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From headgear to fried plantains, the Fort St. John community got a taste of African culture at the library on Saturday as part of the Pan African Caribbean Association’s Black History Month celebrations.

After watching a short video about Viola Desmond, who helped start the civil rights movement in Canada when she refused to leave a whites-only area of a Nova Scotia theatre in 1946, Fort St. John kids got to learn how to sing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" in Swahili, try on traditional African attire, and eat cultural foods.

The library event was one of three Black History Month events offered throughout the day to celebrate diversity and learn about African culture.

“Every year we celebrate Black History Month, and we want to be part of the community and also make the community understand what Africans are all about: what their lifestyle and what their fashion is like, what their cuisine is. We want to contribute to the community so we look forward to doing this every year,” said

Panebi Oboh, president of the Pan African Caribbean Association.

“We hope we are able to reach out to the community, make them understand what we are about and what our culture is, and also integrate into the Canadian culture.”

Oboh, originally from Nigeria, has been in Fort St. John for eight years, and says the African community in Fort St. John is growing.

“When I first came there were just a handful, but right now you see lots of Africans, blacks, Caribbeans around, and that’s encouraging and that’s good,” she said.

The library events on Saturday were well attended, according to Morgan Churchill, program co-ordinator with the library.

“It’s been very fun and we’ve had great participation and enthusiasm from the community. I think it’s just something a little bit different and just really expresses the diversity in our community and in Canada, and in our history, and in our present,” she said.

It’s the first time the library has partnered with the association to host the three family-friendly events, the first of which, in the morning, was Mother Goose on the

Loose for infants and toddlers. The second event of the day was a “crafternoon” where participants made giraffes, and the third was a time for trying on traditional garb, enjoying cultural foods, and making beaded projects.

“It’s the first time we’ve done something like this and I think everyone here is having a great time,” Churchill said. “It’s something we would love to do again.”

Black History Month events kicked off in the city Feb. 2 with a viewing of Invictus, a 2009 American-South African biographical sports drama, at the Lido Theatre Feb. 2.

An essay contest for middle and high school students on how Canada’s cultural diversity enriches the country was another Black History Month initiative, as was a friendly Canada versus Africa youth soccer match, which took place Feb. 10. The outcome was a tie: 4-4.

Black History Month celebrations in Fort St. John wrap up with a traditional African dinner and show featuring Juno Award winning African artist Alpha Yaya Diallo on Feb. 27 at the Immaculata Hall. peacereporter@ahnfsj.ca

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Byron Hackett

Will social media be the downfall of society?

We spend more time on social media than we do with out families.

We are never unplugged, constantly seeking approval from the outside world about our latest purchase, a new meal, friends, kids and just about anything else life touches.

This has turned us, as a society into gratification machines. We churn and churn for one like or one funny comment on whatever it is we post.

This can effect your mental health to a point, worried more about what kind of action your next post will get as opposed to getting actual fulfillment from activities, events and experiences.

And the scariest thing is this has all changed in the matter of a decade.

Think back to ten years ago, you didn’t have Facebook on your phone, there was no Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Vine, Yelp or whatever else you are connected to.

What kind of collapse could this indicate if suddenly over just 10 years our habits have changed some dramatically?

How far could these habits go in ruining our lives if social media can soon connect to a virtual reality, like with the latest Samsung cell phone?

The infatuation with social media is growing faster than we can figure out the proper methods to deal with it and the consequences.

More than one billion people are active users Facebook, never in history have this many people been connected to the same thing.

Controlling how you think and search is already being done and that could easily all collapse.

Science Matters David Suzuki

Energy storage gives renewables a jump-start Remote Australian communities often use diesel generators for power. They’re expensive to run and emit pollution and greenhouse gases. Even people who don’t rely entirely on generators use Australia’s power grid, which is mostly fuelled by polluting, climatealtering coal. Now, one company is showing that supplying Australia’s energy needn’t be expensive or polluting.

AllGrid Energy produces 10 kilowatt-hour solar-power batteries that take advantage of Australia’s abundant sunlight and growing demand for solar panels. Their lead-acid gel battery is less expensive than Tesla’s lithium Powerwall, also available in Australia.

Many AllGrid systems are

sold in indigenous communities, providing affordable energy independence.

It’s an example of the rapid pace of renewable energy development — one that clears a hurdle previously confronting many clean-energy technologies: their variable nature. One advantage of fossil fuels is that they’re both source and storage for energy; renewables such as wind and solar are only sources.

Many argue that because solar and wind energy only work when sun shines or winds blow, and output varies according to cloud cover, wind speed and other factors, they can’t replace large “baseload” sources like coal, oil, gas and nuclear. But batteries and other energy storage methods, along with power-grid improvements, make renewables competitive with fossil fuels and nuclear power — and often better in terms of reliability, efficiency and affordability.

With storage and grid technologies advancing daily, renewable energy could easily and relatively quickly replace most fossil fuel–generated electricity. In Canada,

Mike Carter

Over the course of history, we have always been skeptical of new technologies.

We've ushered in each innovation contemptuously, with a side of rage-filled rants.

Take the printing press, for example. At first, the noble classes looked down on it. Hand inked books were much preferred to their mass produced cousins.

Some worried it would put monks and scribes out of work.

The telephone, another example, was feared to make men lazy and break up the home life.

Novels corrupt the mind, our ancestors thought.

Everything new is met with a lament for the way things used to be and social media is no different.

"It will ruin face-to-face conversation," some say - as if we will suddenly give up wanting to do anything outside our homes.

Of course, some folks are quite happy to stay at home, even prefer it over going out, but to suggest we as a society will stop going outside and interacting with people is ludicrous, not to mention impossible.

Other critiques carry some weight, like that social media lowers the discourse of debate rather than encouraging thoughtful comment. But this too, falls short of a doomsday prophecy.

No one knows when our downfall will come, or what will cause it.

That' part of the fun of living.

The business of life after all, is the collection of memories. Some of these personal artifacts go with us to the grave while others are passed on.

Life is in this sense, unchanged from the moment we first spoke.

Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator contracted five companies to test a number of storage systems, including batteries, hydrogen storage, kinetic flywheels and thermal systems that store heat in special bricks.

Ontario is aiming to get about 50 per cent of its installed generating capacity from renewable sources by 2025.

The main renewable-energy storage methods are thermal, compressed air, hydrogen, pumped hydroelectric, flywheels and batteries. Some are better for large scale and some for small scale. As electric cars become more popular, their batteries could be connected to grids to supply and balance power, which could offset costs for owners.

Harvard University researchers have been working on a flow battery that uses abundant, inexpensive organic compounds called quinones rather than expensive metals.

Renewable energy with storage has a number of advantages over fossil fuels. It can discharge power to the grid to meet demand more quickly and efficiently, and it’s less prone to disruption,

because power sources are distributed over a large area, so if one part is knocked out by a storm, for example, other parts keep the system running.

Many fossil fuel and nuclear power systems require a lot of water for cooling and so can be affected by drought, and nuclear power systems are expensive and take a long time to build. Clean-energy technology also creates more jobs than fossil fuel development.

Because renewables don’t pollute or create greenhouse gas emissions, they also help lower costs for health care and the ever-increasing impacts of climate change. Although every energy source comes with consequences, the damage and risks from mining, processing, transporting and using coal, oil, bitumen and uranium, and from fracking and other extraction methods, are far greater than for clean energy. And fossil fuels will eventually run out, becoming increasingly expensive, difficult to obtain, and ridden with conflict as scarcity grows.

Rapid storage-technology development will place renewable sources at the forefront of the global energy mix

in coming years. Many renewables are already being deployed even without storage. A recent report showed the U.S. could reduce CO2 emissions from its electricity sector by 80 per cent relative to 1990 levels within 15 years “with current technologies and without electrical storage.”

The study, by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and University of Colorado Boulder and published in Nature Climate Change, concluded that grid improvements, including a new high-voltage direct-current transmission grid, could deliver low-cost clean energy throughout the country to match supply and demand.

Still, storage offers many advantages. With the urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions, governments need to provide incentives for rapid renewable energy development and deployment.

Considering how quickly computer technology and other human inventions have advanced, it’s easy to see that barriers to a clean-energy shift are more political and psychological than technological.

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W E E K LY P R O R A C I N G U P D AT E Racing News, Stats & Trivia

2016 Standings Sprint Cup Series Top Ten 1) Denny Hamlin

Atlanta Motor Speedway Track Details Distance: 1.54 miles Shape: Quad-Oval Turns/Straights: 24º / 5º

Top 10: 1

2) Martin Truex Jr. Points: 40 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 1

3) Kyle Busch Points: 39 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 1

4) Kevin Harvick Points: 37 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 1

5) Carl Edwards Points: 36 Wins: 0 Top 5: 1

Top 10: 1

6) Joey Logano The biggest names in racing will battle on Sunday, Feb. 28th, for 500 miles in the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 Sprint Cup race. The Atlanta Motor Speedway is a superspeedway located 20 miles south of Atlanta with a seating capacity of over 125,000.

It opened in 1960 and was almost completely rebuilt in 1997. In the process it has become one of NASCAR’s fastest tracks. Bobby Labonte has achieved more wins than any other full-time driver at this speedway. Current points leader and last week’s winner of the Daytona 500, Denny Hamlin, finished 38th last year.

Driver 1) Elliott Sadler 2) Darrell Wallace Jr. 3) Brandon Jones 4) Daniel Suarez 5) Blake Koch 6) Brendan Gaughan 7) Justin Allgaier 8) Brendan Gaughan 9) Dakoda Armstrong 10) Jeremy Clements

Points: 35 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

7) Kyle Larson Points: 34 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

8) Regan Smith Points: 33 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Points: 33 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Top 10: 1

10) Kurt Busch Points: 31 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0

Racing News NASCAR is shifting to an unlimited green-white-checkered finish protocol and establishing an “overtime line” to determine the winner. The line will vary by track. If the race leader passes the line on the first lap under green before a caution comes out, it will be considered a valid green-whitecheckered attempt. If a caution comes out before the leader passes the overtime line on the first lap under green, it will not be a valid attempt. The race continues until a valid attempt.

NASCAR hopes the change will eliminate some of the angst that has come with late cautions.

Racing Trivia

Top 10: 1

9) Austin Dillon

Top 10: 1

Points 38 35 34 33 32 32 29 32 27 26

Denny Hamlin won his first Cup Series race at which track? a) Daytona b) Talladega

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Last Weekend’s Race: Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 Daytona 500 Top Ten Driver Points Denny Hamlin 45 Martin Truex Jr. 40 Kyle Busch 39 Kevin Harvick 37 Carl Edwards 36 Joey Logano 35 Kyle Larson 34 Regan Smith 33 Austin Dillon 33 Kurt Busch 31

Denny Hamlin earned his first Daytona 500 victory in the closest finish in the race’s storied 58-year history. He pushed his No. 11 FedEx Toyota ahead of Martin Truex Jr.’s Toyota at the finish line by ten-hundreds of a second (0.010) – a half-foot winning difference.

Hamlin, 35, called it the, “biggest race of my life,” and was still shaking his head as he spoke to reporters in Victory Lane as confetti fell. The two cars crossed the finish line simultaneously, and it wasn’t until NASCAR made the official call and television replayed the finish, before most people in the pits and the grandstands were certain who had won. Hamlin said, “I had no anticipations of winning this race on the white flag lap.” Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards finished third and fifth, respectively.

Former Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick was fourth.

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Points: 45 Wins: 1 Top 5: 1

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Fort St. John native Sterling Middleton (left) won gold at the Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway last week.

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Sterling Middleton wins gold for Canada at Youth Olympics Byron Hackett Staff Writer While some kids dream of hoisting the Stanley Cup, Sterling Middleton was dreaming of Olympic gold.

On a scale, that dream came true last week, when the Fort St. John native and his curling team of Mary Fay, Tyler Tardi, Karlee Burgess, and coach Helen Radford won mixed curling gold at the Youth Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, beating Team USA 10-4 in the final.

“It was pretty surreal,” he told the Alaska Highway News in a phone interview from Norway.

“That’s what everybody dreams about is that moment right there and to actually experience it with my other three teammates, it was a dream come true for sure.”

Middleton, who shot lead for the group said it was obviously a big moment in the final going up five in the first end and they put things in cruise control from there.

“We stared off good with that five in the first end,” he said. “We just had control for the rest of the game after that. We were all feeling really good and making shots and we felt really good on the ice.”

Leading 9-4 in the seventh end, after the Team USA put up several guards, Fay hit an open tap back for one to clinch gold.

Middleton, 17, said when he stepped on the podium it was a culmination of all the hard work he’s put into the sport, and a compliment to his teammates and how well they gelled over the course of the event.

“We’re all really good players on our own and we all have very similar personalities and

we all gelled pretty quick,” Middleton said about the unique mix of two B.C. boys and two Nova Scotia girls in Fay and Burgess.

“We had faith in one another and we knew what our team systems were and we stuck to our game plan and just had everything click for us.”

That hard work was over a year of preparation for the event in Lillehammer, which his team was clearly well prepared for after going undefeated in the round robin and easily rolling through the quarter and semifinal games.

For Middleton individually, he felt like his game rounded into form when it matter most.

“The first couple games of the round robin I did have a little bit of a tougher go just getting used to the ice, it’s so much different than in town and the fans and the distractions with the media, ” he said.

“Once the playoffs came around and we

started playing some big games I felt like we were in control the whole time.”

2016 marked just the second edition of the Youth Olympics, with Canada winning mixed curling bronze in 2012 in Austria.

Middleton’s experience at the Youth Olympics isn’t over yet, as he’s paired with Holly Thompson from New Zealand for the mixed doubles portion of the event.

“We play our first game at 7:30 on Friday night,” he added. “It’s going to be awesome, I’m really looking forward to it. I have played some mixed doubles, they started a mixed double league in Fort St. John every Monday night which I’ve been attending and my Mom and I curled in the Dawson Creek mixed spiel, so I have played a few games, I feel like I understand it pretty well.” sports@ahnfsj.ca

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With help from very generous donors, the radiothon raised $15,400 towards the purchase of a VeinViewer Imaging System for the Fort St. John Hospital. SunFM and TheBear broadcasted live from the lobby of the Hospital from 6am-6pm on Feb. 11, encouraging donors to contribute. The Flower Hut and the Encana Events Centre sponsored draws for fresh flowers and concert tickets as an added incentive to visit the radiothon. All donors also received a rose.

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The Northerner • Friday, February 26, 2016 • 11 Susan McGarvey with the Northern Environmental Action Team in Fort St. John is collecting plastic bottles with plans to turn them into coloured strips to build a public art display. McGarvey is eyeing the Pomeroy Sport Centre as a potential location for the piece.

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NEAT looks to turn recyclables into art Matt Preprost Staff Writer

Irvin Tang eyes are finally affected. There is no pain associated with macular degeneration. The most common symptoms are: • blurred, washed out central vision • drop in sharpness • reduced colour perception • blind spot or black spot in the centre of the visual field • difficulty seeing far straight lines that look wavy or distorted (wet form) Diagnosis It is recommended that all those over 50 years of age go for an eye examination at least once every two years. Screening for macular degeneration can be done by an optometrist or an ophthalmologist. If detected early, it is possible to slow the progress of the disease and even stop it in the case of the wet form of the disease.

Two tests are commonly used to diagnose macular degeneration. The first one, known as the Amsler grid, is used to assess whether straight lines are distorted and if there is a blind spot or black spots in the field of vision. This test can also be used for follow-up purposes (see Amsler Grid published by Vigilance Sante). The second test is an examination called ophthalmoscopy. This test involves the use of eye drops to dilate the pupil which allows the specialist to examine the interior of the eye.

Treatment There is currently no treatment available to restore lost visual acuity (sensitivity). Medications may be taken to slow the progress of macular degeneration.

Taking certain vitamins and minerals also seems to slow the progression of the disease. Additionally, laser surgery can stop the progression of wet macular degeneration. Otherwise, individuals with this eye disease must learn to live with limited vision. There are vision rehabilitation clinics specialized in helping those with macular degeneration learn how to live with low vision and remain independent. To find a clinic near you, contact the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). r0011165672

One person's recycling is another's sculpture.

Come spring, the Northern Environmental Action Team (NEAT) in Fort St. John will get to work with residents to build a six to seven-foot tower made from recycled plastic bottles as part of a new public art display.

"I'm combining my two loves," said Susan McGarvey, an ecoadvisor with NEAT who is spearheading the project.

"I have a love for art, not that I'm an artist, but I have an appreciation. My other love is the environment and I'm bringing those two loves together in just a spectacular way."

McGarvey is looking for donations of plastic bottles—two-litre ones preferred— ahead of the building event, set to take place during the Performing Arts BC Provincial Festival starting May 31 in Fort St. John.

During the festival, McGarvey, NEAT members and interested residents will cut the bottles into strips, colour them, and heat them until hardened to build a small-scale replica of artist Dale Chihuly's Fireworks of Glass, a 43-foot tower featuring 3,200 pieces of blown glass on display at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

"I remember when that was installed… it's fascinated me ever since," said McGarvey, who moved to Fort St. John from Indianapolis 16 years ago.

"It really put me in touch with his work. I thought, hey, we could do this as a recycled art project."

While the replica won't be nearly as large as Chihuly's original, McGarvey hopes to display the sculpture at the Pomeroy Sport Centre because of its high visitor count and visibility to bring attention to the things that can be made using recycled materials.

"People don't think about the things they use so we want to bring attention to that," she said.

"We want them to see the things that we throw away or send to recycling can be used different ways and make something beautiful."

On Monday, city councillors directed city staff to work with NEAT on developing the project, including approving its "appropriateness" for display on city property, and setting installation and decommissioning plans. Staff were also directed to develop a policy on displaying art in public facilities in the future. A home for the sculpture wasn't decided.

McGarvey said NEAT will still build the sculpture if the Pomeroy Sport Centre isn't approved as a location.

"It's just a matter of finding the location for it," she said.

"The feedback from city so far has been positive." editor@ahnfsj.ca

Macular degeneration is an eye disease that usually strikes older adults. It affects more than one million Canadians and is the leading cause of vision loss in the elderly.

The inside of the eye is lined with a light-sensitive membrane called the retina. The retina consists of specialized cells that detect colour and contrast. The macula is a small area at the centre of the retina responsible for central vision and fine detail vision.

As its name implies, macular degeneration involves the deterioration of the macula. This leads to blurred central vision and can make certain activities such as reading and driving impossible. Although the disease can severely damage vision it rarely leads to complete blindness since it does not affect peripheral vision (around the center). Persons with macular degeneration could, for example, see the numbers on a clock, but would be unable to distinguish the hands.

There are two forms of macular degeneration: Dry • Dry macular degeneration is the most common form and accounts for 80 to 90% of all cases. The loss of central vision is gradual and occurs over several years. It is often the result of a thinning of the macula or pigment deposits {coloration) on the macula.

Wet • Although less common, wet macular degeneration is characterized by the sudden and severe loss of central vision. In this case, abnormal blood vessels develop under the macula. The vessels then leak fluid or blood which partially destroys the light-sensitive cells in the macula. The macula can heal itself but scar tissue forms on the macula creating a black spot or “blind spot”.

Persons at Risk • Macular degeneration is associated with the normal aging process. That being said, any person over the age of 50 years, particularly women, are “at risk”. Other risk factors include family history of macular degeneration, diabetes, high blood cholesterol, hypertension, eye disease and smoking.

Symptoms The symptoms associated with macular degeneration are limited to vision. Initially, the disease only affects one eye. This can delay diagnosis since the healthy eye generally compensates for the loss of vision in the affected eye. This can go on for several years before both

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From the Beatton 4-H Club Hi it’s Gracie with the Beatton Community Horse 4-H club. I just want to bring up the fact that these articles are written a bit before they actually appear in the paper, that means some of the events talked about have not yet happened when I’m writing but will have happened by the time it’s published. Now that I’ve got that out of the way let’s get into what’s been happening in 4-H. We have held three meetings since last article. The first meeting, held January 27, was a special one only for Cloverbuds, members under the age of 9. The second one for juniors and seniors, members older than 9, was held February 3. We discussed our upcoming Communications, which is being held February 20. Communications is where a 4-H member does either a speech, speak and show, demonstration, or educational display on a topic of their choice whether they are a Cloverbud, junior, or senior. I’ll explain each of the options for a member to do for Communications for you readers. A speech is quite self explanatory and can be on any topic that a member would like. A speak and show is where a member can use any demonstrating tools and speaking to explain a topic

to do with agriculture or food. A demonstration is like a speak and show but two members do it together and it can be on any topic the member chooses. An educational display is a little like a science fair project with how it is displayed but does not include an experiment so no prediction or that stuff.Basically an educational display is a board a member creates to heighten the understanding of any topic. Our third meeting was held February 17. On February 10 some of the members of 4-H and I visited the manager of Sears here in Fort St John to thank them for the $500 grant. We also ordered a shop vac to keep our meeting room from getting too dusty. On February 14 we held a gymkhana at Rod Hedge’s arena.

A gymkhana is a little like a rodeo but the activities done are different. Members participated in activities like barrel racing, pole bending, keyhole, and ribbon to name a few. All the members had a great time and we all look forward to holding another gymkhana in the future.

That`s all for now. Thank you for reading about what has been going on in 4-H and a reminder to check back next month to find out how Communications went.

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On April 30, 2014, at 10648 100th Street, and the 9200 block of 82nd Street, both in Fort St. John, B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the Fort St. John RCMP seized, at the time indicated, the subject property, described as: $1,675 CAD (100th Street), on or about 20:33 Hours, and $2,195 CAD (82nd Street), on or about 23:50 Hours.

The subject property was seized because there was a warrant authorized by the court pursuant to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act of Canada (CDSA) to seize evidence in respect of an offence (or offences) under section 5(2) (possession for purpose of trafficking) of the CDSA and because there was evidence that the subject property had been obtained by the commission of that offence.

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A notice of dispute may be filed by a person who claims to have an interest in all or part of the subject property. The notice of dispute must be filed within 60 days of the date upon which this notice is first published.

You may obtain the form of a notice of dispute, which must meet the requirements of Section 14.07 of the CFA, from the Director’s website, accessible online at www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The notice must be in writing, signed in the presence of a lawyer or notary public, and mailed to the Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234 Station Provincial Government, Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.

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On September 15, 2015, at the 10600 block of 100th Avenue, Fort St. John, B.C., Peace Officer (s) of the Fort St. John RCMP seized, at the time indicated, the subject property, described as: $800 CAD and $870 CAD, both on or about 21:33 Hours.

The subject property was seized because there was evidence that the subject property had been obtained by the commission of an offence (or offences) under section 5(2) (Possession for purpose of trafficking) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act of Canada.

Notice is hereby given that the subject property, CFO file Number: 2016-3375, is subject to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will be forfeited to the Government for disposal by the Director of Civil Forfeiture unless a notice of dispute is filed with the Director within the time period set out in this notice.

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