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WILLIAMSON By the numbers shift this year, Shelrud said.
@METRONEWS.CA That’s upsetting, but not sur-
Police had 37 Checkstops in 2011, prising for Gillian Phillips,
The Edmonton Police Service has including some by the EPS traffic Edmonton’s Mothers Against
released holiday Checkstop num- unit as well as the impaired driv- Drunk Driving spokesperson.
bers and while officers are catch- ing countermeasures unit. “It’s very disappointing when
ing more drunk drivers per shift, Throughout 2010, there were 55. we hear what the figures are,”
it’s not something that lifts their During the New Year’s weekend said Phillips, whose daughter was
spirits. police also dealt with three killed by a drunk driver in 2000.
“Overall, we’re quite happy flights involving drivers, one of “We hope with the new legisla-
with this year’s Checkstop cam- whom almost hit an officer, and a tion we will see a difference
paign,” said Const. Trevor Shel- cocaine arrest resulting from a in next year’s Checkstop num-
rud of the EPS impaired driving Checkstop. bers.”
countermeasures unit. The average number of impaired Phillips said the fact the police
“Unfortunately, it seems that drivers picked up per Checkstop are planning to be out in full
people still aren’t getting the shift was 6.8 in 2011, over 2010’s force in 2012 to round up
message. And you would think 5.8. impaired drivers is good news,
with all the media attention sur- Throughout all of 2011, EPS and she’s hopeful the new law’s
rounding the new legislation,and Checkstops netted 250 impaired mandatory-education compo-
Nala Florence, 8, takes advantage of the unseasonably balmy day some of the other high-profile arrests, 367 suspensions for 24 nents will help repeat offenders
Wednesday with an afternoon skate outside Edmonton City Hall. events that occurred in Decem- hours, 636 traffic tickets, 35 sus- finally get the message.
The city’s above-zero weather is expected to last through the ber, that we would have seen pended drivers and 71 other Same goes for police.
weekend, with sunny skies in the forecast into next week. some reduction, but unfortu- criminal charges. “We will be out there 12
nately we didn’t.” months this year doing Check-
Winter? See ya later, sSHEkLLEY aWILLItAMSeON/MErTRO Cops nabbed nearly 100 ers in December. stops in 2012,” said Shelrud,
impaired drivers and issued While EPS had fewer Check- adding dates have already been
24-hour suspensions to 128 driv- stop operations overall in 2011, set for this year’s campaign.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
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Offender’s
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warning
Edmonton police are warn-
ing the public of a violent
offender’s release from
prison.
Lorne Papastesis is soon
to be freed from federal Sanding trucks are slated to cover the city, looking for problem
custody after serving two spots, after a spate of freezing rain and warmer-than-normal days.
years and a day for
aggravated assault, said an
Edmonton Police Service City hopes to avoid
release.Papastesis is “a
high-risk offender who pos- Old photos meet new tech on
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Sanding crews sifting through residential areas, arterial roads, bridges, 2dscan.com.
woman
in wake of rain Residents urged to keep walks free of snow, ice
On the web at
identified metronews.ca
SHELLEY tendent of operations for A notorious
WILLIAMSON the city’s roadways branch. The dirt on sanding for a total of $72 million
Police have identified a @METRONEWS.CA Trucks have been out in due to a large snowfall in British
woman whose lifeless and full force since Tuesday, Sanding crews are January. crank caller
dismembered body was dis- Road crews are hoping spreading sand on slick al- dispatched on 24-hour cy- The city’s bylaw
covered in a Jasper Avenue proactive efforts will pre- leys and roadways, includ- cles, which are set to wrap department has received serenades a TV
apartment suite as Misty vent Edmontonians from ing in residential areas. up Thursday at 7 p.m. 1,700 complaints about icy host with a
Lynne Ward, 27. slip sliding away after One benefit of higher The city’s snow budget is walks, and given out more
charming ode
Her accused killer was warm weather and freezing temperatures this week is $47.6 million for 2012. Last than a hundred $100 tick-
arrested in the suite after rain this week. that it allows for salt, which year’s budget was ets since temperatures to cricket.
her body was found by a “Some of the hills and doesn’t work below -17 C, overspent by $30 million, dropped this season. Watch at
caretaker Dec. 31. the shaded areas are pretty said Aitchison.
Joshua James Houle, 27, bad and we are responding Sand-truck drivers are “After last winter’s snow- sand over icy patches that metronews.ca/
faces charges of second-de- to them today, but the fore- checking all roads and fall, we are prepared for can’t be broken down. Oth- video
gree murder, indignity to a cast for tonight is freezing sanding where they deem anything at this point,” said erwise, they face a possible
human body and breach of rain and we want to be necessary, he said. Aitchison. $100 fine. Follow us on
recognizance. Police said ahead of that potential risk Though Wednesday saw Meanwhile, the city’s by- The city offers free sand Twitter
the victim and accused of ice freezing again,” said a record high, crews are law branch is asking resi- for this purpose at commu- @metroedmonton
knew each another. METRO Roland Aitchison, superin- braced for the worst. dents to keep walks clear or nity leagues.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Band votes on
LUCY HAINES/FOR METRO
PCL Construction workers Ryan Brill, left, and William Cole at the Health Sciences LRT station. Gang violence
The contractor will create a pedway over 114 Street connecting the LRT eviction bylaw
station, hospital and Edmonton Clinic by the end of 2012. About a dozen gangs have
been fighting over the
drug trade in Hobbema’s
IAN JACKSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS four First Nations, where
more than half of the
14,000 residents are
under 18 years old.
More than 42 RCMP are
posted in the Hobbema
area, one of the highest
officer-to-population
ratios in Canada, and
Mounties say the crime
rate is slowly improving.
A similar bylaw was
passed in 2009 by the
Health Sciences A young boy was fatally shot in this house on the Samson Enoch First Nation just
Cree First Nation reserve July 11, 2011, near Hobbema, Alta. west of Edmonton.
A crime-troubled First Na- was approved after the three reserves in the
pedway underway
tion south of Edmonton chief's five-year-old grand- Hobbema area.
was voting Wednesday on son was killed by a gunshot “It is fine and dandy to
whether to give communi- in July while sleeping in his have a bylaw to banish
ty leaders the power to bedroom during a drive-by some of the gang members,
evict suspected gang mem- shooting, but it also reflects but it has to be in sync with
bers. concern about ongoing the other three nations,”
Hospital staff, visitors and U of A students using If the referendum by the gang violence. Louis said.
7,000-member Samson Samson resident Roy “We don’t want the gang
LRT will see minor inconveniences through 2012
Cree band in Hobbema Louis said people are fed up members to simply cross
passes, any 25 residents with crime, but there are al- the street to the Ermine-
15
LUCY gestion and allow Universi- There are 15 LRT could apply to have some- so concerns that such evic- skin First Nation or the
HAINES ty Hospital students and stations in town, one legally removed from tions would mean gang Louis Bull First Nation or
[email protected] staff a climate-controlled winding 21 km and the reserve. members would simply Montana First Nation.”
environment in moving carrying an average The plan to hold the vote move to one of the other THE CANADIAN PRESS
LRT riders using the Health through the area.” of 92,000 passengers
Sciences station will en- Michna says the heaviest each weekday.
counter construction this construction will be done Police seek
year as an overhead pedway during off-peak hours and about the project. forward. He assisted until EMS ar-
is installed across 114 Street weekends. “We want to reassure witness Around 6:30 p.m. Dec. rived, then drove away in
linking University Hospital “Throughout the project, customers that they’ll still 22, police say a GMC Sierra his green Dodge Caravan.
to the new Edmonton Clin- pedestrian access to the be able to access trains dur- to fatal struck a 59-year-old woman He is described as an
ic South and Edmonton Health Sciences LRT station ing construction time,” says near 124 Street and 132 Av- older (possibly 50s) Asian
Health Academy. will be maintained. We, Patricia Dickson of Edmon- hit-and-run enue. The victim was pro- or Hispanic male, about five
“The pedway will pro- with the city and contrac- ton Transit. nounced dead on the scene. feet six with a stocky build,
vide users of the hospital tors (PCL Construction), will The pedway will be locat- Police believe a man was short hair, a moustache and
with improved pedestrian keep disruption to a mini- ed over the north end of the westbound on 132 an accent.
safety,” says Paul Michna of mum.” station and provide access Edmonton police are asking Avenue, approaching 124 Police are asking the
Alberta Infrastructure. “It Edmonton Transit has to the LRT platform with es- a witness to a fatal Street, when he stopped man to call the EPS at
will reduce street-level con- put up notices at the station calator, elevator and stairs. December collision to come to help. 780-423-4567. METRO
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Mubarak instigated Racist U.K. killers jailed
killings: Prosecutor
for decades-old murder
The prosecution in the Hos- incided with the second day
ni Mubarak trial said on of voting in the third and fi-
Wednesday it has conclud- nal round of parliamentary
ed that Egypt’s ex-presi- elections that began on Two white men sentenced for FAMILY HANDOUT/PA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
dent, his security chief and Nov. 28. Even before the fi-
1993 killing of black teenager Stephen Lawrence in an
six top police officers were nal round, Islamists led by
undated family handout
the “actual instigators” of the Muslim Brotherhood,
photo.
the killing of more than Egypt’s largest political A young black man lay dy- quiry, vowed Wednesday to
800 protesters during last group, were assured a ma- ing in a south London bus continue to hunt for the re-
year’s popular uprising. jority in the legislature. stop. His friend called fran- maining killers.
Mubarak and his seven They are likely to bolster tically for help while a gang “The other people in-
co-defendants are facing their gains in the final of white teenagers who had volved in the murder of
charges of complicity in the round, since many of the stabbed him ran off. Two Stephen Lawrence should
killings and could face the nine provinces voting have members of that gang were not rest easily in their
death penalty if convicted. been Islamist strongholds. sentenced Wednesday for beds,” said Bernard Hogan-
Wednesday’s hearing co- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS the 1993 murder of Howe, commissioner of
Stephen Lawrence, but London’s Metropolitan Po-
three more remain at large. lice.
Judge Colman Treacy The saga of Lawrence’s
Argentina’s president
Wednesday sentenced Gary murder, and his parents’
Dobson to at least 15 years long quest for justice in the
recovering after surgery
and two months in jail, and face of police indifference,
David Norris to at least 14 has for many come to sym-
NATACHA PISARENKO/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS years and three months for bolize Britain’s lingering
Argentina’s president was the murder of the teenager, racial trauma.
awake and recovering and urged police to contin- It has embarrassed Scot-
Wednesday after a three- ue looking for new leads in land Yard, which was found
and-a-half-hour operation to the case. by an official inquiry to be
remove her cancerous thy- He told the men they guilty of systematic racism.
roid gland. were guilty of “a terrible And while Lawrence’s fami-
Cristina Fernandez’s sur- and evil crime” committed ly said it was pleased with
gery went without compli- out of blind hatred. the convictions, it said jus- likely to be. death.
cations and all her vital “A totally innocent 18- tice will not be served until But the police failed to And Britain’s police
signs were good, her year-old youth on the all the killers face trial. act until Lawrence’s parents forces still struggle to con-
spokesman Alfredo Scocci- threshold of a promising Lawrence’s father Neville held a news conference to vince ethnic minorities that
Cristina Fernandez
marro announced, prompt- life was brutally cut down said the sentencing of Dob- criticize the way the police they handle cases with sen-
ing cheers and applause the right side of her thyroid in the street in front of eye son and Norris for his son’s had handled the case. It sitivity. The parents of Indi-
from supporters gathered gland. Vice-President witnesses by a racist thug- murder was “only one step was the first salvo in a long an student Anuj Bidve, who
outside the hospital. Amado Boudou was put in gish gang,” Treacy said. in a long, long journey.” battle the Lawrence family was shot and killed on a
Doctors had expected a charge before the opera- “You were both members of Dobson and Norris were were to fight with police night out in Salford, north-
routine surgery and pre- tion, and will remain as the that gang.” part of a notorious gang and courts. east England, on Dec. 26,
dicted a complete cure country’s constitutional Police, who have been that terrorized part of The sheer length of time complained that they
without chemotherapy, leader for 20 more days accused in the last two south London, and many it has taken to prosecute learned about their son’s
since preoperative tests while Fernandez takes med- decades of incompetence people told police in the the case has taken its toll. death from Facebook be-
showed the cancer had not ical leave, the president’s of- and racism in the way they days following Lawrence’s Lawrence’s parents di- fore British police contact-
spread beyond a nodule on fice said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS handled the murder in- death who his killers were vorced six years after his ed them. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Child-porn bishop freed from jail
SEAN KILPATRICK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Lahey out on probation after serving eight months
in prison Gets two-for-one credit for time served
STEVE Online
COLLINS Dr. John Bradford,
[email protected] porn helps head of the division of
METRO CANADA IN OTTAWA forensic psychiatry at the
cut abuse: University of Ottawa, has
A Catholic bishop caught at testified as an expert in
the Ottawa airport with Expert numerous criminal trials
hundreds of child-porn im- and was a defence
ages on his laptop was witness at Lahey’s
released Wednesday after sentencing hearing.
receiving a sentence of 15 The key witness in His conclusion that La-
months — only eight of Raymond Lahey’s hey was not a risk to chil-
which he actually served sentencing is working on dren and, in fact, not a
behind bars. research he believes will pedophile, despite
Raymond Lahey, 71, for- show that sexual possessing images and
merly bishop of deviants who consume videos of children and
Antigonish, N.S., pleaded child pornography are teens, was a key part of
In this 2011 file photo,
guilty eight months ago to less likely to abuse the defence argument for
Raymond Lahey arrives
possession of child pornog- children now that child a lesser sentence.
at the Ottawa courthouse.
raphy for the purposes of porn has gone online. JESSICA SMITH IN OTTAWA
importation and asked to
begin serving his sentence
immediately. “pre-sentencing” time His lawyer, Michael Edel- sentence.” satisfied with the sentence. crimes, sentences which
Wednesday, Justice Kent served, Lahey was freed. He son, had recommended the The jail time, Edelson “It’ll serve to announce are also meted out to
Kirkland sentenced him to will be on probation for minimum one-year added, is just the to others that harsh ensure the protection of
15 months, but because he two years and registered as sentence, but said Kirkland beginning. sentences are in place for our children,” said Crown
got two-for-one credit for a sex offender for 20 years. imposed “exactly the right Prosecutors were also those who commit such prosecutor David Elhadad.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
Outcry over abused Afghan
Twin. Double take
girl seen as sign of progress
Yet some fear women’s rights will MUSADEQ SADEQ/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
erode as foreign troops withdraw Fawzia Kofi, head
of the women’s affairs
Just 15 years old, Sahar years, in part thanks to commission in the
Gul has become the the dozens of women’s Afghan parliament.
bruised and bloodied face groups that have sprung
of women’s rights in up.
Afghanistan. Fawzia Kofi, a lawmak-
According to officials er and the head of the
in northeastern Baghlan women’s affairs commis-
province, Gul’s in-laws sion in the Afghan parlia-
kept her in a basement ment, says the outcry over
for six months, ripped her a case like Gul’s probably
fingernails out, tortured would not have happened
her with hot irons and just a few years ago be-
broke her fingers — all in cause of deep cultural
an attempt to force her in- taboos against airing pri-
to prostitution. Police vate family conflicts and
freed her after her uncle acknowledging sexual “I think there is now a sense of awareness
called authorities. abuse — such as forcing a
about women’s rights. People seem to be
Despite guaranteed woman into prostitution.
In this image taken Tuesday, Simon and Jody Blake, rights and progressive Ending abuse of changing and seem to be talking about it.”
with their twins Reuben and Floren, smile for the new laws, Afghanistan women is a huge chal-
camera at their home in Cheltenham, England. still ranks as the world’s lenge in a patriarchal soci- FAWZIA KOFI, WOMEN’S AFFAIRS COMMISSION
sixth-worst country for ety where traditional families are murdered by ernment seeks to negoti-
Twins born yeaBErN BIsRCHA LLa/PA/TpHE ASSaOCIATrED tPRESS women’s equality in the practices include child their relatives. ate with the Taliban to
UN development pro- marriage, giving girls And some women ac- end their insurgency.
gram’s annual Gender In- away to settle debts or tivists worry that their Women’s rights, they
equality Index. pay for their relatives’ hard-won political rights fear, may be the first to go
Simon, 45, and Jody Blake, 38, conceived their twins Nevertheless, Afghan ad- crimes, and so-called hon- may erode as foreign in any deal with the hard-
Reuben, 5, and Floren, seven weeks old, from the vocates say attitudes have our killings in which girls troops withdraw and Pres- line Islamic militants.
same batch of embryos five years apart. subtly shifted over the seen as disgracing their ident Hamid Karzai’s gov- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DAVE ZAPOTOSKY/THE BLADE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Family celebrates long line
home in 2009. At the
of birthday repetition time, the two were in the
News in brief middle of a divorce.
Jan. 4 birthdays have been The Blade newspaper re- Drug data held
70 years for
running in one Ohio family ports that some people
for four generations. can’t believe it when they kidnapping back: Journal
Richard Stiff of the Tole- learn about all the births.
do area turned 65 on Others have said it’s kind of HOSTAGE TAKING. Richard MISSING. A British medical
Wednesday. The day is also creepy. Shenkman, 62, a former journal says a worrying
the 34th birthday of his All four family members advertising executive, has number of international
daughter, Julia Gonyer, and arrived Jan. 4 through un- been sentenced to 70 drug studies are being
it’s the first birthday of scheduled, natural births. years in prison for kidnap- suppressed by researchers
Gonyer’s daughter, Kourt- The birthdays have tradi- ping his ex-wife, holding and that the lack of public
ney. The string began with tionally been celebrated her hostage for nearly a data could threaten
Stiff’s late father, Marshall with one cake and one Julia Gonyer, her dozen hours and burning patient safety.
Stiff, who was born Jan. 4, singing of Happy Birthday. father, Richard Stiff, and down their Connecticut THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
1924. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS daughter, Kourtney Gonyer.
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