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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
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Military has a lot
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New figures show Canadian Forces are getting fatter, being less physically active and becoming heavier
drinkers Survey found almost half were overweight, and nearly one-quarter were obese
Canadian Forces personnel are getting fat- Survey polled about 3,700 full-time Forces fitness promotion. fence staff, launched a fitness and healthy
ter, more sedentary in their work, less members for the 2008-09 period and found The figures come years after the military eating campaign in December 2005.
physically active and becoming heavier there was a three per cent increase in the redoubled efforts to improve the physical Still, in 2007 more than 1,000 military
drinkers, according to a new military study. number of obese people since the last sur- fitness of its members. members flunked the first national physi-
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Oscars: Politics
Stelmach
Who’s in,
who’s out to hang
up his hat
The 83rd annual
Academy Awards will
take place Feb. 27 at
the Kodak Theatre in Alberta’s embattled premier
Los Angeles. The won’t seek re-election {page 5}
British monarchy
saga The King’s
Speech reigns with 12
nominations, includ- Crouching dad,
ing acting honours
for Colin Firth, Helena amazing kids
Bonham Carter and
Geoffrey Rush, posi-
tioning itself to chal-
Paul Sullivan pretends to be a
lenge The Social Actress Mo’Nique and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Tom Sherak announce
Network for best pic- the best picture nominations for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards yesterday in Beverly Hills, Calif. tiger mom, for five minutes
ture. Story, page 12. {page 11}
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
Premier bows out
REMEMBRANCE DAY CRIME Many veterans from
Woodstock’s Royal Cana-
Veterans
dian Legion are attending
the court proceedings.
flood court Saggau also faces of Alberta race
charges of uttering
for trial threats, defamatory libel,
misuse of a computer
service and at least 25
A trial started yesterday counts of mischief to var-
for a man accused of des- ious properties through- JOHN ULAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
ecrating the cenotaph in out Woodstock from Stelmach warns politics turning
Woodstock, Ont., in the February to November
negative Wildrose foe befuddled
early hours of Remem- 2009. Saggau has pleaded
brance Day 2009. not guilty to 27 charges.
Christopher Saggau, His lawyer, Jeanine Alberta Premier Ed Stel-
32, is accused of spray- LeRoy, argues a search mach has decided that 25
painting the cenotaph warrant was not years in public office is
with swastikas and hate justified. enough and he doesn’t
symbols. THE CANADIAN PRESS want to face an election
based on personality rather
than politics. “As a party, we
Province mum on His announcement yes- have stayed
terday that he will step completely focused
down before the next
merger job losses provincial vote came with on the issues.”
some strong words for a DANIELLE SMITH, WILDROSE
surging rival set to square
off with his Progressive “(Albertans) don’t want
$18B
There will “absolutely” be The realty Conservatives. to see a province that’s go-
savings for taxpayers as corporation “I say to you this as di- ing to get pulled into the
the Ontario government is the first agency to rectly as I can — there is a politics of personal destruc-
merges two Crown corpo- get the axe as the Lib- profound danger that the tion. That’s what we’ve
rations responsible for real erals try to trim their next election campaign will seen on the PC side.”
estate and infrastructure, $18.7-billion deficit focus on personality and The premier said he was
Premier Dalton McGuinty amid a looming fall U.S.-style, negative-attack approaching his cabinet
said yesterday. election. politics that (would be) di- ministers asking them to
However, neither rected at me personally,” commit to five more years
McGuinty nor senior cabi- provincial agencies. Stelmach said. “The danger in public life when he real-
net ministers would say Legislation will be intro- is that it could allow for an ized he didn’t want to do
how many people will lose duced to merge the ORC, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach leaves the province’s extreme-right party to dis- that himself. “I have deter-
their jobs or how much which manages the legislature yesterday. guise itself as a moderate mined that after 25 years of
the government will have province’s extensive real party by focusing on per- public service, I am not pre-
to dole out in severance to estate holdings, and Infra- sonality — on me. This type pared to serve another full
fold the Ontario Realty structure Ontario, which Politician, of U.S., wedge-style politics term as premier,” Stelmach
Corp. into Infrastructure oversees the renewal of Family: is coming into Canada and said at Alberta’s legislature.
Ontario. “There are always the province’s hospitals, dog-walker Wife Marie it comes at our peril.” He said he will officially
upfront costs, but over the courthouses, water sys- and four Stelmach has been un- submit his resignation to
long term you end up sav- tems, roads, bridges and and farmer grown chil- der increasing pressure as the party at a later date.
ing money,” McGuinty said other public assets. The dren. the Wildrose Alliance, led That will trigger a race for
after a Peterborough Cham- ORC employs about 350 by Danielle Smith, has his successor. Stelmach be-
ber of Commerce speech. people while Infrastruc- A sketch of Ed Stelmach Hobbies:Walking his surged in public opinion came premier in December
Finance Minister Dwight ture Ontario has about 200 reveals more than dogs, golf, socializing. polls. Wildrose Alliance 2006 when Ralph Klein
Duncan promised Monday workers, but Duncan re- politics in his life: leader Danielle Smith said stepped down.
there would be more an- mained tightlipped on Before politics:Left uni- she was befuddled by Stel- NDP Leader Brian Mason
nouncements to come as he how many jobs will be lost Born:May 11, 1951, in La- versity after death of his mach’s prediction. “I’m not suggested Stelmach was
works to eliminate about in the shuffle. mont, Alta., the youngest brother. Took over family sure exactly what he’s refer- caught between different
five per cent of the 259 THE CANADIAN PRESS of five kids. farm. THE CANADIAN PRESS ring to,” she said. ideologies. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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President makes direct appeal for bipartisan
lawmaking in his State of the Union address
Day Speech highlighted civility, debt reduction, economy
J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. President Barack Oba- narrowed the Democratic
ma called for unity with advantage in the Senate as
newly empowered Republi- well as taking control of the
cans in a State of the Union House of Representatives.
policy speech that laid the Obama, who has re-
foundation for the second bounded in opinion polls in
half of his presidential term recent weeks, was looking
and next year’s fight for re- to position himself above
election. politics, even as both par-
Obama staked out terri- ties manoeuvre for advan-
tory in America’s political tage ahead of the 2012
centre. He defended pro- Barack Obama presidential vote.
grams dear to his Demo- The speech comes
cratic base, including the weeks after Democratic
federal Social Security pen- eral spending, shaking up Congresswoman Gabrielle
sion program and his the federal bureaucracy and Giffords was seriously
health care overhaul. eliminating lawmakers’ pet wounded in a shooting
But he also backed some projects. For the first time rampage in Arizona, that
top priorities of Republi- in his two-year presidency, killed six people. In an at-
cans, who took control of Obama was appearing be- tempt at unity, many Dem-
the House of Representa- fore a divided Congress. Af- ocratic and Republican
tives this month. He called ter November elections that lawmakers decided to
for cutting the corporate Obama has described as a break with tradition and sit
tax rate, freezing some fed- “shellacking,” Republicans together. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
Harper probes
maternal aid
corruption
Audit reveals $34 million in Global Fund losses in
some African nations UN aims to track $40 billion
Evidence of corruption in a studied only a handful of
Canadian wallet
billion-dollar aid program grants under the 10-year-
linked to a new maternal old program and turned
and child health initiative Prime Minister Stephen up $34 million in losses in
illustrates the need for Harper is on the front some African nations.
clear accountability rules, lines to look into the aid, The revelations prompt-
the Canadian government much of which comes ed Sweden to freeze its
said on the eve of a sum- from Canada. contributions to the Gene-
mit in Geneva. va-based Global Fund, and
Prime Minister Stephen Canadians contributed the fund itself is withhold-
Harper arrived in Switzer- $540 million to the Global ing more than $22 million
land late yesterday in ad- Fund last year — lifting in grants to Mali — one of
vance of a one-day Canada’s total support to Canada’s preferred aid re-
meeting to “kickstart” a $1.5 billion since the fund cipients.
United Nations commis- was created in 2001. Forty-five per cent of
sion that will set the tem- Canadian taxpayers each country’s contribu-
plate for tracking $40 pledged $1.1 billion in tion to the Global Fund is
billion in maternal health new funds to the maternal counted as spending to-
spending. health initiative last June ward the new maternal
Harper was named co- at the G8 summit. health initiative, so the
chair of the committee, The prime minister’s two programs are inter-
along with the president of officials say $270 million twined.
Tanzania, last month. has already been commit- The $40 billion was
Their work, which is to ted to such projects as dis- committed to maternal
culminate in May with an tribution of vitamin and and child health through
accountability framework, mineral supplements and the Canadian-led G8
has been cast into sharp vaccines. Muskoka initiative of last
relief by internal investiga- summer and the UN’s mil-
tions of another public- Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis lennium development goal
private, UN-linked pro- and Malaria. summit of September.
gram, the Global Fund to A special audit unit THE CANADIAN PRESS
Oldest Invest. Military
Canadian
helped all
Elizabeth Buhler lived to
see three centuries.
She endured crushing
poverty in the former Russ-
ian empire, struggled
through the Great Depres-
sion and experienced the
heartbreak of losing one of
her seven children at birth.
Through it all, Canada’s
oldest person kept a posi-
tive attitude based on her
religious faith and a deep
desire to help those
around her. Her daughter
says she maintained that
attitude until she died
Sunday in a nursing home
in Winkler, Man. Buhler
was born Feb. 8, 1899, in a
region of Russia that is
now part of Ukraine.
THE CANADIAN PRESS
KEN GIGLIOTTI/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Peter MacKay announces $80 million in contracts.
JOHN WOODS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Propelling forward
National Defence Minister Peter MacKay
announced Air Force investments at 17 Wing in
Winnipeg yesterday. Projects include modernized
Elizabeth Buhler radar systems, and new aircraft cargo loaders.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2011
Putin vows revenge
Profit. Crop circle
on Moscow terrorists
Finger pointed at lax airport security Detached head of alleged suicide
bomber to undergo DNA testing to confirm identity of man in his 30s
Prime Minister Vladimir 180 people, with President RAMIL GALIYEV/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS camera, showed a burst of Nearby villagers profit from the hoopla
Putin vowed revenge yes- Dmitry Medvedev criticiz- flames and passengers over a crop circle in Indonesia.
terday for the suicide ing police and managers at falling and fleeing as smoke
bombing that killed 35 peo- the airport, the largest of filled the hall. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Don’t ask for money back
ple at a Moscow airport — a three that serve the capital. No one has claimed re-
familiar tough-on- NTV television showed a sponsibility for the attack,
terrorism stance that has photograph of what it said but suspicion has fallen on
underpinned his power but was the detached head of Islamist separatists from Enterprising vendors yesterday sell a picture of the
also led to a rising number the suspected bomber. In- Russian Prime Minister Chechnya or elsewhere in 70-metre-wide crop circle that appeared over the
of deadly attacks in Russia. vestigators have said DNA Vladimir Putin the restive Caucasus region. weekend in a nearby rice field in Sleman,
Lax security also was testing will be necessary be- Putin was stern in Cabi- Indonesia. Thousands of curious onlookers are
blamed for Monday’s explo- fore the man, who appears net, vowing that “this flocking to central Indonesia to look at the facture,
sion in the international ar- to be in his 30s, can be iden- the blast itself, broadcast on crime will be solved and re- which looks like an intricately designed flower, fol-
rivals area of Domodedovo tified. state television and said to venge is inevitable.” lowing rumours it was formed by a UFO. Some
Airport that also injured A two-second video of be from a closed-circuit TV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS villagers are charging admission for a closer look.
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Corporate tax
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damaging to economy Consumption taxes least damaging
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and more jobs for Canada, the University of Calgary,
but it will take the better said that taking the corpo-
part of a decade for all the rate rate to 15 per cent will Tax expert Jack Mintz
benefits to kick in, says a re- result in a $30.6-billion ad- recommended that gov-
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The paper, from econo- tal stock and generate next phase of tax reform
mist Jack Mintz, commends 100,000 jobs. by eliminating preferen-
Ottawa for sticking to its However, they conceded tial treatment of some
guns in bringing down the it will take at least seven sectors, particularly
corporate tax rate from 16.5 years for the full benefits to manufacturing and
to 15 per cent next year. kick in. forestry.
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