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Tuesdayaugust 28, 2012

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Mayor Ron McRae welcomes students from Kimberley’s sister city, Annaka, Japan, to Council Chambers and the City of Kimberley. The students were in town on a cultural exchange last week and spent their days engaged in morning English Classes at Blarchmont Learning Centre and afternoons engaged in outdoor activities. See more Page 3.

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Columbia River Rev-elstoke MLA Norm Mac-donald (NDP) spent much of the summer engaged in something of a rarity these days — a provincial government mandated committee that managed to oper-ate in a bipartisan fash-ion.

Macdonald is the NDP Forestry critic and therefore the Special Committee on Timber

Supply was of particular interest to him.

The Committee was struck by the BC Liberal government to address declining timber supply and issues of forest health within British Columbia’s interior with a focus on assisting the community of Burns Lake after a fire resulted in the loss of Babine Forest Products mill.

Although BC Liberals outnumbered NDP four to three on the commit- tee, Macdonald felt that

the recommendations offered real solutions to timber supply issues.

“It was a good pro-cess,” he said. “We went to a lot of communities and found there is tre-mendous expertise out there.

“We only got three of seven votes, but I felt very comfortable that the final document was indicative of what has gone on.”

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Garage sale nets $7,694 for Food Bank

A big summer fund-raiser gets even bigger

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They came, they saw, they shopped. The Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank annual garage sale last Saturday was a resounding success, making more than any previous sale.

“Total merchandise and refresh-ment booth revenue was $7364, fall raffle tickets sales added another $310, reports Food Bank Director Stan Sa-likin.

“It looks like this year we set a new

record,” Salikin said. “Last year’s ga-rage sale grossed $6970, plus ticket sales.”

The curling rink was jammed with merchandise and jammed with cus-tomers from the moment the doors opened, keeping volunteers very busy. And the volunteers did a tremendous job, Salikin says.

“It was a lot of work to get the sale ready, large crews were on hand from Tuesday right through till Saturday to set the sale up and then on Sat to sell the merchandise and clean up after.

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MLA Norm Macdonald

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For the second year in succession Kimber-ley metal sculptor Rob Toller won 1st prize in the established artists category at the Arts on the Edge 2012 adjudi-cated exhibition in the Gallery at Centre 64. ‘Fusion 1’, his hanging sculptural panel com-bining sawn log sec-tions with a steel frame-work, was selected by the jurors in a tight competition with Castlegar artist Mirja Vahala’s vivid acrylic painting of a waterfall entitled ‘Flow’ which received 2ndprize.

3rd prize went to Cranbrook photogra-pher Neal Panton for his eye-catching por-trait ‘Strange Kind of Beauty’.

Five more cash priz-es were awarded in the established artists cate-gory. They included Mi-chael Flisak’s huge char-coal and graphite com-position, ‘Warped Chair & Violin Neck’, Darlene Purnell’s shining fibre-art landscape ‘Sun-dance’, Tony & Twila Austin’s lifelike repous-sé steel sculpture ‘Grass Pickerel’, Angela Gillespie’s humorous acrylic painting ‘A Little Bit Coy Again’, and Sam Millard’s colorful as-semblage of digital im-ages from an original oil painting, ‘Perky Pea-cocks’.

Big winners at Arts on the Edge

The emerging artists category was dominat-ed by a life-size acrylic painting of a heron, ‘Ruffled Feathers’ by Kimberley artist Lynne Luker, which received 1st prize, closely fol-lowed by a beautifully costumed whimsical figure sculpture by an-other Kimberley artist, Darcy Wanuk, which garnered 2nd prize.

The third prize was awarded to a small, colourful photograph, ‘Footstep Vendor’ by young photographer Kristen Murrell.

Four further cash

prizes went to Canal Flats’ artist Leslie Cart-wright for her minutely detailed acrylic paint-ing of a cat, Marmalade in the Morning, to a young painter Antonia Sullivan for her digital image ‘Japanese Sunset’, to LaVerna Peters for her whimsical clay and mixed media sculpture ‘Evening in Paris’, and to Darcy Wanuk for ‘Ebony & Ivory’, a black & white merino wool and silk drapery.

The jurors were im-pressed by the overall quality of the 78 art-works entered in this

‘Ruffled Feathers’ by Lynne Luker, first prize in the emerging artist category.

year’s Arts on the Edge exhibition and particu-larly noted the high de-gree of technical mas-tery evident in the work displayed by several of the emerging artists.

Members of the pub-lic still have a few days left to vote for the Peo-

ple’s Choice Award win-ner which will be an-nounced following the close of the exhibition at 5 p.m. on Saturday, September 1. The Gal-lery at Centre 64 is open Tuesday through Satur-day from 1 to 5 p.m. and admission is free.

Rob Toller’s ‘Fusion I,’ first prize in the established artists category

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From the pools at Fairmont (top) to rafting on the St. Mary River (above, left) to hiking the ski hill (above, right) to feeding horses at Fort Steele (below) students from Annaka, Japan had a very Canadian week.

From Page 1“While the language

was very mild, the con-clusions mirror what we’ve been saying.”

The many recom-mendations focused on

• engaging local communities and First Nations in future plans;

• finding ways to grow more fibre and maximize its value, by utilizing marginally economic stands and/or investing in fertiliza-tion; and

• increasing the type and form of area-based tenures to support en-hanced levels of forest stewardship and pri-vate sector forest in-vestment.

“British Columbians understand the true value of our forests, not just for timber, but for all values. And British Columbians are not willing to accept forest practices that are not based in the principles of social, environmen-tal and economic sus-tainability,” Macdonald said.

But bipartisanship or not, Macdonald says the report showcases failures of the current government around forestry.

“There’s been a lack of investment in inven-tory replenishment,” he said. “The resource has been allowed to de-grade. That will com-plicate what is already a challenge.”

However, Macdon-ald says the recom-mendations do address problems of supply and stewardship of BC for-ests. The problem is, will the government act on them or simply shelve them?

“You can’t invest public funds and ask people to participate in a process and then not act,” he said. “It means the government has to change course.”

Macdonald says the budget already put out for the upcoming years continues to cut from forest health dollars, and that has to change.

“This report is a call to action. It was a good process, though by no means perfect. Now it has to be taken from a good consultative pro-cess to good public policy.”

The full recommen-dations of the timber supply committee re-port can be found at www.gov.bc.ca

From Page 1“Thanks to all the directors and volunteer

staff for you tremendous help. Many of you put in long hours. Your help is very much appreci-ated.”

Salikin says the Food Bank also wishes to thank the many donors who brought merchan-dise for sale — the sale couldn’t have happened without them, he said.

He also thanked all who attended and sup-ported the Food Bank through purchases.

Left over merchandise was taken to the Sal-vation Army in Cranbrook, where it will hope-fully be sold for another good cause.

All the funds raised from the Food Bank Ga-rage Sale stays right here in Kimberley to sup-port needy children and families.

Committee should lead to

policy, MLA says

Food Bank garage sale nets $7694

Correction The phone number for contact for the Fight For

Jenna fundraiser was incorrect. The correct phone number is 432-9513.

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St. Mary’s Band

celebrates new education

centreANNALEE GR ANT

TOWNSMAN STAFF

The St. Mary’s Band celebrated what many told them was impossi-ble on Thursday, August 23, 2012 — the opening of a school in one year.

The nation gathered to celebrate the incredi-ble feat last week, and cheering, tears and smiles were never in short supply.

Chief Cheryl Casimer wore one of those smiles as she congratulated the students and talked about the band’s achievements in educa-tion.

“They are going to be very pleased and excited to go into that school,” Casimer said.

It was not an easy process for the nation to get a school from the planning stages to ready-to-go in only one year, but Casimer said they refused to wait in line any longer to pro-vide the students what they needed. Had the nation waited for gov-ernment funding, Casimer said they would have been number 1,400

on a list of 2,000 First Nations waiting for a new school.

“We’ve done what other First Nations haven’t done,” she said.

The band took the lead and put up its own money to get the build-ing done, and entered into several partner-ships for funding. They looked to a modular building design and se-lected ATCO to con-struct and transport the sections of the building.

Project Manager Mi-chelle Shortridge, who announced proudly that she is the big sister of an Aqamnik Elementary School student, was one of the driving forces be-hind the school hap-pening as quickly as it did.

“We needed a new school system and we needed it fast,” she said. “It was definitely a long, difficult year.”

Casimer said other First Nations across the country have begun to look at what the St. Mary’s Band accom-plished for their own projects. MP David Wilks, who appeared on behalf of the Honour-able Minister of Aborigi-nal Affairs John Duncan, said the nation is being looked to as a leader in Ottawa.

“The St. Mary’s Band is highly regarded as

AnnAlee GrAnt photo

Project Manager Michelle Shortridge receives a gift from her staff: a tool kit for the next time she embarks on a huge project like the Aqamnik Education Centre.

Big day at St. Mary’s for Aqamnik students

one of the more pro-gressive bands in all of Canada,” he said. His statement was greeted by excited cheers and applause from the crowd.

Casimer highlighted the education statistics for aboriginal students across Canada. She said Aboriginal students have a higher drop out rate than the national average and less gradu-ates, but at the Aqamnik School, things are dif-ferent.

“We were not going to be a part of those dis-mal statistics,” she said.

Last year, the Aqam-nik School had a 95 per cent attendance rate across the student body.

“That was for every-one, not just one class,” Casimer said.

Principal Michael Derech jokingly said they hope for 100 per cent someday, but ac-knowledged that occa-

sionally an illness can pull the kids away for a day or two.

“We were always able to bring quality educa-tion to our students,” he said, explaining that previously the school was scattered among portable classrooms and trailers. “It was never the structure that was bringing the kids to school.”

Derech talked about the incredible teachers that made the little school welcoming, and wondered how much better things will get with the new building.

“Now we can do the things that if we had the space we would have done,” he said. “We con-stantly struggled with a chronic lack of space.”

Casimer said there was no limit to what the students could accom-plish now that they have the space to grow and learn.

“Can you imagine what they’re going to be able to realize in this beautiful facility?” she said.

There were plenty of Thank-Yous to go around during the cere-mony, but praise for Shortridge flowed in from speaker after speaker.

“I have great respect for the St. Mary’s Project team,” said Boris Ras-sin, president of ATCO Sustainable Communi- ties, adding that he

couldn’t believe the band brought the proj-ect from construction to student ready in one year.

Members of the band pitched in to get the project manager her very own toolkit – a joke

gift that Shortridge hap-pily accepted and planned to use.

“She stepped up and showed the leadership qualities that are re-quired to take on such a huge project,” Casimer said.

Work on the school

building may appear done, but Casimer said they still need a gym fa-cility – and again, the nation will not be sitting on any waiting list for funding.

“We’re not going to wait around.”

“The St. Mary’s Band is highly

regarded as one of the more progressive

bands in all of Canada”

MP David Wilks

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SALLY MACDONALDTownsman Staff

Bargaining re-sumed Monday be-tween Mainroad East Kootenay and locked out staff.

The road mainte-nance contractor is-sued lockout notice on Sunday, August 19 to 95 staff at its seven maintenance yards in the East Kootenay.

The Mainroad Group said that the local group is the only one in B.C.’s 28 main-tenance service areas that did not sign an agreement earlier this year.

Now the two sides are meeting in bar-gaining talks, said Chris Bradshaw of the B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU).

“We had a date scheduled and both sides are showing up to that meeting. It re-mains to be seen whether we will be able to make some progress or not,” said Bradshaw.

Since the lockout started last week, BCGEU members who are Mainroad staff took a strike vote.

Over two days, Monday, August 20

and Tuesday, August 21, the members voted 96.875 per cent in fa-vour of striking if it becomes necessary.

“When it became clear that the employ-er was going to lock out the workers, the bargaining committee decided that to pro-tect itself and keep the bargaining process continuing, they would take a strike vote,” said Bradshaw. “We came out of that with over 96 per cent approval rate to take strike action if need-ed.”

FOr the BuLLetiN

How exactly Flat Peavine (Lathyrus sylvestris) arrived in the East Kootenay, no one is cer-tain, but it has arrived with in-vading vengeance. Flat Peavine, now found throughout many parts of North America, is origi-nally a native plant of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

As is the case with many inva-sive plants, Flat Peavine may have hitchhiked into the East Kootenay area on a vehicle. Or, due to its fragrant pink flowers and climbing nature, it may have arrived as an addition to some-one’s flower garden. Perhaps it arrived as a landscape stabilizer for housing developments or as part of a land reclamation project since it was once touted as a long-lived erosion control plant that thrives in disturbed and acidic soils. Alternately, due to its high protein content it may have arrived as a part of ranchers ex-periment in forage crops.

Regardless of its origin, the use of Flat Peavine as a forage became unlikely when it was dis-covered to contain high concen-trations of diaminobutyric acid (DABA). DABA is poisonous to humans and non-ruminate ani-mals. Ruminate animals such as cattle, goats, sheep, elk, and dear have three to four chambered stomachs. While resting, rumi-nates bring food back up, chew it, and re-swallow. This process and special ruminant microbes pro-vide some digestive protection and, if Flat Peavine is introduced as forage gradually, ruminates can build up some tolerance. However, Flat Peavine remains poisonous to ruminate animals in amounts greater than approxi-mately a third of their diet and over the long term, may have poisonous effects in lesser amounts.

While rarely seen in humans, except during times of famine, the symptoms of DABA poison-ing in humans, livestock and wildlife can include permanent paralysis, bone deformities, car-diovascular collapse, pain, lame-ness, convulsions, and death. Forage shortage that results in increased consumption of Flat Peavine, greater than 35 percent of diet, has been implicated in lower birth rates and a greater number of still births, however further research is required.

Flat Peavine’s use as a garden ornamental, landscape stabilizer or for land reclamation began to fall into question when it was discovered that it was highly in-vasive. Its invasiveness results from multiple methods of repro-duction including seeds, rhi-zomes and ramets (self-clones), that allow it to quickly take over a surrounding area. Compounding the problem is Flat Peavine’s abil-

ity to climb (46 to 76 cm without support and up to 2.m+ with sup-port), as well as its tendency to form a dense tendril entangled blanket that chokes out underly-ing native vegetation.

As a result, Flat Peavine lowers plant biodiversity and forms dense impassable thickets that block hiking trails and wildlife pathways while increasing fire risks. Most importantly, however, Flat Peavine lessens native food sources for wildlife and livestock, leaving in its place a poisonous alternative. The negative eco-nomic impact affects the raising of livestock, hunting opportuni-ties and other recreational op-portunities.

To date Flat Peavine has been found in the following areas of the East Kootenay: road shoul-ders predominately on Dicken Road in Fernie and near the Fer-nie Chamber of Commerce and a couple of sites along Highway #3 between Elko and Fernie. In Cranbrook, a few infestations have been sighted along Jim Smith Road and around the Cran-brook Chamber of Commerce. Finally, a couple of isolated infes-tations have been found along the St. Mary’s Lake road, and near Overwaitea in Kimberley. At this time, it appears as though Flat Peavine is more widely distribut-ed in the Central Kootenay.

Many of the known sites have been successfully treated, how-ever new ones continue to

emerge. Flat Peavine is most suc-cessfully controlled using herbi-cides including Clopyralid (Lon-trel) or Aminopyralid (Milestone). Plants respond quickly to herbi-cide treatments and can be de-stroyed after one treatment. While hand pulling and digging could be attempted in a small area such as a home garden, the necessity of removing all the rhi-zomes make eradication very dif-ficult and annual monitoring and removal is required.

Flat Peavine can be differenti-ated from other members of the pea family by a single pair of grass-like leaves attached to branches that extend from the main stem. A tendril used for climbing extends out from the center of the leaf pairing.

If you come across Flat Peavine on East Kootenay Crown Land or other community use areas, please contact the East Kootenay Invasive Plant Council at 1-888-55EKIPC or coordinator@ekipc.com . Alternately, contact the Provincial Weed Reporting Hotline at 1-888-WEEDSBC www.reportaweed.ca

The East Kootenay Invasive Plant Council and its Outreach and Education program grateful-ly acknowledges the financial support of Columbia Basin Trust, which supports efforts to deliver social, economic and environ-mental benefits to the residents of the Columbia Basin.

Mainroad, Union talkingInvasive plant Flat Peavine; pretty but poisonous

Flat Peavine, Lathyrus sylvestris

PAGE 6 TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012 DAILY TOWNSMAN / DAILY BULLETIN

NDP leader Adrian Dix has an-nounced that one of his first acts as premier would be to withdraw B.C.

from the joint review of the Enbridge pipe-line proposal from Alberta to Kitimat.

The two-year federal-led review will be mostly done by next May, but Dix proposes to start a new provincial assessment to examine the B.C. por-tion. He doesn’t know how much it would cost, and under questioning he all but admitted the intention is to study the pipeline to death.

Fresh from a summer tour of the pipe-line route to reaffirm solidarity with its opponents, Dix is hardly in a position to consider anything but maximum resis-tance. As Premier Christy Clark did in her showdown with Alberta over benefits, Dix hinted that provincial permits for river and wildlife crossings would be made as expensive as possible, if not refused.

The same fate awaits the Kinder Mor-gan plan to twin the existing Trans-Moun-tain oil pipeline to Burnaby. Dix left the impression that he would undo the years of work that have gone into bringing some rational sense to environmental approvals that can be, and have been, dragged out for years.

The B.C. hearings would provide an-other platform for opponents, and more complaints to justify refusal at the provin-

cial level, to go along with court cases and direct-action protests.

Speaking of which, the frontal assault by agitators at the federal Enbridge hear-ings has mostly petered out. After 4,000-odd people were signed up to speak, most

didn’t bother, and some hearings were cancelled. Apparently slacktivists such as “Jonathan L. Seagull” and “Cave Man” didn’t make it out of their Van-couver basement suites to tell the panel oil is bad.

Professional environ-mentalists are now wringing their hands over Ottawa’s decision to leave smaller-scale reviews to the province. This means, for example, that there won’t be a dupli-cate federal review of the urgently needed refit of the John Hart Dam on the Camp-bell River.

One reader suggested that environ-mental pioneer Roderick Haig-Brown is still spinning in his grave over the dam-ming of this legendary salmon river. Per-haps, but that was in 1947. Does it make sense today to lard pointless bureaucracy onto a reconstruction that replaces wood-en pipes and provides earthquake protec-tion, without expanding river impact?

NDP environment critic Rob Fleming hammered away at the B.C. Liberals about this in the spring, reminding them that Auditor General John Doyle had exposed a lack of resources in the B.C. Environmen-

tal Assessment Office, even before Ottawa’s changes.

Fleming makes it sound like a huge new burden has been dumped on B.C. False. Provincial assessment already must be done with the participation of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Transport Canada, the provincial ministries of natural re-sources and energy and mines, and of course aboriginal communities. This is why it’s so long and expensive.

And don’t be fooled into believing that a federal review would go out and count the tadpoles and caribou again. It’s only the desk jobs that have proliferated.

There weren’t just two levels of dupli-cate review, but three. Earlier in their man-date, the B.C. Liberals exempted major projects such as mines and energy genera-tion from local government control, citing the “provincial interest” similar to the fed-eral authority over projects that cross pro-vincial borders.

I agree with the NDP that B.C. environ-mental assessment needs more resources, in particular to do the follow-up on ap-proved projects, as called for by the audi-tor general.

Forest management needs more money too. All the more reason not to waste re-sources on political gestures.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and

BCLocalnews.comtfletcher@blackpress.ca

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When the first man on the Moon died on Saturday, President Ba-rack Obama tweeted: “Neil Arm-

strong was a hero not just of his time, but of all time.” Armstrong’s final comment on Obama, on the other hand, was that the president’s policy on manned space flight was “devastating”, and condemned the United States to “a long downhill slide to mediocrity.”

That was two years ago, when three Americans who had walked on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, James Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, and Eugene Cernan, commander of Apol-lo 17, published an open letter to Obama pointing out that his new space policy ef-fectively ended American participation in the human exploration of deep space.

Armstrong was famously reluctant to give media interviews. It took something as hugely short-sighted as Obama’s can-cellation of the Constellation programme in 2010 to make him speak out in public. But when he did, he certainly did not mince his words.

“We will have wasted our current $10-billion-plus investment in Constellation,” he said, “and equally importantly, we will have lost the many years required to recre-ate the equivalent of what we will have discarded. For the United States ... to be without carriage to low Earth orbit and with no human exploration capability to

go beyond Earth orbit ... destines our na-tion to become one of second or even third rate stature.”

If NASA (the National Aviation and Space Administration) wants to put an

American into space now, it has to buy passage on a Russian rocket, which is currently over $50 million per seat. By 2015 the Chi-nese will probably be offer-ing an alternative service (which may bring the price down), and before long

India may be in the business as well. But the United States won’t.

There is likely to be a gap of between five and ten years between the retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet last year and the first new American vehicles capable of putting a human being into space. Even then it will only be into low Earth orbit: none of the commercial vehicles now being developed will be able to do what the Saturn rockets did 41 years ago when they sent Neil Armstrong and his col-leagues to the Moon.

Armstrong was a former military officer who would never directly call the Presi-dent of the United States a liar or a fool, but his words left little doubt of what he really thought: “The availability of a com-mercial transport to orbit as envisioned in the president’s proposal cannot be pre-dicted with any certainty, but is likely to take substantially longer and be more ex-

pensive than we would hope.” In other words, don’t hold your breath.

This is not a global defeat for manned exploration of the solar system. The Rus-sians are talking seriously about building a permanent base on the Moon, and all the major Asian contenders are working on heavy-lift rockets that would enable them to go beyond Earth orbit. It’s just an Amer-ican loss of will, shared equally by Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

“I know China is headed to the Moon,” Romney told a town hall audience in Michigan in February. “They’re planning on going to the Moon, and some people say, oh, we’ve got to get to the Moon, we’ve got to get there in a hurry to prove we can get there before China. It’s like, guys, we were there a long time ago, all right? And when you get there would you bring back some of the stuff we left?” Arrogant, com-placent, and wrong.

Americans went to the Moon a long time ago, but the point is that they can’t get there now, and won’t be able to for a long time to come. Which is why, in an interview fifteen years ago, Neil Armstrong told BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh: “The dream remains. The reality has faded a bit, but it will come back, in time.” It will, but probably not in the United States.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-basedindependent journalist.

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As campaign director for the B.C. Liberals in the 2009 provincial election, Martyn Brown presided

over the party’s bald declaration that har-monization of the sales tax was not on the radar screen.

“It was a decision that was never contemplated as part of the election plan,” writes Brown in a book published electronically this week. “I was so utterly certain about that fact, that I personally expressed that position, on behalf of the party.”

He saw no need to check with anyone before putting out the statement. Succes-sive B.C. governments had opposed har-monizing the provincial sales tax with the much broader federal goods and services base, fearing to lose control of tax policy and anger consumers.

Brown, the longtime chief of staff to then premier Gordon Campbell, couldn’t “fathom” that the position would change.

But within weeks, the re-elected Liber-als did reverse the position Brown had ex-pressed on their behalf. Confronted with “an unanticipated budget deficit that was growing worse by the day,” Campbell and his colleagues made a cash grab for “a one-time federal payment of $1.6 billion to help defray the impacts of transitioning from the PST to the HST.”

The decision would be the ruin of both Campbell and his party, a development that Brown telegraphs via the title of his book, Towards a New Government in B.C., available for $6 from amazon.com.

Not that he claims to have foreseen the outcome at the time he was helping the Liberals to bring in the HST. “If anyone had suggested to me that that would be the death knell for Premier Campbell and, very likely, for his party, I would have told

them they were dreaming in Technicolor.”But upon reflection - and there is a lot

of that in the book - Brown sees where the Liberals went fundamentally wrong.

“The HST was an issue of such broad public importance that it should never

have been imposed with-out any prior consultation, let alone only weeks after an election, and in direct contradiction to the gov-erning party’s stated posi-tion. It rep-resented such a significant shift in the tax burden from businesses to

individuals that it was not on a scale that would have ever been right to impose it as a done deal.”

Moreover the shift ran counter to ev-erything the Liberals purported to stand for with the electorate.

“The last thing British Columbians ex-pected from the Camp-bell government, which had made personal income tax re-lief - and household tax relief - so central to its vision, was a tax shift that would in-crease their tax burden, especially in the midst of a recession.

“Most taxpayers viewed it as a contra-dictory assault on their pocketbooks, on their house-hold finances, and on their ability to make ends meet in a time of se-vere economic duress. Most taxpayers did not believe it would make them better off. They believed it would do the opposite.”

Brown scoffs at those who blame the defeat of the tax on a failure to communi-cate.

“The decision itself was wrong. It was wrong because of the governing party’s stated position against the HST, before and during the election. It was wrong to impose the HST as an economic and fiscal imperative on the heels of an election in which the HST was not an issue and was never discussed.”

He acknowledges a second, no less fatal miscalculation. “The government too readily dismissed the populist appeal of Bill Vander Zalm. It never imagined that he, of all people, would be able to rally and organize public opposition to achieve what was thought to be impossible: con-ducting a successful initiative that met the legislated thresholds for forcing a binding plebiscite.

The arrogance of power? Brown thinks so. He also disputes that the governing party’s sin was discharged by the depar-ture of Gordon Campbell.

“Premier Campbell did lead the charge, “says Brown. “But he stood with an entire team, who commanded the confidence of the legislature and who purported to vote for the HST out of the conviction that it was a politically painful but necessary ac-tion that needed to be taken in the public interest. Those individuals deeply under-estimated the social licence they had, or could build, for the HST - just as they woe-fully under-estimated the political price that they would pay for their personal sup-port. For most government MLAs, that day of reckoning has yet to come.”

Indeed, one of the central messages of the book is that Campbell’s successor, Christy Clark (who fired Brown in one of her first acts), has failed to repair the breach of public trust arising out of the HST debacle. He doesn’t like her chances to turn things around in the time remain-ing before the May 2013 election: “At this point, it would take a near miracle for the B.C. Liberals to form the next govern-ment.”

Rough stuff from one who was there through it all in the capacity of (to quote his memorable characterization) both “a fly on the wall and a fly in the ointment.”

Vaughn Palmer is a columnist with the Vancouver Sun.

An inside analysis of the HST debacle

Gwynne Dyer

Vaughn Palmer

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TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

Training camp hasn’t officially begun, but Kootenay Ice veterans hit the Ice for a session at Western Financial Place under the direc-tion of assistant coach-es Chad Kletzel and Jerry Bancks on Mon-day.

A few alumni also joined the returnees as Brayden McNabb, Adam Cracknell and Nathan Lieuwen also laced up the skates to get some time in before heading off to their re-spective pro camps in the AHL.

Petr Vesely and Jakub Prochazka, the two Czechs selected by the Ice in the CHL Import Draft, also made an ap-pearance, and while their hockey abilities were sharp, it will take a little bit to develop their English-speaking skills.

Kletzel was the point man on the ice, leading the team through drills and Bancks helped out while head coach Ryan McGill watched from the bench and the stands.

Drew Czerwonka, the current captain and one of five returning 20-year-olds, did not join his teammates, but

watched from the bench due to an undisclosed injury.

While camp hasn’t officially begun, the at-mosphere is certainly primed for it, especially for the five overagers who will be fighting for a spot.

Joey Leach, Dylen McKinlay, Elgin Pearce, Brock Montgomery and Drew Czerwonka—who’ve become part of a fraternity that can only be created inside a dressing room—will be competing amongst each other for three spots on the club ros-ter.

Kootenay Ice general manager Jeff Chynoweth confirmed that he will head into camp with those five players and will release two of them after their performance in the preseason and consultations with his new coaching staff.

“Since they’ve got to town, we’ve had lots of meetings, trying to get the coaches as much information as we can on the returning play-ers, the prospects, any-one who has a potential to make our hockey club,” said Chynoweth. “Ryan’s been in contact with head scout Garnet Kazuik as well and from

his end, he wants to gather as much infor-mation as he can so he can get a bit of a picture for each player.”

Chynoweth also added that a potential NHL lockout won’t af-fect Max Reinhart, the Kootenay sniper who will likely stick with the Abbotsford Heat of the AHL this season.

It was the first on-ice session with a WHL

team for Kletzel, the re-placement for Todd Johnson, the former as-sistant who left to coach university hockey.

He ran the veterans through a number of exercises late Monday morning, manning the whistle and stopping the play a couple times to seize some teaching moments.

“Being my first prac-tice, [I was] just making

sure the practice went well and we got some-thing accomplished. I think you can see that there are some guys that have experience in this league, guys that know each other and there’s some compete there, which is good,” said Kletzel.

“But we need to make sure that rises as we go through camp and into exhibition to

be ready for what the Western Hockey League level of play and com-pete is going to present us when the regular season starts.”

Czerwonka, one of the five 20-year-old candidates, has been with the Ice since his rookie season four years ago and will be looking to stick for his fifth and final campaign.

Chynoweth and his staff will have to make the two decisions be-fore a cutoff date in Oc-tober.

“It’s going to be really tough for us 20-year-olds,” said Czerwonka. “We’re all friends, all five of us, so it’s going to be a tough time but you just gotta work hard ev-eryday and come ready to work and it’ll all play out itself.”

Teammate Brock Montgomery agrees, noting that cuts are a part of the game and that the five just have to put their heads down and work hard to prove themselves to manage-ment.

“Coming back as a 20-year-old this year is a lot different,” said Montgomery. “Last year, you come in and gotta make the team out of 22 guys—you have a better

chance, but now you’ve only got three spots, so it’s a little bit different for the 20-year-olds.

“It’s kind of tough to think that two guys will be leaving, but then again, it’s our job, it’s our career, we know it’s what’s going to hap-pen.

“We’re all fighting for a job, this is what we want to do for a living so everyone is giving it their all.”

Montgomery had a banner year last season, notching 44 points with 22 goals and 22 assists and was named the team’s most improved player at the year-end awards ceremony.

The prospects have been trickling into Cranbrook over the last few days and will join the veterans for fitness testing tomorrow at Western Financial Place. Prospects will also have some ice time available in the morn-ing.

Training camp offi-cially begins on Wednes-day and will conclude on Sunday with the an-nual Blue White Charity Intrasquad game at noon, which is admis-sion by donation with funds going to the Unit-ed Way.

SPORTSVeterans lace up skates for first ice session

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Prospects ready to shineTRE VOR CR AWLEY

Sports Editor

It’s no secret that the Kootenay Ice will be a younger squad this year, with as many as seven or eight 1995- or 1996-born players on the roster, according to GM Jeff Chynoweth.

Those young guns will be doing everything they can to earn a spot on the roster when training camp begins on Wednesday.

Luke Philp, Tanner Faith, and Jesse Wood-Schatz all spent time with the Ice last year as call ups and will be looking to become per-manent additions this year.

Other noteable names include Collin Shirley, Kootenay’s first-rounder in the 2011 draft, and Matt Murray, a defenseman taken

two rounds later.Roughly 64 skaters

will be making an ap-pearance at camp, as

intrasquad games will feature teams com-prised of veterans and prospects.

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The Cranbrook contingent in the Spartan Race poses for a picture after the event in Calgary.

Athletes brave tough conditions in obstacle raceTRE VOR CR AWLEY

Sports Editor

Cranbrook athletes fought through muddy obstacles designed to test their endurance and triumphed at the Spartan Race in Calgary on August 18th.

Lisa Johnson, a train-er with Train Hard, Live Easy, recruited 26 cli-ents to run the race with her, all of whom com-pleted by crossing the finish line.

“We were really proud of them,” John-

son said. “Most of them have never tried any-thing like that in their lives before, some of them have never done a run or a race before.”

The 26 participants had to battle between 12-15 different obstacles

which included running chest-deep through puddles of mud, crawl-ing a distance under barbed wire and climb-ing eight-foot walls.

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Tough obstacles don’t stop local racers

All the challenges the racers had to face were spread out over a five- kilometre course, ac-cording to Johnson.

Each Cranbrook ath-lete had to compete with 2,225 other racers in the event, which was completed—on aver-age—in under an hour.

Johnson got the idea after going to Warrior Dash—a similar type of

event based in Vancou-ver—with a few clients last year.

“We had a hoot and thought it was fun and so we decided, after we looked at a few races, saw Spartan and saw that it was in Calgary nice and close,” John-son said. “We talked to our clients and just said we thought they could do it.”

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Johnson said the event was an easy pitch, as the pictures from Warrior Dash seemed to get her clients fired up.

“After they saw the pictures and we told them about crawling through mud and jump-ing over fire and stuff like that, it kind of got their attention.”

These racers weren’t greenhorns to pushing their physical limits as Johnson had been train-ing some for as long as six months prior to the event.

“These guys are pret-ty used to hard training

so we just added some more strength stuff like pull ups, box jumps, power moves and sprinting,” said John-son.

Johnson is already planning on organizing another trip to a Spar-tan Race in Kalispell as more people have come up to her expressing in-terest in participating in obstacle racing.

She is also planning on taking a few of her more hardcore clients to Tough Mudder, a lon-ger and more extreme obstacle race based in Whistler.

NHL talks set to resumeChris Johnston

Canadian Press

The battery of law-yers and sprawling ne-gotiating committees are being relegated to the sidelines.

As the NHL’s collec-tive bargaining talks resume in New York on Tuesday, they’ll do so with only four men at the table: NHL com-missioner Gary Bett-man and his deputy, Bill Daly, on one side; NHL Players’ Associa-tion executive director Donald Fehr and his top assistant, Steve Fehr, on the other.

“Both sides agree that this, at this point in time, might be a pro-ductive way for us to try and get some trac-tion,” Bettman said when negotiations broke last week.

There’s been very little evidence of trac-tion over the last two months.

While the parties have met face-to-face every week since the end of June, they’ve made very little head-way on the framework that will shape the next agreement. That prompted the first small session with just Bettman, Daly and the Fehrs in Toronto last week, and led to the scheduling of another one with the talks shift-ing back to New York.

The sides are in need of anything that might encourage prog-ress with a Sept. 15 deadline looming for a lockout.

“When you get into discussions like this sometimes things can become more or less cumbersome depend-ing on the nature of the group and what you’re

talking about,” said Donald Fehr. “And, you find a way to satisfy ev-erybody’s comfort level and go on. If you try it one way and that doesn’t really work you go try it another way.

“If that doesn’t work you try it a third way.”

The big-gest issue holding up talks is find-ing agree-ment on how the league’s rev-e n u e s should be split up. Players re-ceived 57 per cent under the e x p i r i n g CBA and the league wants to see that num-ber reduced consider-ably.

The NHL’s initial offer involved cutting the amount to 43 per cent, although it has indicated a willingness to negotiate off that number.

Based on last sea-

son’s revenues, every percentage point lost would cost the players $33 million. After ca-pitulating in the last round of negotiations and hiring Fehr to lead them in this one, that group appears ready to fight against significant

givebacks.In fact,

Fehr de-clared last week that “the players aren’t afraid of a lock-out.”

For an agreement to be made, something will have to give. Bett-man has

made it clear that he believes the owners are paying out too much money.

“The players have done very well under this deal,” said Bett-man. “The average sal-ary has gone from $1.45 million (in 2005-06) to $2.45 million, and I think if given their dru-

thers - and they’ve said publicly - they’d be happy to keep playing under this deal even while we negotiate. ...

“My sense is that they prefer to keep things the way they are, and so that slows up the process.”

The sides have looked like competing hockey teams at the conclusion of previous negotiating sessions, with the number of well-dressed attendees often unable to fit to-gether in one elevator.

The gathering will be decidedly smaller on Tuesday as the lead-ers of the NHL and NHLPA try to push talks in a positive di-rection.

“Hopefully we’ll be productive when we get to it,” said Fehr. “We have a lot to do. I have always believed that there is enough time.

“If there is a mutual will to do that, I still believe there is enough time to do that before the expiration of the contract.”

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Gary Bettman (left) Commissioner of the NHL and Bill Daly, Deputy Commissioner and chief legal officer of the NHL, will resume negotiations with Donald Fehr and the NHLPA on Tuesday.

“Hopefully we’ll be productive when we get to it. We have a

lot to do. I have always believed that

there is enough time.”

Donald Fehr

AssoCiAted Press

NEW YORK - Olym-pic gold medallist Andy Murray overcame early breaks in the first two sets Monday to win his first-round U.S. Open match 6-2, 6-4, 6-1 over Alex Bogomolov Jr. of Russia.

The third-seeded Murray won the final

five games of the first set and the last four games of the second after falling behind early to the 73rd-ranked Bogomolov.

Murray, who won the gold in his home country earlier this year, is trying to become the first man to win the Olympics and the U.S.

Open in the same year.He finished with

seven aces and 46 win-ners as he wore down Bogomolov, who was born in Moscow but moved to Miami and competed as an Ameri-can until this year, when he switched to play for Russia in the Davis Cup.

Gold medallist Andy Murray sharp in first win at US Open

Defending champ Stosur starts US Open with straight-set win

r AChel CohenAssociated Press

NEW YORK - Back at the site of her greatest victory, Samantha Sto-sur looked like a cham-pion again, not the player who has often struggled this year.

The Australian began the defence of her U.S. Open title Monday with a dominant win, need-ing 51 minutes to beat 64th-ranked Petra Mar-tic 6-1, 6-1 in the tour-

nament’s first match at Arthur Ashe Stadium before rain suspended play.

The last time Stosur played on this court, she stunned Serena Wil-liams in the 2011 final at Flushing Meadows for her first Grand Slam title. But in so many ways, that 6-2, 6-3 vic-tory was starting to feel as if it happened much more than a year ago.

In 2012, Stosur had

lost in the first round in front of the home fans at the Australian Open. She lost in the second round at Wimbledon, then again in the first round at the London Olympics.

Sandwiched in be-tween, she made a run to the semifinals of the French Open, but fell apart by committing 21 unforced errors in the third set of her loss to Sara Errani.

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well. Tonight: Surround yourself with music.CANCER (June 21-July 22) Understand that you can’t do anything to move others into your way of thinking. Remember, you can control no one. Though this might be a depressing thought, keep pushing to find a solution. It is yours to have. Tonight: Let your hair down.LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Your intentions might be right on; however, others have their own agendas. You easily are distracted, as you tend to be more interested in what others are up to. Do not let your frustration get the best of you. Maybe you can squeeze ev-erything in. Tonight: Sort through different ideas. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might want to focus on your ideas and how to make them come to life. Many of you will en-joy yourselves so much that you won’t notice anything else. Do not let your temper get out of control. Employ self-discipline to keep your finances under control. Tonight: All smiles.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Tension builds, no matter what you do. Fatigue marks your per-spective. In fact, you could be too tired to jump on the bandwagon in order to enjoy what is going on. You might want to give someone more support, but you also need to detach from a personal situation. Tonight: Lighten up.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Use the morning, when you seem more verbal or direct. In the after-noon, you might become befud-dled by a personal matter, or sim-ply not want to use self-discipline. A conflict could emerge from out of nowhere, and quite suddenly at that. Tonight: Head home. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Opportunities appear if you simply answer your phone, open your email or respond to the knock at your door. Be careful if you find your anger rising. You might want to understand what is going on within yourself. Slow down, and avoid saying “yes” to the first invi-tation. Tonight: Out and about.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Use the early part of the day to the max. You could discover that your appraisal of a financial matter is

off. You might be really uncomfort-able with what you hear about the situation. A friend pushes for what he or she wants. Tonight: Temper, temper.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) If you discover that someone is being unresponsive, try to get him or her to open up. Be sure to honor this person’s mood, though, and say something appropriately nice yet reserved. Let the other party come forward when he or she is ready. Tonight: Detach from some-one’s anger.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Make an important call first thing in the morning. You might want to maintain more distance from oth-ers as the day goes on. Someone could see you as provocative, or maybe it’s the other way around. Do not become a victim of impulse. Tonight: Not to be found. BORN TODAYWriter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749), actor Jack Black (1969), singer LeAnn Rimes (1982)***

Dear Annie: My 81-year-old mother lives alone, drives her own car and man-ages her own finances. Between savings, retirement income and inheritance, she is well fixed. What worries me is that Mom has been enrolled in ballroom dance lessons for several years. These les-sons are exorbitantly expensive, costing in the six figures annually. There are mul-tiple lessons each week, as well as com-petition trips. The instructors, managers and owners of the club flatter Mom and tell her what a wonderful dancer she is. But, Annie, I’ve seen her performances, and she looks lost, doesn’t remember the steps and has no clue what to do next.

I believe this dance studio is taking ad-vantage of her. I spoke to management, but they said it’s none of my business. Mom used to be quite frugal, and I worry that she no longer has the judgment to manage her money. Yet I can’t do any-thing about it other than wring my hands. She won’t listen to a word I say.

Mom never visits the grandchildren. She has no interest in family activities and has abandoned the things she used to do before she discovered dancing. She had a small stroke two years ago, and her doctor has made numerous appoint-ments with a neurologist, but she always finds a reason to cancel.

If Mom burns through her resources, I will not have the means to help when she can no longer live independently. I am hurt that she lies to me when all I want is to see that she is provided for. -- Only Child in Music City

Dear Music City: We’re glad Mom en-joys her dance lessons, and it’s good exer-cise, but it sounds as if this dance studio may be guilty of financial abuse. Call the Better Business Bureau in your city and find out whether complaints have been registered. Also contact the National Cen-ter on Elder Abuse (ncea.aoa.gov) and the Eldercare Locator (1-800-677-1116) and ask for assistance. Then, when your mother has her next doctor’s appoint-ment, ask if you can go along. Alert the doctor’s office in advance, and request a more extensive exam.

Dear Annie: My father-in-law loves going to yard sales and likes to buy sale items for our home and our four sons. The problem is that we have limited space and don’t need all this junk. The toys tend to have a missing part or be partially bro-ken, and the clothes have stains or holes.

My husband wants to simply ac-cept the items because my father-in-law would otherwise be offended. But it up-sets me that they give us so many used items. We just got back from a weeklong visit and were barraged with bags of these things. -- Tired of Used Stuff

Dear Tired: Even used junk is a gift that requires a “thank you.” Please accept your father-in-law’s yard sale items with graciousness. He means well. Then throw them away as soon as you see a garbage can, give them to charity, fuse them into a garden sculpture or do whatever else you wish with them.

Dear Annie: “Frustrated in the Mid-west,” who doesn’t want her parents to at-tend her children’s school events, comes across as very self-absorbed. I am 63 and was reared in a generation where we en-joyed our families. We included our par-ents in our lives. I cherish the memories of them sharing our children’s activities.

I have first-hand knowledge of this “new generation” attitude. My oldest son and daughter-in-law have banned me from seeing my grandchildren. My young-est daughter-in-law is downright rude to me. “Family time” is a thing of the past. If a Grandma wants to show love and con-cern, she is meddling. Merely calling to see if everyone is OK is intrusive. My gen-eration will be passing away soon, and sadly, these kids will wake up too late, if at all. -- One Frustrated Grandma

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Elaine Marie Pelletier1945 - 2012

It is with great sorrow that the family of Elaine Marie Pelletier announces her passing on Thursday, August 23, 2012 in Cranbrook, British Columbia at 67 years of age.Elaine was born on February 6, 1945 in Kimberley, British Columbia She was a good friend to many who loved to

laugh and was cherished by all who knew her. She leaves to mourn her passing her loving husband Pete Pelletier; children Cindy Jones, Cara Picton (Chris Nakahara), Deb Pelletier, Sandi (Dick) Phillips, Linda Pelletier (Christopher Harvey) and Richard Pelletier; grandchildren Shawn, Nicole, Kristen, Jordan, Sam, Colleen, Jennifer, Shelby, Taylor and Tianna; brother Robert (Beatrice) Krottner and sister Irene (John) Dee. She was predeceased by her first husband Gabe Picton, father George Krottner, mother Eugenia Krottner, Josephine Taylor and brother Ted Krottner.A memorial service for Elaine will be held on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 2:00 pm at the Wasa Community Hall. In lieu of flowers, donations in Elaine’s honour can be made to the: Canadian Cancer Society, 19 - 9th Avenue South, Cranbrook, British Columbia, V1C 2L9.

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Hearing begins in Delta teen murder

C ANADIAN PRESS

SURREY, B.C. — A young man accused of murdering a 15-year-old girl in a Vancouver-area park two years ago has started a pre-liminary inquiry ahead of his trial.

The 19-year-old man, who cannot be named because he was 17 at the time of the alleged crime, is charged in the death of Laura Szendrei.

Szendrei was beat-en at a park in Delta, south of Vancouver, in September 2010, and the accused was charged with murder

the following Febru-ary.

The teen appeared in court in Surrey today, at times looking down as the Crown outlined its case against him, details of which are banned from publication.

The girl’s parents were in court for the start of the hearing, and at one point Szen-drei’s father walked out in tears.

Police have said Szendrei was on her way to meet some friends, who ran to her when they heard her screams.

C ANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A senior member of the Hells Angels motorcy-cle gang who was ac-quitted of drug charg-es four years ago has been charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to import cocaine.

RCMP say David Giles, vice president of the Angels Kelowna chapter, as well as six others, were arrested on the weekend after a 20-month investiga-tion that spanned sev-eral countries, includ-ing Mexico and Pana-ma.

Police say searches were conducted in

Kelowna, Osoyoos and the Lower Mainland on Saturday, and Giles was arrested at a Burn-aby casino.

Mounties say they seized assault rifles, handguns, and $4 mil-lion in cash during the searches.

In 2008, Giles was found not guilty of possessing cocaine, but his two co-accused each received jail sen-tences after police seized cocaine in sev-eral locations as part of a crackdown on the motorcycle club.

Giles is expected to make a court appear-ance in Vancouver today.

Hells Angels raid nets drug charges

Quebec student protesters back to action, not class

ANDy Bl AtChfoRD AND JoNAthAN MoNtPEtIt

Canadian Press

MONTREAL — The calm of summer was shattered Monday with the return of school to Quebec universities, where some classes were disrupted as protesters dis-obeyed the back-to-school law.

Chaotic scenes, reminiscent of those seen across the province in the spring, suddenly flared up at two Montreal uni-versities after a relatively quiet summer.

The province passed an emergency law, known as Bill 78, to set stiff fines for people who prevent students from attend-ing class.

A tumultuous standoff erupted in the corridors of Universite de Montreal be-tween security guards and masked pro-testers. The demonstrators were trying to spring seven of their comrades who had been detained by officials in a fourth-floor classroom.

Two protesters, their faces covered with clothing, warned a news photographer at the school that he had better not try taking pictures of them: ``Be careful,’’ a woman told him. ``They’re going to take care of you.’’

Meanwhile, across town, masked dem-onstrators entered Universite du Quebec a Montreal and disrupted classes. Protesters also blocked cameras and one person taunted a journalist.

``It’s voyeurism,’’ the demonstrator muttered at the reporter.

The vast majority of Quebec’s students have voted to end their strikes, and the student unrest has hardly been an issue in the current provincial election campaign.

The return to junior college in recent

weeks was peaceful, but Monday’s events, as universities reopened, were a flashback to events that captured international at-tention last spring.

During the showdown at Universite de Montreal, lines of guards stood shoulder to shoulder to block a hallway. They kept a couple of dozen protesters, most wearing masks, from getting close to the classroom where detained demonstrators were being held.

The guards faced a barrage of shouts and a couple of plastic garbage cans were

tossed in their direction.At one point, the protesters held a vote

about whether to charge the line of guards. The group decided against rushing the line after not enough people in the huddle raised their hands in agreement.

Moments later, word spread that riot police had entered the building. The pro-testers scattered, knocking over garbage cans and chairs in their wake.

A fire alarm was also pulled, its sound wailing even into classrooms in depart-ments not involved in the conflict.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/PAul CHIASSoN

Masked demonstrators march through the hallways of the Universite de Montreal as they block the entrance to classrooms Monday, August 27, 2012 in Montreal. some classes are being disrupted during the return to school of Quebec universities as students disobey the back-to-school law.

B.C. mountie charged in 2011 pedestrian death

C ANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — A White Rock, B.C., Mountie whose actions allegedly led to the death of a pedestrian last year faces criminal charges following an investiga-tion by the Vancouver Police Depart-ment.

The department says Const. David Bickle failed to follow guidelines regard-ing police pursuits and is charged with dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm.

A news release from the department

says that just before 10 p.m. on May 18, 2011, Bickle allegedly continued pursu-ing a driver who refused to stop and ulti-mately collided with another vehicle.

The driver then went through a red light and struck a 56-year-old woman who died of her injuries.

In February, the driver pleaded guilty to four charges and is scheduled to be sentenced in September.

Immediately after the collision, the RCMP asked Vancouver Police to investi-gate Bickle’s role in the incident.

Senator’s wife distraught, witness sayssaid the crew asked him if he believed they needed to land early, but when Zimmer began to feel better, the decision was made to continue on to Saskatoon.

``She saw us doing the primary work so she was continuing to speak out. She was continuing to say, ‘What’s happening? Is he OK? Tell me he’s going to be OK. Why aren’t you doing more? Why aren’t you doing something?’’’ Wright said.

``She did pause to yell at one or two of the other passengers who were peering over or trying to see what was going on,’’ he continued. ``There was the odd pro-fanity offered.’’

No one was injured in the incident and police say the safety of the aircraft was not compromised.

Wright said the only physical conflict that he saw was between Sensenberger and Zimmer when he was trying to calm her down, although he said he didn’t see anything that may have transpired before he was asked to help out.

``The only grabbing and pushing I saw was between her and him as he was trying to calm her and nudge the hand over and settle her down. I saw none with other passengers. I didn’t see any with passen-gers or airline personnel,’’ Wright said.

C ANADIAN PRESS

SASKATOON — A passenger says a sen-ator’s wife charged with causing a distur-bance on a flight was upset her husband was experiencing tightness in his chest, but she wasn’t threatening.

Scott Wright, a former ambulance at-tendant, said he volunteered last Thursday when the crew on the Ottawa to Saskatoon flight asked for anyone with medical expe-rience to help Sen. Rod Zimmer, who wasn’t feeling well.

He said Zimmer’s wife, Maygan Sensen-berger, 23, was emotionally distraught by her husband’s condition.

Wright said Zimmer, 69, started feeling better after he was given some oxygen, but Sensenberger was still upset and the cou-ple were fighting with each other over Zim-mer’s condition.

``I never at any time felt threatened,’’ Wright said Monday. ``And all of the frus-tration she expressed while I was there was targeted around the medical condition and the health of her husband.’’

Sensenberger was charged with endan-gering the safety of the aircraft and causing a disturbance.

On Monday, a Saskatoon provincial court judge released her on the condition that she have no contact with her hus-band.

Zimmer sat in the front row of the courtroom during the hearing.

Wright said he and several other pas-sengers were doing their best to help. He

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Homes for Rent

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