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3/11/2010
The opening ceremony for the Paralympics Games promises to be an entertaining event -- but you won't be able to watch it live on television. Instead, the ceremony will be shown the next day.
Paralympics games ceremony producer Patrick Roberge says there are challenges with showing the ceremony in several different time zones.
But that doesn't explain why the Olympic ceremonies, which took place at the same time of day, were aired live and also repackaged to re-run during the games.
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3/11/2010
Victoria CKNW News 980
B-C Hydro has approved 19 clean-power projects for electricity purchase agreements, a big step toward meeting its goal of generating five-thousand gigawatt hours per year of clean electricity.
The approved projects include 14 run-of-river and five wind power operations; but Hydro spokesperson Susan Danard admits the new power will be more expensive. The 19 projects would generate 24-hundred gigawatt hours of power, or enough to supply 218-thousand homes a year.
But they will still need environmental reviews and approval by the B-C Utilities Commission.
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3/11/2010
METRO VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
If you're planning on taking in some Paralympic events, you'll notice some changes to the security restrictions.
Unlike Olympic venues where metal detectors were commonplace, the only paralympic venues with airport-style security are BC Place and Whistler Medals Plaza for the opening and closing ceremonies.
For all other events, the integrated 2010 unit says spectators can expect entry to be similar to any other sporting event or concert.
Instead of the six thousand police officers from across Canada that patrolled the Olympics, the paralympics will only use 750, most of them are from BC.
Security officials say they're not expecting protests, but they'll be ready for them if they arise.
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3/11/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
A 56 year old man faces child porn possession and distribution charges in the northern Vancouver Island community of Port McNeill.
RCMP Corporal Darren Lagan says officers tasked with watching web sites known for child porn trafficking traced a users I-P address to a small apartment in the community.
He says it is not believed there are any local children in any of the material on the man's computer.
Lagan says more charges are possible.
The man makes his first court appearance in Port Hardy May 11th.
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3/11/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW AM 980
Vancouver Police say the family of a well-known homeless man who died on Sunday has come forward.
Police took the unusual step of naming Thomas Sawyer as the 55 year old man who was found dying in an alley behind Richards street in hopes of contacting his family.
CKNW spoke with a family member from the West Kootenay who did not want to be interviewed on tape.
A friend of Sawyers says the man was originally a jazz dancer from Toronto.
He worked as a cab driver and even settled down in Mexico with a wife and child, but lost it all because of his addiction.
The friend says sawyer's heart was broken and he couldn't pull himself out of his lot in life.
Police are still waiting for autopsy results.
Sawyer suffered severe internal injuries.
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3/11/2010
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980)
The Paralympic spirit was alive and burning in Maple Ridge Wednesday as the Torch Relay swept through.
"Jennifer MacKenzie!"
MacKenzie, a 2008 Canadian paralympian, lit the Community Cauldron to big cheers from the crowd of over 1000.
Other torchbearers, like Burnaby's Norman Wong, were swarmed for photos. He ran for his young son, Colbin, "He's got the cochlear implant on one ear and I want to, sort of, show him that although you're a little bit different, through hard work, I think greatness is still possible."
Other torch bearers included a blind woman and several people in wheelchairs, all of whom are rock stars to the screaming crowd.
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3/11/2010
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
The BC Government wants compensation from a highways maintenance company following a bad crash over three years ago.
The Province hired Mainroad East Kootenay Contracting to maintain the highways from Cranbrook to Fernie.
In Court documents, the Province says in November 2006, Frances Ruth Sterzer was driving north on Highway 93-95 near Skookumchuck, north of Cranbrook, when the car lost traction on the icy highway and rolled over.
The Province is suing Mainroad, claiming it failed to apply a de-icing chemical to remove ice and failed to patrol the highway in a timely manner.
The province says Sterzer's health care costs have hit over 330-thousand dollars, and it wants Mainroad to pay.
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3/11/2010
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
The Provincial Government has launched what it's calling a major review of industrial tax rates in BC, after a year that saw several forest companies refuse to pay their full tax bills to protest what they feel is over-taxation.
Minister of Community and Rural Development, Bill Bennett, says the Province is staying out of those individual disputes, but there are a number of broader issues to resolve, "What's a reasonable level of industrial taxation in a community? What's going to keep the company there operating, employing people. What's going to give the community enough money to provide the services that people expect?"
A steering committee that includes representation from industry and the Union of BC Municipalities is expected to report out this fall.
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3/11/2010
VICTORIA/CKNW(AM980)
The Liberals call it an incentive, the NDP a subsidy; the bottom line, it's 120 million dollars in royalties the Government won't be collecting in its latest bid to promote natural gas exploration in the north-east.
Energy critic John Horgan says this is a flat-out subsidy to big oil and gas, even though he admits the energy boom in the north-east is a main driver of economic growth in BC, "Continued subsidies to the most profitable companies in the world is repugnant, that's bad politics."
Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom says every dollar invested in the Royalty Credit Program generates a return of two-dollars-fifty cents, "I'm thankful that we have an oil and gas industry in this Province that brings in billions of dollars, creates thousands of jobs."
Lekstrom says BC has to compete with other jurisdictions, including Alberta, which is expected to lower its own royalties on Thursday.
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3/10/2010
Health Minister Kevin Falcon says the government is not interested in CUPE's proposal to roll over the existing contract for ambulance paramedics in B-C.
In fact Falcon thought union leader John Strohmaier had been misquoted when he first heard the news.
N-D-P Health Critic Adrian Dix says Health Minister Kevin Falcon is treating health care workers with disrespect. This after falcon brushed off an offer by ambulance paramedics to roll over their existing contract for the next two years. Dix accuses Falcon of trying to destroy the ambulance service.
The current contract expires April first, but Falcon points out the government is reviewing the entire bargaining structure for paramedics.
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