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The Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club is throwing its support behind the City of Victoria’s efforts to regulate the increasing amount of marijuana shops in town.

“We’re very supportive of the direction the city is taking. This is something that the oldest of dispensaries have been asking for, for more than 20 years, some form of regulation,” said Dieter Macpherson, advisor to the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries and executive director of the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club.

During a meeting last week, city council voted in favour of moving towards a regulatory approach to marijuana-related dispensaries.

Council has directed city staff to draft new business and zoning bylaws that would regulate businesses that sell mari-juana. Amendments could include imposing annual $30,000 business licence fees specific to the type of business, regula-tions regarding signs and merchandise in storefront windows, record keeping, limits on hours of operation and regulation to minors on the premises.

The proposed regulations shouldn’t have an effect on club patients, Macpherson said.

“We have to see how the regulations end up looking. We expect that we will participate in any public discussion of forum, so that we can ensure we’re still able to serve the peo-ple that we do,” he said, adding the proposed $30,000 business licensing fees are issues he thinks council can be moved on.

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Bank of Canada Remains On Hold With Hopes of Economic Rebound

Responding to recent news reports about the IMF warning of an overheated Canadian housing market, the Chief Economist for Dominion Lending Centres, Sherry Cooper, says the prospect of a soft landing is good news for homeowners, “there is no doubt that letting some steam out of the boiling markets is a good thing because were prices to rise rapidly for too long, a nasty correction would be likely.”

Cooper, one of North America’s most respected economic experts, points out that existing home sales were down 2 percent year-over-year in January, but were still up moderately outside of Alberta. Later data suggests that in February, sales rose month-over-month as gains in Toronto and Vancouver offset faltering markets in other parts of the country. More recently, Sales of existing homes in Canada rose in March from February, led by gains in the big Toronto and Vancouver markets. Sales were even up in Calgary where sales had slowed in recent months in the wake of the oil price decline.

“With home ownership at a record high of 70 percent of households and interest rates at record lows, national sales growth will stabilize at a modest pace,” says Cooper. “However, steady demand from immigrants and non-resident purchasers in Toronto and Vancouver should continue to support housing markets. In addition, Millennials are in their fi rst-time home-buying years. While many might be priced out of the single-family home market, many will take the plunge into condos.”

On the supply side, housing starts and completions are down and are now trending slightly above household formation rates. Taking replacement demand into consideration, the current pace of overall home construction is at appropriate levels to meet long-run demand. We have also seen evidence of a recent increase in dedicated rental housing construction as institutional investors are providing increased funding in this long-overlooked area of the housing market. Condos have effectively replaced traditional apartment units and are an affordable alternative for those who are priced out of Toronto’s detached housing market. Rental vacancy rates remain at extreme lows in Vancouver and Toronto.

Cooper says the bottom line is that there is little evidence of an upcoming U.S.-style housing crash anywhere in Canada, even in the hardest hit energy-centered markets.

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As was widely expected, on Wednesday April 15, 2015 Th e Bank of Canada announced that it is maintaining its target for the overnight rate at 3/4 per cent. Th e Bank Rate is correspondingly 1 per cent and the deposit rate is 1/2 per cent. Core infl ation, at 2 percent, is a refl ection of the dampening eff ects of a slowing economy off set by the pass through eff ects of the lower dollar.

Th e Bank is hopeful that global growth will strengthen in coming months to 3-1/2 percent—consistent with their forecast in January’s Monetary Policy Report (MPR)—as a direct result of central bank rate cuts and quantitative easing in Europe. Lower commodity prices will boost growth in some countries. Th e Bank also believes that strong growth will resume in the United States after a weak fi rst quarter, which, of course, has yet to be confi rmed.

First quarter growth in Canada has been revised downward to 0.0 percent in the April MPR (from 1.5 percent growth

in the January MPR); however, the second quarter is expected to see a rebound to 1.8 percent growth, revised up from earlier expectation. Th e Bank continues to assert that, “Underneath the eff ects of the oil price shock, the natural sequence of stronger non-energy exports, increasing investment, and improving labour markets is progressing.” Th is will be aided by an improvement in the U.S. economy and the easing in fi nancial conditions.

Th ere remains a good deal of uncertainty in this sequence: While March employment in Canada improved substantially, business investment remains disappointing, manufacturing is weak—especially in the auto sector—and the improvement in trade has been less than expected.

Real GDP growth is projected to rebound in the second quarter and subsequently strengthen to average about 2 1/2 per cent on a quarterly basis until the middle of 2016. Th e Bank expects real GDP

growth of 1.9 per cent in 2015, 2.5 per cent in 2016, and 2.0 per cent in 2017.

Th e Bank also believes the risks to the outlook are balanced, an upgrade since the last policy meeting in March. As a result of this view, they judge that the current degree of monetary stimulus is appropriate and have left rates unchanged.

I am cautiously optimistic that the Bank has got it right, but I continue to believe that the risks are on the downside for the economy and infl ation. My forecast for Canadian growth this year is 1.5 percent--below the Bank’s 1.9 percent forecast. Much hinges on the U.S. economy. Th e April MPR revised down its U.S. growth forecast for this year from 3.2 percent to 2.7 percent.

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A database is expected to launch this winter as the Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project officially finished the first phase with an announce-ment at the University of Victoria last Thursday.

Historical documents and arte-facts “hidden away” for more than a century will become information in the public realm.

“That was a terrible shame, because over the years Chinese Canadians have made a tremen-dous contribution to the economic and social development of our province,” said Teresa Wat, minis-ter of international trade and minis-ter responsible for the Asia Pacific strategy and multiculturalism. She made the announcement of phase one’s completion last week at UVic.

It is a milestone in the creation of the first computerized inven-tory of Chinese historical records and artifacts in B.C. Step one of a pilot project involving the Cumber-land Museum and Archives and the Nanaimo Museum is complete, and will inform the work to establish an online database of artifacts.

Cumberland Museum and Archives and Nanaimo Museum were chosen for the pilot project because of their regions’ histori-cally large Chinese populations. There will be 10 or more museums involved in inventories moving for-ward with a total of $75,000 allo-cated for the project.

“This will culminate in a digi-tal database that will include the inventories of Chinese Canadian artifacts from all the museums that participated in this project. The database will be available to the public and researchers alike so that everyone can access this rich cul-tural history,” said Wat. “By bring-ing attention to the artifacts held in museums across B.C., the untold stories of the Chinese Canadian experience will come to light. Many for the first time in communities throughout British Columbia.”

With the first phase complete, UVic has embarked on a new endeavour, in association with

the BC Museums Association and in partnership with the Nanaimo Museum and the Cumberland Museum and Archives, to compile a publicly accessible database of Chinese Canadian artifacts held by local museums in B.C. for use by libraries and museums.

The inventory contains cultur-ally significant artifacts includ-ing Chinese coins, scrolls, pho-tographs and historic texts. One of the most interesting finds is a 90-drawer apothecary chest used by a drugstore owner in Nanaimo’s Chinatown to store ingredients for herbal and mineral treatments in traditional Chinese medicine.

“The artifacts inventory data-base will become an invariable resource for all British Columbians. It will become part of a legacy – a legacy that will honour and reflect in a very tangible way the contri-bution made by British Columbi-ans, Chinese Canadians,” Wat said. “We can all be proud of the role we will play in helping to honour those Chinese Canadians who where dis-criminated against in the past and who helped shape B.C.’s future.”

Dr. John Price and Dr. Zhongping

Chen of the Department of History at UVic will lead CCAP, in associa-tion with Dr. Tusa Shea of the Cul-tural Resource Management Pro-gram.

“We consider this project to be a sacred trust that will allow us with our partners to highlight the resil-ience and contributions of Chinese Canadian communities and their allies in the past 160 years,” said Price. “We will build on the efforts of local museums by making acces-sible to all British Columbians the inventories of Chinese Canadian artifacts held in museums through-out the province as well as an index of historical buildings. It will also help museums and archives better identify some of the artifacts that they hold, further organize their CC collections and provide to muse-ums and libraries free of charge a publicly accessible database of the artifacts with photos, essen-tial background details and clear instructions on how to find related information on each and every one of the artifacts.”

Participating museums start with training workshops next month that focus on Chinese Cana-

dian/Asian Canadian history as well as technical dimensions of the database creation. Through-out the duration of this 10-month research project that started in February, team members will con-tinue to liaise with museums, pro-vide museum training support and supervise student involvement from the CRMP.

They expect to launch the data-base by winter.

“This project will highlight the many historical treasures that Chi-nese Canadians brought to and con-tributed to the province over the past 150 years,” said Chen, Depart-ment of History research director. “Scattered in dozens of smaller towns and cities, they will now be accessible to all British Columbi-ans and become our province’s common heritage. Hopefully more people will donate their precious heirlooms to local museums.”

The project is soliciting expres-sions of interest from local and regional museums and archives with Chinese Canadian holdings. For further information email [email protected].

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UVic to resurrect Chinese Canadian artifactsDatabase will make history accessible to all residents, researchers

In May 2014, a formal apology was delivered on behalf of all members of the B.C. legislative assembly to Chinese Canadians for his-torical wrongs committed by past provincial governments.

A consultation report was released at the same time that outlined eight legacy projects, which included a recommendation to iden-tify historical and culturally important artifacts and loca-tions.

Zhongping Chen, right, professor of history at UVic, explains two scrolls, Minister Dai hongci’s calligraphy from 1910, to Richmond-Centre MLA Teresa Wat, minister of international trade and minister responsible for the Asia Pacific strategy and multiculturalism as well as Burnaby North MLA Richard Lee.

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“There’s no reason that dispen-saries shouldn’t be treated like any other business, especially when it comes to community impact,” said

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in response to a staff report brought to council stating the number of unli-censed medical mar-ihuana dispensaries has increased sig-nificantly in the past year. According to

the report, there are 18 medical mar-ijuana-related shops, of which only seven are operating with a license.

The businesses have also gen-erated a number of complaints from nearby businesses, regarding increased foot traffic, odour and exposure of youth to the sale of marijuana.

Coun. Ben Isitt, who put forward the motion at council, said he hopes the regulations will not have an effect on long-standing establish-ments such as the Victoria Canna-

bis Buyers Club, but will provide a framework for regulation of the substance.

“I expect, what a regulatory sys-tem will do is provide a pathway to compliance, rather than treating these establishments as outlawed establishments,” said Isitt.

“I hope it has a minimal affect on long-standing establishments like the Cannabis Buyers Club. I think they have a proven track record of operating responsibly in the com-munity and providing a source of medicine to people experiencing pain.”

Isitt said the report by staff will be “substantial” in size and that it is a city council priority.

Mayor Lisa Helps said a town hall meeting is expected to be scheduled with community stakeholders as well.

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An 11-year-old Victoria boy has been recog-nized as one of Canada’s top environmentalists under 25 by The Starfish Canada.

Rupert Yakelashek’s largest environmental contributions are connected with the Blue Dot Movement, a program coordinated through the David Suzuki Foundation that focuses on the importance of healthy food, water and air for Canadians.

Since discovering that Canada is not included in the list of 110 countries that have recognized environmental rights, Yakelashek organized a rally called “Rupert’s Rally for a Healthy Envi-ronment” in front of City Hall with the hope of convincing city councillors to vote in favour of a declaration recognizing the right to a healthy environment.

“Rupert is an influential change-maker on Vancouver Island,” said Kyle Empringham, co-founder of The Starfish Canada. “He’s connected with a cause that matters to him and has culti-vated a community that’s behind him.”

His mother Skye Ladell said the family is incredibly proud of his environmental advocacy and civic engagement.

Yakelashek will be recognized at The Starfish Canada’s Youth in Action event on May 19 in Vancouver.

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More than 600 motorcycle riders are expected to grumble through the Capital Region on June 7 for the Vancouver Island Ride to Live.

The annual ride raises prostate cancer prevention awareness and raises money for prostate research on Vancouver Island.

This year’s ride takes place on June 7 begin-ning at 7:30 a.m. in the parking lot of Fountain Tire in Langford (2924 Jacklin Rd.)

“The folks out at Fountain Tire are spon-

soring a breakfast for what we expect to be 500 or 600 guys,” said Kevin Worth, chair of the Ride to Live, at a launch event last Fri-day at Uptown Centre.

The Ride to Live will begin at 9 a.m. with five stops across the Capi-tal Region and will end at Mary Winspear Cen-tre in Sidney in time for a closing ceremony at 1 p.m.

“We’ve got lunch included for riders, too,” Worth said.

The goal of the ride is to reach men over 40 who might not be getting screened on an annual basis for pros-tate cancer using the

Prostate-Specific Anti-gen (PSA) test.

“There are guys who are at risk for prostate cancer who we want to reach. If you’re over 40, get checked once a year. That means a PSA test and a digital rectal exam. If you’re embarrassed, get over it. There’s too many people counting on you to let that stand in the way of your health,” Worth said.

Dr. Julian Lum, a researcher with the B.C. Cancer Agency, works closely with The Prostate Centre in Vic-toria. Lum has been participating with Ride to Live for the past

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four years and he said he’s noticed an uptick in awareness amongst men about cancer in general.

“This event lets peo-ple know that a PSA test isn’t something they should be hiding. They should be work-ing to catch the dis-ease early and should be pursuing an active

lifestyle generally,” Lum said.

Lum and his col-leagues at The B.C. Cancer Agency are cur-rently developing an immunotherapy pro-gram, which looks at finding ways to boost the natural immune system to fight cancer.

“This is a game-changer,” Lum said.

“More and more, we’re learning that if we can find a way to turn on your immune system better, we can make a major impact on sur-vival of patients with prostate cancer. We’re moving into a new era where we’re treat-ing patients very dif-ferently than we have been in the past.”

Ride to Live’s pre-mier sponsor this year is Scotiabank, who are providing eight of the 20 volunteers needed to run the event.

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Seems like a lot of motorists just don’t get it.

They continue to use their phone while driving.

Police in Victoria and Esquimalt continue to catch those using their phones while driving in great numbers.

There is no reason for this. The technology exists so calls can be made or taken, hands free.

And yet, the problem continues.

Distracted driving is now the second leading cause of car crashes in the province, police say, and contributes to 88 deaths annually. That’s roughly 28 per cent of all car crash fatalities in B.C.

Efforts to curb the carnage have resulted in stiffer fines, and aggressive policing campaign.

If you are caught using a hand-held device while driving (or even at a red light or stuck in traffic) you’ll pay $167, and earn three penalty points against your licence.

New drivers, or those with a learner’s licence, are prohibited from using any electronic device – even hands free.

But the rules run even deeper than that. Workers who are injured in an accident caused by their distracted driving may not be entitled to compensation. And employers who encourage, or turn a blind eye to distracted driving may be found at fault by WorkSafe BC.

The rules are clear, but it will take more than stiff penalties and rigorous enforcement to change behaviour.

We need an attitude adjustment. This is an issue about safety – ours and those around us. Smart phones are amazing devices, capable of amazing things. But too many people are discovering they also have the potential to cause great harm.

Albertans have always laughed about their long-standing reputation as a reckless, immature society.

The classic bumper sticker, now available as a T-shirt or coffee cup in several variations, states: “Please God, give us one more oil boom, we promise not to p--- it away this time.”

Now they’ve thrown out the government that finally tried to stop blowing money like a roughneck fresh out of the bush. Jim Prentice had the gall to propose raising income taxes for high wage earners, doing away with former Alberta treasurer Stockwell Day’s signature flat tax.

In response, voters have abruptly replaced the 44-year Progressive Conservative dynasty with an upstart NDP that wants to tax the rich and corporations even more. Facing an oil slump, layoffs and a huge structural deficit in Alberta’s lavish public service,

NDP premier-elect Rachel Notley is committed to a 50-per-cent increase in the minimum wage and another “review” of resource

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a national paper summed it up: “Go home, Alberta. You’re drunk.”

In the sober days after the election, a few truths emerge. Alberta hasn’t been a fiscally conservative, small-government place for a long time. Among other things, it has ratcheted up teacher and nurse

wages across the country.Alberta is broke, again, and

even the NDP is afraid to resort to a sales tax.

The minimum wage hike is a pet policy of Canada’s labour federations, which somehow remain convinced that poverty can be eliminated by state order.

On the positive side, Notley has promised to end corporate and union donations to political parties, as has already been

done federally. B.C. should be next, but the gravy train of business donations is too tempting for our nominally Liberal government.

Here at the B.C. legislature, an NDP staffer passed out cans of Orange Crush to celebrate. NDP leader John Horgan pronounced himself “ecstatic,” and hastened to assure reporters that Notley is “as competent as she sounds.”

Notley now has to sort through a caucus that includes typical NDP place-holders, college students and union staff running in faint-hope constituencies. Soon after the result, the party pulled down its website platform and candidate biographies, as Notley began phoning energy companies to reassure them Alberta will be “A-OK” on her watch.

Horgan likes to describe the “capital flight” from new NDP governments as if it’s just a show put on by big business. Plummeting stock prices and relocation of corporate offices are all staged, according to the party line, nothing to do with actual investment conditions

created by NDP policies. This fiction is all Horgan dares to say publicly, because it’s what his party base devoutly believes.

Besides, they’re only branch offices of multinational oil companies like Shell, Horgan said. He used his favourite Tommy Douglas quote, about the bad news of a big oil company leaving. “The good news is, the oil is staying here.”

B.C.’s natural gas might be staying here too. Horgan insists he supports a natural gas export industry, but his party seems more concerned with an ascending Green Party, and an urban base that believes you can run a resource economy on windmills and solar panels.

Notley supports twinning the TransMountain pipeline, while Horgan continues to insist he has no opinion on the project Adrian Dix so memorably opposed.

The Alberta NDP has a steep learning curve ahead. The B.C. NDP has a couple of years to see if the appearance of a like-minded Alberta government is a boost for them, or a cautionary tale for voters.

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Growing up in an apartment with a hard-working single mom, all I ever wanted was for us to have a house.

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But my mom, who runs her own graphic design business and is incredibly responsi-ble with money, was told she couldn’t get a mortgage unless she had a husband or father to co-sign.

That experience is the rea-son I volunteer on the board of directors for Habitat for Humanity. Victoria has the second-most expensive hous-ing market in the country and home ownership is out of reach for far too many hard-working families.

Take Amanda, a single mom of two young boys. Even though Amanda has a stable job in healthcare, she’s had to uproot her family 10 times in the last 10 years because of unfit liv-ing conditions and increasingly unaffordable rents — at times spending up to 70 per cent of her income on housing. All

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“I never thought I’d be in a position to own my own home and provide this level of security for my family,” says Amanda. “My oldest son’s gone to four different schools already so being able to put down roots and have stability is a dream come true.”

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Victoria man wins national entrepreneur award

A Victoria man is the recipient of national entre-preneur award for his leading-edge work to help understand the world’s oceans.

Clayton Hiles launched Cascadia Coast Research Ltd. in 2012, a company that focuses on providing physical ocean environment research services such as assessing marine renewable energy technologies, providing design criteria for coastal structures and projecting the potential for extreme events.

Hiles will be presented the Mitacs Entrepreneur Award in Calgary on May 12.

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ernment was not giv-ing straight answers,” Rankin said.

“I took the minister [Rona Ambrose] at her word that things were going well.”

Federal MPs from the ruling Conservatives and opposition parties voted unanimously on Dec. 1 to extend “full support” to Canada’s victims on an NDP motion put forward by Rankin and Vancouver MP Libby Davies

The federal govern-ment sent lump-sum cheques to thalidomide survivors last month for $125,000 – half of what the Thalidomide Victims Association had asked for – but has provided few answers about what the group considers the far more crucial long-term sup-port.

The Harper govern-ment has pledged “up to $168 million” in medi-cal assistance paid out as annual compensa-tion.

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vidual. You can’t really do one system fits all on this particular topic because each victim has different medical needs.”

But the matter is pressing for the asso-ciation and Rankin: five months ago there were 97 thalidomide survi-vors living in Canada, today just 94 remain.

Victims of thalido-mide are struggling with growing physical pain as their disabled bod-ies age, forcing many of them to abandon jobs and fight to maintain their independence.

The victims, whose mothers were pre-scribed the federally approved drug for insomnia and morning sickness, were born with partial or missing limbs, blindness, deaf-ness and internal organ damage.

“I’m trying to do my very best for these peo-ple because I find their situation so poignant, so heart-wrenching,” Rankin said.

Rankin fears the Harper government won’t move forward on compensation until after this fall’s federal election, and he doesn’t consider that an option. He wants a solution before Parliament takes summer leave.

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The federal govern-ment’s glacial financial

support for thalido-mide survivors has left Victoria MP Murray Rankin fuming.

Recently Rankin

voiced his concern during question period in Parliament and then went on CBC’s Power and Politics and hotly

debated Conservative MP and parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, Paul Calandra.

“Thalidomide vic-

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MP seeks clarity on thalidomide survivors pay

COMMUNITYNEWSIN BRIEF

Victoria man wins national entrepreneur award

A Victoria man is the recipient of national entre-preneur award for his leading-edge work to help understand the world’s oceans.

Clayton Hiles launched Cascadia Coast Research Ltd. in 2012, a company that focuses on providing physical ocean environment research services such as assessing marine renewable energy technologies, providing design criteria for coastal structures and projecting the potential for extreme events.

Hiles will be presented the Mitacs Entrepreneur Award in Calgary on May 12.

Johnson Street Bridge delayed The completion date for the Johnson Street Bridge has been pushed another 15 months to June 2017, according to the project director.

During the second quarterly update last week, Jonathan Hugget told council that they are care-fully inspecting the type of steel being used to construction the bridge.

This comes after a host of concerns were raised about the type of steel being used late last year. According to the first quarterly progress report, the lifting lugs weren’t being built to design.

ernment was not giv-ing straight answers,” Rankin said.

“I took the minister [Rona Ambrose] at her word that things were going well.”

Federal MPs from the ruling Conservatives and opposition parties voted unanimously on Dec. 1 to extend “full support” to Canada’s victims on an NDP motion put forward by Rankin and Vancouver MP Libby Davies

The federal govern-ment sent lump-sum cheques to thalidomide survivors last month for $125,000 – half of what the Thalidomide Victims Association had asked for – but has provided few answers about what the group considers the far more crucial long-term sup-port.

The Harper govern-ment has pledged “up to $168 million” in medi-cal assistance paid out as annual compensa-tion.

The group wants the money invested in a trust, based on a British model, then paid out in annual sums of $75,000 to $150,000 depending on the victims’ degree of disability.

“They will get what’s promised to them,” Calandra said.

“By the new year we want to be in a position to offer very specialized benefits to each indi-

vidual. You can’t really do one system fits all on this particular topic because each victim has different medical needs.”

But the matter is pressing for the asso-ciation and Rankin: five months ago there were 97 thalidomide survi-vors living in Canada, today just 94 remain.

Victims of thalido-mide are struggling with growing physical pain as their disabled bod-ies age, forcing many of them to abandon jobs and fight to maintain their independence.

The victims, whose mothers were pre-scribed the federally approved drug for insomnia and morning sickness, were born with partial or missing limbs, blindness, deaf-ness and internal organ damage.

“I’m trying to do my very best for these peo-ple because I find their situation so poignant, so heart-wrenching,” Rankin said.

Rankin fears the Harper government won’t move forward on compensation until after this fall’s federal election, and he doesn’t consider that an option. He wants a solution before Parliament takes summer leave.

“I’m not going to rest. They need action now,” he said.

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‘Next year is going to be a tough year, says school board chairKendra WongVictoria News

The Greater Victoria School District was able to balance this year’s budget, but may have to make more cuts next year, says the board chair.

“Next year is going to be a tough year, it’s going to be a much more different year,” said board chair Edith Loring-Kuhanga.

“We’re already looking that it’s going to be a tough year because there aren’t any savings unless of course we get some one-time savings.”

The board predicted a roughly $8.4-million shortfall and were able to apply a carry forward of roughly $8.3 million to apply against the 2015/2016 deficit, which included

additional revenues and savings from the previous budget.

For example, the winter was not as cold, so the utilities budget had less pressure.

“For us, we had a carry forward that was used in part to balance [the budget],” said Debra Laser, secretary-treasurer for the district.

In order to make up for the remaining $66,000 deficit, trustees voted to eliminate an English Language Learning assistant, saving the district just over $52,000, and reduced its administrative supplies budget by $13,000 at a special board meeting in late April.

“Over the last few years we’ve been directed properly and had some real good input and we were looking at forecasting for the last couple of years, looking at fiscal management and being really prudent with our resources

and we were able to move [the carry] forward in that way,” said Loring-Kuhanga.

Unlike many Lower Mainland school districts that are being forced to cut things such as school buses from the budget, the board did not have to make any drastic changes this year.

But unless they can find extra savings, the $8.5-million shortfall is

something they could face again next year.

“It’s going to be a tough year unless we get more resources from the government,” said Loring-Kuhanga.

It is too early to speculate what could be cut from next year’s budget.

Each year, school districts are required to balance the budget by June 30.

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thousands. “The babies are going to come whether

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“At the moment of the first tremor we were performing caesarean sections. We brought the patients outside and successfully completed the surgeries. These doctors and nurses never left the patients.”

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“Both the staff and the patients do not want to stay in the ward. They want to be outside in the open because of fear of another earthquake,” said Dr. Gautam.

Inside the emergency room it’s chaos; the smell of sweat and urine is overpowering. Nurses run around frantically trying to monitor dozens of patients at once. Cries of women in great pain – sometimes shrieks – reverberate through the hospital hallways.

Days of waiting in the tents have begun to take a toll on the families outside and many feel they are being ignored.

Shiva Sedai, a farmer, and his pregnant wife travelled from a small village 80 kilometres from Kathmandu on April 23. They still haven’t seen a doctor.

“We spend hours filling out forms and nobody talks to us,” said Sedai. “They give us no information. I have been here four days. We’re just sitting here.”

Sedai learned through phone calls with family that his entire village was destroyed.

“One hundred houses fell down and my brother was injured. All my animals are dead. Life will be hard now.”

It’s a small hospital, and Dr. Gautam says most of the care must be focused on women who are about to deliver. He also notes with

some pride that his staff are disregarding their own families in order to bring the babies into the world. Some have even lost family members or have had their homes destroyed.

“We’ve managed with great difficulty. There has been huge destruction. It’s a national problem, and a local one. Houses are destroyed, even (the hospital staff) are living in tents; it’s a very difficult situation that is applicable to all of us.”

It should be noted that not all the scenes at the hospital are tragic. Outside, half a dozen proud fathers embrace their new sons and daughters with tears in their eyes. Grandmothers, aunts and cousins hold out their arms and plead for a turn with the newborn, desperate to have another look at their little fat faces, but the dads just won’t let them go.

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Nate Clark is a Thailand-based photojournalist and former student at Victoria’s Western Academy of Photography.

Since the school closed a year ago, Nate worked for a short time at Black Press – contributing to Monday Magazine, Victoria News and Saanich News – before moving to Thailand a week after the Thai Army launched its coup d’état.

Nate’s dream has always been to tell a world story. His heroes are the great storytellers like James Nachtwey and Victoria’s Farah Nosh. Like them, he wants change the world with an astonishing still image, but before he could book a flight to Iraq he would need a lot more experience.

Nate bought a 110cc Kawasaki motorcycle and travelled alone through Thailand, Laos and Cambodia, clocking over 14,000 kilometres in nine months. He photographed everything, but focused on the local people living in the rural areas – often impoverished and living under corrupt governments. His portfolio began to grow.

Nate bought his ticket to Nepal on April 19. He planned to buy a cheap motorcycle, ride through the Himalayas and shoot village life. Halfway there, in Kuala Lumpur, his phone buzzed and he found himself en route to the biggest news story in the world.

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Doctors at Paropakar Maternity Hospital in Kathmandu have been delivering up to 70 babies a day since the quake – many of them in tents set up in the parking lot. “There is no space in the delivery room and the babies are going to come whether we like it or not,” said Dr. Jageshwer Gautam, hospital director.

Delivery in a disaster zoneStory and photos by Nate Clark

Durbar Square, Kathmandu. Self-portrait by journalist Nate Clark.

The 2015 Nepal earthquake, which killed more than 8,000 people and injured more than 16,000, occurred on April 25, with a magnitude of 7.8.


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For Victoria’s Harmony Lichty, the phrase practice makes perfect is one she lives by.

Over the past decade, Lichty has trav-elled to South Asia a dozen times to study ashtanga yoga from Sri K Pattabhi Jois, who started the original practice in Mysore, India in 1948.

Ashtanga yoga is a specific discipline that encompasses a series of complex postures, internal self-practices such as cleanliness, telling the truth and living a moderate life-style, concentration, meditation and breath-ing control.

Certification is only awarded to students who have studied under Jois or his grand-son for more than 10 years and have mas-tered the highest series.

After 11 years of studying yoga and mak-ing fundamental lifestyle changes, Lichty has become the first woman in Victoria (there are only 17 women and 30 men in the world) to earn her certification in ashtanga yoga.

It has become a way of life for Lichty and her husband Jeff, who practice six days of the week.

“It helps me to feel good in my day. It helps me mentally to feel more balanced and I feel more happy on the days that I’m practicing compared to the days that I don’t,” she said. “It’s very healthy. My body

feels good — it’s strong and flexible.”Lichty’s journey to become a certified

ashtanga yoga instructor began in 2004 with her first trip to India to study under Jois.

Students practice at 3:45 a.m. for several hours, learning new postures and in the afternoon move on to classes such as cook-ing, art, sitar playing or learning sanskrit.

“It’s a pretty big commitment to go to India and spend a good amount of time there. Your whole life has to revolve around saving up for that and the priority to go there and do that,” said Lichty.

It is a three- to four-month-long trip she has become familiar with, having travelled to India for 12 years with the exception of 2001 when her son was born.

“She’s able to put her mind to a task and goal and complete it no matter what,” said Jeff of Harmony’s certification. “That’s a good skill to be able to understand a goal, put your mind to it and complete the goal.”

According to Lichty, it is not just the abil-ity to complete complex postures, but it is a self-realization and dedication that has been the key to her success in the practice.

“That’s when yoga starts to change peo-ple’s lives because they’re committed to themselves and to a daily discipline and a teacher,” she said.

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Harmony Lichty in the vrschikasana “scorpion pose” at the Ashtanga Yoga Studio in Victoria.

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The program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonata for flute and obligato harpsichord BWV 1030, sonata for violin and obligato harpsichord BWV 1015, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris quartets in D major TWV 43:D3 and E minor TWV:e:4.

“Bach wrote magnificent grand-scale works, but in his chamber music a wonderful intimacy and transparency shines through,” Stratkauskas said.

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The other work by Bach in the program is Sonata in A major, will feature VBP’s violinist and Victoria Symphony’s assistant concertmaster Christi Mey-ers.

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Flautist Soile Stratkauskas will perform with the Victoria Baroque Players on May 23.

Ensemble heads to Scotlandcome and play.

“A lot of these kids haven’t left the country, ever, or maybe even the province. It’ll be a life-changing experience to go halfway across the world to perform and meet other people and to go to the “mecca” of fiddle playing.”

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Coastline will be holding a fundraising concert in May for their trip to Aberdeen. More information on that can be found on their web-site, coastlinefiddle.com.

A Victoria-based string ensemble are off to test the musical ambiance in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Coastline, a string ensemble of 15 young musicians ranging from ages 13-18, have been selected to represent Canada in the 2015 Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

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Victoria Baroque Players will end their fourth sea-son May 23 in Victoria.

Four core members of Victoria Baroque Players – flautist Soile Stratkauskas, violinist Christi Meyers, cellist Martin Bonham and harpsichordist Michael Jarvis – will give audiences a rare chance to hear Bach’s and Telemann’s chamber music played on 18th-century instruments.

The program includes Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonata for flute and obligato harpsichord BWV 1030, sonata for violin and obligato harpsichord BWV 1015, and Georg Philipp Telemann’s Paris quartets in D major TWV 43:D3 and E minor TWV:e:4.

“Bach wrote magnificent grand-scale works, but in his chamber music a wonderful intimacy and transparency shines through,” Stratkauskas said.

“His sonata in B minor for flute and obligato harpsichord demonstrates ingenious architectural contrapuntal writing and is one of the greatest and most monumental works in the flute repertoire.”

The other work by Bach in the program is Sonata in A major, will feature VBP’s violinist and Victoria Symphony’s assistant concertmaster Christi Mey-ers.

The Victora concert begins at 7:30 p.m. at Church of St. John the Divine, 1161 Quadra St.

For ticket information: 250-652-0116 or victoria-baroque.com.

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Flautist Soile Stratkauskas will perform with the Victoria Baroque Players on May 23.

Ensemble heads to Scotlandcome and play.

“A lot of these kids haven’t left the country, ever, or maybe even the province. It’ll be a life-changing experience to go halfway across the world to perform and meet other people and to go to the “mecca” of fiddle playing.”

Hernandez, who now has an international career and tours with her band “Fretlass,” is a great role model for Coastline. She holds a music business and per-formance degree with a focus on string arrange-ment, is currently on tour in Cuba, and she still finds time in her

busy schedule to coach the group and work on its arrangements. Her goal is to help these young musicians become professional performers, which, she says, quite a few of them aspire to.

“They are all such great kids, very smart and motivated and they want to be pushed. It’s a very elite group,” she added.

Coastline will be holding a fundraising concert in May for their trip to Aberdeen. More information on that can be found on their web-site, coastlinefiddle.com.

A Victoria-based string ensemble are off to test the musical ambiance in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Coastline, a string ensemble of 15 young musicians ranging from ages 13-18, have been selected to represent Canada in the 2015 Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

“It’s a huge honour, and very exciting to be preparing for,” said their coach and mentor, Ivonne Hernandez.

Hernandez taught some of these kids in Victoria before she headed off to Boston to complete her musical studies on a full schol-arship to the University

of Berklee. When they heard she was coming back to Victoria, they asked her to work with them.

“It was at the request of a few kids who wanted a challenge, and to work on tunes that were more complex,” Hernandez explained, “and they were instru-mental in getting other people involved.”

For this group of young musicians, going to Scotland to perform is a highlight on the horizon.

The group sent vid-eos of their playing to the festival’s selection committee, and the Scottish festival’s reac-tion was an offer to

Music has a powerful way of marking life’s big moments, whether in joyous celebration or as solace in times of loss.

This idea inspires the Victoria Philharmonic Choir’s performance of the Verdi Requiem on May 24.

Giuseppe Verdi composed his magnificently operatic Requiem in 1874 in memory of a fellow musi-cian.

VPC’s performance is also a cel-ebration of life, musical collabora-tion, and the choir’s 10th anniver-sary season, and offers an oppor-tunity for the public to have an “In Memoriam” dedication listed in the Requiem program in exchange for a $100 donation to the choir.

Conducted by Peter Butterfield, the concert features soloists Ingrid

Attrot, Sarah Fryer, Richard Mar-gison and Andrew Greenwood, a 125-member chorus of VPC mem-bers and guest choristers, along with a mass instrumental ensemble of the Victoria Chamber Orchestra and Civic Orchestra of Victoria.

In Memoriam listings and dona-tions must be received by May 17 to be included in the Requiem pro-gram. Please go online to vpchoir.ca and click on the Canada Helps logo to go to the donation page.

Tickets to the performance are $35 and $45.50, and available from the UVic box office, uvic.ca/audito-rium or phone 250-721-8480.

Verdi Requiem is performed on Sunday, May 24 at the University of Victoria’s Farquhar Auditorium, beginning at 2:30 p.m.

Choir to perform RequiemVox Humana Chamber Choir will feature works

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It will feature a premiere performance of Requiescat, by award-winning Canadian com-poser Rodney Sharman.

The concert takes place May 22 at St. Andrew’s Catholic Cathedral, 740 View St., at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, $15 for seniors and people 25 and under are free.

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This month marks the centenary of one of the most emotionally charged events of the First World War: the sinking of RMS Lusitania.

In my Grade 12 History class I was taught the sinking of

the Lusitania was a turning point in the war as it helped to sway American public opinion against the Germans as a result of the approximately 120 American lives lost when she was torpedoed by a U-boat,

eventually bringing the U.S. into the conflict in 1917.

The degree of this influence is still debated by scholars today.

I was not taught anything about the impact that the loss of this ship off the distant coast of Ireland had upon my own hometown. In May 1915, Victoria was featured in news stories across the world because of the terrible riots that ensued in the streets once news of the loss of the Lusitania reached the Island.

Lusitania was built for the Cunard Line in 1907 and at the time was a marvel of modern engineering: she was the fastest liner on the ocean, known as the “Greyhound of the Seas,” and with an average speed of more than 25 knots proudly claimed the Blue Riband for the fastest Atlantic crossing.

She had a regular

route between Liverpool and New York, carrying visitors and immigrants in bright, luxurious surroundings. The crossing took on average around five days, with the fastest time being four days, 19 hours and 53 minutes.

There was a darker side to the Lusitania story, however. When she was constructed, the British government had subsidized the cost providing she could be converted to an armed merchant cruiser (AMC) in the

event of war.With war on the

horizon, in 1913 she was refitted, and eventually repainted in “dazzle camouflage.” She featured a secret compartment for carrying munitions, and gun mounts on her decks which were concealed beneath the teak overlay- ready for the addition of heavy guns if necessary.

She retained AMC status on paper but continued carrying civilian passengers through the early days of the war. Her bright Cunard paint job was restored, so she stood out against the grey Atlantic waters.

America remained neutral, but Lusitania was a British ship and as such highly vulnerable in the waters around the British Isles, which were declared a war zone by Germany in February 1915. They announced that any enemy ships in those waters would be sunk without warning by submarines.

There were rumors that Lusitania was carrying concealed munitions cargo along with her civilian passengers, as America, though officially neutral, was aiding the Allies by supplying arms.

On April 22 the German Embassy in the U.S. placed a warning in 50 American newspapers notifying travellers that “in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain … are liable to destruction in those waters (around the British Isles).”

Regardless of this clear warning, tickets for the 202nd voyage of the Lusitania were offered at discount and when she set sail on May 1, 1915, there were 1,266 passengers and

696 crew onboard. Because of the

great speed of the ship, it was widely said that she could outrun submarines. In hindsight this was tragic overconfidence.

On May 7, Lusitania was in British waters off the coast of Ireland, only hours from docking in Liverpool. U-20, a submarine which played a key role in the blockade of Britain, saw her approaching and recognized her as a registered British AMC and therefore a valid target.

Kapitanleutnant Walther Schwieger was in command of the submarine and gave the order to fire a single torpedo. It hit the starboard side below the bridge, and shortly thereafter a second explosion followed from inside Lusitania.

The source of this explosion has been widely debated. Some believe it to be the result of munitions components hidden in the secret compartment, but today most academics say it was the result of a boiler explosion.

Lusitania sank in 18 minutes. Schwieger wrote in his diary 15 minutes after he fired the torpedo, “It looks as if the ship will stay afloat only for a very short time ... I couldn’t have fired another torpedo into this mass of humans desperately trying to save themselves.”

Of that mass, 1,191 people perished. Amongst their number were 44 people from B.C., including a young, popular Victorian called Jim Dunsmuir, the scion of the wealthiest family in British Columbia.

When news of this tragedy reached Victoria, the city erupted in violence. This story will be told

Kate HumbleLocal History

Lusitania sinking was heard around the world

Photo contributed

The image is of a Cunard Liner in First World War “Dazzle Camouflage.”

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CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

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Ebb Tide takes on visiting Japanese team for a friendlyDan EbenalBlack Press

A group of Greater Victoria rugby players are showing the love of the game knows no boundar-ies.

Age and geography were no barriers to the Ebb Tide Rugby Club as they hosted a visiting team from Japan at Windsor Park last week, with the players aged right into their 80s.

“It’s very much slow-motion rugby,” said the Ebb Tide’s Dave Knox with a laugh. “And we take very good care of our 80 year olds, so they won’t be flattened.”

The Ebb Tide is made up of players over the age of 40 from throughout Greater Victoria, competing in the Pacific Northwest Over 40’s Rugby Union with teams from the Lower Mainland, Nanaimo, Kelowna and Seattle.

The Ebb Tide squared off last week against the Osaka Gentleman, an over-40 team from Japan featuring a pair of 80 year olds (although they were both nursing injuries and unable to suit up for the match). While the Ebb Tide’s regular roster features players from their 40s into their 70s, they brought out an 83 year old for the game at Wind-sor Park.

“He doesn’t play any more, but he only quit three or four years ago,” said Knox. “He [came] out for this one particular game because there’s a couple of 80 year olds on the touring team.”

Knox said the players wear different coloured shorts based on the decade they were born in.

“That way you can tell the age of the person on the field if you’re about to tackle him,” said Knox, 63. “So if you’re going to tackle somebody the

same age as you, it’s fair game, but if he’s 30 years older than you then you go a bit easier.”

Knox said the Ebb Tide has been going for more than 40 years, making seven or eight trips to Japan during that time and playing host to close to a dozen Japanese teams.

“So it’s been a long-standing tradition,” he said.The Ebb Tide regularly play their games in

James Bay, but as those fields have been con-verted for baseball, the game was moved to Oak Bay. Knox estimates about a dozen of the team’s 55 regular players are from Oak Bay.

“From now until September we practice every Thursday at Windsor Park, and I use the term practise lightly,” he said.

For more information on the Ebb Tide, visit www.ebbtiderugby.com.

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Rugby with no boundaries

Dan Ebenal/Black Press

Age and geography were no barriers to the Ebb Tide Rugby Club as they hosted a visiting team from Japan at Windsor Park last week

Eric Florchuk was the Victoria Royals first selection, 13th overall, in the 2015 Western Hockey League Bantam Draft.

The Fort Saskatche-wan, Alta. native spent the 2014-15 season with the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers of the Alberta Major Bantam Hockey League where he col-lected 46 points (24g-22a) in 33 games. In 14 contests in the 2015 AMBHL playoffs, Flor-chuk notched 11 goals and nine assists for 20 points as the Rangers fell in the finals. Flor-chuk was also named an all-star in this year’s Alberta Cup where he registered five points (4g-1a).

“Eric is a dynamic player who is gifted offensively and one of the best players our scouts have seen in recent years,” said Roy-als general manager Cameron Hope.

The WHL Bantam Draft is an annual event in which the clubs select players who have graduated from bantam.

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Community CalendarWednesday, May 13

April Wine. Royal Theatre, 805 Broughton St. Tickets available at the Royal and McPherson Box Office.

Victoria Target Theatre Society presents I’m Still Here? James Bay New Horizons, 234 Menzies St., 11:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Saturday, May 16Angela Hewitt Solo Benefit Piano Recital at

Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, 7:30 p.m. Info: christchurchcathedral.bc.ca.

Summer Star Parties. Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 5071 West Saanich Rd., 7:30 to 11 p.m. Tours of the historic Plaskett telescope, astronomy lectures and presentations. Info: victoria.rasc.ca.

Sunday, May 17 Volkssport – 6/11 km walk. Meet at Elk Lake

parking lot, Brookleigh R. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Francine at 250-361-4583.

Monday, May 18Victoria Day Parade. Downtown Victoria

(Douglas Street), 9 to 11 a.m.

Tuesday, May 19Canadian Club of Victoria luncheon. Guest

speaker Tourism Victora CEO Paul Nursey. Harbour Towers Hotel, 345 Quebec St., at 11:45 a.m. Ticket info: 250-370-1837 by May 15 or go online to eventbrite.ca.

Thursday, May 21Esquimalt Farmers Market. Esquimalt Town

Square, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Info: esquimaltmarket.com.

Saturday, May 23Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Copley Park,

Parkridge at Vanalman, Saanich. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Karen at 778-426-0379.

Scrap metal fundraiser. Macaulay Elementary School, 1010 Wychbury Ave., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Info: macaulay.sd61.bc.ca.

Summer Baroque with the Victoria Baroque Players. Church of St John the Divine, 1161 Quadra St., 7:30 p.m. Info: 250-652-0116 or victoria-baroque.com.

Summer Star Parties. Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, 5071 West Saanich Rd., 7:30 to 11 p.m. Tours of the historic Plaskett telescope, astronomy lectures and presentations. Info: victoria.rasc.ca.

Sunday, May 24Esquimalt Cycling Festival. Archie Browning

Sports Centre, 1151 Esquimalt Rd. Info: [email protected].

Thursday, May 28Esquimalt Farmers Market. Esquimalt Town

Square, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Info: esquimaltmarket.com.

Friday. May 29Victoria International Kite Festival. The Bay

Centre and Clover Point. Opening ceremony at Bay Centre with special indoor kite fly by Connor Doran, noon. Kites with Lights – LED lit kites light up the night sky at Clover Point, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 30Victoria International Kite Festival. Clover Point,

9 a.m. to 5 p.m.Volkssport – 5/10 km walk. Meet at Henderson

Recreation Centre, 2291 Cedar Hill X Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact Evelyn at 250-370-0153.

COMMUNITY NEWSIN BRIEF

Tourism boss treated to lunch

Paul Nursey, CEO of Tourism Victoria, is the guest speaker at the Canadian Club of Victoria luncheon on May 19.

At luncheon, Nursey will provide an

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Tourism Victoria is the official not-for-profit destination marketing organization that works in partnership with over 750 business members and municipalities in the Greater Victoria area and

surrounding communities. The luncheon begins at Harbour

Towers Hotel, 345 Quebec St., at 11:45 a.m.

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