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BY EVAN FRENCH North Star Staff PARRY SOUND - There will soon be a new face at Noojimowin Bimaadziwin Gamik. The revolutionary First Nations Healing Room at the West Parry Sound Health Centre (WPSHC) is hiring a new traditional culture coordinator. Wes Whetung, a member of the advisory council charged with finding the new coordinator, said the healing room, which was included in the hospital's design from the very start, is a place dedicated to the practice of aboriginal healing techniques and serves as a venue for cross-cultural awareness sessions. "It has a separate ventilation system, which allows us to perform smudging ceremonies without setting off the fire alarms in the hospital." Norm Maciver, chief executive officer at the WPSHC, fought to make the healing room a part of the hospital. He said it's important to recognise aboriginal healing techniques and he's excited to have a new member on his team. "I'm thrilled about it," he said. "It's very important that we have a location to celebrate and accommodate the needs of First Nations." He said persistence helped the staff convince the province the healing room was worthwhile. He said four white cedars have been planted outside the hospital, and soon a plaque will be placed there to recognize the people who helped to make it happen. Mr. Whetung said the new coordinator will be in charge of everything that goes on in the room – helping create cultural awareness, coordinating events, and helping to recruit traditional medicine healers from the community. He said the advisory council's concern was many First Nations people don't know how to access the room, and it'll be the new coordinator's job to change that. Mr. Maciver said Jon Lee, chair of the advisory council, was instrumental in convincing the province to pay up again. He said the centre has secured $80,000 to hire the new coordinator, who will help educate health care professionals about native healing culture. Mr. Whetung said the centre has received a tremendous response to the job posting, which has a closing date of Oct. 10. "People from all over the province are sending in their resumes," he said. continued from front "The oil companies aren’t happy, but it’s a fair and balanced plan and they’ll have to abide by it,” he said. In speaking with local constituents, Mr. Clement said people are scared by the Liberals’ Green Shift proposal. “I’m sensing a real fear of the carbon tax and how it will affect us in Muskoka,” he said. “We have cold winters and a lot of driving to do. For a lot of people on fixed incomes, it’s going to be a huge burden.” Mr. Clement dismissed the Green Party’s environmental plan as virtually identical to the Liberals, and said the NDP take things even further. “The problem with the NDP is that their targets are over the top,” said Mr. Clement. “What that means is we’ll be exporting jobs out of Muskoka and Ontario and to places like India and China, where they haven’t signed comprehensive carbon emission plans. You need economic growth to pay for the environmentalism that we need and want.” NDP candidate Jo-Anne Boulding said only companies who choose to flagrantly disregard the environment need to be worried. “In Canada, we are unfortunately one of the world’s highest emitters of greenhouse gases, but only 15 per cent is residential. All the rest is from industry and business,” said Ms Boulding. “Our position is that you make the big polluters pay. You take that money and put it into programs that save money for ordinary Canadians.” Ms Boulding said the NDP will set hard targets to reduce emissions. They also want to bring the EnerGuide program back and change the building code to make new homes more efficient. The Conservatives have failed to achieve anything in the environmental sector, she added. “I’ve been listening to the Conservatives for the last couple of years, and this is my third election against them. They don’t have an environmental plan,” she said. “They don’t want industry to have to change.” Like Mr. Clement, Ms Boulding said the Liberal Green Shift will achieve nothing except hurting average Canadians. “We don’t have public transit here, we depend on our vehicles. Maybe that isn’t the best thing but it’s what we have at the moment,” said Ms Boulding. “Raising diesel fuel costs so truckers can’t deliver their product isn’t a good thing. Individuals are just a small per cent, it’s industry that we need to go after.” Ms Boulding also criticized the Green Party for espousing the virtues of cleaner environment, but having few firm plans in place to make it happen. Green Party candidate Glen Hodgson said that simply isn’t the case. In fact, Mr. Hodgson said regard for the environment underpins every aspect of the Green platform, from health care to economics. “It’s not a separate issue that you can pay attention to or ignore when you feel like it,” he said. “We understand that a healthy and sustainable environment is the bare minimum we need to take care of those other areas.” The Green’s environmental policy is too comprehensive to break down easily, said Mr. Hodgson. However, it can be largely summarized in one simple idea. “Use higher taxes on things that are bad for our environment and bad for our health, to offset the cost of things that are good for our environment and good for our health,” he said. On the flip side, the Green Party will also offer financial incentives to businesses and individuals to help them make environmentally sound decisions. Fears over increased taxes are baseless, said Mr. Hodgson. “We’ll raise them in some areas and lower them in others,” he said. “Anyone trying to make healthy choices and ones that are good for the environment will benefit significantly, both in terms of the environment and in terms of their pocketbook.” Mr. Hodgson said he is quite familiar with the Liberal Green Shift, as it is essentially a Green Party platform that was co-opted by the Liberals. While Mr. Hodgson said he supports some of the basic tenets of the Liberal plan, he said the Liberals haven’t gone far enough and will never be able to sell their plan. “Everyone sees it as a tax grab,” he said. “After the sponsorship scandal and those things, people simply don’t trust them anymore. The problem with the Liberal tax shift isn’t the tax shift, it’s the Liberals.” While other parties talk tough on the environment when election time comes around, Mr. Hodgson said the Green Party practises what it preaches. “We’ve been advocating for these things for a long time," he said. "Not because they were the popular thing to do, but because they were the right thing to do.” GOOD ON SNOW, ICE AND YOUR WALLET. Receive up to $100.00 on selected sets of 4 Toyo winter tires until December 15, 2008. Details in-store. Open Country A/T Designed to give excellent ride comfort Great traction for rougher terrains All Season (M&S) rated 705-746-2922, 21 Joseph Street, Parry Sound www.oktire.com LEADING THE WAY IN SERVICE, VALUE AND ADVICE. TM The OK Tire mark is a trademark of O.K. Tire Stores Inc. “Highest Overall Custom Satisfaction Among Service Provider Brands” – OK Tire Stores received the highest numercial score among service providers in the proprietary J.D. 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Laser Treatment of age and brown spots 366490 Wednesday October 1, 2008 ◆ PARRY SOUND NORTH STAR - 7 Coordinator to be hired for hospital's healing room The West Parry Sound Health Centre will hire a new traditional culture coordinator to help with programming and awareness of the First Nation healing room, pictured here, a one-of-a-kind healing room in the health centre. Green Shift going to be huge burden: Clement North Star file photo
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BY EVAN FRENCHNorth Star Staff
PARRY SOUND - There will soon be a new face at Noojimowin Bimaadziwin Gamik.
The revolutionary First Nations Healing Room at the West Parry Sound Health Centre (WPSHC) is hiring a new traditional culture coordinator.
Wes Whetung, a member of the advisory council charged with finding the new coordinator, said the healing room, which was included in the hospital's design from the very start, is a place dedicated to the practice of aboriginal healing techniques and serves as a venue for cross-cultural awareness sessions.
"It has a separate ventilation system, which allows us to perform smudging ceremonies without setting off the fire alarms in the hospital."
Norm Maciver, chief executive officer at the WPSHC, fought to make the healing room a part of the hospital. He said it's important to recognise aboriginal healing techniques and he's excited to have a new member on his team.
"I'm thrilled about it," he said. "It's very important that we have a location to celebrate and
accommodate the needs of First Nations."He said persistence helped the staff convince
the province the healing room was worthwhile. He said four white cedars have been planted outside the hospital, and soon a plaque will be placed there to recognize the people who helped to make it happen.
Mr. Whetung said the new coordinator will be in charge of everything that goes on in the room – helping create cultural awareness, coordinating events, and helping to recruit traditional medicine healers from the community.
He said the advisory council's concern was many First Nations people don't know how to access the room, and it'll be the new coordinator's job to change that.
Mr. Maciver said Jon Lee, chair of the advisory council, was instrumental in convincing the province to pay up again. He said the centre has secured $80,000 to hire the new coordinator, who will help educate health care professionals about native healing culture.
Mr. Whetung said the centre has received a tremendous response to the job posting, which has a closing date of Oct. 10.
"People from all over the province are sending in their resumes," he said.
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"The oil companies aren’t happy, but it’s a fair and balanced plan and they’ll have to abide by it,” he said.
In speaking with local constituents, Mr. Clement said people are scared by the Liberals’ Green Shift proposal.
“I’m sensing a real fear of the carbon tax and how it will affect us in Muskoka,” he said. “We have cold winters and a lot of driving to do. For a lot of people on fixed incomes, it’s going to be a huge burden.”
Mr. Clement dismissed the Green Party’s environmental plan as virtually identical to the Liberals, and said the NDP take things even further.
“The problem with the NDP is that their targets are over the top,” said Mr. Clement. “What that means is we’ll be exporting jobs out of Muskoka and Ontario and to places like India and China, where they haven’t signed comprehensive carbon emission plans. You need economic growth to pay for the environmentalism that we need and want.”
NDP candidate Jo-Anne Boulding said only companies who choose to flagrantly disregard the environment need to be worried.
“In Canada, we are unfortunately one of the world’s highest emitters of greenhouse gases, but only 15 per cent is residential. All the rest is from industry and business,” said Ms Boulding. “Our position is that you make the big polluters pay. You take that money and put it into programs that save money for ordinary Canadians.”
Ms Boulding said the NDP will set hard targets to reduce emissions. They also want to bring the EnerGuide program back and change the building code to make new homes more efficient.
The Conservatives have failed to achieve anything in the environmental sector, she added.
“ I ’ v e b e e n l i s t e n i n g t o t h e Conservatives for the last couple of years, and this is my third election against them. They don’t have an e nv i r o n m e n t a l p l a n , ” s h e s a i d . “They don’t want industry to have to change.”
Like Mr. Clement, Ms Boulding said the Liberal Green Shift will achieve nothing except hurt ing average Canadians.
“We don’t have public transit here, we depend on our vehicles. Maybe that
isn’t the best thing but it’s what we have at the moment,” said Ms Boulding. “Raising diesel fuel costs so truckers can’t deliver their product isn’t a good thing. Individuals are just a small per cent, it’s industry that we need to go after.”
Ms Boulding also criticized the Green Party for espousing the virtues of cleaner environment, but having few firm plans in place to make it happen.
Green Party candidate Glen Hodgson said that simply isn’t the case. In fact, Mr. Hodgson said regard for the environment underpins every aspect of the Green platform, from health care to economics.
“It’s not a separate issue that you can pay attention to or ignore when you feel like it,” he said. “We understand that a healthy and sustainable environment is the bare minimum we need to take care of those other areas.”
The Green’s environmental policy is too comprehensive to break down easily, said Mr. Hodgson. However, it can be largely summarized in one simple idea.
“Use higher taxes on things that are bad for our environment and bad for our health, to offset the cost of things that are good for our environment and good for our health,” he said.
On the flip side, the Green Party will also offer financial incentives to businesses and i n d iv i d u a l s t o h e l p t h e m make environmentally sound decisions. Fears over increased taxes are baseless, said Mr. Hodgson.
“We’ll raise them in some areas and lower them in others,” he said. “Anyone trying to make
healthy choices and ones that are good for the environment will benefit significantly, both in terms of the environment and in terms of their pocketbook.”
Mr. Hodgson said he is quite familiar with the Liberal Green Shift, as it is essentially a Green Party platform that was co-opted by the Liberals. While Mr. Hodgson said he supports some of the basic tenets of the Liberal plan, he said the Liberals haven’t gone far enough and will never be able to sell their plan.
“Everyone sees it as a tax grab,” he said. “After the sponsorship scandal and those things, people simply don’t trust them anymore. The problem with the Liberal tax shift isn’t the tax shift, it’s the Liberals.”
While other parties talk tough on the environment when election time comes around, Mr. Hodgson said the Green Party practises what it preaches.
“We’ve been advocating for these things for a long time," he said. "Not because they were the popular thing to do, but because they were the right thing to do.”
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TM The OK Tire mark is a trademark of O.K. Tire Stores Inc.
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financial consulting to owners of small businesses in developing their ongoing strategic business transition and longer term succession plans. The team at Pahapill & Associates Professional Corporation located at 22 William Street in Parry Sound, is a full service public accounting firm offering tax planning, accounting, auditing, and bookkeeping services to local businesses.
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Wednesday October 1, 2008 ◆ PARRY SOUND NORTH STAR - 7
Coordinator to be hired for hospital's healing room
The West Parry Sound Health Centre will hire a new traditional culture coordinator to help with programming and awareness of the First Nation healing room, pictured here, a one-of-a-kind healing room in the health centre.
Green Shift going to be huge burden: Clement
North Star file photo
