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4 Last Mountain Times • Monday, November 5, 2018 • lmtimes.ca East Shore Arts and Craft Tour Sat. Nov. 17, 10 am. - 4 pm. Art stops in Duval - New School Arts Strasbourg - What If? Gallery and Bulyea Community Hall - lunch served. Ken Arndt Memorial Foundation New School Arts Silton- Strasbourg- Bulyea- Duval Recreation Boards Advanced DENTURE CLINIC Kerry Rodgers, D.D. Denturist Tel: 525-5200 1-888-723-1110 Fax: 525-3271 Email: smile4me@sasktel.net 4306 Dewdney Avenue Regina, SK S4T 1A8 (Dewdney & Lewvan) 00074621 Get free Digital Edition at LMTIMES.CA All you can eat, including the packaging? A strong case for taste and food safety will have to be made before consumers will be willing to eat their garbage Within a year, single-use plastics and excess packaging have become public enemy No. 1. Everyone is talking about how our lives are overrun by too much plastic. A recent Greenpeace-led audit looked at waterways waste and companies involved. Much of the plastic trash cleaned up from Canadian shorelines this fall was traceable to five companies: Nestlé, Tim Hortons, PepsiCo, the Coca-Cola Co. and McDonald’s. All these companies are part of the food industry, which is hardly surprising. As consumers look for convenience and more portable food solutions, this problem won’t go away. In fact, it could get worse if nothing is done. Canadians households spend roughly 35 per cent of their food budget outside a grocery store and that percentage increases every year. People walking around with plastic containers, bags, wrappers and cups will grossly increase. Demographics are also complicating things. Since more people live alone, single servings are becoming more popular. That too requires more packaging. The food service, retail and processing sectors are fully aware of this environmental conundrum. But what’s brutally unclear for companies is how to deal with it. The whole situation is made worse by the fact that plastic use has become an international political issue. In the food industry, conversation on green supply chains focuses on compostable and even edible solutions. Plenty of technologies already exist and more are being developed. In 2010, PepsiCo Canada came out with the first compostable bag for its SunChips. This package was to completely break down in a hot, active compost pile in approximately 14 weeks. Some tests concluded that it didn’t. An influential social media campaign led to the compostable SunChips bag’s downfall. The company pulled it from the market less than a year after its introduction. Since then, cities - which play a key role in completing the food product life cycle through landfill and compost services - have been more reluctant to accept anything without proper due diligence. As cities accept food packaging in green bins, retailers should promote these green solutions. So we’re now seeing an increasing number of compostable packaging on the market, which is surely a step in the right direc- CONTINUES on PAGE 7 Ritz’s record tarnishes Hall of Fame Prime Minister Harper said he “would make Canada unrecognizable.” His Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz certainly did his part to make Canadian agriculture and food unrecognizable. Minister Ritz’s destructive record speaks for itself. Does Toronto’s Royal Agricultural Winter Fair really want to damage its reputation by inducting former Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz (2007 - 2015), into Canada’s Agriculture Hall of Fame? Consider just a small part of Minister Ritz’s destructive legacy. Under Mr. Ritz’s watch over 15% of farmers went out of business. Farmers now number a mere 193,000 and our collective debt level has ballooned to over $102 billion dollars. Weighing both the costs and benefits is fundamental to successful farming and public policy, but Minister Ritz failed to do this during his tenure. He is responsible for dismantling the farmer-directed Canadian Wheat Board single desk marketing agency. He must have known the CWB had strong support since he refused to give farmers a vote. He ignored hard facts and the history of how well the CWB served farmers and Canada as whole. Destroying the CWB continues to cost farmers billions of dollars every year. Minister Ritz then took the many hard assets of the Canadian Wheat Board including thousands of grain cars, office buildings, grain ships, and a substantial amount of cash, and transferred them all to a joint venture between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the giant multinational Bunge under EDITORIALS, LETTERS & OPINIONS so-far secret terms. All of those millions of dollars of assets were paid for by farmers, yet Minister Ritz still spent millions to shut down the CWB, including tax dollars. Farmers are still in court seeking restitution for their money and assets. The tax payers of Canada may never receive a proper accounting. Almost immediately after Gerry Ritz killed the CWB, our premium customers started to complain of quality and delivery problems. Prairie wheat, which once consistently traded at a premium to US wheat, now sells for much less. Lower grain prices and poor relations with end-use buyers have become the norm because private elevator companies cannot match the CWB’s marketing sophistication. Since 2012, farmers have lost an increasing share of our grain’s value to the elevator companies. The companies are using this extra money to pay for mergers and the overbuilding of handling facilities. And, thanks to Minister Ritz the Port of Churchill and the rail line serving it was rendered uneconomic. Ottawa is now spending tax dollars to pick up the pieces. Gerry Ritz is also responsible for bringing in UPOV ’91 Intellectual Property Rights legislation, which increased the price of seed and laid the groundwork to allow multinational seed companies to charge royalties on our harvested crops. Ritz accelerated the previous government’s cuts to crop research stations and plant breeding, turning them and the rights to public research results over CONTINUES on PAGE 7
RCMP REPORT Fatal collision on Hwy 6 south At approximately 8 pm on Nov 1, members of the White Butte and Milestone detachments were called to a collision on Highway 6, 7.5 kms south of Regina. Upon arrival, members determined that four vehicles were involved in the collision. At this point in the investigation, which could change as the reconstructionist continues the analysis of the information collected at the scene, it is believed that the initial collision occurred between a northbound truck and a southbound van. The two vehicles are believed to have collided head on. The truck then bounced off into the ditch, but the van stayed in the lane of travel and was struck by two different vehicles, one northbound , followed by a southbound vehicle. In total 4 vehicles were involved. Two persons were declared deceased on scene, a 78-yearold female who was driving the southbound van and the driver of the truck, an 83-year-old male. They were the drivers of the north and southbound vehicles that were involved in the first collision. The female passenger of the southbound van involved in the initial collision, suffered non-life threatening injuries. The two vehicles involved in the following collision had a single male occupant and the other vehicle had two male occupants. Neither of them suffered serious injuries. The highway was closed for several hours while the forensic reconstructionist and members for the White Butte and Milestone Detachments collected evidence at the scene. This investigation is still ongoing. Federal prisoner recaptured At approximately 4:30 p.m. on October 30th, Prince Albert RCMP received a report of a possible sighting of Louis Bonneau in a rural area near Macdowell, SK. Bonneau had escaped lawful custody on Oct. 28th from the Willow Cree Healing Lodge federal institution on Beardy’s First Nation. When members from Rosthern and Prince Albert detachments arrived on-scene, they encountered a number of local residents who had set-up containment around a farm yard where the suspect was last seen. Shortly after, Bonneau surrendered himself and was taken into custody without incident. He was then transported to hospital to receive medical attention for prolonged exposure. He is expected to make a full recovery. Fatal MVC On Oct 29 at 8:10 pm members from the Swift Current Detachment were alerted to a vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed in the wrong direction on Highway 1 near Tomkins. The vehicle was reportedly travelling westbound in the eastbound lanes. While on route another call came in reporting a head-on collision 5 kilometers east of Tompkins involving two vehicles. When members arrived they found two vehicles had collided and had come to a stop in the driving lanes of the highway. Witnesses were at the scene Last Mountain Times • Monday, November 5, 2018 • lmtimes.ca attempting to assist with the injured. The 66-year-old male driver from Gull Lake, who was the lone occupant of the westbound vehicle travelling in the wrong lane was deceased. The other vehicle was carrying three occupants. A 27-year-old female driver and a 62-year-old female passenger, both from Shaunavan, were pronounced deceased at the scene and a male infant that was in the back seat was removed by witnesses at the scene and transported to hospital in Swift Current by ambulance. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. The three occupants are all from the same family. The road was closed for several hours with the assistance of Department of Highways while two traffic reconstructionists analyzed the scene. Alcohol is believed to be a factor at this time pending toxicology results. The investigation remains ongoing with the assistance from the Saskatchewan Coroners Service. Suspicious item located in local business At approximately 10 a.m. on the morning of October 28, members from the Ponteix RCMP Detachment received a complaint of a suspicious looking item, believed to be a potential explosive device, inside a local business. Members immediately attended, evacuated and contained the scene. The Saskatchewan RCMP’s Explosive Disposal Unit attended to assist and determined the item to be benign. 5 SPORTS Size matters? Thankfully, it doesn’t in today’s NHL This will be a short story. More accurately, a story about short hockey players. There’s a myth that to play and thrive in the National Hockey League one has to be a 6-foot-plus bruiser, carrying 200 pounds or more on a muscular frame that bowls over opposing players on the 200-x-85-ft. ice surface. Tell that to Johnny Gaudreau — all 5-foot-9 of him — of the Calgary Flames, whose speed and wispy frame powers his team’s offence as he regularly places among the league’’s top 20 scorers. Try telling that to 5-foot-9 Brendan Gallagher of the Canadiens, whose reputation as one of the most rugged and well-rounded players in the league has been well earned. Try telling that to Marcel Dionne, who played 18 years in the NHL with Los Angeles Kings and who did OK — like almost career 1800 points— the sixth-highest total in NHL history. When Philadelphia’s Broad Street Bullies started to dominate the NHL picture in the mid-1970s, using talent combined with brute force, flying fists and, well, a healthy dose of goonery, most of the Flyers’ rivals sought to copy that method. The result was a dearth of smaller players and a couple of decades of teams using players’ height and weight as a more valuable measuring stick than goals and assists. Thankfully, that approach has changed. Speed as a more important tool has returned, and the smaller, swifter player who knows how to dangle with the puck has made a strong comeback in the NHL. Just check out the names of these players, all of whom are 5-foot-8 or shorter and solid, established NHL stars: Alex DeBrincat of the Hawks, Mats Zuccarello of the Rangers, Conor Sheary of Buffalo, Cam Atkinson of Columbus and Tyler Johnson of the Lightning. One inch taller — statuesque-like 5-foot-9 — are the likes of scoring leaders Gallagher, Gaudreau, Viktor Arvidsson of Nashville and Jonathan Marchessault of Vegas. Even a couple of stalwart defencemen, Jared Spurgeon of Minnesota and Torey Krug of Boston, are listed as 5-foot-9. When Krug is paired with Boston team-mate Zdeno Chara, all 6-foot-9, that’s truly the long and the short of it. So that’s all there is to say: Short and sweet. There’s room in the NHL for players of all size. The only thing that really matters is skill. Randy Turner of the Winnipeg Free Press, on Twitter, referencing an NBC Sports first — broadcasting an all-Canadian NHL regular season game between the Jets and Leafs. “Really, if it wasn’t for Winnipeg I sometimes wonder if Americans would even know Toronto exists.” Norman Chad of the Washington Post, on Twitter during the marathon 18-inning Red Sox-Dodgers World Series game: “BREAKING — Bud Selig has decided if Red Sox-Dodgers is still tied after 15 innings, winner will be determined by next season’s All-Star game.” FROM THE SIDELINES BRUCE PENTON Humourist Brad Dickson: “The World Series game in Los Angeles last night was the longest in history — 7 hours, 20 minutes. When I lived in L.A. that was my daily commute.” Janice Hough of leftcoastsportsbabe.com: “I know it’s early in the season, but, somehow I missed the NBA rule change that Lebron James has to take at LEAST four steps for refs to call travelling.” Comedy writer Jim Barach: “The NFL has fired an official for missing a false start call in the Browns-Chargers game. Apparently he just wanted to get the game over fast and put the Browns out of their misery.” Care to comment? Email brucepenton2003@yahoo.ca - Bruce Penton 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
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