The Mirror April 3, 2015

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The North Wind Healing Centre purchased the old Peace River Haven building in Pouce Coupe for $1 in January. Executive director Isaac Hernandez says the facility could be treating addicts by 2016. JONNY WAKEFIELD PHOTO

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What started out as a sim-ple idea to help rally support to fix Memorial Arena, Daw-son Creek's Hockeyville cam-paign quickly became much

more.It was as another example

of the city's strong and tight-knit community, and while the bid to be Canada’s next Kraft Hockeyville fell short Saturday, organizer Brad Nel-son was proud of what hap-pened over the last several weeks.

“When we started out, we had a goal of putting in a qual-ity nomination, and I think we did that," Nelson said.

“The community really pulled together and pushed this thing really well. Unfor-tunately we came up a little short.”

And although Dawson Creek wasn’t able to make the final two, B.C. will still have a chance to win Hockeyville, as North Saanich has made the final two.

Nelson quickly threw his support behind their bid Sat-

urday night. “Obviously it was pretty

disappointing,” Nelson said about the news Mile Zero City was not in the top two.

“As a community, we really rallied behind the cause, and were hoping for a better re-sult. It was nice to see some-one from B.C. have a chance to win, and hopefully Western Canada rallies behind North Saanich and we bring Hock-eyville back to B.C.”

Dawson Creek will still re-ceive $25,000 as one of the top ten cities in the Kraft Hockeyville competition.

That money will help in the city’s attempt to revive Me-morial Arena and a report in April is expected to give de-tails about what repairs need to be made in order to make the old refrigeration system operational again.

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Addictions centre on the wayAfter years in limbo, Peace River Haven building in Pouce Coupe is about to get a new lease on life

It has sat empty for years, but the Peace River Haven building in Pouce Coupe is still filled with reminders of its past life.

A sunroom near the entrance of the former seniors home is packed with rows of empty hospital beds. A card-board banner with the words "Bluebird Cafe" hangs over an empty cafeteria. A whiteboard near a nurses station lists the names and phone numbers of long gone staff.

Walking through the cavernous facil-ity Friday, Isaac Hernandez sees only possibility.

After months in limbo, the facility is set to become the region's first large-scale addictions treatment centre.

Hernandez, who is the executive di-rector of the North Wind Healing Cen-tre Society, said he hopes to renovate the building by the end of the year, and begin taking patients sometime between 2016 and 2020.

The building has 60 beds, divided into two wings, and would offer detox and aftercare programs to people with drug and alcohol addictions. Hernan-dez estimates the facility could cater to 1,500 people a year. It would em-ploy around 40.

If the centre gets up and running, it will be the biggest breakthrough in a years-long push to set up an addic-tions treatment facility in a region that desperately needs one.

“This is one of the areas where we

have the biggest gap in services, ev-erywhere north of Prince George,” Hernandez said. “We don’t have detox services, we don’t have aftercare ser-vices.”

Northern Health quietly sold Peace River Haven, which sits on a hill on a bend in Highway 2 overlooking the Pouce River, to North Wind in Janu-ary. It was last occupied in 2012. Last spring, the health authority put the land and buildings on the market.

Several groups worried that would end any chance the building had of being repurposed as a medical facil-ity, and a 90-day stay was granted for community groups to make bids.

Some thought of using Peace River Haven as either a seniors or memory care facility. The Northern Lights Re-covery Centre Society also eyed the building as an addictions treatment centre. That group passed, and folded this spring.

Hernandez offered $1 for Peace Riv-er Haven, which was listed for $1 mil-lion. The sale went through in January.

“We don’t have a single penny to run it, but we think that money’s go-ing to come,” he said.

The healing centre has a 10 bed fa-cility in Farmington — the only addic-tion treatment beds in the region.

That centre is funded by the First Nations Health Authority and is aimed at Aboriginal people (though it admits people of all faiths and backgrounds.) The program is spiritually based and includes sweat lodges and smudging ceremonies. It focuses on treating ad-

dicts who have also experienced trau-ma — including in residential schools.

The facility in Pouce Coupe would offer a wider range of programs, Her-nandez said.

Funding will be the biggest hurdle.Fixing leaks, replacing doors, and

repainting the building is expected to cost around $500,000.

Hernandez pegs the cost of treat-ment at $330 daily per patient — around $10,000 a month. That’s cheaper than hospital-izing an addict, which costs roughly $1,100 for medical care alone, he said.

He wants to avoid depen-dence on government money — and would rely on a patch-work of grants, contracts and donations — including from the oil and gas industry.

One idea is to sell beds reserved for employees of oil and gas firms. The centre could also contract with the government to offer treat-ment beds — which would give the centre more control than if it accepted govern-ment grants.

The hope is to offer recov-ery and detox services free of charge.

“By staying away from get-ting everything from the gov-ernment, we have the free-dom to adapt the program, to change it, without all the red tape,” said Hernandez.

While the sale was not publicized until recently, Pouce Coupe residents seem to support the idea, despite some early misgivings.

“People were concerned about bringing in addicts, that they might be wandering around the commu-nity,” said Hernandez. “But we’ve had meetings with people to explain how we work, and they’ve been accepting.” [email protected]

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Birds of a featherLast summer Lance Jones brought 32

of his older pigeons down to Edmonton for a race and says after releasing them at 7 a.m., turning around and driving home – with one stop along the way for food – the first of the pigeons arrived back home in Pouce Coupe about 20 minutes after he did.

How do they know their way back? He says that remains a mystery.

“All you do is train them to come home quickly, not how to come home,” Jones says. The race from Edmonton took the pigeons between six and seven hours, with many coming in around the same time. Each bird has a tag with Jones’ contact information, as well as a number to keep track of each pigeon as it returns home and crosses the censored finish line.

There are sometimes a few stragglers, he says. One bird in the white coop among a chorus of cooing pigeons only got back yesterday – about a week late from another race.

He says fog, wind and wires can be a reason for birds returning late or not at all.

Jones has been training and racing pigeons for more than 30 years, he says he started when he was about 25 years old and came across the subject while working up north.

“I never had pigeons when I was a kid, my two brothers when I was a kid in Dawson Creek they’d just go down and catch them in the grain elevators and have them out in the backyard,” he says. “I was never really interested in them and I don’t know if it was a newspaper or magazine article I saw, but it wasn’t until I was up north that I got interested in them. It’s surprising what you think about when you’re in a camp.”

Jones clarifies that he wasn’t so much living in a camp setting as on the road, moving from one small town in the Yukon to another, working for the territorial telephone company – he began on the construction crew after high school.

After his work in telecommunications in the north, Jones worked for 34 years for Telus in Dawson Creek before

retiring just over two years ago.When he finished work in the north,

Jones returned back to the Peace Region where he was born – his family moved to Williams Lake in 1967 when he and his seven siblings were young, and then again to Prince George and Alberta, before returning back to the Peace Region.

It took more than two years for Jones to acquire pigeons after moving back to the Peace, pigeon racing in Canada has much less of a following than it does in Europe – in Belgium, he notes, pigeon racing is a national sport. In Canada, he says there are approximately 1,200 pigeon trainers and only a handful of races.

After visiting pet stores all around Edmonton, Jones eventually got in contact with one man who was able to sell him his first pigeons, around 1980. Jones says his training technique has developed gradually.

Without the Internet, he says the process was difficult and many of the old-timers weren’t readily willing to share their secrets.

At one time, he says there was a larger group of pigeon trainers in the region: with clubs in Pouce Coupe, Grande Prairie and High Level, Alberta. Since then it’s dwindled, with many of those involved passing on or moving away – Jones’ brother also races pigeons but left the area.

For the past eight years Jones has run a pigeon race for the Dawson Creek Rotary Club – he was recently awarded for his efforts with the races raising approximately $250,000 dollars. This was the first year the pigeon race wasn’t held, as Jones says it is a major time commitment.

“It’s a lot of work,” Jones says. “You have to look after them 24 hours a day, seven days a week.”

The grown pigeons are fed a mix of corn, grain and peas twice a day and let out to fly ¬– Jones says they always return to the last place they flew from so there’s no fear of them leaving home.

He opens the gates of a coop full of adolescent pigeons, they circle above us in a flock, swooping back every minute casting a dark shadow across the grass and light blue structure he has

built out of recycled materials to house them.

The flock are Homing Pigeons, used since Caesar’s days to carry messages, particularly in war times.

“They were used during World War One and Two a lot to take messages,” says Jones. “There’s a couple of armies still, like Isreal, that has it. Canada used to have a pigeon division, the United States, France, the Germans. The Germans had a falcon division where they’d send them out to try to catch them.”

These birds, he notes, are a refined

breed of several different pigeons, including Carrier, that are far different than what we are accustom to seeing on the street. He says those birds would have a hard time finding their way back home if brought out the distances that the Homing Pigeons are – it should also be noted that droppings that seem to be left behind by the birds in cities are not littering his vast property.

Asked whether Jones has ever tested the historical method of sending a message via pigeon, he says he has, long before cellphones.

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Dawson Creek native Jason Ginter and his University of Alberta Golden Bears men’s curling team were just trying to avoid “the dirty little silver” this time around.

The 22-year-old who plays second on the team was referring to an ugly streak of four straight Canadian In-teruniversity Sport (CIS) Champion-ship final losses, resulting in the long stretch of silver medals.

That all changed on March 21 in Waterloo Ont., when Ginter and his Bears’ teammates swept a rock into the house in the CIS final against the Wilfred Laurier University Golden Hawks to clinch a 6-4 win and the cov-eted gold medal.

“It was both a sense of relief and just extreme excitement,” Ginter said over the phone on Monday. “It’s hard to describe, just sweeping that rock in. It was a great feeling knowing that we had finished it off.”

Finishing the weekend off was ar-guably as impressive as the week -long performance for the Bears, who

swept their way to a 7-0 record in round robin play, including a crucial victory in their fifth game against the same Golden Hawks team they beat in the final.

“We played Wilfred Laurier the first time we were both 4-0,” Ginter explained. “When we were leading that game and we finished that game when we made a draw to the four foot to win... we thought maybe we can beat everyone [there]. [We thought] it could be one of those weekends where we could be on top.”

Over the course of the week the Bears also had nearly full parental support, one thing that Ginter pointed to as interesting dynamic at the event in Waterloo.

“We actually had almost all the par-ents from the members of the team there, there was actually seating on the ice,” he said. “They were out on the ice with us, it was really personal – like I could actually have a conversa-tion with my dad after the fourth end, it’s not something you see at a lot of curling rinks. It was cool to have them there.”

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SUBMITTED PHOTODawson Creek native Jason Ginter (third from left) and his University of Alberta Golden Bears men's curling team ended a streak of four straight silver medals in the CIS Championship curling finals on the weekend, bringing home gold from Waterloo, Ont.


Construction work is progressing well on the Dawson Creek/Chetwynd Area Transmission Project (DCAT).

Between mid-March and early April, some helicopter work will be taking place along the DCAT right-of-way, as follows:

Second half of March: The initial stages of conductor stringing will be taking place on the west segment of DCAT. You may notice helicopters working between the new Shell Groundbirch Substation site (Highway 97, just west of 281 Road) and the new Sundance Lakes Substation site (Highway 97 about 19 km east of Chetwynd).

First half of April: Helicopters will be used for an aerial survey of the entire DCAT line, from the Dawson Creek Substation to the Sundance Lakes Substation site. This will involve several flights along the right-of-way over a period of about four days.

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stay golden, bears ing coach in Dawson Creek said see-ing his son fi nally win a national title was a top-notch moment.

“Especially being so close in junior so many times and never having the op-portunity to play in nationals, this was really sweet,” Jeff said.

On top of the team success, Jason was also honoured with being named a fi rst team All-Canadian, an accolade that is second in his mind to a gold medal.

“It’s a good achievement but we were more focused on the wins and losses rather than the personal acco-lades,” Jason said, despite being the only one of his team to be named fi rst team All-Canadian.

“I mean it’s a great bonus to have at the end of the week but I’m more con-cerned about the gold medal.”

Heading into his third year at U of A, Jason hopes to make it a second medal next year, and with three of four curlers returning it might be a good possibility.

“Hoping for the repeat. It sounds

like three of us will continue on next year,” he said.

That would be a both a culmination and a validation of the 10 plus years Jason has put into curling and he’s thankful for the people that helped mold him throughout those years.

“I can defi nitely thank my two coaches, Jeff Ginter and Don Bouras-sa," Jason said.

"Without them there wouldn’t be these personal and team achieve-ments. Them just introducing me to the game and then introducing me to competitive play, building me up to this kind of moment is something I can commend them for. I wouldn't be there without them.

“The Dawson Creek Curling Club, I know it’s not seeing it’s best days right now but back when I was living there we’d be there four or fi ve days a week practicing. They were always willing to give us ice and whatever we needed to be the best.”

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Continued from Page 5“My two brothers were going out hunting and they

didn’t know where they were going so what I did is photocopied a map of the area and sent some birds out,” says Jones. “I was going to go out after three or four days and go hunting with them, so every time they moved they just took a map, put an X where they were and let a bird go.”

Did the messages get through? Every single time,

says Jones.He points out one male in the older coop, chasing

around a female and says he will “drive” her until she lays eggs and then leave her alone. Pigeons, like some other birds, will pair off as long as they are together – switching off sitting on the eggs. If one bird is taken away Jones says they will quite quickly pair off with someone else.

“They’re loyal as long as you’re around but out of

sight out of mind, I guess,” he laughs.Jones pairs off the birds to mate for different traits,

he points out one male out of a group of parents with their babies that was the Top Bird in British Columbia, after winning four of five races in consecutive weekends, placing second or third in the fifth race.

“Every weekend he flew 200 to 300 miles,” Jones says, proudly.

After the eggs have hatched, the baby birds stay

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days before they are put in a separate coop and fly on their own.

When it comes to training, as Jones said earlier, it’s all about getting the birds to get there quickly – the route is under their control.

Standing in one of the empty coops, with cooing still constant in the background from the room over, Jones explains that in the spring after the females have raised their young ones and laid a second set of eggs, they are put in a separate room while the males sit on the eggs. The males will sit for two to three days before abandoning the eggs, at which point the males are taken some distance away and flown. The females are taken back to their nests and then when the males return home they get to see their females.

“They learn that when they’re released, the female is here, so they come home to

the females” explains Jones. “After the males know to come home, you take the females out, let them go for 20 minute ahead of the males so that they’re already home and then let the males go. You run home, lock the females in so they cant get at them, and then males come home and their females are there.”

Jones sums up the method of training pigeons in a, perhaps, comically relatable way.

“The females come home for their nest, the males come home for their females,” he says.

Jones has won two nationals and one provincial award in racing, and was also featured in a calendar.

“The point is to get them to come home as fast as you can. That method is called widowhood,” he says. “They come home from a race and you open

them up and they get to be together for an hour or so.”

In Edmonton, Jones says the males beat the females home – they were approximately 20 minutes faster.

Jones says there is money to be made in the sport, with the largest pigeon race held in South Africa, the top prize is $1 million – Las Vegas and San Diego also host million dollar races. He says there is also a significant amount of betting around it, in China in particular, one man paid more than $440,000 for a winning bird last year.

Through the winter,

Jones keeps approximately 50 Homing Pigeons, as well as a flock of Birmingham Rollers – bred to somersault in the air.

Jones opens the gates to the Rollers and points out that while they circle the property at the same time as the Homing Pigeons, the two will never fly together. Holding one of each in either hand, he also notes that the Rollers are nearly half the size of the Homing Pigeons.

As well as pigeons, Jones has an assortment of birds including chickens and pheasants but says pigeon racing has certainly been his greatest hobby.

“I retired about two and a half years ago, I guess, but I’ve raced pigeons for 30 some years, maybe longer than I worked for Telus,” he says.

Jones has travelled quite a bit for pigeon racing and otherwise and although the sport has greater following in other countries, he’s content with his place.

“If you travel lots, you find out that we live really good up here,” he says, looking out across his 40 acres in Pouce Coupe, as two flocks of pigeons continue to circle above.


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1165 Volunteers

Special OlympicsBritish ColumbiaFort St JohnIs currently seek-ing volunteers. Local Coordinator, Vol-unteerC o o r d i n a t o r , Fundraising Coor-dinator, Public Relations Coordi-nator, Families C o o r d i n a t o r , Head Coaches, Assistant Coach-es. OUR MIS-SION IS TO PROVIDE INDI-VIDUALS WITH I N T E L L E C T U -A L DISABILITIES O P P O R T U -NITIES TO EN-RICH THEIR LIVES AND C E L E B R A T E P E R S O N A L ACHIEVEMENT T H R O U G H P O S I T I V E SPORT EXPERIENCES. DebbieRoblin 250-787-7646

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the conference room at Tiger Stationers.• April 8, 2015 - The Kiwanis Performing Arts Center will be holding their monthly meeting,

Wednesday at noon at the NEW Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave.• April 9, 2015 - The South Peace Arts Society will be holding their monthly meeting at noon at the

Dawson Creek Art Gallery. Phone 250-782-2601 for more information.• April 10, 2015 - The Piano Section of the Festival of the Arts will be performing in the Theatre at the

Calvin Kruk Centre at 9:30 am, with adjudicator Dustin Anderson. Following will be the String Guitar Section at 1 pm, with adjudicator Jaime White. This is a free event.

• April 13 to 17, 2015 (4 to 8 pm) - South Peace Community Arts Council presents A Green Fools Theater Production “Circus North Workshop” from ages 8 and up. Children will learn stilts, trapeze, juggling, acrobatics, unicycling, clowning...all the good stu� that made you want to run away and join the circus when you were a kid. To register call The Dawson Creek Art Gallery 250-782-2601 or [email protected]

• April 14, 2015 - The South Peace Community Arts Council will be holding their monthly meeting at noon at the Art Gallery.

• April 14 & 28, 2015 - The Peace River Songwriters Group will be meeting at Faking Sanity at 7:30pm

• April 18, 2015 - The Dance Section of the Festival of the Arts will be held at Unchagha Hall at 9am, with dance adjudicator Jamee Valin. This is a free event.

• April 19, 2015 - The Voice Section of the Festival of the Arts will be held in the Theatre at the Calvin Kruk Centre starting at 10 am, with voice adjudicator Genna Putt. This is a free event

• April 20, 2015 - The South Peace Historical Society will be holding their monthly meeting at 2:00pm in the Archives Room at the Calvin Kruk Arts Centre on 10th St. and 104th Ave.

• April 22, 2015 - Honors Concert. Participants of the Festival of the Arts will be show casing their abilities, in their �nal performance at Unchagha Hall. Doors open at 6:30 pm ~ Admission is by Cash Donation.

• April 25, 2015 - The Peace Region Songrwriters’ Association will be hosting their monthly Co�ee House at Faking Sanity from 6:30-9:30pm. Open Mic takes place throughout the evening including music and spoken word. Open to all genres of music and skill levels. Admission by donation. Co�ee, tea & goodies available. (corner of 9th St. & 103rd Ave, Dawson Creek)

• April 26, 2015 - The Peace Country Roots Group hold their monthly meeting at 1:30pm, located in the small building in the NAR Park.

• April 27, 2015 - Friends of the Library meet at 10am.• Fridays Steak Night at Bear Mountain Ski Hill, 6-10 pm. Menu: 8 oz NY steak or herb roasted

chicken breast or teriyaki glazed salmon steak and garlic mashed or rice. Meals include caesar salad andhomemade dessert. Regular concession available. (02)

MACHITAWIN FAMILY LEARNING CENTRE• If you have any questions please feel free to drop by for a co�ee at 14-1405-102nd Avenue, Central Placeorgiveusacallat250-782-1169.Monday:GrossMotorSkillsDevelopment9:00am-noon•Walking•Swimming•PlayingTuesday:FineMotorSkills/LiteracyDevelopment9:00am-noon•SharingCircle•StoryTime•Singing•CraftsWednesday:BreakfastGroup9:00am-noon•Startthe family o� to a healthy breakfast with a Cultural theme Thursday: Parent - Child Mother Goose Program9:00am-noon•Comelearntosingyourfavoritesongandtellrhymewithyourchildren.TraditionalDance-3:00pm-4:30pm.•ComelearnthePow-wowstyleway.Friday:FieldTripDay9:00am-noon.Gettingtoknowyourcommunity.GaiaProgram1:00pm-3:00pm•SupportforPregnant Moms using Drugs and Alcohol. (11)

NAWICAN FRIENDSHIP CENTRE• Mondays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm, Nurse 11am-2pm. Tuesdays - Fund raiser BBQ11am - 1pm

Wednesdays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm Thursdays - Bannock 11am Fridays - Soup Kitchen 12-1pm. Also call 250.782.5202 for the dates on the following events: Afternoon Fund raiser Bingo -EldersFreeDinner/Entertainment-CommunityFundraiserDinners/Entertainment.

• Dawson Creek Seniors Hall: Monday 9:00am, Skittles/Pool 10:00 am Exercise 11:45 Lunch1;00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling 7:00pm Crib & Bridge. Tuesday8:00FootCare/BloodPressure(byappointment)1:00pmPool/Bingo7:00pmFloorCurling/Darts.Wednesday 9:00amSkittles/LadiesPool10:00amExercise1:00pmPool/Crib&Bridge3:30pmBeginnerLineDancing.Thursday 10:00am Game board Café 1:00pm Floor Curling 7:00pm Floor Curling. Friday9:00Skittles/Pool10:00am Line Dancing 1:00pm Pool 1:30pm Carpet Bowling. For more info on our activities call the 250 782 7620 or visit our hall at 1101 McKellar Ave.


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ile m

odel

yea

r 199

9 or

new

er c

ar o

r Che

vrol

et C

obal

t or H

HR th

at h

as b

een

regi

ster

ed a

nd in

sure

d in

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ada

in th

e cu

stom

er’s

nam

e fo

r the

pre

viou

s co

nsec

utiv

e si

x (6

) mon

ths.

Cr

edit

valid

tow

ards

the

reta

il pu

rcha

se o

r lea

se o

f one

elig

ible

201

5 m

odel

yea

r Che

vrol

et c

ar, S

UV, c

ross

over

and

pic

kups

mod

els

deliv

ered

in C

anad

a be

twee

n M

arch

3 a

nd M

arch

31,

201

5. C

redi

t is

a m

anuf

actu

rer t

o co

nsum

er in

cent

ive

(tax

incl

usiv

e): $

1,00

0 cr

edit

avai

labl

e on

Che

vrol

et S

park

, Son

ic, C

ruze

, Vol

t, Tr

ax, a

nd M

alib

u (e

xcep

t LS)

mod

els;

$1,

500

cred

it av

aila

ble

on o

ther

Ch

evro

let v

ehic

les

(exc

ept C

hevr

olet

Col

orad

o 2S

A, C

amar

o Z2

8, a

nd M

alib

u LS

). Of

fer i

s tra

nsfe

rabl

e to

a fa

mily

mem

ber l

ivin

g w

ithin

the

sam

e ho

useh

old

(pro

of o

f add

ress

requ

ired)

. As

part

of th

e tra

nsac

tion,

dea

ler m

ay re

ques

t doc

umen

tatio

n an

d co

ntac

t Gen

eral

Mot

ors

of C

anad

a Li

mite

d (G

MCL

) to

verif

y el

igib

ility

. Thi

s of

fer m

ay n

ot b

e re

deem

ed fo

r cas

h an

d m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

with

cer

tain

oth

er c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

es. C

erta

in li

mita

tions

or c

ondi

tions

app

ly. V

oid

whe

re p

rohi

bite

d. S

ee y

our G

MCL

dea

ler f

or d

etai

ls. G

MCL

rese

rves

the

right

to a

men

d or

term

inat

e of

fers

for a

ny re

ason

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt at

any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

ice.

~ R

equi

res

com

patib

le m

obile

dev

ice,

act

ive

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ar s

ervi

ce a

nd d

ata

plan

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it on

star

.ca

for c

over

age

map

s, d

etai

ls a

nd s

yste

m

limita

tions

. Ser

vice

s an

d co

nnec

tivity

may

var

y by

mod

el a

nd c

ondi

tions

. OnS

tar w

ith 4

G LT

E co

nnec

tivity

is a

vaila

ble

on c

erta

in v

ehic

les

and

in s

elec

t mar

kets

. Cus

tom

ers

will

be

able

to a

cces

s th

is s

ervi

ce o

nly

if th

ey a

ccep

t the

OnS

tar U

ser T

erm

s an

d Pr

ivac

y St

atem

ent (

incl

udin

g so

ftwar

e te

rms)

. ^ T

he 2

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rSch

edul

ed L

OF M

aint

enan

ce P

rogr

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rovi

des

elig

ible

cus

tom

ers

in C

anad

a w

ho h

ave

purc

hase

d, le

ased

or f

inan

ced

a ne

w e

ligib

le 2

015

MY

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role

t, Bu

ick

or G

MC

vehi

cle

(exc

ludi

ng S

park

EV)

with

an

ACDe

lco

oil a

nd fi

lter c

hang

e, in

acc

orda

nce

with

the

Oil L

ife M

onito

ring

Syst

em a

nd th

e Ow

ner’s

Man

ual,

for 2

yea

rs o

r 40,

000

km, w

hich

ever

occ

urs

first

, with

a li

mit

of fo

ur lu

be-o

il-fil

ter s

ervi

ces

in to

tal,

perfo

rmed

at p

artic

ipat

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GM d

eale

rs. F

luid

top-

offs

, in

spec

tions

, tire

rota

tions

, whe

el a

lignm

ents

and

bal

anci

ng, e

tc.,

are

not c

over

ed. T

his

offe

r may

not

be

rede

emed

for c

ash

and

may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith c

erta

in o

ther

con

sum

er in

cent

ives

ava

ilabl

e on

GM

veh

icle

s. G

ener

al M

otor

s of

Can

ada

Lim

ited

rese

rves

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right

to a

men

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer,

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt, a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

ice.

Add

ition

al c

ondi

tions

and

lim

itatio

ns

appl

y. Se

e de

aler

for d

etai

ls. †

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ed o

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in a

ccor

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ppro

ved

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test

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excl

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and

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10 a

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ty A

dmin

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tion’

s (N

HTSA

’s) N

ew C

ar A

sses

smen

t Pro

gram

(ww

w.S

afer

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ase

base

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a p

urch

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pric

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$21

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/$20

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/$23

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ludi

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ymen

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$99/

$99/

$119

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8/24

/24

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at 0

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. $1,

750/

$2,9

20/$

2,92

0 do

wn

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men

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var

y de

pend

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own

paym

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al o

blig

atio

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085/

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appl

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le ta

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ion

to p

urch

ase

at le

ase

end

is $

9,64

1/$1

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rice

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excl

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ees,

opt

iona

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ipm

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r lea

se o

ptio

ns a

re a

vaila

ble.

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lers

are

free

to s

et in

divi

dual

pric

es. L

imite

d tim

e of

fer w

hich

may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith o

ther

offe

rs. S

ee y

our d

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r for

con

ditio

ns a

nd d

etai

ls. G

ener

al M

otor

s of

Can

ada

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ited

rese

rves

the

right

to

amen

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer,

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt, a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t prio

r not

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hase

pric

e in

clud

es a

cas

h cr

edit

of $

4,20

0, a

$71

4 Ow

ner C

ash,

and

app

lies

to n

ew 2

015

Equi

nox

LS F

WD

mod

els

at p

artic

ipat

ing

deal

ers

in C

anad

a. P

urch

ase

pric

e of

$22

,995

exc

lude

s lic

ense

, ins

uran

ce, r

egis

tratio

n, d

eale

r fee

s an

d ta

xes.

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ler m

ay s

ell f

or le

ss. O

ffer m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

with

cer

tain

oth

er c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

es. G

MCL

may

mod

ify, e

xten

d or

term

inat

e th

is o

ffer,

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt, a

t any

tim

e w

ithou

t not

ice.

See

dea

ler f

or d

etai

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‡ Co

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rison

bas

ed o

n 20

13 P

olk

segm

enta

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pact

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and

late

st c

ompe

titiv

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ta a

vaila

ble

and

base

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the

max

imum

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ilabl

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xclu

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r GM

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chev

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