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The leafy neighbourhoods of Oak Bay-Gordon Head are poised to be a key provincial election battleground for Greater Victoria, featuring a potential three-way race between NDP-Liberal rivals from 2009 and a high-profile B.C. Green party newcomer.

In a region dominated by the B.C. NDP, last election veteran B.C. Liberal cabinet minister Ida Chong held on to her seat by 561 votes, slightly more than two per cent, against NDP hopeful Jes-sica Van der Veen.

The four-term MLA faces Van der Veen again, and Green candidate Andrew Weaver, a headline-making climate scientist from the University of Victoria.

Neighbourhood voting polls from 2005 and 2009 indicate the Liberals and Chong retained support in areas like Ten Mile Point, Uplands, Cadboro Bay and McNeill Bay. NDP support remained strong in Gordon Head and Mount Tolmie, and made inroads into neighbourhoods of Oak Bay. The Greens remained minor players.

Whether Weaver and the Greens become a fac-tor in this riding is the question, and if they are, where will they draw votes from?

UVic political science professor Jamie Lawson said that dynamic is a hard puzzle in an electoral area that is largely white collar, holds some of the wealthiest postal codes in the city and has large population of seniors.

Weaver could play the spoiler for the NDP and split the vote to re-elect Chong for a fifth term – the race could be a “war between the non-Liberal parties and the centre-left,” Lawson said.

Election battleground: Oak Bay-Gordon Head

PLEASE SEE: Chong expects tight election race, Page A7

TakedownOak Bay High player Marie-Anne Dussault Gomez tackles Stelly’s secondary’s Madison Paquette during high school girls rugby action at the Oak Bay High school field Friday afternoon.

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Oak Bay artist Pat Hindmarch-Watson admits it is difficult to go for a walk with her.

The inspiration and subject of her art comes from faces she sees in rocks, which she photographs and then incorporates into the paintings she creates in her home-based studio on Brighton Avenue.

“I’m slow, yes,” she said, laughing. “My husband always finds a bench further up where he has to wait for me. … If I’ve got my camera, whether it’s in the city or on trails or whatever, I’m always (slow).”

Hindmarch-Watson is one of 22 artists opening their doors to the public for the 14th year of the Oak Bay Studio Arts Tour, taking place this weekend.

Together the participants represent work in a variety of mediums and styles.

Full of bold colours and striking images, Hindmarch-Watson’s faces are painted into somewhat ethereal landscapes.

Some of the faces seem content, at one with their natural surroundings, others pensive, some smug. One image seems to reveal two faces, which Hindmarch-Watson interpreted as lovers, in a piece titled “Kiss Under a Stone Umbrella.”

“The faces would jump at me,” Hindmarch-Watson said. “Sometimes people can’t see them right away, but when they do, that’s it, you’re going to go out there and you’re going to see rock faces.”

The faces come from the artist’s wandering around the world, finding them protruding from the unlikeliest of places. Some are from local beaches and outcrops, others from Australia and other international locations. Some of her recent works come from the rock wall of an Irish prison.

Hindmarch-Watson said the tour is a great way to highlight the wide array of art being produced in Oak Bay, of all levels and mediums.

“I don’t necessarily sell a lot during the tour, but I meet people and it’s really nice. … There’s a lot of artists that have come to art at all ages and stages in their lives.”

Organizers say, if the weather co-operates, some artists can see upwards of 200 people come through their doors over the weekend.

Throughout its 14-year run, the tour has been gaining in popularity and reach, said Mary Kucera, with Oak Bay Recreation marketing.

“It was originally started with the idea that the community could come and see what their neighbours are doing. And now it’s drawing from all over Victoria,” Kucera said. “There’s been many different artists, throughout the years. Some are constant, some are almost always in. … There’s a crazy amount of artists.”

The self-guided tour, which is free, runs on Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21 from noon to 4:30 p.m. each day. Participants can pick up a tour map from Oak Bay recreation centres, municipal Hhall, the Oak Bay library or at a

variety of businesses. A map is also included in this issue of the News, or can be found online at recreation.oakbay.ca.

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Tour highlights variety of Oak Bay art stylesDozens of artists welcome visitors into their studios this weekend

Pat Hindmarch-Watson’s paintings come from faces she has seen in rock walls and stones all over the world. She will be opening her studio doors as a participant in the Oak Bay Studio Art Tour. Kyle Wells/News staff

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As discussion around amalgamation grows, regionalized services are increasingly seen as a good place to

begin implementing the idea.Across the Capital Region, there

are four police departments, three RCMP detachments, 13 fire departments and a transit commission dominated by urban representatives.

During the half-hour drive from North Saanich to downtown Victoria, three separate 911 call centres are responsible for emergency dispatch.

“We could, in theory, dispatch for the whole

peninsula by adding one more console to our (communication) centre, but there seems to be a fear to push the discussion,” said Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham, a vocal proponent for a single regional police force.

Several integrated police units operate in the Capital Region, including the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team, a homicide investigation unit and a domestic violence unit, the latter formed in the wake of a 2007 murder-suicide case in Oak Bay.

But the units rely on a shared funding model, which presents an inherent problem each year as budget evaluations begin and cities look for cost savings.

“As has been shown recently (when VicPD pulled one of two officers from the domestic violence unit), if I don’t think it’s working well for me, I’ll pull out and that leaves the other agencies in a lurch, which isn’t fair,” Graham said.

Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, an opponent of municipal amalgamation, has shepherded a year of frustrating negotiations around regionalized police services, both with the B.C. Justice Ministry and the Victoria Police Board. (In June 2012, Esquimalt was forced to stick with VicPD services, despite its desire to save money by contracting the township’s policing to the RCMP.)

But as Victoria and Esquimalt near completion of a framework policing agreement, Desjardins is singing a decidedly more optimistic tune, in hopes other municipalities will buy in.

“If we are able to reach an agreement, then there’s a huge opportunity to go forward and be a model for further regionalization,” she said.

The fear is that every municipality outside Victoria and Esquimalt would

lose service and pay more under a regional police force. But Graham said the framework agreement may be able to woo other municipalities with an easy cost-sharing template that would prevent ballooning property tax bills.

“There is also this never-ending fear, I think most unfairly, that if we become a regional force, other officers will be sucked into the downtown core to deal with problems, but that’s simply not true,” he said.

While Victoria struggles with its disproportionate expenses brought on by core-city syndrome, the region’s fire departments use mutual-aid agreements to balance and co-ordinate coverage across the region.

“If there’s an issue, we call each other up and have that discussion,” said Lt.-Insp. Brad Sifert of the Victoria Fire Department.

Sifert and other fire prevention officers hold monthly meetings to discuss recent fires and public safety issues, an example of playing well together, he said.

In 2011, Colwood and View Royal inked a progressive automatic aid agreement, where resources are shared without having to go through formal request channels. The model could prove viable for other adjacent municipalities in the future, Sifert said.

Victoria-Beacon Hill MLA Carole James said the community-led discussions around regionalized services and amalgamation is long overdue.

Last week, she threw her support behind Amalgamation Yes, a grassroots group lobbying for a non-binding vote on

amalgamation to gauge public support on the issue.

“It’s long overdue to give the public a voice in all of this,” James said. “There have been discussions about the cost savings … but nothing based on best practices or facts.”

Liberal MLA Ida Chong and Green Party leader Jane Sterk have also said they support a discussion on amalgamation, as long as the majority of the population is in favour of it.

Desjardins, who counts herself among the naysayers for the time being, said municipalities will likely fiercely oppose taking on debt from other communities, but anything that saves money is going to be an easier sell.

“If there’s ever been an opportune time to have this discussion, it’s likely to be in the next little while,” she said.

Consistent transit fundingcritical: commission chair

While emergency service providers dance around regionalized services, the jury is still out on the best way to make the Victoria Regional Transit Commission more accountable to taxpayers and the outlying municipalities.

Right now, the commission is made up of seven municipal politicians who are appointed by the B.C. transportation minister. Both Saanich and Victoria have two elected officials each on the commission, while the remaining three positions are filled by mayors and councillors from other Capital Region communities on a rotating basis.

Last August, an independent review panel recommended changes to the urban-weighted commission, including opening the door to Capital Regional District control of transit or expanding to nine appointed members.

“As we move forward to big investments like rapid transit and so on, we need very broad community support before we engage in that kind of expenditure,” said Saanich Coun. Susan Brice, commission chair.

Regardless of the governance model, she said, the commission must be able to rely on steady funding beyond property tax revenue to create a functional regional transit system. “Just having another representative on the commission will not increase the dollars. You can put any level of service out there but you have to find ways to fund it.”

Brice will hold talks with transportation ministry staff next week to discuss options for the commission. Meanwhile, B.C. Transit is expected to make public its short-term recommendations to improve rapid transit by the end of April.

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Victoria police Chief Const. Jamie Graham stands in his office at headquarters on Caledonia Avenue. Graham supports the idea of an amalgamated police service for Greater Victoria.

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PART 5OF 5

Steps to amalgamation1. Preliminary: At least two municipalities approach provincial government with intention to study amalgamation.2. Committee: Local governments form a committee to oversee preparation of a restructure study and manage public consultation.3. Study: Province hires consultant for formal restructure study. Report would offer objective information on financial impacts, implications for local services and political representation, etc.4. Decision: Local government committee chooses whether or not to hold a referendum on amalgamation. A simple majority vote to approve amalgamation, in each affected municipality, would be needed to move discussion forward.5. Implementation: Province pays for transition board to restructure local government and adopt best practices. Local governments would remain intact during this period, which could take several years.

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Integrated police units, mutual aid between fire departments show co-operation works


Oak Bay artist Pat Hindmarch-Watson admits it is difficult to go for a walk with her.

The inspiration and subject of her art comes from faces she sees in rocks, which she photographs and then incorporates into the paintings she creates in her home-based studio on Brighton Avenue.

“I’m slow, yes,” she said, laughing. “My husband always finds a bench further up where he has to wait for me. … If I’ve got my camera, whether it’s in the city or on trails or whatever, I’m always (slow).”

Hindmarch-Watson is one of 22 artists opening their doors to the public for the 14th year of the Oak Bay Studio Arts Tour, taking place this weekend.

Together the participants represent work in a variety of mediums and styles.

Full of bold colours and striking images, Hindmarch-Watson’s faces are painted into somewhat ethereal landscapes.

Some of the faces seem content, at one with their natural surroundings, others pensive, some smug. One image seems to reveal two faces, which Hindmarch-Watson interpreted as lovers, in a piece titled “Kiss Under a Stone Umbrella.”

“The faces would jump at me,” Hindmarch-Watson said. “Sometimes people can’t see them right away, but when they do, that’s it, you’re going to go out there and you’re going to see rock faces.”

The faces come from the artist’s wandering around the world, finding them protruding from the unlikeliest of places. Some are from local beaches and outcrops, others from Australia and other international locations. Some of her recent works come from the rock wall of an Irish prison.

Hindmarch-Watson said the tour is a great way to highlight the wide array of art being produced in Oak Bay, of all levels and mediums.

“I don’t necessarily sell a lot during the tour, but I meet people and it’s really nice. … There’s a lot of artists that have come to art at all ages and stages in their lives.”

Organizers say, if the weather co-operates, some artists can see upwards of 200 people come through their doors over the weekend.

Throughout its 14-year run, the tour has been gaining in popularity and reach, said Mary Kucera, with Oak Bay Recreation marketing.

“It was originally started with the idea that the community could come and see what their neighbours are doing. And now it’s drawing from all over Victoria,” Kucera said. “There’s been many different artists, throughout the years. Some are constant, some are almost always in. … There’s a crazy amount of artists.”

The self-guided tour, which is free, runs on Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21 from noon to 4:30 p.m. each day. Participants can pick up a tour map from Oak Bay recreation centres, municipal Hhall, the Oak Bay library or at a

variety of businesses. A map is also included in this issue of the News, or can be found online at recreation.oakbay.ca.

[email protected]

Tour highlights variety of Oak Bay art stylesDozens of artists welcome visitors into their studios this weekend

Pat Hindmarch-Watson’s paintings come from faces she has seen in rock walls and stones all over the world. She will be opening her studio doors as a participant in the Oak Bay Studio Art Tour. Kyle Wells/News staff

Submitted photo

Pat Hindmarch-Watson’s painting titled Tip Top.

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The Corporation of the District of Oak BayFloor Area Review Committee

Oak Bay Municipal Council welcomes expressions of interest from members of the public who wish to volunteer their time as members of the newly formed Floor Area Review Committee.

The role of the Floor Area Review Committee is to review the permitted size of residential dwellings in the RS-4 and RS-5 zones as well as various methods of regulating floor areas taking into account the numerous benefits and impacts of each. The Committee will provide a recommendation to Council on the options and most appropriate regulatory method to use. It is expected that the Committee will complete its work within three to four months.

Council will consider appointments of three members of the public with knowledge in the areas of planning and land use regulations. Persons interested in serving should submit letters to the undersigned, including information regarding your special experience, qualifications, or interest in support of your candidacy, and any other pertinent information that may assist Council in making the appointments, by May 3, 2013.

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A number of changes recommended by Oak Bay staff after the Nov. 2012 flood have been implemented, says interim CAO

Gary Nason. The flood occurred on Nov. 20, 2012

at the corner of Bowker Avenue and Eastdowne Road when a valve separated from a water main during a routine fire hydrant replacement.

CAO gives updates to progress made on recommendations

Water flowed from the breach for six hours, flooding the yards and homes of 16 residences.

In December, a report from then CAO Mark Brennan recommended a number of steps to be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future. At that time it was promised there would be an update to council on these steps in the spring.

Mayor Nils Jensen said council needed to know what the status is with some of the recommendations and see “how we’re doing generally in terms of lessons learned from this unfortunate event.”

The main problem municipal crews had in turning off the water during the flood was that while most valves are “right turn,” a few older ones are “left turn” and crews did not realize one of the valves they needed to shut off was a “left turn.”

To prevent this happening again, a system is being put in place where all public works staff will have an iPad with access to a map and information of the entire water network, including the stats on particular valves. All information on valves, including the direction of their shutoff, is currently being updated.

The rules for turning off valves during fire hydrant changes have also been updated so that the water supply on either side of a valve has to be shut off before changing a hydrant, when the valve isn’t physically restrained. Even if it is restrained, crews will check the feeder valves before working to make sure they can be shut off.

Staff and council have received further training on how to release information and manage communications during an emergency such as the flood.

The district is also ordering pamphlets from the Municipal Insurance Association which outline the responsibilities of the municipality in relation to property owners.

“In terms of what the municipality should, can, can’t do … typically there’s a lot of questions in that regard after an incident,” said Nason.

Response departments will carry the pamphlets to hand out. There is no cost to the district for the brochures.

A policy has also been put in place to contact police and fire crews as soon as there is the potential for property damage or public safety concerns. Although the flood started at about 9 a.m., fire crews were not called in until nearly 11:30 a.m. and police were not requested to attend until 1:45 p.m.

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Planning is underway for the next few editions of Tweed Magazine and staff members are looking for interesting houses to feature.

Each issue of Tweed opens the doors on a special Oak Bay home — the first edition featured Jim Kirk’s exquisite Oak Bay Avenue loft; while the second issue looked at one of local builder Barry Wilkin’s latest creations.

Now the magazine is seeking

additional Oak Bay homes to feature. Potential homes should have some sort of story to tell — perhaps a riveting history, a stunning renovation or an interesting architectural twist.

Generally, features involve an interview with the homeowners and a photo-shoot of the house.

If your home has an interesting story to tell, please contact Tweed editor Susan Lundy at [email protected].

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The candidates vying to be elected Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA on May 14 begin the offi-cial first week of campaigning with all-candidates meetings.

Mount Douglas secondary students will host the first one, Thursday morning, at the Saanich high school.

“It won’t be too long until (these students are) bona fide voters and this will be an opportunity to have their voice heard and to get answers to questions on issues and items that are important to them,” said Caleigh Bachop, a member of the Mount Doug challenge program, which is organizing the forum. Students will then vote in a mock election after the debate.

On Thursday night (7 p.m., April 18), a public forum will be held at Oak Bay United

Church, 1355 Mitchell St.The format of that meet-

ing will include opening and closing statements from can-didates, and 90 minutes of questions from attendees. Moderator will be former Oak Bay mayor Christopher Causton.

The district is the one to watch on the south Island, as Liberal Ida Chong fights for her seat against the NDP’s Jessica Van der Veen. Chong won the 2009 election over Van der Veen by a 561-vote margin.

Oak Bay-Gordon Head is the Green party’s best shot at winning a seat, too, as high profile University of Victo-ria climate scientist Andrew Weaver is its star candidate.

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Mount Doug hosts first debate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head riding

Election forumsn Oak Bay-Gordon Head all-candidate forum, Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m., Oak Bay United Church, 1355 Mitchell St.

n Open all-candidate forum on energy and climate, Friday, April 19, 7p.m., Fernwood Community Centre, 1240 Gladstone Ave.

n Oak Bay-Gordon Head all-candidate forum on poverty and homelessness, Saturday, April 20, 3 p.m. University of Victoria, Fraser Building, Room 159

n Open all-candidate forum as a part of Creatively United for the Planet’s festival, Sunday, April 21, noon to 1:30 p.m., St. Ann’s Academy, 835 Humboldt St.

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A number of changes recommended by Oak Bay staff after the Nov. 2012 flood have been implemented, says interim CAO

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at the corner of Bowker Avenue and Eastdowne Road when a valve separated from a water main during a routine fire hydrant replacement.

CAO gives updates to progress made on recommendations

Water flowed from the breach for six hours, flooding the yards and homes of 16 residences.

In December, a report from then CAO Mark Brennan recommended a number of steps to be taken to prevent similar incidents in the future. At that time it was promised there would be an update to council on these steps in the spring.

Mayor Nils Jensen said council needed to know what the status is with some of the recommendations and see “how we’re doing generally in terms of lessons learned from this unfortunate event.”

The main problem municipal crews had in turning off the water during the flood was that while most valves are “right turn,” a few older ones are “left turn” and crews did not realize one of the valves they needed to shut off was a “left turn.”

To prevent this happening again, a system is being put in place where all public works staff will have an iPad with access to a map and information of the entire water network, including the stats on particular valves. All information on valves, including the direction of their shutoff, is currently being updated.

The rules for turning off valves during fire hydrant changes have also been updated so that the water supply on either side of a valve has to be shut off before changing a hydrant, when the valve isn’t physically restrained. Even if it is restrained, crews will check the feeder valves before working to make sure they can be shut off.

Staff and council have received further training on how to release information and manage communications during an emergency such as the flood.

The district is also ordering pamphlets from the Municipal Insurance Association which outline the responsibilities of the municipality in relation to property owners.

“In terms of what the municipality should, can, can’t do … typically there’s a lot of questions in that regard after an incident,” said Nason.

Response departments will carry the pamphlets to hand out. There is no cost to the district for the brochures.

A policy has also been put in place to contact police and fire crews as soon as there is the potential for property damage or public safety concerns. Although the flood started at about 9 a.m., fire crews were not called in until nearly 11:30 a.m. and police were not requested to attend until 1:45 p.m.

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Laurel Middelaer can’t bear to part with a tiny pair of red sandals.

The little shoes represent her four-year-old daughter Alexa’s fierce spirit, as she refused to wear any-thing else. They represent her indi-viduality, as she determinedly wore them on the wrong feet And they give Laurel a reason to put an end to drunk driving.

Laurel held tightly to the sandals as she spoke about her bright, fair-haired daughter who was killed by a drunk driver in 2008.

More than 40 Vancouver Island police officers, including members from Oak Bay, Saanich and Victoria departments, were honoured and welcomed to Alexa’s Team on April 11 for their work in charging intoxi-cated drivers.

Laurel and her husband, Michael Middelaer, were on hand to thank the officers for helping to take drunk drivers off the roads. In their daughter’s memory, her parents founded Alexa’s Team in 2008, a pro-gram that recognizes police officers who charge 12 or more intoxicated

drivers in a year. Organizers estimate that, statisti-

cally, the officers’ work saves hun-dreds of lives a year.

“I want you to know what kind of difference you are making,” she said. “I speak for the voices that do not know who they are, and I want to thank you.”

The honours were given out at Glenlyon Norfolk school in Oak Bay, with minister of Aboriginal rela-tions and reconciliation Ida Chong in attendance, along with Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen.

Jensen, a former Crown prosecu-tor, spoke of seeing first hand the hard, often thankless work police officers do to charge drunk drivers. He has also seen the results of drink-ing and driving.

“The hardest part of that job was not going into the courthouse,” said Jensen. “The hardest part was, in fact, meeting the families of the vic-tims, the families whose lives had been devastated.”

Oak Bay officer, Const. Mike Klein-Beekman, was among the honourees. Klein-Beekman is currently working with the Integrated Road Safety Unit.

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Victoria area police officers honouredAlexa’s Team recognizes officers involved in campaign against drunk driving

Laurel Middelaer holds up her

daughter Alexa’s sandals at an event at Glenlyon Norfolk school. Alexa died in 2008 when she

was hit by a drunk driver. Her parents now honour police

officers who have helped take

intoxicated drivers off the roads.

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On the other hand, Chong could fall victim to the flag-ging fortunes of a party beset with scandals and which has seen many of its senior cabi-net ministers abandon ship.

“Ida Chong may face a melt-down by the Liberals. If that’s true, those (Liberal) voters may sit on their hands, or will chose between NDP and Greens,” Lawson said. “Vot-ing Green isn’t as scary for a pro-market voter who might usually vote Liberal, but who believes climate change exists.”

It seems less likely for B.C. NDP supporters to migrate to Green, as the NDP vowed to shut down the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, what Lawson calls the “litmus test” for provincial environ-mental platforms.

“For what reason would a NDP voter vote Green?” he asked. “They might because they know who Andrew Weaver is, or they like what (Elizabeth) May does feder-ally, but otherwise they’ll get a (NDP) candidate in government to make sure the Enbridge deal doesn’t go through.

“(Van der Veen’s) party is against Enbridge, is going to spread the carbon tax and is a party that is going out of its way to reassure businesses. You could see votes going to the NDP.”

As voters tease out how their own interests mesh with political party promises, Oak Bay-Gordon Head candidates – including B.C. Conservative Party newcomer Greg Kaza-koff – officially launched their 21-day campaigns and door knocking yesterday.

Weaver is banking on recent federal Green Party support spilling over into the provincial election – voters in Gordon Head largely backed the federal Greens in 2011, as did large portions of Oak Bay in the last winter’s federal by-election.

“The (2009 provincial) poll-ing is not indicative of real-ity today,” Weaver said. “We know from our evidence that the race is between the NDP and the Greens. We can’t find people who’d admit they’d vote Liberal.”

Weaver took aim at the

NDP’s fiscal platform which he, along with the B.C. Lib-erals, said would drive the province further into debt. He also called Liberal plans to develop liquid natural gas exports in B.C.’s north a “pipe dream,” which is at least a decade away, if ever, and faces serious competition from places like Russia.

“I think there is a real chance for a Green break-through, to build on the momentum of (Donald Gal-loway) and Elizabeth May,” Weaver said.

NDP candidate Van der Veen doubts the Greens will find footing in Oak Bay-Gor-don Head – she said it will be a “squeaker” between her and Chong.

“Ida has a very strong base. She’s been here for 16 years,” Van der Veen said. “I represent the renewal of gov-ernment. That is where my focus is.

“What I’m hearing is that people are ready for change – they volunteer that word ‘change,’” she said. “They are very con-cerned about the lack of perfor-mance from this government and want a new kind of government.”

Van der Veen said her focus in the riding would touch on health care for seniors, such as improv-ing home care

services so seniors can live longer at home.

She said the provincial NDP is a “renewed” party distinctly different from the 1990s, and has financial poli-cies that make sense, includ-ing minor tax hikes for the wealthiest and an expansion of the carbon tax to the oil and gas sector.

Chong, most recently the Minister of Aboriginal Rela-tions and Reconciliation, characterized this election a choice between NDP-driven debt and higher taxes, and a B.C. Liberal vision of bal-anced budgets and economic stability.

“Today’s B.C. Liberals are not the same from even when I first ran. The premier (Christy Clark) has a vision to get the economy back on track and put us in the posi-tion to pay off the provincial debt,” Chong said.

“The NDP wants to spend

more with no plan on where to increase revenues. They said they wouldn’t balance the budget for four years or pay down debt. It’s a chilling message to investors in B.C.”

Chong agreed Liberal scan-dals of the past months and years could hurt her at the polls. She said she’s been effective in government – reading the writing on the wall – and as an opposition MLA.

“I think this is a three way race. Yes it was hundreds (of votes) between me and the NDP. It might be hundreds between the three of us,” she said.

“This riding is always a swing riding, a close riding. That’s why I don’t take the job for granted and people know they have a representa-tive who is hard working and puts 100 per cent into the job.”

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As the B.C. NDP launched its election campaign last week with a package of income tax hikes, higher than those in the B.C. Liberals’ election budget of February, a third party leader confirmed his own plan to increase personal and business income tax rates.

It’s not readily apparent from his recently released “fiscal framework” document, but B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins told me his plan to phase out B.C.’s carbon tax does indeed include raising income tax rates that were lowered to make the carbon tax “revenue neutral.”

I reached Cummins in Prince George, where he was continuing his aggressive courtship of northern B.C. with an announcement that federal gas tax revenues would be redirected to a new fund for locally determined road improvements. Earlier he vowed to study the deplorable state of northern ambulance service.

Cummins has more good news for the north: that’s where a regionally phased elimination of the carbon tax would begin.

It’s also the area of thinnest population, meaning the impact on the B.C. treasury would be less. This is, after all, a tax budgeted to bring in $1.2 billion in the current year.

The B.C. Conservatives continually remind people that the

carbon tax falls disproportionately on rural, remote and particularly northern folks who face long

distances, long winters, and public transit options ranging from slim to none.

This has ceased to be much of an issue for the urban B.C. majority, who are focused on bridge tolls, ferry fares and the like.

The B.C. Conservatives decry the population decline of rural B.C., with international immigration almost exclusively going to big cities, while temporary foreign

workers increasingly fill agricultural and industrial jobs in the Interior.

The party’s still-evolving platform echoes the NDP’s call for more skills training and increased completion rates for trade apprentices.

Cummins is in favour of the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline and the massive buildup of infrastructure needed to add liquefied natural gas to B.C.’s energy export mix. He sees that enormous industrial expansion as the path to shift population growth beyond the south of the province.

Cummins is surprisingly cool to one industrial project, the proposed Site C dam on the Peace River, calling himself undecided. He also sounds skeptical about the B.C. Liberal plan to extend B.C.’s electricity grid and use that to develop further independent power.

This sounds to me like political

positioning rather than economic analysis. Anti-Site C independent candidate Arthur Hadland has significant support in Peace River North, creating a three-way struggle for a key B.C. Conservative target.

The B.C. Conservative platform also totals up the billions in long-term electricity contracts with private power producers and suggests the price for this clean energy has been set too high. This is another echo of the NDP’s vague position.

So if the B.C. Conservatives are gung-ho on oil and gas and think the carbon tax is a mistake, do they think there should be any effort to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions?

Cummins sidestepped that question, preferring to talk about conventional air pollution, whether it’s in the Fraser Valley or as a byproduct of a northern industrial boom.

As a longtime former Reform and Conservative MP, Cummins is acutely aware that the urban media will leap with extra vigour on any perceived gaffe of the right wing. Should a Conservative let slip that he’s skeptical about global warming, or worse, express a rustic view on social issues, all hell would break loose.

The B.C. Conservatives have started with the most detailed, costed platform of any party. Don’t count them out.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Time for a voteon amalgamation

Amalgamation shouldn’t be a scary word.No one is taking an eraser to the Capital

Region map and removing the borders that separate your municipality from those of your neighbours.

Often the discussion around amalgamation tends to drift towards the hypothetical best-case scenario (or worst-case scenario, depending on who you ask) of creating one municipality that spans from Sooke to North Saanich.

Talk of such a drastic change usually derails any objective discussion.

That’s why the concept needs to be reframed. We need to get away from arguing about hypothetical borders and specific solutions and focus on studying amalgamation as a positive step for our region.

Amalgamation Yes is taking the right approach by focusing on getting a referendum question onto the 2014 municipal election ballot. Put the question to the residents of the 13 municipalities and see if there’s an appetite to explore the option of amalgamation.

Municipalities have nothing to lose by asking the question.

The overarching goal of amalgamation is to save money by finding efficiencies in service delivery and by removing redundancies.

What ithe end result would look like in Greater Victoria is still unknown.

Proponents and opponents can point to Halifax or Abbotsford or Toronto and pick and choose their facts to back up their positions. But until we have a case study that properly examines the ins and outs of amalgamation as it relates to Victoria, no interest group, organization or politician can offer a definitive solution.

Until something concrete happens, the conversation isn’t going to move forward in a meaningful way.

Instead, people will continue to speculate about the potential successes and hazards of amalgamation, without a sound understanding of its local impact.

Change can be scary. But looking at amalgamation as a potential option to save us time and money shouldn’t be feared.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views


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An honour realizedThe daughters of former Oak Bay Assistant Fire Chief Fred Briggs, Debbi Beardshaw, left, Diane Gardiner and Sharon Glowasky, with their husbands and family members, unveil a plaque in their father’s memory during a special ceremony held at the Oak Bay Fire Department's 75th anniversary celebrations. Briggs died of a heart attack after returning from a fire call on Nov. 13, 1969. At that time, his death was not acknowledged as being in the line of duty. He is now honoured among other fallen heros. See more photos from the event on page A18.

I moved from Montreal seven years ago. As both a cyclist and motorist, I was shocked at the near-complete absence of true bike lanes.

It is not only in Europe that there are barrier-protected bike lanes. Montreal has been building a complete network of such lanes for many years now and they are being used. It also has a wonderful network of pleasure bike paths going along canals and so forth, with parallel gravel paths for pedestrians.

It was a shock to start cycling in Victoria without such protection – yet always wearing a helmet – and to find bike lanes that simply ended with the words “bike lane ends.” What is a cyclist supposed

to do, levitate? dematerialize?I remain dismayed by the

fact Greater Victoria, despite its favourable climate and high number of active cyclists, has still not seriously faced the fact that many people enjoy cycling – for transportation and recreation/exercise. It still views the bike as a latecomer, grudgingly providing a little space on some roads.

I gather that other North American cities have also made protected paths that are being used – I believe both Seattle and Portland have such paths. Victoria should wake up to the needs of its active and potentially more active citizens.

Christopher HeppnerOak Bay

Cycling safety debate

On Wednesday, April 10, when armed with several bags of shopping, I left my much-treasured silver-topped walking cane at the bus shelter by Connie's Petites in Oak Bay village, and when I returned sometime later, it was no longer there.

My search then involved unsuccessful enquiries at several businesses nearby and I must thank everyone I spoke to for their generous concern and willingness to help.

Because the cane has my name and address on it, I was assured by all that it would surely be returned by the finder, but must admit that I was somewhat sceptical.

A bad loss day was suddenly transformed into a very bright one when subsequently I found that during my absence a very kind gentleman had

rescued the cane at the bus stop and even taken time to bring it to my home.

However, in her delight, my wife omitted to take note of his name and address.

I would of course, very much like to meet the good Samaritan concerned and therefore ask if you sir, would please telephone me when convenient so that we can arrange to meet and I can shake your hand and thank you personally, for enabling my reunion with an important and supportive old friend.

Derrick JohnsOak Bay

Editor’s note: Please contact the editor at 250-480-3239 or email [email protected] for Mr. Johns’ contact information.

Oak Bay man is seeking a Good Samaritan

Re: Greenhouse gas leaks from Trust, (B.C. Views, April 5)

I think there is a simple and obvious solution to the problems with the Pacific Carbon Trust Fund.

Just change its name to the Pacific Enviro Slush Fund and pump a lot more money into it, so many more grants can be made available for important enviro-friendly projects.

For example, I am working on a detailed plan to protect all of the kermode bears in the Greater Victoria area. In exchange for a grant of just $1 million, I can absolutely guarantee that the number of kermode bears in this area will never drop below the current level.

Gordon PollardVictoria

Carbon Trust Fund could fund more projects

Every provincial election, a few “experts,” “pundits” and “concerned citizens” emerge to proclaim negative advertising will save us all and we should cast our vote according to their political persuasions.

While polls may indicate that negative ads influence some voters, I find them silly, offensive and downright annoying. They are a waste of time, an infringement on my TV viewing and a huge waste of somebody’s money.

Let’s stop the foolishness of these negative ads and let voters

determine which party they want to govern the province for the next four years. So let the games begin – let’s have all the political parties advance their platforms and get on with debates to determine the feasibility of each of their positions, as they apply to major issues.

The voters will then assess the results in their own minds and will indicate their decisions at the polls based on common sense, not from fear-mongering advertising.

Martin BattleVictoria

Negative attack ads pointless


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If you’ve driven, walked or cycled past McKenzie Avenue and the Trans-Canada Highway lately, you may have noticed work crews clearing the large plot of land at the north-west edge of the intersection.

It’s not the beginnings of a wider highway or an interchange to ease traffic. The work is part of a $6-million expansion of St. Joseph’s elementary school, located at the corner of McKenzie and Burnside Road.

“We’re very excited. The Catholic Schools plan has been in the works for four or five years,” said Joe Colistro, superintendent of Island Catholic schools. “We’re excited to be showing, visually, signs of moving forward and building for the future.”

The existing St. Joseph’s was built in 1963 and accommodates some 200 students, kindergarden through Grade 7. But with the impending closure of St. Andrew’s elementary school (at Pan-dora Avenue and Vancouver Street), those students need to be moved to much-needed space.

The upgrades at St. Joseph’s include building eight new classrooms, a new library and computer lab and upgrades to the staff room. The school playground will be relocated and a new grass playing field will be installed – that’s what’s being dug up

at the corner of TCH and McKenzie.Once construction of the new wing

is complete, the existing building will be seismically upgraded. The expan-sion project is expected to be com-plete in September 2014, on a $6-mil-lion budget.

“That’s a tight budget for all the things we’re trying to achieve,” said Leah MacKenzie, chief financial officer with the Diocese of Victoria. “None of the capital funding is provided by the province, so any capital dollars

we have to raise directly from parents or parish-ioners in our churches.”

Money raised from the sale of St. Andrew’s downtown will help ease the financial bur-den of upgrading.

St. Joseph’s is just the start. St. Patrick’s

elementary and St. Andrew’s Catholic High School, both in Saanich, as well, will be expanded and upgraded in the future.

“Those are on hold until more funding comes available, and we get through one successful project,” MacKenzie said. “We do have ideas, we do have plans – we’re excited about those (two projects), yet we realize we can only do one thing at a time.”

In all, Island Catholic Schools antici-pates the school upgrades will cost an estimated $20 million.

Roughly 1,100 students attend the Catholic schools in Greater Victoria.

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St. Joseph’s elementary school is building a new field on its property near McKenzie Avenue and the Trans-Canada Highway as part of a $6-million expansion that includes building eight new classrooms.

“We’re excited to be showing, visually, signs of moving forward and building for the future.”

- Joe Colistro

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Decades after his last time behind the wheel, Langford racer Bobby Collins will take a place in the Victoria Auto Rac-ing Hall of Fame and Museum.

Collins began racing stock cars and super stock cars in 1967. He raced for 10 years, then retired.

Though he got out of the driver’s seat, the 66-year-old started a business building high performance engines. He retired from that in 2005.

“I always thought I was a bet-ter engine builder than I was a driver,” said Collins who won the inaugural Vancouver Island Super stock series in 1977. “It was easier to retire because I had just won the champion-

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The Hitchcox family, Wayne Townsend, Jimmie Isacson and Ken Keating have been selected to be inducted into the pioneers category.

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Langford resident Bobby Collins is one of the newest members of the Victoria Auto Racing Hall of Fame and Museum.

“I always thought I was a better engine builder than I was a driver.”

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The provincial government has spearheaded the construction of a new dock at Durrance Lake as part of a broader effort to encourage more urban fishing on Vancouver Island.

The 20-foot long, 10-foot wide dock, complete with seating and aluminum rails, is wheelchair acces-sible and opens up fishing to just about anyone with a rod and reel.

Scott Silvestri, the project lead and a fisheries biologist with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natu-ral Resource Operations, said the province is improving accessibility to a number of urban lakes across the Island to encourage more peo-ple to take up freshwater fishing, in the wake of steady declines over the past 20 years.

“The province is looking at ways

to improve access and fishing opportunities for the general pub-lic,” Silvestri said. “There are not as many people fishing as there use to be. As a result there’s a lot less money for conservation and recre-ation.”

About 75 per cent of revenue from fishing licences is funneled back to the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation for conservation projects, and to fish stocking pro-grams.

Last year Vancouver Island resi-dents bought about 35,000 residen-tial fishing licences, where in the early 1990s that would have been around 45,000.

Overall, B.C. sells about 70,000 fewer residential fishing licences now than in the early 1990s, which translates into about $3 million less in licence revenues.

“That doesn’t factor in boats, rods and gear,” Silvestri said. “Recent

New dock at Durrance opens fishing to all

research indicates freshwater fishing (expenditures) are $500 million each year in B.C. That’s more than skiing and golf combined.”

Durrance Lake, which is within Mount Work Regional Park, is the eighth project under the provincial urban lakes infrastructure project.

Silvestri is looking at improving or building docks at other popular lakes in the Capital Region.

Jim Barlow, acting manager for park operations with the Capital Regional District, said the fishing dock at Elk Lake is showing its age and could have its accessibility improved, and its possible Thetis could have an improved fishing area as well.

“If the program is able to continue, there are a few places we we’d like to have similar facilities (as Durrance),” Barlow said. “This is really a won-

derful collaboration.”The Durrance Lake dock has been

in operation for a few months, and feedback is positive, Silvestri said. In years past fishing at the popular lake required casting from shore.

“Every time I go out there people are fishing and using it. People I run into are glad their money from fish-ing licences goes toward things like this,” he said.

The Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation chipped in $16,000 and the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. gave $4,000 to pay for the dock. CRD parks chipped in $17,000 worth

of in-kind work to prepare and excavate the ground and to install the cedar fence.

For more on Durrance Lake, check out crd.bc.ca/parks/mountwork.

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The provincial government organized the installation of a wheelchair accessible dock at scenic Durrance Lake this year to encourage more people to fish.

“Every time I go out there people are fishing and using it. People I run into are glad their money from fishing licences goes toward things like this.”

- Jim Barlow

Tough talk on offshore taxes

Daniel PalmerNews staff

Victoria MP Murray Rankin is calling on the federal government to fund a special division of the Canada Revenue Agency to target inter-national tax evaders.

Earlier this month the U.S.-based Interna-tional Consortium of Investigative Journal-ists released a massive cache of information on thousands of indi-viduals, including 450 Canadians, who have been using tax havens abroad.

While Rankin hasn’t seen the documents, he said the list is only the tip of the iceberg of tax evasion, which the NDP estimates could be hid-ing between $5.3 to $7.8 billion in Canadian tax revenue.

“We need to hire more people, estimate the tax gap and train a special division of CRA to go after international tax,” Rankin told the News.

Canada Revenue Minister Gail Shea has called on media outlets involved to provide the CRA with the tax evasion documents.

The government’s 2013 Economic Action Plan provides new measures to fight tax evasion, Shea said in a statement following the release of the information. They include such measures as pay-ing whistleblowers and increasing the onus on Canadians with foreign investments to report

more information.“Over the last six

years, the CRA has con-ducted approximately 8,000 compliance actions and reassessed in excess of $4.5 billion in federal taxes as the result of its efforts,” Shea said.

But Rankin said the CRA budget is being slashed at a time when it needs more forensic accountants and expert lawyers to pursue com-plex tax evasion cases.

“I fear the govern-ment is going to go after the low-hanging fruit, the obvious tax evader with money off-shore not declaring it. But that’s not where the money is. The money is in corporations with subsidiaries, nominee directors in different jurisdictions,” he said.

Last week Rankin and other NDP mem-bers of the all-party federal finance commit-tee called on Shea to answer questions about CRA budget cuts.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being slashed from the CRA budget beginning this year, mostly by closing service centres and forc-

ing residents and businesses to file their taxes online.

Rankin and his committee colleagues recently submitted their recommendations for improving compliance from Canadians using tax havens.

“I want the skills that are in CRA to be brought to bear so we can go after where the real billions of dollars are,” he said.

A report from the finance committee is expected in the coming months, Rankin said.

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Victoria MP Murray Rankin is welcomed in the House of Commons in Ottawa last November. After his recent appointment to the federal finance committee, Rankin has been criticizing the federal government for cuts to the Canada Revenue Agency.

Victoria MP Murray Rankin calls on feds to target tax evaders


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With its mild climate, lush parks, the Pacific Ocean hugging its shorelines and even the occasional palm tree, Victoria is Canada’s closest comparison to a tropical paradise.

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“There’s been a growing ukulele commu-nity in Victoria,” said Paul Laverick, a man-ager at Larsen Music and organizer of the fourth annual Victoria Ukulele Week.

“There’s a lot of young people playing it now. I think it’s the social aspect of playing and singing together.”

Running April 18 to 28, Ukulele Week has been so successful partly because the uku-lele is so easy to learn and play, Laverick said.

Hawaiians created the ukulele in the 19th century, modelled on the Portuguese cava-quino, a small four-string guitar.

The instrument generally appeals to peo-ple who like to “make their own entertain-

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There are also several concerts taking place at venues like Black Hat Bistro and Hermann’s Jazz Club, while professional ukulele performer Ralph Shaw will strut his skills at Norway House, 1110 Hillside Ave.,

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A decent ukulele costs about $40, but the top-of-the-line instruments can cost $1,800, Laverick said.

“It’s a nice thing to carry around with you,” he said. “I got stopped the other day on the way to work, someone saw my uku-lele and asked me to play Happy Birthday for their friend. … I definitely know people who have ukuleles stashed in every nook and cranny, so there’s always one to have around.”

The week culminates in the annual Uke Mass Love-In finale concert, where last year about 250 people filled Market Square with the sweet sounds of the ukuleles in unison.

The free event takes place April 28 between 1 and 3 p.m. at 560 Johnson St., and Laverick hopes to break last year’s attendance record.

“We’re also doing a beginner workshop where you can show up at the music store with nothing and we can provide you with an instrument there to have a feel and try a few chords,” he said. “Otherwise, I would suggest keeping one on your person at all times during the week.”

For a full listing of events, visit larsenmu-sic.ca or call 250-389-1988.

[email protected]


Paul Laverick, among a wall full of ukuleles at Larsen Music on Cook Street, will be teaching a ukulele beginners class during Ukulele Week which runs April 18-28.

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Fish & Bird has enjoyed a lot of success and attention since releasing the album – two Western Canadian Music Awards nominations (2011 and 2012), three official invites to the International Folk Alliance Conference, major Canadian folk festivals, rave reviews and international attention, and the top most frequently played album on Galaxie’s Folk/Roots channel for 2011.

The future is even more promising though, as the band is touring the UK next fall after being picked up by an agent at Folk Alliance.

Fish & Bird’s fourth album is slated for a winter release, so keep your ear to the ground on what’s to come.

The new album will be recorded on Mayne Island at Fiddle Head Studios. The yet to be titled album will be released in early 2014, and the band will be breaking out some new material on this tour.

Hear Fish & Bird along with Dougal Bain McLean and Seattle’s Impossible Bird, a duo featuring Nick Drummond, former frontman and songwriter for Seattle band The Senate and Victoria native fiddler Tyler Carson, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Upstairs Cabaret. Tickets are $14 and are available at Sitka.

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Top from the left: Oak Bay Deputy Fire Chief Dave Cockle, left, receives his 25-year British Columbia Long Service Award from Oak Bay Mayor Nils Jensen and Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Ida Chong; Assistant Fire Chief Cameron Thomson, left, receives his 25-year British Columbia Long Service Award; Fire Captain Ken Gill, left, receives the Fire Services Exemplary Service Medal from the government of Canada in recognition of 30 years of loyal service to public security in Canada.

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Relaxation a key part of learning experienceDon DescoteauNews staff

Freshly painted sky blue walls surround two of the four class-rooms at the recently reopened Victoria School for Ideal Educa-tion on Belmont Street.

One of those spaces has already been nicknamed the “beach” room, as illustrated by a hand-coloured sign taped to the outside wall.

Visitors to the expanded build-ing shouldn’t be surprised at the soothing colours chosen for this independent alternative school’s classroom environments. Daily meditation and yoga are integral parts of the learning experience.

“It’s very bright and children are generally able to relax when there’s more room,” said princi-pal Ginny Lovick.

A teacher at the tiny school for all of its 25 years, Lovick is a big believer in “consciousness-based education,” the type of teaching used here.

The school adheres to the pro-vincial curriculum, but adds ele-ments of outdoor education and the inner work more often prac-tised by adults seeking some form of relaxation or stress release.

As such, the students tend to be intensely present and open to new ideas and concepts of the world around them, Lovick says. “The children are very focused and understand things at a very deep level.”

Opening the day with medi-tation – younger students do a

walking, silent version – helps create orderly function in the brain and provides a framework from which to grow, she adds.

“At the same time we’re expand-ing knowledge, we’re expanding the container of knowledge,” says Helen Foster-Grimmett, a former public high school teacher who

is on the Victoria School for Ideal Education board.

Parent Mariann Peeke-Vout, whose precocious seven-year-old, Charlotte, is in Grade 2 at the school, said when she and her husband were looking to enrol their daughter three years ago, the key was finding someplace

where Charlotte would be seen as an individual.

“It really clicked for us,” Peeke-Vout says. “She could express herself and be herself. She’s chal-lenged here, but on her terms.”

Charlotte enthusiastically dem-onstrates the yoga positions she and her classmates run through daily before working on a craft project along with fellow student Isobel Olthof, 8, for a photo.

“Everyone’s really cheerful and nice here,” says Charlotte, whose favourite classes are social stud-ies and science, where she enjoys learning about plants and doing experiments.

While class sizes are limited to 12, to ensure plenty of one-on-one time between teachers and students, the school is looking to expand its enrolment with the added space.

Currently, the 18 students at the K-7 school are in mixed classes, with children in early grades working side by side with older students. The aim is to have three full classes next year, Lovick says, and eventually top out at 48.

As a group 1 independent school, tuition is subsidized 50 per cent by government, Foster-Grimmett said. For more informa-tion on the Victoria School for Ideal Education, visit vsie.ca or call Lovick at 250-383-6654.

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Grade 2 students Charlotte Peeke-Vout, 7, left, and Isobel Olthof, 8, work on a marionette craft under the guidance of principal Ginny Lovick during a 25th anniversary celebration and reopening of the expanded Victoria School for Ideal Education on Belmont Avenue.


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Rugby Canada’s Langford factory is now producing a full line of products.

The nation’s locally based rugby pro-gram held its first annual awards dinner at the Westin Bear Mountain on Satur-day.

Of the dozen award winners, seven were players who’ve trained regularly with the under-20 and senior national teams at Rugby Canada’s Centre of Excel-lence at City Centre Park in Langford.

It’s all part of Rugby Canada’s newly established development model, with players coming through the provincial channels and into the under-20 and senior national programs at the COE.

Tyler Ardron was named the men’s 15s Player of the Year.

He is quick to attribute his success to the amount of time he’s spent on the Island in the past few years. For Ardron, a former McMaster Marauders CIS rugby player, it’s meant relocating to Langford full time, twice.

“When I came out in 2012 I didn’t know where to live,” Ardron said. “Now there’s about 10 of us who live in Langford. And it’s starting to catch on (with the com-munity), people recognize me now.”

Though the men’s and women’s national programs have been more-or-less based in Victoria for over a decade, having players living in Langford is a new phenomenon.

Next for the COE is a dormitory to

house players for short and extended training camps, though Ardron was unsure about staying there over the long term.

“I don’t know how that will change things but it will be very helpful to play-ers coming here for the first time.”

The 21-year-old captained Canada to second place at the 2012 Americas Rugby Championship hosted in Lang-ford back in October. Since then he com-pleted a full semester towards his eco-nomics and finance degree at McMas-ter University in Hamilton and is now back in Langford, continuing his stud-ies online, while preparing for a massive summer schedule on Canada’s sevens

and 15s teams.Ardron’s 15s Player of the Year coun-

terpart is Maria Samson, a second rower from Calgary.

Eleven of the trophies are brand new. Prop Hubert Buydens, a former Cast-away Wanderers player, won the resur-rected Canadian Shield, the national 15s Player’s Player of the Year award, as voted on by his teammates. The Cana-dian Shield was last awarded in 2006-07, shared between World Rugby Cup vet-erans Morgan Williams and Pat Riordan, who both played club rugby in Victoria.

Also winning awards on Saturday were Jen Kish and John Moonlight win-ning the respective women’s and men’s sevens Player of the Year trophies.

Bianca Farella and Lucas Hammond were named the respective Young Player of the Year (under-20) awards. Coach of the Year awards went to Chris Sil-verthorn (male) and Jen Ross (female). The Match Official of the Year is Andrew McMaster and the Provincial Union Award went to the Federation de Rugby du Quebec.

Volunteer of the Year Award went to Dean Kittleson of Calgary, Alta.

“The players will get their recogni-tion, so it’s really important to recognize everyone that makes the game happen, the volunteers, referees and administra-tors,” said Gareth Rees, manager of the men’s 15s team.

“(The awards dinner) is something that can become an annual event.”

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Fitzgeralds will return to GrizzliesSchool upgrades force triplets to postpone NCAATravis PatersonNews staff

The ice may be out at Bear Mountain Arena but there is already reason to look forward to the Vic-toria Grizzlies 2013-14 season in the B.C. Hockey League.

Namely, the return of the Fitzgerald brothers.BCHL fans should rejoice the Grizzlies’ are retaining the ser-vices of arguably the league’s most electric line of siblings Myles, Leo and Gerry.

Few lines bring highlight reel plays and competitive drive the

likes of the Port Alberni trio.Their play carried the Grizzlies to first in the

league for a good stretch of the season and, when an injury ended Gerry’s season, the Grizz’ season seemed to hit the injury reserve too – though the team bounced back to play two full playoff rounds.

The fact the Fitzgeralds are returning to Col-wood in September instead of entering Div. 1 of the NCAA to the Grizzlies is due to some missing pieces in their education to date.

After their breakout year in 2012-13 it’s clear the bros were ready for Div. 1 this September. The yhave a scholarship deal with the Bemidji State Beavers, but not until 2014-15.

“They’re Div. 1 calibre players, there’s no ques-tion about that, they just have to make themselves Div. 1 post-secondary eligible,” Bestwick said.

“Their focus hasn’t been academics. They’ve been given that opportunity now to focus on aca-demics while they play their last year of Jr. A hockey. I’m certain that they comprehend the value of the opportunity they have and I’m sure they’ll be successful,” Bestwick added.

Many Div. 1 hockey programs showed interest in the brothers, but the best offer so far is from the Bemidji State Beavers, who are willing to give all three a chance together. Bemidji is also willing to wait while the brothers upgrade their marks at Camosun College in the fall and winter semesters.

As for the Grizzlies, it will be hard for Bestwick to repeat the magic of this season. The esteemed coach, with help from Craig Didmon, overhauled the Grizzlies’ depleted roster last summer and cre-ated a league contender.

The club never recovered from a series of game-ending incidents against the Chilliwack Chiefs on Jan. 17.

“Unfortunately for us (that) debacle with Chilli-wack significantly impacted our uniform in rela-tion to suspensions,” Bestwick said.

From Jan. 17 onward the Grizzlies players were suspended a total of 33 games, including one to Bestwick.

“We’re very proud of what we accomplished, we also know we came up short getting the league title. We came up short of getting to the Coastal final and beyond. And when you don’t win your last game I think you’re always disappointed,” Bestwick said.

“We’ll make some changes, yes, but I don’t fore-see ever making as many as last summer.”

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Like it or not, the Victoria Cougars are settling for silver for the second year in a row.

The Cougars lost 4-1 to the Richmond Sockeyes in the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup in Comox on Sunday.

Matthew Ho scored the only goal of the first period to put the Cougars up 1-0 and goalie Evan Roch held the Cougars in it with some good saves and some luck.

But the luck ran out as the Sockeyes scored three goals in the second period to chase Roch. Michael Herringer, a Victoria Royals prospect, came in to replace Roch, though the Sockeyes scored once more. Jeremy Hamagu-chi, Jake Roder, Liam Law-son and Rudie Thorstenson scored for the Sockeyes.

The Castlegar Rebels took home the bronze medal with

a 5-4 comeback win over the host Comox Valley Gla-cier Kings. The Glacier Kings went up 3-0 early on goals from Sheldon Brett, Tyson Rennie and Nick Tupper. But the Rebels came back with five straight goals, from Jamie Vlanich, Kody Disher, Vlanich again, Erik Alden and Travis Wellman. Glacier King Rylan Ball scored the only goal of the third period but the Gla-cier Kings couldn't draw even.

The Sockeyes, which three weeks ago won the Pacific Junior Hockey League title, went a perfect 4-0 in the Cyclone Cup provincial Junior B hockey champion-ship.

The Cougars finish 2-2, hav-ing defeated the Kootenay league champion Castlegar Rebels 1-0 and tournament host Comox Valley Glacier Kings 6-1.

The Sockeyes had the Cou-gars’ number all weekend,

winning 5-2 in their round robin game on Friday and then 4-1 in the final.

The Sockeyes now advance to St. Malo, Man., this week for the Keystone Cup, West-ern Canadian junior B hockey championship.

“(Victoria) is a good team

and our guys had to play real hard,” said Richmond head coach Aaron Wilbur.

The Cougars graduate sev-eral players from its core, including captain Brody Coul-ter and assistant captain Sam Rice.

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Victoria Cougars goalie Evan Roch, Richmond Sockeyes forward Jeremy Hamaguchi, No. 8, and Cougars defencemen Graham Zagrodney, No. 24, look for the puck during the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup provincial junior B championship on Sunday.

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St. Mikes win Boot trophy


The St. Michaels Univer-sity School Blue Jaguars

brought the Gareth Rees Boot Game trophy home with a 10-5 win over the Oak Bay Barbarians in high school rugby play last week.

The close-scoring game was played at Oak Bay with high winds making for an unpredictable kicking game.

Flanker Zach Khan scored the try for St. Mikes. Dowit Workie converted the try and also notched a penalty goal.

Oak Bay's Matt Carson scored his team's only try.

The win is a bit of an upset for St. Mikes. Oak Bay is

much bigger, and is led by a core of provincial level play-ers, Tyler McDiarmid, Conor McDiarmid, Jack Nyren and Morgan Tate (scrum half) in the backs and Evan Cam-bridge in the back row of the scrum. Which goes to show St. Mikes is also going to be a force among boys rugby high school teams this year.

But instead of running with the bigger schools at the AAA level, St. Mikes has chosen to play within their numbers at the AA level, though they'll play cross-over games with AAA teams in the city's high school rugby league. It should give St. Mikes a fighting chance when it comes time for pro-vincials.

The decision to play at the AA level is due to St. Mikes’ lack of physical size more than its lack of numbers, coach Ian Hyde-Lay said.

“This year’s team is tiny, they more than punched over their weight class (Wednesday).

“It will wear on them, we have eight games coming up, and it’s going to be an issue keeping them ready.

“We have some guys who are at the provincial level in terms of talent, but are in dif-ferent situations.”

The boot game was St. Mikes’ second win of the sea-son, having earlier defeated the Claremont Spartans 28-5.

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University School’s Mark Kiggundu with

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week. Michael’s won 10-5.Sharon Tiffin

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St. Mikes, Oak Bay qualify for rugby sevens provincialsTravis PatersonNews staff

The renowned Shawnigan Lake Stags rugby pro-gram reared reclaimed its dominant form winning the Vancouver Island Seven Aside Rugby Championships at UVic’s Centennial Stadium on Sunday (April 14).

The Stags won the Radu Shield in the final, 31-7 over the St. Michaels University School Blue Jaguars.

Saanich Police sponsored the tournament, as the Shield is named for Saanich Police officer Roy Radu, a former captain of Canada’s 15s team.

The Oak Bay Barbarians finished third, defeating G.P. Vanier 19-15 in the third-place game.

The top four teams, Shawnigan, St. Mikes, Oak Bay and Vanier all qualify for the high school boys rugby sevens provincials at the University of B.C., April 27 and 28.

Brentwood finished fifth, Cowichan was sixth, Shawnigan Lake’s B squad was seventh and Lady-smith was seventh.

The Glenlyon Norfolk School Gryphons took down the Pacific Christian School Pacers 24-12 for ninth place.

Over 1,200 visit for Scrum Fest Schools from far and near scrummed down in the

Spartan Scrum Fest earlier last week, from Thursday to Saturday at Claremont secondary.

The fifth annual Scrum Fest featured 30 high school teams in the senior and junior boys divisions. The event drew approximatley 1,200 visiting players, coaches and parents said organzier Phil Ohl, coach of the Claremont Spartans.

This year’s tourney included a middle and elemen-tary school clinic and jamboree with instruction from UVic Vikes coach Doug Tate and B.C. Sevens youth coach Shane Thompson.

A high schoo. players clinic was put on by mem-bers of Rugby Canada’s men’s team.

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Rugby Canada’s Langford factory is now producing a full line of products.

The nation’s locally based rugby pro-gram held its first annual awards dinner at the Westin Bear Mountain on Satur-day.

Of the dozen award winners, seven were players who’ve trained regularly with the under-20 and senior national teams at Rugby Canada’s Centre of Excel-lence at City Centre Park in Langford.

It’s all part of Rugby Canada’s newly established development model, with players coming through the provincial channels and into the under-20 and senior national programs at the COE.

Tyler Ardron was named the men’s 15s Player of the Year.

He is quick to attribute his success to the amount of time he’s spent on the Island in the past few years. For Ardron, a former McMaster Marauders CIS rugby player, it’s meant relocating to Langford full time, twice.

“When I came out in 2012 I didn’t know where to live,” Ardron said. “Now there’s about 10 of us who live in Langford. And it’s starting to catch on (with the com-munity), people recognize me now.”

Though the men’s and women’s national programs have been more-or-less based in Victoria for over a decade, having players living in Langford is a new phenomenon.

Next for the COE is a dormitory to

house players for short and extended training camps, though Ardron was unsure about staying there over the long term.

“I don’t know how that will change things but it will be very helpful to play-ers coming here for the first time.”

The 21-year-old captained Canada to second place at the 2012 Americas Rugby Championship hosted in Lang-ford back in October. Since then he com-pleted a full semester towards his eco-nomics and finance degree at McMas-ter University in Hamilton and is now back in Langford, continuing his stud-ies online, while preparing for a massive summer schedule on Canada’s sevens

and 15s teams.Ardron’s 15s Player of the Year coun-

terpart is Maria Samson, a second rower from Calgary.

Eleven of the trophies are brand new. Prop Hubert Buydens, a former Cast-away Wanderers player, won the resur-rected Canadian Shield, the national 15s Player’s Player of the Year award, as voted on by his teammates. The Cana-dian Shield was last awarded in 2006-07, shared between World Rugby Cup vet-erans Morgan Williams and Pat Riordan, who both played club rugby in Victoria.

Also winning awards on Saturday were Jen Kish and John Moonlight win-ning the respective women’s and men’s sevens Player of the Year trophies.

Bianca Farella and Lucas Hammond were named the respective Young Player of the Year (under-20) awards. Coach of the Year awards went to Chris Sil-verthorn (male) and Jen Ross (female). The Match Official of the Year is Andrew McMaster and the Provincial Union Award went to the Federation de Rugby du Quebec.

Volunteer of the Year Award went to Dean Kittleson of Calgary, Alta.

“The players will get their recogni-tion, so it’s really important to recognize everyone that makes the game happen, the volunteers, referees and administra-tors,” said Gareth Rees, manager of the men’s 15s team.

“(The awards dinner) is something that can become an annual event.”

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Fitzgeralds will return to GrizzliesSchool upgrades force triplets to postpone NCAATravis PatersonNews staff

The ice may be out at Bear Mountain Arena but there is already reason to look forward to the Vic-toria Grizzlies 2013-14 season in the B.C. Hockey League.

Namely, the return of the Fitzgerald brothers.BCHL fans should rejoice the Grizzlies’ are retaining the ser-vices of arguably the league’s most electric line of siblings Myles, Leo and Gerry.

Few lines bring highlight reel plays and competitive drive the

likes of the Port Alberni trio.Their play carried the Grizzlies to first in the

league for a good stretch of the season and, when an injury ended Gerry’s season, the Grizz’ season seemed to hit the injury reserve too – though the team bounced back to play two full playoff rounds.

The fact the Fitzgeralds are returning to Col-wood in September instead of entering Div. 1 of the NCAA to the Grizzlies is due to some missing pieces in their education to date.

After their breakout year in 2012-13 it’s clear the bros were ready for Div. 1 this September. The yhave a scholarship deal with the Bemidji State Beavers, but not until 2014-15.

“They’re Div. 1 calibre players, there’s no ques-tion about that, they just have to make themselves Div. 1 post-secondary eligible,” Bestwick said.

“Their focus hasn’t been academics. They’ve been given that opportunity now to focus on aca-demics while they play their last year of Jr. A hockey. I’m certain that they comprehend the value of the opportunity they have and I’m sure they’ll be successful,” Bestwick added.

Many Div. 1 hockey programs showed interest in the brothers, but the best offer so far is from the Bemidji State Beavers, who are willing to give all three a chance together. Bemidji is also willing to wait while the brothers upgrade their marks at Camosun College in the fall and winter semesters.

As for the Grizzlies, it will be hard for Bestwick to repeat the magic of this season. The esteemed coach, with help from Craig Didmon, overhauled the Grizzlies’ depleted roster last summer and cre-ated a league contender.

The club never recovered from a series of game-ending incidents against the Chilliwack Chiefs on Jan. 17.

“Unfortunately for us (that) debacle with Chilli-wack significantly impacted our uniform in rela-tion to suspensions,” Bestwick said.

From Jan. 17 onward the Grizzlies players were suspended a total of 33 games, including one to Bestwick.

“We’re very proud of what we accomplished, we also know we came up short getting the league title. We came up short of getting to the Coastal final and beyond. And when you don’t win your last game I think you’re always disappointed,” Bestwick said.

“We’ll make some changes, yes, but I don’t fore-see ever making as many as last summer.”

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Like it or not, the Victoria Cougars are settling for silver for the second year in a row.

The Cougars lost 4-1 to the Richmond Sockeyes in the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup in Comox on Sunday.

Matthew Ho scored the only goal of the first period to put the Cougars up 1-0 and goalie Evan Roch held the Cougars in it with some good saves and some luck.

But the luck ran out as the Sockeyes scored three goals in the second period to chase Roch. Michael Herringer, a Victoria Royals prospect, came in to replace Roch, though the Sockeyes scored once more. Jeremy Hamagu-chi, Jake Roder, Liam Law-son and Rudie Thorstenson scored for the Sockeyes.

The Castlegar Rebels took home the bronze medal with

a 5-4 comeback win over the host Comox Valley Gla-cier Kings. The Glacier Kings went up 3-0 early on goals from Sheldon Brett, Tyson Rennie and Nick Tupper. But the Rebels came back with five straight goals, from Jamie Vlanich, Kody Disher, Vlanich again, Erik Alden and Travis Wellman. Glacier King Rylan Ball scored the only goal of the third period but the Gla-cier Kings couldn't draw even.

The Sockeyes, which three weeks ago won the Pacific Junior Hockey League title, went a perfect 4-0 in the Cyclone Cup provincial Junior B hockey champion-ship.

The Cougars finish 2-2, hav-ing defeated the Kootenay league champion Castlegar Rebels 1-0 and tournament host Comox Valley Glacier Kings 6-1.

The Sockeyes had the Cou-gars’ number all weekend,

winning 5-2 in their round robin game on Friday and then 4-1 in the final.

The Sockeyes now advance to St. Malo, Man., this week for the Keystone Cup, West-ern Canadian junior B hockey championship.

“(Victoria) is a good team

and our guys had to play real hard,” said Richmond head coach Aaron Wilbur.

The Cougars graduate sev-eral players from its core, including captain Brody Coul-ter and assistant captain Sam Rice.

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Victoria Cougars goalie Evan Roch, Richmond Sockeyes forward Jeremy Hamaguchi, No. 8, and Cougars defencemen Graham Zagrodney, No. 24, look for the puck during the gold medal final of the Cyclone Taylor Cup provincial junior B championship on Sunday.

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A conflict-of-interest complaint against Pre-mier Christy Clark for her role in the 2003 sale of BC Rail assets has been dismissed.

Saskatchewan law-yer Gerald Gerrand reviewed the com-plaint made by Abbots-ford South MLA John van Dongen after he quit the B.C. Liberal Party last year.

In a 40-page decision released Wednesday, Gerrand found that Clark had no way to benefit personally from the sale, and that her decision to absent her-self from 2003 cabinet discussions did not demonstrate a real or perceived conflict of interest.

Clark said Wednes-day she is relieved that the report is out, put-ting to rest what she described as “rumours, gossip and nasty untruths” about her conduct as education minister a decade ago.

“It’s cleared the air on this,” Clark said. “For me it’s proof that anybody can say any-thing, and it doesn’t have to be true for it to be hurtful, and it doesn’t have to be true for it to be reported again and again and again.”

Gerrand was harshly critical of some of van Dongen’s accusations, noting that they arose nine years after cabi-net meetings that van Dongen attended as agriculture minister.

Van Dongen’s com-plaints about Clark’s dealings with a lobby-ing firm representing one of the bidders for BC Rail are “replete with suspicion and innuendo,” Gerrand wrote.

One of the accusa-tions was that Clark may have been a source of confidential information that was passed to the bidder, U.S.-based OmniTRAX. The leaked information was central to the case against two former ministerial assistants in the B.C. government, Dave Basi and Bobby Virk.

Basi and Virk even-tually pleaded guilty to breach of trust and accepting benefits for their role in the case, admitting to providing confidential bid infor-mation to OmniTRAX in exchange for money

and a trip to Denver to take in a football game.

Garrand was appointed by B.C. Conflict of Interest Commissioner Paul Fraser, who excluded himself from

the case because Fraser’s son works in Clark’s office. Garrand interviewed a long list of players in the BC Rail controversy, includ-ing Clark’s former husband

Mark Marrissen and Erik Bornmann, a lobbyist with Pilothouse Public Affairs, which represented Omni-TRAX.

Garrand, who serves as

conflict of interest commis-sioner for the Northwest Territories, took evidence under oath in his inquiry.

Its findings offer a preview of a commission of inquiry

into the sale of the railway that NDP leader Adrian Dix has pledged to hold if he wins the May 14 provincial election.

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