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Debates of Sept. 22nd, 2000
House of Commons Hansard #120 of the 36th Parliament, 2nd Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was pornography.
- Business Of The House
- Civilian War-Related Benefits Act
- Trade
- Fuel Taxes
- The Late Luc Durand
- World Alzheimer's Day
- Karen Cockburn
- Police And Peace Officers
- Multiculturalism
- St. Lawrence River
- Crime Prevention
- Olympics 2000
- Organized Crime
- Aboriginal Affairs
- École Des Hautes Études Commerciales
- Leader Of Canadian Alliance
- Fisheries
- Crime Prevention
- The Environment
- Young Offenders Act
- Fort Lawrence
- Veterans Affairs
- Fuel Taxes
- Employment Insurance
- Fisheries
- Young Offenders Act
- Fisheries
- Transport Of Mox
- Agriculture
- Gasoline Pricing
- Official Languages
- Grain Transportation
- Agriculture
- Employment Insurance
- Fisheries
- Infrastructure
- The Environment
- Points Of Order
- Order In Council Appointments
- Government Response To Petitions
- Petitions
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Privilege
- Civilian War-Related Benefits Act
- Criminal Code
- Business Of The House
- Criminal Code
Business Of The House
10:05 a.m.
Don Boudria Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mr. Speaker, discussions have taken place between all parties in the House and I believe you would find consent for the following motion. I move:
That the motion for second reading and reference to committee of Bill C-38, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act, be deemed put, a recorded division deemed requested and deferred until the end of Government Orders on Tuesday, September 26, 2000.
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The Speaker
Does the government House leader have permission to put the motion?
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Some hon. members
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The Speaker
Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
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Some hon. members
(Motion agreed to)
Civilian War-Related Benefits Act
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10:05 a.m.
Gander—Grand Falls
Newfoundland & Labrador
George Baker Minister of Veterans Affairs and Secretary of State (Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency)
moved that Bill C-41, an act to amend the statute law in relation to veterans' benefits, be read the second time and referred to a committee.
Mr. Speaker, I am not going to give a major speech today. I am going to be as short as possible because there appears to be agreement, and I am pretty sure there is, among the critics of the other parties in the House that we try to deal with the bill today at this reading so that it can go on to the standing committee.
We have had excellent co-operation from the hon. member for Souris—Moose Mountain of the Canadian Alliance, the hon. member for Terrebonne—Blainville of the Bloc Quebecois, the hon. member for Saint John of the Progressive Conservative Party and the hon. member for Halifax West of the NDP.
The reason we all agree that the bill should be passed as quickly as possible is that it will provide some much needed benefits to our veterans and the survivors of our veterans.
The bill also does something that should have been done many years ago. It gives the civilian groups that served overseas with our soldiers access to the same pension and disability provisions as those who are recognized under the pension act and the War Veterans Allowance Act. In other words, the bill gives the ferry command personnel, the civilian group of pilots who piloted the planes across the Atlantic during the war, access to the full benefits of the pension act and the War Veterans Allowance Act. Five hundred Canadian pilots lost their lives bringing the planes over for use in the war effort.
The bill gives the nursing aids, the nursing sisters of the first world war and the second world war, the Canadian Red Cross workers and the St. John Ambulance workers who worked right at the front access to the same pension provisions as our veterans receive today.
The bill gives welfare workers of the second world war and the Korean War access to those same benefits. It gives Canadian firefighters for service in the United Kingdom group access to the same benefits.
The bill gives a group called the Newfoundland foresters access to those same benefits. The Newfoundland foresters went overseas during the second world war before Canada was involved in the war. Newfoundland was not a part of Canada at that time. The ships left Newfoundland with about 3,000 people who had joined the Royal Navy or the Merchant Navy in Britain, people who were called upon as foresters.
The Canadian foresters who went overseas received full benefits after the war but the Newfoundlanders did not because Newfoundland was not a part of Canada at that time. It should have been in the terms of union but, unfortunately, the individual who was supposed to negotiate this in the terms of union came to Ottawa in 1948, stayed at a local hotel and the day before this was supposed to be negotiated in the terms of union, he died. So it was an omission in the terms of union between Newfoundland and Canada. This bill will correct the error that was made back in 1949.
There are other things in the bill which will be good for veterans, veterans' widows and family members of veterans who are alive today. I will give members of the House two short examples that I know they will appreciate being included in the bill.
There are about seven excellent changes. Take for example one case of a veteran's widow who has an overpayment on a health benefit. Another widow has an overpayment on the funeral benefit and the debt stands. Why is there a debt? It is because somebody made an error inadvertently in paying the money to that individual.
Normally, when there is an overpayment, for example, in employment insurance or in any of the the municipal, provincial or federal government programs, then the person who received the money is responsible for paying it back.
However, the bill states that those overpayments, which were inadvertently made and stand as debts to the crown, will be erased. Although it will not cost that much money and is only a small thing, it is huge to somebody like those two widows who actually owe money because of overpayments.
I want to refer to another section which I think was commendable for members of parliament and those people who participated in the process to put into the bill. I just want to mention them.
The Royal Canadian Legion spent a lot of time with the department drafting the bill and setting up meetings. President Bill Barclay and particularly Allan Parks participated in the drafting of the legislation. The National Council of Veterans Associations also participated. Brian Forbes was at the meeting on behalf of Cliff Chadderton.
There is perhaps no one individual in Canada today who has contributed more to the process of legislation for veterans than Cliff Chadderton. He is an incredible individual who constantly works for veterans.
Peter Ambroziak of ANAVETS, the Army, Navy and Air Force Veterans of Canada, took part in the negotiations as did Mr. Lloyd Thompson of Botwood, Newfoundland. He is a Newfoundland forester but he wore the British uniform overseas so he gets the benefits. He is working on behalf of the other foresters in Newfoundland who number anywhere from 500 to 1,000 that I know of. They deserve these benefits and should have received them in the terms of union. However, as I said, the person responsible for negotiating them died the night before the terms were being negotiated.
Also Louis Lang of Montreal from Ferry Command participated. Louis spent a lot of time lobbying on behalf of Ferry Command pilots who perhaps had the greatest loss of life of any one group that took part in the second world war.
There are about seven items in the bill that will benefit Canadian veterans today. I mentioned the overpayments to the two widows and other people in a similar situation which would be forgiven.
Another point I want to mention is that in all of our income tested programs we always rely on somebody's last year's income as reported on the income tax return. Old age security, guaranteed income supplement and spousal allowance are based on the income tax return for the previous year.
Sometimes somebody might receive a benefit, say a capital gain, this year not knowing that next year the spousal allowance could be gone or the guaranteed income supplement would be reduced accordingly. That is one of the aspects of income tested programs that is very difficult to deal with when we have cases where somebody loses something because of what happened last year on the income tax return, especially with our senior citizens.
Of course disability pensions and so on are not income tested. That is the marvellous part of this bill. All these civilian groups that served overseas will have access to the full benefits. Some of them will not be income tested. A lot of our civilian groups did not understand that this would be a real benefit to the people who need home care, for example.
We have people in Canada who went overseas for four and five years and do not have access to home care because the bill is not law today. That is why we are trying to pass the bill as quickly as possible.
Getting back to what we are doing as far as someone's income is concerned, we are saying that the income tested portion of veterans payments will be based on estimated income for this year, not what is on the income tax return.
What is the benefit in that? I will give an example. Perhaps someone received a capital gain last year. Perhaps he or she were left some money or sold some property last year and the guaranteed income supplement and spousal allowance will drop. If it is a veteran's payment that is income tested it will rise accordingly, thereby cancelling the reduction that would take effect under the guaranteed income supplement or the spousal allowance.
These are some of the excellent things in the bill. They certainly set a standard that should be looked at by provincial governments and by everyone who deals with guaranteed income programs in federal and provincial jurisdictions.
I have had preliminary discussions with the member for Halifax West of the New Democratic Party. He has been very active with regard to the bill over a period of time. In fact prior to the announcement being made he was very active with regard to this subject material, as well as the member for Saint John of the Progressive Conservative Party and the member for Terrebonne—Blainville of the Bloc Quebecois. As well, within the last three or four days the member for Souris—Moose Mountain supports the bill wholeheartedly and wants it passed.
That is why I will not say anything else. I will just shut up and hope that other members of parliament will also shut up. Then we could pass the bill with as little comment as possible. We have until 11 o'clock this morning and then we will reconvene on the bill at about 12.15 p.m. until 1.30 p.m. Therefore we have until approximately 11 a.m. now and then about an hour and a half after question period.
If we could so arrange it as to get over this stage of the bill and send it to committee, we would be answering the prayers of a good many veterans. We would be responding positively to what every political party wants to do in the House.
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10:20 a.m.
Keith Martin Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC
Mr. Speaker, there is nothing like a good dose of maritime eloquence to begin the morning. I thank the minister for his eloquent speech. In fact we could pass the bill very quickly, as he and other members of the House would like to do, except for one little clause. Clause 46 needs to be removed from the bill to provide the equitability and fairness I know the minister would like to see.
I thank the member for Souris—Moose Mountain, as the minister has mentioned, who has done an incredible amount of work not only for our party but, more important, for the members and the veterans who are waiting for the bill to pass.
I will get to the aspects of clause 46. I am glad the minister will listen. I know he is a man of fairness. I am sure he will encourage and convince his members to remove this clause. If he does so, our party will support the bill and help him expedite it through the House to relieve the suffering that our veterans have been enduring for far too long.
Our party supports Bill C-41 because it gives civilian groups the same fairness and equitability as it has to other veterans who have laid their lives on the line for our country, for peace and security.
It gives it to groups such as the Canadian Red Cross, St. John Ambulance, the Corps of Canadian Civilian Firefighters, the Ferry Command personnel and the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit because these people provided invaluable service to the war effort. These people, as the minister mentioned, put their lives on the line. Many of them lost their lives while supporting the war effort. Their efforts, while they did not pick up a weapon, were absolutely essential for the men and women who were in Europe and other parts of the world fighting for the peace and security that we enjoy today.
Our armed forces personnel must have access to existing veterans benefits today if they served overseas during World War I, World War II and the Korean war. Merchant navy vets gained full access to these benefits in 1992. Unfortunately the issue of compensation took far too long to come about. We do not want this to happen with the bill.
The groups affected by the bill have historically had limited access to veterans benefits previously given to other veterans, but the bill recognizes that fact and does a very good job of providing them with the benefits they so justly deserve.
I say these groups are worthy recipients because they served alongside other forces personnel and their lives were in no less danger during those perilous times. The efforts of these organization deserve the recognition they have so long been denied.
I will cite a few examples. The overseas air crew of the Ferry Command ferried military aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean. In many ways those brave pilots were trail blazers. Some of them, interestingly enough, were among the first to chart a path across the North Pole.
It was dangerous work, flying over uncharted territory. Many of the pilots lost their lives in the endeavour to provide planes that were absolutely essential for us to carry on the war effort in Europe. During World War II about 340 civilian pilots and air crew were contracted to deliver aircraft to Britain and elsewhere. Today about 100 of these brave souls are still alive.
Coal was vital to Britain's war effort and mining activity. Its use increased so much that Britain did not have enough and wood had to be cut in Scotland. As a result, the Newfoundland Overseas Forestry Unit was created on short notice. It went over there to harvest timber. Of the 3,680 Newfoundlanders who went to Scotland during the war there are roughly 1,000 of these souls alive today who cut the wood that was necessary to build tunnels and for other uses during the war.
During the second world war the Corps of Canadian Civilian Firefighters bravely put out fires during the blitz, which was central to saving the lives of many people.
Members of the Canadian Red Cross and St. John Ambulance worked alongside people who were terribly injured during the war. They were as close to the action as anyone could get. There are approximately 450 members of this group alive today and they need the care they require as they age.
It is a shame that with the passage of time there are so few left and it has taken so long for this legislation to come forward. We as a party are happy and encouraged by the government's effort to move the bill forward.
This should be a lesson for all of us as Canadians to take a more active interest in our military and service people who historically have given us more care and consideration than I think the House has given them. We must pay more careful attention to the long term effects of war that for a long time have been ignored: post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and the effects on the family that are so often hidden.
In fact, historically after World War I and World War II many of these problems were buried but now that medical science and others have taken a more active interest, these problems are coming to light. As these problems come to light, so too is it necessary for the care to be there for people who have been traumatized by horrors that most of us can only imagine.
Not only will civilian groups benefit from the bill but members currently serving in our armed forces will benefit as well. The bill amends the pension act to allow Canadian forces members in the regular force who have acquired service related disabilities to receive pensions while still serving. This brings it in line with the public service and private industry. This is important because this is not a stand-alone issue. It does not affect only the military. In fact the bill brings the military up to today's standards in the public service and private industry.
I want to address our primary criticism which the member for Souris—Moose Mountain raised with the minister. I am sure we can find a way to ensure that this tiny issue will be resolved expeditiously. It involves the RCMP.
While the bill alleviates a past injustice to our armed forces, it creates an injustice to the RCMP. The RCMP pension is tied to the armed forces pension but is funded by the RCMP. Currently RCMP officers are in the same position as Canadian forces personnel in that they cannot receive a disability pension while being employed by the force. I will give an important example very shortly, one of which we are probably all aware. Because clause 46 was added to the bill, by its very wording it removes previous legislation that prevented those in the armed forces from receiving a disability pension while employed, but it prevents the RCMP from getting the same benefits as will be accrued to other members that the bill actually supports, brave officers.
The example I will give now is one which we all remember very well. Constable Laurie White was shot in the leg while trying to serve a search warrant and had to get a portion of her leg amputated. Constable White is back on the force working very hard, bravely so, despite having had part of her leg amputated. She demonstrates the best that we have within our RCMP service personnel and indeed she deserves all of the honours that have accrued to her.
Because this amendment exists, people like Laurie White in the RCMP cannot receive the benefits the bill gives to other individuals even though the RCMP is tied to the essence of the bill. We ask that clause 46 be removed purely in the name of fairness. We cannot ask the RCMP to be involved in the bill and have its entire benefits package tied to those of veterans and the personnel that this involves as the bill does, while on the other hand exempting it from an aspect that would be very important for individuals such as Constable Laurie White.
The bill also makes a provision for peacekeepers which is very important because peacekeepers serve in very dangerous environments. Peacekeeping is a misnomer in that one thinks it has something to do with peace. It has, but the problem is that peacekeeping is really war by another name because peacekeepers confront land mines and snipers. They are often put in between warring factions which are often under no control by their supposed leaders. It is a very dangerous situation.
Unfortunately the government historically has given our armed forces personnel the equipment for a peaceful situation. One other thing I would like the government to know, and I hope the minister of defence pays close attention to this, is that we simply have to arm our soldiers for war in a peacekeeping situation because peacekeeping, as I said, is war by another name.
Our veterans have faced a litany of problems when they have returned from war situations, particularly recently. I and many other members in the House have received many legitimate complaints from brave men and women who have come back from the theatre and have not received the care they require.
I know the minister is very interested in this and that his heart is in the right place. I know he would not like to see these people go without the medical care they so justly deserve. He would want them to receive the required care for such things as gulf war syndrome, other poisonings as yet unidentified, post-traumatic stress disorder and severe major depression.
Fifteen per cent of people who suffer from major depression commit suicide. Imagine the numbers that would involve with respect to our armed forces personnel who go abroad and raise our flag to fight for the noblest of elements of humanity. They fight for peace and security, the things we gratefully enjoy in our country. Let us give them the same care and consideration they have given us.
The government has seen fit to give the members a cost of living allowance. We support this. We have been working hard for a long period of time to right this injustice. We applaud the government for doing it, but there is a problem. While the government has given the members a cost of living allowance and an increase in pay, it is surreptitiously yanking that money away by increasing their rents.
Their rents have increased dramatically in many areas. On the base in Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca the members are so happy and pleased to finally get some recognition and fairness in their pay but there have been massive and dramatic increases in their rents. While money has been given with one hand, the government has taken it out with the other.
I know the government really does not want to do this, at least I would like to think it would not. I challenge the government, as all of my colleagues here do, to please stop yanking money out of one pocket while putting it into the other pocket. Stop giving our military forces money and talking about it as if it has done something and then taking the money away. This has created an incredible negative impact on the morality within our armed forces. They do not deserve that. They have been extremely patient.
The other small section I would like to talk about briefly concerns the civilian population in our military who have done a yeoman's job under very difficult circumstances. Their numbers have been cut dramatically. They did not mind, as they recognized that came down the pike in an effort to save money. Their members have been cut by 50% or more. They have increased their efficiency dramatically and in fact have been given awards for it. On the other hand, alternative service delivery is taking place. They do not mind alternative service delivery but they do want to ensure that they are able to compete on a level playing field with the private sector.
I have one request for the government. Make sure that the people there today are treated as fairly as other competitors. That is what they want. They are confident they will be able to compete well, and as they have done for a long time, do their jobs to support our military. They have done this well but they want to be considered fairly with the private sector that is competing for their jobs.
The government should take a good look at that because they have done an excellent job. They have provided high quality service. They have probably done a better job than many private workers could do. Take a look at that and compare it fairly. I think the government will find that in many cases the civilian workers have done an excellent job and deserve to keep doing their work. Do not let them be lost in the cracks. I would ask the government to make sure that they are listened to and that their concerns are dealt with.
As my colleague from Souris—Moose Mountain said, the improvements made in the bill involve: clarifying how private information can be exchanged within the department to expedite benefits, which is a good thing; protecting the public servants from having to testify in courts of civil litigation; compassionate awards to be continued to survivors, which are very important; deleting penal provisions from veterans legislation where the provisions are either unnecessary or substantially duplicated in the criminal code; where two disabled pensioners are married to each other, both receiving the married rate of pension benefits; and allowing for remission of overpayment based upon compassionate grounds if the debt is not collectable. These are fair things.
In conclusion, the groups of people affected by this bill have a very legitimate claim to the benefits provided. We compliment the government for putting this bill forward. The civilians who went alongside the armed forces personnel did yeomen's jobs. Many of them lost their lives in the process. Their survivors and the remaining few deserve the care this bill provides.
The pension act prohibits armed forces personnel from receiving a disability benefit while employed in the forces and this has been removed. But clause 46 has been added to the bill and it prevents the RCMP from being able to acquire the benefits of this part of the bill. This inequity must be addressed before our party can fully support the bill.
If the government removes clause 46 from the bill, we will have a piece of legislation that will correct years of injustice. If the clause remains, the RCMP will be exempt from the very provision and benefits that our armed forces will enjoy and it will therefore be instrumental in creating an injustice.
In the name of fairness, let us include the RCMP in the bill as it ought to be. Let us remove clause 46 and let us pass the bill for our veterans.
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Government Orders
10:40 a.m.
Paul Mercier Terrebonne—Blainville, QC
Mr. Speaker, better late than never. Half a century after the fact, we have our government acknowledging that a variety of Canadian civilians, such as firefighters and Red Cross personnel, took part in World War II and the Korean War and shared the merits and often the dangers of military personnel. Yet until now they have not been entitled to the pensions and other benefits received by uniformed veterans which are concrete expressions of this country's gratitude.
Bill C-41, which we are looking at now, has the praiseworthy objective of remedying that injustice. It does so only partially, however, as I shall attempt to demonstrate.
Another category of civilians also has been waiting 55 years for recognition of their merits. These are the merchant mariners. Until now, it appears that those in high places have forgotten that these are the people to whom we owe the fact that the weapons and ammunition, without which our soldiers could do nothing, were able to be shipped across the Atlantic on merchant ships hounded by German U-boats. Many of these merchant mariners now sleep at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Only this year did the surviving brave mariners, or the widows, get any compensation.
The compensation was awarded to the Merchant Marine veterans of Canada and Newfoundland who served in wartime and were not members of the armed forces, or to their surviving spouses if they were deceased.
This settlement for the Merchant Mariners is close to the amount of compensation mentioned in the dissenting report tabled by the Bloc Quebecois on this issue. We called for a minimum of $20,000. They received a maximum of $20,000. It is interesting that this amount is within $1,000 of the amount that would have been paid in 1945, taking inflation and interest into account.
The bill before us today concerns other categories of civilians who served overseas. They are primarily the members of the corps of Canadian firefighters for service in the United Kingdom. These men helped fight the fires in the German bombing raids in London and elsewhere for the first two years of the war.
Others benefiting from the bill are the Canadian members of the voluntary aid detachment of the British Red Cross during the first world war. It took 82 years to remember them. Welfare workers and voluntary aid workers in the second world war and the Korean war are also finally being recognized.
Not forgotten either are the civilian pilots in the ferry command, who often at the risk of their lives convoyed aircraft built here and destined for the European front between Canada and Great Britain.
The members of these various categories of civilians deserving of recognition by their country are, under this bill, being accorded the same treatment as military veterans—and this is fair—and therefore are entitled to a pension. As many of them are dead, their widows will benefit.
The part of Bill C-41 that grants them full eligibility for pensions from the Department of Veterans Affairs is an improvement over an existing act, namely the Civilian War-related Benefits Act.
Under that act, welfare workers who worked with the Canadian armed forces during the war have had limited access to pensions from the very beginning. The same goes for Ferry Command personnel. In order to have access to the benefits provided under that act, these people had to have suffered injuries during an offensive or a counter-offensive.
Many of these civilians did not get any disability pension following accidents that occurred in situations such as the moving of troops and materiel. Bill C-41 would eliminate that restriction, which has the effect of granting pensions, contrary to what is done in the case of veterans, only to those who were injured while on duty, under certain conditions.
The problem is that this good legislation will not be retroactive. It does not provide any compensation for the 55 years during which all these brave people were forgotten by their government.
This is an injustice. Since we are now recognizing that these people are entitled to national recognition just like military personnel who have been getting pensions since the end of the war, it is totally unfair to make them pay for the fact that the government waited for over half a century before recognizing their contribution, and thus their rights to national recognition.
Consequently, when this bill is reviewed in committee, I will propose that the government take action to correct this anomaly by making the act retroactive in this respect.
I do not find it acceptable for the government to permit itself what would be considered a reprehensible abuse of power by the courts if it had been the action of an individual against his employees. Can anyone imagine a business leader admitting that some of his staff had been unfairly treated for years and agreeing to remedy the situation only if no retroactivity were involved?
But this principle of obvious equity does not seem popular with the government, if we are to judge by its reaction to the Canadian Human Rights Commission ruling ordering it to compensate those of its employees who, because they were women, had for years been paid less than their male counterparts—another example. It will be recalled that Ottawa held out against making these retroactive payments for a long time. It only did so because it was forced to by the tribunal.
The purpose of Bill C-41 is to correct another anomaly. This one involves members of the Canadian armed forces who are still serving but are suffering from service-related disabilities.
These men and women are not currently entitled to disability pay before their release. This situation is going to be corrected. We need hardly say that we are in favour of this provision of the bill.
But we do not understand why clause 46 excludes the RCMP from this measure. I will be raising this in committee and calling on the government to withdraw this provision from the bill.
Another anomaly is corrected. As the result of an error for which the recipient is in no way responsible, a veteran might receive a higher amount of pension than his entitlement for a certain period of time.
Until now, when the error was detected, the person concerned was required to pay back the overpayment under conditions and a deadline that might be prejudicial to his quality of life. From now on the victims of these administrative errors will be treated more humanely. We approve of this provision, while once again regretting that it has been so long in coming.
I will now give some of the other provisions of this bill in favour of pensioners with which we are totally in agreement.
Permitting veteran disability pensioners who are married to, or living common-law with, each other to both receive the married rate;
Providing for a one-year continuation of a deceased veteran's pension to the guardian of the veteran's orphaned children;
Correcting the pension indexing formula to accommodate declines in the consumer price index;
Consolidating the provisions relating to service in special duty areas, peacekeeping and Korean war service, directly into the Pension Act;
Allowing compassionate awards to be continued to survivors without the necessity of a time-consuming high-level re-adjudication.
Finally, we naturally approve the housekeeping amendments to clarify regulation-making authorities, ensure the use of gender neutral language, correct cross-references, correct the French name of the department—it is called in French the ministère des Anciens combattants, with a small "c", whereas it should be a capital "C", thus ministère des Anciens Combattants—and, finally to repeal obsolete acts and provisions.
In conclusion, I come to the date the bill will come into effect. In light of the already considerable delay in the bill's correction of the various injustices, the Royal Canadian Legion would like, quite rightly, that once the bill has received Royal Assent and an implementing order has been issued for it, to have the changes it provides to be made effective not on the date of the order but rather as of March 1, 1999, the first day of the month the minister announced it.
Once again all these civilian and military individuals, who are entitled to recognition must not be penalized by the length of time it has taken to put a statute in place in order to correct the various injustices these people have faced up to now.
To summarize, we support this piece of legislation in principle, but reserve the right to propose certain amendments to improve it. Subject to these amendments we are happy with the content of Bill C-41.
I repeat, we regret that this legislation comes some 50 years too late. However, as I said at the start, better late than never. We will propose to the government that the text of it be amended, either to make it effective retroactively or to have it provide for the payment of an indemnity to correct, at least for those still living, the injustice this delay represents.
We will also propose that the RCMP not be excluded from the application of the law with respect to the pension for individuals wounded in the line of duty but still serving. I add that we will ask for a greater assurance of confidentiality for personal information that candidates for benefits will have to disclose to the department.
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Sarmite Bulte Parkdale—High Park, ON
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to inform the House of the successful completion of the Baltic Express II, a trade and investment mission, which I had the honour of leading to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The trade mission took place from September 11 to September 15 and included representatives from 11 Canadian companies in the sectors of construction and building materials, transportation, food, textiles and high technology.
Through trade missions, such as the Baltic Express II, Canada hopes to increase the level of awareness of commercial opportunities and help foster long lasting commercial relationships. The first Baltic Express mission in 1998 exposed 12 to 15 Canadian companies to the regions. Several business partnerships resulted in one or more of the three countries.
With commercial partnerships comes a greater understanding between nations. The Baltic Express II is another initiative that will deepen the important ties between Canada and the Baltic nations.
Fuel Taxes
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Ted White North Vancouver, BC
Mr. Speaker, this year alone the Liberal government will take more than $350 million from the people of B.C. in the form of fuel taxes. That is an annual tax grab of $20 million more than the entire Vancouver area budget for new highways to the year 2005. Yet the Minister of Transport stubbornly refuses to return to B.C. a single cent of those taxes in support of our transportation network.
While greater Vancouver residents line up in gridlock on a four lane Trans-Canada Highway built back in the 1950s, the minister pumps our fuel tax money into election goody projects elsewhere.
Our taxed-to-the-hilt drivers have had enough. They are sick of topping up the minister's pork barrel every time they gas up and they are not going to take it anymore. They want their share of the national highways funding returned to B.C. and they want it now. When exactly is the minister going to deliver?
The Late Luc Durand
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Mark Assad Gatineau, QC
Mr. Speaker, we wish to pay tribute to a great Canadian theatre personality, actor and director, Luc Durand, who died at the age of 64 on July 3.
Luc Durand, and his character, Gobelet, touched an entire generation of Canadians. This dreamy-eyed clown was a source of inspiration not just for the children who faithfully tuned in to Sol et Gobelet , but also for teenagers and even adults.
Luc Durand's friends often spoke of his intelligence, his great poetry and his sensitivity. He was the consummate professional, respected and his admired by all.
On behalf of the Canadian government, I wish to thank him and offer our sincere condolences to his family.
World Alzheimer's Day
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Reg Alcock Winnipeg South, MB
Mr. Speaker, yesterday was World Alzheimer's Day. In Canada, there are more than 230,000 people suffering from this disease and over 100,000 new cases are expected this year.
The federal government and, I am sure, all members of the House, wish to congratulate the Alzheimer Society of Canada on all the support it provides to those with this terrible disease.
I would like to thank all those who have donated their time and energy in the fight against this disease.
Karen Cockburn
Statements By Members
September 22nd, 2000 / 10:55 a.m.
Bill Graham Toronto Centre—Rosedale, ON
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to salute Karen Cockburn of Toronto for her wonderful performance and her bronze medal on trampoline at the Olympics. It is the first time that this sport has been included in the Olympics.
Over the past two years Ms. Cockburn has obtained numerous medals and has consistently been ranked in the top eight in world competition. This is quite an accomplishment for such a young person.
This medal, Canada's fourth in these Games, is a fine tribute to the efforts of every member of the Canadian delegation.
I am sure that all members will join me in congratulating Ms. Cockburn for this great achievement and thank her for bringing glory to Toronto and to Canada.
Police And Peace Officers
Statements By Members
10:55 a.m.
Myron Thompson Wild Rose, AB
Mr. Speaker, the 23rd annual memorial service for police and peace officers who have died in the performance of their duties will be held this Sunday on the steps of Parliament Hill.
On behalf of the official opposition, I would like to pay tribute to those who have paid the ultimate price in protecting Canadians from coast to coast. This memorial is an opportunity to publicly express our gratitude to our fallen officers and to honour their memories. To the friends and families, you are not only in my prayers, but you are in the prayers of an entire nation as we can only try to appreciate the sorrow and the hardship that you continue to endure.
For those of us who cannot be there Sunday, I urge you to take a moment and reflect upon our heroes and ensure they are not forgotten.
Statements By Members
11 a.m.
Irwin Cotler Mount Royal, QC
Mr. Speaker, a plaque commemorating the contribution of immigrants and refugees to the development of Canada will be unveiled by the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism and Status of Women at a ceremony today at Pier 21 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
With the exception of the native peoples, all Canadians are immigrants or descendants of immigrants from various regions of the world. Since Confederation, generation after generation, they have come to settle in Canada with the firm intention of making a better life for themselves and their children.
Our history records show how through courage, hard work and ingenuity they played a major part in settling the land, developing our resources, building cities and forging transportation links over vast distances. Our history also records that many of these immigrants experienced hardships, discrimination and hostility which memories continue to hurt those affected.
Between 1928 and 1991, Pier 21 was the point of arrival in this country for over one million immigrants, refugees and displaced persons. A testimony to the history of immigration in Canada and the embodiment of the multicultural nature of our country, Pier 21 was declared an historic site in 1997. I urge everyone to pay it a visit.


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Student Hubs are available at five locations.
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Guided by the region's governors, the Midwestern states are developing strategies that transcend politics.other states. Colorado and Iowa have attracted large investments, foreign and domestic, to build factories to produce new solar photovoltaic and wind generating equipment. Oregon is encouraging manufacturers of new equipment to generate power from ocean waves. California's clean energy industry, by far the nation's largest, counts more than 10,000 businesses and 125,000 jobs, according to a report in June by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
In Ohio, Toledo is the center of a new solar photovoltaic manufacturing sector that employs 6,000 people.Michigan. Beneath baby blue skies, solar photovoltaic panels, also manufactured in Michigan, caused the needles of voltage meters to dance. People test-drove the latest in electric vehicles, including Ford's 2010 Fusion Hybrid. Inside long wooden buildings constructed decades ago to showcase farm implements and prize heifers, entrepreneurial clean-energy companies — many formed in just the last couple of years — displayed an array of Michigan-made tools, appliances, and materials to supply the clean-energy market.
With federal stimulus money helping to drive a green transition, the Midwest is determined to get its share.Midland that will employ 600 people when it opens next year. In late June, General Electric announced it would build a $100 million wind energy research and technical center in Michigan that will employ 1,100 people.


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This week, I am in New York for the UN High-Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS. This discussion will mark critical milestones, including three decades of the pandemic and the 10-year anniversary of the 2001 UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS and the resulting Declaration of Commitment. The past decade has seen remarkable advances in the fight against AIDS in developing countries, with the United States playing a pivotal role through PEPFAR. As the largest donor by far to fighting global HIV/AIDS, the U.S. will use this landmark event to re-energize public support and political commitment for a continued, effective, and shared response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
As a young physician in the 1980s in San Francisco, I found myself in the middle of the emerging epidemic in America. In those days before treatment, I worked with hundreds of young men and women, treating opportunistic infections and helping people live and die with dignity. During those long days, I was guided by inspiration, which fueled the hope. Hope for the providers so they could impart hope to those so desperately seeking our help. If I wasn't inspired to help, I couldn't wake up and do what I did every day.
This work on the front lines impacted my later efforts in the policy arena. I wanted to ensure that our government was responding to the needs of the people in my clinics and the clinics like mine across the United States. In the Clinton Administration, I served as one of the President's advisors on HIV/AIDS. As the first Director of the Ryan White Care Act at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I helped develop HIV/AIDS delivery systems in the United States. It was in this arena that I started to focus on what we could achieve through a collective response in developing a continuum of services for the populations impacted by this disease.
It was during this time that we made enormous strides in treatment. The discovery of antiretroviral therapy revolutionized care in the United States, but also highlighted the disparities in access facing many low-income and marginalized populations. We developed the first clinical guidelines for treatment, which played and continue to play a key role in facilitating scale-up of programs, particularly in non-specialty settings that improved access. A 'warmline' phone system was set up to field calls from providers with questions about managing therapy. We also conceived of and implemented with the Congressional Black Caucus, the Minority AIDS Initiative, focused on bringing federal resources to CBOs well interfaced with minority populations, but not familiar with administrative requirements to receive federal funding. Together, these steps helped Ryan White and other federal programs respond to the need and helped to expand access to not only treatment, but the supportive services needed to help with identification and retention in care, and impacted overall health.
After serving in the Clinton Administration, I turned my focus from the domestic epidemic to the global HIV/AIDS emergency, founding the Pangaea Global AIDS Foundation in 2001 and returning to UCSF Medical School. It was devastating to travel to countries in Africa and see, once again as we were once saw in the United States, people who treatment had not yet reached. Hospitals were packed with patients -- two or three people sharing beds, and even more lining the corridors, all with undiagnosed and untreated opportunistic infections. Doctors and nurses were overwhelmed and had no hope. Families and communities were decimated, and governments had few options to address this overwhelming need.
In 2003, President Bush, with the bipartisan support of Congress, responded to this overwhelming need with the creation of the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR. PEPFAR is the largest international response to a single disease any country has undertaken in the history of the world, and an immense display of our country's compassion and commitment to human dignity. It has transformed the lives of millions living with HIV in the developing world. Since 2009, I have been honored to serve President Obama and Secretary Clinton as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator.
The program that I am privileged to run is extraordinary. In 2002, fewer than 50,000 people had access to treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. PEPFAR now supports treatment for over 3.2 million people, the vast majority of whom live in Africa. We support over 3.8 million orphans and vulnerable children, giving them a chance at education, nutrition and a better life. And in reaching over 600,000 mothers with services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, our program led to over 114,000 babies being born free of HIV in 2010 alone.
Moreover, the Obama Administration's commitment to ensuring that these numbers are increasing is unwavering. We are strongly focused on reaching our goal of treating more than four million people. It is achievable. And that's what counts -- what we are achieving together -- to extend lifesaving services to more and more people.
I look back at the progress that has been brought to the world by the American people over the last decade and I am inspired. Thirty years on the front lines hasn't hardened my ability to dream. But thirty years has sharpened my focus. Thanks to the support of the Obama Administration -- which has continued to put forth robust funding for HIV/AIDS -- and the bipartisan support from Congress, we are making remarkable achievements and we remain the major contributor to the resource needs this diseases continues to require. We understand that the global response to this disease will not be fully met by one country alone but only through an organized effort to mobilize and converge global resources. The goal now is to make sure everyone is sharing in the responsibility to take our aspirations and make them achievable to restore those lives devastated by this disease. In all of this, hope will remain the major motivator for further success.
Related Content: Secretary Clinton Marks the 30th Anniversary of HIV/AIDS and Fact Sheet -- United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS
Kim in the U.S.A. writes:
I also attended the meeting last week in NYC and was very moved by passion that was present in every event. I sat in on the US meeting and was very impressed with the work the US is doing, much of it due to PEPFAR!!!!! I work in Ethiopia each year on HIV,TB and Malaria, prevention, so I am on the front lines and sometimes it feels like little has changed. But it is great to attend events that reminds you that the fight is being fought daily by armies of good people like yourself. My area of interest now is the improvement of medical infrastructure in the developing world. I have been aggressive in trying to link this into the fight of HIV. Hospitals with no running water, that are so dirty that AIDS patients come there and sometimes leave sicker due to lack of sanitation is a serious problem. ARV's have changed this work dramatically but things like effective records systems,cleanner hospitals and roofs that don't leak onto the patients need to be address in the plan as well. It is amazing how far we have come but we need to continue to look at the whole picture to further this fight. I am headed off to Ethiopia this week to work at Black Lion Hospital the biggest in Ethiopia, who serves over 500,000 patients a year but only has running water in 4 of the 8 floors. I am going to work with the CEO of the hospitals to bring an Electronic Medical Record system to help manage the huge patient load. Anyway, meetings like last week, motivate me to fight harder but sometime I think we miss simple things that could change so much.
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Sara Hussain
Age: 32
Hometown: Troy
Neighborhood: Clintonville
Job: PR Consultant; lead singer and bassist of metal band Nihilitia
Current hairstyle inspirations: Whitney Houston, Kelly LeBrock circa "Weird Science," Melina from the original "Total Recall"
When she was a teenager, Sara Hussain made a promise to her Muslim father that she would never get a tattoo. Thus, her hair became her body's canvas.
"The fact that I would never be getting any emboldened me to really play with my hair," Hussain said. "My hair has always been my standout feature, and I have never shied from taking risks with it. I view it as an extension of my creative spirit, and I believe fully in its transformative power."
She's bleached it, Jenny-from-the-Block-ed it, dyed it and straight-ironed it into oblivion.
It wasn't until recently that she let her natural hair color and curl shine.
"I guess when I crossed 30 I started being more honest with myself," Hussain said. "I starting being conscious of how much time I spent in front of the mirror."
Then Whitney Houston, one of Hussain's heroes, died.
"I was so upset. I went to Dustin [Von, her stylist at Girl & Guy Republic in the Short North,] and asked for something bold like Whitney," she recalled. "He was like, 'OK, just trust me.'"
The result: a short cut that requires only some gel and a blow dry. She had never considered going natural with just a well-shaped cut. (She now swears by having a good stylist. No longer does Hussain trek to her former hometown, Washington, D.C., for a haircut.)
"My best hair was hiding in plain sight all along," Hussain said. "I have no hair regrets, though. If I hadn't have gone through all those styles, who knows if I ever would have found the curly holy grail. And, I think loving my hair gave me the confidence to go for what I really wanted professionally."
It helps, too, that she gets special attention from dudes who like "Total Recall."
Kenji Prince
Age: 33
Hometown: Pickerington
Neighborhood: Old North
Job: Owner of Old Familiar Barbershop in Olde Towne East
Current hairstyle inspiration: High-and-tight pompadour. "It looks professional but at the same time it's not a boring haircut."
He may look suave now, but Kenji Prince has rocked some seriously risky tops. Like the one he wore to his junior prom — a neon yellow mohawk with black polka dots painted in the side (paired with a baby blue suit, no less). Or that time he grew dreadlocks out for seven years to win a bet with a buddy that he could hold out on a haircut the longest.
Prince has always been "that friend" who cuts his friends' hair. He didn't really consider becoming a barber, though, until he'd already gotten his associate degree in music recording and a bachelor's degree in theater.
Now he runs a place in Olde Towne East that he and his business partner Josh Wilbur call a "destination barbershop." Old Familiar Barbershop hearkens to the days when guys came to their barber for a cut, a smoke and a joke. Barbershop culture has an aesthetic and past that has always appealed to Prince. Hair is just the beginning of his attraction to the profession.
"I've always been a fan of American history," he said. "Barbershops are the epitome of American history and culture and everything that's good about American values — people working hard to give a service at a fair price."
Oh, and that new tattoo under his chin? It reads, "Tip Your Barber."
Jessica "Pinky" Nagel
Age: 25
Hometown: Columbus
Neighborhood: Merion Village
Job: Stylist at Rendezvous Salon in Clintonville
Current hairstyle inspiration: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
"My hair is my expression of what I want the world to see of me," said Jessica Nagel. "And if they don't like it, they can suck it."
Seem harsh? It wouldn't if you saw some of the looks people give the neon blue haired Nagel, a natural brunette.
"People just stare, mouths open sometimes," she said. "One time [on a road trip at a gas station in the south] a guy saw me sitting in the car and asked my friends if I had a job. …To have the guts to walk around like this gives me a certain amount of pride."
She's had to earn that pride since she was in middle school. Nagel dyed her hair hot pink (a la Gwen Stefani) only to be sent home by the principal with a notice to dye it a natural-looking color or else. She's had the nickname Pinky since.
The pink lady does switch it up from her signature hue, though. Sometimes she'll wear blonde "Regina George wigs through the [OSU Student] Union," Nagel laughed. Or she'll choose a color that means something significant to her, such as the Special Effects brand's Sonic Green and Blue Mayhem currently covering her coif; the combination represents the color of Ovarian Cancer Awareness groups for which Nagel and her fellow Rendezvous stylists are raising money throughout September.
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It's Tuesday, and that means more IBM announcements!
I haven't even finished blogging about all the other stuff that got announced last week, and here we are with more announcements. Since IBM's big [Pulse 2010 Conference] is next week, I thought I would cover this week's announcement on Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) v6.2 release. Here are the highlights:
- Client-Side Data Deduplication
This is sometimes referred to as "source-side" deduplication, as storage admins can get confused on which servers are clients in a TSM client-server deployment. The idea is to identify duplicates at the TSM client node, before sending to the TSM server. This is done at the block level, so even files that are similar but not identical, such as slight variations from a master copy, can benefit. The dedupe process is based on a shared index across all clients, and the TSM server, so if you have a file that is similar to a file on a different node, the duplicate blocks that are identical in both would be deduplicated.
This feature is available for both backup and archive data, and can also be useful for archives using the IBM System Storage Archive Manager (SSAM) v6.2 interface.
- Simplified management of Server virtualization
TSM 6.2 improves its support of VMware guests by adding auto-discovery. Now, when you spontaneously create a new virtual machine OS guest image, you won't have to tell TSM, it will discover this automatically! TSM's legendary support of VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) now eliminates the manual process of keeping track of guest images. TSM also added support of the Vstorage API for file level backup and recovery.
While IBM is the #1 reseller of VMware, we also support other forms of server virtualization. In this release, IBM adds support for Microsoft Hyper-V, including support using Microsoft's Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS).
- Automated Client Deployment
Do you have clients at all different levels of TSM backup-archive client code deployed all over the place? TSM v6.2 can upgrade these clients up to the latest client level automatically, using push technology, from any client running v5.4 and above. This can be scheduled so that only certain clients are upgraded at a time.
- Simultaneous Background Tasks
The TSM server has many background administrative tasks:
- Migration of data from one storage pool to another, based on policies, such as moving backups and archives on a disk pool over to a tape pools to make room for new incoming data.
- Storage pool backup, typically data on a disk pool is copied to a tape pool to be kept off-site.
- Copy active data. In TSM terminology, if you have multiple backup versions, the most recent version is called the active version, and the older versions are called inactive. TSM can copy just the active versions to a separate, smaller disk pool.
In previous releases, these were done one at a time, so it could make for a long service window. With TSM v6.2, these three tasks are now run simultaneously, in parallel, so that they all get done in less time, greatly reducing the server maintenance window, and freeing up tape drives for incoming backup and archive data. Often, the same file on a disk pool is going to be processed by two or more of these scheduled tasks, so it makes sense to read it once and do all the copies and migrations at one time while the data is in buffer memory.
- Enhanced Security during Data Transmission
Previous releases of TSM offered secure in-flight transmission of data for Windows and AIX clients. This security uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) with 256-bit AES encryption. With TSM v6.2, this feature is expanded to support Linux, HP-UX and Solaris.
- Improved support for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications
I remember back when we used to call these TDPs (Tivoli Data Protectors). TSM for ERP allows backup of ERP applications, seemlessly integrating with database-specific tools like IBM DB2, Oracle RMAN, and SAP BR*Tools. This allows one-to-many and many-to-one configurations between SAP servers and TSM servers. In other words, you can have one SAP server backup to several TSM servers, or several SAP servers backup to a single TSM server. This is done by splitting up data bases into "sub-database objects", and then process each object separately. This can be extremely helpful if you have databases over 1TB in size. In the event that backing up an object fails and has to be re-started, it does not impact the backup of the other objects.
To learn more, read the [IBM Press Release], attend the Pulse 2010 conference next week, or participate in the [IBM Pulse community]!
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam will begin producing its own chemical for executing prisoners after factories in the European Union stopped shipments because of objections there to the death penalty.
Vietnam stopped using firing squads in 2011 because of concerns it was traumatizing the shooters. Last year, the government said it was unable to execute 532 on death row because it couldn't source the drugs for lethal injections.
The Laborer newspaper on Thursday quoted Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang as saying Vietnam will produce its own drug. The report gave no details.
EU factories are the main supplier of drugs that can be used in executions. Several American states have also said objections from European factories were making it hard to find the chemical.
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History in pictures: Old local photos now on library website
IRON MOUNTAIN – Hundreds of historical photographs are now available to view on the Dickinson County Library's website.
Photographs convey an immense amount of information and historical photographs give us a glimpse into our past which cannot be equaled in words, says local historian William J. Cummings, who is in charge of the project.
"I enjoy compiling local history through transcribing early newspaper articles and writing detailed captions about historic photographs," Cummings said.
"I strongly feel this material needs to be shared with the public," he continued. "History and our heritage is a gift that belongs to all of us, and my goal is to make the material gathered over the decades available to everyone."
Over the past several decades Cummings has accumulated hundreds of images from his personal collection and through the generosity of local institutions and individuals willing to share their resources.
Cummings, a retired Kingsford High School Spanish teacher, has been scanning these images for use in Power Point programs, newspaper articles, historical booklets and other formats for a number of years.
Nick Gayan, Kingsford High School computer teacher, has assisted Cummings in his efforts to scan and digitize these images. Kingsford High School has facilitated this endeavor by allowing Cummings to use its technological resources under Gayan's guidance.
Now these images are becoming a part of a growing collection on line on the Dickinson County Library's website (www.dcl-lib.org).
By selecting the "Local History and Genealogy" tab, individuals interested in area history will find two sites of interest: Local History PowerPoint Presentations and Historic Photographs.
Megan Buck, Dickinson County Library cataloger and computer expert, has placed these resources and others on the library's website to make them available to library patrons.
Currently the Dickinson County photograph files consist of the following: Breen Township, Breitung Township, Felch Township, Norway Township, Sagola Township, Waucedah Township, West Branch Township, City of Iron Mountain Stephenson Avenue, City of Iron Mountain Other Business District Streets, Iron Mountain Schools, City of Kingsford, City of Kingsford Ford Plant, City of Norway and Pine Mountain Ski Jump and Resort. Settlements are listed alphabetically within the township files.
Photograph files for neighboring counties include: Iron County Crystal Falls and Iron River; Florence County, Wis. Florence and Spread Eagle; and Marinette County, Wis. Niagara.
Captions appear with these photographs. At the end of each caption in bracketed italics the name of the source of the image appears.
It is hoped that individuals using these images in other formats or publications will credit the photograph's owner.
Furthermore, it is hoped that if individuals can contribute more information regarding a photograph or correct an error that they will contact Cummings through the Dickinson County Library so that the information can be added.
An example, it would be useful to know the exact year the photograph accompanying this article was taken, and the names individuals standing on the sidewalk.
"The more complete the information in these captions, the better the archive will be for this and future generations," Cummings said.
Also, persons having historically significant photographs that should be a part of this archive are encouraged to contact Cummings. Photographs will be scanned and returned to the owner, and the owner will be noted in caption in the archive.
"There are still many more photographs in my personal collection which will be added," Cummings stated. "Hopefully others will share also."
Cummings has a rather unique background which has facilitated access to, acquisition of and presentation of historical information due to his involvement with various institutions in the community.
A 1969 graduate of Michigan State University, in addition to earning a degree in Spanish, Cummings also received a minor in journalism, and continued with journalism in his post graduate studies. Writing skills and a basic knowledge of graphic design acquired through MSU have proved valuable in his historical endeavors.
Cummings served as the first manager of the Menominee Range Historical Museum and the Cornish Pumping Engine and Mining Museum between 1977 and 1986. He was named as the Foundation's historian in November 2010, and was asked to be a member of the Foundation's Board of Governors early in 2012, where he currently serves as vice-president.
Joining the Dickinson County Genealogical Society in about 1980, he served as president in 1981 and 1982, and has again held that office since 2010. In January, 1982, the Society began publishing a quarterly called Dickinson Diggings. Cummings, initially with the help of several other Society members, has compiled and edited this publication for the past 32 years.
Appointed to the Dickinson County Library Board in 1991, he has served as chairman since 1993. He also served on the Mid-Peninsula Library Cooperative Board for ten years from 1988-1998, serving as chairman for a portion of that time.
In 2008 Cummings was invited to be a member of the Design Committee for Iron Mountain's Main Street program. Together with Audrey (Smith) Carlson, historic tours of downtown Iron Mountain were presented during the summer months for several years to help raise awareness regarding the many historic structures which still remain in that area and the role they played in the development of the community.
His research and compilation of the history Iron Mountain's commercial district street by street and address by address helped win a grant in December 2010 which provided professional assistance from Robert O. Christensen, National Historic Register Coordinator of the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office, who wrote the application for the nomination designating Iron Mountain's Central Historic District as a National Historic District.
The State Historic Preservation Committee approved the application to the National Park Service on Jan. 25, 2013.
All of the above positions have proved useful in pursuing historical research of the area, and have led to a number of publications.
The captioned photographs used in these publications, in turn, have provided the nucleus for the archive now online.
In 1979, Cummings assisted Mary Louise Dulan with the layout and captions for "Born From Iron: Iron Mountain, Michigan, 1879-1979," a book celebrating Iron Mountain's centennial.
In 1984, at the request of the Friends of the Museum, Cummings authored "Iron Mountain's Cornish Pumping Engine and the Mines It Dewatered," which is still used as the official guide book by the Cornish Pumping Engine and Mining Museum.
When Dickinson County celebrated its centennial in 1991, Cummings was selected by the Dickinson County Board of Commissioners to author the book "Dickinson County, Michigan: From Earliest Times Through the Twenties."
Hazel (DeGayner) Dault assisted by writing the family histories contained in that volume.
In 1998, Cummings compiled Kingsford's Diamond Jubilee book, "Kingsford: The Town Ford Built in Dickinson County, Michigan."
Between 1979 and 1993, in conjunction with the Dickinson County Festival of the Arts, Cummings produced a total of 16 annual "tour booklets" focusing on area history and published by the Mid-Peninsula Library Cooperative.
"The photograph archive at the Dickinson County Library is proving to be the realization of one of my goals for easy public accessibility to our area's past," Cummings said.
"The other goal, soon to be put into motion, will be transferring the history files on my computer to a format which will be available on the Dickinson County Library's website for all those interested in learning more about our area's rich heritage," he said.


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The future bride graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Leadership. She is currently employed as an engineer at Southwest Research Institute, where she met her fiancé. She is also a Captain in the California Air National Guard.
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Four years ago, Russian-American virtuoso pianist Lola Astanova sat at her Steinway and pressed "record" on a video camera.
What happened next was a happy little YouTube accident.
"Okay, so a lot of you have probably heard the song 'Don't Stop the Music' by Rihanna, and I happen to like that song as well," Astanova says in the clip, nervously rubbing her denim-clad knee. "So here's my take on it … something different … which was a lot of fun to do. And that's my gift to her, and I hope you guys enjoy it."
For the next four minutes, Astanova's fingers blazed up and down the piano, infusing the bright dance tune with the fire and force of Sergei Rachmaninoff's classical piano concertos. When she was done, she took a deep breath and then giggled.
That was more than 1.5 million views ago. Now, Astanova can rightfully call herself not only a YouTube sensation but also one of the most exciting things to happen to classical music since the Three Tenors—Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras—reintroduced opera to the masses a little more than 20 years ago.
"She is a very passionate and sensitive pianist with great charisma," says Ramon Tebar, conductor of the Palm Beach Symphony, which performed with Astanova for the first time two years ago. "Our audience loves her. She has a superb technique that allows her not only to play the most demanding repertoire but serves her well to communicate the ideas and conceptions of the work she plays."
Astanova was born in the former Soviet Union, where as a little girl she became curious about her mother's upright piano. Her mother taught piano out of their home and didn't want young Lola to pursue a music career because it was so difficult. Her father, a mechanical engineer, thought music lessons would be good for his intensely curious daughter. Astanova's mother relented, and Lola took to the piano "like a tornado," she says. By age 6, she was studying at the V. Uspensky Specialized School of Music for Gifted Children under Tamara Popovich, the school's most famous teacher. By age 8, she was giving performances alone and with orchestras in Germany, France, Italy, Austria and Russia. By age 13, she was featured in a UNESCO documentary called Prodigies of the 20th Century even though she says she never took that "prodigy" label seriously.
|Astanova studied under Lev Naumov at the Moscow State Conservatory.
"I enjoyed being competitive that way and even with other kids," she says, adding she had a normal childhood where she was allowed to play with friends and have Barbie dolls. "That environment was very good for studying and for being creative and learning. But I also went to school with kids who were so talented that the level was just so much higher than what you would normally see among kids that age."
Still, she said she did feel the pressure that came with being a student at an elite music school.
"You felt that people were expecting you to play well and that your teacher was strict and pushed you to the limit," she says. "I think that is hard as a child, especially. So I felt that responsibility and it helped me mature faster because my teacher wouldn't talk to my mother about things like performing or whether I prepared. She would talk to me and I would have to explain myself. That was terrifying."
Terror aside, for a reserved young woman the piano was also a release, an instrument that allowed her to open up and show her passion and emotion to the world. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Astanova knew it was time to experience a different life where she could pursue an arts career seriously. After considering various conservatories and teachers in Europe, Astanova got a special skills and abilities visa in 2000 and moved to Houston, where her older brother lived. Although she studied music at Rice University and with various American teachers, she traveled home frequently to study at the Moscow State Conservatory with Popovich and Lev Naumov, who is considered the godfather of the Russian piano school.
"[Naumov] taught the old way of piano, and in one lesson with him, you would have an awakening of sorts," Astanova says. "He would be so specific in what he wanted from you, yet so gentle and strict. He knew so much about piano that it was overwhelming, and I was fortunate to have a teacher like him in my life."
Although Astanova had been performing since her youth, her performance at the Classical Superstars Fantasy Concert in 2008 was a career changer, meriting not only attention from the mainstream press but also a placement in the Neiman Marcus catalog.
"People started noticing me after that and inviting me to do certain performances," says Astanova, who has performed for the September 11 Memorial on Vladimir Horowitz's Steinway piano and at Carnegie Hall. "It had a lot of mainstream appeal that maybe not a lot of classical music projects have for one reason or another. But these were very lucrative, exclusive engagements that were very good steps for me."
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Samsung Electronics, the world's largest maker of DRAM, has announced that it had begun shipping samples of the industry's highest-density memory module for server systems. The 32GB DDR3 modules were designed for use in advanced servers, which require high-density and high-performance features at low-power consumption levels. Memory chips that power 32GB modules are made using 40nm fabrication process.
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By Donna Winchester
Published March 3, 2007
They fly under the radar in places few would think to look. At night, they lay their heads down in abandoned automobiles, in motel rooms, in spare corners in the homes of relatives. They are the estimated 1,500 children who are homeless yet enrolled in a Pinellas County public school. Thousands of others can be found in Hillsborough and Pasco schools, and in school districts across the state.
Curtis Reitmeyer is one of them. The 10-year-old will tell you the best hours of his day are the ones he spends at Skycrest Elementary School in Clearwater. The rest of the time, he's cooped up in a cramped motel room with his mom and dad, his older brother and two younger sisters.
Curtis says that sharing a bed with another family member makes it hard for him to fall asleep. Traffic along U.S. 19 and arguments among other motel dwellers sometimes wake him in the middle of the night.
And the utter disarray that results when six people spend months together in a small space makes it hard to keep track of things. Curtis says he missed a day of school recently because he couldn't find one of his shoes.
"At our apartment, they were always right next to each other," he says.
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Barbara Duffield, policy director for the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, describes childhood homelessness as pervasive, hidden and heartbreaking.
"It's pervasive in that it exists in every community across the country," Duffield says. "It's hidden in that families with children are less visible than other segments of the homeless population. It's heartbreaking because of the damaging effects homelessness has on every aspect of a child's development."
Under federal law, homeless advocates must identify and provide education services to homeless children. In Pinellas, the school district's homeless education assistance team includes two resource teachers, a social worker and a program coordinator.
Althea Hudson, the coordinator, has seen enough to know how important the smallest comforts can be to needy children.
"The things we take for granted," Hudson says, "are the things they cherish."
While people are quick to judge the homeless, there often are extenuating circumstances that land them in difficult situations. Jon Reitmeyer, Curtis' dad, acknowledges that he hasn't always managed his money well. But he is working two jobs to save for an apartment.
Unfortunately, his credit is bad, which makes landlords wary of leasing to him. So he hands over close to $2,000 a month to the motel, which makes it hard for the family to get ahead.
Debi Turner, principal at Blanton Elementary School, says she has seen many families like the Reitmeyers. At present, she knows of at least five Blanton families who live in shelters. Six to 10 are "doubled-up" with friends or relatives, and one family is living in a van.
"These kids have to come to school and perform, yet they have the weight of the world on them," Turner says.
Largo Middle School principal Fred Ulrich also has seen his share of homeless children. In most cases, Ulrich said, the families are doing everything they can to work toward a better life.
"It's part of our culture to think people are supposed to pull themselves up by their bootstraps," Ulrich says. "But if you've dealt with these issues, you see there's more to it than, 'Why don't you get a job?' "
The two school district employees who know this better than anyone are Janet Walker and Duane Kinnison, resource teachers with the homeless education assistance team. They encounter childhood homelessness every day as they travel from Tarpon Springs to St. Petersburg.
They visit the county's family shelters to check on new arrivals and tell them their rights under federal law. They make sure schools know that homeless children can't be denied enrollment even if they are unable to show proof of age, residency or immunizations.
For Walker and Kinnison, the job often is very basic.
"Sometimes, the children just need some good old reassurance," Kinnison says. "You've got to be a friend to them."
Diamond Williams loved being in her school's gifted program. She cried when she found out she would have to leave it.
Diamond, 8, and her two older brothers now live with their mom, Martisha Haymon, at a Clearwater shelter. They've been there ever since Haymon, 36, a licensed child care worker, fled an abusive relationship in Georgia.
Haymon hopes the eight weeks the family is allowed to stay will be enough time for her to save the $3,100 she needs to move into an apartment. Meanwhile, her biggest worry is that her kids will fall behind in school. That's why she's glad the Pinellas school district has placed an after-school tutor at the shelter.
From 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Highland Lakes Elementary teacher Rachel Barnes works with as many as a dozen children in a small space set up like a classroom. Some, like Diamond, don't need much help. Others are so far behind Barnes wonders if they'll ever catch up.
"You would never know walking up to them that they're in this situation," Barnes says. "I'm sure there are kids in schools nobody knows are homeless."
The district's homeless education assistance team works hard to keep it that way. Sometimes that means providing school supplies, like pencils with good erasers. Other times, it means outfitting kids with everything from jeans to sneakers.
"They won't be name-brand," says Hudson, the coordinator. "But at least they'll fit."
Most school districts receive federal grant money to fund their homeless programs. Pinellas got $95,000 this year. Hillsborough got $125,000, and Pasco got $90,000. But 34 of Florida's 67 districts didn't get any funding at all.
That's because there's not enough money to go around.
Nationally, more than 900,000 children in kindergarten through 12th grade were identified as homeless last year. That's up 50 percent from the 2003-04 school year.
Emina Dizdarevic became homeless last summer when her mom got evicted from a low-income apartment complex in Largo. Emina's dad had left, and her mother, who was making $8-an-hour cleaning houses, couldn't afford rent.
Emina and her older brother, Adis, moved with their mom to a homeless shelter in Clearwater. But they weren't able to stay long enough for Bosnian-born Sada Dizdarevic, 34, to save money for another apartment. Since December, the family has been staying at Resurrection House, a long-term residential program for homeless families in St. Petersburg.
Emina, 10, hopes she'll have her own room some day in a big house. Maybe then, she thinks, she won't be embarrassed to invite her friends from school over to play.
"I know it's not my fault," she says. "But they might make fun of me now."
The toll of childhood homelessness can extend beyond academics, says Harry Brown, an associate superintendent for Pinellas schools who served as the district's first homeless resource teacher. Children like Emina often have a hard time making friends because their lives have been so chaotic, he says.
"It can be like an adult starting a new job every couple of weeks," Brown says.
That's another reason why the work of homeless liaisons within school districts is so vital, says Duffield, the National Association policy director. School often is the only place where homeless children can form stable relationships. School gives structure to their day and provides services, such as breakfast and lunch.
"Ultimately," Duffield says, "school is the place where they hopefully will gain the skills they need to prevent them from becoming homeless adults."
* Source: National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
An estimated 1.35-million children are homeless. That's 39 percent of the homeless population. Forty-two percent are under 5; 47 percent of homeless students do not attend a full year of school; they are twice as likely to have a learning disability; and three times more likely to have emotional or behavioral problems.*State numbers
Florida ranked sixth in the number of homeless children and youth enrolled in public schools during the 2003-04 school year, the most recent year for which data is available, according to a U.S. Department of Education report to Congress. Here are the 10 states with the greatest reported numbers of homeless children and youth for that year. Because many homeless children go unreported, the actual numbers of homeless children are much greater.
California 142,554
Texas 137,858
New York 20,838
Pennsylvania 19,631
Louisiana 17,079
Florida 16,069
Arizona 14,597
Kentucky 13,640
Missouri 12,983
Ohio 12,482
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ATI, graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices, has gained a substantial chunk of the standalone graphics processor market in the first quarter of 2010, according to analysts from Mercury Research. The achievement signifies success of ATI Radeon HD 5000- and 4000-series graphics processing units (GPUs).
Thanks to the latest graphics family and the lack of competing DirectX 11-compliant solutions, ATI Radeon HD 5000-series helped ATI to boost its desktop GPU market share to 42.1%, up 8.2% from the previous quarter, according to a reported published by ChannelWeb web-site. The ramp up of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000- and the launch of the Mobility Radeon HD 5000-series chips early this year, AMD's graphics business unit also increased its market share to 49.7% by about 9% in Q1 2010.
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