Bill C-9, convocation, sea lice – Issues, Experts and Ideas
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Tougher laws for violent offenders
Matter of degrees
Alberta study adds weight to SFU sea lice findings
Tougher laws for violent offenders
SFU business professor Gary Mauser will be in Ottawa Oct. 4 to testify on Bill C-9 before the standing committee on justice and human rights in the House of Commons. He’ll be speaking in support of its proposal to eliminate conditional sentences. “Research suggests that for every 10 per cent increase in prison populations, homicide rates drop by 13 per cent,” he points out. Mauser will return from Ottawa the same evening and will be available to comment on Thursday morning.
Gary Mauser, 604.291.3652; mauser@sfu.ca
Matter of degrees
Stan Green is a 74-year-old English honors graduate who can’t wait to march into Convocation mall. Joyce Thevarge is a single mom who became proficient in two different First Nations languages. They are two of more than 2,600 students graduating from SFU this fall. The ceremonies take place on Thursday, Oct. 5 and Friday, Oct. 6 (9:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.) Honorary degrees will be conferred on documentary filmmaker Allan King and Oscar-winner director Costa-Gavras (Oct. 5 a.m.), TRIUMF director and physicist Alan Astbury (Oct. 5, p.m.), Bard On The Beach artistic director Christopher Gaze (Oct. 6, a.m.) and B.C. Lion icon Lui Passaglia (Oct. 6 p.m.)
Marianne Meadahl, PAMR, 604.291.4323
Alberta study adds weight to SFU sea lice findings
An Alberta graduate student's findings in a new sea lice study not only confirm but also add weight to SFU scientists' earlier findings that sea lice from fish farms are killing wild salmon passing by them in droves. SFU fish population analyst and statistician Rick Routledge can comment on University of Alberta doctoral candidate Martin Krkosek's latest finding that sea lice from commercial fish farms are killing as much as 95 percent of wild young salmon passing by them. Krkosek's study advances the findings from an earlier study done by Routledge and Alex Morton, an independent fish biologist who often collaborates with Routledge on wild salmon studies. Morton co-authored Krkosek's new study.
Rick Routledge, 604.291.4478, richard_routledge@sfu.ca