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yesterday for the memorial
of a city journalist killed in
Afghanistan.
Thousands gather for flame’s Calgary debut Friends, family,
colleagues and several dig-
nitaries celebrated the life
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Although the 2010 Calgary. covering the country’s mis-
Olympic Games are in Van- “You can really feel the sion in Afghanistan.
couver, over 20,000 Calgari- passion and the Olympic Her funeral service was
ans celebrated the Olympic spirit here. It’s great to see held last week in her
torch relay at Olympic such enthusiasm,” Leigha native Van-
Plaza as if it were 1988 Cotton said. couver.
again. Dragons’ Den host and Calgary With the cauldron’s igni- METRO
Sporting her ’88 Calgary entrepreneur Brett Wilson tion by a grown-up Robyn CALGARY
Olympic Games volunteer signs autographs at Olympic Perry, who lit the original
jacket, Muriel Lacoste was Plaza last night after carrying Calgary Winter Olympic Michelle
swept up in the excitement the torch in an “exciting and cauldron and now bears Lang
and the emotion of the emotional” atmosphere. the surname Ainsworth,
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It’s amazing.” said he was overcome with cauldron for the 1988 Calgary Winter Games, carries the torch to to 2010
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Haitian benefit show
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In an attempt to support relief efforts in Haiti, Christian musicians from Western
Canada are converging on Calgary for a concert called We Must Do Something.
The free event is scheduled for tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Centre Street Church. Two-
time Juno award-winning singer/guitarist Steve Bell and Dove award-winning
vocalist Carolyn Arends will perform. Admission is free, but donations will be tak-
en with proceeds going to Samaritan’s Purse Canada. METRO CALGARY
Explosion levels SE home
Area residents shaken by 4 a.m. blast at apparently vacant house
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investing damaging several cars and Budai believes nobody was
others homes, leaving a injured.
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and everything just went Firefighters survey what little is left of a Penbrooke home explosion early yesterday. “It’s hard to say what
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We’re very lucky our bed- was hurt,” Vijay said. everything is damaged.” work when the home deto- we probably won’t know
CALGARY OBITUARIES
rooms are on the other side “We just completely ren- Cameron Kardash was nated. until (today) after we go
of the house and no one ovated the house and now about to leave his home for “I just saw a burst of or- through what’s left.”
CalgaryObits.com City to audit snow and ice program
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Grant) debate on the future of the it’s time and it’s due that torch was awesome
DALGLEISH, Mary Camilla city’s snow and ice removal we actually have a look at @wndxloriI love it when the
DAVIS , Charles (Chuck) program. the program and make Tower is lit. It makes me
DOCKERY, William (Bill) While the debate initially sure that we’re delivering proud to be from #yyc
FGIETSZYSLIMERM, LOeNoS J,o Fsreapnhk Joseph centred upon Ald. Diane what we think and we say @WBrettWilsonStanding
HARNACK, John Henry Colley-Urquhart’s motion that we’re delivering.” with thousands singing the
HARRIS-GORRIE, Miranda Tony looking into required snow In the interim, council Canadian anthem as the torch
Louise tires on Calgary vehicles, will continue to allow addi- comes into Calgary’s Olympic
HOKANSON, Sharon Faye and Ald. Ric McIver’s catch- tional spending on an as- Plaza. Makes a person proud.
HOLLOHAN, Brian all of snow and ice removal needed basis for snow and
JANEUlizSaSbOetNh ,( Jnoesee pZheirneeb e(Jsok)i ) solutions — the end prod- ice control on affected city News in brief
KAISER, Winnifred Mary uct was agreement on a val- streets, with the money
KOSTEL, Walter (Wally) Andrew ue-for-money audit on the coming from the fiscal sus- ZOO An upcoming independ-
LAVENDER, Mary Frances (nee entire operation. tainability reserve. ent review into the Calgary
Clarke) “If anything cries out for Council also agreed to Zoo’s operations will include a
LEVESQUE, Steven (Steve) Guy having a value-for-money look into Ald. Colley look at how two mule deer
MAHONEY, Rosella Marie Louise audit, and looking at our Urquhart’s motion on snow Snow removal will come under scrutiny as city council yesterday died of neck injuries at the end
(nee Laisnez)
MANFREDI, Catherine (Ann) entire program, it is snow tires, as it pertains to effec- began the process to have the entire operation undergo a value- of last year. Spokesman Simon
McMURRAY, Frederick James (Jim) and ice control,” said Ward tiveness for the city fleet. for-money audit. Scott says one deer died after it
NICH, Larry Ernest ran into a fence in its enclosure,
PAYNE, Lois Emma breaking its neck. He says the
RICHARDSON, Edward Charles Mayor will lobby Canadian cities to help rebuild Haiti other deer was found by keep-
ROBERTS, Jennie Louise (nee ers one morning with neck in-
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STINSON, Gwendolyn Louise Crisis his plan later this week to tated country. for municipal govern- led to its death.
SVENDSEN, John Agner Erik the Big City Mayor’s Cau- The teams would then ments to respond as well,” CORRECTION In yesterday’s
THOMPSON, Hilda Elizabeth cus to have municipalities be put into action once the said Bronconnier. Metro the office for census tak-
THOMPSON, Mark Brian AID Mayor Dave Broncon- put together teams of mu- rebuilding phase begins. The motion received ers to drop off applications was
nier will lobby his munici- nicipal experts on areas “It ties in with the spirit unanimous support from incorrect. The correct address
For full obituaries go to pal counterparts across the such as building inspec- of municipal co-operation, council at yesterday’s is 1103 – 55 Ave. NE. Metro re-
CalgaryObits.com country for a co-ordinated tions, environmental mat- but most importantly, the meeting. grets the error.
response to the Haiti ters, restoration of water international community DARREN KRAUSE/METRO CALGARY METRO NEWS SERVICES
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Schreiber goes on trial in Germany 3
Businessman Karlheinz Schreiber, who was extradited from Canada last August after losing a decade-long legal battle to stay in the country, went on trial in Germany yesterday on
charges of tax evasion. Prosecutors accuse Schreiber of failing to declare millions from kickbacks he received for the sale of helicopters and Airbus planes to Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Walsh ‘intoxicated,’ witnesses say
Canada
Cursing, yelling and a smack on the head — that’s how an “intoxicated” Toronto
broadcaster’s transatlantic flight ended last year after it was diverted to St. John’s, passen-
gers and a crew member told her trial yesterday. Colleen Walsh, 49, left, has pleaded not
guilty to charges of assault, obstructing the operation of an aircraft and causing a distur-
bance. Walsh — who has worked for Global Television, CTV, CBC Radio and Rogers TV —
sat in provincial court, at times shaking her head at the testimony. THE CANADIAN PRESS
DART gets B.C. teens back from Haiti
in the action
quickly
Military plane evacuates high schoolers, others to Montreal airport
Haiti
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of Canada’s Disaster Assis- Haiti. they’re not dressed for the
tance Response Team — The 17 teens and their cold climate.
was on his way to Port-au- adult chaperones arrived
Prince with a just a few hours before
reconnaissance crew and the earthquake hit the outside the city, they
precious little idea what Caribbean nation, and were not idle.
he would be in for when they had to wait five days “They pooled their own
they landed. before officials were able money and they bought
“We deployed a lot to get them out. Anxious 4,000 pounds of rice,
quicker than normal,” Ew- family members expect to which they distributed.
ing said yesterday during a be reunited with the kids They were involved in
mission to survey DART’s today, when they’re cleaning the roads. So
ultimate Haitian destina- scheduled to fly home to they have definitely been
tion: The quake-ravaged B.C. serving,” Dooley told a lo-
town of Jacmel, a coastal Most of the students cal television station.
outpost some 35 were aboard a military Dooley said the school
kilometres outside the aircraft carrying about district will bring in coun-
rubble-strewn capital. 180 evacuees that was the sellors to help the stu-
“We were deployed so first to arrive in Montreal dents deal with the horrif-
soon that the early yesterday. The re- ic scenes they witnessed
organizations that do the mainder arrived on a sec- during the disaster.
normal-needs assistance, ond flight. “There will be a need
they didn’t know School superintendent for some counselling.
themselves what the situ- Patricia Dooley said she’d A young child is welcomed by Red Cross personnel at Pierre Trudeau Airport in Montreal after arriving They have had a horren-
ation on the ground was spoken to some as they from Haiti on Sunday. dous experience and we
really like. So it’s been a waited to pass through are actually starting today
bit chaotic, and that is Customs in Montreal. South Slocan, B.C., and up a goat farm in a town ley said that while they with a session for par-
probably the major differ- The Grade 12 students seven adult chaperones about 45 kilometres out- awaited evacuation, stay- ents.”
ence.” from a high school in were on a mission to set side Port-au-Prince. Doo- ing at a Christian mission THE CANADIAN PRESS
As Ewing and his team
were able to gather their
bearings, the town —the Raitt set for demotion in cabinet shuffle Tories win Elections
birthplace of several of Canada court case
Haitian-born Gov. Gen.
Michaëlle Jean’s family TORIES One woman is get- partment that oversees COSTSThe Conservatives
members and the place ting a second chance in Flaherty, MacKay staying put such hot-button issues as have won their “in-and-
she cites as the backdrop Prime Minister Stephen oilsands development and out” court battle with Elec-
to most of her childhood Harper’s new cabinet while (cid:129)The shuffle will not involve though there was some dis- the future of Atomic Ener- tions Canada over ad
memories of the country another, once thought to Stephen Harper’s heaviest hit- cussion of MacKay ceding re- gy of Canada. spending during the 2006
—soon became an be on the fast-track, faces a ters, including Finance Minis- sponsibility for the Atlantic Current Labour Minister federal election campaign.
obvious place to deploy. detour through demotion ter Jim Flaherty and Defence Canada Opportunities Rona Ambrose, another A Federal Court judge has
THE CANADIAN PRESS after stumbling through a Minister Peter MacKay, al- Agency. once high-profile woman set aside the chief electoral
scandal. who was a disappointment officer’s decision to refuse
As many as 10 ministers in her first turn at Environ- to certify $1.2 million in
will be on the move in a Natural Resources Minister she was caught on tape ment, is getting another challenged expenses.
shuffle today that is far Lisa Raitt, once a rising star criticizing some of her fel- chance at a big department The judgment is a blow
more elaborate than the in the party who rocketed low ministers. with Public Works. to Elections Canada, which
tweak some officials pre- to cabinet within weeks of Raitt will stay in the cabi- And Trade Minister argued that national radio
dicted a few days ago, The her first election win in Oc- net, but in the relatively Stockwell Day will be re- and television advertising
Canadian Press has tober 2008, is getting de- obscure Labour post. placed by Public Safety should have been claimed
A obfr aKzaebnu sl usiecnidt eC aanttaadckia inn Etmheb caesnsytre learned. moted. Public Works Minister Minister Peter Van Loan, as expenses by the party
staff scrambling for safety. The biggest surprise may The high-profile Raitt ran Christian Paradis is tabbed with Day headed to Treas- rather than by individual
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month cognitive therapy come a long way in only a
Christine program costing more month. For the others, (cid:129) Lawrence Martin’s National
than $15,000. As they ar- who knows. Report will return next week.
Williams rived at Clear Haven, they How these vulnerable
were greeted with the an- human beings were treat- rise everywhere.
nouncement that the cen- ed is unconscionable and Mental health profes-
tre had gone cruel, yet sionals have stated that
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bankrupt. “Mental health highlights addictions cut across all
hen devas- Then, with the plight of socio-economic strata and
tation and no warning, professionals have inequity and take a devastating toll on
incalcula- no plan and stated that injustice entire families.
ble human no place to faced by Respect and sensitivity
addictions cut
suffering go, they were many in the by all professionals attend-
occurs — like the horror given $100, across all socio- greatest need ing to those in greatest
in Haiti — the subsequent then arbitrari- economic strata of advocacy: need is a reasonable ex-
outpouring of support is a ly dumped on Addicts, pectation, yet contrary to
and take a
refreshing reminder of hu- a bus like a mental the arrant disregard dis-
man altruism; an encour- load of refuse devastating toll health suffer- played at Clear Haven Cen-
aging affirmation given headed to a on entire families.” ers, the dis- ter.
the regrettable events of convenient abled and The people let go at
another news story that depot: Mon- the poor, and Clear Haven could have
was uncovered by the treal’s international air- this group has been grow- been one of our loved
Toronto Star a day after port. Some were crying. ing. ones. How they were treat-
the quake, yet overshad- No one knows how much Bill Wilkerson, the ed highlights the urgency
owed by it. money was lost by the founder of Global Business for citizens to become as- Worth mentioning
This story demonstrated clients and their families. and Economic Roundtable tute observers and advo-
the darker element of hu- Whatever progress they on Mental Health, has de- cates for those close to us
manity. Here’s how it had made ended abruptly. clared depression among who are in need. Newton’s famous apple
goes: 20 recovering ad- Two clients snorted co- Canada’s public servants
dicts came to their early caine on the bus and Eli- as the country’s biggest Christine Williams is the producer and host encounter posted online
morning class at the pri- jah Peabbles, 26, relapsed public health crisis, while of the live current affairs daily talk show
On the Line at CTS TV in Burlington, Ont.
vate Clear Haven Center, into heroin use the day af- warning that it’s on the
It always falls down. That’s turies because it packs in so
how the apple helped Isaac much — an illustration of
Views Newton. how modern science
An 18th-century account works, an implicit refer-
of how Newton developed ence to the solar system,
Taxpayers may be on the hook once again the theory of gravity was and even an allusion to
posted to the web the Bible.
yesterday, mak- When Newton
InBusiness But these now reluctant politicians stand idly by lier in the decade. Its assets ing the fragile describes the
“non-traditional” mortgage while Suzie and Sammy rose 20-fold to $2.7 billion paper manu- process of observ-
lenders have a great sugges- Homemaker are thrown in- in 2007 while profits went script widely ing a falling ap-
Charles tion. The mortgage re- to the street? from less than zero to a available to the ple and guessing
newals they won’t touch Well, here are a couple peak of $22 million in 2006. public for the at the principle
Davies with a bargepole should be reasons why they should. But Xceed was securitiz- first time. behind it “he’s talk-
underwritten by Canada’s First, consider that home ing its sub-prime mortgage Newton’s en- ing about the scien-
only inexhaustible source ownership is not a right, assets, packaging and re- counter with the apple tific method,” Moore said.
metronews.ca/inbusiness of finance — us taxpayers. but an earned privilege. selling them, and when the ranks among science’s “Also, the shape of the ap-
A new lobby group for the There’s nothing about it in Asset Backed Commercial most celebrated anecdotes, ple recalls the planet — it’s
You could call it Canada’s very lenders who are aban- the Charter of Rights and Paper crisis killed that mar- and it can now be read in round — and, of course, the
version of the sub-prime doning the sub-prime set Freedoms. Unfortunately, ket in mid-2007, the com- the faded cursive script in apple falling from the tree
mortgage crisis. wants Ottawa to back a $1- not everyone is destined to pany could no longer func- which it was recorded by does indeed hark back to
According to a recent ac- billion fund to refinance its own a home, and the peo- tion profitably. It rapidly re- William Stukeley, Newton’s the story of Adam and Eve,
count in the Globe and now vulnerable clients. ple now facing foreclosure configured itself as a “tradi- contemporary. and Newton as a religious
Mail, as many as 30,000 Government bailouts of would never have been ap- tional” lender, only recent- Royal Society librarian man would have found that
homeowners face mortgage any kind are problematic proved by “traditional” or ly finding its voice as a Keith Moore said the apple quite apt.”
foreclosure over the next because they distort the “prime” mortgage lenders bailout advocate. story has resonated for cen- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
three years. We’re not talk- market’s process of natural like banks or trust compa- In the end it’s a sad busi-
ing about ne’er-do-wells selection, muddying eco- nies. ness — overreaching fami-
who skip payments or laid- nomic realities with politi- The current crisis has lies dispossessed by the
off workers. These are hard- cal agendas. Thus you have been brewing for more denizens of an opportunis- We Know What You’re Thinking
working, upright folks who companies — automakers than two years. That’s tic capital market — but
have made all their pay- come on down — that are when our “non-traditional” the rest of us shouldn’t pay 49%The number of
ments. It’s just that the deemed too big and too im- sub-prime lenders started for it. Canadians who have
mortgage lenders who hap- portant to employment lev- heading for the exits. Take eaten straight from the fridge
pily approved their loans els to fail. Embattled home- Xceed Mortgage Corp., a Charles Davies is a veteran business writer or over the sink in the past month.
last time around won’t re- owners are an equally sen- lender that was happy to who has worked for Canadian and
international news organizations.
new. sitive subject. How can ride the housing boom ear- IPSOSREID
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metro metronews.ca Tuesday, January 19, 2010
6 American arrested on child-porn charges in Cambodia
Cambodian police said yesterday they have arrested an American man on charges that he drugged a 12-year-old girl and took pornographic photos of her. Chor Heng,
deputy police chief of Preah Sihanouk province, said Ronald A. Adams, 51, was arrested at his home Friday after a complaint from the girl’s mother. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rare bird-breeding area found in Afghanistan
World
The first known breeding area of one of the world’s rarest birds has been found in the remote Pamir
Mountains in war-torn Afghanistan, a conservation group said yesterday. A researcher with the
Wildlife Conservation Society stumbled upon the small, olive-brown large-billed reed warbler, left,
in 2008 and taped its distinctive song — a recording experts now say is probably the first ever.
The announcement came the same day Taliban militants launched an assault the Afghan capital,
underscoring the challenges of doing conservation work in the country. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Leaders ban female Aid flows, frustration persists
circumcision
MAURITANIAA group of 30
Mauritanian Muslim lead-
ers have issued a religious Help not reaching all who need it; looting and violence spreading
edict banning female geni-
tal mutilation in the West
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pleasure for women during killed an estimated before an earthquake shat-
sex and cause lasting pain 200,000 people and left tered the country last week.
and complications in child- many still struggling to
birth. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS find a cup of water or a “I am drinking as much
handful of food. as I can. It gives courage,”
European nations said Jean-Pierre Junior,
pledged more than a half- wielding a broken wooden
billion dollars in emer- plank with nails to protect
gency and long-term aid, on A woman sweeps debris on a street in Port-au-Prince yesterday. his bottle of rum.
top of at least $100 million U.S. officials say some
promised earlier by the U.S. try: $10 billion. tlenecks, bureaucratic con- pecially prized was tooth- 2,200 Marines were arriv-
The president of the neigh- Help was still not reach- fusion, fear of attacks on paste, which people smear ing to join 1,700 U.S. troops
Donors could learn lessons from past bouring Dominican Repub- ing many victims of last aid convoys, the collapse of under their noses to fend now on the ground and UN
disaster zones, where goodwill with- lic said it will cost far more Tuesday’s quake — choked local authority and the off the stench of decaying Secretary-General Ban Ki-
ered in the face of corruption and
chaos. Scan here for the story. to finally rebuild the coun- back by transportation bot- sheer scale of the need. bodies. moon announced yesterday
Looting spread to more At a collapsed and burn- he wants 1,500 more UN
parts of downtown Port-au- ing shop in the market police and 2,000 more
Prince as hundreds of area, youths used broken troops to join the existing
young men and boys clam- bottles, machetes and ra- 7,000 military peacekeep-
bered up broken walls to zors to battle for bottles of ers and 2,100 international
break into shops and take rum and police fired shots police in Haiti.
whatever they can find. Es- to break up the crowd. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Religious violence hits northern Nigeria
RIOTS Angry Muslim youths killed during a similar up- Christians and Muslims.
set a church filled with wor- rising in 2008, said local Five others died yesterday
shippers ablaze in northern Red Cross official Auwal from their wounds, and po-
Nigeria, starting a riot that Muhammad Madobi. He lice and soldiers set up nu-
killed at least 27 people and said he had no information merous road blocks
wounded more than 300 about deaths. Police officials throughout Jos.
others in the latest religious declined to offer a count of The rioting began Sun-
violence in the region, offi- the dead. day, when the youths at-
cials said yesterday. About Sani Mudi, a spokesman tacked a church, said Grego-
5,000 people lost their for the local imam, said 22 ry Yenlong, a state govern-
homes as rioters also people died Sunday after ri- ment spokesman. Yenlong
burned mosques and oters set fire to a Catholic said he didn’t know why
homes in Jos, a city that saw church, starting a daylong the young men set the
more than 300 residents wave of violence between blaze. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
News in brief ParaguayHostage freed
TWITTER A British man was ar-
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Hood Airport “sky high” if his
flight was delayed.
TURKEY The man who shot
Pope John Paul II in 1981 was
released from prison yesterday
after more than 29 years
behind bars and proclaimed Rancher Fidel Zavala, second from left, is embraced by relatives
that he was a messenger of upon his arrival to the airport in Asuncion, Paraguay, after be-
God and that the world will ing freed by his captors yesterday. Zavala was kidnapped by the
end in this century. so-called Paraguayan People’s Army three months ago.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 metro
Nepal hands over arrested Tibetans to UN world 7
Tibetans arrested over the weekend for entering Nepal illegally have been
handed over to the United Nations’ refugee agency, not returned to China. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AfghanistanChicken slaughter
KIRSTY W
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U.S. Army Cpl. Robert Glynn, left, and Sgt. Jonathan White kill a chicken for dinner to supplement
their MRE (Meals Ready-to-Eat) rations while on a mission in Kandahar City, Saturday.
Journalists’ emails
hacked in China
International journalists in
China said yesterday that December attack on Google
their Google email
accounts have been •Google’s announcement ber from China targeted the
hacked in attacks similar last Tuesday that it might quit Mountain View, California-
to the ones against the huge Chinese market based company’s infrastruc-
human-rights activists shocked the international ture and at least 20 other ma-
that the search giant cited business community and jor companies from the Inter-
as a reason for considering cheered many free-speech net, financial services,
pulling out of the country. advocates. Google said a so- technology, media and chem-
In announcing a possible phisticated attack in Decem- ical industries.
exit from China last week,
Google did not specify how accounts had been broken co-operative in New York,
the accounts with its Gmail into, with their emails sur- deplored the breach and
email service were hacked reptitiously forwarded to said the AP will be investi-
into or by whom. Informa- unfamiliar accounts. gating to determine if any
tion since then has trickled Although the warning did vital information was com-
out. not name the organiza- promised.
The Foreign Correspon- tions, one of the accounts The Foreign Correspon-
dents’ Club of China sent an belonged to an Associated dents’ Club asked its mem-
email yesterday to its mem- Press journalist. bers to be vigilant in pro-
bers, warning that reporters John Daniszewski, senior tecting their email accounts
in at least two news bureaus managing editor for inter- and computers from attack.
in Beijing said their Gmail national news at the news THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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metro metronews.ca Tuesday, January 19, 2010
8 Aboriginal group fights pipeline plan
An aboriginal group in British Columbia is fighting the development of a crude oil pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the West Coast. The natural resource manager of the
Wet’suwet’en First Nation says construction on Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway Pipeline would threaten his community’s traditional way of life. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Cadburylooks for Visa slams proposal
TokyoBluefin ban?
sweeter increase
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up in trading yesterday, in- consumer choice, Visa al government to rein in the innovation,” Tim Wilson,
dicating the market was Canada alleged yesterday, card companies, called on head of Visa Canada, de-
looking for Kraft to jump the deadline for the government to put the clared in a statement.
higher. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS comments on the plan. new code into effect as “Consumer transparency
Four of Canada’s five soon as possible. “CFIB be- and choice are particularly
biggest banks issue Visa lieves the most important important because of the
In brief
cards while Bank of Mon- element of this code is that meaningful differences
SELLOFF Three veterans of treal and many non-bank merchants will be able to that exist between net-
Canada's media industry are issuers support Master- choose how debit transac- works.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
taking a swing at buying a trio Card, Visa’s chief rival in tions will be routed,” said
of major Canwest newspapers that business. Catherine Swift, CFIB’s chief
including the National Post in a However the two leaders executive and president.
bid that could force the media of the credit card industry
conglomerate to consider sell- are both expected to offer code gives merchants the
ing off its assets piece by piece. The signage of a 24-hour sushi restaurant allures customers debit cards as well, putting power to decide which
The consortium of investors atop shops near the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo. A proposal to them in competition with debit network is used,
said they are only interested in ban the export of Atlantic bluefin tuna — prized for its succu- the bank-owned Interac overriding a consumer’s
Will record fees mean an Olympic-
picking up the Post, the Mon- lent slices of red and pink meat — could slash supplies and system. choice without consent. sized bust for broadcasters? Not a
treal Gazette and the Ottawa drive up prices. Visa said yesterday that “Our main concern, and chance, say some experts. Scan this
Citizen. THE CANADIAN PRESS it’s concerned because the one that we’ve highlighted code for the story.
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Coalition teams are in place, working will continue to stay until lives are contributions, as but put less of it age will grow
around the clock, helping to restore restored. But we can’t do it alone. a percentage of in stocks or equity healthily if you don’t
the lives of countless suffering children YOUR SUPPORT IS URGENTLY NEEDED. income, have de- (stock) mutual funds. take on too much stock
and families as the situation in Haiti PLEASE GIVE NOW! clined among the 55 and No more than 50 per market risk. As for debt,
reaches epic proportions. As many as older as well as in the un- cent of your RRSP funds take the tax refund gener-
3 million Haitians require immediate Your gift today will be matched by der 34 crowd. These boom- should be in the market ated by your contribution
and long term help. the Canadian government to rush ers and the Gen Xers, with and when you hit your late every year and dump it on
their shrinking RRSP con- 50s, the equity portion your highest interest debt.
life-saving water, temporary shelter
The Humanitarian Coalition members tributions, stand to face should shrink steadily. In-
systems and essential medical
have been in Haiti for decades and skinny retirements if they stead, think bonds, pre- Alison Griffiths is a financial journalist, author
supplies and restore lives in the future. don’t ramp up savings. Fat ferred shares and GICs. and host of Maxed Out on the W Network.
Write to her at [email protected].
workplace pension plans You are better off earning 2
THE HUMANITARIAN COALITION: TOGETHER – SAVING MORE LIVES.
Decoding acronyms used in RRSP season
Save the Children
Aide à l’enfance At RRSP season, Canadians a contribution and the in- 71. They can then transfer
Canada
CRISIS ALERT: hear a lot of acronyms. come earned is tax shel- the funds into a Registered
Tina Di Vito, director of re- tered until it is withdrawn. Retirement Income Fund,
tirement strategies at BMO LIRA: You cannot con- which operates like an
Financial Group, makes vert a pension from a for- RRSP but requires a mini-
sense of some terms: mer employer into cash. mum annual withdrawal.
RRSP:Registered Retire- One alternative is to con- LIF:A Life Income Fund
Please respond now at
ment Savings Plans are reg- vert it into a Locked-In Re- is much like an RRIF, but
istered with the Canada tirement Account or LIRA. the funds originate from a
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Customs and Revenue RRIF: Canadians must pension plan, locked-in
Agency. Investors save in- collapse their RRSPs by the RRSP or LIRA, instead of an
come tax when they make end of the year they turn RRSP. NEWS CANADA
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 metronews.ca metro
NBAers pitch in for Haiti 9
The Haitian earthquake relief fund co-founded by retired NBA star Alonzo Mourning and Heat star Dwyane Wade announced yesterday that its pledge total has already surpassed $800,000
US. Wade’s donation was a one-game salary, about $175,000, while Mourning, LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Chris Paul each pledged $100,000, fund officials said.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sports Pujols backs McGwire
Albert Pujols supports Mark McGwire, both for acknowledging his
use of steroids and in his new role as hitting coach of the St. Louis
Cardinals. “I told him I’m proud of him for admitting what he used,”
Pujols said yesterday at the team’s Winter Warm-Up. “Everybody
makes mistakes.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDITOR: [email protected]
Stamps get new president
Sports in brief
NFL New York Jets defensive
end Shaun Ellis has a broken
left hand that will require sur-
Bauer arrives in Calgary with much experience, success under his belt gery, but he expects to play in
the AFC championship against
Indianapolis.
Longtime CFL executive “He did an exceptional “He did an exceptional job of turning strated the commitment to UFC The UFC is rethinking its
Lyle Bauer was hired job of turning around the acquire the best talent on May 1 date in Montreal. The
yesterday as the Calgary Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ around the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ and off the field and under- calendar review is apparently
Stampeders president and financial situation and has financial situation and has also been very stand the required invest- due to rumblings that star box-
chief executive officer. also been very successful ment to be a premier fran- er Floyd Mayweather may
successful in his non-football business
Bauer replaces Scott Ack- in his non-football busi- chise in the Canadian Foot- meet Shane Mosley the same
les, who had stepped down ness pursuits.” pursuits.” John Forzani, managing partner, ball League.” day in Las Vegas.
to become the chairman of Bauer, a cancer survivor, on the addition of Lyle Bauer Bauer spent 10 seasons BLUE JAYS The Toronto Blue
the 2011 Grey Cup in Van- became Winnipeg’s presi- as an offensive lineman Jays avoided arbitration with
couver. dent and chief executive with the Bombers, appear- starter Shaun Marcum by
“Lyle brings tremendous officer in February 2000, Bauer will oversee and like the Calgary Stamped- ing in 161 regular-season agreeing to a $850,000 US,
administration skills to the taking over a franchise operate all of the Stamped- ers,” said Bauer. “Over the games. one-year deal yesterday. The
Stampeders and we’re ex- that was nearly $5 million ers’ business operations years, I have been able to He helped Winnipeg win right-hander more than dou-
cited about having him in debt and on the verge of while head coach-GM John watch the commitment Grey Cups in 1984, 1988 bled his 2009 salary of
take control of the club’s bankruptcy. Bauer re- Hufnagel continues to han- this ownership group has and 1990. He also served as $405,200 after spending the
business operations,” John signed from the CFL club dle all aspects of football demonstrated to ensure the team’s player rep and year recovering from ligament-
Forzani, Calgary’s manag- last month, not only leav- operations. the viability of this organi- was inducted into the Win- replacement surgery at the end
ing partner of business of ing it with money in the “I am very pleased to zation for the city, their nipeg Football Club Hall of of the ’08 season.
operations, said in a state- bank but also $5 million in have the opportunity to be fans, staff and players. Fame in 1998. METRO NEWS SERVICES
ment. its rainy day fund. a part of an organization “They have also demon- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Martin looking
NHLFlames devoured by Sharks
to fine-tune his
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said he and his team YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
San Jose 9 CALGARY1
will be concentrating on Ottawa 5 Boston 1
fine-tuning their game Toronto 4 Nashville 3
Colorado 6 Edmonton 0
before they represent Buffalo 7 Phoenix 2
Canada at next month’s Columbus 4 St. Louis 2
Dallas 4 Minnesota 3
Olympic Games in Florida 1 Atlanta 0
Vancouver. N.Y. Islanders 4 New Jersey 0
Tampa Bay 3 Carolina 2
“I’m not sure the win-
ning part or losing part NBA
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
matters a whole bunch,” Charlotte 105 Sacramento 103
Martin said yesterday in a Dallas 99 Boston 90
Golden State 114 Chicago 97
conference call. Houston 101 Milwaukee 98 (OT)
What Martin wants is L.A. Clippers 106 New Jersey 95
for himself, third John MMeinmnpeshoist a1 2150 8P hPoheilnadixe 1lp1h8ia 103 (OT)
Morris, second Marc New York 99 Detroit 91
Kennedy and lead Ben Oklahoma City 94 Atlanta 91
San Antonio 97 New Orleans 90
Hebert to curl between Calgary’s Brandon Prust, left, throws a punch at San Jose’s Brad Staubitz during last night’s action in San Jose, Calif. The Flames were Washington 97 Portland 92
85 and 90 per cent hammered 9-1 by the Sharks. Orlando at L.A. Lakers
during the Canadian
Open, which goes ACCESS
fMroTmS C Jaenn.t r2e0.-24 at the Cormier handed indefinite suspension for hit LEGAL
“Just more of a
confidence-builder kind RESEARCH INC.
of thing before we really QMJHL Junior hockey was VideoOnline The Quebec Major Junior Bolduc will issue a ruling.
hit the training super making sense of another Hockey League gave Remparts spokesman • CRIMINAL PARDON
hard for the two weeks head-hunting incident yes- View footage of Patrice Cormier an in- Nicole Bouchard said Tam /U.S. WAIVER
prior (to Olympics),” said terday after Mikael Tam of Cormier’s hit on Mikael Tam, definite suspen- underwent a brain scan af- • 24 HR CRIMINAL
Martin, 43, who won a sil- the Quebec Remparts was at metronews.ca\sports sion yesterday ter the game and that a RECORD CHECK
ver medal at the 2002 sent to hospital by an el- and will contin- second scan yesterday
Olympics with other bow from Rouyn-Noranda at Dave Keon Arena in ue to investi- morning showed no deteri- • FINGERPRINTING
teammates. centre Patrice Cormier, Rouyn-Noranda on Sunday gate the in- oration in his condition. • LOW COST NO
“That’s kind of what who captained Canada at afternoon. cident. He is to remain in hospital FAULT DIVORCE
I’m thinking. the recent world junior The 18-year-old defence- No time- for a second night for ob-
“I don’t want to see us hockey championship. man went into convulsions line was servation and is expected • SMALL CLAIMS
peak, it’s too soon for Cormier caught Tam and was taken to hospital provided to be released this morn- COURT TO 25K
that. But to play some with an elbow while skat- after the hit, where he is on when ing. THE CANADIAN PRESS CALL
good, solid games, that ing through the neutral listed in stable condition league dis-
403-228-2469
would be perfect.” zone during overtime of with brain trauma and sev- ciplinarian
THE CANADIAN PRESS Quebec’s 3-2 shootout win eral damaged teeth. Raymond Patrice Cormier
metro metronews.ca Tuesday, January 19, 2010
10sports Accident sidelines U.S. snowboarder
American snowboarder Danny Davis has suffered a spinal fracture in an all-terrain-vehicle accident that
will end his season and keep him out of next month’s Vancouver Olympics.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Vancouver Games
EDITOR: [email protected]
Spotlight looms for Crosby Snowboarder
ends career
MOVECanadian Crispin Lip-
Swing through Canada offers preview of expected Olympic scrutiny scomb is hanging up his
snowboard.
The two-time Olympian
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GM Place Saturday night when the time comes,” ways.
and failed to record a shot Crosby said last week. “The During the Games, the fo- The 30-
on goal for the first time all more you worry about do- cus will largely be centred year-old
season. ing things right in Pitts- around what he does on the from Crispin
He will be pulling on a burgh, the more that will ice. That’s hasn’t been an is- Pemberton, Lipscomb
Team Canada sweater when carry over when the sue this season as Crosby B.C., will
he returns to the city again (Olympics start).” has already hit the 30-goal work with Canada’s snow-
next month for the Vancou- One thing the road swing plateau for the fourth time boarders at the Vancouver
ver Games. Despite the underlined was just how in his career. Games. A year of change
rough end to Pittsburgh’s much scrutiny he will be The only NHL player who helped lead Lipscomb to
five-game road trip, Crosby under at the event. Crosby has scored more goals than the decision.
has been producing of late was subjected to heavy me- him so far is Team Canada The death of his best
— putting up four goals dia demands in Western teammate Patrick Marleau, friend Anthony Crute in a
and six points during that Canada and even had some who added three more last snowboard accident last
span. fans follow his cab to a week to bring his season to- year affected him deeply,
The upcoming Olympic restaurant when he went Sidney Crosby will be in the spotlight when Team Canada takes tal to 32. and an ankle injury slowed
tournament was a hot topic out to dinner in Vancouver. to the ice next month at the Winter Games in Vancouver. THE CANADIAN PRESS him down. THE CANADIAN PRESS
High-tech program
seeks Olympic edge
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Olympics just around the Some projects
corner, Canada is finally lift-
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cutting edge projects in its The University of Calgary
Top Secret program. developed a non-intrusive
Giant treadmills, a cable sensor that skiers wear to
to catapult speedskaters, plot the fastest line down a
and better bodysuits are ski course. It also helps de-
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Join us on Wednesday, January 20 at 7:00 pm in Chinook Lodge, Secret. “I think it brought Cana-
Join us on Wednesday, January 20 at 7:00 pm in Room MD 321 in main floor of the Senator Burns Building. Call 403.284.8367 or OTP, the organization es- da up from a level where we
the Heart Building. Call 403.284.7149 or E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] for more information. tablished to help Canada were below other top na-
to confirm your attendance or for more information. win more medals than any tions like the U.S., Ger-
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“We’re not doing any- world-class level. In some
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Join us on Tuesday, January 19 at 7:00 pm at the Art Smith world,” says Roger Jackson, successful in that the ath-
Aero Centre – 1916 McCall Landing NE. Call 403.284.7018 or head of Own The Podium. letes and coaches felt they
E-mail: [email protected] to confirm your attendance or for Todd Allinger, who heads were effective in training
more information. Top Secret, oversaw devel- and competition.
opment of a GPS unit that “It's research. It's a risk,”
OPEN HOUSE — FEBRUARY 5 AND 6 alpine skiers could wear says Allinger. “Sometimes it
and a binding plate for bears fruit and sometimes it
snowboards that made for doesn't.” THE CANADIAN PRESS