Metro Edmonton - January 31, 2014

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by suspect’s
disappearance
‘In a perfect world, this ence, these people are admitted
would never happen.’ to hospital and are somewhat
immobilized,” he said, adding
EPS thought man Wilneff was heavily medicated.
“We had information that
involved in fatal collision
they would be there for several
was in no condition to days. If we have a subject who is
leave the hospital in the hospital who we think is
able to walk away, we will cer-
tainly stand by.”
Wilneff is now facing char-
Edmonton police don’t know ges related to last week’s crash,
how a man who was recently including impaired operation
charged following a fatal colli- Ryan Richard Wilneff COURTESY EPS causing death, dangerous driv-
sion last week was able to flee ing causing death, possession of
from a hospital and disappear. wreck. The passenger died and a controlled substance and four
A Canada-wide warrant Wilneff was being treated with breach of probation orders.
was issued Thursday for Ryan non-life threatening injuries. “It’s very disappointing he
HE’S THE FROZEN ONE Richard Wilneff, 28, almost a When asked by reporters discharged himself,” Wevers
week after he allegedly crashed Thursday how Wilneff was able said. “In a perfect world, this
a Jeep Grand Cherokee into to escape, Const. Rick Wevers would never happen, but
a brick wall along Gateway said police were not expecting there’s nothing stopping him
Boulevard on Jan. 22. him to be able to walk out. from getting up and walking
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Wilneff and his 28-year- “When we investigate these away and we were quite sur-
in its 11th year, wraps up this weekend. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO old male passenger were both collisions (and) we have serious prised he was able to do so.”
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WEEKEND, January 31-February 2, 2014
Why hide it?
Crown lawyers
win injunction to
prevent province
from disclosing
their pay
The Alberta government
has been ordered by a judge
to not release the names N
and salaries of its Crown
prosecutors pending a full
hearing into the matter.
Justice Doreen Sulyma
of Court of Queen’s Bench
agreed Thursday with an E
injunction application that
said releasing that kind of
information to the public
could put prosecutors at
further risk of violence or W
identity theft.
“I do see a difference
between (the release of)
generic information versus Raoul Bhatt, FireText director, created technology that will allow tweets, text messages and poll questions to appear at the Super Bowl game Sunday.
the very personal informa- ‘COURTMESY RAOUL BHATT ost interactive
tion that is set to be pub-
lished (by the province),”
Sulyma told the lawyers at S
the injunction hearing.
“The plaintiff has identi-
fied people who might do Super Bowl ever’
her harm and has in doing
so identified a risk should
this publication occur.”
No date has been set to
hear the merits of the case.
The injunction was
brought forward by a
Crown prosecutor, whose
name is currently under High-tech. Metlife the games, all thanks to an The screens featuring for this huge event.
a publication ban, one Edmonton-based company. the Edmonton company’s “The reason why I love
day before Premier Alison Stadium ticket holders FireText was chosen out technology range in size being (in Edmonton) is if I
Redford’s government was at Sunday’s game can of countless North Amer- from 60 inches to 60 feet go to Silicon Valley, there’s
to place online the names ican tech companies to and more than 60 of them 10,000 guys like me — but
engage on stadium
and salary details of every supply the technology to will be on display in the in Edmonton, very few,”
government employee who television screens broadcast the social media stadium using the SOTV.me said Bhatt, adding his com-
makes $100,000 a year or experience of the game on and FireText technology. pany has built the Edmon-
more. screens seen by those at the Beating out compan- ton Eskimos iPhone app,
The salary details follow stadium Sunday. ies in Silicon Valley, Van- worked with countless art-
up on a promise made last STEPHANIE “The goal of what (organ- couver and Toronto, Fire- ists at their concerts and
month by Redford after her DUBOIS izers) want with this Super Text screens will feature worked with the police.
office was harshly criticized [email protected] Bowl is they want to make it tweets from those using the “We can do a lot here and
for refusing an order from the most interactive Super #Superbowl2014 hashtag, we have the economy to
the privacy commissioner The 82,000-plus people ex- Bowl ever, turning each in- text messages and poll ques- sustain it.”
to disclose the severance pected to fill Metlife Sta- dividual that’s on location tions (including responses).
paid to Redford’s former dium for the Super Bowl into a micro-reporter. It’s Bhatt said thanks to
chief of staff, Stephen XLVIII game Sunday will making everyone into the Edmonton’s growing tech
Carter. THE CANADIAN PRESS get a social media experi- star,” said Raoul Bhatt, Fire- scene, the company is able Follow Stephanie Dubois on
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Filming of commercials shining
spotlight on different side of city
Next scene. the television spot. a big novelty factor,” said Cath-
“For a place like O’Byrne’s, al O’Byrne, general manager.
Edmonton’s commercial
TV is really good at conveying Although some businesses
filming scene changing, a feeling or emotion or vibe,” are turning to television com-
said Jeff Woodward, creative mercials as a form of advertis-
producer says
writer and producer with City ing, the local commercial film-
TV Edmonton. ing scene in general is on the
The pub’s new self-pour decline in the last few years, ac-
STEPHANIE taps — the first in the city — cording to one local producer’s
DUBOIS will be highlighted in the four experience.
[email protected] 15-second commercials featur- “The number of commer-
ing regulars and bar staff. cials filmed in Edmonton year-
Commercials will be a major This is the first time the pub ly has probably dropped over
part of the Super Bowl trad- has filmed a TV commercial, the last few years — and not
ition this Sunday, but com- with hopes that it will attract a just a matter of just (in) Edmon-
mercials are also an important different clientele when it airs ton — just commercials in gen-
part of the Edmonton business Feb. 24. eral because there’s so many
scene. “We want to be in a com- other options for advertising,”
The filming of a commer- mercial because we have some- said Missy Geffen, owner of Ge-
cial on Thursday was no ex- thing that is original, we’ve ffen Productions. She estimates
ception, as approximately 60 got something that people can about 100 commercials are
people packed the front part of come in and enjoy pouring filmed in the city each year.
O’Byrne’s on Whyte Avenue for their own pint and that’s really One of those commercials
includes the recently aired
Apple commercial, which was
Merits of going local filmed in Edmonton and had a
lot of online success.
“I think people don’t realize what’s made here and
“I think people don’t real-
the talent that goes into it.” ize what’s made here and the
talent that goes into it,” said Camera operator Owen Strasky readies the camera for the filming of a commercial on Thursday at O’Byrne’s.
Jeff Woodward, creative writer and producer
Woodward. STEPHANIE DUBOIS/METRO
Post-secondary students push for ‘open textbooks’
Alberta post-secondary stu- itiative, each saving an average money-making proposition
dents are urging provincial rep- of $146 on their fall-semester 3Loo0king west even when it is a successful
resentatives to crack open cer- book costs. book.”
tain textbooks free of charge. Jarett Henry, an arts stu- But Brown said the vast ma-
The Council of Alberta Uni- dents’ representative at the jority of instructors teaching an
versity Students (CAUS) plans University of Calgary, sees entry-level course had little to
Council of Alberta University Students
to adopt official policy next plenty of merit in the ap- do with creating the required
chair Conner Brown said B.C. has already
week calling on the province proach. textbook.
published about 30 books under the
to adopt an “open textbook” “If you’re in a first-year cal- “open textbook” model. “I think once faculty is
concept they claim is allowing culus class with 300 students, educated about the benefits of
learning to flourish at a re- instead of buying a $200 text- open textbooks they’ll be on-
duced cost in B.C. book — that’s $60,000 for that he said. board with everybody else,” he
The model sees mass-use class — the textbook is offered But not everyone is sold. added.
course material published on- for free,” he said. Robert Fisher, a University of Craig Loewen, press secre-
line with a creative commons CAUS chair Conner Brown Alberta business professor, said tary for deputy premier and
licence. Students and instruct- said B.C.’s already published a potential flaw in the approach Advanced Education Minister
ors alike can then download about 30 books under the is lack of incentive for academ- Dave Hancock, said the min-
the offerings and modify them model. ics to produce textbooks. istry is “very interested” in
as they see fit. “There’s no reason that Al- “Nobody is going to want working on potential options
Earlier this month, the B.C. berta shouldn’t be leading the to write a book if they’re not to provide e-resources and
Alberta post-secondary students may soon be able to save hundreds in government said nearly 300 way in this.... It’s something going to get some kind of com- open textbooks for students.
annual textbook costs if the province moves to adopt an “open” concept post-secondary students had we’re advocating to the prov- pensation for it,” he said. “For LEAH GERMAIN AND
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WEEKEND, January 31-February 2, 2014
WILL COLUMBIA BE ONE
MORE SQUANDERED
OPPORTUNITY?
actually high-five each other
FOOTNOTES in an urban park that cuts off
Omar Mouallem traffic. My thoughts exactly.
[email protected]
Though as it is now, I would
have just settled for sidewalks.
Columbia Avenue has
Harcourt House Gallery re- technically been in the works
cently hosted an exhibit by the since 2004, but it was only last
Edmonton Wayfinding Project, year that former councillor
a team that’s essentially trying Jane Batty helped secure $7.5
to make the city more pedes- million from the city.
trian friendly. “Everyone’s pretty excited
It was a simple installation: to see it move,” says project
a map of downtown on a wall manager Annie Duong. “It
covered in black chalkboard really changes the neighbour-
paint and a pile of chalk to hood.”
designate landmarks as you Duong knows that recon-
please. struction alone can’t change
As project founder Tim the character of the neighbour-
Querengesser pointed out to hood. After all, a new street-
me, the designations quickly scape didn’t rejuvenate Fort
turned political, especially Road, and so far it’s done little
north of 104th Avenue. There, for Stony Plain and Capital OShauna Rae ifs asking the csity to conksider installiing skis racks at t he Ceantury Park nLRT station. dSTEPHANIE DUB OIS/MELTRO RTs
participants marked a corner Boulevard.
where cars struck them or Likewise, 105th Avenue
where there are no sidewalks. today is a strange medley of
Being a resident of Queen multifamily dwellings and in-
Mary Park, I was sure to add dustrial buildings, home to the
my own discontent, scratching new Zen residences but also to
“squandered opportunity” over ATCO and several auto-body
the former Molson Brewery — shops. Rezoning it to mixed
soon to be Molson strip mall. use will hopefully encourage
That same week, the City of more condos and the kind of Future of transport? ing sport with transportation. hopes of receiving $1,000 to
Edmonton revealed a bold plan retail that actually gives people Local woman says ski Shauna Rae, a cross-coun- $Pric1e ta,g000 purchase the ski racks.
to fix that contentious corridor reasons to traverse the avenue. try skier, is meeting with the With numerous green
racks could be used just
along 105th Avenue, soon to The corridor is planned city to try to get cross-country spaces in the area, Rae is con-
retain its historical name of in stages that will eventually, like bike racks at stations ski racks installed at the Cen- fident Edmontonians will use
Columbia Avenue. hopefully, grow eastward to tury Park LRT station to allow the racks much like they use
Rae is asking Awesome Edmonton for
The drawings are impres- 97th Street. The first phase be- transit riders to ski to the bike racks at LRT stations.
$1,000 to get ski racks.
sive, depicting a multi-use gins this year, on 119th, where south LRT station. She is also hoping residents
street between 119th and eventually you’ll see the area’s STEPHANIE “The stretch between she said, adding her home is will help set the cross-coun-
109th Street where bikes are first new way-finding maps, in- DUBOIS Southgate and Century Park about 100 metres from seeing try ski trails leading to the
privileged over cars, where spired by the aforementioned [email protected] is the longest stretch of track the LRT track but almost a LRT line in the area if the city
pedestrians interact with grassroots team. on the line without a station, two-kilometre hike from the can’t help out.
public art. And get this: no on- So despite fumblings like Cross-country skis and Ed- and there’s a lot of neighbour- actual station. “It’s just an idea to get
street parking. Molson-Crosstown, the city monton’s LRT line could soon hoods that are adjacent to the Rae will be pitching her people out there and to cele-
At one point in the fly- appears to be listening to what cross paths if one Edmonton track, but you can’t actually “Ski 2 LRT” idea to Awesome brate the snow that we have
through video, young men downtowners really want. woman gets her wish of mix- get to the station very easily,” Edmonton on Friday night in and make use of it,” she said.
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97 Street. Pedestrian, 94, North side. Vehicle
succumbs to his injuries recovered in carjacking,
after being struck by car but thief still on the loose
An elderly man has died after The man was treated on Edmonton police have found a was with her seven-year-old
being hit by a car while he was scene by EMS and taken to vehicle stolen in a violent car- daughter and took the vehicle
trying to cross the street last hospital, but he died Thursday jacking Tuesday, but they are after a brief struggle.
week. due to his injuries. still looking for the thief. Police have described him
The incident, which took While the EPS major col- Officers found the Toyota as an aboriginal or white
place at 97 Street on Jan. 22, lision investigation unit is Venza in a north-side parking man in his mid-20s, standing
involved a 94-year-old who examining the file, police do lot early Thursday. Police say roughly five-foot-10 with a
stepped off the curb and was not anticipate charges will be an armed man pointed a gun stocky build and short brown
struck by a vehicle. laid. METRO at a 46-year-old woman who hair and a moustache. METRO
The $500,000 in Commonwealth Stadium upgrades city administration is
looking for would come from the stadium’s reserve fund and cover a bigger
Good Buy field. RYAN TUMILTY/METRO
$500K more
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Commonwealth
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Councillors will be asked
to shell out an additional a safety issue for players,” she
tohne tthicek deot ellda rp orifc e $wFI5eF0AaT0l ht,W0he0 oS0cmt iateydtn’oisu’ smc Wog emroter malddCu yCno umiftopymr. stoehnre-- sAcaosinsdSoc.h ceieran tssio aanibd o uthhta etsh eCa sFlhsLo o rPtlr asaypiesarecsde’
vice committee will debate the around the end of the field.
issue on Monday, but city ad- “When they are coming at
ministration wants to upgrade a full run off the field and into
the field at Commonwealth. the track, it can be very slip-
The money would lengthen pery,” said Ehrman.
the field by five metres and Coun. Tony Caterina said
widen it by four metres, as both the Women’s World
well as reinforce the sleeve Cup in 2015 and the under-20
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Former substitute teacher ‘Consumer protection’
Edmonton police first to have occurred at north “We’re rolling out the
charged Christopher and west-end recreation strongest consumer protec-
Further sexual Home warranty
Herodek, 48, following centres in 2009. tion in Canada for new home
assault charges an alleged incident at Herodek, 48, is now bill becomes law buyers. This legislation will
a southside recreation facing two counts of help protect the single largest
laid against
centre. sexual assault and sexual Starting Saturday, all homes purchase that most people
Edmonton man A lifeguard at the facil- interference. sold in Alberta will have make,” said Municipal Affairs
ity saw a man touching a Following his initial to come with a mandatory minister Ken Hughes.
preteen girl inappropri- arrest, Edmonton public home warranty. The bill applies to all types
More charges have been ately. schools confirmed he had While 90 per cent of of homes and requires war-
laid against an Edmonton Since those charges been working as a substi- homes sold in Alberta already ranties to offer a minimum
man accused of inappro- were laid, police have re- tute teacher, but he was come with a warranty, the level of protection on roof,
Christopher Herodek
priately touching a pre- ceived two further reports placed on suspension. new rules cover all new walls, structural elements
teen girl in December. about incidents alleged METRO COURTESY EDMONTON POLICE construction. and foundation. METRO
Room for $10 million overage on
Walterdale replacement: Auditor
Big project. Budget In with the new
didn’t account for design
work and inflation (cid:580)(cid:3) The current Walterdale
Bridge first opened for
use in 1913 and the city
RYAN has been discussing its
TUMILTY replacement for more
[email protected] than a decade.
The $155-million Walterdale (cid:580)(cid:3) The new bridge is ex-
Bridge replacement project pected to open in 2015
could cost as much as $10 mil- and the old bridge will
lion more, according to a report be removed in 2016.
from the city auditor.
A report from city auditor
David Wiun identified $4 mil- team is confident that covers
lion in design costs that hap- the contingency and the con-
pened before the project got tract value and everything else
underway, as well as $6 million that we need to deliver the pro-
in contingency costs that pro- ject,” he said.
ject managers used to cover in- Nicholson said he can’t say
flation. Wiun said that money how much is left in the contin-
should have been kept aside for gency fund, because they don’t
real surprises, not inflation that want the contractors to know,
can be expected. but so far there have been no
“Using contingency funds major surprises. “We keep that
to pay for inflation resulted in close to the chest, because we
a contingency fund level that is don’t want to let that get out in
much lower than is normally the public domain.”
associated with a project of this Coun. Tony Caterina said he
size and complexity,” said his believes the auditor has a point
report. and the city needs to be more
Byron Nicholson, the city’s transparent on the true costs of
director of special projects, these projects.
said they are confident the pro- “It should be included in
ject will be on budget and that the amounts of money that are
there is enough contingency needed to get this bridge done,”
cash left in the project. he said. “It should be added on
“The project management to the price so people know.” The new Walterdale Bridge will be wider, accommodate more traffic and have larger pedestrian areas. COURTESY CITY OF EDMONTON
No babies, good news, for a change
In this case, no babies is a good Angel Cradle “We know that there have child is left.
thing. been incidents in the past “We’re hopeful there never
Nine months after it opened where babies have been aban- is a need, that we never get a
at Grey Nuns Hospitals, Edmon- Edmonton’s Angel Cradle doned and died in garbage child left,” she said. “One of the
ton’s Angel Cradle has not had is modelled after a similar dumpsters or a field and that’s things we’re doing with this,
any babies, but that’s being one in Vancouver, which happened in the last 10 years. it’s not just about the Angel
considered a good thing, said has only had one baby left That has happened in the Mill Cradle, but it’s about getting
hospital administration. in six years. Woods area.” out education.”
After three years of plan- McMillan said the purpose There are two Angel Cradles
ning, Edmonton’s first Angel behind Angel Cradle is to not in Edmonton: one at Grey Nuns
Cradle was opened in May 2013 “It’s a good news story for only provide a better option for and the second at Misericordia
The Angel Cradle at the Grey Nuns Hospital is considered by hospital officials as a safe option for unwanted us,” said Karen McMillan, chief people in those scenarios, but Hospital.
a last resort for an unwanted newborn. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO newborns. operating officer of Grey Nuns. also provide support before a LEAH GERMAIN/METRO