THE EDGE —— March 28, 2007

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A local youth employ-
ment and training officer,
Bruce Morrin, is outraged
at the message sent by. a
novelty pen shaped to re-
semble a syringe filled with
blood. He believes that the
item sends a poor message
to youth, and trivializes drug
addiction. Morrin has al-
ready approaced a manager
of a local dollar store who
has agreed to pull the object
from the sales floor.

Amajor car collision oc-
curred 23 kilometres south
of Quesnel, March 16, when
a pick up truck collided with
a car. Two occupants of the
car were killed, and the two
occupants of the truck were
taken to Quesnel’s hospi-
tal with non-life threaten-
ing injuries. The cause of
the accident is believed to
have occurred when the car
lost control on slippery road
conditions.

The Canfor Corpora-
tion is temporarily clos-
ing some of their mills in
response to poor economic
conditions. The mill in
Chetwynd will.close for one
week, and the Rustad mill in

Prince George will close for —

two weeks. A mill outside of
Vanderhoof will also close
for two weeks, and the saw-
mill in Mackenzie will close
for another two weeks at the
end of March.

BC Stats and Statistics
Canada are at odds with
each other after the recent
release of Canada’s census.
StatsCan said Prince George
is sitting at a population of
70,981 people, a 2% drop

says. Prince George is at
77,343, which is 2.3% high-

_ er than 2001 levels. Both or-

ganizations will be figuring
out estimates of how much
they were off over the next
few years.

A new provincial law
now requires that bouncers
and other security personnel
at businesses must obtain li-
cences and undergo training
for their position as security.
Many local club operators
were caught off guard on
discovery of this new legis-
lation, as reported by The
Citizen of Prince George,
but some believe the new
law is a good measure to en-
sure people’s safety.

Conrad Black, former:

Canadian media mogul,
and his co-accused, went
to trial March 19, for a list
of charges including money
laundering, tax evasion,
racketeering and obstruction
of justice. Charges go back
to charges laid against the
men for taking 83 million
dollars (US) from company
Hollinger, now named Sun
Times Media Group Inc.

The Conservative gov-
ernment’s budget will
undergo a confidence vote
on Wednsday, March 21, on

. the matter of an NDP motion

which decries the budget as
ignoring the needs of lower
and middle class families.
The NDP and the Liberal
parties are forming the ma-
jor opposition to the budget,
while the Bloc Quebecois
are voting in favour due to
favourable budgetting, mak-
ing it likely the budget will

pass. (See “Federal Budget
Review” on page 5)

CSIS has made a secret
document for the Prime
Minister which calls for a
fight against “homegrown’
islamic terrorism. The docu-
ment is dated only days after
last June’s arrest of 17 terror
suspects. Some blame, ac-
cording to the document,
should be placed upon the
parents of people who might
put their children on the path
toward the fundamentalist

vision of Islam, which can -

evolve to terrorism.

Greenpeace _ activists
were arrested after chain-
ing themselves to the gate
of Prime Minister Stephen
Harper’s residence. They
were protesting Harper’s
support, or in their view lack
of support, for the Kyoto
protocol. The protest lasted
three hours before the pro-
testors were detained.

A 33-year old man was
found crawling in the ceil-
ing of a Maple Ridge A&W
restaurant. When police ar-

rived on the scene the sus- .

pect threatened them with
a needle. An employee first
heard noises from the ceil-
ing on Sunday, March 18,
and called police. The man is
recommended to be charged
with attempted break and
enter.

A passenger bus in

Thailand lost control when
the brakes in the vehicle
malfunctioned. The bus
caught on fire and the inci-
dent resulted in 29 deaths
and 10 people injured. Some
survived by leaping out of

the bus before they were

ind the world in an easy-to-use package _
‘since 2001, while BC Stats

overtaken by flames.

Alain Robert, a French
man who is known as the
“French Spiderman”, was
arrested in Malaysia after
trying to scale the Petronas
Twin Towers, the tallest twin
towers in the world. He was
flagged down by authorities
and gave himself up on the
60th floor, while onlookers
cheered him on. 10 years
ago he was arrested on the
60th floor of the other build-
ing.

A judge has ordered a

DNA test on Anna Nicole

~ Smith’s baby. The results

will hopefully put to rest a
dispute over custody of the
baby which began when
Smith died last month. Larry
Birkhead and Howard K.
Stern are disputing which
one is the biological father.
Stern is listed on the birth
certificate as the father.

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