Metro Edmonton - January 4, 2011

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MARRIED
BACK TO THE
MIDDLE AGES
PILLARS OF THE EARTH
COMES TO CBC SHANIA RINGS
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IN 2011 BY TYING
THE KNOT
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EDMONTON
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
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Somali community
leader rebukes cops
Police investigating the shooting death of a 23-year-old man outside lounge around 3 a.m. on
New Year’s Day Second man who was shot survived, but not providing police with any information
One day after patrons at the Papyrus board member with the Somali-Canadi- en, but the relationship between the So- Ali said those who were there should
Lounge were criticized by police for not an Cultural Society of Edmonton. mali community and the police remains come forward but the responsibility
coming forward in the city’s first homi- There have now been nine murders strained. shouldn’t lie with the Somali communi-
cide of 2011, members of the Somali within Edmonton’s Somali community Police expressed frustration Sunday ty.
community said more should have been since 2008, something Ali says isn’t sur- that no one has come forward, especially “It has nothing to do with the com-
done in the first place. prising because of the community’s diffi- since they estimate that at least 50 peo- munity,” he said. “Not all of the commu-
“This is not the first time something culty in integrating. ple saw what happened — including nity was there.”
like this has happened,” said Jibril Ali, a Youth initiatives have been undertak- who did it. HEATHER MCINTYRE
Ice. On Whyte Hockey
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Canada gets some revenge
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That’s an
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Stephen Chung works on an ice sculpture at the Ice on Whyte site yesterday. The festival opens on Jan. 13 at 85 Avenue and 104 Street.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
Pedestrian HEATHER MCINTYRE/METRO
1
in hospital
after being
hit by car
A female pedestrian is in
hospital in serious condi-
tion after being struck by
a vehicle early yesterday
morning.
Edmonton police
received the call at 7 a.m.
news
about the collision, which
occurred downtown in the
intersection at 97 Street
and 103A Avenue.
Motorists experienced
delays as the traffic
section investigated.
Police said they are still
trying to determine
whether or not the victim
was in a crosswalk when
she was struck, and if they
will lay charges.
It is not believed that
speed or alcohol were fac-
Ten-year-old Canadian becomes
tor in the crash. METRO youngest person to discover a
supernova. Scan code for the story.
Keith Hallgren is a member of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters Society, which operates out of BikeWorks.
Pipeline
1 Download the free
ScanLife
blast City cyclists
application with
your smartphone
probed
at 2dscan.com
2 Use the ScanLife
Pengrowth Energy Corp. application on
says it doesn't know what your smartphone
caused a pipeline cheer plows to scan 2D
explosion in Alberta on barcodes in Metro
New Year’s Day.
The explosion lit up the 3 The codes will
dark sky in northeastern direct your mobile
Alberta. browser to
Pengrowth says the ex- relevant
plosion and fire happened content at
on a line that carries con- m.metronews.ca
densed liquid gas from oil- More snow expected by the weekend Five per cent of transportation
fields to a production infrastructure budget will go to multi-use trails, sidewalks and bike lanes On the web at
facility at Judy Creek, metronews.ca
which is near Swan Hills.
Pengrowth spokesman Snow welcomed Edmonto- 350 days a year, averaging residential roads were ex- The video game
Wassem Khalil says it was nians into 2011 and more 20 kilometres each winter pected to be finished this Rolling along
industry’s
in a remote location could come this week — day. There are some bike week but are currently on-
where there were no near- and drivers aren’t the only lanes, he said, but most are ly 80 per cent complete. The city’s Bicycle motion control
by homes or public build- ones glad to see plows, shared with buses and “We were going Transportation Plan was craze may soon
ings and no one was graders and sanders hard taxis during rush hour, or through and doing resi- established in 1992. spread to your
injured. at work. other vehicles. dential roads, and once it web browsing.
Khalil says the line has Cyclists are still on the In winter, windrows on started to snow we had to A fresh approach
been depressurized and streets during the winter some roads erase what switch gears and go back Updating of the plan More at
only small amounts of re- months — making plowed room there is to ride dur- to the main (roads) and bus didn’t begin until 2009. metronews.ca/
maining gas in the line are residential streets ex- ing other seasons. There- routes,” he said. Curb appeal world
still burning. The compa- tremely important. fore, he tends to stick to Bike lanes, multi-ways, The city introduced 32 kilo-
ny hopes to have the line “We have just about no residential roads. pathways and sidewalks are metres of shared vehicle- Follow us on
operating again in five to bike lanes in Edmonton,” Lloyd Meyer, superin- also cleared by the city, said bicycle lanes last year. Twitter
10 days. said Keith Hallgren, who tendent of roadway main- Meyer. @metroedmonton
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
NYE fireworks
London. Dance
blamed in mass
blackbird deaths
There are between 100 million and 200 million
red-winged blackbirds in the United States
New Year’s revellers in a plosions above, said Karen
Weird science
small Arkansas town were Rowe, an ornithologist with
enjoying midnight fire- the Arkansas Game and
works when they noticed Just one day before some Fish Commission. “Black-
something other than 5,000 blackbirds fell from birds have poor eyesight,
sparks falling from the sky: the sky in Arkansas, piles and they started colliding
thousands of dead black- of dead fish turned up on with things.”
birds. the banks of the Arkansas But Rowe stopped short
The red-winged black- River. of declaring the mystery
birds rained out of the dark- solved, saying labs planned
ness onto rooftops and Between 80,000 to 100,000 to test bird carcasses for
sidewalks and into fields. drum fish were found dead toxins or disease. Another
One struck a woman walk- along a 32-kilometre theory was that violent
ing her dog. Another hit a stretch of the Arkansas Riv- thunderstorms might have
police cruiser. er near Ozark. disoriented the flock or
Birds were “littering the The animals’ deaths have even just one bird that
streets, the yards, the drive- prompted Christian media could have led the group in
ways, everywhere,” said to quote Bible passages a fatal plunge to the
Robby King, a county warning about the end ground.
Kimberley Dunne and other aptly attired burlesque enthusiasts pose for
wildlife officer in Beebe, a times, while conspiracy- A few stunned birds sur-
photographers in front of the National Gallery in central London’s Trafalgar Square.
community of 5,000 north- theory websites tout it as vived their fall and stum-
east of Little Rock. “It was evidence of UFOs. bled around like drunken
hard to drive down the revellers. There was little World record burlesqueL EFdTERIS PaITARAKnIS/THEc ASSOeCIATED? PRESS
street in some places with- light across the countryside
out running over them.” that they crashed into at the time, save for the
In all, more than 3,000 homes, cars and each other. glimmer of fireworks and
birds tumbled to the Some may have flown some lightning on the hori-
ground. Scientists said yes- straight into the ground. zon. In the tumult, many An attempt to break the record for the World’s Largest Burlesque Dance took
terday that fireworks ap- “The blackbirds were fly- birds probably lost their place yesterday in London. A dance troupe made up of Virgin Holiday staff and
peared to have frightened ing at rooftop level instead bearings. burlesque enthusiasts took part in a five-minute bump-and-grind.
the birds into such a frenzy of treetop level” to avoid ex- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brown begins 3rd term as California governor
JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES
Democrat Jerry Brown was Auditorium. deep budget deficits and is
I’ll be back
sworn in yesterday as Cali- She held a Bible that confronting another esti-
fornia’s 39th governor, re- was her grandfather’s and mated at $28 billion US
turning to the office he left was used during her wed- through June 2012. Jerry Brown becomes only
28 years ago but inheriting ding with Brown. Its general fund is $15 the second person to
a much different and more Brown has predicted a billion US less than it was serve three terms as Cali-
troubled state than the one grim future for the finan- just three years ago, re- fornia governor when he
he led then. cially beleaguered state. flecting a sharp drop in tax takes over from Arnold
The man who once was Where his predecessor, Re- revenue from a recession Schwarzenegger
California’s most famous publican Arnold that has battered the econ-
bachelor took the oath of Schwarzenegger, ex- omy of the nation’s most His tenure as the 34th gov-
office after being intro- pressed optimism at every populous state. Brown, 72, ernor, from 1975 to 1983,
duced by his wife of five turn, Brown has been real- said the choices facing Cal- was before voter-imposed
years, former Gap Inc. ex- istic since winning the California Gov. Jerry Brown delivers remarks after he ifornia’s 38.8 million peo- term limits, allowing
ecutive Anne Gust Brown, Nov. 2 election. California was sworn in as the 39th governor of California. ple are painful. Brown to seek the office
at Sacramento Memorial has faced several years of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS again last year.
Young astronomer Firemen RENE JOHNSTON /TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Government scribe
rescued in
discovers supernova joins world of Twitter
Toronto blaze
Two firefighters fell from Guy Giorno, Stephen His Twitter account was
A young amateur under the watch of two a neighbouring roof into Harper’s tight-lipped for- set up on Dec. 23 and the
astronomer from other astronomers. a burning building early mer chief of staff, has tak- first message from the mi-
Fredericton has become The astronomical socie- yesterday morning, spark- en up Twitter. croblogging site was sent
the youngest person ty says an image of a ing an intense 30-minute Giorno made a point of on Dec. 30.
ever to discover a super- galaxy in the hunt through dense rarely speaking in public But so far, he’s not
nova. constellation of smoke to rescue them. in the two and a half years dishing out parliamentary
The Royal Astronomi- Camelopardalis was made The pair, who were not he spent as Harper’s right- gossip or political pundit-
cal Society of Canada says New Year’s Eve and the badly hurt, were finally hand man. He officially ry — he’s taking on some
10-year-old Kathryn Auro- supernova was discovered located on the upper The six-alarm fire gutted stepped down from the of his former foes in the
ra Gray made the discov- on Sunday. floor. 335 Yonge St. job at the end of Decem- media.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
RESOLUTION NO. 1: TIME TO QUIT THE GYM
All right everyone, you’ve and, finally, against typical New to even think about showing my but most of the crop-top wearing
had your fun. You argued Year’s tradition, I resolve to quit face there. gym rats aren’t really there to
She says ...
drunkenly with your family, the gym. So why join in the first place? exercise. They’re there to work
kissed a complete stranger I’ve been a member of an Initially, I am wowed by the on their fake tans, buy protein
JESSICA at midnight and ate about overpriced health club for more shiny equipment and excessive powder and, most importantly,
than a year now, amenities. “You they are there to check each oth-
NAPIER a year’s worth of calories in the number of mean there’s a er out. For, you see, there’s no
“Initially, I am
the span of one week. Now times I’ve actually steam room and a difference between the gym and
it’s time to get serious. visited said facility wowed by the smoothie bar? an obnoxious nightclub; there is
L
amounts to the shiny equipment Here’s my credit an expensive cover charge,
caloric value of and excessive card.” aggressive music, sweaty bodies
ast weekend, as I four Tic Tacs. Sixty But while the and plenty of tight neon
peered from under my dollars a month amenities.” flashy clothing.
duvet at a disaster zone debited from my accoutrements So, in 2011, I resolve to leave
of empty champagne chequing account might lure me in the hormonally charged muscle
bottles and orphaned and all I have to at first, nothing re- heads to their own devices and
sequins, I thought to show for it is a small laminated ally changes the fact that I just promise myself that this is the
myself that perhaps 2011 should card collecting dust in my wallet. can’t stand the Lycra-clad cliques year I finally kick my habit of
be the year I start making some Over the years I have joined of established gym-goers, partly avoiding the gym and cancel my
changes. many a flashy fitness temple because I despise their hard-bod- membership for good.
And so, on a gloomy January with the exact same result — I ied smugness, but mostly
morning, I pledge this will be go routinely for about two because they look so good in
Read more of
the year I start taking vitamins. months before my commitment skinny jeans.
Jessica Napier’s columns
I’ll read more books, watch less wavers and I reach the point Sure, there may be some well-
at metronews.ca/shesays
television, pay my bills on time where it becomes embarrassing meaning aerobic enthusiasts,
Attack defined decade
Cartoon
MICHAEL DE ADDER
Sept. 11, 2001
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Letters
& Tweets
We asked: What will
define the decade of
2000-10?
WHITBY, ONT.I would have
to say the terrorist attacks
on New York City in 2001,
which changed
everything. It caused pan-
ic all over the world. It
raised security concerns alone has defined this people think and how the What are you
everywhere and our sense decade. The decade when world operates. looking forward
of freedom was taken the world changed and SARAH EVANS to most in 2011?
away. From Sept. 11, 2001, the days when North Email
to this day everything has Americans realized we TORONTO.Social injustice
changed. Many lost their weren’t invincible. will define the decade. edmontonletters
lives on that tragic day ALLAN EASSON The financial gluttony of @metronews.ca
and many more have lost the super rich will be seen Twitter
their lives fighting TORONTO.I would say it as widening the divide be-
@metroedmonton
(against terrorism). was the 9-11 terrorist tween rich and poor, caus-
Besides all that, we live attacks on the U.S. ing poverty and polluting
our lives in a state of “be- because it changed so the environment. Metro has the right to edit
ing on edge” and that much in terms of how TED CRUDDAS letters and submissions.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2011
Lohan plans new
Arquette Shania secretly
checks into
wed already
start in new place rehab
David Arquette has checked
himself into rehab for alco- Just weeks after an-
hol and “other issues,” ac- nouncing her engage-
cording to TMZ. Arquette, ment to Frederic
who has been partying a lot Thiebaud, Shania Twain is
Moves out of West Hollywood to get away since his separation from already married, accord-
Courteney Cox, is seeking ing to People magazine.
from paparazzi, past influences treatment because it’s “the The couple tied the knot
right thing to do for his on New Year’s Day, her
To get a fresh start after re- family,” a source close to rep confirms.
hab, Lindsay Lohan is ditch- the actor says. “They were married at
ing her West Hollywood But before heading to re- sunset in Rincon, Puerto
apartment for a three-bed- hab, Arquette reportedly Rico, in front of 40 of
room rented condo in a had one last wild night, cel- their closest family and
beach-side suburb of Los ebrating New Year’s Eve at friends,” her rep tells the
Angeles, according to Radar the Roosevelt Hotel in Hol- magazine. Shania Twain
Online. “She made the deci- lywood. METRO METRO
sion to move out some
time ago and begin a new
Married, or just fooling?
chapter,” a source says.
“Lindsay considered her
former apartment in West
Hollywood too accessible to Brad Pitt and Angelina
paparazzi and those in her Jolie reportedly closed out
life she wants to leave Lindsay Lohan 2010 by tying the knot, but
behind.” METRO it was all for show, accord-
ing to In Touch. Sources
say the couple held a mock
Jackson documentary postponed
wedding ceremony in Mo-
rocco for the benefit of
The Discovery Channel has according to TMZ. “At the poned indefinitely,” the their six children. “Brad
bowed to pressure from request of Michael Jack- network’s reps said. and Angelina decided now
Michael Jackson’s estate son's estate, the scheduled Jackson’s executors had was the time to show them
and agreed to postpone a broadcast of the medical complained that the show how much they loved each
filmed reenactment of the documentary related to was in “shockingly bad other and wanted to be
late singer’s autopsy that Michael Jackson’s official taste.” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie unified as a family,” a
was set to air in the U.K., autopsy has been post- METRO source says. METRO
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