeping need to get the DR. BRENDA (often an increase of sunlight to hit 4 hrs or more each the back of the day) retina to form On the Way Low energy and the proper horto Wellness lack of drive/motivamones for mood tion/feeling “blah” stability. NOTE: • Intense craving for carbohy- Contacts are all U-V protected, drates and sweets so, you never get full spectrum • Weight gain light to the retina with contacts.

• Withdrawl from social con- Therefore, you should try and tacts wear regular glasses when going • Sensitive to barometric out for a walk at lunch. pressure 2. Replace reading lamp lights • Increased hormonal prob- or lights where you spend siglems due to the altered chemical nificant time with full spectrum balance lights and try to be under these Here are some ways you can for at least 1 hour/day reading minimize the effects of low light or spending time. They can be days. bought at any hardware store 1. Get outside at lunch for at and are called Reveal lights and least 20 minutes to maximize are a purplish-blue colour. This

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Screening should start after 25: panel THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO Canadian women should start being routinely screened for cervical cancer at a later age than previously recommended and do it less frequently than has been the norm until now, new national guidelines recommend.

The guidance suggests cervical cancer screening should begin at age 25 and continue until age 69, at three year intervals. For years, women were advised to get an annual Pap smear, though in recent years a number of countries have lengthened the intervals between tests.

The guidelines are issued by the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care, a federally funded group that advises doctors on what should be part of routine preventive care for their patients.

The recommendations were drawn up for the task force by a working group that analyzed the medical literature to determine the best approach.

“Every three years will do the job. Doing it every year doesn’t really add very much (protection) but it adds

a lot of inconvenience and some harm,” said Dr. James Dickinson, who chaired the working group and is a professor of family medicine at the University of Calgary.

The guidelines were published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

In the decades since doctors began to look for pre-cancerous

cells on the cervix using a test devised by Greek doctor Georgios Papanicolaou, rates of invasive cervical cancer and deaths to the disease have plummeted. The Canadian Cancer Society estimated that in 2012, 1,350 Canadian women were diagnosed with cervical cancer and 390 died from the disease.

helps to give you the amount of natural light you need at this time of year.

3. Use a SAD light that has a specific range of light wavelengths. These are usually a bright light box fitted with highintensity light bulbs using either full spectrum or white light.

Usually ½ hour of exposure per day will do the trick! I find the Litebook works the best.

A recent study that used light therapy in the workplace, so that the participants received morning or afternoon light, showed all experienced a significant reduction in lows and improved positive mood, energy, alertness and productivity.

Adequate light is vital to healthy living especially when it comes to maintaining our body’s circadian rhythms. This internal clock controls numerous functions from hormone levels to sleep and wake cycles.

Proper amounts of light keep this rhythm balanced. Light is utilized by the body by turning it into electrical impulses by the eye. These travel along the optic

New Norovirus strain found in B.C.

BY INTERIOR HEALTH AUTHORITY Norovirus season has begun early this year with the arrival of a new strain.

Since October 2012 there have been higher than expected requests for gastroenteritis (stomach-related virus) outbreak laboratory testing as well as higher norovirus positive test results when compared to this time in 2011.

This has been observed not only in B.C. but worldwide.

A report from the Public Health Microbiology and Reference Laboratory on norovirus including the new strain is summarized in the latest issue of Laboratory Trends.

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nerve to the brain, which trigger the release of the mood altering hormone serotonin and other chemical messengers.

Light therapy has been used effectively for over 20 years.

Studies have shown that even after only a week of daily sessions, symptoms improve significantly. Light not only increases the mood-elevating levels of serotonin, but, also reduces the daytime levels of melatonin which promotes sleep.

These increased levels of neurotransmitters contributes to increased energy, better moods and a reduction in carbohydrate cravings.

It can also minimize PMS, chronic anxiety and panic attacks, severe jet lag and for some eating disorders.

So, try these steps if you feel you just don’t have the energy you feel you want at this time of year. If you still feel you’re not feeling where you should be, Dr. Brenda Gill is a naturopath in Rossland. For an appointment with Dr. Gill call 250-362-5035

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Backcountry boarders unscathed after night outdoors

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 Trail Times

By Sam Van Schie Nelson Star

Four backcountry snowboarders who were lost in Hummingbird pass Saturday managed to find their way to safety after spending the night outdoors.

The group of men in their late-20s and early30s, including one local from Ymir and others from Kelowna, Calgary and Edmonton, had planned to hike along evening ridge Saturday and return to

Ymir by dinner time.

The partner of the local man contacted RCMP around midnight to report the men missing. She had driven up Whitewater Road and found the men’s vehicle still in the parking lot.

Nelson Search and Rescue were notified and two of their members spent the night out on Whitewater Road driving back and forth with their sirens and lights on in attempt to attract the snow boarders towards the road.

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Meanwhile, a search was co-ordinated through the night to commence at first light. Around 7 a.m., 23 Search and Rescue members from Nelson and South Columbia units started looking for the missing men.

“We didn’t have much to go on in terms of where to look,” explained search manager Scott Spencer.

“Their plan was go out along evening ridge and decide where to go once they got there.”

The men hadn’t packed to spend the night, but were warmly dressed and prepared for day outdoors.

Searchers spent three hours looking for the men, checking in places where skiers typically get lost in that area. Then, at about 10 a.m. one of the missing snowboarders showed up at the search base — he and his party had safely made it out of the backcountry on their own.

“They had gone ahead with their original plan of

skiing Evening Ridge, but in the thick cloud cover has become disoriented,” Spencer explained.

They meant to snowboard towards Whitewater Road, but instead went into the Selous Creek basin.

They snowshoed until dusk looking for the road. Around 5:30 p.m. they decided to dig in for the night and built a fire to keep warm.

In the morning they continued walking and eventually made it to Highway 6, near Cottonwood Lake.

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