Union leaders and NDP politicians blasted the provincial government for its handling of the forest industry during a rally in Mackenzie on Friday.
Approximately 800 people turned out to the Save our Community Rally, which took place during the B.C. forestry roundtable meeting in the town. Over 1,000 workers have been laid off by Canfor, Pope & Talbot and AbitibiBowater in the town of 4,500 people.
B.C. NDP leader Carole James said exporting raw logs to mills outside B.C. needs to stop.
“These resources from your community belong in the province and they should stay in the province,” James said.
The forest sector and rural communities like Mackenzie have helped build this province and bankroll government infrastructure, she said.
Presents are part of the holiday season and some of our local luminaries told us about their best gifts for 2010. Most gifts were not the kind you wrap up with a bow, many of them can be enjoyed all year long. Such is the stuff of Christmas memories.
Dr. George Iwama, president, UNBC: My favourite gift was having all three sons home for a few days at Christmas. This is a rare event and it was very special.
Glen Mikkelsen, entertainment/marketing supervisor CN Centre: Best present? An amazing photo scrapbook of our summer trip to Yellowstone National Park that my eight-year-old daughter put together. It’s fantastic. Something I’ll treasure for the rest of my life.
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The seeds of the woman Tobias Douglas would become – the things she would care about, the life and passions and success she would have – were planted with a photograph she received as a child: A picture of her grandmother standing in front of an enormous red cedar tree stump in Vancouver’s Stanley Park.
Ms. Douglas was seven or eight when she got that picture, her partner, Grant Parnell, says, and the image never left her. The Hollow Tree, as it is known, would take root in her mind, calling her west, away from an unhappy childhood and deep into the forests of British Columbia.
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