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They call it “The Blob,” and it’s threaten-ing to disrupt marine habitats off the coast of B.C. and Alaska.

The Blob is an anomaly of nutrient-poor, warm water, the likes of which seasoned oceanographers haven’t seen before, says Tom Okey, a Victoria-based marine ecolo-gist and adjunct environmental studies pro-fessor at the University of Victoria.

It could further affect the pole-ward migration of marine life already occurring along the Pacific coast.

“West Coast fishermen are chasing tuna to Alaska,” Okey says. “Fishermen recently caught a skip-jack tuna – a tropical fish – in the mouth of the Copper River, one of Alaska’s most iconic salmon rivers.”

The Blob began appearing at the end of 2013, and spread to an area covering 1.5-million square kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska.

It arrived in the nearshore waters of Vancouver Island at the end of 2014, “where the waters remain much warmer than usual,” Okey says.

Okey has authored and co-authored papers in sev-eral peer-reviewed journals summarizing the impacts of climate change on Cana-da’s Pacific region, calculating the vulnerability of Pacific Northeast waters to the effects of climate change.

He’s quick to point out that while the ocean is highly variable, there are too many indicators suggesting the marine ecosystem is undergoing significant change, and it’s not for the better.

A naturally occurring cool period in the coastal Pacific ocean from 2006 to 2013, known to researchers as a cold regime, is believed to have masked the underlying sig-nals of longer-term oceanic changes. That cool regime delayed more conspicuous changes in the ocean as well

as our own socio-economic changes, Okey says.

Frank Whitney, with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich, said winter winds blowing across the Pacific are possibly

being impacted by decreased sea ice cover, which in turn could be driving up the ocean temperature.

“The warming of the Arctic and decrease in the cover of Arctic summer sea ice may have caused weakened westerly and stronger southerly winds in the North Pacific starting in the fall of 2013. As a result, warmer south-ern waters were pushed north-ward,” Whitney said.

Researchers say the Blob is respon-sible for low nutrients, low biological

productivity and changes in currents, salinity, stratification, dissolved oxygen and

acidity. Okey says it has also been linked to changes in the distributions, productivity and abundances of marine species including plankton, fishes, mammals and birds.

Okey and colleagues, including Dr. William Cheung of the UBC Fisheries Centre, estimated that some marine fishes along the coast are shifting northward at an aver-age of 30 kilometres per decade, though other research suggests an even faster rate. But species shift at different rates, Okey says.

“What you get is re-shuffling and mismatches of co-evolved species,”

he said. “When predators are showing up to feed, the plankton or other prey

are sometimes not there at the same time that they used to be.”

Okey says there’s a pretty long list of indicators that suggest that

species are reshuffling fast. “We have some examples of past

events with similar shifts, such as previous El Ninos including the early

1990s and 2005, when Pacific mackerel arrived in B.C. in huge numbers. As vora-cious predators, they ate much juve-nile salmon and their prey. We need to

prevent species extinction and we need to find approaches to help maintain the functional health

of the system with reshuffled species, so we can help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.”

One type of approach that Okay and colleagues are focusing on is spatial vulnerability assessment, the search for ‘climate refugia (areas of slower change), which can be protected or otherwise managed.

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Did you know?n Predicting climate change impacts on Pacific salmon is complicated, but salmon are cold-water species in both marine and freshwater habitats, and are affected by changes in nearshore habitat and offshore food resources. It doesn’t look good for Pacific salmon species in the current ocean climate, Okey says. Chinook salmon may be particularly sensitive. As the preferred prey of the threatened resident Orca population in Canada’s Pacific, Orcas may be particularly affected by this warm anomaly thanks to decreasing food supply.

“We need to ... help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.”

- Tom Okey, marine ecologist

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Man dies in single vehicle crash in West Saanich

A 60-year-old man is dead and another is seriously injured after a single vehicle collision in the 5300-block of Old West Saanich Rd. last Saturday night.

Emergency respond-ers were called to the area around 7 p.m. on March 21 and discov-ered two men with serious injuries. The passenger succumbed to his injuries at the scene, said Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie. The drive,r a 59-year-old man, was at Vic-

toria General Hospital with serious injuries on Monday.

Traffic was rerouted until about 2 a.m. on Sunday as police and the coroner attended the scene.

The incident is under investigation and alco-hol has not been ruled out as a factor, Eassie said.

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Municipal auditor general fired after public rowTom FletcherBlack Press

The B.C. government has fired its Auditor General for Local Government, after accountant Basia Ruta “lost all con-fidence” of her supervisors to complete audits that compare local government spending practices.

“The auditor general for local govern-ment’s obstruction of an intended review of her office has created an intolerable situation that compounds the unstable work environment and lack of perfor-mance from that office,” said Community Minister Coralee Oakes.

Oakes took the action on the recom-

mendation of the government-appointed audit council.

Former deputy minister Chris Trumpy was due to start his own review of the new office Monday. It is the first attempt in Canada to do “performance audits” by comparing groups of municipalities, but the performance of Ruta’s office has become the pressing issue.

Oakes said Ruta will not be offered severance pay, because the government has determined she has been fired for cause. The work environment in the Sur-rey office of the AGLG had deteriorated, and Ruta’s decision to refuse Trumpy’s involvement led to the decision, she said.

Hired to execute an idea proposed by Premier Christy Clark in her 2012 bid for the B.C. Liberal Party leadership, Ruta set herself a target of 18 audits in the

first year. Clashes with the staff at her Surrey office and the audit council began to emerge last year.

NDP local government critic Selina Robinson said the two-year-old office has lost credibility over spending $5.2 million over two years to produce only one audit. Two more reports were issued last week.

The function should be included in the existing B.C. Auditor General office, which is an independent office of the leg-islature, Robinson said.

Oakes said she remains committed to the current structure, which had envi-sioned three audits in the first year and five in the second. It was Ruta who raised expectations far beyond that and then didn’t deliver, she said.

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The two women quietly enter the hospital room. They pause. The man, holding a yellow begonia, standing next to the dying woman nods his head in acknowledgement.

They softly ask: “Would you like us to sing to your mother?”

He replies in a soft whisper that he was about to leave.

The women invite him to stay. He moves to the head of the bed as the volunteers begin singing All Through the Night.

As their voices fill the space, the woman lying in bed passes away.

“He was really grateful that he stayed because he was there when his mother died,” says singer Mari-ana Chapman, a member of the Vic-toria Hospice Bedside Singers.

Three evenings a week, singing can be heard coming from patient’s rooms at Victoria Hospice.

The voices belong to the Victoria Hospice Beside Singers, a group that helps comfort the dying by singing in a cappella (voices unaccompa-nied by instruments) and always in teams of only two singers. The core repertoire includes songs of com-fort and general blessing, as well as popular songs from popular culture.

The group began in 2007 when

a Hospice volunteer noticed that by humming and singing around patients, they seemed to be com-forted.

Today, the group consists of 13 volunteers and more are needed.

Chapman, Suellen Guenther and Kathie Doerksen have been with the group the longest.

“What we do in bedside singing is we’re very respectful of the patient,” Guenther says.

“We would not sing songs or hymns with religious language unless we get an indication from the patient or the family that’s their tradition. We just offer comforting words.”

Hospice staff will usually refer a patient and oftentimes family members. A singer will then meet with the patient to see if they are interested. Some people are inter-ested right away, others take a little convincing, and often it’s a flat no, Doerksen says.

“If they say no, we thank them for that too. No is also a right answer,” says Chapman. The singers can sing one to a handful of songs, it depends on how long the patient wants them there.

“Sometimes patients are too exhausted and it’s overwhelming for them to choose song,” Doerksen says.

“We just ask them if they want a lullaby-kind of song or an upbeat song and we’ll choose one to fit.”

Training to become a Bedside singer is about a six-month process with singers required to take Hos-pice volunteer training followed by mucic work.

The group wants singers who can stay on key, generally sing in a warm lullaby tone, and be able to smoothly blend their voice with one other singer.

It is not necessary to have any professional vocal training. The abil-ity to read music is not a require-ment. New singers are mentored by experienced Bedside Singers during the regular Victoria Hospice sched-ule. Members of Beside Singers are required to attend Wednesday eve-ning practices.

Doerksen, Guenther and Chap-man says there is nothing like Hos-pice.

“I never leave here without feel-ing so grateful and uplifted. It’s just so supportive and calm,” Doerksen says.

Adds Guenther: “It’s the times when it’s profound that keeps us coming back. Every now and then there is something really touching and you realize, ‘wow we made a dif-ference for that person.’”

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Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers Mariana Chapman, left, Suellen Guenther and Kathie Doerksen have volunteed with Hospice for more than seven years.

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Palm Sunday events open to all

Two Saanich churches, Lutheran Church of the Cross and St. Luke Cedar Hill Anglican Church, invite the community to take part in a Palm/Passion Sunday Service and Community Palm Procession on Sunday on March 29.

The service begins at 10 a.m. at 3787 Cedar Hill Rd. with the blessing of palms, coats and blankets. The blankets and coats will be donated to Our Place Society.

Following the blessing, attendees head to St. Luke’s where the service will continue and light refreshments will be served.

For more information, call 250-477-6741 or visit stlukesvictoria.ca.

Fun run for brain tumour awareness

The Spring Sprint, hosted by the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada, is Victoria’s Brain Tumour Awareness Walk.

Saanich will host the only Spring Sprint on Vancouver Island at the University of Victoria on Sunday, May 24.

The 2.5 km walk/5 km fun run is free. The Victoria Royals’ Marty the Marmot and the Rock Bay Pipers will be there to pick up spirits as well.

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Family forest tea Party at the park

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Did you know?n Interested in becoming a member of the Victoria Hospice Bedside Singers? Victoria Hospice is hosting two information sessions on March 25 and April 22, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Begbie Hall, 2101 Richmond St. No registration is required. Training begins in mid-September.

n All Bedside Singers must attend the Victoria Hospice volunteer training course before they can sing in the patient unit. They are also required to undergo a criminal record check and willing to get a flu shot.

n For more information on the program, please call 250-370-8727 or go online to victoriahospice.org.

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It’s selling across the country and is on the cover for Scholastic Cana-da’s 2015 catalogue.

“It just goes to show you, you can’t stop trying, you never know when you’ll break through,” says the 44-year-old Saanichite. “I wasn’t wait-ing, I was active, it’s just that hard to get published.”

The Duck Says is a series of sharp-witted rhymes belted by a fun-loving duck as it wanders through a farm. It targets kids from three to eight years old, but is easily enjoyed by kids as young as one.

Wilson’s first book, Perfect Man, was released in 2004 and met great success. He partnered on the book about a young superhero with illus-trator Dean Griffiths of Duncan. Orca Books launched it from Victoria and it managed four additional printings

and remains in circulation today. But Wilson learned a big lesson

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Children’s author ‘quacking up’ kidsTravis PatersonNews staff

After a nine year gap since his last book was published, children’s author Troy Wilson’s newest title, The Duck Says, has kids quacking up.

It’s selling across the country and is on the cover for Scholastic Cana-da’s 2015 catalogue.

“It just goes to show you, you can’t stop trying, you never know when you’ll break through,” says the 44-year-old Saanichite. “I wasn’t wait-ing, I was active, it’s just that hard to get published.”

The Duck Says is a series of sharp-witted rhymes belted by a fun-loving duck as it wanders through a farm. It targets kids from three to eight years old, but is easily enjoyed by kids as young as one.

Wilson’s first book, Perfect Man, was released in 2004 and met great success. He partnered on the book about a young superhero with illus-trator Dean Griffiths of Duncan. Orca Books launched it from Victoria and it managed four additional printings

and remains in circulation today. But Wilson learned a big lesson

with the 2005 follow-up, Frosty is a Stupid Name. It’s about a girl who names her snowman Bartholomew, and was aimed at the five to seven age group, a younger market than Perfect Man’s seven to 12 year old range.

Problem is, no one ever met Batholomew because parents won’t pick up a children’s book with ‘stu-pid’ in the title. The book never hit a second printing.

“Obviously, ‘stupid’ was a sticking point,” Wilson said. “I hadn’t antici-pated it was a swear word. These are the things you learn.”

Nine years and three months later, the lead character in The Duck Says says a lot of things, and stupid isn’t one of them.

“I’m not a parent so I had to learn to see things from a kids’ point of view and, often more importantly, from a parent’s point of view.”

Please see: Picture books, Page A5

SAANICH NEWS - Wednesday, March 25, 2015 www.saanichnews.com • A5

“My inner child comes from a time when stupid was an okay thing to say.”

Book tours for Wilson means hitting elementary schools, which he’s done a lot and will do again. Each visit is another chance to learn what kids want to read, and what teacher’s want them to read.

“School visits are invaluable, it’s truly my chance to learn from kids. I have a niece, and she’s a proud niece who hap-pily accepted my book but she’s entering the teenage years, and you can’t replace hearing a kid’s reaction.”

Wilson was born and raised in Port Alberni and left for the University of Victoria 25 years ago. He completed his bachelor of arts and then Camosun Col-lege’s previously offered applied communications program, and has been here ever since.

Even with the success of Per-fect Man he’s moved through a series of day jobs, including call centres. He’s now a lot closer to fulfilling his goal with a career as a writer.

Shortly after his second book he wrote his first of many sto-ries for the Owlkids line of chil-dren’s magazines (Owl, Chicka-DEE, and Chirp), in the Jan/Feb 2006 issue of ChickaDEE. Owl-kids does books too, and will

print his next book in the spring of 2017. He’s also written for Highlights for Children magazine.

During the nine year gap between books Wilson received hundreds of rejection letters for the ‘countless’ books he

pitched. But The Duck Says has rein-

vigorated his writing career. “I always wanted to write.

People won’t remember my op-eds for Monday Magazine or book reviews for the Vancouver

Sun, it was a long time ago,” he said. “All other writing has fallen away. I’m in libraries taking out piles of children’s books, look-ing to see what works.”

Perfect Man captures the many aspects of a great read, about a boy who finds his own talents and place in the world. It’s a humorous spin that stays with in the superhero genre, thereby finding a niche. The back cover even boasts a testimonial from

comic great Stan Lee himself. The Duck Says, however, is

a far different take. It was an idea that struck Wilson during his regular walk along Cedar Hill Road between McKenzie and Hillside avenues.

“Of all the pitches I’ve ever made, this was the kind you don’t make,” Wilson laughed. “I put a series of rhymes together, but without much of a structure in terms of a storyline, and sent it to (publisher) Scholastic Can-ada. They saw the potential to animate it and they did a great job.”

Scholastic recruited Alberta

based illustrator Mike Boldt, who Wilson has yet to meet, and Boldt brought the book to life.

“He did a great job, and really, Scholastic did too, they had a really good feel for what I had in mind, and they were great in making sure I was happy with the direction.”

The Duck Says will soon be available through the Greater Victoria Public Library system (it’s on order). Wilson says it’s been widely purchased by library systems in every prov-ince of Canada including B.C., though there are none to date in the Vancouver Public Library.

That’s life, says Wilson, who’s Perfect Man still has five copies in the Greater Victoria Library system.

“It’s so competitive now, there are so many more children’s books than in 2005, it’s a thriv-ing industry.”

The Duck Says is also avail-able at Chapters, Munro’s, Bolen Books, Ivy’s, Tanner’s Books and through amazon.ca.

Wilson will be reading the book at an April 1 Victoria Writ-ers’ Society meeting, 7 p.m. at the Central library branch downtown. The event is free and open to the public, but Wilson won’t have any copies on hand.

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Travis Paterson/News staff

Saanich author Troy Wilson released his third children’s book, The Duck Says, through Scholastic Canada. Wilson’s rhyming schemes are brought to life by illustrator Mike Boldt of Alberta.

Continued from Page A4

“I hadn’t anticipated that ‘stupid’ was a swear

word.”

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The B.C. government has made its most significant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the province’s poorest people.

The largest financial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. There are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women.

Even if they could find an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children.

That is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.

The new program takes effect in September. It will not only continue income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year.

Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year after training, to allow a transition to

employment.Approved training means training

for jobs that are identified as in demand, requiring high school and occupation-specific training that can be completed in a year or less. They

include retail sales, general office work and assistance jobs in health services.

Another overdue policy change is to double the allowable earnings for all income assistance recipients from $200 to $400 a month.

This gives people a chance to improve their circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having

that little income cut from their already meagre welfare cheques.

And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental child support payments from income assistance payments.

The province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down (mostly) deadbeat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra benefit.

These harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that

welfare is a temporary last resort, to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option.

For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index.

A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world.

• I have been contacted by several low-income seniors who read my recent column on B.C.’s Seniors’ Advocate. They were asking where to find out if they are eligible for support programs such as the SAFER rent subsidy, assistance for Medical Services Plan premiums, property tax deferment and grants to help with home modifications for disabilities. I apologize for this oversight. One place to start is the Seniors’ Advocate toll-free information line, 1-877-952-3181, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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

Making progress on poverty

‘On the Move’ lacks specifics

Last week, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone trumpeted the province’s long-awaited transportation plan as “a roadmap for the next 10 years on how we will expand and improve our transportation network to ultimately improve the quality of life for us all.”

The B.C. On the Move plan is the result of 13,000 responses from British Columbians about their perceived infrastructure priorities. But the lack of detail in the plan is frustrating, given the hype of its release by the province.

It didn’t take 13,000 responses to inform the government that Vancouver Island’s top traffic problem remains the logjam at McKenzie Avenue and Highway 1 in Saanich. But those anticipating a specific timeline and commitment to an overpass at the intersection were bitterly disappointed with last week’s On the Move announcement.

“The ministry is committing to deliver key upgrades to reduce congestion and improve commuter mobility along Highway 1 between Langford and Victoria,” the report reads. “The ministry has committed to assess the potential for a future interchange on Highway 1 at McKenzie Avenue.”

That’s right, “assessing the potential” for a solution. And it continues:

“Preliminary engineering work is underway to look into the feasibility of building a future interchange to help traffic flow more efficiently. The B.C. government will be looking to partner with the federal government and local governments to help ease congestion and improve safety along this key corridor.”

Capital investment in infrastructure is no small expense: the provincial government plans to spend up to $2.5 billion over the coming decade on B.C.’s vast network of highways, bridges and tunnels.

Each municipality or regional district across B.C. can come up with a dozen reasons why some of that cash should be earmarked for their projects, as many municipalities are struggling with how to fund aging infrastructure. (Saanich is actually ahead of the curve on this – the District banks a .75-per-cent annual tax increase for needed pipes and roadworks.)

There’s also the long-stalled commitment by the Victoria Regional Transit Commission to get Light Rail Transit up and running between Langford and Victoria. If we put tens of millions of dollars into an interchange along Highway 1, are we forfeiting provincial funding for LRT through the same area?

Questions abound, thanks in no small part to a lack of concrete detail from the province. As happens all too often in Greater Victoria, talk seems perpetually on the cusp of action.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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

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SAANICH NEWS - Wednesday, March 25, 2015 www.saanichnews.com • A7A6 • www.saanichnews.com Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - SAANICH NEWS

The SAANICH NEWS is published by Black Press Ltd. | 104B - 3550 Saanich Rd., Saanich, B.C. V8X 1X2 | Phone: 250-381-3484 • Fax: 250-381-8777 • Web: www.saanichnews.com

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

The B.C. government has made its most significant moves in decades to address the needs of some of the province’s poorest people.

The largest financial commitment is for a new program to help single parents escape from the welfare trap. There are 16,000 single parents in B.C. receiving provincial income assistance or disability payments, most of them women.

Even if they could find an entry-level job, it wouldn’t pay enough to cover the child care they would need to go to work. Worst of all, the current system requires that if they enrol in training, they lose their income assistance, including dental and extended medical care for themselves and their children.

That is the welfare trap, one of the most perverse government policies to have survived into our supposedly enlightened modern era.

The new program takes effect in September. It will not only continue income assistance payments when single parents enrol in skills training, it promises to cover their child care and transportation costs for an approved training program of up to one year.

Medical and child care costs will then be covered for up to a year after training, to allow a transition to

employment.Approved training means training

for jobs that are identified as in demand, requiring high school and occupation-specific training that can be completed in a year or less. They

include retail sales, general office work and assistance jobs in health services.

Another overdue policy change is to double the allowable earnings for all income assistance recipients from $200 to $400 a month.

This gives people a chance to improve their circumstances by taking whatever part-time or casual work they can manage, without having

that little income cut from their already meagre welfare cheques.

And then there was the recent decision to end the claw-back of parental child support payments from income assistance payments.

The province has for many years run a costly child maintenance enforcement program to track down (mostly) deadbeat dads and force them to pay at least a token amount to support their children. Now when they pay child support to a single parent on income assistance, they will at least have the satisfaction of knowing the children actually receive the extra benefit.

These harsh, historic policies were built around a philosophy that

welfare is a temporary last resort, to be withdrawn as soon as some other source of income is identified. That is a valid if unfashionable position to take on behalf of working taxpayers who pay for all this, but it only makes sense if the income assistance recipient has a realistic option.

For those who are already in the entry-level job market, the minimum wage goes up 20 cents an hour in September, from $10.25 to $10.45. This is the beginning of an annual review that will tie the wage to the consumer price index.

A paltry sum, to be sure, but anyone who still thinks jacking the minimum wage up to $15 an hour is a magic solution that won’t cost some entry-level jobs is clinging to a socialist dream world.

• I have been contacted by several low-income seniors who read my recent column on B.C.’s Seniors’ Advocate. They were asking where to find out if they are eligible for support programs such as the SAFER rent subsidy, assistance for Medical Services Plan premiums, property tax deferment and grants to help with home modifications for disabilities. I apologize for this oversight. One place to start is the Seniors’ Advocate toll-free information line, 1-877-952-3181, weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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

Making progress on poverty

‘On the Move’ lacks specifics

Last week, B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone trumpeted the province’s long-awaited transportation plan as “a roadmap for the next 10 years on how we will expand and improve our transportation network to ultimately improve the quality of life for us all.”

The B.C. On the Move plan is the result of 13,000 responses from British Columbians about their perceived infrastructure priorities. But the lack of detail in the plan is frustrating, given the hype of its release by the province.

It didn’t take 13,000 responses to inform the government that Vancouver Island’s top traffic problem remains the logjam at McKenzie Avenue and Highway 1 in Saanich. But those anticipating a specific timeline and commitment to an overpass at the intersection were bitterly disappointed with last week’s On the Move announcement.

“The ministry is committing to deliver key upgrades to reduce congestion and improve commuter mobility along Highway 1 between Langford and Victoria,” the report reads. “The ministry has committed to assess the potential for a future interchange on Highway 1 at McKenzie Avenue.”

That’s right, “assessing the potential” for a solution. And it continues:

“Preliminary engineering work is underway to look into the feasibility of building a future interchange to help traffic flow more efficiently. The B.C. government will be looking to partner with the federal government and local governments to help ease congestion and improve safety along this key corridor.”

Capital investment in infrastructure is no small expense: the provincial government plans to spend up to $2.5 billion over the coming decade on B.C.’s vast network of highways, bridges and tunnels.

Each municipality or regional district across B.C. can come up with a dozen reasons why some of that cash should be earmarked for their projects, as many municipalities are struggling with how to fund aging infrastructure. (Saanich is actually ahead of the curve on this – the District banks a .75-per-cent annual tax increase for needed pipes and roadworks.)

There’s also the long-stalled commitment by the Victoria Regional Transit Commission to get Light Rail Transit up and running between Langford and Victoria. If we put tens of millions of dollars into an interchange along Highway 1, are we forfeiting provincial funding for LRT through the same area?

Questions abound, thanks in no small part to a lack of concrete detail from the province. As happens all too often in Greater Victoria, talk seems perpetually on the cusp of action.

Tom FletcherB.C. Views

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

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With Easter not far off many children start thinking of the Easter bunny and seeing them in TV ads and toy bunnies in shops may get the idea that they want a cuddly little bunny of their own.

Please give this decision some serious thought before you adopt.

Rabbits are timid creatures that do not like being held. If they fall they do not land on their feet as does a cat and many serious injuries can happen.

They are sociable creatures and should not be kept in a small cage. Consider it the same as solitary confinement.

As a rabbit owner, I can attest that they are sweet intelligent creatures but a lot of work.

Their habitats need cleaning every day and their food and water bottles must be washed.

Young children infatuated with owning a bunny will quickly

tire of that chore when other social activity takes over. The rabbits will be ignored and their housing left unkempt and the onus will fall to the parent to take over those chores, a parent who is too busy already. How long will that last?

A rabbit is a long term commitment, one which must be taken seriously.

Too many families faced with this extra responsibility see no option but to dispose of the rabbit.

Unfortunately, too many times it is dumped in an area with other no longer wanted rabbits, which in itself is a death sentence. If not by a predator or a vehicle, sometimes by another rabbit defending its turf. Humane societies will be happy to have the bunny.

And those toy bunnies mentioned above may make better pets all round.

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Re: Gordon Head cattle lot gets another look Monday, News (March 20)

Coun. Vicki Sanders was quoted as saying that she would need strong justification before she would consider the proposal to change Saanich council’s practice, as a one-time solution to the Alberg property of rezoning and then removing it from the Agricultural Land Reserve. She states that “if we change the process for one, we’ll have to change it for all”. She goes on to state that “there is nothing unique about this situation”.

We certainly understand why Saanich council would want to follow the practice of getting ALC approval for most properties that are in the ALR. We are supporters of the Agricultural Land Reserve. However, in this case, the Alberg property is already zoned residential and is completely surrounded by residential properties.

According to Saanich staff, the Alberg property is one of six properties in Saanich that are still in the ALR, but are already zoned residential. One is zoned for duplex. The other four are on Christmas Hill, and are zoned small lot residential (two are zoned RS 6 and the other two are zoned RS 10). They are all surrounded by residential properties.

Foregoing the practice, in the case of the Alberg property, has no implication, nor any precedent setting for any true agricultural property in Saanich, which are all zoned for agricultural use. There is no other Saanich residential zoned property within the ALR that is not already zoned for small lot. Therefore, this property is unique in Saanich.

We are hopeful that this information provides Coun. Sanders the strong justification to reconsider her position, and we hope this also helps to convince others. We are very supportive of Coun. Fred Haynes’ willingness to help residents ahead of following an unwritten rule whose criteria have already been met.

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It’s a popular event that definitely gives paws for thought.

The B.C. SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Cen-tre (ARC) is hosting its 11th annual Open House on March 28 and 29 to provide people with a rare up-close and personal look at the work the centre does helping injured and orphaned wildlife get a leg up on returning to their natural habitat.

Wild ARC admitted more than 2,500 wild

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“This is a once a year opportunity to take a tour,” said Marks, who has been at the facility the past four years.

Although those attending can’t disturb the ani-mals in care, Wild ARC has arranged for some unique guests for the public to see.

Jeff Krieger from Alternative Wildlife Solutions, a local company, is bringing a couple of hawks. Mike Mackintosh from the Burrowing Owl Con-servation Society of B.C. will be on hand as well with a feathered friend.

The open house takes place both days between noon and 4 p.m. and is limited to a total of 1,000 visitors. Reservations are required and must be completed online at spca.bc.ca/tourwildarc2015.

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Animal rehab centre hosts open house this weekendGet up close with wildlife at SPCA-owned facilityRick Stiebel Black Press

It’s a popular event that definitely gives paws for thought.

The B.C. SPCA’s Wild Animal Rehabilitation Cen-tre (ARC) is hosting its 11th annual Open House on March 28 and 29 to provide people with a rare up-close and personal look at the work the centre does helping injured and orphaned wildlife get a leg up on returning to their natural habitat.

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Jeff Krieger from Alternative Wildlife Solutions, a local company, is bringing a couple of hawks. Mike Mackintosh from the Burrowing Owl Con-servation Society of B.C. will be on hand as well with a feathered friend.

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When the buds begin to bloom, that’s a sure sign the region’s spring garden shows are just around the corner.

Make no exception for View Royal Garden Club, who are promising some impressive bloom on April 11.

The show, one of three the club conducts throughout the year, features something for everyone and offers a great opportunity to see something you think might look great in your gar-den, said spring show co-ordinator Ann Fox.

“You can anticipate tables loaded with daffodils, tulips, perennials, potted plants, flowering shrubs and vegetables,” she said. “Everyone brings the very best from their gardens.”

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Greater Victoria is a remarkable place for a historian to live and work in.

To start with, there are a number of extremely gifted people working in the heritage community – whether in paid positions, as volunteers, or simply as hobbyists. They always seem eager to contribute to one another’s research.

Victoria also has a remarkably rich and densely packed history. I am often heard to say that one of the reasons I love this city is that because it was so isolated in the 19th century the people who did decide to settle here were made of incredibly tough stuff.

The early pioneers of Victoria were hardy, often fearless, relentlessly entrepreneurial, clever and frequently quite eccentric. They were, in short, real characters.

I have a regular reader of this column, a fellow called Ron, who is a local history buff and often sends me notes and comments. A few months ago he sent me the image included here. It is of a tin of mechanical

soap, made by the San Juan Mining and Manufacturing Company, which was based out of Victoria.

I had never heard of this company, but a quick glance at this image told me the tin was of early 20th century make, given the style of the graphics, text, and packaging. Beyond that it was a mystery.

It turns out that being a history buff runs in families: Ron’s son Aaron had done a little research into this company and we arranged to meet so I could hear about it.

Aaron is a young man with a quick wit and a gift for writing.

He has a variety of historical interests and had done an excellent job down at the B.C. Archives in ferretting out some information about this mysterious San Juan Mining and Manufacturing Company.

When he brought his notes out, I started to realize that this relatively obscure company had connections with two very famous names in our city and province’s history.

The San Juan Mining and Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1905. It owned claims along the San Juan and Gordon Rivers, near Port Renfrew. These claims were rich in a number of minerals, but most notably alunite, an

aluminium potassium hydrate mineral.

According to Aaron’s research, they had an office at 1210 Douglas St. (where Chapter’s is today) and a factory in Esquimalt, at the corner of Dunsmuir and Head streets.

The factory produced a variety of

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and black inks, metal polish,

Prussian blue alum, plate powders and, of course, mechanical soap.

Here is where this story gets really interesting: according to the company records, one of its founders was a man called William Fernie.

Fernie gave his name to a town in eastern British Columbia and was largely responsible for the building of the railway through the Crow’s Nest Pass.

He was also a prospector and miner, who contributed enormously to the development of the Kootney region.

In 1905, just around the time the San Juan Company was established, he retired to Victoria where he lived in a wonderful home on

Oak Bay Avenue called Kimbolton (named for the place he was born in England in 1837).

Another name from Aaron’s research popped out at me. The company records list that in 1913, during the big pre-war real estate and economic boom, a man called John C. Newberry was listed as holding 50 per cent of the San Juan Company’s shares.

I can only assume this is the same John Cowper Newberry who is well-known in Victoria historical circles and whom my colleague John Adams has researched in the past.

Newberry was at the head of his class when he attended Vic High in the 1870s, and was the winner of B.C.’s first Governor General’s medal for academics.

At the age of 16 he took up a teaching post at Craigflower School, but later settled in to life as a collector of customs for the port of Victoria. Cowper and Newberry Streets in the Gorge area are named for him.

Fernie died in 1921 and the San Juan Company went through a number of changes.

In 1923 it became the Alunite Chemical Corporation. Then its record-keeping began to deteriorate and

information becomes sparse.

In 1934, Newberry died, and it was around that period that the company finally began to fail. Amongst its limited

records from that era were several letters from the government seeking unpaid dues and admonishing the company for not filing with the registrar of companies. By 1937

Alunite Chemical Corporation was bust.

This little story demonstrates how interconnected early Victoria residents were.

Victoria had a small population, and the same names pop up again and again in a variety of intriguing enterprises. It feels appropriate that, despite Victoria’s large size today, this community of history buffs remains so close and connected.

– with thanks to Aaron and Ron Stefik

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Eating properly: it’s no yolkSome days I don’t know whether I’ve been

scrambled or poached. Trying to keep abreast of the latest definitive proclamation about what constitutes healthy – and more importantly, unhealthy – eating is driving me nuts.

Well, maybe not nuts, ‘cause nuts aren’t good for you … or are they?

Back in 2013 researchers at Ontario’s Western University (my trusted alma mater) declared that excessive consumption of egg yolks – espe-cially in old folks with cardiovascular disease – is about as bad for your health as smoking.

Eggs equal “atherosclerosis,” they said. Ath-erosclerosis develops when your arteries harden like pret-zels due to the accumulation of fat, cholesterol and other gunk. Next stop … Strokeville enroute to the Pearly Gates.

The Western study seemed pretty legit. It followed more than 1,200 men and women, with a mean age of just over 60 and discovered the effect from eating three or more egg

yolks a week was about two-thirds as harmful as smoking.

This news made zero impact on my six-a-week egg habit, but it sure as hell sent the egg producers over the moon. What’s next, the chicken lobbyists shouted? Pictures of petrified heart valves on egg cartons?

Study author Dr. David Spence was not pulling his punches. “The mantra ‘eggs can be part of a healthy diet for healthy people’ has confused the issue. It has been known for a long time that a high cholesterol intake increases the risk of cardiovas-cular events, and egg yolks have a very high cho-

lesterol content.”And, he upped the ante: “In diabetics, an egg a day

increases coronary risk by two to five-fold.”It’s 2015 and most of this scary cholesterol stuff has just

been thrown out with the salted bath water.A U.S. government advisory committee has compiled a

list of recommendations for their 2015 dietary guidelines that say “yes” to eggs, “relax” about salt and “no” to limiting dietary cholesterol.

This is pretty radical stuff and great news for the aging omelette set.

The report says dietary cholesterol is now “not consid-ered a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.” This fol-lows increasing medical research showing the amount of cholesterol in your bloodstream is more complicated than once thought.

The report authors say available evidence “shows no appreciable relationship” between heart disease and how much dietary cholesterol you eat, but it still recommends eating less saturated fat.

Based on its research, the committee concluded that “a healthy dietary pattern is higher in vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy, seafood, legumes, and nuts; moder-ate in alcohol (among adults); lower in red and processed meat; and low in sugar sweetened foods and drinks and

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The committee states: “Current evidence shows that the average U.S. diet has a large environmen-tal impact in terms of increased greenhouse gas emissions (cows passing wind), land use, water use, and energy use … The current U.S. population intake of animal-based foods is higher, and plant-based foods are lower, than proposed.”

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Contest calls for submissions from writers aged 50 and up

Deadline for submissions to the new 2015 Cedric Literary Awards con-test is fast approaching and organizers of the writing competition ahve released a final call.

The Cedric Literary Awards is a first-of-its-kind literary awards program in Canada, created to recognize and celebrate unpublished English and French-speaking B.C. writers of fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, and First Nations storytellers, age 50 or better.

“We’ve been receiving a steady stream of submissions since we put out the call out on Feb. 1 but we’re hoping for more...” said executive director Veronica Osborn.

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Flying in the face of recent concerns over poverty amongst seniors in the Greater Victoria region is a new study that urges munici-palities to eliminate breaks for seniors on property taxes and fees to use services such as public transit and fit-ness classes.

Poverty is a noted barrier that can lead seniors to isolation, and a decline in living standards and health.

However, the report, by Ontario economist and munici-pal finance expert Harry Kitchen and the Institute for Research on Public Policy, argues it’s time to abandon seniors discounts because they increasingly ben-efit wealthy retirees who don’t need the help.

“They were established at a time when a high percentage of older residents were living in poverty, but poverty rates

for seniors have decreased consider-ably compared with those in the rest of the population,” Kitchen said.

His findings indi-cate seniors actu-ally have the small-est share of people living in poverty of any age group in Canada.

He recommends grants and special aid be targeted to all low-income people in need, regard-less of age.

“Those paying a reduced price are effectively subsidized by those paying the higher price,” Kitchen says in his study.

Cheap or free services to seniors can also lead to exces-sive use of services and larger-than-required facilities, it says.

Extra revenue from ending blanket discounts for seniors could give cities more flexibility to reduce their reliance on prop-

erty taxes, he argued.He warns the inequity of

seniors discounts will worsen as the population ages and reform will become increasingly diffi-cult as more voters turn 65.

B.C.’s home owner grant pro-gram reduces the property tax on a principle residence by more if the owner is a senior – the tax reduction is up to $845 per year for seniors but is capped at $570 for those under 65.

TransLink charges seniors $52 for a monthly “concession” pass that’s valid across all zones, while other regular adults are charged $170 a month for a pass that’s good for all zones, or $91 for one zone only.

BC Ferries eliminated a major freebie for seniors a year ago – free travel on non-holiday week-days. Seniors now pay half price on their passenger fare Monday to Thursday.

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The Royal BC Museum is joining forces with Victoria’s youngest fashion designers to offer a unique take on the latest looks.

On Saturday and Sunday (March 28 and 29), Fashion Machine, held in partnership with The-atre SKAM and The Makehouse, will give budding young designers the opportunity to develop their skills by reimagining and recycling clothes.

“In or out?” will be the question at the door, and any attendee who opts “in” could be handpicked by one of the designers, aged nine to 13, to have their clothing exchanged for a robe.

The young fashion stars of the future will have a quick conversation with the participant, then the designers will have one hour to work in the Fash-ion Machine, a creative sculpture-like fabric struc-

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In preparation for the event, the youth are work-ing with one another and experts to hone their tal-ents. The students are participating in workshops to learn the necessary skills and working with Royal BC Museum conservation experts to learn about the history of fabrics.

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The events from 7 to 9 p.m. on both nights. Tick-ets are $10 per person or $30 for a family, and are available at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca.

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After a blizzard in Charlottetown kept the Canadian collegiate men’s volleyball cham-pion Camosun Char-gers stuck in P.E.I. for a couple extra days last week, team members were happy to get back home to Greater Victo-ria.

Black Press reporter Don Descoteau caught up with fourth-year Charger middle Alex Sadowski for a Q&A on winning the national championship, winding up his athletic career at Camosun and what the future might hold.

DD: Now that you’ve had a chance to savour the victory, how excit-ing is it still to know you went out on top for your Camosun career?

AS: Even though things have settled down, it is still very surreal to think that we have won the National Championship. Finish-ing on this note will forever be ingrained in my memory and is something special that

anyone can appreci-ate. I can enjoy it even more when I think of my teammates and the bond that we have cre-ated over this past year.

DD: You guys crafted some amazing comebacks through the week. Was there an overarching tone around the team that helped you guys get back on track when you were down in sets or matches?

AS: I don’t think that we started the semi-final or final match in the fashion that we would have liked. When we did lose sets we lost by quite a large margin. Looking back, we were never incred-ibly concerned with the fact that we were los-ing, but rather what we needed to fix in order to start winning. This confidence gave us a boost when we knew

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DD: What kind of legacy do you and fel-low graduating Char-ger Jeremy Finn leave for the upcoming play-ers?

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DD: What are your plans in the immediate future?

AS: Plans … hon-estly, I don’t have any. Now that we are back in Victoria after being stranded by an Atlan-tic storm, I have to catch up on school and relax. I am sure that in the coming months, this experience will reach new levels of importance to me, but for now I will just take things day by day. [email protected]

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Steve Nash has remained close with his alma matter, including surprise visits with the St. Michaels University Blue Jags basketball team, such as this one in 2011.

Canada’s greatest basketball player confirmed his much speculated retirement on Saturday, March 21.

Before he was an eight-time NBA all star and two-time NBA MVP, Steve Nash was a Saanich high schooler who wore the purple and gold of the Mount Douglas Rams before winning a provincial championship with the St. Michaels University Blue Jags (Devils) in 1992.

Nash was drafted by the Phoenix Suns on the success of his NCAA career at Santa Clara Univer-sity. He spent time with three different NBA teams over the course of his 18 year career, from 1996 to 2014, and has been widely recognized as one of the

top point guards of all time. Health issues dogged Nash during his career,

particularly with his back, including spondylolis-thesis, a vertebrate issue that causes tightening of the muscles and discomfort.

Nash is well known for his philanthropic work, including the Steve Nash Foundation, which is dedicated to assisting underserved children in their health, personal development, education and enjoyment of life.

In 2009 UVic honoured Nash with a Doctor of Laws in recognition of his athletic achievements and his philanthropic work.

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They call it “The Blob,” and it’s threaten-ing to disrupt marine habitats off the coast of B.C. and Alaska.

The Blob is an anomaly of nutrient-poor, warm water, the likes of which seasoned oceanographers haven’t seen before, says Tom Okey, a Victoria-based marine ecolo-gist and adjunct environmental studies pro-fessor at the University of Victoria.

It could further affect the pole-ward migration of marine life already occurring along the Pacific coast.

“West Coast fishermen are chasing tuna to Alaska,” Okey says. “Fishermen recently caught a skip-jack tuna – a tropical fish – in the mouth of the Copper River, one of Alaska’s most iconic salmon rivers.”

The Blob began appearing at the end of 2013, and spread to an area covering 1.5-million square kilometres across the Gulf of Alaska.

It arrived in the nearshore waters of Vancouver Island at the end of 2014, “where the waters remain much warmer than usual,” Okey says.

Okey has authored and co-authored papers in sev-eral peer-reviewed journals summarizing the impacts of climate change on Cana-da’s Pacific region, calculating the vulnerability of Pacific Northeast waters to the effects of climate change.

He’s quick to point out that while the ocean is highly variable, there are too many indicators suggesting the marine ecosystem is undergoing significant change, and it’s not for the better.

A naturally occurring cool period in the coastal Pacific ocean from 2006 to 2013, known to researchers as a cold regime, is believed to have masked the underlying sig-nals of longer-term oceanic changes. That cool regime delayed more conspicuous changes in the ocean as well

as our own socio-economic changes, Okey says.

Frank Whitney, with the Institute of Ocean Sciences in North Saanich, said winter winds blowing across the Pacific are possibly

being impacted by decreased sea ice cover, which in turn could be driving up the ocean temperature.

“The warming of the Arctic and decrease in the cover of Arctic summer sea ice may have caused weakened westerly and stronger southerly winds in the North Pacific starting in the fall of 2013. As a result, warmer south-ern waters were pushed north-ward,” Whitney said.

Researchers say the Blob is respon-sible for low nutrients, low biological

productivity and changes in currents, salinity, stratification, dissolved oxygen and

acidity. Okey says it has also been linked to changes in the distributions, productivity and abundances of marine species including plankton, fishes, mammals and birds.

Okey and colleagues, including Dr. William Cheung of the UBC Fisheries Centre, estimated that some marine fishes along the coast are shifting northward at an aver-age of 30 kilometres per decade, though other research suggests an even faster rate. But species shift at different rates, Okey says.

“What you get is re-shuffling and mismatches of co-evolved species,”

he said. “When predators are showing up to feed, the plankton or other prey

are sometimes not there at the same time that they used to be.”

Okey says there’s a pretty long list of indicators that suggest that

species are reshuffling fast. “We have some examples of past

events with similar shifts, such as previous El Ninos including the early

1990s and 2005, when Pacific mackerel arrived in B.C. in huge numbers. As vora-cious predators, they ate much juve-nile salmon and their prey. We need to

prevent species extinction and we need to find approaches to help maintain the functional health

of the system with reshuffled species, so we can help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.”

One type of approach that Okay and colleagues are focusing on is spatial vulnerability assessment, the search for ‘climate refugia (areas of slower change), which can be protected or otherwise managed.

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The Blob:How warmer Pacific watersare pushing marine life north

Did you know?n Predicting climate change impacts on Pacific salmon is complicated, but salmon are cold-water species in both marine and freshwater habitats, and are affected by changes in nearshore habitat and offshore food resources. It doesn’t look good for Pacific salmon species in the current ocean climate, Okey says. Chinook salmon may be particularly sensitive. As the preferred prey of the threatened resident Orca population in Canada’s Pacific, Orcas may be particularly affected by this warm anomaly thanks to decreasing food supply.

“We need to ... help the species adapt to the environment, if we want to keep them there for a least a little while.”

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FreshHalibut Pieces

Frozen or Previously FrozenSockeye Salmon Steak

$2

Summerfresh Dips227gr

5,000

Bonus Q-Points

2x Ultra SunlightLiquid Laundry Detergent1.47lt

SunlightOxi Action Dishwasher Power Pacs55’s

GladEasy-Tie BagsSelected, 20’s or 40’s

PurexDouble Roll Bathroom Tissue24’s

Large Deli SaladCreamy Coleslaw •

Sweet Bean • Traditional Potato •

BothwellMonterey Jack Cheese

Country Pies3 Pack Sausage RollsMin. 200gr

Grimm’sClassic Oven Roast Ham

Grimm’sBavarian or French Herb Meatloaf

10 PieceCrispy Chicken

Drumsticks

FreshImitation Crab Meat

Frozen or Previously Frozen Boneless Skinless Basa Fillets

MediumChow Mein

MediumSweet & Sour Chicken Balls

MediumChicken with Black Bean Sauce

9 Piece Spicy Shrimp Roll

12 Piece California Rolls $5

8 Piece Dynamite Rolls $6

$6

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FreshHalibut Steaks

$250per

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$10

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Bigelow Tea18-20’s

Omega NutritionOrganic Apple Cider Vinegar946ml

Chapman’sSorbet2lt

EverlandOrganic Quinoa681gr

Blue DiamondAlmond Breeze Non-Dairy Beverage1.89lt

BeCoconut Water or Chips

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Turtle Cheesecake Cheesecake Slice

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Double LayerLemon Truffle Cake

7,500

Old Fashioned Donuts

Original CakerieSquaresSelected

Mini Danish Italian BunsSelected

Sunflower & Flax Seed Bread

Raspberry Swirl Muffins

Deli WorldLight Rye Bread500gr

Casa Mendosa10” Tortillas8-10’s

Donini ChocolateChocolate Covered Almonds

Quality FreshSweet Treats CandySelected, 150-250gr

Quality FreshHold the Salt AlmondsNatural Sliced, 125gr

Quality FreshHold the Salt WalnutsCalifornia Natural, 150gr

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Washington Grown Organic Yellow Onions 3lb bag

California Grown Organic Kiwi Fruit 1lb bag

“Taylor Farms” Garden Salad12oz bag

“Renee’s” Gourmet Salad Dressing 350-355ml

Mexican Grown Bunched Radish or Green Onions

California/Mexico “Driscoll’s” Fresh Strawberries1lb clamshell

Florida “Indian River”Jumbo Star Ruby Grapefruit

California “Bolthouse” Cello Carrots 2lb bag

Washington “Premium” Royal Gala Apples 2.20 per kg

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