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Combing for clues Investigators from the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit fan out as they search for clues that could lead them to a missing 51-yearold Victoria man on a Prospect Lake-area property last Thursday. The multi-day search began on June 2 and has included helicoptor support from the RCMP. More than 90 officers are involved in the process, and police have not ruled out the possibility of locating human remains on the site. See saanichnews.com for the latest information on this story. Daniel Palmer/News staff
High-tech lab CanAssist knows no bounds Assistive technology facility finds creative ways to help those with limited abilities Travis Paterson News staff
If James Bond had a secret lab designing spy gadgets in Saanich, this would be it. In theory, if 007 suffered permanent dam-
age to his arm and needed an adapter to operate his favourite firearm, CanAssist could do make it happen – free of charge. “We don’t copyright this stuff, anything anyone wants to learn from us, we try to share it,” says CanAssist electrical engineering specialist Paul Green. The team allows open access to their work when requested, Green adds. As Green leads an informal walk through CanAssist’s impressive new work shop in the University of Victoria’s Centre for Sports, Recreation and Special Abilities,
he points out one apparatus after another, each one spread out in pieces across the large table during development stage. The wall-sized windows of the new CanAssist shop not only let in a refreshingly Hawaii’an amount of natural light. They also look directly across the parking lot at CanAssist’s former residence, E-Hut, the army-green coloured bunker that is symbolic of CanAssist’s first 16 years, and as a relic of the Second World War era Gordon Head military camp. Even CanAssist’s new office area in CARSA is bigger than E-Hut,
but it’s the work shop that’s probably the coolest part of the new $77 million CARSA. “You had to love E-Hut, but it was so small,” Green says of CanAssist’s former space. “We were cramped, literally fighting for every square inch of workspace.” And yet from that little hut came hundreds of life changing projects for residents of Greater Victoria and B.C. And CanAssist is only growing. PlEASE SEE: Technology gives power back, Page A3
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