Metro Edmonton - January 9, 2012

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Fee ruling
Demolition. Day
raises cheer
City had threatened loss of services, hike
in parking fines if province had reinstated
licence-database fee Decision fulfils
campaign promise by Premier Redford
JEREMY
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It is unclear when the Alberta
The province has no plans to rein- budget will be released due to
troduce a service fee for the use of the timing of the upcoming
a provincial licence-plate database, provincial election.
Service Alberta spokesperson Ger- The cost of running the provincial
ald Kastendieck has confirmed. licence-plate database has risen
The fee would have drained more more than 160 per cent since
than $10 million a year from 2002, Service Alberta says. The
Edmonton’s coffers. ministry is still exploring other
“As far as I know, it’s not a part options for maintaining funding
of this budget,” Kastendieck said. for the program, spokesperson
“We have said all along we would Gerald Kastendieck said.
Crews tear down the old consult with the municipalities if
Bank of Montreal building we were going to consider reintro- The province then announced
at Jasper Avenue and ducing it. That hasn’t happened.” in August that it was suspending
101 Street on Sunday. Last fall, city officials were quick the fee, but it left the door open to
to cry foul after learning about the reinstating it. Now it appears that
LUCY HAINES/FOR METRO $15 fee charged to a municipality door has been shut, which is great
A bit of history makes way for a parking lot each time a police or parking- news for Coun. Amarjeet Sohi.
enforcement officer consults the “It would have been a huge hit,”
database for a vehicle background. he said Sunday. “It’s always nice
The demolition of the 49-year-old BMO building is the first phase in the construction of a two- In response, councillors voted to see the province recognizing
storey parkade, with retail space below it. Preservationists tried to save the structure last summer, through a $25 hike to parking fines the feedback it received from
but city council voted to raze it. in May. municipalities.”

news: edmonton metronews.ca 03
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
1
Man adopts LUCY HAINES/FOR METRO
litter of
pups from
Afghanistan
A junior high school
teacher from Sherwood
Park has taken in seven
rambunctious refugees
from Afghanistan, and he
couldn’t be happier.
Spencer Sekyer was all
news
smiles Friday as a flight ar-
rived carrying a mother
dog and six of her young
offspring from Kabul.
Sekyer had been teach-
ing children for a summer
in Kabul when he spotted
the litter of stray pups
playing in a gutter outside
his guesthouse.
Late-night bus service on Whyte Avenue made a quiet start this
Dogs are not well-
past weekend. Buses run Friday and Saturday from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m.
regarded in Afghanistan,
he said, and he became de-
termined to give these
Night Ride gets off to a
pups a better life,
spending the last year and Britain’s government is
looking to empower firms’
a half trying to arrange to shareholders to veto executive
get them to Canada. pay packages. Scan the code
for the story.
THE CANADIAN PRESS slow start on weekend
To scan 2D barcodes in
Aquatic Metro, download the
free ScanLife app at
area closed 2dscan.com.
Fewer than 100 riders on the late-night bus service on Whyte Avenue
On the web at
Business expected to pick up with university back in session metronews.ca
Plan on going for a dip at
the Terwillegar Aquatic
Hundreds of
aarneoat?h eYro pul’allc he atvoe s wtoi mfin ldaps LHUACINY ES moTnutronne.r says only a mi- ath hea bnudsf.u l of people taking Support loved ones
over the next month, as [email protected] nor incident arose over “A cab costs me around gather on the
the area will be closed the weekend, and that Ed- $15. I’d rather use this There are some 10,000 li-
deck of HMCS
starting today until Feb. 5 It was a quiet first week- monton Transit, taxi com- service with my bus pass,” censed bar and restaurant
for warranty work. end for the new late-night panies and the Edmonton he said. seats on Whyte Avenue Charlottetown
As part of the construc- bus service on Whyte Av- Police Service are working Stephanie Mackay, a between 103 and 108 to bid farewell to
tion process of the Terwil- enue, with just 80 people together to manage any bartender at Blues on streets.
legar Recreation Centre, a hopping aboard transit late-night safety issues. Whyte, agrees. Surveys show an estimated sailors bound
warranty shutdown is re- heading for the University “At that time of night, “Cabs are too pricey 70 per cent of patrons and for the
quired to ensure that all or Southgate transit cen- people are just looking for and too hard to get at that workers on the avenue
Mediterranean
mechanical, filtration and tres. a safe way to get home,” hour. I like having more support a late-night bus.
chemical systems are “University isn’t in yet, she added. options to get home safe- Night Ride is a pilot project Sea. Watch at
working as designed. so the numbers are a bit University student Sou- ly,” she said. that goes until April 14, metronews.ca/
All other areas of the slow,” said Angela Turner, vik Goswami was on the The project will be re- costing $40,000. Buses run
centre are open for use. program manager of Re- avenue at about 2:30 a.m. viewed by city council in westbound on Whyte video
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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
More details emerge of Feds want
Arizona
conflict for
Grenada beating death Canada Day:
Documents
‘They killed my baby,’ victim’s mother says
Oscar Bartholomew to be laid to rest Monday The federal government
has hired a consultant to in-
COLIN PERKEL/THE CANADIAN PRESS ject a little war into this
In the end, it may be that an exuberant embrace, wit- year’s Canada Day bash on
one of Oscar ness statements say. Parliament Hill.
Bartholomew’s trademark “Whenever he meet his Paul Shaw, a Toronto the-
bear hugs sparked the trag- people, he always hugged atre producer, has been
ic chain of events that led them and give them a asked to find ways to insert
to his beating death in St. cheer,” his mother, 71, said. a War of 1812 theme into
David’s, Grenada. Some said the officer the festivities that typically
While much remains to yelled out she was being include pop music, dance
come out about what hap- raped. Defence lawyer and fireworks.
pened, The Canadian Press, Anslem Clouden said the of- Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her The Conservatives, who
based on several interviews, Andrianne Bartholomew ficer “cried out for help.” husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, walk on the Davidson have been promoting Cana-
has pieced together an ac- says her son was a ‘quiet, At that point, a colleague Canyon Gabe Zimmerman Memorial Trailhead in Tucson da’s military heritage, have
count of what some say led loving person.’ in a parked police car came on Saturday. Zimmerman was killed a year ago Sunday earmarked money through-
to his death. to her aid. A second officer during a shooting spree in Tucson that left six dead out the year to note the bi-
“They beat my child to soon came running from and 13 wounded, including Giffords. centennial of the War of
death,” Andrianne ing Day, Cyr Bartholomew the station, followed by 1812 in North America.
Bartholomew, his grieving needed to use a washroom, three more officers. CHERYL EVANS/THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Canadian Heritage
To remember and recover
mother, said Saturday. and the couple stopped at Police and witnesses say Department normally in-
“They killed my baby, my the St. David’s police sta- Bartholomew tried to kick jects patriotic themes into
last baby. They killed him.” tion, where she went inside out at them. A senior officer the Canada Day noontime
Bartholomew, 39, a na- to use the facilities. ordered a junior to use his Gabrielle Giffords, 41, has spent the past year under- show on Parliament Hill.
tive Grenadian who lived in Thinking he recognized belt to tie Bartholomew’s going physical and speech therapy. She is able to walk But recently posted tender
Toronto, and his wife, Do- a uniformed policewoman feet together, witness state- and talk and vote in Congress, but doctors have said it documents indicate that
lette Cyr Bartholomew, as a friend, Bartholomew ments show. Within min- will take many months to determine the lasting the war theme will appear
were visiting over the holi- got out of his car and utes, he was in a coma and effects of her brain injury. The congress woman has in the noon and evening
days. While driving on Box- grabbed her from behind in lay dying. THE CANADIAN PRESS four months to decide whether to seek re-election. shows. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
Iran vows to cut ‘strait’
Eco. Disaster
to heart of oil flow
Leadership has made strategic decision to close Strait
of Hormuz should Iran’s exports be blocked, official says
Iran has begun uranium at the core of the interna-
enrichment at a new un- tional standoff over Iran’s Upping pressure The stranded cargo ship Rena
derground site built to nuclear program. The U.S. breaks into two pieces after overnight
withstand possible air- and its allies fear Iran storms with six-metre waves pounded
strikes, a leading hard- could use its enrichment The latest statements are the vessel off Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand.
line newspaper reported facilities to develop high- certain to ramp up tensions
Sunday in another show grade nuclear material for with the U.S. and its allies, MARITIME NEW ZEALAND/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
of defiance against West- warheads. which are trying to increase Pouring oil into troubled waters
ern pressure to rein in Iran has sharply in- pressure on Iran to punish
Tehran’s nuclear pro- creased its threats and it for its nuclear program.
gram. military posturing against For the moment, however, The Greek-owned cargo ship Rena ran aground on Astrolabe Reef, 22 kilometres
The operations at the stronger pressures, includ- U.S. officials are seeking from Tauranga Harbour, New Zealand, on Oct. 5, spewing heavy fuel oil into the seas
bunker-like facility south ing U.S. sanctions target- stronger diplomatic and in what has been described as the nation’s worst maritime environmental disaster.
of Tehran, reported by the ing Iran’s Central Bank in economic pressure on Iran
Kayhan daily newspaper, attempts to complicate its rather than increasing
are small in comparison ability to sell oil. threats of military action. Mitt takes hits in U.S. primary debate
to Iran’s main enrichment A senior commander of In an interview broadcast
site. But the centrifuges at the Revolutionary Guard Sunday, U.S. Defence Secre-
the underground labs are force was quoted as saying tary Leon Panetta reiterat- Republican presidential this time front-runner Romney, who’s expected
considered more efficient Tehran’s leadership has ed U.S. concerns about a hopefuls squared off Mitt Romney was on the to coast easily to victory
and are shielded from aer- decided to order the clo- unilateral strike by Israel again Sunday in yet an- hot seat. in New Hampshire’s first-
ial surveillance and pro- sure of the Strait of Hor- against Iran’s nuclear other debate, the second Unlike the debate a in-the-nation primary but
tected against airstrikes muz, a strategic oil route, facilities, saying the action New Hampshire show- night earlier, essentially a will face far more socially
by up to 90 metres of if the country’s petroleum could trigger Iranian re tali- down in less than 24 bitter battle for second conservative voters in
mountain rock. exports are blocked. ation against U.S. forces in hours ahead of the state place, the candidates di- South Carolina in two
Uranium enrichment is THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the region. primary Tuesday — and rected most of their fire at weeks.THE CANADIAN PRESS

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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
SUNDAY ALAMBA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Original U.S.-made coin
fetches record $1.38M
HERITAGE AUCTIONS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A one-cent copper coin “the most a United States
from the earliest days of the copper coin has ever sold
U.S. Mint in 1793 has sold for at auction.” The coin
for a record $1.38 million was made at the Mint in
US at a Florida auction. Philadelphia in 1793, the
James Halperin of Texas- The 1793 Chain Cent first year that the U.S. made
based Heritage Auctions its own coins.
told The Associated Press Saturday that the sale was Heritage officials said
that the name of the buyer An unidentified woman carries
was not revealed but that fuel from a petrol station in Lagos,
he was “a major collector.” Nigeria, on Sunday. Nigerian
We’re looking for One of the coin’s earliest lawmakers have turned against
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banker, Louis Eliasberg. government fuel subsidies.
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named ‘the king of coins’
Nigerian fuel-subsidy
because, before his death in
1976, he assembled a collec-
tion that consisted of at
least one example of every cut alarms lawmakers
coin ever made at the Unit-
ed States Mint, a feat never
duplicated,” Halperin said.
The final bid for the coin Occupy Nigeria protests have begun Anger fuelled
was one of the largest sales
by ongoing violence by radical Muslim sect, corruption
at the Florida United Nu-
mismatists coin show and
$8B
annual convention. A five- Nigerian lawmakers on Fuel subsidies from 45 cents per litre to at
Nominations
dollar gold piece from 1829 Sunday turned against the cost Nigeria least 94 cents per litre since
was also sold. Halperin said president’s decision to end about $8 billion US a the subsidy ended Jan. 1.
Now Open there remain a few hun- government fuel subsidies year. That spurred a spike in food
dred 1793 coins, but the that kept gasoline prices and transportation costs in
one auctioned is rare be- low, just ahead of a planned preparing for a nationwide a nation of more than 160-
cause it wasn’t in circula- labour strike that could par- strike set to begin Monday, million people where most
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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
THERE’S Making winter a little warmer
NO PLACE NEWS WORTH munity Services centre re- the centre’s communica- Street Community Service
cently switched over to tion manager. drop-in centre. Winter is
SHARING “winter hours,” keeping The Boyle Street centre also a great time to give
its doors open seven days a is a welcome refuge from canned goods to your local
week, 15 hours a day, from the cold, serving food and food bank or volunteer at
LIKE HOME Media will always have to 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. providing mental health, a nearby shelter.
report on the tough stuff. Since the change, there family, youth and housing Let’s show Edmonton’s
But we know that Canada have been nearly 500 visi- programs. But they can’t needy that generosity
is full of compassionate in- tors to the centre every do it alone. The centre is doesn’t stop at the
dividuals, inspiring day. During the winter, life always looking for cold- holidays.
URBAN
My 37th year of living in Ed- projects and stories worth gets harder and harder for weather apparel, which is CRAIG AND MARC KIELBURGER
monton is fast approaching. celebrating. Here’s just one. the homeless. typically in high demand
COMPASS
Moving here in 1975 was “When the among visitors at this time Help the good news get
quite a shock to my system. I A local drop-in centre is temperatures drop the of year. around. Send your stories
TERENCE HARDING arrived in February from Van- stepping up its game to people need somewhere to Right now, they of local heroes and
METRO EDMONTON couver to start a job with keep Edmonton’s keep warm during the day. especially need gloves. So positive action to
Syncrude. I knew Edmonton was very far homeless warm and safe And the (homeless) dig into your closet and [email protected]
north, but didn’t realize what living in a this winter. shelters close at 6 a.m.,” donate gently used winter and we will share them
winter city actually meant. I heard people The Boyle Street Com- explained Lance Beswick, clothing to the Boyle right here.
talking about things I had no clue about. I
didn’t know what ice fog, black ice and
ground grips were. Day after day of -30 C MILAN KRASULA / SOLENT NEWS / REX FEATURES
soon taught me about ice fog. I learned Daily Zoom
about black ice the hard way. And I finally figured out
that ground grips were snow tires.
Bambi meets his master
One of the things that
really confused me was
people talking about
“Every time I
having to go to the
stopped for a red vendor’s. Eventually I
light, people asked what was vended at
the vendor’s and learned
would try to talk
that it was what I had
to me. Based on learned to call the LCBO in
my experience Toronto. It also took me a
growing up in while to understand that
when people were talking
Toronto, this
about something on 5th
meant that in a street, they meant 105th
very short while street. In 1975, there was
no 5th street.
they were going
Over time, I learned not
to start telling to order a western
me about how sandwich but to ask for a
Denver instead. I also
the tinfoil they
learned that if I wanted to
were wearing in have an espresso, I was go-
their hats was ing to have to make the
protecting them trip to Little Italy. Having a
coffee in those days usually
from the
meant drinking a tasteless,
messages aliens hot, brown liquid. If it
were trying to weren’t for the Italian Cen-
tre, it would have been
send into their
years before I was able to
brains.” make myself a café latte.
Eagle almost Eagle went for How the fawn
I was also unprepared 5
for moving to a much gets deer the bigger one made its escape
smaller city than what I
was used to. I could easily walk the entire downtown SLOVAKIA. Is this bird HUNT. The 30-year-old Kra- CHASE. While describing it
area. One of the first things I noticed when I was doing friends with deer-chasing, sula spent four days trying as “an event of Mother Na-
that was how many mentally ill people there were on viral hero Fenton the Dog? to get a great picture of A fully grown roe deer, ture,” Krasula was secretly
the streets. Every time I stopped for a red light, people This golden eagle failed to the annual eagle hunt, at 30 kilograms, is five rooting for the fawn and
would try to talk to me. Based on my experience catch this deer after the where owners release times heavier than a its quest to escape. “I
growing up in Toronto, this meant that in a very short brave young doe managed their birds to hunt prey. six-kilogram golden think the life of the doe
while they were going to start telling me about how the to escape. “(One owner) did not see eagle. Still, the deer is was saved by a nearby fen-
tinfoil they were wearing in their hats was protecting Photographer Milan Kra- the little doe and had the golden eagle’s lar- ce. It wanted to jump over
them from the messages aliens were trying to send into sula said, “You have to be actually released the eagle gest regular prey item. it but was so frightened it
their brains. But after a while, I realized that people very lucky to get a good to get another animal. Of Cases exist of golden only managed to slip
were just trying to be friendly. shot, as you cannot predict course, the eagle went for eagles killing calves. underneath, giving the ea-
It was a strange concept that took some time to get where the prey will be hi- the doe instead of the ot- Eagles usually eat rab- gle no choice but to aban-
used to. It was also one of the reasons I decided to stay ding.” her prey,” Krasula said. bits, squirrels, birds don the chase.”
here. METRO WORLD NEWS METRO WORLD NEWS and large insects. METRO WORLD NEWS
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Keira’s breakthrough
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Knightley talks about prepping for the role of a repressed psychiatric patient in
A Dangerous Method How she battled her own psychological issue — a bad case of stage fright
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on research
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Since her 2002 breakout
performance in Bend it “With David (Cronenberg)
Like Beckham, Keira I know I’m going to have a
Knightley has starred in good time shooting and
18 films, but it was only the movie is probably go-
recently she realized ing to be really interesting
something about her act- and original. As is the case
ing process. this time again. A lot of
Box office
“I suffer very badly cases with other directors
from stage fright,” she the shoot is maybe fraught
says. with tension and disorder
“I didn’t find it out un- but the research period
til I had actually been on can always be interesting. I
stage that that’s what the love that.”
The Devil Inside has feeling was.
scared up a “It’s literally like hav- film’s director, David Cro-
monstrous $34.5 mil- ing a wall in front of you. nenberg.
lion opening You know you have the “Sets… are very diffi-
weekend to help Hol- ability to break through cult creative spaces,” she
lywood exorcise its but for some reason you says, “and trying to get
recent box-office can’t on that day. the space so you can use
demons. The surprise “It’s very strange that your imagination and get
hit from Paramount you can work as much as I yourself so you are not
Pictures debuted well do and still have a prob- frightened by however
above industry expec- lem with that.” many hundreds of people
tations. The Devil In- She has found a way to are on the set is quite a
side bumped another circumvent her fears, a difficult thing.
Paramount hit, Mis- method that came in “What David does is en-
sion: Impossible — handy while making her tirely creative. As much as
Ghost Protocol, from newest film A Dangerous it is technical it is also cre-
the No. 1 spot to No. Method, the story of the ative, collaborative and
2. fathers of psychoanalysis, everybody is incredibly re-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Carl Jung (played by Keira Knightley says that preparation is the key to getting over her stage fright. spectful of each other.
Michael Fassbender) and “He’s a magician. He’s
Sigmund Freud (played by absolutely extraordinary.”
Viggo Mortensen), and find that preparation is “I had no idea about it. going to give me a talk for
Sabina Spielrein, the intel- the key.” So I phoned Christopher a couple of hours and give “What David
ligent but troubled pa- To play Spielrein, a Hampton because he did me all the answers but he (Cronenberg) does
tient who causes a falling woman wracked by tics the adaptation of Atone- just handed me a pile of is entirely creative.
out between the men. and repression, Knightley ment, which I did a few books and said, ‘Start
... He’s a magician.
“I found only in the last threw herself into the ex- years ago, and said, ‘I’m reading. It’s all in there.’”
few years that research ploration of the character. going to do this, so help. She eased her nerves He’s absolutely
Gerry Dee turns former helps,” she says. “There was nothing Just help.’ with the research and fur- extraordinary.”
teaching antics into “As far as getting over that linked me to her,” “I went round to his ther support was supplied
CBC-TV sitcom that fear of stage fright I she says. house and thought he was during shooting by the KEIRA KNIGHTLEY
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