Gazette NORTH ISLAND
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55th Year No. 26 Newsstand $1.29 + GST
June 26, 2019
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YOUR LIFE YOUR COMMUNITY YOUR PAPER
! See Tri-Port & Area Canada Day events on pages 11-14
• BUSINESS
Beacon Tattoo celebrated one year in business last March, and owner Patrick Berube is excited for the future. Page 4
• PORT ALICE
Debra Lynn explores the deal between Island Health and the Port Alice Health Centre. Page 7 TYSON WHITNEY PHOTO
Gwa’sala-’Nakwaxda’xw Chief Paddy Walkus gave a great opening speech to the Eke Me-Xi Learning Centre graduating class of 2018-2019. For more graduation photos, check out page 17.
FEDERAL ELECTION
• SOCCER
Aftershock tournament hits Port Hardy. Page 18
OPINION Page 6 SPORTS Page 18-20 CLASSIFIEDS Pages 21-23
Green Party candidate visits the North Island Mark de Bruijn, Green Party candidate for the North Island-Powell River riding, sat down with the Gazette at the North Island Mall in Port Hardy on Sunday for a video interview, which you can read highlights from below: Green Party’s platform: Our platform hasn’t been released and it won’t be until the writ has dropped which is up to Prime Min-
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ister Trudeau… We have, in my opinion, by far and away, the most complete climate action plan of all parties in Canada. I think we are the only one that is truly viable and will achieve what we need to achieve according to all the scientists and what they’re predicting about the changes that are coming to this planet. North Island-Powell River MP Rachel Blaney’s perfor-
mance: Rachel’s done a really good job as a rookie MP for this riding, I don’t think that can be disputed. She’s well known, she’s well regarded, she’s kept pretty close touch with the riding… But Rachel is unfortunately aligned with the wrong party, because the party does not have a viable, or a solid, plan for dealing with climate, and probably
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their weakest point is that they are extremely split about what to do about fossil fuels… I also don’t think Rachel as an individual MP is very well versed in the whole climate change issue. Fish Farms: Fish farms have to get out of the ocean, we have to be unequivocal about that. I know that’s extremely controversial, but it’s no secret
that salmon stocks, wild stocks, are in precipitous decline. Fish farms are by no means the only reason that is happening, I mean it’s all tied in with climate change, acidification of oceans, warming of the oceans, habitat destruction through logging and mining… but fish farms are a gauntlet that all these young salmon swim through when they come
out of the rivers. What will de Bruijn do for Woss-north if elected: This is our campaign’s first foray into the north part of the island, and the main purpose is to meet the folks of this area and to listen to what their concerns, and their thoughts and their questions are. To watch the full interview, please go to northislandgazette.com.
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