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FORT ST. JOHN – Changes to the Tem-porary Foreign Workers Program intro-duced on June 20 are causing major head-aches for service industry business owners, who fear reduced hours and store closures in the near future.

By limiting access to the program and regulating it more intensely, the govern-ment’s objective is to encourage businesses to make greater efforts to recruit and train Canadians for jobs and increase wages.

But many business owners in the north-east are decrying those changes, saying they miss the mark, and that there will be major repercussions affecting the economy and quality of life for residents of northern resource towns.

The biggest concerns are that temporary foreign workers can now only stay in Cana-da for one year and renewable for a second year, where workers could formerly stay for four years, and that the wage for a foreign worker is being raised to $21.79 an hour, said Russ Beerling, president of the Fort St. John and District Chamber of Commerce.

Business owners have been coming to him for advice.

“They’re saying that with the increase in wages especially, that it’s unaffordable for a fast food business, or a hospitality business, to pay $21.79 an hour.”

Applications for the lowest wage, low-est skill, entry level occupations in the food services, accommodation and retail trade sectors will be barred from the Temporary Foreign Workers Program in areas of high

FORT ST. JOHN – The medical crisis in Fort St. John will soon be alleviated with the Northern Health Patient Clinic set to open its doors on Sat., July 14.

Developed out of a partnership between Northern Health, the North Peace Division of Family Practice, the City of Fort St. John and other community partners, it is designed to provide care to patients who require fol-low up care and do not have a family physi-cian.

The Northern Health Patient Clinic will be located within the existing Fort St. John Medical Clinic building, which is a conve-nient considering the equipment and space from the doctors who have left is readily available.

“Because of the vacancies they’ve re-duced their manpower, and so now they are going to have all their physicians working out of the one area, the far right side of it,” said Angela De Smit, the Northeast chief operating officer of Northern Health.

“The nice thing about it is that it comes well laid out, and the equipment stays . . . the only thing that we’re bringing in is our own computers, and those have already come in, and then our labelers for patient labels,” she said.

Currently one doctor has been recruited to the new clinic, and he will start working at the beginning of August. In the meantime, a locum physician from out of town will see patients, said Dr. Ronald Chapman, vice president of medicine for Northern Health.

A nurse practitioner will also be on site, and there will be a mental health and addic-tions coordinator, a primary care nurse and medical assistant joining the medical team. The plan is to have dieticians, pharmacists and home support also supporting the col-laboration.

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Photo Credit Bronwyn ScottGus McLeod, owner of the Fort St. John and Dawson Creek KFC’s, fears for the future of his busi-ness with the changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program, announced June 20, 2014.

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DAWSON CREEK - With one day until the Site C Joint Review Panel Secretariat’s deadline for comments on po-tential conditions for BC Hydro’s project, Peace River Re-gional District directors are expected to vote on the con-tents of their submission today.

Eleven recommendations are before the board, moved

during their committee of the whole meeting on July 3, that will potentially be included in their submission.

Their comments are in response to a draft of potential conditions BC Hydro would need to adhere to if their proj-ect is approved. The District received the draft, entitled Potential Site C Clean Energy Project Conditions Being Contemplated for Inclusion in Either an Environmental Assessment Certificate under British Columbia’s Environ-mental Assessment Act or a Decision Statement under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, on June 11. The recommendations come from the Joint Review Panel (JRP), as well as considerations from BC Hydro’s mitigation measures.

Having only a month to consider the draft, the District enlisted the help of W. Beamish Consulting Ltd. and C. Henry Environmental Consulting to review the conditions and make recommendations to the board on what they should include in their comments with considerations from outstanding concerns directors have expressed.

“I see large gaps that are not being addressed by the pro-ponent at all, and I think it’s glaring that the municipalities, the ones that are going to be impacted, Hudson’s Hope and Fort St. John, at least with the information I have today, are really being ignored or diminished,” said Director of Area C, Arthur Hadland.

“You could run a truck through the whole thing,” he said, calling for a halt to the environmental assessment process until there are meaningful items on the table.

According to Catherine Henry, of C. Henry Environ-mental Consulting, the draft includes conditions that would require BC Hydro to develop 31 plans, 12 programs, one memorandum of understanding and one strategy before construction could begin. Of the potential 31 plans, the waste management plan and the local infrastructure mitiga-tion plan are the only two that BC Hydro was required to refer to the regional district for. One recommendation that directors will vote on is to comment in their submission

that they would like the opportunity to review and com-ment on all plans and programs regarding the project.

Other recommendations include: that the region request financial support from the JRP Secretariat and/or BC Hy-dro to acquire resources and capacity to conduct reviews, that the regional district liaise directly with BC Hydro dur-ing the construction period and that a monitoring commit-tee be established to monitor dam and reservoir operations and impacts for the entire life of the dam (estimated 100 years).

Recommendations also included that the regional district reiterate its request to the JRP Secretariat that they study project impacts on the Fort St. John Regional Airport and that a monitoring program be developed to look at issues such as capital projects, that the Province of B.C. define the expectations of BC Hydro for its contingency funding on negative impacts on baseline conditions, and that BC Hydro be required to develop mitigation plans for the de-commission and reclamation of upstream dams.

Directors will also vote on the recommendations to re-quest that BC Hydro be required to develop a Statutory Right-of-way Protocol that would clarify the activities permitted and restricted within rights-of-way, reiterate the regional district’s position that the JRP recommendations be followed with respect to utilizing the BCUC process (in-cluding transparency and the ability for cross-examination under oath), and reiterate their position that BC Hydro be responsible for developing an emergency response plan relating to possible breaches of the dam and that they be solely responsible for implementing it.

Mayor of Hudson’s Hope, Gwen Johansson, requested that directors also vote on her recommendation to ask for clarification from the JRP Secretariat as to why consider-ation of the impacts of cumulative effects is not included in the potential conditions and that cumulative impacts on the rivers and valleys be included in the project conditions.

“It’s like they have taken such a narrow focus on our ability to comment, and they have left off a number of things that this board has been concerned about,” said chair of the board, Karen Goodings.

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FORT ST. JOHN – Outdoor gathering spaces, a com-munity market, alternative energy options and more diver-sified housing are just some of the ideas showcased at an Energize Downtown public drop-in on Thurs., June 26.

The North Peace Cultural Centre was bustling with en-thusiasm between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., where design concepts shown on illustrations, information boards, and an interac-tive tabletop display helped to communicate a holistic vi-sion of a revitalized Fort St. John.

An integrated team of planning and design profession-als has been developing design concepts for the downtown core, and they were present to share the fruits of their labor and receive input from the community.

One of the priorities that the team worked into their vi-sion was more spaces for community gatherings, since that was one of the chief desires expressed at an earlier consul-tation, said Calum Srigley, a public realm design expert.

“We identified one site that the city owns where we’re proposing perhaps a community market, we notice on an-other site that the city owns which is the cultural centre that we’re in now, there’s a parking lot at the back which could be configured into an open plaza,” he said. The introduction of green space near the transit hub is another opportunity the team has considered.

Improving the pedestrian experience and slowing traf-fic slightly through the downtown core is also part of the vision.

“Maybe some of those residences have decks or balco-nies onto the street so that you’ve got an active interface from residences looking down onto the street, [we’re] look-ing at putting street trees in that provide shade in the sum-mer, they also provide a bit of a barrier between the cars and the pedestrians,” said Ellen Pond, a landscape architect and program director at Pembina Institute, a clean energy think tank.

“They actually also help to slow down rainfall, so when it rains and there’s a big rain event, and the storm sewers are overloaded, the street trees actually slow that process down, so they can actually help to save city infrastructure as well, so they save you money in the long run,” she said.

Part of her job was to look into some of the alternative energy options for Fort St. John’s downtown, and district energy is one of the possible solutions she identified in her contribution to the project.

District Energy centralizes heating or cooling by gener-ating or extracting heat from other sources at a small energy plant. It supplies a number of buildings within a commu-nity or neighbourhood with hot or cold energy by piping.

“They’re often actually attached to industrial heat sourc-es, so if you have a pulp mill you get waste heat from it, the other place that they’re used sometimes is a shared heat system is often used between an arena and a swimming pool, so you take heat out of the ice and you put it into the

water, so that’s a shared heat system,” explained Pond. “We were also looking at solar access, making sure that

even in the winter, buildings still have access to the sun in those short winter days.”

The idea behind District Energy Systems is to deliver en-ergy services with greater efficiencies and lower emissions than individual heating and cooling systems.

Another big focus of the planners’ work was housing.“Not everybody wants to live in an apartment building,

and not everybody can live in, or wants to live in, a house,” said Frank Ducote, principal at Frank Ducote Urban De-sign. “What’s in between? Row houses, townhouses, and stacked townhouses, like this,” he said, pointing to illustra-tions he worked on. “Those are some of the examples of densification, a very gentle densification in and around the edges of the downtown.”

Other maps showed 100 Avenue and 100 Street, a busy area, with maps picturing an effective use of ‘inside outside space.’

“We call it enclosed balconies, in the summertime you can open those windows wide open, otherwise you can close them. You can work in that space, or hang out, the sun still comes from there, and you get the vitality from the density and the mixed use,” he said.

“You have to have eyes in the street to make it safe, the businesses have to be very transparent and visually inter-esting.”

While the planning and urban design team is in the pre-

liminary stage of looking for possibilities and opportunities and sharing those concepts with the public, the intention is to get some of the projects underway in a relatively short period of time.

“From what I’ve heard with all of the energy sector growing like it is, the population growth growing like it is, if we prioritize the right things here, and do them sooner than later . . . a lot of this could happen in five to 10 years,” said Ducote.

But like all community development projects, the suc-cess of the plan depends on support from the community and council.


Photo Credit Bronwyn ScottCalum Srigley, a public realm design expert, explains some of the concepts at the public drop-in on Thurs., June 26.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING For Agricultural Land Reserve Exclusion

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the DISTRICT OF HUDSON’S HOPE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 9904 Dudley Drive, on Monday, July 14th, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. The District of Hudson’s Hope intends on making an application pursuant to Section 30(1) of the Agricultural Land Commission Act to exclude from the Agricultural Land the following property which is legally described as: 4.20 hectares of land from the SW ¼ of Lot 149 and SE ¼ of Lot 149, accessed via Peace Canyon Road. Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by forwarding their comments in writing to: The District of Hudson’s Hope. Box 330, 9904 Dudley Drive. V0C 1V0 by June 30, 2014.

A copy of the proposed documents may be inspected or obtained from the District of Hudson’s Hope Municipal Office, located at 9904 Dudley Drive, or on our website at www.hudsonshope.ca

District Office Hours are Monday to Friday 8:30am – 4:30pm


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the DISTRICT OF HUDSON’S HOPE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 9904 Dudley Drive, on Monday, July

14th, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. The District of Hudson’s Hope intends on making an application pursuant to Section 30(1) of the Agricultural Land Commission Act to exclude from the

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18.36 hectares of land from Block C, DL 1091;49.67 hectares of land from Block C, DL 1092;17.19 hectares of land from Block B, DL 1092A

(See attached map)Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by

forwarding their comments in writing to:

The District of Hudson’s Hope. Box 330, 9904 Dudley Drive. V0C 1V0 by June 30, 2014.


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the DISTRICT OF HUDSON’S HOPE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 9904 Dudley Drive, on Monday, July 14th, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. The District of Hudson’s Hope intends on making an application pursuant to Section 30(1) of the Agricultural Land Commission Act to exclude from the Agricultural Land the following property which is legally described as: 4.20 hectares of land from the SW ¼ of Lot 149 and SE ¼ of Lot 149, accessed via Peace Canyon Road. Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by forwarding their comments in writing to: The District of Hudson’s Hope. Box 330, 9904 Dudley Drive. V0C 1V0 by June 30, 2014.

A copy of the proposed documents may be inspected or obtained from the District of Hudson’s Hope Municipal Office, located at 9904 Dudley Drive, or on our website at www.hudsonshope.ca

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DAWSON CREEK - Although school’s been out since mid-June, teachers remained on the picket lines last week as a symbol of their commitment to reaching a negotiated contract.

The second vice-president of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, Teri Mooring, was in Dawson Creek last week for a ‘working holiday.’ Mooring said that their statement was really important and that whether teachers will to continue to picket during the summer will be decid-ed locally and will likely reflect what unfolds provincially.

“[They’re] making a statement, this is really important to us. We’re not getting picket pay, this is not our regular work day, this is how committed we are to the process,” she said.

Teachers have been without a contract since July 2013, and the BCTF and the B.C. Public School Employers’ As-sociation (the Province’s bargaining body) have been at the bargaining table for 17 months. Mooring said that few, small items were agreed upon over a year ago, but that no major progress has been made since.

In a press conference on July 2, president of the BCTF,

Jim Iker, said that while they are hoping the BCPSEA will agree to enter mediation, he believes any mediation at this time would be unpro-ductive.

“The government, by try-ing to impose a series of un-workable preconditions prior to entering into mediation, has not provided the flexibil-ity required to made media-tion work. The preconditions would have predetermined the outcome,” Iker said.

Mooring confirmed that the BCTF has been in talks with Justice Stephen Kelle-her to potentially mediate. She said that he had avail-ability in August. She said that since the beginning of negotiations, the BCPSEA has not moved on any of the major bargaining items, mainly class size and composition.

“They have set up condition after condition after condi-tion, because there are things that they don’t want medi-ated. They don’t want salary mediated, they don’t wanted benefits mediated. There are all these items that they are

saying they don’t want mediated,” said Mooring. Many school districts have chosen to cancel summer

school as the possibility of an agreement being reached any time soon becomes less and less likely. School District 59 does not offer summer school programming.

“Undoubtedly, the next pressure point is going to come in September...we certainly hope and expect that the gov-ernment will engage in mediation in August, we don’t want to go into September either locked out or on strike. I just want to emphasise that we are locked out, we are not al-lowed to be on school premises,” Mooring said.

“It’s not just about a strike, it’s about very aggressive moves on the part of government also in terms of locking us out,” she said.


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Photo Credit Jill EarlSecond vice-president of the BCTF, Teri Mooring, visits the local Peace River South Teachers’ Association.


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FORT ST. JOHN – Curbside recycling before the snow flies could be a reality in Fort St. John, but that depends on several factors and council’s decision at a July 28 meeting.

Several speakers took the spotlight at Whole Wheat and Honey Café on Weds., June 25, where a group of about 30 people attended an open discussion to learn about the present state of recycling and what’s in store for the future.

Curbside pickup has been a council priority for years, and the city was poised and ready to proceed, but new pro-vincial legislation interrupted those plans.

Multi-Material B.C. was designed to shift the responsi-bility of recycling printed paper and packaging from mu-nicipalities to industry, the creators of the products.

“I’m sure if you have a family at home and you do your grocery shopping on Saturday or Sunday, you come home, and you just un-package all of the things that you pur-chased, and a lot of what you just bought went into your blue box, it goes over to Eco Depot, it gets picked up from your curb, and the idea behind this program is actually to reduce the amount of stuff that literally comes home and goes straight back out again,” said Karen Mason-Bennett, program co-ordinator at the Northern Environmental Ac-tion Team.

The hope is that the cost of recycling will encourage in-dustry to use less packaging.

Rather than proceed with the costly venture of imple-menting the program they were ready to set in motion, the city waited to see what would result.

Each municipality was given a contract to consider. Fort St. John, among a handful of other communities, didn’t sign. There were a number of reasons.

“There was a cash incentive but we felt that the cash in-centive, measured against the capital expense, combined with the liability of that contract, wasn’t in the best interest of the ratepayers or the city,” said Ken Rodgers, the city’s director of development.

While industry is charged with processing recycled ma-terials, M.M.B.C. doesn’t cover capital costs. The cash incentive only covered one-third of the cost of the bins.

There were also concerns with the contract’s wording that the city interpreted as exceeding the level of legis-lation they had been granted authority for.

M.M.B.C. was imple-mented on May 19, and while nothing in the mean-time has changed with re-cycling in Fort St. John, M.M.B.C. has changed some

of the wording of the contract and begun reaching out to municipalities again.

“You might say, we’re pulling out a pause here and get-ting back into what we were trying to do. July 28 is the tar-get date to bring this to council with the costs associated in purchasing the bins, getting them delivered,” said Rodgers.

It is no small expenditure. Just the bins are $545,000. “We’re still investigating to give the council the full in-

formation that we’re looking at,” he said.“This is not a freebie. Of course, if we’re going to have

curbside recycling for the community, it will come out of your taxes. It’s as simple as that.”

The nice part, though, is that the city is ready to get going on curbside pickup.

“The company that supplies the bins has us on record that we’re ready to order, they’re just waiting and they said

they can get here in a fairly short time delivery, so if every-thing goes well, we could be up and running and functional before the snow flies,” said Rodgers.

In the meantime, the northern region isn’t doing too bad-ly when it comes to diverting solid waste from the landfills.

“It’s actually pretty impressive what we’re sending out,” said Ken Griffins, of Eco Depot. “Roughly we send any-where between 15-20 trucks a month, just a rough estimate, per truck it’s about 44 thousand pounds.”


F.S.J. plans for curbside recycling pickup

Photo Credit Bronwyn Scott

Photo Credit Bruce Kosugi, a NEAT director, listening intently to the recy-cling discussion at Whole Wheat and Honey Café on Weds., June 25.


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About a month ago I participated in a relay, and now that I’ve finally caught my breath, I think I’ll share my experience.

Last year, I fell into the wrong crowd. The kind of crowd that got up before the sun- rain, shine, snow or otherwise - and all to run.

Like most newbies to a group, I was impres-sionable and naive, ready to please, and was all too eager to sign-up when I was propositioned about participating in the 260km-long Banff to Jasper Relay. Of the 15 stages of the relay, I had what was deemed as one of the easiest legs- a 16.4km run.

I’d like to highlight that I would never con-sider myself an athlete. I really can not express this enough. However, since I made the com-mitment to do the run in November, I had lots of time to train, it’s just too bad I didn’t use it.

A five kilometre jog at an easy pace through Dawson Creek’s relatively flat landscape, when the mood struck (which was not very of-ten) was my idea of a training regimen. I didn’t think 16.4kms was going to be a walk in the park, but I figured the drive to Pouce Coupe from Dawson Creek and back didn’t look that long and that I could certainly manage it.

Well, I managed it, but not before enduring a rollercoaster of emotions before I eventually got to the finish line. Physically, the relay was exhausting. I ran in intervals, and allowed my-self a walking break when faced with (surprise) hills, but to keep myself motivated was one of the hardest parts.

Without the use of my headphones and a playlist of my favourite songs, I was faced with the difficult task of keeping myself entertained, but not too distracted that I would forget to breathe regularly.

Sure, the beautiful scenery kept me preoc-cupied for a while, but how much admiring can one person take? I thought about neat ideas for articles (all forgotten now), I sung portions of songs (the parts that I knew), how I could spend my holidays, why my boyfriend hasn’t popped the question, and if I’m the kind of girl

who would disregard set gender roles and pro-pose to him. I even considered doing it after my leg of the relay was done, or even at the next water break. Yeah, I was pretty bored.

About halfway through, I was so tired that I even welcomed the idea of a bear encounter. That way, my support vehicle would have to drive me at least 500 feet from it (according to relay rules), giving me a needed rest. Being clipped by a rogue rock from a passing vehicle also crossed my mind; I thought perhaps that a small injury would allow me me to gracefully bow-out of the whole thing.

With at least five kilometres to the end, I was totally gassed out. Thankfully, my team sent out reinforcements, Dawneen, a lady who just weeks before ran 100km in 13 consecutive hours. She ran beside me, assured me I was do-ing a good job and motivated me to keep going. I knew that if she was willing to run with me after she had already finished her portion, then I really had no excuse to give up. It was just one foot in front of the other for the rest of the way, no matter what speed I was going, just one foot in front of the other.

The feeling of seeing the finish line and final-ly crossing, after many trials and tribulations, was awesome. I know I looked disgusting, but I felt really good, that is until I took a few sips of celebratory champagne almost immediately after finishing and nearly lost my lunch.

I can’t thank my fellow runners enough for the support they’ve given me over the last year, in the form of guilting me out of bed to run, lending equipment and sharing tips. These peo-ple are exactly the kind of people non-athletic types would want to run with, and continue running with.

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Those who come to this country and work hard should have a fair and reasonable chance at becoming Canadian citizens. Equally, Canada should not exploit vulnerable peo-ple from abroad who arrive on our shores.

This commitment – long upheld by governments of various political stripes – has since been abandoned by Mr. Harper. His Immigration Minister, Jason Kenney, has been front and centre in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program since he was appointed to the post in Octo-ber of 2008. For nearly six years, Mr. Kenney has played a lead role in the rapid increase in the number of foreign workers who have come to Canada.

Now, he wants us to believe that he has had a change of heart.

Previously, the Conservative gov-ernment encouraged an expansion of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program by accelerating the Labour Market Opinion process; this led to an increase in the number of low-skilled foreign workers in Canada. The Conservatives also changed the rules so that employers could pay foreign workers less than their Canadian counterparts. Meanwhile, they did nothing to stop the rampant abuse of these employees.

Mr. Kenney would have us be-lieve that he is a white knight, here to save Canadians from evil employ-ers who have deceived the govern-ment. But we know that this isn’t the case. While the Minister says he has

restricted access to the lower-skilled temporary foreign worker stream, which allowed approximately 16,000 people into the country last year, he has ignored the much, much larger International Experience Can-ada program. This program, which admitted 58,000 people in 2012, is advertised by the government as a means to fill low-skill service sector jobs and it has virtually no controls or oversight mechanisms.

It was disappointing that his re-cent announcement failed to pro-vide new pathways toward citizen-ship for temporary foreign workers. Throughout our history, providing pathways to citizenship has been at the core of Canada’s immigration policy. A recent poll shows that the majority of Canadians agree with this kind of policy and want to see more pathways toward citizenship for temporary foreign workers.

Mr. Kenney’s track record when it comes to temporary foreign work-ers is one of failure. We have abso-lutely no faith in this government’s ability to clamp down on abuses of the Temporary Foreign Worker Pro-gram, especially while Mr. Kenney is at its helm.

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DAWSON CREEK - The Dawson Creek Art Gallery welcomed a new exhibit on June 24, designed especially for their unique grain elevator location.

At the End of the Tunnel is the first in a series called The Modern Manias by Nel-son’s Ian Johnston. The exhibit explores the compulsion of hoarding through the use of video. Viewers are enticed up the ramps of the art gallery to watch a 16 foot by 8 foot wall of recycled newspaper collapse, recorded from seven different angles.

“I like the potential for double meaning and double intention. While we’re really thinking about those poor hoarders... at the same time we’re being drawn by the nose by our own addiction so, our own obses-sion and compulsion,” said Johnston, about society’s addiction to the moving image.

He decided to target compulsions as a theme for the series because as he has got-

ten older, compulsive behaviours in others have become more apparent to him.

“I think that anything that starts off as be-nign, it could be dieting, it could be clean-ing, it could be gambling, all those things on their own are not really dangerous or self destructive, but it’s almost like they mutate. It’s like these strange genes that we have, and we are all capable of having, eas-ily losing control,” Johnston said.

Johnston spent the last month in Dawson Creek creating the exhibit in the building neighbouring the gallery and touring about the city, collecting sounds to accompany each video. With the help of some mem-bers of the arts community, Johnston con-structed the wall of newspaper borrowed from DC Recycling; the TVs used in the show were also borrowed from DC Recy-cling and will be returned once the show concludes on July 11. The wall took two weeks to construct, but only two days to tear down.

“For the last ten years I’ve been obsess-ing about waste and materials and recy-

cling and the environment, and it [hoarding] gets to turn a little bit of a corner, but at the same time as you can see the waste stream is still very much a part of what I’m do-ing,” said Johnston.

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Your cottage, or any other vacation property for that matter, can be an important part of your family life – and you might want to leave it to your family. But unless you’re passing assets to your spouse, when you die, you’re deemed to have disposed of all your capital assets at fair market value. If your cottage has appreciated in value, there could be a significant capital gains liability that could force your heirs to sell the cottage. These are some of the options you should consider to reduce the tax bite to your estate and your heirs:

• Principal residence exemption (PRE) You are able to make a principal residence exemption claim on either your city home or your vacation property as long as you meet the requirements. If your vacation home increases in value more than your city home on a per year basis, the exemption might be better applied to that property. How-

ever, if you have bought and sold several city homes over the same number of years that you have owned your vacation property and ap-plied the PRE on those city homes, you will not be able to shelter the entire gain on your cottage.

• Preserving the adjusted cost base Another option for minimizing the taxable capi-tal gains is to ensure that all additions to the adjusted cost base (ACB) of the property are fully accounted for. The ACB is not increased by

sweat equity, only out-of-pocket expenditures – so keep your receipts.

• Gifting during your lifetime Instead of leaving prop-erty to your children through your will, you can choose to transfer some or all of it to them during your lifetime – through the outright gift of the property or by making one or more of your children joint owners (with or without you as a joint owner). This option does have a downside because it may trigger an immediate capital gain and life insurance is not an option for paying this tax.

• Equalize your estate with insurance One good way to cover capital gains and other estate debts – or to pro-vide an equitable amount of money to your other children should you decide to leave your vacation home to just one child – is with permanent life insurance. The death benefit is usually tax-free and can provide a ready source of cash that could prevent the forced sale of assets – including your cottage – to pay taxes.

It’s a good idea to discuss your cottage tax issues with your legal and financial professional advisors to ensure they co-ordinate with all the other aspects of your financial and estate plan.

This column, written and published by Investors Group Financial Services Inc. (in Québec – a Financial Services Firm), and Investors Group Securities Inc. (in Québec, a firm in Financial Planning) presents general information only and is not a solicitation to buy or sell any investments. Contact your own advisor for specific advice about your circumstances. For more information on this topic please contact your Investors Group Consultant.

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The project proposes to generate approximately 187

megawatts of power, enough for the equivalent of approxi-mately 52,000 homes. The proponent has already secured a 25-year energy purchase agreement with BC Hydro.

Mayor of Tumbler Ridge, Darwin Wren, welcomed the news that came on June 30. He said the District has already seen positive impacts of wind energy development, like the Capital Power Project.

“A key goal in the District’s strategic plan is to diversity our economy. Wind energy development certainly assists us in that key objective. The Tumbler Ridge area hosts some of the best wind energy resources in the country and we are seeing enormous interest,” said Wren.

“Wind energy is quickly becoming a very competitive method of power production and with the growing demand for power, we believe wind energy will be an important part,” he said.

According to the project’s website, construction would be scheduled to start at the end of this year, if the proponent chooses to proceed with the project. The target commercial operation date would be November 2016. They expect an average of 175 workers onsite during construction, and nine full-time permanent jobs to be created once operational.

The project proposes to use 134 hectares of land that has been significantly impacted by the Pine Beetle infestation and recent forestry activity.

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FORT ST. JOHN – The highest award that can be achieved at the Scout level in Canada has been given to four youth in the Seventh North Peace Scout Troop.

Michael Shurtliff, 15, Benjamin Peter-son, 14, Ethan Lybbert, 14, and Garreth Johnson, 13, received the Chief Scout’s Award on Sat., June 21, at a ceremony for family and friends at the Fort St. John Lat-ter Day Saints gymnasium.

Only a handful of Fort St. John and area Scouts have received the award over the past five years, as it requires an extensive skill set and a great deal of hard work.

To earn it, a Scout must earn the Voya-geur and Pathfinder Activity Awards, which requires citizenship, leadership, personal development and outdoor skills. Candidates must also hold current qualifi-cations in Standard First Aid, and hold the World Scout Environment Award.

They must also perform over 30 hours of community service, and complete a project of their choosing that demonstrates leader-

ship and betters the community.It’s something that Shurtliff has been

working towards since he became a Blazer Scout at 11 years old. He just turned 15 at the end of June.

His two older brothers received the award many years ago, but he has no recol-lection of that happening.

“I am the last born and they are the two oldest, and then I have two sisters who are older than me,” he explained. But he’s seen pictures of them receiving the award, and that motivated him.

Shurtliff’s project was driven by a desire to help people track their ancestry. Using a website called Billion Graves, which co-or-dinates headstones in cemeteries around the world, he took pictures of all the graves at Peace Valley Cemetery and put the names and dates online.

He chose Peace Valley Cemetery be-cause that’s where his grandparents are buried, he said.

Lybbert and Johnson completed similar projects to help families with ancestral re-search.


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Photo Credit Submitted photoBen Peterson, Michael Shurtliff, Ethan Lybbert and Gareth Johnson are all recipients of the Chief Scout’s Award, and Cst. Maggie Bough was present at the awards ceremony to celebrate their accomplishment.

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site lists the northeast’s unemployment rate as 4.9 per cent, although there is confusion over this number, as a press release from the Dawson Creek and District Chamber of Commerce lists it as eight per cent.

A cap of 10 per cent on the number of foreign workers in a workplace has also been introduced. To give employers time to adjust, it will be phased in over the next two years.

When employers who are above the cap apply for a new Labour Market Impact Assessment, a screening mechanism for employers seeking to hire temporary foreign workers, they will be limited to 30 per cent, or frozen at their current level, whichever is lower. That drops to 20 per cent on July 1, 2015, and to 10 per cent on July 1, 2016.

Current workers can stay until their permits expire, which is coming up, for some, in the next few months.

Many local businesses are well above that 10 per cent cap, and rely on foreign workers to keep their doors open.

“I’m already at 90 per cent, so we’re in real jeopardy of not surviving,” said Gus McLeod, who owns two KFC’s.

His father opened shop in 1964 at Dawson Creek, and in 1965 in Fort St. John. But that 50 year history could soon crumble under labor shortages.

“I’d love to have Canadians working for me . . . but in Fort St. John there’s just not enough Canadians to go around in the service industry,” he said.

McLeod was basically retired four years ago, but is back to working full time because nobody’s applying for work.

“In the northeast here, and in Fort McMurry or Grande Prairie, everybody’s in the same situation . . . we need young people, and kids just don’t apply for work any more. And if they do, they go to the oil patch, they get twice as much money as what I can afford to pay,” he said.

The changes to the program come after widely publi-cized incidents of program abuse allegations earlier this year at three McDonald’s franchises in Victoria and a pizza restaurant in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. A moratorium on the food service sector’s use of the program followed. The changes are meant to prevent its wrongful use.

“Our government’s overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program protects Canadian jobs while allowing businesses in areas such as northeastern B.C. to address serious staffing issues. The changes take into account the demands on businesses across Canada that participate in the program while severely discouraging unscrupulous em-ployers from abusing the program,” said MP Bob Zimmer, who represents the Prince George and Peace River region.

But some say a blanket overhaul isn’t the answer.As permits begin to expire, business owners warn of

store closures, reduced hours, and longer wait times.“The program has been basically shut down for us. In all

intents and purposes, it’s shut down,” said Brian Boresky, who owns four McDonald’s franchises in the Peace region.

He remembers 2005, when the oil and gas industry ex-ploded, but in town, services suffered.

“There were times when whole wings of hotels in Alber-ta and Grande Prairie, they wouldn’t get cleaned because there was no housekeeping to clean. That’s what’s going to happen, that is going to be the reality.”

For the volume of customers he serves he should have had 120 staff, but he had just 40 – he was 80 staff short.

“The real boom is yet to come. And the government shuts it down right in the middle of it,” said Boresky.

“People have a misconception out there that we just go down to Thailand and pick up the employees and put them in a boat and ship them over here. I mean, there was real strong government regulation, you know? And big costs, to bring workers over here, it costs about $4,000 to $5,000 an employee. I mean, you only do that as last resort.”

The fate of his current workers is up in the air, and Boresky is spending significant time looking for solutions.

That’s my full time job right now, I’ve had meetings, I’ve had one on ones . . . I’m doing what I can to help.”

The Temporary Foreign Workers Program was created in 1973 to allow employers to hire specific, highly skilled foreign nationals to fill workforce gaps temporarily. In 2002 a low-skill pilot project was launched to allow for temporary foreign workers in low skilled occupations.

“Our government has been clear that Canadians must be first in line for available jobs. These comprehensive and balanced reforms restore the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to its original purpose – as a last and limited re-source for employers when there are no qualified Canadi-ans to fill available jobs,” said Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney in a press release.

“These reforms will significantly reduce the number of temporary foreign workers in Canada and improve labour market information, while strengthening enforcement and penalties for those who break the rules.”

For businesses in the northeast that are affected, there are no easy answers.

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The exhibit is the first time Johnston has used film in an exhibit.

Curator of the gallery, Kit Fast, said that the gallery has never showed an exhibit that was solely video-based.

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The concept is modeled after an unattached patient clinic that opened in Prince George in 2008 that proved a success, and has since been given a new name, Blue Pine Clinic.

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DISTRICT OF TAYLOR NOTICE OF INTENTION TO LEASE LAND

The Municipal Council for the District of Taylor gives notice pursuant to section 26 and 94 of the Community Charter of the intention to lease the following property to Doug & Meri Witmer:

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The term of the proposed lease is five years with annual lease payments of $9,740.00 being paid to the District. Land usage is for the establishment and operation of a drive through coffee business on the property. For more information, please contact the District of Taylor at 250-789-3392. Melany A. de Weerdt Director of Finance/Deputy Administrator

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I, Kristofer Mark Wuthrich of 11331 90 St. Fort St. John, BC intend on making an appliation pursuant to Section 30(1) of the Agricultural Land Commis-sion Act to exclude from the Agricultural Land Reserve the following property which is legally described as, The Northwest 1/4 of Section II Township 84 Range 18 West of the 6th Meridian Peace River District.

Any person wishing to express an interest in the application may do so by forwarding their comments in writing to Peace River Regional District P.O. Box 810 Dawson Creek, BC V1G 4H8 by July 31, 2014.

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Fire doesn’t foil Muchkin’s play place

DAWSON CREEK - The South Peace Building Learning Together Society thanked the RCMP Victim Services July 3, for their donation that helped replace items that were lost during the fire at Tremblay Elementary School on April 16.

Many items including costumes, stuffed animals, books and other paper materials in the school’s Munchkinland and StrongStart programs had to be thrown away because of extensive water and smoke damage caused by the fire. Early Learning project manager, Gloria Cleve, said that parents who often used the programs were quick to donate stuffed animals and that the Dawson Creek Library helped by replacing literacy items.

“Everything got replaced that needed to be replaced, we are very grateful,” said Cleve.

Thanks to a $500 donation from Spectra Energy, the Police Based Victim Services were able to buy four plush dolls, eight community helper costumes and five tod-dler tunics for the program. Cleve said these were the last items that needed replacing.

“It’s nice to see our sponsorship helping children,” said Kelly McTaggart, commu-nity relations analyst for Spectra Energy.

Munchkinland and StrongStart, being the closest in proximity to the fire, had to close for three weeks, but regular classes at Tremblay Elementary were able to resume after two weeks.

Eleven toddlers had to be evacuated with the rest of the school on April 16. Police Based Victim Services program manager, Gloria Stang, said that some of those chil-dren were traumatised from the experience, and were given teddy bears by the Police Based Victim Services for comfort.

“They were traumatized, there was a fire, they were victims, they lost their play things and it’s [the donation] to have them go back to normal. I thought what better way to help children in the community,” said Stang, on why she wanted to help the program.

Munchkinland is a child-sized village comprised of a tree-house, wilderness area, barn, café, grocery store, construction zone, vet clinic and doctor's office. It’s a drop-in program that allows children who are five years old and under to explore their imagi-nations with their parents and caregivers from 9-12pm during the school year.

Photo Credit Jill EarlConst. Ambie Verbruggen, Gloria Cleeve, Kelly McTaggart and Gloria Stang celebrate Spectra Energy’s and RCMP Victim Services donation.


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