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Oilsands pollute: Study
Nearby lakes. New Quoted
research finds toxic
“I think this is kind of
hydrocarbons in down-
putting a lot of nails in the
stream water sources
coffin.”
John Smol, biologist at Queen’s University
New research has provided in Kingston, Ont., on previous suggestions
that hydrocarbons found in water bodies
the most conclusive proof yet near oilsands development came from
that oilsands development in natural deposits.
northern Alberta is polluting
surrounding lakes. ally eroding bitumen deposits.
The findings all but end the That door is now shut, said
debate over industry’s contri- Smol. “(That debate’s) com-
bution to toxins found in local pletely over. If there was still a
watersheds, say the report’s coffin to be nailed, I think this
authors. The federally funded is kind of putting a lot of nails
research by some of Canada’s in the coffin.”
top scientists was published Government and industry
Monday in the prestigious U.S. urged people to look at the
journal the Proceedings of the whole picture.
National Academy of Sciences. “Good science is to the bene-
It concludes that levels of fit of everybody involved,” said
toxic hydrocarbons in six lakes Travis Davies of the Canadian
in the oilsands region are be- Association of Petroleum Pro-
tween 2 1/2 and 23 times what ducers.
they were before the mines Still, he said the results
were built. “need to be weighed against
“This shows very conclusive- actual impact,” pointing out
ly that at least in the lakes we the study found invertebrate
looked at, we cannot see any numbers in the lakes remain
way we can attribute this to healthy.
natural causes,” said study co- That was echoed by Adam
author John Smol, a biologist at Sweet, spokesman for federal
Queen’s University in Kingston, Environment Minister Peter
Ont. Kent. “With the exception of
Industry and government one lake ... the levels of these
have long suggested that hydro- contaminants did not exceed
carbons found in water bodies Canadian guidelines and were
near oilsands development low compared to urban areas,” This overhead view shows an oilsands mine near Fort McMurray. A new report released on Monday says the industry is to blame for increased
could have come from natur- he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS pollution levels in nearby lakes. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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02 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Will be monitored
Ex-health CEO gave heads-up on VIP patients Centre after completing a
12-year sentence for sexual
Police warn of
assault.
The former head of Edmon- and commission counsel Mi- why didn’t your office treat violent sex Taylor is a convicted vio-
ton’s health region admitted chele Hollins. them equally?” asked Hollins. lent sex offender who has
she gave a heads-up to staff on “If the nursing staff and Weatherill paused before off ender being sexually assaulted women
incoming VIP patients — but the frontline staff — everyone answering. released after 18 years old and younger.
didn’t expect those patients — agrees that we have every “I feel there is a value in He will be monitored by
would get favourable treat- confidence that they are going passing on information to 12-year sentence the EPS behavioral assess-
ment. to treat patients according to the senior people so that they ment unit.
“I have a lot of confidence their medical need, that they’re would have an awareness that Edmonton police are warn- Taylor is described as
in (staffers’) understanding not going to provide particular these people had become part ing the public of a violent Caucasian, six-foot-two, 185
S that any sort of extra care or service to a prominent person, of the health system,” she said. sex offender who will be pounds, and has grey hair
service is dependent on med- correct?” said Hollins. Earlier witnesses have testi- living in the capital region and blue eyes. METRO
ical need,” Sheila Weatherill “Correct,” said Weatherill. fied that the health region after being released from
told the Alberta Health Servi- “Then what is the point of under Weatherill had a culture prison.
ces Preferential Access Inquiry telling them, ‘Here’s this prom- of VIP care, with front-line staff Kevin John Taylor, For more local news
W on Monday. inent person that’s coming told to watch over prominent 49, will be released from visit metronews.ca
That sparked a sharp ex- into your facility’? If you expect patients. the Bowden Correctional
change between Weatherill patients to be treated equally, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Charities welcome lockout’s end
E
Raring to go back By the numbers
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ing forward to the upcoming (cid:632)(cid:627)(cid:569)(cid:632)(cid:627)(cid:3)(cid:225)(cid:292)(cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:553)
NHL season, as it will mean
more money in their coffers.
The 50/50 draws that are pushed back from Dec. 1 to a
a regular fixture at Oilers new date this year.
games were on hold when Executive director Lana
the team wasn’t playing, but Nordland said even after
will now return along with Christmas has passed by, the
the season. funds can still be put to good
“We have groups that are use.
ready to go. We have been in “We still have bills to pay
contact with them and they now that January is here,
are delighted and anxious from wrapping paper and
to get back to the rink,” said bags and Scotch Tape and
Natalie Minckler, executive crayons and all that kind of
director of the Oilers Com- stuff,” she said.
munity Foundation. Nordland said missing out
Minckler said the organ- on the 50/50 in December
ization takes applicants for was disappointing, because
their 50/50 draws each sum- the timing is so perfect for
mer and usually receive Santas Anonymous.
double the applications they “To be able to be in Rexall,
can accommodate. during a hockey game, the
Santas Anonymous was exposure is great to remind
one of the organizations that people that Christmas is com- Volunteers with Santas Anonymous pick up presents to deliver to needy families. The charity was one of many that
had to have its 50/50 date ing.” had an Oilers 50/50 draw postponed because of the NHL lockout. METRO FILE
Foundation needs submissions for $1,000 reward
While other charities des- “We’d like to have as Want to apply?
perately seek donations, many (submissions) as pos-
one Edmonton organization sible because then we have
is in need of people who a lot deeper range to choose
The foundation is seeking
want $1,000 in cash with from,” said trustee Lee ideas that “would contrib-
no strings attached, except Hodgins. ute to the community here
their great ideas. Hodgins said a declining in Edmonton to help make it
The Edmonton Awesome number of submissions is a more awesome place.”
Foundation, which gives a challenge for every Awe-
$1,000 to people with awe- some Foundation world- (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:78)(cid:305)(cid:220)(cid:273)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:47)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:553)(cid:3)
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2011, trustees (who put applying for the grant.
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ideas with $1,000 in cash, no strings attached. CONTRIBUTED ting at less than half of that. ANNALISE KLINGBEIL/METRO
metronews.ca NEWS 03
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Popular Edmonton Twitter
Transit fares going up
Older tickets still
valid after fare
site a magnet for spammers
hike: ETS
When Edmonton Transit
raises its fares at the end
of the month, those who
bought tickets for the old
#yeg. Spambots latch price will still be able to
on to popular hashtags use them.
On Feb. 1, the system is
and make a nuisance bumping up fares to $3.20
of themselves from the current $3. The
10-ticket books will also be
rising in price, but tickets
bought under the old
LAURIE prices will still be valid.
CALLSEN “Our tickets have a
[email protected] two-year life, so we don’t
ask for any more money if
A plague of spam tweets the cash rate goes up,” said
on the #yeg Twitter stream Patricia Waisman, director
is drawing attention away of business development
from legitimate tweets with Edmonton Transit.
about Edmonton, users and Waisman said the sys-
observers say. tem is preparing to adapt
From bots that are eas- to the change. Measures
ily amused to those appar- include making sure ticket
ently at the airport, more machines have plenty of
and more tweets have been change. RYAN TUMILTY/METRO
popping up in Edmonton’s
Twitter search feed that WestJet Flight 150
have nothing to do with the
city.
Plane bound for
While it’s certainly an-
noying, it can also make the Edmonton slides
hashtag — a gathering place
for talk about all things Ed- off runway
monton — a lot less effect-
ive, said Dana DiTomaso, Passengers aboard a West-
CEO of Kick Point Inc., a Jet plane that slid off the
digital marketing firm in tarmac and got its wheels
Edmonton. stuck in the snow at the
“It just pollutes it. If airport in Kelowna, B.C.,
you’re trying to use the were left waiting for an-
hashtag to talk about an other way to get to Alberta.
event or tonight’s food spe- WestJet Flight 150, des-
cials, people won’t see it — tined for Edmonton, was
you’re going to see spam,” carrying 134 passengers
DiTomaso said. and six crew as it pulled
“But scanning through away from the terminal
the feed, there is relevant shortly before 8 a.m. on
stuff like Edmonton news Monday, airline spokesman
and current conditions. Robert Palmer said.
People are using it appro- The plane was moving
priately,” she added. at about 15 kilometres an
Edmonton blogger Mack This screen grab of the Edmonton (#yeg) Twitter feed on Monday shows an influx of spambots latching onto the hashtag because of its popularity. TWITTER hour when at least some of
Male, who tracks the data its wheels left the tarmac.
from the #yeg hashtag, says drawn to the #yeg feed pre- tag, which means there are There were no injuries.
660,000 tweets were posted cisely because it’s in such Hashing it out people looking at it, which A storm was blanketing
last year using the main wide use, which means means it’s an attractive the area with heavy snow
“If it were a lesser-used hashtag, maybe we
#yeg hashtag. more eyes will be drawn to hashtag to be on. at the time, causing poor
While some cities don’t the spam. wouldn’t notice as much.” Edmonton blogger Mack Male “That’s maybe why it’s visibility, but Palmer said
have a universal hashtag, “There’s consistently more obvious to us that the exact cause was still
Edmonton does, and it’s a a large number of tweets there’s spam, because under investigation.
popular one at that. posted using that tag, and tractive for spammers to “Every day, there’s lots there’s so many people THE CANADIAN PRESS
Spammers are likely therefore it becomes at- tap into it,” Male said. of stuff going into the hash- looking at it,” he said.
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04 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
United States
Stem-cell research
keeps tax funding
The Supreme Court will
not stop the U.S. govern-
ment’s funding of embry-
onic stem cell research,
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complaints that the work
relies on destroyed human
embryos.
The high court on
Southgate Monday refused to hear an
appeal. Opponents cited a
Volkswagen would law that prohibits taxpayer
financing for work that
harms an embryo.
like to welcome
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Shane Burkett to Human rights
our new vehicle China to stop
sending prisoners
sales department. to labour camps
People protest in New Delhi on Monday over the recent gang rape of a young woman on a bus. A magistrate has ruled that
China will stop hand- media will be barred from pre-trial hearings and the trial of the five men accused in the case. TSERING TOPGYAL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ing down labour camp
sentences this year under Media barred
a system that allowed
police to lock up govern-
ment critics and other
defendants for up to
four years without trial,
from rape trial
the country’s top law
enforcement official said
Monday.
Details remained
unclear, including what
would become of existing
camps and inmates.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS India. Rape-and- where the five were to appear. Case details
murder case expected Outside, more than a dozen
14,000 comments TV trucks jammed the streets,
to be sent to special and dozens of reporters from Authorities have charged
Brad Pitt tells ‘fast-track’ court to around the world were waiting the men with murder, rape
avoid typical delays for news. and other crimes that could
China ‘I’m coming’ The defendants later ap- bring them the death pen-
peared before the magistrate, alty. A sixth suspect, who is
Shane Burkett on pseudo-Twitter who scheduled another pre- 17 years old, is expected to
An Indian magistrate ruled trial hearing on Thursday that be tried in a juvenile court.
Brad Pitt is now on Monday that the media will not is expected to result in the case
China’s version of Twitter, be allowed to attend pre-trial being sent to a “fast-track” (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:21)(cid:56)(cid:5)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:553) Prosecutor
Shane would like to
and his mysterious first hearings or the trial of the five court. Since the Dec. 16 attack, Rajiv Mohan said that tests
tweet has drawn thou- men accused of raping and kill- New Delhi has set up five such confirmed the victim’s
welcome all new and sands of comments. ing a young student in the Indi- courts to handle sexual-assault blood matched DNA on
The actor’s account on an capital, a police official said. cases, which often get bogged the clothes of the accused.
Monday sent: “It is the Magistrate Namrita Ag- down for years. Indian courts
existing customers to truth. Yup, I’m coming.” garwal upheld the prosecu- are notorious for delays, with (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:16)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:553) Two defend-
The site IMDb says Pitt tor’s request, according to po- millions of cases pending. ants offered to become
come see him. was banned from China lice spokesman Rajan Bhagat. The trial is expected to begin informants against the
for his role in Seven Years Hundreds of journalists, law- in the coming days. Indian rape others, according to
in Tibet. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS yers and curious onlookers trials are normally closed to the reporters at the hearing.
had crowded the courtroom media. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.K. Mother who killed Indonesia. Women could
son over Qur’an lessons see an Islamic ban on
sentenced to 17 years straddling motorbikes
A British judge on Monday He said that, on the day Authorities in Indonesia’s
sentenced a woman he called he died in 2010, Yaseen had Aceh province are pressing
a “loving mother” to at least been kept home from school ahead with a proposal ban-
17 years in prison for beat- to memorize verses from the ning female passengers from
ing her son to death after he Muslim holy book, and that straddling bikes despite re-
failed to memorize passages his failure “was the trigger ported opposition from the
from the Qur’an. for the beating” that killed central government.
A jury at Cardiff Crown him. Suaidi Yahya, mayor of the
Court in Wales convicted The judge agreed with de- city of Lhokseumawe, said
33-year-old Sara Ege last fence arguments about India- a woman’s curves are more
month of murdering 7-year- born Ege’s state of mind, say- visible when straddling than An Acehnese women on a bike.
old Yaseen and burning his ing she was “a devoted and when sitting sideways. RAHMAT YAHYA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
body to destroy the evidence. loving mother” who suffered Aceh introduced a version
Judge Wyn Williams said from depression and domes- of Shariah law in 2009 after stated that women will not
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1223 101 Street SW 780.438.8888 with a stick over several Still, he said, she sub- peace deal to end a long-run- bikes and will not be allowed
months, causing internal in- jected her son to “prolonged ning separatist war there. to hold onto the driver.
juries. cruelty.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On Monday, authorities THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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metronews.ca NEWS 07
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
EPA head quit over
pipeline plan: Report
Plus
Rumour has it. Jackson Quoted
has voiced concerns
“This isn’t a little tiny
over Keystone pipeline,
pipeline. This is a
which President Obama
pipeline that cuts our
appears set to approve
more. country literally in half.”
Lisa Jackson, then head of the EPA
at a 2011 appearance at Howard University
The head of the U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency re-
signed abruptly last week, re- The ultimate decision on
portedly to protest the Obama Keystone XL’s fate rests with
administration’s apparent the State Department, since it
plans to approve TransCanada’s crosses an international border.
Keystone XL pipeline in the Jackson was appointed
coming months. soon after Obama was elected.
The American environment- Over the past four years, she’s
al movement is abuzz follow- pushed through the toughest
ing a New York Post report that new air- and water-pollution
Lisa Jackson suddenly quit her rules in more than 20 years and
post because she doesn’t want has frequently spoken out on
to be at the helm of the agency climate change.
when the White House rubber- In July 2010, as TransCanada
stamps the project. awaited a decision from the
“She was going to stay on White House on the pipeline,
until November or December,” the EPA sent a letter to the State
a source close to Jackson told Department calling its draft en-
the Post. “But this changed it. vironmental assessment of the
She will not be the EPA head project “inadequate.”
when Obama supports (Key- It chastised analysts for fail-
stone XL) getting built.” ing to address the greenhouse-
The EPA is one of several gas emissions associated with
federal agencies that’s been ad- Keystone XL, and urged the
vising the Obama administra- State Department to further
tion on the $7-billion pipeline, examine safety and spill-re-
a project that would carry mil- sponse planning, as well as
According to a New York Post report, Lisa Jackson, the former head of the lions of barrels of crude a week the impact on Canadian native
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, resigned because of the proposed from Alberta’s carbon-intensive communities.
Keystone XL pipeline. KEVIN WOLF/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Twitter
Aurora. Police testify in hearing of
Don Cherry on
suspected movie theatre gunman aid to Haiti:
‘Are we nuts?’
The families of victims of last
year’s mass shooting at a Colo- Don Cherry took to Twit-
rado theatre sat through emo- ter on Monday to air his
Plus more
tional testimony Monday from objections over the millions
police officers who tried to in aid money that Canada
save the lives of the wounded. sends to Haiti.
One sergeant recalled dur- “You know, I am one
ing the hearing for suspected of those guys, like most
gunman James Holmes that people in Canada, we like to
he did not find a pulse for the help the countries all over
youngest victim, six-year-old the world. But sometimes it
Veronica Moser-Sullivan. makes you wonder,” read a
Another said he had to stop couple of the tweets.
one man worried about his “Maybe it’s just me.
seven-year-old daughter from Family members and victims line up to get into court for a preliminary hearing But Canada gave Haiti 49.5
jumping out of the moving pa- for Aurora theatre shooting suspect James Holmes at the courthouse in million dollars last year. Are
trol car. Centennial, Colo., on Monday. ED ANDRIESK/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS we nuts?”
A bearded Holmes didn’t Cherry asked why Ot-
appear to show any emotion. school left 20 children and six fire in the theatre on July 20. tawa would send so much
The first extensive details adults dead, prosecutors are Officers found Holmes cash to Haiti when the
were emerging about the laying out their case with the standing next to his car. Of- health-care system in Can-
young man suspected of kill- nation embroiled in a debate ficer Jason Oviatt said Holmes ada is stretched to its limits.
TM ing 12 people and wounding over gun violence and mental seemed “very, very relaxed” “We’ve got a guy dying in
at least 58 in one of the worst illness. and didn’t seem to have “nor- Toronto waiting 3 hours for
mass shootings in the U.S. last Any new details to emerge mal emotional reactions” to an ambulance,” the contro-
year. The hearing will deter- this week — including Holmes’s things. “He seemed very de- versial star tweeted to his
mine whether the case will go mental state — will come amid tached,” he said. nearly 118,000 followers.
to trial. the discussion over an array of Holmes volunteered that The tweets came five
The massacre thrust the proposals, including tougher his apartment had been booby days before the third anni-
problems of gun violence and gun laws, better psychiatric trapped, officers said. versary of a massive quake
mental illness into the fore- care and the arming of teachers. Until now, many details of in Haiti that killed an esti-
front before they receded in Investigators say Holmes the case have been kept quiet mated 300,000 people and
the ensuing months. Now, just was wearing a gas mask and and many court documents left more than 1.5 million
weeks after a shooting spree body armour when he tossed have been filed under seal. homeless. THE CANADIAN PRESS
at a Connecticut elementary two gas canisters and opened THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
08 metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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M O N T O N
E X P O
C E N T R E
‘If you are planning to renovate,
don’t miss this show!’
A woman takes children to school on a four-wheel vehicle following their lunch break in Attawapiskat, Ont., in 2011.
An audit of millions of dollars in spending at the troubled reserve in northern Ontario reveals an absence of basic
accounting by the band council and ongoing indifference by government departments. ADRIAN WYLD/THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE
2013
EDMONTON Chief makes new
EXPO
CENTRE
2255 -- 2277
JJ demands after
AANNUUAARRYY
scathing report
Friday
4:00
PM Hunger strike. Audit Political ploy? must be rescinded as soon as
Saturday criticizing spending at Psaairdli ianm ae nretl eraesseu.mes,” Spence
11:00
AM Spence’s reserve sparks The Deloitte audit catalogues The new demand came as
4:00 Ottawa released a scathing
PM a bid to rescind part of more than $109 million in
audit of tens of millions of
Sunday Tories’ latest budget sypeeanrsd, imngu cohv eorf aitl mpooostr lsye ven dollars in spending on Spen-
1:00 PM documented, undocumented ce’s Attawapiskat reserve, a
or questionable. troubled community on the
shores of James Bay in north-
The battle over the plight of ern Ontario.
Canada’s First Nations escalat- return to Ottawa at the end of The audit details an ab-
Kitchen ed Monday amid accusations the month. sence of basic accounting by
of a cynical public relations Spence had previously the band council and ongoing
& Bath
ploy by the Harper govern- been seeking only a meeting indifference by federal gov-
specialist ment and new demands by a between Prime Minister Ste- ernment departments.
hunger-striking chief. phen Harper, the Governor Spence’s release called the
John Chief Theresa Spence, who General and First Nations leaked audit “no more than a
has been on a liquid diet since leaders to discuss outstanding distraction of the true issue ...
Dec. 11, said she now wants treaty matters. to discredit Chief Spence, who
Sillaots elements of the Conserva- “We are asking that the is willing to lay down her life
tives’ latest omnibus budget legislation related to (native) for a larger cause.”
bill repealed as soon as MPs lands encoded in Bill C-45 THE CANADIAN PRESS
Aboriginal protest Immigrant health care Controversial pick
Judge criticizes Benefits were on Obama nominates
police inaction chopping block, defence secretary
documents show
An Ontario judge who has Despite Republican misgiv-
issued two injunctions to ings, U.S. President Barack
end blockades of critical Newly-released documents Obama announced Monday
rail arteries is slamming show Citizenship and he will nominate former
police for not ending the Immigration staff had to GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel as
aboriginal protests, saying scramble to make the case his next defence secretary,
their inaction leads to for preserving some refugee calling him “the leader our
“dangerous waters.” health-care benefits that troops deserve.” He also
SHOW
Protesters blocked the were on the chopping block chose White House counter-
HOURS
railway Saturday afternoon last year. And they were terrorism adviser John
Friday 2 - 9pm near Kingston, Ont., affect- forced into a last-minute Brennan to lead the Central
Saturday 10am - 8pm ing freight and passenger pitch to Immigration Min- Intelligence Agency.
Sunday 10am - 5pm train service between ister Jason Kenney despite Controversy surrounds
Toronto and Montreal, and having raised concerns both choices, but the
CN Rail went to court Satur- eight months earlier that president called on the Sen-
ADMISSION Adults (18+) $12 Seniors/Youth $10 Children (12 and under) FREE day night for an injunction. the proposed policy wasn’t ate to quickly confirm both.
THE CANADIAN PRESS clear. THE CANADIAN PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
metronews.ca NEWS 09
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Cold-case suspect
arrested in Alberta
A tip helped Toronto police Investigation
make an arrest in connection
with a pair of sexual assaults
dating back two decades. Police revealed few details
The Toronto Police Service Monday about the investi-
said Monday that evidence gation, saying they couldn’t
has linked the suspect to discuss the nature of the tip
the alleged crimes that took they received.
place eight months apart,
one in 1993 and the other in (cid:580)(cid:3) Known to police. Ansari
1994. said McGuire has been
In one incident, police living outside Ontario
said a 19-year-old woman was since 2005 and is known
pulled under a parked trac- to police in several
tor-trailer, sexually assaulted jurisdictions, including
and then robbed by a man Toronto.
armed with a knife.
In the other, police said a (cid:580)(cid:3) Sketch. Police have
man climbed up to a second- Police said Steven John McGuire, 43, released a composite
storey apartment and sex- was arrested last week in Alberta in sketch of McGuire in the
ually assaulted a 46-year-old connection with two sexual assaults hope of stirring up more
woman at knifepoint before dating back 20 years. information.
stealing her purse. TPS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
The arrest came more
than a year after police of- working. remanded into custody. His
fered a $50,000 reward for He is charged with sexual next hearing is scheduled for
information that led to the assault with a weapon and Jan. 21.
identification or capture of robbery in the 1993 incident “We want the community
the suspect. and breaking and entering, to know that we don’t give
Toronto police Det. Ali sexual assault with a weapon, up on cases,” Ansari said in a
Ansari said 43-year-old Ste- robbery and threatening news conference, adding the
ven John McGuire was ar- death in the 1994 incident. victims were “relieved” to
rested last week in Fort Mc- McGuire appeared in hear of the arrest.
Murray, where he had been court on Sunday and was THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ouster trial. T.O. mayor Sudden death
portrayed by lawyer as a Lottery winner
may have been
‘plain and honest’ man
poisoned
With no signs of trauma
Rob Ford’s fate as mayor of no financial benefit from fund- and nothing to raise suspi-
Toronto rested in the hands of raising for his private football cions, the sudden death of
three judges on Monday after foundation and was upfront a Chicago man just as he
a day of largely technical argu- when he spoke during a coun- was about to collect nearly
ments for and against a court cil vote that he was only trying $425,000 in lottery win-
ruling that he should be re- to help disadvantaged youth. nings was initially ruled a
moved from office for conflict- “He was perfectly plain result of natural causes.
of-interest violations. and honest,” Lenczner told Nearly six months
The mayor’s lawyer told a jammed courtroom. “This later, authorities have a
the Divisional Court panel that is the hallmark of an honest mystery on their hands
Ford was an open and honest man.” after medical examiners,
politician ordered to forfeit his In November, Ontario Su- responding to a relative’s
job by a judge who had misin- perior Justice Charles Hack- pleas, did an expanded
terpreted the law. land ordered Ford removed as screening and determined
Ford’s opponents countered mayor for taking part in the that Urooj Khan, 46, died
that the mayor had deliber- vote on whether he should re- shortly after ingesting a
ately flouted conflict-of-interest pay $3,150 raised for the foun- lethal dose of cyanide.
rules, and the judge’s ruling dation. The ruling was put on The finding has triggered
requires deference as long as it hold pending Ford’s appeal. a homicide investigation,
was reasonable. For his part, Lenczner said the Chicago Police Depart-
In calling for Divisional the mayor could not have been ment said on Monday.
Court to overturn Ford’s ouster, expected to understand the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
lawyer Alan Lenczner said there legal intricacies at play.
never was any case against the “Mr. Ford is a high-school Death row
mayor. graduate,” the lawyer told the
Ford, Lenczner said, gained court. THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian inmate
hits roadblock
to clemency
A lawyer says Montana’s
outgoing governor will
not be granting clemency
to Canadian death-row
inmate Ronald Smith, a
convicted murderer, before
he leaves office. The Amer-
ican Civil Liberties Union
was informed by Gov. Brian
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves a courtroom on Monday during a break in Schweitzer’s office.
proceedings as he appeals an earlier decision to remove him from office. THE CANADIAN PRESS
CHRIS YOUNG/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
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