The NDP is calling on Premier Christy Clark to completely roll back a hefty pay raise for her deputy chief of staff, Michelle Cadario.

Finance Critic Mike Farnworth doesn’t buy Clark’s argument that Cadario is now doing the job of two former employees.

“I don’t think it’s two jobs, it’s one job, deputy chief of staff…and I think that they’re already extremely well compensated and at a time when the government is charging people 25 dollars on wheelchairs or saying that every penny needs to be watched, I don’t think people think it’s right to be giving these kind of pay increases.”

While Clark cancelled pay hikes for other political staff, she only reduced the raise for Cadario’s position from 50 thousand to 30 thousand dollars.

The Fraser Health Authority is ‘clarifying’ the new 25-dollar a month wheelchair fee that will soon be charged in residential care facilities.

The health authority says the hope has always been, those who can afford to buy or rent a wheelchair will do that, but officials says the policy continues to be in place: to provide a wheelchair to seniors who require it, regardless of financial ability.

Health Authority spokesperson Tasleem Juma, “If you’re coming into a residential care facility that’s owned and operated by the health authority you will receive a wheelchair regardless of your ability to pay. This is not about impeding your ability to participate in life.”

Fraser Health owns and operates 16 residential care facilities.

Memories of her Mexican vacation turned sour just two days after Sarah Farrell returned home to Edmonton.

Her phone beeped with a text from Rogers, warning that her roaming charges were “excessively high.”

Farrell told Go Public she thought she might be facing a bill for $500.

“I had no idea I was going to get a $23,000 cell phone bill,” she said. “Which is just insane.

“It just blew my mind that they would let my cell phone bill get that high,” Farrell said. “My heart rate was just pounding and I felt almost sick to my stomach, because I was, like ‘that’s half a year’s salary.’”

Farrell turned her iPhone to airplane mode as soon as she left Edmonton, though during a stopover in Houston she turned airplane mode off so she could send a text to her mother.

She then got one text from Rogers inviting her to check out their USA data plans, but heard nothing from the company while she was in Mexico, she said.

She used the phone for about an hour every day in her hotel room to post pictures on Facebook and to send texts thinking her phone was using the hotel’s free WiFi.

The next time she heard from Rogers was back in Edmonton 15 days later, when received the text telling her to call them, she said.

Rogers immediately offered to sign her up for a data plan that reduced the bill from $23,000 to $2,200, plus $225 to enrol.

Farrell’s experience with Rogers is almost identical to what happened to Matt Buie with Fido, a Rogers subsidiary.

In a March 2013 Go Public story, Buie described getting a $22,000 roaming charge after his son streamed videos in Mexico. In that case Fido also offered to reduce the bill to $2,200.

Buie’s story prompted her to fight for a better deal. But she’s suspicious as to why the cases are so similar, Farrell said.

“Maybe it is just a generic number, I don’t really know. There is no paperwork showing me the charges were that high. Maybe it was only $2,500.”

Rogers now says its customer service agent gave Farrell incorrect information when she first called.

Rogers spokeswoman Jennifer Kett said the correct amount was closer to $10,000, and that the company has taken steps to make sure customers get the correct information.

Rogers recently lowered its pay-per-use rate for Mexico, from $30 per megabyte of data to $15.

Raj Doshi, Rogers’s Senior Vice President for Products, insists Farrell and its other customers would never see a bill for over $20,000.

A tired air traffic controller is getting the blame for a mix-up in the sky near Vancouver Airport.

It happened in April 2011.

An Air Canada Jazz plane took off from runway 26 left, followed by a Westjet 737.

There was also an arriving Westjet, looking to land on the same runway.

The air traffic controller directed the arriving flight to carry out a “go-around,” during which the two Boeings came within 213 metres of each other.

An investigation by the Transportation Safety Board has determined the controller was tired, making it difficult for him to recognize the developing situation and to take timely corrective action to ensure proper seperation was maintained.

Shikhar Dhawan hit his second century in a row as India crushed West Indies by eight wickets to book their place in the Champions Trophy semi-finals.

Ravindra Jadeja took 5-36 as the Windies were restricted to 233-9 despite Darren Sammy’s 56 not out.

Dhawan led the reply with a superb unbeaten 102, bringing up his hundred with a six as India reached their target in just 39.1 overs.

India’s victory at The Oval eliminates Pakistan from the tournament.

South Africa and the Windies, meanwhile, will go head to head on Friday for the second semi-final place.

India’s commanding win followed on from anequally impressive triumph over the Proteas and established the World Cup holders as early front-runners in a tournament featuring the world’s top eight sides.

In Jadeja and Ravinchandran Ashwin, they have two spinners who have exploited dry pitches to excellent effect and in Dhawan and Rohit Sharma, who put on 100 for the second game in succession, they have an opening pair in scintillating form.

India, their board’s continued opposition to it notwithstanding, also made shrewd use of the Decision Review System as Jadeja overturned the umpire’s original not-out decision to remove Marlon Samuels lbw and Dinesh Karthik successfully referred a dismissal for caught behind before teaming up with Dhawan to ease India home.

“It’s one of our most pleasing performances in the last two years,” Ashwin told BBC Sport. “We just controlled the game, broke the partnerships at crucial times and the batting performance from Rohit and Shikhar was brilliant.”

Recalled to the India one-day side for the tournament after a two-year absence following the fastest debut Test century against Australia in March, Dhawan struck 114 off 94 balls in their opening game against South Africa in Cardiff and produced another batting exhibition here.

The left-hander cut and pulled powerfully and drove anything overpitched down the ground.

He was handed a lifeline when he top-edged a pull shot off Dwayne Bravo on 41 and was dropped by Kemar Roach at fine leg.

MADRID: Rafael Nadal believes he still has a very long way to go before he can match or overtake the record haul of 17 Grand Slam singles titles amassed by his great rival Roger Federer.

Spaniard Nadal won his eighth French Opencrown on Sunday and having just turned 27, has 12 Grand Slam singles titles in total, including two Wimbledon crowns and triumphs at the US Open and Australian Open.

Swiss Federer, who will be 32 in August, won hislast Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon in 2012 but is still ranked third in the world and has every chance of adding at least one more before he calls time on his career.

“It (matching Federer) is something that right now seems light-years away, something that I am not even thinking about,” Nadal said in an interview with Spanish sports daily Marca published on Tuesday.

Nadal’s French Open success was his seventh title since returning from a seven-month layoff in February due to a knee injury.

He reached the final in the other two events he played, Monte Carloand Vina del Mar, and will now take a brief rest as he prepares for the grass courts of Wimbledon starting in two weeks.

Asked what had helped him win his 12 Grand Slam titles, Nadal told Marca: “The normal. Nothing special.

“Luckily, I have always had a team with me which has helped me in the good and the bad times,” he added.

“Luckily, I have had family and friends around me who have helped me.

“Travelling around Spain and the world and feeling loved is a personal satisfaction and gives you a lot of energy to be able to succeed.”

NEW DELHI: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s alleged conflict of interest situation has not gone down well with the BCCI with its new treasurer Ravi Savant saying that he should immediately disassociate himself from the company.

Savant said that Dhoni should be given a notice for conflict of interest if it was not part of his contract earlier.

Dhoni found himself in a controversy when it came to light that he had 15 per cent stake in Rhiti Sports, which also manages Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja and Pragyan Ojha, besides the Indian captain.

However, the firm has made it clear that Dhoni was a shareholder only for a brief period, and currently has no stakes.

“Dhoni should immediately disassociate himself from the management firm while he is captain. Dhoni should be given a notice for conflict of interest if this was not part of his contract earlier,” Savant said.

The BCCI had said that it would look into the issue of conflict of interest after the Champions Trophy was over.

“I don’t want to disturb the team during the Champions Trophy. I gain nothing by doing that. We have taken note of the issue. We are looking into it but we are not going to hound someone,” BCCI’s interim chief Jagmohan Dalmiya had told a press conference on Monday.

Rhiti Sports management was set up and run by Dhoni’s long-time friend Arun Pandey, who played three first-class matches.

In 2010, Dhoni signed up with Rhiti Sports reportedly for Rs 210 crore, an average of Rs 70 crore a year, the costliest deal in Indian cricket.

Interestingly, two of these players — Raina and Jadeja — are part of the same IPL franchise, theChennai Super Kings, which is also captained by Dhoni.

Ojha had joined Rhiti Sports during Australia’s last tour of India.

However, BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel’s comment was contradictory to what the treasurer had said.

“Whatever Mr Savant has said is his personal opinion and the board has nothing to do with it. The board has no intention to send any letter to either Dhoni or any other cricketer with the Champions Trophy going on. There was no discussion on this issue at the working committee meeting,” Patel informed.