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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 18, 20 14 Nov. 21st CRANBROOK BLACK FRIDAY THE BULLETIN $ 1 10 INCLUDES G.S.T. TownsmanBulletin Like Us @kbulletin Follow Us BOOK EXCERPT NITROS IN LONDON TOWN See LOCAL NEWS page 4 LOIS CREEK TRAILS WILDLIFE INFO Interactive signs let hikers share wildlife sightings. See LOCAL NEWS page 3 PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 82, Issue 218 | www.dailybulletin.ca New Council eager to get to work CAROLYN GRANT PHOTO Just prior to his re-election for a tenth term, City Councillor Albert Hoglund was presented with a UBCM Long Service award by Mayor Ron McRae, recognizing his more than 25 years serving the City of Kimberley. Two women, four men make up new Council CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor Kimberley’s City Coun- cil for the next four years is a mix of experience and new faces, but one and all are excited about the possi- bilities the term will bring and grateful to the voters who got them there. The top vote getter in Saturday’s municipal elec- tion was Sandra Roberts, who campaigned on her solid history in finance as manager of the local credit union before her retire- ment. “I wish to take this op- portunity to thank the resi- dents of Kimberley who chose to vote for me,” Rob- erts said. “I look forward to the immediate future when we will get down to work on fulfilling our mandate to represent you in the most effective way possible. It appears that you have cho- sen a great team and I am anxious for us to get start- ed.” Councillor Kent Good- win was elected to a second term, again with a fiscal re- sponsibility message. “I am excited and hon- oured to be reelected to Kimberley City Council,” said Goodwin. “I would like to thank everyone who par- ticipated in this year’s elec- tion, including all the can- didates and those who took the time to vote. I am hope- ful that, over the next four years, there will be further opportunities for everyone to get involved in commu- nity decision-making as we move forward with eco- nomic development plan- ning, a City service review and conversations about what kind of town we are becoming. Democracy works best when people stay engaged between elec- tions. Please help us make that happen.” Councillor Darryl Oak- ley, one of the more out- spoken councillors from the previous term, received the third highest number of votes. “It is a huge honor to be re-elected to Kimberley City Council and I intend to continue to work hard for our community. I wish to thank all those who ran for public office, and congrat- ulate those who were elect- ed to council. I am looking forward to the next four years and I am very excited to be part of the team with Don McCormick leading the charge,” Oakley said. Councillor Albert Ho- glund will be the senior member of council as he enters his tenth term. “I feel good,” he said of his win. “It’s nice to have the confidence of the peo- ple back. Hopefully I will be able to serve them well for the next four years.” The other newcomer on Council is Nigel Kitto, who says he is very much look- ing forward to the coming term. “Thank you family, friends and community for your support and trust in electing me to city council,” Kitto said. See COUNCIL, page 3 A chat with the Mayor-Elect CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor Kimberley’s Mayor-Elect Don McCormick is ready to get work at City Hall, though he won’t formally be sworn in until December 8. And he is adamant that he will follow through on promises made. “What I heard the majority of tax payers saying during the campaign is that they are concerned about the size of the tax bills they are getting relative to the value they feel they are getting. “What am I getting for the money spent? It all relates back to the size of the pie. We don’t have a spending prob- lem per se. We have a revenue issue. If there is no more reve- nue, it puts pressure on the tax base. “Prudent spending has to do with what we do with what’s available. And a ser- vice review is the core of that.” One of McCormick’s promises was a full service review, which is essentially a look at everything the city does, every service provided, every penny spent. “My expectation is that a service review will help us find ways to more effectively spend the money we have. And it needs to independent and public. “It’s a variation of a zero based budget. Assume noth- ing. My expectation is we will find ways to more effectively spend the money.” However, he says that at no point in his campaign did he mention the word cut. “One of the things I want to do is immediately meet with various staff groups and answer their specific ques- tions.” Another thing the service review would look at is non-profits. “The whole funding issue for non-profits is not the easi- est thing,” McCormick said. “Money is scarce. I believe the role of the city is facilitat- ing to ensure the success of non-profits but we can’t bankroll them. See McCORMICK, P. 4 Mayor-Elect Don McCormick ELECTION 2014 CAROLYN GRANT Bulletin Editor Mayor Ron McRae says he is disappointed in the results of Saturday’s election, but wishes those elected well. McRae lost by a margin of roughly 150 votes to Don Mc- Cormick. “I wish Mr. McCormick and the new Council all the best,” McRae said Monday morning. “I thank all those who supported me, not just in the election but over the past three years. There was much accomplished and the foundation is there. My hope and desire is that Mayor and Council will continue to forge ahead with the direction that’s been set.” McRae wishes new Mayor and Council well

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PROUDLY SERVING KIMBERLEY AND AREA SINCE 1932 | Vol. 82, Issue 218 | www.dailybulletin.ca

New Council eager to get to work

CAROLYN GRANT PHOTO

Just prior to his re-election for a tenth term, City Councillor Albert Hoglund was presented with a UBCM Long Service award by Mayor Ron McRae, recognizing his more than 25 years serving the City of Kimberley.

Two women, four men make up new

Council

C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor

Kimberley’s City Coun-cil for the next four years is a mix of experience and new faces, but one and all are excited about the possi-bilities the term will bring and grateful to the voters who got them there.

The top vote getter in Saturday’s municipal elec-tion was Sandra Roberts, who campaigned on her solid history in finance as manager of the local credit union before her retire-ment.

“I wish to take this op-portunity to thank the resi-

dents of Kimberley who chose to vote for me,” Rob-erts said. “I look forward to the immediate future when we will get down to work on fulfilling our mandate to represent you in the most effective way possible. It appears that you have cho-sen a great team and I am anxious for us to get start-ed.”

Councillor Kent Good-win was elected to a second term, again with a fiscal re-sponsibility message.

“I am excited and hon-oured to be reelected to Kimberley City Council,” said Goodwin. “I would like to thank everyone who par-ticipated in this year’s elec-tion, including all the can-didates and those who took the time to vote. I am hope-ful that, over the next four years, there will be further

opportunities for everyone to get involved in commu-nity decision-making as we move forward with eco-nomic development plan-ning, a City service review and conversations about what kind of town we are becoming. Democracy works best when people stay engaged between elec-tions. Please help us make that happen.”

Councillor Darryl Oak-ley, one of the more out-spoken councillors from the previous term, received the third highest number of votes.

“It is a huge honor to be re-elected to Kimberley City Council and I intend to continue to work hard for our community. I wish to thank all those who ran for public office, and congrat-ulate those who were elect-

ed to council. I am looking forward to the next four years and I am very excited to be part of the team with Don McCormick leading the charge,” Oakley said.

Councillor Albert Ho-glund will be the senior member of council as he enters his tenth term.

“I feel good,” he said of his win. “It’s nice to have the confidence of the peo-ple back. Hopefully I will be able to serve them well for the next four years.”

The other newcomer on Council is Nigel Kitto, who says he is very much look-ing forward to the coming term.

“Thank you family, friends and community for your support and trust in electing me to city council,” Kitto said.

See COUNCIL, page 3

A chat with the Mayor-Elect

C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor

Kimberley’s Mayor-Elect Don McCormick is ready to get work at City Hall, though he won’t formally be sworn in until December 8. And he is adamant that he will follow through on promises made.

“What I heard the majority of tax payers saying during the campaign is that they are concerned about the size of the tax bills they are getting relative to the value they feel they are getting.

“What am I getting for the money spent? It all relates back to the size of the pie. We don’t have a spending prob-lem per se. We have a revenue issue. If there is no more reve-nue, it puts pressure on the tax base.

“Prudent spending has to do with what we do with what’s available. And a ser-vice review is the core of that.”

One of McCormick’s promises was a full service review, which is essentially a look at everything the city does, every service provided, every penny spent.

“My expectation is that a service review will help us find ways to more effectively spend the money we have. And it needs to independent and public.

“It’s a variation of a zero

based budget. Assume noth-ing. My expectation is we will find ways to more effectively spend the money.”

However, he says that at no point in his campaign did he mention the word cut.

“One of the things I want to do is immediately meet with various staff groups and answer their specific ques-tions.”

Another thing the service review would look at is non-profits.

“The whole funding issue for non-profits is not the easi-est thing,” McCormick said. “Money is scarce. I believe the role of the city is facilitat-ing to ensure the success of non-profits but we can’t bankroll them.

See McCORMICK, P. 4

Mayor-Elect Don McCormick

ELECTION 2014

C AROLYN GR ANTBulletin Editor

Mayor Ron McRae says he is disappointed in the results of Saturday’s election, but wishes those elected well.

McRae lost by a margin of roughly 150 votes to Don Mc-Cormick.

“I wish Mr. McCormick and the new Council all the

best,” McRae said Monday morning. “I thank all those who supported me, not just in the election but over the past three years. There was much accomplished and the foundation is there. My hope and desire is that Mayor and Council will continue to forge ahead with the direction that’s been set.”

McRae wishes new Mayor and Council well

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Jim C ameronCranbrook’s first election was held Nov. 22

1905, at the original fire hall situated on the west side of what is now the Cranbrook Photo building on Baker Street. T. M. Roberts (later Cranbrook’s longest serving mayor from 1925–40) was the returning officer as a total of 173 of

a possible 200 people cast their votes. Women could vote if they owned property, which a sur-prising number did. In the election held the next year women accounted for approximately 20 per cent of the voting list.

G.T. Rogers, a local grocer, handily defeated accountant Alex Moffat in the mayoral contest.

In the 109 years since the in-corporation of Cranbrook as a city, 24 men have held the posi-tion of mayor. The first was elect-ed Nov. 22, 1905 (see story on this page), and the most recent, the 24th, was elected Nov. 15, 2014.

• 1905-1906 G.T. Rogers• 1907 James Finley• 1908-1910 J.P. Fink• 1911 P. Devere Hunt• 1912-1913 A.C. Bowness• 1914 S. Taylor• 1915 A.C. Bowness• 1916-1918 Lester Clapp• 1919 W.F. Cameron• 1920-1922 J.A. Genest• 1923 W.F. Cameron• 1924 A.J. Balment• 1925-1940 T.M. Roberts• 1941-1946 A.J. Balment• 1947-1961 R.E. Sang• 1962-1969 G.W. Haddad• 1970-1973 M.G. Klinkhamer• 1974-1983 T.G. Colgur• 1984-1990 R.B. Jensen• 1990-1999 M.F. Patterson• 1999- 2008 R. Priest• 2008-2011 S. Manjak• 2011-2014 W. Stetski• 2014 L. Pratt elected

24 mayors in 109 years

Cranbrook’s first city council. Average age: 40. Standing, left to right: Aldermen Murphy, Jackson, Fink and Tisdale. Seated: Greer, Rogers, Hickenbotham

The six elected aldermen, culled from a field of eight, embodied the local working class. Jacob Fink and George Tisdale were merchants. Daniel Mur-phy and Joe Jackson were CPR employees. Harold Hickenbotham was a carpenter and James Greer a general contractor. They would collectively under-take the task of establishing a city.

The mayor and aldermen took the oath of office on Nov. 23, 1905 at the Cranbrook Hotel and met for the first time at noon the following Saturday at the Fire Hall

Reprinted from Janus: Cranbrook Then and Now, by Jim Cameron, November, 2011.

109 years ago, Cranbrook elected its first council

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T r e vo r C r aw L e yWith all the cold

weather that’s been around lately, it must be safe to go out onto the iced-over lakes, right?

Wrong, says the City of Cranbrook.

Idlewild Lake, al-ways a popular place for a pickup game of shinny, has just begun to ice over, along with other waterways in Cranbrook such as Jo-seph Creek.

Thin ice can be very

dangerous, especially for young children, who may not be aware of how stable or unstable it may be.

The city advises par-ents to talk with their children about those dangers and to stay off the ice at Idlewild Lake until it is six inches thick. The thickness is measured by Public Works and up-to-date information on the ice conditions can be ob-tained by contacting the city at 250-489-0220.

Be wary of thin ice, City urges

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POLLWEEK

Log on to www.dailybulletin.ca to make your vote count.

This web poll is informal. It reflects opinions of site visitors who voluntarily participate. Results may not represent the opinions of the public as a whole. Black Press is not responsible for the statistical accuracy of opinions expressed here.

of the “Is the court of public opinion too quick to condemn former CBC host Jian Ghomeshi?”

This week’s poll: “Are you satisfied with the result of the municipal election?”

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New interactive signage allows hikers to share information on

wildlife

For the Bulletin

WildSafeBC Kimber-ley-Cranbrook and the Friends of Lois Creek proudly announce the installation of new sign features at the Elko

and Trail Street entrances to Lois Creek. The new “Cau-tion: you’re in bear country” signs warn trail users of the potential for wildlife encoun-ters; encouraging everyone to make noise, travel in groups and carry bear spray. Even better, the signs are in-teractive, allowing users to add information about the wildlife they saw, and when they saw it.

By their own initiative, users of the Lois Creek Trails have been sharing the latest

wildlife sightings by posting informal signs at the trail ki-osks. The new signs aim to encourage this information sharing by trail users and provide a weatherproof me-dium on which to share and interact. On the signs, con-cerned users will also find links to the WildSafeBC web-site, with useful tips on wild-life safety, and the number for the Report all Poachers and Polluters (RAPP) 24-hour reporting line.

Check out the signs at the

Lois Creek Trail kiosks today! Consider any reported sight-ings before you head out into the trails. If you do see wild-life on the trails, add this in-formation to the signs to help your neighbours make in-formed decisions when rec-reating, too! Remember that in the event you experience a conflict with wildlife, call the RAPP line at 1 (877) 952.7277 to report the encounter. Thank you again for doing your part to keep wildlife wild and communities safe!

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Blake Rawson and Sonja Saher at the newly installed Lois Creek sign.

See a bear? Share the information

From Page 1“I am excited and

proud to be represent-ing such a wonderful community. I look for-ward to working with our new Mayor and Councillors during the next term. I intend to maintain open and honest communica-tion with our residents and business owners. A community that is in-formed and engaged will ensure that we are ready to face our future

challenges, and make Kimberley even better.”

One term councillor Bev Middlebrook was also re-elected.

“I thank everyone who voted for me and wished me well, your words and support are always appreciated,” Middlebrook said. “I couldn’t do what I do without you, I want you to know that. I think we will have a great, excit-ing team and really looking forward to the

next four years. It will be interesting to work through the city’s chal-lenges as well as expe-riencing Kimberley’s new growth; building upon the last council’s hard work and vision. We, as a team, will work on keeping taxes low while moving for-ward in a positive di-rection. I promise I will listen to you, take every issue and con-cern seriously and work hard for Kimber-

Council ready to start new term

norm macdonald MLA Columbia River

Revelstoke

Government deci-sions can have devas-tating consequences

The decisions made by government have real consequences in people’s lives. And when those people are on a fixed income, those government deci-sions can be devastat-ing.

Many people in our communities live on fixed incomes; seniors on fixed pensions, per-sons with disabilities. With no increase in their incomes, escalat-ing costs such as BC Hydro rates leave many of our citizens forced to decide whether to heat their homes or to buy groceries.

Why is the govern-ment to blame? It’s very simple. Government in-terference in BC Hydro resulted in this crown corporation being forced to spend $55 bil-lion on power that they didn’t need. Private power producers re-ceived very lucrative, long-term contracts from BC Hydro which will funnel public money into private hands for decades to come.

This is entirely the result of the BC Liber-als’ Energy Plan. The consequences of this plan were completely predictable.

Power to light and heat our homes is as necessary as water and sewer. We do not have the option of saying no to power. And more and more of our monthly budgets are being used up to provide this need.

If you receive $906 per month as a person with a disability, how can you pay even more for power? What must you give up to be able to

keep your family warm in winter? How many seniors are being forced to turn down their ther-mostats and turn off their lights?

I don’t accept that this is the type of soci-ety that people in this area want to have.

I don’t believe that people who are in re-duced circumstances due to no fault of their own should have their lives so diminished to fulfil the government’s heartless agenda.

Part of being your MLA is to hear the sto-ries of your lives. As we head into winter I am hearing so many per-sonal stories of people who are in this exact sit-uation, choosing be-tween heat and food. This is the real conse-quence of this govern-ment’s very bad deci-sion.

This is why I support the Hydro Affordability Act which was intro-duced by the Opposi-tion. This legislation would give the BC Utili-ties Commission the ability to set lower rates for families and seniors on fixed incomes. If you agree, take a moment to send an email to Pre-mier Clark at [email protected].

| [email protected] | 1 866 870 4188

MLA report

Norm Macdonald

ley’s community and taxpayer.”

The new Council

will be sworn in on December 8.

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New book celebrates 100

years of Hockey Canada

For the Bulletin

From the publisher of It’s Our Game.

“As fans across the country gear up for the World Junior tourna-ment this December, Hockey Canada cele-brates its historic 100 year anniversary. To mark the occasion, Pen-guin has published It’s Our Game, a lavishly il-lustrated coffee table book chronicling a cen-tury of incredible Cana-dian hockey. Within, Michael McKinley - best known for Hockey: A People’s History, both the book and the phe-nomenal CBC television series – shares a pas-sionate account of our nation working to be the best at the sport they love most.

This epic story would be entirely incomplete without mentioning your very own Kimber-ley Dynamiters, the sub-ject of McKinley’s chap-ter 15. The Dynamiters were sent to London, England in 1937 to re-claim the world ama-teur title Canada had lost to a team of Brit-ish-Canadians during the 1936 Olympics. De-spite fans throwing any-thing within reach at the Kimberley players, they managed to succeed in reclaiming the champi-onship and reestablish-ing Canada’s interna-tional reputation. The history of hockey will always be Canada’s story to tell and your Kimberley Dynamiters helped to do it.”excerPt from It’s

our game

Despite the CAHA’s notion to create some sort of national hockey team, an idea that had been getting more seri-ous attention in hockey rinks and boardrooms alike since Canada’s loss to Britain at the 1936 Olympic Winter Games, the CAHA decided to stick with the tried and mostly true, and send the 1936 Allan Cup win-ners to represent Cana-da at the 1937 world championship. The fact that the IIHF’s tourna-ment was taking place

on Bunny Ahearne’s home ice in London made Canadian desire for revenge even sweeter, for it was Ahearne and his squad of British-Cana-dians who swindled the Canadians out of a gold medal in 1936.

So, the Kimberley Dynamiters travelled from the snowy Koote-nay Mountains of Brit-ish Columbia to the foggy dank of London in February to take back the world title for Canada. The Dyna-miters had beaten the

Sudbury Falcons 2–0 and 4–3 in a two-game, total-goals se-ries to win the Canadi-an senior hockey championship, the first time that a team from BC had captured the Allan Cup.

When Kimberley, a small town in the Koo-tenay Rockies, was es-tablished in 1896, it was named after a South African dia-mond mine. For the next century, mining defined Kimberley, with the massive Sulli-van mine exploiting one of the world’s larg-est zinc and lead depos-its and becoming the town’s major employ-er—of miners and of hockey players, who were often one and the same.

The company that operated the mine, the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada, which be-came known as Comin-co in 1966, wanted badly to beat its corporate rival from Trail, BC, where the Smoke Eaters ruled senior hockey in the West Kootenay League. So they spent money to recruit players who could earn more playing for Kimberley and working for Comin-co than they would in the NHL.

But still, these play-ers were considered amateurs. And off they went to Europe to com-pete against other na-tional players who played for European clubs for money but were considered ama-teur, too. The Kimberley Dynamiters, led by cap-tain Harry “Smiler” Brown, forward James “Puffy” Kemp, and goal-ie Ken Campbell, dap-per in his tweed cap, put on a clinic in Europe,

having survived a tough tour across Canada be-fore the world champi-onship with a record of 11–3. Once in England, the Dynamiters thrilled the crowds in Wembley and Harringay arenas, winning eight games by outscoring the opposi-tion 60–4. Their revenge came on the night of February 26, when they faced Great Britain, a team stocked with many Ca na d i a n -s c h o o l e d players who had beaten Canada at the 1936 Olympics.

George “Red” Goble scored for Kimberley in the first period, break-ing Jimmy Foster’s in-credible eight-game shutout streak. Ralph Redding scored twice to put the Canadians up 3–0, but winning on the scoreboard wasn’t enough for a Canadian crew that still seethed at the country’s “loss” of the Olympic gold medal to Britain in 1936. Fights broke out in the first pe-riod between Red Goble and Britain’s Winni-peg-born Don Dailley, and again in the third between Kimberley de-fenceman Bill Burnett and Niagara Falls’ En-glishman Edgar Brench-

ley. The crowd, upset at

seeing their Canadians being beaten by Kim-berley’s Canadians, got ugly, and “littered the ice with newspapers, or-ange peel, tin cans and any other missiles with-in reach. Order was fi-nally restored when the band played the Nation-al Anthem.”

Canada still had one more game to win to take the gold, and on Saturday, February 27, 10,000 fans, all pulling for the Swiss, crammed into the Harringay Arena. Canada’s Puffy Kemp opened the scor-ing in the second peri-od, but the Swiss tied it before the frame was finished. The third peri-od decided nothing, so the teams entered over-time. If the Swiss won, then Canada and Brit-ain would be tied for top spot. Red Goble was having none of that, and popped the puck past Swiss goalie Albert Hirz before three minutes had elapsed in the extra period. The Kimberley Dynamiters had re-claimed Canada’s hock-ey superiority from a bunch of Canadian mercenaries.

Indeed, the IIHF was considering a motion at its 1937 annual general meeting put forward by the Swiss to declare all Canadians playing in Britain to be profession-als. Some British rink managers were all for the idea, as it would free them from the control of the British Ice Hockey Association and Bunny Ahearne. They felt the BIHA “had not kept pace with the develop-ment [of the] game,” which meant keeping the pace of money into their coffers a slow one.

The IIHF would compromise in the end, allowing professionals and amateurs to play in the same leagues, with amateurs only being al-lowed to play for their countries at the Olym-pics and world champi-onships. Paul Loicq, president of the IIHF, reminded the world of whose game it really was. Canadian players, he said, were necessary in Europe, however they came to be there, for “teaching purposes.” The Europeans were getting better at hockey, but they were still learning from Canada.

Book details Dynamiters’ trip to LondonHockey History

From Page 1“The expectation

that when someone needs money, go to the City, is not valid.”

McCormick says that if the review be-gins immediately it could have an impact on next year’s budget, at least the capital portion which is done the latest.

“If not, it will help marshal our priorities as we move forward.

“I didn’t hear peo-ple say my taxes need to go down. They are concerned about the rate of increase.”

Asked if he agreed with Coun. Kent Goodwin on shifting part of the flat tax to the mill rate, he said he does in principal.

“But currently, we’d be doing that by shifting the tax bur-den within the exist-ing tax base. I would rather eliminate it as we grow the tax base. The mill rate is al-ready the highest in the region and that would increase it. In principal it’s a good thing, but it’s a timing thing.”

McCormick says he is aware that there were a lot of rumours floating around during the campaign — that’s why he wants to meet with staff as soon as possible.

“And anyone else — just ask me. I also want to sit with each councillor and get their top priority. There were voted in after stating what they stood for and I want to capture that so they feel their priorities are given a fair shake.”

He also wants to begin a dialogue with regional leaders.

“There have been some changes and re-gional partners are critical for economic development.”

And economic de-velopment will be top of mind, he said.

“It is top of mind in every community. We need to be focused. There is a fair amount of competition. We have to be on our best game.

“Infrastructure re-newal needs to hap-pen and we need new money to do it. That’s our number one focus.”

McCormick also says that while it wasn’t a specific cam-paign issue, there is a perception about communication and access at city hall that needs to be ad-dressed.

“It’s not just greatly improving communi-cation coming out but also ways of taking city hall to the com-munity. Is there any reason why we couldn’t conduct a council meeting at a seniors’ home? Or Selkirk or McKim?

“Maybe there are other creative things we could do. I want to work on doing that.”

Finally he says he is building a so-called list of things.

“It will be a state-ment of everything I said I would do, with tick boxes. I will have it on my wall so I and everyone else can see and keep a running track of accomplish-ments. We can’t lose sight of our goals.

“But I want to tem-per all of this with the fact that there is the regular business of the city that goes on and can’t be inter-rupted. I am acutely aware of that.”

McCormick outlines priorities

“Economic development is top of mind in

every community. We

need to be focused. There is a fair amount of competition. We have to be on our

best game.”Mayor-Elect

Don McCormick

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For the townsmanChildren and families in Canada have a

right to access quality, affordable child care services. Yet, only 20 per cent of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, child care fees are the second highest expense for fami-lies.

Early childhood educators also have a right to be socially valued and properly paid for their work, yet ECE professionals earn about half as much, on average, as other college-trained workers. From grandparents to economists, working par-ents to student parents, health care profes-sionals to social workers, early childhood educators to university professors — and so many others — everyone has a child care story.

The East Kootenay Child Care Needs Assessment Task Force has secured fund-ing enabling us to hire Jane Boyd (45 Con-versations, a media and education compa-ny) with significant connections and expe-rience in the early learning and child care field.

Canadians have been debating child

care for years: How much? What kind? Who pays? We’ve heard from politicians and experts. The EK Child Care Needs As-sessment Task Force wants to hear from parents/caregivers, grand parents, busi-ness owners, Early Childhood Educators, all stakeholders that have an interest or need for child care.

As part of the East Kootenay Child Care Needs Assessment, we are pleased to move forward with the online survey component of this project. This work will be completed in two phases. The survey is intended to identify the child care needs in the East Kootenay region and to prioritize those needs through a plan for action. Phase One will run from now through the end of 2014; with a final report being issued shortly thereafter. Planning for the funding and implementation of Phase Two is already underway.

We want you to be part of the East Koo-tenay Conversations on Child Care. You can access the survey at http://45conversa-tions.com/east-kootenay-child-care-survey/ or by visiting www.EKkids.ca. Please share this link with as many individuals as possi-

ble who may have an interest with child care issues in the East Kootenay region of BC. If someone does not have access to the internet from their home, we encourage them to:

• Visit their local library where they should be able to access a computer and internet for no cost (provided they have a library card). Please see this link for infor-mation on local library locations http://klf.bclibrary.ca/KLF-libraries

• For those in Cranbrook, contact Street Angels at 250-420-2756 to arrange for inter-net access in order to complete the survey.

The East Kootenay Child Care Needs Assessment Task Force wishes to thank the Columbia Basin Trust, Success By Six, Chil-dren First, East Kootenay Child Care Re-source and Referral and 45 Conversations for their funding and in-kind contributions toward this project.

For additional information about the EK Child Care Needs Assessment, please con-tact Patricia Whalen, Children First Manag-er at 250-426-2542 or at [email protected], or contact Jane Boyd at [email protected].

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Letters to the editorCranbrook and CouncilRunning for Cranbrook City Council in

the recent election was educational.Over the years I have been lucky to in-

teract with many levels of the public and government. On the election trail I gained further knowledge of the issues facing this City. City Council needs to make tough choices and are voted in by the public to find solution to budgets, community pres-sures and public safety. Remember the council is in place to support the public, so speak with the team you elected and bring forward new creative ideas and issues of concern.

Every citizen in Cranbrook knows we are a world class city. On our new driver licences there is picture of the Steeples Mountains in blue and white. This picture is of poor resolution, and that’s probably a good thing. If British Columbians had a view of the mountains covered in snow in full color they would turn their cars and head to our city. When they arrived in our fine city they find all the public services of larger cities. The schools, college, hospital, fire hall, service groups, art programs, li-brary, airport, Western Financial Place, di-verse businesses, recycle center, transfer station, police station and clubs. Not to mention the low cost of buying properties compared to other cities.

Yes I like living in a beautiful city with the benefit of the larger community ser-vice with the small town feel and a com-munity spirit like no other! So when coun-cil says we need to increase tourism and economic development and protectour environment they understand the expense of running the community services with such a small city population. The council needs to work with a small budget to run these services provided in Cranbrook.

New councillors, remember the citizens of Cranbrook live and stay in Cranbrook

because of the above reason. They have elected you to serve this city. We sing out our successes and often hide our mistakes. Remember mistakes are part of learning and I believe the citizen of Cranbrook would forgive. Sometimes the funds are not available for everything. We are the Key City and its citizens will understand. Make wise choices and you will do a great job. Last, brainstorm ideas with the public, they will be your best tool.

Lynn McIntoshCranbrook

Welcome to Canada, Uncle sam

It’s happening here — the paranoia has spread and our civil rights are disappearing like they have in in the U.S.A.

The Conservative government’s Online Spying Bill C-13, which is being supported by our MP Mr. Wilks, will let our government and police spy on us without a legal warrant and eliminate any opportunity or appeal we may have as law abiding citizens to stop them from doing so.

While Bill C-13 is being sold to the public as the online anti-bullying law it goes much, much further and will infringe on our basic right to privacy and confidentiality. The gov-ernment will begin to collect massive amounts of private information about me and you and keep that data for whatever reason — and this is without any government, agency or court oversight. You would not even be informed if the government is spying on you once they have accessed your information. And data means everything, including cell phones.

The Conservative government must real-ize there are few online bullies and we have laws and processes to deal with them now. So why are they trying to quickly pass new legis-

lation that is so intrusive and all encompass-ing that it has been rushed through the House of Commons and now the Senate?

This legislation is very similar to previous legislation the Conservatives were forced to back down from because of public concern and outrage. But here we go again and they are going to make you pay for it too.

I think Canadian citizens should be sub-ject to the same oversights as our Senators and MPs. I’d feel much safer then.

Bill BargerCranbrook

Comet landingNow I know, as do many others, that this

is a movie of dubious comic merit; but after reading the news of what transpires on this poor planet over the course of a few days, weeks or years, it perhaps could describe our civilization as we experience it.

Here we are on a finite world whose pop-ulation increases appears out of control; but do we acknowledge this and take even the most rudimentary steps to bring things into balance? No, while millions are homeless and starving in Africa and other areas much clos-er to home scientists have been engrossed in landing a device on a comet of little worth, tens of millions of miles distant and at a cost of two billion plus dollars.

We often hear of UFO sightings. These objects perhaps occupied by sentient beings from far distant worlds. They may or may not be factual; but if indeed they are and others are watching us and the planet upon which we reside there can be little doubt that after a short and wondering while; and probably with a sad shake of heads, depart for other worlds where sanity and reason could well be present.

Bob PearceCranbrook

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Russian politician Andrei Zhirinovsky is all mouth, so it would not normal-ly have caused a stir when he sug-

gested earlier this year that Russia should simply annex the parts of neighbouring Kazakhstan that have a large Russian pop-ulation. But the ultra-nationalist leader of the Liberal Democratic Party actually frightened the Kazakhs, because there is a bigger game going on.

Kazakh President Nur-sultan Nazarbayev, in power since before Ka-zakhstan got its indepen-dence from the former Soviet Union in 1991, was so alarmed that he openly expressed doubts about whether Kazakhstan should join Moscow’s “Eurasian Econom-ic Union” (EEU) when it launches next January. “Kazakhstan will not be part of organizations that pose a threat to our independence,” he said in August.

The EEU is the same organisation that Ukrainians rebelled against joining last year when their pro-Moscow former pres-ident, Viktor Yanukovych, abandoned plans for closer ties with the European Union (EU). But Kazakhstan under Nazarbayev has always been on good terms with Russia, so Russia’s autarch, Vladimir Putin, immediately cracked the whip.

“Kazakhstan never had any statehood (historically),” Putin said. Nazarbayev merely “created” the country – with the clear implication that it was an artificial construct that might, if the wind changed, just be dismantled again. With Russian

troops in eastern Ukraine “on holiday” from the army (but taking their armoured vehicles and artillery with them), it was a veiled threat that Kazakhstan had to take seriously.

Putin’s strategic objective is to control oil and gas traffic across the landlocked Caspian Sea. The last thing Moscow needs is cut-price competition from Cen-tral Asian producers in its European mar-

kets.Moscow at the top of the

Caspian Sea and Iran at the bottom have their own pipelines to get oil out to the markets. Azerbaijan, on the western shore, has built pipelines through Georgia into Turkey, one of which

reaches the Mediterranean, so Russia cannot control its exports. But Moscow still has a stranglehold on the big oil and gas producers on the eastern side of the sea, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

Neither of those former Soviet repub-lics can escape Moscow’s grip unless it can move its oil and gas in pipelines across the Caspian seabed to Azerbaijan and out to the Mediterranean from there. So Putin has been trying for years to get a Russian veto on any such pipelines. He’s nearly there.

If the International Law of the Sea ap-plied, then each country’s Exclusive Eco-nomic Zone, with control over seabed developments, would extend 300 nautical miles from its coast. The Caspian is not that big, so all five EEZ’s would meet in the middle – and Kazakhstan and Turk-menistan’s zones would both touch Azer-

baijan’s, so the question of trans-Caspian seabed pipelines would be beyond Mos-cow’s control.

But since the Caspian Sea is not part of the world ocean, the five countries around it can agree on any local rules they like. Russia is by far the greatest power on its shores, and the rules it likes would con-fine each country to a 15-nautical-mile sovereign zone and a 25-mile exclusive fishing zone.

Under this regime, the middle of the sea would remain a common area where any development would need the consent of all five countries. Hey presto! A Russian veto on any pipelines crossing the Caspi-an Sea, and continuing control over oil and gas exports from Central Asia to Eu-rope.

Following a summit meeting of the five countries’ leaders in Astrakhan at the end of September, it’s practically a done deal, although the final treaty will not be signed until 2016. Late last month Richard Hoag-land, U.S. assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs, visited Astana, the Kazakh capital, and said that the US firmly supported Kazakh indepen-dence and territorial integrity, but every-body knows who’s boss in the region.

Sidelining Kazakh and Turkmen com-petition in the European gas and oil mar-kets will not help Moscow much, howev-er, if Putin’s behaviour on Russia’s west-ern borders continues to frighten the Eu-ropeans. They will be scrambling to cut their dependence on Russian gas and oil as fast as they can, and the fracking Amer-icans, with their soaring production, will be more than happy to help.

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Shot across the bowAvalanche split weekend with VIU Mariners

Taylor rocc aSports Editor

You can put it in the win column.

After enduring a win-less home-opening weekend against the Ca-mosun College Chargers Nov. 7 and 8, both Ava-lanche volleyball clubs claimed victory against the Vancouver Island University Mariners this past weekend at College of the Rockies.

The men swept the Mariners Friday before being swept in return Saturday. The night and day performance dropped the Avs to 2-6 on the season.

The Lady Avs battled it out in a tough 3-2 de-feat Friday, before dom-inating the Mariners in a straight-sets sweep Sat-urday, improving to 3-5 for the campaign.

“[Friday] we were fir-ing on all cylinders and we had six guys, seven guys with the libero, show up [Friday],” said Avs coach Steve Kamps Saturday afternoon. “[Saturday] it was the exact opposite. We had nobody that stepped up to the plate.”

After shoring up the service line with a strong performance Friday, the Avs were let down by their serves Saturday af-ternoon. It’s an area of the game that has proved an early Achilles’ heel for the squad.

Saturday’s opening set suggested folks in at-tendance were in for an entertaining match, as the Mariners narrowly edged the Avs 25-23 to kick off the afternoon.

Unfortunately for the hosts, it was all downhill and all VIU from there.

The Mariners took a 25-21 victory in the sec-ond set before rolling over a listless Avs squad 25-18 in the third, claim-ing the straight-sets sweep and ensuring a

split of the weekend fes-tivities.

“Looking back at [Fri-day], we did some very good things,” Kamps added. “We followed the game plan and played the way we could. We addressed serving during the week and Fri-day night we played very well, served the ball tough and we saw what that can do. As a result, we swept the team that’s second in the confer-ence and ranked in the top 10 in Canada.

“I was hoping the guys would carry that momentum and believe in themselves [Satur-day], but we came out and completely just thought they were going to hand us the match again. We weren’t ready to put on our hardhats and work. That’s where I’m frustrated right now. We’re flat and unemo-tional.”

Outside hitter Curtis Stockton continued to carry the offence for the Avs over the weekend, blasting 28 kills over the two contests. Defensive-ly, libero Mitch Parn-ham continued his steady performance with 19 digs.

Despite the frustrat-ing loss Saturday, beat-ing the fifth-ranked team (as of Nov. 11) in the Ca-nadian Collegiate Athlet-ic Association (CCAA) leaves plenty for Kamps and the Avs to build on moving forward.

“At least we’ve had a taste now of what it feels like to play well,” Kamps said. “When that all happens and everything comes together, we are a very good team. At least we have a taste of that now and I don’t think we did before.

“It’s unfortunate the guys didn’t believe [in themselves Saturday] for whatever reason. It’s a struggle. I don’t have the answer right now.

It’s back to the basics of just working hard. I thought we were out-worked in our gym [Sat-urday] and I don’t like that either. We’ll address hard work again [this week].”

While there’s room for improvement on the men’s side of the court, Lady Avs head coach Andrew Zurrin is pleased with the trajec-tory his team is on fol-lowing a weekend split with the Mariners.

“They got over that little hump,” Zurrin said. “Instead of being tenta-tive, they followed a game plan where we were aggressive. They didn’t let the little things bother them and they swung hard right till the end. To get past that mental thing is huge going forward.”

After losing a tight-ly-contested match Fri-day night, the Lady Avs dominated the CCAA’s ninth-ranked Mariners Saturday afternoon en route to a 3-0 sweep of the visitors.

“We dominated in the middle, scored at will in the middle,” Zur-rin said Saturday after-noon. “I think we proba-bly scored at a 90-per-cent clip with both mid-dles [Saturday]. Un-heard of in volleyball.

“This time, [the girls] go from a game they should have won [Fri-day] in five [sets] to a complete domination of the same team and sweep them in three [sets].”

The Lady Avs grabbed a 25-21 victory in the second set Satur-day, before rolling to a decisive 25-17 win in the third and final set.

Left side Kelsey Thompson turned in her usual balanced perfor-mance with 22 digs and 23 kills over the week-end. After being named Avalanche Athlete of the

Week for her perfor-mance against Camosun College, libero Alexa Koshman followed up with another stellar weekend, getting in 27 digs to pace the defense.

Middle Madison Hudy, a second-year from Bishop Carroll High School in Calgary, was injured Friday night, opening an opportunity for Corissa Mildenburg-er Saturday afternoon. The extent of Hudy’s in-jury is not yet known, though she was wearing a walking cast Saturday.

Mildenburger, a sec-ond-year from Elkford, stepped into the fray Saturday, rattling off 11 kills and five digs.

“It was like the miss-ing piece to the puzzle,” Zurrin said. “We insert-ed Corissa into the right side and it just changed the dynamic of our team. We became ag-gressive. We’re a good defensive team; we be-came even better.”

The weekend split pushed the Lady Avs to 3-5 as they maintained

their fourth-place foot-hold in the PACWEST standings. The unde-feated Camosun Col-lege Chargers lead PACWEST with an un-blemished 8-0 record.

On the men’s court, the Avs remain sixth in PACWEST at 2-6. The fifth-place Columbia Bible College Bearcats (3-7) are two points ahead of the Avs, who hold two games in hand on CBC. The sev-enth-place Capilano University Blues (1-7) broke their goose-egg, climbing to within a win of the Avs.

Both Avs squads are off in Week 6 of the PACWEST volleyball season before returning to action in Week 7 when they visit Douglas College (Nov. 27 and 28) and Capilano University (Nov. 29 and 30) to close out the 2014 portion of the slate.

Next home action for the Avs comes Jan. 16 and 17, 2015, when Douglas College visits College of the Rockies.

PACWEST Women’s Standings:

1) Camosun College (8-0); 2) Capilano Uni-versity (7-1); 3) Univer-sity of the Fraser Valley (7-3); 4) College of the Rockies (3-5); 5) Doug-las College (3-5); 6) Van-couver Island University (2-6); 7) Columbia Bible College (0-10)

PACWEST Men’s Standings:

1) Douglas College (7-1); 2) Vancouver Is-land University (6-2); 3) University of the Fraser Valley (6-4); 4) Ca-mosun College (5-3); 5) Columbia Bible College (3-7); 6) College of the Rockies (2-6); 7) Capila-no University (1-7)

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Avalanche left side Nick Hoodicoff (#1) gets airborne as he tries to work the ball over the net and past a block from VIU’s Zach Grigg (#4), Rylan Brouwer (#7) and Diego Bustos (#6) Saturday at College of the Rockies. The Mariners swept the Avs in straight sets Saturday.

MLB’s Miami Marlins ink OF giancarlo Stanton to landmark dealassociaTed Press

MIAMI - The Marlins are no longer pinching pennies, and Giancarlo Stanton won’t be, either.

Stanton agreed to terms Monday on a $325 million, 13-year contract, Miami owner Jeffrey Loria said. It’s the most lucra-tive deal for an American athlete, averages $25 million per season, or $154,321 per game.

The deal includes a no-trade clause, and Stanton can opt out after six years.

“It’s a landmark moment for the fran-chise and Giancarlo, and it’s for the city and fans to rally around,” Loria said.

Any kind of multiyear deal is a departure for the Marlins and Loria, whose frugal ways in the past alienated fans, angered the players’ union and made the franchise the

butt of jokes.Given such thriftiness, the Marlins’ gen-

erosity toward Stanton becomes even more stunning. His contract tops the $292 mil-lion, 10-year deal Miguel Cabrera agreed to with the Detroit Tigers in March.

Stanton, 25, is one of the game’s most feared slugger. He has 154 career homers playing in spacious Marlins Park.

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a situation that makes you un-comfortable. You could get an unexpected reaction from some-one who could stop you dead in your tracks. You might feel as if this person is taking advantage of your good nature. Tonight: The world is your oyster. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You easily could feel out of sorts, which could color what other-wise would be a wonderful, ex-citing day. Take a walk, schedule a massage or go to the gym -- do whatever you can to change your mood. A talk with a friend might help, too. Tonight: Not to be found. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Expect to be busy, and you won’t be disappointed. Whether you’re eating lunch or doing research, it will seem as if friends want to find you to get some feedback. Make it your pleasure, as long as you have time. Tonight: Out on the town with friends. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Your ability to take a stand and command a situation with ease marks your personality. You might want to recognize how

much friction this could cause on the homefront. Recognize that your priorities will define your limitations; follow them. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Assess the cost of a plan you are in the process of hatching. You could be taken aback by the financial implications, and you might want to back off. Be aware that you are sensitive to someone’s mood, but he or she might not be tuned in to yours. Tonight: Around good music. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) A partner will push you beyond your limits. You might need to take a stand to let this person know that you have reached your boiling point. On the other hand, if you ignore him or her, ultimately the game will end -- just not immediately. Tonight: Make nice. BORN TODAY First female chief of the Cher-okee Nation Wilma Mankiller (1945), baseball player David Ortiz (1975), actor Owen Wilson (1968) ***

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Arthur Harrison, beloved father of Ron and Carol, passed away peacefully in Taber, Alberta on Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at the age of 95 years.

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Seth BorenSteinASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - A key polar bear popula-tion fell nearly by half in the past decade, a new U.S.-Canada study found, with scientists seeing a dramatic in-crease in young cubs starving and dying.

Researchers chiefly blame shrinking sea ice from global warming.

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and Environment Cana-da captured, tagged and released polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea from 2001 to 2010. The bear population shrank to about 900 in 2010, down from about 1,600 in 2004. That area is one of two main U.S. polar bear regions.

“These estimates suggest to me that the habitat is getting less stable for polar bears,” said study lead author Jeff Bromaghin, a USGS statistician.

Wildlife biologist Steve Amstrup, who

started the study for the USGS and left to be-come chief scientist at the conservation group Polar Bear Internation-al, said his early re-search in the 1980s found about 1,800 polar bears in the region.

“The habitat was profoundly different by the late 1990s, early 2000s,” said Amstrup, a co-author of the study in the journal Ecological Applications.

Bromaghin said only two of 80 polar bear cubs the team tracked between 2004 and 2007 survived. Normally about half of cubs live.

“We suspect that they are dying of starva-tion,” Bromaghin said.

In this part of the Arctic, there used to be more sea ice in the sum-mer; that’s where seals lived, and seals are what bears ate. With limited access to the seals, the cubs probably starved, he said.

Arctic summer sea ice had been declining

Study finds polar bear population dropped nearly in half

since the late 1970s but “we’ve seen over the past decade, decade-and-a-half, the rate of decline has really accel-

erated,” said Mark Ser-reze, director of the Na-tional Snow and Ice Data Center in Colora-do. And 2007 was “a

wake-up call” for scien-tists because sea ice shrank to a low scien-tists had not expected or seen before. Sea ice lev-

els dropped even lower in 2012 and have recov-ered a tad since.

“There is definitely a relationship here be-

tween what’s happening to the bears and what’s happening to the ice,” said Serreze, who wasn’t part of the study.

Submitted photo

A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska.

Fr ank JordanSASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN - A burst of sunshine in the spring could be just the wakeup call for Europe’s comet lander.

Scientists raised hopes Monday that as the Philae lander nears the sun its solar panel-powered bat-tery will recharge, and the first spacecraft to touch down on a comet will send a second round of scientific data back to Earth.

Since landing with a bounce on the comet Wednesday, Philae has al-ready sent back reams of data that scientists are ea-gerly examining. But there were fears its mission would be cut short be-cause it came to rest in the shadow of a cliff. Its signal went silent Saturday after its primary battery ran out.

Shortly before that happened, the European Space Agency decided to attempt to tilt the lander’s biggest solar panel toward the sun - a last-ditch ma-noeuvr that scientists be-lieve may have paid off.

“We are very confident at some stage it will wake up again and we can achieve contact,” Stephan Ulamec, the lander man-

ager, told The Associated Press.

That should happen next spring, when Philae and the comet it’s riding on - called 67P/Churyu-mov-Gerasimenko - get closer to the sun, warm-ing up a secondary bat-tery on board and bring-ing it out of its unplanned hibernation. A few days of sunshine on the solar panels should be enough to charge the battery suffi-ciently to resume collect-ing scientific data, Ulamec said.

Philae’s position in the shadows may even prove to be a blessing in dis-guise.

Shielded from the sun’s rays, the lander could survive for longer as the comet approaches perihelion - its closest point to the sun - in Au-gust.

New pictures released Monday offered very good clues.

The high-resolution images taken from Phi-lae’s mother ship Rosetta show the lander descend-ing toward the comet, then bouncing off when the thrusters and har-poons meant to anchor it to the surface failed. It drifted through the void for two hours before

Scientists ‘confident’ comet lander will wake up again when it nears the sun

touching down again - after a second, smaller bounce - then coming to rest in a shallow crater.

Scientists at the Ger-man Aerospace Center said Monday that an ini-tial review of data the lander sent back 311 mil-lion miles to Earth showed the comet’s surface is much tougher than previ-ously assumed. There’s also evidence of large amounts of ice beneath the lander.

Scientists had specu-

lated the comet’s surface could be quite soft, but that has turned out not to be the case.

Scientists are still wait-ing to find out whether Philae managed to drill into the comet and extract a sample for analysis.

Material beneath the surface of the comet has remained almost un-changed for 4.5 billion years, so the samples would be a cosmic time capsule that scientists are eager to study.

One of the things they are most excited about is the possibility that the mission might help con-firm that comets brought the building blocks of life - including water - to Earth.

However, the Europe-an Space Agency has stressed that even if the lander fails to awaken again, Rosetta will be able to collect about 80 per cent of the data scientists are hoping to glean from the $1.6 billion mission.

the C anadian PreSSA Halifax ecology group says it’s

disappointed with a decision today by an international agency to increase catch limits for the endangered west-ern Atlantic bluefin tuna.

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas - meeting for the past week in Genoa, Italy - says the catch limit for the spe-cies will rise from 1,750 tonnes to 2,000 tonnes next year and stay at that level in 2016.

Katie Schleit of the Ecology Action Centre says the 15 per cent increase, supported by Canada, will hinder ef-forts to help the recovery of the species.

Scientists monitoring bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic since the 1970s say overfishing reduced the population to one-fifth of its original size by the 1990s, when strict conservation mea-sures were introduced.

Since then, the population has grown to about half its original size, with a recent study for the commission confirming that a recovery was under-way.

However, Schleit says the study’s results are subject to a high degree of scientific uncertainty, which is why conservationists had wanted the limit to remain frozen.

Faith Scattolon, head of the Canadi-an government’s delegation, says fed-eral officials were guided by the same study, which said the population could be sustained so long as the catch limit didn’t exceed 2,250 tonnes.

Catch limit increase for bluefin tuna

raise concerns

oSiriS team

The Rosetta spacecraft captured this series of images of the Philae lander bound-ing off the surface from an orbit around the comet.