Metro Edmonton - January 6, 2016

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Justin Falconer, A new ‘quiet
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majority’
POLITICAL GROUP themselves as progressive.
Albertans more The company’s CEO David Coletto
said the province is younger and more
progressive than urban than ever before and welcomed
hundreds of thousands of people from
you think: Poll
elsewhere over the last 10 to 15 years.
“It has made Alberta more progres-
Ryan sive than it was.”
Tumilty He said Alberta still has conservative
Metro | Edmonton roots, but they’re just not anchored as
deeply.
A new Alberta political group wants to “Alberta is maybe a little more con-
speak for what it believes is the prov- servative than other parts of the country,
ince’s silent progressive majority and but it’s certainly not this hard bedrock
it has new polling data to back that up. of conservatism.”
Progress Alberta launched Tuesday Coletto said it’s also not just the word
as a new think-tank and lobby group progressive that people are latching onto,
dedicated to left-of-centre ideas. The noting his survey also showed support
group’s executive director Duncan Kin- for higher income taxes on the wealthy,
ney said someone needs to speak for a carbon tax and a limit on oilsands
progressive ideas. emissions.
“Progressives in Alberta are the quiet Kinney said it’s those people his group
SELLING OUR CITY
majority and they are the deciding vot- wants to advocate for, but they don’t in-
ing block when it comes to Alberta these tend to simply applaud the government
days,” he said. for every move it makes.
The group commissioned a poll “We’re not cheerleaders and there is
to correspond with the launch from a reason we are not cheerleaders, and
Gift boxes showcase locally made wares metroNEWS Abacus Data, which revealed that 59 that’s because cheerleaders don’t really
per cent of Albertans identified affect the outcome on the field.”

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FORMER PREMIER City community group’s
Redford
to attend
documentary goes viral
portrait
unveiling
GOVERNMENT
The image of former premier Aims to draw
Alison Redford is expected to
be immortalized on the walls visibility to the
of the Alberta legislature this
plight of people
spring — and Redford will be
on hand for the unveiling. in Ethiopia
“Former premier Redford
has confirmed that she would
like to attend the unveiling Sanam
of her portrait, so the Speak- Islam
er’s office is currently work- Metro | Edmonton
ing with her to co-ordinate a
date for that,” Cheryl Oates, A short documentary produced
spokeswoman for the pre- by Edmonton’s Oromo commun-
mier’s office, said Tuesday. ity is gaining attention online
“Right now we’re looking and worldwide.
at the spring, although we The 11-minute documentary,
haven’t set a date yet.” which aims to bring awareness
Redford’s official portrait to human rights abuses in Ethi-
and the artwork of her suc- opia, has been viewed around
cessor and fellow Progressive 2,500 times on Youtube since
Conservative Dave Hancock it was released online about a
have been sitting in climate- week ago and has been picked
controlled storage for more up by media in Africa.
than six months at the Al- “We want to bring awareness
berta Foundation for the Arts. to the Canadian government and
Redford’s portrait is oil on public about what is going on Bedri Mohammed of the Oromian Association in Edmonton, says the Ethiopian government is notorious for using aid money
canvas by Calgary artist Liela back home in Ethiopia. There from countries like Canada to develop the Ethiopian army. KEVIN TUONG/FOR METRO
Chan and lists for $12,500. are people here, including in
Hancock’s is oil on linen our association, who have rela- Prior to this, I was unaware of government that kills its own December last year.
by Edmonton artist Tom tives who were killed in these what was going on, so I hope people.” “I found the project to be real-
Menczel at a cost of $12,046. incidents,” says Bedri Moham- The documentary, called ly fascinating. Prior to this, I was
The former premiers got med, president of the Oromian the video is effective in terms of “Oromo Lives Matter: The Oromo unaware of what was going on,
to choose their own artists. Association. educating others about what’s Popular Resistance Against the so I hope the video is effective in
The premier’s office pays According to Mohammed, Infamous Addis Ababa Master terms of educating others about
happening. Paula Kirman
for and organizes the paint- last year, around 100 young Plan,” was created in partner- what’s happening,” Kirman says.
ing while the Speaker’s of- Oromians — mainly students ship by Paula Kirman, an Ed- The Oromo people are an
fice, which is in charge of — were shot by the Ethiopian plan to take land from Oromo money from countries such as monton filmmaker and human ethnic group based in Ethiopia,
the legislature building, is army, says the Oromian Com- farmers without consultation or Canada to build up the army. rights activist. northern Kenya and parts of
responsible for the unveil- munity Association of Northern compensation. “We need the Canadian govern- Kirman says she got involved Somalia. An estimated 5,000 to
ing ceremony. Alberta. They were killed for pro- He says the Ethiopian govern- ment to understand that, and after attending a rally organized 8,000 Oromians live in the Ed-
THE CANADIAN PRESS testing against the government’s ment is notorious for using aid to stop unknowingly funding a by the Oromo Association in monton area.
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4 Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Edmonton
Long-running podcast TRANSPARENCY
Lobbyist
registry
the Unknown Studio ends
to get
reboot
MEDIA
Hyperlocal Ryan
Tumilty
interview show
Metro | Edmonton
has completed
125 episodes Alberta’s Ethics Commission-
er wants it to be easier to
peek behind the curtains of
Alex power, with a better lobbyist
Boyd registry they hope to unveil
Metro | Edmonton this fall.
The office has put out ten-
After six and a half years and der documents looking for a
125 episodes, the hosts of one company to redesign not only
of Edmonton’s longest-running the public facing website for
podcasts are hanging up their the registry, but the entire
headsets. computer system that tracks
Adam Rozenhart and Scott Alberta’s lobbyists.
Bourgeois did their last epi- Kent Ziegler, chief admin-
sode of the Unknown Studio, istrator of the office, said the
an Edmonton-focused show on registry was first put togeth-
which they chatted up every- er in 2009 and it needs an
one from entomologists to update.
journalists to the mayor, just “Technology has changed
before Christmas. and our system just can’t
“It’s bittersweet,” Bourgeois keep up,” he said.
says. “But we wanted the show The registry allows people
to end on our terms, rather to search through the records
than fade away like other pod- of all registered lobbyists to
casts.” see what issues they were
Both Rozenhart and Bour- Adam Rozenhart and Scott Bourgeois, co-hosts of the Unknown Studio. CONTRIBUTED advocating on and what gov-
geois say other projects and ernment officials they met
full-time jobs — Rozenhart is a ing a resurgence in popularity, their long-form format, the softening the ground so that Peter Daly and reporter Jeremy while doing the work.
social-media strategist, among and they were among the first steepest learning curve came they could tell the stories that Lye that allowed them to estab- Ziegler said there are issues
other things, and Bourgeois to use the new technology to with figuring out what kind of we were interested in hear- lish their chops as interview- with smartphones and certain
works for CHED — have made establish a hyper-local focus interviewers they wanted to be. ing and we knew our listeners ers early on. web browsers that don’t work
it hard to eke out time for the on the city. “At first you start wanting to wanted to hear.” Both say that the podcast with the site, but the biggest
Unknown Studio, but also that When asked about the ori- be buddies with everyone you Rozenhart’s favourite inter- caused them to see the city in issue is the search capacity.
the podcast scene in Edmon- gins of the show, Rozenhart is interview,” he says, “and after view was science-fiction writer a new way. “When I was in my “The system is just anti-
ton has grown to the point blunt: “Six-and-a-half years ago, mid-20s I knew I was going to quated and it’s just not serv-
where they’re ready to hand people still thought Edmonton It became a mission to tell leave this place, that this place ing the needs that people
off the baton. was the worst.” was the worst,” Rozenhart says, want anymore,” he said.
people what a great place this
“That niche is being filled But they had an inkling the but the podcast opened his He said when the upgrades
with other people. I’d like to city was more interesting than is, and that they should put eyes to what was going on in are done he wants a registry
say they’re maybe even do- that, and set out to prove it by down roots. the city. that will give people exactly
ing better than we are, but we interviewing the people who’d Bourgeois agrees. “Edmon- what they are looking for, so
gave them that starting point shaped the city. The first sea- Scott Bourgeois ton has a bit of a self-esteem “they can go in and say, ‘I
from which to launch off of,” son was recorded after-hours problem and people often look want to know who lobbied
Bourgeois says. at the radio station Bourgeois awhile it’s like, ‘Screw this, I David Gerrold, who’s written elsewhere,” he says. this minister at this time on
The two, both alumni of the worked for, before they raised want some information out of for Star Trek and came to Ed- “It became a mission to tell this issue.’”
Gateway at the University of Al- enough money to buy their these people.’ monton for a literary event. people what a great place this Lobbyists are required
berta, connected over Twitter own equipment. “I think we got really good Bourgeois remembers early is, and that they should put to register in Alberta when
just as podcasting was enjoy- Rozenhart says that with at putting people at ease and interviews with entomologist down roots.” they meet with a public of-
fice holder, which includes
MLAs, cabinet ministers and
FIREARMS IN BRIEF RED DEER employees of the provincial
Police lay charges in Driver who hit cyclist government.
The registry tracks both
Man deemed fit to stand lobbyists who work with lob-
north-side standoff trial a second time to get sentenced soon bying firms and people who
A central Alberta man is go- work in-house at corporations
ing to trial for a second time and agencies.
A man who had a standoff with nearby. The man surrendered in an alleged gang-related A man who pleaded guilty in a intelligible while speaking. Ziegler said the public
police Sunday is now facing 21 at 7:20 p.m., after several hours killing nearly seven years crash that seriously injured a cen- Eric Petty, 26, pleaded guilty should have the ability to
criminal charges. of negotiation, and a search ago. Christopher Fleig of tral Alberta teen cyclist will be to counts of dangerous driving track lobbying efforts and
Police were called to a home of the home found a 12-gauge Red Deer has been deemed sentenced some time in February. causing bodily harm and refus- updating the computer sys-
in the north-side at 11:30 a.m. shotgun and a .22-calibre rifle fit to stand trial in the drive- It was early on July 4 that ing to provide a breath sample. tem is important.
Sunday on what was initially along with ammunition. by shooting of Brandon Pre- 17-year-old Dery Wang was hit The defence highlighted fac- “It’s just a more open
a break-and-enter call. When Matthew Brogden, 33, of vey in April 2009. while biking in Red Deer. tors such as Petty remaining at and transparent registry so
they arrived they found a man Edmonton faces 21 criminal Prevey, who was a well- He was taken to hospital in the scene, waving down some- people can see who is lob-
inside with a gun who refused charges that include break and known criminal in area, was serious condition and remained one to call 911 and admitting to bying what.”
to leave the home. Four other enter, uttering threats, unlaw- hit by seven of 15 rounds in a coma for two months. The police he was the driver. The tender on the project
people who were in the home ful confinement and several that peppered his car on a Crown submitted an update on The Crown is asking for a sen- has yet to close, but Ziegler
were able to leave. firearms charges. residential street. Wang’s health, saying the teen tence of 12 to 15 months while said they hope to have a new
At one point the suspect shot Police believe this occurrence THE CANADIAN PRESS has trouble recognizing simple the defence is seeking three to system up and running late
outside the window at a tree was not a random act. METRO words and sentences and is un- six months. THE CANADIAN PRESS in the fall.
Edmonton Wednesday, January 6, 2016 5
MAKE SOMETHING
Cash offered for cool winter projects
Alex jects, which the organiza- projects that celebrate winter have to be huge.
tion hopes to parcel out in but also those that tell the He says anyone can apply,
Boyd
amounts ranging from $200 story of the harsher side of the and projects can be as small as
Metro | Edmonton
to $2,500. season. Their website already getting a $100 grant to hand
“Edmonton is finally start- has over 50 winter-themed out hot chocolate at a bus
If you’ve got an idea to make ing to embrace the fact that projects posted, from mitten stop, for example.
winter in Edmonton “more it’s a winter city,” says mar- drives to fat bike chariot races. The organization is holding
fun, more caring, more profit- keting manager Chris Gusen. In the past the organization a workshop for aspiring mak-
able, or more serendipitous” “We chose winter (to focus has had a hand in launching ers on Jan 16 and the deadline
then Make Something Edmon- on) because it’s a unique and projects like the light-ther- to apply is Jan 22.
ton wants to hear about it. defining aspect of the city, apy lamps at the downtown Money will be handed out
A new project accelerator it’s a big part of what makes library, #yegsnowfight and in early February and pro-
grant has $15,000 earmarked Edmonton, Edmonton.” the Edmonton Freezeway, but jects must be completed by
specifically for winter pro- Gusen says they’re open to Gusen stresses projects don’t March 18.
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6 Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Edmonton
STUDY The Great Knitting
Pilot project offering
baby boxes to moms
Giveaway needs yarn
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The provincially funded study,
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aims to evaluate how best to help
new mothers in Alberta transition CHARITY
Twenty-nine new mothers in Ed- from pregnancy to parenthood. Demand for
monton and Stony Plain have “Every parent needs a little
received baby boxes as part of a help when they bring a new baby winter items
University of Calgary pilot project home,” says Karen Benzies, a Uni-
has grown says
that looks to make things a little versity of Calgary professor who
easier for new moms. is leading the project. “The baby co-ordinator
The baby boxes, which are kit is an engagement tool, and is
modelled after kits given out one component of our study.”
to mothers in Finland, include In order to receive the boxes, Alex
items such as blankets, nursing new mothers are required to fill
Boyd
pads, diapers, thermometers and out a questionnaire and work
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onesies. with a mentor from their per-
The box can also be turned sonal network to ease them into
into a crib for the baby with a motherhood. The Great Knitting Giveaway has
put out a call for yarn donations
to feed the knitting needles of
FRASER INSTITUTE over 100 senior volunteers who
New report highlights work year round to create win-
ter garments for charity.
An initiative of the Great-
Alberta’s growing debt er Edmonton Foundation for
Seniors, the program brings
together seniors from across Ed-
Ryan at why the province’s spending monton to knit socks, mitts and
is so high. hats. Last year the group crafted
Tumilty
“Now is the time for Alberta almost 10,000 items for local
Metro | Edmonton
to take on spending, not pile on groups like Operation Friend-
debt,” he said. Jean said combined ship, the Boys and Girls Club
With a new report indicating Al- with the recent downgrade in the and Ronald McDonald House.
berta’s debt is set to grow faster province’s credit, this should be a Edith Clarke learned to knit
than any other province, the op- warning sign for the NDP. from her mother as a child, but
position is warning the province He said with rough economic rediscovered the skill when she Edith Clarke works on a scarf for the Great Knitting Giveaway. KEVIN TUONG/FOR METRO
is on the fast track to real finan- times hitting the province, Al- moved into a lodge run by the
cial pain. berta can also expect to see less foundation. for when she has spare time. the pattern to make bird nests
In a report released Tuesday, revenue from taxes and royalties. “I thought I might as well Hilary Webb is a recreation after a conservation society re-
the Fraser Institute said Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci’s knit here for my spare time, co-ordinator at the lodge where When I see that quested them.
has seen its debt to gross domes- spokesperson Leah Holoiday, said and that’s what I’ve been do- Clarke lives. She said the need Once a year all the knitting
pile of knitting,
tic product ratio, which is an eco- the government believes the Fra- ing,” she said. for donated yarn has grown in is gathered in one place to be
nomic measure of a province’s ser Institute report actually shows She’s had at least two pieces step with the demand for knit- that’s what really distributed.
financial health, rise by 92 per the province is in strong shape. on the go at all times ever since ted items. amazes me. “When I see that pile of knit-
cent since 2007. Wildrose Leader “The Fraser Institute study she started with the program “We always have new people ting, that’s what really amazes
Brian Jean said he worries about highlights the province is the five years ago. that are available to give to, the Edith Clarke me,” Clarke said. “It makes you
the NDP’s plans to add more debt only jurisdiction in Canada to be She doesn’t keep track of how list is very long,” she said, “it’s feel good inside when you’re do-
over the next few years and be- in a net financial asset position,” many items she knits but keeps hard to pick because you want She said the knitters take ing something to help others.
lieves instead they should look she said. a ball of yarn next to her chair to give to everybody.” requests and recently learned And you say, I did some of that?”
Edmonton Wednesday, January 6, 2016 7
CITY BYELECTION
24 candidates likely to contest Ward 12
Ryan more than two weeks away, names if necessary and that a “We need serous candidates
the city’s director of elections, longer form is also available. only who will be able to fill
Tumilty
Laura Kennedy, said 24 people Byelections typically have low Amarjeet Sohi’s shoes,” he said.
Metro | Edmonton
have picked up information and voter turnout, but Kennedy He said he’s out already
registered their intent to run in said that might change. knocking on doors and getting
The Ward 12 byelection is the Feb. 22 election. She said the “I am hopeful that with this to know people in the ward.
poised to break a city record most candidates the city has had number of candidates running Candidate Nav Kaur said she
with 24 candidates already look- before was 18 in 2001 and 1994. we will have a healthy voter welcomes the challenge of this
ing to replace Amarjeet Sohi. “We have been working with turnout,” she said. many candidates.
Sohi stepped down after our ballot provider to be able Candidate Dan (Can Man) “I think it’s a marker of a
winning the federal riding of to accommodate the number Johnstone said it’s a sign of a wonderful democracy. I think
Edmonton Mill Woods for the of candidates,” she said. healthy democracy, but is con- it’s great experience. It’s a great
Liberal party last fall. Kennedy said the ballot cerned about the commitment opportunity for people to ar-
With nomination day still could accommodate up to 39 level of some. ticulate their values.”
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A LEADING POLYTECHNIC
coming a new member to new addition to our gorilla
COMMITTED TO
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STUDENT SUCCESS
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pregnant. Calgary Zoo.
It marks the zoo’s first METRO
8 Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Canada
Barn fire kills more STUDY
At least 2,250 former
soldiers homeless
than 40 racehorses
For what’s believed to be the erans who end up homeless
first time, the federal govern- tend to be older than non-veter-
ment has estimated how many ans in the same circumstances.
of Canada’s homeless are for- The average age of homeless
mer soldiers. veterans is 52, compared with
ONTARIO represents a devastating pro- The March 2015 study by 37 in the general population.
Like losing a fessional setback. He said he Employment and Social De- Many ex-soldiers cite alcohol-
has virtually nothing left, since velopment Canada estimates ism, drug addiction and men-
child, says one equipment amassed over years that 2,250 former soldiers use tal health issues as reasons for
was also destroyed in the fire. shelters regularly, about 2.7 their circumstances.
trainer who
The economic impact ex- per cent of the total homeless “Interestingly, there is a par-
lost 7 animals tends well into the close-knit, population that uses tempor- ticularly high rate of episodic
horse-oriented community, ary lodging. homelessness among female
said Classy Lane co-owner Ja- The report, which comes veterans,” said the report,
The deaths of 43 racehorses mie Millier. Grooms, veterin- from a database that tracks 60 which noted that 16 per cent
in a massive barn fire is more arians, blacksmiths and other emergency shelters across the of female ex-soldiers reported
than just a professional catas- professionals involved in the country, noted that the data multiple stints without a roof
trophe — it’s akin to losing industry will be feeling the does not capture the number over their heads, compared
members of a family, one train- effects of the equine deaths of veterans who do not use with just six per cent of non-
er said Tuesday. for months to come, he said. shelters. veteran women.
Dan Lagace was working Millier had been vacationing Researchers found that vet- THE CANADIAN PRESS
with seven horses that were in Florida when he got word of
being housed at the Classy Lane the fire and hastily flew back IN BRIEF
Stables in the southern Ontario to Canada. He said 43 horses
town of Puslinch, about 20 were in the barn. The death
kilometres south of Guelph. toll would have reached 45, Cities opposed homeless have enough time to get
All of his animals and three but two other horses normally count, data show resources in place to count
dozen others perished Mon- housed in the barn were out The federal government is every homeless person
day night in a blaze that could at races at the time. moving ahead this month during one 24-hour period,
only be subdued through the The fire broke out on a night with a nationally co-ordin- and that a count in Janu-
efforts of 50 firefighters from when temperatures dipped as ated count of homeless ary would skew results as
multiple communities. low as -20 C. Local crews re- people, despite oppos- the cold would drive more
“It’s almost like losing a sponded quickly, but found the Neighbour Madison Ross, 15, hangs ribbons, flowers and a ition from cities. Cities people indoors.
child,” the 38-year-old said. barn fully engulfed in flames. stuffed pony she brought from home on a fence at Classy complained they wouldn’t THE CANADIAN PRESS
Lagace said the blaze also THE CANADIAN PRESS Lane Stables. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY
WYOU CIOUNLD Prof in hot water over waiver
A professor at Laurentian Uni- freedom.
versity has been removed from Speaking to the CBC, Pers-
teaching an introductory psych- inger said he uses some colour-
a 4-pack of
ology class after requesting that ful language because it’s import-
students sign a waiver agreeing ant for budding psychologists
passes to
to his use of crude language. to feel like they can ask any
Dr. Michael Persinger was question without being judged.
an advance
yanked from the class two Dr. Robert Kerr, provost and
months after providing students vice-president of academic af-
screening of
with a “Statement of Under- fairs at the Sudbury university,
NORM standing” that contains a list said the issue isn’t academic
of 27 words, from “politician” freedom but rather the waiver
to the F-word to “Satan.” put before students. “It’s not
OF THE
NORTH The “statement of under- about academic freedom,” Kerr
standing” also includes the said in an interview Tuesday.
warning “This course is rated Dr. Michael Persinger. “It’s simple that a faculty mem-
on
‘R’ for coarse language and ex- TWITTER.COM ber cannot ask a student to sign
plicit content.” a document … as a condition
January 9
The Laurentian University a grievance against the move, to take his or her class.”
Faculty Association has filed saying that it violates academic TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
IN THEATRES
JANUARY 15
LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
Trudeau warned of tough fight
The Liberal government will production of marijuana. minister, Canada will also have
have to do substantial work The treaties are: to find a way to essentially tell
on the international stage be- (cid:114)(cid:248)(cid:52)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:248)(cid:51)(cid:73)(cid:78)(cid:71)(cid:76)(cid:69)(cid:248)(cid:35)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:78)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:248)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:248)(cid:46)(cid:65)(cid:82)- the world how it plans to con-
fore it can follow through on cotic Drugs of 1961, as amended form to its treaty obligations.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s by the 1972 Protocol; Errol Mendes, a constitution-
promise to legalize marijuana, (cid:114)(cid:248)(cid:52)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:248)(cid:35)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:78)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:248)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:248)(cid:48)(cid:83)(cid:89)(cid:67)(cid:72)(cid:79)- al and international law expert
new documents suggest. tropic Substances of 1971; at the University of Ottawa,
That work will have to in- (cid:114)(cid:248)(cid:52)(cid:72)(cid:69)(cid:248)(cid:53)(cid:78)(cid:73)(cid:84)(cid:69)(cid:68)(cid:248)(cid:46)(cid:65)(cid:84)(cid:73)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:83)(cid:248)(cid:35)(cid:79)(cid:78)(cid:86)(cid:69)(cid:78)- says legalization faces stiff op-
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criminalize the possession and ing note prepared for the prime THE CANADIAN PRESS
World Wednesday, January 6, 2016 9
Obama takes on gun lobby HIGHLIGHTS
The plan
Expanded background
checks
UNITED STATES It won’t happen Anyone who’s in the business of
Expanded selling guns must obtain a licence,
overnight. It regardless of where they sell,
background and must conduct background
won’t happen
checks among checks on their customers.
during this
planned steps More FBI examiners
Congress.... But The FBI will hire over 230 more
staff to help process background
a lot of things
Tears streaking his cheeks, checks. The FBI is also modern-
U.S. President Barack Obama don’t happen izing NICS and improving the
launched a final-year push Tues- response time for alerting local
day to tighten sales of firearms overnight. law enforcement that someone
in the U.S., using his presidential who is disqualified from buying
powers in the absence of tougher a gun attempted to do so.
gun restrictions that Congress president, the guidance lacks
has refused to pass. the legal oomph of a new law, Lost and stolen weapons
The president struck a com- such as the one Obama and like- A dealer shipping a gun is respon-
bative tone as he came out with minded lawmakers tried but sible for notifying law enforce-
plans for expanded background failed to pass in 2013. The Justice ment once it is determined it was
checks and other modest meas- Department said the guidance lost or stolen in transit.
ures that have drawn conster- “has no regulatory effect.”
nation from gun rights groups, What’s more, none of the Smart gun technology
which Obama accused of making steps would have probably pre- The departments of Defence,
Congress their hostage. Palpable, U.S. President Barack Obama gets emotional as he delivers a statement on executive actions to vented any of the recent mass Homeland Security and Justice
too, was Obama’s extreme frus- reduce gun violence. JIM WATSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES shootings that Obama invoked: have been directed to conduct or
tration at having made such little Aurora, Oak Creek, Charleston, sponsor research into smart gun
progress on gun control since the “Every time I think about those Congress to pass. plan is an attempt to narrow the Newtown, to name some. But technology aimed at reducing the
slaughter of 20 first-graders in kids, it gets me mad.” Although Obama can take ac- loophole that exempts gun sales Obama defiantly rejected that risk of accidental gun dischar-
Connecticut confronted the na- Obama’s 10-point plan to keep tion around the margins, only from background checks if the critique, dismissing it as the tired ges and improving the tracing
tion more than three years ago. guns from those who shouldn’t Congress can enact sweeping seller isn’t a federal registered trope of gun lobbyists who ques- of lost or stolen firearms.
“First-graders,” Obama said have them marked a concession changes that gun-control ad- dealer. Whether that step can tion “why bother trying?”
woefully, resting his chin on his by the president: He’ll leave of- vocates say are the only way to make a serious dent in unregulat- “I reject that thinking,” Mental health
hand and wiping away tears as fice without securing the new truly stem a scourge of mass ed gun sales is an open question, Obama said. “We maybe can’t The White House is proposing a
he recalled the 2012 massacre at gun control laws he’s repeat- shootings. and one not easily answered. save everybody, but we could $500-million investment to im-
Sandy Hook Elementary School. edly and desperately implored The centrepiece of Obama’s Easily reversible by a future save some.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS prove mental health care.
CIVIL WAR
Syria’s north short on food, medicine
Pro-government fighters recent- The villages of Foua and 30,000 people in the mostly have used siege tactics as a way
ly evacuated from two besieged Kfarya have been under siege Shiite area. of getting an area under control.
villages in northern Syria de- for more than a year, but the “Our life was catastrophic,” In retaliation for the siege, activ-
scribed harsh conditions there situation has worsened since said Hussein Mahdi Kazem, a ists say troops and members of
with scarce food and medicine, September. That’s when in- 16-year-old wounded fighter, Hezbollah have taken measures
saying some residents are eating surgents captured a nearby air from a hospital bed in Beirut. against a Sunni area of about
grass to survive and undergoing base where helicopters used to But the two villages are not 40,000 people near the Lebanese Hani Ali Hassan was evacuated to Beirut from Foua, which has
surgery without anesthesia. take off and drop food to about alone in suffering. Both sides border. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS been under siege for over a year. HASSAN AMMAR/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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10 Wednesday, January 6, 2016 World
‘Successful’ H-bomb test
IN BRIEF
Iran dispute with Saudi
Arabia escalates as more
countries break ties
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY Korea had tested a “miniatur- Iran’s President Hassan
If confirmed, ized” hydrogen bomb, elevating Rouhani says Saudi Ara-
the country’s “nuclear might to bia cannot “cover up”
could lead to
the next level” and providing it its crime of executing a
sanctions and with a weapon to defend against leading Shiite cleric by
the United States and its other severing diplomatic re-
more isolation enemies. lations with the Islamic
The statement said the test republic, even as the
was a “perfect success.” kingdom’s allies began
North Korea said Wednesday it The test, if confirmed by out- limiting links to Iran. The
had conducted a hydrogen bomb side experts, will lead to a strong White House urged Saudi
test, a defiant and surprising push for new, tougher sanctions Arabia and Iran not to de-
move that, if confirmed, would at the United Nations and further rail efforts to end the Syr-
put Pyongyang a big step closer worsen already abysmal rela- ian civil war.
toward improving its still-limited tions between Pyongyang and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
nuclear arsenal. its neighbours.
A television anchor read a typ- North Korean nuclear tests More migrants die at
ically propaganda-heavy state- worry Washington and others sea in attempt to reach
ment on state TV that said North because each new blast is seen Greece from Turkey
as pushing North Korea’s scien- Authorities recovered
tists and engineers closer to their the bodies Tuesday of at
goal of an arsenal of nuclear- least 36 migrants who
tipped missiles that can reach drowned off Turkey after
the United States. South Korea detected an “artificial earthquake” near North Korea’s main nuclear test site their boats overturned
While a hydrogen bomb is Wednesday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS in rough waters as they
much more powerful than an tried to reach the Greek
atomic bomb, it is also much range missile to eventually carry The UN called the 2012 launch sible test, the U.S. Geological island of Lesbos, offi-
harder to make. In a hydrogen smaller versions of those bombs. a banned test of ballistic missile Survey measured an earthquake cials and news reports
bomb, radiation from a nuclear After several failures, it put its technology. Wednesday morning with a mag- said. Twelve others were
fission explosion sets off a fu- first satellite into space with a Some analysts say the North nitude of 5.1. An official from rescued. Nine bodies,
sion reaction responsible for a long-range rocket launched in hasn’t likely achieved the tech- the Korea Metrological Admin- including children’s,
powerful blast and radioactivity. December 2012. nology needed to manufacture istration, South Korea’s weather washed up on a beach in
North Korea is thought to have Experts say that ballistic a miniaturized warhead that agency, said the agency believed the resort town of Ayvalik
a handful of rudimentary nuclear missiles and rockets in satellite could fit on a long-range missile the earthquake was caused artifi- in the morning.
North Korean leader Kim bombs and has spent decades try- launches share similar bodies, capable of hitting the U.S. cially based on an analysis of the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jong Un. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing to perfect a multistage, long- engines and other technology. In the first indication of a pos- seismic waves. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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