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Browaty eyes
Smith’s seat
‘It’s time for me to deciding on whether to
throw his hat in the ring.
move on.’ Manitoba
“It’s a very big change,
Conservative MP Joy but I’m definitely interested
in the opportunity of run-
Smith leaving a vacancy
ning,” he said, adding that
he’s a card-carrying member
of the federal Conservative
BERNICE Party and believes Stephen
PONTANILLA Harper is the best option to
[email protected] lead Canada.
Browaty, who helped out
Another Manitoba Conserv- during Smith’s 2004 cam-
ative MP says she is not run- paign, also paid tribute to
ning in the next election, Smith, thanking her for the
and a local councillor says work she did during her
he might want her seat. time in federal politics.
Joy Smith, who repre- Smith has been an out-
sents the riding of Kildonan- spoken activist against hu-
St. Paul, said Tuesday she is man trafficking during her
retiring after holding the time in Parliament and she
seat since 2004. said that work will con-
“It’s time for me to move tinue.
on,” she said at her Winni- “Following the next elec-
peg constituency office. tion, I will continue to sup-
Winnipeg city Coun. port the survivors of human
Jeff Browaty, who used to trafficking by devoting my
OFFICIAL FAMILY GETS FESTIVE work for Smith before his time to the Joy Smith Foun-
election in 2006, said he is dation.”
considering running for the More than 20 sitting
Conservative nomination. Conservative MPs have an-
Browaty said that while nounced they won’t be run-
The Sorin family from Lorette, Man., is Festival du Voyageur’s official family for the 46th annual festival that runs Feb. 13 to 22. Read about it’s a “very exciting oppor- ning in the federal election,
what is planned for Western Canada’s largest winter festival on page 2. SHANE GIBSON/METRO tunity,” he’ll first be con- including Winnipeg MP Rod
sulting with his wife before Bruinooge.
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2 WINNIPEG metronews.ca
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Winter fest off ers everything
– including the kitchen sink
Festival du Voyageur. ine, Carmen Campagne and
Buck 65 — lined up to play at
130 artists lined up,
S Voyageur Park and nine other
plus a new after-hours venues over the festival’s run
from Feb. 13 to 22.
event that’s ‘where the
To add to the kitchen-party
party’s going to be’ feel, the festival is for the first
W time leaving Fort Gibraltar
open after the sun goes down
SHANE — for an idea they’re calling
GIBSON Bar Gibraltar — so party-goers
[email protected] can listen to music, grab a
drink and watch fire dancers
Apparently being the largest every night until midnight.
winter festival in Western “The fort itself will now be
E Canada just isn’t enough for a venue,” explained festival
the Festival du Voyageur — president Dan Leclair.
this year’s festival also wants “There’s going to be five
to throw the world’s largest different tents with bars set
kitchen party. up within the fort’s walls....
N “If you have a house party, There’s going to be lighting
where do people end up? The and bands.... It’s where the
smallest room in the house, party’s going to be.”
the kitchen,” explained festi- The festival also has lots
val executive director Ginette planned for the younger
Lavack Walters at the event’s crowd, including its winter
programming launch on Tues- playground, complete with
day. Festival du Voyageur executive director Ginette Lavack Walters speaks to media at the festival’s programming launch snow forts, slides and horse-
“It’s where the food is, the held at Fort Gibraltar on Tuesday morning. SHANE GIBSON/METRO drawn sleigh rides.
bar is there, everyone’s sitting For a full list of what’s go-
on the counters, instruments people did. that’s what our community is, everybody.” ing on at this year’s Festival
are pulled out and it really is “They have that really that’s who we are and that’s The festival has 130 art- du Voyageur and for ticket in-
traditionally something that warm, welcoming feel — what we want to share with ists — including Chic Gam- formation, visit heho.ca.
Sky Zone lets you bounce away those winter blues
It’s an easy trap to fall into in ning and biking outside,” said ager Omeid Deen said adults (other than the ones with grips
Winnipeg: the snow descends, Katie Fowler, a 30-year-old can get in on the fun, too. that are provided) and only one
your after-dinner jogs turn who’s in her third week of “We’ve had bachelor par- person per trampoline.
into after-dinner drinks and Sky Zone fitness classes. “But ties with guys in white dresses If you’re following along
the thought of the gym is as when the snow came, I’m not jumping around,” said Deen. with the trainer, Deen said,
appealing as shovelling your an avid enough runner to do it “And work parties are good you burn 1,000 calories per
driveway. in the winter outside. And just for the dodgeball court. When class.
There is a solution, how- the thought of going to a gym else could you throw a ball at “You’re using muscles you
ever, and it’s called Sky Zone and getting on a treadmill was your boss?” probably haven’t used since
Indoor Trampoline Park. The boring. You can’t get this from Before you’re allowed on you were nine,” he said.
building has multiple “courts” a treadmill.” the trampolines, you have to For more information,
that offer dodgeball, volleyball, The majority of their events sign a waiver and have staff check out Sky Zone’s website
a foam pit and fitness classes. have been kids’ parties and brief you on the safety rules: no at skyzone.com/winnipeg.
People jump at Sky Zone. CONTRIBUTED “Before winter, I was run- walk-ins, but marketing man- gum, no big jewelry, no socks SAMANTHA SAMSON/FOR METRO
www.portageplace.mb.ca
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Application time limits problematic: Gerbasi
‘Strict rule.’ Council’s Coun. Jenny Gerbasi, a members and city officials. councillor added.
member of the property and “But having said that, we A city official said that, on
decision-making hurt
development committee, said have a very strict policy right balance, the three-meeting
by restriction, says during Tuesday’s meeting the now, three meetings and then a policy “does more good” and
“strict rule” is hurting council- decision has to be made.” balances “the needs of both
veteran councillor
lors’ ability to make decisions. Gerbasi said the policy has parties.”
“We’ve had a number of impeded community commit- However, the official stated
situations where we have this tees from, for example, requir- the planning, property and de-
A veteran city councillor be- very strict rule and I understand ing more consultation on de- velopment department would
lieves a blanket rule placing the rationale for it, in not al- velopment projects. look at “an updated set of sub-
time limits on development lowing community committee “It’s a real dilemma we’re mission requirements” for ap-
application decisions needs to stall something indefinitely,” in when we’re just squeezed plications. Coun. Jenny Gerbasi said councillors can feel “squeezed” to make decisions on
flexibility. she told her fellow committee to make a decision,” the BERNICE PONTANILLA/ METRO development projects due to a three-meeting rule. BERNICE PONTANILLA/METRO
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The Maples
Cost to buy 25-year cost to run
Mapleglen. Police believe the
Murder charge laid
victim had stepped out of a
$35,000
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and passengers had been in-
$30,000
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degree murder charges driver of the suspect vehicle,
$25,000
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of extreme road rage last driving. $20,000 $12,250
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driving skills. murder, Terrence Jack
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rushed to hospital in critical causing death by criminal
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Approval given to
buy Parker lands
‘Sustainable, transit- more land for the would-be $19.7-million question
developer of the former city-
oriented’ area planned.
owned lands to the north and Dogleg route
David Sanders suggests east, which were swapped for
land in the Fort Rouge Yards no done deal
keeping the land as is
area,” Sanders told the commit-
tee.
“That land swap, under- The dogleg route through
BERNICE taken without full appraisals of the Parker lands for the
PONTANILLA value, is one of the more than second phase of rapid tran-
[email protected] 30 city real-estate transactions sit may be placed under the
which were audited and then microscope again.
A city committee has given submitted to the RCMP.” Coun. John Orlikow told
the go-ahead to buy 12 acres of Sanders said he’d like to see reporters that he continues
CN land located in the Parker the city purchase the land and to be against the route.
neighbourhood. then leave it as is. He also urged He said council has to
While the use of that land council to take the time to re- identify how to raise the
has not yet been determined, view the second-phase project $19.7 million required
the community committee mo- before committing “any more annually to finance the
tion states it’s an “opportunity millions of dollars to this boon- $600-million loan for the
to create a sustainable transit- doggle.” project. That means council-
orientated neighbourhood.” Committee chairman Coun. lors will have to revisit the
However, former mayoral John Orlikow said the purchase dogleg route and determine
candidate David Sanders spoke of this land will give the city whether it’s feasible.
against that use during Tues- more options. “Unfortunately the
day’s property and develop- “There’s so much going on previous council abdicated
ment committee meeting. (with) that land; we want to that responsibility ... so now
“I don’t know what a ‘sus- have the ability to be able to use we’re at the last minute
tainable transit-orientated it maybe for a roadway, maybe where we have to decide
neighbourhood’ is, unless the for the dog park, maybe for an- (whether to proceed).” Coun. John Orlikow said he’s still opposed to the dogleg route for the second phase of the rapid transit.
real intention is to assemble other field space,” said Orlikow. BERNICE PONTANILLA/METRO
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Never-before-seen Group of Seven
artwork unearthed and donated
Vancouver Art Gallery. No one knew the artwork
existed until Thoreau told
Oil sketches by J.E.H.
his friend, Max Merkur, more
MacDonald literally, then than 30 years later. Merkur,
a Toronto art collector and
figuratively, buried
highrise developer, bought the
paintings in 1974, unearthed
them and kept them in the
EMILY family for 40 years, never re-
JACKSON vealing them to the public.
Metro in Vancouver But Ephry Merkur discov-
ered the sketches and enlisted
Ten rare oil sketches by a the Vancouver Art Gallery’s
Group of Seven painter — in- senior curator to authenticate
terred in an Ontario backyard them.
for 30 years and kept from the “My brother, Mel, and I are
public for another 40 — have thrilled that these fabulous
been donated to the Vancou- works of art will be displayed
ver Art Gallery for all to see in for the public to enjoy,” he said
fall 2015. in a statement. “My dad and
The collection by artist mom, who spent a lifetime
J.E.H. MacDonald (1873-1932) expanding their collection of
is the most significant histor- An oil-on-paperboard sketch for Mist Fantasy, left, and an untitled oil sketch, right, both by J.E.H. MacDonald. The sketches, two of the Group of Seven pieces Canadian art, surely would be
ical gift the gallery has ever donated to the Vancouver Art Gallery by Ephry and Melvin Merkur, were buried for 30 years and kept private for another 40. COURTESY VANCOUVER ART GALLERY delighted, as well.”
received, next to the Emily The Group of Seven was
Carr Trust, the gallery’s sen- Melvin Merkur, who discov- to be in their family’s posses- MacDonald and his son de- 1910 to 1922, were wrapped made up of some of Canada’s
ior curator Ian Thom said in a ered the paintings in pristine sion due to their late father’s cided to bury the sketches in in layers of cellophane and tar most famous painters, known
statement. condition when their mother friendship with the artist’s son the backyard of their home in paper and placed inside boxes for depicting the country’s
The gift comes from To- passed away in 2012. Thoreau. Thornhill, north of Toronto. to preserve them and keep harsh but beautiful land-
ronto art collectors Ephry and MacDonald’s artwork came Apparently, in the 1930s, The sketches, dating from them safe. scapes.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Cairo. Baird’s visit may The day
of the flag
decide journalist’s fate
draws near
The fate of imprisoned Egyp- Deportation under way
tian-Canadian journalist With Feb. 15, the 50th birthday
Mohamed Fahmy could be de- of Canada’s beloved Maple Leaf
cided on Thursday when For- Mohamed Fahmy’s family flag, approaching, some are
eign Affairs Minister John Baird said they expect him to be wondering why there there has
arrives in Cairo. deported before a new trial been so little fanfare from the
That’s the day Baird meets takes place. federal government. The party
with Egyptian Foreign Minister planning appears to pale in
Sameh Shoukry after travelling (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:34)(cid:209)(cid:254)(cid:273)(cid:317)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:243)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:231)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:3) comparison to a multimillion-
to the tourist city of Luxor on (cid:61)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:83)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:3) dollar effort to mark Canada’s
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try’s future. (cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3) mark the bicentennial of the
A Foreign Affairs news re- (cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:3) War of 1812. The founder of the
lease doesn’t mention Fahmy (cid:220)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:16)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:316)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:3) Canada Flag Holiday Campaign
by name, but says Baird will (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:553) wrote to Prime Minister Stephen
raise “important consular Harper this week to express his
issues” with his Egyptian disappointment in the govern-
counterpart in Cairo on Thurs- Canada has been working hard ment’s lack of plans to celebrate
day. behind the scenes to win the the flag, the brainchild of former
Earlier this month, an Egyp- release of the Al-Jazeera jour- Liberal prime minister Lester B.
tian court ordered a retrial nalist, who is now in his 13th Pearson, which was adopted in
for Fahmy and his colleagues, month in captivity. Baird has 1965.
Australian correspondent Peter met twice recently with his
DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Greste and Egyptian producer Egyptian counterpart — most
Baher Mohamed, but a date has recently in Bahrain — to push
not been set. for the release of the 40-year-old Major security changes for
Baird has previously said Fahmy. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Iraq mission. CF-18s
Hill were rejected: Sources
increase attacks on ISIL
Canadian fighter jets flying personnel, the fighters are fly-
over Iraq have stepped up the ing from an airbase in Kuwait Shelved over a year security. There does not, how- safety at Parliament Hill.
Advisory group
pace of their attacks on Islamic on missions over Iraq. ever, appear to be any appetite Sources say that a small
ago. Proposals included
State of Iraq and the Levant Among their recent bomb- internally or externally for that group of senators drafted a re-
(ISIL) extremists, dropping ing runs: having a unified security force to be the Mounties. sponse to the federal auditor Torstar has learned that other
bombs for five straight days. (cid:580) Jan. 11 and 12: CF-18s force on Parliament Hill But for reasons that are not general’s report of June 2012, recommendations of the se-
Details are sometimes vague strike ISIL fighting positions clear, according to multiple which agreed with the audit curity advisory group include:
about what was hit, but since near Bayji. sources who spoke to Torstar on and urged the two parliament-
combat operations started in (cid:580) Jan. 10: two CF-18s bomb condition they not be named, ary services be unified under a (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:71)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:254)(cid:317)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3)
late October, CF-18 fighters ISIL staging and storage facili- At least two separate propos- the proposal did not advance single point of command. (cid:296)(cid:221)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:3)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)
have dropped munitions 22 ties south of Haditha. als urging major changes to and was rejected in 2013, after However, it appears the (cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:316)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
times and eight of those mis- (cid:580)(cid:3)Jan. 9: Two CF-18s sup- Parliament Hill security were Toews was replaced by Steven suggestion foundered long ago (cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
sions have happened since New porting ground operations prepared and shelved more Blaney, the current minister. over disputes about whether (cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:16)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:553)
Year’s Day. And in one five-day by Iraqi security forces near than a year before the Oct. 22 An advisory group of senior the Commons and Senate au-
stretch ending Jan. 12, CF-18s Ramadi, west of Baghdad, tar- attack on Parliament Hill, Tor- Commons and Senate mem- thorities would have equal say (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:315)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:3)
dropped precision-guided mu- get an ISIL truck carrying an ar- star News Service has learned. bers that was struck after the in its management. (cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
nitions against ISIL targets six moured personnel carrier, Later At the request of former Oct. 22 attack is working to The joint working group has (cid:38)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:265)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)
times. that day, two fighters strike ISIL public-safety minister Vic Toe- come up with recommenda- already adopted new measures (cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:3)
The Conservative govern- positions north of Bayji. ws, the RCMP worked on a pro- tions for overhauling security towards unifying the two secur- (cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:553)
ment dispatched Royal Can- (cid:580)(cid:3)Jan. 8: Two CF-18s sup- posal for a single security force. on the Hill — with one eye ity services.
adian Air Force aircraft to join porting ground operations suc- The idea of a single force on exactly that: a single force Two sources also said the (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:55)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:243)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:273)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)-
the multinational bombing cessfully struck an ISIL position is akin to the U.S. Capitol Po- that could look more like the Conservative government was (cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:305)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:225)(cid:296)(cid:553)(cid:3)
campaign in October. Sup- near Haditha. lice, a federal law-enforcement one that patrols Capitol Hill in considering a dramatic sugges-
ported by some 600 military TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE agency that protects the Amer- Washington. tion to turn Wellington Street
ican Congress. Some advocates The joint working group in front of the Parliament Build- 1995 with Washington’s Penn-
Ottawa Report believe such a force would offer expects to report by mid-spring ings into a pedestrian mall and sylvania Avenue.
both cost savings and tighter on a plan to reinforce physical re-route traffic, as was done in TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
U of O and its Alberta premier
president face suit calls recession Arrested terror suspects were on police watch list
projection flawed
The University of Ottawa
and its president, Allan The three suspects arrested in a among the 90 individuals con- Germany, and was intending to tested in court. What is known
Rock, face a class-action law- Alberta’s premier says five-day terrorism sweep were nected to around 63 active ter- travel to Syria to fight for a ter- is that police believe Mohamed
suit over the suspension of he does not agree with a among the roughly 90 names rorism probes by domestic se- rorist cause. His brother Ashton conspired with the two broth-
the school’s men’s hockey Conference Board of Canada on the RCMP’s national security curity agencies. The three men was arrested the same day at a ers to commit terrorist acts.
team in connection with suggestion that Alberta is watch list, Torstar News Service were arrested and charged with ski hill northeast of Gatineau, Police do not believe the
a sexual assault investiga- likely to face a recession due has confirmed. a number of terrorism related Que. three were radicalized in local
tion. The legal proceeding to plunging prices of oil. Jim Law enforcement sources offences, including participat- A law enforcement source, mosques, and did not consider
was launched Tuesday in Prentice calls the confer- expect more terrorism-related ing in the activities of a terror speaking on the condition of them to be immediate threats
Ontario’s Superior Court ence board report an outlier arrests in the coming weeks, as group. anonymity, said police believe in the Ottawa area.
of Justice. Two students on based on analysis that is the world’s attention remains One of the brothers, Carlos, all three men would have liked However CSIS and the
the team were charged last not particularly convincing. focused on last week’s attacks was arrested at Pierre Elliot Tru- to have travelled abroad had RCMP have said suspects
summer with sexual assault. Prentice says the board’s in Paris. deau airport in Montreal on Fri- they been able to. sometimes become greater
The two are not part of the report conflicts with other Twin brothers Carlos and day. Police expect evidence to Little is known about the threats at home after their
lawsuit. THE CANADIAN PRESS projections. THE CANADIAN PRESS Ashton Larmond, 24, and Su- show he held an airline ticket case against the three men, plans to travel abroad are
liman Mohamed, 21, were to Delhi, India via Frankfurt, and the charges have yet to be foiled. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Muhammad weeps on
Germany.
Leaders
push for
Charlie Hebdo’s cover
tolerance
German political and religious
leaders appealed for toler-
ance Tuesday in the wake
Defiant front. Shows It was the beginning of three Anti-terrorism of the Paris terror attacks, a
days of terror that saw 17 message meant to counter
prophet holding a people killed before the three PM asks for both religious extremists and
sign with words ‘All is Islamic extremist attackers growing anti-Islam protests in
were gunned down by security tougher Germany.
forgiven’ above him
forces. Chancellor Angela Merkel
Surviving staff members are measures and President Joachim Gauck
now using the offices of the Lib- were among those who took
Charlie Hebdo released a new eration newspaper, which has part in the rally organized by
version of its irreverent and lent out space. France’s prime minister de- Muslim groups near Berlin’s
often offensive newspaper The latest cover shows a manded tougher anti-ter- iconic Brandenburg Gate and
Tuesday, defiantly putting weeping Muhammad, holding rorism measures Tuesday the French embassy, where
a caricature of the Prophet a sign reading “I am Charlie” after deadly attacks that wreaths were laid for the 17
Muhammad on the cover that with the words “All is forgiven” some call the French Sept. people killed by Islamic ex-
drew immediate criticism and above him. Renald Luzier, the 11 — and that may already tremists in Paris last week.
threats of more violence. cartoonist who drew the cover be leading to a crackdown A group calling itself
The newspaper also skew- Patrick Pellous, Charlie Hebdo journalist and president of Liberation image under the pen name on liberties in exchange for Patriotic Europeans against
ered other religions, and ran magazine, holds the new issue of Charlie Hebdo at a news conference at the “Luz” said it represents “just a greater security. Police told the Islamization of the West,
a double-page spread illustrat- Liberation offices in Paris on Tuesday. AURELIEN MEUNIER/GETTY IMAGES little guy who’s crying.” The Associated Press that or PEGIDA, has been staging
ing Sunday’s march in Paris Then he added, unapologet- the weapons used came anti-Islam protests in the east-
that drew more than a million all the saints and prophets unprecedented print run of ically: “Yes, it is Muhammad.” from abroad, as author- ern city of Dresden for the last
people to condemn terrorism, combined,” it said in the lead three million copies Wednes- Speaking at a news confer- ities in several countries three months. Its latest protest
claiming that the turnout was editorial. “The one we are most day — one week to the day ence in Paris on Tuesday at searched for possible ac- Monday drew a record 25,000
larger “than for Mass.” proud of is that you have in after the assault by two masked which he repeatedly broke complices and the sources supporters, with speakers cit-
“For the past week, Char- your hands the newspaper that gunmen that killed 12 people, down crying, Luzier described of financing for last week’s ing the Paris attacks as proof
lie, an atheist newspaper, has we always made.” including much of its editorial weeping after he drew the pic- attacks. of the danger posed by Islam.
achieved more miracles than Charlie Hebdo planned an staff and two police officers. ture. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nigeria’s conflict with Islamic militants grinds on
Nigeria’s president was among expression of solidarity with He did not release a similarly Baga killings
leaders who condemned last the targeted French weekly forceful statement about Baga.
week’s attack by Islamic ex- — is now circulating on social The attack there started on Jan.
tremists on the French satirical media. 3 and was another bloody mark- Survivors of the Baga kill-
weekly Charlie Hebdo, yet his The global sympathy and er in a murky, grinding conflict ings described the horrors
response to the slaughter of the defiant rally in Paris that in which information is often they witnessed but in-
civilians by militants in his own drew foreign leaders after the scarce, the insurgency is seen dependent reporting from
country has been muted. assaults that killed 17 people by many as a local problem and the scene is virtually impos-
Some commentators criti- overshadowed the killing of violence is routine. sible for now because the
cized President Goodluck Jona- hundreds and perhaps as many The United Nations, the town remains under Boko
than’s reticence about the vio- as 2,000 people in Baga, a north- United States and other coun- Haram control. The Niger-
lence in Nigeria’s Baga town, eastern town near Chad. tries have condemned the ian military said 150 people
and the lack of a broader inter- Jonathan, who has been violence by Islamic extremist were confirmed dead, but
national outcry on par with touting his domestic record group Boko Haram, and inter- other estimates put the toll
Children stand near the scene of an explosion in a mobile phone market the reaction to the attacks in ahead of a re-election bid next national aid groups are mobil- at several hundred and as
in Potiskum, Nigeria, Monday. Two female suicide bombers targeted the France. The slogan “I am Baga” month, was quick to express izing to help survivors. high as 2,000.
busy marketplace on Sunday. ADAMU ADAMU/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS — a play on “I am Charlie,” the solidarity with France. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Free-climbers near India
Bad batch of liquor
El Capitan summit kills at least 28
A bad batch of bootleg
liquor killed at least 28
people and sent 160 others
to hospitals in the north
Yosemite National Indian state of Uttar Pra-
Park. The granite facing desh, officials said Tuesday.
Many of the victims
of El Capitan’s Dawn had gathered to watch
Wall inside the park is a cricket match Sunday
evening in a village about
considered the world’s 30 kilometres southwest of
most difficult rock climb the state capital, Lucknow,
government official Anil
Garg said. By midday Tues-
day, 28 people had died.
Two climbers are almost to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
the top, in their bid to become
the first in the world to use Mozambique
only their hands and feet to
scale a sheer granite face in In this Jan. 9, 2015, photo provided by Tom Evans, Kevin Jorgeson climbs on
California’s Yosemite National what is known as pitch 15 during what has been called the hardest rock Contaminated
Park. climb in the world: a free climb of El Capitan, the largest monolith of granite beer claims three
A spokeswoman said Tues- on Earth. TOM EVANS, ELCAPREPORT/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
more lives
day that 30-year-old Kevin Jor-
geson and 36-year-old Tommy prevent deadly falls. power to stay positive and re-
Caldwell will likely finish the Each trained for more solved that I would succeed,” Three more people have
climb up El Capitan’s Dawn than five years, and they have he wrote of his continued at- died from drinking con-
Wall on Wednesday evening. battled bloodied fingers and tempts to get past the gruel- taminated beer, bringing
For 17 days, the two have unseasonably warm weather. ling section. the number of fatalities to Chimp gets frozen treats
been attempting what many Jorgeson fell 11 times over The climb began on Dec. 27 72, as the number hospit-
thought impossible. The seven days trying to get past and was expected to take two alized fell by more than A chimpanzee named Paulinho holds two popsicles at the city zoo,
men are “free-climbing” to one tough section. He took to weeks. If the men finish Wed- 150, health authorities in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday. Zoo animals were given frozen
the 914-metre summit. This Facebook on Sunday to pub- nesday, they will have been on Mozambique said Tuesday. snacks made from tropical fruits, chunks of meat and frozen yogurt to
means they don’t use climb- licly celebrate his victory. the wall closer to three weeks. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS help ease the intense summer heat. SILVIA IZQUIERDO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ing aids, other than ropes to “It took everything in my THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
You Appeals Court ruling paves
could
WIN
way for Mubarak’s release

an Egyptian authorities have Tuesday’s ruling by the leave as a free man from the
exhausted all legal grounds Appeals Court — a top tri- Cairo hospital where he has
advance to keep deposed President bunal based in Cairo — over- been held. There were also
screening Hosni Mubarak in detention turned a verdict last May that conflicting statements by of-
after an appeals court on sentenced Mubarak to three ficials on whether the release
pass Tuesday ordered his retrial years’ imprisonment and his would actually take place.
for two in a corruption case, officials two sons, Alaa and Gamal, Since his detention in
said. to four years in prison each. April 2011, Mubarak has
to see The corruption case was Four other defendants in the spent most of his time in cus-
the only one still keeping the case were acquitted. Mubar- tody in a military hospital in
86-year-old Mubarak behind ak’s lawyers had appealed the Cairo suburb of Maadi.
bars. The autocratic former that verdict. According to two senior
starring
president has already been Though the ruling paved security officials, Mubarak,
Johnny cleared over the killings of the way for Mubarak’s im- even if released, would re-
protesters during Egypt’s minent release, there was no main in the same hospital
Depp
2011 uprising that toppled explicit statement from the for security reasons.
January him. authorities that he would THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Dominic Ongwen is now Criminal Court in The Hague, the ICC. The court’s warrant
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Deposit on homes
a phone tap away
Real estate purchases. work and racing to the real- 2015 top tech trend
tor’s office before closing time
New service called could soon be entering a new Deloitte picks
ExactDeposit expected era. Starting in February, Royal
mobile payment
LePage Atlantic will be one of
to be rolled out in the
several Halifax-area broker-
spring, in brokerages ages that will allow homebuy- More Canadians will
across the country ers to pay their deposits via be reaching for their
mobile devices. cellphones to pay for
Halifax-based realtor Chris purchases this year, pre-
Ryan co-founded ExactDeposit dicts global professional
In an age where most purchas- with his friend Kevin Kline. services firm Deloitte.
es can be paid with a tap from A secure and mobile-friend- A report, released
a credit card or smartphone, ly website allows homebuyers Tuesday, sees 2015 as a
the process of paying a deposit to pay their deposits using “tipping point” for retail-
on a new home is still tied to credit cards, a smartphone, ers, banks and telecom
old-fashioned paper — bank tablet or computer. Realtors companies to adopt the
drafts and cheques — and will pay less than $10 a month technology, which allows
tight delivery deadlines. for unlimited usage, while consumers to pay with
But the process that often homebuyers will be charged their smartphones.
involves homeowners making 2.9 per cent of their trans- THE CANADIAN PRESS
multiple bank visits, skipping action. THE CANADIAN PRESS Alleged Silk Road kingpin on trial in N.Y.C.
Market Minute Oil prices fallout
Supporters of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged creator and operator of the Silk Road underground market, stand in
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83.65¢ (+ 0.09¢) cutting 1,000 jobs development off the east ics. Prosecutors have been allowed to introduce evidence about six alleged murder plots. The government
coast. But major projects maintains that Ulbricht attempted to protect his operation by asking others to kill those who posed a threat to
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14,187.16 (- 77.85) cutting $1 billion from its Hebron field in offshore
capital budget in response Newfoundland are moving Punctuality. AirTran goes out in style
to falling crude oil prices. ahead as planned.
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cuts will mainly affect con- nounced it would slash its airlines in the latest rankings Southwest Airlines, which Airlines.
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GOLD employee positions. One of its oilsands projects off perennial winner Hawai- AirTran posted a 90.4 per Transportation said Tuesday
$1,234.40 US (+ $1.60)
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been given a final go-ahead deferred, and drilling activ- The bad news for pas- was second at 89.4 per cent. tic flights on the 14 biggest
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VOICES
FALL IN LOVE RIGHT NOW
Try a little social experiment. Turn to the person ant for him or her to know.
sitting beside you on the train or bus and go
through the 36-point exercise printed below. It 28. Tell your partner what you like about them; be
could make you fall in love. very honest this time, saying things that you might
It apparently worked for Mandy Len Catron, a not say to someone you’ve just met.
University of British Columbia writing teacher,
who fell in love with a man after going through 29. Share with your partner an embarrassing mo-
this very exercise and staring into his eyes for ment in your life.
exactly four minutes.
The experiment was created more than 20 30. When did you last cry in front of another
years ago by psychologist Arthur Aron, who says person? By yourself?
he successfully got strangers to fall in love by
having them ask and answer a series of ques- 31. Tell your partner something that you like
tions that gradually become more and more about them already.
intimate. Len Catron recently wrote about her
experience in the New York Times, detailing 32. What, if anything, is too serious to be joked
how she and an acquaintance recreated the ex- about?
periment at a bar one night, and two hours later,
were in love. Skeptical? Give these a try! 33. If you were to die this evening with no oppor-
Grab a random stranger and start asking questions: It just might lead to love. ISTOCK tunity to communicate with anyone, what would
1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom you most regret not having told someone? Why
would you want as a dinner guest? you were raised, what would it be? way you are now living? Why? haven’t you told them yet?
2. Would you like to be famous? In what way? 11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your 20. What does friendship mean to you? 34. Your house, containing everything you own,
life story in as much detail as possible. catches fire. After saving your loved ones and pets,
3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever 21. What roles do love and affection play in your life? you have time to safely make a final dash to save
rehearse what you are going to say? Why? 12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one item. What would it be? Why?
any one quality or ability, what would it be? 22. Alternate sharing something you consider a
4. What would constitute a “perfect” day for you? positive characteristic of your partner. Share a 35. Of all the people in your family, whose death
13. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about total of five items. would you find most disturbing? Why?
5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone yourself, your life, the future or anything else,
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I broke my back sledding a decade ago, and I’m still suffering
DYLAN lost gloves, helmets, etc. Years later and after When I arrived at the hospital, they tied me and more feeling in my legs. About 40 per cent
REARDON the fact, I like to refer to the scene as a tobog- down to a table for two weeks, before placing total loss right now. The reason for this is because
[email protected] gan graveyard. My brother went down the hill me in a body cast for six months. I had suffered over-compensation has led to increased degener-
first on a large plastic disk. The snow was com- a burst-compression fracture of my L1 vertebra. ation of my spine directly above where I broke
I’ve watched the debate about whether cities pact, presumably from thrill seekers leading up While in hospital, I was told that toboggan- my back.
should ban tobogganing with some interest. Sled- to that day, and because the weather was quite ing accidents are incredibly common, and one of Like every sport or activity, tobogganing car-
ding can be dangerous, and I think municipalities warm, the snow had melted and re-frozen a few the reasons for this is that the human derriere ries risks and dangers. My accident was a freak
should have some control over where it happens. times. As a result, he went like a bat out of hell as isn’t built to absorb the extreme forces that come accident. I could have broken my neck on the
I should know. I broke my back a decade ago I watched anxiously. from tobogganing. Unlike, say, the knees when boards playing hockey. I could have been hit in
while sledding at Confederation Park in Calgary, It was my turn. I didn’t even have a chance to you’re skiing. the head with a golf ball while on the back nine.
and my life has been altered by that event. put my legs back onto the toboggan before I was Since the accident I’ve suffered from chronic I do not agree with an outright ban, and lim-
On Boxing Day of 2003, my brother and I de- completely out of control. My journey down the pain and an inability to sit down or sleep for any iting times and conditions seems like ridiculous
cided to go sledding. I hadn’t been tobogganing hill seemed like minutes, and the whole time I length of time. I can walk, but in a very limited government overreach. However, designating
in a decade and the weather was fantastic: Sunny, was using my legs as breaks to try and slow my sense: typically no more than a few hundred safe places to toboggan seems like a prudent
blue skies, mild temperature — there may have speed. And then, BAM! It was a feeling I have metres before back pain gets too intense. When course of action. There are inherent risks in any
been Chinook that day. trouble describing. A feeling I cannot forget. this happens, my legs also become weak. activity, but we can try to minimize those risks.
Upon arriving at the hill, there were ominous My entire body felt like it was broken in half. The medications to deal with this are brutal,
signs that amused me at the time: a broken GT All I felt was pain. It was fierce and relentless, in that they make me incredibly tired and zom- Dylan Reardon is a Calgary-based student and writer.
Snow Racer ski, pieces of shattered crazy carpets, and I’ve never felt anything like it since. bie-like. Since the break I’ve been losing more He runs the satirical news website Urban Anomie.
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