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Is Dick Harris worth more than Nathan Cullen?He certainly costs more. About $100,000 more.Members of parliament expenditures were released this
week with Harris, the MP for Cariboo-Prince George, billing $515,243; one of the costliest MPs in the country. Cullen, MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley had expenditures of $416,368 for the period April 1, 2012 to March 31, 2013. Prince George-Peace River MP Bob Zimmer was almost exactly midway between the other two with expenditures of $461,244.
For all three, the largest expenditure is employees’
salaries. Harris’ staff cost $264,641, Cullen’s $212,767, and Zimmer’s $257,553.
So where are the diff erences?Travel is a big expense for all three MPs. Harris, however,
travels more than the other two with travel expense bill of $$77,753. Cullen is also putting the miles on with travel ex-penses of $76,507. Zimmer isn’t on the move quite a much billing out only $$56,945 in travel costs.
Harris’s travel expenses, however, are much larger in the category of designated traveller, which is someone he can designate to travel with him. Harris’ designated traveller bill was $51,773 while Cullen’s was $5,752 and Zimmer’s was $5,879.
For dependents travel, Cullen billed $8,869, Zimmer billed $9,119, and Harris $14,493.
Cullen is more apt to take staff with him when he travels, billing $22,703 for staff travel. Zimmer billed $11,503 in staff travel while Harris billed $14,137.
Harris billed $9654 in accommodation and per diem expenses, Zimmer billed $6,406, and Cullen $2,616.
All three are also accommodated for keeping a secondary residence in Ottawa with costs coming in fairly equal. Har-ris billed $16,500, Zimmer $19,800 and Cullen $18,383.
Zimmer spent the most of the three on advertising and constituency offi ce leases with an advertising bill of $12,118 and a constituency offi ce cost of $41,093. Harris spent $1,240 on advertising and his constituency offi ce cost $18,997.
Cullen spent $9,556 on advertising and $23,184 on his constituence offi ce.
Bill [email protected]
Harris tops MP expense list
Teresa MALLAM/Free PressRiders get ready to roll Sunday from CN Centre parking lot for the 2013 Salvation Army Toy Run. The annual fundraising event collects toys for children to be dis-tributed by the Salvation Army at Christmas.
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company’s products are typically American, “imported from Detroit”. For the time being, Chrysler has a rela-tively small catalogue. The fi rst vehicle on offer is the mid-sized 200, available as a reasonably priced front-wheel-drive sedan that is powered by a four-cylinder engine or by a revolutionary Pentastar V-6. It is also available as a great look-ing convertible with a solid retractable roof and a four-cylinder or V-6 engine.
The Chrysler brand is also well known for its typically American-looking 300 full-sized sedan. This rear-wheel drive can be had with the Pentastar V-6 engine or the legendary HEMI V-8. There is even a performance version called the SRT-8, which features a 470-horsepower V-8. By the way, some 300s are available with all-wheel drive.
Chrysler’s biggest vehi-cle is still the front-wheel-
drive Town & Country luxury van. It is only available with the Pentastar V-6 and a six-speed automatic transmission. By the way, all these Chrysler products are sold under the Lancia nameplate in Europe, where they can be had with diesel engines that are not sold in North America. Expect more news from Chrysler in the very near future.
Chrysler still offers its very popular 200 model.Chrysler still offers its very popular 200 model.
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Another hydroelectric project is being proposed for northern Brit-ish Columbia.
However, this one is being viewed as an environmental resto-ration project more than a power project. And, it will go a long way towards righting a First Nation injustice.
Last week, Cheslatta Carrier Na-tion Chief Richard Peters handed over a water licence application to FrontCounterBC manager Tim Mergen.
Th e application is the start of Nechako River Legacy Project, a $280 million project that would see water directed from the Ken-ney Dam reservoir back into the old Nechako River and the construction of a 45-megawatt hydroelectric project.
“Submitting this application
formally starts the process of getting back the water that was taken from us 62 years ago when the government issued a private company license to all of the water in Cheslatta Traditional Territory,” said Peters.
Th at occurred when the Kenney Dam was built in 1952. Th e result was the fl ooding of a large portion of the Cheslatta territory, includ-ing cemeteries.
Even though it was 62 years ago, remains are still being discovered in Cheslatta Lake, the latest being last week.
“Until the Cheslatta is back to a state it was formerly at, we will continue to fi nd bones,” said Pe-ters. “It’s a very painstaking event to go and fi nd human remains and try to fi nd out who they belong to. People can’t relate to that idea of us fi nding our ancestors in the lake.”
Water release from the Skins
Lake Spillway causes water fl uctuations in Cheslatta Lake, which then erodes the shoreline uncovering the human remains. Th e Nechako River Legacy Project is designed to stop the fl ooding of Cheslatta Lake and release the reservoir water directly into the old Nechako River. Th at would result in water fl owing through a fi ve-mile long course in the Nechako canyon that has been dry since 1952.
Th e work now for the Cheslatta is two-fold – get all the permits and approvals in place, and raising enough money to fund the project.
Th e permits and approvals include securing a electricity pur-chase agreement with BC Hydro and an agreement with Rio Tinto Alcan, which current-ly holds the water licence for 100 per cent of the water in the Nechako.
“Once we get an energy
purchase in place, then we’re going to seek private investors to fi nance the project,” said Mike Robert-son, senior policy advisor for the Cheslatta. “Th ere possibly could be some federal and provincial funding, but we’re not counting on that.”
Th e key discussions will be with Rio Tinto Alcan.
“Th e same water is going to be coming downstream, we just need to hold the licence ourselves in order to fi nance and get the approvals,” said Peters. “But, of course, Alcan also owns the Ken-ney Dam so we have to come to arrangements on access and some property out there.”
Rio Tinto Alcan spokesperson
Colleen Nyce could not accom-modate an interview request from the Free Press, however said in an email that the Cheslatta proposal has no impact on its water licence and that the company will “coop-erate fully” with the Cheslatta.
Th e project will be adjacent to the Kenney Dam, basically anoth-er spillway. Th e project will have to go through an environmental review process. If all the pieces fall into place, the Cheslatta are optimistic that they could begin construction within three years.
Human remains that are be-ing found are being examined at UNBC. Th e Cheslatta are building a tomb for the remains and will eventually re-bury the remains.
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Bill PHILLIPS/Free PressFrontCounterBC manager Tim Mergen (left) accepts a water licence application from Cheslatta Chief Richard Peters while band councillors Ted Jack and Hazel Burt look on.
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Th e general manager of the McBride Community Forest Cor-poration (MCFC) accepts the fi nd-ings of a Forest Practices Board
(FPB) audit, but not the way they were presented.
“While we accept the fi nd-ings of the audit,” Marc von der Gonna said in response to written questions, “we are extremely disappointed with the conclusions drawn by the FPB in their press release and commentary.”
In that press release, FPB chair Al Gorley said the results of the audit were not up to the standards of other community forests which had undergone similar audits.
“Each of these fi ndings has po-tential implications for the overall sound management of forest re-sources,” he said, “and collectively
they raise serious questions about the community forest corporation’s diligence and attention to detail.”
Th e audit, which exam-ined the activities of the MCFC from Sept. 1, 2010 to Sept. 1, 2012, found a num-ber of non-compliances with provincial legislation.
Among these were failing to show road locations on site maps, which in one case led to a poorly constructed road causing environmental damage. According to the audit report, a small stream was diverted by the con-struction, and a trench had to be put in place to redirect the stream to Clyde Creek. Th e road was also construct-ed adjacent to Clyde Creek and, for about 40 metres, ran inside the 30-metre riparian reserve zone.
Von der Gonna says the MCFC was taking steps to remedy that situation before the audit was fi nished.
“We were already working with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to develop and implement a rehabilitation plan in the sum-mer of 2012. Th e rehabilitation works were carried out in June and July of 2012, and inspected and signed off by DFO three months prior to the fi eld portion of the FPB audit.”
Th e audit report also noted MCFC had used fi ve access roads which it was not authorized to use.
Von der Gonna says that was true during the period of the audit, but no more.
“We were working on getting approval for one cutting approval over our whole community forest area, thereby authorizing our use of all roads. Th is was issued to us on Sept. 13, 2012. Nevertheless, the audit reported on not having authority during the window of the audit.”
He says the MCFC considers the biggest problem brought up in the report being communication with government.
“We consider the most sig-nifi cant problem discussed in the
audit being the reporting to gov-ernment. In late 2011 we decided to purchase our electronic data management system and have in-house staff trained in its use.
“We are now fully caught up in our reporting requirements.”
It was also noted in the au-dit that MCFC has a licence for 50,000 cubic metres of harvest annually, but over the two years covered by the audit, they har-vested about 123,000.
“We operate in a fi ve-year cut control window,” von der Gonna explains, “that allows us to harvest 250,000 cubic metres any time within that fi ve-year window.
“Within the two-year audit win-dow, the markets were pretty poor, therefore our small-market loggers were operating with less of a profi t margin. As such, we allowed them to harvest slightly more than normal.”
Von der Gonna says they were satisfi ed with the thoroughness of the FPB audit, but feels it doesn’t go far enough in its fi ndings.
“Unfortunately, the audit is looking for strict compliance with legislation and is not mandated to look at all the good things MCFC is doing for the community, for instance, recreation site mainte-
nance or collabora-tive research with the universities.”
While he says MCFC has addressed many of the issues cited in the audit, he adds correct-ing past problems is not the answer.
“MCFC is com-mitted to continuous improvement and reserves the right to do better tomorrow than we did today. We are constantly monitoring our operations and welcome any sugges-tions for improve-ment.”
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Th e search for the College of New Caledonia’s next president offi cially began Friday, as board members met with representatives from the search fi rm selected to help with the process.
Odgers Berndtson offi cials met with the college com-munity this week and also launched a survey to get feedback from CNC and community members about who they would like to see lead the college.
“We chose Odgers because they had the best proposal and are one of the best search fi rms in the country,” said Sandra Rossi, executive director of human resources. “We invite everyone interested in the College’s future to click on the survey and tell us what they believe the upcoming opportunities and challenges are for CNC and what kind of leadership style they would like to see in a new president.”
Go to www.cnc.bc.ca to fi ll out the survey, which will close on October 4.
Odgers is working with CNC’s search committee on timelines and the College hopes to have the new presi-dent in place for the summer of 2014.
Dr. Bryn Kulmatycki is currently in the role of interim president. He replaced John Bowman, who became presi-dent of North Island College on August 1, 2013.
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressRider Judy Abbott says goodbye – for a good cause – to a stuffed bear before dropping into the Salvation Army bin. Toys collected in the Toy Run Sunday will be distributed by the Salvation Army to children in need at Christmas.
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Teresa MALLAM/Free PressGuest speaker Dr. Margaret MacDiarmid, left, chats with Dr. Michelle Sutter at Evening of Pink following a fundrais-ing dinner at the Prince George Civic Centre.
It’s a hard way to learn life’s lessons – but cancer is a good teacher and it can make you a better person.
In her keynote address at the ninth annual Evening of Pink recently, Dr. Margaret McDiarmid, a former politician and family physician, said she learned a valu-able lesson aft er her diagnosis of triple negative breast cancer.
“I didn’t want cancer to defi ne me,” she said. “I am not what I do... I learned to value myself as a person and a human being.”
MacDiarmid had just turned 50 when she got the news that would alter, and for a time sidetrack, her life’s path as a rising star in the political arena. She went on to become MLA for Vancouver-Fairview with several important portfolios including B.C. Minister of Health.
In her talk, MacDiarmid spoke with characteristic wry sense of humour about her defeat in the provincial election in 2013.
But the focus was on her win over adversity. “I am healthy today. I don’t have any sign of the
disease,” she said amid audience applause. Along with facts and fi gures about breast cancer,
MacDiarmid spoke of new drugs and treatment be-ing used for the disease which strikes both men and women. She talked about her own experience.
“It was in my left breast,” she said, then paused and smiled. “I’m not going to show you my scar.”
Her frankness made people laugh. Indeed, her ability to laugh at herself and see the
humour in life, saw her through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
“Humour is a way you can cope with a diffi cult situation,” she said.
In October 2007, at age 50, MacDiarmid had to delay her nomination bid and political aspirations when it was discov-ered she had cancer. As it was Halloween time, she arrived for her breast surgery wearing a black witches’ costume complete with hat and broom.
“I took a big bag of candy.”Humour may have been her way of coping but everyone is
diff erent, she said. “Everyone’s diff erent. Everyone’s experience is diff erent...
while I was having chemotherapy, I needed help... and people love helping.”
However, there were low points and MacDiarmid says she plans to pay it forward someday, and help someone else who may be struggling with the eff ects of chemotherapy.
“I found it hard to have no hair ...and, at one point, no eyebrows or eyelashes.”
Cancer patients go through a series of emotions, she said.“I was shocked. I felt fear, sadness and grief... I found it
helpful to read, but that is not everybody’s cup of tea. Th ere’s a library of great resources and librarians who can help by packaging up a book and sending it out.”
She always had hope for her own survival, she said, because as a medical student back in the 1980s, she’d known some-one who’d had cancer and received chemotherapy and who almost died twice – but survived.
Her own cancer was discovered following a screening mammogram which led to further testing. Cancer is graded, she said, noting that unlike school exams when you want a high score, with cancer you do not.
“I was graded nine out of nine.”Th e cancer was found early and fortunately was a “very
small cancer” but as a triple negative cancer it is a more ag-gressive type, she said, and therefore more potentially deadly.
“Cancer cells usually have receptors on them such as estro-gen receptors which can respond to drugs that help to kill the cancer cells.
“If you have triple negative cancer and treatments don’t work, they don’t have anything else they can give you.”
She credits early detection with her positive outcome.“I feel the mammogram almost certainly saved my life,” she
said. Pointing to facts about breast cancer, the most common
type of cancer for women and second most deadly form of cancer for women, MacDiarmid said statistics show that if we live to be 90, there’s a one in nine chance of being diagnosed with breast cancer.
However, she focussed on the good news: Women today in Canada who have breast cancer are living longer, and B.C. has the best survival rate in the country. Treatments have im-proved with a move towards individualized treatment plans.
“Th ere are encouraging things on the horizon.” People who experience cancer – not that they would wish to have cancer – oft en say they appreciate life more, MacDiarmid said.
“What a lot of them say is, ‘I’m a better person because I had cancer... Life is a gift .”
During her whirlwind tour of Prince George, she visited what she called the “wonderfully gorgeous” new cancer cen-tre, UNBC medical school and Kordyban Lodge.
Evening of Pink is an annual fundraiser with proceeds go-ing to Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation to help with the purchase of new equipment used in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
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One might think it strange that the new guy heading up the Council of Forest Industries (COFI) doesn’t have a background in the forest industry.
However, might be exactly what the organi-zation representing interior forest companies needs.
“We really wanted a new set of eyes,” said COFI chair Nick Arkle in introducing new James Gorman as the new president and chief executive offi cer of the organization. He suc-ceeds John Allan in the role.
Gorman brings extensive public policy and senior management experience to the position. Most recently he was deputy minister of Ad-vanced Education and prior to that as Deputy of Education (K-12), where he toiled for Shir-ley Bond when she was education minister, and the BC Public Service Agency. Gorman has a master’s degree in political science from McGill University and a bachelors degree from the University of British Columbia.
“We wanted someone who has dealt with complex issues,” said Arkle. “We saw that in James. It’s important to have someone who can get out in front of issues, not just react.”
As for Gorman, he’s obviously looking for-ward to his new job.
“It’s a privilege to take on the role,” he said. “Th e industry is still the backbone of the prov-
ince … It’s recovering at a steady rate. It’s an exciting industry going through some remark-able transformation at the moment.”
Some of those issues, however, will be familiar … the soft wood lumber agreement is percolating in the not-to-distant future, the pine beetle and resultant short- and mid-term timber supply issues, timber pricing and more will all be on Gorman’s plate.
“It is so much about making the industry successful,” he said. “Government understands and recognizes how important this is to the communities across British Columbia. I think government is also looking for ways that it can strengthen the industry and, in doing so, strengthen the communities where the forest industry resides.”
His experience in government, he hopes, will help bridge gaps between the industry and government. He has already starting meeting with COFI members, government offi cials and will be meeting with local stakeholders.
One of the key areas that COFI will be ad-dressing over the next while are eff ect of the mountain pine beetle and the resultant issues.
“Th e short- and mid-term timber supply issues and how you mitigate the impact of reductions on annual allowable cuts is some-thing we will be spending a lot of time on,” said Arkle.
Another issue that is an issue around the industry is timber pricing.
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If you want Nathan Cullen to lead the provincial New Democrats, keep lobbying him.
Th e Bulkley Valley-Skeena MP, who was one of the contenders for the federal leadership, hasn’t made up his mind yet whether he will make the jump to the provincial scene.
“Even a few months ago it seemed like a remote possibility, I was cool to the idea,” Cullen told northern media yesterday morning. “I’m still cool to the idea, but it has been warming up to me.”
A big part of the reason he’s warming up to the idea is that he is being lobbied by party members, at all levels, to take a run at the provincial leader-ship. Current leader Adrian Dix announced last week he will step down as soon as a new leader can be chosen, hopefully by early next year.
Th at lobbying, Cul-len says, has been by people whose opinion and views he respects. And, he’s humbled by the confi dence party members are putting in him.
“Th e off ers have been incredibly sin-cere,” he said “I’ve been kind of surprised, I keep thinking they’re talking about someone else.”
One of the things that is holding him back is that he is com-mitted to what he is doing as a member of the Offi cial Opposition in Ottawa.
“Th ere’s just so much to do and it’s good work,” he said, adding that he will launch a tour of the North next month to gain input on what the area thinks about liquefi ed natural gas.
He will start his tour in Prince George, coincid-ing with the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council’s lique-fi ed natural gas summit.
Th ere are plenty of others who are being touted as possible contenders for the leadership and Cul-len says the talent pool is pretty deep. John Horgan and Mike Farworth, who both sought the leader-ship last time are “formidable voices,” said Cullen. He added that David Eby, who defeated Christy Clark in the Vancouver-Point Grey riding is “fan-tastic, as it George Heyman.”
One of the good things, Cullen said, is that dis-cussion within the party isn’t focusing solely on the new leader, but about winning the next election.
“Th ere’s not a worry in my mind that if I don’t go then it’s Bad News Bears,” said Cullen.
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In collaboration with the Canada Games Council and the Northern Health Authority, the 2015 Canada Winter Games Host Society has ap-pointed three members of
its medical services team.Dr. Janet Ames has been named as
chief medical offi cer, Brian Ferrance, chief therapist and Joanne Archer, head nurse. Th ese three planning volunteers will begin developing the medical services plan and recruiting members of the medical team for the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
As chief medical offi cer, Ames will be responsible for overall medical services of the Games.
Ames has a private practice in orthopedic and sport medicine, is the medical director for the CBI Health Rehabilitation Centre and clinic physician for the Opt Youth Clinic at Northern Interior Health. She served as a member of the host medical staff for curling at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the chief medical offi cer for the Canadian health care team at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and was a member of the medical team for the Kamloops 1993 Canada Summer Games.
Ames has also been involved in many sporting events as part of the medical team such as the Canadian
cross country ski team, Canadian Figure Skating Association, Prince George Cougars, and Canadian women’s judo team.
Farrance is the owner of Brian Far-rance Orthotics. His role will support Ames’ by recruiting and managing the team of therapists. Most recently, Farrance served as an athletic thera-pist with the Halifax 2011 Canada Winter Games and the 2010 Vancou-ver Winter Olympics. Farrance has worked as part of the medical team for many Canada games including the Grand Prairie 1995 Canada Win-ter Games, Kelowna 1993 Canada Summer Games, Prince Edward Island 1991 Canada Winter Games, and the Saskatoon 1989 Canada Summer Games.
Archer is the education and best practices coordinator for the provin-cial Health Services Authority, Pro-vincial Infection Control Network. In addition to being a registered nurse, she also holds a Critical Nursing Certifi cate, Advanced Emergency Nursing Diploma, a Bachelor of Technology in Specialty Nursing and a Masters of Arts, Disability Manage-ment. Archer was also a member of the athletes’ medical team from the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria.
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