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Kristen Calis
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PICKERING — Pickering business
owner Chris Buckler has noticed an
unusual smell at the back of the swim
school he operates in south Pickering.
“At first we were laughing because we
thought it was a skunk,” he recalled.
Buckler was told by a person of author-
ity that a medical marijuana production
facility is just steps from his business, B
and C Aquatics Limited, which is locat-
ed in a building on Brock Road South,
between Clements Road and Montgom-
ery Park Road. He said while the odour is
not currently obvious to the average per-
son coming through the front door, he can
smell the cannabis from his office.
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Buckler understands the need for medi-
cal marijuana producing facilities.
“At the same time, you have to look at
what’s in the area too,” he said.
He feels a complete comprehensive
snapshot of not only the community but
the business and clientele they service
should be undertaken before a producer
receives approval.
“Do they scout around and look and see
what programs are being offered?” he said.
The children’s swim school specializes
in infants and individuals with severe spe-
cial needs.
“The bottom line is we shouldn’t know
they’re here,” he said.
Health Canada regulates marijuana
production facilities across the country
and grants licenses to successful appli-
cants.
According to Health Canada’s website,
there are currently 48 licensed producers
in Ontario. But spokesperson Tammy Jar-
beau, said no further details are made pub-
lic.
“Unfortunately, for privacy reasons,
Health Canada cannot release the names
of these companies or confirm how many
there are in Pickering,” she said in an email.
Three facilities applied for a licence
is Pickering in 2014, but that’s where the
information available to the public ends.
“The challenge I have here is we have
no way of knowing who has a licence and
who doesn’t,” said Kyle Bentley, Pickering’s
director of city development and chief
building official. “What we get notified of
at a municipal level is their intention is to
get a licence but we have no way of know-
ing (if they) have the licence or (are at) the
approval stage.”
The company seeking a licence to oper-
ate a medical marijuana production facil-
ity must inform the city of its intention, but
they are not required to notify the city if the
production facility is approved by Health
Canada.
“In the case of where construction is
required they would need a building per-
mit,” Bentley said. “We would process the
building application permit but it would
only address the construction component.”
The city treats medical marijuana pro-
ducers the same way it would a pharma-
ceutical company. An M2 Industrial area
would be the appropriate place for these
facilities to locate in Pickering.
“We would consider this to be a light
industrial manufacturing use,” Bentley
said. “Our focus is just on building code
compliance and our zoning bylaw.”
The granting of building permits is not
a public process. If a company applies for
an amendment to the zoning bylaw, that is
made public.
The federal government states in its
licensing program Access to Cannabis for
Medical Purposes Regulations (ACMPR),
areas where marijuana is present must be
equipped with a system that filters air to
prevent the escape of odours and, if pres-
ent, pollen.
Health Canada regulates security and
odours or emissions as part of ACMPR.
Health Canada conducts routine
inspections of licensed producers of can-
nabis for medical purposes, to verify their
ongoing compliance with the regulations.
Producers are expected to take timely and
appropriate corrective actions when any
issue of noncompliance with the ACMPR
is brought to their attention. Health Cana-
da has various tools of enforcement avail-
able, from warning letters and seizures to
license suspension, revocation and prose-
cution. Health Canada conducts four types
of inspections: prelicense inspection; ini-
tial inspection; targeted inspection; and
regular inspection.
“For citizen complaints related to odour,
they would have to contact the respective
municipality,” said Jarbeau.
Health Canada keeps inspection data
available online. While the names of the
establishments are listed, their locations
are not.
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PICKERING — The City of Pickering
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legal council to defend the city’s posi-
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“I’m glad that we’re hiring outside
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Pickering teen
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Kristen Calis
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PICKERING — Mufeez Amjad is just
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U.S., China and beyond.
Bubble Burst is available on the App
Store, which allows users to download
apps to their iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
“I started developing the app in Sep-
tember of last year and I’ve spent roughly
25 hours per week developing it and mak-
ing the graphics and eventually getting
it out to launch,” said the Pickering High
School student.
The Grade 12 student said creating Bub-
ble Burst was a solo project and is ideal
for students passing time while they’re on
the bus or at school, “just like a quick one-
minute or two-minute game and it’s kind
of fun.”
It was a lot of work but with persever-
ance and a never-give-up attitude, it was
ready to go.
“Learning as the process went, that was
really fun,” he said. “Having my friends
play it and tell me how they love it was real-
ly rewarding.”
Once he was finished after almost three
months of hard work, Mufeez sent it to
Apple.
“Apple reviews it and if it passes quality
they put it on their App Store,” he said.
It was released in January and is free to
download.
“In the first two days, I promoted it on
my social media and got 200 downloads,”
he said.
At the time of the interview, it had
reached 300.
Now, Mufeez plans to develop even
more apps.
“I’m actually working on two right now,”
he said. “I don’t want to give it away but
they’re more long-term. I just want to per-
fect developing the more complex con-
cepts.”
Mufeez suggests anyone looking to
develop an app for the first time, to start off
with a simple idea.
“But just learning from the experience
will help you make your next steps a lot
better,” he said.
He said there’s no need to rush, and
while he did face some challenges along
the way, he ended up finding the solutions.
“Just don’t give up,” he said.
Mufeez is applying to computer science
programs at different universities, and
plans to start his own business.
A Bubble Burst demo can be found on
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The Province is looking at the “destream-
ing” of the high school curriculum for Grade 9
students and that would be a move in the right
direction for the school system, not to men-
tion for 13- and 14-year-olds who don’t nec-
essarily know which academic path to follow
when they begin high school.
“Streaming” involves students opting for
“applied” or “academic” courses. An academ-
ic course load is one required for entry into
university, whereas applied courses would
be more applicable to community college.
Students who opt into the applied stream
in Grade 9 and 10 can have this affect their
options for Grade 11 and 12 courses, and in
turn, their eligibility for college or university.
“Streaming” has been a source of conten-
tion within the Ontario education system as
studies have suggested it negatively impacts
black, low-income and marginalized stu-
dents, who are overrepresented in the applied
stream.
People for Education, an education advo-
cacy group, has been sounding the alarm for
years, saying taking just one applied course
— math, in Grade 9 — gives teens next to no
hope of going on to university.
A recent report by research group Social
Planning Toronto found many students and
parents didn’t understand the difference
between applied and academic courses, and
that students believed they could transfer
from applied to academic courses later —
even though statistics show that rarely hap-
pens.
The Durham District School Board recent-
ly launched a Grade 9 for All pilot project,
which saw two schools — Brock High School
and Oshawa’s Maxwell Heights Secondary
School — offer a mixed applied and academ-
ic Grade 9 math course as a pilot project this
year. The board said the program might be
expanded for the 2018-2019 school year.
The DDSB pilot project is a proactive mea-
sure as the province is determined to over-
haul Grade 9 with an eye to eventually abol-
ishing streaming. Education Minister Mitzie
Hunter said separating students into univer-
sity-bound academic-level classes versus the
more hands-on applied option is a concern
because teens in applied courses are less likely
to finish high school or go on to post-second-
ary education.
“We want to see Grade 9 as a year where
students can explore their pathways and get
excited about their pathways. We do not want
it to be a year where students become demoti-
vated and disengaged in school,” said Hunter.
We agree. Slotting students into the pods
of applied and academic courses in Grade 9 is
regressive thinking; keeping students’ options
wide open in the early stages of high school is
the best course.
EditORial
Grade 9
‘destreaming’ is
right move
for Ontario
secondary schools
The over-representation of Indige-
nous young people in the Canadi-
an justice system is a national cri-
sis. The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission of Canada says this over-rep-
resentation is particularly true in the custo-
dy and pretrial detention stages of the legal
cycle. The Canadian Council of Provincial
and Child Advocates suggests Indigenous
children and youth in Canada are more
likely to be involved in the criminal justice
system than they are to graduate from high
school.
Young people have always played an
important role in Indigenous cultures.
Unfortunately, Canada’s colonial lega-
cy (including the residential school sys-
tem) has had a dramatically negative
impact on Indigenous youth. Not surpris-
ingly, Indigenous young people are often
confused about their identity. They are
unsure whether they should remain true
to an Indigenous identity or if they should
embrace “mainstream” culture.
The Indigenous young people in the
community our research team has inter-
viewed recognize the generational impact
of colonization and cite its ongoing direct
connection to the over-representation
of young people in custody and pretrial
detention. Many youth have shared per-
sonal, familial and community experienc-
es of racism and discrimination, substance
abuse, sexual and physical violence, pov-
erty, trauma and loss. To the young people
in our research study, colonization is not an
abstract concept of the past: rather, coloni-
zation still resonates deeply today.
Our research confirms a key ingredient
to rebuilding the well-being of Indigenous
young people is establishing a connection
to their history. They are strengthened by
knowledge concerning their ceremonies,
their clans, the role of treaties, the role of
elders in Indigenous communities and the
Indigenous connection to the land.
As an elder we interviewed told us: “We
have a memory of our history; take them to
the mountains to fast, to find their name.
Through our ceremony, through our own
traditional values, with our own communi-
ties getting healthy, we can bring our youth
home.”
— Carla Cesaroni, PhD, is an associate professor in the
faculty of social science and humanities at the University of
Ontario Institute of Technology.
— Chris Grol is a master’s degree candidate in the
criminology program at the University of Ontario Institute
of Technology.
— Jill Thompson is the Indigenous cultural adviser,
Indigenous education and cultural services at the University
of Ontario Institute of Technology.
The importance of history to the identity of Indigenous youth
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OSHAWA -- The Baagwating Indigenous Student Centre is located in downtown Oshawa.
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from its diversity.
That was the theme at a celebration
held at Durham Region headquarters to
kick off Black History Month, which runs
during February.
More than 100 people turned out for the
event, which featured a series of speakers
along with an International Fair, with dis-
plays by local businesses.
Durham regional police Chief Paul
Martin said, “Diversity is what makes our
community so great. Recognizing Black
History Month is a reminder of the strug-
gles and achievements black residents
have made.”
Speaking for regional chair Roger
Anderson, who was too ill to attend,
Whitby Coun. Derrick Gleed said, “Last
year’s event was such a success, we could
hardly wait to host it again.”
He noted black families have history
stretching back to before Confederation
and “they continue to weave the tapestry
to the Durham community. It’s always a
great time to honour black leaders.”
Black lives have been part of “Durham’s
past, it’s present and no doubt it’s future,”
Gleed said.
Deputy police Chief Chris Fernandes
read a statement from Prime Minister Jus-
tin Trudeau, who said, “Canada gets its
strength from its diversity.”
Durham Riding MPP Granville Ander-
son said, “Black history is Canada’s history
and we have to recognize that.”
Canada is “one of the most diverse
and most accommodating countries, bar
none,” Anderson added.
“The province is working on a number
of initiatives to address racism and to level
the field so everyone can participate,”
Anderson said. “It’s important to celebrate
the contribution of the black community
today and throughout the year. I’m look-
ing forward to more events throughout
this month and this year.”
Omar Wisdom, the Canadian Jamaican
Club, Durham president, noted the police
had a “relentless commitment to make
this kickoff a known event.”
He said Martin made a commitment to
address the lack of qualified black officers
in the senior ranks.
“We’re looking forward to these officers
being seen in the community and not kept
in the background,” Wisdom said.
During the ceremony, a Canada Post
stamp commemorating former Ontario
Lt.-Gov. Lincoln Alexander was unveiled
by his granddaughter Erika Alexander.
Keynote speaker Alvin Brown said,
“Black history is human history. It’s a
reflection of our consciousness.”
Brown, a Pickering resident, is an
author, speaker, educator and an integrat-
ed peak performance consultant.
With social movements, such as #metoo
and gay rights being recognized, Brown
said, “I’m excited about what’s happening.
Your children will be better for what we’re
doing. It’s an amazing time and we should
all be celebrating it.”
He noted, “We need more education.
Education is the key. We have to focus on
that.”
He added, “By celebrating this month,
we are celebrating everyone.”
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Phillips, 52, the former head
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tery and Gaming Corpora-
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The Tory candidate for Ajax
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become PC leader in the wake
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Tories into the June 7 election.
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and others played in ensuring
that party members across the
province have the opportunity to
vote for a new leader. It was the
right thing to do,” he said, say-
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leader.
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of our party’s candidates across
Ontario — represent a new gen-
eration of inclusive and account-
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Phillips.
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that will conclude March 10.
The other candidates are for-
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sion of Corner Gas.
The 51-year-old comedian has been
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ing his classic Canadian sitcom about a
band of misfits who live and work in a
sleepy, Saskatchewan, one gas station
town, into The Simpsons with silos.
Butt has reunited the entire cast from
the original live-action Corner Gas, with
the sad exception of one member who
has passed on. Janet Wright, who died
in 2016, teamed with Eric Petersen to
play Butt’s character’s bickering parents,
Emma and Oscar Leroy.
Petersen carries on as a voice in the
new animated series with his original
colleagues Gabrielle Miller, Fred Ewanu-
ick, Lorne Cardinal, Tara Spencer-Nairn,
and Butt’s wife Nancy Robertson. Wright
sound alike Corrine Koslo joins the
group as the voice of Emma.
Between his many live stand-up com-
edy dates, Brent has been working on
Corner Gas Animated the last couple of
years. Of late, he’s been flying back and
forth between Toronto and Vancouver,
recording the cast’s voices and editing
scenes on computers in his man cave of
a garage. That’s where he spends a lot
of his time these days, according to wife
Nancy.
In many ways the animated series
brings Butt’s life full circle. Back in high
school in Tisdale, Sask., he already had a
notion that he wanted to be a stand-up
comedian, but the only thing he could
think of to fall back on was to train as an
animator.
“I used to do a lot of drawings in the
edges of my comic and text books,” says
Butt. “I was just fascinated with the pro-
cess. “
Butt applied, and was accepted into,
Toronto’s renowned Sheridan school of
animation.
“I got there and I think it was four days,”
he says of his abrupt departure.
“It was still orientation week when I
said this is not for me. I just knew stand-
up was what I was supposed to be doing.”
Flash forward 30 years to last Novem-
ber, and Butt is back in Toronto, show-
casing the first complete episode of Cor-
ner Gas Animated. He and his fellow
cast mates gathered at the Art Gallery
of Ontario’s Hugh Jackman theatre. After
the screening, everybody declared their
approval of the various ‘toon transfor-
mations.
“It was the damnedest thing to watch,”
said Petersen. “It immediately was like
watching like a person not connecting
with it in any way.”
He also thought he could take some
acting tips from animated Oscar. “He has
a better chin than I do,” says the Order of
Canada member.
Toronto-based Smiley Guy Studios is
the animation house, and they did a
terrific job capturing the look and per-
sonalities of the regulars. Robertson’s
only note was that they made her look
too young — possibly the only time an
actress has ever filed that complaint.
Butt says he consulted with one of his
writers from the original sitcom, Norm
Hiscock, before embarking on the new
scripts. Hiscock, a Montreal native who
has written scripts for Saturday Night
Live, Parks and Recreation and Brook-
lyn Nine-Nine, also wrote for King of the
Hill so he knows adult animation. Butt
asked what changes he should make to
adapt Corner Gas to an animated com-
edy. Hiscock’s reply: ”Change nothing.”
The series was always grounded in real-
ity but prone to flights of fancy in flash-
back moments – a trait well exploited in
cartoon form.
Butt himself was transformed at the
screening. He seems to have grown a
camera out of one eyeball these days,
due to his ever-present camera-phone.
He uses it to capture video to promote
his podcasts, which he has cleverly
called, “The Buttpod.”
“It’s really fun and I can shoot stuff
when I’m on the road or behind the
scenes things,” he says. So far he’s drawn
close to 2,000 YouTube channel sub-
scribers. “I haven’t really put the word
out much aside from mentioning it on
Twitter,” says Butt, who has 164,000 fol-
lowers.
He’s not super active on other forms of
social media, but he does use Instagram.
“So far it’s mostly pictures of my dog.”
Between touring and writing and pro-
ducing the new animated series, the
comedian says he has not had much
time to listen to other people’s pod-
casts. “Any spare hour I have away from
production is generally spent watching
a Canucks game,” says the Vancouver –
based NHL fan.
The original Corner Gas went off the air
in April of 2009 with a finale that drew
more than three million viewers—still
a record for a Canadian scripted series
episode. A follow-up feature film, 2014’s
Supplied image
DURHAM -- When Corner Gas creator Brent Butt asked writer Norm Hiscock how he
should adapt the comedy for animation the advice was, ‘change nothing’.
See CORNER page 14
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“Corner Gas: The Movie,” was also a hit.
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of humour, a structure like Seinfeld sur-
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people pick up on that authenticity. Peo-
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we weren’t selling anything other than
this is a comedy and we’re trying to be
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the show, a quality that continues today
with the animated series. The new Cor-
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but really it’s as if the characters are all
frozen in time.
That works for Butt.
For one thing, “I don’t have the hairline
I have now. I have Season 1 hairline for
the rest of my life!”
It works for the series, too. “One of the
themes of the show is not much chang-
es,” says Butt, who is floored each time
he’s approached by a young lawyer or
other adults who tell him they grew up
watching the series.
CTV plans to premiere Corner Gas: Ani-
mated in the spring. In the meantime,
Butt is back on the road, with stops in
Ottawa, BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan
throughout February and will be per-
forming in Hamilton and Oshawa, Ont.,
in March. Just look for the guy with the
camera growing out of one eye.
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Kawartha Lakes Rd 4
Selling the contents of a Lindsay home plus others - 10pc
modern oak double pedestal kitchen set - lg qty of Walt
Disney collectables (figurines, tea pots, stuffed toys,
movies, etc) - spinning wheel - queen box spring and
mattress - Roxton maple "Temple Stuart" 9pc dining room
set - Roxton coffee and end table - drop leaf table - curio
stand - oak sideboard - qty of pictures - Krug maple china
cabinet - maple desk - glass top coffee table - qty of
DVD's - Pfaff industrial sewing machine - Danby bar fridge
- 5HP yard Machine snowblower - Qty of china, glass,
household and collectable items
GREG CORNEIL AUCTIONEER
1241 Salem Rd Little Britain 705-786-2183
for more info/pictures www.corneilauctions.com (terms cash, debit, cheque 10% buyers premium visa, mastercard 13% buyers premium) - open for
viewing Thursday from 9am to 4pm and 7pm to 9pm and Friday at 9am
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14th:
4:30 PM
A U C T I O N S A L E
Auction Sale of Furniture, Antiques
and Collectables for a Major Moving
Company, selling at Neil Bacon Auc-
tions Ltd., 1 km west of Utica.
To Include: Part 2 of Delinquent Ac-
counts including a full tractor load of teak
furniture, antiques and smalls.
Sale Managed and Sold by:
NEIL BACON AUCTIONS LTD.
905-985-1068
ESTATE AUCTIONSunday February 11, 2018 9:00 am(viewing 8:00 am)
Located in Orono on Mill Pond Road. Watch for signs.
Auction Features: Articles from Past to Present and
from an Oshawa Estate including: Furniture Glass &
China, Household Effects. Something for One & All.
Terms: Cash, Visa, M/C & Interac (10% buyers premium)
www.theauctionadvertiser.com/MMacGregor/
MacGREGOR AUCTIONS
Mike MacGregor, Auctioneer
1-800-363-6799 l (cell) 905-718-6602
KELLETT AUCTIONS
Excellent Estate of collectible, named & signed
glass, pottery & porcelain pieces.
Kellett Sale Barn, 13200 Old Scugog Rd.(1/2 mile south of Blackstock)SAT., FEB. 10 at 10:30am***No Buyer's Premium***Signed Val St.Lambert glass, Antique wood carving Last Supper 1940s, Costume jewellery w/names, Blue Mountain pottery, Majolica fish jug, Sterling silver vases, New jewellery.AUCTIONEER: Bruce Kellett
705-328-2185 or 905-986-4447
www.kellettauctions.com
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MULLIGAN, Freda (nee Laderoute) - Passed
away peacefully at home with family by her
side on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018, in
her 99th year. Daughter of the late Louisa
and Alexander Laderoute of Westmeath,
Ontario. Predeceased by 7 siblings.
Predeceased by her loving husband Thomas
Howard. Loving mother of Greg, Bonnie (late
Al), Shawn (late Jackie), Cheryl (Smitty), and
predeceased by her daughter, Melody, and
her sons, Murray and Trevor. Will be missed
by Peter Bolahood, Connie Mulligan, Cathy
Keenan and Theresa Mulligan. Cherished
Grandma of 21 grandchildren, 21 great-
grandchildren, and three great-great-
grandchildren. Specially remembered by
Thom and Angie as a special mother who
took them under her wing. Fondly
remembered by her niece Kit. Freda was
known as a Mom to everyone. She was a
generous, kind, and giving person with a
wonderful sense of humour. Visitation will be
held at the COURTICE FUNERAL CHAPEL,
1587 Highway #2, Courtice (905-432-8484)
on Friday, February 2nd, from 6 to 9 p.m. A
funeral Mass will be held at St Therese
Catholic Church in Courtice on Saturday,
February 3rd, at 12 noon. Donations may be
made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Online condolences may be made at www.courticefuneralchapel.com
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