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Man with
Albertan dies
JuniorsHeartbreak
in avalanche knife chases
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avalanche triggered by four
skiers near Rossland, in CRIMEA Calgary Transit C-
B.C.’s West Kootenay area. Train driver was forced to
The other three people flee a knife-wielding man
managed to escape. early Monday morning at a
The man’s body was re- downtown platform.
covered yesterday. RCMP Police have arrested a
say his relatives don’t want suspect in connection with
his name released. the bizarre incident, which
The danger to those in began at 1:25 a.m. at the
B.C.’s Columbia Mountain 4th Street SW station when
range is actually higher at someone apparently
lower elevations, the oppo- pushed the emergency but-
site of normal, because of a ton by accident.
weak layer of snow that de- The C-Train operator ex-
veloped in late December ited his cab to deactivate
and is now buried 30 to 60 Team Canada’s Greg Nemisz is stopped by Team USA’s Brian Lashoff during first-period gold-medal final hockey action at the World the button, and he was
centimetres below the sur- Junior Hockey Championship yesterday in Saskatoon, Sask. The U.S. beat Canada 6-5 in overtime. Story, page 10 chased back to his cab by a
face, said Avalanche man from the centre car,
bulletins manager Karl according to police.
Survey ruffles feathers
Klassen. THE CANADIAN PRESS “It’s disturbing that (this)
occurs in our city, and it’s
News on the M ve something the Calgary Po-
lice Service takes very seri-
What’s this ously,” Insp. Kevan Stuart
barcode for? said, adding police are try-
Learn how to scan Statements on ‘approaches to life’ for Stampede research draw ire ing to determine a motive.
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the top of pg 3 walking along the 6th Av-
odd and on one hand a bit polarizing, they do not re- enue platform, where he
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prising,” he said. Fraser said the research ening manner” towards po-
Countdown An otherwise benign sur- city try on that “Sometimes the Stam- helps them better tailor lice and a Taser was
to 2010 vey has turned into a PR persona of being a pede and the city try on their programming to a deployed.
kerfuffle for Calgary Stam- that persona of being a bit changing audience in Cal- Brian Whitelaw, Calgary
bit redneck.”
Follow Metro as we pede officials after a hand- redneck.” gary. Transit co-ordinator of safe-
bring you daily coverage ful of potentially suspect Quinton Rafuse, Rafuse said the questions Illumina president ty, said the incident will be
leading up to the 2010 questions caught the eye survey respondent were something the contro- Yvonne Brouwer said state- reviewed but they are rely-
Winter Olympics in of respondents. versial character Borat ments like these are fairly ing on the police investiga-
Vancouver. In a section of an online would ask to elicit an inap- standard in the market re- tion to shed more light on
• Today — segmentation survey, spon- definition of a family is a propriate response. search industry. They also the incident.
Bilodeau brings sored by the Calgary Exhibi- husband, wife and chil- “I just didn’t think they need to be considered in Police have charged John
experience tion and Stampede, respon- dren,” among others. belonged in a survey,” he the context of the whole Richard Marleau, 22, with
to moguls, dents were asked to rate Quinton Rafuse, who said. survey, she said. three counts of assault
page 11 statements on “different lives near Stampede Park The Calgary Stampede’s “They are really state- with a weapon and one
approaches to life” on a and took the survey, was Doug Fraser emphasized ments that are meant to count each of possession of
On the web sliding scale from strongly initially “appalled” when the statements, designed by help divide people, that weapon, carrying a
disagree to strongly agree. he came across the survey, the research company Illu- people would have very dif- concealed weapon and
Visit metronews.ca The statements included: which he said was other- mina Research Partners, ferent opinions on,” Brouw- causing a disturbance.
for news updates “Some jobs are best suited wise “about 95 per cent aren’t representative of the er said.
to men. Women should just completely normal” for Stampede. “By doing that, you get a Follow Metro on
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Man hurt in fridge blast
Local
A fridge explosion yesterday afternoon sent one man to
hospital, according to the fire department. The blast ripped
the door off the fridge and shattered windows in the home
in the 2300 block of 51 Street NE. Two people were in the
home at the time, but only a man in his 20s was taken to
hospital. METRO CALGARY
Flying for business not a pleasure
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Calgary tweets who make several trips a charges against two men in a
month. stabbing Monday night in the
(cid:129) @djdexone Still Calgarian Kathy Hall- city’s southeast. Police say a 24-
in traffic. wood travels two to four year-old man was slashed in
Wonder times a month by airplane the throat with a knife when
why and though she didn’t two men asked him for drugs
calgary mind the trips before, she and he said he didn’t have any.
drivers are dreads them now. “I can’t Police charged Brandon
so slow when bring anything on the Leblanc and a 17-year-old man
there’s only little plane with me anymore, in relation. METRO CALGARY
snow... things that I need for work
(cid:129) @Martychan13 How to while I fly. I had to buy a
guess which MLA has been bigger suitcase just to fit
offered a new cabinet posi- everything in to store un-
tion — see how vocal they der,” Hallwood said. CALGARY OBITUARIES
are about the recent defec- Not to mention the
tion. #ableg amount of time she spends Long security lineups are frustrating frequent Calgary flyers. More coverage, page 5.
(cid:129) @Chris_Salmon To the checking through security. CalgaryObits.com
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get my car out of the snow - was so tight they made me call mixed messages, in- hours early, and then we The announcement of notes the following deaths
whuffies and good karma late for my flight. The air- cluding Norm Jones, who get here and we can’t even new full body-scan proce- in our community:
galore! Glad I packed a line called my name three waited in line at the Cal- get into customs until two dures by the federal gov-
shovel in the trunk. #yyc times and the security peo- gary International Airport and half hours before the ernment yesterday has pas- ASTALOS, Paul
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No criminal record for Tillman 5
Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager Eric Tillman will not have a criminal
record after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada
Focus on economy,
not torture: Harper
PM says Canadians worried about jobs
Prime Minister Stephen country. “What’s on the said. He didn’t name the
Harper says Canadians radar is the economy.” other priority issues, but
aren’t really concerned The Prime Minister said Conservatives have said
about allegations that the his government wants to law-and-order legislation
government engaged in a focus on economic condi- will feature prominently in
coverup over the abuse of tions when Parliament re- the next session.
Afghan detainees. opens on March 3 with a He also said the govern-
“I think polls have been speech from the throne ment will quickly fill va-
pretty clear that that’s not and a budget the next day. cancies in the Senate to
on the top of the But there’s no make it harder for Liberal
radar of most doubt the opposi- senators to make changes
Canadians,” Harp- tion parties will re- to Conservative legislation
er said in an inter- turn to the Afghan approved in the Commons.
view with CBC detainee issue in On the question of re-
correspondent Pe- March, he said. aligning airline security in
ter Mansbridge. “They’ve been on the wake of the latest ter-
The govern- that subject for rorist scare in the United
ment had been on three or four years States, Harper said security
the defensive late now. I’m sure measures in Canada will
last year over alle- they’ll continue have to become tighter.
gations that it Harper on it.” “We don’t have to take
tried to cover up In his first public identical measures (as the
information that Afghan comments on his decision U.S.), but we certainly have
authorities were abusing to close down Parliament to undertake measures
Afghan detainees after for the second time in a lit- that would prevent any
they were handed over by tle over a year, Harper in- similar kind of threat in
Canadian soldiers. And op- sisted it was a “routine con- Canada.”
position MPs say Harper stitutional matter” if the Ottawa will examine the
decided to suspend Parlia- government isn’t threat- 14-country terrorist watch
ment until March to shut ened with defeat by other list announced by the U.S.
down a House of Commons parties in the Commons. in recent days to see if
committee probing the de- “We want to take some Canada should adopt this
tainee controversy. time to recalibrate the gov- approach. But “we may ar-
But Harper said Canadi- ernment’s agenda” on the rive at different conclu-
ans are more interested in economy and other poli- sions,” Harper said.
the recession battering the cies, the prime minister TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Body scanners
CalgaryTraining with the pooch
coming to Canada
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screening.
“We’ve got to stay ahead
of the terrorist elements,”
Transport Minister John
Baird said yesterday.
The scanners will first
be installed in Vancouver,
Calgary, Edmonton, Win-
nipeg, Toronto, Montreal,
Ottawa and Halifax and
will all be in place in by
spring. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Deanne Collinson, a Calgary-based certified trainer of 6Legs to
Backed-up airport terminals could
mean big bucks for savvy Fitness, a fitness program for dogs and their owners, works out
businesses, experts say. Scan with her dog Maddie, an Irish terrier, yesterday.
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6 U.S. opposes closing locks to keep out fish
The Obama administration opposes closing shipping locks near Chicago to prevent Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes.
The voracious fish have been migrating up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers toward the Great Lakes for decades. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Group fears scanners will exploit kids
World
Britain’s government wants to quickly deploy full-body scanners at U.K. airports to fight an
expanded terrorist threat, but privacy concerns — and fears that children may be exploited
— seem likely to slow the plan. Privacy campaigners and children’s-rights groups say the
technology, now being tested at Manchester Airport, violates British and European law by
producing sexually explicit images of children. They say the machines cannot be allowed
because they can clearly show a child’s genitalia. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
‘Screw-up that could have
LondonTaking stock
been disastrous:’ Obama KIRSTY W
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Christmas Day airline structions from al-Qaida
flight, but intelligence er or its passengers, and he U.S.-bound flight, Obama operatives in that country.
agencies “failed to was subdued by other pas- did not announce any fir- Nearly half of the 198 ter-
connect those dots” and sengers and airline crew ings or job reassignments. ror suspect detainees held
left nearly 300 passengers members on the Detroit- According to a White at Guantanamo Bay in Cu-
and crew in peril. bound Northwest Airlines House statement released ba are from Yemen. But
Obama called that unac- flight. later, Obama told his gath- Obama reiterated his vow
ceptable. “I will not toler- Obama, speaking after ering of officials: “This was to eventually close the
ate it,” he said. meeting with his Cabinet a screw-up that could have camp.
The accused attacker, 23- and national security team, been disastrous. We “Make no mistake, we
year-old Nigerian Umar declared, “We have to do dodged a bullet, but just will close Guantanamo
Farouk Abdulmutallab, has better, and we will do better. barely. It was averted by prison,” Obama said. The
claimed ties to al-Qaida. And we will do it quickly.” brave individuals, not be- camp, he said, “was an ex-
Witnesses said he ignited But while he expressed cause the system worked, plicit rationale for the for-
an explosive mixture, but clear displeasure with the and that is not acceptable.” mation of al-Qaida” operat-
it failed to do serious dam- U.S. failure to prevent the Obama also said he was ing in Yemen.
age to the Northwest jetlin- suspect from boarding a suspending the transfer of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mammal keeper Lucy Smith counts coatis during the annual
stocktaking at London Zoo yesterday. More than 750 different
Photo captures the universe ... as a toddler
species are tallied up in the count.
SPACE The U.S. Hubble Space the early universe so far, because at this stage, they about 900 million years af- News in brief
Telescope has captured the showing galaxies with stars don’t contain many heavy ter the Big Bang.
earliest image yet of the that are already hundreds metals, said Garth Illing- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BIN LADEN With a book writ- with their father in
universe — just 600 million of millions of years old, worth, a University of Cali- ten by one of Osama bin Afghanistan escaped to Iran.
years after the Big Bang, along with the unmistak- fornia, Santa Cruz, astrono- Laden’s sons, and with news of PHILIPPINES A member of a
when the universe was just able primordial signs of the my professor who was a daughter sheltering in the powerful political clan yester-
a toddler. first cluster of stars. These among those releasing the Saudi Embassy in Iran, some day pleaded not guilty to mur-
Scientists released the young galaxies haven’t yet photo. Until NASA’s Hubble blanks are being filled in on der charges in the Philippines’
photo yesterday at a meet- formed their familiar spiral telescope was repaired and the life of the terrorist’s family. worst election massacre of 57
ing of the American Astro- or elliptical shapes and are upgraded last year, the far- Two weeks ago, Omar bin people, including journalists
Trash goes full circle in California as
nomical Society. It is the much smaller and quite thest back in time that as- refuse fuels fleet of garbage Laden revealed that many of and members of a rival’s fami-
most complete picture of blue in colour. That's mostly tronomers could see was trucks. Scan this code for the full story. the children who had been ly. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NCommoent ticing a new Rose ICHAEL DE ADDER
TheWestView changed when two Tory opens next month. Danielle Smith, who, while
MLAs, fed up with the That means Wildrose fiscally conservative, is me-
dank obscurity of the back would automatically enjoy dia savvy and a celebrated
Paul bench, rode their 15 min- full legislative privileges, alum of Calgary Inc.’s 40
utes of fame across the unlike the socialists, who Under 40. Unlike the previ-
Sullivan floor of the house, and the have a key to the wash- ous generation of Re-
Wildrose vaulted over the room only because the form/Alliance media beef-
NDP to become the third Speaker has taken pity on heads, Smith understands
Hmetronews.ca/thewestview largest party in Alberta, them. modern media relations,
even though it won’t be You’re also forgiven if and is not about to be
ere we go again. two years old until Jan. 19. you think you’ve seen this trapped into the macho,
Alberta, which So people are starting to movie before. Wildrose homophobic, white su-
spawns right- take notice. There’s even a rose from the ashes of the premacist self-destruction
wing parties like chance Wildrose will in- Alberta Alliance, which it- common to the clan.
it sprouts oil crease its elected caucus to self rose from the ashes of Still, is there room for
wells, has given birth to four as former Tory Guy the Reform Party, and two parties on the right,
another: The Wildrose Al- Boutilier, cast down there somewhere, even in Alberta, where
liance Party. into the lurks the ghost of Bible there’s apparently room
If you’re keeping score at ranks of Bill Aberhart, the fa- for anything? Stephen
home, that’s three: Social the inde- ther of Social Cred- Harper didn’t think so, and
Credit, Reform, and now pendents it. he got to be prime minis-
this. by a However, the ter by uniting the right,
What is it about Alberta wrathful new face of So- even if the earliest fusion,
that fosters a live-free-or- Premier cial Credit/Re- the Canadian Conservative
die attitude among its citi- Ed Stel- form/Al- Reform Alliance, came to
zens? Maybe it should be mach last liance is CCRAP when you added Worth mentioning
designated a distinct socie- summer the infi- the word “party,” which, of
ty, like Quebec or New- for daring nitely course, everybody did.
foundland. to com- more at- But don’t think Ed Stel- Philippines is deadliest
If you’ve never heard of plain out tractive mach isn’t looking over his
Wildrose, don’t feel bad. loud, glee- shoulder. There’s a new for journalists: Report
Until the day before yester- fully pon- gunslinger in Wildrose
day, it had exactly one seat ders casting Country, and in a delight-
in the 83-seat Alberta legis- his lot with ful 21st-century twist, More than 130 media The bulk of those deaths
lature, while the Perpetual Wildrose be- she’s a woman. workers were killed in took place in the Philip-
Conservatives, who have fore the leg- 2009 in their efforts to tell pines, where 37 media
governed uninterrupted islature Paul Sullivan is a Vancouver-based journalist important workers were
for 38 years, had 70. and owner of Sullivan Media Consulting; stories from Michelle Lang slain, the in-
Well, pardner, all that Danielle Smith [email protected]. dangerous stitute said.
conflict (cid:129) The 2009 tally includes Cal- Of that num-
zones, mak- gary Herald reporter ber, 31 were
ing last year a Michelle Lang, who was killed in a
Word on the street: What are your New Year’s resolutions? particularly killed Dec. 30, just two Nov. 23 am-
deadly one weeks into her first stint cov- bush the in-
for journal- ering Afghanistan for Can- stitute de-
Scott Trevor Sheila John Britt David ists, a media west News Service. Lang and scribed as
safety watch- four Canadian soldiers were “the bloodi-
McSweeney Ragan Forbes MacDonald Gregg- Innanen dog said yes- killed when their armoured est single
Calgary Calgary Dartmouth, N.S. Toronto Wallace Vancouver terday. vehicle struck a massive event ever for
Ottawa A report roadside bomb in Dand dis- the news me-
A: My resolution is A: My New Year’s A: I don’t make res- A: Exercise more, A: I plan on drink- from the In- trict, south of Kandahar city. dia.”
to get more physi- resolution this year olutions. Everyday everyone does that A: I didn’t make ing less, cutting ternational Mexico
cal activities in, like is not to have any live it to the best ... Try to do hard one. I find that Jan- back to three or News Safety Institute said ranked as the second most
skating and things New Year’s resolu- you can. Whether things, things that I uary is not a great four drinks instead 132 journalists and media dangerous country with 11
like that. tions. it’s New Year’s or wouldn’t normally of six to eight, to
time for resolu- staff died on the job in deaths, followed by Soma-
not, it doesn’t mat- do ... take a dance protect my liver. I
ter. If you live every- class or learn a new tions. September is am worried about 2009, up sharply from the lia and Russia with nine
day like that for the language, some- more my month, an early death in previous year’s tally of 109 slayings each and Pakistan
rest of your life, thing out of the or- but I don’t think I my 50s or 60s. I journalism-related fatali- with eight.
then it works out dinary. mthaedr.e I gounees st hI’emn neoit- want to see 80 or ties. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The Cardinals announced yesterday they had agreed with the power-hitting outfielder on a multi-year contract subject to a physical. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Gold medal streak ends in OT
Sports in brief
REDSKINS Mike Shanahan
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experienced American Yesterday’s final was the lo Bills are the first teams it will
team than in previous first between the two coun- try to relocate. Majestic Realty
years, but one that had tries since 2004, when the Co. managing partner John
teamwork and trust in each U.S. came from behind to Semcken said the company is
other, edged Canada 6-5 in beat Canada in Helsinki, still considering at least seven
overtime yesterday to foil Finland, for the Americans’ franchises for a new stadium
the host country’s bid to first gold medal in the tour- just east of Los Angeles.
win a record sixth straight nament. OVECHKIN The Washington
title. Canada had won it every Capitals are putting the
John Carlson scored the year after that until yester- captain’s “C” on star forward
winner with a wrist shot at day. Alex Ovechkin. The NHL club
4:21 of overtime after Cana- Team USA’s John Carlson scores past Team Canada goaltender Martin Jones in overtime to beat “Everyone’s bummed announced that the 24-year-old
da scored two quick goals to Canada 6-5 and win the gold medal at the World Junior Hockey Championship last night. out, Canadian defenceman Moscow native will serve as
tie the game. It was the sec- Ryan Ellis said. “We got so team captain beginning last
ond goal of the game for U.S. captain Derek Stepan the win. thing I’ll never forget. The close and it didn’t happen night against the visiting Mon-
Carlson, on loan to the U.S. said of Carlson. “He’s going “You look at a guy like Jor- camaraderie we have in the for us. But everyone’s stick- treal Canadiens, who the Caps
team by his American Hock- to be in the NHL for a long dan Schroeder. He’s been room kept us going.” ing together. We’re a close beat 4-2.
ey League team in Hershey. time.” here for three years and The U.S. got some re- team and we’ve got our MLS Major League Soccer could
“He’s one special player. Carlson credited the rap- hasn’t won it,” Carlson said. venge for a 5-4 shootout loss heads up high.” be headed for a work stoppage
Keep your eyes on him,” port with his teammates for “It’s my first time. It’s some- against Canada on New THE CANADIAN PRESS next month. The sport’s inter-
national union says
management is threatening to
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