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A rare medical condition has caused Prince George-Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell to withdraw as the Liberal candidate for the riding in this May’s provincial election. Bell made the announcement Feb. 17 afternoon at the opening of the Liberal campaign offices in Prince George. Bell will continue his work as MLA until the election and promised in the meantime he will work with Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond on her campaign. In his prepared statement Bell explained he underwent tests mid-December for pneumonia. His doctor looked further and found what he described as a relatively rare type of aneurysm, one not often detected. “At this point I am seeing a cardiac specialist and we are monitoring the size of the aneurysm. If it grows I will require surgical intervention. If not, I may require just an ongoing monitoring program.” This led him to reconsider his decision to run as MLA for another term, stating it is a critical time for the province and so just as critical each team member is able to focus his or her complete attention on the work to be done. Holding her emotions in check with some difficulty, Bond had nothing but praise for Bell. “He has been a tireless worker, not just on behalf of the people who voted for him, but on behalf of the people of British Columbia,” she said. A select few knew what Bell planned to announce during the opening of the pair’s campaign office, mostly family. Bell said the decision not to run was finalized about a month ago, however he didn’t want to make it public until he’d personally shared the news with all his family members. “It has been a long journey over the last few months,” Bond said. “I just want to assure you of one thing, that Pat is going to stand beside us. We have always run our campaigns together.” Family and health, Bond agreed, are at
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Prince George Mackenzie MLA Pat Bell, with his wife Brenda (left), Prince George-Valemount MLA Shirley Bond, and Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad at the announcement that health reasons are forcing Bell to retire. the top of the agenda. Bond spoke briefly about a recent health scare her family went through when her husband, Bill, underwent open heart surgery Dec. 18. She said if her husband wasn’t doing so well it may have meant a different decision for her regarding running again as well. Though there has been speculation regarding who will run for the Liberal nomination, Bell said more of the process will be announced within a few days, and he expects there to be several individuals stepping forward to run. Whoever wins the nomination and runs in the next election will be a strong part of the Liberal team, both Bell and Bond agree. Bond said the province stands on the verge of great things. “I can tell you this. There is nothing more important than having experienced, strong, aggressive voices for British Columbia,”
she said. She added the candidate will have big shoes to fill and pointed out all the things Bell helped accomplish as MLA. “He’s made a difference here,” she said of Bell. “You only have to look around the North to see the difference he made.” In his statement and comments following it Bell made it clear he intends to continue to make a difference, even if it is not as MLA. And he intends to ensure whoever takes his place continues to fight for northern needs. “I will personally be kicking their butt all the way to Victoria,” he said with typical humour. Bobby Deepak, the NDP candidate for the same riding as Bell, said he was surprised by the announcement. “Like all of us in Prince George.-Mackenzie and in the north, I was surprised and sorry to hear of Pat Bell’s decision to not
seek re-election because of health concerns. I want to wish him a speedy resolution of those concerns and I know everyone will offer that support.” He added his thanks to Bell for all the years of service. “Though we stand on opposite sides of political issues, I want to thank Mr. Bell for his many years of public service. He has worked hard for Prince George-Mackenzie and today we are all saying thank you. We appreciate your effort for our community.” He added he believes whoever takes Bell’s position will be faced with the same issues. “Whoever takes Bell’s place will have to deal with all the B.C. Liberal’s baggage that’s in place over last the three terms.” That person, as it turned out, was retired RCMP officer Mike Morris, the only person to put his name forward by the Feb. 28 deadline.
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Report accuses RCMP of neglect, abuse DELYNDA PILON
of police misconduct and that these allegations must be brought forward for proper investigation. “We also explained that complaints could be made to the RCMP directly, to the Commission of Public Complaints against the RCMP or to other independent investigative bodies without fear of retaliation,” states a release issued by Janice Armstrong, chief superintendent, deputy criminal operations officer. “Unfortunately, five months
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After conducting a study in communities ranging from Prince George to Prince Rupert involving 50 indigenous women and girls, Human Rights Watch has released a report accusing the RCMP of neglect and abuse. Meghan Rhoad, one of the people who conducted the study, said violence against women is systemic. Both she and Mavis Erickson, who acted as a liaison during the study, agreed fear permeated many of the conversations held between First Nations women and girls and members of Human Rights Watch. Interviewees were nervous, careful of their surroundings and needed constant reassurance no one would know they talked to them. “On one hand these women face violence in their communities, whether with a loved one or on the street, and on the other hand they face a police force that is neglectful or who mistreat them,” Rhoad said. She added that though the RCMP have asked that victims of alleged abuse by officers come forward, Humand Rights Watch will not disclose their identities. “It is up to them if they choose to come forward,” she said, adding the onus is not on the victim. “It is misdirection on the part of government and police to put the onus back on the victim.” With a history from residential schools to the Judge David Ramsay case, the issues
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between indigenous women and the police are generational. “There is very little that is new in this report,” she said. “It’s either happened to them or to someone in their families.” The report includes several recommendations to improve the situation, however Carrier-Sekani tribal chief Terry Teegee said there have been many such reports with recommendations, and few if any of those were ever acted on. As an example he referred to the Highway of Tears symposium, which Erickson coordinated and Mary Teegee with Carrier-Sekani Family Services co-chaired. Nevertheless, he said they would keep drawing attention to the issues between authorities and First Nations females until something changes. One thing Brenda
Wilson, whose sister, Ramona, was murdered in 1994, wants is services put in place for families undergoing that kind of trauma. When they first reported Ramona missing, the police disagreed and said she was likely a runaway. “We had no direction of where we should look or what we should do,” she said. “We were totally lost in the process of looking for my sister.” It has been 19 years since her sister’s body was found. “There are no answers. It has taken a toll on our family to sit and wait and wait for the police officers to do their job,” she said. “Our hearts go out to other families. Sometimes they come to us and ask what they should do. Why? The police should provide that service for them.” “This is a bigger
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J.R.R. Tolkien wrote you should speak politely to an enraged dragon, and anyone who has ever watched Dragons’ Den knows if you’re rude, or worse, your offering is less than optimal, that is a good piece of advice, otherwise the dragon will turn that cruel maw of a mouth on you and burn you alive. Verbally, of course. The premise of CBC’s Dragons’ Den is fairly simple. Venture capitalists Kevin O’Leary, Jim Treliving, Arlene Dickinson, Bruce Croxon and David Chilton are the dragons. Entrepreneurs enter the den, pitching their business ideas to this panel of experts. Either the Dragons will give you the go-ahead, which includes a capital investment in your idea, or they will, with painful honesty, tell you why it will never work. If your idea is grand, the Dragons will squabble over who will seize it, like a pack of lions descending on a prey – which they kind of are, actually. Or they will form partnerships, and within that entity offer to provide the cash investment your venture needs. Auditions for Dragons’ Den took place in Prince George at the Civic Centre in February. Andrew Johnson, with his wife Joelle at his side to support him, sat at the end of a row of chairs, clasping a piece of paper with the number nine on it, indicating when it would be his turn to face the Dragons. The line-up of chairs wasn’t long, but some of the people in it were colourful, like the stocky gentleman in the Chinese red silk jacket. Some looked dead serious, while others looked as though they were about to be ill. One was nearly giddy at her chance to pitch to the Dragons. “I have so many bags. I’m the Dragons’ Den bag lady,” she cried out as she toted a few of those bags towards her chair. “All entrepreneurs have a lot of bags,” someone quipped. There was a smattering of laughter and Joelle smiled. “She’s been entertaining us since she got here,” she said.
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Andrew and Joelle Johnson were among the presenters who pitched a product or idea during the Dragons’ Den auditions held at the Civic Centre in Prince George in February. She seemed happy for the distraction. “They’re still on the first interview,” she explained, staring at the door supplicants disappeared behind as though it was - well, as though it was enclosing a den of dragons. A clock on the wall proclaimed the first presenter had been there nearly an hour already. “They started a bit late,” Joelle explained, also glancing at the time. Andrew explained he’d come to pitch shopscotch.com, a com-
pany he owns with two partners in California, Brian and Meghan Ollenberger. Brian, he said, grew up in Prince George. Shopscotch.com is a web service that watches for the things you would like to buy online, alerting you when they go on sale. The idea for the service was born in the spring of 2012. “We just got started with it, so we’re in the beginning stages,” Andrew said. “It’s looking good. Now we just need to get lots of peo-
on shopscotch,” Joelle said. Then you get an alert if and when the item goes on sale. You can set the parameters of the alert, ensuring it only tells you when and if the item is 25 per cent or 50 per cent off. And, if the item goes on at a better sale price within a month after your purchase, you will get another alert in case you’re eligible for the further discount. Andrew added they
are about 80 per cent complete in being offer shopscotch as an iPhone app as well. “I’m a little nervous right now, but I’ve described it quite a few times,” Andrew said. “So, I’m not too nervous. I’m pretty well versed in describing it and I know it is a good product.” “All together it saved us about $500 over the summer while we were piloting it,” Andrew added.
Following the audition, Andrew said he felt things went very well. “They are going to let us know the beginning of March,” Andrew said. That is when the Canada-wide auditions end. Following that, final selection will be made, he said. About 100 of the entries will make the cut, but only a handful of those will make the show.
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Connections are made to be strengthened and, sometimes, broken. That is what has happened over the past year with the Northern Health Connections bus service, according to regional manager of transport services Reina Pharness. “We saw another increase in ridership last year,” she says, “but we analyzed how the routes were being used. Some of the underutilized routes were cancelled.” However, some other routes have seen changes to provide better service. “Before, the Prince George to Vancouver route ran two direct trips and one trip via Kamloops. Now, all three of the trips are direct. “We got a lot of feedback from riders and found very few patients were going to Kamloops.” Connections allows patients from smaller communities in northern B.C. to come to Prince George for health services, including specialist appointments and services, as well as providing an inexpensive way for northern patients to get to Vancouver for treatment. Pharness says it’s still too early to tell how much of the increase in ridership last year was due to the opening of the new cancer centre in Prince George, but adds
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The forest industry was struggling in the 1990s, facing the fallout of an economic slump in the United States as well as difficulties with the small print in agreements on softwood lumber a decade ago, but now it is vibrant, revitalized thanks in great part to the trade now enjoyed with China, says a senior Canfor executive. The economic value of that trade has increased from about $60 million per year a decade ago to over $1 billion. Wayne Guthrie, senior vice-president, sales and marketing for Canfor, said establishing a reliable trade partnership with China was difficult at first but is stable now. “We believe firmly this market isn’t going away,” Guthrie said. “It’s not going away. China is here to stay.” Guthrie said that B.C. exported lumber for about 160 years, and for 155 of those years the province relied on one market, the U.S., which set the prices on lumber. “We put all the eggs in one basket,” he said. Breaking into the market in China took a lot of collaboration. Guthrie said Canfor competes fiercely with its colleagues, but when the province worked to open a market in China, they worked with other like companies. “We literally went in arm in arm,” he said. “The key gain is to build a new market for B.C.” At the time China had no building codes and didn’t use sized lumber. They introduced the metric two-by-four which is becoming a staple in the Chinese marketplace. Canfor created the Canfor Wood College, allowing working professionals to upgrade their skills building wood-framed structures. In 2008 the Canada Wood Group, an industry marketing association, took the college over. Helping promote wood building, the Chinese central government issued a report stating it supports wood building as a way to mitigate
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Canfor’s Wayne Guthrie says the Asian market has been a key to the rebound of the province’s forest industry. climate change. “There is a slow but sure movement from concrete and steel to wood,” Guthrie said. “In the 1990s and 2000s we were too beholden to the U.S. market.
Chinese demand took off in volume about the same time as the U.S. market was devastated. China was a saviour at that time.” He said there are signs that the
U.S. market is now improving combined with a probability of lumber shortages. However, due to Hurricane Hugo, one of the growing timber supply areas is in the southeast U.S. It’s been 25 years since the devastation of Hugo, when entire plantations were destroyed, and the southern pine that covered the land is now mature and ready for production. Servicing the needs of the U.S. market will leave Canada with some U.S. business combined with a desire to maintain Chinese influence. To illustrate his point, Guthrie quoted Wayne Gretzky: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” He said China has the second biggest economy in the world and it has a tremendous amount of infrastructure that needs to be built. Lumber is being used more and more for that infra-
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ice free. The port is also closer to China than any other in North America, shaving about three days travelling time on shipments. When trade initiated, a lot of what China was buying in lumber was used to construct forms for concrete. That is still a significant part of the market, however more and more is being purchased for building purposes. He added as the middle
class in China grows, so will the market on value-added wood products, like furniture. Guthrie said they intend to continue to grow this market. “We are stealing Russia’s market share in the sale of fibre,” Guthrie said, because B.C. can offer a product that is legally harvested and sustainable. “They are looking at B.C. as a great place to market with in the long run,” he said.
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Candice George sang the four songs of the Carrier nation clans during a ceremony unveiling the Helping Hands plaque for the 16’ Aboriginal carving at UHNBC. Her drummers are Cheryl Webster and Kelsey Abraham. De Ly nd a PILON/ Fre e Pre s s
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The Frog, Beaver, Caribou and Bear clans, the main four of the Carrier nation, are all represented in the 16’ carving decorating the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia’s atrium, and a plaque commemorating the work of art called Helping Hands was unveiled in February, explaining
the significance of the project. The carving, one means of welcoming Aboriginal patients to the hospital, brings culture, art and physical health to the same place, and is one of the many firsts for B.C., MLA Pat Bell said. He said in 1986 the Prince George hospital hired the first ever Aboriginal patient liaison, and now there are
36 in the province. “There has been a shift in Canada in embracing First Nation culture and heritage,” Bell said. He added, coincidentally, the event coincided with a government release saying the high school completion rates for Aboriginal students have increased. “The completion rates have increased, and increased dramatically,” he said, adding they are
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up 14 per cent in the last decade, and have come a long way, though more work needs to be done. Nathan Teegee, head of the project, made several presentations during the event to groups and individuals who helped make his concept a reality. The carving, first unveiled two years ago and blessed through a potlatch, is a symbol of acceptance, Teegee, who is studying to be a doctor alongside his best friend, Lester Todd Alec, said. Seeing the artwork displayed tells Teegee he’s accepted, and he added it says the same thing to his patients, half of whom will be Aboriginal. Reflecting collaboration and harmony, Teegee said Helping Hands seemed an appropriate title, especially considering it is the hands of staff that heal in a medical environment. The hands on the carving, brought to life by Peter George, master carver, and his apprentice, Clayton Gauthier, are each a rough carving created by someone involved with the project, and perfected by the carving team.
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The NORTH (Network of Rural To Tertiary Healthcare) program, with a new office now open in the Victoria Medical building, will allow patients to connect with cardiac specialists, so they still get the care they require while being able to stay closer to home. A ribbon-cutting ceremony last month officially meant the doors to the office were open and gave specialists the chance to discuss some of the attributes of the program, and demonstrate a few of the high-tech instruments that help them serve their patients. MLA Shirley Bond said the timing of the opening was appropriate. “I can’t think of a better way to celebrate heart month,� she said. Bond, whose husband underwent open heart surgery during the Christmas season, spoke about the stellar
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Justin LoChang with Cardiac Services B.C.; Dr. Colleen Hennessy, cardiologist; Suzanne Johnston, Northern Health vice-president clinical program; MLA Shirley Bond; and Barb Hennessy with Cardiac Services officially opened the NORTH clinic. care local doctors give their patients and the importance of creating a network, similar to the northern cancer control strategy, and applying that to heart patients. Video conferencing technology will be available, linking communities, and computerized charts will be kept, making the office virtually
paperless. Doctors will update the charts in real time, meaning the latest diagnosis, patient information and medication information will be available instantly. One of the pieces of equipment demonstrated during the opening was an electronic stethoscope. With it and using the computer and an
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“Remembering the First Easterâ€? by The Gospel Singers at ECRA Saturday, March 23 6:00pm - 8:00pm “Remembering the First Easterâ€? will be performed twice: Saturday, March 23, at 7:00pm Sunday, March 24, at 2:00pm Guest Soloist: Fred McLeod Instrumental Selections from “The Grounds Familyâ€? Admission: Adults $10, Children 5-12 years $5. Tickets at the ofďŹ ce and at the door. Elder Citizens Recreation Centre 1692 10th Ave (250) 561-9381 Email: nadalin@telus.net
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