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Manitoba & RcMP news

Manitoba RcMP charge prison guard with sexual assault A 54-year-old prison guard has been charged after allegedly sexually assaulting a female prisoner at a RCMP detachment in northern Manitoba.

The man was arrested and charged on Jan. 31 with sexual assault, uttering threats and breach of trust.

The incident allegedly occurred on Jan. 23 in Oxford House and RCMP were told about it three days later.

An investigation was launched immediately, resulting in the arrest last week.

The guard was a contract employee, hired

through the Commissionaires. His role was to guard prisoners lodged in cells at the Oxford House RCMP detachment.

His RCMP security clearance and building access have been revoked.

The man has been released from custody and will appear in court on March 27.

Thompson RcMP charge man in historical sexual assault investigation

of Thompson, has been charged with aggravated sexual assault.

firearm Investigation Arrests On February 9, 2015, members of the Winnipeg Police Service responded to a residence in the area of Donwood Drive regarding a child welfare matter.

On February 2, 2015, Thompson RCMP, with the assistance of “D” Division Major Crime Services in Thompson, Manitoba, charged a man in connection to a violent sexual assault case from 2005.

In August 2005, Thompson RCMP responded to a report of a badly injured female in a wooded area in the City of Thompson. A 28-year-old female, from Thompson, had been violently beaten and sexually assaulted.

Ten years later, through DNA evidence, RCMP identified a suspect.

RCMP report that Tyson Gabriel McKay, 28,

While in the residence, officers made contact with a male and a female occupant. Investigation revealed an outstanding arrest warrant involving the male. Several firearms and a quantity of ammunition were also located within the residence.

Further examination of the seized firearms has determined that a shotgun seized from the residence is the property of the Winnipeg Police Service.

The shotgun had previously been identified as missing from a marked cruiser car on May 26, 2014, and had since been modified.

As of August 2014, shotguns are no longer kept in cruiser cars and are secured in the station when not signed out to an on-duty member. An inventory has been conducted and all Service firearms are accounted for.

A 28-year-old female and 30-year-old male have been charged with numerous firearm related

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offences and were remanded into custody.

The investigation regarding the stolen Winnipeg Police Service shotgun is on-going and further details will be provided as they become available.

commercial Robbery On February 6, 2015 shortly before 5:00 p.m., members of the Winnipeg Police Service were dispatched to a convenience store in the 200 block of Isabel Street for the report of a commercial robbery that had just occurred. Information provided was that an armed female had just left in a cab after having stolen property from the store.

Several units attended and were able to ascertain that the suspect had been dropped off at a residence in the 600 Block of Maryland Street. Officers attended and were allowed entry by the homeowner.

The suspect from the robbery was located within and arrested without incident. A firearm unrelated to the robbery was observed within the residence.

Two other occupants of the home were taken into custody pending the further investigation.

Members of the Major Crimes Unit continued to investigate. A search warrant for the residence was obtained and the following seized: Two loaded sawed-off shotguns Several disassembled gun parts Three pellet / air soft guns Assorted ammunition Assorted other weapons (batons, knives and other edged weapons) Brittany Amanda BRASS (22) and Daniel DANILIS (39), of Winnipeghave been charged with a multitude of firearms related offences for their alleged involvement. BRASS has also been charged with Armed Robbery using a Firearm.

Both remain in custody.

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Mustafa Mattan shot dead through fort McMurray apartment door A man who moved from Ottawa to Fort McMurray less than a month ago was shot dead in his Alberta apartment.

Mustafa Mattan, 28, was answering a knock at his apartment door on Monday night when someone shot through it.

"My brother, he was shot through the door before he even touched the door knob, before he even opened the door," said his brother, Ahmed Mattan,

who also lives in the Fort McMurray apartment.

"So the killer, whoever he or she might be, they didn't even know who they were killing apart from the fact we were living in that apartment."

Ahmed Mattan said his brother never committed a crime and never hurt anybody.

"He was the nicest, quietest, shyest, most humble person you will ever meet, and he was obviously taken too soon from us," he said.

University graduate Mustafa Mattan was a university graduate in health sciences who had found work as a security guard in Fort McMurray to save money for a wedding, his brother said.

In Ottawa, Mustafa Mattan was a member of the Assalam Mosque on St. Laurent Boulevard, where people described him as a devout Muslim

and a role model who mentored young people.

Childhood friend Mohamud Barre has already crowd-funded more than $4,000 to help the Mattan family cover funeral expenses.

RCMP in Alberta have not confirmed the cause of death. Spokesperson JoséeValiquette also said it's too early in the investigation to say what motivated the crime.

In the meantime, the Mattan family is urging whoever is responsible to come forward.

"Please just come forward and tell us why you did this to somebody who didn't deserve to die," Ahmed Mattan said.

Thompson, Man. dramatically cuts crime with unique approach RCMP in Thompson have managed to reduce crime by as much as half thanks to a new approach to dealing with chronic offenders.

Inspector Will Tewnion said he's following the lead of a police chief in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan who said "You can't arrest your way out of the problem."

RCMP are involved in a new program called Project Northern Doorway. It also involves the City of Thompson, the Canadian Mental Health Association, Manitoba Housing, the Thompson

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Homeless Shelter, Addictions Foundation of Manitoba and the Northern Health Region.

"It's not just you know, when you see somebody who's intoxicated and falling over on the street rather than ignoring them, kind of recognize that there's something that needs to be done here to help and personally I think that that's a huge positive," Tewnion said.

Since 2011, the number of disturbing the peace calls has dropped from 3,723 to 1,952 in 2014.

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continued from page 3 downtown it's generally because somebody's drunk and disorderly which is disturbing the peace. And if we've managed to reduce those calls by half, then that means we collectively as a community have started to address the root cause of the problems," Tewnion said.

Many of the repeat offenders are taken to a 16-bed transitional housing centre where they receive counselling and other supports.

Tewnion said it appears to be having an impact on people's lives as well. He recalled one man who had been picked up 50 times by police before the program began.

"Fifty — that's 5-0 — negative interactions with this individual, and he was chosen to take part in the project and I'm happy to say in 2014, we had one interaction with him and that was just because he was a complainant on a file," Tewnion said.

Other types of crime have dropped as well: - Assaults went from 999 in 2010 to 742 in 2014.

- Sexual assaults dropped from 67 to 39.

- Break and enters are down from 141 to 76.

Tewnion said as a result of less crime, more people seem to feel more safe coming to Thompson's downtown.

E-cigarette ignites debate, sales, in Winnipeg The e-cigarette has ignited debate, and sales, in Winnipeg.

The product functions like the real thing, but you inhale vapour, not smoke. The “e-juice” inside the e-cigarettes contain water, flavoring and sometime nicotine.

The federal government is pumping $6 million into building access roads in two Northern Manitoba First Nations over the next two years.

Winnipeg's first store dedicated to the product, Fat Panda, opened at the end of December. Co-owner Jordan Vendoya said they sell out of product regularly. He credits e-cigarettes for helping him quit smoking.

“You’re not getting the tar, you’re not getting the formaldehyde, the arsenic,” said Vendoya.

However, e-cigarettes are unregulated and not yet proven safe

by Health Canada.

The Manitoba Lung Association worries they may influence kids and undo decades of effort to restrict smoking.

“There's an uptake in e-cigarette use and the act of smoking becomes re-popularized,” said Tracy Fehr, spokesperson for the Manitoba Lung Association.

E-cigarettes have potential as a cessation tool, said Fehr, but only after more research.

E-cigarette products containing nicotine need approval by Health Canada before they can be sold here. However, according to Vendoya a loophole allows stores to sell the nicotine products, as long as they aren't marketed as tobacco cessation aids.

Shelly Glover, the minister responsible for Manitoba announced the funding for the roads that will connect Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids First Nations to the province’s all-season road network currently under construction on the eastside of Lake Winnipeg at her downtown Winnipeg office Wednesday afternoon.

“These access roads will strengthen the ability of these communities to connect the local economy to the greater region,” said Glover, who made the announcement on behalf Bernard Valcourt,

sutherland hotel to lose liquor license after crack sold to cops The Sutherland Hotel will say goodbye to its liquor license later for one month — thanks to an undercover police investigation that found four employees were selling crack while on the job.

In 2014, Winnipeg police raided the hotel after a major undercover operation targeting the Manitoba Warriors — a well-known street gang.

Over nine months in 2013, undercover officers purchased crack from staff working at the hotel a total of 18 times.

The investigation, dubbed Project Falling Star, lead to charges against 57 people with a host of drugs, guns and other weapons seized from gang members.

Now, more than a year later, the Sutherland has been handed a 30-day liquor license suspension for both its bar and its beer vendor.

The Liquor and Gaming Authority of Manitoba handed down the penalty — one of the stiffest in recent memory.

“It has been many years since there has been a suspension of that nature,” said LGAM spokesperson Sherri Garrity. “This is definitely outstanding in terms of its significance. In recent memory, no one could recall [a penalty] that would be that serious.”

The 30-day ban begins Feb. 25 and extends until March 26 — and could be a nail in the coffin for the Main Street trouble spot.

Owner Boris Kirshner appealed the November 2014 decision — arguing the suspension could put the future of the hotel in jeopardy.

“I think that the board definitely has sent a clear message,” said Garrity. “Obviously that’s going to have a significant impact on their business ... Based on the very serious offence that took place it was something they felt needed to be done.”

That appeal was denied, and community activists are hoping at the very least, it marks a turning point for the hotel.

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the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. “It’s paving the way for economic growth for both Pauingassi and Little Grand Rapids.”

Little Grand Rapids Chief Martin Owens said the roads will improve the social, cultural and economic relationships between the two communities.

“Our families will now be able to assist one another in all aspects of healthy living,” he said in a release. “The access road will provide immeasurable opportunities during preconstruction stages, construction activities and after completion.”

Little Grand Rapids has a population of 1,269 and is roughly 270 km northeast of Winnipeg. Pauingassi First Nation has a population of 584 and is 24 km north of Little Grand Rapids.

Manitoba Underdogs Rescue struggles to pay bills for puppy blinded by hair dye A six month old puppy is struggling to regain his sight after he was deliberately blinded by hair dye.

Manitoba Underdogs Rescue says the veterinarian bills are rising for Percy, who was surrendered on Monday after his owner’s child rubbed hair dye into the Jack Russel Terrier cross’s eyes.

“Percy came to us in incredible pain,” said Manitoba Underdogs Rescue Executive Director Jessica Hansen. “Thanks to the amaz'It's not the end of it' “It’s not the end of it — it’s a significant slap on the wrist to tell Boris, the owner, he can no longer allow the Warriors free reign in his hotel,” said Sel Burrows, who runs a community crime-reporting group called Power Line. “He knows we’re watching. He knows the police are watching.”

Kirshner didn't deny criminal activity had happened in his bar, but he maintained to the gaming authority he never saw his employees engaged in it.

Burrows said gang activity has crept back into the hotel since the 2014 raid, and it’s one of the last remaining blights on Point Douglas — a community that’s seen massive reductions in crime over the past eight years.

“The Warriors are back. They’re back in there. Many of the good people are afraid to go in there to drink,” he said, adding some people have told him they’re afraid to walk by. “One of my seniors, my elders, told me that he witnessed four Warriors beating the hell out of an old guy who hadn’t paid his drug debts right in the middle of the bar with the bartender watching …

Nobody called the police.”

Burrows, a former high-level bureaucrat and long-time Point Douglas resident, has been working with community

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Bitterly cold weather has Winnipeg's homeless shelters packed.

"We had a 110 people in and we turned 15 people away to likely the Salvation Army last night," Siloam Mission executive director Floyd Perras said.

"That's pretty typical for us throughout the winter that we are having to work with the other shelters and the Salvation Army does open up 40 or 50 mats on the floor for people who get turned away because you just can't turn away people in the -40 weather," Perras said.

On extreme cold days Siloam opens its drop-in centre early, at 6:30 am, so people from other shelters have somewhere to go when they close.

Siloam is in desperate need of warm winter items including mitts, scarves, socks and underwear.

Winter boots are also in high demand.

"They wear their boots basically inside, outside, and so they get pretty sweaty and pretty saturated and need a change at least every couple of months," Perras said.

It's been a difficult winter for Winnipeg's homeless.

In the first week in January, the shelter had people coming in with bad cases of frostbite.

"We've had some very significant tragedy this year too. We had several people with severe frostbite and one individual has lost both their feet and some of their fingers," Perras said Siloam is also looking for donations of coffee and tea to help keep people warm.

The frigid temperatures are not over yet.

members to shut down crack houses, curb crime and clean up the neighbourhood for the past eight years.

According to him, only two main trouble spots remain — the Sutherland and a rooming house not far away.

And gang activity isn’t the only community concern at the hotel.

Health concerns raised about hotel rooms Burrows said community members have been calling him about the state of the rooms at the hotel.

“A friend called and said, ‘This old guy can’t get out. He is absolutely covered with bed bug bites. His room is filthy. He’s complained to his caretaker … and nothing has been done,’” said Burrows.

So the group got in contact with by-law enforcement at the city and the province, as well as the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.

“This is a licensed establishment … in their license they have to keep a clean and decent place,” said Burrows, who hopes the inspections and the liquor license suspension will finally change the way things are done at the hotel. “This is it. He either runs a decent hotel with no gang members — no fighting and clean hotel rooms or he’s going to get closed down.”

Officials with the WHRA said the City of Winnipeg is "taking the lead" on the inspections and the WRHA is collaborating with them to make sure the health and safety issues are addressed.

Provincial officials also confirmed they're aware of complaints about the hotel, and they're assisting city officials with any "health hazard matters should they request it."

Kirshner said inspectors had visited the hotel and found bed bugs in one of his 30 suites, and he immediately had the area heat treated and sprayed, as well as the adjoining suites.

“We are taking care of people living upstairs,” said Kirshner.

'People need a place to drink' Burrows said he understands people need a place to drink in the area and people living in the rooms need a place to go – but the gang activity has to stop.

“People need a place to drink. No problem with that. Some of the people on Main Street have pretty rough habits — we understand that. There’s no place for crime in a licensed premises,” he said.

Burrows said the group has also been in contact with Manitoba Housing who has agreed to help out in case inspectors find the rooms uninhabitable and the people living there have to leave suddenly.

ing talents of the staff at Southglen Veterinary Hospital, Percy is no longer in pain, but his blindness has yet to be resolved.”

The rescue organization is hoping generous Winnipeggers will help with his vet care.

“Underdogs often cares for dogs with special needs, but our hands can be tied by a lack of monetary capacity. We need our donors to step forward so that we can help dogs like Percy.”

The rescue said Percy was surrendered from a northern Manitoba community. Donations are being accepted at the group’s website at:

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Manitoba survivors of '60s scoop support class-action lawsuit A Saskatchewan law firm is representing more than a thousand victims who are seeking compensation from the federal government for the '60s Scoop, and some Manitoba survivors think it's a good idea.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, the federal government ran the Adopt Indian Métis program. Under the program, thousands of indigenous children were taken from their homes and adopted into white families in Canada and the United States. Some children even ended up as far away as the United Kingdom.

Marlene Orgeron is from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation in Manitoba. After both her parents died, she lived with her aunt and uncle until the age of four.

That's when she was taken from Manitoba and adopted into a family in Louisiana.

She returned to the province when she was 21, but she says there will always be a disconnect with her birth family.

"You share the same blood but that doesn't automatically mean there's going to be this relationship," she said.

Orgeron hasn't signed on, but says she supports the class-action lawsuit.

"Money isn't going to solve anything," she said. "But if someone got into a horrible car accident and it wasn't their fault, then they should be compensated."

Orgeron says what's more important is that the federal government acknowledge the damage caused by the '60s Scoop and apologize.

"It needs to be done publicly," she said. "All of Canada should hear an apology."

Selena Kern also supports the lawsuit but agrees that acknowledgement of wrongdoing from the federal government is more important.

Raised on the Brokenhead Ojibway Nation until she was nine years old, Kern was taken with two of her siblings and adopted into a Pennsylvania family.

Although she's returned to live in Manitoba, Kern says being taken from her family and community has robbed her of the Ojibway culture and language. It's something she worries she won't be able to pass on to her son.

"But I know if there is any compensation, it's going directly to him," she said.

The Merchant Law Group served the federal government with the class-action lawsuit on Jan. 30.

Merchant also represented more than 7,000 Indian residential school survivors in a landmark case against the federal government that lead to a multibillion-dollar settlement agreement.

sAAQ pilot project will track drivers' behaviour using GPs The province's car insurance board says it will soon have another tool to make Quebec's roads safer.

The SAAQ will launch a pilot project where it will ask drivers to voluntarily install a GPS (global positioning system) in their vehicle so that it can gather data on how they drive.

The GPS would track data such as speed, sudden accelerations and sudden braking in the case of a collision, and send that information to the SAAQ. “If they have good behaviour on the road, it's a way to permit those drivers to pay less in the future and to make a link between

good behaviour on the road and the amount you have to pay,” said SAAQ spokesman Mario Vaillancourt.

He added that the goal of the program is to make drivers more responsible and to help the agency fine-tune its awareness campaigns.

He wouldn’t say whether a bad rating would mean an increase in insurance rates.

Province approves program Private insurer Industrial Alliance has offered a similar program since 2012.

It targets drivers between the ages of 16 and 24, which statistics show is the age group involved in the most collisions.

The insurer says about 80 per cent of the young drivers who volunteered for the program got a rebate for good driving.

The Automobile Protection Association (APA) says the project can be a good incentive for drivers to be more vigilant on the roads.

“It was not brought in only as a punishment system for the person with four speeding tickets who is about to lose their license, but instead as a reward system and as a kind of coach,” said APA president George Iny. The Quebec Transport Ministry has given the SAAQ’s project the green light.

“I’m not closing the door because drivers volunteer to participate,” said Transport Minister Robert Poëti.

The GPS pilot project is set to begin early next year.

cree-to-English dictionary being developed at the University of Alberta Paige L’Hirondelle studies Cree every day. The language, once widely spoken by her family, has begun to slip into history.

“I think it is slowly dying,” said L’Hirondelle, who is taking native studies at the University of Alberta. “I didn’t even know what is supposed to be my own language.”

The legacy of Canada’s residential schools, which prevented generations from learning their indigenous languages, means there are fewer Cree speakers every year. L’Hirondelle, 19, said her family knows but doesn't speak to her in Cree, nor do many others where she grew up in the East Prairie Métis Settlement, near High Prairie, Alta.

The loss is greater than just words — L’Hirondelle said it creates a distance from her own history.

“That was our own sacred language. To not being connected to our own language, we are taking a step back from our own culture and traditions.”

It’s not an easy task; Cree is a complex and richly descriptive language, one where different intonations can completely change the meanings of words.

“As a fluent speaker, you don't’ realize all of that is happening,”

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Thunder has partnered with Antti Arppe, a linguistics professor who is designing an electronic Cree-to-English dictionary to help students learn the language.

Before the dictionary, when students came across an unknown

he's doing illegal transportation, because they don't have a permit to offer transport in exchange for money," said Benoît Jugand, General Manager of the Montreal Taxi Bureau.

He said to be legal, taxi drivers must complete 150 hours of training, pass an exam and pay $180,000 for a permit.

ber tickets every week and found out he'd won after checking the lottery's website.

He says his immediate plans are simple: "A new roof on the house and be debt-free."

seizures within transport laws Quebec Transport Minister Robert Poëti maintains that the vehicle seizures are well within the province's transport laws, and will continue.

"The law is there and they have to follow the law… we are allowed to do that and we are going to do it. Yes, for UberX, I'm going to do it," he said.

Officials from UberX say special legislation is needed to regulate their services.

"Montreal should be spending their time and money sitting with us and finding solutions for a service that people really want

word, they would have to look it up in a textbook or glossary: a time-consuming process that doesn’t always bear fruit.

Thunder said the new dictionary would allow students to use the technology they use every day — smartphones and tablets — to search a much larger collection of Cree words.

Arppe said the dictionary, which uses software that translates indigenous languages in Scandinavia, is much easier to keep current than a physical glossary.

“Because of our changing world — a word for a refrigerator, a word for a computer for a computer, a word for a mobile phone — all of these have to be created,” he said.

“A language lives. The tools are never finished.”

Arppe said the dictionary is the first step to developing other tools to help people learn Cree — things like spell-checking programs that users of other languages take for granted.

Work on the dictionary has already begun. Arppe expects to have a version ready in the next year, with an app to follow.

For Thunder, it’s a project that will do more than keep Cree words from slipping into history. It’s a task that will help many people reconnect with something that was taken away long ago.

“I feel much better speaking my own language. It comforts me.

It's who I am,” she said.

“It sounds almost like singing a lullaby.”

Two Montreal UberX drivers fined and have cars impounded Two UberX drivers are off Montreal roads after having their vehicles impounded by city authorities in January.

The web-based ride service is under close investigation by the city's Taxi Bureau after months of criticism from politicians and taxi drivers.

The two UberX drivers face $350 fines and require a judge's approval to have their cars returned to them.

"An UberX driver is not allowed to work in Montreal because

and not spending citizens' taxes and police officers' time seizing vehicles on the platform," said Jean-Nicolas Guillemette, General Manager of UberX Montreal.

not a taxi service The company insists it's not a taxi service, but a ride-sharing arrangement that costs a third less than regular taxis.

UberX was launched in Montreal last October, and Guillemette says so far the program has been successful.

"It's growing really fast. We have tens of thousands of Montrealers that are using it every week," he said UberX says this cuts the numbers of cars on the road and reduces drunk driving.

Guillemette says the company has made repeated requests to meet with Denis Coderre, but so far the mayor has refused.

yukon's newest millionaire Yukon's newest millionaire says he's still waiting to wake up after winning more than $3.5 million in the Dec. 17 Lotto 6/49 draw.

Marsh Lake resident David Harper bought the ticket at Takhini Gas north of Whitehorse. He says he buys random num-

Harper says he was tempted to start spending the money right away but has decided to be cautious.

He says he's thinking about his daughters, who are 22 and 24, respectively.

"It's only $3.5 million; it's not $35 million. I've told people this.

If it had been $35 million, that's a whole new ball game," Harper said.

"I'm thinking long term for my kids. Really sorry if you think I'm being greedy, but put yourself in my situation, and all of a sudden, you're not being greedy, you're just being smart."

Harper has lived in Yukon for 40 years and works as a truck driver for General Waste Management emptying garbage dumpsters.

He's promised his employer he'll stay on the job for at least six months.

After a news conference Wednesday, where he was presented with a giant ceremonial cheque, Harper got into his truck and went back to work.

Montreal teen invents $500 dialysis machine Anya Pogharian, 17, was volunteering at a hospital dialysis unit when she found the inspiration for a high school science project: A more efficient dialysis machine that would be easier on patients suffering from kidney failure.

“It takes a lot of energy out of them,” Pogharian told reporters, of the traditional four-hour, multiple-visits-a-week procedure.

“They’re very tired after a dialysis treatment.”

After working on her invention for 300 hours, Pogharian created an affordable unit that could be used at home.

"You wouldn’t have to make your way to the hospital, which is a problem for a lot of patients. It’s not necessarily easy to make your way to the hospital three times a week, especially it you have limited mobility," she said.

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continued from page 7 Héma-Québec was so impressed with Pogharian’s invention and its potential to cut medical costs and hospitalization stays that they’ve offered the Marianopolis College student a summer internship to test her machine with real blood.

The project has also earned her “a slew of scholarships and awards.”

Pogharian told Media reporters that she hopes her machine will eventually be used overseas.

"Ten per cent of patients living in India and Pakistan who need the treatment can’t afford it or can’t have it in any way. It’s not accessible. So that motivated me,” she said.

In the meantime, Pogharian is focusing on prepping for her CEGEP midterm exams.

or services at a higher price than advertised."

In this case, Sears cancelled the order rather than charging a higher price for the play structure.

Ont. company recalls medical marijuana; health canada says pot was too strong OTTAWA - Health Canada says an Ontario medical marijuana company is recalling some of its product because it's stronger than indicated on the label.

sears not honouring online pricing typo, parents irritated Parents who thought they were getting an incredible deal on the Little Tikes plastic play structure on the Sears website have been sorely disappointed.

The product was listed as $12.99, but the actual price is $129.99.

People like Malika Zaid ended up ordering four structures, but she discovered a week later that Sears cancelled the order which made her angry.

"So many other companies, they honour the price,” Zaid said.

She took to Facebook, launching a page called "Maman Sears Deal" in protest.

The page has already received more than 2,000 likes.

Sears said the company made a typo, and it was an honest mistake. It says it will not be honouring the purchases.

honouring the price is the law: consumer protection office Quebec’s consumer protection office said Sears is breaking the law by not honouring the deal.

"The Consumer Protection Act is quite clear: no merchant, manufacturer, or advertiser may by any means charge for goods

"We're going to be doing this for the next five years. At the end of those five years, we're going to do that analysis as to whether this effort was worth it."

Ethier says the exact number of wolves killed in subsequent winters will depend on how quickly they repopulate the areas they're removed from.

"The purpose and the hope is that we are able to remove nearly all the wolves in these areas where we are trying to recover caribou," Ethier said.

caribou under threat Health Canada says the pot — sold under the name Nyce N' EZ — is supposed to have a THC content of 9.07 per cent, but inspectors found it actually had a THC content of up to 13.7 per cent.

Neither Health Canada nor Peace Naturals Project Inc. has received reports of any adverse events or complaints associated with the use of the marijuana.

Health Canada says exposure to high levels of THC may increase the risk of adverse effects, but says the level of THC in the recalled product does not appear to have been high enough to endanger the health and safety of clients.

Peace Naturals Project is instructing clients to immediately discontinue use of any marijuana bearing lot number 12-NAE-00314 and lot number 12-NAE-003-14-A. Clients should return the marijuana by contacting Peace Naturals Project to obtain appropriate packaging and postage paid shipping container.

Anyone wishing to destroy the product at home should add water to the marijuana to render it unusable, mix it with cat litter to mask the odour and dispose of it with regular household waste.

five years wolf cull The point man for British Columbia's effort to save endangered mountain caribou says a controversial wolf cull will likely be necessary for the next five years.

Assistant deputy minister Tom Ethier told reporters the 180 wolves being shot from helicopter in the South Peace and South Selkirk regions this winter are just the beginning.

"We've been pretty clear this is a five-year project," Ethier said.

In B.C.'s northern Rocky Mountains, four of seven mountain caribou herds are on the verge of being wiped out, with just 70 animals among them. continued on page 14

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Europe’s mini-robotic space shuttle completed its first testflight, marking Europe’s entry into developing reusable rockets that one day may help take humans to Mars.

The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) is a minivansized spacecraft that has a wingless design that is able to make a fiery return through Earth’s atmosphere – something only a handful of spacecraft designs have been able to do.

The flight blasted off from Europe’s Guiana Space Center on the northern coast of South America, sending it eastward over the Pacific Ocean in a sub-orbital flight at an altitude of 200 kilometres.

The entire flight lasted just over 100 minutes before parachutes were deployed and the vehicle gently splashed down about 3,000 kilometres west of the Galapagos Islands. Upon hitting the water, a balloon-based floating system was deployed, which kept the two-ton spaceship from sinking to the bottom of the ocean.

Loaded with over 300 on-board sensors, the goal was to test its guidance systems, manoeuvrability and heat shield, and on initial examinations, it looks like they all performed with flying colours.

"It couldn’t have gone better.” said ESA director-general Jean Jacques Dordain, according to BBC News. "But the mission itself is not over because now it is necessary to analyze all the data gathered during the flight."

With so much success, the European Space Agency is already looking ahead to follow-up flights where the designs will be tweaked based on the full analysis of all the data from this flight.

Just as exciting will be the launch of NASA’s solar monitoring satellite DSCOVR, slated soon. It will be riding a commercial rocket built by the private company SpaceX, which will be testing its own reusable first-stage rockets. It will mark the second attempt to safely land the leftover first-stage booster on an ocean platform.

SpaceX’s billionaire founder Elon Musk hopes to reuse his

rockets, but that obviously requires them to get back to Earth intact.

If the first attempt, which ended in a fiery explosion is any indication, it may be a while before we see that pulled off safely.

The ultimate goal of these experimental test flights is to both reduce the cost of spaceflight and develop probes that will be able land on other worlds in the solar system and blast off from their surface for return flights to Earth.

The cost of launching single-use rockets remains exorbitant, and they take weeks and months to set up. For example, the cost of each launch of the now-retired NASA space shuttles was estimated to be about $1.5 billion, and turnarounds between missions took months instead of the days they were originally touted to be able to do.

If Musk gets his way, he figures that by reusing his rockets with perhaps only a two-week turnaround, he could reduce space launch costs at least 100-fold.

The long-term goals of testing these new spacecraft designs in the United States and Europe is to one day have the right vehicles that can safely, quickly and efficiently take humans to the surface of Mars and back. And reusable transportation systems may very well be a key component if we ever hope to plant astronaut boots on the Red Planet.

families who discovered babies switched at birth 20 years ago awarded $2.6M in damages Paris, France – Two French families have been awarded 1.88million euros (CDN $2.6M) in damages after their daughters were accidentally switched at birth 20 years ago.

When Sophie Serrano welcomed a baby girl to the world two decades ago, she probably wasn’t expecting to take home a different child altogether.

But that’s exactly what happened at a private clinic in Cannes.

Serrano’s daughter appeared jaundice at birth and was placed inside an incubator along with another newborn.

The next time Serrano saw her little girl, she looked decidedly different. In fact, both mothers were suspicious, but were sent home nonetheless.

Three years later, Serrano watched her daughter, Manon, develop curly hair and an olive complexion in her skin – both traits Serrano and her husband didn’t possess.

Eventually village rumours spread about the Serrano’s and “the postman’s daughter.” The pressure was enough to cause the couple to separate.

Ten years after the births, Sophie’s estranged husband decided enough was enough and had a paternity test done.

When results didn’t show a parental link, Sophie followed suit and confirmed she too had been caring for someone else’s biological child.

An investigation located the other family some 30 kilometres away.

The two sets of parents eventually met and made two important decisions. The first was to begin a legal process and the second was to keep the children they originally took home.

“It was too difficult, so we each went our separate ways as it’s so distressing,” Sophie Serrano said in December. “It was the only way to find some stability again.”

A court has ordered Clinica Jourdan and an insurance company to pay each girl 400,000 euros in damages, each parent involved 300,000 euros and another 60,000 will go to three affected siblings.

“I am perfectly satisfied (with the ruling) because responsibility within the medical chain was acknowledged,” the lawyer for the victims, Gilbert Collard, said in a telephone interview with AFP. The clinic’s lawyer, Sophie Chas, said she wasn’t immediately certain whether an appeal would be lodged against Tuesday’s decision by the court in Grasse. continued on page 24

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UsA smoking's toll goes far beyond lung cancer Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due to tobacco use.

The study by the American Cancer Society and several universities, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, looks beyond lung cancer, heart disease and other conditions already tied to smoking, and the 480,000 U.S. deaths attributed to them each year.

"Smokers die, on average, more than a decade before nonsmokers," and in the U.S., smoking accounts for one of every five deaths, Dr. Graham Colditz, an epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wrote in a commentary in the journal.

The report shows that current estimates "have substantially underestimated the burden of smoking on society," he wrote.

About 18 per cent of U.S. adults smoke.

More about the report.

WhERE DO ThE nUMBERs cOME fROM? Researchers looked at nearly 1 million Americans 55 and older taking part in five studies, including the National Institutes of HealthAARP Diet and Health Study, since 2000. They tracked the participants' health for about 10 years and compared deaths from various causes among smokers, never smokers and former smokers, taking into account other things that can influence risk such as alcohol use.

ThE BIG PIcTURE Death rates were two to three times higher among current smokers than among people who never smoked. Most of the excess deaths in smokers were due to 21 diseases already tied to smoking, including 12 types of cancer, heart disease and stroke. But researchers also saw death rates in smokers were twice as high from other conditions such as kidney failure, infections, liver cirrhosis

US President Barack Obama plans to close a tax loophole that allows US firms to avoid paying taxes on overseas profits, the White House says.

His 2016 budget would impose a oneoff 14% tax on US profits stashed overseas, as well as a 19% tax on any future profits as they are earned.

Research firm Audit Analytics calculated last April that US firms in total had $2.1tn-worth of profits stashed abroad.

It found US conglomerate General Electric had the most profit stored overseas at $110bn. Tech giants Microsoft and Apple and drugs companies Pfizer and Merck all featured in the top five.

No tax is currently due on foreign profits as long as they are not brought into the US. As a result some companies put their earnings in low tax jurisdictions and simply leave them there.

The White House said its plans for an immediate 14% tax would raise $238bn.

"This transition tax would mean that companies have to pay US tax right now on the $2tn they already have overseas, rather and some respiratory diseases not previously tied to smoking.

WhAT ABOUT BREAsT AnD PROsTATE cAncER? The report strengthens evidence tying them to smoking. It finds that female smokers' risk of dying of breast cancer is 30 per cent greater than for nonsmokers. Male smokers have a 40 per cent greater risk of dying of prostate cancer than nonsmokers do, the researchers found.

than being able to delay paying any US tax indefinitely," a White House official said.

The official said that after this one-off tax, the 19% permanent tax firms would have to pay on overseas profits "would level the playing field, and encourage firms to create jobs in US." Apple would be among the American firms most affected by the tax rise. fat diet crusade to realign its views with modern science.

Every five years, the U.S. government issues updated dietary guidelines and will release new ones this year. In a preliminary report in December, an advisory panel said dietary cholesterol is no longer "considered a nutrient of concern for over-consumption," and that finding is expected to be part of its new guidelines, which are expected shortly.

hOW DO ThEy KnOW sMOKInG WAs ThE cAUsE? One strong sign is that the risk of dying of these other conditions declined among people who quit smoking. The longer ago they stopped, the greater the drop in risk as time went on.

Old cholesterol warnings steeped in 'soft science,' may be lifted in U.s.

For decades, health organizations and governments have encouraged people to limit how much fatty foods they eat. Now, it looks like the U.S. government is slowly retreating from its low-

The last set of guidelines, issued in 2010, instructed people not to consume more than 300 milligrams of dietary cholesterol daily.

Dietary cholesterol comes only from animal products — like eggs, dairy, fish and meat. But the body also makes cholesterol, a waxy substance that can clog arteries, from certain types of fat and the health concerns about ingesting too much saturated and trans

page 13 fats in particular are still in place.

Under the old guidelines, a large egg has 186 mg, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Add two slices of cheddar cheese and two tablespoons of salted butter to that and you've surpassed the daily limit.

However, despite setting clear limits on dietary cholesterol in 2010, the U.S. backed away from doing the same for total fat consumption.

Previous reports had included a maximum percentage of a person's daily calories that should come from fats.

'soft science' sparked low-fat policies This slow tip-toeing away from the glorified low-fat diet, by eliminating maximum cholesterol and fat intake recommendations, points to "the overall soft science that has been behind our nutrition policies for so many decades," says Nina Teicholz, author of The Big Fat Surprise: Why butter, meat & cheese belong in a healthy diet.

The low-fat trend all started with a persuasive physiologist in the mid-1900s by the name of Ancel Keys, many nutritionists say. Legend paints him as the kind of man who could convince anyone of anything.

In the midst of America's rising panic about heart disease, which was suddenly killing large numbers of men — even then president Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack that sidelined him for several days — Keys became determined to prove that fat and cholesterol consumption were at the root of the problem.

He secured funding for an epic Seven Countries Study that surveyed 12,000 men and their dietary habits to show that countries with high-fat diets had more cases of high cholesterol levels and heart attack deaths.

Keys's study was highly flawed and ignored some contradictory research, Teicholz says. Regardless, his findings showed a link between high-fat diets and poor health, and in 1961, he convinced the American Heart Association to recommend Americans eat less fatty foods.

"The American Heart Association guideline is what was the little, tiny acorn that grew into the giant oak tree of recommendations we have today," says Teicholz. "And it became dogma."

The U.S. government issued its first low-fat diet recommendation in the 1980s.

low-fat diets 'useless' Those policies prompted Americans — and others, like Canadians, whose governments were using the same findings to promote low-fat meals — to load up on carbohydrates.

In 1992, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a food pyramid that showed how much of each food group people should eat daily. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta claimed the largest spot at the bottom with six to 11 recommended servings.

"So, it was get rid of meat, butter, dairy, cheese, eggs and switch over to pasta, grains, rice, potatoes — and those are all carbs," says Teicholz.

Over the next 35 years, Americans started eating about 25 per cent more carbohydrates than they did before, she says.

Recent scientific research, as well as previously ignored research that has since been re-examined, shows little support that

a low-fat diet is healthier.Unfortunately, it turns out that carbohydrates are uniquely fattening, she says, because they skyrocket a person's blood sugar temporarily and when it plummets, they're hungry again.

Clinical trial evidence shows a low-fat diet is "at best useless" at preventing obesity, diabetes, cancer and heart disease, says Teicholz, "and at worst, possibly provoking them."

versity’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Researchers have long known that the south-west and Great Plains will dry out over the second half of the 21st century because of rising temperatures under climate change.

Bad versus good fats Recent studies have shown a diet that restricts carbohydrates is more effective in fighting obesity, controlling diabetes and managing heart disease, she says.

The U.S. government seems to be following this shift in thinking. The U.S. Department of Agriculture replaced the carbohydrate-heavy pyramid in April 2005 with MyPyramid, which suggested adults consume at least three ounces of whole grains each day. The U.S. dietary guidelines no longer include daily fat intake maximums and may soon eliminate suggesting a maximum intake for dietary cholesterol, too.

"We know fat is essential. Fat is important in the diet," says Cara Rosenbloom, a registered dietitian. "We just have to make sure we're eating the right fats."

There are many different kinds of fats, but man-made trans fat is "the number one bad fat," she says. It's found in processed foods like baked goods or snack foods, and is often labelled as partially hydrogenated oil or hydrogenated oil.

She encourages people to stay away from trans fat, but include good fats in their diet by eating more whole foods. Then they'll naturally consume good fats, including: Olive oil or oils derived from nuts and seeds.

Fatty fish, like salmon, mackerel, rainbow trout, sardines or tuna.

Nuts and seeds.

"It's kind of getting back to basics," she says of eating more natural and less packaged foods. "Then the type of fat naturally just works out to be better for you. There is no trans fat in a diet that's like that. There's no hydrogenated fat in a diet that's like that."

But this was the first time researchers found those droughts would be far worse even than those seen over the millennia.

The years since 2000 give only a small indication of the punish-

ment ahead. In parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, 11 of those years have been drought years.

As many as 64 million people were affected by those droughts, according to Nasa projections.

Troubling projections Us faces worst droughts in a 1,000 years, predict scientists The US south-west and the Great Plains will face decade-long droughts far worse than any experienced over the last 1,000 years because of climate change, researchers said on Thursday.

The coming drought age – caused by higher temperatures under climate change – will make it nearly impossible to carry on with current life-as-normal conditions across a vast swathe of the country.

The droughts will be far worse than the one in California – or those seen in ancient times, such as the calamity that led to the decline of the Anasazi civilizations in the 13th century, the researchers said.

“The 21st-century projections make the previous megadroughts seem like quaint walks through the garden of Eden,” said Jason Smerdon, a co-author and climate scientist at Columbia Uni-

Those conditions have produced lasting consequences. In California, now undergoing its fourth year of drought – and the worst dry spell in 1,200 years, farmers have sold off herds. Growers have abandoned fields. Cities have imposed water rationing .

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page 14 continued from page 8 The southernmost herd in the Selkirk region has fallen to 18 from 46 animals five years ago.

While habitat destruction and human encroachment are the primary causes of the caribou's demise, authorities say predation by wolves is thwarting recovery efforts.

starting in 2006 that resulted in almost 1,000 animals being killed.

Opponents claim caribou numbers there showed no sign of improvement afterward.

necessary evil The B.C. government won't say how many wolves have been killed so far, but Knowles's group says it knows of at least one wolf pack in the South Selkirk that has already been wiped out.

Members of the West Moberly First Nation near Chetwynd have also been helping on the ground by trapping wolves.

Band members say the government's airborne marksmen are passing on locations of the wolves shot from the air so their skins can be recovered and sold.

"It's a necessary evil," Chief Roland Wilson told news reporters. "A typical pack would run between six to 10 wolves. We've had reports of 35 wolves up there. And they have to eat."

In the South Peace area last spring, 10 pregnant caribou from the Moberly herd were captured and put in a specially constructed pen to keep them safe while their calves were born. But when the animals were released in July, the wolves were waiting, killing one adult caribou and three of the calves.

The B.C. government says as part of its caribou recovery plan, roughly 90 per cent of the herds' high-alpine habitat will now be protected from industrial development. "All economic activity will be done with a mind to caribou. We're focused on having a light footprint in that area," Ethier said.

norm lanciaux loses 'lifeline' as minivan repossessed Norm Lanciaux grunts as he pushes his apartment door open, then begins to shuffle the walker he uses for support down the snow covered path in front of his Lunenburg home.

Thousands protest cull Critics have vigorously condemned the wolf killings, saying the evidence suggests such culls are ineffective and cruel. So far, more than 158,000 people have signed an online petition by the group Pacific Wild opposing the cull.

A group calling itself Wildlife Defence League has been trying to track progress of the shootings, sending a team of "observers" to the Mackenzie and Chetwynd areas, near the site of the threatened herds.

"It's a scientifically flawed policy", "Killing one species to save another flies in the face of conservation and fails to acknowledge the true reason behind the declining caribou."

The Alberta government conducted a similar cull of wolves

The final blow came last month when a bailiff knocked on his door and repossessed the minivan that was Lanciaux’s only mode of transportation.

"To me, it's everything," he says. "I can’t go nowhere without a vehicle. I can't go get my groceries. If I have a medical appointment, I can't get there. My van was my lifeline."

He bought the Dodge Caravan before his accident, but it was later outfitted with a special pedal that allowed Lanciaux to drive following the amputation.

He says he had hoped to make a deal with the company that holds the loan on the van, but that didn’t happen.

Now he fears that not only will the minivan be sold at auction, he will still be on the hook for what remains of the $13,371.48 still owing.

looking for independence Lanciaux gets rides to appointments from a group of friends he met while volunteering for the Mahone Bay book sale.

Several of his supporters say they fear for Lanciaux's precarious financial situation and hope the lender, Scotia Dealer Advantage, will forgive the rest of the car loan.

"Common sense should be brought into play at this time," says Charles Maginley, a friend. "He cannot repay."

On July 14, 2012, Lanciaux was driving his tractor trailer in New Brunswick when a car crossed the centre line. He swerved toward the ditch, but the other vehicle still smashed into his truck. "(The other driver) missed me to have a head-on collision, hit my side door, hit my side steps, took my fuel tanks out, blew two of my tires on the tractor," he says.

He refused to go to hospital, even though his leg hurt. He suspects the accident aggravated a pre-existing blood clot problem, one that had previously required surgery.

Two months later, the pain was worse. Lanciaux says when he finally went to see a doctor, he was told to go to hospital immediately.

It was so bad, doctors amputated his leg. A second surgery removed the limb right up to his groin.

"I was in hospital for six and a half months," he says.

Since the crash, he’s gone from making a full salary, to being jobless and relying on social services and CPP. He says the insurance company has refused to pay and his employment insurance has run out.

Ultimately, he says he wants to work again as a truck driver, but is looking for any job so he can once again afford a vehicle and the chance to regain some independence.

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This is about as far as the 63-year-old gets on his own these days.

Ever since the truck driver’s right leg was amputated up to the groin following a crash two and a half years ago, Lanciaux has slowly descended into financial ruin.

Rob Ford may not be Toronto's mayor any more, but he's still finding his way to the spotlight.

The councillor was ejected from Toronto city council, after he refused to apologize for comments he made about city staff.

"There's something wrong with how the city hall works," Ford said, speaking with reporters after he was asked to leave council chambers.

The controversy arose after a report came to council about

page 15 sending city staff and a councillor on a trip to Italy, as part of an effort to promote the city as a potential site for a future Expo.

The $20,000 cost of the trip was absent from the report, which led to a moment where Ford suggested it was "very hard to believe" the omission was unintentional.

That began the process that led the Speaker to ask Ford to leave the meeting.

"Coun. Ford, please, the staff answered your question," Speaker Frances Nunziata said.

told reporters he's "not a punching bag."

Minnan-Wong, asked to take stock of the controversies, said Ford "is who he is and he's going to do what he does."

When Tory was elected in October, 2014, Ford was no longer a mayoral contender, as he had dropped from the mayoral race after being diagnosed with cancer.

Ford instead ran for a council spot in Ward 2, which he won.

That's why Toronto has ended up with a mayor and his immediate predecessor sitting as members of the same council.

Ford has said he plans to run for mayor again in 2018, provided he is healthy enough to do so.

During his single term as mayor Ford faced a series of controversies, including a drug-related scandal that made headlines around the world.

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Coun. Mary-Margaret McMahon then called for a retraction of the comments, which Ford said were grounded in his opinion.

Nunziata then told Ford to retract the comments and to apologize.

The councillor demanded a recorded vote on the matter, but Nunziata informed him that wasn't warranted as she had made a ruling.

"Coun. Ford, I followed the procedure. I asked you three times to please retract your comments and apologize. That's how it works," Nunziata said, as Ford argued that she hadn't followed the proper procedures.

When Ford declined to apologize, he was asked to leave.

'That's called democracy' Coun. Giorgio Mammoliti then challenged the chair and a vote was taken. Council voted to uphold the ruling.

Outside council chambers, Mammoliti said that Ford shouldn't have been kicked out, and he took issue with the Speaker's handling of the situation.

"He has an opinion, we all have an opinion and that's called democracy," Mammoliti said.

"Chair Nunziata needs to get off her high horse and start riding a donkey for a while."

Asked to clarify the meaning of that statement, Mammoliti said, "I don't know what it means."

But most council members had supported Nunziata’s ruling.

Deputy Mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong was asked if he felt Ford should have been kicked out.

"I think that in order to get along, it would have been in Coun.

Ford's best interest to make the apology and we all could have moved on. He decided not to do that," he said.

'Not a punching bag' The incident came a day after Ford pressed Mayor John Tory about the cost of studying his SmartTrack rail transit plan.

"I won the election," Tory reminded Ford.

The mayor, when asked about the exchange later in the day,

As the Conservative government rejigs its 2015/16 budget, delayed until April to deal with the impact of falling oil prices on tax revenue, a group of women is reviving an effort to exempt feminine hygiene products from GST, a move that could cost Ottawa millions.

Proponents say it’s unjust and discriminatory to class tampons, sanitary napkins and other products women use during their menstrual periods as luxury items for taxation purposes.

“It’s a product that women and girls use, and there’s not a whole lot of choice, and it should not be taxed, particularly when you look at the fact that items like incontinence products are not taxed,” says

uled fall election but nonetheless is getting support via a petition that’s garnered more than 40,000 online signatures in the last couple of weeks.

Petition organizer Jill Piebiak told Yahoo Canada News her group hopes to get 50,000 signatures by March and deliver printed versions to Parliament. It’s modeled on similar recent petitions in Australia and Britain, where the value-added tax on the products was reduced a few years ago but not eliminated.

Treat tampons like incontinence products, says advocate Piebiak said she doesn’t understand why tampons and related products aren’t the same as exempted incontinence pads and adult diapers.

“The government recognizes that [users can’t do without them] but it doesn’t recognize that anybody who has their period needs to use these products every month for about 40 years of their lives to live a public life,” she said.

According to data collected by Piebiak’s group, women aged 12-49 bought almost $520 million in menstrual products last year, from which Ottawa collected about $36 million in GST. Most provinces do not have sales tax on them.

The petition is directed at the office of Revenue Minister Kerry-Lynne Findlay but a spokesperson in her office told Yahoo Canada News that, essentially, it wasn’t their department.

We just collect the taxes; we don’t make tax policy. Try the Finance Department.

A spokesman for Finance also sloughed off the question.

“As you might suspect, the department does not comment on proposed policies, particularly in the months leading up to a budget,” assistant media relations chief David Barnabe said via email.

Barnabe pointed out Canadians can make their views about the upcoming budget known via the department’s online consultation web page.

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Ontario New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen, whose private member’s bill C-282 on the issue was first introduced in 2011.

The proposal has been floating around for more than a decade in the form of NDP-sponsored bills. The latest version revives a previous attempt by Judy Wasylycia-Leis, then a Winnipeg MP. “I think it’s an important issue,” Mathyssen told Yahoo Canada News in an interview Wednesday.

“Judy said at the time it’s a gender-based tax. It’s women and girls who pay this GST because the government doesn’t regard them as essential. In fact, they’re considered as luxury items.”

For Mathyssen, the absurdity is underscored by the fact wedding cakes and jars of cocktail cherries are exempted from the GST as food items.

Mathyssen’s bill is unlikely to be debated before the sched-

There was no comment, either, from the office of Kellie Leitch, minister of status of women, which noted the petition was aimed at Findlay. That response surprised Piebiak, who would have thought the minister responsible for women’s issues might have something to say.

“This is something that’s a tax that affects only one half of the population,” she said. There really isn’t another example of an essential product that discriminates that way.

“So I would expect that somebody whose job description is the status of women in Canada would be interested in issues that Canadian women and their allies pushing for.”

Mathyssen said her attempts to raise the issue’s profile within the government have also resulted in more passing-of-the-buck.

“They’re not interested in these fairness issues,” she said, while conceding the previous Liberal government wasn’t much interested either. “This has no resonance with them and that’s the frustration.”

If it’s a matter of the government having to preserve its revenue stream as resource-based taxes dry up, Mathyssen has a solution.

“I say tax the wedding cakes.” continued on page 25

page 16 continued from page 13 But future droughts could be even more disruptive, because they will likely drag on for decades, not years.

“We haven’t seen this kind of prolonged drought even certainly in modern US history,” Smerdon said. “What this study has shown is the likelihood that multi-decadal events comprising year after year after year of extreme dry events could be something in our future.”

The researchers said the effects of drought would likely be exacerbated by population growth in the south-west and rising demands for water.

Already current demands for water – for agriculture and for daily life – have drastically reduced groundwater sources in California and across the south-west.

Under the current warming trajectory, the south-west and Great Plains could expect to see chronic water shortages, making it impossible to carry out farming and ranching under current methods.

“Given the likelihood of a much drier future and increasing water resources demand, groundwater loss and higher temperatures will likely exacerbate the impacts of future droughts, presenting a major adaptation challenge,” the paper said.

The researchers used data derived from tree rings, whose growth patterns show the effects of dry and wet years, sampled across North America, and soil moisture, rainfall and evaporation records, and 17 climate models to study the effects of future temperature rise on the region.

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hotels, wineries, mineral water in British columbia VANCOUVER When Liu Chuang landed in Vancouver in 2013, he noticed that most of the Chinese immigrants he met were heavily invested in residential real estate and hungry to diversify.

Flipping houses didn't appeal to the 39-year-old entrepreneur, who is launching a Vancouverbased tech incubator to help his Chinese-born friends invest in local start-ups.

"The Chinese I know ... they’ve already bought quite a few houses, they really don’t want to buy any more," said Liu, who was also born in China and co-founded venture capital firm Nextplay Ventures. "Now they want to invest in technology or other industries that can give a good return on investment."

Liu represents what real estate agents, lawyers and immigration consultants say is a transformative shift in where wealthy Asian individuals and families, primarily from mainland China, place their money in British Columbia, the West Coast province.

Vancouver has been a top destination for Asian immigrants for decades, helping make it Canada's most expensive housing market and one consistently ranked as North America's least affordable. Houses and luxury condos in the Vancouver area have been the investment of choice for both well-heeled new arrivals and China-based investors putting money abroad.

But with the Vancouver market looking pricey, many of these investors are seeking other opportunities. They range from hotels and golf courses targeting Chinese tourists to berry farms, mineral water sources, and wineries that export to Asia.

"The days of parking capital in five houses in Vancouver have passed," said Richard Kurland, a local immigration lawyer.

While provincial agencies and industry associations contacted by Reuters do not collect figures for foreign investment in commercial property, there are threads of data that support the anecdotal evidence.

Hotel sales to buyers with ties to China increased to four in 2014 from just one in 2011, according to sales information provided to Reuters by global hotel consulting firm HVS. And reports of rising demand for wineries and farms has coincided with a 60 percent jump in the value of British Columbia wine exports to China from 2010 through 2013, and a doubling in the value of agricultural food exports to China in that same period.

Those servicing the new wave says Chinese investors are also looking to put down roots and build a local business for their children, with British Columbia’s mild climate and clean air increasingly seen as more desirable than China’s pollution-hit cities.

This marks a shift from a tradition among many wealthy families who had lived in Canada just long enough to secure citizenship, and to put their kids through school, before returning to Asia.

The recent rise in demand for commercial land, tourism properties, and even entire villages has coincided with China President Xi Jinping's "Operation Fox Hunt," which aims to nab allegedly corrupt officials who have moved abroad and to seize their assets.

The corruption crackdown has even legitimate business people concerned about the future and looking to diversify their holdings, say those serving this community "It has to do with the perceived political climate in China," said Alice Chen, managing director

at SKY Capital Group, which advises wealthy Chinese on acquisition opportunities.

"Economic and political policies can change at any minute, which affects their businesses, so they see Canada as the more stable environment."

hOTEls, WInE AnD WATER The recent hotel deals were mostly in the C$15 million to C$30 million range, said Carrie Russell, managing director for Canada with HVS. Chinese buyers are also seeking to acquire expensive luxury hotels, though they have not been as successful in winning the bidding for those, she said.

Chinese groups are also looking to crack into property development, seeking land to build condos or major mixed-use projects, said David Goodman, a real estate agent with HQ Commercial.

"Over the last three or four years, they were dipping their feet in. Now they are really setting up shop," he said.

These investors are also looking outside of coastal Vancouver to agribusiness and tourism opportunities in British Columbia's interior and remote north, such as the ghost town of Bradian, which sold to a group of Chinese investors in December. They plan to turn it into a mini Whistlerstyle resort for everything from skiing to snowmobiling and fishing.

Among the most popular investments are wineries, which appeal to buyers looking for a lifestyle business that can be passed on to the next generation, said Christa Frosch, an agent with Sotheby's International Realty Canada.

In 2009 there was just one Chinese-owned winery in British Columbia, said Frosch. But now she estimates about 10 percent of the province's 230 licensed wineries are owned by people with ties to mainland China.

Chinese ownership has risen in tandem with trade, and now roughly 90 percent of the province’s wine exports go to China.

Some investors are eyeing another luxury export - spring water.

Immigration consultant Alex Liao said he has clients looking to spend at least C$20 million to buy a well and set up a bottling plant to export mountain water to China, where the economic boom has also meant higher pollution.

"One of my clients is exporting - I cannot believe it - 200 container loads of mineral water from B.C. to China every single month," said Liao. "Lots of people, right now, are buying wells."

fOR ThE KIDs Julie Wei, a residential agent with Macdonald Realty who now also helps clients find commercial opportunities, says the desire to buy a Canadian business is motivated in some cases by children who have spent years in Vancouver and no longer want to return to China.

That's what happened to Ben Bi, who came to Canada for university and ended up staying.

Backed by his family's real estate business in China, Bi has bought a tract of land and is designing a high-end multi-home development.

The project is the first of many the 34-year-old hopes to tackle, as he looks to shift more of the focus of the family business to Canada from China. His parents first resisted the plan, but changed their minds after learning more about Vancouver.

"They actually want to see the next generation, and even the generation after me, have a better life," he said.

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"A chance to be chipped" The chip allows employees to open doors and use the photocopier without a traditional pass card

Office puts chips under staff's skin

Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.

useful, but no doubt more sophisticated chips will soon replace wearable technology like fitness bands or payment devices, and we will get used to being augmented. All sorts of things are possible - whether it becomes culturally acceptable to insert technology beneath our skin is another matter.

Felicio de Costa, whose company is one of the tenants, arrives at the front door and holds his hand against it to gain entry. Inside he does the same thing to get into the office space he rents, and he can also wave his hand to operate the photocopier.

That's all because he has a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip, about the size of a grain of rice, implanted in his hand. Soon, others among the 700 people expected to occupy the complex will also be offered the chance to be chipped. Along with access to doors and photocopiers, they're promised further services in the longer run, including the ability to pay in the cafe with a touch of a hand.

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On the day of the building's official opening, the developer's chief executive was, himself, chipped live on stage. And I decided that if was to get to grips with this technology, I had to bite the bullet - and get chipped too.

The whole process is being organised by a Swedish bio-hacking group which was profiled by Jane Wakefield recently. One of

its members, a rather fearsome looking tattooist, inserted my chip.

First, he massaged the skin between my thumb and index finger and rubbed in some disinfectant. Then he told me to take a deep breath while he inserted the chip. There was a moment of pain - not much worse than any injection - and then he stuck a plaster over my hand.

Before trying my chip out, I wanted to know more about the thinking behind it. Hannes Sjoblad, whose electronic business card is on his own chip and can be accessed with a swipe of a smartphone, has the title chief disruption officer at the development. I asked him whether people really wanted to get this intimate with technology.

"We already interact with technology all the time," he told me.

"Today it's a bit messy - we need pin codes and passwords. Wouldn't it be easy to just touch with your hand? That's really intuitive."

When I tested my chip, I found that it was not all that intuitive - I had to twist my hand into an unnatural position to make the photocopier work. And while some of the people around the building were looking forward to being chipped, others were distinctly dubious. "Absolutely not," said one young man when I asked him if he'd sign up. An older woman was more positive about the potential of the technology but saw little point in being chipped just to get through a door.

But Hannes Sjoblad says he and the Swedish Biohacking Group have another objective - preparing us all for the day when others want to chip us. "We want to be able to understand this technology before big corporates and big government come to us and say everyone should get chipped - the tax authority chip, the Google or Facebook chip. " Then, he says, we'll all be able to question the way the technology is implemented from a position of much greater knowledge.

I've returned to Britain with a slightly sore hand - and a chip still under my skin which has my contact details on it. Not that

Hailed as a ‘critical shift for research and medicine, ’ these bio-chips would not only allow full access by insurance companies and government agencies to our pharmaceutical med-taking compliancy (or lack thereof), but also a host of other aspects of our lives which are truly none of their business, and certainly an extension of the removal of our freedoms and rights ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Medical Drug-Pumping Microchip Plan To Be carried Out By 2017 Implanted medical microchips that can be expected to be mainstream by 2017 will be able to deliver drugs, including routine birth control – all through wireless communications. Currently, drug reservoir chips can be implanted right under the skin, delivering pharmaceuticals of all kinds, but here is the troubling part of this – they won’t be controlled by you – but rather by ‘medical professionals’. Imagine someone with the same level of morality as a Monsanto CEO, or a stock owner in Pfizer, or Bill Gates, deciding who gets which meds and how much. Scary, huh?

What’s more – these implanted drug-reservoir chips will be controlled remotely. You’ll be dosed day after day, perpetually, until a ‘professional’ decided to stop doping you up. Talk about a dream come true for the pharmaceutical industry!

The micro-chipped reservoir-technology was first developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the nineties.

It was designed to be controlled through a wireless signal, just like your phone. The technology now powers the company called microCHIPS. As part of their corporate agenda, presented on their site, they say they intend to develop, ‘long-term implantable drug delivery technologies with wireless communications.’

Also, progestin and estrogen can be released into a woman’s body to act as a method of birth control.

page 19 Now, here’s where it get’s creepy. If a woman could turn her own microchip birth control on or off of her own accord, that would be…better, but within Obamacare, there are new laws which require to offer contraceptive services via microchip, and there are rumors that say eventually we will all be required to be micro-chipped.

These new technologies could conceivably deliver drugs automatically for up to 16 years straight, based on preliminary clinical trials. Furthermore, hospitals and doctors would know exactly which drugs you took and when, down to the second, with no privacy whatsoever. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Is this the kind of mind that is creating bio-tech warfare in the form of GMOs, chemtrails, and vaccines? Don’t sign me up for micro-chipping or hightech tattoos. I trust the medical establishment and biotech about as far as I can throw a rotten, cancercausing GMO apple. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

OK, I know it needs some work but the technobabble about the benefits of transhumanism is getting so loud and persistent, people need a wake up call.

Once we all have chips implanted to connect us via the web to our fully automated cyberhomes we will be able to carry out most task from unlocking doors or turning on the oven to starting our cars, so says fully paid up member of the Hate-Your-Humanity club Frank Swain, who along with other dysfunctional lunatics has been trying to implant the RFID chip from an Oyster card in his body so he can conduct small monetary transactions with a wave of his finger. Maybe in a few years he will be able to send a message to his robot ***k-buddy, "Lube up, I'm on my way home."

The goal of these so called "grinders" is to implant the chip under their skin, so when approaching barriers at London Underground stations or boarding a bus, buying a newspaper or a sandwich from a shop that accepts Oyster the customer can simply wave their hand and it looks like they are Harry Potter.

Oh yes, they might say they are proving themselves forward

Or type a short password into a computer? Graafstra's business Dangerous Things is in the business of what he calls biohacking.

They set up a biohacking exhibit at the Transhuman Visions exhibition in San Francisco, The stand offered wannabe humandroids their first tiny step on the road to becoming true cyborgs for the bargain basement price of only $50 a time.

Using a needle of the type used for microchipping animals, Graafstra inserted a ceramic coated RFID chip similar in size to a grain of rice into each sucker customer. By the end of the day Graafstra had created 15 new cyborgs. Others visiting the stand found the idea creepy and said so.

The idea of having implants under their skin that can link up to the internet conjures up visions of totalitarian control, round the clock surveillance and authoritarian Big Brother regimes like the one depicted in George Orwell's novel "1984".

Graafstra commented, "Every Hollywood movie has told them that implants are for tracking people, People don't get that it's the same exact technology as the card in your wallet."

WTF is wrong with these people? No it is not like the card in your wallet which has to be passed through or placed on a reader

Transhumanism With A chip Under your skin you Will Be “superhuman” from london, United Kingdom

We seem to be talking a lot about transhumanism, the process of turing us into human - animal or human - machine hybrids recently. The Daily Stirer thinks such technological visions are nothing more than the fantasies of sick minds, but politicians and corporate leaders, ever eager for more power and control, seem willing to stump up infintie funding.

thinking, clued up individuals but I think we all know the truth, don't we possums.

People are already using chips liberated from *Oyster cards and installed in jewelry, clothing, magic wands (told you so) and bags but so far implanting a chip under the skin has not been successful. The problem is finding something that will provide a protective coating without reacting with body fluids and triggering an immune reaction.

Apparently quite a few people have RFID devices implanted in the soft flesh between thumb and forefinger.

One of the leading promoters of the never do anything for yourself if, at great expense, you can find a way to make machines do it for you, Amal Graafstra, who styles himself an "adventure technologist" has a re-writable chip microchip his right hand and in his left a simple identity chip to open doors and sign on to his computer.

Why, one wonders? How hard is it to take a key out of your pocket, slide it into a lock and turn. But... chipping humans have to start somwhere, from small innocent function to global population control.

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and which you retain some level of control over. Not long ago in Britain there was a case of people's Oyster cards being debited without them having bought anything, just though them standing near a sensor.

Anyway, do you want Evil Empire corporations like Google, whose business is built on gathering, collating and analyzing your activities then selling your consumer profile to corporate marketing departments, to know about every little thing you did that involved spending a small amount of money? And with Google and others talking about implants in the skull that will interface the brain directly with server farms (not feasible but these wankers cannot understand that) we have to wonder how far these amoral, sociopathic geeks are prepared to go. Because if such things are ever realistic you can bet politicians will want to use them in social engineering projects.

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Russell Brand slams corrupt banks:

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first Palestinian Embassy in W. Europe Opens in sweden

People need to remember who is really ‘f*****g them over’ On the latest episode of The Trews, British comedian and social activist Russell Brand attacked “the people in our society who ex-

ploit us — massive transnational banking corporations.”

Brand is particularly irate over learning that banking conglomerate HSBC helped its clients “dodge millions in tax.”

“The real exploiters — the people who are really stealing from us — have carte blanche to sneak around, because [the media] doesn’t give it the same focus and attention,” he said.

“Remember,” Brand continued, “HSBC laundered money for Mexican drug cartels. Did anyone ask, ‘Well, should you be laundering money for Mexican drug cartels?’ No. ‘Are you going to be doing anything about it?’ Also, no.”

“This is the same thing they said when the stock market crashed,” he said. “‘Are they going to give the money back?’ No, they’re going to take it from people on benefits, from disabled people.”

Brand then discussed the fate of Stephen Green, who oversaw HSBC during this scandalous era, but was nevertheless made Baron of Hurstpierpoint by British Prime Minister David Cameron.

“Isn’t that amazing?” Brand asked. “After a decade of corruption and lying and treachery and skullduggery, he was promoted to the House of Lords under David Cameron. Because lying and treachery and skullduggery are not a problem if you’re doing it in the right area.”

He then compared the fate of Stephen Green to that of the English lower-class, many of whom rely on government subsidies to survive.

“When we’re talking about ‘these people are leeching’ and ‘these people are stealing,’ why does our focus always fall on the most vulnerable? Why are we not focusing on Wall Street, the financial district, the city? Because those feelings of antipathy — that fear and anger and righteousness — why are we focusing them on the most vulnerable?”

“There are legitimate targets for those feelings,” Brand added.

“There are the people in the city who have ripped us off. There are the people in the government who don’t represent us.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (c, right) speaks next to swedish foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom (c) during the inauguration of the Embassy of Palestine in central stockholm The first-ever Palestinian embassy in Western Europe has opened in Sweden on Tuesday evening, the Swedish prime minister’s press service said. President Mahmoud Abbas has arrived in Stockholm for the event.

“Your recognition…should push forward negotiations in the peace process,” Abbas said.

Prime Minister Lofven has vowed aid to Palestine, but has also called on reforms.

“There are challenges: we must help one another to fight corruption, increase gender equality, improve respect for human rights, and of course continue the state building process,” Lofven said.

Under the newly signed deal, Sweden’s financial help to Palestine will grow by 1.5 billion kronas (US$179.74 million) over the next five years.

Palestine has diplomatic missions in countries that either recognize or partially recognize it as an independent state.

Until Tuesday, Palestine had a General Delegation of Palestine in Sweden, based in Stockholm.

On October 30, Sweden was the first Western EU member (and 135th of the world’s 193 nations) to officially recognize Palestinian statehood. Britain, France, Spain and Portugal followed suit.

The plan to recognize Palestine was criticized by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said that Prime Minister Lofven “must understand that neither declaration nor move by

an external player will replace direct talks between the sides that will be part of a comprehensive accord between Israel and the entire Arab world.”

Following the move, relations between Sweden and Israel soured, and deteriorated even further early this year, when Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom called off a visit to Israel in January.

At the time, Israeli media cited Lieberman as saying that he did not want to meet Wallstrom, and that she wasn’t welcome on an official visit to Tel Aviv.

Late last year, the European Parliament also voted to recognize a Palestinian state in principle, with a total of 498 MEPs voting in favor.

On December 30, an official bid for Palestinian statehood was submitted to the UN Security Council. However, the UNSC failed to adopt the Arab coalition’s bid for the creation of a Palestinian state.

A total of 135 countries recognize Palestine – including several Eastern European nations, which did so before joining the EU. The Palestinian ambassador to Russia has praised Sweden for taking a “huge step” towards Palestine’s broader recognition in Europe.

“This is very important to us and we hope this trend to recognize Palestine as a state continues in Europe and that other countries within the EU will also recognize us. Sweden made a huge step in that direction,” Fayed Mustafa told Sputnik.

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Jewish Defence league to establish in Montreal; hopes to impact federal election MONTREAL - The Canadian chapter of the Jewish Defence League is expanding its operations into Montreal and its leader says he also hopes to influence voters in the upcoming federal election.

The group's national director said the main goal of the Montreal office will be to unite Quebecers against what he calls the increased threat of radical Islam.

"You guys have a serious problem," Meir Weinstein said in an interview, referring to what he called a rise in the number of people and organizations in Montreal that promote religious radicalism.

But the controversial organization's first expansion outside Toronto will also have a political bent.

"We are very concerned that there are prominent leaders in the Jewish community in Montreal who stand behind the Liberals," he said. "We want to change that."

Weinstein said only the Conservative Party has taken a "strong and proper" position on terrorism and he wants the Jewish community in Montreal "to stand behind the Conservatives."

Conservative Party spokesman Cory Hann didn't directly address whether or not the party was happy being endorsed by the JDL.

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"Israel and the Jewish community have no greater ally than Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada," he responded in an email to questions about the JDL's endorsement.

"We're focusing on establishing a very active chapter in Montreal," he said.

The JDL is controversial. It was founded in the U.S. in the 1960s but Weinstein said the organization is not very active south of the border.

One of the reasons is due to the Federal Bureau of Investigation calling the JDL a "violent extremist Jewish Organization" in its 2000-01 report on terrorism. U.S. authorities arrested two active members of the JDL in 2001 whom they said planned to bomb a mosque in California.

The group's Canadian branch does not have a history of violence, although a few of its members have been part of protests that have turned violent.

Weinstein said he isn't sure of JDL Canada's overall membership, but said his email list for the group has about 3,000 contacts.

Funding comes from donations across the country, he added.

Among the services offered by the organization will be "security teams" that provide bodyguards to monitor Jewish events.

Weinstein said he also plans to recruit people to investigate and infiltrate groups and organizations he says promote Islamic fundamentalism.

"You have to gather as much credible intelligence as possible and that could mean putting people inside groups to come up with information which is a practice we do (in Toronto)," he said.

Montreal police Cmdr. Ian Lafrenière said that the city's police is monitoring the arrival of a Montreal chapter with interest, but adds authorities don't have any intelligence to suggest the group is violent or will commit violence.

"We are gathering information," he said.

Muslim and Jewish groups in Montreal were quite vocal, however, in their criticism of the JDL. Salam Elmenyawi, a Muslim cleric and head of the Muslim Council of Montreal, said he will meet with other Muslim and nonMuslim groups to figure out how to prevent the JDL from operating in the city.

"If what we've been reading about them is true, then their presence should not be accepted by the authorities and they should work towards evicting them from Canada in general and Quebec in particular," Elmenyawi said.

Rabbi Reuben J. Poupko, with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in Montreal, is also not welcoming the JDL to the city.

He says the 2011 federal election results revealed that the city's Jews already have in large numbers moved away from the Liberal party. And regarding security, Poupko said the Jewish community has great faith in the police.

"The truth is we have suffered from anti-Semitic vandalism in Montreal," he said. "And in each serious instance, the events were followed by investigations, prosecutions and imprisonment."

Poupko said he's not perturbed by Weinstein's claim of creating surveillance teams.

"I don't believe they have the capacity to do something like that," he said.

smoking's toll goes far beyond lung cancer Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the United States are probably due to tobacco use.

The study by the American Cancer Society and several universities, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, looks beyond lung cancer, heart disease and other conditions already tied to smoking, and the 480,000 U.S. deaths attributed to them each year.

"Smokers die, on average, more than a decade before nonsmokers," and in the U.S., smoking accounts for one of every five deaths, Dr. Graham Colditz, an epidemiologist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis wrote in a commentary in the journal.

The report shows that current estimates "have substantially underestimated the burden of smoking on society," he wrote.

About 18 per cent of U.S. adults smoke.

WhERE DO ThE nUMBERs cOME fROM? Researchers looked at nearly 1 million Americans 55 and older taking part in five studies, including the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study, since 2000. They tracked the participants' health for about 10 years and compared deaths

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B.c. megathrust earthquake will Rip Earth Open like a zipper

whale that caused the earth to shake violently and the seas to wash away their people and homes.

20-minute warning to higher ground When the next megathrust quake hits, residents on the west side of Vancouver Island will barely have 20 minutes to get to higher ground.

"Every year we hear the same thing, that, 'Oh, the big waves are going to come, the big waves are going to come,"' Peters says as she looks out on the Pacific Ocean. "I'm not really too worried about it actually happening. We're not ready for it, but in a sense we are.

We seem to be on the ball when it comes to evacuating

Scientists using earthquake mapping and profiling techniques now believe the ancient quake and tsunami are eerily similar to the magnitude 9.2 earthquake and tsunami that struck in the Indian Ocean on Boxing Day 2004, killing more than 250,000 people.

Earthquakes and tsunamis like the Vancouver Island and Boxing Day events are not one-time occurrences, due to their locations near major fault lines that build up pressure over 300 to 500 years and eventually cause the earth to buckle and let go, scientists say.

stress building on locked plates The Cascadia subduction zone off Vancouver Island is the result of two locked geological plates under the sea floor.

"Right now the two plates are sort of stuck together," says Alison Bird, a Victoria-area Natural Resources Canada seismologist.

A natural Resources canada seismologist says there is a one in 10 chance of a megathrust earthquake o the B.c. coast in the next 50 years.

Aerial photo of downtown vancouver, false creek and Granville Island Megathrust earthquake off B.C. coast in 1700 generated a 4storey tsunami in Japan 9 hours later The low tide, bright sunshine and constant roar of endlessly approaching waves display the full power of the wide-open Vancouver Island shoreline at the remote beach handed down to Stella Peters and her family as a wedding dowry.

For generations, Peters and her relatives have been the keepers of Pachena Bay, the picturesque beach that scientists forecast as an epicentre for the next massive earthquake and tsunami.

The bay is also the home to the Huu-ay-aht First Nations village of Anacla, about 300 kilometres northwest of Victoria, which aboriginal oral history says was devastated when an ancient earthquake convulsed the West Coast of North America.

First Nations from Vancouver Island to northern California describe the earthquake and tsunami in similar legends and artwork involving a life-and-death struggle between a thunderbird and a

the place."

"Nobody (will be) left behind," says Peters. "All the elders, the kids, even the dogs are all taken out of here."

On Jan. 26, 1700 at about 9 p.m., a magnitude 9 earthquake struck the Pacific coast, causing violent shaking for minutes that scientists believe was felt as far away as the Manitoba border. The shaking was followed almost immediately by a tsunami that legend and scientists say sucked everybody and everything along the outer coast into the ocean.

About nine hours later, a tsunami the height of a four-storey building hit the Japanese coast on Jan. 27, 1700, destroying all in its path.

But It wasn't until the late 1990s that scientists linked the historical records of the tsunami in Japan to geologic reports of the earthquake off the Pacific coast in North America, allowing them to accurately determine the exact time the earthquake struck the West Coast.

"They're locked, yet they are still moving toward each other. What's happening is there's a lot of stress building up. The stress builds up over hundreds of years and when it releases it releases in a megathrust earthquake."

Following the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011, about 70 Pachena Bay residents were evacuated to the village's hilltop administration building and long house. Peters says there was no damage, but the Pachena River shifted from low tide to high tide in minutes.

University of Victoria ocean engineer Kate Moran says the Huu-ay-aht council was wise to accept the advice of its elders and build its new administration building high above Pachena Bay because it's only a matter of time before another devastating tsunami arrives.

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Title fraud

Fred Weekley knew something was amiss when he received a fax from a title transfer firm wanting a land description of his home on Katepwa Lake, Sask., about 100 kilometres east of Regina. The mayor of the district of Katepwa Beach called the Vancouver-based company and was told the house had been sold and the title was about to be transferred to its new owner. The catch? He’d never put his home on the market.

He was about to be duped. Weekley was just lucky he caught it in time before the transfer went through.

“You can very easily be in real trouble,” says Weekley, a former senior financial planner. “You don’t even know what’s happened until the truck pulls up with the new owner’s stuff. It can be really, really disastrous.

“To me it appeared to be a ‘big city’ problem, particularly where there are hot real estate markets,” he adds. “Now I know that the title fraud can happen anywhere and to anyone.”

An all-too common scam Title fraud is becoming increasingly common. According to title-insurance company FCT (First Canadian Title), estimates of damages in Canada range from $400 million to $1.5 billion every year. In 2013 alone, the firm declined to insure a mortgage twice a week on average based on the suspicion of fraud; the average mortgage was $360,000.

Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Montreal have higher rates of fraud, according to FCT’s Retire Your Home website. Targets are typically seniors who have paid off their homes.

It happened to New York resident Jennifer Merin, who recently found herself fighting to get her vacant Queens-area home back from squatters who filed a false deed and moved in. A spike in her water bill last February alerted her to illegal occupants, and when she went to the house she found the locks had been changed. The fraudster allegedly filed a deed transfer in March listing himself as the owner and using a fake name for the previous owner.

“The deed was registered by the city shortly after the ‘owner’ who was the ostensible signor on the false deed died,” Merin says.

“Looking online I discovered very quickly where my name had been listed as the owner there was another name registered as the owner of the house.”

It took months of legal action and thousands of dollars to get

her house back.

how does it happen?

Title fraud can happen in one of two ways, according to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada. With identity theft, fraudsters can use stolen or fake identification or documents to pretend to be a homeowner and obtain one or more mortgages on the property, then walk away with the cash.

Fraudsters can also register forged documents to discharge any existing mortgages then transfer the property to themselves and register a new mortgage against the property’s clear title, pocketing the proceeds.

“We have been tracking and reporting trends in real estate fraud for many years and last year we noted an increasing number of frauds against older homeowners,” says Lori Sartor, FCT vice president of residential solutions.

“Over the last number of years it has become more common.

Unfortunately, fraudsters have been successful in some cases, and they’re getting smarter. When we see fraud, whether it’s with seniors or not, some of them are very, very intricate and quite well thought out with multiple parties involved.”

Long-standing titles are more easily abused than those with recent or frequent title activity, says Graham Webb, staff litigation lawyer at the Toronto-based Advocacy Centre for the Elderly.

“The existence of a charge, mortgage or other registered encumbrance on real property diminishes the value of the asset and makes it a less desirable object of financial abuse,” Webb says.

“Furthermore, the placement or renewal of a mortgage is likely to trigger the discovery of a fraudulent transaction, and the existence of an encumbrance may be enough of a deterrent to prevent abuse in the first place. The high incidence of mortgage-free real property ownership makes older adults a goldmine for those who are prone to commit financial abuse.”

Title fraud can be hard to prevent, but ways to avoid it include never signing documents you don’t understand or when you’re feeling pressured. The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada suggests checking with your provincial land registry office to ensure that the title of your home is in your name and reviewing your credit report regularly to make sure the information is correct. Purchasing title insurance is also worth considering.

The FCAC urges anyone who’s a victim of real estate fraud to contact the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre), the police, the country’s two credit-reporting agencies (Equifax and TransUnion) your bank, and your provincial land registry office.

continued from page 26 the United States on climate policy issues, headed the first research team into the Indian Ocean area following the Boxing Day earthquake and tsunami.

Indian ocean quake similar to 'big one' She says there are many similarities between Boxing Day 2004 and Vancouver Island Jan. 26, 1700.

In both cases, there was a major rupture of the earth that triggered deadly earthquakes and tsunamis, Moran says. She described the events in 1700 and 2004 as ripping open the earth's zipper.

"What you can now do is actually put videos to the event and to me that's really helpful for people understanding the risks here (on Vancouver Island)," says Moran, who heads the university's world-leading Ocean Networks Canada, which includes a 24-hour ocean monitoring program through a series of Internet connected cables.

She says the university is planning to install a specialized radar at Tofino's airport this year that can detect tsunami waves far offshore.

"When scientists want to study subduction zones, I would say that Cascadia, (Japan's) Nankai, Barbados and Chile are the (locations) that have been studied the most because of their significance," Moran says.

'Many people were lost' Bird says experts know that the ancient quake and tsunami devastated the western shores of Vancouver Island and the eastern coast of Japan.

"This completely jibes with First Nations oral history, which talks about the fact it was wintertime and they'd just gone to bed," she says. "Sadly, villages along that western coastline were decimated by this wave.

Many people were lost. The (Japanese) recorded the time the wave hit at various points along the coast and how high the wave went up."

She says if a similar earthquake occurs now, people living along the outer coast of Vancouver Island will have between 15 and 20 minutes to escape. Victoria can expect a tsunami wave of between two and four metres within 75 minutes.

Greater Vancouver would likely escape a tsunami in the event of a megathrust earthquake, but the shaking would be prolonged and violent enough to damage buildings, says Bird.

The odds of another megathrust earthquake and tsunami on Vancouver Island happening within the next 50 years are about one-in-10, says Bird.

Peters says she believes somebody or something has been looking out for her village for the past 315 years, but she also knows that could change at any moment.

"Right where we live we have to deal with what Mother Nature gives us," she says.

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WhAT ABOUT BREAsT AnD PROsTATE cAncER? The report strengthens evidence tying them to smoking. It finds that female smokers' risk of dying of breast cancer is 30 per cent greater than for nonsmokers. Male smokers have a 40 per cent greater risk of dying of prostate cancer than nonsmokers do, the researchers found.

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canada health Report card ranks B.c. 1st, nunavut last British Columbia is home to the healthiest Canadian population, while residents in Newfoundland and Labrador and the three territories are the least healthy, according to report card released Thursday by the Conference Board of Canada.

The report compared residents' health in each province and territory, while comparing Canada as a whole to the U.S., Japan, Australia and 12 countries in Western Europe.

The study looked at such factors as life expectancy, infant mortality, cancer deaths and suicides, but did not compare health-care spending or access to services.

B.C. gets the highest rating in Canada — an A — because people there have the lowest rate of disease, low obesity rates and the highest level of physical activity. It scored the third-highest rating overall, behind only Switzerland and Sweden.

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New Brunswick earned the sole C, while Nova Scotia, Manitoba and Saskatchewan were near the bottom of the list with D grades.

Newfoundland and Labrador gets D–minus Newfoundland and Labrador earned the lowest score of all the provinces with a D-minus because of disease rates and infant mortality. The three Northern Territories received the same low rank.

"The obesity rate in Newfoundland is among the highest in the country and B.C., the lowest," said Louis Theriault, vice-president of public policy with the Conference Board of Canada. "So there's a strong correlation between that indicator and diseases."

Canada as a whole was middle of the pack against its so-called peer countries — eighth out of 16.

Theriault said Canada needs to shift its focus from treatment as Canada's population ages.

"The prevention aspect is where we can make some strides," he said. "Disease management is part of that as well."

The complete country ranking was: - Switzerland, Sweden - A - Australia, Norway, France, Japan, Netherlands, Canada, Germany - B - Finland, United Kingdom, Austria, Ireland, Belgium - C - Denmark, United States - D Canada compared favourably to the other countries on risk factors that lead to chronic diseases, but the report said the country's obesity rate is cause for concern, especially childhood obesity.

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Edward snowden speaks to Toronto students, urges caution on new terror bill snowden mentioned the levitation program, which sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, over the course of the 90-minute talk. U.s. national security Agency whistleblower and international fugitive Edward snowden told students at Upper canada college that the mass collection of data by government spy agencies can get in the way of foiling terrorist plots. such programs can sometimes take resources away from targeted data collection of specific threats, snowden, told students at the private school in Toronto, where he was invited to speak. The problem with mass surveillance is when you collect everything, you understand nothing," he said during the video conference Monday evening.

TORONTO - Former U.S. intelligence contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden says citizens of the world, including Canadians, should be "extraordinarily cautious" when their governments try to pass new laws under the guise of an increased threat of terrorism.

Legislation tabled last Friday would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service powers to actively disrupt threats, not just collect information about them.

Snowden, who remains in Russia after leaking U.S. National Security Agency documents, says citizens of any country should have concerns about this type of legislation.

"I would say we should always be extraordinarily cautious when we see governments trying to set up a new secret police within their own countries," Snowden said during a video conference organized by Upper Canada College in Toronto.

Intelligence powers used by governments in ways related to political ideologies, radicalization, influence of governments and how people develop their politics are cause for concern, the former NSA analyst added.

"We need to be very careful about this because this is a process that is very, very easy to begin. It always happens in time of fear and panic — emergency legislation — they say we're facing extraordinary threats and again if you look at the statistics while the threats are there, they're typically not as significant as presented."

"Once we let these powers get rolling its very difficult to stop that pull though," Snowden said. "So I would say that we need to use extraordinary scrutiny in every society, in every country, in every city, in every state to make sure that the laws we live under are the ones we truly want and truly need."

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has said he believes that the Security Intelligence Review Com-

of "fearmongering," saying it's a very dangerous yet effective way of persuading people to accept things to which they wouldn't normally submit.

"Your government continuously hypes the threat and tells you that unless you give it more and more power it will be incapable of saving you from this threat," Greenwald said.

The terror legislation would also make it easier for police to control the movements of terror suspects and to detain them longer without warrant.

Opposition MPs and civil liberties advocates have expressed concern that the bill doesn't boost oversight of Canada's spy agency.

mittee — which reports to Parliament — has the expertise to keep an eye on CSIS. Glenn Greenwald, who received documents from Snowden and reported about them for The Guardian newspaper, told the conference that Canadians have a greater chance of dying from being struck by lightning or slipping in a bathtub than from a terrorist attack.

Snowden and Greenwald shared their knowledge of privacy rights with more than 900 high school students at the conference and hundreds of others via a livestream.

Greenwald called the threat of terrorism in Canada "infinitesimal," and accused the Canadian government

He told students that electronic spying programs constitute a threat to democracy and ought to be subject to more public debate about limits on how information is collected and used.

"This fundamentally changes the balance of power between the citizen and the state," he said.

Project levitation Snowden remains a controversial figure. The documents he leaked in 2013 revealed the U.S. government has programs in place to spy on almost everything that hundreds of millions of people do online, including emails, social networking posts, online chat histories, phone calls and texts.

Some of the documents revealed that other intelligence agencies, including the U.K.'s GCHQ, engage

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Snowden mentioned the Levitation program, which sifts through millions of videos and documents downloaded online every day by people around the world, over the course of the 90-minute talk.

Details of the Communications Security Establishment project were revealed last week in a document obtained by Snowden and released to CBC News.

He also mentioned Canada's newanti-terror legislation that was introduced on Friday and includes a range of measures that would allow suspects to be detained based on less evidence and let CSIS actively interfere with suspects' travel plans and finances.

Snowden said it was important to be cautious when expanding such powers, particularly during what he called times of fear and panic.

erage has focused too heavily on himself and not enough on the issues raised by the revelations of mass data collection.

"Whether or not I’m Mother Teresa or Adolf Hitler, that has bearing no whatsoever on the content of the reporting," he said.

Conor Healy, the student who arranged to have 'Mother Teresa or Adolf hitler' Snowden speak, said the decision prompted a fierce Snowden fled to Hong Kong and later Russia after debate at his school.

"Our goal is to expose the student delegates to isillegally releasing documents that exposed widespread collection of citizens' phone and internet metadata by sues that are globally significant to them," Healy said Monday in an interview on CBC Radio's Metro MornU.S. and other intelligence agencies.

Some have praised Snowden for exposing the ing. "Snowden is undoubtedly one of the foremost perbreadth of government spying. Others feel his actions spectives on one side of an essential debate about our relationship with the government as it relates to perare treasonous.

Snowden told students that sometimes media cov- sonal privacy."

"Once we let these powers get rolling, it’s very difficult to stop that boulder," he said.

Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney has said he believes the Security Intelligence Review Committee has the expertise to keep an eye on CSIS.

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There's much more information that can be gleaned from your phone calls than you may think

The biggest myth about phone privacy We should feel safe uploading selfies and other before uploading the photo to WhatsApp, friends of the robbed personal information to social networks and apps if victim recognised the location and called the police. our identities are hidden, shouldn’t we? Far from it, More recently, the mobile dating app Grindr has been under inas Molly Crain explains. vestigation for revealing too much about its users’ locations. Colby Smartphones have transformed our lives in so many ways.

They connect us to the outside world through email and social networks, direct us if we are lost, and recommend all manner of shops and services near us. But this level of convenience comes at a cost, and one that the general public is only beginning to recognise.

In a world where online privacy is a growing concern, security experts say one of our biggest assumptions is that if our identities are hidden we should be safe and anonymous. But evidence shows how little it takes for our identities to be outed. Last week a study of credit card data showed only four pieces of information are needed to match any individual to their “anonymised” credit card records – one of those being the GPS coordinates that can be extracted from your smartphone.

So what seemingly harmless pieces of information pose the greatest threat to your privacy, what exactly can be gleaned from this, and how can you better protect your personal data in the future?

What types of data put you most at risk?

Date, time, geographical location, and smartphone serial number, are the items most likely to reveal your movements. Altogether known as metadata, or smartphone EXIP files, these fragments of information can be linked together to formulate your identity.

People see geotagging as being the most common threat, a feature many applications use to pinpoint and publicise your exact location. On Facebook, geotagging is offered as a service you automatically opt into whenever you post a status or chat on Instant Messenger – unless you disable it. Geotags also feature on other applications like Instagram and Twitter, and have been known to reveal people’s locations when they didn’t think anyone was watching.

how can this reveal what I do?

Earlier last year a burglar named Ashley Keast was arrested after posting a celebratory selfie on a smartphone he had stolen.

Despite the fact that he changed the Sim card of the stolen device

Moore and Patrick Wardle at the cybersecurity firm Synack found that if an individual created three separate profile accounts on Grindr and searched for a spe-

cific user, each profile could provide the means to triangulate the user’s position. Synack also said other dating apps are prone to the same issue as they use the same technology.

Fortunately, computer security expert Graham Cluley says that geographical location on social media is something you can control, through adjusting your data location services settings on your phone and applications. However, metadata can still be collected from your smartphone even while you’re performing its most basic task – making a phone call.

“It’s not as though someone is listening to your phone calls,” says Cluley about the information cell phone companies glean from their customers. “But what they do collect is information about who you rang, how long you spoke to them, and where you were when you did it.”

So even though the conversation is hidden, people can still fill in the gaps, and this can have serious implications. “If you rang a phone sex service at two o’clock in the morning and spoke for 18 minutes, no one knows what was spoken about,” says Cluley. “But I think people can put two and two together.”

But I didn’t sign up for this, is this legal?

Actually, you did, and it is. Each time you log on to a social net-

working site or use a free online service like Facebook, you’re opting in to having your every move documented just by using the service.

Unfortunately, having access to these conveniences can leave a very detailed data trail behind you, which can easily be pieced together to form a narrative about you and your identity. Just as mobile phone companies have the right to record the metadata of your calls, so do social media companies when you choose to use their services to communicate with friends or followers. Instagram’s privacy policy illustrates what they do with user data by stating under the subheading How We Use Your Information, “….to provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our service.”

Not all of these documents are as short, sweet, and to the point, meaning that most people are unlikely to read them. According to the consumer group Which?, Paypal’s total word count for its terms and conditions document is 36,275 words, which is longer than Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Last year, the UK’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee criticised social media firms like Facebook and LinkedIn for their obscurity and length – the head of the committee describing some of the worst offenders as being "meaningless drivel to anyone except an American trained lawyer”.

What else can my phone reveal?

Celebrities and other high-profile individuals find metadata especially troublesome. Last year, a dataset was released by the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission containing every cab ride taken by the organisation in 2013, according to Neustar Research, “including the pickup and drop off times, locations, fare and tip amounts, as well as anonymised (hashed) versions of the taxi’s license and medallion numbers.”

As this information was made public, Anthony Tockar, a Northwestern graduate student interning for Neustar, was able to work out where stars like Bradley Cooper and Jessica Alba had taken their taxis in NYC, speculate why, and see how generous (or not) they were at tipping. He did this by realising that paparazzi photographers often capture celebrities entering or exiting New York City’s yellow taxis, and that many of their pictures showed the cab’s unique medallion number.

Thankfully, I’m not a celebrity, who cares about me?

Taxicab documents can be used to determine your whereabouts – whether you’ve been dropped off at a strip club or your apartment, for instance. Elsewhere, metadata can also be used to illustrate more

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how worried should I be that someone will target me?

The more online platforms you use to communicate, the more you increase your chances of being hacked. On a more intimate level, a hacker could also be someone you know, like a jealous partner.

According to Cluley spyware is sold openly online and can be applied to jailbroken devices in order to monitor another’s smartphone activity, such as the GPS location, calls, and texts. Jailbroken devices are iOS Apple products that have been released from their operating system, which can be beneficial for hackers who want to download applications that Apple does not approve. Although this spyware is often advertised for parents to monitor their children, that doesn’t always mean that’s what the spyware is used for.

Then there is facial recognition software. The most popular of these services is DeepFace, which Facebook uses to recognise your friends’ photographs. John Bohannon in Science magazine says the US government is also seeking to develop this technology further and has “poured funding into university-based facial recognition research”. Fears as to what this means for privacy and surveillance are escalating.

What should companies do about this?

It is important to realise that when you’re using social media you’re not only the consumer but also the product. Therefore, it would be quite a disadvantage to the social media companies now to change their business model to convenience users. However, this does open opportunities for other companies to create software that can disguise or disrupt your metadata.

An app called CacheCloak is being developed to mask your GPS coordinates, by sending Google or Yelp multiple possible routes to your destination instead of just the actual one you took. Voice-authentication passwords are also another form of privacy protection technology in high demand. Capable of being used to unlock your smartphone, voiceprints may be how we unlock our technologies of the future.

What should I do if I’m worried?

Luckily there are many things you can do to minimise the amount of metadata you’re disseminating. The simplest solution is to go to the privacy settings of your smartphone, and choose which apps you either would or would not like to use data location services.

By default, “Allow Location Access” will be turned on for each of your listed apps. You have the option to choose: Always, While Using, or Never. If necessary, you can also turn your data location services completely off, but this prevents you from enjoying the basic luxury your smartphone can offer you – maps.

As for social media you can privatise your accounts on apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter so that only your friends can see your posts. On Facebook you can enable the, “Review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline?” toggle so that nothing goes on your profile without your consent. Also, don’t forget to turn off geotagging, which is a small location pin that can be found on your status bar and within Instant Messenger that you can enable or disable at your will.

As a fundamental rule remember this: if you don’t want information like your photos to end up in unwanted hands, then don’t send it.

Police Officer careers By enforcing the law and investigating crime, police officers play an important role in ensuring the safety and security of those in the community they serve. Police officers are role models and leaders in their communities by providing advice and guidance to people from all walks of life. Recognizing and understanding diversityis an essential part of policing.

As an RcMP officer you will: Graduate as a constable from Depot, the RcMP's cadet Training facility, serve three or more years in General Duty Policing, Work with and make an impact on your community, Acquire a wide range of law enforcement experience, have options for over 150 career specializations, Work a varied schedule, including shift work, have learning and development opportunities, and have posting opportunities across the country.

Are you an Experienced Police Officer? check out our Experienced Police Officer Program.

What you should Expect you should expect to work shifts, including nights, evenings, weekends and holidays as policing takes place 24 hours per day.

Whether you stay in general duty policing or pursue a specialization, there are many opportunities to ensure a career full of learning and challenge.

Duties you will start your career doing general duty policing at the detachment level, but the career path you take after that is up to you. Many of our police officers choose to continue in general duty policing because of the interesting work and diverse challenges it offers. as:

This role provides you with an opportunity to experience a broad range of assignments such Responding to alarms; foot patrol; Bicycle patrol; Traffic enforcement; Testifying in court; collecting evidence at crime scenes; Apprehending criminals; and Plain clothes duties.

Postings

D Division headquarters: 1091 Portage Avenue P.O. Box 5650 Winnipeg, MB R3c 3K2 Telephone: (204) 983-5420

As a police officer with the RcMP, you must be prepared to serve anywhere in canada. As you gain valuable policing experience, different opportunities will become available to you.

Graduates do not normally get posted to their home province directly after training.

Midway through training, you will be asked to identify three provinces to which you would like to be posted. you will also have an opportunity to identify your personal circumstances to help us determine an appropriate location.

Transfer Process The RcMP will work with you to determine your next career steps. Each time you are considered for a transfer, your current personal situation will be reviewed.

The RcMP covers the cost for relocating you and your immediate family, however; the RcMP does not assist spouses with their career relocations.

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Man's best friend

Good friends are loyal and stick by you no matter what, and that's especially true when it comes to man's best friend. We've found some of the most faithful dogs in history — from courageous canines who saved their owners' lives to dedicated dogs who stayed by their loved ones' sides even after death. Read on for some amazing tales of love and devotion that are sure to warm you from head to tail.

hachiko Hidesamuro Ueno brought his dog, Hachiko, to Tokyo in 1924, and every day when he left for his teaching job, Hachiko would stand by the door and watch him go. Then at 4 p.m. the Akita would arrive at Shibuya Station to meet his owner. A year later Ueno died of a stroke at work, but Hachiko continued to return to the train station at 4 p.m. every single day, searching for his owner’s face amid the slew of passengers getting off the train. Eventually, the stationmaster made the dog a bed at the station and began leaving him bowls of food and water.

Hachiko returned to the train station every day for 10 years until he died in 1935, but in a way, the dedicated dog remains at the station. A year before his death, Shibuya Station installed a bronze statue of Hachiko, and although the original statue was melted down during World War II, a new version was created in 1948 by the original artist’s son.

Dorado On Sept. 11, 2001, Omar Eduardo Rivera, a blind Information Specialist, was working on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center with his guide dog, Dorado. When the hijacked plane hit the tower, Rivera knew it would take him a long time to evacuate the building, but he wanted his Labrador retriever to have a chance to get out so he unclipped his leash in the crowded stairwell. “I thought I was lost forever — the noise and the heat were terrifying — but I had to give Dorado the chance of escape. So I unclipped his leash, ruffled his head, gave him a nudge and ordered Dorado to go,” Rivera said.

Dorado was swept downstairs by the mass of evacuating people, but a few minutes later Rivera felt the dog nuzzling his legs — Dorado had come right back to his side. Dorado and a co-worker then helped Rivera climb down 70 flights of stairs, which took nearly an hour. Soon after they escaped the tower, the building collapsed, and Rivera says he owes his life to his faithful dog.

shrek In January 2009, 10year-old Maxim Kurguzov was playing outside his Russian home when a fox wandered into the yard, killed one of the family chickens and then turned on the young boy. Then Shrek, the family dog, gallantly leapt in front of Maxim and fought off the fox with several bites to the head. Upon hearing the commotion, Maxim’s father, Alexey, grabbed his son and began snapping photos of his fearless dog, which engaged in a 25-minute standoff with the fox.

lady Lady the golden retriever was 81-yearold Parley Nichols’ constant companion for six years, and the dog stayed by Nichols’ side even as he developed dementia and began to lose his memory. When Nichols went missing in Ohio on April 8, 2010, so did Lady, and the police spent a week searching for the pair until they found the canine and her owner in a field. Nichols had died of heart failure, but Lady never left his side, staying alive by drinking water from a nearby creek. The loyal dog didn’t want to leave Nichols, but his family eventually took her away from the tragic scene and adopted Lady as their own.

lao Pan's dog When 68-year-old Lao Pan died in China in November 2011, the only surviving member of his family was a small yellow dog. The heartbroken pup took up residence at Pan’s graveside and refused to leave even after going seven days without food. However, villagers took notice of the loyal canine and began bringing food and water to the gravesite — they even plan to build a kennel there for the dog.

Tsunami guard dog After an earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11, the media was full of tragic news as well as amazing stories of survival. One such survival story centered on a dog that stood guard over an injured canine on a debris-strewn beach. Although the dog was extremely protective of its wounded pal, rescuers were eventually able to calm the him and get the injured pup to a veterinary clinic. The loyal guard dog was then taken to an animal shelter.

hawkeye Hawkeye the Labrador retriever is proof that dogs, too, suffer from heartbreak.

During Navy SEAL John Tumilson’s funeral on Aug. 19, Hawkeye ambled up to his owner’s coffin and dropped to the ground with a heaving sigh. Tumilson’s cousin, Lisa Pembleton, snapped this photo of the devoted dog and posted it on her Facebook page, and the heartbreaking photo was soon shared around the world.

page 37 Professional help!

A woman received a call that her daughter was sick. She stopped by the pharmacy to get medication, got back to her car and found that she had locked her keys inside. The woman found an old rusty coat hanger left on the ground.

She looked at it and said, "I don't know how to use this."

She bowed her head and asked God to send her HELP. Within a minute a beat up old motorcycle pulled up. A bearded man who was wearing an old biker skull rag. The man got off of his cycle and asked if he could help.

She said, "Yes, my daughter is sick. I've locked my keys in my car.

I must get home. Please, can you use this hanger to unlock my car?"

He said, "Sure."

He walked over to the car, and in less than a minute the car was open.

She hugged the man and through tears said, "Thank You SO Much! You are a very nice man."

The man replied, "Lady, I am NOT a nice man. I just got out of PRISON yesterday, I was in prison for car theft."

The woman hugged the man again sobbing, "Oh, thank you God! You even sent me a Professional!"

Public Announcement!

The minister of a city church enjoyed a drink now and then, but his passion was for peach brandy. One of his congregants would make him a bottle each Christmas.

One year, when the minister went to visit his friend, hoping for his usual Christmas present, he was not disappointed, but his friend told him that he had to thank him for the peach brandy from the pulpit the next Sunday.

In his haste to get the bottle, the minister hurriedly agreed and left. So the next Sunday the minister suddenly remembered that he had to make a public announcement that he was being supplied alcohol from a member of the church. That morning, his friend sat in the church with a grin on his face, waiting to see the minister's embarrassment.

The minister climbed into the pulpit and said, "Before we begin, I have an announcement. I would very much like to thank my friend, Joe, for his kind gift of peaches... and for the spirit in which they were given !"

It's an Emergency The Boss who was on the 25th floor of the building called up one of his blonde clerk on the ground floor for an important file.

Since it was rather urgent the Boss told the clerk it was an emergency and that she should hurry with the file.

After more than 30 minutes the blonde appears all tired and panting for breath. The Boss asks her why she was panting and what caused the huge delay. She replies, "Sir, when I went to the elevator it said, 'During an emergency please use the staircase'!!!"

food for Thought An old lady, a difficult independent, use to sit on a bench in a park to feed the pigeons.

One day, she brought with her a whole bun of fresh bread just to feed her daily company. Little by little, pinch by pinch, she fed

each pigeon with joy.

Then suddenly a man in his early 40s, who was watching her from a distance, came near her and told her that she shouldn't throw away good food on a bunch of pigeons that can find food anywhere when there are a lot of people starving in Africa.

The old lady said in crazed anger and without hesitation, "Well, I can't throw that far!"

safe Ride???

There is a story about monastery in Europe perched high on a cliff several 100 feet in the air. The only way to reach the monastery was to be suspended in a basket, which was pulled to the top by several monks, who pulled and tugged with all their strength. Obviously, the ride up the steep cliff in that basket was terrifying.

One tourist got exceedingly nervous when he was half-way up as he noticed that the rope by which he was suspended was old and frayed.

With a trembling voice he asked the monk who was riding with him in the basket how often they change the rope.

The monk thought for a moment and answered brusquely, "Whenever it breaks."

how to cross the Road in Pakistan...

Road Crossing Instructions in Pakistan Look both right and left for cars, motorcycles, animals and pedestrians; Look "up" for American drones; Look "down" for bombs and land mines; Look sideways and backwards for kidnappers and suicide bombers; Hold your bags tight and watch for every person near you; Then walk zigzag to avoid bullets.

free hard Drinks On-Board A flight attendant on an Airline's cross-Europe flight nervously announced about 30 minutes outbound from Warsaw, "I don't know how this happened, but we have 110 passengers on board and only 40 dinners..."

When the passengers' muttering had died down, she continued, "Anyone who is kind enough to give up his meal so that someone else can eat, will receive free unlimited hard drinks during the entire journey in the flight."

Her next announcement came an hour and a half later, "If anyone wants to change his/her mind, we still have 35 dinners available!!!"

simple Addition Teacher: If I gave you 2 rabbits, and another 2 rabbits and another 2, how many will you have?

Pappu: Seven Sir. Teacher: No, listen carefully. If I gave you 2 rabbits, and another 2 rabbits and another 2, how many will you have?

Pappu: Seven.

Teacher: Let me put it to you differently. If I gave you 2 apples, and another apples and another 2, how many will you have?

Pappu: Six. Teacher: Good. Now if I gave you 2 rabbits, and an-

other 2 rabbits and another 2, how many will you have?

Pappu: Seven!

Teacher: Where do you get seven from?

Pappu: Because I've already got one at home.

not for sale!!!

A picky lady customer at a Supermarket's fruit department watches as a new delivery of fresh fruit is delivered.

"Give me two kilo of oranges and wrap every orange in a separate piece of paper, please", the picky lady says to the saleslady.

Silently the sales lady serves the picky customer.

"And three kilo of apples, please, and wrap each and every one in a separate piece of paper, too."

Gritting her teeth, the saleslady once again obliges the picky customer.

"And what is that over there", the picky customer says as she points to a basket in the corner.

"Grapes,, says the saleslady with a big grin on her face, "but they are not for sale!!!"

Perfect Answer The skydiving instructor was going through the question-andanswer period with his new students when one of them asked the usual question: If our chute doesn't open; and the reserve doesn't open, how long would we have till we hit the ground?

The jump master looked at him and in perfect deadpan answered: The rest of your life.

Horoscope Aries

(March 21 - April 19) Act only when you know the time is right. You’ll only waste energy if you keep jumping in and getting nowhere. Conserve. No one can keep up with your breakneck speed, but even you need to recharge your batteries once in a while, so remember to get some rest. Others look up to you and some even see you as their inspiration, mainly because you’re seen giving more to life than you are taking it. The next few weeks have a lot to offer you, so instead of just being the one who arranges parties, why not be the life and soul of them too.

leo

(July 23 - August 22)

Life is finally levelling out in all areas, so work money health and love should all be going in the right direction. Get mundane tasks out of the way as fast as you can, and it then leaves you the rest of the day to do all of the things that appeal to you most.

Enjoy. You’re more than adept these days in getting people on your side, or changing their point of view to support you, but there will always be one or two who dig in their heels and refuse to budge. Don’t lose sleep over this. It's not worth it. You can't move mountains so don’t.

sagittarius

(nov. 22 - Dec. 21) You’re really on a roll socially this month, and as you bring your usual effervescent nature to the table, others will be drawn to you like moths to a flame. You’re in a very co-operative frame of mind when it comes to work projects, so life should run smoothly. Keeping hopes and dreams realistic has always been hard for you as you like to reach for the stars in everything you do, but if you rein it in now there’s no reason why dreams cant come true. There’s a bright future ahead of you, so take it at a slower pace and enjoy the ride. Brilliant.

Taurus

(April 20 - May 20) Allow your gut feelings and intuition to lead you to the next steps of your forward progress. You don’t need to wait for the green light from others.

Do what you want when it feels right.

Your compensative side is on full view and you’re confident you’re doing well.

There have been a lot of new projects milling about in your brain for a while now, so maybe its time to dust them off, get the ball rolling and put them into practice. You’re moving in the right direction and others are more than happy to help. Meet up with friends for lunch, dinner or clubbing.

virgo

(August 23 - sep. 22)

February Gemini

(May 21 - June 21) You seem to be motoring on a no fear policy this month, and because of that you’ll take significant risks. You don’t see this as dangerous as you’re confident and focused and know where to look for pitfalls and hurdles. You’re a natural worrier and it’s worked in your favour. It’s a great time to get involved in new enterprises thought up by you, your partner or your close friends, and because you all have a vested interest right from the start, you’ll all work hard to gain success.

Remember to tell the one you love that you love them.

libra

(sep. 23 - Oct. 23)

It’s an emotionally challenging month where you’ll swing from extreme highs to extreme lows in the blink of an eye, but yet you’ll still enjoy it. You don t mind a little upheaval in your life, and you certainly wont be backing down from heated arguments.

You’re feeling a bit restricted owing to recent circumstances, and although you’ve been coping by allowing your mind to wander, actually physical wandering in the shape of a short break or holiday could be just what the doctor ordered. Get planning. Don’t be too quick to jump to conclusions.

Money matters have your full attention this month, and although there may be a few ups and downs, there’s nothing you cant handle with sheer determination. If you get the chance for a change of scenery, a weekend away, or just a day trip, grab it with both hands. There are certain changes you want to make across the board of your life, starting here, starting now.

Some minor, some major, so don’t be afraid to go out on a limb or take a chance, even if it does mean some major upheaval. Be in control of imminent changes.

capricorn

Aquarius

(Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Your domestic life seems to be moving along nicely, not too fast, not too slow, but you may have to work hard to persuade disbelieving friends and family from the past that you’ve finally worked out what you’re doing and where you’re going. Fate is on your side and circumstances seem to be bending to your will, so you’ll enjoy exploring that big wide world out there. Get ready for some big surprises on the social front, and although it will take you away from what you’d originally planned, don’t get annoyed with others. They thought they were doing well.

(Jan. 20 - feb. 18) Success springs from the most unlikely of sources, and although they may not be regarding major issues, you’ll enjoy the buzz as it happens. You seem to be meeting new people on a daily basis these days, and although many have all blurred into insignificance, there will be some captivating individuals who grab your attention. By all means listen to their captivating stories, but you have tales of your own. Your ideas are sharp but you also have the determination to carry off pretty much anything that you decide to put your mind to.

Stay focused.

cancer

(June 22 - July 22) Try to stay focused and confident and go after goals with gusto.

Take any and all opportunities that life presents and don’t be afraid to go after something or someone new. You can even afford to take a chance over money matters. Your positive attitude and cheery demeanour lifts the spirits of everyone around you. Job well done.

Don’t get involved in family arguments.

They’re petty and probably don’t even involve you so back off. Chance your arm financially. Try not to argue for your limitations or you may unearth some problems.

scorpio

(Oct. 24 - nov. 21) If you’re surrounded by negative people, the positive progress you’re making wont seem as great as it actually is.

Time to break away from this lot and be with people who know how hard you’ve worked to get here. If your confidence is lacking stick to the tried and tested. It’s the important people in your life who will figure prominently in your thoughts, just as it should be. Use your energy and determination to push forward at work, and use just as much energy to confront issues that could affect your family life. If others don’t appreciate you for being you, it may be time to part company.

Pisces

(feb. 19 - March 20) Let others take some of the strain as you’re always the one doing so. Your energy and confidence are not as high as they could be. Maybe you’re tired, and no wonder with everything you do for others. Focus on your plans for the future over work and money. The constant attention to detail you feel is necessary at work is starting to wear you down. Maybe consider a new career path. Try to boost your confidence. Ignore negative trends brought by pessimists. Be yourself and be charming. Time to broaden your horizons.

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