Metro Calgary - January 31, 2013

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THUNDER ON
THE MOUNTAIN
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WHEN WAGING WAR ON AVALANCHES, PARKS CANADA AND
Camera-ready Khloe
AVALANCHE WEEK THE ARMED FORCES CALL IN THE BIG GUNS — LITERALLY
PAGES 16 & 17 The Kardashian sister shares her makeup
secrets and her one must-carry item PAGE 25
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‘I don’t know if Albertans have
really taken the law seriously’
Distracted driving. Police in Edmonton, mean-
Quoted
while, have begun standing
Crash totals in Calgary
on street corners and flagging
“If you know that
stay steady despite down inattentive motorists.
legislation impaired drivers drink While Calgary police will
at bars, what you do is continue promoting safe
motoring, staff Sgt. Michael
you hang around bars
Watterston said he doesn’t
JEREMY and you follow impaired foresee officers taking steps
NOLAIS drivers out.” like those of the neighbour-
[email protected] ing force up north.
Dr. Louis Francescutti, a University of “Certainly, we’ll deal with
Are you reading this while Alberta professor and founder of Alberta’s each motorist we encounter,”
Coalition for Cellphone-Free Driving
driving? he said.
Alberta advocates say they quick to point out a number “Have we noticed some
are still routinely witnessing of factors play into citywide motorists gravitating back
and receiving complaints of collision numbers, but others to negative behaviour? Ab-
dangerous activities behind questioned whether the pen- solutely. Today is not like it
the wheel and new statistics alty for distracted driving was when the legislation first
indicate the total number of needs to be stiffened. came into place.”
reported Calgary vehicle col- Don Szarko of the Alberta Dr. Louis Francescutti, a
lisions rose slightly in 2012 Motor Association said, anec- University of Alberta profes-
— the first full year since dotally, the organization is sor and founder of Alberta’s
provincial distracted-driving still receiving the same num- Coalition for Cellphone-Free
legislation was enacted. ber of complaints from mem- Driving, said targeted en-
According to the data bers regarding the activities forcement is necessary to
from Calgary police released of other motorists. change the culture of dis-
to Metro on Wednesday, “I don’t know if Albertans tracted driving.
35,199 collisions were re- have really taken the law ser- As a comparison, he point-
ported in the city last year, up iously,” he said. ed to Checkstops and other
about six per cent from the Szarko said the AMA is in- methods used by police to
year prior and up nearly one trigued by a proposal from Al- nab impaired drivers.
per cent from 2010, when no berta police chiefs, including “If you know that impaired
distracted-driving legislation Calgary’s top cop, Rick Han- drivers drink at bars, what
existed at all. son, to add demerit points on you do is you hang around Hands on the wheel, not your phone: That message will be reinforced by Calgary police during the month of
Police refrained from in- top of the $172 fine already bars and you follow impaired February. New statistics reveal little change in collision totals in the wake of new provincial distracted driving
terpreting the data and were included in the legislation. drivers out,” he said. legislation. METRO FILE

metronews.ca NEWS 03
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Contract
dispute.
Bashing
doctors not
helpful: AMA
to premier
N
The president of the Alberta
Medical Association is
responding to what he calls
five days of doctor-bashing
by Premier Alison Redford. E
Dr. Michael Giuffre says
Redford is trying to make
physicians scapegoats for Al-
berta’s financial problems by
implying they are overpaid. W
He says the premier’s re-
marks that linked physician
contract talks with the pos-
sibility of her government
bringing back health-care
premiums don’t make sense, Ryan McAlister, left, and Rod Franks are among the peace offi cers hired by Calgary Transit in 2012 to boost the presence of law enforcement on C-Trains. METRO FILE
and won’t help the two sides
Sense of safety on transit
reach an agreement. S
“How do we go out and
continue to recruit doctors
when the premier is out
there saying those kind of depends on point of view
things? How do we keep our
doctors here?” Giuffre said
on Wednesday.
Redford made her re-
marks about health-care pre-
miums on Monday. The fees Quantitative vs. Transit crime train daily, said it’s “gener-
cost families about $1,056 a qualitative. Numbers ally a good experience” aside
year before they were elimin- from what she described as
tell one story, personal
ated four years ago. (cid:580)(cid:3) Riders report between who are asleep or many riders’ racism toward
On Wednesday, she ap- experiences tell 20,000 and 25,000 total passed out. aboriginal people.
peared to backtrack when another “incidents” to Calgary Jessie Metz, a self-de-
she was asked if the March Transit each year, said (cid:580)(cid:3) Transit sees about 250 scribed person of colour who
7 budget would contain tax public safety co-ordinator cases of “person crime” was born and raised in Cal-
hikes or a reintroduction of Brian Whitelaw. (such as robbery or as- gary but now lives in Vancou-
the health premiums. ROBSON sault) each year. That ver, said her experiences on
“We are not considering FLETCHER (cid:580)(cid:3) About 8,000 of those are works out to fewer than transit were part of the rea-
at all either health-care [email protected] on the “more egregious” 0.25 cases per 100,000 son she left the city 10 years
premiums or taxes in this end of the spectrum, trips. Citywide, the rate ago.
budget,” she said during a Safety on Calgary Transit has including about 3,500 is 750 cases per 100,000 “It was a place where
trip to Toronto. been a topic of online discus- “check-on-welfare” calls, people. people could be racist in pub-
The association and the sion recently, but perception often involving people lic,” Metz said.
province have been negotiat- of the issue doesn’t always “No one ever helped,” she
ing a new deal for doctors for match the reality, available added. “I didn’t feel safe.”
almost two years. Frustrated data suggest. That’s a bit of an “apples C-Train car following Satur- Ald. Richard Pootmans
by the lack of progress, the “We keep pretty good to oranges” comparison, day’s Flames-Oilers game. said he’s concerned about
government imposed a deal stats,” said Brian Whitelaw, Whitelaw admitted, but “They immediately made bad behaviour on transit but
on doctors last November, who co-ordinates public safe- worth noting. sexual comments about and noted the service is generally
but later backed off, allowing ty and enforcement on the Non-criminal incidences to me that I found threaten- safe and it’s a small number
talks to continue. city’s transit system. of intimidating or just plain ing,” she said. “I experience of people who create most of
This month, Giuffre said “Recorded crime on tran- obnoxious behaviour are far street harassment fairly the problems.
the association hoped to sign sit is extremely low,” he said, more common — something often and am usually quick “It’s tiny fractions of a
a deal with the government adding it’s “significantly regular transit rider Kai Mc- to dismiss it, but I truly did percentage of a 100-milllion-
by the middle of March. lower” than the city’s overall Neill experienced after a not feel safe this time.” plus travellers (a year),” he
THE CANADIAN PRESS crime rate. group of men boarded her McNeill, who takes the said.
Downed pilot and his wife were ‘perfect match’
As family and friends pre- went missing last week as it a tribute to Denton on the
Remembrance
pared to say goodbye to a travelled from the South Pole company website, saying he’d
Calgary pilot presumed dead to an Italian research station joined the company in 2010
“Mike’s warm person-
in a plane crash in Antarctica at Terra Nova Bay in Antarc- and achieved his goal of mov-
last week, the victim’s grand- tica. An emergency signal was ality and intelligence ing into a flying role two years
mother shared a little insight activated aboard the plane, but have left an imprint on later.
on Wednesday into the love crews surveying the wreckage Hogg said she visited her
everyone who
he shared with the wife he over the weekend deemed the grandson often, adding that
left behind. crash “unsurvivable.” encountered him.” he shared a birthday with her
“Really, they seemed like Also aboard were veteran late husband and the two were
Online tribute to Mike Denton
the perfect match,” Jean Hogg pilot Bob Heath, of Inuvik, and from Kenn Borek Air in many ways alike.
said of her grandson Mike Perry Andersen, of Colling- “He was a really nice guy
Denton and his wife, Carlyn. wood, Ont. — he was awfully good to
“I think they made a very nice Crews have said they may line on Wednesday said that, people,” she said.
couple — the qualities one was be forced to wait until the next while Denton pursued his A memorial service is
missing, the other one had.” Antarctic research season in “dream career” and became a scheduled for 2 p.m. on Friday
Calgary pilot Mike Denton and his Denton, 25, was aboard a October to safely recover the pilot, he loved his wife even at Christ Church Elbow Park,
wife, Carlyn, were married in Twin Otter owned by Calgary- bodies. more than flying. at 3602 8th Street S.W.
September. FACEBOOK.COM based Kenn Borek Air that An obituary published on- Kenn Borek also posted JEREMY NOLAIS/METRO
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Car-vs.-storefront
incident leads to six
charges for man, 24
Right into a ’za joint. off at 2:15 a.m. Penalties
An unlicensed driver “We get there and there’s
a large, gaping hole in
in an uninsured vehicle
the business,” Poole said. Charges against the driver:
plowed into restaurant “We had a witness that ap-
at around 2 a.m., say proached us and said they (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)
saw a white Dodge Charger
police appear to lose control, slam (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)
into the front of the restau- (cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)
rant and then back away.”
By 2:55 a.m., Poole said (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:225)
ROBSON officers had tracked the
FLETCHER vehicle to a nearby home a (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:34)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
[email protected] few blocks away, where they (cid:296)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:254)
detained three adults for
Police say an intoxicated and questioning. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)
unlicensed 24-year-old man That led to the 24-year-
drove an uninsured vehicle old man being arrested and (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:61)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)
into a pizza restaurant early charged with six offences. (cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
Wednesday morning and The crash destroyed most (cid:279)(cid:315)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)
then fled the scene. of the restaurant storefront
“Shockingly enough, no and caused “significant dam-
one was injured,” said Cal- age” inside, Poole said. enue late at night and drivers
gary police spokesperson “It’s hard to believe how need to slow down, particu-
Emma Poole. it happened,” said the oper- larly in the wake of a nearby
Officers initially re- ator of an adjacent liquor fatal crash on Sunday.
sponded to the restaurant in store, who asked that her “Stupid people who are
a strip mall at the corner of name not be printed. racing in this kind of weath-
Members of a cleanup crew examine the damage at a restaurant on Wednesday morning after an allegedly drunk 32nd Avenue and 60th Street The woman said vehicles er,” she said. “They won’t
driver crashed into the building. ROBSON FLETCHER/METRO N.E. due to an alarm going often race down 32nd Av- learn lessons, I guess.”
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metronews.ca NEWS 07
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Sex criminal too old, frail
for full-time jail: Defence
His victims disagree.
must be punished. Dr. Aubrey at high risk in jail because he in nature, read a letter from
Judge to sentence Levin’s three victims also had is frail and in ill health. Chris Levin’s rabbi that said Levin is
a chance to face their attacker. Archer told a sentencing hear- still respected and loved in the
psychiatrist Thursday
“I hope you get what you de- ing that Levin should serve a Jewish community.
serve. I hope you suffer as much sentence of between 60 and 90 “His humble manner and
as I and everyone else has,” said days on weekends. complete lack of arrogance en-
A psychiatrist convicted of sex- one of the victims in a state- Levin was found guilty on deared him to everyone,” read
ually assaulting his court-ap- ment to the court. Monday of sexually assaulting the letter from Rabbi Yisroel
pointed patients was depicted The judge will sentence three patients who had been or- Miller.
Wednesday as both a frail sen- Levin on Thursday morning. dered to see him by the courts. “The bad does not erase all
ior who would suffer in prison Levin’s defence lawyer said Archer, who said the sex- the good.” Former court-appointed psychiatrist Aubrey Levin and his wife, Erica.
and a sexual predator who his 74-year-old client would be ual assaults were only “minor” THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
City clears three arenas
Ethan Yellowbird, 5
Hour-Zero. Alberta schools
Parents won’t
similar to Stu Peppard react to Newtown tragedy
be at sentencing
of son’s shooter
A tragic event at a school town, Conn., killing 20 chil-
City workers have inspected He added that the prob- The parents of a five-year- across the continent has cre- dren and six adults.
Rescheduled
three other facilities similar 100 lem at Stu Peppard involved old boy who was shot ated a ripple effect all the way Hour-Zero provides emer-
in age and design to the now- a series of events, including a dead as he slept in his to Alberta, with schools act- gency-preparedness support
closed Stu Peppard Arena and heavy snowfall, wind-loading bed on an Alberta reserve ively working to bring their to numerous school boards
believe all three are unlikely of snow on one side of the don’t want to be part of a safety procedures and train- within Alberta, including
to encounter the same roof roof, followed by a melt-freeze sentencing conference for ing up to date, a crisis expert Rocky View Schools and Ed-
The minimum number of practices that
problem. cycle. one of three teens who said Tuesday. monton’s Catholic School
need to be rescheduled for alternate ice
“We wanted to just go out surfaces after the closure of Stu Peppard Alternate sites have been fired the gun. Donna Gingera, founder District.
and check the other facilities Arena, according to Hockey Calgary. arranged for hockey games Ethan Yellowbird was and chief executive of Hour- “It’s not just new inquir-
that are of similar construc- previously scheduled for Stu struck in the head by a Zero, said her phone has been ies,” she said. “It’s a height-
tion,” said Thomas Hansen, Those facilities include the Peppard through the end of bullet as he slept in his constantly ringing in the days ened vigilance — and dili-
manager of capital and asset Father David Bauer, Rose Kohn February, said Christina Rog- tiny fire-truck bed. and weeks since a gunman gence, even — with our own
management for the city’s re- and Murray Copot arenas, ers of Hockey Calgary. THE CANADIAN PRESS opened fire at Sandy Hook existing clients.”
creation department. Hansen said. ROBSON FLETCHER/METRO Elementary School in New- JEREMY NOLAIS /METRO

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10 NEWS metronews.ca
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Ballerina afraid to go back to Russia
Prima fear. Threats Svetlana Lunkina, 33, has had accepted Lunkina’s request Dirty dancing
to leading lady follow told the Russian daily Izvestia to extend her leave, but made
that she asked the Bolshoi to no further comment.
acid attack on Bolshoi extend her leave as she fears The ballerina said she was (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:50)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3)
artistic director returning to Russia. Lunkina’s scared to hear about the attack (cid:315)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:266)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:248)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:3)
statement came two weeks on Filin, who has undergone (cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:302)(cid:315)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
after the attack on Bolshoi art- several surgeries to save his (cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:302)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)
A leading ballerina with the istic director Sergei Filin, who eyesight and treat severe burns (cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:220)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:3)
Bolshoi Ballet says she wants to was badly burned when an on his face. (cid:48)(cid:296)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:266)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:209)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:292)-
stay in Canada after receiving unidentified masked assailant “I feel a strong compassion (cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:209)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)
threats — a move that follows threw sulphuric acid in his face. for his family,” Lunkina said. “I (cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)
an acid attack on the dance Bolshoi spokeswoman hope they will find those who (cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:74)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)
troupe’s ballet chief and high- Katerina Novikova confirmed committed that crime.” (cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:320)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:56)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:39)(cid:39)(cid:553)
Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Lunkina COLIN MCCONNELL/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE lights tensions at the theatre. Wednesday that the theatre THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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