Cranbrook Daily Townsman, May 05, 2014

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MMBC director confronts RDEK A R N E P E T RYS H E N Townsman Staff

Regional District representatives had a chance to clear some confusion, as well as vent some frustrations, at the new provincial recycling program being implemented around B.C. this month.

Allen Langdon, managing director of Multi-Material British Columbia (MMBC) was in the hot seat as he took questions from Regional District of East Kootenay directors at a committee meeting on

Thursday afternoon, May 1. Langdon was there to answer question about the benefits of being in the program.

“We are the latest in over 20 stewardship agencies that have come along before us, for materials such as paint, tires, electronics, lightbulbs, light fixtures, batteries — I could go on,” Langdon said. “This is nothing new in terms of this model, but we’re by far the largest program.”

See RDEK, Page 3

Grizzly spotted in Marysville C A R O LYN G R A N T Daily Bulletin

A grizzly bear was spotted in Marysville on Thursday evening at about 5:30 p.m.

Hannah Hollister, who lives on 301 Street, just below the Rails to Trails, says the bear was in her driveway where her four-year old son

was playing.

“My son was outside playing with the hose.

He came in and told me there was a bear. We went outside and it was still there. It was definitely a grizzly, probably two or three years old.”

See GRIZZLY, Page 3

BARRY COULTER PHOTO

Teams from six schools from the Kootenays East and West participated in an all-day rugby tournament hosted by Mount Baker Secondary School on Friday, May 2. See Page 9 for a special photo feature. Above: Selkirk Secondary looks to break free, but is brought down by a Mount Baker flying tackle.

Canada Post won’t take questions until phase-out begins A R N E P E T RYS H E N

Canada Post won’t hold audience with Cranbrook Council until home delivery phase out begins.

Canada Post responded to Council’s request to invite a representative to speak to council regarding proposed changes to postal

services.

In the April 28 meeting CAO Wayne Staudt said he’d also spoken to the representative from Canada

Post who told him that a delegation won’t be forthcoming until the home delivery phase out is upon us.

“What the gentleman

told me is that when the city’s turn is up for changing home delivery here in Cranbrook, Canada Post will come out and meet with

council at that time,” Staudt said. “Right now we’re not on their immediate radar.”

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A grass fire Wednesday in the neighbourhood of Slaterville could have ended up being significant, but quick reaction and a little weather luck meant the fire was under control quickly.

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Last week’s grass fire a close call for Slaterville residents A r n e P e t rys h e n Townsman Staff

A grass fire threatened residences and a school in Slaterville Wednesday afternoon.

Luckily, fire crews were able to attend and put the fire out before it got out of hand. They got the call mid afternoon Wednesday.

The location of the fire was in a woodland area between residences and the Kootenay Christian Academy school building, in the square block between Fifth and Sixth Street NW and Hurry and Briar Avenue NW. “The fire was moving quite quickly up the hill towards some homes, but we were able to stop it,” Scott Driver, deputy director of Fire and Emergency

Services for Cranbrook, said.

He said the fire got pretty big and a big plume of smoke was visible across town.

At the same time a much bigger plume of smoke could be seen rising from the Ministry of Forest’s controlled burn north of the city.

The Cranbrook fire department sent four trucks to Slaterville: A water tender, a fire engine, a bush truck and the command vehicle.

“Just due to the location, it was close to a lot of residences and the school,” Driver said.

“Fire did make it into the trees and some of the neighbours were quite concerned about the safety of their property.”

He said crews aren’t

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sure how the grass fire started, noting though there was burning going on in the area earlier, they couldn’t make a determination.

“It didn’t look intentional and it didn’t look malicious,” he said.

He also said RCMP doesn’t get involved in these types of incidents.

“It could have ended up being significant, but it didn’t,” he said.

“Everyone got lucky with weather and thing and we’re sort of fortunate that way.”

Driver noted the fire department wants people to know is that there is no open burning allowed in the city.

“If people are burn-

ing their yard waste in the city, that’s against the city’s bylaws,” Driver said. “In the regional district it’s allowed under certain conditions that are laid out under the environment and forest services.”

He noted there is free recycling at the landfill for those types of material.

Buy a piece of Cranbrook’s heritage For the Townsman

Members of the Cranbrook Heritage Association (CHA) have launched a fundraising drive to raise funds for restoration of the old brick Water/Electrical building.

“This is the latest project of the rejuvenated Cranbrook Heritage Association, and we want to make it a success,” said CHA President Karen Crawford. "If every family in Cranbrook bought a brick for $10 we would be able to restore this quirky, interesting old building.

Come on Cranbrook!”

Crawford added that Chris and Carol Johns were the very first contributors to the campaign.

Donations are being received at the following locations: Cathy’s Kitchen, Lotus Books, Cloverdale Paints and Hot Shots Café.

The CHA announced several levels to the fundraising programme.

A $10 donation will get the donor’s name on a display brick, while a $25 donation will get a donor’s name on a display cornerstone.

“There are also beautiful colour certificates available for donors at larger levels,” Crawford said. “The Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History has contributed beautiful full-colour old share

certificates for contributors at the $50 (Window), $100 (Door) and $250 (Roof) level. These are definitely suitable for framing and display.”

The CHA is working to raise $35,000 locally for the restoration, which will be combined with grant funds that have been applied for.

Work on the building is progressing as the funds for materials are accumulated. Most of the labour is voluntary.

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RDEK takes MMBC director to task Continued from page 1 Langdon said it’s also the program that’s had the most interaction with municipalities, because in most cases it involves the transition from local government-run programs to a provincial corporation programs.

He said comparatively when the electronics recycling program came into being, there wasn’t a large scale program already in place like in this case.

“I would like clarification of why you believe they think this program could be the end of the newspaper that has served Fernie for over 110 years.”

Mary Giuliano “It was really filling a gap, whereas this is much more a transition and enhancement of service that is right now is being fronted by municipal taxpayers,” he said.

Langdon later admitted in the meeting: “We’re not calling it an enhancement of service in this regional district.”

That was prompted

by Invermere Director Gerry Taft, who was not convinced of the benefits of the program, noting there will only be two depots in Cranbrook and one in Invermere for the East Kootenay.

“To suggest that people from Spillimacheen or outside of

Canal Flats are somehow going to drive to a municipality an hour away to bring their cardboard and recycling material and call that an enhancement of service is ridiculous,” Taft said, adding the current yellow bin system serves the 56,000 residents of the RDEK well.

Area G Director Gerry Wilkie agreed.

“We have an outstanding recycling program through the regional district and through the yellow bins,” Wilkie said.

“In particular in the rural areas. And a whole generation have bought into it. If we lose that, that’s so highly retrogressive.”

Mary Giuliano, City of Fernie director, wanted clarification about what’s expected for the newspaper industry in the program.

“Our local newspaper (Fernie Free Press) has a concern with being designated that they are now producers of paper,” Giuliano said.

“They’ve approached our council with a letter wanting our support.

We have not acted on it, however, I would like clarification of why you believe they think this program could be the end of the newspaper that has served Fernie for over 110 years.”

Langdon said it’s not a decision by MMBC to classify newspapers as a producer, but a result of the provincial recycling regulations. He said newspapers representatives have not as yet joined MMBC, though he noted newspapers were a part back

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Allen Langdon, managing director of Multi-Material BC spoke to Regional District of East Kootenay directors on May 1. Langdon outlined the functions of the new recycling program and tried to address concerns that the directors had. at the birth of MMBC back in 2011. The newspapers left in 2012 to explore other options.

“They had until Nov. 19, 2012, to submit a stewardship plan,” he said. “They did not submit a stewardship plan.

I am sympathetic to the plight of the newspaper industry in terms of their financial situation, but unfortunately it’s something that’s outside my purview.”.

He said in Ontario for instance the municipal governments are subsidizing newspapers to the tune of $16 million a year. And similar things are happening in Manitoba as well.

He said there hasn’t been any movement for something like that to happen in this province.

MMBC’s board is made up of paying members from a num-

ber of multinational corporations, including Tim Hortons, Loblaw,

Walmart, Coca-Cola, Proctor and Gamble, and Unilever.

Wayne Stetski, City of Cranbrook director and mayor, asked what suggestion Langdon would have to make things better.

He replied the only thing he would have recommended is that MMBC should have more time. He said municipalities pressured the province to keep on the course, since delaying it an extra year would have meant missing out on MMBC funding for that year.

He gave no indication which municipalities those were.

“One of the challenges of the program, and I won’t undersell it, is that we’re trying to move forward in a standard model,” he said.

That adherence to a standard model was a source of frustration at the meeting.

Director Taft asked why they can’t make an arrangement where

MMBC works with the regional district to refine the current yellow bin system to meet the provincial requirements MMBC must adhere to.

Mike Sosnowski, Area A director, furthered the line of thought, asking whether MMBC could buy sorted material from the RDEK if the current program adopted the provincial sorting requirements.

“You seem like the perfect outlet,” Sosnowski said. “So if we give you the stuff, pay us. Does that model work? I don’t get it. We could do that, and save money on that, but your model’s not offering us that.”

Langdon said what it comes down to is the contracts have been signed with stipulations that it be standardized across the province.

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Hollister says she used to work for Fish and Wildlife and would recognize a grizzly. She said her son pointed to where he had been standing, about eight feet from the bear.

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Hollister said the bear wasn’t doing anything, just standing there. It didn’t appear

the house with her tail between her legs. We went inside and shut the door. I opened the blinds, which are squeaky, and that seemed to scare the bear off.”

Hollister called the Conservation Officer service and was told that there had been other reports of the grizzly in town last week.

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Local NEWS EK Friends of Children gets Board asks hospital $25,000 in provincial funding for privacy screen For the Townsman

The Ministry of Health has provided Friends of Children with a onetime grant of $25,000, announced East Kootenay MLA Bill Bennett.

This funding will help the society to continue the services it provides to Northern B.C. and East Kootenay families in need of assistance with out-of-province care.

“Families from the East Kootenay are so far from Vancouver, their children are usually not referred to BC Children’s Hospital,” said East Kootenay MLA Bill Bennett. “This makes it very challenging for many families who must go to Calgary to secure the medical care needed by their children. This grant will really help these families.”

“It can be reassuring for parents to know that if their child needs out-ofprovince care, the costs of that care will be covered,” said Health Minister Terry Lake. “For these families, accommodation and travel can add fi-

nancial stress at an already stressful time, which is why organizations like Friends of Children help by providing B.C. families with both financial and emotional support.”

The Ministry of Health’s primary concern is ensuring British Columbians receive the health care they need, wherever they are in Canada. This funding helps to ensure that children in border communities, such as in Northeastern B.C. or the East Kootenays, can choose to go to Alberta for surgical and diagnostic services, and still maintain the support of family.

Friends of Children is a non-profit society that assists Northern B.C. and East Kootenay families with children who have extraordinary medical need. Each year, the registered charity receives over 200 requests for support with children’s medical emergencies, therapies, specialized equipment, drug prescriptions as well as out-of-town accommodation, meal and travel costs.

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Interior Health is being urged to provide covered access the entire way from East Kootenay Regional Hospital into the Mobile MRI trailer that is parked outside the hospital one week a month.

On Friday, May 2, directors of the Kootenay East Regional Hospital District board appealed to Interior Health to provide some kind of covering between the end of the walkway and the entrance to the trailer.

“It’s embarrassing for people to have to go out there, and when it is cold, when it is raining, when it is windy...,” said Mary Giuliani, mayor of Fernie. “Why couldn’t a canvas cover be easy enough to do? I think this is a really easy matter for Interior Health to take care of and it would make life so much easier for the people who are needing it.”

The Mobile MRI unit provides diagnostic imaging for patients of the

East Kootenay one week out of every month. It is shared with the South Okanagan and Kootenay Boundary districts.

In 2005, Interior Health built a glassedin, heated walkway out to the parking space where the trailer sits.

However, the trailer cannot connect directly to the walkway and patients must walk outside in hospital gowns to get from the walkway to the trailer.

“Here’s a vision for you: me in a gown, cowboy hat and boots, and the wind comes up.

Not a good look for neighbours, for kids, or anybody else,” said board chair John Kettle.

Todd Mastel, director of business support for Interior Health, told the board that the hospital’s practice is for the MRI technician to meet the patient inside the hospital and offer for them to wear their coat or a blanket over the gown, and carry their personal belongings out to the trailer.

However, Giuliani

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The hospital district would like Interior Health to provide a cover between the walkway from EK Regional Hospital and the Mobile MRI trailer

Staudt said the corporation won’t be coming for a delegation at this time, but when actions are going to start to take place then Canada Post will definitely be coming to see city council.

Coun. Gerry Warner gave a notice of motion before the last meeting.

“If there’s this much time before anybody from Canada Post is going to come to talk with us, I think I’ll go ahead with that,” Warner said. “There is a lot of opposition in the country to this. Maybe it’s possible that their position could change or something.”

Mayor Wayne Stetski said he has heard concerns from the community.

“Certainly from my perspective the major concern I heard from is from seniors and people with disabilities,” Stetski said. “I see in their letter that they say Canada Post is developing alternative approaches for people with significant disabilities whom lack alternatives and whom delivery to the community mailbox will pose an unacceptable hardship. We look forward to hearing more on that.”

said when she accompanied someone to have the test done recently, that was not the case and the patient went from the walkway to the trailer in nothing but a gown in the depth of winter.

“We didn’t get it right that day and I apologize for that,” responded Mastel.

Interior Health has weighed up the cost of connecting the trailer to the passageway, but consider it to be a low priority given other expenses facing the hospital district.

“It becomes a balancing act in terms of how this item fits in terms of a priority versus all the other challenges we have on the capital side,” said Mastel.

“We’re not sure that there is something that would make it significantly better than what we have now.”

But Mike Sosnowski, Area A director, said it seemed like the board was getting the brushoff on the issue.

“I went and looked; it’s not rocket science. $10,000 could put a canvas cover on wheels.

A local contractor could do that in a week,” he said.

Garry Jackman, director of Area A in the Central Kootenay district, said that a frame constructed with a series of hoops, each larger than the last, with an accordion style canvas cover, would solve the problem and include the stairs into the trailer.

“To me, privacy is as big an issue as anything else. Any kind of screen on the side – even on one side – would cut the wind, which would make it more comfortable, and it would provide privacy,” said Jackman.

Chair Kettle asked Interior Health to look at the issue again and provide a more detailed response to the board.

“I don’t think you’ve ever given us the brushoff, but we need a better answer than we have right now,” said Kettle.

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Courtesy Jerelynn MacNeil

For the Townsman

Left to right: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 24 President Clive Brown, Donna Grainger of the East Kootenay Foundation for Health, and Les Radcliffe, Poppy Committee Representative.

Poppy Fund continues to support veterans’ health For the Townsman

Since 1921, the poppy has stood as a symbol of Remembrance with a visual pledge to never forget all those Canadians who have fallen in war and military operations. The poppy also honours those who continue to dedicate their life to service.

Proceeds from poppy funds offer financial support to veterans, ex-military personnel and their dependents. The Royal Canadian Legion #24 (Cranbrook) has also focused on providing funds to purchase medical equipment with donations to East Koo-

tient’s oxygen saturation. tenay Foundation for Health.

The Royal Canadian Legion At its recent annual general meeting, members of the Royal #24 has been generously donating Canadian Legion #24 presented critical funds to health care for EKFH with a gift of $5,000 from its over a decade. With this recent gift, East Kootenay Foundation for 2013 Poppy Campaign.

These funds are already going Health is proud to announce that to work to the benefit of the Dr. F. the Poppy Fund Campaign has W. Green Home with the order of had an impact of over $60,600 in a new broda chair; a repositioning gifts aiding veterans and their chair that provides exceptional families in the East Kootenays.

Without the generosity of the patient comfort while reducing the time and effort required by public who continue to support nursing teams and caregivers. Poppy Fund Campaigns across The poppy fund is also purchas- the nation this support for vetering a pulse oximeter; a non-inva- ans would not be possible. Lest sive method for monitoring a pa- We Forget.

Kindergarten student Conner McLeod and Grade 6 student Ariel Stuart are pictured preparing for St. Mary’s School “Sister Ralph” talent show night.

Ariel showcased her ballet talent and Conner was brave enough to showcase his Speech Arts poem in front of a lively audience of proud parents.

They were just two of 34 presentations that bear the name of Sister Ralph Lewdy, who formally taught at the school and was an enthusiastic promoter of the importance of the performing arts for children.

PUBLIC CONSULTATION PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN The City of Cranbrook has received an application to amend the City’s Official Community Plan.

On April 28, 2014, City Council gave first reading to “City of Cranbrook Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3797, 2014”.

If adopted, the proposed Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment will change the land use designation of the subject property from a “Highway Commercial” designation to a “Low Density Residential” designation.

Approval of the proposed OCP amendment will enable consideration of a proposed rezoning of the subject property from a “C-2 – Highway Commercial Zone” to a “RT - Residential Transition Zone”.

The subject property is legally described as: Lot A, District Lot 2872, Kootenay District, Plan 11840, Except Part in Plan 13947, and is located on 30th Avenue North as indicated on the reference map below.

Blue Lake Centre reopens for season

For the Townsman

Blue Lake Centre has received updated signage courtesy of Selkirk Signs, jut in time for the Grand Reopening Celebration. Existing signage will be replaced at the office location in Cranbrook, at the highway turnoff, and at Blue Lake Centre. The Grand Reopening Celebration took place place on Saturday, May 3, at Blue Lake Centre, and included tours of the new facilities, sample environmental programming, camp games, food, musical entertainment, and an opportunity to use recreational trails and canoes.

Left to Right: Tanya Rothermund - Selkirk Signs, Brandy Adams - Blue Lake Centre, Kelly Diamond - Blue Lake Centre.

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The purpose of the proposed OCP amendment and Zoning amendment is to make the zoning consistent with the existing residential use of the property.

A copy of the proposed “City of Cranbrook Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw No. 3797, 2014” is available at City Hall for public information.

If you require more information or wish to comment on the proposed OCP amendment, please contact Mr. R. Price, Community Planner at (250) 489-0202.

Please provide written comments by May 12, 2014.

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The sweet appeal of rejection

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ave you ever walked into a high end then perhaps you measure up after all. You store and had the staff look at you are good enough for that real Gucci bag, like you were something that not the knock-off.

Think of it as a self-improvement exercrawled out of a dumpster? You know the look — the slight lip curl, the almost imper- cise. You weren’t worthy of the merchanceptible wrinkle of the nose as if some dise on first try, but if you work hard, maybe the next time you odour has offended. The will be. Maybe the sales as“may I help you?” couched sociate will accept you. It’s in a tone that wonders how a goal to aspire to. you could possibly think you The research says that are worthy of the merchanCarolyn you will exhibit this bedise this fine purveyor … er, Grant haviour because you desire purveys. to belong to the this “brand You scuttle out of the community”. Because all store barely resisting the urge to back out so as not to offend the far the cool kids do.

Being rejected by the cool sales associsuperior personage with a view of your ate makes you harken back to high school hindquarters.

Gucci did not make this bag for the likes when you were rejected by the cool kids. of you, the lofty salesperson sniffs as you But this time, unlike high school, you have a chance. If you can just improve yourself disappear, humiliated. to the point that you can swagger into a You vow never to return. high end store and expect to be catered to Or do you?

A recent study coming out of UBC says by an obsequious staff, you’ve won. And so that the worse the staff at a snooty store has the retailer.

In a nutshell, having unbearably pretreat you, the more likely you are to return tentious staff can increase sales. and purchase their merchandise.

But there is a fine line. The product I know, right?

But the research doesn’t lie. Not only must be in demand. It must be considered will you return, you will buy. Because if just the thing. The brand must be instantly they actually deign to sell you their wares, recognizable. We don’t want to be talked

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

down to by just anyone. We will take a supercilious sneer from an Apple “Genius”.

We will not accept the same from a kid in the electronics section of the local department store.

We will allow a nattily attired metrosexual to tell us that “Not everyone can pull off that shoe”. At a discount store? No. Just no.

We will allow a rail-thin sales associate who disappears when turned sideways to bite out, “We do not sell that in ‘large’,” as her eyes scan you with derision. We would take that nowhere else.

But once having been talked down to by these brand-name guardians, the research says we yearn for more. We long for the abuse, we are willing to be submissive to these arbiters of cool, in the hopes that someday we may be able to drop that brand-name phone into our brand-name bag and sashay out in those brand-name shoes.

Why does it matter so much? Why is a brand-name so important to us that we will take abuse just for the privilege of paying more than its worth? That’s going to require more research.

Carolyn Grant is the Editor of the Kimberley Daily Bulletin

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Final buzzer sounds on Dix leadership

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s the clock ticked down on the last few hours of Adrian Dix’s three-year tenure as leader of the New Democratic Party Thursday, he was, of course, the recipient some gracious accolades.

Both sides of the legislature rose for a standing ovation when he got to his feet during the morning question period. In fielding the last question that Dix would pose as leader, government house leader Mike de Jong skipped the answer and cut straight to the tribute to a worthy opponent.

“I frequently disagreed with the Leader of the Opposition but have always respected the passion that he has brought to this place and to public affairs generally and certainly recognized his abilities. He has held a post that is difficult, challenging and thankless.”

At which point Dix put up his hands in mock protest, as if to say “thankless? difficult? where did you ever get such notions about the job of leading the opposition?”

Back to de Jong, seriously now: “It is a post that is integral and essential to the practicing of parliamentary democracy and (makes) a unique contribution to this place. Question period is perhaps the most appropriate time for this house and this side of the house, all sides of the house, to say thank you.”

Also, it allowed the Liberals to skate past a tough line of questioning from Dix about the government’s dubious proposal to reform forestry tenures — lately coming under unlikely fire from one of the leading forest companies, Canfor.

But as de Jong acknowledged, both the issue and Dix (albeit in a subsidiary role to

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incoming leader John Horgan) will still be active when the house resumes business next week.

It fell to NDP house leader Bruce Ralston to pick up the theme on behalf of the Opposition. He took his turn at the end of the 30-minute question period, not wanting to pass on any part of the daily opportunity to hold government to account.

He began by noting how Dix assumed the leadership following the ouster of Carole Vaughn bitter James in a caucus revolt Palmer in late 2010.

“He took over the leadership of our party at a particularly difficult time and drew us together again,” said Ralston. “He has brought to the job that he occupies today an energy, a passion, an intellect and, I think everyone would agree, an unrivalled work ethic.”

Especially the latter. Dix is one of the hardest workers I have come across in covering provincial politics. He was exceptionally well-read and well-informed, whatever one thinks of the positions he took and the way he conducted his campaigns.

He did a remarkable job of raising money for his party before the last election, particularly from the business community. The confidence he displayed as leader went a long way toward conveying the impression that the NDP was united, ready to govern and poised to win.

More recently in the legislature, he has been given to displays of anger and occasional petulance, suggesting he is still harbouring some unresolved bitterness over

losing to Christy Clark.

But his good humour was much on display Thursday as he thanked the two house leaders for their kind words: “If I had only known I could unite people so well, I would have left a long time ago.”

This just in: According to an Angus Reid poll released Thursday, respondents who balked at voting NDP in the last election, gave Adrian Dix as the No. 1 reason (36 per cent) followed by the party’s policies in general (24 per cent).

And what would Dix do differently if he had it to do all over again? “Win the election.”

Most lamentable aspect of media coverage of politics? “The tendency to look at public policy like sports — who’s up, who’s down.”

Any regrets? “A lot of people are too negative about public life.”

Proudest achievement as leader? “Defending working people.”

On the latter score, he pointed to his decision to put higher education, career preparation and skills training at the forefront of the party platform throughout his time as leader. And he couldn’t help noting how this very week, the B.C. Liberals were playing catch-up by launching a major set of reforms for higher education, career preparation and — you guessed it — skills training.

Now at the top of the public policy agenda and, as Dix would have it, “we forced it there.” Such are the fleeting satisfactions of service in Opposition, when you never got to form a government of your own.

Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun

Israel and the “A” Word

illary Clinton would never have used the word when she was US Secretary of State, because she still has presidential ambitions. John Kerry, the current Secretary of State, has no further ambitions in that direction, which may be why he dared to use the words “apartheid” and “Israel” in the same sentence. Or maybe he just didn’t realise that the world would hear about it.

Kerry spoke last week to a group of high-ranking officials from the US, Europe and Japan known as the Trilateral Commission about the failure of his yearlong attempt to revive the “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinians.

Somebody at the meeting secretly recorded his comments, which were published by the Daily Beast on Monday, and suddenly he was in very hot water.

What he said was that the long-sought “two-state solution” was the only real alternative to a “unitary” Israeli-ruled state that included all the territory between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea – and ruled over millions of Palestinians in the territories that have been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.

Those Palestinians, most of whom cannot remember a time when they did not live under Israeli control, have no political rights within Israel. The two-state solution, under negotiation off and on for the past twenty years, would give them a state of their own, but most people had despaired some time ago of getting Israel to agree to

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an independent Palestine.

Kerry had not, so he was surprised and disappointed when his efforts came to naught. That was why he blurted out the truth that American politicians are never supposed to acknowledge. He said that without the two-state solution, “a unitary [Israeli] state winds up either being an apartheid state with second-class [Palestinian] citizens – or it ends up being a state that destroys the capacity of Israel to be a Jewish state.”

It was clumsily phrased, but the basic idea is common in both Israeli and Palestinian political disGwynne course. Even if Israel never formally annexes the occuDyer pied territories, it has been building Jewish settlements all over them for decades, and the Palestinian inhabitants are effectively controlled by the Israeli government.

If this situation continues indefinitely, and the Palestinians must live out their lives as mere residents without no political rights, then they are in the same position as the black South Africans who lived all their lives under white rule without citizenship or the vote. That was the very essence of apartheid.

Alternatively, of course, Israel might grant them citizenship and the vote: that’s what happened when apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994. But there are already a great many Palestinians living under Israeli rule, and their higher birth rate would make them a majority in in that “unitary” Israel in less than a generation. That might

or might not be a state where Jews were happy to live, but it would definitely no longer be a Jewish state.

State Department officials tried to defend their boss’s comments for a few hours, but as the firestorm of protest by American Zionist organisations grew the Obama administration realised that Kerry had to be forced to apologise for speaking the truth.

The story that they took him down into the White House basement and beat him with rubber hoses is probably untrue, but on Tuesday he recanted his heresy.

“I do not believe,” Kerry said, “nor have I ever stated, publicly or privately, that Israel is an apartheid state or that it intends to become one.” Well, of course not. It’s not an apartheid state now because the non-citizen status of the Palestinians for the past 47 years is technically only temporary, pending the creation of their own state.

And Israel has no intention of ever meeting the technical definition of an apartheid state, either, because that would be a public-relations disaster. However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu seems convinced that he can avoid that outcome simply by hanging on to the occupied territories indefinitely but never formally annexing them, and many Israelis agree with him.

They might even be right, but John Kerry doesn’t think so. Or at least, he didn’t until his own people worked him over a bit.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London.

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Raptors’ surprising season comes to an end LORI EWING Canadian Press

TORONTO — Kyle Lowry scored 28 points, but missed on a shot at the buzzer as the Toronto Raptors lost Game 7 of their playoff series 104103 against the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, ending their season.

Amir Johnson had a playoff-high 20 points plus 10 boards before fouling out of the game with 7:53 to play.

DeMar DeRozan added 18 points for the Raptors, who were gunning for the first second-round playoff appearance in the franchise’s 19-year history.

Patrick Patterson finished with 16 points, while Terrence Ross had 11.

Joe Johnson led the Nets with 26 points, while Marcus Thornton finished with 17. Deron Williams had 13 points,

Kevin Garnett had 12, and Paul Pierce 10.

Toronto, desperate to keep its season going, played like it was feeling the pressure for much of the afternoon, trailing by as much as 12 points in the third quarter in front of an Air Canada Centre crowd that was hungry for a playoff series win.

The Raptors trailed 81-73 going into the fourth, but a Toronto team that has been so strong down the stretch all season long, pulled within five on a basket

by Lowry with 7:20 to play.

With the fans on their feet for the final couple of minutes left, the Raptors kept their foot on the pedal and pulled within two points with 25 seconds left, after two free throws each from Patterson and Lowry.

Williams went to the line

draining one for Brooklyn and it was a threepoint game with 22 seconds left.

Lowry drove to the hoop for a basket to cut the deficit to a point, but Shaun Livingston made two free throws to put Brooklyn back up by three with 13 seconds to play. Ross answered with a basket, and the Raptors regained possession but Lowry was blocked at the final buzzer.

Fans chanted “Let’s go Raptors!’’ as the dejected players left the court.

The Raptors were making their first playoff appearance in six years, despite a season that begun with low expectations. The remarkable turnaround started in December when the Raptors traded Rudy Gay to Sacramento and they went on to win the

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry gets fouled by Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Garnett, right, during first half NBA game seven playoff basketball action in Toronto on May 4.

Atlantic Division and earn the No. 3 seed in the East.

The Nets, on the other hand, built their roster with an NBA title in mind, acquiring Pierce and Garnett in

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Penguins, Blackhawks earn Game 2 victories ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH — Kris Letang broke a scoreless tie in the second period, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 22 saves for his seventh playoff shutout to lift the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-0 victory over the New York Rangers on Sunday night, tying the second-round series one game apiece.

Letang’s 15th career post-season goal matched Larry Murphy’s record for Penguins defencemen.

Jussi Jokinen scored during a third-period power play, and Evgeni Malkin added an empty-net goal for the Penguins, who managed a home split in the first two games with the suddenly weary

Rangers.

Game 3 is Monday night in New York.

Henrik Lundqvist made 32 saves for New York, but the Rangers mustered little offence while playing their fourth game in six days. New York’s limp power play went 0 for 4 and hasn’t scored in 29 straight advantages.

BLACKHAWKS 4, WILD 1 CHICAGO (AP) — Bryan Bickell had a goal and two assists, and Chicago beat Minnesota to take a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.

Brandon Saad scored his first two goals of the post-season, and Chicago earned its sixth consecu-

tive win despite stretches of lacklustre play in the second and third periods. Corey Crawford made 18 saves in another solid performance.

Cody McCormick scored his second career playoff goal, but Minnesota missed another chance to steal home-ice advantage from the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Jonathan Toews scored his fourth goal of the playoffs in the first period for the Blackhawks, who improved to 16-2 in home post-season games over the last two years. They are 5-0 at home in these playoffs.

Game 3 is Tuesday night in Minnesota.

WHL FINAL

Portland takes 2-0 series lead over Edmonton CANADIAN PRESS

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beginning when the Nets sat their starters at the end of the regular season in order to drop to sixth in the East to face the Raptors — whom they saw as easier prey than Chicago.

PORTLAND, Ore. — Brendan Leipsic had a goal and an assist in his return from a one-game suspension, and the Portland Winterhawks defeated the Edmonton Oil Kings 3-1 in Game 2 of the Western Hockey League final Sunday.

Portland leads the series 2-0, with Games 3 and 4 coming Tuesday and Wednesday in Edmonton.

Chase De Leo and Paul Bitter also scored for Portland, while goaltender Corbin Boes made 28 saves in victory.

Henrik Samuelsson scored a third-period goal for Edmonton, which got 29 saves from Tristan Jarry in defeat.

Portland has now won 24 straight games at home, including all eight in the post-season.

De Leo opened the scoring 2:12 into the game with a long wrist shot that squeezed between the pads of Jarry.

Leipsic scored his 13th goal of the playoffs 1:02 later to give Portland a 2-0 lead and force the Oil Kings to use their timeout.

Bittner made it 3-0 at the 4:32

mark of the second period as his shot from just inside the blue-line hit Oil Kings defenceman Dysin Mayo and fluttered into the net.

Samuelsson gave the Oil Kings a glimmer of hope when he deflected a shot by Ashton Sautner past Boes for a power-play goal with 6:28 remaining in regulation.

Edmonton couldn’t pull any closer, though, despite a spirited push in the final minutes.

The Oil Kings finished 1 for 3 with the man advantage, while Portland failed to convert on four power-play opportunities.

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Mount Baker Ladies versus LV Rogers (Nelson).

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Mount Baker Men versus LV Rogers (Nelson).

Kootenay Schools gathered Friday at Mount Baker Field for men and women’s rugby. See later this week in the Townsman/Bulletin for results.

Photos by Barry Coulter

Stanley Humphries Secondary School (Castlegar) versus JL Crowe (Trail).

Mount Baker Men versus Selkirk Secondary (Kimberley)

Nelson Juniors versus Kimberley Juniors

Grand Forks Secondary School versus LV Rogers (Nelson)..

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Use the morning for any matter that is very serious and that could demand an important conversation or two. Just because you do not see eye to eye with someone does not mean you need to quarrel. Honor and respect your differences.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You might want to honor a change that is likely to make you feel a bit off-kilter. You could feel tense about a personal matter. Understand the liabilities of giving in to your feelings this afternoon -- you might not get anything done! Tonight: Go for the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Initiate an important conversation, but avoid any bilateral comments that would add to the present discomfort level.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You could be excited by news that heads your way. Ponder this information with a greater eye to success and change. You won’t want to deny your innate creativity; however, you will need to think before you leap.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Friends play a significant role in your plans, whether you are at work or just off doing your own thing. You’ll have a lot to deal with when speaking to a key loved one or associate. In the afternoon, you might not want to share your ideas so openly.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Listen to news that comes from a parent or loved one. You might want to visit with someone at a distance and just enjoy life. Be content hanging out with your immediate circle. Laughter seems to surround a child or loved one. Enjoy it! Tonight: Stay anchored.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Examine what is going on in your immediate circle. You will want to have a conversation with a child or loved one as a result. Realize that a lot is happening around you that might not be easy to integrate into your plans. Tonight: Go along with someone’s suggestion.

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For years, we were as close as sisters.

Then, last year, as Lorene prepared for a reunion with her high school class, she began to change toward me. She hurt my feelings a number of times with subtle snipes and negative comments and, eventually, with a snub that was so insulting, we had a falling out. We didn’t speak for some time, but I missed my friend and reconnected with her on Facebook. She welcomed my friend request, but ever since, the snipes and negative comments have been ongoing.

If I post a photo from a lovely vacation somewhere, Lorene makes a negative comment about the place, the weather, the cost or that I was alone there. If I post about some activity I’m planning, she’s full of warnings and cautions. If I post an old family photo, she turns my happy memory into a feeling of loss, commenting about how sad it is that others in the photo died before me. When I tried to discuss her attitude, she became defensive and seemed to misunderstand me, so I dropped it.

This is someone who used to call me every day to chat. We have many mutual friends, so it’s impossible to avoid her. I miss my friend and don’t understand where she went. Should I unfriend her on Facebook?

Should I just “take it” in silence? What would you do? -- Mourning a Lost Friendship Dear Mourning: Might Lorene be having health issues that affect her personality?

Suggest she talk to her doctor because you’re worried about her. Is she only negative about you? It could be jealousy or some long-forgotten argument. And it is not uncommon for some people, as they age, to develop a habit of complaining.

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Dear Annie: In my community, there are a lot of “open house” parties, especially around the holidays. I was under the impression that we are invited to come and celebrate, have a glass of wine or whatever.

But many of the people attending brought gifts for the hosts. I didn’t. Was this the proper thing to do? I believe your advice will help our retirement community. -- No Present Guest Dear No: Large, informal open-house parties where you drop by for a drink and leave do not necessitate a gift, but do write and thank your hosts afterward. Some people bring gifts anyway, and if this is the custom in your community (or if you would feel uncomfortable coming empty-handed), it’s perfectly OK to bring wine, candy or something small and holiday appropriate.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Is There Hope for Me?” who said her husband shows no affection toward her after 27 years of marriage. Everything was the way he wanted it.

Her marriage sounds similar to mine. After 43 years, we are now in the process of divorcing. I have had more than enough of having it his way. I am a clergywoman and regret that I was not strong enough to make this move years ago. Yes, there’s hope. Do something. It’s your life. -- C. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

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She will be lovingly remembered by her daughter Joan (Gary), her granddaughter Sheri (Joe) and grandson David (Melissa). Kay was predeceased by her husband Philip in 1993.

Kay was born in Bellevue on October 25, 1916 and spent her early years in Alberta and BC. She met her future husband Phil in Edmonton and, following their marriage in Cadomin on December 24, 1938, lived in Goldfields, Saskatchewan and Yellowknife, NWT. Kay and her family moved to Kimberley in 1949 where she lived happily until her passing.

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She is lovingly remembered by her son Bill (Ruth) Ratcliffe of Victoria, daughter Alice (Stan) Owen of Lynden, Wa. 7 grandchiildren and spouses, 14 great grand children and 12 great great grand children and their respective families and many relatives in Norway.

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“For the past 12 years the B.C. Liberals have seen a decrease in value from our resources coming back to the Crown, which means less financial resources for health care, for education and vital social programs,” Horgan said. “We need to change that. New Democrats historically have talked about the importance of the economy and our valuable

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BELFAST — Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams was released without charge Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing, an event that has driven a dangerous wedge into Northern Ireland’s unity government.

The 65-year-old’s departure from the police’s main interrogation centre in Antrim, west of Belfast, was delayed two hours by a crowd of angry Protestants outside the front gate. The protesters waved Union Jack flags and held placards demanding justice for IRA victims — and roared with fury as a convoy of police armoured vehicles came into view.

Dozens of officers — many sporting full riot gear with flame-retardant boiler suits, body

armour, helmets and shields — confronted the hardline Protestants, many covering their faces, as they tried to block Adams’ exit by sitting down in the roadway. After a 15-minute standoff, police escorted Adams out via a rear exit that the protesters could not see.

Sinn Fein said Adams intended to hold a press conference in a Belfast hotel within hours.

The investigation of Adams is not over, however, because police said they have sent an evidence file to Northern Ireland prosecutors for potential charges later.

Sinn Fein said detectives questioned Adams about audiotaped interviews that IRA veterans gave to a Boston College oral history project.

Some interviewees accused him of being the Belfast IRA commander who ordered the abduction, killing and secret

burial of Jean McConville in 1972.

Police faced a Sunday deadline to charge or release Adams or seek a judge’s permission to extend his detention, a step they had already taken once on Friday when an initial deadline was due to expire.

The IRA did not admit responsibility for killing McConville until 1999, when the underground organization defended its action by claiming she had been a British Army spy. Her remains were found accidentally in 2003 near a Republic of Ireland beach. An investigation three years later by Northern Ireland’s police complaints watchdog found no evidence she had been a spy.

Sunday’s outcome — freedom but no official exoneration, with evidence bound for the Public Prosecution Service — suggested police

do believe Adams was an IRA commander, but do not have strong enough evidence to charge him with this.

Police last charged Adams with IRA membership in 1978 following a firebomb attack on a hotel near Belfast that killed 12 Protestants, but those charges were dropped.

British state prosecutors in Belfast would provide a second opinion. They could tell police either that no case could succeed based on existing evidence, recommend new avenues of investigation to strengthen the chances of a successful prosecution, or determine that charges should be filed.

Typically however, when such evidence files are sent by police to prosecutors for complex terror-related cases, charges do not follow.

Adams has always denied membership of the outlawed IRA. His

arrest weeks ahead of elections in both parts of Ireland infuriated his Irish nationalist party, which represents most of the Irish Catholic minority in Northern Ireland and is a growing left-wing opposition force in the Irish Republic.

Sinn Fein warned it could withdraw its support for law and order in Northern Ireland, a threat condemned Sunday by the Protestant leader of the province’s power-sharing government, First Minister Peter Robinson.

Speaking Sunday before Adams’ release, Robinson accused Sinn Fein of mounting “a despicable, thuggish attempt to blackmail’’ the police.

“I warn Sinn Fein that they have crossed the line and should immediately cease this destructive behaviour,’’ Robinson said, suggesting that the future of

Northern Ireland’s government was at stake.

Robinson’s Democratic Unionist Party agreed to share power with Sinn Fein in 2007 on condition that the IRA-linked party accepted police authority.

A former IRA commander, Martin McGuinness, serves as deputy leader. Such cross-community co-operation following four decades of bloodshed was the central goal of the U.S.-brokered Good Friday peace accord of 1998.

Robinson accused Sinn Fein of hypocrisy by demanding criminal investigations of killings committed by Protestant militants, the police and British Army, but rejecting any such investigations into the IRA, which killed nearly 1,800 people during a failed 1970-1997 campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom.

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