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SEPTEMBER 29, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 118
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Prince William strums a tune on a Riversong guitar given to him in Kelowna Tuesday by Riversing Guitars owner Mike Miltimore (right) as Duchess Kate Middleton looks on.
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Two Kamloops artisans have had some of their work given to the royal couple now touring the province. Haida artist Clarence Mills, a Westsyde secondary graduate, created a Spirit Blanket that was given to Prince William by Premier Christy Clark this week. During the presentation, Clark
wore a dress and matching spirit wrap designed by Mills. Mills, who spent much of his adult life on the Lower Mainland, has returned to Kamloops, where he hopes to open an art studio. Mike Miltimore and the crew at Riversong Guitars created an acoustic guitar and a ukuleles that he gave to the prince during a reception this week at Mission Hills Winery in Kelowna.
Premier Christy Clark presents Clarence Mills’ Spirit Blanket to See STONE, A4 the royal couple.
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If a bill introduced by Conservative Sen. Nancy Greene Raine becomes law, the familiar branding of fast-food companies, including McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Tim Hortons, won’t be featured on the jerseys of youth soccer and hockey players. A ban on advertising snacks and soft drinks in children’s sports is just one aspect of a new bill introduced by Greene Raine in the Senate, where it was given first reading Tuesday. The bill flows from a Senate report, Obesity in Canada, released in March. The bill bans what Greene Raine calls “manipulative marketing” of food and beverages to kids. Reached by telephone yesterday in Ottawa, Greene Raine
said her goal is to turn around the trend of increasing childhood obesity. A study for a Senate committee found rates of childhood obesity in Canada have tripled since 1980. The Child Health Protection Act would change the existing Food and Drug Act laws on labelling, packaging and advertising to ban it “in a manner that is directed primarily at children.” Children, in the bill, are defined as under 13 years of age. “Today kids are asking, ‘Can I have this? Can I have this?’ — and they get it,” she said. Bills introduced from the Senate rarely become law, but Greene Raine can point to her own bill passed into law proclaiming National Health and Fitness Day in June. She said a similar private member’s bill was introduced in the House
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of Commons by an NDP member several years ago. She expects support for her latest bill across party lines. The bill is backed by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, the Childhood Obesity Foundation and the Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition. Quebec already has similar law that stood up to legal challenges in appeal courts. Greene Raine said the bill would affect everything from cartoon characters on breakfast cereal boxes to advertising on television and online. The bill would also see a timeline for companies to withdraw marketing and sponsorships for children’s sports. In Kamloops, that is typically seen with McDonald’s and Wendy’s restaurants sponsorships in soccer. See KYSA, A6