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County could become ‘goat capital of Canada Allen delivered a detailed report of his time in China, where he toured some of Feihe International’s dairy farms, processing facilities and offices. But it was the potential opportunity for those in Frontenac to become part of Feihe’s “supply chain” when the company’s facility opens in Kingston that Allen took particular interest in and urged Council to look into further. According to Allen, Feihe, which produces infant formula, is currently building a new line of formula products that use goat milk as the base rather than dairy. The company’s research shows that goat milk is a preferable ingredient due to the fact its composition is closer to that of human breast milk than cow’s milk, and goat milk also has desirable hypoallergenic qualities. In order to use goat milk in their production here in Canada, Feihe will be looking for local suppliers, Allen explained. “[When Feihe’s local location] reaches Phase 2, they’re going to ramp up to [using] about 75 million litres of goat milk per year,” Allen explained of how the company plans to develop County of Frontenac manager of economic develtheir production. opment Richard Allen “The basic math on that is that Tori Stafford/Metroland it is going to [require] over 100,000
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Plans ramp up to welcome massive infant formula plant to Kingston BY BILL HUTCHINS
News — The city is moving swiftly to support construction of Chinese infant formula processing plant in Kingston. Feihe International is investing $225 million to build a large-scale dairy processing operation, and research and development facility in the Cataraqui Estates Business Park, near Gardiners Road and Highway 401. In advance of this spring’s anticipated groundbreaking, city planners have endorsed the necessary zoning changes for construction to begin on 18 hectares of land at 1316 Centennial Drive. The changes will allow Feihe to construct a sprawling building that will range from 28 metres to 44 metres tall, while reducing the number of required parking spaces around it. “The proposal is compatible with the surrounding land uses,” according to a report by planning director Paige Agnew, who added: “The requested zoning bylaw amendment represents good land use planning.” The overall development plan includes the construction of a massive 30,000 square metre (323,000 square
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it is because the residents are quite happy to have the whole summer.” Mayor Frances Smith agreed that township News – Residents in Central Frontenac residents would prefer to have the longer amTownship will be able to drop off a vehicle-load nesty load drop-off period; council requested of household refuse any time throughout the that staff bring forth the revised bylaw for the Tuesday, Feb. 28 meeting of council, and apsummer, free of charge, council has decided. The amnesty load drop-off dates, selected by proved the recommendation. Amnesty loads, which are considered one car, Central Frontenac Council on an annual basis, normally occur over week-long periods at the one van, one single-axle dump trailer or one beginning and the end of the summer. However, half-ton truck box, can be dropped off from Satthanks to a request from waste site attendants, urday, May 13 until Sunday, Sept. 10 for 2017. which was brought to council as a recommen- Both the Olden and Oso District waste sites will dation through Mike Richardson, manager of accept Amnesty Loads throughout working Public Works, the Amnesty Loads will be ac- hours, and loads can include appliances, nonreusable furniture and mattresses and bagged cepted from a four-week period for 2017. “The amnesty [load time] report… is brought household garbage. All bagged garbage must forward for your approval to go right through the be in clear plastic bags. Commercial or indussummer, as requested by our attendants at the site, trial waste, hazardous waste, shingle, tires, dead so that they’re not inundated with the work that animals, farm machinery and car bodies are not they have to do on weeks at one end or the other permitted. Each property owner is entitled to of the year,” Richardson explained at the Central one Amnesty Load per year. *** Frontenac Council meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 14. “They’d much prefer to manage it over the length of the summer and I don’t think it matContinued on page 7 ters to anybody but them how short a time frame
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Frontenac Community Arena receives grant for much-needed equipment BY TORI STAFFORD
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News – In honour of the 150th anniversary of our province and country, the Frontenac Community Arena will see an essential upgrade, thanks to a sizable grant through the Ontario150 Community Capital Program. The grant of $30,000 will cover 75 per cent of the arena’s project to replace its 30-year-old dehumidification system. With an estimated cost of $40,000 for the system and installation, the grant is “very important” to maintaining the well-used arena and improving its condition moving forward, said Tim Laprade, manager of the Frontenac Community Arena.
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The same council meeting saw a presentation by John Purdon, appearing on behalf of Judy Gray, in which Purdon requested the township approve of spending up to $9,000 for three granite benches – one to be placed in each of the three cemeteries in Mountain Grove. The funds Purdon was requesting were those in a Central Frontenac reserve fund, which is contributed to annually from the surplus of donations from attendees at the annual cem-
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Although the Fourth Lake culvert replacement project has run into some unforeseen conditions, it is still moving forward, Richardson said, noting that staff, an engineer and the onsite contractor would be working to “uncover exactly what the physical conditions are that are going to affect the project, as far as being able to construct it the way it’s designed or having to adjust” within the coming days. “I will need to be making decisions on-site on behalf of the municipality to move the project along and keep my fingers crossed that things go well,” Richardson said. “And if they don’t, I have the experience to know when we have to bite the bullet and make the adjustments to do something different than what was planned in the first place.” *** Richardson also reported on the state of the township’s sand stockpile and discussed the road maintenance Public Works has been faced with TANKLESS HOME through the winter weather of late. 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That time we were trapped on a bridge during a bomb threat From attending the Women's March in Washington, DC to visiting Disney World, I was fortunate to have many adventures during my final month of maternity leave - so many that at first it was difficult to figure out which one to focus on for my first officially-back-at-work column. Then someone pointed out that only one of these adventures involved being trapped on a bridge with a bomb, and it suddenly became a no-brainer. Okay, so it turned out there wasn't an actual bomb after all - but for almost two hours authorities thought there might be, setting the stage for what Steve claims is the most epic freak out I've had in years. We were heading south on the Woodrow Wilson bridge, a mammoth bridge of many lanes that spans the Potomac between DC and Alexandria, Virginia. Visions of sunshine and palm trees danced in our heads as we anticipated our arrival in Florida the next day. We were about halfway over the bridge when a couple of cop cars pulled up about 20 metres ahead of us and traffic was stopped. It was just far enough ahead that we couldn't see what was going on. At first we assumed it was merely a collision of some sort and would be cleared up shortly. But then another police car pulled up... and another, and another, then three fire trucks, then more police cars. We counted vehicles from four different police departments and two fire departments in total but there could have been more. Traffic was stopped in the express lanes on the other side of the concrete barrier, then all traffic was cleared in the other direction, leaving the bridge feeling eerily still and empty, but for the many emergency vehicles that continued to arrive and countless first responders who were wandering around. Summer said she had to go pee. It was clear we'd be stuck there for a while, so I
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got out of the car and asked a young, very attractive Virginia firefighter what our options were - I thought maybe they had a port-a-potty brought in for these occasions. It turned out they had no such thing, but he was happy to let Summer come onto the firetruck and squat over a plastic kids' fire hat. It would have been a fun little experience if curiosity hadn't got the better of me as he helped us down from the truck. "What exactly is going on here?" I asked. He told me everything. Some guy tried to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge, but he survived with two broken legs. After he was pulled out of the Potomac, he told everyone he had a bomb in his car. "It could potentially take out this entire bridge," the firefighter said. "We need to figure out whether the threat is real or not." I started to freak. "Then what are we doing still on this bridge??" I asked. He explained that traffic was backed up so far into the city, it was virtually impossible to have everyone just back up. "If we determine there is a threat, we'll have to open up these concrete barriers and get you turned around in the other direction," he told me. "But right now our orders are to keep everyone calm as we assess the situation." Keep calm. Heh. I tend toward claustrophobia at the best of times. I am literally bothered more by the cave-like It's a Small World ride at Disney World than any built-to-thrill roller coaster I've ever been on. So the idea that we were trapped on this bridge with a bomb that could potentially send my family plunging to our deaths did not sit well. "What if we just walk back in the other direction and leave our car here?" I asked. "Please remain calm and stay in your car. We have the situation under control." We returned to the car, but I didn't remain calm. I took a picture and tweeted it out. "In case we die when the bridge collapses, people will know what happened to us," I explained to Steve, who shook his head. I wanted to call my mom.
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"Do NOT call your mom," Steve said. I called her anyway. We both started to cry. She put me on speaker so my dad could join the conversation. "You need to calm down," my dad said. "They have it under control and will get you off the bridge if there's any danger." "Grab your passports and the kids and walk away," said my mom. By then bomb-sniffing dogs were walking around, helicopters were circling overhead and people were working on dismantling the concrete barrier separating the express and collectors lanes. I had Everly on my boob because it was the only way to get her to stop crying, but I just had to talk to someone who knew something. I spotted my handsome firefighter from before, shoved the crying baby at Steve and emerged from the car. "It's okay," he told me. "There's no bomb. Go back to your car, we'll have you moving again soon." I didn't believe him. "You're just lying to calm me down aren't you?" I asked. "I wouldn't do that, ma'am". I returned to the car. Steve was laughing. "You should have taken a selfie with him," he said. I glared at him. Only then did I notice my shirt was still up from nursing and part of my breast was exposed. "At least take a picture of all these cop cars with the Washington monument in the background," he said. "You'll want this memory forever." I took the photo. It turned out the firefighter really was telling the truth, and within half an hour we were off the bridge and sitting in a Mexican restaurant in Alexandria. Steve insisted I have a giant margarita, and I was gradually lulled to comfort by tequila, chips and guac. So that's the story of the time we were trapped on a bridge during a bomb threat. Steve continued to tease me whenever we went over a bridge for the remainder of the trip, but on the upside it made the rest of our vacation that much sweeter - what a wonderful thing it is to be alive.
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Remembering a Canadian story-telling icon Stuart McLean, the host of CBC Radio’s The Vinyl CafĂŠ and an award-winning humorist, died on Feb. 15 at the age of 68. As news broke of his death, on CBC radio, it is likely that many people instantly heard the sound of his voice in their heard and recalled a story he had told. McLean was a radio icon for many and even if you weren’t a fan, you still knew his trademark story telling style and you inevitably have a relative that listened to his stories religiously or even owned audio copies of them. McLean was born in Montreal and attended private school before moving on to Concordia University where he received a bachelor’s degree. He started his career as a freelance journalist and according to the CBC that is when he began to develop his trademark style of storytelling. He eventually became a regular fixture on CBC and his love of telling the stories of strangers brought him to The Vinyl CafĂŠ. Originally, the show was a variety show featuring music by Canadian artists, essays and stories, but the program’s main attraction became the ongoing tale of fictional Canadian couple Dave and Morley, as well as their kids, Sam and Stephanie. Among his other accomplishments, McLean was named an officer of the Order of Canada in 2011 and he also held honorary degrees from a number of Canadian universities. He also taught broadcast journalism at Ryerson University for 20 years. In November of 2015, McLean revealed that he had been diagnosed with melanoma and cancelled a number of tour dates. He has expected to reconvene the tour, but in late 2016 he announced that he was suspending The Vinyl CafĂŠ to deal with cancer treatments. Sadly, McLean lost the battle. In the days following McLean’s death, many of McLean’s colleagues at the CBC have put together tributes to the iconic storyteller. Shelagh Rogers called McLean “a Canadian ganglion, our connective tissue. He was our ear, our stethoscope.â€? She went on to say: “I am so grateful how much he cared. For the stories he told. For how he made us laugh, for how he made us feel about our country. How he helped us understand it, and ourselves. For the good he saw in us.â€? It is clear that he was loved by many and his storytelling will live on.
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Promises and pitfalls of the carbon tax; will Liberals learn from Hydro One debacle?
BY ARIC MCBAY
In January, the Government of Ontario began to phase in a new cap-and-trade system for carbon pricing, as part of a national strategy to tax carbon. Carbon taxes aren’t new—British Columbia has had one since 2008— but we should pay close attention to how these programs are being implemented, and whether they are actually doing what they are supposed to do: reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reward efforts for sustainability. Climate change is an emergency which requires a massive and immediate response. With that in mind, I’m willing to overlook some minor flaws. A timely but imperfect response is better than a perfect plan that happens too late. So far, however, the plans at both the provincial and federal levels have major flaws. And there is a risk that they may reward the biggest polluters while punishing the people who are trying to reverse climate change. In Alberta, for example, tar sands corporations are currently exempted from the carbon tax, despite the fact that they are by far the biggest greenhouse gas polluters in the country. Ontario has likewise granted exemptions for some of the biggest polluters, such as the Imperial Oil refinery in Sarnia and Petro-Canada facilities in Mississauga. This means that some of the companies that have profited most from destroying the climate are so far
being let off the hook to save them “undue hardship”. Corporate needs are being prioritized over the needs of regular people. There is an eerie similarity with the Ontario Liberal sell-off of Hydro One (a process which began with the Progressive Conservative government under Mike Harris). Many observers warned from the beginning that privatizing the provincial utility would lead to rising electricity prices. And that’s exactly what’s happened. Electricity prices have risen dramatically, especially in rural Ontario. I’ve spoken to farmers who can no longer afford to run electricity to the barns in the winter, and who must carry out buckets of water for their livestock. This looks like a return to the 1930s for some farmers, while others are now paying thousands of dollars a month for electricity. Meanwhile, a handful of corporations and banks appear to have profited handsomely from the sale of Hydro One. The federal and provincial governments should learn from the Hydro One experience. Many small farmers are worried that the carbon tax will be the last straw, that it will put them out of business. But carbon pricing shouldn’t be gentle on corporate polluters and harsh on regular people—it needs to be the other way around.
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COMMUNITY PROJECT GRANTS
Submissions for the Community Project Grant Program are now being accepted. Not for profit community organizations including charitable organizations and unincorporated groups who meet the project guidelines can apply until March 31st. For more information and to access the related forms, visit our website at www.southfrontenac.net/communitygrants
CAREERS – SUMMER STUDENT POSITIONS
The Township of South Frontenac is accepting applications for summer positions in the following departments: Public Works, Recreation, Planning, and Administration. For more details on these positions and for instructions on submitting applications see the website under Town Hall/Careers.
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VACANCY – SOUTH FRONTENAC POLICE SERVICES BOARD
Do you want to get involved in your community? A vacancy exists for a Provincial Appointee to the South Frontenac Police Services Board. Interested persons are to apply directly to the Province at www.pas.gov.on.ca For more details on the role and the Board see ”News and Public Notices”on the township website or contact Wayne Orr at worr@southfrontenac.net The Provincial recruitment process can take some time, so if you do apply you are encouraged to let us know so that we can try to help speed up the process.
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Promises and pitfalls of the carbon tax; will Liberals learn from Hydro One debacle? Continued from page 9
And if there is going to be a carbon tax, a big chunk of that money needs to be redistributed to sustainable farmers. While some types of farming can emit greenhouse gases, it’s also completely possible to farm in a way that absorbs carbon from the atmosphere and sequesters it in the soil. Most of our family farm, for example, is pasture and hayfield. Our livestock follow a carefully planned system of rotational grazing to maximize plant growth and return fertility (in the form of manure) to the fields. The result is a kind of farming that builds soil health and that captures carbon in the form of Farms can both burn and sequester carbon, depending on their methods and economic incentives. Copyright Andree Thorpe Photography root mass and organic matter in the soil. We also encourage the re-
growth of trees in hedgerows and wild areas. We farm in a way that helps to combat global warming. There are many ways that sustainable farming can help reverse global warming and to support biodiversity, pollinator health, and local ecologies. Supporting local ecologies can also mean supporting local economies; some money from the carbon tax must go into directly supporting sustainable rural economies. It must be directed away from the corporations who are destroying the climate and instead sent to regular people who are experiencing and working against climate change. Otherwise, the cap and trade experiment in Ontario could turn out just as badly as the sale of Hydro One. Aric McBay is a farmer and author.
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TORI STAFFORD
Local emergency services join forces to ‘give some warmth to people who deserve it’
coat and that, but who ever thought about the socks, though?" expressed News - Thousands of people Paul Charbonneau, Chief of Fronthroughout Kingston and Frontenac tenac Paramedic Services, on hand County fi nd themselves in need of at the SOCK It To Us drive kickoff the services provided by food banks at Kingston Police Headquarters. "So I fi red an email off to these and other supports on an annual basis, and clean, warm socks are not fine gentlemen, because we meet regexcluded from the list of things that ularly and talk about issues within can help those in need - in fact, socks our city and the county, and they are often one of the most overlooked were all for it!" Those gentlemen he referred to donated items. With that in mind, those with are Shawn Armstrong, Chief of Frontenac Paramedic Services, Kingston Fire and Rescue, and Gille Kingston Fire and Rescue and Larochelle, Chief of Kingston PoKingston Police are all coming to- lice, both of whom were more than gether for a weeklong sock drive in pleased to band together with the fellow fi rst responders to support support of SOCKS Kingston. 'SOCK It To Us' will take place SOCKS Kingston. "It's great to be part of it! We all from Sunday, Feb. 19 to Saturday, Feb. 25, and will see all three of the work together and we're all at the emergency services organizations same calls, so we thought this would run internal sock drives to amass as be a great way to support it." said many pairs of brand-new socks as Armstrong of the SOCKS Kingspossible. At the same time, Kingston ton campaign, which was started in Police and the County of Fronte- Kingston and the area by Michelle nac will both have donation boxes Hiebert in the fall of 2016. SOCKS in their front lobbies, and the public Kingston has over a dozen collecis encouraged to drop off new socks tion stations throughout the area where the public can donate new for the cause. "This kind of hit home with me socks, and the donated socks are because, we, as caregivers, as para- distributed to 10 local social service medics, we often pick up people off providers, including the Partners in the street, and often they don't have a Mission Food Bank and a number
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Local group awaits decision on whether its prison vision will set sail BY BILL HUTCHINS
News — A self-imposed deadline is fast approaching for a Kingston group that’s pitching a $300 million redevelopment vision of Kingston Penitentiary. George Hood, spokesperson for the Hatter’s Bay project, says they’d like to hear from the federal government by the end of February on whether their plans will sink or sail ahead. “We’re reaching a point where someone’s got to make a decision,” said Hood in an interview. Their vision is to transform the mothballed prison into a year-round attraction with a variety of residential, commercial and training uses. The centrepiece is an International Sailing Centre of Excellence, in addition to a wind research facility, retail shops and restaurants, public pathways, tourism component and 300 to 500 residential units. The national sailing centre would be the third of its kind in the world, along with sites in England and Germany, but the only one located on fresh water, and patterned after other Canadian sports centres for rowing, volleyball, track and field and winter sports. “We didn’t win any sailing medals in the last Olympic Games. This is a sport Canada should do well at,” he added. Transforming the waterside por-
tion of the former prison into a sailing school would bring together coaches, fi tness training and competitive athletes all year round. Hood, a former vice principal and major fundraiser at Queen’s University, says he’s confident in the consulting team and financial numbers they’ve assembled. The group has secured funding from a “chartered fi nancial institution” to invest up to $300 million in transforming Kingston Pen into a theme that fits with Kingston’s maritime history. “It’s all private money. We’ve not asked the government for a cent.” The small but dedicated team is pursuing the prison redevelopment with the zeal of an inmate going over the wall. But in their vision, the towering prefab walls are gone, the National Historic Site buildings are preserved and renovated into mixed uses, and the once notorious prison is transformed into a place that would rival Toronto’s Distillery District. Hood also likened Kingston’s project to the transformation of Boston’s former jail into the Liberty Hotel. The community group behind the scheme, which includes avid sailors Michael de la Roche, George Jackson and John Curtis and former mayor Harvey Rosen, first pitched the sailing centre idea four years ago. Since then, and with the change to a
Liberal government, the group has hired a lobbying firm, consultants and top architects, while holding regular consultations with heritage experts, the mayor and council to try and gather support to get their plans off paper. Hood says their intentions are genuine, and they’re not out to make a fast buck. “We’re fi ve Kingston guys. We want to do something for our hometown. We’re not doing this to make money.” As part of their business plan, they’ve established a nonprofit holding company with a number of subsidiaries where bank loans would be fl owed to undertake construction and renovation work at the heritage property. The payback would come through various agreements over stages, such as condominium or apartment building rights. “It would be the largest single private investment in Kingston’s history — bigger than Feihe’s (infant formula plant) investment, and we’re not even communist,” Hood explained. “Think about the significance of that.” The federal government’s real estate arm, Canada Lands Company, is in charge of the prime penitentiary lands on the shores of Lake Ontario. Canada Lands has been working with the city on developing a vision for the site.
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The Hatter’s Bay project is just one of several of community ideas to emerge from the visioning exercise that’s currently underway involving Kingston Pen and nearby Portsmouth Olympic Harbour. Canada Lands is expected to produce a final list of acceptable development ideas this spring, which council will get to vote on, before the property is expected to be put up for sale. Hood claims his group can be ready to offer sailing programs as early as this summer if given the chance. “We can buy the property or
the federal government can give it to us. Either way we’re ready to go.” He estimates the cost to purchase the eight-hectare prison property is about $20 million. Kingston Pen quickly became one of the city’s top tourist attractions with over 60,000 visitors when it first opened for general public tours last year, and another season of tours in the so-called “Alcatraz North” will start in May. The last inmates were transferred out of maximum security prison in September 2012.
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Kingston born fi lmmaker tells the stor of Ukrainian holocaust in ‘Bitter Harvest’
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Events - Growing up in Kingston, Richard Bachynsky-Hoover didn’t know much about his own heritage. His father knew that his roots were in the Ukraine, but he was an orphan at a young age and bounced around a lot before settling in Ontario. It wasn’t until the 1990s when Richard himself started looking into his family background that his father learned about his past. “I found relatives in Manitoba and all of that catapulted me into looking more into our roots in the Ukraine,” explains BachynskyHoover who now lives in Ukraine himself with his own son. “The story teller in me wanted to know more and more and that is how I learned about the country and its history.” Growing up, Bachynsky-Hoover describes himself as a bit of a troublemaker. He was the seventh child of 10 in his family and he remembers attending school in Kingston and constantly getting into trouble for drawing or daydreaming. He Actors Max Irons and Samantha Barks in Bitter Harvest, written by Kingston-born filmmaker Richard also remembers writing stories, Bachynsky Hoover. and as he got older he decided to Submittedphoto
go into acting. “I got into acting and did some workshops and pursued a career. I did a lot of extra work and some small fi lms and commercials,” he said. “I worked with a Ukrainian director at one point and I actually contacted him 14 years later about this project, that I had written, and he jumped all over it.” The project he refers to is ‘Bitter Harvest’, a feature film written by Bachynsky-Hoover and based on what he calls one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th century: the ‘Holodomor’ or Holocaust lead by Joseph Stalin that killed millions of Ukrainians in a death by starvation program in the 1930s. “The west turned a blind eye to it and Stalin covered it all up and this will be the first fi lm to shine a light on all that darkness,” he explained. “There have been documentaries made and books published, but there has never been a feature fi lm and the country and its history deserve a feature film like this.” Continued on page 16
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so. When you open a spousal RRSP the plan is registered in your spouse’s name and belongs to them. They make the investment decisions and As promised, we’re back to continue the are the only one allowed to withdraw money discussion around saving for retirement, this from the plan. You’re called the contributor week answering your questions about spousal and do just that, make contributions. RRSPs. It’s one tool Canadian couples can How much can I contribute? Will a contribution use to split their income and pay less tax in to a spousal RRSP affect how much I can put in my own RRSP? retirement. The amount you can contribute to all Less tax you say? Now we’ve got your RRSPs in a given year is equal to your RRSP attention. contribution limit. We went over how this is What exactly is a spousal RRSP? Think of a spousal RRSP as an investment calculated in last weeks RRSP Basics column. account for your spouse’s retirement. You’ll Whether you’re contributing to your own contribute the money and receive the tax RRSP, a spousal RRSP, or both, your total deduction, they’ll make the withdrawals in deposits can’t exceed your contribution limit. Here’s an example: if your contribution retirement and pay the resulting income tax. The goal of a spousal RRSP is to help limit is $20,000 you could put $20,000 in your equalize income in retirement. As a couple, RRSP, or $20,000 in a spousal RRSP, or some you’ll pay less income tax overall if you’re both combination like $16,000 in a spousal RRSP in lower tax brackets, than if one of you is in a and $4,000 in your own RRSP. You can divide high tax bracket and the other is in a low tax your contributions in whichever way is most tax efficient for you and your spouse. You just can’t bracket. exceed that total contribution limit of $20,000. Who should consider using one? They’re typically used by couples with a large It’s worth noting here that your spouse’s gap between their incomes – where one spouse contribution limit is not affected. has a high income and the other has a low or What’s the Three Year Attribution Rule? If your spouse withdraws money within no income. Perhaps one spouse is at home with the kids or can’t work due to illness. The high three calendar years of you contributing it, that income spouse will open and contribute to a withdrawal will be attributed back to you. This means you’ll have to declare the income and spousal RRSP for their low income partner. Say you make $100,000 a year and your pay the resulting taxes, not your spouse. For example, if you contributed $10,000 in spouse makes $40,000. If you both contribute the max to your individual RRSPs each year December of 2015 and your spouse takes that you’ll be contributing much more as you’ve money out in 2015, 2016, or 2017, it’s attributed got more contribution room (18% of $100,000 back to you and you’ll get stuck with the tax compared to 18% of $40,000). At retirement bill. If they wait until January of 2018 to you’ll have a large nest egg while you spouse withdraw, attribution rules won’t apply and the will have a comparatively smaller one. If you income will be taxed to them. Be mindful of both start withdrawing income at a standard this rule when planning withdrawals! rate of 4%, you’ll have a significantly higher My spouse is younger than me, can I continue income and resulting tax bill. If you were both contributing to a spousal RRSP if I’m older than withdrawing from similarly sized nest eggs, 71? Good question! This is one of the main your overall tax bill would be lower. Can I open a spousal RRSP for my common law advantages of the spousal RRSP. You can keep contributing to a spousal RRSP until the end partner? Yes! A spousal RRSP can be opened for of the year in which your spouse turns 71, as long as you have contribution room available. either married or common law partners. We’re hoping to retire before 65, are there Who owns the plan, me or my spouse? This is where we see the most confusion any age restrictions on withdrawals? No. This is another notable advantage of the around spousal RRSPs, and understandably
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Kingston born fi lmmaker tells the stor of Ukrainian holocaust in ‘Bitter Harvest’ Continued from page 14
The fi lm is based on the life of a young artist, Yuri, which Bachynsky Hoover based on himself and his son. Yuri battles to survive famine, imprisonment and torture to save his childhood sweetheart Natalka. Against this tragic backdrop, Yuri escapes from a Soviet prison and joins the anti Bolshevik resistance movement as he battles to reunite with Natalka and continue the fight for a free Ukraine “We wanted to make it kind of like the Titanic movie, a love story over a tragic one,” he explained. “The bulk of the fi lm was shot in Ukraine and I found many of the locations myself. It was very clear how I wanted it to look and feel.” While he struggled to find investors for the film initially, BachynskyHoover finally found the right people to help him make it and with that came some higher profile actors and now some higher profile premieres of the film. “It is being premiered worldwide including a screening here in Ukraine with the president’s wife and hopefully the president,” he said. “There are screenings set for Ottawa, Toron-
to and it is getting some attention in the United States too. The European Union has also written about it.” The fi lm will also be part of this year’s Kingston Canadian Film Festival, and Bachynsky- Hoover is excited for it to be shown where he grew up. “It is my hometown and my family is pretty proud of me,” he said. “A lot of them saw me going in circles and never giving up so this is pretty special.” He is unsure whether or not he will be able to make it to the screening in Kingston, but he hopes that many of his family members can make it and he hopes the community takes an interest too. “People don’t know about the history of Ukraine,” he said. “My father, when I started this project, he told me to never give up. He told me to keep going because this story had never been told like this about his people before. He thought it was worthwhile and so do I.” Bitter Harvest is playing at Theological Hall on Friday, March 3 at 6:30 p.m. and again on March 5 at 10:05 a.m. For more information on the festival and to purchase tickets, Max Irons in Bitter Harvest. visit https://kingcanfilmfest.com.
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A few weeks back I ran a letter from a Hyundai Santa Fe owner who was concerned about the cost of replacing a vital all-wheel drive component (known as a viscous coupler). The vehicle, being a 2010 model year and having well over 100,000 km on it, was well beyond the manufacturer's warranty for this part. The estimate provided by their dealership was just over $1,300. This device automatically sends power to the rear wheels if the front ones lose traction. It would have been possible (and relatively inexpensive) to simply disarm the system leaving the vehicle safely operating in front-wheel drive mode only. This owner had found numerous reports on the internet about other Santa Fe drivers experiencing the same problem and felt Hyundai Canada should come to the table with some assistance in the cost of the replacement of the coupler. They had discussed the matter at length with their dealership management and even called Hyundai Canada's consumer hot-
line with no results. I didn't recommend taking another stab at Hyundai Canada because of the time and distance that had transpired past the warranty limits. And just because a problem may be common according to certain websites, it doesn't necessarily put a carmaker on the hook. But there was a happy ending to this story thanks to the great efforts of Smiths Falls Hyundai (the dealership involved). Their management team put their heads together to come up with a solution and offered to pay for half of the part and all of the installation labour. Our Santa Fe owner happily accepted this deal. Our recent major snow storms have left many side roads and parking lots buried deep in the white stuff. One of the most popular ways of getting a vehicle freed from a foray into a thick amount of winter's woes is by rocking it back and forth by means of shifting the transmission from forward to reverse in quick order. While many veteran drivers swear by this method, it can bring substantial risks to damaging an auto's power-train, and especially the transmission. Unless you're an expert at this technique, it's very easy to incur internal transmission and fi nal-drive damage. Never switch
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Walk On is a free, indoor winter walking program that runs from November to the end of March. With six locations in KFL&A, Walk On encourages walking for people of all ages and abilities in a safe, social environment. The program is drop-in, and there is no cost to SDUWLFLSDWH 9LVLW ZZZ NĂ DSK FD IRU WKH Walk On schedule, or call 6135491232, ext. 1180. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 631: Every Friday night 6:30 p.m. - Karaoke by Steve, for a fun night of singing, dancing or just listen. Info 6133896605 Bath Legion branch 623 : Tasty Tall Boy Tuesdays - Tall Boys will be $4.25 all day Tuesday plus buy one meal get the second for half price. (YHU\ 0RQGD\ HYHQLQJ 6KXIĂ HERDUG 7 p.m., $2 per play Every Wednesday morning - Legion Breakfast, 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. Every Friday come join us for lunch at the Legion. Good food, good company, 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper - Battersea United Church: Tuesday, Feb. 28, 5 p.m. - $8 613-353-2846 for info The 20th Annual Jayna Hefford Female Hockey School is now accepting registrations for the summer camp from July 17-21 at the Invista Centre. This camp is KRVWHG DQG WDXJKW E\ Ă&#x20AC;YH WLPH 2O\PSLF gold medallist Jayna Hefford and twotime Olympian Lori Dupuis. Other instructors all have experience at the international and elite level. Space is limited at this popular camp.For more information or to register call 613-3841306 or go to www.dupuisheffordhockeyschool. ca. Kingston Wood Artisans Symposium 2017 takes place on Saturday, April 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Frontenac Secondary School, Bath Road, Kingston. There will be presentations by prominent Artisans with a gallery of their works and those of Artisan members.Over $2500 worth of door prizes IURP RXU VSRQVRUV ZLOO EH UDIĂ HG RII Early bird registration before Feb. 28th is $45, which includes lunch. For full information and registration information see website below or call Leslie
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required by phone or e-mail. For information or to register contact Steve at 613-389-1606 or e-mail timmyrevell@gmail.com. Quill 2017 winter lecture series Sunday, Feb. 26 2 p.m. The Olympic Journey: Rio, 2016. The Speaker is 'DQLHOOH %R\G 0HPEHU RI WKH &DQDdian Olympic Sailing Team, with Parents, Florence and Jeff. It takes place in Rm 101, Goodes Hall , 143 Union St. For more info call 613 549 1910. Rideau Trail Club of Kingston - Saturday, Feb. 25 Little Cataraqui ConVHUYDWLRQ $UHD /HYHO HDV\ SDFH XS to 6 km. Hike, ski, or snowshoe in this local gem. Snowshoe and ski rentals available at the Education Centre. Families with children welcome for this event. Gas $2 plus share of park fee. Depart Canadian Tire Parking Lot along Bath Rd. at 10 a.m. Leader: Sharen 613 544 6022 or sharenann@ gmail.com Sunday, Feb. 26 Little Cataraqui &RQVHUYDWLRQ $UHD /HYHO PRGHUDWH pace, 10 km. Ski on trail or snowshoe, walk beside trail. Wildlife in the trees. Lunch in a warm building. Enjoy the outdoors, fresh air and friends, old and new. Depart Canadian Tire Parking Lot along Bath Rd. at 10 a.m. Gas $2 plus park fee. Leader: Stan 613548-300 Karaoke Night Thursday, Feb. 23, S P DW 5&+$ &OXE 2QWDULR Street, Top Floor. Featuring James Kirkham, Professional Performer. Enjoy Kirkhamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Impersonations and sing Karaoke with your friends. Laugh & have fun and show off your singing voice. See you there! No Cover! Everyone Welcome! Come Sing with us! Boomers Fitness 50+yrs . 50+Rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;n Roll Fitness, including Stretching and Strengthening for enhanced mobility DQG VWUHQJWK 0RQGD\ HYHQLQJV 7XHVGD\ DQG 7KXUVGD\ 0RUQLQJV -RLQ XV any time for free demos and to learn more information . Call Dee 613-3896540 for west end location. Julie Daniluk: The Hot Detox Plan7KXUVGD\ 0DUFK S P /RFDWLRQ 56 Francis Street. Registered Holistic
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Speaking of nailing it, Will Arnet's Batman is awesome. His delivery and dry sense of humour is perfect. His Batman is also a little unhinged, which definitely adds to the comedy, but also makes Arnet's Batman really dark. What really sets Lego Batman apart from the other DC superhero movie is that it doesn't get distracted, or derailed, or try to do too much. It sticks to the plan and tells a great Batman story. Maybe Chris McKay and the writing team can help out on the Justice League movie. Mark Haskins' column is a regular feature.
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