OVER THE EDGE Two sets of nominations are currently underway at UNBC. Students interest- ed in government should get their information and nominations into NUGSS. Meanwhile, those more in- terested in beautry might want to enter WUSC’s Mr. and Mrs. UNBC contest. Nominations for both are due February 2. A truck driver from Fort St. James has sus- _tained serious injuries in a truck crash west of Prince George, Tuesday, January 16. Speed is considered a factor. Beaverly and sur- rounding area lost power from impact to a power pole but residents had power re- stored by | pm. Minister of Internation- al Trade David Emerson: has signed a cooperative trade gateway agreement with China. His speech referenced Prince Rupert and showed the dedication _ Canada is giving to Prince Rupert’s new container fa- cility. Christopher Clarke Prince has been sentenced to an additional 3 year sen- tence, on top of time al- ready served waiting for trial, for the murder of his half-brother Reginald Tra- vis Prince. Reginald was killed by a strike to his head from a hammer in his sleep. The murder was motived by Christopher overhearing Reginald discussing sex- ual history, which included Chris’s girlfriend. Extra Food employees January 26, 2007 _fiews from around thie Worl of the Pine Centre loca- tion, locked out since Au- gust, have now come to the end of their strike. The owner-operater, Al Comeau, has given the employees 60 © days notice, in compliance with the store’s collective agreement. The store will be officially closed March hea Federal Minister of Natural Resources Gary Lunn has announced fed- eral funding in the form of 11 million dollars to supple- ment the 33 million dollar airport runway expansion. Lunn says that hundreds of good paying jobs will be created from this expan- sion. The Student Associa- tion at the College of New Caledonia held a “Let them eat cake” rally with the mes- sage for Victoria to reduce tuition fees in BC by 10%. The event comes at the one month countdown to the “Day of Action”. A Lear Jet with the Air Ambulance service skid- ded off of the runway dur- ing a landing on Tuesday, January 16 at the Prince George Airport. High winds are blamed for the crash yet there was minimal damage to the plane and there were no injuries. Canada Post has just raised the price of a stamp by one penny. It now costs 52 cents to mail a letter. Canada Post claims the rise in cost is to coincide with the rate of inflation, and additional operating costs. The raise came into effect immediately. A news release from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Canada’s largest HIV and AIDS re- search organization, states that drug enforcement poli- cies in Canada are failing. Illicit drug use by Canad- ians have reported from 28.5% in 1994 to 45% ‘in 2004. The report states that too much money is used on ~ policing rather than treat- ment. The Conservative tories have announced a plan for a 4 year, 300 million dol- lar subsidy program for re- newable energy. Renewable power generation projects will benefit from this such as wind and solar, as well as other forms of energy. Less than 1 percent of electricity in.Canada is supplied-by ree | newable energy. The FBI recently sent their agents into the moun- tains. their mission? Have some fun and ski. The FBI’s grand plan was to publicize their agency and hopefully _ recruit some new members in an informal setting. The agency is not saying they are facing any-sort of staff shortage. A 20-year old Swedish man vacationing in Thai- land found an opportunity for an overnight romance with a woman in his resort’s bar. A happy ending soon turned into a Claire Dane film as the man, drunk, went to a nearby 7-Eleven and grabbed some condoms, forgetting to pay for them as he left. Employees and passers-by pursued him and assaulted him in an alley. He faces 5 years in prison. Saddam Hussein’s half- brother, along with the for- mer head of Iraq’s Revolu- tionary Court, were hanged Monday, January 15. Sad- dam’s half-brother, Barzan Ibrahim, and Awad Hamed, former head of the Revo- lutionary Court, were con- victed for the charge shared by Hussein himself, in the killings of 148 Shiite Mus- lims in a 1982 massacre. Jury selection has begun for a trial involv- ing a former secretary of Coca-Cola. The charge against her is corporate es- pionage. She has allegedly stolen confidential docu- ments and samples of un- released product with the intention of selling to Pepsi Co.. Her lawyers are argu- ing she was duped and has: not committed any actual crimes...) > baie nang Jean Pierson, CEO and founder of Airbus, has strange negotiation tac- tics. In an upcoming book, Pierson is detailed to have, while negotiating a deal with Stephen Wolf, then US Airways’ chairman, dropped his pants to his ankles, and said “I have nothing more to give” when Wolf demanded a 5% discount. The ploy worked. The Trailer Park Boys will be hosting the 2007 East Coast Music Awards next month in Halifax. This will be the second year in a row they have hosted the event. James Brown’s will ap- parantly excludes his wife and 5 year old son. The will -was drawn up in 2000, be- fore the birth of his son and before the marriage to Tomi Rae Hynie. This has lead to a dispute for recipients for the will as the legality of their marriage is suspect due to a former marriage of Hynie’s. Donald Trump recently received a star on the Holly- wood Walk of Fame. He used the event to try to fur- ther quell the ongoing dis- pute between him and Rosie O’Donnel. He says that if the media leaves it alone the entire issue would die. Giuseppe Pallanti, an expert on the Mona Lisa painting, reveals he has de- termined when she died and where she was buried. She died 1542, July 15, and was buried in Sant’Orsola. She was the wife to Francesco . del Giocondo. Denny Doherty, a Can- + jadian member of the 60’s jpop group the Mamas and Papas, has died. He was 66. Doherty was born in Hali- fax, and spent the last years of his life living in Missis- sauga, Ontario. The National Academ- ies of Science’s Institute of Medicine in the US have released a report which claims that the sloppy hand- writing of doctors, infamous to anyone who has received medical care, has resulted in 7,000 deaths annually. The solution to this problem is a new service for doctors to write prescriptions electron- ically, which will prevent: mis-administering drugs. Melting sea ice is be- ing blamed for a spike in the number of killer whales swimming in northern wat- ers. Sightings of the mam- mals has increased in the Hudson Bay area, going from a standard of 6 sight- ings annually to 30 in 200.