Metro Toronto - January 29, 2013

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TTC by the
kilometre?
Funding options. Potential sources of cash on the record that the re-
gion has to come up with
New report suggests
new money to pay for tran-
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raise billions required (cid:238)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:3) spokesman Andy Manahan.
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for transit expansion (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3) taxes, traditionally “politic-
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Should you pay more to (cid:631)(cid:627)(cid:627)(cid:575)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:251)(cid:254)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:296)(cid:553) herself as fiscally respon-
ride transit depending on sible, he said.
how far you’re travelling? (cid:580)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:39)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:296)(cid:3) “There’s a lot of political
Should you pay less if you (cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:305)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3) capital at stake here,” said
ride outside the rush hour? (cid:238)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:317)(cid:561)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3) Manahan. “If fiscal respon-
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tions is “yes,” says an aca- (cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:575)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3) can’t afford to pay for (tran-
demic report being released (cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:316)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3) sit expansion) and we’re
Tuesday by the Residential (cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:314)(cid:317)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:220)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3) going to have to move to
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ance of Ontario (RCCAO). (cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:274)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:575)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:550)(cid:3) system, that’s the nexus. I
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pay more to expand service (cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:317)(cid:575)(cid:273)(cid:209)(cid:266)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:553)(cid:3) at.”
is an idea that has received The report suggests that
scant attention in recent (cid:580)(cid:3)(cid:3)(cid:95)(cid:229)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:316)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3) flat-fare transit encourages
discussions of how Toronto (cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:251)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3) urban sprawl by allowing
will raise $40 billion to ex- (cid:302)(cid:209)(cid:316)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3) commuters to live farther
pand public transportation. (cid:273)(cid:255)(cid:316)(cid:553) from their jobs without pay-
But the new report says ing more to commute.
it’s one of several options “Flat fares also discour-
premier-designate Kathleen age people from using tran-
Wynne should consider in on gridlock over the next 25 sit for short trips,” it says.
concert with other road years, and residents should But it goes onto recom-
user fees. expect to pay since govern- mend that transit fares only
Metrolinx says the re- ments don’t have the money be restructured in conjunc-
gion needs to find at least for those investments. tion with other road pricing RAPTORS CAN’T
$40 billion to save itself A former transportation measures, such as highway
from economically choking minister, Wynne is already tolling. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
KEEP PACE
Canadians on Hadfield blasts Sometimes it
ground in Mali off on Twitter pays to pedal
Special forces are there Canuck astronaut’s tweets One company is offering
to protect personnel, not from space have earned incentives to employees The Toronto Raptors’ Jose Calderon tries to keep up with speedy high-scoring pivot Stephen Curry of the Golden
engage in combat: Feds him thousands of followers who bike to meetings State Warriors during a game at the ACC Monday night. The Raptors went down to the Warriors by a score of 114-102.
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metronews.ca NEWS 03
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
‘Billions of dollars’
Transit. Strollers are Markham. City set for
Warmer future
welcome on TTC: Poll arena showdown
for TO will strain
infrastructure,
The TTC doesn’t need to One in four people (28 per Markham councillors expect a
says report change its baby-friendly ap- cent) would, however, limit boisterous overflow crowd at
proach to transit, according the number of strollers on TTC its civic centre Tuesday night in
to a poll that shows a majority vehicles during some hours, a showdown over whether the
of Torontonians welcome bug- according to the survey of city should provide taxpayer
gies on the bus. 1,099 households. Only five money for a proposed $325-mil-
Most people surveyed don’t per cent of respondents said lion, NHL-size arena. A rendering of the proposed arena.
even believe their numbers strollers should be banned “It will probably be a no- BBB ARCHITECTS HANDOUT N
need restricting during the from the bus or charged an holds-barred meeting,” said
rush hour, or that stroller extra fare. veteran councillor Jim Jones, building near Highway 407 and
pushers should pay more to The group most likely to who has led opposition to the Kennedy Road will precede a
ride. believe there should be some idea of public financial aid crucial council vote on a mo-
About six in 10 (57 per cent) buggy restrictions? Seniors. for more than a year. “People tion to rescind the project’s “fi-
Gardiner Expressway respondents to a Friday poll by Forty-six per cent of those over should come out because it will nancial framework.” It features E
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Forum Research indicated they 65 said there should be limits be educational ... maybe con- a cost-sharing formula between
are against any restrictions or on strollers in some hours. frontational.” The debate over taxpayers and a private de-
Toronto must overhaul fees for strollers on the TTC. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE the 20,000-seat multi-purpose veloper. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
its aging infrastructure
to adapt to dramatic new Teary Bailao announces W
climate-change projections
— a process that could cost
billions — say some council-
lors and environmentalists.
But as the chair of the
parks and environment DUI guilty plea to media
committee remains skep-
tical of the new projec- S
tions, some are doubtful
the changes will be made
anytime soon.
A study commissioned City hall. ‘It’s about my Quoted
by the city and set to be
conscience,’ councillor
discussed Tuesday by the “It doesn’t really matter.
parks committee predicts says 3 months after
It was one too many.
temperatures about 4.4 de-
grees warmer and a marked declaring she’d fi ght And at the point — I
increase in extreme storms charges don’t want to say, here,
by 2040.
as well, or three or four
“If people are concerned
about a crumbling Gardin- Alone, this time, and crying, or fi ve, and everybody
er, this study makes it look Coun. Ana Bailao held another thinks that three or four
like a teeny, tiny pothole,” city hall news conference on
— it was one too many.”
said Franz Hartmann of Monday — this time to an-
the Toronto Environmental nounce she had pleaded guilty Coun. Ana Bailao
Alliance. The study, called to the drunk-driving charge
Toronto’s Future Weather she said she would fight. guilty on Monday to the charge
and Climate Driver Study, “I made a bad decision,” of exceeding the legal limit. A
reveals that Toronto’s cli- Bailao said. “I take responsibil- second charge, of impaired
mate 30 years in the future ity for it.” driving, was dropped. She said
will be marked by fewer Bailao acknowledged that she has been prohibited from
but more intense storms, her blood-alcohol level was driving for one year and that
less snow in the winter and 0.13 grams of alcohol per she will pay a $1,000 fine.
increased heat and humid- 100 millilitres of blood, more Bailao, a first-term council-
ity in the summer. than 60 per cent above the lor who represents Ward 18 in
Coun. Gord Perks, a legal limit of 0.08. She also ac- Davenport, is a Liberal swing
member of the committee, knowledged that she had been voter whose support is court-
said the study means the drinking at the Thompson ed assiduously by both Mayor
city has “billions of dollars Hotel before her arrest with a Rob Ford and the left-leaning
of work to do” — including lobbyist representing a casino opposition. To the dismay of
expanding the capacity of company, among other cor- the advocacy group MADD
sewers and re-engineering porate interests. Canada, supportive council-
green spaces to accommo- “I can guarantee you that lors of all stripes attended her
date temporary ponds of no discussions about any of post-arrest news conference in
rainwater. those files happened at that October, which was co-ordinat-
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE location,” Bailao said. ed by Ford’s communications Coun. Ana Bailao called a press conference at city hall on Monday to face
Bailao said she pleaded staff. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE media about a DUI conviction. RENE JOHNSTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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04 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Cycle in the city: Bosses
House arrests 55 Division
Crown to appeal ‘Wanted
peddle incentives to staff
police drug-squad Wednesday’ nets
sentences perfect arrest rate
The Crown has notified
former Toronto drug-squad
officers convicted of perjury Green begetting green. drives, the client gets charged
and attempting to obstruct 50 cents per kilometre, plus $25
At least one company
justice in the city’s land- for parking. “If someone takes
mark corruption trial that it pays employees double their bike, we’re paying them
is appealing their sentences mileage if they cycle $1 a kilometre and that ends up
of 45 days house arrest. being cheaper,” he said.
All five defendants filed But it’s not just about the
notices appealing their con- bottom line, says Povoledo.
victions. They were found You could call it biking for “We wanted to integrate the
guilty of attempting to ob- Mark Johnston was nabbed due bucks. Increasingly, Toronto- concept of giving back to our
struct justice for conducting to Wanted Wednesday. HANDOUT nians want to incorporate cyc- culture and the way we work
a warrantless search of a ling into their work lives — and on a daily basis,” he said.
heroin dealer’s apartment It’s the list no one wants to some companies are now pay- It’s the kind of idea Povoledo
in 1998 and then covering it be on. ing people to do just that. and Schwartz say is becoming
up. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Toronto Police’s 55 Div- At Bursting Silver, a grow- increasingly mainstream.
ision had a perfect success ing technology company with Top Drawer Creative found-
Fla. double homicide rate for its new initiative consultants in several Canadian er Howard Chang is a pioneer
“Wanted Wednesday” this cities, employees who bike to when it comes to bike-friendly
month after three accused meetings get paid double the employers. In 2003 the ad
No signs of
people profiled in January mileage they would recoup if agency began a bike-to-work
trauma: Reports were arrested. they drove a car — $1 per kilo- program offering an honorari-
“We realized we’ve got metre rather than 50 cents. um of $2 a day for employees
There were no signs of a whole bunch of ... people It’s a new policy that came who cycled to the agency’s old
trauma on the bodies of who are wanted,” said Con- out of a conversation between location. To make the idea more
a popular Toronto couple st. Rob McDonald, a social- Edmonton-based founder Al Po- attractive, Top Drawer installed
who were slain this month media officer at 55 Division. voledo and principal consultant showers, locker rooms and in-
in their Miami-area winter “We thought, well how can James Schwartz, who regularly door bike parking. Chang even
home, according to a we start addressing these in rides his bike to visit clients in made a deal with a supplier so
Florida TV station. WSVN a more proactive way?” Toronto. employees could buy wheels at
reported Monday that there What was born was Povoledo says the policy wholesale prices. The company
weren’t visible signs of vio- the weekly digest sent as a underscores the company’s so- has since moved and upped the
lence on the bodies of David press release and over social cial conscience. But it works for honorarium to $5 a day.
Pichosky and Rochelle Wise media profiling people with everyone. “Our agency’s very focused
when they were discovered outstanding warrants for It helps keep staff healthy on social responsibility,” he
in their condo on Jan.10. their arrest. and active, and “I actually think said. “I just want to make sure Al Povoledo, founder of Bursting Silver, decided with his small Edmonton-
TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE it saves money for customers,” we walk our talk, that we’re au- based company to double the 50-cent-per-km mileage allowance if an
said Povoledo. If a consultant thentic. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE employee bikes to a meeting or site. JASON FRANSON/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Sands chain makes its casino pitch for downtown
A Las Vegas Sands casino-resort dustry contacts say a shortage
The pitch
on Front Street West would put of major facilities is holding us
Toronto “back on the map,” as a back.
“Toronto is very viable today — the question is,
convention city and inject some “What we put in downtown
more “fun” into downtown, how viable will it be without being competitive in Toronto is more people, more
says the company’s president. this (convention) market in the future?” visitors, more conventions,
Michael Leven, the latest in more leisure and more fun —
a parade of casino executives to Michael Leven, president Sands chain the casino is a part, but it’s not
come courting, gave more than the only part,” Leven told the
100 business people a low-key ing Corp. is preparing a tender to 2,000 rooms, entertainment Economic Club of Canada gath-
pitch Monday based on Sands’ process for one new GTA casino venues and eateries would all ering.
expertise in the “convention and says it won’t force it on an help triple the size of the Metro David Whitaker, president
and tourism delivery business.” unwilling community. Toronto Convention Centre. and chief executive of Tourism
Only downtown — not Ex- Casinos usually take up five “I can remember when To- Toronto, said in an interview
hibition Place, the Port Lands or per cent of the space in a Sands ronto was one of the top des- that Toronto is ranked 29th in
another GTA location — would integrated resort, Leven said, tinations for conventions and North America by size of prime
Michael Leven, president of Las Vegas Sands Corp. casino, speaks to the work for Sands, he said. adding that convention and meetings,” the former hotel exhibit space.
Economic Club of Canada on Monday. DAVID RIDER/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE Ontario Lottery and Gam- meeting space, a hotel with up executive said, noting his in- TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
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06 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Opposition parties make
Transformer blast
Workers
evacuated after
explosion
their demands on Wynne
Office workers were
evacuated and were
loaded onto shelter buses
after an underground
transformer exploded at
Not much of a Liberals, who are already 95 St. Clair Ave. W. late
under fire for the spending Monday morning.
response. The
scandal at Ontario’s Ornge Toronto Fire was at
incoming premier had air-ambulance service, a the scene and traffic was
little to say about NDP $12-billion deficit and a blocked on St. Clair be-
labour battle with teach- tween Yonge Street and
and PC’s comments ers that cost many students Avenue Road following
their extracurricular activ- the emergency reports.
ities. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
Progressive Conservative
Ontario’s premier-to-be has Leader Tim Hudak said he Public works
yet to be sworn in, but newly wants Wynne to cut govern-
minted Liberal leader Kath- ment spending immediately 29 Hamilton city
leen Wynne is already facing to reduce the deficit.
demands from opposition He said he’s willing to workers fired
party leaders as she embarks work with Wynne, yet his
on her quest to keep the party has already launched Hamilton city officials say
minority government alive. attack ads calling Wynne 29 public-works employees
NDP Leader Andrea Hor- “another Liberal Ontario have been fired for issues
wath said Monday she wants can’t afford.” including neglect of duties,
a public inquiry into the Wynne had little to say time theft and breach of
politically motivated cancel- about the demands from trust.
lation of two gas plants that the opposition party lead- The city says another
cost taxpayers at least $230 ers Monday, after emerging two employees have been
million. from an hour-long meeting suspended for 30 days with-
Incoming premier Kathleen Wynne says goodbye to her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty, following a meeting in the The move would likely be with McGuinty in his office. out pay. THE CANADIAN PRESS
premier’s office on Monday. TARA WALTON/TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE disastrous for the governing THE CANADIAN PRESS
RIM reinvents its operating system
Smartphones using the new Berry World multimedia shows will be available the Video downloads
BlackBerry 10 operating storefront. day after broadcast.
system will have access to “Music and video con- The announcements
music, videos and TV shows tent is an integral part of come ahead of RIM’s Wed- (cid:580)(cid:3)(cid:3)BlackBerry 10 users in
from major studios, labels a rich mobile experience,” nesday launch of its much- Canada will have access
and broadcast networks, said chief marketing officer awaited new operating to video downloads
Research In Motion an- Frank Boulben in a press system and two new smart- from studios such
nounced Monday. release. “People want easy phones that will run on it. as 20th Century Fox,
The Waterloo, Ont.-based and convenient access to The launch is largely Paramount Pictures and
smartphone maker said it their favourite music, mov- seen as a make-or-break STUDIOCANAL, along
has struck deals with doz- ies and TV shows where moment for RIM, which has with broadcasters
ens of companies, from in- they are.” been steadily losing market including ABC Studios
dustry giants to independ- Most videos will be up share to rivals in the fierce- and Warner Bros.
ent labels, to provide their to buy or rent the same day ly competitive smartphone An integral part of the new Blackberry 10 will be music and video content,
content in its new Black- they’re released on DVD. TV industry. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE RIM says. DAVID FRIEND/THE CANADIAN PRESS
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08 NEWS metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Soldier ‘really excited’ to get new arms
Brendan Marrocco. Brendan Marrocco had the the wars.
operation on Dec. 18 at Johns Quote “He was the first quad am-
First soldier to survive
Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, putee to survive” from the wars
“We’re easily looking at
losing all limbs in Iraq his father said Monday. The in Iraq and Afghanistan, and
war gets double-arm 26-year-old Marrocco was in- a couple years.” there have been four others
jured by a roadside bomb in since then, said Brendan Mar-
transplant in Baltimore 2009. Datr .J oWh.nP.s A Hnodprkeiwns L, esea,i dp lita swtiocu slud rbgee ryye achrsi ef rocco’s father, Alex Marrocco.
He also received bone mar- until the full extent of recovery is known. “He was really excited to get
row from the same dead donor new arms.”
who supplied his new arms. The Marroccos want to
The first soldier to survive after That novel approach is aimed The military is sponsoring thank the donor’s family for
losing all four limbs in the Iraq at helping his body accept the operations like these to help “making a selfless decision,” In this July 4, 2012, photo, Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco, left, Marine Cpl. Todd
war has received a double-arm new limbs with minimal medi- wounded troops. About 300 the father said. Love, centre, and Marine Cpl. Juan Dominguez, pose for a picture at the 9-11
transplant. cation to prevent rejection. have lost arms or hands in THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Memorial in New York. SETH WENIG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Possible change Politics
U.S. Boy Scouts Obama ask police
considering chiefs to help pass
retreat from gun legislation
no-gays policy
President Barack Obama
The Boy Scouts of America on Monday asked police
may soon give sponsors of officials from the three
When you’ve troops the authority to de- communities hardest hit
cide whether to accept gays by mass shootings last
as scouts and leaders — a year for help in getting
fi nally got the time – potentially dramatic retreat Congress to pass tough
from an exclusionary na- new gun legislation.
tionwide policy that has pro- At a White House meeting,
voked relentless protests. Obama said that no group
have the money too.
Under the change now is more important in the
being discussed, the dif- gun debate and he said
ferent religious and civic he recognizes the issue
groups that sponsor Scout “elicits a lot of passion
units would be able to de- all across the country.”
cide to either maintain an But Obama also said he
$264,146* exclusion of gays or open believes Congress will
in 25 years up their membership. respond to appeals from
2038 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS police. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Media baron. Murdoch
$169,764* apologizes for ‘offensive’
2033 in 20 years
cartoon of Netanyahu
Media baron Rupert Murdoch theless, we owe (a) major
2028 $103,273* has apologized for a Sunday apology for (the) grotesque,
Times cartoon depicting Israeli offensive cartoon,” Murdoch
in 15 years
leader Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted.
building a wall using blood- Jewish community leaders
red mortar, an image Jewish were particularly disturbed by
leaders said was reminiscent parallels they saw between the
of anti-Semitic propaganda. red-tinged drawing and histor-
2023 $56,375* The political cartoon, ical anti-Semitic propaganda
in 10 years which was published on Holo- — in particular the theme of
caust Memorial Day, shows “blood libel,” the twisted but
Netanyahu wielding a long, persistent myth that Jews se-
sharp trowel and depicts ag- cretly use human blood in
onized Palestinians bricked their religious rituals.
into the wall’s structure. It Their anger was height-
Regularly investing $75 a week was meant as a comment on ened by the fact that the car-
recent elections in which Net- toon was published on a day
opens up extraordinary possibilities. anyahu’s ticket narrowly won meant to commemorate the
the most seats in the Israeli communities destroyed by the
parliament. Nazis and their allies in the
“Will cementing the peace mid-20th century.
continue?” the caption read, The Board of Deputies of
a reference both to the stalled British Jews, which repre-
peace process and Israel’s sents the country’s roughly
separation barrier, a complex 265,000-strong Jewish com-
of fences and concrete walls munity, said it had lodged a
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security. Jewish leader using blood for
TM Murdoch wrote on Twit- mortar “is shockingly reminis-
ter that the cartoonist, Gerald cent of the blood libel imagery
Scarfe — a veteran artist who more usually found in parts
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metronews.ca NEWS 09
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Egypt unrest Plane crash Beloved matriarch
South Pole Station.
Memorial service The agency says the dead Queen of the
men made the ultimate sac-
continues in held in Antarctica rifice while supporting sci- Netherlands to
entific research in a remote abdicate throne
A memorial service has and hostile environment.
been held in Antarctica to American and New Zea-
defiance of honour three Canadians land searchers were able to Dutch Queen Beatrix, 74,
who died in a plane crash recover the voice recorder announced Monday that
there last week. from the plane’s tail, and it she will abdicate on April
The three employees of is being sent to Ottawa to 30 after 33 years as the
Calgary-based Kenn Borek be examined. head of state, clearing the
Morsi curfew Air were killed when their But searchers have way for her eldest son,
Twin Otter slammed into a decided they cannot safely Crown Prince Willem-
mountain on Wednesday. recover the bodies of the Alexander, to become the
The U.S. National Science men until possibly October, nation’s first king in more Queen Beatrix, Prince Claus and a
Foundation held the cere- when winter in Antarctica than a century. baby Willem-Alexander in 1968.
Five days of violence. Tahrir Square, protesters set mony at its Amundsen-Scott is over. THE CANADIAN PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARIO TORRISI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
fire to an armoured personnel
State of emergency
carrier.
and army presence “I will be coming back here
don’t prevent protests every day until the blood of
our martyrs is avenged,” said
19-year-old carpenter Islam
Nasser, who wore a Guy Fawkes
Protesters battled police for mask as he battled police.
hours in Cairo on Monday and Angry and screaming at
thousands marched through times, Morsi on Sunday de-
Egypt’s three Suez Canal cit- clared a 30-day state of emer-
ies in direct defiance of a gency and a nighttime curfew
nighttime curfew and state of on the three Suez Canal cities
emergency, handing a blow to of Suez, Ismailiya and Port
Islamist President Mohammed Said and their provinces. He in-
Morsi’s attempts to contain structed police to deal “firmly
five days of spiralling violence. and forcefully” with the unrest
Nearly 60 people have been and threatened to do more if
killed in the unrest that has security was not restored.
touched cities across the coun- But when the 9 p.m. to 6
try but has hit hardest in the a.m. curfew began Monday
canal cities, where residents evening, crowds marched
have risen up in outright re- through the streets of Port
volt. Said. In Ismailiya, residents or-
The latest death came on ganized street games of soccer
Monday in Cairo, where a pro- to emphasize their contempt.
tester died of gunshot wounds Army troops backed with
as youths hurling stones bat- tanks were deployed in Port
tled all day and into the night, Said and Suez, but they did not
with police firing tear gas near intervene to enforce the cur-
Qasr el-Nil Bridge. In nearby few. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mexico. Ten bodies found
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10 AVALANCHE WEEK metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Call of the mountain
lures powder hounds
Extreme winter-sports
warrior. Despite almost
dying in an avalanche,
Jeremy Hanke is still
drawn to the wilds of DAY
2
B.C.’s mountains
KATE
WEBB THE RISK
Metro in Vancouver
Discovering B.C.’s back- Tomorrow: The Rescuers
country 20 years ago was the Meet the two- and four-
moment that Jeremy Hanke
legged frontline avalanche
says turned his life around.
He got his first taste of responders.
extreme winter sports at 15
after moving from his adopt-
ive grandparents’ home in BREAKING THE SILENCE
southern Alberta to the north- Hanke says he did not speak
ern B.C. town of Mackenzie to publicly about his shocking
live with a different side of his experience for six years, but
family. was back on his sled three
He was troubled and, in weeks later. He said he has
his own words, headed down never spoken to a psycholo-
the wrong path — until some gist or counsellor, although
friends handed him a snow- the emotional trauma of what
board and introduced him to he felt and saw still lingers.
Powder Keg Mountain. But three years ago Hanke
“With everything that Former professional snowboarder and snowmobiler Jeremy Hanke still lives for snow, despite its having taught him broke his silence after a friend
was going on in my life at some hard lessons. TYLER RIDDELL/CONTRIBUTED reached out to him on behalf
the time, it seemed to be the of avalanche-safety educa-
answer of peace and solitude fessional snowboarding and recounted. the crushing weight of the icy tors who were trying hard
and motivation,” he told Met- started getting into snow- Recognizing the danger, he debris. to engage the newest and
ro during a recent interview mobiling as a way to enable and his friends began to pos- “I kind of just lost that fastest-growing contingent of
in Revelstoke, B.C., where he himself to go farther into the ition themselves for escape — hope for the last minute and backcountry users — snow-
now works as an avalanche backcountry. but it was too late. Two men went to sleep,” Hanke re- mobilers like him.
safety educator for snow- He didn’t expect that de- from the other group began called. Since then, Hanke said
mobilers. spite all his avalanche-safety climbing the slope right above “My tongue was in the he has told his story to back-
“It’s the feelings that you training, someone else’s lack them, and one of them trig- back of my throat when they country enthusiasts and the
get out there, it’s the friends of experience would almost gered a Size 3 avalanche (on a pulled me out. When a friend media at least 100 times. He
that you’re with, the experi- cost him his life. zero-to-five scale), burying his of mine pulled me out he was still cries every time but he
ence in the mountains. companion, along with Hanke really nervous that my back continues to tell it for two rea-
“To be honest with you, if BURIED ALIVE and three of his friends, under was broken and one leg was sons.
it wasn’t for snowboarding or Hanke had just dropped down up to two metres of snow. over above my head. I looked First, Hanke hopes the mis-
what I do here, I’d probably be a cliff encrusted with a thick, “There’s one rule in the like Gumby, and I was blue.” takes that were made — both
in a jail cell somewhere.” unstable snowpack in March It turned out that he his and those of the others
Before long, snowboard- 2004 to join a group of fellow looked to be in worse shape — will inspire more people
ing took over his life entirely, experienced snowmobilers Waiting to be rescued than he was in, and Hanke to get training and carry an
Hanke, 35, said. He spent when he heard the distant ended up walking away with avalanche kit with them at all
summers working in the Al- rumble of another group of “I kind of just lost no injuries other than some times.
berta oil patch so he could sledders coming toward them. oxygen deprivation. But not The second, he said, is
spend whole winters board- The avalanche danger that that hope for the everyone was so lucky. more personal. As he started
ing the backcountry in Can- day was listed as “consider- last minute and One of the two men from to explain, he paused, took
more and Banff in Alberta able” — not high or extreme, the other group, a 29-year-old some deep breaths. “For some
and Fernie, Golden and finally which might have kept them went to sleep.” from Alberta with a wife and odd reason I feel like it gives
Revelstoke, in B.C., where he inside, but the dangerously young children back at the meaning to the person that
eventually settled. optimistic yellow zone in Jeremy Hanke hotel, had forgotten his trans- lost his life — the father that
By 25 he which experts say most acci- ceiver that day. He was buried was lost, the husband that was
had dab- dents happen. for almost half an hour and lost, the friend that was lost —
bled in “We were parked at the backcountry: You never did not survive. so that he didn’t die in vain.”
pro- bottom of the run-out, which climb or scan or travel above
was a mistake of somebody else on any sort of
our own, and avalanche terrain,” Hanke ex- Exclusively online
exposed to a plained. “No fault of their own
slope above our- — I just don’t think they had
selves,” Hanke the knowledge.” To watch a video
In the terrifying min- of Jeremy Hanke
utes that followed, those in recounting what it
Jeremy Hanke Hanke’s group who weren’t was like to be bur-
turned to a career buried were able to rescue the ied in an avalanche,
as an avalanche- others using their beacons, visit metronews.ca/
safety educator probes and shovels — the backcountry.
several years after life-saving holy trinity of any
surviving one. avalanche kit. Hanke was the Jeremy Hanke
MATT KIELTYKA/METRO last to be rescued, spending WREN MCELROY/CONTRIBUTED
IN VANCOUVER eight to 10 minutes under