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OCTOBER 14, 2014 | Volume 27 No. 122
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Crown wants Gaglardi fined $300,000
FINDING MISS DAISY TIM PETRUK
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If dogs could talk, Daisy, a five-year-old boxer, would be barking up one hell of a story. Daisy and her owner, Leslie McBride, were staying at a cabin near Willowgrouse Lake, in Bonaparte Provincial Park 75 kilometres north of Kamloops, on Sept. 20. McBride said some other campers were running a chainsaw and Daisy became startled and took off. “I didn’t think she was that scared, but she was just gone,” McBride said. She looked for Daisy. She retraced their hike from their vehicle to the cabin. She scoured the area as much as she could. She called Daisy’s name. There was no sign of her.
Leslie McBride is happy to have Daisy back home after the boxer went missing and spent 16 days lost in the woods in Bonaparte Provincial Park.
An attempt by a “privileged family” to “run roughshod over the laws of Canada” should cost the millionaire owner of the NHL’s Dallas Stars and the WHL’s Kamloops Blazers — and the company he runs — $300,000, a judge has been told. Tom Gaglardi and Northland Properties were each convicted in August of two counts of harmful alteration of a fish habitat after extensive renovations at a Kamloops Lake vacation home in 2010 caused significant damage to 2,400 square metres of shoreline area. Gaglardi was not present in Kamloops provincial court on Friday, Oct. 10, as lawyers made sentencing submissions. TOM GAGLARDI: Crown prosOwner of Dallas Stars and ecutor Digby Kier said Kamloops Blazers was convicted of harmful Gaglardi’s approach to the renovations — a five- alteration of a fish habitat. bedroom, two-bathroom addition to an existing lakeside bungalow in Savona, known as Tom’s Shack, which also included extensive landscaping work, a 50-vehicle parking lot and the construction of a boat launch — was to build first and ask questions later. “It was, ‘Let’s go ahead and do the work and see if we get caught and then seek forgiveness,’” Kier said, noting neither Gaglardi nor Northland ever obtained a building permit for any of the renovation work.
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