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FEBRUARY 9, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 17
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. For questions and approvals related to sponsorship, please contact: Bruce Newton – bnewton@hockeycanada.ca
‘I need time to forget a lot of things that happened to me.”
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TRU is suing estate of Ike Barber
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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.
The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions. The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
English (horizontal)
English (vertical)
Bilingual
CAM FORTEMS French (horizontal)
French (vertical)
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Mustafa Zakred wants to study at Thompson Rivers University and improve the English he is somewhat comfortable with already. The Syrian refugee is living in Salmon Arm now, after arriving in B.C. in early January. His mother and brother died when his home was bombed. He’s hoping his three brothers and two sisters, now living in Lebanon and Jordan, arrive soon. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
Thompson Rivers University is seeking nearly $1.3 million from the estate of the forestry legend whose name graces a significant part of its newest building for what it claims is an unpaid promise. 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Logo Guide But a related estate of Ike Barber argues it has no obligation to pay his pledge, a pledge that died with him four years ago. A lawsuit was filed in B.C. Supreme Court in 2014 and a defence filed in December. The university invited Barber to the opening in 2010 after announcing he would contribute $1.5 million to the Brown Family House of Learning, which includes the Irving K. Barber Centre, the largest in-theround lecture theatre in the province. The lawsuit claims Barber paid $225,000 in two instalments. He died in April 2012, when the payments stopped. Barber was a legendary philanthropist who founded Slocan Forest Products. He attended the University of B.C., where he trained as a forester after serving in the Second World War. The university lawsuit claims that prior to the home for three years. His mother and donation, Barber set up a spousal trust with his wife, brother died when his Syrian home was Jean. But in a statement of defence, the trustees of a bombed. He has three brothers who are related trust said at no time did Barber represent that still in Lebanon, a sister in Jordan and one he was acting as a representative of the trust and that in Beirut. his pledges died with him. He’s concerned he is already in Canada “The estate is unable to fulfil any further obligaand his siblings are not because they all tions under the pledge,” the statement said. filled out their documents to make the Prior to the TRU donation, Barber gave $10 million move at the same time. He has called the to University of B.C.’s Okanagan campus and $2.5 milorganization that connected him with prilion to Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey. vate sponsors in Salmon Arm and was told Barber was asked at the announcement in 2010 by Canada expects another 25,000 refugees by a reporter in Kamloops how much of his fortune he the end of the month. had donated: “Almost all of it,” he replied. The claims have not been heard in court. See EVERYONE’S JOLLY, A11
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Khaled al-Mohammed can’t speak about the life he left behind in Syria. He will talk about the joy of walking his two older children to and from school, of learning to speak English and of how comfortable he feels not only within the city’s Muslim community, but in Kamloops itself. But he only shakes his head when asked what he left behind when he boarded a jet bound for Canada and, ultimately, a new life for him, his wife Reem and their three
children in the Tournament Capital. It’s too hard, he says through an interpreter. It’s something to which he cannot put words. It’s something that just makes him cry. Al-Mohamed joined four other new arrivals to the Interior — brothers Rojeh and Rodan Labbad and Mustafa Zakred, who now calls Salmon Arm home — for a smile-filled press conference at the Kamloops Islamic Community Mosque just outside Knutsford. Zakred talked a bit about his life before he left the camp in Lebanon that has been
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