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Kimberley’s Sophia Hagland, recently returned from Stockholm, Sweden, where she’d been studying music, was one of the performers at Locals Coffeehouse at the Studio Stage Door in Cranbrook. See Page 2 for a special photo feature,
Three impaired drivers removed from road C P L. C H R I S N E W E L
Over the weekend, Kimberley RCMP dealt with and removed three impaired drivers from the road. The first occurred Friday, March 20. Columbia Valley RCMP received a report of an erratic driver, and since it was southbound on highway 93/95, advised Kimberley to watch for it. Officers located the vehicle around 7 pm near Skookumchuck and pulled it over. While
speaking to the driver they noted a number of physical conditions, including deliberate actions and slow speech that caused them concern. Officers came to the conclusion based on driving evidence and physical observations that the driver was impaired by a drug and his driver’s license was suspended for 24 hours. On Saturday March 21, about 8:30 pm, officers observed a vehicle with the right signal on, but not
turning — then the vehicle went left. Officers also noted the windshield wipers were on but it was not raining. The vehicle was pulled over and officers noted signs of alcohol consumption. The breath demand was read and the driver gave two samples, both a fail. His driver’s license was suspended for 90 days and vehicle impounded for 30 days. About an hour later on the same
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night, officers observed a vehicle make a left turn cutting off another vehicle. The vehicle was stopped and when the officer spoke to the driver he noted signs of alcohol consumption. The breath demand was read and the driver supplied a breath sample of “Fail”. He issued a 90 day driving prohibition and his vehicle was impounded for 30 days. Police are always watching for indicators of possible impairment.
Dreadnaught Ski Racing and Kimberley Alpine Resort play host to the Canadian National Alpine Masters’ Championships March 26-29 at the Kimberley Alpine Resort. Competitors are female and male ski racers aged 18 to 85 and over and hale from BC, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and the Northwest US. Ten Kimberley and Cranbrook locals will be competing in this race. Althletes race two runs each day in the morning. Thursday and Friday is Giant Slalom , Saturday is Super Giant Combie – 1 run GS and 1 run slalom and Sunday is the Slalom race with awards in the afternoon in the plaza crowning the overall Canadian Cahampions for each age division. Stop in at the Kootenay Haus to watch and mingle with these athletes. Another weekend full of activities is taking place at the resort. Saturday we have our inaugral Mountain Pitt Stops. Stop by the many different booths on the mountainn and in the KAR plaza and enjoy free samples from Labatt, Cambells Soup, Old Dutch, Coca Cola.
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The fifth Locals concert of the season took place Saturday, March 21, at the Studio Stage Door in Cranbrook. Featured performers were Sophia Hagland (see Page 1), Darren Welch, Janine Grieve, Josh Norgard, Gypsy Jazz combo Gitanes 5, and Vested Interest. The next Locals Coffeehouse, and final event of the season, is April 25, 2015. Photos by Stan Saliken
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Target officially shuts down local operations Tre vor Cr awley
Target’s time in Cranbrook is officially over. The department store closed it’s doors on Sunday after the U.S.-based company announced the closure of all Canadian locations back in January. The company had been in operation for less than two years after expanding across the U.S.-Canada border in 2013. While rumoured that Canadian operations were not doing well, the decision to pull out of Canada earlier this year came as a shock, according to one local Target employee, who requested anonymity — former Target workers are now engaged in a search for new jobs. “We were like, ‘What? No way?’ because our store was doing really good,” she said. “We didn’t really think about it too much, but then we found out the same morning that everyone else did, too.” The employee, who had been with Target for a while, said some of her fellow employees have
been able to find jobs, while others still have a few weeks of pay remaining as part of Target’s compensation package. The Cranbrook store employed roughly 200 people and it will be tough to move on from what she called the best job she’s had. “Everyone was like a family, we were a big family,” she said. “They treated us so well and it’s just going to be irreplaceable.” The impact of Target’s closure won’t have too much of a long term affect on the local economy, according to David D. Hull, the executive director of the Cranbrook Chamber of Commerce. “That business will certainly be distributed so other local retailers will certainly see some positive effect from one less competitor in town,” said Hull. However, he acknowledges that it’s always tough to see the employees lose their jobs, no matter the circumstances. “That’s just the stressing part as far as a small town — probably about a 100 full-time equivalent,
200 people in total employees there are working right to the end and as of the next few days and are cleaning up, they need a job,” Hull said. Target had 133 locations across Canada and employed 17,600 people. The company expects to report approximately $275 million in pre-tax losses on discontinued operations in Canada for the fiscal 2015 year. “The Target Canada team has worked tirelessly to improve the fundamentals, fix operations and build a deeper relationship with our guests. We hoped that these efforts in Canada would lead to a successful holiday season, but we did not see the required stepchange in our holiday performance,” said Brian Cornell, Target Corporation Chairman and CEO, when the announcement was made in January. “There is no doubt that the next several weeks will be difficult, but we will make every effort to handle our exit in an appropriate and orderly way.”
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Target in Cranbrook officially closed Sunday, March 22.
KAR sets Spring Splash itinerary Continued from page 1 Kimberley Alpine Resort Ski Patrol will be doing a toboggan demonstration on top of the quad, free facepainting, helmet decorating and more! As well enjoy Snow Volleyball, Human Fooseball and Live music by “Shane Philip” @ Stemwinder at 3pm both Saturday and Sunday. Spring Splash Spring Splash Weekend is a great spectator event! Be sure to come out and watch the fun. Saturday, April 4 9-11am: Spring Splash event information and registration tents open in the plaza. Get there early to secure your spot! 11 am: BBQ and beer gardens, Kids’ Treasure Hunt, open volleyball,
free facepaintiing and Fishing Pond opens. 11:30: am Snow Volleyball Tournament begins. Live music with “Sketch” and “Bend Sinister” and “DJ Ray”** 2:15: Spring Splash event begins! Sunday, April 5 9-11 am Information and registration tent opens. Get Dummy Inspection begins. 11 am: BBQ and beer gardens open, Kids Fishing Pond, Egg Hunt, free facepainting, open volleyball, Bocce Ball 3 pm: Dummy Downhill Starts. Live music with “Oak Republic”, “Rolla Olak” and DJ Ray
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Tumblers, trampolinists skills on display at Key City Classic F o r t h e Tow n s m a n
Shawn Holloway, Trampoline and Tumbling Coordinator at Cranbrook’s Key City Gymnastics, has a wealth of experience and knowledge in both the competitive and coaching aspect of the sport. He is proudly leading the Trampoline and Tumbling team as they successfully achieve podium standings. Shawn began his own trampoline training at the young age of four and at the age of five became a competitive trampoline athlete. He quickly moved up through the levels and by the time he was 12 years old he represented our country as a Team Canada athlete at the World Cup and many International Competitions. Shawn was a member of Team Canada for 12 years. After his retirement he was scouted by Cirque du Soleil and was an acrobat in three different productions with the company. From there Shawn continued doing what he was so passionate about and is now an NCCP certified Tramp and Tumbling coach and Key City is very fortunate to have him working with their
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dren books and much more. Your book donations are welcome anytime. Pocket books are especially appreciated. Please bring donation to the Circulation Desk at the Library. For information contact Marilyn at 250-489-6254. There is much more than this happening at the Library. Please check out our website and Facebook pages for more information and updates. On display this month is the striking 3-D paper-tole art of Gisele Banich. Adult Newly Acquired: While He Lay Dying – Bruce Merz Mountains in My Heart – Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner A Year of Biblical Womanhood – Rachel Held Evans Hooked – Nir Eyal Eight Twenty Eight – Ian Murphy You and Me Forever – Francis Chan Tools for Survival – James Wesley Rawles Eatons – Bruce Allen Kopytek Rise of Isis – Jay Sekulow Good Health, Good Life – Joyce Meyer The Joy Luck Club (DVD) Young Adult & Children’s: The Hunted – Charlie Higson (ya fic)
Bruce Allen Kopytek tells the story of the rise and fall of one of Canada’s iconic department stores in ‘Eaton’s’ ‘The Hunted’ is Charlie Higson’s 6th installment in his terrifying Enemy series aimed at teen readers. Preschool Story Time is this Wednesday at 11:00 am, 1:15 pm, & 6:30 pm, and Toddler Story Time is 10:00 and 11:00 am. Both will be all about Rain! One-on-one computer training is still available till the end of March. If you are interested in learning more about (or even how to use) your latest computer, tablet, or e-reader device, please book an appointment with Ryan at 250-426-4063 or at rdiotte@cranbrookpubliclibrary.ca. Come to the Mini Book Sale of the Friends of the Cranbrook Public Library. It will be held at the Manual Training School (adjacent to the Library). Friday, March 27 is for Friends of the Cranbrook Public Library members only from 4 pm to 8 pm. Saturday, March 28 everyone is welcome from 9 am to 4 pm. Come and discover loads of new releases, gardening, golf, cooking, landscaping, fiction, mystery, chil-
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The B.C. government has fired its Auditor General for Local Government, after accountant Basia Ruta “lost all confidence” of her supervisors to complete audits that compare local government spending practices. “The auditor general for local government’s obstruction of an intended review of her office has created an intolerable situation that compounds the unstable work environment and lack of performance from that office,” said Community Minister Coralee Oakes, who took the action on the recommendation of the government-appointed audit council. Former deputy minister Chris Trumpy was due to start his own review of the new office Monday. It is the first attempt in Canada to do “performance audits” by comparing groups of municipalities, but the performance of Ruta’s office has become the pressing issue.
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Have Camera Will Travel.... Join Keith Corbould presenting “Canal Adventures in Italy & France” at Centre 64 on Tuesday, March 24 at 7:30 pm. Admission by donation to the Kimberley Arts Centre. 2015 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, March 25, 6:00-7:00pm is sponsored by Exact Tax. Persons 18 years & younger must be accompanied by an adult. “Far Above the Clouds - Nepal 2014” a travelogue by David and Patricia Stock and Sabine and Gebhard Pfeiffer for Canadian Friends of Nepal. Will include their travels to Annapurna Base Camp and other areas of Nepal. Wed. March 25 and Mon. March 30; 7 pm at the COTR Lecture Theatre. Admission by donation. Art Movie Night at Centre 64 - Friday, March 27, 2015 at 7:30 pm - “Drawing the Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring”. Also, A Hands-on Experiment: The Emotional Impact of Cut Paper Design. No Host Bar, snacks, admission by donation. View the movie and stay for conversation afterwards. Conference: April 17-18, Fri: 7pm, Sat: 9:30am, 2pm, 7pm. “Kingdom Living: Walking in Emotional Health”. Speakers: Jason and Lauren Vallotton from Redding Calif., at House of Hope Cranbrook, 629-6th St NW. Registration: www.ihopecranbrook. com. Info: 250-421-3784. April 23 - Legacy Builders Lunch (for those 50 and over), 11:00 a.m. Spring into Spring with a Salad Buffet lunch. FREE. Just let us know you are coming. Call Abundant Life Church, 250-426-2866. 501 - 11 Ave. S., Cranbrook.
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Basia Ruta, former Auditor General for Local Government Oakes said Ruta will not be offered severance pay, because the government has determined she has been fired for cause. The work environment in the Surrey office of the AGLG had deteriorated, and Ruta’s decision to refuse Trumpy’s involvement led to the decision, she said.
Hired to execute an idea proposed by Premier Christy Clark in her 2012 bid for the B.C. Liberal Party leadership, Ruta set herself a target of 18 audits in the first year. Clashes with the staff at her Surrey office and the audit council began to emerge last year. NDP local govern-
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Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Coralee Oakes ment critic Selina Robinson said the twoyear-old office has lost credibility over spending $5.2 million over two years to produce only one audit. Two more reports were issued last week. The function should be included in the existing B.C. Auditor General office, which is an in-
dependent office of the legislature, Robinson said. Oakes said she remains committed to the current structure, which had envisioned three audits in the first year and five in the second. It was Ruta who raised expectations far beyond that and then didn’t deliver, she said.
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Lower Kootenay Band purchasing resort CRESTON VALLEY ADVANCE
The Lower Kootenay Band (LKB) is purchasing Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort, Chief Jason Louie announced last week. The acquisition, which will see ownership change hands in April, is an important economic development investment for his people, and it has historical significance too, he said. “The Lower Kootenay Band has a history with the site that dates back hundreds of years,” he said. “The Ainsworth Hot Springs are known by the Ktunaxa people as ‘nupika wu’u’, which has a literal translation meaning ‘spirit water’.” The resort, located 22 kilometres south of Kaslo on Kootenay Lake, has been family-owned since 1962. Current owners Norm and Joyce Mackie purchased the property from Joyce’s parents, Sam and Belle Homen, in 1979. No immediate changes are planned for the resort, Louie said. He and band representatives met with resort staff on Wednesday to announce that all employees would be kept on. The resort currently pro-
The main pool at Ainsworth Hot Springs. vides about 50 jobs in the management and operation of the hot springs, 41-room hotel and restaurant. “The resort will provide meaningful employment and business opportunities for the citizens of Yaqan Nukiy and local residents, and will continue to be a major tourism destination of the region,” he said. LKB will be investing in capital improvements at the resort in the near future. “We are privileged and pleased to enter into this purchase agreement with Chief Jason Louie and the Lower Kootenay Band,” Norm and
Joyce said in a written statement. “The resort has been a family affair since 1962 and transferring ownership is a daunting experience. “This has been a wonderful 35-year ride for our family. Probably the best part for us has been to watch young people, in their first job, come to work with us, and become self-assured contributors to the work force. Many of these people come back to visit and tell us this was probably the best job they ever had. This is truly gratifying.” One of the goals for the new owners is to work closely with
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Do you have the desire to stop eating compulsively? Overeaters Anonymous (a 12-Step Program) meets Mondays from 7-8pm at Cranbrook United Church, 2-12th St. S., downstairs. Contact: cranbrookoa@hotmail.com North Star Quilters Society Meetings are held the 2nd & 4th Monday at 7:00 PM, basement of Centennial Centre, 100 4th Ave Kimberley. Welcoming all! Info call Heather 250 427-4906 ‘Military Ames’ social/camaraderie/support group meetings are held in the Kimberley Public Library reading room the first and third Tuesday’s of the month. All veterans welcome. For more information contact Cindy 250 919 3137 Dance/Practice: every Saturday. Practice from 7 to 8 PM, dancing until 11 PM. Dance With Me Cranbrook Studio, 206-14 A 13th Street, South, behind Safeway. Volunteers are needed to assist staff with childminding while parents attend programs at the Kimberley Early Learning Center. Come play!! Weekly or monthly for 2 hours. Diana 250427-0716 BINGO - every Monday except public holidays, 6:30 pm at Kimberley Elks, 240 Howard Street. Proceeds to Kimberley Helping Hands Food Bank. All welcome! Funtastic Singers Drop-In Singing group; free to attend-just for fun! No experience necessary! CDAC Office&Gallery 135 10th Ave S, Tuesdays; 6.45-8.15pm 250-426-4223 / cdac@shaw.ca / www. cranbrookanddistrictartscouncil.com Cantabelles, an all-female singing group, meets Mondays, 7-9 pm. Join us and learn how to sing with 2, 3 and 4 part harmonies. Contact: Sue Trombley, 250-426-0808. suetrombley53@gmail.com Support literacy and special projects at the Kimberley Public Library-visit the Friends of the Library Used Bookstore-an ongoing fundraiser- on Main Street Marysville, Wed-Sat 10:30-3:30. Operated totally by volunteers. The Canadian Red Cross is seeking Client Service and Technician Volunteer for the Health Equipment Loan Program in Cranbrook. Please go to http://www.redcross.ca/volunteer/who-is-needed for more information or call 1-855-995-3529. Volunteers always needed for the Marysville Thrift shop! Please contact Marilyn @ 427-4153 or Jean @ 427-7072. Bibles For Missions Thrift Store, 824 Kootenay St. N., Cranbrook serving our community to benefit others - at home and abroad. We turn your donations into helping dollars! Open Tues-Sat 10am-5pm. Phone 778-520-1981. East Kootenay Women Executives & Entrepreneurs (EKWEE) meet the first Monday of every month at the Heritage Inn, Dining Room Annex, 7:00PM. Join us for of the menu dinner 5:30-7:00. Pay your own tab. Networking, share accomplishments, education. Bev Campbell 778-481-4883 Mark Creek Lions meet 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at the Kimbrook. Meet & Greet from 6:00-6:30pm, supper 6:30-7:00, meeting 7:008:00pm. Contact 250-427-5612 or 250-427-7496. New members welcome – men and ladies! Help Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cranbrook: One way you can help is by donating to our “Blue Bin” located outside to the left of Wal- Mart. This bin is there for any clothing items or soft items. (250)489-3111 or email us at @bigbrothersbigsisters.ca Masonic Lodges of B.C. and Yukon will supply transportation to cancer patients who have arrived at Kelowna or Vancouver. This free service will be at the destination point. Example: from airport to clinic and clinic to airport on return, also around the destination city. Info may be received from your doctor, Canadian Cancer Society, or by phoning Ron at 250-426-8159. Place your notice in your “What’s up?” Community Calendar Free of charge. this column is intended for the use of clubs and non-profit organizations to publicize their coming events — provided the following requirements are met: • Notices will be accepted two weeks prior to the event. • All notices must be emailed, faxed or dropped off in person. No telephone calls please. • Notices should Not exceed 30 words. • Only one notice per week from any one club or non-profit organization. • All notices must be received by the Thursday prior to publication. • There is no guarantee of publication. Notices will run subject to space limitations.
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he B.C. government has made its most significant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the province’s poorest people. The largest financial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. There are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women. Even if they could find an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children. That is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era. The new program takes effect in September. It will not only continue income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year. Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year after training, to
allow a transition to employment. Approved training means training for jobs that are identified as in demand, requiring high school and occupation-specific training that can be completed in a year or less. They include retail sales, general office work and assistance jobs in health services. Another overdue policy change is to double the alBC VIEWS lowable earnings for all income assistance recipients Tom from $200 to $400 a month. Fletcher This gives people a chance to improve their circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having that little income cut from their already meagre welfare cheques. And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental child support payments from income assistance payments. The province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down (mostly) deadbeat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra benefit. These harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that welfare is a tem-
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(From left) Vern Ronmark presented the Western Financial group trophy to Cranbrook’s B event-winning team, skip Bruce Young, Chris Medford, Travis Young and James Lancaster, at Creston’s Butterfly Bonspiel. Forty-eight teams — with 21 from out of town, as far away as Rocky Mountain House, Alta. — took part in the 70th annual men’s bonspiel, which ran at the Creston Curling Centre March 5-8. Creston teams won the A, C and D events.
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Following a very successful Provincial Winter Games, Special Olympic athletes Kendall Salanski & Ben Stein had their names drawn to do the ceremonial puck drop at the March 6 Kootenay Ice/Red Deer Rebels game.
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THE Cranbrook Skating Club will be holding the 2015 Annual General Meeting Tuesday, April 7th at 7:00pm at the Memorial Arena Warm Viewing Room. 1432 2nd St. N. Cranbrook, BC. All members of the ommunity are welcome to attend and hold positions on the Club Executive Board. Volunteers Needed! For Additional Information Please email:
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Calgary-born Ted Cruz runs for U.S. president Lee-Anne Goodman Canadian Press
Ted Cruz’s announcement that he’s running for president has renewed questions about his Calgary birthplace and whether the Texas senator’s Canadian roots leave him ineligible to make a bid for the Oval Office. They don’t, American constitutional scholars say, because Cruz’s mother was a U.S. citizen when he was born. His Cuban father became a citizen in 2005. The fact that Cruz’s mother is Delaware-born satisfies the U.S. constitution’s requirement that a president must be a “natural-born U.S. citizen,” experts agree. Last spring, Cruz — dubbed “Canadian Ted” by some of his political foes in Texas — formally gave up his Canadian citizenship. Nonetheless, the questions about Cruz’s legitimacy are rich with irony, since the senator’s own father — Rafael, who appears at public events regularly on behalf of his son — once raised doubts about Barack Obama’s birthplace. In 2012, the pastor argued Obama should be sent “back to Kenya.” Obama was born in Hawaii to an American mother and Kenyan father, but those in Cruz’s Tea Party base have long believed the U.S. president was actually born in Kenya. Cruz’s years in politics have also shown him to be, essentially, an anti-immigration immigrant. Recently, he’s been a fierce opponent to Obama’s plans to give amnesty to millions of
Ted Cruz illegal immigrants. He once railed against so-called anchor babies — children born to illegal immigrants in the U.S., making them U.S. citizens, ostensibly to help avoid deportation — while claiming he didn’t know that being born in Calgary 44 years ago made him Canadian. Cruz explained it this way: “When I was a kid, my mom told me that if I ever wanted to, I could affirmatively choose to claim Canadian citizenship, but I got a U.S. passport when I was in high school, I never did anything to affirmatively claim citizenship, so I thought that was the end of the matter.” In an interview on CNN two years ago, Cruz said he didn’t know he was a Canadian until the Dallas Morning News reported in the summer of 2013 that he had dual citizenship. For that, media wags in his home state dubbed him a Canadian anchor baby. CNN’s Candy Crowley, meantime, argued
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Cruz’s Canadian citizenship was pretty much the most interesting thing about him. Following Cruz’s official announcement of his run for president on Monday, some news organizations wondered what all the fuss was about regarding his birthplace. The New Republic argued that if Cruz’s political foes try to attack him for his Calgary roots, Cruz has a ready retort. “Calgary is a fair approximation of a Red State American city, a frigid Dallas,” Jeet Heer wrote. “If you can’t be born in conservative America, Calgary is about as close to second best as the world has to offer.” Indeed, at a Cruz town hall in Texas in 2013, a Republican voter who still believed Obama was born in Kenya explained why the senator’s Calgary birthplace didn’t trouble her. “As far as I’m concerned, Canada is not really foreign soil,” Christina Katok opined.
Barbados planning to replace Queen Elizabeth as titular head of state, adopt republican gov’t Associated Press
Janis Caldwell-Sawley Mortgage Specialist Royal Bank of Canada
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Barbados plans to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state and replace her with a ceremonial president from the Caribbean island. Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says he plans on making the switch to a republic by November 2016 when the former British colony celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. Stuart says “it’s a little awkward” to keep pledging allegiance to the queen
as titular monarch of an otherwise independent country. He says that despite the change, Barbados would remain in the Commonwealth grouping of former British territories. A Buckingham Palace spokesman said Monday that “it is a matter for the government and people of Barbados.” Barbados will need a two-thirds majority in Parliament to authorize the constitutional change. How the president would be chosen is still to be decided.
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Ancient site sheds light on first Albertans Bob Weber Canadian Press
A new way of dating a pile of ancient bones and stone tools is shedding light on the mysterious lives of the first Albertans. A prehistoric site where people hunted horses and camels along what is now the St. Mary River in the province’s south is centuries older than previously thought, said University of Calgary archeologist Brian Kooyman, co-author of a paper published Monday. That means the 13,300-year-old bones, along with stone choppers and knives used to butcher the animals, predate what was thought to be North America’s first identifiable ancient culture. “It’s quite awe-inspiring to stand there and know that these are the first Albertans,” Kooyman said. “We can see the butchered bones and we can see the tracks of the animals. We can actually see the footprints
of camels and horses. It’s like they were here yesterday.” It’s the completeness of the site that makes it unique. It features the bones of seven horses and one camel - an animal that originated in North America and died out at the end of the ice ages. There are a variety of crude choppers and knives chipped from stone. There’s no doubt the bones are the remains of a successful hunt. “We have cut marks on horse bones and camel bones,” said Kooyman. “You can even see what people cut them up into, like roasts.” The site was originally found in 1999 by a schoolteacher out for a walk with his family. Normally submerged by the St. Mary reservoir, the spot known as Wally’s Beach was exposed by that year’s low water. The prairie wind blew away much of the dirt around it and left the artifacts in high relief.
Canadian Press
Scientists have redated an ancient hunting site in southern Alberta that pushes back the date for the earliest culture in North American by centuries. These bones from the spine of a horse were one of several animals hunted and butchered about 13,300 years ago at Wally’s Beach, along the St. Mary River. Kooyman excavated and studied the site, but contaminants in the samples originally led to a too-recent date, which was only corrected with more accurate radiocar-
bon dating. The new age, about 300 years older, led to Monday’s paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The site offers haunt-
ing clues about the lives of those ancient hunters. The area hasn’t changed too much from all those thousands of years ago - a ramp on
the riverbank where animals would have come to drink. Kooyman guesses it was a kill site for a small group of hunters. “What we’re proba-
bly looking at is something like three or four families of related people moving and working together as a hunting and gathering group. “They probably waited and ambushed them. They’ve probably been in the area long enough and have an understanding of the animal behaviour enough, that they know where to target. “We can actually see what they were doing. They’re hunting systematically and successfully and more than one animal species. I don’t think there’s anything really like it.” Kooyman said scientists have long thought members of the Clovis culture, marked by its long spearpoints, were the earliest identifiable group to people North America. While other sites had hinted at an earlier society, Wally’s Beach is the proof, he said. “I’m standing there and looking at a revolution in my understanding of things.”
Astronauts leave Earth this week for 1-year space mission Marcia Dunn Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - What’s one thing astronauts Scott Kelly of the U.S. and Mikhail Kornienko of Russia can’t do without when they move into space this week for a year? For Kelly, it’s a belt. Kornienko must have his vitamins. Kelly went beltless during his five-month mission at the International Space Station a few years back, and he hated how his shirttails kept floating out of his pants. So this time, the 51-year-old retired Navy captain packed “a military, tactical-style thing” that can hold a tool pouch. For Kornienko, three bottles of vitamins will be on board when their Soyuz rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan on Saturday. After more than two years of training, Kelly and Kornienko are eager to get going. It will be the longest space mission ever for NASA, and the longest in almost two decades for the Russian Space Agency, which holds the record at 14 months. Medicine and technology have made huge leaps since then, and the world’s
space agencies need to know how the body adapts to an entire year of weightlessness before committing to even longer Mars expeditions. More yearlong missions are planned, with an ultimate goal of 12 test subjects. The typical station stint is six months. “We know a lot about six months. But we know almost nothing about what happens between six and 12 months in space,” said NASA’s space station program scientist, Julie Robinson. Among the more common space afflictions: weakened bones and muscles, and impaired vision and immune system. Then there is the psychological toll. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a frequent flier who will accompany Kelly and Kornienko into orbit, predicts it will be the psychological - not physical - effects that will be toughest on the one-year crew. “Being far away from Earth, being sort of crammed, having few people to interact with,” Padalka said. He’ll break the record for most time spent in space during his six-month stay, closing in on a grand total of 900 days by the time he returns to Earth in September.
Astronauts Scott Kelly (left) of the U.S. and Mikhail Kornienko of Russia. Neither Kelly nor Kornienko, though, worries about himself. They fret about the family and friends they are leaving behind for an entire year - until next March. “If something happens ... you’re not coming home, no
matter what it is. You’re not coming back,” Kelly said in an interview earlier this year with The Associated Press. Kelly’s loved ones include: his two daughters, ages 20 and 11; his NASA-employed girlfriend; his widowed father; his identi-
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cal twin brother Mark, a retired astronaut; and his sister-in-law, Gabrielle Giffords, a former congresswoman who barely survived an assassination attempt while he was at the space station in 2011. Kornienko, 54, a former
paratrooper, worries how his wife will cope alone at their country house outside Moscow. His 32-year-old daughter is a new mother; the baby is not quite a year old. The two veteran space fliers are fully aware of all the risks. Kelly has flown in space three times for a total of 180 days. (Two of those trips were space shuttle quickies.) Kornienko has a single 176-day station flight on his resume. Kornienko was selected by his bosses for the job while Kelly volunteered. Another plus is that Kelly and Kornienko seem to honestly like one another. And they won’t be alone. There are normally six people on board and lots of compartments, including three full-scale laboratories, in which to disappear. Besides, the U.S. and Russian crews generally spend their workdays on their respective sides, Kelly noted. The total interior volume is roughly equivalent to two Boeing 747s. Among those coming and going, in September, will be British soprano superstar Sarah Brightman. She will visit for 1 1/2 weeks as a paying tourist, and will perform live from on high.