The Northern View, October 14, 2015

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City debates affordable housing plan

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BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

The City of Prince Rupert Housing Committee gave an update on its status at last week’s council meeting and it included a bit of a field trip.

“The City is in the process of examining - Barry Cunningham all their infill lots at the moment. I believe we have 208 infill lots that the city owns and we did a city bus tour earlier last week. We went lot to lot to see what potential uses those lots could have and part of that was examining how housing and affordable housing could work,” said Mayor Lee Brain.

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“Every time we talk to them we get promises and nothing else.”

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Candidates square off ahead of Monday’s vote

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It was the second last stop for the Skeena

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the one that really mattered.

All five riding candidates, including NDP incumbent Nathan Cullen, Liberal Party of Canada candidate Brad Layton, Conservative Party of Canada candidate Tyler Nesbitt, Green Party candidate Jeannie Parnell and Christian Heritage Party candidate Don Spratt, took part in the Prince Rupert All Candidates Forum at the Lester Centre of the Arts on Wednesday night.

Hosted by the Prince Rupert and District Chamber of Commerce, the forum featured opening remarks from each participant, a question and answer period from media mpanelists and the audience, and a brief summary.

While no new potential policies were announced at the forum, each party’s candidate

tried to differentiate themselves from the other choices available.

The Christian Heritage Party’s (CHP) Don Spratt got things going with a strong vision for a country with a large spiritual connection to God, and took a pro-life position to the CHP’s primary policy of sanctity of life.

“Canada was founded on principles that recognize the supremacy of God ... or the natural law or law of nature,” said Spratt.

The Liberals’ Layton took the microphone next and challenged the federal Conservative government over a lack of good-paying jobs with benefits, housing problems in the Northwest, a gutting of the environmental assessment process for reviewing major industry projects and a lack of transparency behind the government’s decisions.

Layton also took the first shot of the night, saying “the local MP (Cullen) has not presented a plan that will work for our riding ... but work more for [his own and fellow politicians’] futures rather than your future”.

The Conservatives’ Nesbitt stressed his

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upbringing in the city and connection to First Nations through his wife’s family, which includes three women of Nisga’a descent.

Nesbitt pushed the LNG industry as a responsible alternative to coal and took a shot at the provincial Liberal government, saying “Provincial mismanagement by Liberals has forced kids to move away from their parents [here]”. Nesbitt also mentioned “only a Conservative government can protect our fragile economy for the next four years”.

NDP incumbent Cullen spoke next and detailed his visit to the schools in Prince Rupert, saying that parents should be proud of the kids in the region, as they asked a number of intelligent questions to the candidates.

Cullen thanked the audience for coming out despite “attack ads and gutter politics”.

“Telling the story of the Northwest to the rest of the country has been a privilege,” said Cullen, who has been in parliament for more than 10 years.

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Prince Rupert’s Parnell of the Green Party rounded out the introductions and she focused heavily on the environment and First Nations’ issues that affect the riding.

“A lot of our own people are in poverty. I would like our federal government to ensure all of our basic needs are met, including housing, clean water and having healthy food to eat,” she said, adding with 300 missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW), she’d call for a national inquiry.

Trans-Pacific Partnership The question period of the night began with the Trans-Pacific Partnership recently signed by the Conservative government – a trade agreement between the Pacific Rim countries.

Spratt had no prior knowledge of it, but said he is all for free trade.

Parnell mentioned she didn’t appreciate the secrecy of the details behind the agreement, but added it may give corporations the right to sue governments over environmental protection laws “which may hurt the region”.

Nesbitt talked up the deal, saying the forestry industry will greatly benefit, with exporters having better access to customers, along with having reduced tariffs and the deal makes manufacturers more competitive, including lumber, shrimp, herring and mining materials.

Layton said the Liberals are in favour of trade, but not if the government sells out agriculture and the country’s food supply.

“If we bring in food from elsewhere, then what?” he said, adding he also doesn’t like the hidden details that have yet to be revealed.

NDP’s Cullen said “if the government was confident about what’s in the deal, then they’d show us the deal” and that “‘Just trust me’ is not enough to give confidence to Mr. Harper”.

First Nations Title The candidates were asked about how they view First Nations rights and title to the land they occupy. Cullen began by saying industry projects seeking social licence for their facilities need prior and informed consent and agreements in place with the First Nations that reside in the area.

“The government calls people names – ‘foreign-funded radicals’, ‘enemy of the state’. I don’t know how this is supposed to improve relationships ... We don’t need more conflicts or more courts, we need recommendations and respect,” said Cullen.

Layton added that rights, respect, cooperation and partnerships are crucial in establishing rights and title and a Liberal government would have a renewed relationship with Indigenous populations as Liberal leader Justin Trudeau would meet with First Nations leaders each year that the Liberals are in power.

Nesbitt said that with the Conservatives’

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Candidates in the Oct. 19 election faced the public last Wednesday night.

position of delegating powers, the party empowers First Nations groups.

“That may surprise you, but that’s our/ my position,” he said.

Parnell said that she absolutely recognizes Aboriginal rights and title. Spratt said that the federal government has a responsibility to facilitate honest debate. While dozens of groups across the country shouldn’t have veto powers, the country needs to get its resources to market.

Lelu Island The bulk of the debate at the end of the forum was focused on the proposed Pacific Northwest (PNW) LNG terminal on Lelu Island in Port Edward.

Spratt didn’t know the area too well, but said LNG has a safe record behind it, there’s a big market for it and the nation needs to take advantage of it while making sure the environment is protected.

Parnell noted that the Tsimshian Nation have a say in the location and that salmonspawning grounds need to be protected.

For Nesbitt, the candidate supports the LNG export industry because it brings benefits to countless people in the riding.

“If you care about climate change and how we do it, send a product that burns half the greenhouse gas emissions as coal. Let’s get Asia off of it,” he said, adding that many First Nations have already signed various pipeline and terminal agreements.

Layton offered his take that the Liberals support economic development, but the process also needs sound environmental practices. He noted that four other terminal facilities were being considered by PNW and he would like to know where those were.

Cullen strongly noted the importance of the $140 million per year wild salmon economy and said that the eelgrass environment is crucial to the area as salmon breeding grounds.

“There’s still opportunities for the company to correct course and get it done,” he said.

The LNG debate spurred a heated discussion between Cullen and Nesbitt.

“If you want to kill LNG, vote NDP,” said the Conservative candidate.

“It’s fair to raise questions about projects. I don’t think it’s fair that raising questions vilifies you ... It’s called intelligent discussion,” said Cullen.

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HOUSING from Page A1 “I think the next steps for us as a council are to meet with our community groups that we were working with earlier in the summer to reconvene and to see what projects would look like in the community and go from there,” said Brain Coun. Joy Thorkelson added that it may be prudent to involve BC Housing and Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) in the discussions and hold community workshops with stakeholder groups on which direction affordable housing in Prince Rupert should go.

Coun. Barry Cunningham thought that BC Housing and CMHC won’t be entirely helpful in future discussions due to a lack of funds that are available from either organization to help with getting projects off the ground.

“I think we should forget about CMHC and BC Housing and concentrate more on the non-profit housing associations. Get some nonprofit organizations, find out what property the city can either donate or lease for $1 and get this off the ground. We’ve been talking about this for eight months and [with] CMHC and BC Housing, every time we talk to them, we get promises and nothing else,” said Coun.

Cunningham.

Coun. Thorkelson didn’t disagree, but said the traditional means of getting subsidized housing or non-profit organizations to help out are becoming extinct.

“It’s not what it used to be ... We’re building [affordable housing] at a time when building is more difficult,” she said.

BY SHAUN THOMAS PORT EDWARD / The Northern View

The District of Port Edward is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to stopping trains from whistling as they make their way through town.

At the Oct. 6 meeting, council approved spending $714,750 to upgrade the two crossings at the small crafts harbour dock with crossing controls to eliminate the need for whistling, with the hope being that others involved in the movement of goods by rail will come forward to help fund the upgrading of the three other crossings in the district.

“We have sent out letters of request to all the stakeholders and we have replies from some of them with positive results, but we can’t seem to get definitive responses. We’re getting responses that seem to indicate that once we get started and show the district is serious about moving ahead, then the response we get from the stakeholders will be swifter. If we go ahead with two of the crossings, then I can go back with the second letter indicating we are moving ahead and crunch some numbers,” said chief

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A train makes its way past the small craft harbour crossing last Tuesday night.

administrative officer Bob Payette, who noted there is an indication that the nearly $1.3 million remaining could be covered.

“I think it is time we move along with this, I think there is no better time actually, and once we get through a few crossings and get some financing coming back the project will move along faster. If we delay and don’t put our foot forward, we’ll be stuck in this holding pattern ... We’re counting on the stakeholders who haven’t stepped forward to respond and get two more done.”

The first two crossings were chosen to eliminate the need for whistling

from the pulp mill all the way through town and after being identified as one of the noisier areas in town. While this will quiet the area down, Mayor Dave MacDonald noted it is not the be-all and end-all for rail noise in the community.

“Somebody was telling me it’s not as quiet as you think, it’s not as loud as the whistle, but I think I would rather put up with that for as long as the train is crossing than the whistling,” he said.

The district did not name the stakeholders who have been approached, but said that information may become available at a future meeting.

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Rushbrook boat launch closing

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

People looking to hit the waters around Prince Rupert at the end of October will need to make the trip to Port Edward to launch their boat.

The City of Prince Rupert has announced that the boat launch at Rushbrook will be completely closed for nine days between Oct. 28 and Nov. 5. in order to install precast concrete panels to improve the facility.

With the boat launch closed, the city is encouraging boaters to use the District of Port Edward’s public boat launch facility until the work is completed.

The closure of the boat launch follows the partial closure of the Rushbrook parking lot for six weeks beginning Oct. 1 for upgrades. The total cost of the work is $200,000, which will be funded by the Rusbrook Improvement Area Fund.

Improvements to the facility will result in the Rushbrook boat launch being closed from Oct. 28 to Nov. 5.

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Welcome to the show Crystal Lorette has the keys to the ‘envy of the north’ and she’s loving every minute of it

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Even early on in her life, volunteering in Crystal Lorette’s family was so normalized that she didn’t realize not everyone spent hours upon hours helping causes larger than themselves.

Learning from her parents, who enveloped themselves in everything their kids did, Crystal has taken that same approach to her own lifestyle in Prince Rupert and it’s resulted in a stronger and more vibrant community. “[Getting involved] comes naturally to me because my parents, growing up, were always involved in whatever my brother and sister and I were involved in. So yeah, I just thought that’s what everyone did. I didn’t even know there was just a handful of us sometimes!”

Crystal laughed.

If you listed the number of boards and organizations that Crystal is involved with or has been involved with in the past, you’d run out of breath before getting halfway down the list.

The born-and-raised Rupertite is currently past-president with the Prince Rupert Rotary Club and has been on the board of directors for Jazz Production Associations, Prince Rupert Minor Hockey — where she was a director, a referee coordinator and canteen coordinator — treasurer on the parent committee at Seal Cove Elementary School where she was instrumental in starting a Read With Me program to get kids and parents to read at home, chair of the Snowbirds committee — getting the pilots to come and perform in Prince Rupert — a committee member for the city’s centennial birthday in 2010 where she coordinated the gumboot project, quilt project and put on the play, “The Dream Lives On”, written locally and produced by Crystal, a committee member for the RCMP Musical Ride, a board member for the Harbour Theatre Society, Arts Advocacy of B.C. and the Made in B.C. Dance on Tour.

“I think it’s my nature to do service above self and that’s kind of what led me to Rotary,” said Crystal.

“I’ve been involved with Rotary for eight years and I went to an early morning breakfast meeting. Sometimes I don’t do early mornings well and I guess I happened to be at the meeting and I was on the executive before I knew it! So no more early meetings for me.”

Outside of her extra-curricular work as a volunteer, Crystal also took a position on the Northern Savings Credit Union board of directors for three years after being recruited by the organization.

“It was a great experience. We’ve been members for 30 years, [my husband] Dan and I, and so when I was approached to put my name forward, I thought of the concept behind the co-operative and of course we definitely believe in that, but they are such a community oriented institution,” she said.

“It’s great. It’s kind of nice to have the head office of your financial institution in your home town.”

Putting the community first is a big part of what drives Crystal in her volunteer work, but also as general manager of the Lester Centre of the Arts – one of northern B.C.’s most prestigious performing arts centres and a building that definitely punches above its weight with the quality of performances in this rural area.

Originally being hired on part-time as an office assistant in 2001 and later transitioning to front of house manager, Crystal took the general manager position with the centre in 2006.

“I was offered the position, so I thought about it for awhile and I enjoyed what I was doing. It’s such a different ball game every time you come to work.

Every event is different,” said Crystal.

“You’re not a Monday to Friday 9-5 [job], you’re an on-demand facility and I’m really the first homegrown general manager that the building had ever had at the time [of my hiring].”

Crystal is especially proud of that

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Crystal Lorette has been with the Lester Centre of the Arts for 14 years and has been its manager for nine. She’s also taken up positions on countless boards and organizations around town to give back to the city where she was born and raised.

fact. Having seen some of the struggles that the city’s residents deal with, she knows Prince Rupert isn’t the wealthiest of cities, but she will do and be anything she can to help grow the town and make it a thriving place to live.

“Sometimes managers say ‘it’s my building’ or ‘my ship’, or whatever, but I don’t. I try to bring the community into it. When we do the ‘Completely Plugged’ [concert] events, that’s all just me organizing and [the acts] are amazing because for a community our size, we have a really high calibre of musicians that live here. And most of them you that you ask, ‘Hey can you give me a hand’?

Done – they don’t ask any questions and that proves to me that they also feel the same way about this building,” said Crystal.

“And that goes with everything that I do. Whenever we do an event and I say ‘I’ll need a container to store things in, I’ll call up Broadwater [Industries] or I’ll call up Wainwright Marine and there we go. The container is there and they donate their crane services. I’m pretty lucky. Obviously the arts is the first thing that gets slashed in a budget, provincially and federally, so we try our best to keep things going, but this community supports each other and

supports community events.”

For Homecoming 2015 and with the help of choir and band conductor Peter Witherly, Crystal was able to put on “Broadway Through the Decades” a compilation show of highlights from past musical performances that had played at the Lester Centre.

And next year, the manager is looking forward to presenting “Rock of Ages”, having recently acquired the rights shortly after they became available.

“Because musicals are such a big undertaking, you need a year off [between them]. So, we’ve done some pretty serious and darker musicals, but they still have lots of components for lots of things. [Rock of Ages] is sweet ‘80s music and then a little bit of a storyline, but we just finished auditions. This one’s a little bit smaller, about a cast of 30 ...

Not that I don’t appreciate working with 56 cast members, plus orchestra, plus, plus, plus – so that’s about 100 people.

It’s just going to be a nice breather, I’m looking forward to that,” she said.

“I thoroughly enjoy the challenges and rewards of presenting and producing performing arts for a community with vision, imagination and pride ... The trust that I have in the people who I work with is why I can do these things.”

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October 14, 2015

Hats off to Port Edward council

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very second Tuesday of the month, I sit in Port Edward council chambers to find out the latest happenings in that community.

And about 15 minutes into every meeting, like clockwork, the business of the day is interrupted by several loud bursts of a train whistle.

For guests in council chambers, including business delegates who often speak near the beginning of the meeting, the train whistles are simply an inconvenience.

But for those who have sat on council over the past nine years I have covered the meetings, the train whistles have been a constant thorn in their side.

It’s an issue that has been raised year in and year out by residents who Shaun Thomas enjoy the small-town feel of Port Edward but could do without the constant interruption at all hours of the day and night.

It’s also an issue that has only gotten worse as traffic through Fairview Terminal has continued to grow and more and more companies across the world have turned their eyes to the Port of Prince Rupert.

Finally, after years of working with CN and other stakeholders, the District of Port Edward is putting its money where its mouth is and leading the charge to put an end to train whistling in town. By investing more than $700,000 to get the ball rolling to convert the unmanned crossings to controlled crossings, Port Edward council is showing they are serious about finding a solution to this problem and they are not going to simply rely on others to fund it.

That is the kind of proactive work that municipal governments should be undertaking, as finances allow of course, and Port Edward council is to be commended for taking this action.

Now it is my hope that those other stakeholders who have been approached about supporting the cause will follow council’s lead and show they are committed to improving the quality of life for Port Edward residents.

After all, keeping residents happy is a critical part of being good corporate neighbours.

Seeing the forests and the trees

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here was a flurry of excitement in the B.C. crossed with deadfall and all but impassible. legislature last week, as Delta South independent Another situation that received little public attention MLA Vicki Huntington released documents was a report issued late this summer by the B.C. Forest suggesting that a multinational manufacturing company Practices Board about forest stewardship plans. continued to buy up B.C. farms for carbon offsets after The board reviewed 43 stewardship plans from all they said last June they would stop. regions of B.C., prepared as required under provincial False alarm, as it turns out. Agriculture Minister law by forest tenure holders on Crown land. They are Norm Letnick clarified that three more farms in the supposed to deal with things like where roads go and Tom Fletcher Peace and Cariboo region had indeed been bought, but how streams are protected. the company was merely following legal advice to close This is the management system put in place in deals on farms that it had already agreed to purchase.

2003, when the B.C. Liberal government changed its approach By the time the B.C. government became aware of this global to forest management. Gone was the NDP’s infamous public relations scheme, about 10,000 hectares of farmland seven-volume “Forest Practices Code,” which attempted to was already planted with seedlings. The company initially said micromanage every detail of a timber licence, right down to they were buying up abandoned and unproductive farms, but inspecting for litter left at a logging site. local government officials disputed that. But the company In came “results-based” forest management, where licence soon realized that undermining already precarious farming holders had to produce a plan showing stream protection and communities was going to provide the opposite of the green other values. The Forest Practices Board has found these plans publicity they sought, at least in B.C. The company told me it is often aren’t good for much, although results are generally good now looking to switch its carbon offset program to replanting when they follow up with on-the-ground audits of actual timber forest areas depleted by pine beetle and fire. harvest areas. The investigation found that many of the plans I’ll believe that when I see it, but on the face of it, this sounds cover “vast and overlapping areas of the province, and were almost as questionable as converting farmland back to forests. written using legal language that makes them very difficult for Pine forests need fire to regenerate, so fires have been part of the public understanding or review.” Little has changed since a regeneration of the ecosystem since the retreat of the Ice Age. similar finding in 2006.

Beetle-kill areas are already coming back, and they were During that time, the forests ministry was turned into Forests, never completely denuded in any case, so the notion of manual Lands and Natural Resource Operations, with greatly increased planting these areas seems impractical. Most are now crissresponsibility over wildlife, mining, gas drilling and so on.

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October 14, 2015 • Northern View • A7

On the street

During Thanksgiving, what did you take the time to be thankful for?

With Kevin Campbell

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DAVID WESLEY

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“Life!”

“The breath of life and friends that I have. And for people around me.”

“I’m thankful for my family.”

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“I’m thankful for my friends and my family. I do a lot of volunteering [at the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen]. I love to help out and I’m thankful for being here.”

Photo courtesy Prince Rupert Port Authority FRUITS OF THE EARTH: Barry Martin is one of many Canadian farmers whose agricultural products are shipped through the Port of Prince Rupert. Their livelihood depends on a sophisticated supply chain that moves cargo to market efficiently and reliably.

Grain farmers value Electoral change is wrong Rupert’s advantages

Editor: Another election is upon us and the various leaders are currently crisscrossing the nation in an effort to sway our vote with unrealistic and often irresponsible promises — the most irresponsible being a promise to change the way we choose our government.

Both the NDP and the Liberal Party have declared that, “This will be the last federal election in Canada to be held under the First-past-the-post (FPTP) system”. The main complaint is that it is somehow undemocratic. The opponents to FPTP advocate Proportional Representation (PR).

The reality is that PR would subvert the will of the voters. Political parties attract voter support by offering a package of policies based on strongly held principles. PR doesn’t give a hair about principles. Historically, PR fails to elect majority governments and instead relies on coalitions to form government. Coalitions can only come about through negotiation. If the object is to gain power and form government, then various policies can be effectively weakened or outright abandoned. In this way, supposedly honest and steadfast political parties would wheel and deal away the very things that drew voter support. Therefore, principles be damned and the voters be damned. Under PR and the likelihood of coalition governments, we could easily end up with government agendas nobody actually voted for.

I also want to point out the coalitions often require the inclusion of radical and fringe parties that get to influence government policy disproportionate to their share of the popular vote. If you are uncomfortable with that idea, then consider this: FPTP encourages political parties to hold more moderate course in regard to policies and governance. They do so in an effort to appeal to the broadest possible numbers of voters. Under this system we have managed to keep extremist policies and views from exercising power in

Canada while rewarding the parties that favour compromise.

A previous letter contributor would have you believe that FPTP was, “designed to allow a party with a minority of voter support across the country to form a majority government.” False! FPTP was selected by our founding fathers to ensure that people living within a political/geographic area, a riding, have a say in who represents them in parliament. In this way people choose one of their own to send to Ottawa, and they do so in the most clear , simple and expeditious manner.

Local representation is paramount to a functioning electoral process. We choose local individuals because they understand the communities they come from. Would a person raised in Montreal have the same concerns and needs as Prince Rupert? Canadians not only elect governments, but they also elect parliamentarians.

PR would disregard local choice and eliminate the riding system. MP’s would be selected from prearranged lists and appointed by the leaders of the various political parties. In this way PR subverts regional representation and regional choice. When the peoples’ choice is taken away from them so to is democracy.

Unfortunately, those favouring a PR system are operating under the false assumption that the number of political parties would somehow remain static at the current handful. In actuality, a quick visit to www.elections.ca will provide a list of registered political parties which currently stands at 22. A PR system would only serve to encourage a proliferation of single interest parties resulting in a dysfunctional parliament. Such a move would only result in the political chaos we have witnessed in countries such as Israel and Italy.

On Oct. 19, say no to PR and yes to the democratic principles that built this nation.

Pierre Cimon Prince Rupert

Forum behaviour saddening Editor: I am a 16-year-old boy who has a big interest in politics, I went to the political debate at the Lester Centre last night and I was disgusted at the behaviour of the community at this event.

The constant heckling and insults that were thrown at some of the candidates were uncalled for and honestly makes me ashamed to be a part of this community. Being a politician is not an easy job; it requires tons of effort and man hours. They took time out of their day to come down to Prince

Rupert to have a respectful debate with other candidates and to see the citizens of Prince Rupert unnecessarily insult some of the candidates was disgusting and makes me ashamed to be a part of this community.

As a young man who wants to eventually get into politics, to see the hate that was spewed from our own community was honestly very unnerving and saddening.

William Roubicek Prince Rupert

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RE:PORT

he county of Grande Prairie, Alberta is within the northernmost farming region in North America, and is home to some of the richest soil in Canada.

Because of this, Grande Prairie is one of the few places in Canada where land is still being cleared for agricultural development.

Its farmers are currently celebrating a grain harvest that may go down in history as one of the Canada’s largest.

Greg Sears’s family was one of the first to farm in Grande Prairie.

His grandfather built a log cabin and began clearing his land over a century ago.

Today, the Sears family farm is a modest 2,400 acres and is worked primarily by Greg, his father, father-in-law, and two farmhands.

Compared to other farms in the area that can be as large as 10,000 acres, it is a manageable size for the tight-knit crew. They produce roughly 3,600 tonnes of grain each year.

The farms grows a mix of wheat, barley and canola, the latter of which accounts for close to half their crop.

A significant amount of crop production from farms like the Sears’s travels by rail to the Port of Prince Rupert, since Grande Prairie’s location allows it to take advantage of CN Rail’s BC North Line to the Prince Rupert Grain export terminal.

Harry Shudlow is another Grande Prairie farmer with 3,000 acres in the community of Sexsmith. He is very optimistic about crop yields this year.

He’s also pleased that the end of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly has given Canadian farmers newfound freedom to market their own product.

“Being able to market all grains in the open market, we can improve our equipment, storage, and purchase more land for our children with our profit,” said Harry.

“In the past, you were spinning to pay the bills. I now market my own grain and I’m happy for doing it. I never get the best price, but I’m lucky to get the average price.”

With their crop sold for the best price they can get, farmers have little influence over where their product is shipped.

But farmers like Greg and Harry have an appreciation for the advantages offered by an uncongested northern rail line and an efficient marine export terminal with capacity for growth.

“Prince Rupert is the closest port to us, and that’s good for us,” said Greg.

“When you realize how much volume we export as a country, it’s a massive quantity of grain and the logistics required to get it from my farm to the port is kind of amazing. It’s important to us that every part of that supply chain and network is running seamlessly so the whole system doesn’t get bottlenecked. As farmers, it’s not something we think about every day, but we’re certainly very proud of the industry we’re in, and we realize that our part is only one of many that drives the agricultural economy.”

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First elected in 2004 as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for SkeenaBulkley Valley and returned with increasing margins of victory in 2006, 2008 and 2011, Nathan Cullen enters the 2015 federal election as one of the more experienced veterans of his party’s candidates.

And just 43, Cullen’s national status has risen thanks to his third-place finishing in the party’s 2012 leadership race, won by current NDP leader Tom Mulcair, to replace the late Jack Layton.

Cullen doesn’t hesitate when asked if he considers himself a professional politician. “Oh, no. Not at all,� says Cullen, adding he was first thinking of running for a Smithers municipal council seat in 2003 before someone told him to set his sights higher. “I was told it was a good idea and that I would win and that’s why I should go federal. I thought that was pretty audacious.�

Born in Toronto, the oldest of two sons to immigrants from Ireland, Cullen was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario.

He then worked in Africa and South America for non-profit groups who had the goal of creating value-added industries instead of relying on the export of raw resources.

In many ways, Cullen says what he did on those two continents mirrors what’s happening in the Northwest, something that became apparent when he moved to Smithers in the late 1990s to first run the volunteer Katimavik program.

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“If you only export raw resources, you’re always beholden to whatever the market calls,� he said.

It’s a theme people of all political persuasions will bring up in conversation, Cullen continues. “They want to know why we’re sending out everything raw now,� he said.

It’s a message Cullen has also used in becoming one of the key figures opposing Enbridge’s plan to build the Northern Gateway pipeline, While Cullen has concentrated on the potential for environmental damage from a leak or break in the planned $6.5 billion pipeline which would run 1,177 kilometres across Alberta and B.C. and of the potential for ocean-going crude-carrying tankers spilling their loads, he’s also spoken about refining crude in Canada.

Building a facility would add value to a raw resource and provide jobs, he says. But if pressed, Cullen’s less comfortable about speaking where he thinks any kind of crude oil refining facility should be placed.

He’s more at home concerning the prospects for liquefied natural gas (LNG), a value-added industry widely perceived as being less of an environmental threat than a crude-oil-carrying pipeline and crude-carrying tankers.

And, crucially for any industry to gain a foothold in B.C., there’s been more approval within First Nations to the point where a growing numbers of the latter are signing direct economic benefits deals with pipeline companies and LNG plant proponents. “The devil is in the details,� said Cullen of the billions involved in building pipelines that would feed the super-cooling plants. “It’s how you do it.�

And when there is opposition to any kind of pipeline construction, Cullen advocates a longterm approach.

The challenge, he says, is to have First Nations reach the stage where aboriginal people can make a decision and for aboriginal people to accept that decision even if they don’t agree with it. “We may trust the process but First Nations may not have a process or they don’t respect the process or the governing structure,� said Cullen. “What’s needed is a coherent political process with legal, scientific and all the components you want to have. They’re still building capacity,� he said of First Nations decision-making.

Cullen said he understands the positions taken by companies who ask who they need a ‘yes’ from in order to undertake a project. “What this leads to is a greater urgency to making treaties,� he said.

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Liberal’s Brad Layton seeks voter involvement

BY JACKIE LIEUWEN PRINCE RUPERT / Black Press

Federal Liberal candidate Brad Layton has focused his life first on being a dad, and second on being an agent to fight for change.

A single dad since a divorce in 1995, Layton says he spent more than 10 years focused on raising his daughter Brittany, now 22, and making ends meet.

He was president in the mid-1990s of Share B.C., a controversial land use group in its day which lobbied to have forest land set aside for logging and other forest land preserved.

Layton was also president of the Share chapter in Smithers.

He has also taken part in resource management and land use discussions and organized a volunteer clean up day last year.

Layton is a registered forest technician with Pro-Tech Forest Resources in Smithers, and does mostly project management, he said. Politically, he has been a volunteer for the B.C. Liberals in two provincial elections and also served as president of the B.C. Liberal riding association in the Bulkley Valley.

But many of Layton’s interests went

on hold in August 2009 when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Surgery and a period of recovery and Layton has now been cancer-free for six years.

On the local political level Layton ran unsuccessfully for Smithers council in 2008 but was elected to Telkwa council in 2011 and re-elected last year.

He says he was motivated by several factors: He wanted more recreation for local children, an objective he says is harder to accomplish than first thought. He also was seeking community safety through completing a wildfire protection plan and addressing highway traffic through Telkwa. Last, he wanted to understand and influence public spending and taxation.

“You can’t complain about taxes if you don’t know what it’s being spent on,” Layton said.

“Until you sit down and go through line by line of the budget, with all the money to run a village, you have no idea.”

“Unless you’ve been part of why a decision is made, you don’t always understand why they are making these decisions,” he said.

Layton also sits on the board of the Northwest Regional Hospital District through his position on Telkwa council

and is on the board of the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition.

The latter calls for more cooperation in deciding on resource use policies.

His decision to seek federal office is to represent the northwest in how decisions are made.

“I understand that when you go to Ottawa, you are part of the government running the whole country, but at the same time, you are voted in by the people of your riding. They should be the voice you represent.”

“I am not happy with the representation we’ve had,” he said.

I’m running to make sure that our riding is represented. We don’t want big business or other parts of the country dictating fundamental things to us on our environment and economics here.”

Layton does support the development of a liquefied natural gas industry in the region but only if it meets strict environmental standards.

“If that means it costs more, that means it costs more. We’re a first world country with first world technologies. There is no excuse for not doing it the best possible way,” he said.

If fewer safety precautions saves millions

in project cost and is the deciding factor in a project, “if it’s putting the environment in jeopardy, then it doesn’t get done,” he said.

As for the opposition to pipelines most recently expressed by the Wet’suwet’en and Unist’ot’en near Houston, Layton is calling for two-way communication.

“All stakeholders have to be consulted and all concerns of stakeholders need to be addressed,” he said, adding that it is the same way in business.

“Communication is a two-way street… we have to address the concerns and work through them,” he said.

Conservative Nesbitt bases campaign on respect

BY MARGARET SPEIRS PRINCE RUPERT / Black Press

Conservative candidate Tyler Nesbitt is living close to nature here and doing it ethically, and respectfully while teaching his children to do the same.

He wanted them to grow up in the Northwest to have the opportunity for them to appreciate nature and enjoy the outdoors as he did as a child.

“This is where it’s at,” he said.

“It’s a huge part of our existence as humans to be in nature and in this area, nature’s splendour is really important.”

Born and raised in Prince Rupert, Nesbitt went to university in Vancouver, getting a bachelor’s degree in anthropology at UBC. Anthropology interested him because on the archaeology side of it — one of the branches is studying and understanding our past, which helps us do better in the future.

He jumped at the chance to move back to the Northwest when a job came up at a safety supply company that manufactured gloves and fire retardant clothing in Kitimat.

He now lives in Terrace and works with area road and bridge maintenance

company Nechako Northcoast Construction as its operations/quality coordinator and road superintendent for the Nass Valley.

Nesbitt and his wife Bernadette were married in 2007 at Terraceview Lodge, a location chosen because her father lived there. Stricken with pancreatic cancer, he wasn’t expected to live long.

Bernadette is a stay at home mom and works part-time as she can to help out with finances but it’ll be two more years anyway before their youngest child is in school and she can work more.

Their three children are Sophie, 10, Bray, 7, and Remy, 3.

Nesbitt loves fishing, hunting and kayaking, all of which are on hold right now while he campaigns.

His three children love to be out with him while he’s fishing even if it’s just to run around.

“If I didn’t work, I’d probably do it all the time,” said Nesbitt about fishing.

Nesbitt took French immersion from kindergarten to Grade 12 in Prince Rupert and the family’s school-aged children are enrolled in French immersion in Terrace.

“It’s a huge benefit, not just for a career but it’s a good thing to have a second language,” he says, adding he has a French

heritage and his wife is of French descent but doesn’t speak the language.

He doesn’t want to lose his knowledge of French so he will sometimes watch the news in French.

“I think I’ve tried the best I can to preserve that,” he said.

And that’s not the only ethnicity in his family.

His wife has three sisters who are status First Nations and Metis is included too in the family tree.

“I was never taught to [judge on] ethnicity or class lines and I’ve passed that onto my kids to not judge based on those things,” he said.

When he thinks of family, it doesn’t just include his relatives.

“I extend it out to my closest friends,” Nesbitt said.

“I don’t have any bad personal feelings toward anyone else in this race,” he added.

He wants to be able to look back and be content with how his campaign went and not have anything that he wishes he could delete or have to apologize for being disrespectful.

“I want to say of this race that I’m proud of a good example demonstrated and that I can be proud of a respectful campaign,” Nesbitt said.

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When it comes to northwestern resource development and the ongoing Wet’suwet’en Unist’ot’en blockade preventing pipeline companies from going through traditional territory near Houston, Nesbitt hopes it can be resolved soon.

“All I can say is I just hope for a peaceful resolution,” said Nesbitt.

People from elsewhere have now joined the Unist’ot’en and Nesbitt’s concern is that these outsiders will exert a negative influence as events develop on the ground.

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Green’s Parnell looks to increase Aboriginal vote

BY JOSH MASSEY PRINCE RUPERT / Black Press

Considering her life’s pursuit as a cultivator of edible greens on a communitywide scale, Jeannie Parnell is matching the colour of that enterprise with her decision to run as a Green party candidate in the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding in this federal election. “I come from a family of nine, and my mom is a community gardener, we kind of grew up having to tend a garden,� said the Prince Rupert resident.

Her work in the field of community health has taken her through community gardening projects in Vancouver such as helping organize the Vancouver Native Health Intergenerational Garden Project, and as a community health consultant through her non-profit agency Salmon Berry, in Prince Rupert.

Parnell wasn’t planning on running for the Green party in this election and doesn’t like the connotation of the word politician to begin with. It was only through meeting Green party members at various functions in Prince Rupert that she was encouraged to become a candidate, despite not having

done an apprenticeship in politics. “I was coaxed into this; they asked me if I wanted to be the Green party candidate and I said ‘no, I am okay,’ but then they said ‘we really need to hear the voice of people, the indigenous population, and you know a lot about the land and the environment,’� she recalls.

Coaxed or not, Parnell is clear about her candidacy – she is not campaigning to be elected.

She says she supports NDP incumbent Nathan Cullen and wants her own candidacy to become an encouragement to get more Aboriginal people to vote. “I do support some of his platforms,� she said of Cullen.

As for the chances of unseating Cullen, Parnell said it is never going to happen. “He has won over the hearts and minds of the whole Bulkley Valley and I am fine with that,� she said. “The reason I came into the race, is to get more indigenous people involved in the whole electoral system, to see me as an aboriginal woman running in the federal election, the younger generation will see a role model.�

Parnell is from the Fraser Lake area and is a member of the Stellaten First Nation.

She has lived in Vancouver and Toronto and has studied art history in England and France. In Vancouver, Parnell said she saw the effects of large companies buying land in lower income areas, thus raising property values and displacing poorer people. “Industry is not vital. I don’t agree with the big monster of the capitalism hand because I think it promotes greed and it promotes wastefulness, cutting services in order to grow productivity,� she said.

As for how she sees the role of the politician, it is more about listening as opposed to commanding. “What is a politician, you know? They are bringing the voice of the people out, the grassroots people.� Parnell says the Green party wants to listen to the people before deciding what its policy is with regards to the export of liquefied natural gas drawn from large-scale fracking operations in northeastern B.C., but she said that overall, any major development could only be negative to the northwest.

As for the blockade by the Wet’suwet’en Unist’ot’en near Houston which is preventing pipeline companies from doing work on the First Nation’s asserted traditional territory, Parnell believes in the

title rights of the group and that proper consultation never happened. “I believe we live in a democratic country and people have a right to exercise their own opinion, and if that’s how they want to do it, then I am okay with that. If that’s what gets the gas companies to the table, then that’s what it’s going to take,� she said of the Unist’ot’en.

Parnell also noted other Wet’suwet’en groups support LNG development.

CHP’s Spratt puts the focus on pro-life campaign

BY JOSH MASSEY PRINCE RUPERT / Black Press

Federal election Christian Heritage Party (CHP) candidate Don Spratt is running a campaign to reverse what he regards as societal trends all too prevalent in the modern world. “We started to decay many decades ago, and we have walked further and further away from the principles that made us great,� he says. “Now, we are moving into tyranny, and a lot of the tyranny is coming right out of the Supreme Court of Canada.�

That is Spratt’s way of saying court decisions surrounding euthanasia, abortion, gay rights and some multicultural principles are running contrary to the foundations on which he says Canada was built.

He sees euthanasia and abortion as contrary to the Biblical emphasis on the sanctity of life and what he describes as the “Christian moral consensus� . “God is the author of life, it’s His jurisdiction. He has jurisdiction over when life begins, He brought us in, He can take

us out,� said Spratt. “He has jurisdiction over what is marriage, one man and one woman.�

At age 67, Spratt jokes that he is on the verge of becoming an old codger, but his philosophy is all about children, or more specifically the rights of unborn children, whose lives he says begin at conception in the womb.

In the 1990s, his anti-abortion activism saw him locked up twice in jail, once for 18 days and another time for 30 days for breaking the law enshrined in Bill-48 Access to Abortion Services Act, the “bubble zone law,� which bans protests within about half a block of abortion clinics.

He also wore black electrical tape covering his mouth when he entered the bubble with a nine foot cross and sign.

Spratt argued he was exercising his right to freedom of speech and expression, but the court system did not see it that way.

Raising his family in Surrey, Spratt has worked a variety of manual labour jobs, machine-oriented and also as a paramedic in the mining industry, and he is an ordained minister.

As a Christian activist, he was overseas

in Russia after the breakdown of the communist empire, helping people of his faith who were being persecuted there.

His views on abortion cannot be overstated, as he says it is the main plank of his political platform. While many see planned parenthood, or the right to abortion, as one of the staples of women’s liberation and a check against population explosion, Pratt sees it as murder. “The government is one of the biggest crooks in the country because they kill 300 children a day in this country. Over 100,000 a year. And they think it’s just fine. It’s murder,� he said. “That’s the first plank in the platform really. We are calling for people to vote their conscience on a non-partisan basis only for people who represent their values.�

Normally a resident of Tumbler Ridge in the northeast, Pratt came to the northwest to run as the CHP candidate in Skeena – Bulkley Valley when party leader Rod Taylor, who lives in Telkwa, decided to run in the Ottawa area, where he hopes to raise the party’s profile.

Had he stayed in Tumbler Ridge, Spratt said he would have supported Conservative

incumbent Bob Zimmer in the Prince George-Peace River riding and not run against him because of values they share.

Spratt will be staying in Taylor’s home for the duration of the elections and this is the first time he has ever been in the northwest.

When it comes to the potential for LNG development in the region, Spratt says he has seen the industry up close near Tumbler Ridge. Though he says production has slowed there, the supply is still there and he thinks it needs to be exported.

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While one resident may have visions of a new fourplex being built on his property, Port Edward council made it known they are not a fan of the idea.

The idea of a fourplex came in a report from chief administrative officer Bob Payette, who noted the proponent wanted to get a sense of support for the plan before moving into the official rezoning application phase.

The proposal initially provided somewhat of a divide amongst council,

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Dan Franzen expressing opposition.

“My own personal opinion is we need to hold off on the fourplex rezoning ... we just came out a year ago with a community plan people said they wanted and we already have several requests to rezone property,” said MacDonald, also noting the site of the development is in a single-family residential area.

“I’m not into fourplexes. It’s just too big of a building,” added Franzen.

Councillors Grant Moore and James Brown, however, were more receptive to the idea.

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“I don’t see a downfall to these kind of buildings and I don’t know that it doesn’t fit into our community’s future vision ... the way I see it is this is more affordable housing,” said Brown.

“I look at it as a new build in the community, and any new construction is a positive for Port Edward,” added Moore.

In the end, council voted to express their opposition to the project with the understanding that the developer could still begin the official rezoning process for all of the public to have their say in supporting or rejecting the fourplex.

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Sports In Brief Liu ousted in Netherlands Badminton Canada player and ex-Rupertite Adrian Liu was ousted last week in men’s doubles play in the Netherlands at the Yonex Dutch Open from Oct. 6 – 11, when he and his partner Derrick Ng lost to German duo Max Schwenger and Josche Zurwonne.

The Canadians faced the Germans in the second round of the Open after beating the Czech Republic’s Ondrej Kral and Ivo Stoklas in the first round, 21-14, 21-18.

Schwenger and Zurwonne capitalized on some mistakes by Liu and Ng and managed to defeat the Richmond-based duo 21-18, 15-21, 21-16.

The Germans never trailed in the third and final set, but Liu and Ng managed to slightly come back from a 19-10 deficit to take six more points before being eliminated 21-16.

Schwenger and Zurwonne were then beaten in the quarter-finals by India’s Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy.

Ng and Liu are next scheduled to play at the Chile International Challenge 2015 from Oct. 14 – 18.

Midget reps take on Kermodes The Prince Rupert Minor Hockey midget rep Seawolves will make their first road trip of the young hockey season this weekend, when the team travels to Terrace to take on the Kermodes.

Rupert opened the year last weekend at home versus the Kitimat Winterhawks for two games.

The games in Terrace are scheduled for Saturday at 4 p.m. and Sunday at 10:45 a.m.

They’ll then travel to Kitimat in mid-November for another two dates with the Winterhawks.

Rampage head to Kitimat The Kitimat Ice Demons will welcome the Prince Rupert Rampage for the first time this season this Friday.

The Rampage will roll into Kitimat having lost both away games at the Tamitik Jubilee Sports Complex last season, 5-4 and 9-0. In the team’s 5-4 loss on Nov. 29, 2014, forward Jordan Aubee recorded two goals and Jordan Weir had a goal and an assist.

The Rampage will then host the Ice Demons the very next night on Saturday, Oct. 17 at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre for a 7 p.m. start to complete the home-and-home series.

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Prince Rupert Rampage captain Jared Meers, right, and Devin Palmer create traffic in front of Terrace River King netminder Patrick Leal on Saturday in Terrace. The Rampage picked up their first road win with a 7-4 win over the River Kings.

Rampage roll over River Kings Robert’s hat trick leads Rupert to first road win

BY TODD HAMILTON TERRACE / The Northern View

A four-goal outburst in the second period led the Prince Rupert Rampage to a 7-4 come-from-behind road win over the Terrace River Kings in CIHL action on Saturday.

Patrick Robert picked up a hat trick in the Rupert win with Cole Atchison, Kory Movold, Tyler Ostrom and Devin Palmer adding singles.

The River Kings stepped out to a 3-1 lead but the first period intermission curtailed the Terrace momentum. “Yeah, I think after the first period we were able to get into the dressing room, regroup and come back out and play our game,� Ron German, Rampage head coach said. “After that, every line clicked ... it was a full-team thing, everyone kicked

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Although the Rampage stormed back with four goals in the second to take a 5-4 lead into the third, German said an early two-man advantage for the River Kings was crucial. “It was only 5-4 at that point and we killed off the 5-on-3. We got into penalty trouble but our penalty kill was phenomenal,� he said.

As with most successful penalty kills, the goaltender usually is key — something German said Rampage netminder Devin Gerrits provided. “Devin made some big saves for us that’s for sure,� he said.

Gerrits came into the game with only a shootout loss under his belt this year and sporting a 3.69 GAA with a .923 save percentage.

After a shootout win and a shootout loss to open the season at home, the 7-4

regulation win on the road moves the Rhinos to a season record of 2-0-0-1.

The win also came despite the Rampage having five regulars out of the lineup. “Jared Davis’ wife is having a baby, so he wasn’t going to be straying too far from home,� German said.

German added that two other players were out of town and Braydon Horcoff and Game 1 game star Tyler Halliday are nursing injuries. “To have five roster guys out shows the depth of the team this year,�

German said.

The Rampage will now set their sights on the Kitimat Ice Demons in a home-and-home series beginning Friday in the Tamitik Jubilee Sports Complex and returning to the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre on Saturday night at 7 p.m.

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Fairview traffic climbs as Maersk makes first call

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Traffic through Fairview Terminal is up by 30 per cent this year as the terminal continues toward a recordbreaking year.

In September the terminal saw tonnage increase from 47,449 twentyfoot equivalent units (TEUs) the previous year to 65,116 in September 2015. That number included a 39 per cent increase in imports arriving through Prince Rupert and a 36 per cent increase in containers leaving the North Coast, although the number of loaded TEUs actually dropped by 12 per cent year-over-year.

So far this year, Fairview Terminal has moved 592,152 TEUs compared to 457,132 TEUs during the first nine months of 2014. Imports through the terminal are 23 per cent to sit at 330,888 TEUs, while exports are up 39 per cent to sit at 261,265 TEUs. As with the year-over-year numbers, the number of loaded containers leaving Prince Rupert is down, falling from 120,325 TEUs to 114,342 TEUs so far this year.

Westview Terminal is also up substantially this year. In September there were 99,833 tonnes of wood pellets shipped, an increase of 227 per cent compared to the 30,499 tonnes shipped

last September. In 2015, the terminal has shipped 564,408 tonnes of pellets compared to 344,201 tonnes during the first three quarters of 2014, an increase of 64 per cent.

Tonnage through the Prince Rupert Harbour dropped 47 per cent this September compared to last, moving 33,375 tonnes of logs compared to the 63,078 moved last September, but so far this year traffic through the harbour is up 13 per cent, climbing from 296,295 tonnes in 2014 to 335,189 tonnes in 2015.

While still down nine per cent in 2015 compared to 2014, having moved 4.5 million tonnes compared to 4.9 million tonnes, Prince Rupert Grain saw a 12 per cent increase in tonnage this September compared to last, moving 424,417 tonnes compared to 379,456 tonnes last September.

Ridley Terminals continues to face challenges this year, with overall tonnage down from 5.9 million tonnes in 2014 to 3.2 million tonnes in 2015, a drop of 45 per cent. In September, the terminal’s tonnage fell 51 per cent, from 494,618 tonnes to 243,769 tonnes.

Overall tonnage through the Port of Prince Rupert in September was up one per cent, but so far this year tonnage has fallen nine per cent, from 16.1 million tonnes in 2014 to 14.5 million tonnes in 2015.

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Although not reflected in the September traffic numbers, the Prince Rupert Port Authority welcomed the Columbine Maersk on Oct. 1 as the first weekly vessel call from the M2M Alliance of Mediterranean Shipping Company and Maersk Line.

Realty sales fall in 2015

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Almost 100 fewer properties were sold in Prince Rupert during the first three quarters of 2015 compared to the same time in 2014 according to numbers released today by the B.C. Northern Real Estate Board.

A total of 168 properties worth $39.7 million was sold through to the end of September compared to 263 homes worth $55.4 million through to the end of September 2014, a drop of 95 properties and $15.7 million.

Th average selling price of single family homes, however, continues to greatly exceed the value realized in the past several years.

The average price of the 126 homes sold in Prince Rupert so far in 2015 is $248,865, up

$34,729 from the same time period in 2014 and up $55,174 from the average selling price at the end of September 2012. Homes in 2015 have taken an average of 94 days to sell.

The decline in property sales is not unique to Prince Rupert in the context of the Northwest.

Terrace saw its sales drop from 288 properties worth $72.5 million in 2014 to 225 properties worth $57.6 million in 2015 and Kitimat saw its sales drop from 128 properties worth $35.9 million to 89 properties worth $24.4 million.

Of all the communities west of Prince George, only Fort St. James, Burns Lake and Houston saw an increase in the number of homes sold in 2015.

There are currently 179 properties for sale in Prince Rupert through the Multiple Listing Service.

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Over the Rainbow 2015: Focusing on early childhood education October 16 and 17 Prince Rupert B.C.

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

“If you know a child or you care about a child, these are the workshops for you.”

Those are the words of Kimberly Williams in describing this weekend’s Early Childhood B.C. Northern Region Conference. While the event will draw child care providers from across the northwest to Prince Rupert for two days of learning and networking, the conference is designed to reach a much broader audience to ensure anybody who wants to can participate.

“We want to include everyone, we don’t want to exclude anyone. This is primarily an early chid care atmosphere, but there is more to it than that. We want everybody – parents, grandparents, care providers, doctors, nurses, professionals and anyone else,” she said, noting topics to be covered include children with autism, managing “screen time” in front of electronic devices, childhood intervention and much more.

“I would like to create a greater sense of community when it comes to being with our children. I would like to make it so that we can talk amongst ourselves and support one another for our families and for our care providers. We want everyone to know that there is somewhere they can go and that they are not alone because I am sure there are instances where people feel there is nowhere they can turn, so their questions go unanswered ... We want people to know that we are out there and that we welcome

“I would like to create a greater sense of community when it comes to being with our children.”

- Kimberly Williams them.”

To ensure residents of the North Coast have ample time to take advantage of what the conference has to offer, the registration deadline has been lifted completely.

“Initially the deadline was Sept. 30, but we want to invite as many people as possible so we opened up the date. You can register even the Friday night before and we will be doing a meet and greet that night that includes students from Northwest Community College conducting an interactive group activity,” said Williams, one of several who has contributed to the planning of the conference.

“This is about supporting our children and all children.”

For more information or to register for the conference, contact ECEBC via phone at 778-884-2486 or via email at kimberly.williams67@hotmail.com.

For more information on early childhood education services available throughout the province, visit the provincial website at www.ecebc.ca.

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Workshops include the $10-a-day initiative, autism intervention, interpersonal relationships and conversations and much more!!

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All classified and classified display ads MUST BE PREPAID by either cash, VISA or Mastercard. When phoning in ads please have your VISA or Mastercard number ready 10 Family Announcements 20 Community Announcements 100 Employment 200 Service Guide 300 400 Pets 500 For Sale/ Wanted 600 Real Estate 700 Rentals 800 Automotive 900 Legals The Prince Rupert Northern View reserves the right to classify ads under appropriate headings and to set rates therefore and to determine page location.

The Prince Rupert Northern View reminds advertisers that it is against the provincial Human Rights Act to discriminate on the basis of children marital status and employment when placing “For Rent:” ads. Landlords can state no smoking preference.

The Prince Rupert Northern View reserves the right to revise, edit, classify or reject any advertisement and to retain any answers directed to the News Box Reply Service, and to repay the customer the sum paid for the advertisement and box rental.

Box replies on “Hold” instructions not picked up within 10 days of expiry of an advertisement will be destroyed unless mailing instructions are received. Those answering Box Numbers are requested not to send original documents to avoid loss.

All claims of errors in advertisements must be received by the publisher within 30 days after the first publication.

It is agreed by the advertiser requesting space that the liability of the Prince Rupert Northern View in the event of failure to publish an advertisement as published shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for only one incorrect insertion for the portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect or omitted item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event greater than the amount paid for such advertising.

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Born in Toronto, Ontario to Kelvin Johnson and Elmer Johnson. She only lived in Prince Rupert for a short time but she called it home. Survived by her partner Joeseph Wozlowski; brothers Andrew, Eric and Rodni (Angela), daughters Guila (Steve), Christa (Richard) and Nikita, Priscilla (Munroop) and granddaughters Nikita, Tyla and Kailey.

Friends and family will be received at the Annunciation Church on Friday, October 16th @ 11 a.m. The Celebration of Life will follow.

In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society will be appreciated.

She will be greatly missed.

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Forssell, Mary Margaret (nee Delaney) May 6, 1946 Sept. 30, 2015 With her family by her side, Mary passed away after a courageous battle in the hospital.

Predeceased by her husband Allan. She will be lovingly remembered by her children Richard (Connie), Lisa (Blake), Kevin (Sheryl) and Grandson Cody.

We would like to thank Dr. Belgardt, Dr. Brown and the nursing staff. A memorial service will be held at the Catholic Church October 17 at 11:00 a.m.

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Greta is survived by her five daughters Linda Varcoe (Moe), Lonie Belsey (Bill) Lynne Donaldson, Lorna Carrigan (Kevin) & Lorie Palmer (Les).

Greta Harris was born on May 11, 1923 in Eyemouth, Scotland to the joy of her parents Brock & Jean Carlton. Greta was raised in Bradwell, Saskatchewan where she remained until she was inspired to join the Royal Canadian Air force of which she proudly served from 1942 to 1945.

After the war ended Greta was discharged and relocated to beautiful Victoria, B.C. where she met and married the love of her life Captain Edgar Harris. (Predeceased October 8, 1987).

Greta and Edgar relocated to Prince Rupert, B.C. in 1960. Greta spent her later years spending time with her ever-expanding family which included 14 Grand Children, 17 Great Grandchildren and 1 Great Great Grandchild.

Greta also enjoyed spending time at the Prince Rupert Seniors Centre participating in various activities, the Senior Games being a particular highlight for her.

Greta will be sadly missed by her large loving family.

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Heavy Equipment Operators Start date: Immediately Experienced Heavy Equipment Operators required for high-quality camp. We offer excellent Pay Rate. Location in Northern BC, working 12 hour days on a 15 day in rotation and a 14 day off.

Your return transportation to camp will be provided from Hazelton, Kitwanga, Smithers, or Terrace.

We are looking for experienced Heavy Equipment Operators for: Excavator, Dozer, Grader, Loader and Rock Truck Drivers.

The nature of camp work requires that this person have excellent interpersonal skills, handle stress well, and be able to live and work as a member of a team.

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Closed Site Manager Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversiďŹ ed natural resource companies. Our global network comprises more than 90 ofďŹ ces located in over 50 countries, plus we have over 150 mining and metallurgical sites, off shore oil production assets, farms and agricultural facilities.

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You bring to this role ďŹ ve to eight years of industry experience complemented by a sound general knowledge of operations. Ideally, you hold a degree/diploma in Engineering, Science or a related ďŹ eld.

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DUTIES: Perform telephone and front desk reception duties, and ensures good working relations are established and maintained between the Office and Clients.

Performs a variety of general administrative support duties.

QUALIFICATIONS: Must have good interpersonal and communication skills; good judgement; reliable and cooperative.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS: Must have grade 12 and knowledge of Business English and general office routines. Some Post-Secondary and administration would be an asset. Ability to deal effectively with clients, public, and staff. Ability to organize and prioritize assigned duties. Ability to work under pressure, adapt to change and to work independently.

Candidate must successfully pass RCMP Criminal Records Check.

This position will be a casual/on call and requires union membership.

Open to male or female.

Pursuant to Section 41 of the BC Human Rights Code; preference may be given to applicants of Aboriginal Ancestry.

Salary will be Grid 5, $14.00 - $16.30 depending on experience and qualifications.

Type of position: Casual/on-call position CLOSING DATE: October 9th, 2015 Location: NIFCS Prince Rupert office Attention: Rachel Hewer, Team Leader Fax: 250-622-2614 Phone: 250-622-2514 Toll Free: 1-888-310-3311 Mail address: 371-309 2nd Avenue West, Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3T1 Email: rachel.hewer@nifcs.org

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SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 92 (NISGA’A) Employment Opportunity Competition # 15-406

District Certified Teacher On Call – TTOC School District No. 92 (Nisga’a) is accepting applications for Certified Teachers on Call for the school term September 2015 to June 2016. Certified Teachers on call will be required to produce active BCTF membership with Teacher Regulation Branch certification. TTOC will be placed on district call out for all schools. Travel will be required from time to time. This position will be a member of the Local Nisga’a Teachers Union.

Successful applicants will support our children by: t Being committed to the education of our children t Being committed to the needs our children in a classroom setting t Be a strong support to teacher on delivery of classroom design t Be a strong team player Responsibilities: t You will be responsible to meet with teacher you are subbing for to receive classroom orientation t Will support the education plan that is in place for classroom t Will respect confidentiality of Students and School District 92 (Nisga’a) information Basic Qualifications: t Ability to promote our Nisga’a Culture through example t Excellent organizational and communication skills would be an asset t Will hold an active membership with BCTF / Teacher Regulation Branch Please include copies of credentials with Resume. Applications will be accepted until 4:00pm October 30, 2015.

Job Posting #15-406 Human Resource Department School District No. 92 (Nisga’a) Box 240 New Aiyansh BC, V0J 1A0 Email: humanresources@nisgaa.bc.ca

Career Opportunities ECONOMIC Development Mgr sought by Kwakiutl Band in Pt Hardy in N. Van. Isl. Send resume, cover LTR & salary expectations to manager@kwakiutl.bc.ca or fax 250-949-6066 by 8 AM, Nov. 2. Pls request job description.

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How do we know what is normal aging and what are the warning signs of dementia?

Share experiences and learn how to prepare the process of seeking a diagnosis.

Date and Time: Oct. 22, 1:30 – 4 p.m.

Location: Northwest Community College 353 5th Street, Prince Rupert

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Date and Time: Oct. 22, 5:30 – 9 p.m.

Location: Acropolis Manor, Activity Room 1325 Summit Ave., Prince Rupert

Julie Stevens, past Honoured Royal Lady of the Canadian Royal Purple Society, was delighted to do honour of inducting and initiating the new officers and members of the newly-formed Royal Puprle Lodge 8, including president Magdalen Matthews.

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Providing the Facts

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Pacific NorthWest LNG will create new local jobs that will give young people and future generations more opportunities to stay in northwest BC.

Will your project emphasize hiring local workers?

Yes. We’re committed to hiring as many local workers as possible for construction and operation jobs at our facility. The investigative work we’re currently conducting around Lelu Island is already providing local jobs.

Are you providing training before construction starts?

Yes. We have already helped over 100 local people receive training through our Individual Training Sponsorship Program. We have also invested in numerous skills and education initiatives including Coastal Pathways, Adventures in Industry and the 150 Ton Master Mariner Program.

Will I have to be a skilled tradesperson to get a job?

No. A wide range of positions will be available through construction and operations. Here are just a few examples.

Jobs during construction: • Carpenters • Labourers • Marine transport operators • Steam fitters and pipefitters • Trades helpers • Truck drivers Jobs during operations: • Environmental management officers • Gas process operators • Health and safety officers • Office administration • Site security • Warehouse, shipping and receiving personnel

For more information, visit one of our community offices in Port Edward or Prince Rupert, PacificNorthWestLNG.com or call 250.622.2727.

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