Metro Edmonton - January 28, 2014

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Edmonton Transit
undergoing major
mobile makeover
Real-time service. “We’re giving it to people But city officials are hoping
in a way that they want to take to improve their mobile transit
Private app launching
it,” said Joseph Wilkinson, vice- technology.
today to be followed president of business develop- “We will be launching an
ment with Montreal-based iPhone and Android app in
by another from city
company Transit App. the near future,” said Janis
The City of Edmonton is Noble, interactive marketing
also investing time and money and applications team lead for
STEPHANIE in their own mobile app. Edmonton Transit. She added
DUBOIS Currently Edmonton Transit the city is looking at expanding
[email protected] has the ETS Trip Planner, a web- their email alert system for
site where transit users plug in transit users.
Data available from the city will their co-ordinates and destina- Brendan Van Alstine,
allow a new transit app launch- tion using an address, bus stop spokesperson for Transit Rid-
ing Tuesday afternoon to dir- number or landmark. ETS To ers’ Union of Edmonton, said
ect Edmonton transit users to Go is the mobile version. there’s a need for real-time
the most efficient nearby bus transit information in the city.
or LRT route headed to their There are currently only
Smart transit
chosen destination. two routes in the city that al-
OIL BEST WEST RIVALS Aptly called Transit App, low for real-time information,
“We’re putting the fi n-
the iOS and Android app uses but the city is expanding that
a smartphone’s GPS to locate ishing touches, so it’s not service on Feb. 9 to include
where users are and requires just the planned things routes 7 and 57, according to
their destination. The app al- Noble.
David Perron of the Edmonton Oilers celebrates a goal against Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo during but the unplanned.”
lows users to instantly know The city hopes to have all
the fi rst period at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Monday. The Oilers won 4-2. For more coverage of the where the closest transit stops Janis Noble, interactive marketing and transit routes equipped with
game go to metronews.ca.BEN NEIMS/GETTY IMAGES are and how soon the next bus applications team lead for Edmonton real-time technology within
arrives based on schedules. Transit, on improving the city’s transit app the next two years.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
101st and 82nd
Pedestrian killed
by car at crossing
A man in his mid-20s was
killed Monday after being
struck by a car while
crossing Whyte Avenue
near 101st Street.
Edmonton police got
to the scene shortly after
12:20 p.m. to find the N
victim on the ground.
According to wit-
nesses, the pedestrian was
walking southbound at a
101st and 82nd Avenue
crosswalk when he was E
struck by a yellow Chevy
Colbat travelling north-
bound, making a left-hand
turn onto 82nd.
Police believe neither W
speed nor alcohol were
factors. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO
BThe moratorioum on boddy-rub parloyurs did not- impacrt facilitieus that were balready in o peraption, but diad prevent nrew onels fromo opening. MuETRO FILE r
Mounting frustration
City working to
clear streets fi rst S
The city is asking for pa- ban expires soon
tience as crews continue
to make neighbourhood
streets more passable.
In a release issued
Monday, the city said it
had received 12,000 calls
about snow conditions
through 311 since the
start of the year, but are Moratorium on new usual,” said Garry Dziwenka, Your dream job? the moratorium was imposed
working to make sure director of the licensing de- that we might be to find some
licences. Task force set
roads are passable first. partment. “We have no power solutions within six months or
“We know that people up to study issue fi nds to keep the moratorium going. Potential owners of a body- so, but we were not able to do
are frustrated and we take it surprisingly complex That is a council motion that rub parlour need a develop- that,” he said.
those calls seriously. Con- would be required.” ment permit for their loca- Sohi said one of the big
ditions being what they Dziwenka said the city re- tions, pass a criminal-record issues is that body-rub par-
are, however, we have to ceived two formal applications check and have to take a lours don’t exist in a vacuum,
set priorities,” said Bob RYAN for new parlours that were city-sponsored class before and the city will have to con-
Dunford, director of road- TUMILTY turned down but isn’t sure if they can start business. sider other parts of the sex
way maintenance. [email protected] there will be a surge of appli- trade.
The city is asking cations next week. (cid:580)(cid:3) The parlours are not al- “Body-rub centres and the
people to only report New body-rub parlours could “We did talk to some lowed to operate within escort industry are kind of
problems once and to lim- be coming to city streets start- people during the moratorium 100 metres of schools or linked with each other, so con-
it to situations in which ing next week, as the city’s but we have no idea if they are daycare centres. trolling one can lead to situa-
water is pooling due moratorium on the controver- going to follow up with an ap- tions in the other industry,” he
to obstructed drains, a sial establishments expires. plication,” he said. said.
vehicle can’t get through The ban councillors im- In addition to the mora- group has started looking at He said the Supreme Court
or a windrow exceeds 30 posed on licences for new es- torium, councillors set up a the problem, but the issue was ruling on prostitution has also
centimetres. METRO tablishments ends Friday. task force to study the issue. bigger than they imagined. created new questions that the
“It’s back to business as Coun. Amarjeet Sohi said that “We were hoping when group will have to consider.
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04 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Will she stay or will she go?
Athabasca U.
Concerns
over ‘call-
Mammoth task.
University starting centre
process to look for a
model’
new president
Students at an Alberta distance-
LEAH learning university will soon
GERMAIN be forced to submit homework
[email protected] questions much like they
would lodge a complaint over
While the current their cellphone bill.
president’s term does not Athabasca University, which
end until June 2015, the enrolled 5,400 Calgary students
University of Alberta has in 2012-13, is testing a “call-
kicked off the process of centre model” in a few science
finding a replacement for and technology courses start-
Indira Samarasekera if she ing in February, a move that
decides to step down from has prompted the Canadian
the position. Union of Public Employees Lo-
“It’s really in her world cal 3911 to file a formal griev-
to decide what’s best for ance with administrators.
her” said Doug Goss, chair- “We feel it really impacts
person for U of A’s board of the quality of education — it’s
governors. “She indicated a cost-saving measure,” said
some time ago that 10 years representative Yessy Byl.
as a president is a good, long The model, according to
term and there is a time to Byl, has students phone in an
pass the torch. inquiry for assistance with
“Whether or not she their studies and then sees
stills feels that way is up to them given a reference num-
her,” said Goss. ber and put in contact with
Goss said the board is an “academic expert.” In the
planning on being prepared courses where a higher num-
for both scenarios, includ- ber of students are enrolled,
ing Samarasekera leaving University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera has served two terms in her role. METRO FILE Byl said one teacher could
or serving another five-year provide the answer to a ques-
term. for a president and ideally prior to your existing maintains partnerships at to the role, they could be tion one day, another could
“It takes a good eight to you would want that search president leaving because of a global level, operations, lacking both political and provide a different answer the
nine months to do a search down at least six months the transitions period,” he enrolment, fundraising, pol- institutional experience. second day and a third could
added. itical collaboration and have “Likewise, those who be responsible for marking an
Darryl Moore, an Edmon- the capacity to lead a team have significant institution- assignment or test.
Up to the task?
ton-based recruiter for Exec- to accomplish this — bal- al or government expertise A representative with Atha-
utrade, said filling a position ancing academia and global may lack the business acu- basca said university officials
“This position requires a visionary and strategic
like a university president is practice,” he said. men,” he added. “The fit of could not comment because
thinker who develops and maintains partnerships a mammoth task. Moore noted that while this individual is a driver of the grievance filed by union
at a global level.” “This position requires many leaders in the busi- to the future success of the representatives.
a visionary and strategic ness world could have sev- university and the halo that JEREMY NOLAIS/METRO IN CALGARY WITH
Darryl Moore, an Edmonton-based recruiter for Executrade thinker who develops and eral strong skills important falls to Edmonton.” FILES FROM LEAH GERMAIN

06 metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Visit the Caribbean’s
sugar-white beaches.
A new project at Edmonton Transit stations will allow users to experience poetic art. COURTESY PATTISON ONESTOP
Transit art says
sorry to riders
Poetic apologies. poetic and others are fairly as a cultural trend.”
Boston-based artist quirky,” said curator Sharon Themes like apologies for
Switzer. “I think everyone will Vegas, for life in general and
inspired by human
find something to connect with apologies for modern art are
knee-jerk reactions in them.” found in the public art display.
Using photos infused with The poems also appear on
poetry about being sorry in Toronto transit as well in Eng-
different life incidents, the art lish-speaking malls in Canada,
STEPHANIE project has been making waves according to officials.
DUBOIS across Canada, according to The poems will also appear
[email protected] program officials. Boston-based in digital business networks
artist Gary Duehr created 20 and digital mall networks in
Edmonton transit users can poems and images for the Art Edmonton.
now pass the time while wait- in Transit program by Pattison,
ing for the LRT with a new art saying the project explores hu-
Installations
installation. man nature’s need to apologize 20
Called “Sorry,” the art pro- for daily actions.
ject appears in 10 LRT stations, “It started for me with the
as well as at Southgate Shop- poems five years ago as a way
ping Centre, until Feb. 28. for me to exercise my own ten-
Pattison screens in Edmonton will display
“They’re really quite darkly dency for knee-jerk apologies,
20 new arts and culture projects as part of
humorous. They appealed to which I think a lot of people do
the Art in Transit program.
me because they’re beautifully these days,” he said. “I saw this
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through to March 21, hockey-school operators like In broad strokes, senior
2014. Mitch Messier, who questioned manager Tim Leer said the
The shot is also avail- why anyone would mess with provincial hockey body wants
able to children under their tried-and-true methods. to add its credibility to ap-
nine years old who “I just don’t know how proved programs in order to
have already received many good ideas they can teach give parents peace of mind.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Netanyahu’s son
You’re our reason
to celebrate.
dating a non-Jew
from Norway
Israel. News causes
uproar from religious
lawmakers against
intermarriage
The love life of Prime Min-
ister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
son is setting off sparks —
in Israeli politics.
News that 23-year-old
Yair Netanyahu is dating a
statuesque non-Jewish Nor-
wegian university student
was not only a juicy item for
the gossip pages. It also un-
Join us for leashed an uproar from reli- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, centre, with his sons Yair, background, and
gious lawmakers opposed to Avner, right, at the Western Wall. URIEL SINAI, POOL, FILE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
intermarriage, and prompt-
ed debate over the Jewish last week and informed her relationship actually caused
Client Appreciation Day state’s relationship with the that his son recently visited Netanyahu and his wife
outside world. Norway with his girlfriend, great “heartache.” Arieh
According to reports Sandra Leikanger. Deri told a local radio sta-
in Norwegian media, the A photo of the smiling tion the relationship was
on Thursday, January 30th. Israeli prime minister young couple appeared in no mere personal matter be-
boasted to his Norwegian Israeli and Norwegian pa- cause Netanyahu is a “sym-
counterpart, Erna Solberg, pers. bol of the Jewish people.”
about the relationship dur- On Monday, the leader Netanyahu’s office declined
ing a meeting at the World of the ultra-Orthodox Shas to comment, as did Leikanger.
Economic Forum in Davos party said he believed the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Supreme Court
NSA. Spy agencies using
No pay to
apps like Angry Birds to
change clothes
get data, docs suggest
The top U.S. court says
Ask about our special
steelworkers do not have
to be paid for time they
offers in branch*. spend putting on and Documents leaked by for- known, but the reports sug-
taking off protective gear mer NSA contractor Edward gest that U.S. and British in-
they wear on the job. Snowden suggest that spy telligence easily get routine
The court was unani- agencies have a powerful ally access to data generated by
mous Monday in ruling in Angry Birds and a host of apps such as the Angry Birds
in favour of United States other apps installed on smart- or Google Maps.
Steel Corp. over workers’ phones across the globe. The joint spying pro-
claims that they should be The documents, pub- gram “means that anyone
paid. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS lished Monday by The using Google Maps on a
New York Times, the smartphone is work-
Journalistic cheat Guardian and ProPub- ing in support of a
Visit cibc.com/clientappreciation lica, suggest that the GCHQ system,”
mapping, gam- one document
No law licence
ing, and social from the British
for disgraced networking eavesdropping
apps that are a agency is quot-
journalist: Court
common feature ed as saying. The
of the world’s es- NSA said that the
The California Supreme timated one billion communications
Court denied a law licence smartphones can feed of those who were
to a former journalist America’s National Security not “valid foreign intelli-
who was caught fabricat- Agency and Britain’s GCHQ gence targets” were not of in-
ing dozens of stories. The with huge amounts of per- terest. “Any implication that
court ruled that Stephen sonal data, including location NSA’s foreign intelligence
Glass, 41, had insufficient- information and details such collection is focused on the
ly rehabilitated himself as political affiliation or sex- smartphone or social media
*Conditions apply. Ask in-branch for details. in the years since his mis- ual orientation. communications of everyday
deeds. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The size and scope of Americans is not true,” NSA
the program aren’t publicly said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS