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4 Last Mountain Times • Monday, October 8, 2018 • lmtimes.ca The true price of giving-in Trump’s ultimatum in dairy allows Americans to dictate Canadian dairy policies Canadian dairy farmers woke up Monday to realize that their worst nightmare had become a crushing reality. Despite multiple assurance to the contrary, the Trudeau government sacrificed them once again at the altar of flawed trade negotiations. Faced with an American administration that prefers to dump their problem on our doorstep rather than fix it itself, the Trudeau government has failed to stand up for Canada’s family-owned dairy farms and homegrown dairy. Even worse, this deal will allow Americans to dictate our dairy policies. It is ironic that the U.S. is often held up as an example of the ideal free-market, because there is nothing free about the global market for dairy. First, the American administration insisted that Canada’s ability to export dairy be constrained to a minimum so that Canada would not compete on world markets. Second, Pierre Lampron those who focus on price need to realize that the American consumer actually pays twice for their dairy – once through taxpayer-funded subsidies and then again at the checkout counter. By giving-in to the demands of the Trump administration, the Trudeau government is opening the door to giant industrial farms and will allow the US dairy model to take hold here at home. Canadians do not want to fund milk production through their taxes. Canadians do not want family farms to give way to industrial farms with tens of thousands of cows. The dairy industry in Canada has been repeatedly used as a bargaining chip for our government’s trade aspirations. How much more of their livelihood will Canadian dairy farmers be asked to give up? The combined access given under the EU trade agreement and with the TransPacific countries alone already equated to $250 million dollars annually in lost milk production here at home, which ultimately benefits dairy industries in other countries. The impact of this new deal is in addition to the previous cuts made to the Canadian market. Make no mistake, our dairy farmers aren’t the only one to pay the price for these deals. Some 220,000 Canadian families depend on dairy for their livelihood; these include people in dairy processing plants, equipment dealers, feed manufacturers, veterinarians, truck drivers, and a host of connected industries. The cumulative effect of these trade deals leads to the erosion of a secure and quality domestic food supply for Canadian families. Should this not be a priority for our government? How can the Trudeau government live up to its commitment towards maintaining a robust Canadian dairy industry, while conceding significant quantities of dairy production to the United States? Will our government be prepared to concede more market to the UK as it will come knocking on our door for access to our dairy market following Brexit? Sadly we just got our answer. -Pierre Lampron, President of Dairy Farmers of Canada Disclaimer: opinions expressed are those of the writer Buzzword parenting ...what’s a parent to do? Well-known risk factors undermine children’s health and development, but there are protective factors you can employ Helicopter parenting. Tiger parenting. Free-range parenting. These are buzzwords we hear all the time that are supposed to describe the ‘best’ approaches for parents to take raising their children. We all want the best for our children, and parents happily and eagerly adopt the latest, greatest advice. Even governments enact legislation that promotes one approach or another, like Utah did recently in passing legislation enabling parents to legally leave their children unsupervised to play outdoors or walk to school. But do any of these parenting styles have ample evidence to support effectiveness as a parenting approach? Most people might be surprised to find that the answer is: Not really. Social scientists who study parenting rarely, if ever, use these buzzword concepts to categorize or characterize parenting approaches. When these scientists, like myself, want to predict what kind of parenting affects children’s development, we consider very different variables. So what really matters in parenting according to the evidence? EDITORIALS, LETTERS & OPINIONS There are well-known risk factors that undermine children’s health and development, and there are protective factors that promote children’s health and development. Risk factors include traumatic childhood experiences that parents themselves may have experienced in their own families, such as mental illness or addictions, family violence and low family income. These factors may prevent parents from engaging in consistent sensitive and responsive interactions with their children, which promotes children’s optimal brain, cognitive and social-emotional development. According to the Harvard Center on the Developing Child, parental mental illness, addictions, family violence, child abuse and neglect are all considered to be “toxic” to children’s development. This toxicity is observable at the cellular level - when children are exposed to these chronic stressors, in an attempt to cope, their bodies produce the stress hormone cortisol at persistently high levels. In normal situations, cortisol levels would come down as the stressor passes and the child’s body would recover. However, in chronically stressed children, the high cortisol levels remain Nicole Letourneau over time, negatively impact a range of body and brain systems, and contribute to ill health over their lifetime. But there’s good news in the evidence, too. Research shows that these stressors are only toxic in the context of low levels of protective factors. In other words, kids may be able to weather trauma if they have the right environment and supports to thrive. So what provides protective factors to children for healthy development? Abundant research shows that healthy serve-and-return relationships - parent-child bonds characterized by high sensitivity and appropriate responsiveness - can buffer the impacts of trauma on children’s health and development. When a child serves up a cue to indicate a need and their parent reliably responds, this builds trust and a healthy parent-child attachment. It also contributes to children’s greater success and ease in peer CONTINUES on PAGE 15 How do we decrease emergency room visits? Canadians have the highest rates of emergency room visits among highincome countries. We need a better care model You get home after a long day at work and the cough that’s been bugging you just doesn’t seem to be letting up. Your muscles ache, you have chills and you hear a slight wheeze when you breathe out. Do you head to the local emergency department? A walkin clinic? Or does your family doctor have an after-hours service? As a family doctor, I’d like to think you’d call your doctor’s office or go to their after-hours clinic. But chances are, you head to the emergency department. Canadians use the emergency department far more than people in other high-income Tara Kiran countries. In the last two years, 40 per cent of Canadians were seen in the emergency department compared to 24 per cent in the United Kingdom, 20 per cent in the Netherlands and just 11 per cent in Germany. Canadian governments have wondered whether one way of curbing emergency department use is to improve access to family doctors after hours. About 15 years ago, Ontario introduced practice models that paid physicians differently, encouraged them to work in groups and take responsibility for a roster of patients. Physicians in these new models were also required to provide a certain number of evening or weekend clinics. The hope was to divert some emergency CONTINUES on PAGE 16
Firearms-related arrest and charges On September 29, 2018, members of the “F” Division Crime Reduction Teams (CRTs), North Battleford Municipal GIS and North Battleford RCMP, arrested three suspects who were wanted for various criminal offences. Around 8:00 p.m. a member of the Crime Reduction Team observed a male, known to be wanted for serious firearms-related offences, enter a vehicle and leave a property in North Battleford. RCMP attempted a traffic stop and the vehicle began to accelerate and flee from police. RCMP members initiated a monitored pursuit which ended approximately 10 kilometres west of North Battleford on Highway 16 after the subject vehicle struck an RCMP police vehicle. The vehicle became un-driveable and three occupants fled on foot. They were apprehended a short time later. RCMP located a loaded handgun a short distance from where the suspects were taken into custody. Two occupants from the suspect vehicle were assessed by paramedics and released into police custody. The driver of the vehicle, 24-year-old, Norman Percy Bird, along with a male youth and female youth, are now facing multiple charges. At the time of the incident, all three individuals were on warrant status. All three subjects have been remanded for court in North Battleford on October 1, 2018 in North Battleford. Norman Percy Bird is facing a total of 45 charges resulting from a number of police investigations. The two youths cannot be identified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. This investigation remains ongoing. Officer injured SPORTS RCMP REPORT Last Mountain Times • Monday, October 8, 2018 • lmtimes.ca At approximately 8:40 am on October 1, an RCMP member had stopped a vehicle along Hwy 40, 10 miles West of Richard. The officer had the vehicle stopped along the road. At one point the adult male driver fled in the vehicle, turned around and tried to run the member down who was still outside of the police vehicle. The member was struck and suffered serious, but non life threatening injuries and has been transported to hospital. Later that day, Battlefords RCMP located the suspect vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed on a grid road north of Speers, SK. RCMP patrol vehicles set up at strategic locations in preparation to utilize tire deflation devices and disable the vehicle if required. The monitored pursuit of the suspect vehicle was limited to grid roads in the area northwest of Speers and then west of Whitkow. The adult male driving the White Ford F350 was driving erratically and avoided tire deflation devices twice. Several police vehicles were struck and damaged while the suspect was evading arrest. RCMP members continued the pursuit on the grid roads where there was little to no traffic and the risk to public safety was deemed low. A third attempt to immobilize the vehicle resulted in the deflation of one tire, however the suspect continued to drive on three tires. The suspect managed to get onto Highway 4 and headed north toward the village of Cochin. At this point, due to the increased risk to the public, the pursuit was discontinued. A number of other police vehicles were able to locate the suspect vehicle as it entered Cochin. The suspect drove into a local gas station, fled from the damaged truck and then attempted to steal another vehicle. However, RCMP members arrived on scene and quickly arrested the suspect. A 37-year-old male from Lloydminster is currently in custody at Battlefords Detachment. The vehicle the suspect was operating has been linked to a theft from Lloydminster, AB the previous day. The investigation into this incident is ongoing. The RCMP member was treated in hospital in North Battleford for non-life threatening injuries and has been released. Theft of fuel The Greenwater RCMP and Crime Stoppers are seeking assistance from the public in solvinga crime which happened near Rose Valley, Saskatchewan. Between September 23 and September 25, 2018, approximately 800 litres of dyed diesel were stolen from a combine and swather parked at a land location in the RM of Kelvington. The Greenwater RCMP continue their investigation. Fatal collision near Meadow Lake On Sunday, September 30, 2018, at approximately 4:15 p.m., Meadow Lake RCMP, along with Meadow Lake EMS and the Meadow Lake Fire Department responded to a two vehicle motor vehicle collision on Highway 55 approximately eight kilometres east of Meadow Lake. The driver and loan occupant of a west bound vehicle, a 41 year-old male from Meadow Lake, was transported to hospital where he was pronounced deceased. As a precaution, three occupants from the east bound vehicle were also transported to and treated at hospital and have since been released. Initial investigation has determined that the west bound vehicle went into the east bound lane while travelling. Both vehicles ended up in the ditch south of the road and the west bound vehicle rolled. The Meadow Lake RCMP along with an RCMP Collision Reconstructionist are continuing to investigate. Fatal two-vehicle collision At approximately 2:20 p.m. on October 1, 2018, Blaine Lake RCMP, Shellbrook RCMP, Leask Fire, and local EMS responded to a two vehicle collision on township road #454 in the RM of Leask. Initial investigation has determined that a pickup truck travelling northbound collided with another pickup truck heading westbound. The driver of the northbound truck was seriously injured and transported to hospital in Prince Albert. The passenger of the northbound truck was declared deceased at the scene. The driver of the westbound truck sustained what are described as life threatening injuries and has been transported to hospital in Saskatoon. This collision is under investigation with the assistance of an RCMP Collision Reconstructionist. Alcohol is not believed to be a factor. Single vehicle fatal accident Prince Albert RCMP responded to a fatal motor vehicle accident at approximately 5:45 am on October 2, 2018. The accident occurred 6 km north of St.Louis on Highway 2 South. Prince Albert RCMP and EMS attended. Initial investigation has determined that a south bound Dodge truck left the roadway into the east ditch where the vehicle hit an embankment and crashed nose first, ejecting the driver from the truck. The lone occupant of the vehicle, a 39 year old male from St.Louis, Sask. was declared deceased at the scene. An RCMP Traffic Reconstructionist attended the scene to assist the investigation. The cause and factors related to the accident remain under investigation. Stanley Cup dreams all over North America There can be only one Stanley Cup champion next June, but as the 2018-19 season gets underway, there are high expectations in many jurisdictions across North America. With the off-season addition of the No. 1 available free agent, John Tavares, Toronto Maple Leafs’ fans have high expectations that they will snap the 52-year drought that began the season after they won their last cup, 1967. With the acquisition in late September of all-star defenceman Erik Karlsson, the San Jose Sharks have high expectations that finally, this will be the season they don’t experience any playoff disappointment. With most of their stars returning, including the sublime Alex Ovechkin, the Washington Capitals have expectations of pulling off a repeat of their first Stanley Cup triumph. With Blake Wheeler’s signature on a new five-year contract and the team’s young stars, such as goalie Connor Hellebuyck and centre Mark Scheifele, one year older and one year better, Winnipeg Jets think they can take one step beyond the Western Conference final, where their run to the Cup ended last spring. With an unprecedented trip to the Stanley Cup final in their first year in the league, the Vegas Golden Knights see no reason why this year should be any different victory-wise. With Sidney Crosby still in his prime, and with the knowledge that they know how to win the big games (two Cup triumphs in the last three years will have that effect), the Pittsburgh Penguins think they can get back to the big stage. Fans in Nashville expect that one of these years, they’ll stop singing Close But No Cigar and change the lyrics to something more upbeat. With skill at every position (Pekke Rinne in goal; a slew of scorers; and topfour defensemen to die for), the Predators are hoping for a breakthrough. Why not Boston? Why not Tampa Bay? Well why not? Those two were among the five teams to eclipse the 50-win mark last year and there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be top contenders again. And that’s it, folks. The Stanley Cup winner will be one of the nine aforementioned teams. If you’re a fan of one of the other 22 clubs, sorry to burst your bubble. Maybe next year. Dwight Perry of the Seattle Times: “Back when NCAA rules allowed it, Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden took movie star Burt Reynolds — an ex-FSU player and a huge Seminoles booster — on a recruiting trip to Ohio to better his chances of sealing the deal. I’ll pitch FSU to the player, Bowden told Reynolds, while you sweet-talk the kid’s single mother. ‘Well, the kid ended up going to Notre Dame,’ Bowden quipped, ‘and the mother came to Florida State.’” Sean McIndoe in The Athletic, on the Calgary Flames’ off-season moves: “They made a blockbuster trade and signed a big UFA, because this is a team that absolutely needs to make the playoffs. Then they hired a coach who’s never made the playoffs.” Another one from McIndoe, assessing the Columbus Blue Jackets’ coach John Tortorella: “A coach who responds to adversity by throwing water bottles at fans and charging into opposing dressing rooms to fight.” Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle, on the 49ers’ loss of QB Jimmy Garappolo: “The team is rallying behind (C.J) Beathard, whom most fans — no offence to the earnest and hard-working young man — were hoping would function mostly as a potted plant FROM THE SIDELINES BRUCE PENTON this season.” Brad Rock of the Deseret News: “Boise State’s preseason training regimen included lugging 100-pound bags of Idaho potatoes up the stadium stairs. Cute, but most offensive linemen lug 100 pounds of french fries around their waistlines, anyway, don’t they?” Comedy writer Jim Barach: “Former Major League Baseball star Brad Lidge is now an archaeologist. In fact, he was on the Dominican Republic expedition that dug up Bartolo Colon.” Barach again: “Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom has finished the season with a 1.70 ERA. Which is even more impressive considering he didn’t get to pitch any games against the Mets.” Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@yahoo.ca - Bruce Penton Disclaimer: opinions expressed are those of the writer. For all your collision repairs, glass repairs, and replacements, contact – We do Light Mechanical LORNE’S Collision Center Raymore, SK. SGI Accredited. Call Lorne Huber at 306-746-5800 or 306-746-5805 Open Monday thru Friday 5
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