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Police enforcement of distracted-driving law lagged in recent
months But EPS traffic section will ramp up ticketing in February
“I expect people to
SHELLEY
WILLIAMSON Issued tickets obey the law. We don’t
@METRONEWS.CA want a cop on every
Ontario issued about 46,000 dis-
corner acting as Big
City drivers are still distracted, but tracted-driving tickets in 2010.
lucky for them, at least until now, Saskatchewan police cited just Brother looking over
police have been, too. 1,636 drivers under similar our shoulders.”
While a September push to legislation during that period. JONATHAN DENIS
enforce the new legislation saw Under Alberta’s distracted-driving ALBERTA SOLICITOR GENERAL
207 tickets issued, Edmonton law, in effect since Sept. 1, drivers
Police Service officers handed out caught using a handheld device “The law has been in effect since
just 150 distracted-driving tickets or GPS, or doing activities such as September and people are already
in October. eating, grooming or reading, returning to their old ways,” he
That number dropped to 89 in could be fined $172. said. “We will be cracking down
November, though the tally is not Of 207 infractions recorded in the again in the month of February.”
yet finalized. city the first month, 188 were for Calgary fared better in its
Cheng Zhang, from Heilongjiang, China, starts to carve what will “I will admit we haven’t been using a handheld device. In Octo- enforcement, issuing twice as
be a cool likeness of the Alberta Legislature, Thursday. giving (the distracted-driving law) ber, of 150 tickets issued, 143 many tickets — about 950 — in
the attention it deserves,” said Staff were for that same distraction. the first three months of the law.
SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO Sgt. Ted Hrebien of the EPS traffic Dialling 911 for a Curb the The Alberta solicitor general
Carving a niche for himself section. Danger or emergency call is said he’d prefer a balance of
Noting that a lack of resources allowed under the law. enforcement and compliance over
is partly to blame, Hrebien said issuing thousands of tickets, as in
Ten ice carvers and Alberta Dep. Premier Doug Horner kicked off traffic officers focused their atten- But with Christmas over, and Ontario and other provinces.
the 30th annual winter festival between Alberta and its sister Chi- tion in November and December an EPS focus on intersection safe- “I don’t want Alberta to become
nese province of Heilongjiang. The festival is set to run on the Leg on nabbing impaired drivers in ty wrapping soon, police will be a police state,” Jonathan Denis
grounds in conjunction with Ice on Whyte, Jan. 12-22. checkstops. targeting drivers’ bad habits. said.
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Late-night bus pilot unsafe: Union
1
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Night Ride pilot launches Friday
Transit security director says
Whyte Avenue to Southgate transit
centre project is necessary
SHELLEY Night Ride route
WILLIAMSON
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Buses will run every 12 min-
news
As the city launches a new utes westbound along
late-night bus pilot usher- Whyte Avenue from 1:30
ing riders from Whyte Av- a.m. to 3:30, Jan. 6 to April
enue bars this weekend, 14, Fridays and Saturdays.
the transit union boss’con-
cerns turn to driver safety. Stops include the University
“If they’re going to test and Southgate transit cen-
this properly, I would like tre, as well as 51 Avenue to
to see operators have some- Gateway Boulevard. Visit
one on the bus with them edmonton.ca/nightride.
to protect them,” said Stu
Litwinowich, president of vice’s security helm calls
the Amalgamated Transit the pilot safe and necessary.
Union Local 569. “We know there’s a vast
He worries rowdy Whyte majority of people that Superstar physicist Stephen
Hawking will soon turn 70,
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3:30 a.m., he warned. and an EPS officer stationed bus pilot set to start this weekend, the union president says. metronews.ca
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WEEKEND, JANUARY 6-8, 2012
Metropolis motors on
SAMSON CREE BAND vote was approved after
Hobbema the chief’s five-year-old
grandson was killed by
reserve a gunshot in July while
sleeping in his bedroom
endorses during a drive-by shoot- Despite lack of winter weather, Edmonton’s Event details
ing, but it also reflects
international winter festival keeps drawing crowds
evictions concern about ongoing
gang violence. Metropolis takes over Sir
Samson resident Roy LUCY HAINES/FOR METRO Winston Churchill Square
Louis said people are LUCY until 10 p.m. each Friday to
A crime-troubled First fed up with crime, but HAINES The massive igloo-like pavilions of Metropolis Sunday with pavilions fea-
Nation south of Edmon- there are also concerns [email protected] have taken over Sir Winston Churchill Square turing activities and enter-
ton has voted to give that such evictions There are scant bits of and will be there through February. tainment, food and drink.
community leaders the would mean gang mem- snow on the ground, and Cold-weather construction
power to evict suspect- bers would simply the ice is melting in front technology sees free-stand-
ed gang members. move to one of the oth- of city hall. But the mas- ing structural forms made
When ballots were er three reserves in the sive, misshapen igloo-type of shrink-wrapped scaffold-
counted Wednesday Hobbema area. structures that have taken ing, complete with heat
night, the result was “It is fine and dandy over Sir Winston Churchill and LED lighting.
479 in favour and 369 to have a bylaw to ban- Square create a definite air A children’s pavilion houses
against the proposed ish some of the gang of winter, even when the a 44-foot slide and arts and
bylaw, which must still members, but it has to warm air and sunshine crafts activities, while Taste
be ratified by the be in sync with the oth- make it feel otherwise. of Winter has food and
Department of Indian er three nations,” Louis “The weather outside drink from 12 restaurants.
Affairs. said. doesn’t affect what we do
If that is done, it About a dozen gangs inside the pavilions — “But through each
would mean any 25 resi- have been fighting over we’re prepared for all con- weekend, the children’s
dents of the 7,000-mem- the drug trade in ditions,” says Metropolis pavilion, polar bar and
ber Samson Cree band Hobbema’s four First general manager Giuseppe taste of winter will be
in Hobbema could Nations, where more Albi, who hopes to see open,” says Metropolis
apply to have someone than half of the 14,000 more than 10,000 people visual-arts display called saic project. project co-ordinator Kevin
legally removed from residents are under 18 take in events each week- Night of Artists. Some 25 Coming weekends spot- Sinnott.
the reserve. years old. end. “It’s our first year, so established artists will be light information technol- Go to Metropolisedmon-
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This weekend will see a Lavoie and his mural mo- Year. information.
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Honouring the funny
SCAM ARTIST victims’ homes, claim-
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In one case he threw
fraudster a phone at a homeown- THE CANADIAN PRESS Local mag starts groundswell of support
er and fled.
for downtown memorial to SCTV troupe
arrested If you think you may
have been the victim of
a scam, call EPS at 780- LUCY
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[email protected]
Police have charged a Shaun Allan
30-year-old man for a Cartwright, arrested It started at an editorial meeting Second City Television (SCTV)
spate of fraud scams in Thursday near 127 at Avenue Magazine last fall, started in Toronto, but gained
west Edmonton. Street and 107 Avenue, when discussing an upcoming most fame during the Edmonton
According to the Ed- faces robbery, comedy issue. years, filming from 1979 to ’82 in
monton Police Service, possession of stolen Fast-forward to this week, what is now Global TV studios in
the suspect grew more property under $5,000, where an online petition at the the city’s south end.
aggressive in attempts attempted fraud and magazine’s website to support Eugene Levy, Joe Flaherty,
to obtain money by breach-related charges. the creation of an SCTV monu- Catherine O’Hara, Dave Thomas,
gaining entry to METRO ment is gathering plenty of atten- Rick Moranis and John Candy are
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to put the weapon down. Brownsville. drawing the weapon. A mo-
Over and over, officers A six-minute recording ment later, police yell that
can be heard telling 15- of the 911 call that sum- Gonzalez is running
year-old Jaime Gonzalez to moned police was obtained through the hall. Someone
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said. of Ogden, which is about
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dren. Five others officers eventually surrounded the
from multiple agencies re- suspect near a backyard
mained hospitalized with shed. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mubarak should be Reform not a sure
thing: Suu Kyi
hanged: Prosecutors
KHIN MAUNG WIN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Democratic reforms begun
by Myanmar’s nominally
civilian government are
not “unstoppable” and will
Ousted Egyptian leader authorized use of live ammunition to kill succeed only if the power-
ful military accepts the
protesters, lawyers charge Victims’ families to testify on Monday
changes, opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi warned
Hosni Mubarak deserves Protesters demand the death penalty for former on Thursday.
to be hanged, prosecutors Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at a rally But she added she is cau-
said Thursday, charging in Cairo on Thursday. tiously optimistic more
that the former Egyptian progress can be made.
president bears full re- “I wouldn’t say that
sponsibility for the killing there are many dangers,
of some 800 protesters but I wouldn’t say that it is Suu Kyi spoke as she and
during last year’s uprising unstoppable, either,” she her National League for
against his rule. said. Democracy moved closer to
At Mubarak’s trial in “I am concerned about full participation in main-
Cairo, prosecutor Mustafa how much support there is stream electoral politics.
Khater gave a passionate in the military for changes. The government approved
speech demanding the In the end, that’s the most the party’s registration
death penalty for important factor, how far Thursday, and the NLD can
Mubarak, former interior the military are prepared to now pick candidates to run
minister Habib el-Adly and co-operate with reform in byelections on April 1.
four of his police com- principles.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
manders.
“Retribution is the solu-
tion. Any fair judge must VILLAGE WARNED OF DANGER dents the mountain was
issue a death sentence for certain to crumble.
these defendants,” said At least 25 The mountainside in
Khater, one of five prose- Napnapan collapsed at
dead in
cutors in the case. about 3 a.m., sweeping
His speech came on the “We feel the spirits of the martyrs flying prison terms. away about 50 shanties
Philippines
last of three days of ses- over this hall of sacred justice, and those But some observers and other buildings, offi-
sions in which the prose- who lost their sight by the bullets of the were skeptical that the landslide cials said. A fissure in the
cution laid out its case, death sentence would ever mountain discovered last
defendants are stumbling around it to
after months of testimony be carried out if Mubarak year was made worse by
by witnesses, aiming to reach the judge and demand fair is convicted. A conviction A landslide tore through heavy rains and continu-
show that Mubarak and retribution from those who attacked would be followed by an a tiny gold-mining vil- ous mining.
el-Adly — who was in appeals process that the lage in the southern Thousands of poor Fil-
them.”
charge of the police — or- ailing 83-year-old’s lawyer Philippines on Thursday, ipinos dig for gold in the
dered security forces to PROSECUTOR MUSTAFA KHATER would likely draw out, and killing 25 people and area, but the tunnels are
use deadly force against Egypt’s military rulers burying more than 100 often unstable and land-
protesters. Mubarak and his sons Alaa with hard labour. Two po- have the power to veto a others, months after the slides are common.
For separate corruption and Gamal, Khater de- lice commanders charged death sentence. government warned resi- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
charges levelled against manded prison sentences with gross negligence face THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Alleged arsonist
‘not stable mentally’
According to medical records, Burkhart suffered from
autistic spectrum disorder, depression since childhood
37
The man who allegedly ig- Burkhart was His mother, Dorothee
nited more than 50 fires charged Wednes- Burkhart, appeared in fed-
that terrorized Los Angeles day with 37 counts of eral court Tuesday after be-
last week may suffer from a arson that caused ing arrested on a fraud
series of mental illnesses. $3 million in damage. warrant from Germany.
Burkhart was arrested Documents reveal both
Monday near the Sunset with fire-starting materi- mother and son struggled
Strip in a van with Canadi- als. He has been placed on with mental illness.
an licence plates loaded suicide watch. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Music. Albums
of ‘leaner’ military
Better think again
Looking beyond the wars HARAZ N. GHANBARI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Average worker wants to retire by he inherited, U.S. President Obama and
Barack Obama on Thursday Panetta
61, while 25- to 30-year-olds aim for 59
launched a reshaping and
shrinking of the military.
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With the underfunding clear weapons. from Iraq and begun to
in pension plans and rising The changes won’t come wind down the war in
household debt, a new TD without risk, Defence Sec- Afghanistan. He outlined a
Bank survey suggests Cana- retary Leon Panetta said, vision that some
dians haven’t adjusted their + 10.93 - 0.65¢ calling it acceptable and in- Republican lawmakers
retirement notions. (12,237.40) (98.13¢ US) evitable. Obama said the quickly dubbed wrong-
The survey shows six in U.S. is “turning a page” af- headed.
10 Canadians have less than OIL Natural ter having killed Osama bin THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
gas
$100,000 in household as- $2.98 In this file photo from last August, Adele performs
sets, not counting any (- 12¢) at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.
home equity, while 16 per
cent have no assets at all. Gold MATT SAYLES/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Unscathed covery and higher fuel
The survey also found that - 1.41¢US $1,620.10 Digital sales play catch-up airlines gear prices this year. WestJet and
44 per cent of respondents ($101.81 US) (+ $7.40) regional carrier Porter Air-
believe they will have debt up for 2012 lines reported record load
when they retire, and 13 work past age 65 paying off U.S. album sales rose by more than three per cent factors in December while
per cent said their debt will debt or working longer last year, the first gain since 2004 — a sign that rising Canada’s largest airlines Air Canada, the country’s
be significant. hours to afford their retire- digital sales are stemming the decade-long decline ended 2011 seemingly un- largest carrier, saw its pas-
“For some Canadians, it’s ment,” said Cynthia Caskey of CDs. The uptick to 458 million album sales was touched by global economic senger traffic grow slightly
not going to be about of TD Waterhouse. helped by Adele’s album 21, which sold 5.8 million concerns as they brace for a from a year ago.
choice. They will have to THE CANADIAN PRESS copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. slow domestic economy re- THE CANADIAN PRESS
B.C. not so against Canadians
finances. About 47 per cent
said they believe income LOOKING FOR A
feel down
oil pipline: Poll will fall below the cost of
living. The poll, conducted
about their NEW PAD?
in December, found that
only 25 per cent of respon-
finances
Nearly half of British it — 13 per cent strongly. dents said they felt
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Columbians support En- About 20 per cent said they optimistic about the
bridge Inc.’s proposed were “undecided.” economic prospects in the
Northern Gateway project, The project would carry More Canadians are wor- coming year. That’s down every Thursday.
which would pass through some 525,000 barrels per ried about the economy and from a year earlier when 36
the province, according to day of Alberta crude to the how they’ll fare in the per cent of respondents
an Ipsos Reid poll conduct- West Coast for export to midst of what many consid- said they were optimistic.
ed on behalf of Enbridge. Asian countries. er a mild recession, accord- “This is the most
The survey, released Regulatory hearings into ing to a survey released pessimism we’ve seen, ex-
Thursday, suggests 48 per the project begin next week Thursday by the Economic cept for briefly in 2008,
cent of B.C. residents back in Kitimat, B.C. There has Club of Canada. since 1996,” said Michael
the controversial $5.5-bil- been vocal opposition from Many respondents were Marzolini, chairman of Pol-
lion project — 14 per cent First Nations, environmen- concerned about how the lara Strategic Insights,
of those strongly. On the tal and other groups. weaker economy will which conducted the
flip side,32 per cent oppose THE CANADIAN PRESS impact their personal survey. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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