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B.C. Transit moves on bus video surveillance Daniel PalmerNews staff

The assault of a bus driver in Saanich last week highlighted a surprising fact about the Capital Region’s public transportation system – none of the buses have operating surveillance cameras

Witnesses of the attack apprehended the suspect in the Dec. 26 incident, a situation that was not altogether isolated.

Records show drivers reported 53 threats and attempted assaults against them in 2012

across Greater Victoria. The latest incident is the third assault causing bodily harm in 2012 against a driver in the region.

In 2013, B.C. Transit hopes to install secu-rity cameras – and potentially audio record-ing devices – on much of its 1,000-bus fleet across the province.

“There are a lot of ways that it’s demon-strated that we need that level of security, not just for our operators, but for our pas-sengers as well,” said spokeswoman Meri-beth Burton. “That kind of empirical evi-dence would be really helpful.”

She clarified that B.C. Transit is awaiting comment from B.C.’s Office of the Informa-tion and Privacy Commissioner on the use of audio recording before it presents the proposal to its transit board this month.

“With board approval and the privacy commissioner’s approval, then we’ll go to our municipal partners and find out who’s interested,” she said.

Should privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham identify potential concerns with audio recording on buses, video surveil-lance will still move ahead, Burton noted.

The final price tag will sit somewhere between $4 and $6 million, depending on how many municipalities choose to buy closed-circuit TV cameras.

In 2011, a federal government assessment estimated it would cost $10 million to install cameras on the B.C. Transit fleet in the 123 communities it serves. The revised price tag is due to infrastructure upgrades that have since been completed, Burton said.

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Charging into the new yearAn overcast day greeted hundreds of enthusiastic swimmers who braved the cold waters of Elk Lake at the 37th annual Polar Bear Swim on Tuesday.

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Chances are when you open your 2013 assessment notice from B.C. Assessment this week you’ll see your property value has decreased since last year.

Most homeowners in Greater Victoria will see a two- to six-per-cent drop in their home’s assessed value, but B.C. Assess-ment’s area assessor for Greater Victoria calls the slight decrease “comforting.”

“I would probably character-ize this as a stable market, actu-ally,” said Reuben Danakody.

“We’re not seeing the year-over-year increases, those sub-stantial increase in values that we used to see before. It’s not bad news, it’s comforting news, that the values are still very sta-ble. We don’t want to see what was occurring the past few years down south.”

Of the region’s 18 assessment jurisdictions, only Langford and Oak Bay saw average increases in residential property values, at 0.47 per cent and 0.78 per cent, respectively.

“The numbers are very spe-cific to local markets. People are still paying fairly premium dollars to get in to Oak Bay,” Danakody said. “And Langford is a growing area; they’re very aggressively growing new devel-opments out there. The afford-able, single-family market is growing (in Langford).”

The largest average declines in the Capital Region came from the Saanich Peninsula, with Sid-ney reporting a 5.64 per cent drop and North Saanich seeing a 3.65 per cent decline. Victo-ria and Saanich saw average decreases between two and three per cent.

Danakody says the assess-ment trends indicate, economi-cally speaking, the real estate market has corrected itself “quite well.”

“We’re not seeing substan-tial declines in assessed values, which would be very concern-ing to many people,” he said. “Certainly we’ve seen significant impacts in other (B.C.) markets. Greater Vancouver’s seeing more of a decline than Greater Victo-ria, for example. The Vancouver market ... (had) a lot of aggres-sive investment speculation and the market became overheated. We tend not to get that aggres-sive here.”

Shelley Mann, president of the Victoria Real Estate Board, says she anticipates homeown-ers will open their assessment expecting the property value to be higher than it is.

“I think it’s going to be inter-esting to see how the seller takes into consideration the assessed value versus what the actual market value is,” she says. “One thing that’s happening, though, is the economy is grow-ing. There’s more full-time jobs in Victoria, and people are still

retiring here. We’re anticipating an increase (in home sales) this year.”

Danakody stresses to home-owners that their assessment is not based on the current mar-ket, but on numbers from July 2012.

“The market has softened since July. It’s important to look back, right in the middle of summer 2012 – if (your house) was to sell on the marketplace, it would’ve been worth that much,” he said.

Mann recommends to people to take the assessments with a grain of salt, given the fluctua-tions in the real estate market over the last six months.

“(Assessments) really don’t determine the market value of a property. They’re great if you want to try and determine a sale price by looking at the neigh-bours next door that sold.”

There is an appeals process for homeowner who aren’t satis-fied with their property’s assess-ment. Prior to appealing, how-ever, Danakody suggests home-owners visit bcassessment.ca to compare comparable properties and assessment in the area.

“Our job is to provide informa-tion and rationale as to how we arrive at that assessment,” Dana-kody said. “In some cases there are errors, and we can make a change to the value outside the appeal process.”

For more information, visit bcassessment.ca.

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Six months after WorkSafeBC issued a critical report

ordering the University of Victoria to better protect the health and safety of its employees, some staff on campus remain concerned about the air quality in Sedgewick building.

WorkSafe issued another report in Octo-ber, highlighting UVic’s need to better respond to employee health complaints. The report says the twice-yearly local safety committee meetings are “not effec-tive” and they fail to meet obliga-tions as set out in the Workers Compensation Act.

“A review of the minutes from one of the local safety committee meeting shows that the issue of air quality in one building remained on the meeting minutes for many years and did not make it to the University Safety Committee,” wrote WorkSafeBC prevention offi-cer Dawn Ianson.

That building in question is Sedgewick, built in 1969 and the source origin of multiple health complaints since 2000.

A report issued April 17, 2012 indicated UVic found high levels of mould and carbon dioxide in the Sedgewick building in December 2009, the first time the university took air quality tests and fungi samples.

While UVic took remediation steps between December 2009 and April 2012, “the area remains with-out adequate housekeeping and, in discussions with workers … there remains chronic health/wellness concerns,” Ianson wrote in her

April report.At the time, Ianson issued four

orders that the university must comply with, including the require-ment to improve the reporting sys-tem for health and safety issues to

ensure each one is investi-gated and addressed. The most recent report, issued in October, includes an order that UVic’s local safety committees must meet at least once a month.

“There’s about 40 to 50 primarily building-based committees that were put together (years ago) to deal with local issues,” said Andy Mavretic, act-ing director of occupa-tional health, safety and environment at UVic.

“We’re making sure that how-ever many of these local safety committees we have, they are all fully engaged in safety, reporting, inspections, reviewing incidents and communicating any findings and issues to the university safety committee.”

The local committees were meeting twice a year, while the overarching university joint health and safety committee met monthly.

Doug Sprenger, president of CUPE 951, says all the attention that’s been paid to health and safety at UVic over the last year has been hugely beneficial to employees.

“I think it’s helped particularly the occupational health and safety department understand they have to be more proactive with regards to safety of buildings,” he said. “I think they’re going to be doing a better job from now on. … It also kind of reinvigorated the health and safety committees – they know they also have to be more vigilant.”

Additionally, after the April report was released, CUPE

requested Ianson’s orders be reviewed, in hopes that Work-SafeBC would also issue financial penalties to the university.

“(The union states) that their issue is with the delay in address-ing issues in (Sedgewick), in this case eight years,” reads the deci-sion on the review request, issued late last month. “The way that it was dealt with was unacceptable. They want a penalty levied for the exposure to workers.”

Review officer Melina Lorenz highlighted that Ianson did not issue penalties as “the violations do not meet the criteria. (Ianson) stated that the violations did not result in a high risk of serious injury, serious illness or death,” Lorenz wrote.

She upheld Ianson’s decision and denied CUPE’s request for penalties. Mavretic says the deci-sion not to penalize UVic was “appropriate,” as the university is attempting to address any and all concerns that are brought to their attention.

“We’re motivated to make any changes that improve our sys-tems. Our commitment has always been and continues to be that we

take those concerns seriously,” he said.

Lorenz also noted that there is new management in place at UVic – referring to Mavretic replacing director Richard Piskor, who’d been in that role since 1987, as of Sept. 1 – “and the new manage-ment appears motivated towards compliance.”

Mavretic says UVic has taken steps to address air quality in Sedgewick. The most recent tests show steps taken earlier in the year have resulted in no more mould or building moisture prob-lems.

“The only thing that was dis-covered (recently) was the crawl-space was positively pressurized, meaning any of the potential stale, dry crawlspace odours might’ve come upstairs,” he said. “We just reopened the air vents along the outside walls to encourage air flow outside.”

Mavretic says the changes to the local safety committees should be implemented in upcoming months. To read the full reports from WorkSafeBC, visit ohs.uvic.ca/wsbcir.php.

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Sedgewick improved, but health, safety remains a concern at UVic

Sharon Tiffin/News staff

Staff working in the Sedgewick Building at the University of Victoria reported health problems for years. Air quality tests this year show the university eliminated unsafe mould and carbon dioxide levels.

WorkSafeBC orders UVic to improve safety committees

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School raises funds for child with cancer

A bottle drive is on for Emma Smith, a nine-year-old Saanich girl diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.

All funds will go to travel expenses related to her and her family’s travel bills incurred while she is away for regular chemotherapy and radiation treatments at the B.C. Children’s Hospital and B.C. Cancer Agency in Vancouver.

Team Emma, consist-ing of staff and volunteers from Cloverdale Traditional School, is organizing a num-ber of fundraisers, including a drop-off bottle drive at the carport of 1280 Palmer Rd., from Jan. 6 to 13.

Lilac ribbons are also avail-able by donation at Pember-ton Holmes at 150-805 Clo-verdale Ave.

Stabbing at New Year’s house party

Saanich police are seek-ing suspects behind a violent stabbing on New Year’s Day that sent one man to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Officers responded at 4 a.m. Jan. 1 to a house party in the 400-block of Boleskine Rd. and found two injured males amid a chaotic scene.

One 25-year-old resident received a laceration to his head inside the home.

A second male, age 23, confronted the attackers near Davidson Avenue, and received a serious wound to his torso, possibly pierc-ing several organs. He was in surgery on Jan. 1 and remains in intensive care, according to police.

“There’s not a lot of co-operation from those at the party. We don’t know what precipitated the assault,” said Sgt. Chris Horsley.

Anyone with information can call Saanich police at 250-475-4321.

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SNOWCLEARING

In the event of a snowfall, property owners and residents are reminded that a District of Saanich Bylaw (No. 8382) requires you to clear snow and ice from the sidewalk abutting your property and to ensure that a clear safe access route to refuse containers is maintained.

Please remember to offer assistance to any of your neighbours who may require help with snow removal.

The District of Saanich will make every effort to keep major/collector streets and emergency/transit routes cleared and open to traffi c.

The cooperation of all property owners and residents in this matter is greatly appreciated.

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DISTRICT OF SAANICH NOTICE TO SAANICH DOG OWNERS

2013 DOG LICENCES The Animals Bylaw requires that all dogs over the age of 4 months be licensed on or before February 1, 2013. Licences are valid for the calendar year and may be purchased in person at the Municipal Hall, 770 Vernon Avenue, Victoria BC V8X 2W7, by mail, or at any Saanich Recreation Centre.

On or before AfterLicence fees for 2013 are: March 1 March 1Male or Female Dog $35.00 $40.00Neutered Male or Spayed Female Dog $25.00 $30.00Replacement Tag $5.00 $5.00

If your dog has been neutered/spayed within the last 12 months or is a Guide Dog, the licence is free. Please bring the applicable certifi cate with you when you obtain the dog tag.

WHY SHOULD I LICENSE MY DOG? It is a requirement under the Animals Bylaw. The fi ne for not having a valid dog licence is $150.00. A Saanich dog tag is the best form of identifi cation to quickly reunite you with your pet. Veterinarians often call to fi nd the owner of injured dogs.

2013 RENEWALS: If you are the owner of a dog that was licensed in 2012, you should receive a 2013 Renewal Notice in the mail. You can purchase your 2013 dog tag online at www.saanich.ca. Otherwise, please return both parts of the notice when you purchase your dog tag in person at the Municipal Hall or by mail. If a Renewal Notice has not been received, please contact the Municipal Hall at 250-475-5494, local 3587.

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“We have the tele-communications cen-tre that was set up a few months ago in Greater Victoria that can handle surveil-lance in the province. So, we’ve put the infra-structure in place,” Burton said.

Buses purchased within the last five years also come with standard CCTV equip-ment, she said. “It’s just a matter of turning them on.”

Greater Victoria has about 300 buses, mak-ing it the largest B.C. Transit fleet in the province. With nearly 50 per cent of Transit’s resources devoted to the Capital Region, which has a complex cost-sharing formula, the Victoria Regional Transit Commission will tread carefully when considering the buy-in cost.

“There’s a cost fac-tor and a privacy issue,” said Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, a transit commission director. “If there’s a way that we can make not only the drivers, but the passengers safer, I’m all for looking at (that option).”[email protected]

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Arnold LimNews staff

It is a new year, and Saanich might have a new tradition.

In lieu of the annual formal levée, Saanich council offered up a free public swim on New Year’s Day, which drew more than 400 people to Common-wealth Place, and where even Mayor Frank Leonard took a dip with his family.

“It will sound silly but I am giddy, this is just a great suc-cess this is literally hundreds and hundreds of people here,” Leonard said laughing. “I have never seen this many at a levée. Here we have 300 to 400, at least. This is just a great suc-cess.”

Leonard said after 26 years of traditional levées at the munici-pal hall, the numbers were mov-ing in the wrong direction. The 2012 event drew only 30 to 40 people.

With the family-friendly change, he hopes Saanich resi-dents will adopt this as a new tradition.

“Some people were seeing it as a chore. The days of the governor welcoming people into the fort for a cup of tea is behind us now,” the mayor

said. “This is a time to step up to modern time. Clearly this is what people want.”

The cost for the free swim including the facility and refreshments was $4,000, which he said is the same price for coffee and tea and staff to host the traditional levée at Saanich municipal hall.

Councillors including Susan Brice, Paul Gerrard and Vic Der-man greeted and interacted with a steady stream of visitors through the foyer.

Derman was pleasantly sur-

prised with the turnout. “The levée served its time

but it was getting a little old and a little tired,” he said. “(This) stresses a healthful activity and getting out and using the rec-reation facilities and also gives people who have less revenue and less resources a chance to come and experience the rec centres and that is great.”

Council hopes to expand the free public portion to other Saanich recreation centres on New Year’s Day 2014.

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Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard spends time with his son Atticus, wife Jackie Ngai, and stepson Magnus Lam at a free family swim at Commonwealth Place pool on Jan. 1.Advertisement

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING for the purpose of a PUBLIC HEARING will be held in the SAANICH MUNICIPAL HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 770 Vernon Avenue, on TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013 at 7:30 pm, to allow the public to make verbal or written representation to Council with respect to the following proposed bylaw and permit. This rezoning application was previously considered and approved by Council on April 24, 2012. In order to revise the terms of the Housing Agreement authorized by Council for the development, it has been necessary to rescind the approval and schedule an additional Public Hearing.

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The view from the expan-sive sun deck aback of Goward House is impressive – with sight lines looking out over the lush Cadboro Bay property.

But that’s at risk right now as water has rotted away at sig-nificant portions of the wooden balcony, leaving it in a state that requires immediate attention.

“We had some soft spots on the deck repaired last March. And when they opened it up to repair them they said, ‘There’s a lot more going on. The problem would be continuing because there’s water trapped in there and it’ll just keep rotting the deck,’” said Elaine Leonard, administrator of Saanich-owned Goward House. “The contractor said we had too much rot to not start from scratch.”

What started as a resurfacing

project, estimated at $35,000, ballooned into a full-on replace-ment project with an estimated price tag of $120,000.

“It’s taken us two-and-a-half years to raise $35,000. We were prepared to go ahead, we had the money set aside, and then we found out it was much big-ger,” Elaine Leonard said.

Saanich council approved an $85,000 grant request from Goward House Society in December to help pay for a replacement porch.

“Staff said that the repairs were essential; it’s not some-thing we could postpone till the 2013 budget deliberations (in March),” said Mayor Frank Leonard. “(Staff) were sensitive about it being outside the bud-get cycle, but they were worried about the risk (of not replacing it immediately).”

The money will come from Saanich’s 2012 contingency

budget, usually held for such unknowns as snow removal.

The Goward House adminis-trator says it’s great that coun-cil approved the grant request, adding she’s optimistic work on replacing the sun deck could begin in early 2013.

“Because we’re a heritage site, as well, once you decide to something, you must be doing (what it takes) to maintain the look of heritage and bring things to code,” Elaine Leonard said.

Goward House was built in 1908 and sold to Saanich in 1973. It opened as an activity centre for seniors in 1991.

Goward House is open week-days from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seniors can take painting, lan-guage and exercise classes, or participate in a variety of social activities. For more info, see gowardhouse.com.

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Sylvia Korican, vice-president of Goward House, left, David Eyles, board director, and Gwen McLaws, president, stand on the facility’s deck, which must be replaced. Saanich council approved an $85,000 grant to help cover replacement costs, estimated at $130,000.

Saanich grants $85K to repair seniors’ centre

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Are your Christmas trees looking for a home after the holidays?

This weekend the B.C. Lions Society hosts the 23rd annual Chip in for the Kids, where real Christmas trees can be dropped off Jan. 5 and 6, to be chipped and disposed of by volunteers in an environmentally-friendly manner.

“People rely on us to do this and really come out and sup-port it,” said B.C. Lions Society manager of special events Craig Heinz. “The best part of this for me is just the response we get from people who literally have been using us for 23 years. It is

phenomenal.”Chipped trees stay out of the

landfill and are used for public trails around Greater Victoria. Disposal is by donation with all money supporting the Vancou-ver Island Easter Seals House, a living facility near the Royal Jubilee Hospital where families travelling to Victoria for medi-cal treatment can stay free of charge.

The event raised more than $20,000 in 2012 and the society hopes to match that total again this year.

“We actually operate within the Easter Seals House… (and) a lot of times with charities, people have the opportunity to give but don’t actually see what the money does,” Heinz said. “I come every day and see what

the money does and see the difference it makes. I see that impact every day.”

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I often hear of people trying to teach tolerance as a way to make the world a better place. Personally, I can’t stand

the word “tolerance” and honestly, I sure hope no one ever has to “tolerate” me.

Do you know what I would like? To be accepted. There is a big difference between accept-ing something and tolerat-ing it. I see acceptance as keeping an open mind, try-ing to bridge some under-standing.

We all know tolerance really means, “I still don’t like you. I will never like you, but since you have to be here, I am going to glare at you.”

If we want to make this world a better place, we should start work-ing on accepting, not tolerating. As far as I am concerned, tolerating is still enabling people to hate.

Canada is a pretty awesome multicultural mosaic of people. Spreading hatred or tolerance to any specific group of people would be similar to only using one or two crayons, leaving the remaining 62 vibrant colours untouched in the box.

We can accept people, communi-ties and ideas.

If a new regional sewage plant is built, would it better for people to accept it or tolerate it?

When something is in proposal mode it’s good to stand your ground and fight for what you

believe in. But when something is a done deal, maybe it’s best to all col-lectively accept it.

It’s not about being submissive or not speak-ing out. I think accep-tance is a mind set, not a behaviour.

At this point every-one should be speaking up about the Enbridge Northern Gateway proj-ect. I do mean everyone, whether you are for or

against it. Now is the time to voice your concern or your support.

A lot of the time people miss the mark. The time to talk is when government officials are making the decisions. And in the end, we’ll all have to accept the outcome, so you might as well have your voice counted.

I have been to dozens of public hearings where I have sat with a handful of other people. Then later, when the bylaw passes, I hear all sorts of people complaining out in the community.

In that case, I think people need to accept the result, if they were too lazy to go to a council meeting and speak their thoughts.

When it comes to deer, I’ve accepted it. When I open my blinds and see deer munching on my

bushes, I give the deer a friendly wave and say good morning through the glass.

My community garden is sur-rounded by deer fencing with a secure gate, because us gardeners have accepted that without it, the deer would eat the veggies. The other option would be tolerating them eating the food.

When I catch myself thinking ill of someone or something, I try to remember to stop myself and assess why I am thinking that way. Often it’s my own preconceptions that make me think negatively.

If you had a special needs child who required some extra assistance in the classroom, would you want their teacher to accept them or tol-erate them?

I understand that there are plenty of things that may be tough to accept, such as a sex offender liv-ing on your street, or even Scotch broom. Sorry folks, I have a soft spot for the plant.

Anyway, back to point. The holi-days are over and we are getting back into the swing of things.

Maybe now could be the time to look at the things in your commu-nity that you have been tolerating and find it in your heart to accept them instead.

Whichever route you go, I’ll accept that.

–Charla Huber is a reporter for the Goldstream News Gazette.

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‘I see acceptance as keeping an open mind, trying to bridge some understanding.’

Flat property, flat economyLike a Christmas present that arrives late,

this week homeowners across the Capital Region and B.C. are eagerly tearing open

their annual property value assessment from B.C. Assessment.

The notices, more than 144,000 in Greater Victoria, are vital for many reasons. Most people have a large portion of their personal wealth wrapped up in their homes and properties, and most hope for a steady year-after-year increase in value.

Overall property values help guide municipalities with budgeting and tax rates. An increase in property value doesn’t automatically translate into a tax hike, but if property values stay flat or decline, municipalities will certainly face the hard choices of cutting services, hiking taxes or both.

That appears to be the case this time around. Most people will find their properties have decreased in value or are about the same as last year. B.C. Assessment calls it a market that is “stabilizing,” rather than deflating.

It’s not a big surprise property values are flat lining or declining. Across Greater Victoria, real estate sales in 2012 slowed and prices remained stagnant for single family homes, and condos saw overall price decreases, an unheard of phenomenon in Victoria five or six years ago.

Greater Victoria is in a good position with respect to other parts of B.C. and Canada – it’s employment base is relatively diverse across the provincial and federal governments and the private sector. But the flat property values is a barometer and reflection of a broader lagging economy and a public worried about its fiscal future.

Cutbacks and austerity at all levels of government have been the norm since the recession of 2008, and 2013 won’t be an exception. Local municipal councils likely weren’t expecting large increases in property values, and will budget with that in mind.

Most local governments will want to keep tax hikes low, and that will likely mean job losses and service cuts. Flat growth might be the watchwords of 2013.

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After 25 years, it’s time to stop spinning our wheelsIn 1988, hundreds of scientists

and policymakers met in Toronto for a major conference on climate change.

They were sufficiently alarmed by the accumulated evidence for human-caused global warming that they issued a release stating, “Humanity is conducting an unintended, uncontrolled, globally pervasive experiment whose ultimate consequences could be second only to a global nuclear war.”

They urged world leaders to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent by 2005. Had we heeded that warning and embarked on a campaign to meet the target, Canadians would now be healthier, have greater reserves of energy and more jobs. We’d also be a world leader in renewable energy and could have saved tens of billions of dollars.

The year was significant for environmentalists. In 1988,

George H.W. Bush ran for the highest office in the U.S. and promised to be an “environmental

president.” He didn’t have a green bone in his body, but public pressure compelled him to make a commitment he ultimately didn’t keep.

That year, Margaret Thatcher was filmed picking up litter. She turned to the camera and said, “I’m a greenie, too.”

Canada’s prime minister, Brian

Mulroney, was also re-elected in 1988. He appointed a bright new political star, Lucien Bouchard, as environment minister. I asked Bouchard during an interview what he considered to be our most important environmental issue. “Global warming,” he responded. I continued: “How serious is it?” His answer: “It threatens the survival of our species. We have to act now.”

In 1988, the environment was a top public concern, scientists

spoke out and politicians said the right things. Global warming was a pressing and present issue.

Now, 25 years later, carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise and we’re already seeing the consequences – more extreme weather events, melting glaciers and Arctic ice, rising sea levels, reduced water flows in rivers and climate-related illness and death, among others.

It’s driven in part by rapid economic growth in countries like China, India and Brazil. At the same time, most industrialized nations, whose use of fossil fuels created the problem of excess greenhouse gases, have done little to reduce emissions.

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.

Scientists and supercomputers

have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological and biological properties of the biosphere.

In 1992, more than 1,700 eminent scientists, including 104 Nobel prize winners, signed the “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity,” which included this urgent warning: “No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished.”

The document concluded that environmentally damaging activity must be brought under control and the integrity of Earth’s ecosystems protected, critical resources managed more effectively, human population growth stabilized, poverty reduced and eventually eliminated, and sexual equality and guarantees of women’s reproductive rights ensured.

The sooner we act, the easier it will be to overcome these difficult challenges. Every year we stall makes it more costly and challenging, with increasing negative impacts on humans and our environment.

There are signs of hope. Many countries – as well as cities, states and provinces – are taking global warming seriously and are working to reduce emissions and shift to cleaner energy sources. Some world leaders are even questioning our current paradigm, where the economy is made a priority above all else.

This is crucial. Over and over, the economy has determined the extent of our response, but how much value does it place on breathable air, drinkable water, edible food and stable weather and climate? Surely the economy is the means to a better future, not an end in itself. Surely it must be subordinate to a rich, diverse ecosphere that sustains all life. Let’s hope this year ushers in a new way of living on and caring for our planet.

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Alternate project listfor CRD funding

Re: Capital Regional District’s sewage treatment plans

The $792 million (assuming no major overruns) supposedly available for sewage treatment could instead be spent on many useful things, such as:

– Fund the new Johnson Street Bridge ($93 million)

– Repair the E & N railway line ($25 million) and get a commuter train running from Langford to the new bridge. Another two trains could offer at least twice daily service from Courtenay to Nanaimo, and from Nanaimo to Langford, all timed to connect. (Call that $20 million; maybe revenues would even sustain it.) Better still, electrify it to reduce operating costs and fares ($50 million)

– Widen the Old Island Highway to four lanes, at least from Admirals Road to Helmcken Road, to alleviate the daily massive traffic congestion ($75 million)

– Build a bigger dam so we can end summer water restrictions and reduce the price of tap water so we can garden freely again ($20 million)

– Create a website where citizens can initiate and vote on referenda, perhaps along the lines of American state initiatives or propositions ($10 million)

– Provide a rebate of $20,000 on each new electric car for the first 10,000 cars purchased ($200 million)

– Provide a $10,000 rebate for the next 10,000 “made in B.C.” electric car conversions ($100 million).

Compared to sewage treatment, how much real, serious pollution could be eliminated by such steps and how much irreplaceable fossil

fuel would be saved?The referendum website would

reduce the present wide gap between government agendas and the real needs and wishes of the people they supposedly represent.

Craig CarmichaelEsquimalt

Relatives’ motivationcan lead to elder abuses

Re: When a senior is in trouble (News online, posted Dec. 20)

A fundamental enabling factor for elder abuse is the notion that relatives are automatically good people.

It’s almost a form of reverse racism – thinking collective instead of on content of character.

Scummy people tend to be good at convincing others to do dumb things.

Fostering feelings of guilt is one of their tactics that seems to work well with many older people.

People need to realize the risk and be willing to defend themselves.

Keith SketchleySaanich

Railings a good ideafor safety conscious

Re: Railings on Ogden Point breakwater

I am all for it, because I am no longer steady on my feet, and also, the height makes me uneasy.

It is a safety issue that the Greater Victoria Harbour Authority should have dealt with a long time ago.

You will see more people out on the breakwater when the railings have been installed.

Greg F. TupmanEsquimalt

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Emotional, intimate and dark, Speaking in Tongues explores infidelity, going where good peo-ple don’t, and where others are tempted.

Themes of adultery abound in the award-winning play by Austra-lian Andrew Bovell.

Despite playing to strong reviews in London and New York over the past decade, the emo-tional thriller only made its Cana-dian debut in 2012 when Toronto-based Company Theatre brought it to life.

The same gang from Company Theatre is now in Victoria prepar-ing it for a Belfry Theatre run from Jan. 22 to Feb. 24.

“Bovell has a great track record, Speaking has had a good run so it was surprising that it hadn’t been done in Canada yet,” direc-tor Philip Riccio said.

Four actors – Richard Clarkin, Jonathan Goad, Helene Joy and

Yanna McIntosh – play nine char-acters in the non-linear story.

“It’s more like what you might see in film, different stories that interconnect told in a puzzle,” Ric-cio said.

The storyline jumps around so

much, there was initial worry the audience would need added plot cues, but the writing by Bovell, carries that out, Riccio said. It’s as sharp now as it was when it was written in 1996.

It comes to Victoria through

Riccio’s relationship with Belfry’s artistic director Michael Shamata. The two previously worked together in Toronto, where Ric-cio co-founded Company Theatre with Allan Hawco (Republic of Doyle).

“When we were consider-ing Speaking in 2011, I sent it to (Shamata) because I thought it would be great with his season.”

Riccio’s awareness grew when Bovell’s When The Rain Stops Fall-ing was well received in Niagara on the Lake last summer.

Company’s director and cast have little to connection to Victo-ria, aside from some relatives of actor Gemini-award winner Helene Joy, who is actually Australian.

Some, including Riccio, have never been here.

One thing the Company does have in common with the Belfry is the stage.

In Toronto they’re based out of the Berkeley Street Theatre, an intimate venue not unlike the Bel-fry. It’s an old brick warehouse-type of building, refurbished with 244-seat and 176-seat stages, near the city’s art-heavy Distillery Dis-trict.

Tickets range from $25 to $40, with 8 p.m. shows from Tuesday to Saturday. Wednesday matinees at 1 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Available through Belfry.bc.ca.

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THE ARTSThe Capital City Syncopators play traditional jazz, country, swing,

and prohibition-era novelty songs with a vintage sound. The band’s line-up includes some of Victoria’s most accomplished professional musicians. Hear them live at Norway House,1110 Hillside Ave., Jan. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Go to victoriafolkmusic.ca for more information.

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Actors Yanna McIntosh, Jonathan Goad, Helene Joy and Richard Clarkin star in Speaking in Tongues, a Toronto-based production running at the Belfry Theatre Jan. 22 to Feb. 24.


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Gear up for this year’s festival with this edge-of-your-seat thriller and pick up the 2013 Festival Program Guide while you're at it.

The Imposter will be shown Jan. 10-13 at the Vic Theatre, 808 Douglas St. Screenings will be held nightly at 7 p.m., doors open at 6:30 p.m.

The Imposter is a gripping real-life thriller from director Bart Layton that took the 2012 film festival circuit by storm. The story begins with the mysterious disap-pearance of 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay from San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, his family receives the stagger-ing news that Nicholas has been found in Spain with a story of kidnap and torture. Overjoyed, they welcome the boy back into their home, but things aren’t what they seem.

Layton mixes re-enactments, interviews and suspenseful story-telling in a beautifully-woven film that allows the audience to play detective. With unending twists and turns, this story is far from black and white. This half-documentary, half true-crime drama will leave you breathless.

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Originally from Wales, Gillian Redwood is a life-long, professional artist who recently moved to Victoria.

Creating colourful, semi-abstract artwork is her full-time calling at Xchanges Gallery and Studios in downtown Victoria.

“My sight is not particularly good, however the information I receive from looking at a person, say, sitting beside the water, is huge,” says Redwood. “I can feel a lot of the movement and sense where the energy of a person flows. These are the elements that I paint in this series, and this is where I develop the ideas for my paintings.”

Redwood obtained her art and design degree at Cardiff College of Art in Wales, and the West of England College of Art, U.K. More recently she studied life drawing and painting at the St. Ives School of Painting, U.K.

“I feel that people often disregard the sensory information that we receive, and attempt to reproduce what the lens of a camera sees. I like to imagine where our seeing eyes could take us, if

we would let them,” she says.

Redwood invites the public to enjoy her new work, a lively group of paintings entitled The Gathering.

She describes it as her exploration of how both men and women gather their talents, energies and spirit to move through their lives.

The artwork is on

display at Discovery Coffee, 1964 Oak Bay Ave. until Feb. 14.

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In the know The Gathering, an

exhibition of paintings by Gillian Redwood will be at Discovery Coffee, 1964 Oak Bay Ave., until Feb. 14.

The opening event is tonight (Jan. 4) from 7 to 9 p.m. Everyone is welcome.

In the know Prizes and nominations

include:Winner: Miami International Film Festival Grand Jury documentary prizeNominated: Sundance Grand Jury world documentary prizeWinner: Hot Docs Filmmakers’ AwardNominated: British Independent Film Awards - Best Film, Best Director, Best Debut Director, Best Technical Achievement - Editing, Best Achievement in Production, Best DocumentaryShortlisted: Academy Award for Best Documentary

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New Imperial social and dance

Dance in the beau-tiful Chief and Petty Officers’ Mess, 1575 Lyall St. in Esquimalt.

The next dance, on Friday, Jan. 11, will be their first event in 2013, the Pulp Mills. plays from 8 to 11:30 p.m.

Tickets at the door are $14 for non-mem-bers, $10 for mem-bers. Includes tea/cof-fee and a snack.

For more informa-tion, call Siggy at 250-721-3799.

Free Scottish Country dancing

Vancouver Island Scottish Country Dance Society pres-ents a free open house, Jan. 8, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at 550 Obed Ave. Learn to dance, have fun and enjoy a lively evening of danc-ing. No partner or experience necessary. Dress casually and wear soft-soled shoes.

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The Camosun Chargers’ Decem-ber break is too long for Brett West-cott’s basketball calendar.

To break the month up, the Char-gers women’s coach runs Camo-sun’s annual holiday tournament for the express reason of keeping his players sharp.

So when the Vancouver Island Mariners backed out of the Chargers’ third and final match of the holiday tournament, which was set for Sunday (Dec. 30), Westcott didn’t hesitate to organize a new oppo-nent.

“We wanted to play, it didn’t matter to us who,” Westcott said on Sun-day. The Chargers did play, and won a lopsided game over a mixed team of alumni and local night-leaguers, who wore the Chargers blue practice pinnies.

Overall the tournament proved successful for the Chargers, who went 3-0.

After winning just three of the first eight league games this fall, includ-ing a one-point win over the Langara Falcons (3-5), the Chargers clicked into gear for the holidays. They beat the visiting Falcons by 18 on Satur-day and Hamilton’s Mohawk Moun-taineers by 23 on Friday.

The wins prove a consensus the-ory in the bleachers that this team is starting to come together.

“Coming out of exams we didn’t have any games for a month, so it’s

important to play. I thought at times (during the tournament) we played well, at other times it looked like we hadn’t played before,” Westcott said. “I’m disappointed in the first half of the season, but judging by how Mohawk did against the other teams, I guess we played better than we thought.”

To watch the Chargers is to see a team that wins by committee, with a fairly even share of talent across the team.

Third-year Elyse Matthews (Stel-ly’s secondary) leads the Chargers in points scored with an average of 12 per game. It’s fifth in the PacWest but is far off the dominant 19.6 ppg pace of league-leader Amonda Fran-cis (Douglas Royals).

But with Chargers’ guard Ella Goldschmid (Mount Douglas sec-ondary) right behind Matthews with 11 ppg (eighth in the PacWest), the picture begins to unfold.

Goldschmid is also ninth in the PacWest in assists, and is part

of the Chargers’ rebuilt attack after the departure of Aija Sal-vador, who was central to the team’s offence.

“It’d be nice if (Saturday’s) win over Langara was a league game, but even though it doesn’t count (in the standings), it gives us much more confidence going ahead,” Gold-schmid said.

The sophomore is part of a Victo-ria-heavy roster, rich with first and second year players. The team is so young, Goldschmid is undecided about coming back for another year of university transfer courses. The Chargers know they’re better than their 3-5 record suggests, she added, and are ready to punch their way

into the playoffs now that the sec-ond stage of the season is here.

“It’s tempting to think how good we can be next year, even this year,” Goldschmid said.

“The top seven (of eight) teams are all competitive, as long as we get into the playoffs, anybody can win,” Westcott said.

Tonight’s (Jan. 4) game between the Mariners and Chargers, in Nanaimo, was cited as the main rea-

son for VIU’s cancellation on Sun-day.

Friday (Jan. 11) and Saturday (Jan. 12) the Chargers host the Langara Falcons and Douglas Royals, women play at 6 p.m. and men at 8 p.m.

The Chargers men finished the first half with wins over Kwantlen and the CBC Bearcats, the team’s first two wins of the season.

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Jessica Villadiego of the Kwantlen Eagles and Ella Goldschmid of the Camosun Chargers reach for a loose ball during PacWest play at PISE earlier this season.

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Holidays on ice

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tournament. Gary Ahuja/Black Press


Former teammates Travis Oickle and Max Mois will once again suit up on the same team when the two South Division all-stars attend the 2013 Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League All-Star Classic in Parksville on Jan. 13.

Mois was traded last month from the Westshore Wolves to the Saanich Braves, and will rep-resent the latter in the All-Star Classic. Oickle, who holds the distinction of having played for the now-defunct former West-shore Stingers, will represent the expansion Wolves.

The South Division rosters were recently announced for both the All-Star game and Pros-pects games.

Leading the list on the South’s All-Star team is the first-place

Victoria Cougars with six play-ers: forwards Brody Coulter, Sam Rice and Mark Walton, defencemen Graham Zagrodney and Jacob Stolz, and goalie Evan Roch. Cougars coach Mark Van Helvoirt will lead the bench.

The Saanich Braves are sec-ond with five players, forwards Mois, Ty Jones and Josh Gray, defenceman Garett Kemmler and goalie Tanner McGaw.

Joining Oickle from the Wolves is forward Josh Bloomenthal and defenceman Chris McDon-ald. Peninsula Panthers players going are forwards Cole Golka and Josh Adkins, and defence-man Cody Breitenstein. For-mer Panthers star Kyle Peter-son leads the trio of Kerry Park Islanders with F Alex Milligan and D Colton Burt.

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VIJHL name All-Star squads

Women short, men split in Cali

The UVic Vikes men’s basketball team closed out their California tour with a 96-88 loss to the No. 19-ranked NAIA team, Concordia University-Irvine Eagles on Sun-day (Dec. 30). Terrell Evans led the Vikes with 18 points. The men won their first game, 55-52 over the Biola Eagles of La Mirada.

Third-year Vike Jes-sica Renfrew led the Vikes women’s team with 31 points in the second of their two-game exhibition series in California. The Vikes fell with a 72-62 loss to Vanguard University, a strong No. 3-ranked NAIA team. The Vikes women lost to Biola 63-43 in their other game.

Royals, Grizz home for two

The sixth-place Victoria Royals hope to continue their upward trend host-ing the fifth-place Tri City Americans tonight and tomorrow, 7 p.m. at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.

The Victoria Griz-zlies host the Nanaimo Clippers tonight at 7:15 p.m. and the Powell River Kings Sunday at 1 p.m. at Bear Mountain Arena.

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BUFFET/ HUTCH, solid wood 18”Dx50”Wx79”H, red/brown tone, Made in Quebec. $165. (250)380-8733.

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JAMES BAY: Corner 2 bdrmCondo, 2 bath, NS/NP, prkgavail. $1350. 250-361-9540.

JAMES BAYLarge bedroom, den, 1.5 bathrooms in corner Condo. Easy living for those 55+ at the “Camelot”. Enjoy pre-pared dinners, house-keeping, laundry and other good things while owning your own home in this exceptional loca-tion now at an excellent price of $159,900, (ren-tal also would be consid-ered).Call for more information or private tour.

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ROYAL OAK- (near CommonWealth pool) new updated 1bdrm condo, W/D. ns/np. $825inclds utils. (250)652-7729.

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Restored Mustang Christmas gift represents family bond and an immigrant success story

The short version of the story is that Vancouver-area homebuilder Ben Taddei had his father’s original 1968 Mustang fastback restored from top to bottom to give back to him in better-than-new condition for Christmas. But the car represents so much to the family that the story can only be understood in full context.

Benito (Benny) Taddei and Antonina Ferrari grew up fi ve blocks apart in a little village near Aquila, Italy and started dating when she was just 14 years old. He was from a family of six boys and his father said there wasn’t enough property for all his sons to inherit. Benny followed his older brother to Vancouver in 1957 and started a new life at the age of 21. Two years later, Antonina arrived in Vancouver and they married.

Benny was an expert tile and marble installer and worked hard. He had a fl air for style and eventually opened his own hair styling salon. He called it House of Ferrari to honour his wife’s maiden name and the styling of his favorite Italian sports car.

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Benny paid the asking price of $5,102, believing he would miss the opportunity if he went away to think about it. His son Ben was just two months old when the Mustang came home. Antonina

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Benny Taddei with son Ben receiving the freshly restored 1968 Mustang fastback he bought new in Vancouver

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Mustang represents their youth and energy and my dad’s passion for sporty cars, good design and beautiful things.”

Before the years of mandatory seat belts, Ben always rode up front with his mother. His dad would let him shift the transmission and have his hand on the steering wheel. “I felt so grown up and cool while I could hardly see over the dashboard,” he says.

He recalls traveling in the car after late-night departures from visits with aunts, uncles and cousins. “I would crawl into the back area behind the fold down rear seat and look up at the stars through the rear window. I thought the moon was following me home.”

When Ben reached the age of eight in the mid 1970s, his father began teaching him how to drive the car on the deserted farm roads in Richmond. By the time he was 10, he was going solo in the Mustang driver’s seat with his dad as co-pilot.

His ‘job’ every Saturday was to back the Mustang out of the carport and wash it. “I used to turn on the radio and diligently clean the car inside and out.”

About two months after he

got his driver’s license, he was showing off to friends in the car and drove into a curb at full speed. Only the wheel and suspension were damaged but Ben felt terrible. “I thought I had destroyed my dad’s car.”

One year ago, father and son drove the car to a restoration shop in Coquitlam and committed the Mustang to a full rotisserie restoration. Ben decided to update the car with modern power steering, power disc brakes, a high-performance engine coupled to a fi ve-speed manual transmission, Shelby exhaust and American Racing wheels. The Mustang gleams with its new candy apple red paint.

The Mustang got a green bow for Christmas. “Everything I have today I owe to my parents. They gave me love, a good home and an education,” Ben says of his wish to give them back their Mustang in brand new condition.

“I had the car restored a bit selfi shly – a little the way I wanted. But options were added that were available at the time that my father couldn’t afford. I’m fortunate to be in a fi nancial position to do this and I want my dad to have some fun with the car,” he says.

Ben is looking forward to once again being in the car with his family. “My dad and I will

‘68 Mustang drive the Mustang together and he’ll use it whenever he wants to – probably more than I will because he is long retired.”

Ben hopes to eventually pass the Mustang on to his daughter who is now six. “Who knows: maybe she will fall in love with the car like I did. As I did when I was a toddler, she has spent time in the front seat of ‘Nonna’s

car’ honking the horn. The difference this time was that the car was parked in the garage. Seatbelt laws, you know.”

Alyn Edwards is a classic car enthusiast and partner in Peak Communicators, a Vancouver-based public relations company. [email protected]

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