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DECEMBER 19, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 151
Lawyer claims proposed bylaw unconstitutional POT TALK
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DAVE EAGLES/KTW Community Living B.C. integrated services manager Grant Huffman (left) joins Krystian Shaw and a roomful of his supporters during a celebration of his efforts. Shaw created the Kamloops Self-Advocate, a newsletter for people with developmental disabilities, and had the story of his journey published in the Canada 150 What’s Your Story? book.
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A Kamloops disability advocate is among Canadians featured in a new book celebrating stories of everyday citizens. Krystian Shaw, founder of the Kamloops Self-Advocate newsletter, is one of 116 Canadians profiled and photographed in What’s Your Story?
The book was published by the CBC as part of a national storytelling project in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday. “It’s from all Canadians, about what they are doing to make this a better world and how they’re celebrating Canada’s birthday year,” Shaw said. His four-year-old newsletter was created to honour people with what he describes as “diverse abilities” and to challenge pre-
conceptions of what those with intellectual and physical disabilities are able to accomplish. His What’s Your Story? entry discusses his personal journey to overcome those preconceived ideas. “I was born with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as an anxiety disorder,” Shaw wrote. See ‘I’VE ALWAYS WANTED, A10
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WHAT: Public hearing on proposed bylaw governing marijuana dispensaries WHEN: Tuesday, Dec. 19, 7 p.m. WHERE: Valley First Lounge in Sandman Centre, 300 Lorne St.
Buckley said a fine at the maximum amount of $10,000 would be crippling to most dispensaries. The City of Kamloops is hosting a public hearing on the topic at 7 p.m. on Tuesday in the Valley First Lounge at Sandman Centre. Dispensaries in Kamloops have been operating without licences because the city refuses to license businesses it deems illegal. Marijuana remains illegal until it is legalized by the federal government, but some cities have opted to license dispensaries in the meantime. Medical marijuana is legal, but can only be obtained legally through Health Canada. “The dispensaries here can’t comply with the bylaws,” Buckley said. “The City of Kamloops will not issue a business licence to a business that sells cannabis.” See CITY CAO, A11
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A Kamloops lawyer says a proposed city bylaw aimed at controlling marijuana dispensaries — a move he thinks is aimed at shuttering pot shops — ahead of the drug’s legalization next summer is unconstitutional. However, according to management at city hall, the proposed rules would only give the city some authority over an unregulated, unlicensed business. “Basically, they’re saying it’s going to become legalized and they don’t want existing dispensaries to be grandfathered in,” lawyer Shawn Buckley told KTW. “Really what they’re doing is putting clubs that people rely on out of business. The timing is really suspect. I smell money. “They don’t want them to have some advantage the new businesses [post-legalization dispensaries] don’t have? But then aren’t they giving the new businesses an advantage because they don’t have to compete?” The proposed bylaw change would increase maximum daily fines businesses could be charged for operating without a licence from $200 to $10,000.
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