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OAK BAYNEWSThe changing face of Canadian currency

Dan EbenalNews Staff

Move over Wilfred Laurier, it’s time for a woman to take your place.

One Oak Bay woman is calling for Canadian women would take a more prominent role on the nation’s banknotes.

Merna Forster has started a petition campaign that has now gathered more than 53,000 signatures calling for Canadian women to be featured on currency.

“I’m only an accidental advocate. My life’s vocation is not to be an activist. I started doing this as a hobby,” said Forster.

Forster’s campaign began in late 2011 when Canada’s new polymer banknotes began rolling out of the mint.

“That’s when I first noticed they cut the Famous Five and Thérèse Casgrain off the back of the $50 bill,” she said.

The Famous Five were a group of Alberta women who fought to have women recognized as people and Casgrain was the first woman elected to lead a political party in Canada.

“In the new series they were cut and replaced by an icebreaker,” said Forster, the executive director of the great unsolved mysteries in Canadian history at the University of Victoria.

Forster wrote an op-ed piece at the time that was widely distributed and began writing letters to Mark Carney, then-governor of the Bank of Canada. She received little response. Carney eventually went on to become governor of the Bank of England, and it was then that Forster saw him beaming as he held up a mockup of a new British banknote featuring author Jane Austen.

Forster eventually became in touch with the woman who organized the British campaign to feature women on banknotes and in July 2013 started

her petition campaign at change.org/CanadianHeroines.

“Now there are over 53,000 people who have signed,” she said. “Way more than in the United Kingdom, for a country with a much smaller population.”

Forster points to Australia, which features a man on one side of the banknote and a woman on the other. “They don’t celebrate four dead, white, male prime ministers, and the Queen.”

While an anonymous woman is featured on the back of the $100 bill to depict the discovery of insulin, Forster says there are plenty of real Canadian female scientists that deserve acknowledgement.

Forster isn’t quick to put forward

her own idea of who should be on the banknote, saying, “I try to stay away from that because it’s controversial.” She does refer to another website she created called womenonbanknotes.ca/ where people can create their own $100 bill with the woman of their choice. There have been hundreds of suggestions.

“One that’s often suggested is our own Emily Carr, an internationally recognized artist,” said Forster, adding a lot of comments also suggest the inclusion of an Aboriginal woman.

Another person who has received a lot of attention is Viola Desmond, who refused to leave the whites-only area of a Nova Scotia theatre in 1946. “She was our

own Rosa Parks.”For more ideas, one needs to look no

further than Forster’s two books: 100 Canadian Heroines, Famous and Forgotten Faces, published in 2004, and 100 More Canadian Heroines, published in 2011.

Forster’s campaign has so far drawn the support of seven MPs, including Victoria’s Murray Rankin.

“This is not a radical idea, they are half the population,” said Forster. “We say we’re a modern nation committed to gender equality … and when you see those four men there, and the Queen, and no Canadian women, it’s discrimination.”

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On the moneyn Wilfred Laurier is featured on the front of the $5 bill – an astronaut working with the Canadarm is on the back.n John A. MacDonald is featured on the front of the $10 bill – the Via Rail train The Canadian with the Rocky Mountains is on the back.n Queen Elizabeth II is featured on the front of the $20 bill – the Vimy Ridge memorial is on the back.n William Lyon MacKenzie King is featured on the front of the $50 bill – the Canadian Coast Guard Ship Amundsen is on the back.n Robert Borden is featured on the front of the $100 bill – the back features an anonymous woman looking into a microscope to depict the discovery of insulin.

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Merna Forster holds up a $10 bill featuring the likeness of John. A MacDonald. The Oak Bay woman is leading a campaign to have women featured on Canadian banknotes. A proposed $100 bill featuring Emily Carr (top right) was submitted to the website womenonbanknotes.ca by Terri Hendrson.

Oak Bay woman’s petition calls for Canadian women on banknotes

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Music will course through The Oaks in aid of Sno’uyutth.

The village eatery hosts a trio of hot names for its first benefit concert for the welcome pole the Community Association of Oak Bay hopes to raise this fall at Oak Bay High. Sno’uyutth is Songhees master carver Butch Dick’s name for the 20-foot totem he designed for the community association.

“We’re new here and we want to become a part of the community, we saw an opportunity to work with the Community Association of Oak Bay,” said Nick Hopkins, owner of The Oaks, adding the

aboriginal artwork “will be a legacy for everybody.”

In their two years feeding locals and guests on The Ave, Hopkins and wife Ditza have welcomed Friday night music to the realm of The Oaks and it’s gone over well. They also brought back some folks who performed there when it was the longstanding Blethering Place, to create continuity. This will be the first benefit concert, with others in the works.

“It’s good exposure and getting your name out there,” Nick said. “It’s always exciting to get new things going on here. The room holds music really well, so it’s nice to hear good musicians play.”

Veteran musician, prolific songwriter, producer, guitarist and pianist Niels Petersen will kick off the benefit concert series alongside wife Connie Lebeau and Canadian guitar legend Norm MacPherson.

An honorary

member of the Victoria Music Hall of Fame, MacPherson’s credits include album recordings with The Poppy Family, Terry Jacks and Susan Jacks, Skylark with founding member David Foster, Burton Cummings, Sample Stearns Band and Valdy, who MacPherson backed-up at over

1,500 national and international concerts.

“Wonderful guitarist played for years with Valdy and was in the original Skylark band with David Foster,” said Petersen. “We have quite an eclectic group here and we’re looking forward to it. It’s going to be a very interesting evening.”

During his long

career Petersen has shared the stage with music greats like Tina Turner, Joan Armatrading, Burton Cummings, Sir Cliff Richard, Trish Yearwood and Vince Gill. He has composed more than 100 original songs and written music for award-wining documentaries and short films. Recently

returned to Victoria, he spent the previous couple of years playing nightly with his wife, Lebeau, on cruise ships around the world.

Lebeau studied classical piano for 13 years, picking up bass, drums and accordion along the way, before forming critically acclaimed bands with Petersen in Vancouver and Victoria. She toured coast to coast backing Canadian folk legend Valdy, and for years sang and played bass and accordion on record and on tour with family entertainment superstar Raffi. She’s played on Broadway and at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, where she worked with the late, great Phil Ramone. She has also performed as opening act for Dolly Parton and was featured in Disney videos with family entertainer Norman Foote.

All three musicians will donate their time and talent to the cause.

“As a performer I think you have a duty sometimes to pick and choose the right kind of … support for the community,” said Petersen.

The Community Association of Oak Bay undertook the project to develop a welcoming pole last spring, commissioning Dick to design the welcoming pole. From design to installation, the artwork comes with a roughly $80,000 price tag.

“We have raised over $20,000,” said Joseph Blake of the CAOB. The balance of $60,000 is needed by next fall’s anticipated pole raising. “We’ll make it with everyone’s help.”

Cheques of over $50 payable to The Rotary Club of Oak Bay Foundation will receive a tax receipt for 2015 tax purposes. Send cheques to Community Association of Oak Bay 138-2017A Cadboro Bay Rd. Victoria, B.C. V8R 5G4.

Sno’uyutth means “spreading good energy” and they’ll be rockin’ and spreading good energy at The Oaks Saturday, Jan. 31.

Tickets, which are limited to 100, are $20 in advance at The Oaks, 2250 Oak Bay Ave., and $25 at the door. For more information call 250-598-1567.

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Music sets the tone for welcoming pole

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The first concert to raise cash for a welcoming pole at Oak Bay High will feature veteran musician Niels Petersen with wife Connie Lebeau and Norm MacPherson on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. at The Oaks.

Community association branches out with benefit concert

Pole positionn The Earth Mother tops Sno’uyutth, the welcoming pole designed for Oak Bay High by master Songhees carver Butch Dick. Her hair flows down the back symbolizing Bowker Creek as it shimmers past the school. Rivers and streams, they are the life blood of environment.In deference to the design, the CAOB-created donation categories for large donor recognition are inspired by the images on the pole: $10,000+ Mother Earth$5,000-$10,000 Coho$2,000-$5,000 Eagle$1,000-$2,000 Camas$500-$1,000 Otter$200-$500 Heron

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Laureate illuminates the arts in one-year term

Christine van ReeuwykNews Staff

With more than a year under her smock as Oak Bay’s inaugural arts laureate, Barbara Adams is impressed withe community’s reception of arts in the community and is “hoping it will carry on.”

Mayor Nils Jensen sought an arts laureate to champion the district’s talents in 2012, and in fall 2013 Adams took on the task.

She’s just had a three-month extension to her term as the new council considers terms of reference and appointment of the second Oak Bay arts laureate.

“I would take an extension if that’s what council wanted,” Adams says. “You can start something and then someone can come in and add their ideas and it can grow … it’s not finite.”

What it boils down to is the job of adding culture to the community.

She got right down to business in her tenure, adding seven pieces of art to the community last summer. Three public pianos and four pieces of art on loan by artists spread throughout the community for the summer months mark a highlight of her tenure.

The pianos, painted by well-known artists Crystal Heath, Deryk Houston and Robert Amos,

received much acclaim with many a photo and comment sent to Oak Bay News and Adams herself.

“I had hundreds of positive comments and still meet people on the street who say we loved the pianos,” Adams said.

They were, however, problematic for some residents bothered by late night or constant playing, at times poorly, in a residential setting.

“I think we took under

advisement everybody’s ideas, and if the pianos were to appear again we’d take into consideration all the things people talked about,” Adams said. “When you’re doing the first thing you listen and learn.”

The four works of art on loan were actually five as bronze artist Nathan Scott installed two: a bronze eagle perched at municipal hall and a sculpted dog sleeping under an adjacent bench. Illarion Gallant’s

Bullrushes graced a space on Beach Drive at the foot of Landsdowne Road and a piece of Gracepoint memorabilia took its place on the beach near the marina.

The fourth work, a sculpture titled Salish Sea by Coast Salish artist Chris Paul, remains in place at the Oak Bay Marina where Adams hopes to see it stay.

“I’m hoping to get permission from council to look for a way to make that a permanent part of

Oak Bay,” she said. If successful, it would achieve

the first of her envisioned 26 art sites in the district. Six of them being “art spaces”.

These spaces would include some form of visual art, an area of seating (akin to Martin Chad Lay’s stonework benches in northern B.C.) and an empty space.

“There could be plein air painters, or dancers … a gathering spot for any arts to be done,” Adams said. “The marina parking lot was one of the places I felt should be one of the spaces.”

She’s had many conversations sharing her vision, and expects to have more in hopes of nailing down some of these art spaces.

“For the first year I did a lot. It has made people in Oak Bay aware that public art can be a good thing and can be an enjoyable part of their surroundings,” Adams said. “I’m pleased with how the year has gone.” [email protected]

Did you know?n The position of Oak Bay arts laureate is unpaid with a budget of $7,500 over three years (currently) to organize and co-ordinate events and projects to enhance arts and culture in the community. Funding is shared equally by the municipality, Oak Bay Tourism and the Oak Bay Business Improvement Association.

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Oak Bay artist Barbara Adams is wrapping up her first term as the community’s arts laureate.

UVic invites public input to campus plan updateThe University of Victoria is inviting

participation and input from the campus community and the public as it undertakes an update to the 2003 campus plan to provide a refreshed vision, guidelines and direction for future campus development.

“Engaging our campus and the surrounding community is critical to the process of updating UVic’s current campus plan,” said Gayle Gorrill, vice-president of finance and operations. “The plan update will support our academic priorities, as well as build on our commitments to sustainability, and campus and community involvement.”

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Phase 1 in updating the campus plan is to launch the process, invite interest and involvement from a wide audience and receive input on the vision, goals and principles that will be the foundation of the updated plan.

Two public events are scheduled to begin this conversation. The first is a speakers event on Jan. 28, featuring two special speakers: Dr. Eric Higgs from the School of Environmental Studies; and Antonio Gomez-Palacio, a national expert on urban and campus planning. The focus of this event is to inspire ideas on campus planning and set the stage for a dynamic, year-long campus and community conversation that will inform the future of the campus.

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Phase 2, which will be conducted between April and September, will see the development of the draft plan, and the continuing conversation on concepts, options and issues. Opportunities for input to the final draft plan will continue in Phase 3, from October to January 2016.

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A string quartet goes electric in the next set of the alumni concert series at the University of Victoria.

The Emily Carr String Quartet performs George Crumb’s electric string quartet Black Angels.

The quartet features Victoria residents Müge Büyükçelen and Cory

Balzer (violins), violist Mieka Michaux (B.Mus ’98) and cellist Alasdair Money (M.Mus ’03).

Black Angels premiered at the University of Michigan in 1970 and was described as “one of the most important events of the season” (Ann Arbor News). One of B.C.’s finest ensembles, the Emily Carr String Quartet, will plug in their instruments for a performance of Black Angels on Jan. 29.

Kirk McNally, UVic School

of Music audio specialist, recently dug up the original program as well as newspaper reviews from the premiere in his preparation for this performance.

“We are doing a proper version of the quartet using equipment that is the contemporary equivalent of what was used in the premiere,” McNally said. “Unfortunately, the recording from the premiere is still on reel-to-reel tape, so it isn’t available as a reference.”

The quartet will also perform works by Shostakovich, Osvaldo Golijov, and School of Music alumna Cassandra Miller (B.Mus ’05).

Emily Carr String Quartet performs Thursday, Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall at UVic.

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Committee rejects variancefor Victoria Avenue propertyChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

Oak Bay denied a project at committee last week that sought variances to build a pair of homes on Victoria Avenue.

Coun. Tara Ney led discussion in place of ailing Coun. Michelle Kirby, who was to fill in for Mayor Nils Jensen as he was otherwise occupied with the CRD.

The two legally existing properties were originally developed in 1935 as a single lot with a house that fronted 787 Victoria Ave. When considered as two individual lots, the frontage changes to Beaverbrooke Street. The proposals for single family dwellings on each lot were designed

to maximize lot use by requesting a substantial variance to the front lot line.

Coun. Eric Zhelka said it was too much, the “variance too great”, adding concerns over sight lines.

“I don’t think it’s a horrible idea. I just think it needs to be shifted a bit,” said Coun. Kevin Murdoch, echoing sentiments voiced by others around the table during discussion.

Committee opted to deny the variance requests as recommended by municipal staff. Motions approved during committee discussions become recommendations to council for final decision.

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Panel tackles marijuana legalizationChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

Longtime marijuana activist Marc Emery comes to the University of Victoria for a pot legalization discussion next month.

UVic Student Society hosts the panel featuring pot activist Emery and representatives from the law, addictions and academic communities to discuss marijuana laws in a Canadian context. The moderated panel discussion will be directed by audience-submitted questions and explore the nuances of

marijuana law from the perspective of enforcement, public health and legislation.

The panel includes Jim O’Rourke, executive director of VisionQuest Society and addictions consultant, and criminology instructor Geri Bemister.

“It’s important for Canadians to have these types of conversations,” said Bemister. “Any time we want to make changes that will impact all Canadians, youth in particular, it’s important we make an educated decision.”

A certified interventionist as well, Bemister is more of

a proponent of well-informed opinion than legalizing pot.

“Obviously marijuana is illegal currently for a reason … the harms are underrated and underreported,” she said. “I think it’s an important conversation to have. We need as Canadians to have a conversation about the seriousness of the substance.

“There’s certainly some room for policy or legislative reform in the area of medicinal use of substance.”

Emery is a well-known figure supporting the other end of the panel spectrum. Recently released from prison in the United States,

where he was incarcerated on drug charges, Emery has been highly active in the debate over marijuana laws worldwide. Joe Perkins of CTV Vancouver Island will moderate.

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Green MLA seeks changes to MSPIn the lead-up to the 2015

provincial budget, Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver is calling for a thoughtful and serious look at how B.C. funds its health care system.

The deputy leader of the B.C. Green Party is asking that the provincial government explore ways in which Medical Services Plan premiums can be transitioned to a more progressive and equitable approach to financing health care.

Currently, anyone living in B.C. for six months or longer pays a monthly premium for health care services. While some individuals can apply for assistance in paying the premiums, the subsidies only exist for people earning less than $30,000 a year. This means that an individual earning $30,000 a year pays the same $72 monthly fee as someone earning $3 million a year.

“$72 dollars a month is

significant to many low-income British Columbians and small businesses who are struggling to make ends meet,” said Weaver. “When we continue to rely on regressive taxes like this, it is easy to see why British Columbia has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada.”

Over the past 15 years, as MSP premiums have gone up, personal and corporate income tax rates have been cut. This shift has resulted in the provincial government bringing in almost as much revenue from MSP premiums as it does from corporate income taxes. In the 2014/2015 budget, revenue from MSP premiums was expected to be $2.271 billion, whereas corporate income tax revenue was estimated to be $2.348 billion.

“Increasing reliance on MSP premiums and other forms of regressive taxation are the result of the choices that successive governments have made,” said Weaver. “It’s a choice to favour

regressive over progressive taxation. It’s a choice to put the interests of the wealthy over the interests of British Columbians with low and fixed incomes, and ahead of small businesses. I think it’s time we made a different choice.”

When the Alberta government announced its plans to eliminate their health care premiums in 2008, B.C. was left as the only province to continue to charge individual flat-rate premiums. In contrast, other provinces like Ontario and Quebec have begun charging health premiums through income tax systems, rather than flat-tax levies.

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OAK BAYNEWS

2009

OUR VIEW

When the B.C. government last resorted to shooting wolves from helicopters in the 1980s, an emotional public outcry forced a retreat.

In the B.C. tradition, sensation-seeking urban media and protesters led the way. An outraged reporter named Pamela Martin marched a BCTV crew off the road near Fort St. John to expose this presumed crime against nature. With a metre of snow and temperatures dipping to -40, they didn’t get far, but public sentiment was aroused enough for politicians to overrule wildlife biologists.

This winter, while snow reveals the wolves’ location from the air, the choppers and rifles are out again. And my heart goes out to the biologists and First Nations hunters who face this grim task.

The South Selkirk mountain caribou herd, which ranges between B.C., Idaho and Washington, has been the target of intensive conservation efforts by governments on both sides of the border. Six of the remaining 18 animals now wear radio collars. There were 46 in 2009, only 27 by 2012, and wolves have killed two more since last spring.

Targeted hunting and trapping haven’t been sufficient, so up to 24 grey wolves are to be shot from the

air before the snow melts.There are seven caribou herds in

the South Peace, with the Graham herd the largest at about 700. It’s the

control group, left to fend for itself as a measure of wolf removal for the rest. The Burnt Pine herd is down to one bull, effectively extinct. The province and Treaty 8 First Nations are working on a plan to kill 120-160 wolves in that region.

It’s long been accepted that resource roads, logging and recreational trail use have increased herd disruption and

predator access through what would otherwise be seamless bush and deep snow.

Snowmobiles and even back-country skiers can shift the balance. Smithers-area outdoor enthusiasts are currently being urged to stay away from the Telkwa Mountains, where the caribou herd is down to fewer than 20 animals. Local hunting and snowmobile clubs have observed a ban on motorized travel since 2003, but of course there will always be yahoos who chase animals for fun.

A mountain caribou recovery plan was implemented in 2007, protecting 2.2 million hectares from logging and road-building, including most of the core habitat of the South Selkirk herd. The Nature Conservancy of Canada bought 550

square kilometres in that region to protect habitat.

Strategies include transplanting animals from healthier to weaker herds to increase genetic diversity, and capturing and penning females with young calves to keep them from being picked off by wolves.

The B.C. grey wolf population averages around 8,500, with managed hunting and trapping to protect livestock while preserving the wolf as apex predator in most of its wide range.

This context is seldom reported by Vancouver media, which mostly sees its role not as explaining issues but rather embarrassing whatever political party is in power, and providing an uncritical platform for the stop-logging-mining-energy crowd, which is seen as popular with urban viewers.

Remember the spotted owl, with the fringe of its range extending into southern B.C.? Our branch-plant enviros marketed that one for years. Its core habitat is Washington and Oregon, where many sawmills were shuttered to “save” them.

Now they’re shooting invasive barred owls, which have emerged as a greater threat to spotted owls than logging. Context is important.

I suppose we’ll never know what difference the 1980s wolf kill would have made if it hadn’t been shouted down for TV ratings and urban enviro-donations.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Wolf kill last hope for caribou

The high costof cheap oil

As the price of gas hovers just below $1 a litre, the prognostications of $2 gas seem like a distant nightmare.

It’s certainly a lot less than the $1.50 a litre we were paying at the pump last summer.

The savings amount to about $30 per month per car, depending on the size of the vehicle. If gas prices stay low, we’ll likely also see savings in other consumer goods as transportation costs ease.

That extra money could find its way into

other segments of the economy. Or into bolstering savings accounts and retirement funds battered in recent years by uncertainty and just the high cost of daily living.

But – and there’s always a but – there’s a downside.

Canada is an oil-producing country, and the boon of cheaper oil comes with a price.

Last week, the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate to 0.75 per cent from one per cent, the first time its changed that rate since September 2010. Nobody expected it.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said the move was insurance against the potentially destructive effects of cheap oil.

Poloz didn’t mince words; he said the drop in the price of oil is “unambiguously bad” for Canada’s economy.

Already that’s playing out, as thousands of workers are laid off from the oil fields of Alberta. Those job losses have hit that province’s real estate and retail sectors, downturns that could quickly spread to neighbouring provinces and beyond.

The drop in oil prices has been matched by the devaluation of the Canadian dollar, which is now at its lowest point compared to the American dollar in five years.

So while pulling up to the gas pump may now put a smile on your face, pay heed to that growing pit in your stomach.

It just goes to prove the old adage; we have to be careful what we wish for.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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EDITORIAL Penny Sakamoto Group PublisherDan Ebenal Editor Oliver Sommer Advertising Director

The OAK BAY NEWS is published by Black Press Ltd. | 207A-2187 Oak Bay Ave., Oak Bay, B.C. V8R 1G1 | Phone: 250-598-4123 • Web: oakbaynews.com

The OAK BAY NEWS is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council.

Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org.

What do you think? Give us your comments by e-mail: [email protected] or fax 250-386-2624. All letters must have a name and a telephone number for verification.

OAK BAYNEWS

2009

OUR VIEW

When the B.C. government last resorted to shooting wolves from helicopters in the 1980s, an emotional public outcry forced a retreat.

In the B.C. tradition, sensation-seeking urban media and protesters led the way. An outraged reporter named Pamela Martin marched a BCTV crew off the road near Fort St. John to expose this presumed crime against nature. With a metre of snow and temperatures dipping to -40, they didn’t get far, but public sentiment was aroused enough for politicians to overrule wildlife biologists.

This winter, while snow reveals the wolves’ location from the air, the choppers and rifles are out again. And my heart goes out to the biologists and First Nations hunters who face this grim task.

The South Selkirk mountain caribou herd, which ranges between B.C., Idaho and Washington, has been the target of intensive conservation efforts by governments on both sides of the border. Six of the remaining 18 animals now wear radio collars. There were 46 in 2009, only 27 by 2012, and wolves have killed two more since last spring.

Targeted hunting and trapping haven’t been sufficient, so up to 24 grey wolves are to be shot from the

air before the snow melts.There are seven caribou herds in

the South Peace, with the Graham herd the largest at about 700. It’s the

control group, left to fend for itself as a measure of wolf removal for the rest. The Burnt Pine herd is down to one bull, effectively extinct. The province and Treaty 8 First Nations are working on a plan to kill 120-160 wolves in that region.

It’s long been accepted that resource roads, logging and recreational trail use have increased herd disruption and

predator access through what would otherwise be seamless bush and deep snow.

Snowmobiles and even back-country skiers can shift the balance. Smithers-area outdoor enthusiasts are currently being urged to stay away from the Telkwa Mountains, where the caribou herd is down to fewer than 20 animals. Local hunting and snowmobile clubs have observed a ban on motorized travel since 2003, but of course there will always be yahoos who chase animals for fun.

A mountain caribou recovery plan was implemented in 2007, protecting 2.2 million hectares from logging and road-building, including most of the core habitat of the South Selkirk herd. The Nature Conservancy of Canada bought 550

square kilometres in that region to protect habitat.

Strategies include transplanting animals from healthier to weaker herds to increase genetic diversity, and capturing and penning females with young calves to keep them from being picked off by wolves.

The B.C. grey wolf population averages around 8,500, with managed hunting and trapping to protect livestock while preserving the wolf as apex predator in most of its wide range.

This context is seldom reported by Vancouver media, which mostly sees its role not as explaining issues but rather embarrassing whatever political party is in power, and providing an uncritical platform for the stop-logging-mining-energy crowd, which is seen as popular with urban viewers.

Remember the spotted owl, with the fringe of its range extending into southern B.C.? Our branch-plant enviros marketed that one for years. Its core habitat is Washington and Oregon, where many sawmills were shuttered to “save” them.

Now they’re shooting invasive barred owls, which have emerged as a greater threat to spotted owls than logging. Context is important.

I suppose we’ll never know what difference the 1980s wolf kill would have made if it hadn’t been shouted down for TV ratings and urban enviro-donations.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

Wolf kill last hope for caribou

The high costof cheap oil

As the price of gas hovers just below $1 a litre, the prognostications of $2 gas seem like a distant nightmare.

It’s certainly a lot less than the $1.50 a litre we were paying at the pump last summer.

The savings amount to about $30 per month per car, depending on the size of the vehicle. If gas prices stay low, we’ll likely also see savings in other consumer goods as transportation costs ease.

That extra money could find its way into

other segments of the economy. Or into bolstering savings accounts and retirement funds battered in recent years by uncertainty and just the high cost of daily living.

But – and there’s always a but – there’s a downside.

Canada is an oil-producing country, and the boon of cheaper oil comes with a price.

Last week, the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate to 0.75 per cent from one per cent, the first time its changed that rate since September 2010. Nobody expected it.

Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said the move was insurance against the potentially destructive effects of cheap oil.

Poloz didn’t mince words; he said the drop in the price of oil is “unambiguously bad” for Canada’s economy.

Already that’s playing out, as thousands of workers are laid off from the oil fields of Alberta. Those job losses have hit that province’s real estate and retail sectors, downturns that could quickly spread to neighbouring provinces and beyond.

The drop in oil prices has been matched by the devaluation of the Canadian dollar, which is now at its lowest point compared to the American dollar in five years.

So while pulling up to the gas pump may now put a smile on your face, pay heed to that growing pit in your stomach.

It just goes to prove the old adage; we have to be careful what we wish for.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

Savings at the pump offset by harm done to Canadian economy


Park should be off-leashI’ve lived with my family for 25 years

now in Oak Bay and for most of those years have owned a dog and almost always been well accepted with my animals.

However, the other day while running my dog at Willows school field, a Victoria animal control officer approached me and stated that my dog had to be on leash. It was after 4 p.m. with not one child using the field. A group of other dog owners came who were all told the same thing, simply that a bylaw existed against unleashed dogs at this school field.

All of us present have used this space to exercise our dogs when the school is not using it. All of us are taxpaying citizens who are responsible dog owners, who always pick up after our animals, monitor when they run free and intervene should there be any issues between dogs. Many of us who utilize this field have or have had children attending Willows school and we certainly want to see the fields kept clean. We are all community members who use this space to exercise our dogs while also building community ties and allowing our dogs to become socialized and therefore better behaved.

To my queries as to where I could exercise my dog (who is a large animal and requires more than a walk), the officer cited parks to which I would need a vehicle to drive to and have little

running space. This isn’t satisfactory to me as I try to walk and cycle when I can, so to have to drive my dog to another field while there is public space close by does not make any sense.

I would like to challenge this bylaw or perhaps have amendments made to it so that school groups, sport clubs and community members can all co-exist and utilize this space. I should think this would not be hard to do if we come together as a community. I have written the mayor and council to voice my opinion and I’m encouraging any neighbours who are in agreement to do the same.

Marilyn LapointeOak Bay

Flavoured tobacco targets youthStrawberry, a favourite fruit flavour for

children. This makes me wonder why I see it in such a terrible form – tobacco.

Almost half of B.C.’s youth smokers are using flavoured tobacco products. Might seem as though the addition of fruit would make tobacco friendlier and healthier... right? Unfortunately, flavoured tobacco carries the same health and addiction risks as regular tobacco.

Research shows increasing tobacco taxes is the most effective way to reduce smoking rates and increasing taxes can help prevent youth from purchasing cigarettes or starting to smoke. Make it happen.

Also, legislate smoke-free outdoor public places. Smoke-free parks, beaches and campuses create a positive environment for youth and people who want to quit. Considering that 40 municipalities in B.C. already have smoke-free outdoor place bylaws, it’s time to act and make this a provincewide policy. Second-hand smoke is never a fun time.

I’ve been affected by cancer just as you have. Cancer should never be available in strawberry or in the form of second-hand smoke. This new year it’s time for not only individual commitments, but also a commitment from the B.C. government to help reduce smoking rates.

Paul KimVictoria

Cull shouldn’t be focusDespite having been told by many

animal groups that a one-time cull will not work, the mayor finally acknowledges, after listening to other communities, that it won’t.

Perhaps now the mayor will consider what these animal groups have been saying and come to the reality that a cull is not necessary. If the mayor would devote as much time to running Oak Bay (and the CRD), the community might be a better place. With his obsession on culling, I am sure he would not even consider that.

H.R. RiceOak Bay

Comments veer off streamSusan Rowntree makes some good

points about the unfortunate effects of the nuclear waste storage facility at Hanford, Wash.

One of her comments, however, left me shaking my head. Rowntree stated that radiation was leaching at Hanford and “can drift north into B.C. fish-bearing waters.”

I wonder what makes that possible given that Hanford radiation has never gone airborne and, last I checked, the mighty Columbia was still flowing downhill, through Oregon to the Pacific ocean.

D. GramlichOak Bay

LETTERS

Deer management issue driving wedge through communityAs a veteran municipal councillor who served

nine years in two different communities, I’ve never seen such a divisive community issue as urban deer management in Oak Bay. The topic continues to generate an unprecedented volume of letters to the editor and ongoing media coverage.

I was on Oak Bay council when the Capital Regional District’s Deer Management Strategy was adopted in 2013. While I voted to support a pilot project, I was the only councillor who voted for an option that would have provided Oak Bay council more local control over the pilot together with ongoing public consultation and systematic assessment of results as each stage of the strategy was completed. In my experience, as a pilot program unfolds, good management requires making adjustments based on changing conditions, new information and impact.

Even Oak Bay residents who support a deer cull have recently expressed concern and embarrassment to me about how our municipality’s reputation is being portrayed. Media and politics continue to overshadow what should have been a well-planned and managed public process, supported by science, evidence and

community consultation. Instead, our residents have largely been educated through the press and outside organizations.

During the municipal election last fall, I suggested taking the time to evaluate the pilot for its effectiveness and efficacy and forming a strategic partnership with Victoria and Saanich, neighbouring communities with their own populations of urban deer. I argued that culling 25 deer inside Oak Bay borders alone would not be effective, from either a cost or animal control perspective.

I asked for an accurate deer count for Oak Bay, research on migratory patterns from Saanich, and a reduction of speed limits on Cadboro Bay and Cedar Hill X Roads where there are the highest deer/vehicle conflicts according to CRD and ICBC accident statistics. I called for proper signage on these major traffic corridors, consistent with provincial Ministry of Transportation standards, i.e. large yellow flashing signs clearly warning of the deer hazard in and around Uplands Golf Course and on other major roads. Such key elements of the deer management strategy appear to be still missing from Oak Bay’s pilot program.

We have recently learned that even though a request

for proposal has been issued, and a culling contractor has to be “trained,” there are actually viable humane options now available for controlling urban deer. Equally concerning is that it is questionable that the CRD and Oak Bay have the staffing capacity to adequately manage or evaluate a deer cull pilot in an urban, compact community such as Oak Bay. How are property owners and residents kept informed while the cull is underway, how are traps monitored and what are the benchmarks to make sure that the cull is humane and effective?

Oak Bay appears to be the petrie dish for an urban deer cull, the first undertaken in Canada. Will our municipal staff, council and the CRD be prepared to manage issues arising during and after the cull and will our taxpayers know exactly what the direct and indirect costs are of this cull and any planned for the future? And why isn’t the immunocontraceptive alternative being given serious consideration? Until these questions are fully explored and answered, Oak Bay and the CRD have not completed the due diligence that is absolutely necessary before a cull takes place.

Cairine GreenOak Bay

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Janet Morningstar serves weekly Sunday breakfast to Willows walkers Gaelan de Wolf (centre) and Marjorie Clark at Kiwanis Tea Room overlooking beach and sea.

Tea room gets day off to a good startJohn EwingFor the Oak Bay News

Gaelan de Wolf and Marjorie Clark only had a nodding relationship, but then over a breakfast table it dawned on them that they have much in common in addition to being a little past middle years.

Both live within a few blocks of Willows Park, although in different directions. Both take regular advantage of the long Willows Beach walkway. And both love breakfasting together each winter Sunday morning at the Kiwanis Willows Beach Tea Room in Oak Bay.

Striking up a friendship wasn’t kismet, exactly, or some enchanted evening. It was recognizing each other as fellow walkers while breakfasting one Sunday morning at the Tea Room. Both women have been regulars since the beginning of these inexpensive winter breakfasts-for-charity, now in their third year.

What do these new pals talk about? It was sunny between storms on a recent Sunday as four rowers in three ocean-going shells pushed off from Willows Beach, passed a lone

fishing boat and headed toward Oak Bay Marina. People and dogs moved past outside the windows as Gaelan and Marjorie were enjoying tea after leisurely breakfasts and discussing, what? Drainage, as it happens.

No way does each want to leave her family home after a lifetime there, but Oak Bay’s housing and infrastructure are aging and old, clay-tile perimeter drains are clogging up. Estimates for replacement are thousands of dollars higher than pensioners can easily afford.

But a sip of tea, ah! Weekly, $10 breakfast – with the Willows walkers and Oak Bay waters spread before them outside the Tea Room’s wall of windows – now that’s an affordable treat. Something to cherish with a friend, whether old or new.

Kiwanis members and volunteers began the winter Sunday breakfasts two years ago to raise funds for the Oak Bay Kiwanis Pavilion Foundation. They are served up from 9 a.m. to noon for three months, beginning in early January. In each of the first two years, approximately $10,000 has been raised for amenities to improve the lives of patients

at the 122-bed Kiwanis Pavilion at 3034 Cedar Hill Rd., which specializes in dementia care and is owned and operated by the Oak Bay Kiwanis Health Care Society.

For $10, a choice of two menus is offered. Breakfast One consists of orange or apple juice; eggs, scrambled poached or fried; ham or bacon; hash browns; toast; and coffee, tea or hot chocolate. Breakfast Two consists of orange or apple juice; pancakes or French toast; maple syrup; fruit/yogurt cup; and, yes, coffee, tea or hot chocolate.

An upgraded electrical system to better heat what was originally a summer-only facility, plus thermal windows across three sides of the entire front of the café/tea room offer a comfortable and scenic breakfast experience during winter months when even stormy weather can be interesting to view at Willows Beach.

It’s early days this year, but previously an average of over 100 folks have breakfasted on a Sunday morning at Willows. Say hello to walking pals Gaelan and Marjorie when you come.

Registration opens for Carnarvon baseballThe ballpark at Carnarvon has witnessed many

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Registration for the spring 2015 season has opened and the club is welcoming new and

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Registrations for baseball is open to players aged four to 18-plus, and for softball from ages U9 to U20. Visit carnarvonbaseball.com and click on the registration tab. You can also call the club treasurer at 250-532-2509 and she’ll send you a registration form.


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Lab art brightens up RJHAndrea PeacockBlack Press

Royal Jubilee Hospital lab workers are showing their artistic side in the Patient Care Centre.

From now until the end of March, paintings done by hospital lab assistants and lab technicians will hang on the otherwise plain white walls of the hospital.

Miki Morita, a lab assistant at Royal Jubilee, came up with the idea.

While other groups, including nurses and members of the community have put up art in the Patient Care Centre before,

Morita thought it was time for the lab workers to come out from behind the scenes and showcase their talents.

Morita and seven other lab workers submitted around 45 paintings to the exhibit.

“We’re not usually in the spotlight,” said Morita. “Some of us lab workers collect the blood samples, so some people call us vampires.”

This art show is a way to bring light to the lab workers and make patients smile.

“A little smile, a little shine. If we can do it, that is our success story,” said Morita.

There is no theme to the exhibit, other than brightening

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in Japan before moving to Victoria, where she studied art history. Nature in Victoria inspires many of Morita’s paintings, including an orca currently on display in the hospital.

Morita is donating five per cent of proceeds from the sale of her paintings to whale research in the San Juan Islands.

In April, the paintings will be replaced with photographs, also taken by lab workers.

“We’re becoming a big noise now,” said Morita of her fellow lab workers.

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Skin clinic targets damage from the sunChristine van ReeuwykNews Staff

By immersing himself in the neighbourhood, enjoying the IEOA Truck Light Convoy this winter, Dr. Julian Hancock learned a little history about his niche in the neighbourhood.

Hancock is a medical and cosmetic dermatologist with more than 30 years experience. The Oak Bay resident, with a thriving practice in Nanaimo, opened the small clinic on Fairfield Road in November.

His office anchors a recently built condo building at 1494 Fairfield Rd. that once housed an old general practitioner’s office. During the parade, he learned from a neighbour that when the previous doctor sold the property, knowing it would be redeveloped, he stipulated a medical clinic be part of the project.

Hancock’s Fairfield Skin Clinic fulfills the role, balancing beauty and health.

“We do the medical as well as cosmetic,” he explained.

While many a patient is interested in one or the other, skin rejuvenation or cancer concern, they go hand-in-hand. “Sun causes both,” said Dr. Hancock.

“It’s about people taking care of their skin – reduce risks of skin caner and make people look younger,” he added. “The risk of melanoma in Canada is about one in 80 and it’s getting more common.

It’s one of the faster growing cancers out there.”

There is, he added, a near 100 per cent rate of defeating it if caught early. “People should be aware of their skin, looking for things that are different.”

There are now, for example, many more preventative methods, and treatments for pre-cancerous and non-melanoma skin cancers.

“They’re like icebergs. What you see is not what you get,” he said.

One way he gets below the surface is using photodynamic therapy where cream is applied to the lesions and absorbed by only cancerous and precancerous cells. Light is later applied creating a chemical reaction.

“You get rid of the bad guys, or 90 per cent of the bad guys, without scarring,” Hancock said.

It’s just one of several creams and treatments used at times in rotational treatment to offer a “left

hook, right hook” fight. “We do a lot more prevention

now,” Hancock said. While right now the clinic is open

Fridays, he plans to expand to Thursdays and hire staff to expand hours further.

Learn more about treatments as well as Hancock’s storied working past, from working in Africa to with B.C. First Nations, at drskinbotox.com online.

[email protected]

Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff

Oak Bay resident Dr. Julian Hancock battles the sun on many levels at his latest location, Fairfield Skin Clinic.

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Country Grocer stores raised $14,124 to support Vancouver Island children with life-threatening conditions through the sale of “dream bouquets,” paper T-shirts and Christmas trees between Nov. 14 and Dec. 14.

Money collected from the project went to Help Fill a Dream Foundation, which fulfills dreams, improves quality of life and assists families with care and financial support. Since 1986, Help Fill A Dream has fulfilled more than 2,100 dreams.

Established in 1984, Country Grocer is a Vancouver Island and Salt Spring Island company with seven stores and more than 600 employees.

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Wednesday, Jan. 28Gerry Dee live at

McPherson Playhouse at 7:30 p.m. Dee is a comedian you do not want to miss. He will provide you with a night of laughter you will never forget. Tickets start at $49.

ODC DANCE at the Royal Theatre Jan 29 & 30 at 7:30 p.m. Inspiration for this work came from the discovery of a rare original edition of Euclid’s Elements, perhaps the most influential work in the history of mathematics. Tickets start at $29.

Thursday, Jan. 29Family Literacy

Week: Help Your Child Succeed at Reading

Want to help your child with reading? Join Dr. Orla Colgate for a workshop on how children learn to read, how parents can assist and how to create a home environment that encourages learning. Register at gvpl.ca or call 250-940-GVPL (4875) for more information. Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the Oak Bay library, 1442 Monterey Ave.

One-on-one learning about e-readers and computers at the Oak Bay library at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Registration required at gvpl.ca or call 250-940-GVPL (4875).

Friday, Jan. 30Oak Bay Art

Club show opens at Goward House Society, 2495 Arbutus Rd. and runs weekdays to Feb. 25. Everyone welcome to the free opening reception Sunday, Feb. 1 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Drop-in Family Storytime from 10:30-11 a.m. at the Oak Bay Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave.

The Victoria

Symphony presents: Goodyear plays Brahms Signature Series at the Royal Theatre Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. and Feb. 1 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets starting at: $30.

Marcus Roberts Trio at First Metropolitan United Church 8 p.m. Tickets $41.50 at rmts.bc.ca.

Serious Viola Power: a Concert to Benefit Victoria Hospice. Victoria Hospice presents the violas of the Victoria Symphony in a fundraising concert and silent auction. James Bay United Church, 511 Michigan St. For information go online to victoriahospice.org.

Saturday, Jan. 31UJam, an evening

of jazz from 5 to 9 p.m. at 1442 Monterey Ave. Join UJam Youth Allstars, Monterey concert band and the Lounge Lizards Almost Toast. Tickets $20/$25 must be purchased in advance from reception and includes a meal.

Volkssport - 5/10 km walk. Meet at Willows Beach, Beach Drive. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Marg at 250-370-5073.

Dance Victoria presents: The Righteous Floater at Metro Studio Theatre on Jan. 31 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 1 at 9 p.m. Tickets are: $26. For more information visit rmts.bc.ca.

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Malahat will open its doors to the public on Saturday, Jan. 31 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Visitors will have the opportunity to tour HMCS Malahat’s training facilities, including its fully equipped galley and boatshed. They may also have the opportunity to tour a 33-metre Orca-class patrol craft training vessel and go for a ride in a seven-metre rigid hulled inflatable boat used by the

Royal Canadian Navy.Dance Victoria

presents: Theatre Skam and Ballet Victoria at Metro Studio Theatre Jan. 31 at 9 p.m. and Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. Tickets are: $26 at rmts.bc.ca.

Bucket List Festival. Learn to make the most of life when time is limited, presented by Victoria Hospice. Comfort Inn and Suites, 3020 Blanshard St., 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. For tickets go online to victoriahospice.org/bucket-list.

Sunday, Feb. 1AGGV Lecture

Series. The Shaping of Modern Art. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St., 2 p.m. Info: aggv.ca.

Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Travelodge, 2280 Beacon Ave., Sidney. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Pat or Ed at 250-658-2325.

Living with Stroke. All stroke survivors and their families are welcome. Program runs from Feb. 1 to March 22. Gordon Head Recreation Centre, 4100 Lambrick Way, Saanich, 1 to 3 p.m.

Starlight Pops present British Invasion. St. Aidan’s United Church, 3703 St. Aidan’s St., 2:30 p.m. Info: starlightpops.com.

Flute class recital. University of Victoria School of Music. Students from the studio of Dr. Suzanne Snizek. Phillip T. Young Recital Hall, 2:30 p.m. Admission by donation.

Monday, Feb. 2Drop in baby time

from 10:30 to 11 a.m. for babies 0-15 months and their caregiver. Learn songs, rhymes and fingerplays to use with your baby every day. No registration required at the Oak Bay branch of the

GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Tuesday, Feb. 3Golden Gavel Novice

Speakers Competition. Preliminary round Feb. 3-6. New Horizons Seniors Centre, 234 Menzies St., 7 p.m. Info: goldengavel.ca.

Drop in Toddler time, for youngsters 16-35 months and their caregiver. Toddler-terrific stories, songs, rhymes, and puppets. No registration required. Starts 10:30 a.m. at the Oak Bay branch of the GVPL, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Running Room, Broadmead Shopping Centre, 777 Royal Oak Drive. Registration 5:45 p.m.; walk 6 p.m. Contact is Gail at 250-477-4472.

Friday, Feb. 6Drop-in Family

Storytime from 10:30-11 a.m. at the Oak Bay Branch of the Greater Victoria Public Library, 1442 Monterey Ave.

Saturday, Feb. 7Volkssport 5/10 km

walk. Meet at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre, 3220 Cedar Hill Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m.

Sunday, Feb. 8AGGV Lecture Series.

The Shaping of Modern Art. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1040 Moss St., 2 p.m. Info: aggv.ca.

Volkssport 5/10 km walk. Meet at Fairfield Community Centre, 1335 Thurlow Rd. Registration 9:30 a.m.; walk 10 a.m. Contact is Ada at 778-922-1950.

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Notice is hereby given that Kustom Towing, (2009) Ltd, 3297 Douglas St, Victoria, BC, V8Z 3K9 will be selling:

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LOST AND FOUND

$250 REWARD! Lost Siamese cat- our 2 little girls have lost their best friend Wolverine (aka Wolvie or Zed). 9 mos old Seal Point Siamese with ear tattoo. Last seen Oct. 18, by Christmas Hill. 250-389-0184 [email protected]

LOST CHINESE jade pendent on a chain. If found please call (250)595-1382.

LOST: SOLITAIRE Diamond engagement ring. January 16, on Oak Bay Ave. or Foul Bay Road at Chaucer. Strong sen-timental value. If found, please call 250-475-1951.

TRAVEL

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RV LOT rentals $8.95 a day. 362 days of sunshine, pets, events, classes, entertain-ment. Reserve by 02/14/2015. www.hemetrvresort.com. Call: 1-800-926-5593

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

DEALER REQUIRED- earn $8,000 to $10,000 cash per month servicing 100 snack boxes in your area. Your in-vestment $15,000.00, some fi -nancing is available. 1(604)930-6040.

HOME CARE/SUPPORT

DO YOU need help in caring for the Senior in your life? Ap-pointments? Chores? Compa-ny? Call 250-652-1167.

MEDICAL/DENTAL

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONis an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get the online train-ing you need from an employ-er-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career to-day!

VOLUNTEERS

CITY HARVEST Co-op has Urban Farm season startup work parties every Mon. & Tues. for the next 6 weeks. Help break new ground, mix potting soil, build compost, & shape in-ground beds. Clear weeds, set up the greenhouse, & start seeds. Work parties happen from 9:30am-12:30pm at 1834 Haultain St. Contact by email [email protected] for details.

SILVER THREADS Service is a not-for-profi t society that en-hances social connections and well-being for seniors. We are currently in need of a volun-teer with photography skills, and their own equipment to take photos at various special events both inside and outside of the agency. Times and days will vary. Contact Anne at 250-382-3151 or [email protected] to set up an in-terview.

THE MUSTARD Seed is look-ing for truck drivers assistant volunteers (Swamper) to fi ll a number of shifts Monday-Sat-urday between the hours of 8am-2pm to assist our truck drivers with food donation pick-ups. Must be physically fi t as heavy lifting is involved. E-mail: [email protected] or call 250-220-6991.

VOLUNTEEREXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Victoria Disability Resource Centre is looking for a part-time, volunteer executive director to manage daily operations. The Centre promotes independent living for people with disabilities through its core programs of information and referral, peer support, employment & community development.

See www.drcvictoria.com for more information

or contact us at250-595-0044 or email

[email protected]

PERSONAL SERVICES

MIND BODY & SPIRIT

KRIPALU MASSAGE, Reiki, Acupressure, Chair Massage. I have relaxed clients that have been with me for 5-12 years. See testimonials on website. Women only. Call 250-514-6223 or visit online at: www.andreakober.com

YOGA CONFERENCE for the curious to the serious. Market Place, Jan. 31 & Feb. 1. Open to public! Victoria Conference Centre. Visit us online: www. VictoriaYogaConference.com

PERSONAL SERVICES

HOLISTIC HEALTH

Trager® Bodywork allows you to move more freely with less pain and

tension. You’ll feel deeply relaxed & have greater mental clarity.

Rae BilashCertifi ed Trager PractitionerWomen only, men by referral

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ESTHETIC SERVICES

NAILS BY Deborah- Now ac-cepting new clients. Educator, over 30yrs exp. Try 1 nail free. Specializing in natural acrylic w/ gel overlay, $45, ($28 for natural nail fi ll). (250)474-5628

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ARE YOU $10K Or More In Debt? DebtGo can help re-duce a signifi cant portion of your debt load. Call now and see if you qualify. 1-800-351-1783.

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IF YOU own a home or realestate, Alpine Credits can lendyou money: It’s That Simple.Your Credit / Age / Income isnot an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

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PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEO

RETOUCH, RESTORE, EditPhotos. Home Movies to DVD.Also, Portraiture, Baby, Family+ Maternity. 250-475-3332. www.cwpics.com

MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

FOOD PRODUCTS

BEEF FARM GATE SALES.1516 Mt. Douglas Cross Rd.Hours Friday & Saturday 10-4.Naturally raised, hormone freebeef. Individual cuts sold,sharp, frozen & doublewrapped. (250)477-3321.

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2 CUSTOM framed pictures, moving, must sell, $10 each. Call (778)440-3084.

LARGE EXERCISE ball, $15. Exercise mat, $25. Call (250)361-9142

LEATHER CHAIR and stool (tan colour), $99. Call (250)544-4933

WICKER ROCKING chair, light brown, good cond. $75. obo. (250)385-3400.

FUEL/FIREWOOD

ARBUTUS, CYPRESS, fi r, hardwoods. Seasoned. Call 250-661-7391.

MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE

NEWSPRINT ROLLENDS- $2-$10. Fridays only, 8:30am to 4:30pm. #200-770 Enter-prise Cres, Victoria. Gold-stream Press Division.

STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca.

MISCELLANEOUS WANTED

ANTIQUES, BOOKS, col-lectibles, furniture, china, jew-elry. Estates/private libraries purchased. Galleon Books & Antiques, 250-655-0700.

REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE BY OWNER

BURNSIDE/Helmcken- pano-ramic view, unique custom, suites, 6bdrms, 4bath, 3kitch-ens, alot skylights/windows, $759,000. (250)920-6739.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

LANGFORD LAKEFRONT- 1 bdrm, bsmt suite, fresh paint etc, utils included. $900. Call 250-704-1251.

RENTALS

APARTMENT/CONDO

LAVENDER CO-OP accept-ing applications for a 1 bdrm, $620/mo. Quiet area, sm pet ok, W/D hook up, insuite stor-age, lrg bright kitchen. Gross income $25,000 +, share pur-chase is $2,500. Applications available in the glass case out-side the Community Hall; 10A-620 Judah St.

APARTMENTS FURNISHED

SIDNEY- BRIGHT Executive 1 bdrm suite. $1200./month. Email: [email protected]

ROOMS FOR RENT

FAIRFIELD ROOM- Available. Walk to Cook St Vil-lage and amenities. NS/NP. Women only. 250-382-6681.

SENIOR ASSISTED LIVING

THE GLENSHIEL. All inclu-sive seniors living includes three hot meals daily, snacks, security, housekeeping, all utilities, telephone and cable. Spacious room, private bath, view of Thunderbird Park; $2060. Small west-facing bed-sitting room; $1235. Bedsitting room, shared bath for gentle-man; $1360. For a tour & to apply contact Laurie Mueller at 250-383-4164 (Mon-Fri).

SHARED ACCOMMODATION

GOLDSTREAM AREA- 1400 sq ft, newly furnished, W/D, D/W, A/C, big deck & yard, hi-def TV, parking. Working male only. $650 inclusive. Call Ray 778-433-1233.

SUITES, LOWER

SIDNEY: BRIGHT 1bdrm suite, quiet, utils incl’d. NS/NP. $775. Feb. 1st. (250)655-1616

TRANSPORTATION

AUTO SERVICES

$$$ TOP CA$H PAID $$$. For ALL unwanted Vehicles, any condition. Call (250)885-1427.

HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

CLEANING SERVICES

EXP. RELIABLE & effi cient house cleaner and home care, 10 yrs exp. $20/hr. Bondable, have own supplies except vacuum.(250)220-4965

DRYWALL

BEAT MY Price! Best work-manship. 38 years experience. Call Mike, 250-475-0542.

ELECTRICAL

(250)217-3090.ELECTRICIAN Lic.#3003. 25 yrs exp. Renos, new homes, knob & tube re-place. Sr.Disc.No job too small

250-361-6193 Quality Electric Reno’s, res & comm. No job too small. Lic# 22779.

KENDRA’S ELECTRICAL Co. #86952. No Job too Small. Kendra, 250-415-7991.

NORTHERN SUN Electric Comm/Res. $40/hr. Work Guaranteed. Any size job. (250)888-6160. Lic#13981.

FENCING

ALL TYPES of fencing, re-pairs. Reliable, on-time. Free estimates. Call 250-888-8637.


GARDENING

DPM SERVICES- lawn & gar-den, seasonal pruning, clean ups, landscape, power wash, etc. 15yrs exp. (250)883-8141.

GUTTERS & DOWNSPOUTS

ABBA EXTERIORSProfessional gutter cleaning & repairs. Window cleaning. Roof de-mossing. Pkg dis-counts. WCB. (778)433-9275.

(250)889-5794. DIAMOND Dave- window, gutter cleaning, roof-de-moss, gutter guards, power washing. Free est.

GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning & Repairs- Gutters, roofs win-dows, PW. 250-380-7778.


HANDYPERSONS

BIG BEAR Handyman. Decks, Painting, Repairs. Free estimate. Barry 250-896-6071.

HAULING AND SALVAGE

$20 & Up Garbage & Garden waste removal. Senior Disc. Free estimates. 250-812-2279.

CLEAN-UP SPECIAL. You load bins, size 12 yard $100 plus dump fee or we do it all. Call 250-361-6164.

GARY’S HAULING. One call does it all. Small demos & yard clean-up. Vehicle & metal recycling. Call (778)966-1413.

HAUL A WAY- Clean and green, Junk removal. Free quotes. Call (778)350-5050.

JUNK BOX- Junk Removal Company. Local guys. Low rates. Call (250)658-3944.

JUNK REMOVAL 7 days / wk.Fast Service, Best Prices!! Free quotes. (250)857-JUNK.

PARRY’S HAULING We haul it all - FREE estimates. Call Wes 250-812-7774.

PETE’S HAUL A DAY- Junk removal. Airforce guy. Call 250-888-1221.

SAVE-A-LOT HAULING Furniture, appliance, garden waste, we take it all! Always lowest rate, senior discount. Brad 250-217-9578.


HEAT, AIR, REFRIGERATION

HEATING, VENTILATION & INDOOR AIR QUALITYInstallation Services &

ConversionsFurnaces, Boilers, F/P, Hot water tanks, Heat pumps.

Byron, 250-516-2917.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS

FULL SERVICE plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. Call 1-800-573-2928.

MASONRY & BRICKWORK

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Call (250)589-9942, (250)294-9942.


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(250)858-6747. WRIGHT Bros Moving&Hauling.Free estimate $75=(2men&3tontruck)Sr Disc.

ALLSTAR MOVING Delivery Service. From $59. Free local travel. Call (250)818-2699.

Done Right Moving $85/hr. Senior Disc. No travel time before/after local moves. BBB. Call Tyler 250-418-1747.

MOVING ON UP HOME SOLUTIONS

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250-881-3982

PAINTING

A PROFESSIONAL Woman painter. Karen Bales Painting & Wall coverings. Over 25yrs exp. Free est. 250-514-5220.

OLD TIMER. Quality old fash-ioned service. Great rates. Ex-cellent references. Call Al at 250-474-6924, 250-888-7187.


PLUMBING

FREE ESTIMATES. Rea-sonable. Reliable. No job too small. Call 250-388-5544.

PLASTERING

PATCHES,Drywall, skimming, match the textures, coves, fi re-places. Bob, 250-516-5178.

PRESSURE WASHING

DRIVEWAYS, WALKWAYS, Decks, etc. Reasonable rates. 250-744-8588, Norm.

STUCCO/SIDING

PATCHES, ADDITIONS, re-stucco, renos, chimney, water-proofi ng. Bob, 250-516-5178.

TREE SERVICES

BUDDY’S TREE SERVICES- Trimming, pruning, chipping, removals, hedges. Insured. Call Keith, (250)474-3697.

UPHOLSTERY

UPHOLSTER- Furniture re-pairs, scratches, re-gluing, fi x springs, foam. 250-480-9822.

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DAVE’S WINDOW Cleaning.Windows, Gutters, Sweeping,Roofs, Roof Demossing, Pres-sure Washing. 250-361-6190.

GRAND XTERIOR Cleaning & Repairs- Gutters, roofs win-dows, PW. 250-380-7778.

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Modern technology is helping seniors stay home longer, and business is booming.

Though the costs to install ceiling lifts, stair lifts, mobile lifts and other mobility assisting technologies in the home place are significant, there are plenty of arguments for it. For one, it’s often less than the cost of full time assisted living in a care home, says Corinne Kerr of Esquimalt’s Angel Accessi-bility Solutions.

“There’s a lot of research supporting the benefits of staying at home longer, and that’s what we offer. You retain your home and the proximity to friends. It’s easier on the family, promotes long term health and is easier on the health care system,” Kerr said.

George Szwender started Angel by sell-ing lifts out of his home in 1997, and today Angel Solutions is based out of a 12,000 square-foot showroom and warehouse

along the industrially zoned Viewfield Road. The store has 24 employees, including tech-nicians who install the lifts in customer homes. Angel has also opened up stores in Courtenay, Vancouver, Kelowna and Port-land, Ore. Last week, Angel was purchased by Prism Medical, a publicly traded (TSX Venture) ceiling-lift manufacturer for $3.6 million, as it moves into the retail side of the industry.

“Everything will stay the same,” said Angel Solutions chief operating officer Chris Swift. “We’re proud of our commitment to service. We’ll continue to have service tech-nicians available 24-7 for maintenance.”

Angel Solutions isn’t without it’s competi-tors, as other brands of stair and ceiling lifts are available.

On Jan. 16 Richmond-based HME Mobil-ity and Accessibility opened a store on Gov-ernment Street.

“We’ve been selling and installing sys-tems on the Island for years so now we’re here,” said HME’s Victoria manager Jessica Park.

While HME’s Victoria store is small in

comparison to Angel, it’s arrival shows the trend for electronic home mobility options is only growing. HME regularly sells and installs three stair lifts per day. Just as Angel has a diverse catalogue of home care solu-tions, such as easy access bath tubs, HME carries lift and recline chairs, hospital beds, walkers, wheelchairs, bathroom safety

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n the past I have been criti-cal of the provincial govern-ment’s preferred model for its new Office of the Seniors Advocate.

My concerns have been: Firstly, that the Advocate is a servant of the Health Minister and not the whole Legislature thus diminishing the office’s independence; and, that the Advocate does not have a mandate to investigate indi-vidual cases of elder abuse and hardship.

That said, the appointee, Victoria’s Isobel Mackenzie, seems determined to make her office as inclusive as possible and to bur-row down into some pressing issues.

This past month Mackenzie’s office started forming a council of advisors to be made up of seniors from around the prov-ince. In 2015 these seniors will bring “their diverse experience and perspective on seniors’ issues (and) bring forward issues and concerns and review projects, reports and recommendations developed by the Office of the Seniors Advocate.”

The council will meet four times a year and will consist of 25 to 30 members appointed for terms of one to three years. Seniors who would like to serve on the council were expected to apply by Dec. 18,

but I suspect there is still time to sign up.

To do that go to: seniorsadvo-catebc.ca/council-of-advisers.

As well in the New Year, Macken-zie will conduct a series of surveys designed to probe the quality and adequacy of services provided to seniors. The results will be pub-lished on the Advocate’s website.

The first will be an independent satisfaction survey for all publicly funded residential care facilities with the results posted by facility

so that seniors and their families will be able to see how the facilities in their com-munity compare with others in B.C.

Next there will be independent satisfac-tion survey for all publicly funded home support clients and users of HandyDART services.

Finally, the office will conduct a survey of waiting times and refusal rates for Shel-ter Aid for Elderly Renters (SAFER) appli-cations. This will allow the Advocate to ensure that B.C. Housing is continuing to meet the needs of seniors through this pro-gram.

“I’m going to ask the consumers directly what is working and what is not working,” Mackenzie says. She insists the findings will be “independent” from the provincial government and will be published.

“We’ve all read a rash of recent headlines and stories about how today’s seniors are rich, affluent and getting too much help from government,” she says. “I find them inflammatory, offensive and, most impor-tantly, they are wrong.”

Most seniors in B.C. live on less than $25,000 per year with 52,000 living on less than $17,000 per year, she says.

“We need to spare our seniors the indig-nity of begging for help.”

Mackenzie sure seems to be saying all the right things. I hope her voice continues to be strong enough to foster a culture of independence in her office that was absent in its founding.

While she may not have a mandate to require government to respond to seniors’ programs shortcomings revealed in these surveys, she certainly has made it clear she will make sure everyone shares her findings.

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Evidence shows seniors are more sus-ceptible to fraud in the morning. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre (CAFC) says telephone scammers know this, and are exploiting Canadians with a new credit card phishing scam.

Daniel Williams, a senior call-taker at CFAC says the new phishing scam is targeting people in the early morning between 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. when they are sleepy and potentially vulnerable.

The scammer claims to be calling from the victims’ bank and says a credit card was used without authorization the pre-vious evening. Because of the early hour, the groggy victim will often volunteer information.

“The consumer lets them know who they bank with, then the suspects will read out the first few digits of the credit card which is standard for that bank and that credit card,” Williams says.

The scammers then ask the victim for the next eight digits to confirm their iden-tity. Once the scammers have the com-plete card number, they use the informa-tion to make purchases on the account. In actuality, Canadian banks are not in the habit of soliciting personal informa-tion by phone or by e-mail.

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While women continue to make inroads into the worlds of high finance and big business, for many women, the oppor-

tunity to own their own small business is ultimately appealing.

Some appreciate the challenge of building some-thing from the ground up, while others want the diversity business ownership brings. Some appreci-ate the flexible work hours, allowing more time to share with family or to explore other passions.

Whatever their reasons, it appears women in Oak Bay definitely boast an entrepreneurial spirit.

According to the province’s Small Business Pro-file (2013) from the B.C. government at B.C. Stats, almost 36 per cent of small businesses in B.C. are owned and operated by women, the second-highest proportion in Canada.

Self-employed communications professional Heather Leary, who currently works with the 110-member Oak Bay Business Improvement Asso-ciation, estimates the number of women running businesses within the Oak Bay BIA at about 65 per cent (including both owners/co-owners and manag-ers). Heather first hung out her shingle in the munici-pality back in 2001. “Oak Bay has always been very receptive to women in business, even back then,” she reflects.

For Elizabeth Smith, owner of Athlone Travel and president of the Oak Bay BIA, “I think I wanted to have my own business since I was a child,” she says. Liz started working in retail at age 15, moving into the travel industry when her children were young as it then offered the opportunity to work her own hours – hours that then grew as her children grew.

An avid traveller herself, opening Athlone Travel has proven an enjoyable choice. “For the most part it’s a very happy business,” she explains. With prepa-rations that can begin as much as two years out for clients, “you go on this journey with them.”

Like many women who choose to own their own

businesses, the opportunity to work around family schedules was a main attraction. “Having a couple of really amazing partners is key to that because it gives you flexibility and freedom,” said Smith

That’s not to say women business owners work fewer hours; far from it. But speak to many small busi-ness owners and they’ll tell you the business allows them to drive for their son’s school field trips and cheer on their daughter’s hockey team, then catch up on emails and paperwork later in the evening.

That flexibility extends to business practices as well.

“For us in my industry, we’re independent so

when market conditions change, we have the ability to make changes very quickly,” Smith notes. After the market slowdown in 2008, for example, Athlone focused on training, “and that was a good use of time for us.”

For Leary, the diversity of being her own boss appealed to her. “For me, it just meant variety with every day (while) the flexibility allowed me to do much more in my life.”

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Heather Leary and Elizabeth Smith appreciate the diversity and flexibility of runningtheir own business.

Did you know?n Small business – defined as employing 0 to 50 employees – accounts for 98 per cent of all businesses in B.C. The vast majority – 82 per cent – have four or fewer employees.n 55 per cent of all businesses in the province were run by self-employed individuals with no paid help.n Approximately 385,900 small businesses were operating in B.C. in 2012, and about 82 per cent were micro-businesses with fewer than five employees.n With 83.5 small businesses per 1,000 people, B.C. ranked first in Canada in small businesses per capita in 2012; the national average was 69.n 37.7 per cent of the province’s business owners in 2012 were women, the highest rate in the country. Self-employment among women was on the rise between 2007 and 2012, up 3.4 per cent, while the number of male entrepreneurs slipped 2.8 per cent over the same period. “Interestingly, the increase in self-employment among women in the province was entirely attributable to boosts among those aged 45 and over.”

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While this may not reflect a big gain in numbers for women over time at the mayor level, it suggests to me a trend by women towards greater involve-ment and leadership in local government.

Women tend to participate more proactively in mentoring and supporting other women by serving as positive role models in community leadership and, in my experience, this is par-ticularly true. Had it not been for the encouragement and men-torship of other women in my community (former North Saanich council members Alice Finall, Dee Bailin and Sheila Irving) and former North Saanich Mayor Linda Michaluk, it is unlikely that I would have become involved in public life and local government.

In a recent National Post article by John Ivison (published Jan. 7, 2015), voters were asked to choose between men and women candidates. Here are the interesting results:

n 70% of respondents said women had values closer to their own, as opposed to 30% for men.

n 65% of respondents said women are capable of getting things done, as opposed to 35% for men.

n 54% of respondents said women are good in a crisis, as opposed to 46% for men.

New Abacus Data research suggests that two-thirds of voters will choose a female can-didate over a male candidate, not so much as tokenism, but “as enlightened self-inter-

est.” This appears true for the federal Liberal Party, given that it is reported that “fully one-third” of their candidates are female.

The article goes on to sug-gest that being female and also being a local candidate is a rec-ipe for potential election suc-cess. Certainly these two quali-fiers are evident throughout the 13 CRD municipalities where new and returning local female candidates did well in the 2014 municipal election.

The article also quotes Cath-erine McKenna, Liberal can-didate in Ottawa Centre, run-ning against NDP MP Paul Dewar. McKenna says that she

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Whatever the reasons are, the increasing number of women participating as candi-dates in local, provincial and federal elec-tions is significant, bringing new perspec-tives, leadership styles and balance to poli-tics, to elected office and, hopefully, to how we govern.

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Business world bridges gender equalityBy Korina Miller

Gone are the days of Darrin Stephens, Mike Brady and Ward Cleaver – the days when the furthest a woman ever

got in a business was the secretary’s desk. Women have been steadily infiltrating the business world and, although statistics continue to show us that few yet reach the top, women are undoubtedly changing the business landscape.

At the University of Victoria’s Gustavson School of Business, women account for around half of enrolment. “I don’t see any particular career accessibility issues related to gender currently or in the recent past,” says Ian Robertson, asso-ciate director of the MBA program. “This may be related to the fact that we work very closely with our students one-on-one around their career development. We coach students throughout the program, helping them clarify career goals, build professional networks and gain experience that will help them forward in their career.”

Sheryl Karras, director of Gustavson’s Business Commerce program, agrees that increased sup-port networks are improving women’s success in business. “There are more and more strong female role models and mentors in business. There are business clubs like Young Women in Business, which help attract women to careers in business.”

Camosun College is seeing similar trends.“Over the past four decades, we have seen

considerable growth in women entering busi-ness programs,” explains Richard Stride, dean of Camosun School of Business. “Well over 50 per cent of our BBA graduates have been women.”

Stride sees business careers as increasingly accessible to women. “We are finding that the employment rates of women with business degrees, diplomas and certificates are at least as high as those for men. Over 54 per cent of accounting and finance roles in B.C. were filled by

women in 2013. Women are most strongly repre-sented in business fields requiring excellent com-munications skills and service orientations, such as marketing, human resources management and public relations positions. While areas such as information systems administration continue to have a fairly significant gender gap, there has been headway as more women take on leader-ship roles in the IT sector.”

But there’s more to it. In 2011, Forbes pub-lished a report that discussed the value of having gender-diverse management teams. These teams had better return on equity and assets as well as higher scores on organizational effectiveness.

“Changing societal values may be having some effect on employer expectations over time,” explains Stride, “but from a pragmatic business perspective, the proof is in the quality of the work. As the numbers of women have grown in the business workforce, it has been the demonstrated skills, dedication and quality of work that have closed much of the gender gap.”

One area where women have made an increas-ing dent is entrepreneurship. “One of our spe-cialization areas in the MBA is entrepreneurship,” explains Robertson, “so there is a strong focus on this particular area.”

Women now own more than one-third of all small businesses in B.C.

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he Oak Bay Thrift Shop may open just one day a week – and a half-day at that – and close for two full months in the sum-

mer, but at 33 years and growing strong, it is one of the municipality’s most successful businesses.

Buzzing with activity each Friday since Sep-tember 1982, through the support of the com-munity and countless volunteers, the enterprise has helped fund repairs to the church sanctuary and supported numerous other outreach efforts.

The concept originated with two members of the congregation who saw a similar endeavour while vacationing in Hawaii, recalls Thrift Shop manager Jean Elliott, who joined the shop when she retired to Oak Bay in 1984. “That will be 31 years ago in March and I’m still here,” she says with a laugh during a break from business.

You’ll find Elliott each Friday in the shop – home to a variety of men’s and women’s cloth-ing, shoes and accessories – along with assistant manager Lucy Holland, marking 26 years at the Thrift Shop, and longtime volunteers like Betty Thanker, who oversees the neighbouring annex building, where shoppers will find furniture, jew-elry, artworks, toys, books, electronics and other treasures.

As her 90th birthday approaches, “It’s my rea-son to get up in the morning – it’s what keeps me going,” Elliott says.

“Some customers come every Friday – they never miss. They come and tell us they’ve had a new grandchild or their husband has gone into the nursing home, and we talk to them and lis-ten. So fellowship and outreach is a big part of it; it’s not just selling.”

Because the thrift shop is completely staffed by volunteers and all its wares are donated, its overhead is extremely low, meaning virtually all the money raised can go towards the church,

programs and outreach initiatives.Each week, a variety of goods are donated to

other local organizations like Our Place, Com-passionate Resource Warehouse, Sandy Merri-man House, a women’s shelter operated by the Cool Aid Society, and Reading Tree.

Sometimes the shop helps individuals getting back on their feet – a young man who needs appropriate clothes to start a new job, for exam-ple, a young mom needing assistance, or a refu-gee family getting settled in their new country.

“Outreach is a really big part of what we do,” says Thacker, who’s been with the thrift shop since the late-1990s.

After many successful years, the shop began to outgrow its confines, and the twice-yearly garage sales for larger items weren’t enough to keep up with demand. In 2010 they were able to expand into the annex building, “and it just boomed,” Elliott says. After all, “people like bargains.”

An expanded menswear section has proven popular and “the furniture just goes like hot-cakes.”

Jewelry is also a favourite, thanks in part to the tales woven by volunteer June Carver. “You get a story with every piece of jewelry,” says Thacker.

Donations are easy to come by, thanks to the

shop’s reputation, not only with the congrega-tion but also with the greater community. In fact, people come from all over the Capital Region, says Elliott, who will often find donations out-side her condominium door. Volunteers are also available for pick-up or delivery of larger items, or when people are downsizing and have a lot to donate. “That’s always interesting and fun because you never know what you’re going to find,” Thacker says.

Sometimes they even get more than they bar-gained for, like the time they discovered $125 tucked into a brassiere. “We’ve all said we could write a book about this place,” Elliott laughs.

What has made the Oak Bay Thrift Shop so successful over the decades? “I think it’s because we don’t have high prices. If you start putting the prices up, people won’t come. They love the half-price sales – that’s the favourite – and the customers love us, they really do,” she says.

Tea, coffee and cookies are available until noon on selling days, and the neighbourhood dogs all know to visit Elliott for a biscuit.

For Thacker, “It’s the people who come time after time. We have people who tell us their sto-ries and we have people we share stories with. It’s a lot of hard work but it’s a lot of fun,” she says, noting that rubs off on others, and many volunteers are not even church members. “They say, ‘You look like you’re having a lot of fun – can I come and help?’”

It’s also knowing the donations and purchases are doing good, she adds, pointing to the refur-bished sanctuary. “I think that’s why people want to come too. People see what we’ve done with the money.”

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Jean Elliott, left, and Betty Thacker stand in front of some of the goods available at the Thrift Shop Annex.

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The non-profit society pro-vides suitable clothing, shoes and accessories, as well as other essential services such as hair-cuts, makeup and alterations. Clients are referred by agencies that provide job training, skills development and job re-entry services for women of all ages and backgrounds.

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