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Final salute
The casket of slain RCMP Const. David Wynn is carried into a funeral in St. Albert on Monday. Nearly 2,000 people attended the service, including 860 Mounties and 450 Edmonton police officers. Story, pages 8 & 9.
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metronews.ca NEWS 3
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Dentistry students travel
Council.
New tower
abroad to treat the needy
proposal
approved for
Jasper Ave.
Volunteering. Kindness
in Action organization
Another highrise could be gives University of N
coming to Jasper Avenue, after
Alberta attendees an
city councillors approved re-
zoning for a project that could eye-opening experience
stretch up to 14 storeys.
The site on Jasper at 122
Street was unanimously ap- STEPHANIE E
proved for rezoning despite DUBOIS
pleas from one resident about [email protected]
noise and loss of light.
“I personally want and A 10-year-old with dentures
deserve sun and the vitamin D was something University W
that comes from it,” said Dol- of Alberta dentistry student
ores Nord, who lives nearby. Jameel Popatia didn’t expect
She told councillors the to see when volunteering his
noise and vibration from an- time in the Philippines over
other tower that was recently the holidays.
constructed had been constant Through an organiza-
and had health impacts. tion called Kindness in Ac-
“My house and my health tion, Popatia was one of two S
cannot survive another high- U of A dentistry students
rise on the block,” he said. who trekked to the country
The developers have not to help people with dental
said specifically what they problems get the treatment
will build on the site, but the they needed.
zoning councillors approved “As soon as we got there,
Monday allows for a tall tower there were hundreds of
with retail on the ground floor. people lined up. You could
Coun. Scott McKeen said tell these were the people
he’s sensitive to concerns that really needed it. Here
about loss of light, but the (in Canada) you’ll see people
neighbourhood is changing who need treatment, but it’s
and more towers are likely on nothing compared to the
the way. way it was over there,” he University of Alberta dentistry student Jameel Popatia was one of two local students who participated in a recent
“The lifestyle is going to said. trip to the Philippines to help people in need receive treatment. CONTRIBUTED
offer you other things and Tooth extractions were
you may be looking out at a the most common problem a huge mass on his face. Un- Money raised
Manhattan-like skyline of tall seen by the local students fortunately it was cancerous
buildings surrounding you,” and others who volunteered so we had to turn him away
he said. their dentistry expertise. since we couldn’t help him,” $42,500 was raised for volun- (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:255)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)
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build in Oliver. “I didn’t think people Thanks to fundraising, 15 (cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:266)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:305)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:553)(cid:3) (cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:238)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:553)
“I’m somewhat gob- were going to be in as rough other U of A students will
smacked by the number of shape as they were. There also volunteer their time this
proposals for residential that was one person who really month and next to ensure “These trips are good for see in centres in Alberta,”
we’re seeing in downtown and stood out. He came in with a people in developing coun- students because they get to said Dr. Blaine Aucoin with
Oliver.” RYAN TUMILTY/METRO towel on his head and he had tries get dental treatment. see more than they would Dentistry for All.
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Edmonton’s Uber drivers
want to stay on the road
Injunction looming.
Quoted
City proposed
temporary removal “I don’t think it’s unreasonable, but I question
while new rules set the commitment to actually drafting and enacting
those bylaws.”
Uber driver Chris, speaking about the possibility of coming off the road while the city drafts
new rules
RYAN
TUMILTY
[email protected] “I don’t think it’s un- also didn’t want his last
reasonable, but I question name used, said he feels
Uber’s Edmonton drivers the commitment to actually there’s a lot of misinforma-
are wary of a proposal to drafting and enacting those tion about the service.
park their businesses in the bylaws,” said Chris. “It just seems like every-
short term in exchange for Chris, who has only been one says they’re unsafe, but
regulations allowing them with the company a week, for me as a driver, I feel very
to operate legally in the said he took up the second safe driving people,” he said.
long term. career, because he thought He said he started work-
City councillors passed a it would be exciting. ing for Uber, because he’s
motion last week that will “I’d do it for free if they between jobs and while he
see the city seek an injunc- weren’t already trying to can see the benefits of regu-
tion against the firm, if they pay me,” he said. lations, he doesn’t want to
don’t agree to come off the He said the company is come off the road.
road voluntarily. providing a service people “It might help, but it’s
Council’s motion also want and he knows users just a question of how long
directed the city to write would really miss the com- and I don’t think it’s fair,”
new bylaws that would al- pany, even if only for six he said.
low companies like Uber to months. Uber spokesperson Xa-
operate legally. One local “I feel like it has been vier Van Chu confirmed
Uber driver, whom Metro the voice of the Uber users Monday the company is still
agreed to identify only by that has really been mis- considering the city’s pro-
his first name, said he wor- sing from the discussion,” posal and hasn’t decided
ries the city will drag its he said. on voluntarily removing its
feet. Another driver, Jeff who drivers from the road. Uber launched its rideshare app in Edmonton just before Christmas and has been operating despite city bylaws. METRO
FILE
City a frontrunner for WWF Wildrose nomination.
Fildebrandt declares bid
Earth Hour City Challenge
After years calling out prov-
Quoted
incial budgets from outside
the legislature, Derek Filde-
“People here feel
brandt announced Monday
he is looking to do that from betrayed by what their
Have a favourite thing about the inside. MLA has done to them.
Edmonton? Let the judges The former Alberta head of
I feel betrayed by what
know as the city is one of 44 the Canadian Taxpayers Fed-
finalists from around the world eration announced he would their MLA has done to
in the WWF Earth Hour City seek the Wildrose nomination them, and that is why I
Challenge. in Strathmore-Brooks.
want to be the MLA for
Edmonton is one of three Fildebrandt made the an-
Canadian cities making the cut, nouncement outside the con- Strathmore-Brooks.”
competing against Vancouver stituency office of the former
Derek Fildebrandt, former Alberta head
and North Vancouver as well as Wildrose MLA Jason Hale. of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, in
other international spots. Elev- Hale and 10 other Wildrose a release announcing his bid for a Wildrose
en Canadian cities participated MLAs, including former leader Party nomination.
in the challenge. Danielle Smith, left the party
One sustainable leader per last fall. Fildebrandt said he to be an MLA to oppose them.
country will be named in April and others are upset by the “The PC’s spent the cup-
for the National Earth Hour defections. boards bare and they could
Capital Awards, with Edmon- “People here feel betrayed not balance the budget in
tonians asked to cast their votes The city’s waste-to-biofuel facility helped earn Edmonton a top spot in the Canadian competition, with a chance for by what their MLA has done good times despite record
by city officials to help boost the city to win big globally in the WWF Earth Hour City Challenge. COURTESY CITY OF EDMONTON to them. I feel betrayed by revenues. With a drop in oil
the city’s ranking. what their MLA has done to prices and a belief that he
This year’s challenge “rec- Edmonton was specifically sions from city operations,” also ranked Edmonton high for them, and that is why I want faces no opposition, Jim Pren-
ognized the power of cities to picked out of the mix for their reads Edmonton’s description the second year in a row. to be the MLA for Strathmore- tice thinks that he can make
help redirect investment in waste-to-biofuel facility, which as part of the challenge. Votes from the campaign Brooks,” he said in a release. hard working Albertans pay
fossil fuels to renewable energy “proves Edmonton is on the The city’s use of solar energy will crown both a national and He said the talk of higher the price for his party’s poor
solutions,” according to WWF forefront in becoming the na- and encouragement for resi- international winner. taxes in the provincial budget fiscal management,” he said.
Canada officials. tion’s leader in reducing emis- dents to use this type of power STEPHANIE DUBOIS/METRO is unacceptable and he hopes METRO
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Politics
Tory resignations
continue
A trio of Tories announced
Monday they will not be
seeking re-election in the
next provincial election,
giving further indication of
a major shift in the party
under new leader Jim
Prentice.
Calgary-Varsity MLA
Donna Kennedy-Glans, Red
Deer-North representative
Mary Anne Jablonski and
her colleague in Battle
River-Wainwright, Doug
Griffiths, announced their
names wouldn’t be on
the ballot, regardless of
whether prognostications of
a springtime election turn
out to be true. Griffiths,
who served as municipal af-
fairs minister in the Alison
Redford government and
took a lead role on steering
the province through 2013’s
historic flood, was the first
Liberal Leader Raj Sherman announced Monday he would not seek another term as the Edmonton-Meadowlark MLA. RYAN TUMILTY/METRO to flee his post, saying his
resignation took effect on
Sherman resigns as Liberal leader
Monday.
Kennedy-Glans, mean-
while, quit the PC party to
sit as an Independent as
questions around spending
Provincial politics. party leader in the Alberta last election by making the president of research at the and entitlement under Red-
Liberals
Edmonton MLA won’t legislature Monday after Lib- case for a more equitable 5 Frontier Centre for Public ford’s leadership swirled.
eral Leader Raj Sherman an- province. Policy, said with the Wil- She was only elected in
seek re-election, says nounced his resignation. “I believe we offered the drose and now Liberals both 2012, but deemed it “an
“It’s time for me to move vision to build a better prov- potentially running interim honour and a privilege” to
its time to ‘move on to
on to new challenges and to ince, to transform this prov- or untested leaders it will work with her legislature
new challenges’ turn the page on the next ince for a generation,” he When Raj Sherman first took over the be even more tempting for colleagues.
party in September 2011 there were eight
chapter of my life,” Sherman said. Prentice to call an early elec- Jablonski made her
Liberal MLAs, but that fell to five in the
said at a press conference an- President of the Alberta 2012 election. tion. plans clear to Red Deer-
nouncing he would not seek Liberal Party Shelley Wark- “All the signs are point- area media. The resigna-
RYAN
another term as MLA and Martyn said the party would “He put us in a place ing to the fact that the PCs tions came on the heels of
TUMILTY
[email protected] was resigning immediately meet this weekend to select where we are financially out are able to take on a massive, similar announcements by
as Liberal leader. an interim leader and a plan of debt as a party. We have super-majority,” he said. former Redford-era cabinet
Premier Jim Prentice, who Despite suffering elec- a leadership race. a lot of good people in our Murray said a strong op- ministers Doug Horner and
won the PC leadership less toral losses, Sherman said he She thanked Sherman and boards and constituency as- position is important and Fred Horne.
than five months ago, be- is confident his party made said he has built the party to sociations,” she said. unfortunately the province JEREMY NOLAIS/METRO IN CALGARY
came the longest-serving Alberta a better place in the make it ready for an election. Bob Murray, vice- could lose that.
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A man of ‘courage
Memorial. Mourners pay
respects at Fort Calgary
and conviction’
Past and present RCMP offi-
cers joined the public at Fort
Calgary Monday afternoon for
a ceremony honouring fallen
RCMP Const. David Wynn.
Wynn was fatally shot on
Jan. 17 in St. Albert by Shawn RCMP. Family and Quoted Halifax in the ambulance and As a former volunteer who
Rehn, whom he approached as he came away from that experi- has worked with RCMP, Brenda,
part of a routine investigation police pay tribute to ence determined to be a para- who asked that her last name
“We wish you Godspeed
of a stolen vehicle. Auxiliary Const. David Wynn at medic,” she said. “He did just not be published, brought her
Const. Derek Bond was wound- and tight lines.” that and he began the tremen- son to the ceremony to honour
regimental funeral
ed in the shooting as well and dous contribution to the people his former classmate, Matthew
RCMP Deputy Commissioner Marianne
is recovering from his injuries. Ryan bids farewell to Const. David Wynn, of Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, for Wynn, and his father.
“For someone serving this A memorial service is held at Fort an avid fly-fisher. over a decade.” “I felt that he was honoured,
country to be killed so sense- Calgary Monday afternoon for Shades of red, blue and green Insp. Kevin Murray remem- not only as a father and as a
lessly, for something so petty, RCMP Const. David Wynn. filled the bleachers at Servus ous lover of tea and fly-fishing. bered his fellow Mountie as a husband, but as an RCMP, first
it offends all of us,” said Sara JENNIFER FRIESEN/FOR METRO IN CALGARY Credit Union Place Monday Wynn’s sister, Mona, called small-town guy from the East responder, as someone who al-
Gruetzner, president and CEO afternoon as law enforcement, her brother a peaceful man. Coast with a Maritime sense of ways had that type of attitude,”
of Fort Calgary. and a moment of silence, the military and first responders “He didn’t have the time to humour. she said.
“It rips at the core of who group placed red and yellow from across the country joined notice a reason for a grudge, “Dave was someone who Brenda said her time work-
we are as Canadians and how roses at the foot of Col. James with family to honour RCMP much less hold one,” she told faced challenges with courage ing with the RCMP revealed
we think of our country. We are Farquharson Macleod’s statue. Const. David Wynn. the crowd. “He knew there and conviction,” said Murray, just how close the community
the peacekeepers. Events like “Wearing a uniform seems The husband and father were much better things to noting Wynn had once success- is and how a loss is felt through-
this are not supposed to hap- to make (officers) a target; it of three was shot in the head hold on to, so that’s what he fully negotiated with protesters out the force.
pen in Canada.” puts all policemen on the front while investigating a stolen did.” at a grocery store to buy some While her brother is now
Thousands of mourners lines for the war on crime,” vehicle at a St. Albert casino on Mona said her brother de- Red Rose tea. gone, Mona said the love that
gathered in a St. Albert hockey said retired Sgt. A. G. Elliott Jan. 17. Wynn died of his injur- cided to help others profession- Prime Minister Stephen family, friends and RCMP have
arena on Monday, including while speaking at the memor- ies on Jan. 21, leaving behind ally after a near-fatal car acci- Harper and Premier Jim Pren- is one that will last forever.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper ial. “They accept that respon- his wife Shelly and sons Mat- dent 20 years ago. He worked tice, along with police from “Dave was an ordinary man
and Premier Jim Prentice. sibility, knowing the risk, as thew, Nathan and Alexander. as a Mountie in St. Albert and Toronto, Chicago and Quebec, with an extraordinary cap-
At the same time, dozens of did Const. Wynn.... (He) will Members of the Wynn was formerly a paramedic in were just some of the atten- acity to make the world a bet-
Calgarians gathered at Fort Cal- be remembered, he will be family and RCMP officials Nova Scotia. dees at the two-hour ceremony. ter place for everyone around
gary to mourn his death and to honoured.” JENNIFER FRIESEN/ shared their memories of the “Something happened to Members of the public also add- him,” she said.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Timeline
Life and
to take up a career as a
times of
paramedic.
David Wynn 1994: After recovering
from his injuries, Wynn com-
pleted his training to become
a paramedic in Bridgewater,
A look at the life of RCMP N.S.
Const. David Matthew Wynn, 1997: Wynn met his
who died in the line of duty: wife, Shelly, in Bridgewater,
Oct. 18, 1972: Born in where they were both Red
Newcastle, N.B., Wynn’s Cross first-aid instructors.
family says his child- They married on Sept. 5 of
hood revolved around the the following year and had
outdoors: fishing, camping, three boys in the following
snowmobiling and riding two-and-a-half years.
dirt bikes. His family had a 2009: Having been
cottage at Oak Point, N.B., inspired by the Mounties he
and he was active in the Boy met on the job as a paramed-
Scouts. ic, Wynn entered the RCMP’s
1990: Graduated from training program and gradu-
Miramichi Valley High ated from Depot in Regina.
School and went on to study He was posted to the St.
civil engineering for two Albert detachment. Wynn’s
years at Acadia University. He uncle, retired sergeant Dun-
worked the night shift bak- can MacInnis, presented him
ing bread for Sobey and cre- with his badge on graduation
ated a product known in the day.
local community as “Davey’s Jan. 17, 2015: Wynn was
buns.” He also became a gunned down while he strug-
scuba instructor. gled with a suspected car
1993: On the way to dive thief inside the Apex Casino
for scallops on Nova Scotia’s in St. Albert. Auxiliary Const.
south shore after a shift at Derek Bond was also shot,
the bakery, Wynn suffered but survived. The shooter
serious injuries in a single- later took his own life.
vehicle car crash. His family SOURCE: THE WYNN FAMILY THROUGH
says the crash inspired him RCMP/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Shelly MacInnis-Wynn and a family member lay flowers on the casket of slain RCMP Const. David Wynn during his funeral in St. Albert on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Feds appear warm to
Transgender rights.
Policy gives inmates’
food-program update identities equal footing
Transgender inmates in On- tained in a men’s facility, de-
tario will now be dealt with spite travelling on a passport
based on their own gender identifying her as female.
First Nations. Nutrition identity, not their physical Avery Edison was eventu-
sexual traits, a policy On- ally transferred to a women’s
North audit raised tario’s corrections minister is facility but filed a human-
questions of whether calling the most progressive rights complaint about her
of its kind in North America. treatment. She said Monday
the national initiative
Previously, inmates were she couldn’t comment on On-
met hunger needs of put in institutions based on a tario’s new policy because her
person’s “primary sexual char- human-rights case is ongoing.
Canadians in the North
acteristics.” Now, they will be Trans inmates were previ-
housed according to their self- ously often put in segrega-
identified gender and referred tion, but now they will be
It appears the Conservative to by their chosen name rath- integrated into the general
government is open to the er than their legal name and population whenever pos-
idea of changing the way it their preferred pronoun. sible, Naqvi said.
tries to offset the high cost of “This is the most progres- “Today is about human
food in the North. sive policy on the treatment rights,” he said. “It is about
The department that over- of trans inmates in North ensuring that trans inmates
sees the beleaguered Nutrition America,” Correctional Ser- are given the same protec-
North program has posted a vices Minister Yasir Naqvi tions, the same dignity and
notice of proposed procure- said Monday. “No other juris- the same treatment. It is
ment, asking for someone to diction in Canada has such about respect and dignity for
come up with different ways policy.” gender identity and gender
of providing northerners with The policy builds on inter- expression.”
the federal food subsidy. im guidelines that were put in Ontario Human Rights
The notice, posted Monday, place last April, Naqvi said. commissioner Barbara Hall
did not elaborate on the na- The case of a trans woman says the policy helps protect
ture of any possible changes to from England who was de- the rights of trans people,
Nutrition North. tained by the Canada Border who face a higher risk of ha-
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Services Agency last Febru- rassment and violence behind
Bernard Valcourt’s office did ary pushed the issue to the bars from other inmates and
not answer specific questions forefront as she tweeted her sometimes corrections staff.
about the notice. Instead, experiences before being de- THE CANADIAN PRESS
spokeswoman Andrea Richer
sent a generic, four-line re- Military Employment
sponse that mentioned the The price of a jug of orange juice at a grocery store in Iqaluit in December 2014. The federal government’s $60-million
amount of money the govern- food subsidy, Nutrition North, stifled by high product prices, has not met the regional demand for food. Special forces stop Feds may be ready
ment is spending on Nutrition SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
North and its advisory board. two ISIL offensives to talk internships
“We are also working with tious food in the North. dark about whether Nutrition likely motivated by this year’s
the Nutrition North Canada But the $60-million annual North actually does anything federal election. Canadian special forces and The parliamentary secretary
advisory board to engage with food subsidy — to which the for those who need it most. “Northerners and experts Islamic State of Iraq and the to Labour Minister Kellie
northerners, retailers and sup- government recently added Aboriginal Affairs told Fer- have made it clear for years Levant (ISIL) extremists en- Leitch is meeting this week
pliers on ideas to keep the another $11.3 million for the guson’s team it has looked at that Nutrition North is an ab- gaged in two new firefights, with various stakeholders
program on a sustainable path program’s 2014-15 budget expanding the full subsidy ject failure, but the Harper with Canadian troops about unpaid interns: “This
including increased operating and a five per cent annual es- to around 50 fly-in northern government has stubbornly neutralizing their attackers. is the first time that we’ve
efficiencies and other program calator in future years — has communities, but doing so refused to listen to them until This adds fuel to an already heard from the federal
improvement proposals,” been under scrutiny ever since would increase the cost of the confronted with a scathing burning political debate government on this; they’ve
Richer wrote in an email. auditor general Michael Fer- program by $7 million a year. auditor general’s report and as Parliament reconvenes, been completely silent until
Nutrition North — which guson’s fall report in Novem- Liberal aboriginal affairs the prospect of facing the an- a central topic being the now,” said Claire Seaborn
replaced the old Food Mail pro- ber. critic Carolyn Bennett sug- ger of northerners at the ballot parameters of Canada’s Iraq of the Canadian Intern As-
gram in 2011 — is intended to The audit revealed that Ab- gested any forthcoming chan- box,” Bennett said in a state- mission. THE CANADIAN PRESS sociation. THE CANADIAN PRESS
help defray the cost of nutri- original Affairs is largely in the ges to Nutrition North are ment. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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