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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017 | Volume 30 No. 115
TOUGH START TO SEASON TODAY’S WEATHER
GANG ATTACK Kamloops Mounties asking for public’s help after known gangster shot and killed in Guerin Creek area
Kamloops Blazers were swept by the Kelowna Rockets on the weekend
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NDP will consult public on pot sales
Christopher Seguin, Thompson Rivers University’s vice-president advancement, died in a Victoria hospital on Friday of an undisclosed illness. He was 39. This photo is of Seguin at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in January 2016. Seguin was part of a group of Kamloopsians who climbed Africa’s tallest peak, raising $90,000 for Developing World Connections. When he reached the summit, Seguin unveiled a sign dedicated to his wife, Melissa, and son, Logan. The couple since had a second son, Harrison.
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Friends and colleagues are mourning the unexpected death of a “pillar of the Kamloops community” who died in a Vancouver Island hospital last week after suddenly falling ill. Christopher Seguin died on
Friday in Victoria. The 39-yearold had been Thompson Rivers University’s vice-president of advancement and de facto spokesman since 2007. He was also active as a community organizer. Devon O’Toole, who described Seguin as his “best friend” and “brother,” said the death has left a void.
“It’s leaving a huge hole,” he said. “Christopher was a pillar of the Kamloops community. A lot of people looked up to him as a role model, mentor and friend.” Seguin was in Victoria on TRU business when he was hospitalized. The circumstances behind his hospitalization and ultimate death have not been made public.
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The NDP has pledged a five-week consultation period to come up with a made-in-B.C. model to sell retail marijuana in this province. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth told reporters Monday that system could include using different retail models in different parts of the province, noting what works in Vancouver may not work in Prince George, Zeballos or Atlin. “They all have different points of view and they’re often not captured,” he said. The City of Kamloops will be among those with a voice, said Deputy Mayor Arjun Singh. “I really appreciate the announcement for the minster to work collaboratively with Kamloops and other local governments,” Singh said. A City of Kamloops staff member will be on a working committee to give input into the retail model. Other questions that must be addressed include drug-impaired driving, public consumption and possession limits. Farnworth said the marijuana industry, including illegal dispensaries operating across the province,
will also have opportunity to have input into the model for retail sales. The move comes as the federal government is set to make sale of recreational marijuana legal by July 2018. Production will come from federally regulated licensed producers, but the provinces must come up with the retail model, including an age at which it can be legally purchased. Ontario announced this month it will sell marijuana through government-owned retail outlets. It put dispensaries on notice to shut down before they are prosecuted. But Farnworth said B.C. — late out of the gate due to the spring provincial election and uncertainty about which party would lead the province — is seeking input. “Unlike other parts of the country, we know there’s an industry and we want to make sure whatever framework is in place, we hear from the industry and affected groups,” he said. Chuck McCarthy, local operator of Weeds Glass & Gifts in North Kamloops, said he welcomes the opportunity to have a say, but wants to see how that will happen.
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