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Animal Alliance warns of anti-cull ad campaign Campaign would target potential visitors to Kimberley C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
“Do you want to bring your kids to the deer-killing capital of B.C. for spring break?” That’s the message the Animal Alliance of Canada is promising to bring to Calgary newspapers if the City of Kimberley gives any indication that there will be more deer culls. The City is currently culling 30 deer from Kimberley’s urban deer population (see related story, page 5). The Bulletin reached Liz White from the Animal Alliance in Toronto on Thursday. White confirmed that a campaign is being put together to impact tourism in the Kootenays.
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Wednesday was Pink Shirt Day, a day of support for anti-bullying, which began in Nova Scotia when classmates decided to stand up for a boy who was picked on for wearing a pink shirt to school. Above, students at McKim gather for an anti-bullying assembly, which included a surprise flash mob from pink-shirted Lindsay Park students.
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AMENDMENT TO PARKS ACT
Wildsight, MLA Macdonald caution against Bill 4 Bill would allow feasibility studies on pipelines, roads, transmission lines in parks C AROLYN GR ANT editor@dailybulletin.ca
The B.C. Legislature will be voting, likely next week, on Bill 4, an amendment to the Parks Act. Bill 4 allows for industry (and oth-
ers) to carry out research or feasibility studies in provincial parks. The research can be related to pipelines, transmission lines, roads and other industrial activities that might require park land. It also reduces legal protection for smaller parks and enables film production in BC parks. Environmental groups like Kimberley-based Wildsight are calling it an ill-conceived attack on existing protection. “Our parks, including the Purcell Wilder-
ness Conservancy, Height of the Rockies, St. Mary’s Alpine Park, Akamina-Kishenina, Elk Lakes and provincial parks across British Columbia were created to strike a balance on the landscape, to assure future generations have the opportunity to experience the wildlife and wilderness that makes British Columbia unique in the world,” said John Bergenske, Wildsight Executive Director. “These proposed changes threaten the integrity of our park system and the wild plac-
es that British Columbians cherish.” Columbia River Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald (NDP) says that his party will be speaking against the proposed amendment and will vote against it. “It’s a change that takes parks in the wrong direction,” Macdonald said. Macdonald says that government already has an ability to make allowances for pipelines, but the process is “rigorous”.
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