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#61 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 20 June 2017 - 06:36 AM

This gives you an idea of who wants this subsidy:

 

https://nmc-mic.ca/a...s-of-directors/

 

PostMedia, Glacier, Black Press.


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#62 Mattjvd

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Posted 20 June 2017 - 07:07 AM

If I wanted to support them, I would subscribe.
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#63 Mike K.

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Posted 20 June 2017 - 07:26 AM

Who do we write in the federal government regarding the media's proposal?


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#64 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 22 June 2017 - 10:25 AM

Woman arrested after 7 kilos of heroin found in her luggage testifies

 

 

I'm ok with her luggage testifying to get the arrest, but then can it legally be cross-examined when the trial comes?

 

http://www.theprovin...4876/story.html


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#65 aastra

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Posted 22 June 2017 - 10:44 AM

Dude, learn how to read. It was the heroin that testified, not the luggage.



#66 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 22 June 2017 - 11:21 AM

Dude, learn how to read. It was the heroin that testified, not the luggage.

 

Sorry, that's what I meant.


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#67 Bingo

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Posted 22 June 2017 - 11:25 AM

Dude, learn how to read. It was the heroin that testified, not the luggage.

 

Did all 7 kilos have the same story?



#68 Mattjvd

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Posted 23 June 2017 - 02:03 AM

^^Quite the defence eh? "I didn't know what was in my bags" and "being in jail is hard"



#69 manuel

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Posted 24 June 2017 - 01:59 PM

At least they didn't write 7 kilos of heroine.

That would have been messy testimony
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#70 Love the rock

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Posted 24 June 2017 - 09:30 PM

Did all 7 kilos have the same story?


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#71 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 03:25 PM

I declare this the most unreadable newspaper article I've encountered since about 2010:

 

http://www.vicnews.c...acity-for-deer/

 

Holy hell.

 

 

 

A nine-week manufacturing delay means capture and collaring of deer will wait to late summer.

 

The collaring for data collection is part of Phase One of the Urban Wildlife Stewardship Society plan to manage deer in Oak Bay.

 

The first portion of the project funded by the province and Oak Bay is primarily documentation using both the collars and motion activated cameras.

 

While they ordered the equipment before the end of march a manufacturing delay pushed the start into fawning season, said project manager Steve Huxter. That means waiting to late summer or early fall to start that portion of the project.

 

The cameras however, “we can start that process right away,” said Huxter, adding he met with district staff to learn of good sites and with Oak Bay Police Department.

 

“The net launcher we are using may sound to residents like a gunshot,” Huxter said. That means a plan to contact police agencies in Oak Bay, or adjacent Saanich and Victoria when warranted, when using that equipment to prepare them for potential gunfire calls.

 

They’ve also submitted to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations for an animal care form for handling wildlife “required whether it’s a banana slug or a grizzly bear,” Huxter said.

 

During a meeting with provincial wildlife professionals, he learned of a project in Nanaimo where deer with fitted with transmitting collars and discovered bucks move very little and does were tracked at 300 metres or less.

 

That alters the UWSS plan for camera coverage which included a grid to cover entire 10 km square of Oak Bay, Huxter said. The number also suggests, Huxter said, immigration isn’t a huge factor.

 

“This could mean the rise in number of deer is primarily due to deer that are habituated to Oak Bay rather than does moving in from other areas,” he said. “We could be at our carrying capacity now and our research will be telling us that.”

Innoculation, not slated for this year, could work better than a cull in that situation, Huxter said, as culling could cause “reproductive rebound.” If the population could be stabilized with the initial planned 80 deer, “the following years would be less intensive and less costly,” Huxter said, adding vaccination may only need to be done every second or third year.

Motion sensitive cameras are set to go in this week, prompting the question of personal privacy.

 

Huxter said the motion activated cameras would take pictures of pets or people and they’re already going through thousands of images. So for privacy and their own workload, they’ve set out to each location and choose an area that looks where the deer might be but not people or pets

 

“There will be some parks where we just own’t be able to set up a camera,” Huxter said.

 


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#72 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 03:32 PM

Maybe all her articles are brutal...

 

“It’s important to come out these things. It can really make so many great memoreis and be part of a good cause and I met a couple great gentlemen here today that are pretty happy and excited,” Jamie Benn said after gifting the jerseys. “Something so little can mean so much.”

 

 

http://www.vicnews.c...s-with-jerseys/


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#73 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 03:36 PM

Oh ya, reading this author is an adventure...

 

 

 

Oak Bay police and fire, as well as Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue – Station Oak Bay were dispatched after a boat that left the ramp couldn’t get its engine going.

 

“Our understanding was that a boat with four passengers made their way from the south boat ramp at Cattle Point,” said

Assistant Chief Don Roskelly, Oak Bay Fire. “Upon getting onto the water my understanding is they weren’t able to start the motor. The wind pushed them onto the tidal rocks that were exposed due to a lower tide.”

 

 

 

 

http://www.vicnews.c...le-point-rocks/


Edited by VicHockeyFan, 27 June 2017 - 03:37 PM.

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#74 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 03:38 PM

Tidal Rocks are playing with Tinto Rocks all summer.


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#75 Rob Randall

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 04:07 PM

Yeah, that's not so good. I like how the reporter's narrative suddenly turns into a quote. 

 

It's not even like a proper finished article, more like the first draft after the notes were gathered together. 

 

I love reading about the greatest magazine article writers, guys like Hunter S. Thompson, Christopher Hitchens, William F. Buckley and Tom Wolfe. These guys would pound out thousands of words of sparkling copy that needed little or no editing with literally minutes to spare until deadline. And some of them were pretty well liquored up.

 

It's hard to write quickly, it's hard to write accurately, and it's hard to write brilliantly. To do all three is a rarity, getting rarer all the time.


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Posted 27 June 2017 - 05:27 PM

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming Wow! What a ride!"

 

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#77 Mike K.

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 05:37 PM

RIP HST.

I plan to visit the White King in about two weeks.
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#78 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 27 June 2017 - 05:55 PM

 
“We do see a lot of kidnappings and it’s very unfortunate when the animals are taken away from their family or the area that they’re raised in,” said Reg Westcott of MARS.
 
The kidnappings are done by people who mistakenly assume the fawns are in trouble because their mothers are nowhere to be seen, and they don’t know what to look for, Westcott said.
 
MARS recommends the following tips to try to determine if the fawn actually needs help, or if you could be endangering it by intervening:
 
  • Don’t touch fawns curled up into a ball, like a cat. “That’s perfectly normal,” says Westcott.
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  • If a fawn is lying on its side with its legs sticking out, it would indicate its belly is likely bloated.
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  • If its hind end is covered in feces, that could indicate its mother isn’t around to clean it
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  • Always call a wildlife rescue centre like MARS (250-337-2021) before taking any action
 
Fawning season occurs mainly between May and September, according to the rescue centre.
 
Mothers will often leave their babies alone for hours while foraging for food, and the fawns know to stay still and quiet.
Westcott says the hope is all kidnapped fawns will be reunited with their mothers.

 

 
Might as well just add that here.  Sigh.
 
 
Definition of kidnap
kidnapped  also  kidnaped play\ˈkid-ˌnapt\;  kidnapping  also  kidnaping
  1. transitive verb
  2. :  to seize and detain or carry away by unlawful force or fraud and often with a demand for ransom

kidnappee  or  kidnapee play \ˌkid-ˌna-ˈpē\ noun
kidnapper  or less commonly  kidnaper  noun

 

 

Of the four tips for "determining if the fawn actually needs help" do you see anything that tells you that it does need help?


Edited by VicHockeyFan, 27 June 2017 - 06:01 PM.

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#79 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 28 June 2017 - 07:57 AM

With four-and-a-half months left in project, the review has spent about 76 per cent or $130,000 of its budget, according to district staff. That figure includes $50,000 to initiate the project.

 

Schmuck said the bulk of the remaining funds will be go towards the consultants who have been with the project from the start. “They will be helping us to write the final project,” he said.

 

Schmuck said the committee fully expects the allocated budget. “We are not going to be spending it frivolously,” he said.

 

http://www.goldstrea...ernance-review/

 

???


Edited by VicHockeyFan, 28 June 2017 - 07:57 AM.

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#80 Mike K.

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Posted 28 June 2017 - 08:00 AM

I have to wonder, is there a mad rush to publish online, with an editor-assisted refinement for the printed version?


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