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Temperaments calm as sides look again to mediation Cameron Orr When Martin McIlwrath and Jeremy Dos Santos presented the results of a community petition to Kitimat Council, the presentation did not come with any of the usual high tempers which had marked past encounters. The moment was in fact very low key, with McIlwrath reading a few comments — namely the words from a recent Unifor 2300 letter, which we reported on last week — before getting to the petition, circulated by the union. He said that as soon as a new collective agreement can be made, “we can start to rebuild our community.” For the petition, the question had signatories asking the mayor and council to return to the table any agreements or offers already reached in the bargaining process, and to leave only outstanding issues left to be negotiated. McIlwrath said that anything previously agreed to should not have to be re-bargained. As of Friday the sides were expected to resume mediation on Monday, which, if needed, could run to today. There was no council response at the May 4 meeting as the mayor said they are still bound by terms of mediation which provides strict confidentiality requirements. Speaking later in the week Mayor Phil Germuth did say that there has been no direction to the negotiating team to return any previous offers to the union, as requested through the petition. Germuth said to leave just the outstanding issues of the contract to be negotiated still wouldn’t put the sides any closer to an agreement. Continued on page 2

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Haisla thank you Massive pots of beef stew are dished out in the Kitamaat Village Recreation Centre during a special thankyou dinner hosted by the Haisla in honour of the people who provided assistance during the madness that was the February snow storm, which even led to an evacuation of the Village. Numerous volunteers offered help in those days, while the Riverlodge was opened up as well as a warming centre.

Housing society gets their grant After a recent request for support, Kitimat Council has come back with up to $20,000 towards the development of an affordable housing project in the Whitesail neighbourhood. Mountainview Housing Society will continue to work with industries and will potentially develop up to eight units out of 30 that will be used, on five year leases, towards industrial companies who may need the rooms in the future, if projects go ahead. The development, if it proceeds, would be built next to the Mountainview Alliance Church. Through debate, Claire Rattée did express some concern that town grant policies may not quite cover contributions to projects like this, and expressed some concern over the fact that some units would go towards industrial proponents. But Pastor Don Read with the housing society notes that creative partnerships such as with industry means they can build affordable housing units without breaking the bank. For instance he said to not lease out eight units would be the difference of the society asking Kitimat council for $1.25 million rather than $20,000. “We’re helping them meet a need but what they’re actually doing is funding up to one-third of the housing because that’s the amount of revenue that would be created,” said Read. As for the general policy implications, he said that housing

units like these aren’t just an issue for the non-profits but for the community at large. A community, he said, is gauged on how well it takes care of its vulnerable. “If it always lands to charities and non-profits, then as a community we should reflect on what it means to be a community.” Ultimately councillors decided that $20,000 was not a large amount of money given the potential return on providing affordable units. Read said at a later time they may come back during the construction phase for support — the money right now is to get through site engineering and evaluation — but that would come after a capital plan is developed and other partnerships are established. In the event the land proves unable to support a development the church said they’ll recommend to their head office in Surrey to sell the land, and the proceeds will go back to repaying the grants given, such as to the District. Rob Goffinet in moving the approval for up to $20,000 said the price would be a low cost against the possible need, while Mario Feldhoff added that this sort of housing has been identified as a need already. “I think it’s our job to help them, as opposed to hinder them,” he said. “Lets help keep the momentum going.”

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Continued from page 1 “It doesn’t really matter if those are back on the table or not, if you can’t resolve the outstanding issues you’re still not getting anywhere,” said Germuth. He added, “We’re looking forward to hopefully having a result to this labour dispute to get our workers back and have all our facilities back open. Of course it’s also had a big effect on people being able to get building permits and occupancy permits. We’re hoping that the negotiations are successful this time.” A union presenta-

tion on May 4 was not the only conversation about the strike to be had that evening. Council heard from two members of the public, urging an end to the strike. The presenters were Tim Rice and Vickey Kokesch. Kokesch in particular, through her role as chair for the Snowflake Community Fairgrounds Society, notes that there is only about a week left for the strike to get sorted out before the June 13 planned Bull-O-Rama will have to be called off. The event is held

“It doesn’t really matter if those are back on the table or not, if you can’t resolve the outstanding issues you’re still not getting anywhere.” in Tamitik Arena. Kokesch said the event provides a lot of benefit to local businesses and community groups and all will be at a loss if the event has to be cancelled. She transitioned to a personal reflection, saying that due to the strike she’s not

been able to receive an occupancy permit for renovations on her home, which is costing her a lot through insurance. “If your strategy is to starve out your workers you’re starving out other people too,” she said, asking to get District leadership back to the table and to not “outsource” the town’s leadership. She also pointed to the disadvantage for her grandchildren not being able to access the pool. “I want my grandkids to learn how to swim,” she said. “I don’t want my grand-

kids to be statistics.” Rice shared a similar sentiment to the lack of leisure services. “As you’re aware... drowning is the main cause of death for children. Kitimat kids are missing their chance at much needed swimming lessons to prepare for camping season at the lake,” he said. Rice said even in general for his family it’s harder to maintain usual levels of fitness. “We’re all suffering needlessly... especially those single parents and families on single income who are

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REGIONAL BRIEFS Schools While the Coast Mountains School District looks at cutting down the administrative positions in the district, Kitimat is spared from any changes at the moment. This year, due to a number of staff vacancies, the district was able to move people around so it is not doubling up on administrators. “In our larger schools we’re trying to get to two, and our smaller schools trying to get down to one – we’re not all the way there yet, it will be a process of about several years to get to that,” said Katherine McIntosh. The move, which will see Skeena and Caledonia now move to one full-time vice principal instead of two part-time ones beginning in August, has been in the works for some time and will save the district about $30,000 in salary.

Kitimat CAO off to Mission for new job Cameron Orr Kitimat’s Chief Administrative Officer Ron Poole is moving on to the District of Mission, while Kitimat’s deputy CAO Warren Waycheshen fills in as Kitimat’s interim CAO. The District of Kitimat announced Poole’s departure May 5. On his departure, effective May 29, Poole said there was a mix of reasons to go, which essentially boiled down to his desire to spend more time with his family. “I’m looking forward to a new change,” he added. The move is bittersweet for Kitimat Council, especially Mayor Phil Germuth who credited Poole for

Medal for Poole Just as news of Kitimat’s CAO’s departure was made, another bit of Poole news came out; he’s the recipient of the 2015 Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal for Excellence in Public Administration. The announcement was revealed on May 6. A ceremony in Victoria is set to take place June 9.

Ron Poole doing so much over the last four years. “We’re sorry to see him go, but we definitely appreciate Ron’s four years with the District and we wish him all the best in his new position in Mission,” said Germuth. “There is no doubt Kitimat is much better off for having had Ron

for these four years.” Germuth pointed to the improved relationships with the provincial government, with the Haisla Nation and industry as well. “I know that, just myself having gotten to know Ron and learned from him these last four years...I know I can do a better job of representing Kitimat because of what I’ve

learned from [him].” Poole added that he has thoroughly enjoyed his four years being in Kitimat. “We have loved Kitimat since we’ve been here. Regardless of a strike or anything else, we’re not leaving here with any ill feelings,” he said. Germuth said that in this circumstance there is no severance

on that task. Germuth says Poole leaving shouldn’t have any impact on any furthering bargaining given the use of the third-party. “I don’t see that this is going to hinder any possible collective agreement getting signed at all,” he said. The Mission Record newspaper quotes their community’s mayor’s thoughts on Poole’s hiring. “Ron Poole’s experience and expertise are perfectly aligned with many of our major projects and initiatives,” said their mayor Randy Hawes. “His experience working with the province, federal government, and local First Nations in northern B.C. will be invaluable here in Mission as we move our community forward.”

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Lax Kw’alaams Taken to a membership vote, Lax Kw’alaams voted against an LNG benefits agreement with Pacific NorthWest LNG. There are three stages to the vote, and the first two have shown the members rejecting the agreement, which is worth just over $1 billion. Among the concerns was the impact the Lelu Island terminal would have on the way of life for people on the North Coast. “I will never, ever give up the Skeena River. I will never, ever give up my livelihood for money. There is far too much at stake ... we are Tsimshian people, that is who we are ... we live off the ocean, we live off the seaweed and we live off what is around us,” said one attendee. “I don’t care how many jobs they promise you... it doesn’t beat what we have.”

package that is to be paid out to Poole, given that it’s a voluntary departure by him. As for who will be Kitimat’s next CAO, the mayor says that will be a discussion taking place in the next few weeks. “We’ll be discussing that down the road”, he said, not dismissing the possibility of Waycheshen remaining in the position. “Certainly all of council have a lot of respect for Warren,” he said, noting his work history shows he has the background to be able to be CAO. Poole of course is leaving in the midst on the ongoing municipal strike which began February 28. Poole had been heading the negotiations before the District of Kitimat hired the services of a thirdparty negotiator to take

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Taxes are nearly all set Tax notices will soon find their way to Kitimat home owners with council formalizing tax rates. As usual residential homes will be subject to a flat tax — that is a single, equal payment — that is in addition to the mill rate. This year the flat tax is set to $560. The mill rate on top of that will be $1.35 per every $1,000 of taxable value of the property. The District collects other taxes as well, including North West Regional Hospital and school tax, among others. Those rates are not set by the municipality. All together residential homes will be subject to a $4.89 rate (approximate) on top of the $560 flat tax. Major industry’s rate is set to $36.60 for 2015. Utilities will be paying $50.55, and light industry’s tax rate is set to $56.27.

The business rate is $21.20. Those rates include the school tax, which is actually the largest tax rate among the classes (including municipal and hospital), with homeowners in Kitimat paying a $2.72 mill rate on that specifically. The tax rate bylaws now just have to be formally adopted by council. Council also worked to formalize their fiveyear financial plan, which is a guideline to how budgets will look years down the road, but is not a set-in-stone document. The provincial government requires the adoption of five-year plans by municipalities. The five year plan shows various ambitions or expectations, including a total $1.2 million for phase one of covering of the landfill, and nearly $4 million over those five years for Riverlodge.

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The major loss by the Progressive Conservatives in Alberta losing greatly to the new provincial party NDP, has been, if I read the news coverage right, nearly unprecedented. I’ve been trying to quickly catch myself up because as Kitimat’s news gatherer I rarely care about what happens outside our region, let alone in a totally different province. (I remarked to friends recently that I’d only truly pay attention to this new royal baby if she was born in Kitimat General Hospital.) This Alberta election though could have direct results to Kitimat’s own economy. CBC.ca reported in the hours after the election that the impact to the stock market was already hitting oil companies. Energy price stocks dipped the morning after the election, they said. Among the changes the NDP promised on the other side of the Rockies is a review of the province’s royalty system, a process which has energy proponents seemingly nervous. I wonder if a royalty review would affect projects like the Coastal GasLink which is the pipeline to supply natural gas to LNG Canada, and which connects to TransCanada’s pipeline system in Alberta. I’m just theorizing though, of course so are worried energy analysts too, really, at this point. On the subject of straight-up oil, though, Northern Gateway could have more to fear. As a whole that project has definitely seen better days, with lacking social licence and a slew of legal hurdles in the wake of their federal government approval, following an equally controversial Joint Review Panel process. But the Alberta provincial support that project received may be at an end, when Premier-elect told the Calgary Herald that her government would withdraw support, and that the government should stop “forcing it” regarding that project due to unresolved issues Now-former Premier Jim Prentice, before joining the party in Alberta, was even a proponent of Northern Gateway, working to settle issues between the company and First Nations. Suffice to say, at this point, Northern Gateway may not be dead but it’s certainly been sent to the corner. As for how the reaction has hit in my own circles, reactions have been varied from just a reflection on how interesting it is that there’s been this change, to gung-ho celebration to end-of-the-world type laments. It’s the early days, of course. Anything can happen. But it seems clear that the vote in Alberta could see effects spill over in to Kitimat. I leave it to you to decide if it’s for better or worse. Cameron Orr

The thin skins of Granby, QC “The administration of the town of Kitimat has been as unnecessarily as foolishly stubborn as the representatives of its unionized workers resulting in lack of access to taxpayer-owned facilities over a needless nine week old by Allan Hewitson strike.” ahewitson@telus.net There, is that insulting enough for you? Do you see these mild insult, at least very mild comwords as insulting or threatening to the District of Kitimat? Or to the city pared, I suspect, to the ridicule now being heaped on these clearly too-senRCMP? It’s just to make the point that sitive councillors of Granby, who just I’m still glad to live in Kitimat. Thank extended their by-law to cover insults/ goodness I don’t live in Granby, Que- threats on the internet (especially sobec, where the town has just passed a cial media, like Facebook.) What could have been said to them by-law that would expose me to a court charge for insulting either the admin- to make them take these steps, which istration or police officers in the com- has led to them facing a now-endless barrage of criticism, including the munity. In Granby — a town about 80 km confident suggestion of local lawyers east of Montreal — it was already il- that the charges won’t stand up, if ever legal to insult a police officer and other brought before the courts? It seems the move followed after municipal officials. Offenders could face fines ranging from $100 to as high town officials discovered a locallybased Facebook page called Les policas $1,000. Overboard? Yes, I think so. What I wrote above would be a iers zélé de Granby — The Zealous Po-

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lice of Granby — which was hardly fully supportive of those appointed “to serve and protect.” Adding themselves as administrators to the bylaw helped carry it over the top. By the way, I tried to look at it on Facebook but they reported no such page was to be found. I’m guessing it may have been taken down. The bylaw, unfortunately, is an attack on people’s freedom of speech. Are they really all that thin-skinned? Because, if they are they had better got out of municipal politics. Instead they prefer to legislate some form of despotic control over what can be said about them or their police force. One thing I know is that you cannot legislate respect. Certain levels of free speech, I believe, are guaranteed under both federal constitution and Quebec provincial law. Outside of Islamic extremists or Kim Jung Il I’ve never heard (in Canada) of any such level of intolerance to what people think or say. Continued on page 6

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Blame for municipal strike goes to both Baxyard Banter As I write this, the municipal strike has entered its third month with both sides dug in deep and showing no sign they are prepared to give ground. Regardless of whether they are still stalemated as you read this or have by some miracle settled, I believe the following is still valid. Let’s start by delving into the Sentinel archives. Back in 1993 the Alcan union, recognizing the poor aluminum market and in exchange for improved benefits, reluctantly settled for zero per cent wage increases in each of the next three years. So when it came time soon after to negotiate a new contract for city workers, the city invoked the decades old convention that wage increases for its workers followed Alcan’s lead and insisted that they had to settle for three zeroes. The city workers reluctantly accepted the logic. So when three years later Alcan’s new contract specified three per cent increases in each of three

repeat them. In the wake of that 1997 strike council, in a split vote, decided they should get a consultant to come in by Malcolm Baxter and take a look at msdbax@citywest.ca the city’s operations. years, the city union members unStantec was derstandably expected the same in hired to do just that and in Notheir new contract. vember of 1998 Pat Anderson But incredibly the city chose went to work, which included inthat moment to reject the long terviewing council, management standing link by offering only 2 and workers. His report, called per cent in year one and 2.25 per the Stantec Organizational Recent in each of the next two. view, was released early the folNow it wasn’t rocket science lowing year. to realize the union would go And there was one recurrent ballistic and sure enough in mid- theme in his report. January 1997 they went on strike. Management staff he interIt lasted 16 days and ended when viewed identified managementthe city folded and agreed to three union relations as a problem area. threes. Staff union members said So here we are 18 years later “there is a fairly strong consensus with the city again trying to end that relationships have deteriothe convention and again we have rated since the strike (and) there a strike on our hands. is a general complaint of a lack of Those who do not learn the communication and trust.” lessons of history are doomed to Code for management-

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BC NDP ‘ecstatic’ Tom Fletcher NDP leader John Horgan remembers working with Alberta premier-elect Rachel Notley when she was a lawyer working for thenattorney general Ujjal Dosanjh, and he was a senior staffer in the NDP government in the 1990s. Horgan said Wednesday he's "ecstatic" at the upset victory of the Alberta NDP, toppling the Progressive Conservative dynasty that ruled for 44 years. And he predicts that sea change in the politics of western Canada will benefit federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair this year and his party in 2017. "I've known Rachel for some time," Horgan said. "She is as genuine as she looks. She is as competent as she sounds. I think that's good news for Canada." The effect of of Alberta's firstever NDP government remains to be seen, with the province in a sharp downturn due to low oil prices. Not-

release laying out what it called “facts”. The union responded with its own release of “truths”. Taxpayers learned little from either. The union claimed there were a boatload of grievances against the city, the mayor in open council flatly denied that - again no numbers provided by either side. And then there were the verbal slug fests between the two sides at council meetings which descended into something akin to school yard squabbles. The Sentinel’s February 5, 1997 front page on the settlement of that strike noted “Neither (side) is having any difficulty finding reason to lay blame on the other.” This time around I have no difficulty in blaming both. FOOTNOTE: if the strike is still going on I have a suggestion - put both sides in the same room, lock the doors, deprive them of food and water and let them out only when they have reached a deal.

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union relations. Finally council, “when pressed”, pointed to the same problem. Nearly three decades later and things don’t appear to have changed much. And the length and bitterness of this strike has undoubtedly worsened the problem. Fast forward to this year and this set of contract negotiations - what a bloody farce. It didn’t take long for the generally accepted practice of not negotiating through the media to go out the window as a war of press releases erupted. The city said union demands would mean a 12 per cent tax increase - but to my knowledge never produced numbers to explain how they arrived at that figure. The union countered that the city claim was wrong - and produced no numbers to show where it was wrong. Responding to union statements, the city issued a press

ley's promises include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and increasing corporate taxes at a time when the oil and gas industry is laying people off. Horgan remains noncommittal about the proposed twinning of the TransMountain oil pipeline from northern Alberta to a shipping terminal at Burnaby. Notley has expressed support for that project, while opposing the Northern Gateway proposal to deliver Alberta heavy oil to Kitimat. B.C. Energy Minister Bill Bennett said he doesn't expect any change in relations between the two provinces. He shrugged off the Alberta vote, saying he mostly watched the Calgary Flames defeat Anaheim in the Stanley Cup playoffs Tuesday night. "It took 44 years to elect an NDP government in Alberta," Bennett quipped. "We've got 30 years left."

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Cullen says Alberta NDP means death knell to Gateway Anna Killen Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen says if the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project wasn’t dead before the NDP sweep of the Alberta provincial election, it is now. NDP leader Rachel Notley led her party to an historic victory in this week’s provincial election, overturning decades of Progressive Conservative rule, and promising her majority government would bring change to Alberta. Part of that change is her stance on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, which as proposed would transport heavy crude from Alberta to a terminal in Kitimat where it would then be shipped to eastern markets. Notley knocked out PC premier Jim Prentice, who resigned not only the party leadership but also his seat. Before becoming leader of the PCs, Prentice had been tasked with shoring up support for Northern Gateway. The controversial pipeline was approved by the federal government nearly a year ago, subject to 209 conditions, and the company has been working towards meeting those conditions. “Rachel Notley was elected in with a strong majority government on a mandate to not pursue the Northern Gateway pipeline,” said Cullen. “If this were such an important pipeline and people had great hopes and expectations that would have been very difficult for her to win.” Enbridge Northern Gateway released a statement to media yesterday saying that the company looks forward to sitting down with the new Alberta government to provide an update on the project and their partnerships with First Nations in Alberta and B.C. “We share a vision with the new Alberta

government for world leading environmental protections for energy projects,” read the statement. “We believe that our vision for this project will earn the support of the new

government and we look forward to this dialogue.” ullen said he doesn’t know what else it will take for the company to give up its pipeline plans.

“This is another nail in the coffin. Enbridge, if they don’t know that, then they’re not very bright – and we know they’re bright because they hire a lot of expensive people,”

he said. And Cullen thinks the company should spend more time pursuing projects that have the endorsement and support of First Nations, citing pre-

liminary plans between Enbridge and Kitselas to explore geothermal opportunities on Kitselas territory near the Lakelse hot springs. “Why fight against communities,” he said.

“Why not work with us?” The election of Notley and an NDP government in Alberta “changes the conversation” on energy in Canada, said Cullen.

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Town camp policy pushed off again to July Kitimat’s efforts to formalize a work camp policy — which includes provisions for how much a camp bed will cost a company to the town’s affordable housing fund — have been pushed back to July, as a public hearing in to the proposed bylaws has gone on for over a year. The bylaw, for the M1 manufacturing zone, began in March 2014 and has gone through some revisionism, including new allowances for up to 25 people in a camp without the requirement to contribute to the affordable housing fund. The bylaw process has attracted atten-

tion from local industry, including Chevron when representative Dave Molinski said earlier drafts of the bylaw — in this case presented at on October 6 as part of this ongoing public hearing — could have “unintended consquences.” “For a project like us we look at all the costs that are involved in developing our project and we would need to understand exactly how those costs may affect our decision making going forward,” he said at the time. Other developments which have led to further considerations in the bylaw is

the results of a December Housing Action Plan report for Kitimat. The report included, among other items, an emphasis to discourage living out allowances from industries — monies paid to allow workers to live in the community. The impact of those is partially why house prices and vacancy in Kitimat rose and dropped, respectively, over the last few years. The District’s Director of Planning and Community Development Gwen Sewell said that the reason that the public hearing has been requested to continue is

there is still work to sort out regarding the language within it. “We’re going to take a look specifically at the in-kind contribution language and how to secure that with housing agreements,” she said. Namely the language will be looked at to formalize the way in which a company could build affordable housing themselves, and the ways the town would record those contributions. At the moment the housing crunch is beginning to ease with a 3.6 per cent vacancy rate as of October 2014.

Monies approved to replace the generator Council has approved $120,000 for the purchase of a new back-up generator for the fire hall. The Public Safety Building’s back-up generator failed during February’s intense snow storm, but concern over how to get the most cost-effective option to replace it held up an immediate purchase. Staff, under direction, returned to council May 4 with a report of potential replacement options, with the $120,000 purchase of a brand new generator being

the preferred. Councillors were also presented with an $80,500

option to replaced the generator with a new-to-us model, which would still

be a higher capacity unit than the one currently sidelined. Among the issues with that is that there were no used generators on the market to the best of the town’s knowledge, and there was concern that, being used, there would be elevated maintenance costs. A third option would have been to simply fix the existing unit. Even with a $4,000 cost, the town, in their report, said due to the generator’s age it would still be unreliable, parts are

hard to come by, and the generator would not meet all of the building’s power needs. The existing backup generator doesn’t meet all the needs either. Finally the fourth option would be to continue leasing a back-up generator. The fire chief said in his report that it would cost $25,200 a year to continue with that. The vote was unanimous in support for the purchase (minus Larry Walker who was absent for the meeting), but in one case it

was somewhat reluctantly. “I still feel I’m a little uneasy in terms of the options that’s been presented,” said Mario Feldhoff. “[But] it would appear that no matter what type of unit we get we’re going to be faced with similar cost in installation...I’m still not convinced we have the best option...but will vote in favour of the report.” Edwin Empinado said that $120,000 for 20 years of reliable power generation at the fire hall was a worthwhile expense.

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‘Lets Talk’ event taps outside expertise The challenges of a community facing mega projects was the forefront of discussion at a special event last week, hosted by the Kitimat Economic Development Association and the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce. The event, called Lets Talk, brought in a panel of speakers, including Fort St. John Mayor Lori Ackerman and Gordon Wilson, who advocates for the LNG BuyBC program. Other speakers were UNBC researcher Greg Halseth, who has been studying many communities in B.C. facing industrial development, including Kitimat, and Michael Evans from Fort McMurray, a government relations specialist. Ackerman tells the Sentinel that there are many parallels between Kitimat and her own community, which has also seen large growth through industrial development. At Fort St. John’s core is four guiding principles, says Ackerman: economic prosperity, environmental sustainability, social inclusion and cultural vitality. “Every decision we make is

viewed through those lenses,” she said. “Whatever your [Official Community Plan] says you want your community to look like, you’ll have to look through those lenses, to ensure you’re on the right path to get to that mountain top.” They’ve faced challenges similar to Kitimat’s own recent ones, including access to affordable housing and they’ve had an affordable housing committee for two years to study what other communities do. “We looked at Langford,

for instance, down on the island, keeping in mind their snow removal policy is wait 24 hours it will go away, ours is not,” she said. “Our affordable housing committee determined the highest priority would be low-cost market housing...How do you achieve that?” Her community approved zoning which makes way for single family homes with secondary suites, with stipulations such as the home owner must live in the home too. Houses with secondary suites was a proposal for a small townhouse complex on Blueberry Street last year, which ultimately didn’t get the backing of council, due to a number of concerns. Ackerman says her own town has had issues with townhouse complexes and secondary suites and notes they don’t always work out, outside of the single-family home model. Namely if a duplex rents out a secondary suite, that duplex suddenly becomes a four-plex, with new parking challenges. She also points to employ-

ment recruitment as a challenge, namely making a community attractive to new workers and managers. “Just because you and I happen to like it here doesn’t mean everyone else is going to,” she said. “How do you create that community that’s not totally industrial?” Again, Fort St. John came up with their own answer in the form of a group of under-40 members of the community, organized through their chamber of commerce. “Having them provide direct input in [plans]...really helps us to see what it is they’re thinking,” she said. “So make use of the kids.” The idea of tapping the younger business generation is something that Kitimat Chamber of Commerce’s executive director agrees Kitimat should do. “We’ve got some young, new business owners. They’ve got some new ideas,” said Trish Parsons. She said many people within the Chamber or in the business community at large are well es-

tablished but might not have new visions. “I think it would be very beneficial for the community to get some of these younger entrepreneurs together,” she said. Parsons said they were happy to get people like Ackerman because their communities have gone through similar transitions. Meanwhile representing a different angle, Buy-BC’s Wilson says his role is to mythbust misconceptions about LNG processes, and to connect smaller local businesses to opportunities with these international companies. To that he says Kitimat has an advantage given many local companies have already been trained on how to engage with large companies through the Kitimat Modernization Project. “I think the Rio Tinto project, I think some of the mining projects out there...the skills that are required in this industry are not necessarily that unique,” he said, adding that Kitimat’s experience with industry “should give them a front row seat to the [LNG] industry once this industry starts to hire local.”

might not be long in coming. Oh, and can you imagine where this might go if Stephen Harper decided it was worth pursuing? I remember when I was about 11 getting a fairly sharp boot on the backside from a grizzled police sergeant in Prestwick, Scotland, after I failed to be entirely polite when he asked me

to “move along.” When I complained to my father, he sent me to bed for being rude to a police office Circa 1950. Different era, different times. Most of us live in a bubble. We have very little negative interaction with the police. Not all of us. Check around some regional pubs around 2 or 3 a.m.

when young police officers get to do their job. It’s not easy or safe. It’s much more so when you’re facing daily near-riot situations whether in the States or in Quebec. It’s “act first, ask questions later.” I’m not saying this is right or wrong but it’s today in North America and police as a whole don’t come off well, when

the toll is taken. But, come on. Insulting a cop and threatening one are two different things. Placing yourself, as a municipal employee or councillor, as above criticism, protected by a bylaw, is just simply ludicrous and I hope will be found to be so if the Granby council tries taking it into court.

Lori Ackerman

Granby Continued from page 4 I have little doubt the community is “not amused” by the council’s efforts to control any backtalk from the taxpayers or the unwanted attention it is bound to bring. Presumably, the bylaw remains in place, at least until tested. A look at Facebook commentary suggests that a test

Linda Lefranc killer gets granted day parole The family of a woman killed here in 1998 says they’re devastated her murderer has been given day parole. “His release only serves to depreciate the seriousness of his crime, undermine respect for the laws of this country and marginalize our family’s loss,” Anita Johnstone said of the National Parole Board decision regarding Christopher Alexander who was convicted of killing her sister, Linda LeFranc. Alexander, who has been in jail for 13 years, over half of which has been spent at an aboriginal healing village in the Fraser Valley, was released to a halfway house in the Fraser Valley area this week. He’ll be working on a farm that provides work experience for people under conditional release from prison. Alexander was 17 years old in December 1998 when he broke into LeFranc’s Terrace townhouse, stabbing her 83 times with a knife taken from the kitchen. Now 33, he’s to report to authorities twice a week, refrain from using alcohol or illegal substances, cannot use social media and is restricted from traveling

outside of the general Fraser Valley area. But Johnstone said she has no confidence that Alexander’s activities will be properly monitored. “I’m totally petrified,” said Johnstone. “He’s not capable of following the simplest of instructions.” “My serious, serious concern is the lack of supervision when he’s out there.” Johnstone and other family members have sat through numerous previous parole board hearings through which Alexander has been granted absences of various kinds and for different lengths of time. Other than reading a victim impact statement, family members have not been allowed to take a role in the hearings. Throughout those hearings, Johnstone said Alexander has never taken accountability for killing her sister. “He has not dealt with the issues that have caused him to commit such a violent crime,” she said. “I believe he is an untreated offender.” Based on his conduct and activities, Alexander can apply for full parole six months after being granted day parole.

Johnstone and other family members attended the April 23 parole hearing which resulted in the day parole decision. It marked the last time they will have an opportunity to sit through a hearing because further decisions affecting Alexander won’t require a formal session. “That’s it, we’re done. We’ve lived through this 17 years now,” said Johnstone. “And this is our life sentence. The system is not about my sister or the victim at all. It’s about the offender and what the offender wants. It’s just so heartbreaking.” The family had mounted numerous petition campaigns, including ones online, in a bid to keep Alexander in jail. Still, Johnstone said she and the family will continue to advocate for longer prison sentences and more rights for victims and their families. Arrested in late 1999 following an extensive RCMP undercover operation in which an officer posing as the “Mr. Big” of a criminal gang got Alexander to admit to the murder, he was sentenced following a trial in 2002. - Terrace Standard

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KUTE organizes hazardous waste event Cameron Orr A household hazardous waste disposal event may not quite sound like carnival-level excitement for the family, but it’s an important way for you get rid of surplus toxic materials from your garage. Kitimat Understanding the Environment is hosting the event in Kitimat, and will also be run in Terrace and New Hazelton as well. KUTE director Ken Maitland said the event got off the ground with financial support from the local governments and from local businesses and industries. He said the material being collected is for things not covered by the provincial Extended Producer Recycling program, and can include things like oven cleaner or Draino. KUTE has used the financial contributions to fly in spe-

“Don’t leave half a bottle and [then] go buy another... just use it.” cialized chemists who will take in the materials at the KUTE depot on Railway Avenue in the Service Centre, and properly store and transport them away. “It needs to be treated and handled appropriately,” he said about the waste products being collected. In total the event, among the three communities, costs an estimated $74,000. Among the various products people can bring in includes paints, used oils and flammable liquids. Maitland said it has been 10

to 15 years since the last similar event in Kitimat, and beyond this specific time, people in the community don’t have places they can properly dispose of these types of items. While these products are not designed to go in to the landfill he says it happens, and that material can contaminate soils and water ways. Kitimat’s event runs on May 23 from 10 am to 3 p.m. New Hazelton’s event will run the same day, at Allen Park, and Terrace’s event runs May 24, in the co-op parking lot. There’s no immediate plans to have the same event next year so Maitland recommends either get to this event or make a plan for the chemicals you have at home. “Don’t leave half a bottle and [then] go buy another,” he said, for ways to cut down on waste. Just use it all up.

Ken Maitland with some of the hazardous products he has in his garage.

Cuts coming to Northwest Community College Northwest Community College has announced spending cuts of $1.4 million, primarily affecting its university course credit program. While no academic courses will be cancelled outright, where and how they are offered is to change, said college communications director Sarah Zimmerman. “With underenrolled courses, we looked at timetables

so that instead, for example, of being offered several times it will be offered once,” she said. Smithers is to be affected the most as students there will take university credit courses via teleconferencing or other electronic means. But fewer course times means fewer instructors and others will be needed, Zimmerman said. “We’ve been working with our

unions offering early retirement and severance packages,” she added. The more college employees take up retirement or severance packages the fewer actual job losses there will be, said Zimmerman. And some instructors are also being told they’ll be teaching less. The employee cuts amount to the equivalent of 14.5 full-time

positions across all college departments. Zimmerman said the college’s shortfall stems from receiving less money from the province and less tuition money because student enrolment has dropped. “And as a college, we are obligated to submit a balanced budget,” she said. The $1.4 million cut reduces the college’s base budget to just over $22 million

compared to last year’s $23.4 million. One large financial loss comes from the province cutting a grant worth $494,000 to provide tuition-free adult basic education courses. The college will now start charging the same level of tuition for adult basic education that it does for university level academic courses but students can also now apply to the province for

Alliance won’t get requested money The Northwest Resource Benefits Alliance won't be seeing any money from the provincial government until the Province of B.C. starts seeing income from some of the major projects proposed for the region. That was the response of Ministry of Natural Gas Development assistant deputy minister Brian Hansen and Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development assistant deputy minister Jay Schlosar to the alliance's request for $1.131 million to cover the cost of negotiations that would eventually lead to a resource benefit sharing agreement between the provincial government and the body representing various municipalities and regional districts in the Northwest. "At this stage, major investments in the region are still developing and making critical decisions on final investment.

Significant new provincial revenues will not be realized for a number of years following those final investments ... it is, in our view, premature for the province to consider entering into any agreements that would see those revenues dedicated before they are realized," the two wrote in a letter to Kitimat — Stikine Regional District chair Stacey Tyers. "We will be unable to meet the alliance's request for funding at this time. Recognizing that all future benefits rely upon securing and enabling investments in LNG facilities, the province must continue to dedicate its primary focus on working with local governments either hosting these prospective facilities or most directly impacted by facility development." - The Northern View

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Grant Bliss May 8, 1948 - May 4, 2015

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Music festival hits high note with 50 years Submitted The Pacific Northwest Music Festival 2015 came to a close after a very successful 16 days. Celebrating its 50th anniversary, they hosted special events, including two concerts and workshops. With over 1,200 entries, 4,000 performers and 135 locally sponsored awards, this event demonstrates the commitment the Pacific Northwest has to the performing arts world, as well as enormous support for the young people who are involved in the arts. There are three additional scholarships available in three levels, Junior, Intermediate and Senior, for most outstanding performer. The competitors for these scholarships will be those with the highest marks and among the top performers from each discipline, representing piano, vocal, speech arts, dance, guitar, strings and woodwinds for these awards. Kitimat performers Madison Sommerfeld (Piano) and Iris Striker (Speech Arts) were chosen to compete in the Junior category for ages 12 and under and Julia Piroso (Speech Arts) was chosen to compete in the Senior category for ages 16 - 20. Madison Sommerfeld was the winner in the Junior Category of the Munson Family Scholarship. Other results from the event: Award of Excellence Iris Striker - Speech Arts Julia Piroso - Speech Arts In addition to awards and scholarships, the PNMF also offers bursaries for students to participate in a summer arts experience. Piano Bursary Junior - Victoria Stenson Intermediate - Ben Anker Senior - Nicole Hepting Speech Arts Bursary Junior - Iris Striker Intermediate - Delaney Ribeiro Senior - Kevin Eastman Award winners Band McDonalds Restaurant Trophy: Level B200 or B300 Band - Mount Elizabeth High School Concert Band, which came with an invitation to Nationals. Mount Elizabeth Middle school band also received an invitation to the National

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