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One more time?KIOTAC visitors want a 40th Fest

C ArOLyN gr ANTeditor@dailybulletin.

caIt’s not only Kimberley residents

who are shocked and dismayed at the deci-

sion to cancel the Kimberley International

Old Time Accordion Championships. The

KIOTAC website is fill-ing up with tributes and

comments as well.

And people are won-dering if there isn’t something they could do. The Daily Bulletin received a letter from a Mr. Norm Wilson who travels to KIOTAC every year.

Mr. Wilson is appeal-ing to the KIOTAC Committee and Kim-berley residents to at least give the festival one more year, so it can celebrate the 40th KIO-TAC in style and every-one could have an op-portunity to say good-bye.

Mr. Wilson writes: “This is very sad news indeed. It has been a family tradition for us to visit Kimberley and take

part in the Accordion festival for over 25 years. No matter where we live we always seem to find a way to make it....we very much look forward to it each year.

“I understand your reasons for shutting down the festival as we have seen the numbers decline over the years. Saying that I would strongly urge you to consider ending the fes-

tival on the 40th anni-versary. I feel you could appeal/market to peo-ple as a farewell cele-bration and end on a high note.....one last hurrah.

“I feel people would make the effort to at-tend knowing it’s the last time to take part and would give people a chance to say good bye.

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BC Transit gives Kimberley additional hours

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Jeany Irvin introduces an act at KIOTAC.

More commuter service to Cranbrook offered

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After an extensive study of transit usage in Kimberley, BC Transit has decided to grant Kimberley another 1100 hours per year in transit service.

BC Transit personnel spoke to the City of Kimberley, Interior Health Authority

staff, and community groups like Summit Community Servcies, the Kimberley Chamber of Commerce and the College of the Rockies, as well as Kimberley Commu-nity Transportation, which manages the service.

Data was collected form a resident sur-vey in the summer of 2012, Kimberley Transportation ride booking records and monthly ridership counts.

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From Page 1“The conclusion is

that we will get an addi-tional 1100 hours,” said Mayor Ron McRae. “We will see an additional level of service to Cran-brook in particular and BC Transit will main-tain existing service as well.. The City has bud-geted for an increase as we expected that would be the recommenda-tion.”

The additional 1100 hour service outlined in the report offers more weekday commuter service to Cranbrook. The option would pro-vide an early morning and early evening trip to Cranbrook, Monday through Friday. This would provide an alter-native means of trans-portation to those em-ployed or attending school in Cranbrook and reduce the number of single occupancy ve-hicles on the highway

between the two cities. The City and Kimberley Transit Services will work out the exact schedule and details of the new service.

“It is a very good re-port, very comprehen-sive” McRae said. “The service to Cranbrook will continue to be a combination of the In-terior Health service and BC Transit service.”

The new service will add an additional oper-ating cost of $64,000 of which BC Transit will pay $40,000 and the City $12,000. There will also be a projected $12,000 increase in rev-enues.

McRae says that a regular commuter ser-vice between Kimber-ley and Cranbrook has been tried before.

“The report did look at a commuter service but research showed there is a high degree of risk with that. It is more

meaningful to look at incremental increases.”

Kimberley Transit offers door to door, dial a ride service within Kimberley and Marys-ville with two 20-pas-senger minibuses. Pas-sengers are required to call the dispatch office 24 hours in advance to book a ride. The service operates between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Fri-day. The vehicles are lift equipped and some school district funding is provided to transport special-needs students to and from school.

The Health Connec-tions Service, funding by the Interior Health Authority operates three round trips per day, two days a week, Tuesdays and Thurs-days.

BC Transit also al-lows its vehicles to be used for the ski shuttle service.

Additional commuter service to Cranbrook planned

From Page 1“It would also give KIO-

TAC and festival goers a chances to reminisce and look back on the years as there is a lot of fond mem-ories. I feel you would have support from the Town of Kimberley, Tourism BC and its affiliates and not to mention festival attendees to wind down in this fash-ion. I believe there is time to market and execute a strategy to make this festi-val possible. I can assure you my family and I and many others would be willing to help out in any way we can.”

From Allan Valberg:“I can’t believe it’s

over....I’ve spent about 30 of my 49 years, competing, adjudicating, playing dances etc. in Kimberley.

“I think back to the first years....they affected me to the core, meeting Bill Baerg for the first time and seeing the passion he had for the accordion.....I’ll never forget that! I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all the volunteers

that made each year possi-ble. Thanks to every per-son I ever played with or just sat and talked with!

“Too many memories to put down....

“A sincerely heartfelt thank you to Bill and Jeany!”

From Clara Anderson:“I am so sorry to hear

that KIOTAC is unable to continue. For the last seven years I have planned my summer holiday around playing and enjoy-ing music in Kimberley during festival week. Friendly little Kimberley is well known for its great people, great concerts, fun dances, friendly competi-tion, terrific adjudicators, and all the dedicated, friendly, hard working fes-tival volunteers. As I am a retired elementary school teacher, I have especially enjoyed watching the progress of the children who competed each year. It is my sincerest wish that they, along with everyone else, will continue to play, practice, enjoy, and con-

tinue to raise the profile of the accordion. I’ll also be watching for some of these people to be our future stars in the entertainment business.

Herb Hinterberger“This news did come

as a total shock as I am planing my duet pieces. For the last six years my summer was planned around Kimberly and it will be greatly missed.

“There will be no re-placement for Kimberly ever, and i want to express my heartfelt Thank You to all the people that made this event possible for so many years.

“Soooo Sad. “Ed Topper writes: Sure-

ly this community can launch a lottery program, and raise $50 000 to keep KIOTAC afloat. I’ll buy no less than 5, $5 tickets. A separate fund raising committee should be organized. We can’t let this thing die. Come-on Kimber-ley; let the accordion’s play.

KIOTACers appeal for one more time

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A lot of people will miss KIOTAC and some of them are asking the Committee to hold one more for a chance to say goodbye.


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David Wilks, M.P. is reminding community members that the call for nominations for the Prime Minister’s Volun-teer Awards was recent-ly announced by the Honourable Diane Fin-ley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development (TBC).

“The Government of Canada is proud of all the Canadians whose voluntary work enrich-es our communities and exemplifies all that makes Canada such a

great country,” said Minister Finley. “The Prime Minister’s Vol-unteer Awards are a celebration of their leadership, dedication, innovation and exper-tise.”

The call for nomi-nations is open be-tween December 20, 2012, and March 1, 2013. The regional component recognizes individual volunteers or groups of volun-teers, businesses and not-for-profit organi-zations. The national component is divided into two categories: one for lifelong achievement and one for new volunteers.

Award recipients will be recognized at an award ceremony, and can identify an eli-gible not-for-profit or-ganization to receive a

grant for $5,000 (re-gional award) or $10,000 (national award).

“The Prime Minis-ter’s Volunteer Awards recognize the contri-butions of volunteers, businesses and not-for-profit organiza-tions that help make communities stron-ger,” said Wilks. “There are many deserving award recipients in this region, but some-one must nominate them.”

A nominator may be any person or orga-nization with direct knowledge of the nom-inee’s contribution.

The first recipients of the Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards were recognized at an awards ceremony held on December 14, 2012, in Ottawa.

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about the awards and to access the online nomination form.

Dancer of the MonthDecember 2012

Anika ChattersonAnika is 10 years old and attends McKim Middle School. Anika is presently in her 6 year of lessons and is taking classes in Jazz and Street Jazz. Anika also volunteers th her time once a week as a class assistant with the younger children. Her other interests include skating, skiing and camping. For her efforts she will receive gift certificates from Grubstake Pizza and Sole to Soul Esthetics Studio. Anika will also have the chance to be named “Dancer of the Year” at Kimberley Dance Academy’s year end production in May. With this title, the winner will receive a scholarship from Artistic Director Leslie Lindberg to help further their dance education.

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KIMBeRLeY NeWS DeceMBeR 31, 1953

WeLL KNoWN MaRYSvILLeReSIDeNt LaID to ReSt

The McPherson Funeral Parlor was filled to over-flowing Tuesday afternoon when business associ-ates and friends paid their last respects to Charles August Hougland, well known Marysville business man, who died in Vancouver General Hospital Christmas Eve following a short illness, at the age of 51 years.

The late Mr. Hougland was born at Undersaker, Sweden, on February 20th, 1902. After graduating from high school he entered the Swedish Army for a two year term. On completion of his service he learnt the trade of paper maker, and worked in Swe-den and later in England as a paper maker. In 1924 he came to Canada and obtained a position with the B.C. Electric Company in Vancouver.

In September 1925 he joined Cominco at Kim-berley and Continued to work for the Company until June, 1946, mainly as a plumber and heating engineer. In 1946 he left Cominco to take over as Waterworks Supervisor for the City of Kimberley.

In 1950 he set up in business for himself as a plumbing and heating contractor, continuing in this business to the time of his death. The last contract on which he worked was the installation of a com-plete oil heating system in the Kimberley News Building.

He is survived by his wife Joyce, a daughter June and two sons Ronald and Douglas, all at home. Two sisters, Mrs. Charles King of Cranbrook and Mrs. Edwin Anderson of Vancouver. Seven brothers, Arvid and Conrad of Kimberley, Oscar of Creston, Bernard of Canyon, Frank of Trail, Wally of Vancou-ver and Andrew of Vernon.

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A well-known Marysville man, Jack Allen Keer, who was seriously injured in a car accident on Sun-day, died in Spokane Hospital Monday afternoon.

The owner of the car Sgt. Frank Smith, who re-ceived cuts and bruises, had been spending Christ-mas leave in Marysville with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. Massie and was returning to Fort Lewis, Washington, where he is stationed. Mr. Keer was traveling with him for a few days holiday, both plan-ning to return for the New Year.

Apparently the struck an icy patch some 20 miles South of Spokane and turned over.

Mr. Keer is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Keer; both Grandfathers, mr. Ben Keer and Mr. David Knickerbocker, of Marysville; also mrs. Harold Bidder of Chapman Camp, Mrs. Hagen Ber-nsten of Vancouver (Aunts), Mr. Warren Keer of Marysville and Ralph Knickerbocker of Calgary (Uncles).

WILLIS DougLaS PaSSeS at coaSt

The Warren Keer family of Marysville suffered its second bereavement within a few days when word was received Wednesday that Mrs. Keer’s brother, Willis Douglas, died suddenly in New West-minster on Tuesday, December 29th.

Mr. and Mrs. Warren Keer were in Spokane when the news came through, in connection with the death of their nephew, Jack Keer, who died as a result of a car accident last Sunday.

Wasa man killed in accident

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A single vehicle accident has taken the life of a 52-year old Wasa man.

Cranbrook RCMP and East Kootenay Traffic Ser-vices responded to a single vehicle accident at 1:23 a.m. on January 6, 2013. The accident occurred on Highway 93/95 near the Wasa Rest Stop.

Police say a 1986 Ford pickup truck was heading north and went off the road to the left. The truck hit the ditch and rolled over once.

The single occupant and driver appears to have died instantly, says Cpl. D. Perpelitz of East Koote-nay Traffic Services. He was not wearing a seat belt.

Perpelitz says road conditions at the time were good, although a light snow was beginning to fall.

The identity of the deceased was not being re-leased at press time pending notification of family.


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RECRUITMENT FOR COMMITTEES 2013

There are only a few opportunities left for public participation and involvement in the City of Cranbrook advisory committees.

Membership is open to residents of the City of Cranbrook for positions listed below:

Environment and Utilities CommitteeThe Environment and Utilities Committee provides advice and assistance to Council in the enhancement, restoration, management and protection of the City’s utilities and its built and natural environments, as well as ensuring that the community is planned to provide for environmental sustainability. One position is available.

Wellness and Heritage CommitteeThe Wellness and Heritage Committee provides advice to Council on priorities for planning and policy development with regards to sports, arts, leisure, culture, heritage, parks, and recreation facilities and activities. One position is available for a youth representative (15-18 years old).

Terms of reference for all the committees are available on the City’s website – www.cranbrook.ca

Interested individuals are invited to submit a Volunteer Application form available at City Hall or the City’s website – www.cranbrook.ca.

Applications will be accepted at City Hall (attention Maryse Leroux) or by email [email protected] , no later than Monday, January 28, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. local time.

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All the Mountain Town Maulers want to do is skate, but for the Regional District of East Kootenay, the team’s application for a fee reduction became a debate about how they can better serve non-profits.

The local roller derby team submitted an application to the RDEK to have their hourly fee for use of the Dave Henderson Pavil-ion at the Wycliffe Ex-hibition Grounds con-tinue at $10 per hour.

Fee restructuring has set the Mauler’s fa-cility use fee at $20 per hour for the 2013 sea-son. The team would like to see the fee con-tinue the way it is.

“We understand that the fees have been restructured for the New Year and appreci-ate your decisions be-hind that,” wrote Maul-ers team member The-resa Prysko.

At Friday’s RDEK meeting, the board de-nied the request to lower the fee for the team, but amended the motion to encourage the women to apply for a grant in-aid to help them cover costs.

Director Gerry Taft said the use of the Pa-vilion, regardless of how much is charged per hour, is a bonus for the RDEK as it general-ly sits unused save for a few special events every year. Taft also pointed out that the RDEK supports hockey and figure skating, and should support all rec-reation activities even-ly.

“When a new type of recreation comes for-ward we nickel and dime them,” he said.

Board chair Rob Gay brought up the roller derby team’s commit-ment to volunteering in the community, and their efforts to clean up the Wycliffe Exhibition Grounds.

“They volunteer to do some clean-up for us,” he said.

Gay pointed out that

any volunteer work the team wants to do should be encouraged.

Director Mary Guiliano, who is mayor of Fernie, said her com-munity has greatly ben-efitted from the actions of its roller derby team, the Avalanche City Roller Girls.

“They offer some-thing that’s really good for the community,” Guiliano said.

Taft said there was absolutely no cost to the taxpayers for the use of the Pavilion, as it sits empty most of the time anyway.

In their application, the Mountain Town Maulers said they have enjoyed the use of the facility.

“We would like to thank you for the last couple months’ use of the facility,” wrote Prys-ko. “We have enjoyed our time in there and look forward to work-ing with you and utiliz-ing the space in the 2013 year.”

They also said they wish to use the facility year-round for team practice, adding train-ing days in the off-sea-son to keep their skills sharp.

“During the off sea-

Roller derby request sparks RDEK fee reduction debate

son we continue team skating to keep our agility and condition-ing, this is very import-ant for our safety,” Prys-ko wrote. “We have been lucky to have spo-radic availability during the off season in the local school gyms the past two years as well.”

Director Bob

Whetham suggested it might be time to look at the fee structure for not-for-profits, to see it the RDEK can support them more, or offer re-duced rates.

But Area A director Mike Sosnowski said reducing the fees for one facility would be unfair to the rest of the taxpayers throughout the regional district who pay into the pot.

“I just want a little fairness,” he said.

The motion was eventually put forward to oppose the applica-tion for fee reduction, with Taft, Gay, director Ron McRae and direc-tor Jane Walter voting against it. The board did amend the motion and decided to send a letter to the Mountain Town Maulers to en-courage them to apply for a Grant in Aid.

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When will Canadians, led by the country’s one million Aboriginal People, face the inescapable? Re-

serves are incubators of misery. The entire moribund, ramshackle edifice supported by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development needs to be demol-ished. It is rotten at its core.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, whom you might expect would be ideologically predisposed to scrapping the 1876 Indian Act — an explicitly racist tract whose con-tinued existence in our law is a national disgrace — has until now been unwilling to go there. A year ago, at the last aboriginal conference in Ottawa, Harper steered clear of scrapping the Act outright, instead laud-ing “practical, incremental and real change.”

Yet incremental change, we have seen, barely makes a dent — if it makes it past the gate at all.

It’s not just the tweaks to land-lease management on reserves contained in Bill C-45, which in part ignited the “Idle no More” protests. There have been many at-tempts at piecemeal repair. In 1996 there was Bill C-79, the Indian Act Optional Mod-ification Act; it died on the order paper. In 2002 there was Bill C-7, the First Nations Governance Act, which attempted to re-form reserve administration across the board. It perished in 2003. In 2008 there was Bill C-47, the Family Homes on Re-serves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act, to redress inequity in the treatment of women. That one died on the order paper three times. It is before Parliament again as Bill S-2.

Amid these and other efforts, condi-tions on reserves have worsened. In its

2011 status report, the office of the Audi-tor-General chronicles, in customarily neutral tones, a horror show of civil ne-glect. On reserves, the high school gradua-tion rate is 41 per cent, compared with a national average near 80 per cent. There’s a worsening housing shortage and huge numbers of the houses that do exist are mould-ridden. Children on reserves are eight times likelier than the national aver-age to be in the care of child and family services.

This is not the upshot of one audit, mind you, but many. There were seven, between 2002 and 2008, chronicling the same prob-lems.

At root, the malaise is economic. Except where there is a nearby resource develop-ment, or an enterprise such as a casino, these are communities with no natural economies, served by a remote federal bu-reaucracy (rather than a conventional mu-nicipal or provincial one), in which neither individuals nor the bands themselves hold title to their lands or homes.

The lack of property rights is not inci-dental. It is fundamental. It prevents the securing of mortgages, the building of equi-ty and the accumulation of wealth. In effect the reserve system incentivizes misery, paying people to live where they cannot work. This is why all sides in this equation, including reserve residents and the taxpay-er who bears the cost of Aboriginal Affairs’ $7.4-billion annual budget, feel so visceral-ly that they are being cheated. They are.

No fundamental change in governance can or should happen without the consent of the governed. So step one — and the most important immediate goal of the Idle No More movement, I would argue — should be the planning of a new Aboriginal Peoples’ Congress, national in scope, with

representation from all 600-plus bands as well as off-reserve indigenous peoples, and the population at large.

At that confab, which might last a month or more, all sides would have their say on a lasting way forward. And the bright lights in the aboriginal movement, such as proper-ty-rights advocate and B.C. chief Manny Jules, could make the case, as well as it can be made, for a fundamental break with the past.

To me, in a nutshell, that break looks like this: Give title to the land and the homes to the people who live in them and allow them to manage their property — buy, sell or hold — as they see fit. In areas where there is no natural economy or prospect of creating one, help people start over some-where else. Such a change might be grand-fathered over 25 years, to ease the econom-ic impact on the most disadvantaged.

At the same time, deal decisively and fairly with the backlog of outstanding land claims, numbering at more than 700 — es-timated cost, anywhere from $6-billion to $15-billion, at the upper margin. That would require a major effort on the part of the government: It would need to make the case for Canadians collectively taking a one-time only write-down, for the sake of — yes it sounds quaint, doesn’t it, in 2013 — a just society.

That is a tall order, clearly. Perhaps it is impossible. Perhaps it is impractical. No doubt it would be inconvenient and costly. Perhaps there is a better way.

But with the country facing the prospect of prolonged protest, if not Oka-style insur-rection, can we avoid discussing it any lon-ger? Idle No More, it seems to me, is a legit-imate and not unsurprising response to systemic misery. It should not be about patching up the unfixable.

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Egyptian politics over the past nine months has not been an edifying sight, but the new con-stitution does not spell the end of democracy in Egypt. It scares the

36 percent of Egyptian voters who rejected it, but their fears are probably misplaced.

The revolution was made in the big cities, mostly by people who were secular in outlook. Howev-er, most Egyptian voters live in rural areas that are devout and deeply conser-vative, so three-quarters of the votes in the first free election went to Islamic parties.

The Freedom and Justice Party, the po-litical vehicle of the Muslim Brotherhood, got almost half the votes but it did not real-ly get a mandate to impose strict Islamic law on Egypt. Some of its votes came from people who wanted that, but some came from people who value the Brotherhood’s charitable work, or were just grateful for its role as the only real resistance during the decades of dictatorship.

The Brotherhood’s leadership under-stood that – but another quarter of the votes went to “Salafi” parties that have an extremist interpretation of Islam. The Salafis would obviously steal the votes of the Freedom and Justice Party’s more de-vout supporters in the next election unless there was some Islamic content in the new constitution.

The Brotherhood’s last political plat-form in 2007 called for a board of Muslim clerics to supervise the government. It also insisted that only Muslim men could be-come president. “The state which we seek can never be presided over by a non-Mus-lim,” said Mohammed Morsi, who drafted that platform and is now president of Egypt.

Maybe Morsi still privately thinks that, or maybe he has realised that these rules are unacceptable in a democracy where all citizens are equal. It doesn’t matter. The new constitution does not contain any

such provisions, and the main reason is obviously the Brotherhood’s tacit bargain with the armed forces.

The deal, which guarantees the mili-tary’s privileges, was necessary to per-suade the staunchly secular armed forces to accept an Islamic party in government,

but it had a price: the new government could not be TOO Islamic. This posed a problem for Morsi, because Muslim Brotherhood activ-ists wanted to use their po-litical power to entrench “Islamic” rules in the new constitution.

So Morsi had to walk a fine line. He had to put enough Islamic language into the constitution to mollify his own supporters, but not so much that the military would break their alliance with him. He didn’t walk that line very well.

The whole constitutional process was a poisonous battle even before Morsi be-came president last June. In April the Su-preme Judicial Council, whose members had all been appointed by the Mubarak dictatorship, dissolved the newly elected House of Representatives on a flimsy pre-text, and also dismissed the constitu-tion-writing assembly that it had chosen.

But the upper house of parliament is also dominated by Islamist parties, and it simply appointed another constituent as-sembly with the same make-up. After that it was open war.

By October most of the non-Islamists in the second constituent assembly had walked out, and the Supreme Judicial Council was about to dismiss that body too. Morsi’s clumsy response was to grant himself unlimited powers and forbid the judiciary to dismiss the assembly.

There was an outcry by the opposition, a fractious coalition of leftists, liberals and Christians, and the protestors were in-stantly back on the streets. But the constit-uent assembly promptly rendered the whole crisis unnecessary by passing the new draft constitution in a 29-hour mara-

thon sitting, so Morsi cancelled his special powers – and on 22 December, Egyptians ratified the new constitution by a 63.8 per-cent majority.

Small crisis, not many hurt. The army got what it wanted: henceforward, the minister of defence must be a serving offi-cer, and the military will effectively control its own budget. The parliament cannot even debate it.

The Brotherhood got less of what it wanted, but there are bits of Islamic lan-guage in the constitution to keep the activ-ists happy. For example, Article 2 of the old constitution (1971) says: “The princi-ples of Sharia are the main source of legis-lation.”

The new one still says that, but Article 219 adds: “The principles of Sharia include general evidence and foundations, rules and jurisprudence as well as sources ac-cepted by doctrines of Sunni Islam and the majority of Muslim scholars.” And what practical difference does that make?

Article 30 states that “citizens are equal before the law and equal in rights and ob-ligations without discrimination,” but as in the old constitution, there is no separate and explicit guarantee of women’s rights. Putting that in would have required a major battle with the misogynist rank and file of the Brotherhood, and the old formu-la would be quite adequate if the courts enforced it.

Nervous secular Egyptians fear that these bits and pieces of Islamic rhetoric are the seeds of a constitutional revolution that will turn the country into an Islamist dictatorship, but there is little evidence for that.

As for the frantic haste with which the constitution was passed – after two years of revolutionary upheaval, the Egyptian economy desperately needs the political stability that a new constitution and fresh elections (due in February) will provide. It’s not a plot. It’s just the politics of neces-sity.

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based inde-pendent journalist.

Egypt: the not so bad constitution

Letters to the editorCarbon dioxide

Bill Bennett’s comments re-ported in last Wednesday’s paper at least show that he is admitting that British Colom-bia and the rest of Canada are actually emitting carbon diox-ide into the atmosphere.

But, he totally dismisses that BC’s contribution to global emissions is of any signifi-cance.

He maintains that Canada’s contribution to global CO2 is only 2% of the global total. It is actually a tiny bit lower than this, which is swell as long as you don’t think about Canada’s population amounting to just 0.004 per cent of the world’s total. That makes Canada the fourth worst polluter per capi-ta.

It also makes our 34 million inhabitants the seventh largest source of CO2 among all the countries in the world - that’s

seventh from a list of 216 coun-tries and jurisdictions. Hardly insignificant.

As far as BC’s emissions, Bennett’s own government’s figures are 68,700,000 metric tons of CO2 emitted per year, each of which will remain in the atmosphere for approxi-mately 100 years. Again, hardly insignificant.

Bennett would like the rest of us to bury our heads in the (tar) sand with him and pre-tend that this grave problem is non-existent.

Patrick BatesKimberley

MisleadingIt appears that Kootenay

East MLA Bill Bennett’s an-ti-NDP paranoia has resur-faced in his letter of December 28 ( ‘NDP and Jumbo’.)

What seems to have been,

by all accounts, a trivial lapse in a speech on Jumbo by Nel-son-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall, has, according to Mr. Bennett, attained the propor-tions of a province-wide, radi-cal conspiracy aimed at hood-winking the BC electorate.

If Mr. Bennett is looking for someone who really misled the public, he need look no further than his former premier, Mr. Campbell, who promised, for instance, that his government would not privatize BC Rail.

He then privatized BC Rail - and in circumstances so ques-tionable that they have prompt-ed the NDP to promise a public enquiry into the whole sordid mess.

Or he can look no further than his present premier, Ms. Clark

On a pre-election ‘Voice of the Province’, February 4, 2001, she said, “We’re not planning massive layoffs in the civil ser-

vice.” In post-election legislation,

between May 2001 and May 2005, there were, for example, cuts to Sustainable Resource Management staff (from 1,520 to 972), Ministry of Air, Water and Land Protection staff (from 1,298 to 897) and family sup-port staff, province-wide (by 8,700.).

I’m sure that Mr. Bennett did not avail himself of the Townsman letters’ columns at that time to protest how Mr. Campbell and Ms. Clark,“delib-erately [misled] the public.” as he has claimed Ms. Mungall did,

It appears that Mr. Bennett employs a political double standard – something which far too often shows a much greater disregard for the truth than any inconsequential ver-bal slip.

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SaturdayHouston held off

Cincinnati 19-13 Satur-day in the wild-card round. The victory was built on the rushing of Arian Foster and solid defence, and reversed a slide that saw them lose three of their last four regular-season games to blow home-field advan-tage in the AFC. That slump began with a 42-14 loss at New En-gland - exactly where they head next Sunday.

Foster gained 140 yards, becoming the first player with at least 100 yards rushing in his first three post-season games. He scored on a 1-yard run and also had eight receptions.

“It only takes one week to turn things

around in the NFL and we did that,” said Foster, whose team lost to Min-nesota and Indianapolis to slip to the AFC’s third seed.

Cincinnati (10-7) gained only 198 yards and had 12 first downs. Its touchdown came on Leon Hall’s interception return.

Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers showed how dangerous they can be when they’re at full strength Saturday night, overwhelming the Minnesota Vikings 24-10 in an NFC wild-card game that was never really close.

John Kuhn scored two touchdowns, Du-Juan Harris added an-other and Rodgers con-nected with an NFL playoff-record 10 receiv-

ers as he threw for 274 yards. Defensively, the Packers (12-5) finally managed to contain Adrian Peterson and were all over Vikings backup Joe Webb, pressed into service be-cause of Christian Pon-der’s elbow injury.

Peterson was held to 99 yards - an improve-ment after gaining 199 and 210 in the first two games. Webb, who hadn’t thrown a pass all season, was sacked three times and off tar-get all night. His only highlight was a 50-yard scoring pass to Michael Jenkins late in the fourth quarter.

SundayWild-card weekend

is over in the NFL play-offs, and Seattle’s Russell Wilson is the lone rookie

quarterback remaining.And, Wilson’s Sea-

hawks made a pretty good case that they might be here a while.

Wilson teamed with Marshawn Lynch to lead Seattle to a 24-14 come-back victory Sunday over the Washington Redskins, who finished the game without Rob-ert Griffin III - their star rookie quarterback who appeared to reinjure his right knee.

The Seahawks (12-5) overcame a 14-0 first-quarter hole - their biggest deficit this sea-son - and will visit the

top-seeded Atlanta Fal-cons (13-3) next Sun-day.

In Baltimore, Ray Lewis and the Ravens eliminated Andrew Luck, the No. 1 overall pick, and the Indianap-olis Colts with a 24-9 win. The victory delayed Lewis’ retirement for at least another week as Baltimore (11-6) heads to top-seeded Denver (13-3) next Saturday.

The other playoff games next weekend are Green Bay at San Fran-cisco (Saturday) and Houston at New En-gland (Sunday).

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TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor

The Kootenay Ice ex-tended their win streak to five games on Sun-day, dumping the visit-ing Red Deer Rebels 3-2 at Western Financial Place.

Preceding the romp over the Rebels was a 4-1 victory over the Swift Current Broncos on Fri-day evening in another game on home ice.

The team has visibly improved in every as-pect of the game as evi-denced by their five consecutive wins, which has allowed everyone to build up their confi-dence, according to vet-eran Erik Benoit.

“We got lots of confi-dence brewing in the room now and all our lines are starting to click and we’re doing the lit-tle things right,” said Benoit.

Kootenay has closed the gap in the Eastern Conference standings and are now one point behind the Brandon Wheat Kings for 11th place and nine points outside of a playoff spot.

Swift Current’s loss at Western Financial Place came at the start of a quick two-game road trip, while the Rebels’

dropped their decision at the end of playing four games over five days.

Kootenay did a pretty good job of beating up on the Broncos, which came out a little slug-gish and paid for it after Brock Montgomery got his stick on a point shot from Tanner Faith on a power play midway through the first period.

Sam Reinhart dou-bled the lead in the sec-ond period on a short-handed effort, collect-ing the puck at the side of the net and banging it in after Jagger Dirk sent a shot that deflected off the backboards.

With less than a min-ute to go in the frame, Reinhart dug the puck loose along the side-boards, which Benoit picked up and fed Jae-don Descheneau, who sniped his seventh goal of the season.

The Broncos woke up in the third period and put some sustained pressure on the Ice, which resulted in a goal for Tanner LeSann, who put his club up on the board.

However, Kootenay struck back late in the game when Benoit scooped up the puck in

the neutral zone while Broncos netminder Ste-ven Myland was halfway to the bench for an extra attacker.

Despite a valiant dive on Myland’s part, Beno-it was able to put the puck into a gaping net to crush all hopes of a Swift Current comeback.

“I was completely clueless to be honest,” said Benoit, as he didn’t realize Myland had left his net. “Sam [Reinhart] was screaming at my back and telling me that the net was empty, so I just looked up and fired at it.”

Ice goaltender Mack-enzie Skapski ended the game with 26 saves, while Myland stopped 16 shots.

Red Deer returned for it’s second matchup with the Ice in five days and left with their sec-

ond consecutive loss.Kootenay weathered

the storm in the first pe-riod, as Red Deer held a slight edge, but Skapski was sharp in between the pipes for the home-town team.

However, Red Deer jumped ahead in the second period when Turner Elson beat Skap-ski top shelf short side with a wrist shot while entering the Ice’s zone.

The Rebels held the lead until the final sec-ond of the frame, when Reinhart scored a buzz-er beater while on a powerplay.

The young Kootenay sniper was on the re-ceiving end of a passing play between Desche-neau and Joey Leach, and he made good on his shot with seven one-hundredths of a second to go on the clock.

Benoit scored a pair of goals in the final peri-od, to give the Ice a two-goal lead. His first marker came off a quick wrist shot that went top corner after skating into the offensive zone, while his second was a tap-in outside the crease that came off a pretty little pass from Luke Philp.

Red Deer managed to cut Kootenay’s lead to only one goal late in the game after Matt Bel-lerive took advantage of a defensive zone turn-over and beat Skapski with a low shot that de-flected off something on its way to the net.

Kootenay held off the final assault with the pulled goaltender and extra attacker and even hemmed the Reb-els in their own zone, putting at least four shots in the direction of a wide open net.

Bolton Pouliot stopped 45 shots for Red Deer, while Skapski turned away 21 pucks.

The team’s confi-dence and improve-ments have allowed all four lines to click to-gether, added Benoit.

“It’s good to roll four lines,” said Benoit. “When a team is not playing four lines, it’s really tough to keep up the pace for the whole game, so rolling four lines is key for us to get all that energy in the lineup.”

Kootenay gets a day off on Monday before hosting the Edmonton Oil Kings on Tuesday night at Western Finan-cial Place.

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The Kimberley Dy-namiters split their weekend in a home and home series with the Beaver Valley Nite-hawks, as both earned a win in their home barns.

Kimberley played host on Friday at the Civic Centre, earning a 3-1 victory, but fell on the road in Fruitvale by a score of 5-1.

Kimberley continues to occupy third in the Eddie Mountain divi-sion, while Fernie scraps with Golden for first.

A second period goal broke a tie, while a marker in the third added some insurance for Kimberley in their win over the ‘Hawks on Friday.

Dan Holland scored at the halfway mark for Beaver Valley, but Sam Nigg responded for Kimberley a few min-utes later to pull even.

Brett Luker put the Nitros ahead in the sec-ond period, and Matt Barzilay increased the lead to two in the final period with his first ca-reer goal in the KIJHL.

Matthew Mitchell manned the net for Kimberley, stopping 35 shots, while Zach Pere-

hudoff took the loss at the other side of the rink for Beaver Valley, turn-ing away 25 pucks.

Neither team was able to capitalize on the power play.

Beaver Valley got their revenge on home ice the following night, scoring five unanswered goals to seal up the win.

Michael Bell scored an early first period goal and added another shortly into the second frame. Dallas Calvin and Archie MacKinnon also added markers in the middle period.

Calvin added his sec-ond of the game in the final frame, before the Nitros finally got on the board from Eric Buck-ley.

Mitchell again manned the crease for Kimberley, stopping a whopping 47 shots, while Travis Beekhuizen turned away 22 shots for Beaver Valley.

Nitros, Nitehawks exchange victories

Kootenay has successful weekend on home ice with victories over Broncos, Rebels

“We got lots of confidence brewing

in the room now and all our lines are

starting to click and we’re doing the little

things right.”Erik Benoit

NFL playoff picture emerges after wildcard games

Seattle Seahawks 24 Washington Redskins 14Baltimore Ravens 24 Indianapolis Colts 9Green Bay Packers 24 Minnesota Vikings 10Houston Texans 19 Cincinnati Bengals 13

Wildcard results

Buffalo Bills hire new head coach

from college ranksJOHN WAWROWAssociated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Doug Marrone is leaving Syracuse to be-come the Buffalo Bills’ new coach, according to several reports.

Citing league sourc-es, ESPN.com first re-ported early Sunday that Marrone was to take over the Bills. The Bills have not confirmed the report. Messages left with Syracuse officials and Marrone’s agent, Jimmy Sexton, have not been returned.

Marrone will replace Chan Gailey, who was fired Monday, a day after the Bills closed their sec-ond consecutive season with a 6-10 record. The 48-year-old Marrone went 25-25 in four sea-sons at Syracuse, his

alma mater, and turned around a program that had gone 26-57 over the previous seven years.

Now the Bronx, N.Y., native is set for another challenge two hours down the New York State Thruway. Marrone takes over a Bills team that has not had a winning re-cord since 2004, when it finished 9-7, and has missed the playoffs for 13 straight seasons. That’s the NFL’s longest active streak.

The Syracuse job was Marrone’s first as a head coach. He has seven years of NFL experience as an assistant. Marrone spent 2006-08 as the New Orleans Saints’ of-fensive co-ordinator and was the New York Jets’ offensive line coach from 2002-05.


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Af t e r t h e Cana-d i a n s

lost the bronze medal, the sky began to fall.

Okay, maybe it was just my eyelids drooping because it was so early in the morning.

All jokes aside, the fact that the Canadians failed to medal at the World Juniors isn’t a laughing matter.

It also shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise.

Of course, this was

supposed to be Canada’s year and the return to gold-medal glory be-cause the junior team was loaded with talent freed up due to the NHL lockout.

But all that skill—in-cluding an NHL player and 10 first-round draft picks—wasn’t a match for other teams that had something the Canadi-ans lacked: consistency.

Armchair critics will say that the coaching staff wasn’t up to the task, the wrong players were chosen, and call for heads to roll at Hockey Canada.

Those kinds of criti-cisms aren’t helpful.

I had a chance to in-

terview Emerson Etem last year, a sniper for-merly with the Medicine Hat Tigers who is cur-rently in the AHL play-ing for the Norfolk Ad-mirals.

Etem competed for the Americans in the WJC last year, which fin-ished in seventh place, and he said something that I think applies right now, as it did back then for his U.S. squad.

“It’s fun to see the game of hockey growing now but at the same time, we went there for the gold medal and we didn’t accomplish it,” said Etem, following a game against the Koote-nay Ice on Jan. 8, 2012.

“In a way, it’s a bad feel-ing, but at the same time, I think you can learn just as much from losing as you can from winning.”

Hockey has grown in Europe—you can see that in teams like the Swedish national squad, which earned silver after failing to repeat a gold medal performance from last year.

The Finns beat Cana-da 4-1 in exhibition play,

while Switzerland took the Czech Republic to overtime and dropped shootout decisions to the Finns and Russians.

The typical power-house teams of Canada, U.S. and Russia are now being challenged by these upstart European countries that are devel-oping quality hockey players and programs.

It’s always a national-istic affair when the Ca-nadians take to interna-tional competition, whether it be the WJC or the World Champion-ship or the Olympics. But Canada no longer has a monopoly on gold medals, or a monopoly on producing the world’s

best hockey players. Like Etem said, there

is just as much to be learned from losing, as there is from winning, and now is the time for Hockey Canada to sit back and review their approach to preparing for the tournament.

I don’t believe it’s fair to single out individually the coaches, the players, or the goaltenders for the fourth-place finish, but as the old saying goes, you win as a team and you lose as a team.

Fans may lament about what went wrong, but the reality is that the Canadians got beat by better squads when it mattered.

When it mattered in the semifinal, the Cana-dians lost to the U.S. When it mattered against the Russians for a bronze medal, the Ca-nadians were defeated.

Though hockey fans are disappointed, there’s no shame in losing, es-pecially if you give it your best effort. What matters is how you pick yourself up and recover from that experience.

Now is the time for Hockey Canada to pick itself up and have a good introspective look at the entire process of select-ing and preparing play-ers and personnel for future World Junior tournaments.

Lessons to learn in Canada’s fourth-place finish at WJC

Trevor Crawley

Chris JohnstonCanadian Press

NEW YORK - After six long months of nego-tiations, it took one ex-tremely long night to get the NHL out of the boardroom and back on the ice.

A tentative deal to end the 113-day NHL lockout was reached early Sunday morning following a marathon 16-hour negotiating ses-sion.

“We have reached an agreement on the framework of a new col-lective bargaining agreement, the details of which need to be put to paper,” NHL commis-sioner Gary Bettman told a news conference. “We’ve got to dot a lot of i’s and cross a lot of t’s. There’s still a lot of work to be done but the basic framework of the deal has been agreed upon.”

Before the new CBA officially comes into ef-fect, it must be ratified by a majority of both the league’s 30 owners and the union’s member-ship of approximately 740 players. There is no word when those votes will take place.

“Hopefully we’re at a place where all those things will proceed fair-ly rapidly and with some dispatch,” said Donald Fehr, executive director of the NHL Players’ As-sociation. “We’ll get back to business as usual just as fast as we can.”

Neither side has an-nounced details of the deal - which came to-gether with the help of U.S. federal mediator Scot Beckenbaugh -but

according to a source, it’s a 10-year agreement with an opt-out option after eight years.

It also includes de-fined benefit pensions for the players as well as a $64.3-million salary cap in 2013-14.

Other highlights, ac-cording to a source, in-clude a seven-year con-tract term limit for free agents and eight years for players re-signing with the same team. The deal also includes a 35 per cent yearly variance in salary and no more than 50 per cent differ-ence between any two seasons.

The participation of NHLers in future Olym-pics will be made out-side of the CBA.

“Everyone is obvious-ly relieved that it’s over and done with, for all in-tents and purposes, and we’re able to kind of move on to what we kind of enjoy doing a lot more than this,” said Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan, who was involved in the negotiations.

It’s not clear when the season will start or how many games will be played, though Winni-peg Jets defenceman Ron Hainsey - also a key

figure in the negotiations - said he expects it to be 48 or 50 games.

The league was on the verge of cancelling a second season due to a work stoppage. The two sides were working against the clock after Bettman set a deadline of Jan. 11 to get a deal done to save a shortened season.

“It was a battle,” said Hainsey. “Gary said a month ago it was a tough negotiation and that’s what it was. The players obviously would rather not have been here but our focus now is to give the fans whatever it is - 48 games, 50 games - the most exciting season we can.”

Hainsey said the pen-sion ended up being a key component of the agreement.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that the pen-sion is the centrepiece of this deal for the players,” said Hainsey.

The lockout will cost the league around 500 regular-season games, depending on whether there is a 48- or 50-game season, but the most im-portant number proba-bly won’t be revealed for at least 18 months. The NHL was coming off seven years of record revenues when the last CBA expired, hitting a high-water mark of US$3.3-billion last sea-son, and it remains to be seen how quickly fans and sponsors will return when the puck is dropped again.

After all, many hoped the league’s lockout cycle would be broken when the entire 2004-05

season was cancelled to get a salary cap. But it turned out the shared history of the parties, which also includes a strike in 1992 and a lock-out in 1994-95, was too much to overcome.

“It was concessionary bargaining right from the beginning,” said Doan. “As the players, you kind of understand that and you accepted that. As much as you didn’t want to, we un-derstand that the nature of professional sports has kind of changed with the last couple CBAs starting with football and basketball and obvi-ously hockey.

“We knew we were in that position and I think as a union we got the best deal we could possi-bly get.”

George Cohen, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service di-rector, called the deal “the successful culmina-tion of a long and diffi-cult road.”

“Of course, the agree-ment will pave the way for the professional play-ers to return to the ice and for the owners to re-sume their business op-erations,” he said in a statement. “But the good news extends beyond the parties directly in-volved; fans throughout North America will have the opportunity to re-turn to a favourite pas-time and thousands of working men and women and small busi-nesses will no longer be deprived of their liveli-hoods.”

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby, who is desperate to return to

the ice after dealing with concussion issues over the last couple years, said he was happy to hear the news.

“It’s exciting to know we will be back playing hockey,” he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Re-view.

The NHLPA mem-bership hired Fehr out of retirement about 21 months before the CBA expired with the express

purpose of getting the players a fair shake in these negotiations. And the union’s executive di-rector made it clear that his players were still stinging after being locked out for an entire season just eight years earlier.

“Obviously, what happened in the last round of negotiations is the starting point for this round of bargaining,”

Fehr told The Canadian Press just before formal talks began with the league at the end of June. “The players made what can only be character-ized as enormous con-cessions. And so you want to make sure that the players understand what happened the last time and that they take that as the beginnings of where things go from here.”

- The CBA will run for 10 years through 2021-22, with an option to ter-minate the deal after eight years.

- Players receive defined benefit pension plan.

- Owners and players split revenue 50-50 each season, with the players re-ceiving US$300 million in deferred “make-whole payments” to ease the transition from previous system.

- A pro-rated salary cap of $70.2 mil-lion for the shortened 2012-13 season followed by a salary cap of $64.3 million in 2013-14. The salary floor will be set at $44 million for both years.

- Seven-year limit on free-agent contracts (eight-year limit when a team signs its own player to an extension).

- A maximum salary variance of 35 per cent from year to year, with no more than a 50 per cent total difference be-tween any two seasons in the contract.

- The minimum salary starts at $525,000 this season and reaches $750,000 for the 10th and final year of the agreement.

- Teams can only walk away from a player in salary arbitration who is awarded at least $3.5 million.

- Each team will be given the option of two “amnesty buyouts” that can be

used to terminate contracts prior to the 2013-14 season or 2014-15 season. The buyouts will cost two-thirds of the re-maining amount on a deal - paid evenly over twice its remaining length - and will count against the players’ overall share in revenues, but not the individu-al team’s salary cap.

- Revenue sharing between teams increased to $200 million annually.

- Any player on a one-way contract who plays in the American Hockey League with a salary in excess of the NHL’s minimum salary plus $375,000 will have the excess amount charged against his team’s salary cap.

- Unrestricted free agency continues to open on July 1.

- The participation of NHLers in fu-ture Olympics has yet to be determined. The decision will be made outside of the CBA.

- The season will run either 48 games or 50 games and will be kept entirely within the conference. Under the 48-game scenario, teams play ev-eryone outside their division three times and an unbalanced schedule in-ternally, with five games against two ri-vals and four games against two others. The 50-game scenario is more straight-forward with five games versus divi-sional opponents and three more against everyone else in the conference.

Key points addressed in new CBa

NHL lockout ends with tentative deal

“We have reached an agreement on the

framework of a new collective bargaining

agreement, the details of which need

to be put to paper.”Gary Bettman


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FRESNO, Calif. — He doesn’t like busy Interstate 5 or eating cat-tle, at least so far. He gets along with his distant cousins the coyotes, likes to swim and roams a lot — an awful lot — around the northern-most reaches of California.

A week or so ago, California’s lone grey wolf passed his one-year anniversary as a transplant resi-dent with the same technical ac-coutrements some people possess: a Twitter account and an online site about his travels.

“What strikes me about him is that when I talk to the general pub-lic they show remarkable knowl-edge about his movements, much more than some world events,’’ said Richard Callas, a senior environ-mental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Far larger than coyotes, wolves were feared and hunted to near-ex-tinction in the U.S. before being protected by the Endangered Spe-cies Act. They were reintroduced in the Northern Rockies in the mid-1990s, and some migrated into Idaho and Oregon, where they have quickly reproduced.

California’s wolf is known as OR-7 because he was the seventh in

Oregon to be fitted with a GPS tracking collar. While most wolves stay within 160 kilometres of where they were born, OR-7 proved differ-ent: he trotted 1,600 kilometres from northeast Oregon to Califor-nia, then more than 3,200 kilome-tres since arriving.

Scientists speculate the 3 1/2-year-old is looking for a mate or a new pack, though they know both prospects are remote. He is believed to be the first of the preda-tors to roam within the state’s boundaries since 1924, when the last grey wolf was killed by a trap-per intent on making the West safe for cattle.

“The reality is OR-7 is not likely to find a mate in California. He’ll likely pass on without successfully reproducing,’’ said Karen Kovacs, whose job as wildlife program manager for the state Department of Fish & Wildlife has been focused lately on this one animal.

His presence has prompted ac-tion by one state and two federal agencies that now have to figure out how to manage the species if others follow in his 12.5-centimetre paw prints. Federal wildlife agen-cies had not considered California a part of the original wolf recovery plan for western states.

Lone wolf in California amuses public with travelsBig, But not so Bad

AP Photo/CAliforniA DePArtment of fish AnD GAme, file

this May 8, 2012 photo shows oR-7, the oregon wolf that has trekked across two states looking for a mate, on a hillside in California.

Currently the state is consider-ing a petition that would list the wolf as endangered, as he already is federally in California. Killing the wolf means a $100,000 federal fine.

If the state’s wildlife commission approves the petition come Octo-ber, authorities would determine how many wolves would be needed to populate a given area before the species would not be considered endangered anymore. It would in-clude a plan to deal with livestock depredation and monitoring for disease such as distemper and ra-bies.

OR-7 has aroused concerns

among residents of the northeast-ern counties who fear the wolf will kill livestock, although officials say he has not so far.

The lone wolf also has been cel-ebrated by fans such as @iamgreen-bean who this week sent the mes-sage, “We are THRILLED to have you’’ to the Twitter account @Wol-fOR7. The anonymous wolf often tweets about eating ungulates, or asking journalists, “Why the fixa-tion with my love life?’’

So beloved is OR-7 in Oregon that a newspaper cartoonist depict-ed him as a candidate during the 2012 presidential campaign.

Despite the high tech gadgetry hanging from his neck, sightings are rare. Kovac’s department up-dates a tracking map when OR-7 moves significantly out of an area, but since July he has been hanging out mostly in Tehama County, and wildlife officers don’t want the public to know exactly where. Cat-tle ranchers, however, are warned if he gets too close or stays too long in one area.

For the past month, OR-7 has been roaming around the northern and eastern edges of Tehama County around Red Bluff as he fol-lows deer migrating from the northern Sierra to lower grazing areas at around 450 metres.

He has approached Interstate 5 on several occasions, but never crossed the freeway though he has repeatedly crossed less travelled highways.

Researchers have been amazed at the distances OR-7 has covered. The 4,800 kilometres recorded are just connecting the dots between GPS co-ordinates and don’t count any meandering in between.

“If you look at dispersing grey wolves, OR-7 is clearly on the far end of the bell curve in terms of how far he has travelled,’’ Kovacs said.

Dean BeeByCanadian Press

OTTAWA, Ont. — Thousands of vending machines still can’t di-

gest those plastic $20 bank notes the govern-ment released two months ago, with ma-chine owners blaming

the Bank of Canada for their problems.

As many as half a million machines that scan bank notes needed

c anaDian PreSS

OTTAWA — Contentious changes to employment insurance are now in effect.

Beginning Sunday, people on EI face stricter, more complex rules for keeping their benefits, with the goal of getting unemployed workers back into the workforce sooner.

The government has also launched a new service to provide information on available jobs and labour market conditions to subscribers via e-mail.

The changes to the EI program were first spelled out in May.

A suitable search for a job must now include preparing resumes, reg-istering for job banks, attending job fairs, applying for jobs and undergo-ing competency evaluations.

A suitable job is defined by factors including commuting time, whether the hours are compatible with the claimant’s life and wages.

It will also take into account per-sonal circumstances, such as health, physical capability to perform work, family obligations and transportation

options.The new rules also break down job

seekers into essentially two groups: people who’ve long paid into EI but rarely make a claim and those who are regular users of the system.

A suitable job search for the latter group must include jobs that are simi-lar to what they used to do and if one of those isn’t available after a certain period of time, the job seeker has to take any position they are qualified for and accept as much as a 30 per cent pay cut.

Policing the new system to make sure claimants are following through is expected to cost the government about $7.2 million per year.

But savings to the EI program are expected to be worth $12.5 million in benefits this year and $33 million next year.

Documents posted with the new regulations in December said it’s ex-pected that about 8,000 EI claimants will have their benefits temporarily discontinued until they can prove they are meeting the new rules.

Contentious changes to employment insurance

came into effect Sunday

New $20 notes still unusable in vending machines

CAnADiAn Press/ho-BAnk of CAnADA

the front of the new Canadian $20 bill is shown in a handout photo.

reprogramming to ac-cept the radically rede-signed $20 bills, the most popular denomi-nation in Canada.

Some 145 million polymer $20 notes have been put into circula-tion since Nov. 7, one of a series of new plastic notes intended to thwart counterfeiters and last much longer than their paper-cotton predeces-sors.

Kim Lockie has been converting his 1,200 machines in Fort Mc-Murray, Alta., full-time for two months, but still has about 300 to go.

His unconverted machines are frustrat-ing customers who can’t use their crisp, new bills.

“I would think less than half the machines in Canada would accept this bill right now,’’ says Lockie, the industry’s point man for the con-version project as an of-ficial of the Canadian Automatic Merchandis-ing Association.

Lockie blames the Bank of Canada for fail-ing to heed three years of warnings from own-ers that they needed a long lead time to recali-brate their vending ma-chines before the official

release of the new bills.The Bank of Canada

rejects the criticisms, saying its officials have worked closely with the sector, providing vend-ing-equipment manu-facturers with sample bills months before the official release so they could create the right software.

“For the $20 note, these final notes were made available in May of 2012, fully six months before the notes were is-sued into circulation in November 2012,’’ said spokesman Jeremy Har-rison.

“Eighty-five compa-nies took advantage of the Bank’s offer, repre-senting the vast majority of equipment manufac-turers and suppliers to

the Canadian market.’’Harrison notes the

six-month lead time was twice as long as that pro-vided for the previous series of newly designed bills, the so-called Jour-ney notes released in 2004.

Each vending ma-chine or other device that processes bank notes — such as self-serve checkouts, park-ing-permit dispensers and even ATMs — can require up to 15 minutes of reprogramming ad-ministered on site by a technician using a lap-top.

The labour-intensive process is costly, time-consuming and follows weeks or months of software develop-ment, testing and train-

ing by manufacturers and service providers.

Lockie’s group had asked the Bank of Cana-da to release its new plastic $5 and $10 bills at the same time as the $20s to allow for a single recalibration visit to each machine. But the bank decided to issue the two lower denomi-nations simultaneously later this year, forcing vending-machine own-ers to plan another round of site visits in 2013, absorbing the costs.

Canada’s paper-cot-ton $20 notes remain in circulation alongside the polymer notes for now, and repro-grammed cash-han-dling machines are able to handle both kinds.

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for Holmes starts Mon-day.

Prosecutors will out-line their case against Holmes, making it the first official public dis-closure of their evidence.

The judge will then determine whether to send the case to trial.

Legal analysts say the evidence appears to be so strong that Holmes may well accept a plea

agreement that would rule out the death penalty.

He faces multiple counts of mur-der and attempted murder.

Hearing may be ‘mini-trial’ for suspect in Colorado movie theatre shootings

aSSoCiateD PreSS

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera is meet-ing with his ministers to determine urgent measures in response to a deadly arson attack in the country’s south.

An elderly couple was burned alive in the remote southern region of Araucania on Friday while trying to defend their home. Their family’s vast landholdings had long been tar-geted by Mapuche Indians who

claim ancestral rights over the land.Pinera flew to the scene, deployed

hundreds of police agents and an-nounced new security measures in-cluding the application of Chile’s tough anti-terrorism law.

Politicians over the weekend have been asking the president to declare a state of emergency for Araucania.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but some Mapuche Indians have called it senseless and abhorrent.

Chile’s Pinera discusses urgent measures after deadly attack in Araucania region

James Holmes

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