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tions of people and communities in the riding, which may be difficult to interpret. My riding is a great illustration of the challenge. With the longest name in the House of Commons, the riding is a perfect divide between rural and urban; contains several distinct communities; and is defined by distinctive character as you take the two ferry rides from Powell River in the North, through the Sunshine Coast to the North Shore; then wheel your way onward up the Sea to Sky Corridor to Whistler, one of the world’s most renowned resorts. I made it clear in my written and oral submissions that it will be better if Whistler remains in the riding. At the same time, Powell River has been proposed for exclusion from the riding by the Boundary Commission, a move that would put it with Vancouver Island North. Leaders in Powell River have expressed the desire
to remain with the Sunshine Coast, which has been proposed to remain in the riding. What would I prefer? Well, any hardworking MP would say that she or he has got to know all the communities in the riding he or she represents, and I am no exception. I do not want any part of the riding I represent to leave. Whether by work or by friendship, I am bound tightly to each of these far-flung and colorful communities and will be reluctant to see them separated. I am sensitive as well to the people in these communities who have expressed their desire to stay within the riding I represent. Population and other factors may drive other conclusions but, as I put it to the PROC last week, I prefer Powell River and Whistler to stay within the boundaries of what I often call “The Most Beautiful Place on Earth.” I’m sure other MPs face similar dilemmas in their submissions.
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alking along the beach in Davis Bay this Easter weekend was enough to remind any Coast resident why they chose to live in this incredible place. My memory was flooded with thoughts of kids swimming in the water, fishing off the pier, and even participating in the annual sandcastle building contest. These were but a few of the many images of warm, sunny days that started to pop into my mind. Seeing the hundreds of beautiful daffodils reminded me that it’s time for us to celebrate spring, and be grateful for all that we have here. April is Daffodil Month, which is when people should take some extra time to reflect on those living with cancer and all the ways that we can help them. Almost everyone has a relative or close friend that has been diagnosed with cancer. Just knowing that an estimated 186,400 new cases of cancer and around 76,000 people died in Canada in 2012, is a real wake-up call for everyone to actively pursue helping both others and yourself. In 2011, cancer became the number one cause of death for Canadians, although people are now living longer after being diagnosed with cancer than ever before. Most people would place cancer on the top of the wish list when it comes to curing a disease, but when you read all the articles, journal entries and blogs on whether we are winning the war on cancer, the results are nothing more then a mixed bag of slightly tangled statements that are full of contradictions. It isn’t easy to understand what is really going on. Some groups even claim that cancer has been cured in Edmonton, AB but that the large corporate pharmaceutical industry is just holding back. With over 200 forms of cancer, it’s hard to believe that cancer will be cured in one fell swoop. It seems much more plausible that there will be a number of steps that slowly lead to curing the disease in the future. Having said that, each case has its own unique attributes and many a miracle has happened over the years, where there doesn’t seem to be a reasonable answer. If you or a loved one does have cancer or have recently been diagnosed, there are many support groups available ranging from national Canadian Cancer Society <www. cancer.ca> to the Sunshine Coast-based Ruby Slipper Cancer Support Group which you can find on Facebook under their name or email: admin@communityresource centre.info Daffodil pins can be found at the three MarketPlace IGAs in Gibsons, Wilson Creek, and Madeira Park. You can also find them at LifeLabs in both Gibsons and Sechelt and at the Pharmasave in Sechelt. The Canadian Cancer Society suggests that on April 27 (Daffodil Day) you make an extra effort to tell a loved one with cancer that you are thinking of them and actually try to do something special for them, including making a meal, or offering to do an errand. You can also take it a step further and make a presentation in your community to help raise awareness about how Canadians can fight back against cancer. Prevention is one of the best — and most effective ways — to fight cancer. Prevention tactics have been proven to be the easiest way to cut cancer rates. Number one on the list is getting people to quit smoking. 25 to 30 percent of cancers are caused by smoking, but almost one quarter of the population still smokes. It’s time to butt out. Also, people should avoid drinking alcohol in excess and get serious about tackling obesity. Just try to make some adjustments to include some healthy eating habits. In turn, individuals can increase physical activity in their lives by adding activities such as walking, biking and playing a few rounds of golf. Jim Dorey, Editor
Letters to the Editor – Opinions Government should encourage cohabitation There I was, hand-watering my garden on a blessedly bright West Coast morning, pondering for some perverse reason the even more bizarre changes in cohabitation law that the Federal Conservatives have conjured up. There are advantages to living alone as I do, but sometimes I consider sharing this personal space of mine. This is not primarily a sexual impulse. Accommodating that wouldn’t require co-habitation and surely it couldn’t be the Conservative’s intention to pimp us out to one another by tying those kinds of personal choices to individual economics. As it stands, discouraging seniors from cohabiting will cost what the government now saves by paying more to single seniors than to individuals living as married couples, a long-standing form of discrimination already deserving of a legal challenge. I don’t know if that loss of pension has applied where unmarried same-sex seniors have shared a house. Will such an arrangement now, in these days of legal gay marriage, be assumed to be
one if it holds up for two years? And why would any government reigning over a housing shortage want in any way to discourage cohabitation of any kind? Why would any society aware of its overall drain on resources discourage individual citizens from seeking, by sharing, to reduce it? These new laws might make some sort of sense for people venturing into their core years. They discriminate against those who have already transited them. John Marian, Halfmoon Bay
Are transmitters really safe? Rogers is in the business of making money I believe that Rogers is misleading your readers and the City officials when they imply that the cell transmitters, and the radiation that is emitted, is safe. By saying there is no evidence of harm, they are ignoring the thousands of studies done by world famous scientists showing quite the opposite. Once that tower is on the fire hall, Rogers can and will put as many transmitters, of all sorts, on it as they want. In a neighbourhood in Victoria they put three FM transmitters as close as 30 meters from homes built 10
years earlier. FM transmitters are stronger than cell and are normally no where near homes. When people complained, Rogers said they made their plans before they knew there were homes there. They now have over 25 transmitters in our once lovely area. Property values have sunk. In fact, homes, even beautiful homes with spectacular views, don’t sell. People are sick with neurological problems, cardiac disorders and cancer. Pets as young as a few months have died from cancer. Please demand that City officials do their homework before signing the contract. Tell your officials that now that they have been informed about the dangers, they could be held liable for endangering the health of their firemen and residents living near the fire hall. Do let Rogers tell you that these transmitters are safe. Make them prove they are! Sharon Noble, Victoria, BC
More antennas mean more radiation It is hard to inveigh against Rogers’ 35 metre cell tower in Gibsons without giving a few facts about electromagnetic radiation (EMR). EMR travels in straight lines at the speed
of light, has energy, wavelength and frequency (measured in Hertz). Every living thing resonates (pulses) with Earth’s magnetic field at 7.83 to 10 Hertz. Our brains, depending on their activity, pulse up to 30 Hz. We are bioelectric beings. EMR can sometimes medically help us; more often, depending on frequency and whether it is pulsed or continuous, it harms living things. EMR is cumulative. Rogers is using Code 6 of the Canada Health Act for its EMR safety standard. This standard is based on WHO studies heavily funded by utilities and telecoms. Canada has no studies of its own. Code 6 states that if microwaves don’t heat the skin they are safe. Numerous independent studies by researchers, doctors, and scientists around the globe have proved Code 6 is long outdated. Canada’s permitted EMR exposure is 1000 microwatts/centimeter squared, which is 100 to 1000 times higher than many other countries including China. As well as Code 6, a document from Dr. Patricia Daly, Chief Medical Health Officer, VCH, stated there is “international scientific consensus” that “radiation (Letters continued on page 5)
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Letters to the Editor – Opinions (Continued from page 4) from cellular base stations is far too low to cause adverse health effects.” In fact, there is only international controversy. Dr. Daly denies RF is the cause of electromagnetic hypersensitivity although as long ago as 1932 doctors linked RF to this illness. Today three percent of the population is acutely affected and another 25 percent somewhat affected. Cell towers have a 25 to 30 mile range. The engineer at Rogers said only the top 10 meters would radiate. People would be 25 meters below. She said reflection would weaken the signal but only distance weakens it. The Fire Department was in favor of a better response time but seemed unaware of the IAFF Resolution 15 regarding adverse effects of cell towers on fire stations. Finally, towers are vertical real estate and more antennas mean more radiation. Nancy Leathley, Gibsons
Specialists pipe in on Extra Low Frequencies (ELF’s) Dear Mr. Machado, (Town of Gibsons) I have a copy of a letter dated February 14, 2013,
that was sent to you by Dr. Paul Martiquet. It concerns the proposed Rogers communication tower intended as an upgrade to the present tower at Gibsons Fire hall. Dr Martiquet states, “There has been considerable research on the health impacts of cellular antennae, and the evidence at present does not indicate health risks for the public.” This is grossly misleading. Please read the following comments by three of the many electromagnetic radiation experts who would disagree. Martha R Herbert (PhD, MD, Harvard Medical School, 2013) said, “I recently accepted an invitation to review literature pertinent to a potential link between Autism Spectrum Disorders and Electromagnetic Frequencies and Radiofrequency Radiation. I set out to write a paper of modest length, but found much more literature than I had anticipated to review. I ended up producing a 60page, single spaced paper with over 550 citations.” Andrew Goldworhty (MSc, PhD 2012) said, “To some degree, we can make our own electromagnetic environment safer by avoiding radio waves that have
been pulsed or amplitude modulated at ELFs (extra low frequencies). The ELFs that give damaging biological effects as measured by calcium release from brain slices and ornithine decarboxylase production in tissue cultures lie between 6Hz and 600Hz. It is unfortunate that virtually all mobile telecommunications systems use pulses within this range. The industry clearly did not do its homework before letting these technologies loose on the general public and this omission may already have cost many lives.” Dr Gerd Oberfeld of the Department of Public Health, Salzburg said, “The extrapolated trend indicates that 50 percent of the world population can be expected to become electrosensitive by the year 2017.” Canada’s safety limit for cell tower radiation is one million times higher than Salzburg’s. Susan Fletcher, Sunshine Coast
Too many unanswered questions There seem to be too many secrets about the cost of pumping sewage around. What geotechnical
reports and what company’s did them on Ebbtide? The mayor did say it will have a larger capacity then the current plant, and that it will be easily upgraded to grow if necessary or will it be the same size as what we have now? $25 million wasted? There are larger new modern wastewater plants that meet the new US Environmental Act (EPA) Standards for the $3.2 million Building Canada Fund, plus the $8 million Gas Tax Fund, that are $7 million dollars cheaper then Veolia. Why did no one like Ken Tang or anyone form Sechelt go to Europe to see the so called greenhouse Veolia plants in action and ask the right questions to the right people? Why are we the first in North America? Why have all the other educated city’s waste water committees in Canada and the United States in the past eleven years not picked the Veolia Greenhouse that we are? Why did Winnipeg in 2011 stop Veolia from running their waste water plant? Check out Veolia problems on the net, like the lawsuit that was brought against Burlingame in 2008, accusing Veolia of dumping more than
10 million gallons of wastewater and untreated sewage over a five-year period into the San Francisco Bay. Why did sewage expert Engineer Ken Tang, with the last mayor and council, pick Lower Lot L near Dusty Road for our new plant? The big elephant in the room is Ebbtide — this small, swampy, mostly below sea level, densely populated neighborhood sewage plant is in the centre of Sechelt and has ruined the inhabitants enjoyment of life and their homes for years. This is wrong. This is not how Sechelt should operate. Sign a petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/ petition/sechelt-waste-waterproblem-survey/signatures Bob Evermon, Davis Bay
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loved books, but bubbles with wild interpolations of the old ideas. Zooey Deschanel plays DG, or Dorothy, and Richard Dreyfuss is the mystic man. They filmed this in the Lower Mainland, so
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RCMP did mention it was not a random act and there is no danger to the general public. Sunshine Coast RCMP are asking anyone with information to contact them at 605-885-2266. Submitted
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Horoscope April 5 to April 11 yet avoid procrastination as well. It is probably best to wait to dive into bigger Michael projects until after the next O’Connor New Moon. Astrologer Taurus (Apr 20 – May 21) Many desires and ambitions are actively gesTip of the Week: tating. These may not be The New Moon in Ar- so apparent to others but ies, the first official one for you know it. The time spring 2013, is on April to make your plans more 10. Especially since there public has not yet arrived. will be five ‘planets’ in Ar- You have yet to iron out ies – Sun and Moon (of- all the details. Yet, it is imficially called ‘luminaries’) portant that you do take Venus, Mars and Uranus, those key steps soon. Forwhich are already in Aries. tunately for you, however, Shanti Gifts 1114 Yet, it is the New Moon in there are indications that Aries cycle that will prove your confidence levels will to really activate the sea- increase all year long! son and perhaps the entire Gemini (May 21 – Jun 21) year into much more dyYou are getting more atnamic motion. Though a tention these days. Hopewelcome change for many fully you want it and it is it could also coincide with the kind you want. Somea lot more drama. The dis- thing is kicking off in you play of muscle and aggres- public life. Unfortunately, April 4, 2013 sion in North Korea Legion is one 1114 there are disturbances in Gibsons example. Up to now, we the field you must conhave been still under the tend with. Focus and be influence of the previous flexible, creative and proNew Moon of March 11, active to overcome any which not only hosted sev- setbacks. A learning curve en ‘planets’ in Pisces but is implied so gather all the also Mercury retrograde. tools, skills and instrucMany will agree that upon tion you can. reflection and even now, Cancer (Jun 21 – Jul 22) April with 4, 2013 A period or reflection this has synchronized what might be deemed a and retreat have taken a ‘wishy-washy’ cycle. Like turn. Now you are being moving through a dense pushed into the limelight. fog, indecisiveness, insecuThis could Claytons crossword 1114be a good thing rity, people deciding upon if you want it. Your consomething then changing fidence and/or trust levels their mind quickly there- may still be wavering more after or simply not feeling than you would like. It confident, clear or focused may take a few months yet enough to make any deci- before you are back in your sions at all has been a con- element. Be as patient as sistent theme. Confusion, you can with everything clumsiness and other mis- and everyone. April 4, 2013 haps are also characteristic Leo (Jul 22 – Aug 23) themes. As for current cyThe new cycle that is cles, the influence is linger- about to begin will give ing like a persistent weath- you a boost. You have likeer pattern but will change ly been dealing with a lot again as if suddenly. So, of complex issues over the we can all look forward to past few months. At best, a more direct and decisive you have been getting your cycle, though admittedly affairs in order and clearMercury is still in Pisces ing the clutter. Now it is and will be until April 13, time to forge ahead. Your which means it is featured confidence to do so will in the New Moon seed increase steadily over the chart. This means some next several weeks. residual fog patches in Virgo (Aug 23 – Sep 22) the ethers will remain for A cloud of confusion is a while yet. Still, the fric- finally clearing. Everyone tion that the five planets in has been dealing with it. Aries is already generating Yet, there may be some will certainly burn it off clean up to do to get quickly, so expect things things in order again. It is to ‘heat-up’ even more on time to look to the future. many fronts very soon! The more able you are to Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 20) take an independent lead The pace of things con- the better. There remains tinues to accelerate. You time to increase your exhave already taken some posure, power potential initiatives yet there are big- and income before sumger ones yet to begin. This is mer arrives. likely causing a stir in your Libra (Sep 22 – Oct 22) love life as well, for better Tending to lingering or worse. Be careful not to health issues, either yours come on too strong with or those of others close demands and assertions, to home remains impor-
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tant. New stimulations on relationship fronts have begun. These stand to activate new involvements or at least spice-up your love life. One way or another, sparks are beginning to fly. Hopefully these are the kind that ignites your pleasure passions. Scorpio (Oct 22 – Nov 21) A creative cycle continues to unfold. Your interpretations of beauty are featured. Yet, you may still be in the sampling stage. You are willing to make some sincere efforts to achieve your goals. That you want ‘this and that’, even though each one is greatly distinct, is an ongoing dilemma these days. If one represents the high road and the other the low, aim high. Sagittarius (Nov 21 – Dec 21) Some big shifts and changes close to home are still rolling in. Yet, the worst is over and now and you are in the mood play. Social opportunities continue to present themselves. This trend will continue for a while yet. Your energy levels are running higher and you feel sporty. At least you are willing to take risks or place a few bets. Capricorn (Dec 21 – Jan 19) Many new ideas, perceptions and plans have been seeded. Their effects have already begun to reveal themselves close to home. In there a new family member on the scene or is it a new love interest in its early stages? Installing new appliances or equipment or doing renovations or at least a big spring clean up is likely. Something is shaking your world. Aquarius (Jan 19 – Feb 19) Everything you want and value is under review. Are you realizing your dreams? At worst you feel stuck in a rut. You can’t go back but which way is forward? This fog will lift but it will take a couple of weeks or so yet. Fortunately, the dynamic flow of spring has begun. It is activating a rebellious urge. Tune-in, by reaching out to at least some simple new possibilities. Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20) The seeds of change were sown at the last New Moon in your sign. These do indicate a mix of inspirations and ambitions but perhaps some confusion and doubt. To perpetuate your growing confidence it is important that you explore new avenues. The urge to do so will become much more obvious soon. Act now on the seed ideas and impulses so they don’t just pass you by.
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SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR The Sun Haven Waldorf School is seeking a full time School Administrator who is a team player, open to learning and contributing new ideas, an excellent administrator and user of technology, and willing to work from an understanding of Waldorf Education. The position is full time position of 40 hours per week during the school year and part time in July and August. Remuneration will be commensurate with experience, and a benefits package provided. For details on the position and qualification requirements, please visit the home page of the School’s website at www.sunhaven.ca under “Sun Haven News”. To apply, please submit a detailed letter of interest, current resume and contact information for three recent professional references to president@ sunhaven.ca We thank in advance all those who apply. Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. The position will remain open until filled; however, applications received by April 15, 2013 will be given priority consideration.
WANT TO WORK OUTDOORS? Established utilities services company is seeking part time and full time METER READERS for Sechelt and surrounding area. • Experience reading meters is considered an asset • Must have a reliable vehicle • Must be customer oriented with good communication skills • Must be capable of working independently in various weather conditions • Physically demanding job • Company provided uniforms and training • Paid by piece rate (paid per meter that you read) • If hired, clean Drivers’ Abstract, clean Criminal Background Check and proof of business class vehicle insurance required • Earning potential of approximately $20+ per hour Email resume: employment@olameter.com noting SECHELT in the subject line or fax: 1-877-864-2831
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