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A green Christmas is being fore-casted for most of Canada this year, but that shouldn’t be a concern for West Kootenay powder hounds and white Christmas enthusiasts.

Monday morning commuters in the Greater Trail area were met with over 10 cm of snow, and more is expected to fall throughout the week according to the drivebc.ca website.

“Another system is coming Wednesday afternoon or evening, bring-ing similar amounts of precipitation, but milder temperatures,” said Jesse Ellis, forecaster for Southeast Fire Centre.

The drivebc website is warning driv-ers of compact snow and slippery sec-tions throughout the region, with a heavy snowfall warning in effect and a

40 per cent chance of flurries to con-tinue.

Environment Canada (EC) issued a snowfall warning for the region, and forecasts an additional, “five-to-15 cm in the vicinity of Trail, Rossland and Warfield.”

As expected, the wintery weather has impacted the driving conditions.

The Trail RCMP detachment reported four accidents over the weekends that were weather related.

There are no road closures, but the Rossland hill had its usual difficulties (Monday), said Sergeant Rob Hawton, of the Trail and Greater District RCMP.

J.F. Auto Towing reported half a dozen calls over the weekend, mostly to pull cars out of the ditch.

But while the snow made for miser-able driving, it did put smiles on snow-sports enthusiasts.

Red Mountain Resort is a winter wonderland reporting snowfall of 28 cm over the weekend, with more on the way this week.

“Our conditions compared to a year ago are night and day,” said Mika Hakkola, communication manager for the resort.

“Last year we opened on Dec. 18 with 86 cm, and this year to date, we’re at 183 cm already.”

Chances of having snow on the ground are looking bleak for many other Canadians, David Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist told national reporters on Monday.

Ontario, Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan in particular are going to be green.

“Out west, not only is it going to be a white Christmas, it’s going to be a white Easter,” he said.

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Rob Cromarty, a City of Trail employee, was out bright and early on Monday to clear a pathway for morning pedestrians who walk the bridge. Over 10cm of snow fell overnight.

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B Y T I M O T H Y S C H A F E RTimes Staff

The cost of Teck’s historical troubles down-stream on the Upper Columbia River in the U.S. won’t be known for another three years as the company was delivered another legal salvo Friday in its attempt to clean up its act in the U.S.

In a decision announced late Friday in Eastern Washington, Judge Lonny Suko ruled Teck Metals Ltd. was liable for the cost of cleaning up the con-tamination in the river south of the border.

According to a declaratory judg-ment, Teck is respon-sible under the U.S. Superfund Law and the Comprehensive E n v i r o n m e n t a l R e s p o n s e , C o m p e n s a t i o n , and Liability Act (CERCLA) for response costs, the amount of which will be determined in a subse-quent phase of the case.

That cost won’t be known until maybe 2015, said Richard Deane, Teck’s manager of public affairs.

“We expect that phase to be deferred until the current studies of the Upper Columbia River in the U.S. are largely complete,” he said.

The ruling was not unexpected, he added, as Teck had acknowledged in September that historical discharges from Teck Trail Operations for 100 years from its mining and smelting operations polluted the Columbia River in Washington.

Teck made the “admission of fact” in a law-suit brought by Colville Confederated Tribes over environmental damage caused by the efflu-ent discharges dating back to 1896.

The company entered into an agreement regarding certain facts with the plaintiffs—in Pakootas et al versus Teck Metals Ltd.—in civil court proceedings under CERCLA.

Under the agreement Teck stated some haz-ardous substances in the slag and effluent dis-charged from the Teck Trail Operations between

See TECK, Page 3

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State”RICHARD DEANE

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Cuebidding: You have seen cuebids used to show a limit raise, to ask if the overcall was a full opener, to ask for a stopper, and just to say “tell me more, partner.” Furthermore, a direct cuebid shows a play-able two-suiter.

Here, the cue-bids show first round control on the way to a slam in a known major fit. Cuebidding the same suit a second time shows second round control. Failing to cuebid a suit denies the control.

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North recognizes that he has no wasted club values. He could bid four spades at this point, but his hand is too strong. Therefore, he cuebids hearts again showing second round control too. South knows a void is also second round

control; consequently, he realizes North is temporizing so that South can use keycard Blackwood.

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The contract: Seven Spades by South

The opening lead: The eight of clubs.

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Neil Jarvie received the Minister of Veterans Affairs Commendation last week at a ceremony in Vancouver. This is awarded to individuals who have performed commendable service to the Veteran community and/or individuals who represent commendable role models for their fellow Veterans. Jarvie is a member of Branch 11of The Royal Canadian Legion (RCL) in Trail. He has served in a number of executive pos-itions including president and past-president. He is currently the chair of a committee that assists Veterans and other members with funer-als, and he officiates at these services when-ever called upon. He attends local parades and events and carries the Branch Colours. He assists the Branch and the Ladies Auxiliary with equipment arrangements, and he sup-ports the activities and events in both organ-izations. Jarvie was an active member of the Trail Cenotaph Revitalization Project and of the Convention Committee for the B.C. and Yukon Command 2009 Provincial Convention. For the last 10 years, Jarvie has held the position of Zone Poppy Chairperson.

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His press release stated this company has been identified by the Better Business Bureau as having a pattern of complaints such as aggressive high-pressure sales tactics by some individual salespeople; instances of selling to vulnerable seniors; problems with some of the vacuum machines and air purifiers purchased; and consumer difficulty with cancelling their direct sales contracts.

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The children’s horse drawn carriage rides were a big hit in downtown Trail on Saturday. Nearly 350 children and their families turned out for the first offering of this Silver City Nites event, which included an animated movie and treasure hunt.

FROM PAGE 11896 and 1995 ended up in the Upper Columbia River in the U.S.

The latest decision gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) the ability to tell Teck to pay for the clean up, and for any ongoing damages and losses that result from the contam-ination.

That issue has yet to be determined by the court.

Teck will now review with counsel and determine what the next steps will be.

Irrespective of the legal process, the company remains “fully” committed to complet-ing the studies on the Upper Columbia River in the U.S that are required to assess

the risks to the contaminants, said Deane.

“And, if necessary, we are committed to remedy the effects of past practices on the Upper Columbia River in Washington State,” he said.

To date, Teck has invested $55 million in cooperation with the U.S EPA on the “comprehensive investigation of environmental conditions in the Upper Columbia River in Washington State,” Deane explained.

The study of the river is largely advanced but it will be a few years yet until analysis is complete.

“And the initial results we are seeing is it is very encour-aging and they are showing that the beaches are safe, that

the water quality in the river is better than water qual-ity standards in the U.S. and Canada,” he said, “and further, the fish in the river are safer to eat than in any other water body in Washington State.”

According to a Canadian Press story Monday, the Washington Court dismissed Teck’ s attempt to avoid US liti-gation under Environmental Protection Law by claiming a Canadian company outside the US can not be held liable for damages.

The judge also found that Teck knew the hazard-ous waste disposed of in the Columbia River—heavy met-als such as lead, mercury, zinc and arsenic—was likely to cause harm.

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School trustees will face the music in the communities they plan to close schools in after voting to hold their debates back-to-back in the communities of Rossland and Castlegar.

The board of School District 20 (Kootenay Columbia) voted in favour of splitting second reading into two meetings and holding debate on the bylaws in respective communities in order to give par-ents a first hand look at the ration-ale behind the decisions.

Castlegar rural trustee Mickey Kinakin said in his discussions with parents of Twin Rivers Elementary School in Castlegar, the one thing they really wanted to see was a direct, face-to-face contact with the board and staff when the decision was made.

Kinakin brought the motion for-ward at the regular monthly board meeting in Blueberry Monday night.

“This is a motion of respect. It’s showing respect to the parents of the children we serve on behalf of the provincial government.”

First reading of what could potentially be two bylaws related to reconfiguration and closures of Twin Rivers and one school in Rossland will take place Feb. 4. Second reading (if necessary) will then take place Tuesday, Feb. 12 in Rossland and Wednesday, Feb. 13 in Castlegar.

Originally, once the public com-ment period was over, the board of directors planned to move swiftly into a decision, with first readings coming Feb. 4, followed by one meeting Tuesday, Feb. 12 and third

and final reading of any potential bylaws coming Monday, Feb. 25.

The final date for third reading still holds. All locations within the communities are yet to be deter-mined.

There will be an extra meeting added to the mix, said superintend-ent of schools, Greg Luterbach.

“The board will host a special, closed meeting with affected school (parent advisory committee) repre-sentatives after the public forums but before bylaw readings,” he said, noting that no details were ready.

“They feel they can be heard a lot better with a small group and the trustees meeting together meeting with them and discussing the report they put forward to the board,” said Kinakin on the special meeting.

According to the SD20 website, the board will still be hosting a public forum on Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Rossland Secondary School gym to discuss potential closures or reconfigurations in the Rossland and Greater Trail area. Two days later on Thursday the Castlegar public forum takes place at 6:30 p.m. in the Twin Rivers Elementary School Gym.

The district approved a salary that will be paid to Wendy Herbert, a retired superintendent from SD 64 (Gulf Islands) who has been hired to help district staff and guide the board through the final steps of the facilities review. She will facili-tate two meetings, including public forums, and co-develop resources.

Trustee Mark Wilson, chair of the facilities and finance commit-tee, told the board she will receive around $12,000 plus expenses for her work.

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addicted sex workers in Vancouver’s troubled Downtown Eastside led to a series of failures that allowed serial killer Robert Pickton to spend years hunting his victims unimpeded by police, a public inquiry has found.

Commissioner Wally Oppal’s 1,448-page final report, released Monday, chronicles years of mistakes that allowed Pickton to lure dozens of women to his farm in Port Coquitlam, B.C., with little interference from police and even less con-cern from the public.

Some of those problems were structural - poor co-operation between Vancouver police and the RCMP, for example - but many were a result of something far more insidious and difficult to cure.

“Would the response of the Vancouver police and the public have been any different if these women had come from the west side of town? I think the answer is clear,” Oppal told The Canadian Press in an interview discussing his report’s conclusions.

“There was an institutional, systemic bias against the women. ... They were poor, they were aboriginal, they were drug addicted and they were not taken seriously.”

Those biases were compounded by a lack of leadership among Vancouver police and the RCMP, he said. Still, Oppal concluded the effects of that bias were not intentional, leading to sys-temic failures rather than a conscious decision to ignore Vancouver’s missing women.

Oppal spent eight months hearing evidence about the failed investigations by the Vancouver police and the Port Coquitlam RCMP into reports of missing sex workers and evidence that Pickton was a suspect. The result is a highly critical docu-ment that describes parallel yet largely separate investigations that were each plagued by indiffer-ence and poor police work.

Oppal made 63 recommendations, including a regional police force for the greater Vancouver region, immediate improvements to services for sex workers, changes to police policies to ensure they reflect the needs of the impoverished women in the Downtown Eastside and more services for sex workers and other vulnerable women.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - There still isn’t enough sup-

port from the provinces to expand the Canada Pension Plan, but Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says there’s hope of “a way forward” provided the economy continues to grow.

Flaherty, who spent the day meeting with his provincial counterparts, says they agreed to establish a set of economic “triggers” based on GDP and job growth that would allow the pen-sion plan to expand without endangering the economy.

“There’s no consensus on CPP expansion at this time,” Flaherty said.

“The ministers did agree that we would task our officials with working on definitions of ‘modest increase’ and ‘economic triggers’ that we would then discuss at our next meeting in June.”

Ottawa and provinces will work for the next six months to map out a strategy for moving ahead, Flaherty told a wrap-up news conference Monday.

He says ministers want to establish “triggers” on GDP growth and employment that would permit expanding the pension program without risking damage to the economy.

Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, one of the most vocal proponents of urgent pen-sion reform, says he’s encouraged by the meet-ing, even if the pace of discussions is a bit slow for his liking.

“There isn’t consensus for moving forward now, but there’s certainly an overwhelming majority of the provinces that do want to move forward,” Duncan said.

A “substantial minority” of middle-income Canadians aren’t saving enough for retirement, Duncan said.

‘Modest’ CPP expansion possible: Flaherty

T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SOTTAWA - Ottawa’s decision to snuff its role

in dispensing medical marijuana has ignited a debate over how the move will impact public health and safety.

A range of groups - including those repre-senting law enforcement officials, physicians and medical cannabis advocates - were react-ing Sunday after the federal health ministry announced it will stop producing and distribut-ing medicinal pot in favour of opening the mar-ket to private companies.

The current program has allowed anyone with a government permit to grow it them-selves, including in their own homes. But the Conservatives argue that with 26,000 permits handed out over the past decade, the system has become unwieldy and resulted in “unintended consequences.”

“We have heard real concerns from law enforcement, fire officials and municipalities about how people are hiding behind these rules to conduct illegal activity,” Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said in a release.

The government intends to implement chan-ges by March 31, 2014 that will do away with the

system of individual permits so that only com-panies meeting security requirements can grow and sell the drug.

The move has drawn criticism from a number of sides, and not everyone against the changes supports the use of medical marijuana.

Doctors represented by the Canadian Medical Association used harsh words to pan the move, arguing the government is abdicating its neces-sary role as regulator.

“There’s huge potential for harm to patients and the federal government’s decision is equiva-lent to asking doctors to prescribe while blind-folded,” said Dr. Anna Reid, CMA president.

Standing most staunchly in support of the government are associations representing Canadian fire chiefs and police chiefs. They agree that removing permits from individuals will pro-mote health and safety because the change will legally eliminate the ability for people to grow pot in their own homes.

Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu, who heads the chiefs of police association, said the changes are “necessary to reduce the risk of abuse and exploitation” by criminals seeking to make a profit.

Feds to ban medical pot grow-ops


OPINION

The history of guns and culture in America

Here’s an interest-ing statistic: the s e c o n d - h i g h -est rate of gun

ownership in the world is in Yemen, a largely tribal, extremely poor coun-try. The highest is in the United States, where there are almost as many guns as people: around 300 mil-lion guns for 311 million people.

But here’s another interesting statistic: in the past 25 years, the propor-tion of Americans who own guns has fallen from about one in three to only one in five. However, the United States, unlike Yemen, is a rich country, and the aver-age American gun-owner has four or five firearms. Moreover, he or she is utterly determined to keep them no matter what hap-pens.

What has just hap-pened in Sandy Hook, Connecticut is the seventh massacre this year in which four or more people were killed by a lone gunman. The fact that this time twenty of the victims were little girls and boys six or seven years old has caused a wave of revulsion in the United States, but it is not likely to lead to new laws on gun controls. It’s not even clear that new laws would help.

Half the firearms in the entire world are in the

United States. The rate of murders by gunfire in the United States is almost twenty times higher than the average rate in 22 other populous, high-income countries where the fre-quency of other crimes is about the same. There is clearly a connection between these two facts, but it is not necessarily simple cause-and-effect.

Here’s one reason to suspect that it’s not that simple: the American rate for murders of all kinds – shooting, strangling, stab-bing, poisoning, pushing people under buses, etc. – is seven times higher than it is in those other 22 rich countries. It can’t just be guns.

And here’s another clue: the rate of firearms homi-cides in Canada, another mainly English-speaking country in North America with a similar political heritage, is about half the American rate – and in England itself it is only one-thirtieth as much. What else is in play here?

Steven Pinker, whose book “The Better Angels of Our Nature” is about the long-term decline in violence of every kind in the world, is well aware that murder rates have not fallen in the United States in the past century. (Most people don’t believe that violence is in decline

anywhere, let alone almost everywhere. That’s why he wrote the book.) And Pinker suggests an explan-ation for the American exception.

In medieval Europe, where everybody from warlords to peasants was on his own when it came to defending his property, his rights and his “hon-our”, the murder rates were astronomically high: 110 people per 100,000 in 14th-century Oxford, for example. It was at least as high in colonial New England in the early 17th century.

By the mid-20th cen-tury, the murder rate in England had fallen more than a hundredfold: in London, it was less than one person per 100,000 per year. In most Western European countries it was about the same. Whereas the US murder rate is still up around seven people per

100,000 per year. Why?Pinker quotes histor-

ian Pieter Spierenburg’s provocative suggestion that “democracy came too early” to America. In European countries, the population was gradually disarmed by the centralised state as it put an end to feudal anarchy. Only much later, after people had already learned to trust the law to defend their prop-erty and protect them from violence, did democracy come to these countries.

This is also what has hap-pened in most other parts of the world, although in many cases it was the col-onial power that disarmed the people and instituted the rule of law.

But in the United States, where the democratic revo-lution came over two cen-turies ago, the people took over the state before they had been disarmed – and kept their weapons. They also kept their old atti-tudes.

Indeed, large parts of the United States, particu-larly in the southeast and southwest, still have an “honour” culture in which it is accepted that a pri-vate individual may choose to defend his rights and his interests by violence rather than seeking justice through the law. The homi-cide rate in New England is less than three people

per 100,000 per year; in Louisiana it is more than fourteen.

None of this explains the specific phenomen-on of gun massacres by deranged individuals, who are presumably present at the same rate in every country. It’s just that in the United States, it’s eas-ier for individuals like that to get access to rapid-fire weapons. And, of course, the intense media cover-age of every massacre gives many other crazies an incentive to do the same, only more of it.

But only one in three hundred murders in the United States happens in that kind of massacre. Most are simply due to quar-rels between individuals, often members of the same family.

Private acts of violence to obtain “justice”, with or without guns, are deeply entrenched in American culture, and the murder rate would stay extraordin-arily high even if there were no guns.

Since there are guns everywhere, of course, the murder rate is even higher. But since the popular atti-tudes to violence have not changed, that is not going to change either.

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Are human prosper-ity and well-being an illusion, bought at the expense of Nature?

Human beings add nothing to the world, on this view, and subtract everything. But how-ever much this view may appeal to, say, the apostles of environ-mental doom and gloom, the opponents of the oil sands and fish farming and pipelines and biotechnology, it is wrong.

H u m a n beings add some-thing crucial to the world: their i n t e l l i g e n c e . And the history of humanity has been one of the successful incre-mental applica-tion of human intelligence to the problems of nature and humanity.

It is not that we do not face problems. We do. But identify-ing our problems is only the first step to solving them. We must also look at the mechan-ism we have successfully used to solve every one of human-ity’s significant challenges since time began: our minds.

The wealth of humanity comes from mixing natural and human capital (our know-ledge and experience) in differ-ing proportions, and as natural capital becomes scarce in one context or another, we invent ways to sustain it, supplement it or replace it.

Regrettably, however, the problems almost invariably arise before the solution is conceived. Indeed, the prob-lem is usually the cause of the solution’s emergence. But that means that human progress is inescapably a matter of faith: faith in the power of reason to solve our problems even when we cannot foresee what the solution will look like.

It is therefore a startling pre-sumption to say that because

we can identify a looming prob-lem, global warming say, but cannot yet see how to solve it that we must therefore aban-don our way of life – use less, consume less, eat less, procre-ate less, travel less, expect less – or we will destroy ourselves.

The pessimists claim sci-ence backs up their view of humanity’s place in nature.

The veil of intel-lectual respect-ability in which the prophets of environ-mental doom and gloom like to drape them-selves relies on the prestige of science for its credibility. They then propose to use science as a guide for re-

ordering human activities in accordance with their estima-tion of the number of people the planet can support (“carry-ing capacity”).

And yet the power of science lies not in the passive observa-tion of what is; science offers tools to the human imagina-tion to discover ways of sur-mounting problems. Because of science and imagination, the carrying capacity of the planet is not fixed, but is hugely vari-able, depending on the leaven of human intelligence that we can add to it.

Unavoidably, however, the solutions to our challenges emerge unpredictably. So in the absence of precise know-ledge of the scientific and technological solutions to our problems, do we abandon hope and settle for shrunken hopes and aspirations, or do we press on, seeking the prosperity that will allow us to do more with less, and create the techno-logical marvels that will carry us through?

We should choose to carry on. Here’s why.

Our stock of knowledge

is exploding at an unpreced-ented rate. In cutting-edge fields, such as computer sci-ence or nanotechnology, the total amount of knowledge doubles every 18 to 24 months, while the whole body of human knowledge doubles roughly every 15 years. One half of everything that is known today was not yet known in 1998.

We as individuals are there-fore condemned to ignorance. Our brain’s capacity is relative-ly fixed, while the knowledge known by all human beings collectively is expanding expo-nentially.

With minds so limited, and knowledge so vast and variegat-ed, you and I are condemned to see a narrowing slice of what is known at the same time as humanity has never had access to more knowledge

What does this all mean about sustainability and our relationship with Nature? That we should be deeply sceptic-al about the claims of people who refuse to see the humanity adds something to the world: its own intelligence, and that that intelligence has repeatedly allowed it to surmount every significant challenge, often to our own amazement.

We should be less inclined to accept that our rich way of life is to be junked simply because someone with a spe-cialist’s view of a tiny piece of human knowledge cannot see whence will come the solutions to today’s problems. The solu-tions will come from unexpect-ed quarters for unforeseeable reasons at unpredictable times. They always have and there is no reason to doubt that they will again. Unless we give up the search.

Brian Lee Crowley (twit-ter.com/brianleecrowley) is the Managing Director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, an independent non-partisan public policy think tank in Ottawa: www.macdonald-laurier.ca.

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OTTAWA - Laurier LaPierre, former Liberal senator and co-host of the iconic CBC program “This Hour has Seven Days,” has died. He was 83.

Federal Liberal Leader Bob Rae confirmed LaPierre’s sud-den passing on Monday after-noon, describing his former colleague as an accomplished scholar and passionate advocate for key Canadian issues.

“From academia and journal-ism, to his tireless advocacy for bilingualism, the arts and gay rights, Laurier was an excep-tional Canadian who touched the lives of many,” Rae said in a statement.

LaPierre’s former Senate col-league and friend Jim Munson echoed Rae’s sentiments, calling his friend an extraordinary per-son with the gift of adding zest to any situation.

The feisty passion that made him a household name during his career with the CBC was still in evidence as recently as two weeks ago when he attended local political events in Ottawa,

Munson said, adding LaPierre’s penchant for laughter and mis-chief was as much a part of his personality as his desire to fight for the underdog.

“I loved his spontaneity. I loved his passion. We’re going to miss a person like Laurier LaPierre. I know that history will treat him kindly.”

Born in 1929 in Lac Megantic, Que., LaPierre first distin-guished himself as an academic.

He obtained his PhD in history from the University of Toronto in 1962, two years before ris-ing to national prominence with “This Hour has Seven Days.”

LaPierre co-hosted the 60-minute current affairs pro-gram alongside Patrick Watson, earning a reputation as a fear-less journalist with a knack for cutting to the emotional core of an issue.

That talent got him into trouble in 1966, according to the CBC. He famously blinked back tears during an interview with the mother of Stephen Truscott, who at 14 had been sentenced to death on what later turned out to be a wrongful murder conviction. LaPierre was harsh-ly criticized in the media, and CBC president Alphonse Ouimet called his reaction “unprofes-sional.”

LaPierre’s contract was not renewed, and the show went off the air that May.

LaPierre made sporadic returns to television in the ensuing years, but maintained his career as an academic with faculty stints at the University of

Western Ontario, Loyola College and McGill University.

His academic career was characterized by strong advo-cacy for bilingualism in Canada, according to former CBC col-league and fellow McGill alum-nus Mark Starowicz.

Many of his writings chal-lenged the notion of Canada’s two solitudes at a time when the divide between French and English was at its most conten-tious, Starowicz said.

“He had the guts to attack both fortresses,” Starowicz said. “He’d talk to the English in Montreal and the English at McGill saying, ‘You’ve got to stop behaving like English out-posts, you too are Quebecers.”’

“And he’d say to a lot of Quebec French nationalists, ‘You’ve got to stop behaving provincially and realize you’re citizens of Canada.’ Both state-ments were very unpopular at the time, and it took courage to do that.”

Gay rights were also dear to LaPierre, who came out himself at a public rally in the 1980s, Munson said.

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T h e A S S O c i A T e D P R e S SRALEIGH, N.C. - Norman Joseph

Woodland, the co-inventor of the bar code that labels nearly every product in stores and has boosted productivity in nearly every sector of commerce worldwide, has died. He was 91.

Woodland died Sunday in Edgewater, New Jersey, from the effects of Alzheimer’s disease and complications of his advanced age, his daughter, Susan Woodland of New York, said Thursday.

Woodland and Bernard Silver were students at what is now called Drexel University in Philadelphia when Silver overheard a grocery-store executive asking an engineer-ing school dean to channel stu-dents into research on how product information could be captured at checkout, Susan Woodland said.

Woodland notably had worked on the Manhattan Project, the U.S. military’s atomic bomb develop-ment team. And having already earned a mechanical engineering degree, Woodland dropped out of graduate school to work on the bar code idea. He stole away to spend time with his grandfather in Miami to focus on developing a code that could symbolically capture details about an item, Susan Woodland.

The only code Woodland knew was the Morse Code he’d learned in the Boy Scouts, his daughter said. One day, he drew Morse dots and dashes as he sat on the beach and absent-mindedly left his fingers in the sand where they traced a series of parallel lines.

“It was a moment of inspiration. He said, ‘instead of dots and dashes I can have thick and thin bars,”’ Susan Woodland said.

Woodland and Silver submitted their patent in 1949 for a code pat-terned on concentric circles that looked like a bull’s eye. The patent was issued in 1952, 60 years ago this fall. Silver died in 1963.

Woodland joined IBM in 1951 hoping to develop the bar code, but the technology wasn’t accepted for more than two decades until lasers made it possible to read the code.

The first product sold using a UPC scan was a 67-cent package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at a super-market in Troy, Ohio, in June 1974. Today, about 5 billion products are scanned and tracked worldwide every day.

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B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports EditorWith nine wins in

10 games the Beaver Valley Nitehawks have indeed turned a medi-ocre season into one of promise.

Nowhere has the resurgent Nitehawks been more in evidence than the play of Dallas Calvin who has count-ed 13 of his 27 points in the last six games.

“I think that the whole team is play-ing well and it’s easy to feed off other guys when everyone is play-ing well,” said Calvin.

The 18-year-old Trail native’s surge also coincides with the pairing of Dan Holland on the wing and Connor Brown-Maloski up the middle.

“They’ve been a good combina-tion,” said Nitehawk coach and GM Terry Jones. “Getting Danny (Holland) was a big thing, and getting Dallas healthy was a big thing. He wasn’t feeling very well . . . now he’s starting to feel good and you can tell.”

The trio combined for 10 points in the 8-1 win over Golden Rockets Sunday, some payback after endur-ing a 5-1 loss to the Rockets in Golden Nov. 23.

Both Holland and Calvin had four-point nights while Brown-Maloski had two help-ers. In the last six games the line has counted 32 points, including 11 for Brown-Maloski and eight for Holland.

“We’re starting to work together pretty well, and moving the puck well,” said Calvin. “They are two really good players so its nice to play with them.”

Their wizardry was especially prevalent on the fourth Nitehawk goal when Brown-Maloski dished off to Holland who broke in with Calvin, turning the Rockets defence inside out with a back-and-forth-and-back-again passing play that Holland finished, bringing the crowd to its feet.

“Connor just came off the wall with the puck and passed it to him, and I called for it,” said Calvin. “Holland gave it to me and I guess I saw him open on the far side so I gave it right back to him.”

With the goalie already down and out, Holland squeezed the puck in on a tough angle for his first of two on the night.

The Hawks are just two points back of

Castlegar for second spot and have cut the Nelson Leafs’ lead to just eight points.

Beaver Valley beat Castlegar on Friday night 5-3 and followed that up with a 5-1 win over Grand Forks.

Heading into the Christmas break Jones is very happy with the team’s play.

“I am thrilled with the spirit we have in the room, and the fact that guys are coming to work hard every day.”

The Nitehawks’ confidence level seems to grow with every game, with great puck support, responsible defensive play, and unparalleled work ethic the Hawks will definitely be in the mix if they can keep rolling in the New Year.

“Everbody is more into it, and emotion-ally pretty excited,” said Calvin. “It’s a good feeling going into

games and coming out winning.”

The Nitehawks play their final game before the Christmas break on Wednesday night at the Beaver Valley Arena against the Spokane Braves.

Spokane is coming off a 5-4 overtime win against the Sicamous Eagles Saturday, boun-cing back from a 7-0 loss to Revelstoke Grizzlies the previous night.

The last time the Hawks and Braves met, Beaver Valley came away with a 6-1 victory and are 2-0 against the Braves this season.

The puck drops at the Hawks Nest at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

B Y J I M B A I L E YTimes Sports Editor

The Trail Smoke Eaters will look forward to the Christmas break, not because they’ve been playing par-ticularly poor, but more important-ly to give the injury-riddled team time to heal.

Bryce Knapp returned to the line up against West Kelowna Friday as the Smokies skated to its fourth win in a row, a 4-3 victory, thanks to an overtime goal from Connor Collett.

However, the team couldn’t find enough offence to complete the comeback against Vernon Saturday dropping a 4-3 decision, before bowing to Nanaimo 4-1 Sunday.

“I think those last two games agains Vernon and Nanaimo were winnable games, but we didn’t show up until it was too late,” said Trail head coach and GM Bill Birks. “Points are huge right now and everyone behind us with games in hand, losing those ones was a tough pill to swallow.”

Beaver Valley Nitehawks forward Kurt Black dressed as an AP for Vernon and got into the mix with an assist on Adam Tambellini’s second of the night that gave the Vipers a 4-0 lead in the second period. Tyler Berkholtz, Mitch Foyle and Luke Sandler scored for the Smokies, who outshot the Vipers 35-21.

The Smokies have shown a lot of character in fighting through the injuries and illnesses, but the bug is beginning to take its toll.

“It’s been pretty hec-tic,” said Smoke Eater trainer Brock Ward. “It’s kind of new to me because it’s my first year, but it’s definitely an eye opener on the other side of the boards, seeing how frequently guys get injured.”

The Smokies suffered another body blow in their loss against the Clippers when forward Scott Davidson went down with a lower body injury in the first period and never returned. Davidson joins line mate and Smokies lead-ing scorer Brent Baltus, forward Jesse Knowler, defensemen Shane Poulsen and Braedon Jones, as well as goalie Adam Todd on the DL.

“We’ve played a lot of hockey in the last month,” said Birks. “We’re hurt and sick . . . when you lose Baltus, Poulsen, Knowler, Jones,

and Davidson, guys playing injured, it’s a big part of your team.”

Ward, a former player, under-stands the competitive nature of the game and that guys are eager to get back in the action. The most important aspect of his job is get-ting the players into see the doctor and expedite a physiotherapy pro-gram to facilitate recovery.

“A lot of guys have big hearts, and are fighting back from their injuries pretty well,” said Ward, adding the Christmas vacation could be the best medicine to those injured and ailing. “It will be a big help, two weeks, get the guys off the ice, let their injuries heal up, and a lot of guys that are sick, get the ill-ness out of us too.”

Baltus said he was still sore and would likely sit out the Smokies final game of 2012 against the Merritt Centennials tonight.

“The break will do us all good, just to get healthy again,” said Baltus.

Trail also employed the services of Castlegar Rebels goalie Jordan Gluck and forward Jamie Vlanich on Sunday. Gluck was solid in net for the Smokies and Stefan

Wood was also impressive on defence. The Kamloops Storm AP logged ample ice time and proved a mobile and physical stay-at-home defenceman, while Riley Brandt of the Nitehawks AP’d for Saturday’s game.

“Every time we’ve had an AP in the line up they’ve been good, real steady,” said Birks.

The Smokies face a Merritt team that is coming off three straight wins, and is current-

ly second in the Interior division with a 17-10-1-1 record and 36 points.

The Cents are led by Regan Soquila who has counted nine goals and 21 assists this season, with a blue line anchored by Dane Birks, son of Smokies coach Bill Birks.

Dane was recently ranked in NHL Central Scoutings list of jun-ior hockey draft eligible players and has been a thorn in the side of the Smokies this season. With so many Smokie injuries, the task won’t get-ting any easier tonight.

“We’ve got to win but we have to be healthy to win, so it’s kind of a catch-22,” said Birks.

The teams face off tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Cominco Arena.

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the New York Mets by signing the Cy Young winner to a two-year,

$25-million contract extension, accord-ing to a report from FOXSports.com.

Citing a major league source, the website reported Monday that the deal will become official once Dickey passes a physical. The contract extension was a con-dition of the reported deal in principle reached between the Jays and the Mets on Sunday.

Multiple reports say the Mets would also send catcher Josh Thole and a non-elite prospect to the Jays in exchange for catchers Travis D’Arnaud and John Buck, right-hander Noah Syndergaard and another non-elite prospect.

The 23-year-old D’Arnaud is viewed as the Jays’ No. 1 pros-pect, while the 20-year-old Syndergaard is ranked No. 3.

Dickey, a 38-year-old knuckleballer who went 20-6 with a 2.73 earned-run average for the Mets in 2012, is coming off a season in which he led the NL in strikeouts (230), ERA, innings (233 2-3), complete games (five) and shutouts (three).

If acquired, he would join a Toronto rotation including new additions Josh Johnson and Mark Buehrle along with returning starters Brandon Morrow and Ricky Romero.

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T H E C A N A D I A N P R E S SHAMILTON, Ont. - Kent Austin

is returning to the CFL.The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have

hired Austin to be the club’s head coach and head of the CFL team’s football operations.

Cornell University, where Austin served as head coach last season, confirmed he was leaving the school to accept the Hamilton job.

Austin takes over as head coach from George Cortez, who was fired last week after compiling a 6-12 record in his first season with

Hamilton.The Ticats are also in need

of a GM with incumbent Bob O’Billovich mulling over an offer to remain with the Hamilton fran-chise as a consultant.

Austin won a Grey Cup as the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ head coach in 2007.

The 49-year-old Austin also won a Grey Cup in 2004 as the Toronto Argonauts offensive co-ordinator and earned championship rings as a player with Saskatchewan in 1989 and B.C. in ‘94.

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Europe until January.U.S. women’s head

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in the hospital in Vail, Colorado, last month.

After falls in both races in France last week, Hoedlmoser said Vonn will miss this week’s races in Are, Sweden and pos-sibly technical races in Semmering, Austria, Dec. 28-29.

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T H E A S S O C I A T E D P R E S SNEW YORK - Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”

led the box office with a haul of $84.8 million, a record-setting opening better than the three previous “Lord of the Rings” films.

The Warner Bros. Middle Earth epic was the biggest December opening ever, surpass-ing Will Smith’s “I Am Legend,” which opened with $77.2 million in 2007, according to studio estimates Sunday. “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” also passed the December opening of “Avatar,” which opened with $77 million. Internationally, “The Hobbit” also added $138.2 million, for an impressive debut well north of $200 million.

Despite weak reviews, the 3-D adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s first novel in the fantasy series was an even bigger draw than the last “Lord of the Rings” movie, “The Return of the King.” That film opened with $72.6 million. “The Hobbit” is the first of another planned tril-ogy, with two more films to be squeezed out of Tolkien’s book.

While Jackson’s “Rings” movies drew many accolades - “The Return of the King” won best picture from the Academy Awards - the path for “The Hobbit” has been rockier. It received no Golden Globes nominations on Thursday, though all three “Rings” films were nominated by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for best picture.

Regardless of any misgivings over “The Hobbit,” the film was a hit with audiences. They graded the film with an “A” CinemaScore.

“The Hobbit” was far and away the big-gest draw in theatres, with no other new wide release. Paramount’s “Rise of the Guardians” continued to draw the family crowd, with $7.4 million, bringing its cumulative total to $71.4 millon. The Oscar contender “Lincoln” from Walt Disney crossed the $100 million mark, adding another $7.2 million to bring its six-week total to $107.9 million. And Sony’s James Bond film “Skyfall,” with another $7 million domestically, drew closer to a global take of $1 billion.

The box office continued to be on the upswing and with anticipated releases like “Les Miserables,” ”Django Unchained“ and ”The Guilt Trip“ approaching in the holiday movie-going season.

Big haul for ‘Hobbit’

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# KREM KREM 2 News at 6 Inside Ed. Access H. How I Met How I Met Broke Girl Mike Hawaii Five-0 Å News Xmas $ KXLY News News Ent Insider Landing Shrek Movie: ››‡ “Shrek the Third” (2007) Å News Nightline % KSPS PBS NewsHour (N) Keeping Up Antiques Roadshow Choir Christmas Celtic Charlie Rose (N) & KHQ News Millionaire Jeopardy! Wheel Movie: ›››› “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) James Stewart. News Xmas Eve _ BCTV (5:59) News Hour (N) Ent ET Movie: “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” (2009) The Kennedys Å News Hour Final (N) ( KAYU Big Bang Two Men Big Bang Two Men Raising Raising Raising Raising News 30 Rock Sunny (:36) TMZ + CTV CTV News (N) Å Landing Prep & Movie: ›››› “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) James Stewart. CTV News CTV News , KNOW Animals Gardens Wilderness Emma (N) Emma (N) Christmas in London Christmas in Wales ` CBUT News Exchange George S Coronat’n Movie: ››› “Scrooge” (1951) Å National News George S . CITV ET Ent Hawaii Five-0 Å Bones Å Parenthood Å News Hour Final (N) ET The Talk / FOOD Restaurant: Im. The Next Iron Chef Diners, Drive Sweet Genius Å The Next Iron Chef Restaurant: Im. 0 A&E Duck D. Duck D. Duck Dynasty Å Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. Duck D. (:01) Duck Dynasty 1 CMT Home for Christmas Christmas in Whistler Gift of Giving 2012 Holidays Christmas In Jason McCoy: 2 CNN Piers Morgan Tonight After Jesus: The First Christians (N) Piers Morgan Tonight After Jesus: The First Christians 6 YTV Santa Claus/ Town Next Star Next Star T. Swift One One One One One 2 Weird Splatalot 7 TREE Toopy Mike Caillou Cat in the Big Friend Max, Rby Backyard Dora... Umizoomi Beat Band Max, Rby Thomas 8 TLC Medium Medium Medium Medium Medium Medium Medium Medium Long Island Medium: Medium Medium 9 EA2 SwanPrnc Movie: “The Little Rascals” Å Movie: ››› “Les Miserables” (1998) Å (:15) Movie: ›‡ “Big Daddy” (1999) Å : TROP Drew Frasier Frasier 3’s Co. All/Family All/Family Married Married ’70s Show ’70s Show ’70s Show Drew ; TOON (5:58) Movie: “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992) Looney Futurama Fam. Guy American Chicken Fam. Guy Fugget < OUT Destination Truth Storage Storage Storage Storage Destination Truth Storage Storage Ghost Hunters = AMC (:15) Movie: ›››› “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947) Movie: ››‡ “Prancer” (1989) Sam Elliott. Å “Christmas Eve” > HIST Mankind The Story of All of Us Å Canadian Pickers Canadian Pickers Mankind The Story of All of Us Å ? COM J. Dun Jeff Dunham Special Just for Laughs: All Access (N) Jeff Dunham: Minding Jeff Dunham Dunham Dunham @ SPACE “Harry Potter-Prince” (:15) Treasure Island (Part 1 of 2) Å (:15) Treasure Island (Part 2 of 2) Å “ET Extra-Terr.” A FAM ANT Farm Random Jessie Deck ANT Farm Dog So Raven Really Me Lizzie Suite Life Deck Life Derek B WPCH Browns Payne Seinfeld Seinfeld Fam. Guy Fam. Guy American Movie: ››‡ “This Christmas” (2007) Delroy Lindo. C TCM “Shop Around” Movie: ››› “Come to the Stable” (1949) Movie: ››› “Auntie Mame” (1958) Rosalind Russell. Man Who D SPIKE Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior Entourage Entourage E SPEED Hot Rod Hot Rod Truck U Truck U Gearz Gearz Hot Rod Hot Rod Truck U Truck U Unique Whips F DISC Worst Driver Worst Driver Worst Driver Worst Driver Mighty Planes Å Mighty Planes Å G SLICE Four Weddings Four Weddings Four Weddings Movie: ››› “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (2008) Å Sarah M H BRAVO “A Christmas Kiss” Movie: “Baby’s First Christmas” (2012) Å Movie: ›› “A Golden Christmas” (2009) “Christmas Song” I SHOW Haven “Silent Night” Movie: ›› “Ice Age: The Meltdown” (2006) Movie: ›› “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000) Home J WNT (5:00) Movie Movie: “A Dog Named Christmas” (2009) Movie: ››› “Marley & Me” (2008) Owen Wilson. Love-List K NET Sportsnet UFC Movie Å NHL Alumni Charity Sportsnet Connected Cross-Country L TSN TSN Top 50 SportsCentre Å 2013 IIHF Hockey SportsCentre Å TSN Top 50 2013 IIHF Hockey M SCORE (5:15) WWE Monday Night RAW (N) Å NHL Alumni Charity Shootout WWE Monday Night RAW Å N CBCNWS National CBC News National National CBC News National P CTVNWS Direct (N) CTV News National CTV News National CTV News National CTV News National CTV News National ø MORE Bublé Christmas Jimmy Fallon Saturday Night Live Movie: ››› “Bad 25” (2012) Music Gilmore Girls Å

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Dear Annie: For the past 18 months, I’ve been dating a woman who resides two states south. We are planning on her moving north to live with me. My prob-lem is her thick south-ern accent.

“Beth” habitually holds the last word of a sentence and draws it out. Her voice slides up and down when saying a simple word such as “town” so that it has multiple syllables. A couple of my friends have also noticed how pronounced her drawl is.

I have hinted to Beth about it on occasion, but it hasn’t made a dif-ference. I have to admit, this speech pattern is both repulsive and abrasive to me. Beth has many loving quali-ties, but I worry about the drawl. I can barely tolerate it now, and I fear it will eventually drive me crazy.

Should I confront Beth about it? I don’t want to hurt her feel-ings. -- Need Your Input

Dear Need: There are other factors to consid-er. If Beth moves north, her speech will adapt to her surroundings, and over time, she would likely lose a lot of her accent. You also could speak gently and lov-ingly about this. Don’t say her drawl gets on your nerves, even if it’s true. Say that if she is going to be living in your neck of the woods, she might want to shorten her words so she fits in better.

Of course, she may become protective of her accent, believ-ing it is linked to her identity, and be resis-tant to change. If she has other qualities that you appreciate, we

advise first speaking to her to see whether she is receptive and then being patient.

Dear Annie: I recent-ly hosted a bridal show-er for a dear friend. Of the 30 women we invit-ed, only five bothered to RSVP. Several people told the bride-to-be that they may not be com-ing. Not surprisingly, the bride assumed (incorrectly) that they had also RSVP’d to me directly, so she didn’t pass that on.

You can imagine how frustrating, not to mention wasteful, it was to prepare enough food for 25 people when only a handful arrived. My point is this: When asked to RSVP to an event, DO SO. Don’t ignore it or ask the bride to pass on your regrets. She has enough details on her plate right now. It takes just a minute to respond to an invita-tion, and it is just plain rude not to. -- Too Many Leftovers

Dear Leftovers: We agree, but this prob-

lem has been around so long, we suspect your words of warning will go unheeded. So this is for the hosts: If some-one has not RSVP’d to an invitation by the date requested, please phone them and find out whether they plan to come. (We hope invi-tees will be embarrassed enough that it will inspire them to behave better next time.)

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “We Are There and It Hurts,” the parents of an adult daughter who is grossly overweight. It’s pos-sible she has binge eating disorder. If so, dieting may not help. She needs therapy with someone trained in the treatment of eating dis-orders.

Please tell this cou-ple to go to the National Eating Disorders Association website (nationaleatingdisor-ders.org) or call the NEDA Helpline at 1-800-931-2237. It may be the best thing they could ever do for their

daughter. -- Been ThereDear Been: Thank

you. Binge eating is a psychiatric disorder characterized by loss of control of the amount of eating, distress over binge episodes, and epi-sodes that occur at least three times a week for

three months or lon-ger. It usually involves eating more rapidly than normal, eating until uncomfortably full and/or when not hungry, eating alone due to embarrassment, and feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed

or guilty after. Other resources are the Binge Eating Disorder Association (beda-online.com) and the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders at anad.org.

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Silver City NitesSilver City Nites

• $10 Tuesday at the Royal Theatre 7 p.m.

44 • End Violence Against Women @ Trail United Church 5:30-7:30 p.m.

• Skate with Smokies @ Cominco Arena 5:45-7 p.m.

55 • Santa arrives at Waneta Plaza 1-6 p.m.

• Advent Music Celebration at Rossland Sacred Heart Church 7 p.m.

66 77• Silver City Nite Candy Parade & Victorian Tree Lightup downtown 6 p.m.

• Local 480: free hot dogs and hot chocolate: Cedar Avenue: 6:30 p.m.

• KBRH Health Foundation Light up the Hospital Pledge Day: Waneta

• Smokies vs. Langley: FREE kid’s night: 7:30 p.m.

• Take your own Self-guided Twinkle Tour

• Red Mountain Opens

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• Waneta Plaza extended shopping hours 9:30am-9p.m.

1010 • Waneta Plaza extended shopping hours9:30 – 9 p.m.

• $10 Tuesday at the Royal Theatre 7 p.m.

1111 • Waneta Plaza extended shopping hours9:30 – 9 p.m.

• Rotary Choral Festival @ Charles Bailey Theatre 7 p.m.

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1313 • Downtown Market: Cominco Gym: 10 – 2 p.m.

• The Hobbit @Royal Theatre

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1515• Compassionate Friends Candlelight Memorial @ Trail United Church 2p.m.

• The Met: Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Royal Theatre 9:45 a.m.

• Sunday Cinema: The Master @ Royal Theatre 4:30 p.m.

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The dismantling of the HST will come with a price as busi-nesses prepare to re-implement the provin-cial sales tax as of April 1, says the economic director of the Lower Columbia Community Development Team.

Sandy Santori said the expected massive costs of re-introducing the provincial sales tax will be borne by taxpayers, and it could negatively affect local businesses.

“Somebody has to pick up those addi-tional costs. Usually it comes through taxa-tion, and if it doesn’t come through taxation it comes through cuts in programs,” he said.

The PST—enact-ed 60 years ago and replaced in 2010 with the HST—will cost business owners for new software and sys-tems, said Santori, and by duplicating busi-ness practices (filing tax twice) and account-ing procedures.

“So that money has to come from somewhere, maybe in higher prices. I know there were a lot of people that didn’t like the HST, although even prior to the HST consumers were pay-ing the 12 per cent, regardless,” he said.

The PST may also have adverse effects in terms of econom-ic development and expansion, he added. The HST would give business owners full

tax credit for machin-ery and equipment and industrial con-struction, said Santori, but that will now dis-appear.

Whether the prov-ince puts in other mechanisms in place as an incentive for companies to grow and expand he did not know.

Several new pro-grams are available to local businesses as they prepare to change over from the HST to the PST. Free webinars are scheduled over the next couple of weeks and business owners can use the service to cover general princi-ples of the PST as well as eTaxBC, the new e-service for online registration, return fil-ing and payment, and account maintenance.

A webinar is sched-uled for Tuesday, Dec. 18 (10:30-11:30 a.m.). For more information and to register for a session, visit: www.gov.bc.ca/PSToutreach.

All businesses have to register and be issued a new PST number as old num-bers will not be rec-ognized. Registration begins Jan. 2 and can be completed online (PSTinBC.ca).

The PST will be re-implemented at seven per cent and will apply to the same goods and services that were sub-ject to PST prior to the implementation of the HST. All permanent PST exemptions will be re-implemented with the new PST, including

food for human con-sumption, most ser-vices, admissions and memberships, bicycles and newspapers and magazines.

More than 100,000 businesses will need to register to collect the PST, and about 30,000 of those are new busi-nesses that have only existed under an HST tax system. They will need to learn to admin-ister the PST in tan-dem with the GST, and adjust their account-ing and administrative systems and prepare to collect a second sales tax, as of Apr. 1, 2013.

The Ministry of Finance is still devel-oping the regulations, and transitional and consequential amend-

ments to support the Provincial Sales Tax Act, which received royal assent on May 31, 2012.

The province plans to publicly release a final proposed version of the Provincial Sales Tax Act with proposed amendments in late December. All amend-ments to legislation require the approval of the legislative assem-bly, expected in spring 2013.

Links to PST pub-lications, FAQs, an online sign-up form for one-on-one tax consultations for busi-ness, along with addi-tional information about the return to the PST, can be found at: www.PSTinBC.ca

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HOLIDAY GREETINGS TO ONE AND ALL

KOOTENAY HOMES INC.1358 Cedar Avenue, Trail www.kootenayhomes.com www.century21.ca

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With best wishes and many thanks from all of us for your continued

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T h e N e l s o N s T a rVoting is now open in the semifinal round

of the Ski Town Throwdown.Organized by Powder magazine, the

Throwdown pits two ski towns against each other in a challenge to collect the most votes on Facebook in a two day period.

Rossland/Nelson, which have been grouped together for the purpose of the competition, have already advanced through three Rounds of voting — defeating Sugarloaf, Whitefish and, most recently, Crested Butte along the way.

Now the West Kootenay ski towns are up

against Sandpoint, Idaho, home of Schweitzer Mountain Resort, located 100 km south of Creston.

To cast your ballot for your favourite ski town, go to facebook.com/powdermag and click “Rossland/Nelson vs. Sandpoint” in the page banner.

Voting will only open for two days — Monday and today — and you can only vote once per IP address, per 24 hour period (but if you get your first vote in early, you’ll be able to squeeze in a second one).

The finals will take place December 19 and 20.

Ski town throwdown

Last chance to vote in semifinals Guy Bertrand photo

Red Moun-tain and W h i t e w a t e r ski resorts should garner a few votes in teh Ski Town T h r o w d o w n from loyal locals thanks to a great start to the 2012-13 ski season.

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