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The gate is not opening anytime soon to motorists at Fort Shepherd since a wildlife steward witnessed off-roaders tear through the property. The land located on the west shore of the Columbia River, across from Waneta, has become a popular playground for off-road enthusiasts. Use of the area by all-terrain vehicles, motorbikes, and off-road trucks has increased considerably over the past decade. Though there are signs warning motorists to stick to the main
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Battered chairs, ripped out drywall, broken cement and household junk dumped along the Casino Road river bank are grim reminders of what lies beneath the winter white. The illegal dump was easily visible from the south east side of the Old Trail Bridge, but not so easy for the Emcon road crew to clean up last week. A sizable snow pile is blocking access to the bank, impeding more dumping at the site, for now. On the flipside, workers did pick up 140 kilograms of mostly wallboard and furniture, but the snow barrier hampered the job and chunks of concrete remain behind until later this spring. The stretch of river bank is outside Trail boundaries, so Larry Abenante from city public works, reported the dump to the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB), as the land lies in Area B. Abenante typically dispatches a work crew from Career Development Services (CDS) to clean up illegal dumps no matter the boundary, such as regional district turf surrounding the Sunningdale water towers. However, the steep bank and unsafe conditions for CDS workers, some with physical challenges, had Abenante forwarding the request to the RDKB. The matter becomes slightly muddied because anything outside municipal boundaries is Crown land, and responsibility for maintenance, includ-
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CONTINUED FROM A1 possibly a map to better manage the property. The club would like the cooperation of all ORV (off-road vehicle) clubs at this time. The Fort Shepherd Conservancy Area was established in 2007 with the primary objective of conserving the area’s wildlife and habitat values. The Land Conservancy of B.C. owns the land, and delegates management to the Fort Shepherd Conservancy Area Stewardship Council, a branch of TWA. “The Land Conservancy has given the authorization to do this, and if it goes any further they’ll just shut it down completely, forever, because they’re not going to put up with this,” said Fillmore. An access management policy was developed to provide a framework for managing access to the property. All access by offroad vehicles, ATVs and motorbikes was prohibited on roads, trails, river gravel bars and cross-country travel. Motorized pub-
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ing clean up, falls to the province under the Environmental Management Act (EMA). Emcon Services, being the local highway maintenance contractor, was then summoned for the job. So with the province footing the bill for hauling away the garbage, the question remains, “Where does the regional district fit into the picture?” There’s no monetary deterrent at this point, because no illegal dumping fine exists. But the problem is being investigated and remains a priority in the next few months, says RDKB Environmental Services Manager, Alan Stanley. “Illegal dumping follows population patterns,” explained Stanley. “It’s intermittent and clusters around population centres. People are not going to travel far to dump, ” he added. “It’s the modern day ‘shell midden,’ but with plastics and toxins mixed in.” (A shell midden refers to historic dumps of primarily oyster shells, on the outskirts of coastal populations) The mo der n day problem came to the forefront of the Environmental Services Committee last fall following Stanley’s report outlining the current RDKB legal standing and options to acquire authority to prohibit illegal dumping. “The EMA enables regional districts to create and enforce illegal dumping preven-
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tion bylaws,” he said. The provision would fall under Solid Waste Management Plans through the creation of a Waste Stream Management Licensing Bylaw (WSML). “Before enactment, a WSML must be included in a Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) and in addition to regular SWMP public consultation,” Stanley continued. “The province requires extensive stakeholder consultation with the solid waste management industry.” Additional costs are part of any new program, but in the case of illegal dumping prohibition, Stanley says detailed financial implications are unknown and cannot be
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determined until the program scope is established. At the end of the day, Stanley says illegal dumping funnels down to a community standards issue. Meaning, the more eyes watching and reporting, the better - community engagement and education is key. The City of Trail enacted a $500 fine for illegal dumping earlier this year. The high volume of dumps primarily in Upper Sunningdale, Violin Lake and near the Trail airport had council amending its Ticket Information Utilization Bylaw and the Garbage and Waste Bylaw, establishing a financial impact to the offence.
Abenante says recent and historic dumping sites have already been cleaned up after the early snow melt. An old lighting fixture was removed from Gorge Creek, and CDS crews swept Gyro Park beach this week, picking up everything from shopping carts and household waste, to pop cans and beer bottles, including the old stubby kind. Last year his crews hauled four metric tonnes, or nearly 9,000 pounds of garbage to the regional landfill for proper disposal. “People think they are saving money by illegally dumping in secluded areas,”Abenante said. “But it’s everyone’s tax dollars being spent to clean it up.”
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Energy East pipeline delays unconscionable
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hat is the relationship between these events? Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion announces the federal government won’t stop the controversial $15-billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia despite what he terms the kingdom’s “terrible” human rights record because “very surely … the equipment would be sold to Saudi Arabia by another country and this would not change one iota … human rights in Saudi Arabia.” In 2015, Eastern Canadian refiners imported hundreds of thousands of barrels per day of crude oil from Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Angola; countries whose Human Rights Watch ranking is very poor. The federal government announces a nine-month extension to the 18-month Energy East regulatory process to study whether the pipeline would increase greenhouse gas emissions, and to allow for additional consultation with Aboriginal and other interest groups. Dion is correct that stopping the arms sale to the Saudis would simply mean they would buy the arms elsewhere. But the Saudis’ ability to purchase those arms is enabled by the cash that Canada and other oil importing countries send them, as do oil purchases from Algeria, Angola and the other oil producing states that make up the Middle East/ North African conflict hotbed. Non-oil producing countries
have little choice choose to be depenbut to send those dent on foreign oil enabling funds. But when we don’t have Canada has a choice. to? The proposed These reasons Energy East pipealone are enough line would eliminate to make the Energy those imports and East project a naopen an export cortional priority. Even ridor for Canadian more compelling are GWYN oil to world markets, the economic imending the payment plications. Canada of billions of dolproduces 3.8 million Troy Media lars to those corrupt barrels of oil per day. countries while adding even more World prices have fallen by some billions to our country’s economy. 70 per cent over the past year. That’s Just as stopping the Canada/ bad enough, but few Canadians Saudi deal would simply mean the know our oil is sold far below the arms are produced elsewhere, any world price due to lack of pipeline emissions reduction from stop- access to world markets. ping Energy East would be offThis discount amounts to about set by emissions generated from $10 barrel, meaning we forfeit production and transportation of $38 million every day that Energy the oil we import. So why are we East is deferred. That means the microscopically scrutinizing the en- $250-million injection from the vironmental impact of our own oil federal stabilization fund promised production, while giving imported by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in oil a free ride? his recent visit to Alberta wouldn’t And shouldn’t we also consid- even offset one week of market acer their deplorable treatment of cess losses. women, persecution of dissidents, It also means the cost of his govrepression of journalists and dis- ernment’s nine-month regulatory crimination against minorities in deferral is a staggering $2.7 billion. comparison with the freedom and And since 90 per cent of Canada’s social justice record under which production is exported to the U.S., our oil is produced? that amounts to a $2.4 billion subHow do we factor in the human sidy to U.S. consumers. cost of enabling the purchase of But that still doesn’t reflect the arms by the fighting factions in full impact of this completely unwhat is a perpetual war zone? necessary regulatory delay. In the Finally, why would Canada days following the Energy East de-
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ferral, oil and gas companies announced thousands more layoffs and further cutbacks to 2016 capital investment, bringing the total to $15 billion, more than 20 times the $700 million infrastructure funding Trudeau announced in Alberta. And let’s not forget the huge tax revenue that $38 million per day and $15-billion annual capital investment could have created. Instead, we have the prime minister’s spending promises that taxpayers will have to repay. Albertans are generally positive, resilient people. But they are fast losing hope. In place of action, they see unnecessary delays and the possible demise of a critical project. And they see a national government expressing more concern for the minuscule 0.12 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions from oilsands than the tens of thousands of workers without jobs. Now comes a court injunction against Energy East by Quebec, the very province that would benefit most from replacing foreign imports with Canadian oil. When bad things happen, the first priority is to identify those we can do something about. We can’t control world oil prices, but we can ensure we’re getting that world price, rather than giving our oil to the Americans for half price. Gwyn Morgan is a retired Canadian business leader who has been a director of five global corporations.
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FortisBC filling its coffers with power rates At the risk of being boring on the topic of Fortis’s continuing power rate increases, and their attempts to publicly justify them, there needs a little more information to the recent letter published in the Trail Times from Fortis’s head office (“FortisBC responds to reader’s letter on rates” Trail Times Jan. 15). The letter stated the Fortis had invested a billion dollars in the system upgrades. The statement is true, but lets look at the details and who has the responsibility for
the debt? The public utilities commission has allowed Fortis to assume 40 per cent of the debt, while the responsibility for the 60 per cent of the billion is you and I the ratepayers. Fortis’ profits from our share of the debt of $600 million, is about $50 million for just being in the room and not have the primary responsibility for debt payment. The Public Utilities Commission has also allowed Fortis to take millions an-
nually in a special bonus for what is called risk investment in the company. There has never been any discussion on internal charges that Fortis may also be claiming for capital projects under taken. According to the Dermod Travis column (“What’s good for the B.C. Liberals may not be good for B.C. Hydro” Trail Times Feb. 17), Quebec has the second lowest rates in Canada, the rate increases from 2007 to 2015 was 17.1 per cent. In that same time
period B.C. rates have increased a dramatic 63.2 per cent. To make matters worse we have 11 power generating facilities in our immediate area, the highest density per square mile of anywhere in the world. We now can also claim to have the highest power rate in Canada with Fortis’ new two tier rate structure that is generating millions to Fortis’s revenue. Norm Gabana Trail
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anada needs to tackle point above that line. poverty in a new and This wouldn’t result in the aggressive fashion. good life but it would ensure that I recently tabled a all Canadians have an income motion in the Senate calling on that covers the basic necessities: the federal government to cre- clothing, food and decent shelter. ate a pilot project that would It would provide a foundation test a basic income in Canada. that low-income people could Basic income, also build on for a better known as a guaranlife. teed annual income, This idea is supshows great promise ported by a majorin dealing with an ity of Canadians, increasing poverty according to a 2013 crisis in this nation. Environics poll. And Canadians face people across the poimmense challenglitical spectrum supART es. Many families port a basic income. struggle to pay rent; Conservative Troy Media they can’t afford economist Milton their children’s school supplies or Friedman was a proponent school trips. Many rely on food of basic income, as is former banks just to feed their families. Conservative Sen. Hugh Segal. One in seven Canadians live On the other end, Green Party in poverty. That’s over five mil- Leader Elizabeth May, Alberta lion people – including over one NDP Finance Minister Joe Ceci, million children. And an esti- and Quebec Liberal Employment mated 150,000 to 300,000 people and Social Solidarity Minister are homeless. Last year, close to François Blais support the idea. 900,000 Canadians used food Communities across the banks every month, with over country are coming on board. one-third of those children. Many provincial, territorial and Increasing income and wealth municipal leaders that have pubinequality is changing the core licly supported basic income or of our society. The Conference pilot projects to that end. As well, Board of Canada graded Canada organizations like the Canadian at “C” for inequality, ranking us Medical Association are calling 12th out of 17 countries studied. for action on inequality. But why a basic income? A basic income is a simpler What we have done for far and more transparent approach too long is simply not working. to fighting poverty than our curEven with all the social supports rent patchwork of social proin place, the resulting income is grams. It would extend benefits often only enough to maintain a to those who are not covered by family in poverty. At their worst, social assistance programs, such existing policies and programs as the working poor. actually entrap people in poverty. And introducing a basic inA basic income would work as come could have a stimulus efa tax credit administered simi- fect by quickly injecting money lar to the Guaranteed Income into the economy. Supplement for seniors. If someIn the 1970s, Canada piloted one is below the poverty line, a basic income program known they would be topped up to a as ‘Mincome,’ primarily in the
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town of Dauphin, Man. Research done by Evelyn Forget from the University of Manitoba found that as a result “hospital visits dropped 8.5 per cent. Fewer people went to the hospital with work-related injuries and there were fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse. There were also far fewer mental health visits.” What about employment? Research shows that only new mothers and teenagers worked less with a basic income. Mothers stayed home with their babies longer. Youth worked less but spent more time in school and graduated in higher numbers. Overall, labour force attachment remained strong. Canada could see a great upsurge in the living conditions of our most vulnerable if a basic income were employed, and we could realize a decrease in costs. Poverty costs us all – as much as $30 billion a year by one estimate – by slowing the economy, forcing up our tax bills, increasing health-care costs and crime. The now closed National Council of Welfare put the poverty gap in Canada at $12 billion in 2011. That is what it would take to get everyone up to the poverty line. We need a pilot project that can provide new and robust Canadian data, that can determine how such a system would function today, and that would make clear the benefits and costs. A basic income is a new path that shows great potential. Let’s study this approach and get the evidence. If proven, we not only end poverty but we spend smarter, more efficiently and effectively. Art Eggleton is a Canadian senator and former mayor of Toronto and member of Parliament.
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A little rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of athletes who competed at the 2016 Canada Special Olympic Winter Games in Corner Brook, Nfld. last week. The Games turned out to be a huge success for everyone including a strong BC contingent and a pair of Greater Trail athletes. SOBC-Trail sent two athletes to the games and both performed spectacularly. Montrose’s Will Thatcher captured silver and bronze in snowshoeing, while Trail’s Jake Miller stick handled to a silver medal in floor hockey with his Kootenay Storm team. Thatcher sprinted to silver in the M3 400metre race, one of the most challenging events in snowshoeing, and took home bronze in the 200-metre sprint at the Blow Me Down Cross Country Ski Club. Rain made conditions challenging at the outdoor events, cancelling some events Thursday, but organiz-
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(Top) Montrose native Will Thatcher sprinted to silver in the 400-metre M3 snowshoe and bronze in the 200metre, while Jake Miller (left) from Trail and the Kootenay Storm claimed silver in floor hockey at the Canada Special Olympic Winter Games. ing committee chair Len Moores told the CBC that an extra day was added to make up for delays. It was the power of the volunteers that kept things moving, Moores said, and made sure the athletes had a great ex-
perience. “We had planned that we might lose a day of weather for snow, but not necessarily for rain,” said Moores. “We needed support over at the cross-country ski club and I’m told 60to 70 volunteers came for-
ward to shovel snow back onto the course.” Rain didn’t bother Miller or a Storm team that played inside the Cornerbrook Civic Centre Annex. After some preliminary matches, the Kootenay Storm rolled over the CONTINUED ON A8
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TIMES STAFF The Beaver Valley Nitehawks pushed the Grand Forks Border Bruins to the brink of elimination on Tuesday with a 4-1 victory in Grand Forks. Kyle Hope scored twice and added an assist to pace the Hawks to a 3-0 series lead over the Border Bruins. The Fruitvale native opened the scoring on the power play with assists going to Jake Yuris and Sam Swanson at 9:41 of the first period. The Hawks took the lead into the second, outshooting Grand Forks 14-11 in the opening frame, but the Bruins responded when Shayne Pluto beat Tallon Kramer in close at 4:21 of the second. However, the Hawks took the lead for good with 49 seconds to
play in the period, when Tyler Hartman teed up the winner to give B.V. A 2-1 advantage with helpers going to Swanson and Hope. The Hawks held the Border Bruins to just five shots in the period, while firing 10 at Bruins goalie Anthony Galliart. The Nitehawks added two more in the third. Hope netted the insurance marker midway through the final frame, and McKoy Hauk wired one past Galliart on a Lyle Frank and Swanson set up to close out the scoring at the 5:48 mark. The Hawks outshot Grand Forks 36-24, going 1-for-4 on the power play while the Bruins went 0-for-4. Hope and Swanson did most of the damage with threepoint nights, while Hartman pitched in with a goal and an
assist. In the Eddie Murdoch series, the Kimberley Dynamiters took a 3-0 stranglehold on the series defeating the Creston Valley Thundercats 5-2 on Tuesday in Creston. In the OkanaganShuswap Conference the Osoyoos Coyotes took a 2-1 series lead over the Summerland Steam with a 7-4 victory, while the 100-Mile House Wranglers beat the Chase Heat 3-2 to take a 3-1 series advantage. The Hawks looked to wrap up the KIJHL’s Neil Murdoch division title in Game 4 on Wednesday night but scores were unavailable at press time. See Thursday’s Times for results.
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Games act as stepping stone to Worlds CONTINUED FROM A7 Vancouver Storm 7-2 in their opening match last Thursday in which Miller notched a hat trick. On Saturday, the Storm then humbled Team Ontario 5-1, before shutting out the Alberta Cougars 16-0 to end the round robin. But as the top seed in the Red Division, Kootenay would fall to the Vancouver Storm 3-2 in the final to take home the silver medal. “Vancouver was a tough team,” said Miller. “But it was awesome. I made some new friends from different places … and it was amazing winning the medal.” Miller said he enjoyed himself at the week-long event and that he was proud to represent Trail. And while the competition was exciting, he was particularly impressed with the Newfoundland hospitality. “The opening ceremonies and closing ceremonies were amazing, and the dance,” he added. “It was awesome.” Athletes from 12 provinces and territories competed in seven different sports including alpine skiing, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, floor hockey, curling, figure skating and speed skating. BC won 41 gold, 44 silver, and 33 bronze for a total of 120 medals. The Special Olympics Canada 2016 Winter Games are a qualifier for the 2017 Special Olympics World Games in Austria next March.
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Route 340 23 papers 10th Ave, 7th St, 8th St
Route 100 26 papers Columbia Ave, McQuarrie St
Route 341 24 papers 10th Ave, 8th Ave, 9th Ave
Route 103 37 papers 2nd, Columbia Ave
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Route 344 15 papers 10th Ave, 11th Ave, 6th St
Route 104 17 papers 3rd Ave, 4th Ave, Circle St
Route 345 12 papers 10th Ave, 9th Ave
Route 110 20 papers 3rd Ave, 4th Ave, Goelel St, Taylor St
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Route 118 18 papers 3rd Ave, 4th Ave, Main St, Mclean St, McQuarrie St
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Glenmerry
Route 303 15 papers 12th Ave, 2nd St, Grandview Route 304 13 papers 12th & 14th Ave
Route 184 30 papers Daphne St, Laburnum
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Route 179 29 papers Balsam St & Laburnum Dr
Heather Zanussi Maria Kruchen, CFP
Rossland
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#2-2530 St. Paul Street, Rossland
1807 Columbia Avenue, Rossland
3764 Carnation Drive, Trail
3 bdrm upper unit duplex with mountain views!
Great commercial potential in this building close to town.
This Glenmerry home has been renovated to perfection.
$120,000
Manitoba Telecom ........... 33.49 Mercer International ........... 8.73 National Bank of Canada . 41.10 Onex Corporation ............ 77.24 Royal Bank of Canada...... 73.21 Sherritt International ............ 0.94 TD Bank .......................... 54.88 TELUS Corp...................... 40.36 Teck Resources ................. 10.12 TransCanada Corp ........... 49.20 iPath S&P 500 VIX .......... 22.425
Portfolio Series Balanced ... 28.23
East Trail
$268,000
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Route 348 19 papers 12th Ave, Christie Rd
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Route 358 14 papers Cole St, Kootenay Ave North, Mountain St and Short St. Route 362 20 papers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Evergreen Ave Route 363 12 papers Casemore Rd, Tamarac Ave Route 370 15 papers 2nd St, 3rd St, Hillcrest Ave, Moutain St. Route 375 12 papers Green Rd & Lodden Rd Route 379 18 papers Cole St, Nelson Ave Route 380 23 papers Galloway Rd, Mill Rd Route 381 7 papers Coughlin Rd Route 382 7 papers Debruin Rd & Staats Rd Route 384 13 papers Cedar Ave. Kootenay Ave S, Mill Rd
Route 346 27 papers 8th, 9th & 10th Ave
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$349,900
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3715 WOODLAND DR, GLENMERRY MLS#2409316
$329,900
1465 THIRD AVENUE, TRAIL MLS#2411328
$189,000
1839 FIRST STREET, FRUITVALE
$319,900+GST
MLS#2407988
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205 – 10TH AVENUE, MONTROSE
707 8TH AVENUE, MONTROSE
$189,500
MLS#2408968
SO MUCH CHARM
TRAIL MLS#2409366
250-368-1617
$249,000
NEW PRICE
$154,500
Wayne DeWitt
MLS#2403431
2104 – 7TH AVENUE, TRAIL MLS#2411179
EVERYTHING IS DONE
MIRAL HEIGHTS MLS#2410057
Mario Berno 250-368-1027
$179,900
$395,000
Tom Gawryletz 250-368-5000
250-231-1661
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WARFIELD MLS#2409689
Keith DeWitt 250-231-8187
$218,000
MLS#2409200
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$384,500
Thea Hanson
$189,900
$264,900
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2118-7TH AVE, TRAIL MLS#2411792
MIRAL HEIGHTS MLS#2408340
7761 CREMA DRIVE, WANETA MLS#2409053
$285,500
TRAIL MLS#2409143
Denise Marchi 250-368-1112
$145,000
Joy DeMelo 250-368-1960