Red Deer Advocate, October 21, 2013

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Economists writing gets bad grades

An internal report card says the Bank of Canadas economists dont write too good.

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Red Deer 1913 2013 Create Celebrate CommemorateTHE GREAT GROCERY

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Its time to cast your ballot.

Today is municipal election day in communi-ties across the province.

In Red Deer, polls open today at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.

Residents must vote at the station within their voting subdivision. There are 31 voting sta-tions in Red Deer.

Stations are typically located in school gymna-siums, churches or com-munity centres.

Voters must show one piece of authorized identification that estab-lishes both the electors name and current ad-dress.

A full list of the voting stations and authorized identification informa-tion is available at www.reddeer.ca/reddeervotes

or by calling the citys Legislative Services De-partment at 403-342-8132.

In order to vote, you must be at least 18 years old, a Canadian citizen, have resided in Alberta for the past six months and be a resident of the municipality you are vot-ing in on election day. You must bring identi-fication that shows both your name and current address.

The Red Deer ballot will include the follow-ing offices: mayor, coun-cillor (eight), and public school trustee (seven) or Catholic school trustee (five).

A plebiscite ques-tion in Red Deer, on the possibility of moving to a ward system for city council, is also on the ballot.

Fundraiser for Jaysen brings cash, plea to help foreign workers

Pheasants freed

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

The fundraiser held on Saturday for a Red Deer shooting victim raised $3,000 and a plea on behalf of the thousands of people who come from other coun-tries to work in Alberta.

Jaysen Arancon Reyes, 26, is still being treated in the Calgary Foothills Hospital for shotgun wounds he took to his face and hands during an armed rob-bery at the West Park Fas Gas, where he was working alone late on the night of Sept. 11.

Reyes had arrived from the Philippines just weeks earlier under a federal program that enables Cana-dian employers to hire temporary foreign workers for jobs that cannot be filled locally.

The same store was robbed again less that two weeks later and, in a separate incident, another

worker from the Philippines was stabbed in the stomach during a robbery at an Okotoks Fas Gas on Sept. 22.

Parkland Fuel Corp., the Red Deer-based com-pany that owns Fas Gas service stations and conve-nience stores, has already committed to reviewing its worker safety practices.

Migrante Alberta, the non-government organiza-tion that organized Saturdays fundraiser, is asking the province to make it mandatory that people work in pairs on late and overnight shifts, spokesman Marco Luciano said during the fundraiser, held at the Hub on Saturday afternoon.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Emergency crews work at the scene of a train derailment near Gainford, west of Edmonton, on Sunday. There were explosions reported and the community was evacuated as a precaution.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

GAINFORD, Alta. CN Rail is de-fending its safety record after three high-profile derailments involving trains carrying hazardous materials within the space of a month while apol-

ogizing for the latest mishap.Thirteen cars on a CN (TSX:CNR)

freight train carrying a cargo of oil and liquefied petroleum gas went off the rails near the tiny hamlet of Gainford, about 80 km west of Edmonton, early Saturday morning.

There were two explosions reported

and the community was evacuated as a precaution.

The situation was so volatile that firefighters simply backed off and let the fire burn itself out.

They estimated it could take at least 24 hours for that to happen and told a news conference late Saturday that

it could be up to 72 hours before resi-dents could return to their homes.

Saturdays mishap occurred two days after residents in the Alberta community of Sexsmith were forced from their homes.

CN defends safety record

Voting todayMUNICIPAL ELECTIONS

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THIRD DERAILMENT IN A MONTH, FORCES EVACUATION OF ALBERTA COMMUNITY

Please see BIRDS on Page A2

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

ADVOCATE STAFF

The release this fall of more than 16,000 pheasants at key locations in Central and Southern Alberta including sites around Buffalo Lake and Red Deer marks what conservationists hope is a fresh start in gamebird management.

Starting in the early 1900s, ringneck pheasants have been raised in captivity and then released into Albertas wilds to provide hunting opportunities for enthusiasts and their dogs, rancher and business-man Stan Grad, co-founder of Upland Birds Alberta said on Saturday.

A few of the handsome birds and their less flam-boyant mates, native to Asia, manage to survive and raise young in rougher and more isolated areas, where they can run out and grab some grain and then hide in heavy bush.

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Photo by BRENDA KOSSOWAN/Advocate staff

Marco Luciana, spokesman for Migrante Alberta, addresses a fundraiser in Red Deer on Saturday for convenience store worker Jaysen Arancon Reyes, in the background. Reyes remains in hospital in Calgary where he is recovering from gunshot wounds.

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ISSUES: The big pictureWhile those issues are being dealt with, Migrante

Alberta says members of the public as well as the thousands of temporary workers being brought to Canada need a better understanding of the big pic-ture. That picture includes the abuses many workers suffer because they are unaware of the protections available to them, Luciano said during a discussion held after viewing a documentary focussing on tem-porary foreign workers in Canada.

Montreal filmmakers Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy, supported by provincial and federal grants, cre-ated The End of Immigration? to give an overview of various aspects of the program, including interviews with employers, government officials, non-govern-ment agencies and workers.

Danilo De Leon, an Edmonton carwash worker featured in the documentary, told the gathering af-terward that he and his fellow workers desperately need their stories to be heard by Canadian citizens, employers and government as well as by workers who are or who are becoming involved in the pro-gram.

Migrant workers come to Canada unprepared for the hardships and sacrifices they will make in their efforts to improve conditions for themselves and support their families at home, said De Leon.

They are charged heavy fees that are against the law, they may be paid less than local workers, and they are not told about the rights and protections available to them, he said.

Luciano compared the migration of workers to Canada from places like the Philippines to a slave trade. Workers coming to Canada are not informed of the guaranteed to them under Canadian law, he said. They are told where to send their money and given some orientation on cold weather and Canadian cul-ture, but no one is giving them vital information that would protect them from abuse in the workplace.

Some agencies and churches are trying to fill the gaps, but there are situations in their employment where workers are not able to exercise those rights, said Luciano.

There is no mechanism that looks into the work-place to ensure that people are being properly paid and properly treated, he said.

A lot of Canadians do not know what is going on. Meanwhile, migrants are pitted against Canadian

workers, for, quote-unquote, stealing their jobs, said Luciano.

However, in their documentary, Boti and Guy de-scribe a situation in which a rapidly growing number of migrants are being brought from other countries, especially the Philippines, to do jobs that Canadian workers wont take. One Red Deer employer says in the film he cant keep local work-ers for more than two weeks, because they get snatched up by better offers from the oilfield.

These migrants came here as a source of cheap labour. We want you to tell our story, said Luciano.

Red Deer nurse Jhong de la Cruz said after the meeting that the operators of Fas Gas have been supportive of Reyes and are working on bring-ing his mother from the Philippines so she can be with him. She is still awaiting approval for her entry visa, said de la Cruz, who is a permanent resident awaiting his citizenship.

Parkland Fuel purchased 100 tickets for the event and a trust accounts has been set up at Scotiabank to collect donations for Reyes.

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BIRDS: Can fall preyBut many fall prey to coyotes and raptors because

they cannot find sufficient cover and food sources close together, so the captivity program has been necessary to sustain populations for hunting, said Grad.

In the 60s and 70s and 80s, there was great habi-tat and lots of wild pheasants. Alberta was known for its great population of wild birds, said Grad.

Movie actors and other high profile people would come up from the United States for the fall pheasant season, injecting thousands of dollars into communi-ties like Vauxhall and Brooks.

Grad said he became alarmed when he learned that there had been a big drop in the number of birds being released, from 70,000 birds 20 years ago to under 7,000 in more recent years. The number of bird hunters had also decreased, but flattened out couple of years ago and is now starting to rise, with increased interest among women and youths, said Grad.

There are some areas where the wild populations are holding their own, and populations of native spe-cies such as Hungarian partridges and spruce grouse are actually starting to rise. But Alberta needs more pheasants to populate those areas where they have not been able to thrive on their own, says Grad.

Along with the ongoing loss of natural habitat, the recent bankruptcy of a Brooks-area company that had been raising large numbers of pheasants has se-verely reduced the available supply of replacement birds, he said.

About four years ago, Grad pulled together a group of like-minded individuals to look at those numbers and start working on sources for birds to be released in areas where the wild populations are not being sustained.

In recognizing this increased need for more birds and that, ultimately, the government was go-ing to drop pheasants altogether, . . . we decided that the first thing we needed to do is raise a little money (and) do an economic impact study for the province.

Upland Birds Alberta was formed to raise the money, perform the study, and find a way to put new energy into the provinces pheasant release pro-gram.

Grad and company raised nearly one quarter of a million dollars, opened a bank account and hired a consultant, Ken Bailey, formerly from Ducks Un-limited. The group then went to work with DU, the Alberta Conservation Association and Nature Con-servancy Canada to perform the study and develop a management strategy. They learned that every dollar spent on tags and birds spun into $9 in economic im-pact in areas where the birds were released.

UBA went on to purchase hybrid pheasants from a supplier in Wisconsin to supplement the pheasant program in Alberta, finding the hybrids to be a bit smaller and hardier than the ringnecks that were traditionally released here, said Grad.

There were still some questions, however, about who would raise the money and manage the program over the long term, he said.

Sustainable Resource Development really didnt want it, said Grad. His group did not feel capable of taking the job. The ACA was ready, however, and has now signed an agreement with SRD to manage the release program in 2014, relieving the UBA of those responsibilities.

Grad believes the new agreement will turn things around for people who like to hunt pheasants, mean-ing there will be some reduction in future in the pressure they put on populations of native birds.

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Shirley Hocken stands in front of a large photographic mural depicting Riverside Meadows past, present and future. The mural, which was unveiled on Saturday, cost $3,600. It is on the west wall of the neighbourhoods community centre at 6021 57th Ave. and incorporates archival photos, as well as new ones taken by local photographer Mirjam Rand. It also features a digital art border. The two-by-four-metre mural was funded by money left over from the communitys centennial celebrations budget from 2011, said Hocken, chair of the Riverside Meadows centennial committee. The mural was composed by Red Deer artist Carol Lynn Gilchrist. It was unveiled during a ceremony at the Riverside Meadows Community Centre.

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DERAILMENT: Residents toremain evacuatedfor two more days

Four CN rail cars carrying anhy-drous ammonia left the rails at Sex-smith.

That followed the derailment of 17 CN rail cars, some carrying petroleum, ethanol and chemicals, in western Sas-katchewan on Sept. 25.

There were no injuries in any of the derailments.

Officials said residents of a village who were forced from their homes after a train wreck and fire were ex-pected to be out of their homes for up to two more days.

Parkland County issued a news release on Sunday stating that its mandatory evacuation order affecting about 100 people in Gainford remains in effect.

CN said late Sunday that a con-trolled burn was being done on the contents of six of the cars containing liquefied petroleum gas.

Company spokesman Warren Chan-dler said the decision to conduct the burn was reached with Transport Canada, Alberta Environment and of-ficials in Parkland County.

The parties agree that this is the safest and most effective way to allow the residents to return to their homes as quickly as possible, Chandler said.

Chandler wouldnt say how the burn was being conducted, but noted that large flames and smoke would be vis-ible.

Earlier in the day, the company said CN crews worked Saturday night to move the four cars carrying crude oil a safe distance from the cars laden with liquefied petroleum gas.

Despite the cluster of derailments, a CN spokesman said rail remains a safe way to transport materials.

CNs safety record has been very solid, in terms of its main track derail-ments last year, they were the lowest on record, said company spokesman Mark Hallman.

The vast majority of commodities, such as dangerous commodities, that are transported from origin to desti-nation, more than 99 per cent reach destination without any accidental release.

Federal New Democrat MP Olivia Chow took issue with that assessment. She called on the federal government to take stronger action to improve rail safety.

The latest train derailment, fire and evacuation tell the Conservative government that vague promise with-out a clear work plan is not enough, Chow said in an email.

She said inspections need to be increased and automatic braking sys-tems need to be mandated.

Municipalities also need to be given better information about what danger-ous goods are being transported on trains.

Federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitts office issued a statement saying the federal government has invested over $100 million in rail safety and brought in tougher fines for companies that violate safety regulations.

Three of the rail cars on the train that derailed Saturday caught fire. They were carrying liquefied petro-leum gas.

Four freight cars carrying crude didnt break open, Hallman said.

CN said the train was travelling to Vancouver from Edmonton.

The Gainford area remained under a state of emergency Saturday night.

Travel on the Yellowhead High-way the main east-west corridor in northern Alberta was restricted.

The Transportation Safety Board was sending investigators to the scene to determine the cause of the derail-ment.

In a statement, CN said the track was tested last week as well as last month and no issues were found. It also said an inspection of the train when it left Edmonton on Friday found no problems.

CN was clearly sensitive to the pub-lic relations fallout from the derail-ment.

The company brought in some of its top brass to manage the situation, including Chief Operating Officer Jim Vena.

He apologized to the residents of Gainford for the disruption and prom-ised the company would get to the bottom of what happened to prevent it from happening again.

We run a safe railroad, but we do have incidents, Vena said.

The recent derailments come as documents obtained by Greenpeace suggest CN is considering shipping Alberta bitumen to Prince Rupert, B.C. in quantities matching the controver-sial North Gateway pipeline.

A departmental briefing note ob-tained under access to information laws said CN was reportedly working with Chinese-owned oil giant Nexen to examine transporting crude by rail to be loaded onto tankers for export to Asia.

CN denied it made a specific pro-posal for Prince Rupert, but said it will consider any such project as it comes up.

The Northern Gateway project has faced intense scrutiny and criticism and it was unclear whether the project would get the necessary approval.

There has also been intense scru-tiny over shipping oil by rail following Julys horrific derailment of a Mon-treal, Maine and Atlantic train in Lac-Megantic, Que.

The subsequent fire claimed 47 lives.

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ALBERTA A3MONDAY, OCT. 21, 2013


EDMONTON The Alberta govern-ment says it wont reconsider recent decisions to bar two aboriginal groups from voicing concerns about oilsands developments on or near their tradi-tional territories.

That refusal comes despite urgings from a Queens Bench judge to loosen restrictions on who has the right to appear before boards making deci-sions on how development in the province can proceed.

The govern-ment doesnt see that its necessary to review those cases, said Nikki Booth, spokeswoman for Alberta En-vironment.

Earlier this year, the Metis Local 1935 from Fort McMurray and the Fort McKay First Nation filed statements of concern re-garding oilsands developments.

The Metis are concerned about the Thickwood project proposed by Griz-zly Oilsands Ltd., which would pro-duce about 12,000 barrels of oil per day about 60 kilometres northwest of Fort McMurray.

The group says the project is in an area used for hunting and other tra-ditional activities and two of its mem-bers live there.

The Fort McKay band filed a state-ment of concern regarding an Athabas-ca Oil Sands Corp. (TSX:ATH) proposal for a 6,000 barrel a day pilot project about 20 kilometres from one of its reserves.

It says the project will add to the ongoing extinction of moose and cari-bou from the area as well as damage traditional ceremonial sites used by Fort McKay.

There are quite a few concerns that were filed, said band spokeswoman Dayle Hyde.

But in September, both groups were told they failed to make their case. Neither will be able to air their con-cerns to the body that decides how or if projects should proceed.

Fort McKay was told it hadnt pro-vided hard evidence to show Athabas-cas project would affect it.

A connection between the alleged (traditional) activities, even if they are carried out in and around the proj-ect area, and the project has not been shown, said a Sept. 19 letter from the Alberta Energy Regulator.

No hearings at all will be held for the Athabasca proposal.

The Metis were told that having only two members that live on the land in question werent enough.

The ... filer must demonstrate that the majority of the group is directly af-fected by the aforementioned project, the department wrote on Sept. 20.

But Kyle Harrietha, manager of Lo-

cal 1935, said his group hasnt even had a chance to figure out how it could be affected.

There hasnt been any consulta-tion, theres never been a traditional land use study, so we cant fully say what the traditional land use was, he said.

The government said the local could appear on behalf of its two members who live in the area, but Harrietha

said thats not the same as speaking as a group.

Aboriginal rights arent held by the in-dividual, he said. What t h e y r e a s -serting is that were basically a community association.

T h e y r e treating us like a boys and girls club.

A l b e r t a s policy on who

has the right to speak at such hear-ings was criticized in an Oct. 1 court judgment. Justice Richard Marceau overturned a decision to bar two envi-ronmental groups from presenting con-cerns, largely because of a document suggesting the decision was made for political reasons.

Marceau added in a non-binding part of the ruling that restrictive rules on who can speak violate both the gov-ernments own legislation and previ-ous court rulings.

The process of identifying who is directly affected should not be decid-ed by the application of rigid rules, Marceau wrote.

He said hearings should seek a broad range of information and that doubts should be resolved in favour of the applicant.

I think its fair to say that (Marceau) was encouraging a wider application of the standing test than he perceived is being applied, said Sandy Carpenter, a Calgary lawyer whose practice focus-es on resource and regulatory law.

Carpenter added that Harrietha has a point when he complains about the government dealing with individual aboriginals instead of communities.

When First Nations and Metis say their rights are collectively based, theyre right in saying that. If an ab-original group can put forward the exercise of rights by members of the community in the area in question, thats something that should be taken into account.

Booth said the government decides who can speak at hearings based on the circumstances of each case.

Each case has their own different impacts, she said. She said the courts are available to groups that disagree with the governments ruling.

Harrietha said Local 1935 is consid-ering its options.

Well be asking the government for a review. Depending on their response well have to determine whether fur-ther action is required.

STORY FROM PAGE A1

Alberta wont review excluding

bands from oilsands hearings

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Emergency crews battled a massive fire Saturday, after a CN tanker train carrying oil and gas derailed in Gainford, west of Edmonton. Thirteen cars four laden with petroleum crude oil and nine carrying liquefied petroleum gas came off the tracks around 1 a.m. in the hamlet, about 80 kms from the provincial capital.

A CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ALLEGED

(TRADITIONAL) ACTIVITIES, EVEN IF THEY ARE

CARRIED OUT IN AND AROUND THE PROJECT

AREA, AND THE PROJECT HAS NOT BEEN SHOWN.

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C E N T R A L A L B E R T A SD A I L Y N E W S P A P E R

BY GWYN MORGANSPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE

What is the return on a university education?

Sadly, many students graduate to find that their $30,000 debt (cross-coun-try average) has bought them employ-ment prospects no better than what they had when they left high school. After four or more years on campus, they emerge on the wrong side of the skills without jobs/jobs without skills gap that the Canadian Chamber of Commerce estimates will see over half a million post-secondary gradu-ates working in low skills jobs by 2016, while 1.5 million skilled jobs go un-filled.

So whats the problem?A study released recently by CIBC

World Markets reached the unsurpris-ing conclusion that too few students

are choosing to study in high demand areas. Deputy chief economist Benja-min Tal, co-author of the report stated: Despite the overwhelming evidence that ones field of study is the most im-portant factor determining labour mar-ket outcomes, todays students have not gravitated to more financially advanta-geous fields in a way that reflects the changing realty of the labour market. Across subjects, the biggest bang for the buck comes from fields such as medicine, law and engineering. A look at the dispersion of earnings across fields of study shows there is a much greater risk of falling into a lower in-come category for graduates of the hu-manities and social sciences. ... Most Canadians are aware that, on average, your odds to earn more are better with a degree in engineering than a degree in medieval history.

The CIBC study comes after com-mentators, including me, have pointed

out the folly of continuing to waste pre-cious educational dollars to turn out huge numbers of surplus arts and so-cial science students, while turning away applicants for in-demand fields. Compounding their appalling academ-ic inertia, universities are dealing with revenue shortfalls by cutting back en-gineering, medicine and other skills-short enrolment in equal proportion to skills-surplus programs, killing the as-pirations of an even greater number of high achieving students, while further reducing the economic competitive-ness of our nation.

Even tiny steps towards reducing arts funding meet with vocal opposi-tion. Last months decision by the Uni-versity of Alberta to axe 20 arts pro-grams, none of which had more than 10 students enrol at any point in the past eight years, came under heavy fire from ever vigilant defenders of arts funding.

Feeling the heat, academias vest-ed interests have shifted into defence mode, as evidenced by a commentary headlined Universities educate, employ-ers train by Max Blouw, chair of the Council of Ontario Universities and president of Wilfrid Laurier Univer-sity, which ran on Sept. 3 in the Globe and Mail.

It is simply incomprehensible to me to assert that the role of universities is to graduate students without such basic foundation knowledge and then to expect employers to provide it. Its time for Blouw and his colleagues to put the interests of their students, and our country, ahead of defending their elitist perch in those hallowed ivory towers.

Gwyn Morgan is a retired Canadian business leader who has been a director of five global corporations. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Post-secondary funds defy logicI write this letter to clarify recent funding

shifts in Alberta post-secondary education (PSE) and to raise a voice of dissent against the ministerial handling of education funds. The ministers tactics and explanations in these matters are bullying and highly motivated to-ward industry interests. These changes do lit-tle to serve the overall project of education as a way to benefit society; rather, the changes serve industry needs and further narrow the economic, political and cultural scopes of the province.

On March 7, 2013, minister Thomas Lukaszuk announced budget cuts to PSE. Revoking a promised two per cent increase and imple-menting a 7.2 per cent cut, Lukaszuk effectively diminished PSE funding by 9.2 per cent. Across the 26 provincial institutions, a total of $147 million was cut. Programs were closed. Cours-es were cut. Class sizes increased. Employees lost jobs. Employees who kept their jobs saw workload increases with no pay adjustment.

When these cuts happened, I wrote to the minister to ask for a reconsideration of these actions. His response stated that the province was strategically repositioning the system to be more efficient, effective, and sustainable so we can continue to deliver world-class educa-tion into the future. He also claimed that PSE funding over the past 10 years, increasing 45 per cent, were unsustainable.

These words sound impressive particular-ly sustainability and the need to be parsimoni-ous yet the total outcome of the cuts, at that point in time, was an across-the-board slash to education facilities and delivery. I would see this world-class move in line with other in-ternational economic cuts like Greece, Portu-gal and Spain, not somewhere like Norway.

After claiming that PSE cuts were due to fiscal restraint and sustainability, it was with great disbelief that I read, on Oct. 9, the news of a new grant for the University of Calgary of $142.5 million to upgrade the engineering school. Given Lukaszuks explanations, I won-dered about the source of the finances. The explanation is that the U of C grant was for infrastructure whereas the cuts in March were from operating budgets.

On the surface, this appears quite devious, but it is actually worse than it appears. Ef-fectively, the minister has cut 26 institutions, across all faculties, all programs, all courses and redirected the money not simply to one institution, but to one faculty and one program. So much for diversification.

Yet, to rationalize this as infrastructure budget rather than operating budget simply raises the question of the future operating budget of this new school. Who will staff and maintain the building? Who will teach courses and conduct research? If infrastructure and operating budgets are separate, would it not stand to reason that we must draw further from operating budgets to make the engineering building tick? This means a greater drain on operating budgets from the all other sectors of the PSE landscape recently damaged by the cuts. A more naked display of industry parti-sanship is difficult to imagine. The cynicism is acute.

I can, perhaps, do little to change anything. I am simply connecting the dots here, but I think this situation deserves more coverage and context than it has received. Public edu-cation is a social good, not an industry tool. It worries me, as I believe it should worry most people, that our provincial government would so clearly narrow the educational and voca-tional opportunities for our current and future students. The fortuitous resource wealth of Alberta should open up opportunities and pos-sibilities, not shut them down.

Roger DavisRed Deer

What weighs less than a paper-clip, tastes terrible and can travel thousands of kilometres without a map? Hint: this delicate critter is tawny-orange with black veins and white spots and has been mysteri-ously absent from Canada this sum-mer.

Its the monarch but-terfly. Each year, east-ern populations of these amazing frequent fly-ers flit between forests in central Mexico and southern Ontario.

Its the only North A m e r i c a n b u t t e r f l y known to migrate and, most surprisingly, no sin-gle butterfly makes the return trip. In spring the butterflies depart from Mexico for states like Texas, where they breed and die. The offspring continue northward, re-peating the reproductive cycle three or four times before arriving in On-tario.

Toward the end of summer, a generation of super-monarchs is born that survives for seven or eight months and makes the incredible journey south. Even though theyve never been to Mexicos volcanic mountains, the butterflies use an internal compass and landscape to guide them to the forests where their ancestors hibernated the pre-vious winter.

Unfortunately, the past year has been bad for monarchs. Histori-cally, about 350 million overwinter in Mexico, so densely covering the coniferous branches that they bow

under the weight. This past winter scientists estimated only 60 million made it a decline of more than 80 per cent.

Why are monarch populations at a 20-year low? Although the Mexi-can government has halted indus-

trial logging in their win-ter home, serious threats remain, including illegal logging. Scientists say the main threats, though, are record-setting heat waves (which reduce re-productive success) and pervasive use of geneti-cally modified crops.

One of the most impor-tant reproductive areas for the monarch is the U.S. Midwest, which has historically been blan-keted with milkweed. This plant contains small amounts of cardenolide, a foul-tasting substance

that can be toxic in large quantities. The monarch caterpillar eats only milkweed for this reason. Predators dislike the cardenolide stored in the monarchs body, so they learn to steer clear of flittering things with orange and black wings.

Despite the conversion of much of the arable land in the Midwest to agriculture during the past couple of centuries, milkweed continued to grow along edges and between rows of crops feeding millions of mon-arch caterpillars.

Over the past decade, about 150 million hectares of farmland in the region an area about the size of Saskatchewan have been planted with soybean and corn genetical-

ly modified to tolerate herbicides, known as Roundup Ready crops. Instead of tilling fields, farmers spray herbicides that kill all plants but the crop. This has wiped out much of the milkweed.

With a decline of monarchs in Mexico and pervasive threats dur-ing migration, it wasnt entirely sur-prising that they arrived in Canada six weeks later than normal this summer in unprecedented low num-bers. Point Pelee National Park in Leamington, Ont., even cancelled its annual monarch count because of lack of butterflies.

While the future of the monarch looks bleak, we can all help ensure its survival.

At home you can create a but-terfly garden to provide habitat and food for monarchs and other pol-linators. Plant milkweed and nec-tar-producing native flowers, like wild bergamot, New England aster and black-eyed Susans especially ones with yellow, pink, orange and purple flowers. Adding these plants to gardens, balconies, parks and green spaces and encouraging local schools, businesses and insti-tutions to do the same will help bees and butterflies stay healthy and well-fed.

So, while the monarchs have al-ready begun their journey south, I encourage you to start preparing for next years butterflies. Head to your local nursery and get your milkweed on. And do what you can to bring na-ture to your neighbourhood.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Jode Roberts. Learn more at www.da-vidsuzuki.org.

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An orange-and-black mystery

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OTTAWA A Conservative propos-al to suspend three senators without pay and benefits is sparking a passion-ate debate inside the upper chamber over the powers and independence of Parliament and just how to far go in exercising them.

On a strictly political level, the idea of suspending former Tories Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau for their inappropriate ex-pense claims might seem logical.

Canadians are upset with the Sen-ate spending scandal, and MPs in par-ticular are looking to appease voters.

But the Senate is a unique, some-times unpredictable place chocked with lawyers and the independent-minded who arent always guided by the vagaries of electoral politics. That sense of sovereignty is part of the up-per chambers raison detre.

The debate is expected be fierce this week in the chamber when the motions are formally introduced, and could theoretically include interven-tions by Brazeau, Wallin and Duffy themselves. Wallins lawyer has al-ready said he is looking at all options available to fight the move.

Independent Senator Anne Cools said she is deeply concerned that the Senate, with all of its constitutional powers, is getting into the area of un-warranted persecution.

Its a very serious mat-ter because the Senate is being asked to go into judicial mode to make a judgment, said Cools, who once sat as a Conser-vative and as a Liberal senator.

Its an extremely dis-turbing thing, and its a large and momentous ac-tion that is being asked for and I think that the public should understand that.

At least three Liberal senators and one Con-servative have publicly expressed opposition to the suspensions, going up against their own party leadership.

Central to the de-bate is the privilege of Parliament to make its own rules, a tenet of our Westminster-style sys-tem.

In 2009 and 2010, the British House of Lords suspended five peers two for offering to change laws for money, and three over inappro-priate expenses. But it was the first such sus-pensions in more than 300 years.

In Canada, only one other senator as been suspended without pay absentee Liberal member Andrew Thomp-son in 1998. In that case, Thompson hadnt actu-ally broken a specific Senate rule because he hadnt yet missed two consecutive sittings. Still, his colleagues found him contempt in the midst of intense public scrutiny of the upper chamber. He resigned shortly af-terward, collecting his pension.

Political scientist and parliamentary expert Ned Franks said he sus-pects a legal challenge of a suspension would fail, based on the powers

of the Senate. But he said he cant be sure, be-

cause such issues havent been tested in court in recent years.

By and large these provisions are used very rarely, and any government is cautious in using them because they set a precedent and you dont want it to be easy for a majority in either House to remove a member they dont like, just because they dont like them, said Franks, a professor emeritus at Queens University.

Liberal Senator George Baker told reporters last week he was concerned by creating such a precedent with the case before them.

The Senate is above all rules in that they can set their own parameters for rules...what Im saying is its unfair to do that, its very unfair and its only right that some senators would express the other opinion however unpopular it is to try and persuade the majority to go the other way, Baker said.

The former law clerk of the House of Commons, Rob Walsh, took to Twit-ter to outline why he feels the Senate could suspend the trio, but not without pay. He said the pay is guaranteed by statute, the Parliament of Canada Act, to ensure protection from political intimidation/control.

Cons. motion politically driven to win public favour for Cons Govt when Senate may be partly responsible for wrongdoing, he tweeted.

If motion is passed & implemented, no court action taken or any effective dissent voiced, it could become a prec-edent.

Wallins lawyer Terrence OSullivan told The Canadian Press that a sus-pension would break the Senates own rules.

He notes that in the case of senator charged with a criminal offence, which Wallin has not been, the Senate spe-cifically emphasizes the presumption

of innocence as does the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

You cannot possibly interpret the section to mean that the presumption of innocence applies only when youre charged..., OSullivan said.

He added: Its a fundamental af-front to Canadian democracy, it is backroom politics at its most transpar-ent worst and its designed to create the impression of a clean slate for the Tory convention in Calgary next week.

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PM calls four byelectionsBATTLE FOR OPPOSITION

SUPREMACY STARTSBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA The battle for opposition supremacy is on after Prime Minister Stephen Harper set Nov. 25 as the date for four federal byelections.

Harper called the byelections on Sunday for To-ronto Centre, the Montreal riding of Bourassa and the Manitoba ridings of Provencher and Brandon-Souris.

Toronto-Centre and Bourassa are longtime Lib-eral strongholds, left vacant after the resignations of former interim leader Bob Rae and veteran MP Denis Coderre. However, New Democrats are mak-ing a concerted effort to snatch the two ridings away or, at least, make significant inroads.

Both the Liberals and NDP are running star can-didates in the two ridings.

The Manitoba ridings are longtime Conservative fiefdoms, left vacant after the retirement of former minister Vic Toews and backbencher Merv Tweed, and are widely expected to remain so.

But a raging controversy over the partys alleged

interference in the choice of candidate in Brandon-Souris has angered some Tories and given the oppo-sition parties some hope of scoring an upset.

The Toronto and Montreal byelections will likely be the most closely watched, with New Democrats intent on proving theyre the real alternative to the governing Tories, despite public opinion polls sug-gesting the NDP has sunk back into its traditional third-place slot since Justin Trudeau took the helm of a rejuvenated Liberal party in April.

The Liberals are running Chrystia Freeland in Toronto Centre. Shell be up against the NDPs Linda McQuaig. Both are former journalists and authors who have written extensively on growing income inequality, a key issue since all three main federal parties are vying to be seen as the champion of the middle class.

McQuaig was out of the gate immediately Sunday, challenging Freeland, via a You Tube video, to a de-bate any time, anywhere.

Were going to do everything possible to get her elected, NDP Leader Tom Mulcair said in an inter-view, calling McQuaig extraordinary, amazing and a star.

Bourassa is one of the few Quebec ridings that didnt fall to the NDP when the so-called orange wave swept the province in 2011 and Mulcair said the

NDP is going to throw everything we can at it, start-ing with an absolutely exceptional candidate, named Stephane Moraille.

Moraille, an immigrant from Haiti, is a lawyer and erstwhile singer with Juno-award winning Bran Van 3000. Shes going up against Liberal star recruit Em-manuel Dubourg, a former member of the Quebec legislature who is also of Haitian descent.

The Green partys chosen contender, former NHL star and deputy party leader Georges Laraque, could have complicated the Liberal-NDP showdown in Bourassa. But he stepped down last week after he was charged with five counts of fraud related to a dispute with a former business partner. He said he wants to focus on clearing his name.

Trudeau has already been campaigning in both Manitoba ridings, although the chances of knocking off the Conservatives seem slim.

Liberals are taking every byelection seriously, Trudeau said in a statement Sunday. I have trav-elled across this country and I have heard Canadi-ans calls for something new, something better.

Toews won Provencher in 2011 with a whopping 70 per cent of the vote, while Tweed took Brandon-Souris with a similarly impressive 64 per cent. But Mulcair predicted both Manitoba byelections will be three-way races this time.

Tory move sparks fierce debate

SENATORIAL SUSPENSIONS

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5-year term for manA Red Deer man who was in-

vestigated for dangerous driving has been sentenced to five years in prison on weapons, drugs and driv-ing offences.

Saleem Mike El-Majzoub, 28, was arrested in Sylvan Lake in the fall of 2012 by RCMP seeking a suspect from a dangerous driving incident in Red Deer on Sept. 13 of that year.

El-Majzoub originally pleaded not guilty and asked to be tried in the Red Deer Court of Queens Bench on 14 offences.

They include two counts of pos-sessing a weapon dangerous to the public, three counts of possessing a prohibited weapon, two counts of unauthorized possession of a fire-arm, two counts of dangerous driv-ing, two counts of possessing drugs for trafficking, one count of pos-sessing the proceeds of crime and two traffic tickets one for failing to stop for police and one for fail-ing to hold a valid drivers licence.

Scheduled for a preliminary hearing on July 30, El-Majzoub changed his plea to guilty on Aug. 2 on a lesser number of charges, including possessing a weapon dangerous to the public, possessing a prohibited firearm, possessing drugs for trafficking and evading police. He was given a global sen-tence of five years, including four years on the drug charge.

El-Majzoub was given 332 days credit for the time he spent in cus-tody awaiting trial.

Author to visit cityA New York Times best selling

author is coming to Red Deer.Cathy Buchanan, author of The

Day the Falls Stood Still and The Painted Girls, will speak at the Red Deer Public Librarys downtown branch on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Snell Auditorium. Admission is free.

Library staff member Mary Nee-ly had invited Buchanan to meet with her small book club, Fireside Readers, via Skype several times and after these Internet meetings, the pair arranged for Buchanan to come to the library.

The author committed to the visit for no pay.

Though I have yet to visit Red Deer in person, I feel a real kin-ship with the library. Ive Skyped into the librarys book club meet-ings for both The Day the Falls Stood Still and The Painted Girls and have been delighted to meet such atten-tive, enthusiastic, curious readers. Im very much looking forward to my in-person visit, Buchanan said in a recent press release.

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Saviors provide weddingBY BRENDA KOSSOWAN

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The former Karen Lutz ad-mitted on Sunday to being a bit skeptical when she first started dating Maluk Ayom, who be-came her husband on Saturday.

He just seemed to good to be true, said Lutz, relaxing at home with her new husband and his son, Galaxia, on the morning af-ter a dream wedding that they could never have pulled off on their own.

Her skepticism proved un-founded and, earlier this year, the future couple, Maluk and Karen Ayom, became engaged after a five-year romance.

They had not even started their wedding plans when they learned about and entered a contest from a Toronto-based organization, the Wedding Saviours, that arranges and covers the costs for deserving couples.

In a statement released ear-ly last week, Wedding Saviours founder Brenda Holdsworth announced that Lutz and Ayom had won the contest and would be wed at the Chalet in West-erner Park on Saturday, cour-tesy of a long list of donors and organized by local wedding planner, Jennifer Lightle.

Holdsworth said Lutz and Ayom were selected because they have both experienced and overcome series of hardships.

Raised on a farm near Inn-isfail, Lutz was diagnosed with a cranial clot that threatened her life.

Her father, Reynie, died a

year an a half ago from a heart attack and her mother, Barbara, is struggling with Alzheimers disease.

Ayom had immigrated to Canada from Southern Sudan via Cuba in 1998 after fleeing his home only to be forcibly re-cruited as a child soldier.

Secluded in the Chalet kitch-en with his wedding party be-fore the ceremony, Ayom said

he felt grateful for his new fam-ily and the opportunities he has found here.

Where some people may complain that the sun burns, a thankful person feels grateful for its warmth, said Ayom.

It would have taken him and Karen years of planning to put together such an elegant cer-emony on their own, he said.

Im thankful for the team

that put it together, the person that founded the organization, and, in general, Im thankful for being in Canada and being in Alberta and how everyone has helped. When you come from a different place and make a fam-ily and make friends, its unbe-lievable. We could talk all day about it, he said.

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Bride Karen Lutz, groom, Maluk Ayom and his son, Galaxia pour sand together to symbolize their union as a family before completing their marriage vows.

COUPLE WINS DREAM WEDDING FROM ORGANIZATION THAT ARRANGES AND COVERS THE COSTS FOR DESERVING COUPLES

BY BRENDA KOSSOWANADVOCATE STAFF

Teaching new Canadians to be their toddlers first teach-ers gives benefits far beyond the schoolwork they cover, says the petit former accoun-tant who now runs a HIPPY Canada program in Red Deer.

Recruited by the Central Al-berta Immigrant Womens As-sociation, Mercedes Cruz took charge in summer of its Home Instruction for Parents of Pre-school Youngsters program as a means of helping both the children and their caregivers.

CAIWA calls them caregiv-ers, because it isnt always the moms who are taking part, but can be other members of an immigrant family who are rais-ing the children and could use some help being introduced into their new communities, says Cruz.

CAIWA has run a HIPPY Canada program for about five years, with the Citizenship and Immigration Canada funding 55 families a year in Red Deer and the surrounding region, says Cruz.

Geared at helping caregiv-ers prepare their children for

school, the HIPPY program she co-ordinates is set up spe-cifically for newcomers who are awaiting Canadian citizen-ship.

To be eligible, the caregiv-ers must be on permanent res-ident status with children aged from three to five years old.

The program is run from October through June, divided into a number of modules in which home visitors work with the caregivers to provide in-struction to the children.

Because of the way it is set up, the program goes well be-yond showing caregivers how to be their childrens first teachers, says Cruz.

Born and raised in the Phil-ippines, she is familiar with the isolation and hardship young women face when they leave their families behind to take jobs in Canada.

Cruz had to leave a four-year-old daughter now a young adult to take her first job here.

She recalls the incredible loneliness she felt in those days, sitting in a shopping mall, searching faces and not seeing anyone familiar.

Such isolation is extremely difficult for someone who is

accustomed to having a large extended family at home along with a wide circle of friends, says Cruz, whose children have since joined her in Canada.

While she is still familiar-izing herself with the ins and outs of HIPPY, Cruz says she has found it an invaluable way of helping newcomers make friends and break out of the isolation they feel when they move into a new community, far from home.

Already this year, she has a waiting list of people who would like to take part in the program as soon as their chil-dren reach the minimum age of three years old. And she is hopeful that CIC funding will increase so more families both within Red Deer and from the surrounding area can be brought into the program.

T o d a y , s h e a n d f e l -low HIPPY Canada work-ers are meeting in Calgary to learn more about their program and to help in its ongoing development.Please visit www.hippycanada.ca and www.caiwa.ca to learn more.

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Mercedes Cruz, HIPPY program co-ordinator for Central Alberta Immigrant Women, goes through an overview of modules that are part of the program.

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The some nine million Canadians born between 1980 and 2000 who are commonly referred to as generation Y or the millennials represent a large de-mographic market with considerable financial clout and invest-ment tendencies that differ from older generations.

Some recent studies in-dicate millennials are not what many people think they are, and when it comes to money they are savvy, independent, skeptical, conservative, want to be in control and take a long-term perspective.

What we have is a clas-sic mismatch between per-ception and reality, says a survey conducted for Mer-rill Lynchs private banking and investment group in the

United States. There are differences between this

generation and its predecessors (and) for the most part the differences are subtler and more complex than some

might think.For one thing, millenni-

als are starting to invest for the future at a much young-er age than their parents generation.

The average generation Y investor made their first investment at age 20, com-pared to age 27 for baby boomers, says the TD Inves-tor Insights Index, which examined the outlook of Ca-nadian investors and exter-nal factors influencing their investment decisions.

In the last year, millen-nials invested on average

18 per cent of their income but they reported they would like to have in-vested closer to a third.

Millennial investors also were more likely than baby boomers to say they would increase the proportion of their income invested if stock markets im-prove.

The index also found that retire-ment planning and saving to buy a home were top of mind for millenni-als despite the competitive housing market. Half of them said saving for retirement was their top investment goal, followed by saving to buy a house (44 per cent), travel (43 per cent) and achieving financial independence (42 per cent).

Todays young investors have many competing financial priorities, making it a challenge to balance short- and long-term goals and navigate the in-vestment options best suited to them,

said Cynthia Caskey, vice-president and portfolio manager with TD Wealth Private Investment Advice.

Tax free savings accounts are a good choice for young people because of the flexibility they offer and theres a wide range of options for how to use the money from storing it in a high-interest savings account to investing it in more volatile instruments, such as mutual funds, equities or listed securi-ties.

Both studies found that millenni-als want to remain in control of their investments.

More than 70 per cent in the Merrill Lynch survey described themselves as being self-directed in their invest-ing, perhaps because they have a hard time believing that advisers have their best interests in mind.

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Audit finds Bank of Canadas economists write poorly


OTTAWA An internal report card says the Bank of Canadas economists dont write too good.

Economists writing skills were identified by many as an ar-ea for improvement, says an au-dit ordered by the central bank.

This includes difficulties be-ing succinct, grammatically cor-rect, and prioritizing the data into useful information.

Auditors examined an elite group of bank economists, most of them with graduate degrees, who regularly dissect the current state of the Canadian and international economies.

The groups advice is in high demand by Stephen Poloz, the governor, and his five deputies,

who together must set Canadas monetary policy in a volatile fi-nancial climate.

The workload of the group has grown tremendously since the global meltdown of 2008, the audit notes.

The number of requests for analysis coming from the Gov-erning Council members has in-creased as they seek to under-stand the impact of a growing number of factors impacting the economy, respond to questions concerning short-term forecasting, and prepare for public appear-ances, says the internal report.

Ad-hoc demands by the gover-nor and others for quick analy-sis, which now absorb up to half the time of these economists, also appear to have created a paper jam as managers must then ed-

it the below-standard English or French.

The cause for lengthy review was in part attributed to writing skills, both in terms of basic com-munication, as well as how to con-vey an appropriate level of detail in telling the story, says the au-dit.

The group clearly needs train-ing in writing skills, the report concludes, and the banks man-agement agreed to provide it.

The Canadian Press recently obtained a largely uncensored copy of the audit under the Access to Information Act.

Last year, the central bank provided only a redacted copy, in which all references to the econo-mists weak writing were deleted.

Slow times for oilpatch dealsBY THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY Its a tough time to be looking for a deal in the oilpatch, due to a combination of market uncertainty and confusion over federal foreign in-vestment rules introduced during the past year.

With Canadas major energy companies set to report their third-quarter results over the next few weeks, observers say investors will be eagerly await-ing an update on how the firms are slimming their portfolios by selling non-core assets.

The likes of Talisman Energy Inc. (TSX:TLM) and Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (TSX:CNQ) have had Western Canadian natural gas assets on the market for some time, and Encana Corp. (TSX:ECA) signalled recently that it, too, intends to pare down its gas holdings.

Why weve not seen those assets being picked up is potentially a function of the sustained low gas prices. I think that there is uncertainty in the busi-ness community, said Lance Mortlock, a partner in Ernst & Youngs oil and gas practice in Calgary.

Theres also uncertainty over how quickly multi-

billion-dollar liquefied natural gas export facilities can be built on Canadas West Coast, enabling sales in lucrative Asian markets.

Brian Pow, director of research at Acumen Capi-tal Markets, describes the current mergers-and-acquisition environ-ment in the oilpatch as a story of haves and have nots.

Theres a lot of broken companies and, generally, the games changed such that the going prices to do drilling have gone up a heck of a lot, he said, noting that firms with the best manage-ment teams and production profiles are having an easier time.

Ernst & Young recently penned a report advis-ing companies that its no longer enough to rely on commodity price cycles or short-term, piecemeal cost-cutting measures to manage in these uncertain times. Instead, the study recommends companies use

performance improvement programs that boost ef-ficiency across the board.

Its an approach the manufacturing sector has used for some time, and one thats only beginning to catch on in Canadas oilpatch, Mortlock said.

Staying competi-tive requires mak-ing more structural changes to your business that are more sustainable, he said.

Pow suspects the struggle to build new export pipe-lines out of Alberta

and new federal rules on investments from foreign state-owned enterprises might be causing some hesi-tation as well.

Many oilpatch firms rely on foreign dollars to de-velop resources that would otherwise stay untapped for a long time.

TSX watchedto build on gains


TORONTO Traders will be anxious to see this week if the Toronto stock market can carry on the steady gains racked up during October that took the TSX to its highest levels in more than two years.

Investors will also look to the Bank of Canadas latest interest rate announcement and what is ex-pected to be a steady flow of economic reports that were postponed because of the lengthy partial U.S. government shutdown.

The stars seem to be finally aligning for the To-ronto Stock Exchange, which closed above 13,000 last week for the first time since late July 2011, a sign that the resource-heavy market is perhaps bouncing back after suffering through falling commodity prices, the European Union debt crisis and a slowing in the Chi-nese economy.

Canada is always a late cycle market because of the resource domination, observed Wes Mills, chief investment officer at Scotia Asset Management PM Advisor Services. So, as the global economy contin-ues to improve, Canada will start showing up more on peoples radar.

A variety of indicators bode well for the TSX, including a sharp decline in the price differential between West Texas Intermediate crude and Brent crude, along with data last week that showed the Chi-nese economy rebounded in the latest quarter to 7.8 per cent from a two-decade low of 7.5 per cent in the second quarter. Also, the European Union is also of-fering signs of clawing its way out of a deep malaise.

Mills said that global growth is improving, with the signs expecting to continue into 2014.

But its not just resource stocks that have pro-pelled the Toronto exchange to a point where it is up 5.65 per cent year-to-date.

The other major pillar, financials, is up 15 per cent year-to-date and more than three per cent for October alone. The financials were held back a good part of the year... on views that the housing mar-ket was too expensive, going to roll over and there was excessive credit risk in the banks, said Mills.

(But) the housing market has done quite well. So financials have picked up and of course insurance was always picking up as the market was doing bet-ter and interest rates were backing up a little bit.

Gold miners continue to be the biggest weight on the TSX with the exchanges Global Gold sector down 44 per cent year-to-date and down 12.6 per cent this month alone. Bullion prices are down 20 per cent from the start of the year.

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Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz speaks to the Vancouver Board of Trade in Vancouver on September 18, 2013. The Bank of Canadas elite economists are getting some bad grades for their writing skills. An internal review of the work of the central bank economists who advise the governor finds them ungrammatical and wordy.

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P I T T S B U R G H The nations largest la-bour unions are ready and willing to help fight global warming, but are cautioning en-vironmentalists that w o r k e r s n e e d n e w clean-energy jobs be-fore existing industries are shut down.

The four-day Pow-er Shift conference in Pittsburgh is training young people to stop coal mining, fracking for oil and gas, and nuclear power, but organizers also want workers to join the battle against climate change.

Union leaders say their workers want to help build a new, green economy.

Global warming is here, and we can work and get it fixed togeth-er, United Steel Work-ers president Leo Gerard said in a Friday night ad-dress at Power Shift.

But other labour groups note that while they share the same long-term clean energy goals with environmentalists, there are challenges.

Its not just as simple as No Fracking or oth-er bans, said Tahir Duck-ett, an AFL/CIO repre-sentative who spoke at a Saturday Power Shift panel that sought to pro-mote dialogue between environmentalists and workers.

Duckett said workers need new jobs to make a transition to clean en-ergy, noting that shutting

down industries such as coal can turn entire communities into a ghost town.

We cannot bury our heads in the sand and pretend like people arent fighting for their very survival.

Richard Fowler, a Power Shift moderator, said that instead of talk-ing about a ban on a particular industry, en-vironmentalists should talk about solutions that provide jobs.

Thats what is miss-ing, said Fowler, a ra-dio host and member of Generational Alliance, a Washington, D.C. based coalition of community youth groups.

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INVESTING: 48 per cent manage online

In the TD survey, 18 per cent said they learned about saving and investments on their own and 48 per cent said they manage their portfolios directly online.

Millennials employ a variety of investment strate-gies. Forty per cent take a long-term, buy-and-hold approach, 34 per cent have a mix of index and active-ly managed funds, 31 per cent regularly buy and sell to maximize gains, 27 per cent are primarily invested in actively managed funds to beat the market, and 15 per cent are primarily invested in index funds and ETFs to match the market.

Todays young investors are savvy when it comes to building and managing their portfolios, said Al-fred Chung, director of TD Direct Investing. With mobile technology, those who embrace the self-managed investing approach can retrieve real-time stock quotes, access markets and research, and place real-time trades from their smartphone.

The Merrill Lynch study also found that millen-nial investors tend to be skeptical and dont take the advice or recommendations of financial profession-als at face value.

It is not enough for millennials to accept recom-mendations based on vague references to experi-ence or past performance: they want to be shown the math, the report says. Millennials simply seem to question whether paying for financial advice is worth it.

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ENERGY: Rules causing foreign investment slide

Typically a deep-pocketed foreign player, often state-owned, will kick in a portion of the funding needed to develop a resource in exchange for a slice of production. The Canadian company gets a much-needed cash infusion, while the foreign company can secure a stable supply of energy for its home country.

But, as former Conservative cabinet minister Jim Prentice noted earlier this month, foreign invest-ment has dropped off recently and he says its the new rules that are, in part, chasing it away.

Speaking at a London conference, Prentice, now a senior CIBC executive, said foreign investment in Canada had dropped precipitously this year $2 billion so far in 2013, down 92 per cent from $27 bil-lion during the same period last year.

The rules came about late last year following in-tense public debate over whether Calgary companies Nexen Inc. and Progress Energy ought to be taken over by Chinese and Malaysian interests, respec-tively.

Though the Harper government ultimately waved those deals through, it put limits on the amount of control state-owned enterprises can have in the Ca-nadian energy sector in the future.

Yuen Pau Woo, president and CEO of the Asia Pa-cific Foundation of Canada, has said the definition of what constitutes a state-owned player is of con-cern to the Chinese.

Technically speaking, every company is under the influence of the government, so potentially ev-ery single Chinese investment above $300 million could be subject to the new SOE guidelines and that cant be good for investment in Canada, he told a business forum last month.

George Addy, a partner at law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, agrees the nebulous defini-tion of what constitutes state-control is having an impact. For instance, its unclear whether the rules would encompass funds that manage the pensions of government employees. By that measure an or-ganization such as the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan could fall into that category, if the tables were turned.

I think we used to have a competitive advantage over other countries as to the predictability of our foreign investment review process and I think weve lost some of that edge, said Addy.

So the foreign investment community in Canada is now competing with more countries to attract for-eign direct investment. Theyre basically competing with alternative investments in other countries.

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