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Official Tournament Mark This manual provides you with tools and guidelines to ensure the tournament logo type (tournament mark) for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship appears in a consistent manner that is appropriate to IIHF standards in all communications. These standards should be followed as closely as possible, however it is understood that requirements for unspecified applications may arise.
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The official tournament mark will appear prominently on all official communications and marketing materials pertaining to the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship.
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The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions.
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The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
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The City of Kamloops will rake in $200,000 more from the expanded Cascades Casino in 2016 than it received from the Lake City Casino in 2015. Finance director Kathy Humphrey said the city received $654,069 from Cascades Casino and Chances Gaming Centre in the final quarter of 2015 — the first full reporting period since the new casino opened. That amount is $68,000 more than the city received during the same quarter in 2014, with the majority of that increase realized from the casino’s new home at Versatile and Hugh Allan drives. Humphrey said that increase fits with projections from the B.C. Lotteries Corporation, which projects Cascades bringing in $2.5 million more per year than it did as Lake City Casino in its former Victoria Street location. Under provincial revenue-sharing agreements, the city gets 10 per cent of net gambling revenue annually from Cascades and Chances on the North Shore, which it can spend however it chooses.
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Kamloops’ Nikki Fraser poses a question on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a Sunday news special on the CBC. Trudeau replied: “This matters. Indigenous lives matter. That you even have to say that is frustrating to me.”
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Aiyanna and Trey weren’t the least bit impressed mom had been featured on the CBC National News earlier this week. Instead, the youngsters were focused on the basics of a mom’s job — getting breakfast ready and a diaper changed. Some day, however, Nikki Fraser’s kids, ages 3 and 5, will know of the 10 minutes the Kamloops woman spent with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, asking questions Fraser hopes will play a role in making the world a safer place for children like hers — and, specifically,
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for the nation’s daughters. Fraser was one of 10 people chosen by the CBC to ask Trudeau a question. She chose the topic of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. However, the youth worker didn’t know initially her question would be posed to the prime minister. Fraser said she was approached by the CBC and asked to share her story and the reasons why she is an activist in the movement that would see the country confront the reality that more than 1,200 indigenous women have died or disappeared. Among them were Fraser’s aunt Dorothy Spence, who
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disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in 1995, and her cousin Samantha Paul, whose body was found in the White Lake area near Barnhartvale in 2014, almost a year after she disappeared. The next step was an invitation to Ottawa, where Fraser learned she would take part in the CBC event. Filming took place on Jan. 28 and the 10 people taking part remained in the nation’s capital until the live broadcast on Sunday that accompanied the CBC’s Peter Mansbridge introducing the questions and answers — and the people behind them. See KAMLOOPS WOMAN, A10
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City of Kamloops staff say a new leisure pool at McArthur Island is the most cost-effective way to offer swimming on the North Shore — and they have until April to find out if area residents agree. City council decided Tuesday to move ahead with community consultation as it grapples with mounting repair costs at the Westsyde and McDonald pools, as well as a citywide ice time shortage. Parks, recreation and cultural-services director Byron McCorkell said staff and council will spend the next few months talking to residents in Brocklehurst, Westsyde and the North Shore about closing all three existing pools north of the river and replacing them with a leisure pool that could include water slides and other features. Under the proposal, the McDonald Park pool would become a spray park and Brocklehurst’s outdoor pool would become a new ice sheet, creating two rinks in Brock Arena. Westsyde Pool, which has been closed since last summer due to moisture leaking through the pool’s vapour barrier and into the roof, would remain open as a fitness centre with a sauna and hot tub, but with its pool converted to a gymnasium for basketball, pickleball and other sports. “I expect we’ll hear from the neighbourhoods, they’ve become accustomed to the things they have and they have value. And that’s not to be undervalued, that’s important,” McCorkell said. “But, in the greater context of the community, we’re spending a lot of money. Is that what we want to do going forward?”
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