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B Y S H E R I R E G N I E RTimes Staff

Living in the country may slow down the pace of life, but not necessarily the pace of passing vehicles.

Fruitvale resident Ingrid Mayer is spearheading a campaign to reduce the speed limit on a stretch of Highway 3B beginning at Old Salmo Road going east half a kilometre.

The plea to slow down from Mayer and neighbouring landowners, comes after years of near misses turning into their driveways and an increase in wild-life collisions in that area.

There are many residents along this section of the highway who are very concerned about the traffic, said Mayer.

The problem is excessive speed. Safety has become a serious issue for residents and wildlife along this cor-ridor.

Mayer began a petition to address property owner concerns with a request to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoT) that the speed limit be reduced and to improve visibil-ity of wildlife crossing signage.

The catalyst to petition came after a young moose that been habituating the area for a year, was hit by a passing vehicle, and had to be euthanized by the RCMP.

Although Mayer concedes that speed may not have been a factor, more warn-ings of wildlife crossings might remind drivers to use greater caution.

This particular area of the highway runs next to marshy fields and Beaver Creek where many animals wander, explained Mayer. We are not calling for drastic measures. Signs warning drivers of high impact (wildlife) and to drive slower isnt asking for the moon.

A leisurely half-hour stroll down that area of road Tuesday evening was any-thing but relaxing.

Dozens of loaded semi trailers, numerous pickups and cars roared by, because the speed limit posted is 90 km/hr. A Slow to 70 km/hr sign is posted driving west into Fruitvale, but vehicles rarely slow down, said Mayer.

The traffic is generally very heavy with an assortment of vehicles including ore, logging and semi-trailer trucks, she said. I have grandchildren who visit regularly and I worry about what could happen if one got away from me, in the blink of an eye.

Although Mayer lives in Area A, she has requested Fruitvale council to address the petition at its next meeting Sept. 9.

The area Ms. Mayer is concerned about is not within village limits or under our control said Lila Cresswell, Fruitvales chief administrative officer (CAO).

But I did forward her petition to the Ministry and council will consider her request for a letter of support at our next meeting.

John McLean, CAO for the regional district, said the petition has not been presented to the board or Area A director Ali Grieve. Until that time, no opinion or the matter to support the principal can be made, but the issue is outside the districts jurisdiction.

See POLICE, Page 2

Speeding concerns prompt petition

Near misses and wildlife behind request to slow

motorists down

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Ingrid Mayer, neighbour Sue Larocque and Mayers grandson, eight-year old Trey Baker, took a walk down a section of Highway 3B on the outskirts of Fruitvale Tuesday night. A petition is circulating to ask the Ministry of Transportation to lower the speed limit for the safety of residents and improve signage due to an increase in wild life collisions.

B Y A R T H A R R I S O NTimes Staff

Travellers hoping to take a Pacific Coastal flight from the Trail Regional airport this long weekend shouldnt experience any flight delays or interruptions if a work stoppage at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) takes effect Friday said an airport spokesperson.

We dont anticipate any strike-related delays over the weekend, Anne Murray, YVRs vice-president of community and environmental

See AIRLINE, Page 2

No changes to Trail flights yet despite YVR strike notice

Cops will keep close eye on school zones

B Y A R T H A R R I S O NTimes Staff

A new school year starts next week and RCMP Traffic Services are reminding drivers to exercise caution in school zones.

With school back in session, speed limits in school zones are reduced on weekdays, during regular school attendance hours, to 30-km per hour.

Sgt. Rob Hawton of the Trail and Greater District RCMP, warned that speeding fines have increased in school and playground zones, from $196 to $253 and failing to stop for school buses, pedestrians, or failing to obey a school crossing guard will cost $167.

We will be monitoring as well, said Hawton. The highway in Warfield near Webster School might get special attention

The RCMP is also cautioning drivers that, if a vehicle is stopped in a school zone in front of you or in a lane next to you, they may be yield-ing to a pedestrian, so be careful and prepare to stop.

School buses will be back on the roads and vehicles approaching from both directions must stop when warning lights are flashing.

The police also have timely reminders for students and parents, as well, to increase safety for pedestrians.

Kids are cautioned to remove their head-phones and put away their phones or other electronics when crossing the street so they can focus on the road and see, hear, and respond safely.

Our expectation is that drivers will fol-low the law and obey posted limits, espe-cially around school zones, said Cpl. Robert McDonald, of the RCMPs Traffic Services. But we will be there for those drivers who cant police themselves.

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been two motor vehicle inci-dents reported in that area of the highway, said Sgt. Rob Hawton, of the Trail and Greater District RCMP.

Hawton explained that not much evidence of excessive speed contrary to the signs is available, however the winding nature of the road contributes to difficulties of people entering the highway from driveways in that sec-tion.

We have not targeted that area specifically but will give it more attention now, he confirmed.

Mayer said she has tried to connect with representa-tives from the MoT and the local MLA, but no one has responded.

When contacted by the Trail Times, Kate Trotter, spokesman for the MoT said that the Ministry will con-sider any request for safety improvements. Speed lim-

its in B.C. are established so that the majority of motorists comply voluntarily, she said in an email response, adding, the Ministry will bring local residents concerns about speeding to the attention of the RCMP.

Current speed profile (how fast people generally travel), adjacent land use, traffic vol-ume and collision history are factors used to determine a speed zone.

I invite anybody from the Ministry to come and have a little walk along this road with their grandchildren, said Mayer. They will soon see how terrifying it is. Enough is enough.

The petition comes on the heels of another traffic safety concern addressed at Fruitvale council last fall.

After a child was struck by a passing vehicle Halloween Night, at the pedestrian cross-ing of Highway 3B and Nelson Ave. next to the Villagers Pub and Hotel, council petitioned

the MoT for additional light-ing and enhanced safety fea-tures at that site.

Lila Cresswell, chief administrative officer for the village, said that particular crosswalk has been the scene of numerous near-misses and Fruitvale has approached the Ministry for improved safety at the crossing since the 90s.

Finally, the MoT has acknowledged the safety issue.

A modern light stan-dard with stronger lighting capabilities will be installed at Hwy 3B/Nelson Ave., dur-ing the summer construction season, confirmed Cresswell.

In addition, Ministry engineers are reviewing ped-estrian crossings at Columbia Gardens and Hwy 3B, and downtown Fruitvale between Liberty Foods and Subway and Kootenay Savings and Falkins Insurance, explained Cresswell.

They are working at a plan to make those areas safer in next years (MoT) budget.

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FROM PAGE 1affairs, said in a Canadian Press inter-view.

Federal regulation requires a maintenance of activities agreement, which we reached with the union, which speci-fies essential roles that will be filled during any strike.

Kevin Boothroyd, spokesperson for Pacific Coastal Airlines, said that YVR staff was responsible for making plans to deal with any strike action.

If something does happen, we would expect to hear from YVR on their contin-gency plans. Until then we have nothing to add. We just wait and watch like everyone else.

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Upcoming Sept. 5, Royal Theatre,

7:00 p.m. for The Audience. An encore presentation of Helen Mirrens stage presen-tation of Queen Elizabeth ll broadcast live from London as part of National Theatre Live. Ticket $10.

Sept. 5, Rossland Museum at 6 p.m. Historical lecture series presents Takaia Larsen, Sowing the Seeds:

Women, Work and Memory in Trail BC During and After the Second World War (2010). Call 362-7722 for info.

Sept 6, Haley Park, at dusk. Kootenay Savings Family Movie in the Park presents Disneys Wreck It Ralph. Admission free, bring lawn chair, warm clothes and a non-perishable food item for Trail food bank. Info, call 368-2683.

Sept. 7, Rossland Golden City Days, Revival of the outhouse races. Have a blast pushing your outhouse down the street to the toilet plunger finish. Register now. Call Mike 362-5244 or email [email protected].

Sept. 7, Royal Theatre 11:30 a.m. presents BBC Last Night of the Proms, The National Theatre Live, Dance Series and Met Opera. Tickets at the door.

Sept. 9, St. Andrews, alley entrance off Eldorado St. in Trail, at 7 p.m. Columbia Phoenix Players are holding auditions for their Phoenix Cafe lV. Must be 13 years of age or older. One act plays,

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Sept. 14, Celebrate the Sanctuary 15 th anniversary Alley Bash. Kick off event free family matinee at the Royal Theatre at 2 p.m. fol-lowed by a 6:30 p.m. cham-pagne reception. For info, cal1 368-9234 or 368-8782.

Sept. 19, Rossland Museum, 6 p.m. Frances Welwood speaks about Annie Garland Foster, the first women elected to Nelson City Council in 1920 and was con-nected to a West Kootenay murder case. Based on her book, Passing Through Missing Pages.

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As the dog days of summer near an end, Barks and Recreation Pet Services will be packing up their one-stop dog shop on Cedar Avenue and moving to a new locale in down-town Trail.

Council gave the go-ahead to store owners Sara Fulcher and Cameron Dixon at the last meeting on Aug. 26 with two readings to a bylaw that re-zones the Emmanuel Baptist Church on Pine Street from institutional to general commercial.

Most of the properties in the downtown core, including those surrounding the church, are zoned for commercial. From a planning perspective, the property is well suited for re-zoning, explained Michelle McIsaac, Trails corporate administrator during the meeting.

The zoning change should not signifi-cantly impact the neighbouring properties, she added.

However, before the pair can move the busi-ness into the vacant church site, a few hurdles remain.

First, a public hearing is required whenever council considers an amendment to the zon-ing bylaw, irrespective of what the proposed change is, as per the Local Government Act.

An opportunity for public comment is scheduled for Sept. 9, 6:00 p.m. at city hall.

In addition, the bylaw will be advanced to the Ministry of Transportation for approval since the property is located within 800 metres of controlled access highway (Hwy 3B), said McIsaac.

Barks and Recreation have leased their cur-rent location for three years but to grow the business, a larger space is needed.

We have been very successful because of the support in the community, said Fulcher. The new location will give us the ability to expand our retail section and provide more services.

From dog daycare to dog paddling, council next approved an increase in recreation rates, which means swimmers will pay more for a dip when the Aquatic Centre reopens its pool September 8.

Residents will pay a 10 or 20 cent increase for drop in fees depending on age, and $3 more per hour for group swims.

Over the past several years. fees for recrea-tion services have increased modestly, but no increase was made in 2012, due in part to changes in the Harmonized Sales Tax, said Trisha Davison, Trail Parks and Recreation director.

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E n v i r o n m e n t Minister Mary Polak says advice she got from staff in June on the inadequa-cy of B.C.s oil spill response capability largely underscored what the government had already disclosed a year ago.

She was respond-ing to the Freedom of Information release of her ministerial briefing book, which warned the environ-ment ministry isnt adequately staffed to meet existing oil spill risks, let alone those from proposed new export pipelines.

Even a moderate-sized spill would over-whelm the provinces ability to respond and could result in a significant liability for government, the document said.

On land, it noted, an hour-long spill from Enbridges proposed Northern Gateway project could spill 21,000 barrels of diluted bitumen into the B.C. wilderness.

Polak said in an interview little of the information came as a surprise.

The province last summer released a series of reports that bluntly spelled out

B.C.s deficiencies to backstop its demand issued at the same time that any new heavy oil pipeline meet five key con-ditions, including world-leading marine and land spill protec-tions.

Although her brief-ing book said spill safeguard require-ments imposed on industry in both Washington State and Alaska are far in excess of what is required in B.C. the 2012 documents went into considerably more detail.

Thats the entire basis for the work we have undertaken, Polak said.

What I saw in the briefing notes just added to the urgency of conducting that work. It reminds you that while industry continues to develop and our economy grows, we have not over time kept pace with the changes.

Proposals to improve both mar-ine and land spill responses are in the works for release later this year or early 2014.

The land response initiative aims to improve prevention and cleanup measures not just for pipelines,

but also for hauling petroleum by train or tanker truck.

Marine rules also must improve safety not just for oil tank-ers but less obvious sources of potential spills, Polak said, such as large cargo ships that carry as much bunker fuel oil as a small tanker.

NDP environ-ment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert accused the province of stacking its oil spill advisory committee with industry repre-sentatives and said thats unlikely to lead to world-leading spill prevention policies.

The government is allowing the oil industry to dominate the discussion, when a major spill would devastate not only our environment but other key industries like fishing and tour-ism, whose interests should be represented at the table, he said.

Polak said more sectors will be con-sulted, but added its reasonable to work

closely with the industry at the outset to evaluate its oper-ations and capabil-ities.

A land spill response corporation or cooperative funded by industry, similar to the one charged with cleanup of marine spills, is one potential option.

Petroleum movers want to be involved, she added.

They recognize its part of the social licence they need to have in place to oper-ate in this province, Polak said.

Asked about the federal governments decision to relocate its Vancouver oil spill response office to Quebec, Polak said its too soon to say what the impact may be.

Its a concern whenever you have change, she said, but added B.C. may seek a different spill response coordina-tion system.

We believe weve seen progress, Polak said of shifts in Ottawas approach to oil spill risks.

Weve moved from a place where there wasnt a full-some recognition on the part of the feds of our needs here on the west coast to the point where they appear to be inter-ested in collaborating with us on this, she added.

B y J e f f N a g e lBlack Press

The cost of owning a standard detached bungalow in Vancouver now devours 82 per cent of a typ-ical households income.

That calculation, from RBC Economics Research, is among the findings in its recent hous-ing trends report showing home affordability has taken a hit in B.C. in recent months.

RBCs home affordability measure compares home owner-ship costs mortgage payments, utilities and taxes to median pretax household income and provides plenty of fodder for those who think B.C. real estate costs too much.

The Vancouver measure of 82.2 for a bungalow is up 2.2 points from the previous quarter and is far above Torontos 54.5, Montreals 38 and Calgarys 33.

The measure for B.C. as

a whole also rose to 67.6 for bungalows, 72.8 for two-storey homes and 33.8 for condos.

In Vancouver, owning a two-storey home took 85.8 per cent of household income, while a condo took 40.7 per cent.

The weakening in affordabil-ity is a bit disappointing and the latest setback disrupting the way to healthier housing market conditions in B.C., RBC chief economist Craig Wright said.

But despite the recent uptick in prices, Wright noted home ownership costs in B.C. are still lower than a year ago, due to a nearly two-year long cooling stretch in the real estate market.

Fears of a steep drop in Vancouver real estate appear to have abated, he said, suggesting the market correction has run its course and that the risk of a catastrophic outcome has greatly moderated.

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B y R i c h a R d R o l k eVernon Morning StarM o v i e - m a k i n g

is hard work but a Hollywood produc-tion crew is exploring the North Okanagan.

Walt Disney P i c t u r e s Tomorrowland, star-ring George Clooney and Hugh Laurie, has been shooting in Enderby, Grindrod and Armstrong since Aug. 19.

Everyone has been working like crazy but people have had time to get out and enjoy the area, said Lee Anne Muldoon, the movies publicist.

However, while there have been reported sightings, Muldoon insists Clooney is not tour-ing around.

No, absolutely not, she said.

Tomorrowland has a crew of about 300 people.

The new Fairfield Inn in Vernon has rooms out for them and Fortunes Landing in Enderby is full, said John Trainor, Okanagan Film Commission chairperson.

They have cleaned out Askews Foods of triple A steaks. Theres a lot of cash going back into the North Okanagan.

The $250 million budget production will be in the region until about mid-Sep-tember.

Everything is

going per sched-ule including even the weather, said Muldoon.

There have been no problems with local residents trying to interrupt the action.

They understand that we are running a closed set and we thank the people of the North Okanagan for giving us the room to work.

Trainor is confident that Tomorrowland will translate into other big-budget movies coming to the region.

They (Tomor-rowland crew) are blown away by the incredible scenery. They will go and talk about it and the impact will snowball, he said.

Tomorrowland will be released in the-atres Dec. 12, 2014.

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tral B.C. are calling on the provincial govern-ment to bring back photo radar, but only in schools and playground zones.

The B.C. Liberals scrapped photo radar as a way to deter speedy drivers in 2001, and re-introduction was dismissed by Premier Christy Clark during the televised leaders debate in Mays provincial election.

The Southern Interior Local Governments Association supports the proposal, and the issue will be discussed at the Union of BC Municipalities convention next month.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Ontarios premier and

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford threw themselves in the political pot debate Wednesday, con-fessing they too smoked dope - and more than once.

Ford, whos been fighting allegations that he smoked crack cocaine, raised eye-brows when he freely admitted to using a different drug.

Oh yeah, he said with a laugh. I wont deny that. I smoked a lot of it.

Wynne also came clean that she puffed some pot, but very, very infrequently and stopped 35 years ago, before her children were born and she was elected.

Its never been a big part of my life, said the 60-year-old premier.

Theyre the latest high-profile polit-icians to own up to using marijuana, after Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau admitted last week that he took a pull on a joint three years ago while he was an MP.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has said he stayed away from the drug after seeing a U.S. Supreme Court nominee withdraw after it emerged he had smoked marijuana in college.

Trudeau said he hasnt lit up since, but Justice Minister Peter MacKay condemned him for breaking the law while serving in public office.

He also accused Trudeau of hypocrisy for voting for mandatory minimum sen-tences for marijuana production before he stopped smoking up.

Wynne said she wont pass judgment on Trudeau or anyone else.

These are personal decisions that people make and Im not going to weigh in on the decision of another politician or individual, she said.

Fords admission Wednesday that he smoked weed came as a surprise since hes refused to answer questions from repor-ters about his alleged drug use.

Former Liberal prime minister Jean Chretien tried to decriminalize posses-sion of small amounts of marijuana, but it didnt become law.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - A birth-

control pill recalled because of a pack-aging mistake was sold across the country, says the company that distributes the oral contraceptive, poten-tially affecting tens of thousands of Canadian women.

On Tuesday, Health Canada issued a notice of recall for Freya-28 after a pharmacy reported that a pack-age had been found that contained a pla-cebo pill in place of an active one.

Packages of the

pills sold by Mylan P h a r m a c e u t i c a l s should have 21 white pills containing active ingredients, laid out in three rows, and a sin-gle row of seven green placebo pills.

Health Canada says missing one or more active pills could reduce the contracep-tives effectiveness and result in an unplanned pregnancy.

A spokeswoman for Mylan Pharmaceuticals said two lots of Freya-28 - 3739F001B and 3739F002B - have been

recalled. The com-panys other birth con-trol product, Freya-21, is not affected.

The lots contained a total of more than 79,500 individual blis-ter packs of the 28-day contraceptive, said Nina Devlin. Almost 76,300 of those had been distributed across Canada between May 10 and Aug. 22, when the packaging mix-up was reported.

The drug is pack-aged for Mylan by Famy Care Ltd., a Mumbai-based phar-

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Freya-28 can return unopened packages to their pharmacists and they are being asked to report any adverse reactions potentially related to recalled pills to Health Canada.

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One lot of the prod-uct contained too little active drug and too much placebo, leaving women who took it vulnerable to becom-ing pregnant.

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S STORONTO - Canadians who were

recently surveyed about online privacy were split on whether they approved of governments reading their email.

The poll, commissioned by the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, asked if it is acceptable or unacceptable for governments to mon-itor everyones email and other online activities.

About 49 per cent of respondents said it was completely unacceptable, about 47 per cent of those surveyed said it was acceptable in some circum-stances, and about four per cent said it was completely acceptable.

When asked if government surveil-lance would be appropriate if it could prevent terrorist attacks, about 13 per cent said it would be completely accept-able, about 64 per cent said it would be acceptable in some circumstances, and 23 per cent said it would still be com-pletely unacceptable.

The results suggest Canadians are surprisingly apathetic about their pri-vacy, said Byron Holland, president of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the .ca

domain name registry and works to develop policies that support Canadas Internet community.

I think its fair to say that most of us here and many of us deeper in the Internet community were surprised by Canadians willingness to give up pri-vacy in the interests of safety, Holland said.

About 39 per cent of those polled indicated they believed they were already being monitored by the government in some way, while about 15 per cent didnt believe that to be true. About 46 per cent werent sure either way.

Holland said he has no reason to believe Canadians are currently being spied on by government agencies online but added its still important for citizens to have a conversation about their pri-vacy expectations.

Its certainly my understanding in the Canadian landscape that were not doing anything like the Americans are doing, he said in reference to the U.S. National Security Agencys PRISM sur-veillance program, which was exposed by former contractor Edward Snowden.

As a very interested citizen in the Internet ecosystem were just trying to

spur that discussion because Canadians currently have a very different regime than the U.S. does. But is that the regime that we want to have? We should be thinking about it.

The poll of 1,134 Canadians was con-ducted by Ipsos Reid between July 24 and 28.

The polling industrys profession-al body, the Marketing Research and Intelligence Association, says online surveys cannot be assigned a margin of error because they do not randomly sample the population.

Other results from the poll:63 per cent of respondents believed

their Internet service provider and other companies were tracking their activities online

18 per cent believed their Internet activity was completely confidential

43 per cent assumed the government was tracking certain search terms

63 per cent believed the govern-ment was collecting information on the visitors of certain websites

40 per cent believed the government was saving Internet activity data to be reviewed in the future

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Big shift in balance of power in new electoral riding

For those disenfran-chised voters who feel their vote car-ries little or no weight, the recent cre-ation of the new South Okanagan-West Kootenay riding will certainly add fuel to their fire.

With Stephen Harper and his Tory machine running roughshod over the sentiments of many Canadians, voter alien-ation and apathy is reach-ing historic highs.

Nevertheless, here in the West Kootenay perhaps many still felt their vote had an impact in deciding, at least, who represents us in Ottawa.

But now even that has taken a hit with the new boundaries determined by Elections Canada.

Now the residents of towns like Nakusp and New Denver, not to men-tion Trail, Fruitvale and Rossland, will have to share their concerns and demands with residents in Penticton.

We had a similar geo-graphical split in the old Southern Interior riding but at least the popula-tion balance was pretty even given that Nelson was included and Penticton was excluded.

Now thats been changed and the addition of Penticton alone, popula-tion around 40,000, is a big part of the approximately

110,000 eligible voters in the new riding.

I understand the demo-cratic process and the need to adjust ridings to accom-modate a growing popula-tion but joining together two distinct regions under one umbrella does little to make me think our concerns will be better addressed in a new riding.

In a political world, where the goal is to appease the largest voting block to ensure re-election, it's hard to fathom the South Okanagan-West Kootenay MP going to bat for a cause in Nakusp, for example, that is to the detriment of wineries near Oliver.

That's not to say their concerns carry any less weight. It's just that what impacts the South Okanagan often has little to do with our area and vice versa.

After all, proposals like the inter-provincial rules regarding wine sales has little impact on us yet is crucial to many voters in the Okanagan.

Forestry and major industry is vital to the economy in the West Kootenay but considerably less so in the Okanagan.

Expansion and growth are at the forefront of investment in the Okanagan but there's little of that on a large scale in the West Kootenay.

The Okanagan's fate

rises and falls with the influx of new residents, whether they're retirees or young arrivals, the West Kootenay has remain static in its population, with the odd fluctuation depending on industrial projects.

The Okanagan features a fast-paced, busy lifestyle not far off the pace of major metropolitan areas, West Kootenay residents often move here to forego the rat race.

Of course these are gen-eralizations and not meant to be specific.

But that's the reality of twinning two distinct regions with different roots and economic pro-pulsion.

The same can't be said for the communities of Nelson, Kaslo and Salmo who will be joining the Kootenay Columbia rid-ing that includes the East Kootenay.

Quite often the same concerns that impact

towns like Invermere or Golden have a ripple effect in cities like Nelson and Kaslo. Simply look at the Jumbo Resort issue as an example.

The spring flooding that damaged several forestry roads in the East Kootenay resonates in the West Kootenay as well because they share the same back-country passion and deter-mination to keep it as pris-tine as possible.

They share similar concerns over unbridled expansion and protecting the environment.

Whether you admit it or not, there is a thinking that permeates through the Kootenays unlike any other place in B.C. I liken it to northern or coastal residents who have their own specific concerns not shared or understood by other parts of the province.

After a recent holiday trip through the South Okanagan, it's easy to see the lifestyle there has very little in common with the lifestyle here. That's why I couldn't wait to get out of that traffic-choked environment back to the nice elbow-room of the Kootenays.

Is that to say one MP can't represent the entire region properly? Hardly.

One hard-working MP should be able to listen to all concerns throughout their mandate.

But will they listen as closely to concerns in New Denver as they do to the ones from Oliver?

Any politician worth their weight in a gold-plat-ed pension will admit that the bigger voting block dictates where the energy goes.

It's going to be dras-tically different come the next federal election. In the old riding format, no community in our rid-ing, which included Trail, Castlegar and Nelson, held a definite population edge to help promote its demand or hijack a candi-date's focus.

Now I'm not so sure.No doubt we'll be hear-

ing from all candidates vying to represent us that they can effectively amal-gamate our concerns with those of Penticton resi-dents.

No doubt the candidates will tell us that our region is their biggest concern and they'll do everything in their power to properly represent us.

Of course they'll say all the right things and shake everyones hands before election day.

But only after all the votes have been counted is when we'll see the real impact of redrawing elec-toral boundaries.

Guy Bertrand is the managing editor of the Trail Times.

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We know that the recent financial crisis had some-thing to do with the worlds banking system, but we dont know exactly what or how. Meanwhile, on a daily basis Canadians give their money to and conduct business with financial institutions on a massive scale five of Canadas six most profitable companies are banks, with the Royal Bank alone clearing $7.4 billion dollars last year alone. Whether or not they are trust-worthy, our banks clearly benefit from their rela-tionship with aver-age Canadians.

In Europe and the United States, governments have reacted to the financial crisis by implementing additional regu-lations, touching everything from the amount of banks capital reserves to the size of executive bonuses.

But what about the ordinary citizen, who doesnt have the resources to hire a team of law-yers to go over the 14,000 pages of the Dodd-Frank Act?

In such a case, its easy to blame the lawyers for the situ-ation, but this is misguided. They only work with the laws that have already been put into place. What is more, when gov-ernments create new legisla-tion to remedy specific slights, they often only further com-plicate an already convoluted situation.

Instead, one might do better to apply existing legal prin-ciples that have been estab-lished by judicial precedents, or the Common Law, in order to hold these massive and power-ful institutions accountable. In Canada, this can be done by relying on the notion of fiduci-ary duties.

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3) vulnerability on the part of the person who trusts the other.

Examples of such relationships include that of a lawyer to their client, a doctor to

their patient, and a board dir-ector to their company. One recurring form of a breach of a fiduciary duty is where there is a conflict of interests.

In its 1994 case, Hodgkinson v. Simms, the Supreme Court of Canada decided that a finan-cial advisor violated the trust of his client by not disclosing his own financial interest in a series of real estate invest-ments for which he was also working for the developers. As a result, the advisor was held responsible for all of the dam-ages that took place follow-ing a subsequent real-estate crash, on the assumption that had it not been for his advice the investor would not have made the investment. Note that the key element for which an abuse of trust was found in this case was not the quality of the advice or whether it was reasonable for the investment to be made in the first place, but rather the non-disclosure of the advisors own interest in the transaction. Keeping quiet in this case incurred potentially millions of dollars in liability.

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ment advisors working for large banks normally do not disclose either their own indi-vidual interest in completing the transaction (that is, their commission), nor the interest of the bank (securing addition-al funds which can be re-loaned to other clients). This seems an inappropriate non-disclosure.

The nature of the relation-ship between a bank and its clients also merits scrutiny. For ordinary accounts, it seems evi-dent that a bank has unilateral power to dispose of depositors money at its own discretion. When the bank takes on an advisory role, however, the rela-tionship becomes a bit more confusing. It seems trouble-some to hold that a transaction for purchasing mutual funds or obtaining a mortgage is negoti-ated equally and consensually, particularly when the bank is dealing with unsophisticated clients who already entrust the institution with their hard-earned savings.

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Troy Media columnist Nelson Peters completed a degree in Civil law at Universite Laval in Quebec City and served as Editor-in-Chief of the faculty student law review from 2010-2011.

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He had a dream of all Gods children joining hands as equals, singing Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! And he framed that dream of brotherhood and hope in pro-found words, spoken 50 years ago, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Martin Luther King Jr. made history in front of 250,000 people at the Washington Mall on Aug. 28, 1963. They had gathered, in his words, to dramatize a shameful condi-tion.

Segregation in the south-ern United States was relegat-ing people of colour to separ-

ate schools, restaurants, even washrooms.

Poverty and lack of oppor-tunity burdened blacks every-where, not just in the south. And even the right to cast a ballot was denied for millions living in hostile states.

Kings dream, however, hasnt entirely come true. Segregation is over but dis-crimination continues. A wealth gap still divides black and white Americans. Indeed, it has yawned wider as the reces-sion hit blacks with particular force.

Lest Canadians feel compla-cent, its worth remembering challenges confronting black communities in this country

- a polite discrimination thats nonetheless real, high poverty rates, plus racial profiling. And no group suffers more hardship than Canadas aboriginal popu-lation, with many languishing in Third World conditions on reserves, some of which lack even clean drinking water.

Kings words point the way to a better future for all, just as they did a half-century ago, if we choose to heed them.

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice, he said.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of Gods children. A half-century on, that fierce urgency still inspires.

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They did not die in vain; their victory was great, Barack Obama said of King and other slain civil rights leaders of the tumultuous 1960s as he deliv-ered his address just after 3 p.m. on Wednesday, precisely the same time that King did on Aug. 28th a half-century ago.

But we would dishonour those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesnt bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency.

Obamas remarks capped a rainy day of events in the U.S. capital that began when as many as 100,000 people marched through the drizzle to the National Mall, an expanse of public parkland that links the Capitol building in the east to the Lincoln Memorial in the west.

When King made his famous speech, the South was still segregated, with separate rest-rooms and schools for blacks and whites.

It took two years until Lyndon Johnson - who became president following the assas-sination of John F. Kennedy just three months after Kings speech - finally prevailed over Congress to sign the coun-trys landmark Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law. King was assassinated three years after that, in 1968.

On Wednesday, Obama and his wife, Michelle, walked down the steps of the Lincoln Memorial past a cast-iron bell from a Birmingham, Ala., Baptist church where four

black girls were killed by a bombing just three weeks after King made his speech.

Obama and many of the events participants - VIPs that included Oprah Winfrey, mem-bers of Kings family, Caroline Kennedy and former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton - noted that while King called for equality and justice for all in 1963, African-Americans

and other minor-ities still face sig-nificant obstacles.

Whether its by challenging those who erect new bar-riers to the vote or ensuring that the scales of jus-tice work equal-ly for all in the criminal justice system and not simply as a pipe-line from under-funded schools to overcrowded jails, it requires vigi-

lance, Obama said.John Lewis, now a congress-

man from Georgia who was the youngest speaker at Kings March on Washington for Jobs and Equality, pointed out that illegal immigrants are current-ly hiding in fear, that African-American men are incarcer-ated at higher rates per capita than any other demographic group, and that unemploy-ment and homelessness con-tinue to plague America.

Weve come a great dis-tance in this country in the 50 years, but we still have a great distance to go before we fulfil the dream of Martin Luther King Jr., the 73-year-old Lewis said. We must never ever give up, we must never ever give in.

Indeed, in the five decades since Kings famous speech, race relations remain a touchy, painful, ongoing concern in the United States.

This summers acquittal of George Zimmerman, who shot and killed unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012, has exacerbated many of those ever-simmering ten-sions. Martins name was men-tioned several times by speak-ers at the Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday.

Obama himself has often served as a flashpoint for race-tinged ire from his foes, par-ticularly in the South.

A recent Public Policy Polling survey suggested a third of those in Louisiana say they even blame Obama for hurricane Katrina, a monster storm that devastated the city of New Orleans three years before he won the Oval Office.

The conservative Daily Caller news website recently maligned Obama for his new dog, another Portuguese water dog whos serving as a com-panion to Bo.

With the addition of Sunny, the Obamas now have two black Portuguese water dogs, the Daily Caller wrote. The Obamas do not have any white dogs.

Obama was careful in his remarks on Wednesday to stress the importance of the civil rights movement for all minorities, not just African-Americans. He also pointed to the countrys economic dis-parities as evidence that some of Kings fondest hopes have yet to be realized, and urged action.

We can continue down our current path in which the gears of this great dem-ocracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations, where politics is a zero-sum game, where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie, Obama said. Thats one path.

Or, he continued, we can have the courage to change.

There were no Republican speakers at Wednesdays event. Former president George W. Bush was invited, but declined to attend because hes recover-ing from heart surgery in Texas.

Instead, Bush issued a statement calling on every American to help hasten the day when Dr. Kings vision is made real in every commun-ity - when what truly matters is not the colour of a persons skin, but the content of their character.

Bill Clinton, meantime, took direct aim at Republicans, making reference to the partys efforts to restrict voting rights in several states while oppos-ing tougher gun control laws.

A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon, said Clinton, whose wife, Hillary, is eyeing a run for president in 2016.

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Helen Jameson feeds a recent arrival to her Blewett property, a baby moose.

Blewett woman helps forest creatures get back on their feet

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For 45 years Helen Jameson has rehabilitated wildlife on her Blewett farm.

The large, homemade pens that dot her property were built to hold injured or orphaned moose, deer, bears, squirrels, birds and what-ever else people bring her.

Every time Id get another ani-mal, Id have to build a pen to hold it, Jameson says, explaining how her property was transformed over the years.

She says it used to be common for anyone with an acreage to care for injured wildlife on the side, but regulations introduced by the Ministry of Environment in the 1980s made it harder to do on a casual basis.

Today Jameson believes shes the only one doing it in the West Kootenay. She gets animals from as far away as Nakusp, sometimes delivered by a conservation officer and sometimes dropped off by pri-vate citizens who happen to know about her operation.

They bring them here injured and starving, and Ill spend months getting them healthy again,

Jameson says. Some people will give a donation when they bring me something to care for. Others just drop it off and go. They dont realize Im doing this as a volun-teer, at my own expense.

Its a demanding job that never stops. She gets animals at all times of the year and many require feed-ing several times per day. She drives into town three times per week to pick up supplies, mostly milk and grains.

People see me in the grocery store pushing shopping carts full of goats milk; they say, you sure drink a lot of milk, but of course its for the wildlife, Jameson laughs.

Greg Wheaton, assistant man-ager at Save-On-Foods in Nelson, met Jameson during one of her supply runs and became interested in her operation. Save-On already offers Jameson a discount on her groceries, but Wheaton wanted to do more.

Today (August 29), the store will be holding a fundraiser for her rehabilitation efforts. Jameson will be set up at a table at the front of the store collecting donations for a few hours, beginning at 11 a.m.


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Golden might have a new weather forecaster. Hes on the larger end of the scale at about 650 pounds (hell be 750 or so by the time hes done bulking up for the winter) but he has a proven track record and only a fool would argue with him face to face.

Boo, the only resident of Kicking Horses Grizzly Bear Refuge, began to make his den for the winter on August 13, about a month before he would typically do so.

He usually starts building his den in mid-September and the last time he built his winter shelter this early was in 2010. The winter that followed was long, cold and snowy. Ross Prather, manager at the ref-uge, believes this is a sign that a snowy winter is ahead of us.

Despite the work that Boo puts into his home every year, the staff at the refuge lure him into an arti-ficially made den. A small camera inside the artificial den allows staff to keep track of his health throughout the win-ter.

Having been orphaned from a very young age, the staff at the refuge were very excited when Boo began to build a shel-ter on his own, indi-cating that denning is instinctual rather than a learned trait.

There was a defin-ite learning curve for the grizzly as his den collapsed the first couple of years before he perfected it as he got older and wiser.

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Grace McGregor, Area C director; Sandy Mark, community co-ordin-ator, Christina Lake Tourism Society members and other members of the community were on hand at the Christina Lake Welcome Centre to raise the official information centre

designation flag on Aug. 21.Weve been looking at ways to

improve our marketing and our effectiveness as a community. Were really interested in putting Christina Lake on the map, said Mark. One of the really important pieces for is becoming officially identified as an official visitor information centre by

the province of B.C.Mark said until now, the wel-

come centre, which had 12,000 visitors come through last year, has just been rated as a kiosk by the province, which limits the support they receive.

This way we are able to use their flags and theyll be putting up signs

with the giant Is, she said. Well have the uniforms. Itll mean more for the community because well be able to present ourselves more broadly.

This is a big thing for Christina Lake, said McGregor. Theyve worked for the past four years for a visitor info designation.

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info centre status

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Rossland and the snowy lands around it will be featured in a new film set to be released by Teton Gravity Research this fall.

Shots of the Golden City and the winter wonderland around it are already featured in a trailer released by Teton in Way of Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OZtF9YQVQBk).

Although there is no date or location planned for the local showing of the film yet, there will one scheduled this fall for the West Kootenay, said the films producer and TGRs supervising producer, Greg Epstein.

Shot on location in 2013, Teton Gravity Researchs takes you on a journey to the moun-tains and inside the minds of todays top ath-letes. With imagery created with GSS, Red Cinema and the Sony Action Cam, the film explores the origins of skiing in Austria, the search for original lines in Alaska, and the U.S. Freeskiing Teams quest for Olympic gold.

The adventure also leads athletes to the rug-ged terrain of Jackson Hole and the Tetons, as well as the backcountry of Rossland and other parts of B.C.

A three-minute webisode on Rossland (at www.tetongravity.com, season five, episode eight) and Red Mountain is already on the Internet.

When you watch the part about Rossland, even though you arent there, you can kind of get a feel for Rossland as a place, even outside of the skiing, Epstein said.

The webisode gives an overview of what the crew of five production crew and five athletes did in Kootenay Rockies. Epstein thought Red Mountain was a great hill and a lot of fun, with some challenging technical terrain.

There are still a couple more webisodes that have to deal with Red Mountain specifically that will appear on TGRs website, as well as its YouTube channel.

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B y J i m B a i l e yTimes Sports EditorThe historic first

game between the Trail Smoke Eaters and Selkirk College Saints at Cominco Arena Tuesday was anything but a defensive gem; however it was good, fast-paced hockey, at times spirited, with plenty of goals and penalties to keep the crowd of close to 500 entertained.

In the end, the younger Smokie legs eventually prevailed as the home team pulled out an 8-6 victory.

Smoke Eater defenceman Nathan Browne was award-ed the winner, when breaking in with Scott Davidson on a 2-on-1, the Saints defenceman swiped the puck away from Browne, inadver-tently shooting it right between the pads of his own goalie, a stunned Chris Hurry.

I thought we played well for the most part, said Trail head coach and GM Bill Birks. Some kids want to impress the coaching staff by doing fancy stuff, but thats just not the game. You have to play simple and hard, and once you get back to that I thought we were good.

Defensive break-downs on either end often left the goalies at the mercy of num-erous breakaways and odd-man rushes, a cause for concern for Saints head coach Jeff Dubois.

Neither coaching staff walks away from an 8-6 game seeing what you want to see, said Dubois. Youd like the defence even this early in the season to be a little tighter than it was.

The Smokies opened the scoring at 7:31 of the first when

Adam Ulfsax banged in a loose puck past the Saints netminder. Trail native Garrett Kucher would reply for Selkirk getting his first of two on the night, when he took a neat breakaway flip pass from Matthew Luongo, and beat goal-ie Dustin Nikkel glove side.

Bryce Knapp would counter for the Smokies, taking a pass from Davidson in front of the net and mak-ing a nice move to his forehand to beat a sprawling Hurry.

However, Kucher would strike again, tying it at 16:06 on a great individual effort, as he skated out of the corner stickhandled around a defender, through the top of the crease, and sliding it under an outstretched Nikkel.

Kucher joins the Saints after coming off a good season last year with the Osoyoos Coyotes of Kootenay International Junior Hockey League.

Its always good to produce out on the ice, but Id rather suc-ceed as a team more than an individual, said Kucher, who had a sizeable contin-gent of supporters in the stands. Its been about 12 years since Ive been back here, so I knew most of the fans and it was good hav-ing my family up there cheering me on.

The Smokies recent addition Tyson Wittala would finish the scor-ing in the opening frame, netting his first as a Smokie to give the home team a 3-2 lead.

Knapp would make it 4-2 at the 2:50 mark, scoring his second of the game unassisted on a great individ-ual effort. Knapp was impressive playing on the left wing with Jesse

Knowler at centre, and Davidson on the right side. He returns to the Smokie lineup after missing almost all of last season with injury.

It feels really good, Im just really excited to be back here, said Knapp. After all the injuries I had last year, it just felt good to be back on the ice doing what I love to do.

The Saints Cody Fidgett replied, wristing a bullet over the glove of Nikkel at 13:17. However, Braden Pears would restore the two-goal lead, making it 5-3 on a screened shot from the point at 14:57 of the second.

But the Saints stormed back scor-ing twice on back-to-back breakaways on

goalie Nate Rabbitt who came in midway through the second. Former Smoke Eater Darnell Dyck made it 4-3 and a short-hand-

ed marker by Scott Swiston tied it at 5-5 heading into the final frame.

I dont think our team realized how good they were, said Birks. Theyre big, theyre fast especially for only being on the ice a couple

times, (theyre) physic-al and play pretty good systems.

The Saints would take a 6-5 lead at 2:51 into the third period when Markus McCrea walked in and snapped the puck past Rabbitt. But Pears would net his second of the night when he picked up a rebound in front of the Saints net and beat

Hurry glove side to tie it midway through the third. After Brownes winner, Blaine Caton would get the insur-ance marker on a pretty pass from Linden Horswill.

The Smokies out-shot the Saints 32-20. The exhibition match was a good test for both teams although the Saints may have been at a slight dis-advantage considering they had skated as a team for the first time on Sunday.

The Smokies look like they came into camp in shape, and a handful of our guys did too, but anyone who was watching could tell there was a few guys running out of gas, said Dubois.

Trail took full advantage of the opportunities that they generated and we gave them, and thats what you get at the end of the night.

As for the Smokies head coach, he was suitably impressed with the compete level and physicality of the Selkirk Saints team.

I thought it was a great test, thats a pretty good hockey team. I can see why they won last year. Jeff (Dubois) does a great job recruiting guys. Theyre going to be good again this year.

Birks sat out a few veterans like team cap-tain Adam Wheeldon, goalie Adam Todd, and D-man Braden Jones, giving young players a chance to impress.

Final selections

wont be made until after exhibition games in Penticton and Merritt.

It may be early, but like last season, the same questions and concerns emerge.

Its nice to win, but our goals against was a big thing last year, and thats going to be a focal point for us (this year). When we get the puck were good, when we dont have the puck were not very good, added Birks.

The Smokies play Merritt Centennials Friday in Merritt to end their exhibition schedule.

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Selkirk Saints forward and former Trail Smoke Eater Darnell Dyck got the Saints comeback started scoring on this second-period breakaway on Smokie goalie Nate Rabbitt, but the Smokies would eventually prevail 8-6 in the preseason game at Cominco Arena Tuesday.

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BCHL Notes: Lethal ViperRookie forward and Trail native Dallas

Calvin led the Vernon Vipers to a 7-5 presea-son win over the Salmon Arm Silverbacks.

The former Beaver Valley Nitehawk net-ted two goals and two assists for a four-point night to pace the Snakes to its first preseason win. The six-foot-five Trail product racked up 31-43-74 in 40 games last season with the Nitehawks.

Dino-miteEx-Viper and former Trail Smoke Eater

AP Dylan Walchuk, entering his first season with the University of Calgary Dinos, had a dream assignment filling in for Joe Thornton during Team Canadas walk-through at its Olympic orientation camp Monday in Calgary. The 21-year-old had a stall between Boston Bruins winger Brad Marchand and Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby. I think I can be first line with Sid, Walchuk joked with The Calgary Herald. I need a good start. I need to have a pretty solid season.

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NFL PreseasonTodays Games

Indy at Cincinnati, 7 p.m.Detroit at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Phila at N.Y. Jets, 7 p.m.

N.Orleans at Miami, 7:30 p.m.Wash at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m.

Jacknville at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.N.Y. Giants at New England

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