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TERRACE - Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13 Sergeant at Arms Stan McKay, middle, stands with Skeena Middle School students who formed part of the official party at a Nov. 10 Remembrance Day assembly at the school. From the left, air cadets Nathaniel Jacobson, Shayne Campbell and Caytlyn Regular, Scout Jasmine Peden and air cadets Ray Wilson, Tristen Brown and Nicholas Hamer. The cadets belong to the 747 Unicorn squadron in Terrace.
Working Push on for better area transit services Together... ...Better! By Shaun Thomas
THE NORTHERN CONNECTOR
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PRINCE RUPERT - Documents released following a Freedom of Information request show many community leaders told the provincial government that better transportation was needed along Highway 16. Outlined in the release are details of meetings held in communities along the highway related to the Highway of Tears and the Missing Women Commission recommendations and most say the services offered by Greyhound, Via Rail and the Northern Health Connections bus are inadequate to stop people from hitchhiking. The notes indicate that those
in Smithers told Ministry of Transportation staff that “service needs to be good enough to be an option for people” and that the region will “need consistent accessible public transportation for all” before talking about service improvements. In Vanderhoof, ministry officials were told that “mothers with kids face severe transportation options just to access the social safety net” while leaders in McBride told staff that “rural communities deserve some basic level of access to larger communities” and that any proposal needs to include a “network” to connect smaller communities to the main highway and transportation links. North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice says those type of state-
ments fly in the face of her discussions with ministry and Minister Todd Stone. “I have been pushing this for two years and the minister said that those people I said wanted improved transportation along Highway 16 weren’t saying that ... I am really shocked that he stood in the legislature and said improved transportation was not identified as a practical solution by the people who live here when clearly the people the ministry spoke to said otherwise,” said Rice, who spearheaded the Freedom of Information request to get details of those meetings and was told such records did not exist. “There are two things here — one is hiding and deleting emails, which I think is totally
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#28 Kory Movold As the 2015-2016 title sponsor of the Rupert Rampage, the Prince Rupert Port Authority salutes player of the game Kory Movold. Movold picked up the hat trick and added a helper to pace the Prince Rupert Rampage to an exciting 6-2 victory over the Lac La Hache Tomahawks.
disrespectful to the families, and then there is suppressing information to support the spin put on the situation by the minister. That is worrisome.” In February, according to the Hansard, Stone said the idea of a shuttle bus was not something that people wanted to see given the distance that would need to be covered. However, on Nov. 3 he said the file was active. “The important thing here, I think, for people on Highway 16 is that we continue to focus on how we can make this corridor safer. That’s the work that I am pouring myself into. That’s the work that my officials are putting their shoulders into. We’re going to continue to do that important work to make that corridor safer.”