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NIC offers new option Submitted A new Education Assistant program this January is putting students and communities first on Vancouver Island. NIC’s part-time Education Assistant/Community Support Indigenous Focus certificate usually runs on the central Island community of Port Alberni. This winter, however, the program travels north to Port Hardy. NIC’s in community education model, which tailors programs to communities’ needs across central and northern Vancouver Island and as far north as Bella Coola, is shifting traditional education models. It gives NIC students in rural communities the ability to live, work and stay connected to their families while they learn relevant skills. The Education Assistant program is an example of NIC’s students-first philosophy, a framework that builds relationships, empowers communities and makes education possible across the North Island - one student, one program and one community at a time. The program weaves Aboriginal ways of knowing and being throughout the curriculum. Students are better prepared to support First Nations culture and curriculum in a region with five First Nations operated schools and a school district where 41 per cent of students are of Aboriginal ancestry.

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ing in non life-threatening injuries, occurred just south of the turnoff to the Port Hardy Airport. According to Port Hardy RCMP St. Sgt. Gord Brownridge, slippery, snow-covered roads were the main factor. The northbound car, carrying a couple from Port McNeill, slid off the road and into the ditch, where the vehicle came to a stop on its roof. EMS personnel were needed to extricate them from the vehicle. The couple was transported from the scene by ambulance to hospital.

Continued from Page 1 Students take 10 courses and two practicums and graduate with a certificate that prepares them to work in schools and community support agencies locally and province wide. NIC has successfully delivered this in-community model of education before. In 2012, NIC offered the Education Assistant program in Ahousaht, where nearly half of the West Coast community’s residents are under 19 years old. NIC worked with the Ahousaht Education Society to hire local instructors, find classrooms and develop an evening schedule for working students. It also doubled the program’s traditional length so students could complete work, class and practicum requirements. As a result, eight students changed the history of post-secondary education in their community. “It’s the first time an entire class of students in Ahousaht completed a post-secondary program in their community,” said Kelly Shopland, NIC’s interim manager of aboriginal education. “It’s historic.” In Port Hardy, NIC has worked with the community to offer Practical Nursing Access, Coastal Forest Resource, Health Care Assistant programs and more. The Health Care Assistant program ran with small

but significant numbers. “Five new health care assistants might not be a big deal in larger communities, but it makes a huge difference to places like Port Hardy and Sointula,” said Health Care Assistant program chair Laurie Bird. “In rural communities where there is less of everything in health care, they become a real resource for the communities they live in.” For Selina Child, who graduated from the Health Care Assistant and Practical Nursing Access programs, the experience allowed her to move from a hospitality career, to her current position as a mental health outreach worker with the Gwa’sala’Nakwaxda’xw band. She also works as a foot care nurse. “Being able to take both programs at home in Port Hardy was huge,” she said. “It allowed me to go back to school as a single mother and have the support of my family and community. I wouldn’t be where I am today without NIC.” She admits the programs sparked an “education bug” and she’s already considering a degree in social work in addition to her nursing career, so she can continue helping people in her community. For more information on NIC’s Education Assistant/Community Support program, visit www. nic.bc.ca.

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In the Dec. 23 issue of the Gazette, an article entitled ‘Forum set for March’ contained an error. Keith Henry, chief executive officer of the Aboriginal Tourism Association of Canada, not the Aboriginal Tourism Association of British Columbia, will be the guest speaker at the North Island Tourism Forum being held March 16. The Gazette apologizes for the error.

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Associations donations They’re the forgotten cousins of political donors, a beast that’s neither corporate nor union: trade associations. There are associations for brewers, vinters, distillers, and beverage licensees, for the owners of golf courses, apartment buildings, shopping centres and the operators of wharfs and convenience stores. Many are known to donate generously to political parties, particularly when they want to curry favour. In the U.S. it’s called ‘dark money,’ a way to spend big bucks on politics and remain relatively anonymous. It doesn’t have the same bad rap in B.C. yet, but it’s problematic. In tracking the donations of 116 associations over the last 10 years, 106 have donated more than $4.1 million to the B.C. Liberal party, with $2.6 million of that coming from just 10. Fifty-eight of the associations donated $715,986 to the B.C. NDP. Nine of the 10 most generous with the Liberals found $282,725 for the NDP. Coming in tops for both parties was the New Car Dealers Association of B.C. which, since 2005, has given $1.08 million to the Liberals and $82,790 to the NDP. The Cement Association of Canada has donated $142,920 to the Liberals, with $105,500 of that donated in 2012 and 2013, just as the B.C. government was conducting a review of the carbon tax. Canada’s National Brewers Association has donated $125,191 to the Liberals, $44,596 of it between 2013 and 2014. The B.C. Wine Institute gave the bulk of their donations ($14,068 of $15,523) in the same two year period as well. You might almost think a review into liquor policies was underway. The Big 10 – the most generous of the generous – are interesting not just for the size of their donations, but the fluctuations from one year to the next. Drop the year where they gave the most and that outlier year jumps off the page with more than a handful of them. Coast Forest Products Association gave an average of $3,698 annually to the B.C. Liberal party between 2005 and 2014, except for 2009, when they gave $53,500. The Construction Labour Relations Association gave an average of $8,735 to the Liberals, except for 2009, when they gave $53,238. The B.C. Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association gave an average of $3,148, except for 2009, when they donated $112,610, including a cheque for $110,000. Must have been some bake sale. In 2010, the association’s president told the Globe and Mail that it restricts political spending to election years and planned to donate the same amount in 2013. Not even close. In 2013, they donated $2,550 and reported spending less than $500 during the election. These aren’t the types of groups that raise money through car washes. Annual membership fees in the New Car Dealers Association range from $550 to $2,750. Takes a lot of membership dues – over and above an association’s operating expenses – to be able to donate $1.16 million to political parties as the New Car Dealers did. When you go from donating $1,775 in one year to $112,610 the next – as the Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association did from 2008 to 2009 – it raises obvious questions over where the extra money came from: a healthy bank balance or a one time membership appeal? It’s not a groundless fear, the Election Act speaks to this very issue. Under existing rules a third-party sponsor must report all contributions of money “beginning six months before an election is called and ending at the close of voting.” Therein lies the problem: unless an association spends money during an election – and registers with Elections B.C. – there’s no requirement for an association to report the donors behind any political donations it may make or account for its pre-election spending. Since it never advertised during the 2013 election, whoever kicked in for Jim Shepard’s reported $1 million ad blitz – under the guise of Concerned Citizens for B.C. – will forever remain a mystery. In 2006, the Big 10 donated $64,313 to the Liberals, three years later they gave $503,202 and, in 2013, they forked out $501,263. That’s a lot of top-up cash. (Dermod Travis is the executive director of IntegrityBC. www.integritybc.ca)

Passages of 2015: Bill Bennett The death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the traditional round of polite tributes. He was the man from Kelowna who remade Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm. Outside B.C., the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the “architect of financial restraint in the province.” It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his “restraint program” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia. I was in journalism school in Vancouver when unions organized a general strike and mass street demonstrations under the banner of Operation Solidarity, appropriated from the struggle against Poland’s communist dictators. Their goal was to bring the recently re-elected government to its knees. The newly tabloid Vancouver Province, itself largely controlled by some of B.C.’s most militant unions, was a screeching banshee of the big-labour left. “Socred hitmen swoop on rights workers,” its front page declared after 400 layoff notices were issued to provincial staff. This propaganda was the public’s guide and my professional role model. A bit of background: the B.C. economy was in the grip of an international recession, hitting resource industries and government revenues hard. Bennett had ousted the Dave Barrett NDP government in 1975, but the legacy lived on. During its three-year reign, for example, education spending increased 13 per cent in the first year and 23 per cent in each of the next two. The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted government’s authority to control the size and wages of provincial staff, reinstated the province’s ability to pay, eliminated various boards, and increased the provincial sales tax to seven per The North Island Gazette is published Thursdays at 7305 Market Street in Port Hardy, B.C. by Black Press Ltd. Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #391275. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

cent to pay the bills. Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly chokehold of big international unions on public heavy construction. Growing up in northeastern B.C., I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what I earned labouring for a non-union contractor doing city work. A couple of friends discovered the inside track to securing labouring jobs on a provincially-funded highway project. After joining the union, those in the know could visit a business agent and hand over $500 cash. Within days, the lucky winner would be “name requested” to join the crew, vaulting over those who thought paying dues and working their way up the seniority list would be enough. This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consortium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line building trades. After graduating from journalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office to finish his term as a backbench MLA. Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store. I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier. The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett. (Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca Twitter: @ tomfletcherbc) A member of

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Community development and volunteerism go hand in hand Dear Editor, During the Christmas Season bulletin boards and newspapers are filled to the brim with bright posters and ads that invite us to support a myriad of worthy causes with our dollars and cents, and throughout the year many people continue to contribute consistently to their communities in less loud and colourful ways. At this time of year many of us consider making resolutions to improve our own lives and as a consequence the lives of those around us. Volunteering in the community is often one of those worthy goals many of us consider undertaking. Presently community volunteers of all ages tackle a vast ocean of need, food banks and crisis lines, coaching sports and leading Girl Guides to name just a few. Some services rendered are essentially lifesaving while others are more quality of life improving. Early on as a young adult I remember volunteering for a year as a Brownie pack leader, Grey Owl I think I was called, the name suggested aged wisdom, I was maybe 21. At the end of the year another volunteer had created a beautiful handmade

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scrapbook for me filled with pictures and thanks from the individual girls, a treasure. Later with a young family of my own we enjoyed one on one outings shopping for that special gift for the individual children in a Christmas Family Hamper campaign. Then the whole family delivered a van filled with delightful packages secretly at night then went for a drive afterward to see the neighbourhood Christmas decorations and lights and to have hot chocolate. And later yet, with my own kids well on their way, many hours were given to the simplicity of serving meals in a local soup kitchen or the decidedly more difficult task of answering Crisis Line phones (yes, training was involved). Now my time is given to all things ARTS, promoting quality of life improvements in my own community. Somewhere along the line I learned that all things cannot be done at once, but that there is a season for all things, as the saying goes. Volunteer burnout is oft cited as a factor when precious people resources are difficult to inspire, attract, acknowl-

edge, award and retain. Burnout itself may involve its own set of resolutions and may be a personal and a community issue to be addressed on several levels. Resolutions such as balanced time management, and the development of a thicker skin to repel the inevitable negativity so common in today’s toxic culture of endless armchair criticism, can and should be developed. Failed past attempts at change resolution only served to teach me to examine the causes of those failures and newly resolve to start again. ‘Failure’ is really an opportunity to focus and finesse my goals, breaking them down into smaller more manageable and viable pieces. The challenges confronting a new and fledging resolution, be it volunteering or weight loss or to quit smoking once and for all, are legion. Facing them down requires its own resolve and renewed resolve itself is needed to make that new resolution. The effort seems to be like a cycling, spiralling, circle of some sort, moving upward like birds circling in thermals over hot pavement in summer, rising ever higher. The view is so much better

up there. Change is all around us continuously. Resolution is a form of self-determined change, self-directed change and of deliberate living. Volunteerism leads to community development which in turn benefits all of us. Community development is like gardening - it takes time for things to come in. Asparagus or lilacs require years of energy, investment, effort and patience before they produce those first perfect rewards that we can all enjoy. Timing is everything or is it? When it comes to resolving to implement some change for the betterment of self, if it was a good idea to start on Jan. 1, it’s probably a good idea to start on Feb. 1 as well, or June 1 for that matter. The time is now, the moment you realize that a change is necessary and possible,so get off the couch and resolve and then retain your resolve to Jan. 2, Jan. 3 and beyond - do something to improve your own circumstances and those of the community around you this year, all year long. Susan Mohler Port Alice

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By Gazette Staff North Vancouver Island communities will benefit from improved and expanded high-speed interNotice is hereby given with respect to the scheduling of regular meetings of District of Port net service thanks to planned network upgrades Hardy Council as per section 127 of the Community Charter. throughout the region, in a project spearheaded by a District of Port Hardy Council Procedure Bylaw No. 03-2009 regulates scheduling, procedures local community group. and other matters pertaining to Council meetings. Regular Council meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month in the Council Chambers of the Municipal The Ragged Edge Community Network Society Hall building located at 7360 Columbia Street. To allow for holiday periods, the Union of BC (RECNS) has been providing last mile service Municipalities convention and other events or matters, Council may change the regularly for underserved communities on North Vancouver scheduled meeting dates or conduct additional or special meetings. The following are the regular meeting dates for the year 2016 as approved by Council on November 24, 2015: Island since 2006. The Society has brought high-speed internet serJanuary 12 July 12 January 26 July 26 - cancelled for summer beak vice to 12 communities, 375 households, three First February 9 August 9 Nations and more than 50 businesses that previously February 23 August 23 - cancelled for summer break had limited or no Internet access at all. March 8 September 13 March 22 September 27 - cancelled for UBCM Convention The Island Coastal Economic Trust is contributApril 12 October 11 ing $50,000 to the service upgrades. The network April 26 October 25 May 10 November 8 will be updated to meet current Industry Canada May 24 November 22 standards of 5Mbps down and 1Mbps up in more June 14 December 13 of the areas serviced by RECNS and additional June 28 December 27 - cancelled for Christmas break backup power capability will be installed to increase Members of the public are welcome to attend open meetings of Council and if desired, may reliability and service. The project will integrate address Council if arrangements to do so have been made in advance. For more information, the Quatsino community into the terrestrial network please contact: GATSBY MANSION and provide interconnection upgrades in Sointula, Heather Nelson-Smith, Director of Corporate Services District of Port Hardy S P E C I A L O F FZeballos ER Coal Harbour, Quatsino First Nation, 7360 Columbia Street, PO Box 68, Port Hardy, BC V0N 2P0 and Telegraph Cove. and Wi-Fi service to Ph: 250-949-6665 Fax 250-949-7433 StayRouters 1 night at $139 Gilford Island and Kwicksutaineuk First Nation hnelson.smith@porthardy.ca and receive a deluxe are also among the planned upgrades. breakfast continental “Residents andfor visitors of all ages rely on high two! speed internet access in communities where they Free parking. travel and reside.Valid This now1 –equated fromis January February 29,with 2016 ‘quality (Taxes and gratuities not included) 309 BELLEVILLE STREET, of life’” said Marianne Mikkelsen, RECNS Chair. VICTORIA, BC 250-381-3456 LOCATED IN THE HEART OF VICTORIA’S “Providing theseINNER services to underserved commuHARBOUR 7354332

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By Jeff Nagel Black Press Many B.C. residents were jolted awake Dec. 29 by a small earthquake that briefly rattled homes across much of Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. The magnitude 4.7 quake at 11:39 p.m. was centred about eight kilometres east of Sidney, between Victoria and Vancouver, according to Earthquakes Canada. Simon Fraser University geologist Brent Ward, who chairs the university’s earth sciences department, said it was a crustal earthquake about 50 to

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severe if it’s closer to the surface and near large numbers of people. “If it was only 10 kilometres deep the shaking would have been a lot more intense,” Ward said. A 7.2 crustal quake near Courtenay in 1946 caused extensive landslides, soil liquefaction and damage to brick buildings. Ward noted B.C.’s population at risk is much larger now. “You can imagine if we got a 7.2 earthquake underneath a populated part of Vancouver Island, there would be significant damage and there would definitely be fatalities.” When B.C. released its new earthquake response plan earlier this year it did not model its worst-case scenario on a megathrust subduction zone quake, but rather shallow crustal earthquakes directly under our big cities. The result: an estimated 10,000 dead in Metro Vancouver, 128,000 seriously injured and 30 per cent of buildings receiving extensive damage in the event of a 7.3 magnitude crustal quake directly beneath Vancouver. A similar scenario of a 7.0 quake beneath Victoria yielded an estimate of up to 1,500 dead and 19,000 injured. People in different communities and

neighbourhoods will feel the shaking of an earthquake differently because of the underlying material. Ward said he didn’t even wake up because there’s bedrock not far below his house in Coquitlam, while his niece in Langley on loose sediment soil felt intense shaking. The recent tremor was the biggest quake to be felt in the Lower Mainland since a 6.8 quake rocked Washington State in 2001, causing some property damage in Seattle. The two largest quakes ever recorded in B.C. have both been centred near Haida Gwaii - an 8.1 magnitude quake in 1949 that remains Canada’s strongest since 1700, and a 7.7 quake in 2012. Agencies including Emergency Management B.C. are urging residents to treat the event as a wake-up call and prepare earthquake kits for the potential of a more serious quake in the future. Everyone should have food, water and other supplies to survive at least 72 hours unassisted in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. Emergency kits are recommended for home, the workplace and your vehicle - see the PreparedBC site for details and more ideas on how to get ready.

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and he indicated that just about every senior in the community looks forward to attending the event each year. He is grateful for the support of the volunteers and businesses that contribute to making the dinner a success. “If it wasn’t for their support, the dinner wouldn’t be happening,” said Bakker. “For a lot of seniors, getting a door prize like a $25 gift certificate to a grocery store really helps, especially at this time of year.” Leith Paganoni from Marine Harvest Canada volunteered at this year’s event. New to Vancouver Island, Leith said she found out about the dinner through Vansnick, who had mentioned that employees from both Grieg Seafood and Marine Harvest have volunteered their time in the past. “It gave me a chance to learn about Sayward from the seniors and the local volunteers,” said Leith. “The well-run event was a great example of what a small, pas-

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By Kathy O’Reilly-Taylor Editor The Salvation Army Christmas Lunch/Dinner held Dec. 23 saw volunteers serve an all-time high of 242 turkey dinners in two hours. Numbers were up from 140 last year. Santa gave close to 60 presents - one to every child that attended the annual event, said Michael Winter, community ministries supervisor. All of the presents were purchased and wrapped by community members, Winter said. Everything needed to prepare the meal was donated by Overwaitea Foods, he said, adding Winnie Anderson was lead supervisor in preparing the feast. “We had over 35 volunteers this year, for food preparation, serving, coordinating, hosting, and helping. We would not be able to take on such a big task without the help of our volunteers. It was truly a community effort,” he said. The Christmas Lunch/ Dinner has been put on at the Salvation Army since it first opened its doors in Port Hardy eight years ago. “It is a special event, because for some people, this is the only place they get to share a Christmas dinner with their family members - or have a Christmas dinner all together,” Winter said.

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Tournament taken by Storm By Tyson Whitney Reporter The Gwa’salaNakwaxda’xw First Nations hosted their annual year-end ball hockey tournament Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 at the Wakas Community Hall. The tournament, held in honour of Peter Charlie, Trish Charlie and Gilbert Walkus who died in a fire in an apartment complex on Highland Drive on Jan. 1, 2010, has been a fixture in the community every year since 2011. “It is really important for our community to be together that day,” said Maggie Coon, the tournament organizer. “Our community does take it really hard that they are not alongside of us anymore.” The ball hockey tournament featured six men’s teams and three women’s teams this year. The games are played four on four, with

Tyson Whitney Photo The Storm and the WolfPack Juniors (red shirts) kicked off the Gwa’sala-Nakwaxda’xw First Nations annual ball hockey tournament at the Wakas Community Hall, Wednesday, Dec. 30. The two day tournament has been played annually since 2011, and is held in honour of Peter Charlie, Trish Charlie and Gilbert Walkus who died in a fire in an apartment complex on Highland Drive on Jan 1. 2010.

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30, as the tournament kicked off around 12 p.m. After a brief warm up, two of the teams, the WolfPack and the WolfPack Juniors, which was a match up of brothers vs. little brothers, started to play. All in all, Coon said that “the first day of the tournament went really well. There were 15 games played.” The second day of the tournament started bright and early at 8:25 a.m. Dec. 31. Coons said that “the WolfPack usually win the tournament, but the games between them and the Storm are very competitive.” And as it turned out, the two teams ended up facing off in the finals around 2 p.m. The first period was filled with back and forth, fast-paced

hockey action. Both teams clearly wanted to win and were playing aggressively. By the intermission, the score was 3-2 for the WolfPack. The Storm refused to quit, however. Throughout the 2nd period they peppered the WolfPack’s goalie, scoring goal after goal after goal. The WolfPack answered with a few goals of their own, but it wasn’t enough. The Storm ended up winning 11-6, taking first place in the fifth annual Gwa’salaNakwaxda’xw First Nations ball hockey tournament. Coons was extremely happy how the tournament went, adding that it “met my expectations and more,” and that ‘It’s a great way for our community to remember the ones we lost.”

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