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Albertans bound for
Games on high alert
over security risks
‘Attractive targets.’ seat in recent weeks to fears of Olympic stay. She’s planning to
Public safety minister terrorist attacks, security per- backpack around Europe any-
imeter breaches and what the way, but will stay away from
warns travellers
Canadian federal government the Sochi area should the situa-
has deemed as “particularly tion appear unstable.
vulnerable” areas of Russia like Other Albertans say they
JEREMY airports and border crossings. plan to go regardless, but won’t
NOLAIS Fuelling the fears for trav- be sightseeing like they would
[email protected] ellers like Lancaster is a warn- have at other Games locales
ing issued over the weekend where the security risk ap-
Courtney Lancaster had the by Canadian Public Safety peared lower.
time of her life at the 2010 Van- Minister Steven Blaney, who Kelsey Linsig’s husband
couver Olympics. said both the Olympics and coaches with the national ski-
The 23-year-old Albertan subsequent Paralympic Games jumping team and she’d been
hoped to relive some of that “present attractive targets” for looking forward to taking in
magic with her best friend at terrorists. the first women’s Olympic
the upcoming Sochi Games “Canadians travelling to competition in the sport for
due to kick off in two weeks. the Sochi 2014 Winter Games years. She said she only just
But right now she’s more should take sensible pre- became aware of the apparent
nervous than anything. cautions and maintain a high threats in the Sochi area.
ROBOTS GETTING LUCKY “It’s not going to be like it level of vigilance and be aware “I get a little bit scared about
was in Vancouver,” she said of their personal surroundings the public transportation … we
Sunday. “We’re not sure. We’re at all times and at all places,” don’t have a car there so we’re
still thinking we’ll go but we’re Blaney said in a statement. forced to take public transpor-
playing it by ear.” Lancaster said she’s in con- tation,” said Linsig.
Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk accepts the award for record of the year for Get Lucky at the 56th
Discussion over which tact with a Sochi resident dir- “I think we’re just going to
annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Sunday. More coverage on page 14. world-class athletes will stand ectly involved in organizing go from the hotel (to) Canada
MATT SAYLESS/INVISION/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS atop the podium in Russia ap- the Games who she plans to House (to) venue and then back
pears to have taken a back stay with during her four-day to the hotel, that’s it.”
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Monday, January 27, 2014
Meters.
City extends
parking pilot
project
E-parking meters will stay on
downtown streets a little while
longer, but the city still plans N
to remove the machines that
have been a big hit with users.
The pilot project using
machines from the Calgary
Parking Authority, which was
supposed to end in early Janu- E
ary, is being extended into late
March or early April.
Bohdan Maslo, acting direc-
tor of parking management,
said the machines have an 80 W
per cent customer satisfaction
rate according to recent poll- University of Alberta student Karina Murray stands in the alley where she was assaulted this past summer. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO
ing they did.
Assault victim calls
“We are very pleased
with that, but what it does is
confirms the direction we are
taking,” he said.
The parking meters are S
part of a technology exchange for ‘power in numbers’
pilot program with Calgary,
but the city eventually wants
to replace all 3,200 parking
meters with pay-by-plate
technology. Maslo said the
city is expecting Calgary to be
a bidder on the contract, so Bystander of one person,” said Mur- felt her assault prompted Details
it would be unfair to have its intervention. U of ray, who recently launched a a lot of negative feedback
machines on the streets dur- campaign to raise awareness from people in the commun-
ing the bidding. A student launches for bystander intervention. ity. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:55)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:251)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)
“We don’t know if they campaign to raise “There’s power in num- “Why is it that the sole (cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:279)(cid:289)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:3)
will, but that would probably bers, and if people are responsibility of safety is on (cid:229)(cid:316)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:3)
be a fair assumption,” he said. awareness around watching out for each other, me?” said Murray. (cid:220)(cid:317)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:34)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:220)(cid:279)(cid:279)(cid:266)(cid:3)
He said other potential bid- community safety then crime doesn’t stand a In response to her own (cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:220)(cid:279)(cid:279)(cid:266)(cid:553)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:569)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:302)
ders would also be made fully chance.” experience, Murray has (cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:553)
aware that Calgary’s machines After leaving her restau- launched a campaign to
were out on city streets for a rant job in the early morning encourage people to take (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:34)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:279)(cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)
trial period. LEAH hours this past summer, an active role in their com- (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:291)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:251)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:3)
“We want to be open and GERMAIN Murray was punched from munity by staying aware of (cid:238)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:55)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:3)
transparent so the RFP docu- [email protected] behind and strangled as she their surroundings as well as (cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:25)(cid:225)(cid:575)
ment will identify that we went to unlock the side door others around them. (cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3)
have been using this equip- After being attacked outside to her apartment building. “In and of itself, that will (cid:74)(cid:279)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:48)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:302)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)
ment as part of a technology of her apartment building While Murray was able take away and discourage (cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:25)(cid:71)(cid:78)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:274)(cid:279)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:3)
exchange with Calgary.” last August, University of to escape, suffering a few victim-blaming, because you (cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:302)(cid:553)
Maslo said the city hopes to Alberta student Karina Mur- scrapes and bruises, she said are taking it off the victim
have machines from the suc- ray wants Edmontonians her experience after the at- and putting it on the com- (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:83)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:575)
cessful bidder for the parking to stand up for community tack was what really shocked munity,” Murray said. (cid:268)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:221)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
contract on the streets before safety. her. For more information (cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)
the end of 2014. “We have to take the sole Following a police press on the campaign, visit (cid:96)(cid:254)(cid:317)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:5)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:553)
RYAN TUMILTY/METRO responsibility of safety off conference, Murray said she bethatperson.ca.
04 NEWS metronews.ca
Monday, January 27, 2014
Southeast Alberta.
Animal cruelty
suspected after dog
found dead near Taber
Taber RCMP have identi- ‘Person of interest’
fied a “person of interest”
in an alleged case of animal
cruelty in southeast Alberta. RCMP is asking anyone
Police were called Jan. 24 with information to contact
after the body of a dog was the Taber Vauxhall RCMP
found tied to a fence post on detachment at 403-223-
a property south of Taber. 4447. Witnesses who wish
Reports indicated the to remain anonymous can
dog had suffered wounds to report information to Crime
the head and body. Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477
The dog was taken to
the local veterinary clinic
where a necropsy was per-
formed, police said. going and RCMP are canvas-
RCMP were able to con- sing the area for any more
firm that the dog was beat- details.
en with a blunt object and Taber is 250 kilometres Justin Trudeau was in Edmonton last week to speak to party supporters. The Liberal Leader argues it is time the federal government invested in long-term
then shot. southeast of Calgary. funding for transit. STEPHANIE DUBOIS/METRO
The investigation is on- METRO Trudeau wants feds
Luqman Jama Osman Weigh in
New Year’s Province to host
shooting suspect roundtable on
at table with cities
turns himself in child intervention
to police
The Albertan govern-
A 24-year-old Edmonton ment is inviting resi-
man who was wanted dents to weigh in on
in connection to a New a child intervention Transit plan. Leader says In an interview with Metro, ernment also have to wake up of long-term investment cities
Year’s shooting incident roundtable this week. Tories not at the table Trudeau said politicians are cur- to the fact that, especially as have been calling for. He said
turned himself in to There will be a web- rently spending too much time Canada becomes a more urban a national strategy would have
police Saturday. cast held on Jan. 28 and worrying about jurisdictional place, municipalities are doing to recognize communities have
Luqman Jama Osman 29 for Albertans to ask issues and are losing sight of the heavy lifting. different goals, but provide
was wanted for a num- questions or chat with RYAN the bigger picture. “The vast majority of ser- federal funding to accomplish
ber of firearms-related an expert about child TUMILTY “Ultimately when differ- vices to citizens are delivered them.
offences including a welfare. [email protected] ent levels of government focus by municipalities, but only a “I think there is a great op-
non-injury shooting that People interested can on the different levels and the minute fraction of the ability portunity to be flexible, but as
took place on Jan. 1 near register for the event The first step toward creating a jurisdictions that they have, to raise money and spend the a present partner with strong,
105 Avenue and 115 online at the province’s more urban agenda in Canada they tend to forget that the public purse is available to mu- stable funding that under-
Street. website. is having the federal govern- fact is we all serve the same cit- nicipalities,” he said. stands that investment in tran-
METRO METRO ment at the table, according to izens,” he said. On transit, Trudeau said his sit is an investment and not just
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau. He said other levels of gov- party would deliver the type an expense.”
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Monday, January 27, 2014
‘We will try to find the
strength to get through this’
L’Isle-Verte. Owner of Bernier received a standing day’s blaze at the Résidence du
ovation as he stood up to speak Havre.
fire-ravaged seniors’ at the mass. Searches were hampered
home speaks about “What you’re living inside, Sunday by bitter cold, poor visi-
we are living it inside as well,” bility, blowing snow and winds
tragic loss of life to
he told the gathering, which in- up to 90 km/h, provincial police
over 1,000 gathered at cluded Quebec Premier Pauline Lt. Guy Lapointe told a news
Marois and Liberal Leader Phil- conference.
commemorative mass
ippe Couillard. “We will try to Marois arrived in L’Isle-Verte
find the strength to get through on Sunday to see first-hand the
this.” results of the fatal fire, cutting
The owner of a Quebec seniors’ A more formal commemor- short a trip to Europe to deliver
residence that burned to the ative ceremony, featuring more condolences in the village of
ground offered his condolences dignitaries, is scheduled for this about 1,500.
to the victims Sunday. Saturday. Sunday was a chance The premier called the
Speaking to a throng of re- for the tiny Quebec village to brutal blaze “unacceptable”
porters outside the church in voice its collective grief, with and said she hopes such a tra-
L’Isle-Verte, Roch Bernier said priest Gilles Frigon calling it “a gedy never repeats.
it was not the right time to say first step toward healing.” She told a news conference
whether he would rebuild the Meanwhile, authorities said that everything is being done to
residence. there was no change in the provide support for those who
He said the mass, attended number of victims. Ten people survived the fire and to give
by more than 1,000 people, was have been confirmed dead closure to those still awaiting
A woman holding a picture of her husband, who died in last week’s seniors’ residence fire, arrives for a commemorative a day for the victims, the mis- and 22 others are missing and word on their loved ones.
service for the victims on Sunday in L’Isle-Verte, Que. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS sing and residents of the town. presumed dead after Thurs- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Back in session Privacy Life’s a beach for Biebs
on the economy, with next other federal depart- Eddy Vasquez was film-
month’s budget the centre- ments. ing a show at the Pacific
As Parliament Border officials Justin Bieber
piece of the winter sitting. The program, in Coast resort in Punta Cha-
returns, scandal, But New Democrats and to share personal which Ottawa and Wash- spotted relaxing me, about 145 kilometres
Liberals believe the ongoing ington will start sharing west of Panama City, when
budget, expected info with federal in Panama amid
RCMP investigation and their citizens’ travel he spotted Bieber and
to dominate potential charges against government and biographic data this DUI charges members of his entourage
Prime Minister Stephen summer, means anyone walking along the beach.
MPs return to Parliament Harper’s former chief of Canadian border of- from Canada travelling A Panamanian radio and TV He and his crew took
on Monday with the spectre staff and four senators ficials plan to share to or from the U.S. by host says Justin Bieber has pictures of the singer and
of the Senate expenses will keep the government personal information land will have his or her been relaxing on a beach in his companions, who got
scandal still hovering over firmly mired in the scandal, obtained under a new information passed on Panama on a vacation from on personal watercraft and
the government, which says as it was for most of last Canada-U.S. border data- to federal departments. the U.S., where he faces DUI travelled to a nearby island.
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Teen flies plane
You’re our reason
after pilot loses
to celebrate.
consciousness
Australia. Pilot the controls before while
Quoted
was unconscious for flying with Neville, a family
friend. Jenkins flew circles
45 minutes around Forbes airport at a “Keeping it up
steady altitude of 610 metres wasn’t a problem,
for around 45 minutes before it was the landing part
the pilot came to.
I wasn’t sure of.”
A teenager described on Sun- “Keeping it up wasn’t a
day how he took the controls problem, it was the landing Troy Jenkins, 19
of a light plane for more part I wasn’t sure of,” Jenkins The teen took the controls of a light plane
than half an hour after the said. “I was pretty scared.” after the pilot lost consciousness.
pilot passed out during a joy Jenkins said he had land-
flight over rural Australia. ed a plane only once before kins said. They landed safely.
Troy Jenkins, 19, said the and that was with Neville’s After the landing, Neville
single-engine Cessna 150 was supervision. Jenkins was was flown to Orange Base
only 10 minutes into a flight relieved that the pilot had Hospital, where he remained
from the New South Wales regained consciousness mo- on Sunday. His wife Merle
state farming town of Forbes ments before they were to Neville said he had under-
Join us for on Saturday afternoon when land. gone heart and brain scans,
pilot Derek Neville, 61, lost “He sort of poked me in but doctors had yet to diag-
consciousness. the right direction and we nose the problem.
Jenkins said he had taken both brought it down,” Jen- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Sunday that he will travel
to Iran next week, where he
Foreign minister Ex-first lady
will also hold official talks
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Mohammad Javad Zarif.
to Iran
The improved relations A day after splitting up
follow Iran’s agreement in with France’s president,
Sweden’s Foreign Minister November to cap its uran- Valerie Trierweiler
Carl Bildt says he will visit ium enrichment in return launched a new stage in
Iran in early February, a for the West easing sanc- her life with a charity visit
result of the country’s im- tions. Bildt said it remains to India.
proved diplomatic relations to be seen whether the chan- The ex-first lady arrived
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Syria peace talks broker deal for Homs
The city of Homs. women and children trapped pace. into question by multiple re-
in a blockaded Syrian city, and “I think being too slow is a ports of government shelling.
Activists say about 800
the government said President better way than going too fast,” The talks have yet to touch
families are trapped Bashar Assad had no intention Lakhdar Brahimi said. “If you upon the issue of a possible
of giving up “the keys to Da- run, you may gain one hour transitional government —
without regular access
mascus.” and lose one week.” their purpose according to
to food or medicine With little progress to show The limited agreement to terms laid out when they were
after months of international let women and children leave first conceived. But the govern-
pressure for the conference a blockaded part of the old city ment was unequivocal that
Two days of face-to-face peace in Geneva, the UN mediator of Homs, under negotiation for Assad’s future was assured in Syrian opposition chief negotiator Hadi Bahra, left, and Louay Safi,
talks yielded a narrow and ten- hoping to broker an end to at least two days, fell far short the country led by his family spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition in Geneva on Sunday.
tative agreement Sunday for Syria’s civil war defended their of expectations and was called since 1970. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SALVATORE DI NOLFI/KEYSTONE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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India’s village councils stuck in past
Judge and jury. mon in India with vast rural Probe ordered
communities, serving as
Deeply conservative
the only practical means of India’s top
‘khap panchayats’ delivering justice in areas
dictate everything where local governments are court takes up
either too far away or too in-
from women’s dress to effective to mediate disputes. gang-rape
due punishments Often, the elders try to halt
the march of the modern case
world, enforcing strict social
norms about marriage and
In the hours after her six- gender roles. India’s Supreme Court has
year-old daughter was kid- In some of the most ex- lashed out at the khaps,
napped eight years ago by treme cases, the councils saying they amount to
her ex-boyfriend who had have sanctioned so-called vigilante justice, are
refused to marry her or honour killings, usually “wholly illegal” and
care for their child, Rimaila against women suspected of should be stamped out.
Awungshi appealed for help out-of-wedlock sex. Known On Friday, the Su-
from the most powerful as khap panchayats in north- preme Court took up the
authority she knew — the ern India, the councils act case of the gang rape
council of elders in her rural with impunity because villa- of the 20-year-old West
Indian village. gers risk being ostracized if Bengal woman, ordering
But the village elders re- they flout the rulings. an investigation on a “suo
mained indifferent to the Santhal tribal women gather Friday in a village where a woman was gang raped Monday, allegedly on the direction The courts can be espe- moto” basis — meaning
single mother’s pleas, there- of a village council at Subalpur, about 180 kilometres north of Kolkata. The woman told police the attack was cially harsh toward women, the court acted on its
by supporting the child’s cus- punishment for falling in love with a man from a different community and religion. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS enforcing the most conserva- own, without a request
tody with her father. tive aspects a patriarchal from either side.
Across much of rural to whether young lovers de- tiny after police say a coun- Bhattacharya, a politician in system that is deeply en- The West Bengal case
India, these powerful and serve to live or die. cil of elders in West Bengal West Bengal, said this week trenched in Indian society. has revived long-standing
deeply conservative local They often enforce strict ordered the gang rape of a as news of the gang rape In many ways, the coun- criticisms of the khaps,
councils are the law of the social norms about marriage 20-year-old woman as pun- began to spread in a country cils show how centuries of with critics saying they are
land. They serve as judge and gender roles. ishment for falling in love already reeling from a string patriarchal traditions often nothing more than kan-
and jury, dictating every- These unelected and un- with the wrong man. of high-profile cases of sex- clash with the values of a garoo courts delivering
thing from custody cases to regulated courts now are “We are going back to ual violence against women. modern world in India. medieval rulings.
how women should dress coming under fresh scru- the 16th century,” Pradip Village councils are com- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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