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En garde Stage fight instructor Jacques Lemay, left, gives instructions to Canadian College of Performing Arts student Rebecca Horvey and her classmates during an introductory sword fighting class. Students learned everything from basic moves and the language of sword fighting (parry, thrust, lunge) to the various parts of the sword and how to dissassemble and reassemble their weapon. The stage fight class is an introduction to the art and safety of armed and unarmed stage combat.
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Victoria’s newly elected MP is already in the thick of Ottawa politics. Murray Rankin has been appointed to the standing committee on finance, a non-partisan government panel that provides advice on the annual budget and conducts financial investigations. The NDP MP is also assuming the role of national revenue critic and said he’s already got a number of issues he wants to tackle through the finance committee. MP Murray Rankin “One of the things that CRA has been accused of is targeting environmental organizations in particular, arguing that they have not kept to their charitable status because they spend more than 10 per cent of their activity on advocacy and politics,” Rankin said. Tides Canada and the Suzuki Foundation are two organizations that have been subject to intense CRA scrutiny, he added. “If there is evidence of the CRA acting in a political way against groups that are opposed to government policy, it raises flags that we need to investigate.” Offshore tax havens and the closure of several CRA offices across Canada are also of concern, Rankin said. The MP’s constituency office is set to open in the next few weeks in the Mosaic Building, 1057 Fort St., across the street from the office of Victoria-Beacon Hill MLA Carole James. dpalmer@vicnews.com
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