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OPINION: Access to sport shouldn't depend on where you live in B.C. - Victoria News
In communities across British Columbia, sport is about much more than competition. It’s where children build friendships, volunteers bring neighbours together, and families gather at local arenas, fields, pools and recreation centres. But for too many families, particularly in smaller and rural communities, the opportunity to participate is becoming increasingly difficult to afford.
OPINION: Access to sport shouldn't depend on where you live in B.C. - Saanich News
In communities across British Columbia, sport is about much more than competition. It’s where children build friendships, volunteers bring neighbours together, and families gather at local arenas, fields, pools and recreation centres. But for too many families, particularly in smaller and rural communities, the opportunity to participate is becoming increasingly difficult to afford.
OPINION: Access to sport shouldn't depend on where you live in B.C. - Surrey Now-Leader
In communities across British Columbia, sport is about much more than competition. It’s where children build friendships, volunteers bring neighbours together, and families gather at local arenas, fields, pools and recreation centres. But for too many families, particularly in smaller and rural communities, the opportunity to participate is becoming increasingly difficult to afford.
Opinion: Affordability Is an election issue. Access to sport must be part of the conversation Original
Breadcrumb Trail Links Home Columnists Op-Ed Without deliberate investment, access to sports risks becoming increasingly dependent on a family's income or postal code, writes Rob Newman. Sport BC photo Photo by Sport BC Affordability is at the forefront of B.C.’s provincial and municipal elections. Families are asking what governments will do about rising costs and pressures on household budgets.
Your IBM i Jobs Don’t Live On An Island Anymore
Your IBM i Jobs Don’t Live On An Island Anymore July 13, 2026 Rob Newman When I am on a call with a prospective customer, one of the first questions I ask is: Are you looking to schedule and automate IBM i jobs specifically, or do you need to incorporate all of your cross-platform dependencies? That question tends to land with a thud. Not because people don’t understand it, but because often they have never really thought about it that way.
Babbacombe Cliff Railway marks 100 years since first journey in 1926
This new year sees a major milestone in the development of one of Torbay’s most iconic and oldest attractions. The Babbacombe Cliff Railway opened on April 1, 1926 when the mayor of Torquay, Alderman John Taylor, cut the ribbon and, with many other distinguished local guests, boarded the carriage and travelled to the lower station at Oddicombe Beach on the first of the many thousands of up and down trips which have followed over the last century.
'Kruger’s defection proves Reform offers nothing to the people Labour was founded to represent'
It was a galling sight for Conservative and progressive voters in East Wiltshire. Danny Kruger – the MP re-elected to represent them little more than a year ago on a Tory ticket – unveiled by Nigel Farage as the latest Reform UK recruit. I know from being the Labour candidate against him at the General Election that there were already strong feelings about Mr Kruger.
Opinion: If provincial parties want to support a healthy economy, they should talk about sport Original
There is a myriad of pressing issues shaping our province, including concerns around affordability, quality of life, housing, crime and health care. Sport could help change the game as its benefits extend beyond individual health and wellness. Sport can serve as a generator of social capital, creating benefits across a broad spectrum of societal goals, including child and youth development, crime prevention, economic development, environmental sustainability and social inclusion.
IWG to open 13 new flexible workspaces in Canada
IWG plans to open 13 new Canadian flexible workspace locations over the next eight months under its new business model. IWG will open HQ-branded workspaces in Edmonton, Winnipeg, London and Quebec City and two in Regina. It will expand its Regus presence to Burnaby (Metro Vancouver), and Mississauga, Woodbridge and Markham in southern Ontario, while opening three SPACES locations in Surrey (Metro Vancouver), Montreal and Halifax.
RioCan, Allied unveil retail tenant list for Toronto's The Well
The developers of downtown Toronto’s massive multi-tower The Well have announced an initial roster of retailers and services which are, or will be, tenants in the three-million-square-foot mixed-use complex. Among the roster are anchors such as an Aisle 24 grocery store which is to be open 24/7, a Shoppers Drug Mart, several banks, an extensive list of restaurants and food and drink options, and a HealthOne Medical and Wellness hub.
REITS focus on balance sheets amid economic turbulence
CEOs and senior executives take the stage for the closing panel discussion at RealREIT in Toronto on Sept. 12. (Steve McLean, RENX) Real estate investment trusts were introduced in the U.S. in 1960 and are active in 41 countries with a combined population of five billion and comprising 83 per cent of global GDP, Real Property Association of Canada CEO Michael Brooks told the audience during the closing roundtable at RealREIT in Toronto.
Blackstone opens Toronto office, plans more Canadian investment
Now that Blackstone has formally opened its Canadian office in downtown Toronto, the world's largest private equity investor is doubling down on its stated goal to increase its Canadian real estate holdings.
Risks Overhead: Operational challenges to roofing and solar during pandemic
Risks Overhead: Operational challenges to roofing and solar during pandemic 15 Sep 2020 By Rob Newman The roofing and solar sectors are familiar with problem solving. Whether it's tackling contracted surveying or conducting on-site inspections, our industry knows how to observe and execute on the everyday challenges that are part of the job. Our industry is also familiar with being prepared. That's why crews put so much effort into design planning, inspections, and bidding to win new projects.
Repeatable NLP of news headlines using Apache Airflow, Newspaper3k, Quilt T4 & Vega
Online newspapers like The New York Times, The Guardian, and CNN are invaluable linguistic sources for determining sentiment analysis. However, systematically acquiring newspaper article data to build a text corpus for calculating sentiment can be difficult. Even with access to databases and tools, it can be tedious to construct a daily newspaper article corpus in a manageable format.
How to document data science projects with Vega visualization, markdown, and T4
Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash When embarking on a new data science project the first step after acquiring the dataset is exploratory data analysis (EDA). This experimental process of analyzing and summarizing the data helps to discern overarching patterns and formulate hypotheses in preparation for modeling. The data and visualizations generated from this iterative process are often discarded or remain unused, even though the analyses themselves contain valuable insights.
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Using Quilt’s T4 to manage an S3-hosted data science project
Amazon’s S3 blob storage is the de facto cloud-based store for the world’s data, but currently doesn’t support managing workflows during the ML project lifecycle. There are several reasons for storing ML project data and notebooks in S3 versus Git and Github: By design, GitHub chokes on storing large files (e.g. database dumps) limiting individual files to 100MB and a whole repository to 1GB. In comparison, S3 supports petabyte-scale datasets.
A New Day Festival news: A New Day, August 2-4…
A New Day Festival news: A New Day, August 2-4… Latest update from A New Day Festival A New Day, August 2-4 For every weekend ticket sold in November, A New Day will donate 5% towards a Christmas dinner for homeless people. Not exactly ‘Feed The World’ but let’s feed a few people eh?
A New Day Festival news: A NEW DAY FESTIVAL August 2-4,Faversham, Kent. Important Update: FOCUS have now …
If every gig sounded this good the world would be a joyous place. CUD’s return to the Islington Academy some ten years and a handful […]
Nearmap in $70m raising
Aerial imagery company Nearmap has boosted its coffers with a $70 million capital raising, with the proceeds set to be spent on sales and marketing. Login below or For first time subscribers, our monthly payment starts at $1 + GST for the first month. To read more, pleasebelow or Subscribe For first time subscribers, our monthly payment starts at $1 + GST for the first month.
Rosser still dreaming with his feet on the ground
Brad Rosser brings diverse experience with Bond Corp, McKinsey and Co, Virgin and Unilever Ventures to his current focus on startups. Login below or For first time subscribers, our monthly payment starts at $1 + GST for the first month. To read more, pleasebelow or Subscribe For first time subscribers, our monthly payment starts at $1 + GST for the first month.
Kilmore Cairn (Loch Nell)
This page, called originally just 'Loch Nell', was picking up a photos from the 'Serpent Mound - Loch Nell', the 'Dalineun Farm, Loch Nell chambered cairn' and 'Skull Shaped Stone - Loch Nell'. Looking on Canmore, there are a number of cairns, a mound, a crannog and a chambered cairn within a 250m radius.
Summer weather, moon mean it's a prime time for good fishing
As the days grow longer, hotter and hopefully wetter, the month of June is a great time to fish. In fact, June 9 was the one day of free fishing in the state. The Department of Wildlife & Freshwater Fisheries Division declared that all Alabama residents could fish state wide without a fishing license. However, I must note that written permission from the landowner is always required if you are fishing on private land.
Turkey two-step: 13-year-old Mari Grace Brooks notches 'double grand slam'
Since the dust has settled from this turkey season, I want to tell the amazing story of an accomplished young turkey hunter. Her name is Mari Grace Brooks from Grady, and she is 13 years old. Mari Grace successfully completed the double grand slam in a single season. This is unheard of and possibly the first 13-year-old female ever do such an unimaginable task in one year.
Cast & Blast: Putting turkey season in perspective
Considering how much time I spent chasing turkeys this spring, I feel it is appropriate to conclude the season with a turkey recap. I went too much and didn’t log in a single gobbler, plain and simple. I hunted 24 mornings and six afternoons during the 2018 season. Comparing the past data from my avid turkey hunting survey shows a slight up tick on days a field. Truthfully, I always go hunting more than I probably should, especially the last week of the season. This year was no different.
Cast & Blast: Friends help in the tough turkey times
Time is getting short, and the turkeys just are not acting like they should in middle of April. Everywhere I go, people are telling me it is their worst season in the turkey woods. Most disappointing is the lack of gobbling, and when turkeys don’t gobble at daylight on roost, it simply takes the air out of the hunt. Since my last article two weeks ago, I have taken a few close friends and customers hunting. I enjoy doing this more now than in the past.
CEO lunch with Andrew Hall
A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia. Login below or For first time subscribers, our monthly payment starts at $1 + GST for the first month. To read more, pleasebelow or Subscribe For first time subscribers, our monthly payment starts at $1 + GST for the first month.
For one lucky turkey, his bow could only bow
It has been another wacky year for many in the spring turkey woods. Since most hunters blame everything including success and/or failed hunting attempts on the weather, I will start here. Overall, I believe the weather has been fine for hunting. Sure, we have had a few bouts of storms to roll through, and it is unfortunate that recent weekends have had the threat of showers. It is not much fun to turkey hunt the day after a storm with strong, 15 mph north winds.
Cast & Blast: Sharpe-minded hunter
Turkey season has been in full swing for almost two weeks now, but for lucky youth hunters it is pushing three. I must admit that all youth hunters are not as fortunate as some. When the father is an avid turkey hunter, their little acorn normally doesn’t fall too far from their tree. This is exactly the case with 10-year-old Myles Sharpe from LeGrande.
Cast & Blast: Fireside chat: Prescribed burns help replenish hunting lands
The period between the end of deer season and start of turkey season is a busy time for most outdoorsmen. Besides trimming limbs around deer stands, removing lock-on and portable stands from the woods, busting beaver dams and setting predator traps, a prescribe burn is at the top of the list. Just ask anyone in central Alabama who has flown on a plane lately, especially at night. The fire flames are easily seen from above, just like the smoke plumes are from the ground.
Squirrel Master Classic a blast for everyone, but the squirrels
When it comes to hunting, there are three occasions when I expect a sleepless night. The night before bow season opens Oct. 15, the night before the Squirrel Master Classic in mid-February and the eve of spring turkey season on March 15. The fifth annual Squirrel Master Classic was Tuesday and Wednesday at the Southern Sportsman Hunting Lodge in Lowndes County, near the community of White Hall and just 30 miles west of downtown Montgomery.
Deer hunting creates enduring memories
I bet a lot of deer hunters woke up this morning with a lost empty strange feeling. Surely most folks are happy to see it end but on the other hand there are those who would rather keep it going. The 10 extra days in February have helped, especially in areas where the deer are still in rut, Montgomery county included. Think about it, deer have been either shot at, spooked, jumped up by hunters with a bow, big guns, air guns and even spears since Oct. 14. That is four months of hunting time.
Cast & Blast Outdoors: Prime deer hunting coming up in January
The best deer hunting is yet to come. At this point in deer season, many hunters look at the season as being half over, but more serious avid hunters understand that the best hunting is yet to come. The weather plays a big part in deer movement. Remember just a couple of weeks ago when the temperatures were warm and the abnormal fogging conditions during the mornings and afternoons made it difficult to see much less hunt. Things are about to drastically change. I hunt mostly the rut peaks around Jan.
Cast & Blast: Hunters’ use of drones to spot game becoming more prevalent
Over the past few years of writing outdoor columns, I have touched on many topics that I enjoy doing such as all types of hunting, fishing and wildlife studies. As I pondered the subject matter for this week’s article, I received a call from a close friend who experienced something in the sky while sitting in the center of his property that is worth discussing. I am referring to a drone. We better get used to them because they are here to stay.
Cast & Blast Outdoors: Bushy tail squirrel hunt for a change of pace
The first couple of weeks after the opening of deer season, I spend most of my available time sitting in a tree with my bow waiting on a mature buck. I really enjoy the peace and solitude of being in nature. It is a great way to relieve work stress and all the pressure that builds from a busy work schedule. If a shooter walks by and I get lucky to make a kill shot I will take it. However, understand that if nothing shows up, it is still a blessing to be able to enjoy the great outdoors.
Cast & Blast: Gun season in Alabama in full swing
By the time you wake up Sunday morning and grab the newspaper to check out football game scores and local-current events, deer season is in full bore. Yes, gun season for white tailed deer statewide in Alabama has started. Personally, it is bittersweet for me knowing that the woods will no longer be a peaceful tranquil place as it was during bow hunting season. Sure, I grew up hunting deer with a gun but as I have gotten older, bow hunting is my favorite way to hunt.
Cast & Blast Outdoors: Telluride, Colo., offers great backdrop for elk hunt trip
When the opportunity came again for me to tag along with my Colorado friends on another elk hunt, I jumped at the chance. At 8,750 feet of elevation, Telluride, Colorado, is known worldwide for its incredible mountain beauty and amazing snow skiing. This historic town is nestled in the San Juan mountain range and near the Uncompahgre National Forest. Laura, my wife, and I were excited to be heading back to Telluride. It is one of our favorite places.
Cast & Blast Outdoors: For deer-hunting luck, wear camo shorts
To have successful deer hunting in the early part of bow season you must adapt to the time that the deer are on their feet. So, hunting during the normal times when deer should be feeding like the early morning and late afternoon may not be the best time to see the deer you are pursing. Typically, you would expect to see more deer at first light and last light but during early bow season this isn’t always the case. The deer are still in their summer pattern and the bucks are in bachelor groups.
Cast & Blast: Where to hunt? Bow season opens soon
As some of you may know or may not know, the start of the 2017 bow season for whitetails opens Oct. 14. Traditionally it has been Oct. 15. Oddly enough some folks that call themselves serious bow hunters don’t realize that this year’s bow season opens one day earlier. Sooner is better in this case because hunters are anxiously waiting opening weekend. This will allow folks the opportunity to hunt the entire weekend and be good and ready for work on Monday with hopefully a story to tell.
Cast & Blast Outdoors: A September dove shoot to remember
Last weekend was the opening of dove season across the state. The season opener is always at noon. I am really not sure of the logic behind this, but as long as I can remember, this is how it has been and guess it will always be. Don’t get me wrong, I am all about tradition but probably more than I should be. The anticipation of a dove shoot opening day is exciting for all. For most of us, the opening of dove season kicks off the start of hunting season.
Cast & Blast: Plan to take a kid or two on youth hunts
There is something to be said for parents or for that matter any adult that spends time with today’s youth. Whether it is on the ball field being a coach, a scout leader or being involved with the youth at church, all kids need mentors to spend quality time with during their developmental years. Today, kids spend most of their free time on the internet playing computer games with friends or simply laying around with their cellphone attached to their hand.
Cast & Blast: There is still time left to go fishing
With the tail end of this Alabama summer slowly approaching it is still a good time to get in some quality fishing. The kids are now back in school but are anxiously waiting for the first major holiday — Labor Day, Sept. 4. I believe it should be a “staycation” where you could take the kids camping and maybe doing some fishing. As a child, my family took camping trips to Lake Martin and other public camping grounds around the state.
Cast & Blast Outdoors: Buckmasters Expo is back Aug. 18-20
Well folks it is finally here again. The granddaddy of them all — The 2017 Buckmasters Expo. I always look forward to the Buckmasters Expo for several reasons. I enjoy the camaraderie with all the folks who attend and the excitement and attention that it brings to the great sport of hunting. Plus, it is the one event I can count on seeing old friends and their children to catch up on past hunting seasons’ success and stories of unfortunate mishaps.
Keeping a pond in its best shape can be a pesky problem
It is that time of year again where not much has changed lately when it comes to the outdoors or much of anything else for that matter. It is a fantastic feeling knowing that the first college football game will be played in less than 30 days. That should provide some relief to those waiting for more moderate temperatures that should soon follow the start of the season. In the meantime, fishing has been good, especially when done early morning or just before sunset.
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