China'BOXED

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Beta Sigma Phi

Pat Cristiano

 250-627-7761

 

Community Cancer Services

 Judy Rea

 250-622-6533

 

Elks Lodge

Doug Stevens

 250-624-5971

 

Indo-Canadian Association

 ]Masonic Lodge



    :twisted:  Masonic Lodge Tsimpsean #58



    :twisted:  Masonic Lodge Tyee #66[/b]  



Bill McIntyre



Paul Pike

 



250-624-4518



250-627-1472

 

Moose Lodge

 Office 250-624-4104

 

Royal Canadian Legion #27

 Marie Lewis

 250-622-2869

 

Royal Purple of Canada

 Julie Stevens

 250-624-5971

 

Prince Rupert Chinese Association

   ]Rebbekah Lodge*[/b]

 Dadye Schwab

 250-624-2821

 

Sons of Norway Lodge

Karen Skarpnes

 250-627-8714

 

Women of the Moose

 Charlene Hamilton

 250-627-7877

 

* Not located in Prince Rupert Yellow Pages 2012

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[size=200]LNG [Liquid Natural Gas] Project Underway/Prince Rupert[/size]

http://investnorthwestbc.ca/major-projects-and-investment-opportunities/map-view/prince-rupert/prince-rupert-lng-terminal">http://investnorthwestbc.ca/major-proje ... g-terminal">http://investnorthwestbc.ca/major-projects-and-investment-opportunities/map-view/prince-rupert/prince-rupert-lng-terminal

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A Grand Sell-Out Party, It Was

http://www.asiapacificgateway.gc.ca/photos/minister-highlights-links.html">http://www.asiapacificgateway.gc.ca/pho ... links.html">http://www.asiapacificgateway.gc.ca/photos/minister-highlights-links.html

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Canada port eyes pot of gold at end of downturn

By Earle Gale (China Daily)

Updated]



Prince Rupert on Canada's northernmost west coast is considerably closer to Asia than other North American container ports - meaning imports flow into North America days faster than through its rivals.

 



A seaside town in the shadows of Canada's West Coast mountains that calls itself the "City of Rainbows" will be looking for its pot of gold at the end of the economic downturn.



With a population of 13,000, Canada's most rain-soaked city (it gets over 250 cm a year) is awash with totem poles, bald eagles and boarded-up storefronts.



To many, it might look like an unusual boomtown-in-waiting but experts believe a bright future is on the horizon, thanks to the fact that Prince Rupert is 4,642 nautical miles from Shanghai while Los Angeles is 5,810 miles away.



After all, distance is time, and time is money in the international shipping business and Prince Rupert's brand new container port is being touted as Asia's next major gateway into North America.



"Our stars have aligned," said Don Krusel, Prince Rupert Port Authority's president and CEO less than two years ago when the port opened.



"Our timing couldn't have been better to bring on stream this high-performing container terminal to anchor a new express trade corridor. We will be able to offer both Asian and North American shippers unparalleled reliability, efficiency and speed in moving their products through our port."



It was a proud day for Krusel, who had been championing Prince Rupert and its underutilized port 770 km north of Vancouver for a long time in September 2007 when the new container port welcomed its first ship. He was sure the tide was about to turn for Prince Rupert after years of high unemployment.



When Krusel started at the port authority - as its manager of finance and administration in 1987 - the tiny facility shipped out felled trees, coal and grain and handled almost no imports.



But Krusel couldn't help noticing the port - being about as far north and west as you can get in North America - was much closer to Asia than the established West Coast terminals and he was sure it was the right place for a container handling facility.



Indeed, that proximity to Asia was the very reason the town was founded in 1910 by railway company executive Charles Melville Hays - as a conduit for China's silk exports.



Hays died aboard the Titanic in 1912 and his dream all but died with him.



Prince Rupert languished, overlooked and underused, for the next nine decades.





"Port development has taken a long time," admitted Mayor Jack Mussallem. "Ever since 1910 and the sinking of the Titanic, with Charles Melville Hays on board, we have had some port facilities in place: coal and grain export terminals, " but little else.



But in 2007, after a $170-million partnership between the Port Authority, Maher Terminals, Canadian National Railways and two levels of the Canadian government, the old port was enlarged and equipped with expanded rail sidings and an array of container-handling hardware.



Chinese cranes



Three massive cranes, each weighing 1,800 tons and towering 80 m above the dockside, now dominate the skyline.



Built by ZPMC of Shanghai, the cranes, and the exceptionally deep natural harbor meant tiny Prince Rupert could unload the world's largest container vessels.



"Now, the first phase of the container port can handle half a million containers a year," Mussallem said.



The grandson of Lebanese immigrants who moved to Prince Rupert in 1910 when the town was brand new, he is well aware of how patiently locals have waited for their world-class port.



"It is our destiny," he said.



Stockwell Day, Canada's minister of international trade, is fond of pointing out to foreign shippers that Prince Rupert offers a three- to five-day time-saving on an average 17-day trip from Asia to North America.



But if Prince Rupert thought it could sit back and let the Asian exports flow in, it was in for a rude awakening. The tide changed quickly after the new container port opened two years ago when the world was lunging into economic recession.



With North American consumers no longer thirsting for Asia's exports, the port that can handle 500,000 20-foot containers a year offloaded only 182,000 from 78 vessels in its first year.



And with China exporting 26.4 percent less in May 2009 than it did one year earlier, the short-term prognosis is not good.



Local politician Gary Coons, who represents the city and surrounding area in the provincial legislature, admitted people are disappointed.



"The port, so far, has not lived up to expectations," he said. "I believe many of us are disillusioned at this point in time."



But he is in no doubt it will become one of the world's premier container-handling facilities.



"As soon as markets stabilize and shippers realize the benefits of the 'Northern Gateway' ... Prince Rupert will be a major player," Coons predicted.



And it is with that sort of optimism that Prince Rupert is pushing forward with $600-million plans to expand the container port, so that by 2014, it will be able to handle two million containers.



Nathan Cullen, the local Member of Parliament who represents the region in Canada's federal chamber in Ottawa, is in no doubt that the port's future is inextricably linked with Asia's prosperity.



"This port will grow and become a major player on the western shipping front," he said. "It allows the city to diversify itself at a critical time in its recovery it's critical for the country to have alternate routes with a growing Asian market."



"Time is money," added Mussallem. "Buyers and customers want just-on-time delivery. So the question is: 'What route would you choose?'"



It's taken 100 years but Prince Rupert believes its destiny, so closely linked to China's prosperity, will finally be realized at the end of the economic downturn.







The photo that made me so angry...

 http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2073984593594193476#editor/target=post;postID=5573217501464920251">http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID ... 1464920251">http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2073984593594193476#editor/target=post;postID=5573217501464920251

 



Dale McLean, chair of the board of directors of Prince Rupert Port Authority, and Wen Jianyao, vice-president of Ningbo Port Group, sign an agreement on the container port on Sept 12, 2007. Barry Bartlett/Prince Rupert Port Authority

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[size=200]Asia-Pacific Facebook Cable...Huh![/size]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18725728">http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18725728

[Gary Oak]

Facebook is banned in China as is memebee

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[size=200]The Asia-Pacific Gateway..or how The Port of Prince Rupert was sold out to China![/size]

The whole Prince Rupert, gateway to Asia is CN and Warren Buffet's vision.

ya that scandal! Closed door sessions with the judge, no cameras! And Warren with his toy bride of Chinese decent..hmmm.

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do you really think that the natives will allow a train vs a pipeline..same thing isnt it to them,a spil is a spill is a spill

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I see

[Gary Oak]

an about face..hmmm



 

[Securious]

In total, anywhere from 1,600 to just under 2,000 Chinese nationals could find full-time work in four coal mining projects being proposed in coming years for northern B.C.

 

Posted by]Recent Posts From This Author[/b]

Chinese miners raise spectre in Canada

Posted on Oct 13, 2012Canadian filmmaker exposes hell to the light



Posted on Oct 11, 2012



The Conservative government's welcoming of 200 Chinese nationals to work in northern B.C. mines made front-page news across Canada this week, including in this thorough article by The Vancouver Sun's Peter O'Neil.



The hot media attention, and in some cases anger, confirmed my January prediction that Canadians, facing tough economic times, will increasingly see menace in the rapid rise in temporary foreign workers in this country.



Canada now has roughly 300,000 temporary foreign workers, about double the number before the Conservatives came to power in 2005. The burst of interest in the arrival of Chinese national coal miners has provoked discussion about whether this trend is something to fear.



Specialists agree there will always be a need for a small number of temporary foreign workers, to fill skilled or semi-skilled positions for a short time. Employers often claim they need temporary foreign workers because there is a "shortage" of Canadians prepared to fill the jobs.



But critics say what the employers really mean, in many cases, is there aren't enough Canadians to do such work for poor wages and conditions.



Even conservative critics, such as as Martin Collacott, of the Fraser Institute, worry that the flood of temporary foreign workers is driving down wages and taking the pressure off governments to properly train Canadians.



How are things from the other end? The typical temporary foreign worker is in a vulnerable position, unable to speak up for him or herself while in Canada, officially allowed to stay only four years. But many end up applying for citizenship.



Here is an excerpt from my Jan. 8th column headlined "Five Trends in Canadian Immigration:"



4. Temporary foreign workers will be spotlighted



Metro Vancouver's 80,000 diligent Filipinos form the centre of a growing concern over temporary foreign workers. Since taking office in 2005, the Conservative government has hiked the numbers of these short-term foreign workers from 160,000 in 2006 to 283,000 in 2010.



Although temporary foreign workers have traditionally been brought into fill short-term skills shortages, they are increasingly being welcomed into the country to do unskilled, low-wage jobs as fast-food workers, nannies, farm labour and security guards.



In a rare display of agreement, economists from both the centre-left Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and centre-right Fraser Institute have come out against the rise in temporary foreign workers, many of whom are from the Philippines.





Both sides of the spectrum say the over-use of temporary foreign workers is lowering overall wages, hurting productivity and, perhaps most importantly, discouraging Canadians and landed immigrants from upgrading their skills.



University of B.C. planning specialist Prod Laquian (photo left), who has Filipino heritage, adds another dimension to this thorny issue. He is among those who points out it is often devastating for developing countries to lose their more industrious citizens to richer countries such as Canada.

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[size=150]The Chinese Émigré And The Prairie Provinces[/size]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/seed-capital-how-immigrants-are-reshaping-saskatchewans-farmland/article4610589/?page=all">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o ... /?page=all">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/seed-capital-how-immigrants-are-reshaping-saskatchewans-farmland/article4610589/?page=all

[Gary Oak]

Notice how Chinese from a country where doctors and teachers are lucky to make as much as a Canadian welfare cheque are just arriving and plunking down a million dollars to many million dollars for land. Why am I the only person who knows something is wrong in this picture ? I knew a lady who didn't have a job, her husband was a UBC student and when she arrived whe bought a million dollar house on a wealthy west side neighbourhood. There is something going on here. The money is coming from somewhere. Part of the plan is that if all the land the land is owned by Chinese then isn't it Chinese territory ? If all the companies are owned by Chinese then everybody is under them [ FAN QING FU MING ] If all positions of power are in their hands then isn't it their country. They want every country in the world but the number one country they want is Canada and to live in Canada while they dream of taking over.

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she's causing a stink with her resistance on the ban.[/u]

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Notice how Chinese from a country where doctors and teachers are lucky to make as much as a Canadian welfare cheque are just arriving and plunking down a million dollars to many million dollars for land. Why am I the only person who knows something is wrong in this picture ? I knew a lady who didn't have a job, her husband was a UBC student and when she arrived whe bought a million dollar house on a wealthy west side neighbourhood. There is something going on here. The money is coming from somewhere. Part of the plan is that if all the land the land is owned by Chinese then isn't it Chinese territory ? If all the companies are owned by Chinese then everybody is under them [ FAN QING FU MING ] If all positions of power are in their hands then isn't it their country. They want every country in the world but the number one country they want is Canada and to live in Canada while they dream of taking over.

Increment by increment you are absolutely right, all the while catching us nodding off.