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Working under water: a day in the life of a submarinerPamela RothVictoria News

The ladder leading down into the HMCS Chicoutimi submarine is surprisingly long. Taking the first step feels like entering a manhole, but the bottom is a world unlike any other.

A maze of white pipes and shiny valves line much of the dimly lit walls, making it look like a spaceship

thats preparing for take off. Aside from a periscope, there are no windows to see whats going on outside as the submarine plunges into the darkness of the ocean for days on end.

This is where Petty Officer First Class John Janssen and Lt. Phil Fordham come to work each day. The pair cant imagine anything better than working on a submarine.

Its definitely one of the coolest things you can do in the military, said the 28-year-old Fordham, who began working on submarines when he got bored with surface fleet.

With subs, theres always something different. You get to be a lot more involved with everything youre doing for operations.

A member of the Canadian navy for 30

years, Janssen has spent 17 of those on surface fleet and the rest on a submarine.

Like Fordham, he needed a change and jumped at the opportunity to work on a submarine when he heard they were getting placed on the West Coast, even though he had never been on one before.

But when Janssen stepped onto a sub for the first time he

was overwhelmed. Despite his training, he wondered what he had gotten himself into. So did Fordham.

I looked at all the pipe work, the valves its the most technologically advanced thing besides a spaceship, Fordham said.

Canadas fleet of submarines has had its share of ups and downs. In 1998, the Canadian navy

purchased four used diesel-electric long subs from the British navy for nearly $900 million, and theyve undergone a series of costly repairs and upgrades since then.

A fire on board the HMCS Chicoutimi in 2004 killed Lt. Chris Saunders and injured eight others just hours into its maiden voyage, and in 2011, the HMCS Corner Brooke ran aground off

Vancouver Island. The sub is now undergoing maintenance and upgrades that wont be ready until 2017.

Last February was cause for a celebration when the HMCS Victoria became operational, patrolling waters along the B.C. coast with the HMCS Chicoutimi.

Lt. Phil Fordham of the Royal

Canadian Navy gives a tour of the HMCS Chicoutimi submarine at CFB

Esquimalt. Pamela Roth/Victoria News

PlEASE SEE: Subs a valuable

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Officials say the vessels significantly extend the Navys tactical and strategic capabilities, and are ideal for surveillance and gathering intelligence. Travelling at speeds of 12 knots at the surface and 20 knots when submerged, the submarines are capable of operating in the Arctic, Pacific and Atlantic approaches to Canada.

At 72 metres long and 15.9 metres high, the subs can carry a crew of 48 people and typically have enough food for 28 days. Most of the crew are on watch 12 hours a day, conducting operations such as compiling sensor information through the sonars and periscope.

Janssen has patrolled the waters of the Arctic and East Coast, and conducted drug interdictions in tropical waters. The subs use sonar to detect a contact that gets passed on to patrol, then edges closer to pop up the periscope and take pictures, depending on the mission. The information all gets sent back to shore to determine whether thats the contact officials are looking for.

We feel sneaky. You can easily tell if a ship is doing something illegal because they dont know that youre

there, but you know that they are there, said Janssen, whose longest mission was 29 days.

After spending that much time submerged under the ocean, both Janssen and Fordham are anxious to see what theyve been missing on land.

Theres very minimal news coming in (to the sub). You come back and movies have been advertised, been released and gone through theatres in the time it takes you to get back, said Fordham. Theres a whole new world of hit songs on the radio that youve never heard before. You are just

really out of the loop, entirely isolated.

One of the biggest challenges of living and working in such a

cramped environment is the lack of exercise and not being able to shower every day. Those on board take turns using the two tiny showers. The cook and doctor are the only ones that get to shower on a daily basis.

Although Fordham and Janssen love what they do, working in a cramped environment cut off from the rest

of the world and surrounded by nothing but ocean isnt for everyone.

According to Fordham, some sailors are fine until the sub dives and theres a column of water above them. It always takes him a few days to get

settled in whenever he departs on another mission.

Despite the criticism of Canadas submarines, Janssen maintains they are a valuable component of the navy and submariners are making a difference.

People want to know what is in Canadian air space, they want to know what is in Canadian territorial water on the surface, why would you not want to know what is actually underneath the water? he said. Its the best thing I ever did. This is my cup of tea.

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Lt. Phil Fordham of the Royal Canadian Navy gives a tour of the HMCS Chicoutimi submarine at Esquimalt.

Senior, 101, puts kibosh on CRA scammers Pamela RothVictoria News

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) Scam has claimed hundreds of victims during the past year, but a 101-year-old Victoria woman refused to be added to that list.

The senior, a resident of the James Bay New Horizons Centre, notified staff when she was recently contacted by scammers posing as a representative of the CRA.

Victims of the scam typically receive a phone call from an angry caller, claiming to represent the CRA and that taxes are owed. The caller requests immediate payment by credit card or convinces the victims to purchase a prepaid credit card and call back immediately with the information. If they dont, the victims are often threatened with court charges, jail or deportation.

In this case, the senior was told she had outstanding taxes and was about to be prosecuted, but she was unfazed.

Staff spoke with residents and discovered two of their members had fallen victim to the scam. One lost $450 half her monthly rent and another lost $600. The centre gathered the funds to cover the rent and staff have since reached out to various nearby partners in the community to inform them about the scam.

Since the scam surfaced last summer, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received more than 10,000 calls from across Canada.

Last August, Victoria police were flooded with calls from citizens that were traumatized by the scam. In some cases, the victims attempted to turn themselves in for what they believed to be non payment of their taxes. That same month, the CRA issued a public warning about the scam after seeing an increase in reports.

Investigators are reminding the public that the CRA never contacts people over the phone to discuss fraud concerns and never threatens arrest over the phone unless a reduced fine is paid during that conversation. Anyone whos fallen victim to the scam should call 250-995-7654.

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You can easily tell if a ship is doing something illegal because they dont know that youre there, but you know that they are there.

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Edson Mahecha envi-sions a country that is free of violence and political unrest where he can raise his chil-dren.

Mahecha grew up in Bogota, Colombia. Com-ing from a military fam-ily (his brother, father and uncle also served), he grew to love the Colombian Military at a young age.

But it wasn't until the birth of his daughter that he realized the importance of such an institution.

I want a better coun-try for my daughter so she can grow up without violence, said Mahecha, who has served in the army for the past 12 years and now works in Bogota's military operations headquarters.

For that reason, we try and make a change.

In September, Colom-bian President Juan

Manuel Santos and Timoleon Jimenez, the leader of the Revolu-tionary Armed Forces of Colombia (a guerrilla group that has been fighting against the government and carry-ing out public attacks since 1964), announced the Transitional Justice Accord to put an end to the conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 200,000 peo-ple in Colombia.

Mahecha is one of 67 officers from the Colom-bian Military who came to Canada in Septem-ber to learn English as part of a partnership between the military and inlingua Victoria College of Languages, a college that hosts students from around the world who come to study English.

The goal was to improve officers' Eng-lish language skills enough to participate in peacekeeping missions with the United Nations and operations with

other nations, as part of Colombia's transition to becoming a peacekeep-ing country.

Officers were invited into the homes of homestay families in Greater Victoria for a 12-week period, where they were provided with food and a Cana-dian cultural experi-ence.

This was Mahecha's first visit to Canada.

Victoria is a beauti-ful city, it's very differ-ent from Colombia. All the time that I was with the homestay parents, the students from dif-ferent countries it's a unique experience, he said, adding he knew a bit of English before coming to Canada.

Craig Kelley, director of operations with the college, said the chance to learn English will help the officers move up the ranks in the mili-tary when they return to Colombia or allow them to continue on to masters or university

programs. I think there's a huge

opportunity for the stu-dents to come here and have the opportunity to learn English that's going to improve their quality of life when they go back home, Kelley said, adding this is the first time the college has partnered with the military. They work hard, they're good people. It's really added a lot to the school com-munity.

This was the first group of officers from Colombia to gradu-ate and Kelley expects there will be more in the future.

As for Mahecha, after 12 weeks of talk-ing to his five-year-old daughter via Skype, he's excited to return home just in time for Christ-mas.

It's a surprise. We bought a big box (to surprise his daughter) in Colombia, so I'll go inside, he laughed. [email protected]

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Members of the Colombian army sing the countrys national anthem at the Vic Theatre on Friday, Dec. 18. Sixty-seven officers graduated from the inlingua Victoria College of Languages as part of a partnership between the school and the Colombia Military.Kendra Wong/Victoria News


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Making wishes come true

Every year on Christmas Eve, motorcycles parade through the streets of Verona, Italy with riders collecting toys from local business for the citys children. Its a big celebration that puts smiles on the faces of youngsters throughout the city.

On Saturday, Dec. 19, Victoria had its own celebration with a parade of scooters rolling through downtown to Market Square during the first annual Santa Scoot.

Luca Orlandi of Famoso Pizzeria on Johnson Street is the one who organized the parade and arranged to donate a portion of the proceeds from every pizza sold that day to the Help Fill a Dream Foundation an Island-based organization that helps children with life-threatening conditions fulfill their dreams.

Since the parade involved transportation on two wheels, Help Fill a Dream incorporated a dream reveal for Andrei Marti. The six-year-old was diagnosed with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes last summer and riding his bike is a huge part of his life.

Since his diagnosis, Marti has become an active volunteer for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and participated in the Pedal for a Cure fundraiser where he cycled for three hours.

From his time spent at the free-ride park, Marti has been wishing for a Rocky Mountain bike. On Dec. 19, his wish came true when Santa arrived with the bike in Market Square. Marti was overjoyed.

I cant believe it, he said. This is really, really cool.

The story is one that warms the heart and was made possible by donations from the community. Thanks to the generosity of Victorians this holiday season, a number of children have had their wish come true and woke up Christmas morning with smiles and memories thatll last a lifetime.

The death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the traditional round of polite tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who remade Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm.

Outside B.C., the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the architect of financial restraint in the province.

It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his restraint program on the B.C. government in 1983, it was presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia.

I was in journalism school in Vancouver when unions organized a general strike and mass street demonstrations under the banner of Operation Solidarity, appropriated from the struggle against Polands communist dictators. Their goal was to bring the recently re-elected government to its knees.

The newly tabloid Vancouver Province, itself largely controlled by some of B.C.s most militant unions, was a screeching banshee of the big-labour left.

Socred hitmen swoop on rights workers, its front page declared after 400 layoff notices were issued to provincial staff. This propaganda was the publics guide and my professional role model.

A bit of background: the B.C. economy was in the grip of an international

recession, hitting resource industries and government revenues hard.

Bennett had ousted the Dave Barrett NDP government in 1975, but the legacy lived on. During its three-year reign, for example, education spending increased 13 per cent in the first year and 23 per cent in each of the next two.

The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted governments authority to control the size and wages of

provincial staff, reinstated the provinces ability to pay, eliminated various boards, and increased the provincial sales tax to seven per cent to pay the bills.

Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly chokehold of big international unions on public heavy construction.

Growing up in northeastern B.C., I had seen the impressive pay for jobs on highway construction, about twice what I earned labouring for a non-union contractor doing city work.

A couple of friends discovered the inside track to securing labouring jobs on a provincially-funded highway project.

After joining the union, those in the know could visit a business agent and hand over $500 cash. Within days, the lucky winner would be name requested to join the crew, vaulting over those who thought paying dues and working their way up the seniority list would be enough.

This struggle over public construction continues today, with B.C. Hydros decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. The main contract was awarded to a consortium working with the Christian Labour Association of Canada, an alternative union known by more colourful names among old-line building trades.

After graduating from journalism school, I landed my first full-time job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premiers office to finish his term as a backbench MLA.

Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Bennetts modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier. The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills. That was Bill Bennett.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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Pamela RothVictoria News

Ever since high school, Moiz Karim has been fascinated with movies.

When he was in Grade 10, Karim and his friends would often make random videos ranging from scary to funny on a hand held camera, then post them on social media sites just for fun.

I always connected with movies, said the 21-year-old co-founder of the Shoreline Film Festival. I could watch a movie and com-pletely zone out, see something else, be

somewhere else and it was a good feeling so I just kept it going from there.

Being such a film enthusiast, Karim was thinking about going into digital media once he graduated from his Surrey, B.C. high school. But he chose to keep it as a hobby and wound up study-ing political science at the University of Victo-ria instead.

At Karim's high school one year, a stu-dent film festival was held that involved the surrounding district. When he moved to Vic-toria, Karim wanted to do the same thing, but didn't have the time or motivation until now.

Karim has compiled a team of five people (along with co-found-ers Tahir Chatur and Matt Power) to help

create the Shoreline Film Festival, which gives amateur student filmmakers the oppor-tunity to present their work to a live audi-ence. The overall mis-sion is to create aware-ness of all the hidden talent within the com-munity.

The films submit-ted for the festival can't exceed 10 min-utes and have a list of guidelines, such as no excessive gore, profanity or violence. The top seven to eight films will be chosen for a year-end gala, where they will be screened live and judged in three categories best overall short film, best screenplay and best cinematography.

As for the content, Karim said anything goes.

We're looking for

pretty much anything and I think that's the cool part, said Karim. You can talk to the camera for six min-utes, you can be film-ing your skateboard tricks, it can be a silent film, it can be an action film, comedy there's no real limits. It's just you and the creative process and whatever that process brings you.

The Shoreline Film Festival was launched in October and the deadline for submis-sions is March 1.

The year-end gala will feature live per-formances, along with an art auction where 50 per cent of the pro-ceeds go to charity. For more information and a full list of guide-lines visit shoreline.com.

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City council on naughty list: taxpayers federation

Victoria city coun-cils handling of taxpay-ers dollars has landed them on the Canadian Taxpayers Federations annual naughty list this Christmas.

According to the fed-eration, Victoria coun-cil lurched from one mistake to another.

The federation cited a number of projects which landed council on the naughty list, including the Johnson Street Bridge, the cost of which is looming

closer to the $100 mil-lion mark; partnering in the Seaterra project, in which the city spent money after the sew-age project was killed; spending money on an interactive musical rail-ing installed in Bastion Square parkade stair-wells; and purchas-ing the building that houses the Victoria Vis-itors Centre in the Inner

Harbour for $8 million from the province.

All of these blun-ders distract from the real issues facing Victo-ria: homelessness and downtown shops going out of business, said CTF B.C. director Jor-dan Bateman.

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When Bernice Kamano told the small crowd, during a candle-light vigil on National Homeless Persons Memorial Day, about a young man who had passed away living on the streets, she couldnt bring herself to read the whole story.

The young aboriginal man had battled homelessness among other issues in his all-too-short lifetime. Attendees and stopper-bys at Whale Wall in downtown on Dec. 21, listened to somber presentations and observed a moment of silence, remembering those who passed away living on the streets in 2015. It was only fitting that a cold wind accompa-nied the shortest day of the year. The sentiment was clear from the beginning and echoed throughout

the event: end homelessness in Victoria.

Hilary Marks, with the Greater Victoria Coalition to End Home-lessness, led the event as volun-teers passed out electric candles. She hopes one day they wont have to hold this event at all.

By law we all have the right to housing but unfortunately we dont all have it, Marks said. I wish we could stop this and just house people and have them liv-ing longer and have a better qual-ity of life.

Marks said the mission is to end homelessness by 2018 and she thinks if everyone is on board and doing the right things, theres no reason they cant accomplish their goal.

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Among the roughly 35 people in attendance was Jeremy Loveday, a Victoria city councillor. He said this event serves as a reminder of the work that needs to be done to find a home for everyone in the city.

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Earlier this month, Emberly gath-ered with other merchant navy veter-ans and their wives for a turkey din-ner. It was nice to catch up with old comrades and reconnect, he said.

Events like the dinner are becoming fewer and further apart as more and more war veterans are passing away each year. Emberly said the govern-ment, after ignoring merchant navy veterans for years, has only recently started to show support.

Were finally getting benefits now. In 1992, we were officially recognized as veterans, Emberly said. I finally got a pension in 2008.

Zimmerman said the recognition of the merchant navy was a long time coming but things are finally getting better. After World War II, the fleet was disbanded and the merchant navy basically ceased to exist.

Knowing what those benefits are and how to access them is lost on some veterans, Emberly said, which is one reason he stays active in the vet-eran community.

The reason I stay involved is to help people, Emberly said. Even to this day, there are a lot of people that dont know they are entitled to ben-efits.

For Emberly, events like the last supper, are really important to keep the feeling of belonging alive amongst remaining veterans.

The camaraderie that these people have is unbelievable. I think its hold-ing them together, he said.

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