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FEBRUARY 5, 2020 | Volume 33 No. 11
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STORY, A28
CURLING CHAMPIONS
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SNOW REPORT Sun Peaks Resort Mid-mountain: 179 cm Alpine: 195 cm Harper Mountain Total snow: 202 cm
Kamloops curlers dominated at two provincials on weekend
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NEWS/A5 Thompson Rivers University researcher Peter Tsigaris has found the cost of spam to academics to be astronomical. DAVE EAGLES/KTW
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Thompson Rivers University researcher is hoping young scholars won’t succumb to spam after co-authoring a paper that puts the cost of unsolicited emails to research-
ers and academics at more than US$1.1 billion per year. Researchers often receive unsolicited emails from publishers of open access journals, seeking a processing fee that is typically between $500 to $1,000, according to Peter Tsigaris. “I’m an economist and I get emails from medical journals or
other journals unrelated to my research or field. It’s very obvious they’re spam,” he told KTW. Tsigaris decided to tally up the time wasted dealing with unsolicited offers and spam and came to the conclusion the time spent amounted to about $150 per researcher per year. See SPAM COST TO TRU, A7
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Kamloops council did not have a letter from Tk’emlups te Secwepemc, authorizing use of the former Stuart Wood elementary building by Children’s Circle Daycare, before making its decision to deny temporary use of the empty heritage building downtown. However, consent from the First Nation would not have changed the minds of the four council members who opposed the plan, with pending Tk’emlups authorization only one piece of the puzzle. “It’s a complex issue that has lots of moving parts,” Mayor Ken Christian told KTW. Tk’emlups Chief Rosanne Casimir said band council consented to a proposal by Children’s Circle to lease a portion of Stuart Wood after legal advice determined granting temporary use of the building as a day care would not undermine the band’s underlying land rights. “They said that it wasn’t omitting our rights and our title by any means,” Casimir said, noting discussions over long-term use of the property are continuing.
Since Stuart Wood elementary closed in 2016, the city, the provincial government and Tk’emlups te Secwépemc have been in discussions regarding the future use of the heritage building and property, with a joint-use cultural centre planned. Ownership of the property that borders Third Avenue and Battle and St. Paul streets reverted to the Crown once the school closed and the site was no longer used for educational purposes. Because the land is Crown-owned, Tk’emlups must be consulted with respect to its future use. During an in-camera meeting on Jan. 21, council rejected the day care request by a vote of 4-3, with councillors Arjun Singh, Denis Walsh and Dale Bass in favour of granting the lease and Christian and councillors Kathy Sinclair, Bill Sarai and Dieter Dudy opposed. Coun. Mike O’Reilly did not vote due to a conflict of interest (his child attends the day care), while Coun. Sadie Hunter was on vacation. Following the day-care request vote, council voted unanimously to deny any further requests to lease Stuart Wood until an agreement with Tk’emlups on the property is reached. See NO AGREEMENT, A6
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