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AVALANCHE SEASON
Conditions were dangerous on the weekend One dead in Hellroaring avalanche; skier killed in slide near Revelstoke C A R O LYN G R A N T Daily Bulletin
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GAME ON! It’s not going to be that easy for the fourth-ranked team in Canada, the Edmonton Oil Kings. Those pesky Kootenay Ice have been upsetting top squads throughout 2013 — and they have a rep for being especially tough at home. Want to help out the home team? Head on down to Western Financial Place tonight, 7 p.m., as Game 3 for Round 1 of the WHL playoffs comes to town. It’s going to be electric. Pictured above: Zach McPhee of the Ice tangles with Michael St. Croix of the Oil Kings in Game 2 in Edmonton Sunday night. The series is so far split 1 to 1.
At press time, the name of the victim of this past weekend’s avalanche had not been released. BC Coroners Services Communications Officer Barb McLintock said that next of kin were still being informed on Monday. One man died when a group of snowmobilers were caught in an avalanche in the Hellroaring area up the St. Mary Valley on Saturday. This was the same area as an avalanche four years ago which took the life of anoth-
er Kimberley snowmobiler. Avalanche conditions at the time of the deadly slide were listed as Considerable by the Canadian Avalanche Centre. A Considerable rating means dangerous avalanche conditions with careful snowpack evaluation required, cautious route finding and conservative decision making essential. It also means natural avalanches are likely and human-triggered avalanches very likely.
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CP Rail ordered to cease and desist Canada Industrial Relations Board finds CPR’s cancellation of local agreements violated the Canada Labour Code SALLY MACDONALD Townsman Staff
A labour dispute between Canadian Pacific Rail and its running trades employees’ union Teamsters Canada over the cancellation of local agreements has been settled in favour of the union. On Friday, March 22, the Canada Industrial Relations
Board filed a cease and desist order against CP Rail with the federal court of Canada, ordering the company to reinstate local agreements. Running trades employees include locomotive engineers, conductors, trainmen and yardmen. After CP Rail gave notice
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that it would be cancelling local agreements for these employees in all of its service areas last September, the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference filed initial charges with the Canada Industrial Relations Board in October. The board held a hearing in Ottawa in October and on December 19 the board
found that CP Rail had violated the Canada Labour Code in cancelling the local agreements and directed CP Rail to reinstate the local agreements. However, according to a statement by Teamsters, CP Rail continued to issue notice about the cancellation of agreements. On January 23
this year, Teamsters asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to file its December order with the federal court so that if CPR did not reinstate the local agreements, the order could be enforced. At a hearing in Ottawa on March 18, CP Rail told the board that cancellation of
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local rules was necessary so the company could implement standardized calling rules in their place. The company argued that the net result of its action would be to modify rather than cancel the existing calling rules.
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