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There will be no fireworks at city
Over the past few weeks council- hall next week: the regular Tues-
lors threw a multitude of questions day council meeting has been
at HRM staff regarding the process cancelled because of a light agen-
involved in selling St. Patrick’s- da.
Alexandra school. But they got
silence in return. He said council voted to proceed
It was an issue that upset sever- with the sale on Dec. 13, so staff
al of them during Tuesday night’s couldn’t comment on it past that Richard Butts
marathon meeting. date.
“As a councillor, I find this very, “We cannot provide information for someone to lay out the steps of
very troubling,” Coun. Jennifer on an individual basis to council- how this happened over the past
Watts said during the near-seven- lors that could be seen to draw into year and how we got here,” she said
hour session. question the direction of council,” Wednesday.
That night, council voted to take he said in his statement. “We want to have factual infor-
back their earlier decision to sell “Now that we have further direc- mation on what happened and
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, shown in Edmonton last week,
the property to Jono Developments tion from council we can proceed that’s what we weren’t getting.”
will be in Halifax on Thursday morning where is he expected to
Ltd., and put the sale on hold until with fulfilling that request.” She said it may be a matter for
announce his government has finished contract talks with the
a staff report looking into the Watts said she was told staff HRM’s auditor general to look into.
Irving Shipyard in the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy.
process could be completed. couldn’t answer her questions “The auditor general should be
Story, page 3.
Richard Butts, HRM’s chief because it would look like staff was looking carefully at that report. This
administrative officer, wouldn’t interpreting council-directed poli- is something we need to pay close
JOHN ULAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Harper in Halifax today take media requests about the issue cy. attention to,” she said.
on Wednesday, but released a state- “I’m not interested in their inter-
ment. pretation of policy.… I was asking More coverage {page 2}
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
Struggle ahead for Dartmouth firm
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Missing out on a contract 12 “This not only impacts for two HRM elections. But eral manager in Scytl’s
to supply telephone and e- our bottom line, I don’t price had something to do Oakville, Ont., office said
voting to HRM is a one-two know if the company can with winning the current that’s not the case.
punch for a Dartmouth survive,” he said, adding contract: Scytl’s bid came “We look to secure ref-
company. The number of people he didn’t agree with in about $330,000 less. erences, and we’re cre-
Burnside-based Inteliv- working at Intelivote. HRM’s point system for Smith said they charged ative in doing that, but we
ote Systems Inc. lost the awarding contracts. the same amount they did will be competitive with
HRM contract by three Dean Smith said on “We know now one of four years ago, and came all the other vendors out
points to the Spanish com- Wednesday losing the con- our investors that was in under HRM’s budget. there,” she said.
pany Scytl Secure Elec- tract threatens the compa- thinking about investing He said Scytl is throw- She said Scytl’s experi-
tronic Voting. Council ny’s survival because of is not going to now be- ing in low bids to scoop up ence in the world market-
voted to award the con- the financial loss and also cause we didn’t win.” business in Canada, where place and its product
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tract to Scytl on Tuesday the hit to its reputation if Intelivote won the pre- the firm is trying to enter allow the firm to offer the
night. it doesn’t have the con- vious 42-month long con- the marketplace. service “cost-effectively.”
Intelivote president tract in its own backyard. tract, providing services Susan Crutchlow, gen- JENNIFER TAPLIN
Tide turning at city hall: Coun.
Tues. session ends with plenty RYAN TAPLIN/METRO FILE
of emotion on school sale issue
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
A dispute over buggy safety
has made scofflaws of JENNIFER
Kentucky’s Amish, and some TAPLIN
could face jail time. @METRONEWS.CA
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After five hours on a tion around council cham-
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browser to
Tuesday, an emotional and where community mem-
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loud debate broke out on bers had waited all night
going in-camera to debate to hear council discuss the Tuesday, Barkhouse said Barkhouse wouldn’t say can now get from staff the
On the web at putting off the sale of St. issue. she felt she’s been pushed specifically who she was school-sale-related an-
metronews.ca Patrick’s-Alexandra Mayor Peter Kelly into a corner so many referring to. swers that they need.
School. warned the crowd several times that she feels she “I believe the people “I feel that we literally
Councillors were told times to keep quiet, even has to push back so hard who I was directing it to shook the walls of city hall
the sale was within days of threatening once to clear “people will be going knew who I was talking (Tuesday) night,” she said.
being complete and if they the chamber. through a window.” about and we’ll leave it at “There’s no turning
put off the matter it would In an emotional out- Speaking about the that.” back now. It’s full speed
be over. There was frustra- burst to her colleagues on comment the next day, But she said councillors ahead.”
Calder loses her appeal in
Lobster-price
News in brief
Denver Nuggets activists talk
drug-smuggling case
mascot Winter storm tactics
summons some
expected to hit
Tim Tebow Nova Scotia’s highest court dence misapprehended by DRIVING. Members of a
Halifax
has dismissed an appeal the judge was not crucial to newly formed lobster
mystique for a
filed by a former Crown at- the case. fishermen’s group in
half-court shot. torney convicted of smug- The three-member panel DRIVING. It could be a southwestern Nova Scotia
Watch at gling drugs into the Central of justices also found the messy commute home for say they may tie up their
Nova Correctional Facility trial judge did not make er- motorists on Thursday. boats to get better lobster
metronews.ca/ in Burnside. rors in reaching his ver- A winter storm could prices.
video Anne Calder’s lawyer dicts, and he did not offer drop about 10 centime- Nearly 300 people who
had argued the judge who an unfit sentence. tres of snow on the Hali- packed the Grand Hotel
convicted his client misun- Anne Calder Last June, Nova Scotia fax region by later in Yarmouth on Wednes-
derstood the evidence of a Supreme Court Judge Kevin tonight, with the white day agreed not to sell
Follow us on psychiatrist who diagnosed But the Nova Scotia Coady sentenced Calder to stuff set to begin late in their lobsters for less than
Twitter Calder with a depressive Court of Appeal, in a unani- 30 months in prison on the afternoon. $5.50 a pound.
@metrohalifax disorder and a personality mous decision released on three drug charges. PHILIP CROUCHER THE CANADIAN PRESS
disorder. Wednesday, says any evi- THE CANADIAN PRESS
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
Halifax shipbuilders work on a navy ship in this file photo from October.
Prime Minister to
visit Irving Shipyard
Harper will appear at 9 a.m. Thursday for photo op,
announcement He isn’t taking questions from media
ALEX National Shipbuilding Pro- tract until after negotia-
BOUTILIER curement Strategy in Octo- tions have finished.
@METRONEWS.CA ber. Irving took the largest A spokeswoman for Pre-
of three NSPS contracts, mier Darrell Dexter said
Prime Minister Stephen winning the right to build Wednesday that the invest-
Harper will visit Halifax’s $25 billion worth of war- ment won’t likely be dis-
Irving Shipbuilding and ships, while Seaspan took closed any time soon — as
Vancouver’s Seaspan Ma- the smaller, non-combat they’ll just see the details of
rine on Thursday. vessel contract. the contract for the first
Harper is expected to an- Negotiations have been time on Thursday.
nounce the federal govern- ongoing since the contracts “It’s not going to be
ment and the two yards were awarded on Oct. 19. (Thursday), because we
have finished contract talks The provincial govern- don’t know the details of
on the single largest mili- ment has refused to dis- the agreement yet,” Jen-
tary procurement program close how much support it nifer Stewart said.
in Canadian history. intends to give Irving Ship- “I highly doubt we’re go-
Both Irving and Seaspan building in improving their ing to be doing anything
won part of the $35 billion yard for the massive con- the same day.”
POST-SECONDARY INSTITUTIONS 215KThe dollar EduNova is a
amount partnership of around 20
ACOA EduNova received institutions, including
from ACOA last year. universities, private edu-
extends cation centres, and
the Atlantic Canada private sector groups. It
EduNova Opportunities Agency, an- aims to increase the edu-
nounced the feds are ex- cational and economic
funding tending funding to benefits of bringing inter-
EduNova for a second national students to study
year. in the province.
An initiative aimed at at- “Our education sector Once they get here, in-
tracting international stu- is one we can boast ternational students pay
dents to Nova Scotian (about) throughout the over $7,000 more than
post-secondary world,” Valcourt told Canadians in tuition per
institutions received reporters. year. Valcourt said that
$185,000 from the federal “(EduNova is) on the amount is still
government on Wednes- world stage selling the ed- competitive, when
day. ucation potential of Nova compared to the United
Bernard Valcourt, the Scotia to the whole world. States and Europe.
minister responsible for I think this is great.” ALEX BOUTILIER
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Not in my backyard,
AUDITOR GENERAL’S REPORT schools, hospitals and
other buildings.
Province The labour
department’s acting
defends deputy minister told a residents say of tower
legislative committee on
fire-safety Wednesday that inspec-
tions were being done,
record but they weren’t being
recorded. A public meeting to discuss the proposed cellphone tower is
Jeff Conrad said six of
scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. at Highland Park Junior High School
The province is challeng- the 25 points in auditor
ing the auditor general’s general Jacques RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
assertion that public Lapointe’s report in May JENNIFER
safety had been compro- have been dealt with, TAPLIN
mised for years because and it will take up to two @METRONEWS.CA
fire inspections weren’t years to respond to the
being carried out at some others. THE CANADIAN PRESS Residents of north-end
Halifax are not rolling out
the welcome wagon for a
Adding seats not
proposed new neighbour:
A 30-metre-tall cellphone
an option: Dodds tower.
Bell Mobility applied to
Industry Canada to put up
a monopole structure with
An upcoming electoral- said Wednesday. “I come an equipment shelter all
boundary review in Nova back to this fundamental- enclosed by a steel-wire
Scotia must reckon with democracy side of things, fence behind the Halifax
population shifts into ur- with, you know, how Water tower at 3468 Robie
ban areas as well as com- much does my vote St., facing Prescott Street.
munities of interest, Colin count?” The area is zoned for resi-
Dodds says. Voters in Argyle, Clare, dential use, and Erin Poiri-
Dodds, who is president Richmond and Preston er’s property borders the
of Saint Mary’s University, were protected in the 1992 water tower.
served as the chair of the review, and have signifi- “The biggest thing for
last boundary-review com- cantly fewer electors than us is ... that’s community
mission in 2002, which the provincial average. green space that will no North End Coun. Jerry Blumenthal supports residents opposed to the building of a
recommended the But the terms of refer- longer be community 30-metre cellphone monopole behind the Halifax Water tower, looming behind him,
province re-examine the ence for this commission green space if there’s a 30- on Robie Street.
four “protected” Acadian require the number of metre cell tower on it with
and African Nova Scotian electors in each riding to an enclosing fence,” Poiri-
ridings in 10 years. Now, be within 25 per cent of er said. property for an outdoor to decide if the tower is tawa to make the final de-
Dodds is vice-chairman of the provincial average. The grassy space is playground,” she said. built. cision in four to five
the commission tasked That has drawn the ire of where families play Fris- There’s a meeting at the Salih said staff will take months.
with just that. Acadian groups and the bee or football on the school on Thursday night, public input and write a “I don’t like it and my
“There’s been shifts in opposition, who say the weekend, she added. and residents can talk report for the Peninsula residents don’t like it,”
the school population, variance will destroy those “And it’s right across about the project with Dali Community Council, who area Coun. Jerry Blumen-
shifts in the overall popu- cultural and linguistic mi- the street from Highland Salih, HRM planner, and a will make a recommenda- thal said. “I think there’s a
lation. There’s been a drift nority seats. Park Junior High School, representative from Bell. tion to Industry Canada. lot of radiation that’s giv-
to the urban areas,” Dodds ALEX BOUTILIER which doesn’t have a huge But it’s not up to HRM Salih said she expects Ot- en off of those towers.”
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
Gunfire incidents unrelated: Police
Armed
standoff ends
in surrender
But shootings likely not ‘random’: Spokesman RYAN TAPLIN/METRO
A police standoff with a
Halifax Regional Police say considered life-threatening. al Police spokesman Const. man barricaded in his
two shootings on Tuesday About three hours later, Brian Palmeter. “Based on home near Truro ended
night aren’t connected to police received a call of our investigation ... with peacefully on Wednesday.
one another. more gunfire in the 200 the people involved, there’s An RCMP news release
Just before 9:30 p.m., po- block of Ross Street in Clay- nothing to suggest a con- says crisis negotiators
lice were called to Churchill ton Park. nection between them.” convinced the man to sur-
Court in Dartmouth after Police say that when offi- In the first shooting, po- render to police at about
receiving reports of several cers arrived two unoccu- lice found several bullet 7:40 a.m. at the residence
shots being fired. pied vehicles at an casings in a parking lot, and in Millbrook.
About 20 minutes later, apartment complex had say the victims drove them- RCMP say shots were
police were contacted by bullet holes in them. selves to hospital as a vehi- fired outside the
hospital staff that two men “Neither incident is be- cle was found outside with A police car sits in front on an apartment building residence on Tower Road,
in their 20s showed up with lieved to be random at this smashed windows. at 196 Ross St. on Wednesday morning. but nobody was injured.
gunshot wounds that aren’t point,” said Halifax Region- PHILIP CROUCHER THE CANADIAN PRESS
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symbols of Haiti’s earth- cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 7.
quake will soon be disman-
tled as officials relocate
nearly 20,000 people from a
Monster tent camp outside the col-
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government said Wednes-
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move the residents from
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
Motorbike assassins strike
As they speed by, they attach a magnetic bomb to top Iranian nuclear scientist’s car He and his
driver are killed, a pedestrian wounded Defiant Iran warns: ‘We will continue our (nuclear) path’
FARS NEWS AGENCY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It seemed a clockwork
killing.
Motorcycle riders
flashed by and attached a
magnetic bomb onto a car
carrying a top nuclear
scientist working at Iran’s
main uranium-enrichment
facility.
By the time the blast
tore apart the silver
Peugeot, the motorcycle
was blocks away, weaving
through Tehran traffic.
Behind it, the nuclear
scientist lay dead and his
driver dying. A pedestrian
was wounded.
It was the latest strike
in what Iran calls an esca-
lating covert war — at
least the fourth targeted
hit against a member of
Iran’s nuclear brain trust Magnetic-bomb aftermath: A car is removed by mobile crane in Tehran on Wednesday
in two years. in this photo provided by Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency.
Wednesday’s blast killed Israel hints at ‘bad things’
Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan,
32, a chemistry expert and U.S. denies it “I want to categorically
a director of the Natanz deny any United States
uranium-enrichment facil- involvement in any kind of Whodunnit? Iran pointed “I don’t know who settled the score with
ity, the centrepiece of act of violence inside Iran,” the finger at Israel for the the Iranian scientist but I certainly am
Iran’s expanding program said Secretary of State bomb assassination. not shedding a tear.”
to make nuclear fuel. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Israeli officials, howev-
ISRAEL’S CHIEF MILITARY SPOKESPERSON BRIG. GEN. YOAV MORDECHAI
“A heinous act,” said left. er, hinted at covert cam-
Iran’s Atomic Energy “We believe there has to paigns without directly
Organization. be an understanding admitting involvement. department. “Iran is in a quoted as telling a parlia-
But it warned defiantly: between Iran, its “Many bad things have situation where pressure mentary panel that 2012
“We will continue our (nu- neighbours and the inter- been happening to Iran in on it is mounting, and the would be a “critical year”
clear) path without any national community that the recent period,” said latest assassination joins for Iran — in part because
doubt … Our path is irre- The United States insisted finds a way forward for it Mickey Segal, a former di- the pressure.” of “things that happen to
versible.” it had nothing to do with to end its provocative be- rector of the Israeli mili- Israeli military chief Lt. it unnaturally.”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday’s killing. haviour.” tary’s Iranian intelligence Gen. Benny Gantz was THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s a jungle The cosmos are a crowded “We’re awash in planets, where 17 years
and crazy place as three ago we weren’t even sure there were
new studies demonstrate a
planets.”
solar real estate boom
up there … The more astronomers HARVARD UNIVERSITY ASTRONOMER LISA KALTENEGGER
look for other worlds, the
more they find. Way, most stars have plan- ist,” said Lisa Kaltenegger,
They think planets easi- ets. And since there are a a Harvard University as-
ly outnumber stars in our lot of stars in our galaxy — tronomer. Those things in-
Astronomers discover solar galaxy and they are find- about 100 billion — that clude planets that mirror
ing them in the strangest means a lot of planets. Star Wars’ Luke Skywalk-
real estate boom New planets of places. “We’re finding an excit- er’s home planet, which Kepler 35, a newly
discovered planet, circles
One of those studies ing potpourri of things we orbits twin suns, she said.
and new stars in strangest of places not one but two stars.
shows that in our Milky didn’t even think could ex- THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Incoming!
Canada, Scandinavia and
most of Russia’s ground
Space probe
territory appear to be
spared.
is falling,
Phobos-Ground had
been carrying 12 tons of
but where?
highly toxic fuel.
Experts have warned
that if the fuel has frozen,
A falling space probe is it could survive re-entry
keeping Russia — and the through the atmosphere
world — guessing. and pose a serious threat if
Russian space officials it falls over populated ar-
hope the Phobos-Ground eas.
probe will fall into the But space officials insist
Indian Ocean between all the fuel will burn on
Saturday and Monday. re-entry some 100 kilome-
But they have no guar- tres above ground and
antee of the crash site — pose no danger.
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
Skyscrapers Iberia Prairies lead
tallest buildings and im- The company said it has
portend pending financial crises. cancels rescheduled flights for
The Great Depression hit as most of the estimated
recession? record-breaking 40 Wall more flights 10,000 passengers on long- economic
Street, the Chrysler Build- haul, medium-haul and do-
ing and the Empire State due to strike mestic flights affected by
A skyscraperbuilding boom Building were finished in Wednesday’s strike.
in China and India may be a New York. China is home to The stoppage is the
pack: Report
sign of an impending eco- half of the world’s skyscrap- Spanish airline Iberia says fourth one-day strike by pi-
nomic correction, accord- ers currently under con- it has cancelled 104 flights lots union SEPLA, which
ing to Barclays Capital. struction. India is seeing its during a one-day strike by claims the creation of the
Barclays has mapped an first skyscraper building pilots protesting the com- Iberia Express budget air-
“unhealthy correlation” be- boom, with 14 under con- pany’s planned new budg- line will lead to job losses.
tween construction of the struction. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS et carrier. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Saskatoon, Calgary, Edmonton
top economic forecast for 2012
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