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Keeping the facts straight
A Cranbrook physician helps ensure Wikipedia’s articles on medicine are factual and of the highest possible quality B A R RY CO U LT E R
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Western Financial Place and the Kootenay Ice hosted School Spirit Night on Wednesday, Nov. 19, with students from around Cranbrook taking part in cheering on the Ice against the Medicine Hat Tigers. Schools taking part included Amy Woodland, Highlands, Kootenay Christian Academy (pictured above), Kootenay Orchards, Pinewood, Steeples, St. Mary’s and TM Roberts.
ELECTION 2014
Official results released A R N E P E T RYS H E N
The official voting results are in. Brian Wooff, chief election officer for the 2014 City of Cranbrook General Local Election, presented the offi-
cial numbers to the small crowd, which included Councillor Elect Wesly Graham. There were 5,789 ballots produced and only one that wasn’t able to make it through the machine to be counted.
“5,788 went through the machine because one was rejected,” he said. “Someone made a little mark over it on the side.” The ballot had a mark in the timing strip, which is what
the automated voting machine looks at to make sure it is a legitimate ballot. Wooff said they had a signature for every ballot.
One of the most revolutionary aspects of our new digital information age is the advent of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a free-access, free content Internet encyclopedia, supported and hosted by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It is the sixthmost popular website in the world and is the Internet’s largest and most popular general reference work, arguably the number one go-to source for information. So when a highly publicized event occurs like the ebola outbreak this year, it is important that information on the topic is factual, accurate and up-to-date. Dr. James Heilman, a Cranbrook emergency physician, is an advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia’s health-related content. He was a founding member of Wikimedia Canada (an NGO that promotes Wikipedia in Canada) and is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine, which works to broaden the scope and improve the quality of medical articles on Wikipedia. With a focus on medical and disease related articles on the online encyclopedia, Dr. Heilman at once noticed a huge jump in traffic related to ebola, as a result of the outbreak in Africa and a couple of highly publicized cases in the U.S.
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Thank You Thank you Cranbrook for the privilege of having served you on City Council for the past three years. To the many volunteers and supporters who worked on the election, I am most grateful. Best wishes to the new City Council. Sharon Cross