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Effective noon Thursday, July 29th, 2010 all campfires will be banned in the Central
Okanagan, North Okanagan and the entire Kamloops Fire Protection District, but
you are still permitted gas flame appliances and briquette appliances.
Please program *5555 in to your cellphone to Report a Wildfire in BC or Toll-Free 1‑800‑663‑5555
The fine for unauthorized campfires is $345. And up to a $1 million fine or three years in prison for causing a wildfire.
I don't see the difference between a propane flame and a wood burning flame, do you? They can both cause a wildfire. One time I moved the BBQ and the burner got knocked from its seated position without my knowledge, and my entire BBQ started on fire just after I started it. I guess the BBQ was moved so that it was laying on its side and that is how the burner came off its position. The burner was not screwed down and it just sat in its spot ok until the BBQ was moved and the burner got knocked off its spot.
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THE
REAL JANEY CANUCK
In 1929, these women won a judgment from the British Privy Council that declared
women were indeed persons under the British North America Act, and therefore
entitled to sit in the Senate. They had proved the truth of Emily's credo: "The
world loves a peaceful man, but gives way to a strenuous kicker."
ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Help Reform Legal Aid in BC
Since 2002, changes to legal aid funding, structure and governance in BC have
put the justice system into crisis and resulted in reduced access to justice for
women, new immigrants and refugees, and low-income British Columbians.
Legal aid is a vital social service; not only because it is legally mandated and
necessary for a functioning justice system, and not only because it is necessary
to promote equality and justice in our society, but also because drastic cuts
have cost Canadian society and tax payers in unmet legal needs and the resulting
expenses of social exclusion. Underfunding legal aid services is no longer a
viable option in British Columbia.
1926 The Daily Province Reported
Devices designed to repel the attacks of Mr. Ogopogo and family will be
installed aboard the modern ferry to be operated by the Government from Kelowna,
it was reported today at the Parliament Buildings.
Ogopogo is known to the Indians as N'Haatik, the Demon of the Lake.
The name Ogopogo evolved from a popular music hall song:
I'm looking for the Ogopogo, the funny little Ogopogo.
His Mother was an Earwig and his Father was a whale.
I'm going to put a little bit of salt on his tail.
"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open"
Did you know that the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue?
As Marc Emery the "Prince of Pot" puts it:
"One person can undo the evil of several thousand people"
Fortis BC live video of an Osprey Nest on Benvolin in Kelowna, B.C.
Scan BC - Listen to firefighters and emergencies on the scanner you
don't own - free!
Bear Creek Fire was on the Kelowna scanner whereas the Seclusion Bay fire was on
the Shuswap scanner.
The B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is conducting a survey
regarding the services that it provides. Your participation is voluntary but
your input would be much appreciated. Your responses will be kept confidential.
This BC
Ministry of Transportation
survey will take approximately 10 minutes.
See photos up Terrace Mountain June 6, 2010
This is a photo taken of the Terrace Mountain Wildfire in August 2009
July 19, 2010 - The Kamloops Fire Centre has responded to 99 wildfires this season, of which 77 have been caused by people.
POT - A CURE FOR CANCER?
http://www.phoenixtears.ca/article/life-experiences/list-of-experiences/testimonial-list.html
We can make our own decisions to elect them into office,
but once there,
we no longer are able to decide for ourselves.
CNN Live stream of the OIL SPILL
(click in the right menu when you get there)
BP Live Stream of the OIL SPILL
Live feeds from remotely operated vehicles (ROV)
Cool pic .... Okanagan Lake BC fogged in Feb 3, 2010
click for larger photo
| Mr. Premier - I just wanted to express my thanks to you for your introduction of the HST for British Columbians. Until yesterday I actually thought I would have some small stipend left in my budget to spend on minor things such as food and heat and light and lodging. But thankfully you have now taken that difficult decision of where I should now spend that money. Your government has been so good at reducing the decision options for B.C. Citizens, particularly Old Age Pensioners ever since you took office. You started off by introducing the Unfair Pharmacare Program, you of course called it Fair Pharmacare, and I guess as it left us with less money in our pockets and more in yours, I can see your point. Then you introduced increased fees for hunting and fishing licences and park use fees. Of course you did promise that these monies would all go back into the resource. You lied of course. But again thanks to you we now had less money to worry about. I won't go into the Olympics because it certainly makes sense to me that my money is far better spent by you on million dollar parties and brownnosing the hoi faloy by you and your compatriots in crime rather than my using that money for silly things like keeping warm and or eating. But hey, you have my best interests at heart I know. Now you have taken or are taking some $800 million from B.C. Hydro to pay for the big party, and so naturally and rationally B.C. Hydro, which needed the $800 million to upgrade and maintain our decaying and crumbling power facilities to ensure we have heat and light in the future, why they just increased our electrical rates by 9%, a very tricky back door tax on your part, sneaky aren't you! But hey, I understand that keeping you in the style to which you and your developer friends have become accustomed to is of paramount importance. Then of course you are taking another almost $800 million from ICBC which over time will result in increased insurance fees, another back door tax. But hey on this one you really solved our problem because with your new tax and the ongoing smoke and mirrors, "Carbon Tax" you are ensuring we cannot afford to drive our cars so we don't have to worry about car insurance do we? Clever guy. Oh. by the way, what have you been doing with the millions you have raked in on the Carbon Tax? Just a thought, maybe people would like to know where the money goes other than parties and to massively overpaid minions you keep hiring in our health and education systems. And now of course you have solved all our money problems with the grand old HST. I never would have thought of it, no money, no problems. I am looking into having the Federal Government just sending my pension cheque directly to your account and thereby saving us all the middle men and accounting issues. Really appreciate all you have done and are doing to keep us from having to wonder what we will do with all our money in the future. I will be however, working with Bill Vander Zalm as hard as I can just to show my full appreciation for your efforts. Mad ------------------------------------------ After Thought : Oh, by the way, You forgot the "Inheritance tax" - although there probably won't be anything for the next generation to inherit - but hey, you'll think of a way to tax that too; just mark my words people !!!! |
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COUGAR ALERT! I heard someone saw a cougar at Fintry Falls and our son saw a cougar while biking up Sugar Loaf Mountain so be alert!!!! Sincerely North Westsider |
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3 BEAR CUBS ALERT! We heard there is a mother and 3 cubs at Estamont Beach and maybe at Westshore Estates too. Here is a video of a brown bear passing through someone's yard at Valley of the Sun in June 2010. |
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IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE Read the Water Act modernization Discussion Paper, and when you’re done, submit your opinion via the Feed Back Survey. They are looking to hear from all British Columbians, which includes you, too. http://blog.gov.bc.ca/livingwatersmart/
April 30th marked the deadline for
formal submissions to the
Water Act Modernization process |
It is a battle of the people vs. their own government.
TOP 10 LIBERAL MYTHS ABOUT THE HST
Items you will be paying the HST on
Effective July 1, 2010, the tax on
private sales of vehicles, boats and aircraft in
British Columbia is continued, but at a rate of 12 per cent.
Paperwork to claim an HST rebate on pellets for your pellet stove if you pick the pellets up yourself. Same goes for propane tanks if you bring the bottle in to be filled.
Point of sale rebate on diapers for children, and it doesn't mention diapers for adults.
And that's not all the HST will apply to! Click here to read more.
An initiative petition must be signed by at least
10% of registered voters in each electoral
district in the province.
If 10% of registered voters in each electoral district sign the petition,
the government will have to scrap HST,
or hold a referendum if they still want to go ahead with it. There is also
recall of Premier Gordon Campbell available.
In some ridings there was more than 40% of the people signing the petition.
What started as a movement to stop the HST has turned into an open revolt against an out of touch and arrogant government that refuses to listen to its own people,” said Vander Zalm.
THE 15% HST Petition Signature Threshold HAS Been Accomplished
Here are the numbers
HST - NOW IT'S TIME TO RECALL MLA'S
Not sure who is the author of this cartoon is, but its going around by email and
we thought it was a good one LOL.
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Black Widow Spider  click Black Widow spider for larger image There is one poisonous spider you need to watch out for, and that is the female black widow spider with a red spot on its back. The male is not venomous. Rock fences and retaining walls are the worst, so are piles of junk or wood. We have seen them in the garage. They say trees you buy to plant can have spiders that come in from different parts of the USA, like in tropical plants etc.. They like old tires too.
Hobo Spider Wear some good leather gloves if you are digging in the wood pile, rummaging through junk, planting trees, or working around your retaining wall. And don't leave your shoes or gloves laying around where spiders can get inside them. |
Chase away unwanted cats
Passive Ultrasonic detector
Animal Away Pro
Electronic Animal Repeller
Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler Deer and Animal Repellant
All protest signs on OkanaganLakeBC.com are NOT copyright protected and you are free to use them however you wish.
Citizens Fight Back In Proposed Class Action Against Minister Of National Revenue For Abuse by CRA March 2009
How to get your neighbor to clean up his or her dead pine beetle trees, section
522 of the Local Government Act
(b) require the owners or occupiers of real
property to remove from a building or yard anything that, in the opinion of the
fire chief, is a fire hazard or increases the danger of fire;
You can also use
RDCO Fire Prevention and Regulations Bylaw 1066 to have your neighbor clean
up his or her yard
c) The owner or occupant of real property shall
keep their buildings and yards clear of anything that may unduly increase the
probability or danger of fire.
Don't forget to be careful about using fire, if you are visiting the Okanagan
this year.
We don't want to see any more human caused fires to evacuate us, please!
July 19, 2009 Terrace Mountain Fire
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Bing drinking to acquire medication? B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon said that because the treatment has significant side-effects, the province relies on the approval committee to determine who should get treatment, instead of leaving it up to the patient's physician. When asked what he thought of patients like Levesque binge drinking to try to get treatment, Falcon abruptly ended his interview with CBC News. |
JOIN A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT - there are lots of them
| Chocolate
conspiracy charge prompts deal CBC News - Last Updated: Saturday, June 12, 2010 Cadbury has offered a settlement in an alleged price conspiracy case against the company and a number of its competitors in Canada. (CBC) The B.C. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that could bring
Canadian chocolate lovers a step closer to compensation from the
country's major candy manufacturers. |
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The Offence Act Chronic alcoholic 92 (4) If, after hearing the evidence of a physician who has examined the person and any other evidence of the person's addiction to, or use of, alcohol, and any evidence of the person concerned, the justice is satisfied that the person concerned is in need of treatment and rehabilitation as provided for chronic alcoholics, and that no firm arrangements have been made for the voluntary treatment of the person or, if made, are not likely to be adhered to by the person, the justice may make an order that, for an indeterminate term not exceeding 12 months, the person attend at, or be detained in, an institution where treatment is provided for chronic alcoholics. |
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Kelowna, B.C. - Black Widow Spider - YouTube Video
UFO story by Vernon BC Landfill - YouTube Video
UFO Orbs in Canada - YouTube Video
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TRUE STORY
We know one person who complained to City Council about having a hard time
affording to live,
and so City Council called the police whom threw this person into a BC hospital.
The person said in a letter to City Council that they didn't want to live
anymore if they couldn't afford to. The BC Hospital basically beat this
person into submission so they wouldn't complain or say the word "suicide"
anymore. It didn't matter that the person said they were too chicken to
commit suicide, this person was locked up for a few weeks so that pills could
be shoved down their throat and so that they could be monitored. All this
person really wanted was for City Council to hear them. Those are real bruises with no
touch ups. What you see is the consequence of this person's complaint.
At the hospital, this person was given a needle in the backside and was
unconscious for two days from whatever was given to them in the needle and after.
When they woke up, these bruises are what they saw had happened to them. So the
person said they didn't want to live anymore. Why is this person not
permitted to have these feelings if things are not going well, and why should a pill
be shoved down their throat to temporarily mask a legitimate feeling? And
why should this person be beat into submission for it? Isn't a person
permitted to complain? In
this persons case a pill did nothing for them but made then very angry. Why are people not
permitted to have a legitimate feeling? Maybe they feel like they want to
die because nobody is listening, but does that automatically mean they are going
to take action? Do you think this person wants to live moreso after they
are beaten? Why are there not other remedies besides pills being shoved down
peoples throats? Pills are not the one and only answer!
There are root causes to people's feelings and if nobody is listening and acting
on these feelings, most likely the feelings won't just go away on their own. In
fact I think feelings only fester if ignored. For one thing, everyday
stress has a lot to do with how a person is feeling and each person can react
differently. What stressors can be lifted from the person so as to allow
the person some freedom from stress? Stress can cause all types of
ailments, but yet it is not looked at hard enough in our opinion.
So, does stress kill brain cells?
The answer seems to be yes. Stress causes the release of a hormone called
cortisol.
So there you have it, the more stressed you are, the more people will think you are stupid and that you need a pill to take the stress away when in actual fact the stress could be money problems or some other problem. How any pill can take away money problems is beyond us! Pills only cost a lot more money!
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New law promised but not delivered Identity theft and fraud are not listed as specific crimes in the Criminal Code, putting Canada behind the U.S. and Europe. |
| Definition of middle man: Means you, if you have customers. You are the middle man or woman between your customer and government. |
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Municipal Lawyer Needed in Ontario « on: January 04, 2010, 06:24:59 AM »Reply Quote I am looking for a municipal lawyer at a reasonable price to defend me. I have to this point defended myself with horrible results. Please contact for further information sjmct "at" cyg.net
Re: Municipal Lawyer Needed in Ontario
MUNICIPAL TAXES HELP NEEDED
Representing yourself not always good
Re: Grounds for Appeal ?????
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Seeking Land Use Advice |
The Status of Property Rights in Canada
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CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982 (in effect today) PART I CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS Legal Rights Rights and
freedoms in Canada Life, liberty and security of person Treatment or punishment |
Later I found out that no claim has ever succeeded in court under Section 12 of the Charter of Rights. Cruel treatment in Canada is when a Third World dictator’s thugs deprive somebody of his property or rough him up, not our civilised men wearing suits and ties and acting under the so-called statutory authority.
In the end she took the escape clause in the Charter of Rights that is Article 1, if it’s in public interest, which can suspend all of our fundamental constitutional rights, and dismissed the claim.
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BILL OF RIGHTS (still in effect to this day) PART I (b) the right of the individual to equality before the law and the protection of the law; (c) freedom of religion; (d) freedom of speech; (e) freedom of assembly and of association; and (f) freedom of the press. |
In Canada, governments can still expropriate at will with no
constitutional protection for family assets. This has occurred over the
decades in almost every Canadian province notes Milke.
Examples of property right infringement in Canada
Coquitlam offered compensation – $38,000 – but only for the portion of the
land altered by the stream. No compensation was offered for the rest of the
property declared sterile.
The above examples and more show the importance of property rights, notes
Milke. “Property protection shelters the savings and investments of
families, be it their home or other property; property rights also protect
risk-taking by individuals and companies, activity that is critical to a
country’s general prosperity. Canada needs a
constitutional amendment to ensure property rights become a Charter right.”
$167 fine and 3 points on your license if you are caught driving while HOLDING your cell phone!!!
| I woke up angry this morning because...when I cancelled my cable
a year or so ago...instead of sending me my last bill they sent my
last bill to the collection agent. So I complained and they said
that is how they do it ...they don't send bills to people who are
not on their service. This was a year ago and I had an angry
flashback about it this morning. Woke up, ready to write them
another letter saying WTF! ---------------------------------------------------------------- For more info about disconnections please read about BC Hydro and their final notice of disconnection. |
BEWARE of TELUS HIGH SPEED WIRELESS INTERNET
STICK
We got charged 15 cents for a text message and the data
download plan is inadequate for the amount of data we may use.
Telus ADSL costs between
$22 to $50, and
for $50 per month you get a whole
100 GB
data
and not just
5 GB
of data
like you do with
Telus wireless internet stick LARGEST
plan that cost $65. Telus Communications lowest cost landline ADSL plan permits 10 GB of data
while the largest plan allows 100 GB.
Telus Mobility's Smallest USB wireless internet stick plan
allows only 500 MB data while the largest allows for only 5 GB of data per
month. Telus wireless stick plan costs
$65 per month
for ONLY 5 GB data + 5˘/MB for overage which
amounts to $51.20 for 1 GB data over what the plan allows! And don't get stuck
with a
$5,000 bill like this
person almost did!
We would rather pay $50 per month for ADSL than pay $65 per month or
maybe
$218 per month and
maybe more for Telus Mobility wireless high speed USB mobile internet stick and
the overage we may use!
Read more about Telus Mobility high speed wireless USB internet key (stick) here. See bills and all.
Did you know you can register to be an organ donor online here?
Make a complaint to the UN Human Rights Council about Universal Declaration of Human Rights violations.
The BC Government condoned people to become smoking addicts and are suing
tobacco companies AGAIN.
Makes sense doesn't it?
The BC Government is going after tobacco companies claiming they are making
people sick. But it was government whom gained tax money and permitted the
tobacco companies to sell tobacco, and allowed this addiction in the first
place. Who is the sick one?? Now the BC Government is stressing how bad collecting all that tax
money really was?
Isn't this just another one of the BC Government's flip flops??
Do you think the BC Government should be charged with
accessory to murder, if anything they are
the regulators and they have every bit of the power and control?
If you ask us, it is the Government that is making people sick and the
Government
are the ones that should be charged if anybody!
The
BC Government already lost their case to tobacco companies back in 2003, as the
court ruling then was in favour of tobacco companies. Why would the BC
Government waste more
of our tax money, just so the Government can ask to collect more taxes? What kind of azzhole
is the BC Government to do this to its people anyway, smoker or non-smoker!!
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If you wish to share your views about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, there is a Special Committee to review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act who are accepting online submissions. Online submissions will be accepted until Feb. 28, 2010. Make an online submission http://www.leg.bc.ca/foi/
Public Consultations Background ----------------------------- Can you believe that is all the written submissions they received? There may have been 62 less presenters the second time around due to only holding public hearings at two locations instead of 9 locations like at the first public hearing, although there were less written submissions the second time around as well. |
Go Public is an investigative news segment on CBC TV, radio and the web.
We expose waste, incompetence and wrongdoing and hold the powers that be accountable.
| CRTC had asked Canadians to comment on the
so-called TV tax on special web site Canadians only had until Dec. 21 to comment online at http://television.askingcanadians.com/ --------------------------------------------------- Fee for
carriage is only part of the story, as broadcasters are also seeking
to: block U.S. signals; leave some Canadian
communities without over-the-air television; and delay
the transition to digital television transmission until 2013. ----------------------------------------------------- The CRTC
says it has received more than 190,000
comments about the bitter, contentious debate. Source CBC.ca --------------------------------------------------- UPDATE email from CRTC Some participants have inquired what the Commission plans to do with the comments. Let me assure you that the comments are being used as part of our ongoing analysis of the topics explored and will be taken into account when preparing our report to the government. Furthermore, the transcript of this consultation will be placed on the public record at http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/broadcast.htm#a2009614 ------------------------------------------------------ UPDATE Marketwatch.com March 22, 2010 snippetts In reference to today's decision by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to establish a new value-for-signal regime for private conventional TV broadcasters, Cogeco Cable Inc. reiterates its position that the proposal provides no solution and will ultimately see consumers footing the bill. Cogeco Cable, as the regulator itself, questions the CRTC's authority to implement such a regime. Cogeco Cable intends to be a party to Federal Court of Appeal proceedings on this matter. "Canadians would gain nothing with this proposal, which would eventually force them to pay more for TV from conventional broadcasters with no assurance of improved quality or quantity of content," stated Yves Mayrand, Vice-President, Corporate Affairs of Cogeco Cable. Such a proposal is blatantly unfair since it would allow private conventional TV broadcasters to collect a fee for their programming when viewed on cable or satellite systems, while it is available free of charge to all Canadians over the air and, increasingly, via the Internet. |
If you are looking for the local North Westside Road website
you may have paid $1,000 for, that would be the
North Westside Communities Association website.
Item 8.3 Regional Grant In Aid Policy.pdf
Item 8.2 Central Okanagan West Electoral Area Grant in Aid.pdf
Please don't get confused, as none of your tax dollars went to pay for this
website.
How can government be so cruel?
There is no place to rent for $375 per month. Please Premier Gordon
Campbell, please read
the classifieds
in the Okanagan to see if you can find
a place to rent for $375 per month.
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DISTURBING FACT ABOUT SOCIAL ASSISTANCE MAXIMUM ASSISTANCE FOR RENT = $375 For employable singles, the
maximum assistance you would be eligible to receive for one month no matter what
your rental payments really are. But in many cases rent alone costs more than $375! Check out the classifieds and see for yourself. If you are a person with disabilities or a senior:
$375 Shelter Seniors get $296 more per month than someone younger. Why? |
Why End
Poverty?
ELP believes unemployment and poverty are not the fault of individual poor
people. They are caused by government policies and legislation. For example,
low minimum wages and welfare rates keep people living
far below the lines of poverty.
| It use to be that a person on assistance was eligible for
free tooth extractions, but not anymore. It could cost
between $38 - $100 or maybe even more. If the homeless need low cost dental, there is a 7 month wait at Kelowna's Gospel Mission which is the only low cost dental clinic in the Kelowna / Vernon BC area, plus Kelowna's Gospel Mission is not taking new referrals. And if the homeless needed dental care between Christmas and New Years and they didn't have the $200 because it is during the holidays, they were out of luck and had to live with the puss seeping from their gums and being poisoned. That is just how well paying a government works. You get nothing in return but pain! LowCostOralHealthClinicsinBC.pdf --------------------------- Ministry pays 72% on dental work for kids and the disabled. Warning though, these kids and the disabled may be charged more if the dentist charges more than the recommended fee as recommended in the non-mandatory BC Dental Associations fee guide that is not published online, but may be located at a large municipal library. The ministry's fee schedule for dental services for eligible people on income and disability assistance and children served through the BC Healthy Kids Program is 72 per cent of the BC Dental Association's 2007 fee guide. |
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B.C. homeless win right to camp in parks CBC News - December 9, 2009 Homeless people can camp temporarily in public parks if municipalities can't provide them with sufficient alternative shelter, British Columbia's highest court ruled Wednesday. |
Have you ever given thought to why in Canada so many people are forced to rent and can't afford to buy a home? Wouldn't you call renting, temporary shelter?
"For those with their eyes shut, no explanation will suffice;
For those with their eyes open, no explanation is necessary."
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