Metro Edmonton - January 6, 2014

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Monday, January 6, 2014
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According to Dr. Gerry AHS is estimating that, to
offi cer says high
Predy, Alberta’s senior medical date, approximately 900,000
demand is positive sign, health officer, the high demand Albertans have been immun-
for the vaccination is a positive ized.
despite there being fi ve
sign, despite the fact there have “We’ve put a lot of vaccines
confi rmed deaths in been five confirmed deaths due in a lot of arms,” Predy added.
Alberta due to the fl u to the flu in Alberta since Jan. 1. “People are coming because
“People all of a sudden per- they’re very afraid. The vaccine
since Jan. 1 ceive more of a risk and I think will protect them and there are
that’s what brought them for- other things they can do.”
ward,” said Predy at Sunday’s Edmonton parent Azelda
LEAH vaccination clinic in Edmon- Payne said she would have vac-
GERMAIN ton. “Any way we can get them cinated her two children ear-
[email protected] in to get them vaccinated is lier if she could have, but they
good.” kept falling ill.
Residents in Edmonton and While the shot has been “(My daughter) has asthma,
Calgary braved long lines over available to Albertans since Oc- so when she gets sick, she gets
the weekend to receive their tober, Predy noted AHS has wit- really sick,” Payne said. “I want-
OILERS SHUT THE DOOR flu shot after the province con- nessed a surge in the number ed to prevent that.
firmed more than 965 cases of of people looking for the shot “School starts (Monday,) so
the disease in Alberta last week. over the Christmas break. we might not have another
On Sunday, more than “This year, because of the chance to do it,” she added.
1,414 doses of the influenza demand, we have put these More clinics will be open
Tampa Bay Lightning Nate Thompson is stopped by Edmonton Oilers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov during third- vaccine were administered at special clinics up,” he said, throughout the province this
period action in Edmonton on Sunday. Coverage, page 17. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS a special Alberta Health Servi- noting one held in Calgary on week. For more information,
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Monday, January 6, 2014
Three weeks expected
City tackles
windrows with
parking ban
A targeted parking ban
kicked off on Monday in
Edmonton in order for
snow-clearing crews to
tackle windrow removal.
The ban is meant to N
deal with the accumula-
tion of snow that had
been windrowed, or piled
up, along bus routes
throughout the city.
According to a city no- E
tice, the windrow removal
is expected to take three
weeks and the ban will
only be effective during
specific times on certain W
collector routes.
More information on
the targeted parking ban After being shortlisted for Mars One, Edmonton’s Christy Foley said she is looking forward to the potential opportunity of travelling to space. CONTRIBUTED
and a schedule of clearing
Ensign, set course
routes are available on the
city’s website, edmonton.
ca. METRO
S
Recycling
Christmas-tree for Mars. Engage!
collection begins
on Thursday
As the holiday season
winds down, the city of
Edmonton will start col- Mars One. Edmonton man settlement on Mars. Foley said her husband Chosen few
lecting natural Christmas “I’ve always loved space plans to continue applying
woman lands on the
trees. and the idea of colonizing for future chances for the
The city will be picking shortlist — though her and expanding,” said Foley, mission. Exactly 1,058 applicants
up the discarded trees for who works for the Alberta “I think what I will miss were shortlisted in the fi rst
husband was rejected
recycling for three weeks, government. the most is the ability to go round of the selection.
starting on Jan. 9. “I grew up on Star Trek: out in nature,” Foley said of
Residents are asked to The Next Generation, which leaving Earth. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:55)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:629)(cid:627)(cid:627)(cid:550)(cid:627)(cid:627)(cid:627)(cid:3)
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bags for collection. Extra- [email protected] stargazer, Foley and her hus- part of the plan is to develop
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Last year, the city col- one step closer to seeing her tion Program, which was first her application, Foley will
lected 14,126 trees for re- dream of travelling to space launched last year. have to complete a medical
cycling. The chipped trees come true. While Foley was short- examination and have a “job select few in 2017.
were recycled at the waste Christy Foley, 32, received listed, her husband was not. interview” as part of the four- “It’s definitely not going
management centre and the call last week that she’s “It was definitely dis- round selection process. to happen tomorrow,” she
used for compost around been shortlisted for the Mars appointing,” Foley admitted. Foley expects the trial to laughed. “I will get to enjoy
the city. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO One mission — a project to “He was ecstatic that I was be complete by 2016, with some time with my family
establish a permanent hu- picked, and I love him for it.” training kicking off for the while I am here.”
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04 NEWS metronews.ca
Monday, January 6, 2014
Cool creation: This is the
Nov. 18 incident. Man
wanted in connection
house the Shaws built
with sexual assault: Cops
Edmonton police are asking for and weigh-
the public’s help in identifying ing be- Winter city. Edmonton going to make a snow fort,”
a suspect in an alleged sexual tween 230 said the pair’s father, Regan
assault back in November. and 240 family works together Shaw, adding a combination
Police were called to the pounds. to build backyard igloo of warm weather and rain
area of 104 Street and 134 Av- He is de- made it impossible to get
enue at around 8 p.m. on Nov. scribed as into the fort.
18. Police say a 19-year-old having a Instead of being de-
woman was approached from An artist’s sketch of deep voice. LEAH terred, the trio used frozen
behind, wrestled to the ground the suspect. COURTESY Anyone GERMAIN balloons filled with water
and sexually assaulted by a EDMONTON POLICE SERVICE with in- [email protected] and food colouring.
man. formation Shaw explained the
The suspect is described is asked to contact police at Tristan and Mei Shaw had water took about three days
as a Caucasian male, between 780-423-4567 or #377 from a a lot to look forward to on to fully freeze. After peel-
25 and 40 years old, about six mobile phone. Saturday. ing away the balloon, the
feet tall, with a heavy build STEPHANIE DUBOIS/METRO After 45 days of planning family used the round balls
and building, the brother- of ice to construct an igloo,
Mom on birth control and-sister duo finally had tall enough for Shaw to
had been on birth control the chance to venture into stand up in.
for a number of years, and the multicoloured igloo “(This) was a thing to do
Calgary Zoo baby
the resident male, Lobi, was constructed in their back- to keep the kids occupied,”
hippos delivered sexually immature. yard. Shaw said. “Especially dur-
A necropsy later deter- “It started out we were ing the Christmas break.
stillborn
mined the pair were likely “We are a winter city so
dead before delivery because we might as well be outside
Embrace the cold
Twin baby hippos were their umbilical cords were and enjoying it.”
delivered stillborn Saturday, wrapped around their necks. While the igloo is decked
“We are a winter city
according to the Calgary Zoo. Sparky’s first calf, in out with lights on the in-
What made the situation 1991, was also stillborn. This so we might as well be side, six-year-old Mei said
surprising for keepers was was her fourth pregnancy. outside and enjoying it.” her favourite part was slid-
the 26-year-old mom, Sparky, METRO Brother-and-sister duo Tristan and Mei Shaw climb on top of their backyard ing down the outside of the
igloo, a project that took just over 45 days to construct. LEAH GERMAIN/METRO Regan Shaw fortress.
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
Monday, January 6, 2014
Alberta, B.C. consider
moving bitumen by rail
as pipeline alternative
Task force report. Details “Rail can be considered
a viable alternative to
Environmental group
pipeline movement based
calls idea ‘underhanded,’ The task force is led on costs of transport,” the
by Steve Carr, Deputy terms of reference for the
says it raises safety
Minister of Natural Gas group states. “If pipelines
questions in light of development in B.C., and are not developed, rail will
recent train accidents Grant Sprague, Deputy step into the void to de-
Minister of Energy in liver bitumen to the West
Alberta. Coast.”
West said the report rais-
A task force report has been es safety questions, espe-
handed in to the British bridge pipeline or would cially in light of two recent
Columbia and Alberta gov- have around the Kinder high-profile train accidents.
ernments that examines Morgan pipeline,” said Ben Oil transport by rail has
the idea of transporting oil- West, campaign director for become a contentious topic
sands crude via rail if pro- ForestEthics. after a train containing
posed pipelines don’t get A joint provincial work- crude oil derailed and ex-
the green light, government ing group was announced ploded in Lac-Mégantic,
documents show. by premiers Christy Clark Que., in July, killing 47
It’s an idea the environ- and Alison Redford in July people, and another train Midwest, Northeast braces for ‘polar vortex’
mental group ForestEthics to develop recommenda- exploded without injuries
calls “underhanded.” tions related to energy last month in North Dakota.
It’s a “backdoor way for exports and the opening “Myself and other people A person struggles to cross a street in blowing and falling snow Sunday in St. Louis. While much of Canada was
industry to bring tankers of new export markets were pretty freaked out in a deep freeze, snow-covered roads, high winds and ice were creating dangerous driving conditions from
to the coast without the for products like bitumen about what happened the Midwest to the Northeast U.S. on Sunday ahead of a “polar vortex” — a counterclockwise-rotating pool of
same sort of public over- for the two provinces, in- there,” West said of the two cold, dense air that is set to affect more than half of the continental U.S. throughout Sunday and into Monday
sight or public process that cluding pipeline and rail fiery blasts. and Tuesday, with wind chill warnings stretching from Montana to Alabama. JEFF ROBERSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
we’ve had around the En- transport. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Environment
No injuries reported.
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Plane from Toronto slides
forest protected,
You could
off runway at N.Y. airport but challenges
WIN
remain: Group
A plane from Toronto slid after the slippery diversion of Canada has made signifi-
into snow as it turned onto the aircraft. cant strides in protecting
a taxiway after landing at Federal Aviation Adminis- the vast boreal forest that
John F. Kennedy International tration spokeswoman Kath- stretches across most of
Airport on Sunday, halting leen Bergen said there was no its provinces and territor-
flights at the airport for two immediate report of injuries ies, but the world’s largest
hours and causing residual after the plane landed safely intact forest ecosystem
a pass for delays. at 8 a.m., only to lose its foot- still faces threats, says an
“It could have been worse, ing and slide into snow as it environmental group.
four a much worse scenario,” Jor- turned from the runway onto THE CANADIAN PRESS
dan Houlton told reporters a taxiway.
after he emerged from Delta The plane was then towed New Brunswick
to see Connection 4100 along with to a gate with passengers on
34 other passengers and crew board, she said.
Officials grappled
members about 90 minutes THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
with unsterilized-
N.L. blackouts. Premier forceps disclosure
calls for conservation Officials at New Bruns-
wick’s largest health
during ‘critical period’ authority deliberated for
Visit three months whether
to inform the public
clubmetro.com about unsterilized biopsy
to enter Newfoundland and Labrador asked to close or reduce oper- forceps before finally
Premier Kathy Dunderdale says ations over the next few days. releasing the information
her government will be asking “We’re looking at customers and advising patients to
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Student counts on medicinal pot
Marijuana vaporizer. Kirkman is actually encour- “It doesn’t have any proactively approached could pop by the vice-prin-
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Noah Kirkman’s device
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Canada High School student dent, who has aspirations could ingest his medicine after class and over the
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metronews.ca BUSINESS 09
Monday, January 6, 2014
‘Click farms’ sow big
Trend. Wearable
gadgets set to take
social media numbers
centre stage in 2014
Will 2014 be remembered as for tech nerds who’d rather
the year wearable computing glance at their wrists to check
took off? messages than reach for their
‘The dark side.’ Making SoundCloud plays to influence Five ‘click farm’ facts Upstart entrepreneurs and smartphones. And thousands
record label interest. major manufacturers such as of people are already seeing the
it look like you’ve won “Anytime there’s a mon- Samsung, Qualcomm and Sony world differently with the help
friends and influenced etary value added to clicks, 1. A click farm is a business certainly hope so. of the Internet-connected eye-
there’s going to be people go- that sells clicks for fans, Gadgets that you snap, wear, Google Glass.
people has become big ing to the dark side,” said Mitul likes, followers, views buckle or fasten to your body Technology companies will
business Gandhi, CEO of seoClarity, a and more. are already marketed to fitness stretch the wearable concept
Des Plaines, Ill., social media freaks obsessed with track- further this week in Las Vegas
marketing firm that weeds out 2. People buy clicks to boost ing every possible bit of data at the International CES event,
phoney online engagements. their social media num- about their workout. There the industry’s annual trade
Celebrities, businesses and “Click farms” inflate social media Italian security researchers bers, which can lead to are countless smartwatches show. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
even the U.S. State Depart- numbers, such as Facebook likes. and bloggers Andrea Stroppa profits and popularity.
ment have bought bogus Face- STEPHEN LAM/GETTY IMAGES and Carla De Micheli estimat-
book likes, Twitter followers or ed in 2013 that sales of fake 3. Buying and selling clicks
YouTube viewers from offshore But an Associated Press Twitter followers have the po- violates social media user
“click farms,” where workers examination has found a grow- tential to bring in $40 million rules but is not regulated
tap, tap, tap the thumbs up ing global marketplace for US to $360 million US to date, by U.S. state or federal
button, view videos or retweet fake clicks, which tech com- and that fake Facebook activ- agencies.
comments to inflate social panies struggle to police. On- ities bring in $200 million US
4. Click farm revenues are
media numbers. line records, industry studies a year.
estimated to be worth
Since Facebook launched and interviews show compan- As a result, many firms,
hundreds of millions.
almost 10 years ago, users have ies are capitalizing on the op- whose values are based on
sought to expand their social portunity to make millions of credibility, have entire teams 5. Sellers offer clicks for Fa-
networks for financial gain, dollars by duping social media. doggedly pursuing the buyers
cebook, Twitter, LinkedIn,
winning friends, bragging For as little as a half cent and brokers of fake clicks. But
Instagram, Pinterest,
rights and professional clout. each click, websites hawk each time they crack down on
SoundCloud, YouTube,
And social media companies everything from LinkedIn con- one, another, more creative
Vimeo and more.
cite the levels of engagement nections to make members scheme emerges. Attendees wear Google Glass while posing for a group photo during the Google
to tout their value. appear more employable to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I/O developer conference in May in San Francisco. JUSTIN SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGES FILE
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day. Kimura paid 7.36 million yen
(about $70,000 US) for the bluefin
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Monday, January 6, 2014
LET’S REDISTRIBUTE PROPERTY TAX
Innovative was one of the most commonly but it causes problems in the 21st. Many
Can we use innovative thinking?
used words during the recent civic election. people are house rich but cash poor. This is
We were promised we would see innovative especially true in the case of those who re- Perhaps we should think about cost recovery as
approaches in keeping with the demands of tired without a private pension. the basis for our municipal tax system instead. Just
running a city in the 21st century. Perhaps we should think about cost recov-
because you have a more expensive home does not
So far we have seen very little evidence of ery as the basis for our municipal tax system
that, but it’s still early. instead. Just because you have a more expen- mean that you cost the city more money.
One thing we all need to be clear about is sive home does not mean that you cost the
that innovation and improvement are not city more money.
the same thing. However, where your home is located
Innovation is about doing something in a does. The farther you live from the city cen- the homes.
different way, not about doing the same tre, the more it costs the city to accommodate So why not set up tax zones that would see people who
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things better. you. live far away from the city centre paying higher taxes than
So where could we use innovative think- Terence Harding I live in a relatively high-density area those who live closer?
ing? We could start by looking at how we [email protected] about six kilometres away from city hall. Density might be a good way of determining where those
raise taxes from homeowners. The amount Someone who lives in Windermere lives zones begin and end. The higher the density, the lower the
of municipal tax you pay is based on the value of your home. about 26 kilometres away. The development in Windermere property taxes.
The original thinking was that the more your home was required building more roads that now need to be main- Doing so would acknowledge that in the 21st century,
worth, the more money you had and therefore you should tained in summer and cleared in winter. The city also had to sustainability is our No. 1 priority, and living in a single-
pay higher taxes. provide new infrastructure, the costs for which are not 100 family home on the edge of the wilderness is a privilege and
That might have been good thinking in the 19th century, per cent recoverable from the developer or from taxes on not a right.
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fee shops, complete with the gentle, (seannicholassavage.bandcamp.com)
raspy voice and quiet crash cymbals.
Sunday morning music, in other Jonathan Atkins:
words. A singer-songwriter with a devastating
(theroyalstreets.bandcamp.com) ear for harmonies and a delicate touch
with lyrics that slide perfectly into a
Sean Nicholas Savage: horrid winter. There’s a definite Celtic
There’s a staggering amount of music touch, but far sweeter than something
on this Montreal musician’s page, and like Mumford and Sons.
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