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Protecting agriculture:
Shuswap agriculture advocates believe amendments to how the Agricultural Land Commission operates will put B.C.’s farmland at risk. Photo by James Murray
Proposed changes to ALR prompt concern
Bill 24: Food security proponents say government bill not helping farmers. By Lachlan Labere
But John McLeod, retired farmer and president of the Shuswap Food Action Co-op, has a different take on Shuswap agricultural advocates the changes recommended in Bill 24 argue proposed changes to how the – the Agricultural Land Commission province manages farmland have Amendment Act, which, in summalittle do with helping the people who ry, he refers to with a pejorative term work it. approximating “bull ferOn March 27, the tilizer.” B.C. government an“When Christy Clark nounced how it would won the last election, be improving the Agrithere wasn’t one word culture Land Commisabout doing a core resion, the independent view on the agricultural body tasked with proland reserve or commistecting farmland in the Bill Bennett sion – she has no manAgricultural Land ReMinister of Energy date to do this,” says serve. and Mines McLeod, who believes The changes were the key changes in the the result of a cabinet amendment are to ac“core review” headed by Energy commodate the premier’s mandate to and Mines Minister Bill Bennett. A get liquid natural gas flowing – even news release states the changes will from agricultural land. “protect farmland and maintain the “They don’t have plan (for agriALC’s independence.” culture),” said McLeod. “What they “These improvements achieve our have is a plan to go and frack!” goals of supporting the ALC in its With Bill 24 the B.C. government role as independent decision maker, will be dividing the ALR into two protecting our high-quality farm- zones, Zone 1 covering everything land and still support farmers to get See Province on page 2 ahead,” states Bennett in the release.
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Post office may eliminate Saturday hours Canada Post: Small number of users spurs proposed service cut. By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News
Canada Post may be reducing hours at its Sicamous outlet to a fiveday-a-week operation. In a letter to the District of Sicamous, Canada Post’s manager for the Thompson/Nicola/Fraser Canyon area, Karen Plessis states the Crown corporation will
be discussing with local employee representatives a proposed change to hours at the Sicamous branch that would see it no longer be open on Saturdays. “Our goal is to serve the people in your community when they use the post office most,” says Plessis. “A careful review has deter-
mined that we have a very small number of local customers on Saturdays. Canada Post is therefore considering closing your post office on Saturdays only and realigning hours during the week.” Plessis says the move is spurred in part by the decline in letter mail volumes having an
adverse effect on Canada Post’s “mandate to remain financially self sufficient.” Canada Post recently raised the cost of individual Canadian standard lettermail stamps to $1 (85 cents when bought in bulk), to address the trend of decreasing lettermail volume.
“Rest assured that this potential change will take our customer’s and your constituent’s postal needs into consideration,” says Plessis, who assures Canada Post remains committed to “providing postal services in urban and rural communities across the country.”
Province to have say in mandate of northern panels Continued from front
from the Okanagan to the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, and Zone 2, which takes in the rest of the province. Another major change is that applications for exclusion or subdivision from/ on ALR land, normally overseen by the entire ALC, will now go before one of six respective regional panels – Interior, Island, Kootenay, North, Okanagan and South Coast. Each panel will consist of a vice-chair and two commissioners, appointed from their region of responsibility. While Zone 1 panels are tasked to uphold the traditional mandate of the ALC – the preservation of agricultural land, Zone 2 panels must also consider what the province refers to as, “economic, cultural and social values;” “regional and community planning objectives;” and “other prescribed
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considerations.” This is a concern for Shuswap organic farmer, Crannog Ales co-owner Rebecca Kneen. “The mandate process and what they call in government speak, “measurables,” are not by the ALC, but by the government, and that is a fairly major shift in policy,” said Kneen. “That’s a fairly major concern because, essentially, it removes the independence of the land commission to act on behalf of the land itself and on behalf of agriculture. “What they’re saying is, ‘you can go ahead and do things the way you’ve been doing them, but only once we’ve told you what it is you’re supposed to be doing,’ which is a pretty major difference.” Another goal of the province with Bill 24 is to make agricultural land more viable for farmers in Zone 2, giving the ALC “broader flexibility to consider
non-agricultural homebased business.” Kneen interprets this as helping farmers by giving them an excuse to remove land from the ALR. “And that’s going to somehow help farmers make a living as farmers?” asks Kneen. “If that’s not entirely illogical, I’m at a loss to define illogic.” Kneen has been working with McLeod and others on the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s Grow Shuswap agricultural committee, which, among other things, is looking at other ways to help farmers without sacrificing any ALR land in B.C. (which represents five per cent of the province’s land base). “If we want to help farmers make a living at it, we can stop taking land away so that there is land – that helps,” laughs Kneen. She also suggests finding new ways for young farm-
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ers to access to farmland, not contaminating farmland, having buy-local policies at regional and local levels, through to legislation that actually supports farmers and farmland and improving the market for local product, “so farmers can actually sell what they’ve got for a decent amount of money.” Kneen would have gladly shared her thoughts with the core review committee if there had been consultation, but as she and McLeod point out, Bill 24 was announced with no prior public consultation. Bennett publicly admitted after the fact that the committee could “have done a better job at consultations.” The BC Food Systems Action Network is calling on the province to put aside the bill and start again, this time through a respectful consultation process similar to what
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the province did with the Water Sustainability Act. “Not all of us might be super-excited with what they did in the end, but that was like a six-year consultation across the province,” said BCFSN co-chair Abra Brynne, noting B.C.’s gross farm receipts in 2011 totalled $2.9 million – from less than 200,000 farms. “Our land base is just as important as our water.” Kneen agrees there are issues with the ALR and related regulations, but notes most of the amendments she has seen have revolved around “taking land out of the land reserve rather than making it possible for people to continue to farm in more effective ways. “So it may be there are ways of making it possible for more than one family to live on a piece of farmland and farm it, within the ALR and without destroying agricultural land.”
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School District #83’s adult continuing education programs are facing a complete closure in July. The board of education was to consider a motion at Tuesday night’s regular meeting to close all continuing education programs in Salmon Arm, Enderby, Sicamous and Armstrong. The decision will take place after the News’ press time. The motion to shut down the adult programs comes as the school district faces another budget process where they will be required to make $1.8 million in cuts to operations. As it stands now, the continuing education program is being operated at a deficit of $119,108. Most of the students in the program do not take full course loads, so the enrolment is counted in the total number of courses, explains Wendy Woodhurst, the school district’s director of instruction. For example, Salmon Arm had 14 active courses, Sicamous had eight, Enderby had 40 and Armstrong had 39 courses active. Last year, trustees
opted to scale back the level of service for continuing education and hope the service would become more widely used, rather than close the programs complete-
eas that will feel this the most, and not everyone can get into Salmon Arm for the courses there,” says Johnson. While some of the adult education pro-
When you are facing the kind of deficit we are facing, you need to look at every option to save money. There are no easy choices. Bobbi Johnson SD #83 school board chair
ly. This year, however, the student enrolment has not increased, and the program continue to operate at a significant loss. “When you are facing the kind of deficit we are facing, you need to look at every option you can to save money,” says Bobbi Johnson, school board chair. “These are not easy choices.” While adult students in Salmon Arm have other options to finish high school, including an adult education program at Okanagan College, students from the smaller communities like Sicamous will have more of a struggle to try and upgrade their education. “It’s the outlying ar-
grams operated out of the Salmon Arm Storefront School, Woodhurst stresses the storefront option for school-aged children is not being closed. “We do not want people to think that shutting down Storefront is what is on the table. This (motion) is only affecting our adult continuing education of-
ferings.” Speaking only from her personal view, Johnson says in a time of such severe budgetary restrictions, she believes resources need to be directed into the kindergarten to Grade 12 programs. “As a trustee I’d rather not cut literacy and other programs that work at an early age to improve the chances of success as children move through the K to 12 system, rather than put money into the catching up at the other end, much as I’d love to help everyone.” Johnson says program closures can be an unfortunate reality of balancing budgets. “If I was a parent, I would be writing letters to government and asking them to take a serious look at things about the education system that we can’t afford to lose.”
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hich is more deadly – the bottle or the cell phone? It’s remarkable that distracted driving is now causing more tragedies, on our roads than drinking and driving. Eighty-one people were killed in British Columbia by distracted driving, compared with 55 by impaired driving, in 2012. And 51,000 distracted driving tickets were handed out in 2011. Of course, there have been huge public education campaigns conducted over the years, designed to change society’s view of mixing alcohol and autos, not to mention that B.C. has some of the country’s toughest drinking and driving legislation. This has created a significant reduction in drinking-and driving-related deaths in the province since it was implemented. It appears the equivalent needs to be applied to those who insist on talking on their cell phones or texting while driving. Somehow it is seen as acceptable to stay connected to a mobile device even when piloting thousands of pounds of metal on roads populated with other drivers and their passengers, as well as cyclists and pedestrians. It is not acceptable. It is stupid and dangerous. Just like there are options for people who wish to drink to find alternate transportation, there are hands-free options for those who simply can not miss a call. The other alternative is to simply put the phone away while driving, or pull over to a safe place if you need to reply. Currently, B.C. residents can be fined $167, plus three demerit points, for talking on a handheld mobile device while driving. News that Attorney General Suzanne Anton is now considering stronger penalties for distracted driving violations is welcome and appropriate. We look forward to the day when the stigma about cell phones and driving equals that to those who combine booze and cars.
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New driver’s licence an all-purpose digital ID VICTORIA – Have you got one of the new B.C. driver’s licences yet? By now most drivers have the one with the unsmiling black and white mug shot, to conform to passport standards so it could be used for border identification with the magnetic swipe strip on the back. About one million of us now have the newest version, with a credit-card style digital chip that proves your residence and eligibility for our famously “free” medical care. The motor vehicle office started issuing them about a year ago, as five-year licences expire. They replace the old “CareCard” that has no expiry date. Over the years there were more than nine million CareCards issued, twice the population of B.C., as people held onto their access to our defenseless, overworked medical system from wherever they
moved to. Positive identification is only the start for this card. Each will be assigned a password that gives access to online medical records, so when patients show up at an ER, their eligibility is confirmed and any previous conditions or medications are accurately matched. (Note that medical information is not stored on the card, just an access code that goes with the password.) Patients will be able to call up their own files at home, book medical appointments and even renew prescriptions, which is where the efficiency comes in. In-person visits for routine prescription renewals are a cash cow for today’s doctors, generating guaranteed billings but often little or no health benefit. Most people will still think of it as a driver’s licence, but it’s intended as an all-purpose government ID. If you don’t drive, you
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It also means a decline in the number of government office jobs, and the potential for further outsourcing of services, as we have seen with Medical Services Plan administration and the back-office functions of BC Hydro. Some older readers won’t be thrilled to hear about this. They don’t want a “smart phone,” just a phone. But they will also see their great-grandchildren becoming adept with tablet computers before they can even speak. Seniors will get the hang of it pretty quickly, and their lives will become easier. • A correction to last week’s column on the Agricultural Land Commission. I erroneously said regional panel members were appointed from outside the region. They are local residents, and the new legislation formalizes a cabinet appointment process for them.
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Marijuana production facility not a grow op Thank for your front page coverage of the March 26, 2014 public hearing for the district’s planned zoning bylaw amendment. As reported in your coverage, we are in favour of permitting the responsible use of industrialzoned land for federally-licensed production of medical marijuana. Unfortunately, the proposed bylaw would severely restrict the abil-
ity to locate these safe and tightly regulated facilities on industrial land. We are hopeful that our mayor and council will recognize the advantages of locating these facilities on industrial land (as opposed to valuable farmland), and make appropriate changes to the proposed bylaw. We thank you also for changing the headline for your story as it
appears on Eaglevalleynews.com. Though it may seem appropriate to refer to any operation that produces marijuana as a “grow op,” the fact is that the federally-licensed facilities we favour bear no resemblance to the illegal grow ops of the past. Unlike grow ops, licensed medical marijuana production facilities must pass fire and building inspec-
tions, and are subject to strict security and environmental regulations. Describing these facilities with the pejorative term “grow op” risks unfairly tarring legitimate businesses in this promising new industry. We encourage anyone concerned about the potential impacts of medical marijuana production to read the federal regulations and
guidance documents prepared by Health Canada. We are confident that reasonable people aware of the relevant facts will agree that medical marijuana production is a safe and innocuous way to grow and diversify our local economy. Johnny Vinje President,Waterway Houseboats Ltd.
MLAs should be on the hook for spousal travel
An article in the Eagle Valley News dated April 2, about MLA expenses and perks really motivated me to voice my opinion on the matter. The perk to bring a family member or coworker to Victoria at the expense of the taxpayers should not be allowed. If an MLA wishes
to bring his spouse or partner to Victoria for family harmony, that should be paid for out of the wages of the MLA. Our local MLA, Greg Kyllo stated that his decision to run for the provincial seat in our riding was based in part on the government policy that accommodates spousal visits to
Victoria. I thought that an MLA would seek election in his or her riding to deal with the issues of health, senior citizen housing, employment, taxes, highway maintenance, environment issues and social welfare. Spousal visits are very important to keep the families together, but not at the expense
of B.C. residents. This policy has to be stopped – even though the policy has been around for years, according to the article. Premier Christy Clark even stated in the news today, “That the rules on MLA expenses need to be tightened, because the public is clearly not willing to tolerate perks that may
have been allowed in the past.” This is one of the perks that have to be reviewed by the premier’s office, and make the MLA responsible for his or her spousal visits. Gary F.T. Ferns
Perks and priorities not benefitting taxpayers I have just read the April 2 edition of the EVN and wholeheartedly agree with the letter to the editor from John Schlosar. Community groups should be the last ones to suffer the municipality’s shortfalls. Council has set aside more than $13,000 for four (yes, four) councillors and staff to attend a conference at Niagara Falls, Ont. This will be a fully-paid vacation for these four. When asked what good it will do Sicamous – the only explanation I have been given is that it lets us know what other municipalities are doing. Mayor Darrell Trouton has been quoted as saying that previous meetings have given us our new proposed water system. This is hogwash, as it was the major flood that caused this disaster and not any conference results. In my opinion, we don’t have to spend $13,000-plus to see
what other districts are doing. They just have to go down the road to Enderby and Armstrong. Both centres are larger than Sicamous and they are still settled in their historic office buildings. Not Sicamous – we had to have a multimillion ugly duckling of a civic centre rather than be like these other towns who put their funds into curbs, sidewalks, water and garbage, etc. Again, in my opinion, Sicamous seems to be empire building with over-staffing, over-paying and overdepartmentalizing our civic offices. We are still a small bedroom community for Salmon Arm. There is no work in town for young people, homefor-sale signs are all over town, the mall and other offices have numerous vacancies, the biggest construction project in town has been the tearing down
of the partly built condo project on Riverside. Even with these negatives, we still send four people to Niagara Falls for a holiday and make community groups suffer. I do not know, nor
… in my opinion, Sicamous seems to be empire building with over-staffing, overpaying and overdepartmentalizing our civic offices. have met Coun. Suzanne Carpenter, but from what I have seen and heard – hopefully she will run for mayor next time. I also note that MLA Greg Kyllo has found the government helpyourself trough. His travel expenses of over $5,000 is tops for the provincial Liberals. It appears his
wife goes with him on trips to Victoria. He states that he checked on this before running. Hogwash in my humble opinion. I surmise that he ran for town council knowing full well he would be running for MLA. This cost us taxpayers the election to replace him. I can’t recall any other job that requires their wives to travel to work with them. Oil workers and tradesmen working away from home certainly don’t have their wives paid to go with them. Of course, they don’t have the taxpayers’ pockets to dig into. It is just sickening to see all the corruption going on in government. The senate, the speaker, Kwan, etc. All they have to say is they’re sorry and repay when they get caught. If you’re not in government, you are charged with fraud and go to court. This is
probably just the tip of the iceberg and we can just wait until the next one gets caught. Jim West
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Facts favoured over faith-based assertion Thank you Professor Crowley for responding so eloquently to Mr. Riley’s no doubt heart-felt anti-evolutionary letter to the editor. As a humanist, I respect the fact that some people base their opinions and beliefs on ‘faith,” religious, or spiritual beliefs, but
this should not include facts or events that can be proven scientifically. No matter how much you believe in a ‘higher power,’ the facts that have determined the evolution of the planet and all it supports, are verifiable by scientific methods. Unlike faith, this is backed up with knowledge, proof, and
historical evidence. There is enough literature (and I don’t mean the Bible or its equivalent in other religions) and scientific data out there for all to see, question and partake of, if only one’s mind is open to the variety, beauty and magnitude of our natural world. It may
be difficult for some to get their heads around the progression from simple life forms to the complexities of ourselves and all living things, but evolution is a fact, which can be traced back in time. This topic can get very emotional for many, so it is best when someone with Profes-
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Support for Windows XP may have come to an end, but that doesn’t make computers with the operating system obsolete. On Wednesday, April 8, Microsoft stopped supporting the 12-yearold operating system. What this means is the company will no longer be providing technical support or updates, including hardware and security updates, though Microsoft Security Essentials, the company’s free antivirus program, will continue to receive support until July 14, 2015. What this doesn’t mean, necessarily, says John Schlosar of Sicamous’ Keystroke Computer Service, is that existing XP users must upgrade their operating system or computer – as is being recommended by Microsoft. “Because of this message, people are thinking I have to upgrade my computer – and I’m getting phone calls all the time – or I have to buy a new one,” said Schlosar. “I know they are phoning other computer repair places and they’re saying, ‘yes, you have to,’ just to get the business. It’s not imperative. You have to be maybe a little more diligent, but you don’t have to upgrade it.” Being diligent requires changing some
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Schlosar notes an operating system upgrade can cost up to $300 if done professionally, and involves backing up existing information, erasing your hard drive, installing the new disc, updating, etc. He adds older peripherals, such as scanners and printers, may not work with the newer operating systems. Schlosar credits Microsoft for having supported XP as long it has and, while it may not work as well as newer operating systems, he says by taking a proactive approach, XP users can avoid the expense of major upgrades.
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for these designs. An expression of modern art displayed by live people. That made me change my mind about these fashion shows and I now view them with interest, rather than a look of horror that said, “You want me to wear that?” So maybe next time you see a classical ballet you may see it as a difficult recordable art form. And when it comes to those artsy fashion shows, don’t think of it as wearable but try looking at it as an art form. It will make a huge difference. Anyone with art information may contact Carla Krens at 250836-4705, or carlakrens@telus.net.
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There are two art forms that have always baffled me. The first is dance. Not the art itself, but the recording of it. Ballet in particular. In music, a system was developed (however unnecessarily complex, and if invented today could be done simpler) of writing down music so that it could be duplicated by others in exactly the same way as originally composed. However, I always wondered how dancers write down their complicated moves. Can you imagine having to write down where each arm and leg is at any given time, what it is doing and, in case of a pas de deux, where the four arms and four legs are and what they are doing? And the
as kids, where you start with a word at the beginning of a line, only to find what comes at the end of the line is something entirely different. The second art form I wonder about is fashion. Yes, fashion. There is a debate over whether or not it is an art form. Since there are museums that display fashion, I must assume those museums consider it an art form. For years I did not understand that while watching strange looking skinny females walking on the catwalk that the designer could be serious. Surely some of these concoctions could not possibly be worn anywhere. Or how could you even sit down in some of these? It also seems that one designer outdoes another by designing more and more ludicrous looking outfits. Here is a description of ridiculous things I found on the Internet: A pile of lumber nailed together in front of a man’s head; how about some trees hanging from your dress; blue lips, striped hair, toothpicks through parts of the face; even
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Groups offer opportunities to eat and be entertained The Malakwa Community Centre Association is celebrating the arrival of spring with a dinner/concert to help raise funds for the local community hall. On Saturday, April 26, the association will be hosting the fundraising event – dinner with live music – at the Malakwa Community Learning Centre (the former elementary school). Tickets will soon be available at the Malakwa Market. Funds raised from the event will go towards a community hall fund. Association president Gord Hynek says winter hasn’t been kind to the existing community hall. Association volunteers were out in January shovelling snow off the roof, during snowfall that’s had local residents making comparisons to heavy snowfalls of winters past.
“We were very concerned that it might collapse,” said Hynek. “The ceiling was bending so much were compelled to remove a long row of fluorescent lights.” The association has been unable to insure the building for liability coverage since an engineering report by their insurer revealed structural-integrity issues with the facility. For more information about the upcoming dinner, contact Hynek at 250-836-3776.
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