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Friday, September 6, 2013
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Greens say tanker research ‘subsidy’ to Enbridge Tom Fletcher Black Press
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Happy Coxford, left, owner of the Oak Bay Barber Shoppe on Estevan, clips Brian Stennes’ hair. Stennes is a long-time client and neighbour of Coxford.
The original old boys’ club Danielle Pope News staff
What’s the difference between a hairdresser and a barber? About $20. It’s a joke Happy Coxford shares with the men who fill the waiting bench of the Oak Bay Barber Shoppe. They all laugh and exchange a few stories, but there’s truth in jest. Coxford has been searching for a new hire to fill the second chair of his shop on Estevan Avenue – though he’s given up now. The trouble is, Coxford is one of the few remaining old-school barbers in the district, and his true boys-club location is one of the last
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where men go to get a trim and, well, let off steam. “Most guys don’t know the difference between a good hair cut and a bad one, and they don’t care. They come in here because their wives told them to get a cut, and their wives will be the ones to say if it’s good or not,” Coxford says. What sets a barber apart, in reality, he says, is an ability to use clippers and understand the complexities of a short cut. Coxford makes it look easy as he steadily buzzes through a client every 15 minutes or so, all the while chatting and joking with the room full of waiting men. Yet a careful eye can
witness his intricate hand, the varying levels he uses with the clippers and his casual but exacting approach to each hair. Of course, there’s an ambiance of openness that comes along with the cut. “I don’t let children in here, and do you know why that is? Because I don’t want their mothers in here,” he says with a laugh. “And I don’t cut women’s hair … we’d have to spend the first 15 minutes just talking about how it would make your cheekbones look, and I don’t have time for that.” PlEASE SEE: Oak Bay barber one of the last, Page A8
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Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May accused the Conservative government Wednesday of “doing Enbridge's homework” with $120 million program to study ocean weather and behaviour of heavy oil spills in the ocean around Kitimat. At a news conference in Victoria, May added her voice to that of Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver, who raised questions in the B.C. legislature in July about an ocean monitoring project in support of oil tanker exports as proposed by Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline project. May and Weaver released leaked documents they say show Ottawa spending $78 million this year and $42 million next year for marine weather monitoring and determining how diluted bitumen from the Alberta oil sands would behave in a spill. May said federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty changed the federal budget documents this year to conceal changes to ministry and program spending, making it impossible for MPs to identify spending on programs such as the ocean monitoring on B.C.’s North Coast. “These documents were never made available publicly, and were never made available to parliamentarians,” said May. “As a federal parliamentarian, I am shocked that he [Prime Minister Stephen Harper] seems to think it’s OK to hide this information from parliamentarians while greasing the wheels for Enbridge. … Mr. Harper has a lot of explaining to do.” Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver issued a statement Wednesday, rejecting May's accusation of secrecy. Oliver said he announced the program publicly in Vancouver in March. FINE CUSTOM JEWELLERS “Work on tanker safety is critical to ensure we have we have world-class marine safety on Canada's coastlines,” Oliver said. “While the Green Party and the NDP oppose resource development projects before the science is in, our government will not make decisions until an independent scientific review determines they are safe for Canadians and safe for the environment.”
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