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Kelowna.com Forums » Recent Topics /forums/ Kelowna. Right Now! en-US Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:04:59 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q /forums/search.php Marshall Jones on "Marshall Jones: The Kelowna.com adventure comes to an end" /forums/topic/marshall-jones-the-kelownacom-adventure-comes-to-an-end#post-10270 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 20:42:54 +0000 Marshall Jones 10270@/forums/ <blockquote>“If anyone had more fun than I had over the past 10 months at Kelowna.com, it was John McDonald…. We were like puppies who finally snuck through the fence of the yard.”</blockquote> <a href="http://www.kelowna.com/2010/04/15/marshall-jones-the-kelowna-com-adventure-comes-to-an-end/">Marshall Jones: The Kelowna.com adventure comes to an end</a> CBC News on "Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage" /forums/topic/victims-of-nb-fire-identified#post-10709 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:41:00 +0000 CBC News 10709@/forums/ <blockquote><a href='http://www.kelowna.com/2010/06/02/rush-beyond-the-lighted-stage/'><img src='http://www.kelowna.com/assets/theatres/photos/09371001.jpg' class='cfialignright' alt='Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage poster' width='100' height='150'/></a>A portrait of the legendary Canadian rock band Rush from their early days in Toronto, through each of their landmark albums, to the present day.... <a href='http://www.kelowna.com/2010/06/02/rush-beyond-the-lighted-stage/'>More >></a></blockquote> <a href="http://www.kelowna.com/2010/06/02/rush-beyond-the-lighted-stage/">Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage</a> Joe Fries on "Female murder victims to receive special tribute" /forums/topic/female-murder-victims-to-receive-special-tribute#post-8286 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:39:13 +0000 Joe Fries 8286@/forums/ <blockquote>UBCO students undertaking project that will collect biographical information about some Okanagan women who were victims of violence.</blockquote> <a href="http://www.kelowna.com/2010/02/15/female-murder-victims-to-receive-special-tribute/">Female murder victims to receive special tribute</a> penpal on "Netflix arrival worries local video stores" /forums/topic/bclcs-new-online-casino-crashes#post-10708 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:08:08 +0000 penpal 10708@/forums/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: penpal</div>I see the site is still down and now it appears to have been hacked the first day it was up. Did the government really think the other gaming sites that “Gordo” identifed as being run by questionable operators would let this government just set up shop and take a few $100 million off the table without a fight?? This is just the start. I would avoid the site unless you want your cash stolen or credit card hacked. Mike on "B.C. deer vs. dog video goes viral on YouTube" /forums/topic/bc-deer-vs-dog-video-goes-viral-on-youtube#post-10698 Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:34:04 +0000 Mike 10698@/forums/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: Mike</div>Let’s see. The dog should not have wandering around the neighbourhood, but rather locked in his yard. However if the deer had attacked the guy with the video camera, I doubt the dog would have stood by and just watched. Two wrongs…. CBC News on "Family alerts engineer to track washout" /forums/topic/officers-suspended-in-surrey-6-investigation#post-10695 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:37:06 +0000 CBC News 10695@/forums/ <blockquote><img src="http://www.kelowna.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/02c61_tp-cp-tracks-washedout.jpg" class="cbc" /> Quick thinking by a family in Medicine Hat, Alta., averted what could have been a disastrous train derailment on Saturday. Ray John and his family were out walking, monitoring the water levels in Ross Creek, when they noticed the bank had washed away under some railway tracks. The area has been hit by heavy flooding in recent days. The family also noticed a train headed in the direction of the washout. “So I says, 'We gotta warn them somehow,' said John, whose daughter called 911. “So I ran to a little point on the hill sort of overlooking — maybe 100 metres from where the actual hole was in the ground. Luckily I had a red T-shirt on, so I took it off and I was waving it and waving it and waving it, hoping they would see me.” The train stopped with about 100 metres to spare, John said. The CP train was on its way to repair another part of the tracks that had been damaged by flooding. “He was on a blind bend literally coming around,” John said. “And as he was pushing the trucks ahead of him he would never have seen it until it was too late. Once one truck had started going into the water, it would have pulled the rest in I'm sure. “There were probably six or eight men plus maybe the engineer on the train. But you know, hopefully we averted a bit of a disaster.” John returned later to find the entire bank had washed away and roughly 150 metres of track had fallen into the creek. <h3>Compensation likely</h3> After touring the area in a helicopter on the weekend, Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner said provincial relief will likely be made available to people affected by the flooding. “There are some criteria that have to be met and I don't have much doubt in my mind that those criteria will be met in this case,” he said. “As I said earlier, the devastation in the rural areas is unbelievable,” adding that his cabinet colleagues will be discussing how to assist farmers in the area who will probably lose their entire crops this year. <img src="http://www.kelowna.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/5e9cf_tp-cgy-south-sask.jpg" class="cbc" /> CBC News </blockquote> <a href="http://www.kelowna.com/2010/06/21/family-alerts-engineer-to-track-washout/">Family alerts engineer to track washout</a> gia on "Divorced B.C. father kept from seeing child" /forums/topic/g20-arrest-tally-hits-604#post-10694 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:11:03 +0000 gia 10694@/forums/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: gia</div>Alex Neve, The thugs had no place in downtown TO…why would we want to expose our children to that. Police Presence you are commended…thank you Pam on "Woman missing, car found" /forums/topic/woman-missing-car-found#post-10143 Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:34:56 +0000 Pam 10143@/forums/ <div class="wpbb_anonymous_userinfo">Posted by unregistered user: Pam</div>She may be in Whistler Kathy Michaels on "Kathy Michaels: I want my money back" /forums/topic/kathy-michaels-i-want-my-money-back#post-10302 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:25:57 +0000 Kathy Michaels 10302@/forums/ <blockquote>“Even for those who aren’t fanatical its value has to be obvious. The news business is one of the few remaining ties that bind in most communities.”</blockquote> <a href="http://www.kelowna.com/2010/04/15/kathy-michaels-i-want-my-money-back/">Kathy Michaels: I want my money back</a> CBC News on "N.B. election promises more female candidates" /forums/topic/nb-election-promises-more-female-candidates#post-10688 Sat, 19 Jun 2010 22:18:34 +0000 CBC News 10688@/forums/ <blockquote>New Brunswick's two major political parties are on pace to have more women on the provincial election ballot in September. When the legislature adjourned this spring, only six of 55 MLAs were female and the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives were under pressure to add more women to their ranks. The nomination process is underway as New Brunswick's political parties gear up for the Sept. 27 election. The Tories have already nominated 11 female candidates, which is more than the seven from the 2006 campaign. Meanwhile, the governing Liberals have managed to have seven women nominated as candidates. Party officials say there will be at least three more which would equal the 10 nominated in the last election. Riverview Liberal candidate Lana Hansen said candidates should be judged on their merits but women do bring particular strengths to politics. “It is an asset because it does bring a whole gamut of experience and compassion and perhaps negotiation skills that are more predominantly developed sometimes in women,” Hansen said. Premier Shawn Graham has been criticized for lacking more women in his cabinet for most of his mandate. Graham named both Mary Schryer and Carmel Robichaud to cabinet in 2006, but Robichaud was dropped after only a relatively short stint around the executive council table. In the latest cabinet shuffle this spring, Graham added Nepisiguit MLA Cheryl Lavoie as the minister of state for seniors and housing. <h3>Political diversity</h3> Marie-Claude Blais is running for the second time as the Tory candidate in Moncton North, which his traditionally a Liberal seat. She narrowly lost in 2006 to high-profile Liberal incumbent Michael Murphy, who resigned as justice minister in January to spend more time with his family. Blais, who also served as the provincial Tory party's executive director, said it is important for provincial caucuses to have representation from a cross-section of groups. “You cannot have all of the same persons with all the same background. You can't have all lawyers, you can't have all business people, you need people from different backgrounds,” Blais said. The two main parties are not the only ones striving to put more female candidates on the September ballot. So far, three of the eight NDP candidates that have been nominated are women. While the Green Party has made the bold promise that in its first time fielding candidates in a New Brunswick provincial election that half its candidates will be women. <h3>Pressure on politicians</h3> The lack of women in politics was evident after the 2006 election when seven females were elected. Rose-May Poirier left the assembly earlier this year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper named her to the Senate. Six female MLAs represents about 11 per cent of the 55 seats in the legislature — whereas women make up 51 per cent of the province's population — and the assembly has never had more than 20 per cent of its seats held by women. A multi-party organization called Equal Voice opened a chapter in New Brunswick last year with the specific purpose of bringing more women into provincial politics. Provincial politicians have studied the issue of how to add more female colleagues in the past. The Commission on Legislative Democracy, which was set up by the former Tory government and reported in 2005, addressed the low number of female politicians in provincial politics. The main recommendation in its 2005 report was to switch to a mixed-member proportional system of electing MLAs. The report listed the percentages of female politicians in a number of countries, and those with some form of proportional representation all elected more women. Another of the proposed reforms was to offer political parties an extra $1 per vote if they had women make up 35 per cent of the party's candidate slate. However, none of the committee's proposals were put in place because Bernard Lord's Tories were defeated in the 2006 election. CBC News </blockquote> <a href="http://www.kelowna.com/2010/06/16/n-b-election-promises-more-female-candidates/">N.B. election promises more female candidates</a>