Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 148, Number 25: COMMISSIONS
June 21, 2014
CANADA-NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR OFFSHORE PETROLEUM BOARD
CANADA-NEWFOUNDLAND ATLANTIC ACCORD IMPLEMENTATION ACT
Call for Bids No. NL13-01 (Area “C” — Flemish Pass)
This notice is made pursuant and subject to the CanadaNewfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act, S.C. 1987, c. 3, and the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Newfoundland and Labrador Act, R.S.N.L. 1990, c. C-2.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board hereby gives notice of changes respecting the closing date and terms and conditions of the sample exploration licence to Call for Bids No. NL13-01 (Area “C” — Flemish Pass). A summary of the terms and conditions applicable to the call was published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 147, No. 23, on June 8, 2013.
In accordance with the provisions of the Accord acts for amending terms and conditions of exploration licences, the Board has amended the terms and conditions of the sample Exploration Licence found in Schedule IV of Call for Bids No. NL13-01 to be consistent with those announced on December 19, 2013.
Potential Bidders are advised that
- The closing date for Call for Bids No. NL13-01 shall be no earlier than 120 days after the completion of the Eastern Newfoundland Strategic Environmental Assessment (2013) [the “Closing Date”].
- The minimum bid will be $10 million for all parcels offered in this call for bids.
- Allowable expenditures may be claimed for those permitted expenses incurred from the date of the initial announcement of this call for bids up to and including the effective date of the licence. These new credits would be in addition to those allowable expenditures available for credit during the term of the licence.
- Period I of all exploration licences shall have a term of six years unless otherwise extended by a drilling deposit. Period II shall immediately follow Period I and consist of the balance of the original nine-year term.
- The Interest Owner may, at its option, extend Period I for additional years to a maximum total of three extensions by posting a drilling deposit with the Board before the end of Period I or any additional year extension of Period I in the following amounts:
- Period I A — one-year extension — $5 million
- Period I B — one-year extension — $10 million
- Period I C — one-year extension — $15 million
- All other terms and conditions relating to the submission of bids as provided for in 3.2 Submission of Bids of Call for Bids No. NL13-01, and other terms and conditions of this call for bids and sample licences, remain unchanged.
The full text of Call for Bids No. NL13-01 is available at the Board's Web site (www.cnlopb.nl.ca) or upon request made to the Registrar, Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, TD Place, 5th Floor, 140 Water Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador A1C 6H6, 709-778-1400.
SCOTT TESSIER
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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CANADA-NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR OFFSHORE PETROLEUM BOARD
CANADA-NEWFOUNDLAND ATLANTIC ACCORD IMPLEMENTATION ACT
Call for Bids No. NL13-02 (Area “C” — Carson Basin)
This notice is made pursuant and subject to the CanadaNewfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act, S.C. 1987, c. 3, and the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation Newfoundland and Labrador Act, R.S.N.L. 1990, c. C-2.
The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board hereby gives notice of changes respecting the closing date and terms and conditions of the sample exploration licence to Call for Bids No. NL13-02 (Area “C” — Carson Basin). A summary of the terms and conditions applicable to the call was published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 147, No. 23, on June 8, 2013.
In accordance with the provisions of the Accord acts for amending terms and conditions of exploration licences, the Board has amended the terms and conditions of the sample Exploration Licence found in Schedule IV of Call for Bids No. NL13-02 to be consistent with those announced on December 19, 2013.
Potential Bidders are advised that
- The closing date for Call for Bids No. NL13-02 shall be no earlier than 120 days after the completion of the Eastern Newfoundland Strategic Environmental Assessment (2013) [the “Closing Date”].
- The minimum bid will be $10 million for all parcels offered in this call for bids.
- Allowable expenditures may be claimed for those permitted expenses incurred from the date of the initial announcement of this call for bids up to and including the effective date of the licence. These new credits would be in addition to those allowable expenditures available for credit during the term of the licence.
- Period I of all exploration licences shall have a term of six years unless otherwise extended by a drilling deposit. Period II shall immediately follow Period I and consist of the balance of the original nine-year term.
- The Interest Owner may, at its option, extend Period I for additional years to a maximum total of three extensions by posting a drilling deposit with the Board before the end of Period I or any additional year extension of Period I in the following amounts:
- Period I A — one-year extension — $5 million
- Period I B — one-year extension — $10 million
- Period I C — one-year extension — $15 million
- All other terms and conditions relating to the submission of bids as provided for in 3.2 Submission of Bids of Call for Bids No. NL13-02, and other terms and conditions of this call for bids and sample licences, remain unchanged.
The full text of Call for Bids No. NL13-02 is available at the Board's Web site (www.cnlopb.nl.ca) or upon request made to the Registrar, Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, TD Place, 5th Floor, 140 Water Street, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador A1C 6H6, 709-778-1400.
SCOTT TESSIER
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL TRADE TRIBUNAL
APPEAL
Notice No. HA-2014-010
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (the Tribunal) will hold a public hearing to consider the appeal referenced hereunder. This hearing will be held beginning at 9:30 a.m., in the Tribunal's Hearing Room No. 2, 18th Floor, 333 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa, Ontario. Interested persons planning to attend should contact the Tribunal at 613-998-9908 to obtain further information and to confirm that the hearing will be held as scheduled.
Customs Act
Hanesbrands Inc. v. President of the Canada Border Services Agency
Date of Hearing: July 24, 2014
Appeal No.: AP-2013-056
Goods in Issue: Socks
Issue: Whether the goods in issue are entitled to preferential tariff treatment under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
June 10, 2014
By order of the Tribunal
GILLIAN BURNETT
Secretary
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CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
NOTICE TO INTERESTED PARTIES
The Commission posts on its Web site the decisions, notices of consultation and regulatory policies that it publishes, as well as information bulletins and orders. On April 1, 2011, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Rules of Practice and Procedure came into force. As indicated in Part 1 of these Rules, some broadcasting applications are posted directly on the Commission's Web site, www.crtc.gc.ca, under “Part 1 Applications.”
To be up to date on all ongoing proceedings, it is important to regularly consult “Today's Releases” on the Commission's Web site, which includes daily updates to notices of consultation that have been published and ongoing proceedings, as well as a link to Part 1 applications.
The following documents are abridged versions of the Commission's original documents. The original documents contain a more detailed outline of the applications, including the locations and addresses where the complete files for the proceeding may be examined. These documents are posted on the Commission's Web site and may also be examined at the Commission's offices and public examination rooms. Furthermore, all documents relating to a proceeding, including the notices and applications, are posted on the Commission's Web site under “Public Proceedings.”
CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
PART 1 APPLICATION
The following application was posted on the Commission's Web site between 6 June 2014 and 12 June 2014:
Eternacom Inc.
Timmins, Ontario
2014-0516-8
Addition of a transmitter for CJTK-FM
Deadline for submission of interventions, comments and/or answers: 14 July 2014
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CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
ADMINISTRATIVE DECISIONS
6 June 2014
Vancouver Co-operative Radio
Vancouver, British Columbia
Approved — Relocation of transmitter and amendments to technical parameters.
6 June 2014
Jim Pattison Broadcast Group Limited Partnership
Vancouver, British Columbia
Approved — Relocation of transmitter and amendments to technical parameters.
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CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT ORDER
2014-307 9 June 2014
Unsolicited telecommunications fees — Telemarketing regulatory costs for 2014–15 and fees paid for 2013–14
For the 2014–2015 fiscal year, the Commission announces that the estimated telemarketing regulatory costs total $3.3 million. Also, for the 2013–2014 fiscal year, the Commission announces that the total of all amounts paid was $3,050,595.
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CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
DECISIONS
2014-304 9 June 2014
Fairchild Radio Group Ltd.
Richmond, British Columbia
Approved — Application to renew the broadcasting licence for the ethnic AM radio station CJVB Richmond.
2014-306 9 June 2014
Coopérative des travailleurs CHNC
Gaspé and Rivière-au-Renard, Quebec
Approved — Applications to change the technical parameters of CHGM-FM Gaspé, a transmitter of the French-language commercial radio station CHNC-FM New Carlisle, and to add a transmitter at Rivière-au-Renard.
2014-310 10 June 2014
Bayshore Broadcasting Corporation
Owen Sound, Ontario
Approved — Application to renew the broadcasting licence for the English-language commercial AM radio station CFOS Owen Sound.
2014-311 10 June 2014
Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Inc.
Pickle Lake, Ontario
Approved — Application to renew the broadcasting licence for the English- and Aboriginal-language, low-power religious specialty radio station CJTL-FM Pickle Lake and its transmitter.
2014-314 11 June 2014
The First Alberta Campus Radio Association
Edmonton, Alberta
Approved — Application to renew the broadcasting licence for the English-language campus radio station CJSR-FM Edmonton.
2014-315 11 June 2014
Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society Burnaby,
British Columba
Approved — Application to renew the broadcasting licence for the English-language campus radio station CJSF-FM Burnaby.
2014-316 11 June 2014
Thunder Bay Electronics Limited
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Approved — Application to disaffiliate the conventional television station CKPR-DT Thunder Bay from the English-language television network operated by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
2014-317 12 June 2014
Bell Canada
Across Canada
Approved — Addition of NetViet to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution.
2014-318 12 June 2014
Rogers Communications Partnership
Across Canada
Approved — Addition of RAI World Premium to the List of non-Canadian programming services authorized for distribution.
2014-319 12 June 2014
CKUA Radio Foundation
Edmonton, Alberta
Approved — Application to renew the broadcasting licence for the English-language specialty commercial radio station CKUA-FM Edmonton and its transmitters.
Approved — Request to eliminate the requirement to broadcast at least 6.5 hours per week of formal educational programming.
2014-320 12 June 2014
Bell Aliant Regional Communications Inc. (the general partner), as well as limited partner with 6583458 Canada Inc. (the limited partners), carrying on business as Bell Aliant Regional Communications, Limited Partnership
Fredericton and surrounding areas, Moncton and Saint John, New Brunswick; St. John's, Paradise and Mount Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador; and Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and Sackville, Nova Scotia
Denied — Request to allocate a portion of local expression contributions to provide community programming via an Internet platform in a live streaming format.
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT ACT
Permission and leave granted (Boudreau, Bernice)
The Public Service Commission of Canada, pursuant to section 116 of the Public Service Employment Act, hereby gives notice that it has granted permission, pursuant to subsection 114(4) of the said Act, to Bernice Boudreau, Information Management Analyst (CR-4), Government of Canada Pension Centre, Department of Public Works and Government Services, Shediac, New Brunswick, to allow her to seek nomination as a candidate before and during the election period and to be a candidate before the election period in the provincial election for the electoral district of ShediacCap-Pelé, New Brunswick, for which the name will change to Shediac-Beaubassin-Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick, at the dissolution of the current Legislative Assembly, to be held on September 22, 2014.
The Public Service Commission of Canada, pursuant to subsection 114(5) of the said Act, has also granted a leave of absence without pay during the election period, effective at close of business on the first day of the election period, to allow her to be a candidate during the election.
June 2, 2014
CHRISTINE DONOGHUE
Senior Vice-President
Policy Branch
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT ACT
Permission granted (Cunningham, Barry)
The Public Service Commission of Canada, pursuant to section 116 of the Public Service Employment Act, hereby gives notice that it has granted permission, pursuant to subsection 115(2) of the said Act, to Barry Cunningham, Pollution Response Specialist (GT-3), Environmental Response Prince Rupert, Canadian Coast Guard, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Prince Rupert, British Columbia, to be a candidate, before and during the election period, for the positions of Councillor and Acting Mayor for the City of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, in a municipal election to be held on November 15, 2014.
June 9, 2014
KATHY NAKAMURA
Director General
Political Activities and
Non-Partisanship Directorate
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