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GEORGE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2014
CITIZEN
Ghomeshi
will make
P.G. show
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff
[email protected]
Controversy aside, Jian Ghomeshi had a date with
Prince George and he intends to keep it.
It was announced this weekend that the longtime
host of CBC Radio’s morning show Q had parted
company with the network (see story, below).
He also had a scheduled appearance in Prince
George as a lecturer. It was originally set for late
September, but the
death of Ghomeshi’s
father caused it to be
postponed for Nov. 7
at the Civic Centre.
“He is coming.
One hundred per
cent, he’s coming,”
said Norm Coyne of
Citizen Special Events,
the organizer of the
speaking engagement.
“We spoke with his
agency this morning
to clear everything up,
GHOMESHI
and they assured us he
was definitely coming to Prince George.”
The address will focus on the contents of his bestselling book 1982 and his views of Canadian popular
culture as someone who has been in contact with
many of its most noted personalities.
“Things may have changed in that relationship between him and the CBC, but our agreement from the
outset was with Jian Ghomeshi personally,” Coyne
said. “The CBC was not involved.”
He is set to be on stage Nov. 7 at 7 p.m.
Previously purchased tickets for the postponed
October show will be honoured for this new event
date, and tickets ($40 each) are still available at the
Prince George Citizen office or from the eventbrite.
com website.
For more information call 250-640-6670.
Former host
launches lawsuit
against CBC
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Lawyers for radio star Jian Ghomeshi made good Monday on their promise to launch
a lawsuit against the CBC, alleging breach of confidence, bad faith and
defamation by the public
broadcaster.
Ghomeshi, 47, is seeking $55 million from
the CBC, according to
the lawsuit, plus special
damages.
The suit says “the
claim is the result of the
CBC misusing personal and confidential
information provided
to it in confidence and
under common interest
privilege.”
On Sunday, the CBC
said it was severing ties
with Ghomeshi because
of “information” it had received about the Q radio
show host.
Lawyers from Dentons Canada LLP then announced
their intention to sue the CBC on Ghomeshi’s behalf.
— see GHOMESHI, page 3
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• Case could
be hamstrung
by union ties
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• Questions
of consent
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CITIZEN PHOTO BY BRENT BRAATEN
Freak show
Zarrah Holvick and Renata Gebert were two of the zombies ready to scare visitors at the House of Horrors at Huble
Homestead Saturday during their Halloween Spooktacular. There was also pumpkin carving, a magic show, costume
contest, haunted maze and graveyard of ghouls.
Judge opts for trial
in logging dispute
Mark NIELSEN Citizen staff
[email protected]
A B.C. Supreme Court Justice wants a
full-blown trial before deciding whether
a Prince George logging company was
wrongfully denied a licence to harvest
timber on Crown land near Vanderhoof.
Both M.G. Logging and Sons Ltd. and
the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations applied for a
judgment based solely on the written
evidence submitted to the court, known
as a summary trial.
But in a reasons for judgment issued
Friday, Justice Robert Sewell concluded
he is unable to resolve the matter based
on the information he has been given
and directed that a trial be held in
which witnesses testify and be crossexamined.
The dispute is over a tender the ministry issued in June 2012. M.G. Logging
owner Manuel Goncalves submitted
what turned out to be the highest bid
and in July 2012 the ministry posted a
notice on its website stating the licence
had been awarded to his company.
But the next day it was withdrawn
because the ministry concluded the bid
was made by a company not registered
as a B.C. Timber Sales Enterprise. It
turned out that while M.G. Logging and
Sons is registered, Goncalves submitted
the bid under another name, M.G. Logging Enterprise Ltd.
Goncalves also failed to include an
incorporation number in the space
provided but did write in Sons’ and
the registration number in the space
provided for that purpose. Goncalves
argues he submitted the bid under
Enterprise by mistake and the Ministry
understood Sons was the applicant.
He further argued the Ministry had
stated on its website that the contract
was awarded to Sons and subsequently
could not revoke the award. Conversely, the Ministry contends Enterprise was
the applicant and was not eligible, the
posting did not constitute awarding of
the licence and there was no contract
between the parties.
Sewell concluded a formal letter from
the ministry was not required before
the bid had been deemed awarded but
said the ministry should have the opportunity to cross examine Goncalves’
claim he intended to make the bid under Sons. Likewise, Sewell said the written evidence provided by the ministry’s
acting timber sales manager at the time,
Bill Dobbs, about the circumstances
surrounding the tender was “somewhat
inconsistent” but concluded he should
be given the chance to testify before
making a final decision on that aspect.
P.G. part of genetic research project
Christine HINZMANN Citizen staff
[email protected]
The Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy
at Pine Centre Mall is part of a research
project where saliva testing will provide
genetic information to guide drug
therapy decisions.
The local pharmacy is one of five
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locations in B.C. that will be part of the
pilot project set to begin in January to
study how genetic makeup can predict
their response to medications.
The research component of the
project is led by a team at the University
of British Columbia Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences (UBC) and is funded
by Genome BC and the BC Pharmacy
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patient.
During the project, the UBC team, led
by researcher Dr. Corey Nislow, will
develop procedures for sample collection, processing and sequencing.
Training and educational tools for patient awareness will also be developed.
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