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the industry in response to the
death of a 16-year-old boy on a
A birthday celebration ended party bus in Surrey.
tragically when a 23-year-old Stretch SUVs and limo buses
woman died in a fall from a must now get special authoriza-
moving party bus in the heart tion licences from the Passenger
of downtown Vancouver on Sat- Transportation Board in order to
urday night. operate. The change gives the
The young woman was in- PTB, which has traditionally
side the bus celebrating with been stingy with licences, more
approximately two-dozen party control over how many vehicles
guests when she fell out of an are operating in which jurisdic-
open door as the bus turned tions. It also forces drivers to be
left onto Burrard from West accountable to the independent
Hastings Street at around 9:30 board, not just demand in the
p.m., Vancouver police spokes- market.
man Sgt. Randy Fincham said in Under the old system, any-
a statement on Sunday. one with a general authoriza-
The bus struck the woman tion limousine licence could
after she fell, according to po- operate any number of vehicles
lice. Paramedics pronounced wherever they wanted. Those
her dead at the scene. are much easier to acquire than
Police would not confirm taxi licences, sparking safety
which party bus company was concerns in an industry that
MIDNIGHT RESCUE involved in the incident, but caters to nightclub goers. It is
Fincham said the driver stopped illegal to consume liquor in a
immediately when other pas- moving vehicle.
sengers alerted him to the fall The province announced the
and is co-operating with the regulations at a news conference
North Shore Rescue crews warn hikers to think twice investigation. attended by Julie Raymond, who
The police department’s colli- has been calling for reforms to
before seeking the perfect sunset metroNEWS
sion investigation unit continues the industry since her daughter
to look into the circumstances Shannon died in 2008 after using
that led to the woman’s death, drugs on a party bus.
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It’s scary, really, for any activist
going up against organizations
knowing that police can just
throw out these letters ...
threatening something as big
as five years in jail for walking
outside of a store on public
property.
Taylor Freeman, anti-fur activist
The police, out of hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds
of protesters, would not have
bothered had there not been
something significant to the
case that this gentleman is not
talking about.
Rokie Bernstein, CEO of Snowflake Furs
Taylor Freeman holds a sign on Thursday before participating in an anti-fur protest outside a clothing store in Vancouver. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Protester says warning ‘scary’
POLICE contact with a store employee careful. If you’re telling some- “Mr. Freeman is a visible min-
Company CEO he would be arrested for crim- CIVIL LIBERTIES body that they don’t have a ority — the only Snowflake Furs
inal harassment, which carries a right to protest, then that per- protester with dark skin,” the
claims activist maximum penalty of five years While the two sides tell “We are not convinced son has a very valid argument complaint states. “There are
was aggressive, in prison. very different stories, civil that this particular warning that their charter rights are be- many witnesses who can con-
He said the constable who liberties advocates say the letter was an appropriate ing infringed on.” firm that Mr. Freeman has been
threatening issued the letter told him he can- letter issued to Freeman one, however — for the rea- Vancouver Const. Brian Mon- no more or less ‘intimidating’
not even walk by the store down- appears to be overly broad, sons, simply put, that it is tague said police do not keep or ‘aggressive’ than any of the
town, near where he lives. Unlike and raises questions about incredibly vague, incredibly track of the number of warning other protesters.”
An anti-fur activist has com- a peace bond, which needs to be the ability of police to bal- sweeping, and imposes a letters they issue, but similar let- Montague said warning letters
plained to British Columbia’s renewed by a court, the letter ance protesters’ rights with restraint on a constitutional ters were given to two or three are issued regardless of “age, sex,
police watchdog, claiming Van- has no time limit. those of businesses. right.” protesters of Pidgin Restaurant in race, beliefs or religion.”
couver Police violated his rights “It’s scary, really, for any ac- Micheal Vonn, policy Vonn said a more appro- the Downtown Eastside in 2013, The OPCC declined to com-
by indefinitely banning him tivist going up against organiza- director at the B.C. Civil priate way of addressing after their actions “escalated and ment for confidentiality reasons.
from visiting, or even walking tions knowing that police can Liberties Association, said these issues would a peace became criminal.” Bernstein, the CEO of Snow-
past, a store where he regularly just throw out these letters ... her organization is not op- bond, which requires po- “It provides documentation flake Furs, said she has video
protests. threatening something as big posed in principle to police lice to present evidence to that someone has been clearly of Freeman harassing staff and
Taylor Freeman’s complaint as five years in jail for walking warning letters. a judge. informed by police that their customers, and that once he
to the Office of the Police Com- outside of a store on public prop- conduct is not lawful and takes followed an employee to a near-
plaint Commissioner claims a erty,” said Freeman. away any confusion regarding by coffee shop, which Freeman
warning letter from police in- But Snowflake Furs CEO Rok- says a complaint is under inves- Doug King, a lawyer for the ad- (whether) their actions could denied.
fringes on his right to protest ie Bernstein and another store tigation, suggesting Freeman is vocacy group Pivot Legal Society, result in arrest,” he said. “The police, out of hundreds
and unfairly restricts his travel owner, who says he’s had run-ins harassing a store employee. It said the letter is a standard one The OPCC complaint, signed and hundreds and hundreds
through downtown Vancouver. with Freeman, say the warning says the employee fears for her issued in criminal harassment by lawyer Anna Pippus of Ani- of protesters, would not have
Freeman said he has been letter is long overdue. Bernstein safety and finds his unwanted cases, but those are usually re- mal Justice on Freeman’s behalf, bothered had there not been
protesting weekly outside Snow- said Freeman was aggressive, contact at her workplace “an- lated to domestic violence. In the said although activists regularly something significant to the
flake Furs for nearly two years. threatening and often hurling ob- noying and frightening.” context of a protest, the letter protest Snowflake Furs, it ap- case that this gentleman is not
In November he received a let- scenities at customers and staff. Freeman said he never enters appears too open-ended, he said. pears only Freeman has been talking about,” she said.
ter advising that if he had any The one-page warning letter the store nor speaks with staff. “(The police) do need to be ordered to stop. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Vancouver Monday, January 11, 2016 3
‘This isn’t who we are’: PM
TALKS REOPEN
Assisted
suicide
denounces pepper attack
case back
The British Columbia Civil Lib-
erties Association and Govern-
CRIME ment of Canada will be back
Syrians sprayed in court Monday on the topic
of physician-assisted dying.
by assailant at
The newly elected federal
welcome event government is seeking a six-
month delay to respond to
the Supreme Court of Can-
Matt ada’s 2015 unanimous ruling
that consenting adults who
Kieltyka
are suffering from painful life-
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ending and intolerable medical
conditions have the right to die
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with the assistance of a doctor.
was one of many Canadian The court imposed a
public figures who took to so- 12-month delay to give govern-
cial media over the weekend ments time to prepare legisla-
to denounce a pepper-spray tion. The judgment will take ef-
attack on Syrian refugees in fect Feb. 6 if an extension is not
Vancouver. granted, but the new govern-
The incident happened as ment is requesting more time.
approximately 100 people — The BCCLA, on behalf of sev-
including several newly arrived eral B.C. residents, will argue
refugees — congregated outside further delay “will cause critic-
Vancouver’s Muslim Associa- ally ill Canadians to continue to
tion of Canada Centre after a live in suffering and die agon-
welcome ceremony on Friday izing deaths against their wish-
night. es,” according to a statement.
Vancouver Police Depart- Meanwhile, intervenors such
ment Chief Adam Palmer said as the Council of Canadians
an unidentified male person With Disabilities and Canadian
riding by on a bicycle ap- Association for Community
proached the group and pep- Living fear imposing the Feb.
per-sprayed them. 6 ruling “would result in a fail-
Fifteen people were treated ure to address the rights of
for exposure to pepper spray. vulnerable individuals, includ-
Palmer said police are on ing persons with disabilities.”
the search for the suspect and THE CANADIAN PRESS
will treat the case as a “hate-
motivated crime.” The Muslim Association of Canada, site of the attack on Canadian newcomers. JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS IN BRIEF
“It’s a very troubling situa-
tion and the actions of one man prime minister, released state- Vancouver Mayor Gregor war-torn Syrian by the end of That photo was published
have shed a negative light on ments denouncing the attack. Robertson said the incident February. throughout the world and Tribute to Dal Richards
a lot of the positive work that “I condemn the attack on “was a disgusting display of The Immigrant Services Soci- helped renew an internation- BC Place stadium will
has been done to welcome the Syrian refugees in Vancouver,” hate - and Vancouver won’t ety of British Columbia expects al outpour of support for dis- glow orange through the
Syrian refugees into our com- Trudeau wrote on Twitter. “This stand for it.” 2,000 of those to settle in the placed Syrian families. weekend as a tribute to
munities,” Palmer said. isn’t who we are - and doesn’t British Columbia Premier province. Mohammad, his wife and late bandleader Dal Rich-
Over the weekend, a number reflect the warm welcome Can- Christy Clark said the attack B.C.’s newest refugees in- five children arrived in Vancou- ards. Richards died just
of public figures, including the adians have offered.” was intolerable. clude Mohammad Kurdi and ver Dec. 28, joining his sister before midnight Dec. 31.
“Please join me in con- his family, whose three-year-old Tima Kurdi, who lives in Port A memorial service will be
Please join me in condemning demning it, and welcoming son, Alan, was photographed Coquitlam and has sponsored held Saturday afternoon
(the attack) and welcoming new new Canadians,” Clark said. dead on a beach in Turkey after the family. at Christ Church Cath-
Canada has committed to ac- a boat ferrying refugees to Eur- Mohammad and Tima now edral in Vancouver. METRO
Canadians. B. C. Premier Christy Clark cepting 25,000 refugees from ope capsized last year. operate a local hair salon.
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Rescuers don’t join mockery
OUTDOORS Crews were able to hike out
Flak for hikers with the six healthy hikers
by 9:30 p.m., but the injured
who stayed out
hiker wasn’t back at base until
past sunset not midnight because that person
required extra help.
useful: Crews Online comments were un-
sympathetic about the hik-
ers’ decision to travel without
Emily lights during a month when
Jackson sunsets take place around
Metro | Vancouver 4:30 p.m. Some suggested the
group should be nominated
Seven hikers who got lost after for the Darwin Awards, while
nightfall near Cypress Moun- others said they should have
tain because they wanted to see to pay for the rescue.
the sunset are getting online But in a polite counter-argu-
flak for their foolishness, but ment, North Shore Rescue
the crews that rescued them wrote that it does not endorse
say it’s unproductive to shame charging people for mistakes
people for their mistakes. and does not post mistakes to
North Shore Rescue (NSR) shame the people involved.
crews responded to a call that “We share mistakes ... with
seven people, one in medic- the hopes that at least one per-
al distress, were stranded on son reads about it and thinks
St. Mark’s Summit on Satur- twice before doing the same
day around 6 p.m., according thing,” the post states.
to NSR’s play-by-play of the “If one person thinks twice,
incident on Facebook. and it prevents (the need for) a
“It appears they pushed the rescue, education is working.
light window to enjoy the sun- In this case, while the individ-
set on the summit but turned uals undoubtedly made errors,
around too late and became they did do the right thing in
stranded without light,” NSR staying put once they became North Shore Rescue crews hike the St. Mark’s Summit trail after dark on Saturday in order to rescue seven lost hikers.
wrote. lost and calling for help.” COURTESY NORTH SHORE RESCUE
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Vancouver Monday, January 11, 2016 5
Canada denies refugee
POLICE
Dead cyclist identified
The B.C. Coroners Service
status for U.S. black man has identified 45-year-old
Vancouver resident Juan
Loro Avis as the cyclist who
died last week after being
struck by thrown garbage
on the seawall.
IMMIGRATION Avis was riding along
Kyle Canty the False Creek seawall on
Wednesday and was report-
cited fears of edly struck by a heavy ob-
ject thrown by a man dig-
police abuse
ging in a garbage bin.
on application He died the next morning
from severe head injuries.
Vancouver police, who
called the incident a “very
Emily
bizarre set of circum-
Jackson
stances,” said the incident
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appears to have been an
accident.
Canada has denied refugee They are still looking
status to a black American man for the man who allegedly
who claimed he could not safe- threw the garbage towards
ly return home due to racism the cyclist. METRO
against black people and his
fear of police brutality. Flight forced to land at
Kyle Canty applied for refu- Vancouver airport: RCMP
gee protection after arriving in A United Airlines flight was
British Columbia in September forced to make an un-
2015, citing fears of being ser- scheduled stop in Vancou-
iously abused or killed by police ver on Saturday due to a
officers should he return to the security concern, accord-
United States. ing to Richmond RCMP.
Canty sought asylum a few Flight 1104 from Anchor-
days after police arrested him age to Denver was rerouted
at a bus station in Salem, Ore. to Vancouver International
Canty was arrested for tres- Airport at 4 a.m. because of
passing while using the station’s an incident.
Wi-Fi even though a group of RCMP say a large con-
young white people was allowed tingent of officers were on
to use the Internet. Canty has scene to meet the plane
had numerous problems with on the tarmac and a male
unjustified police harassment, Cars line up to cross into the United States at Peace Arch State Park in May 2013. American citizen Kyle Canty applied for refu- passenger was taken into
according to his application. gee status upon arrival in B.C. because of racism against black people. ELAINE THOMPSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS custody.
But after a hearing in Vancou- The remaining passen-
ver in October, the Immigration stop and question African Amer- Throughout my life, police “Throughout my life, police gers were escorted from
and Refugee Board of Canada icans most frequently compared departments have harassed departments have harassed me the flight and screened,
rejected his application. to other racial groups and that and made me fear for my life — before continuing their
me and made me fear for my
Despite the board’s finding police kill twice as many African this is something many other journey to Colorado later in
that Canty has a genuine fear of Americans than white and His- life — this is something many people of color will have ex- the day.
returning to the United States, panic or Latino people. other people of color will have perienced too,” he wrote. “Ap- According to a CNN re-
it concluded he does not face a “The existence of serious and plying for asylum has been in port, the flight was diverted
serious possibility of persecution troubling racial disparities in experienced too. Kyle Canty the back of my mind for a long due to a threatening mes-
because of his race. the enforcement of the law in time, especially since I started sage being found on board.
“Canty is neither a Conven- America is amply documented,” he faces a serious possibility of due process.” reflecting on my experiences RCMP said the exact na-
tion refugee nor a person in Yamauchi wrote. persecution. Canty plans to appeal the de- in the United States of America ture of the security concern
need of protection,” IRB panel There is a risk Canty could “The claimant’s own person- cision, according to an article and educating myself on black is still under investigation
member Ron Yamauchi wrote be stopped and questioned due al experiences with the police he wrote for the Guardian in history.” but confirmed it was an iso-
in his decision. to his skin colour, Yamauchi have not resulted in assault, November outlining his reasons Canty is living in Vancouver lated incident. METRO
Yamauchi noted that police wrote, but that does not mean excessive detention or lack of for applying for asylum. on social assistance.
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Salmon key to endangered giants
STUDY thoroughly analyze killer whale nook are the prey of choice for
Survival of diet based on fecal samples. Prior southern resident killer whales
studies that examined the re- whose survival appears linked to
killer whales mains of killer whale prey made the salmon numbers.
similar salmon-diet conclusions, “We’ve, since the 1990s, had
dependent on
but the DNA analysis confirms evidence that Chinook is very
sport fish stocks it completely, he said. important to these animals from
The fecal samples were col- our work and this recent study
lected in Canadian and U.S. wat- really confirms our results that
Scientists who spent five years ers near the San Juan and Gulf we’ve developed over the last
collecting and analyzing fecal Islands over a five-year period 15 years that really point to
samples from endangered killer from 2006 to 2011, Chinook being
whales near Seattle and Victoria producing almost so important to
found their diet consists almost five million gen- these animals,”
solely of Chinook salmon in the etic sequences that Increasing salmon said Ford, head
summer, confirming the deep pointed to a 98 per of Canada’s De-
abundance is
connection between them and cent salmon diet, partment of
salmon fishing’s trophy catch. he said. an important Fisheries and
Scientist Michael Ford of the Scientists component to try Oceans Cet-
Seattle-based Northwest Fish- scoured whale feed- acean Research
eries Sciences Center says DNA ing areas for fecal and recover the Program at Na-
analysis of killer whale fecal remains that float whales. naimo, B.C.
matter confirmed more than 98 on the water, Ford Ford said
Scientist Michael Ford
per cent of the July and August said. The scientists when Chinook
diet of the southern resident Scientists who studied fecal samples from endangered killer whales discovered their diet was also used dogs spe- stocks declined
whales is salmon, particularly mostly Chinook salmon in the summer. THE CANADIAN PRESS cially trained to pick up whale during the 1990s, the southern
the Chinook salmon bound for poop scent on the water, he said. resident whales struggled.
British Columbia’s Fraser River dance is definitely an import- southern resident killer whales suggest is linked to plentiful He said the study found killer “The mortality rates shot up
and its tributaries. ant component to try and re- in the Pacific Northwest, but the Chinook stocks. whales will eat other salmon 200 to 300 per cent (of) normal,
Scientists on both sides of the cover the whales,” Ford said, species remains listed as endan- The study, published last week species in the late summer, but and that this coincided with a
border say the study provides adding that one of the goals of gered facing triple threats of pol- in the open access journal PLOS Chinook remain their top choice. coast-wide decline of Chinook
useful information to govern- these sorts of studies is to get a lution, noise and food shortages. One, provides further evidence Canadian whale scientist John salmon abundance,” he said.
ment officials tasked with man- better understanding of what Since December 2014, eight of the food-chain connection Ford, who is no relation to Mi- “We reasoned that Chinook may
aging whale recovery efforts and salmon stocks the whales con- new calves have been born to the between killer whales and sal- chael Ford, said the new study well be of primary importance
salmon stocks. sume to help target recovery southern residents, signalling a mon, said Ford. adds more weight to earlier Can- to the survival of these animals.”
“Increasing salmon abun- efforts. There are more than 80 healthy population, which some Ford said it is the first study to adian studies that found Chi- THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Mayor is refugee barber’s first cut
SIMPLE AND SECURE APPLICATIONS
Refugee and barber Mohammed
Kurdi gave his first haircut in
in: Canada to the mayor in his com-
Specializing munity, an honour the politician
says symbolizes a fresh start for
the family of a drowned Syr-
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Coquitlam Mayor Richard
Stewart was Kurdi’s debut
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customer this week at a salon
opened by Tima Kurdi, the aunt
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body washed ashore on a Turk-
ish beach last September.
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though Mohammed Kurdi took
comfort in using the electric trim- Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart takes a selfie as he gets a hair
mer and barber scissors, because cut from Syrian immigrant Mohammed Kurdi. THE CANADIAN PRESS
they were familiar tools while
he is still getting accustomed others for help. Kurdi, his wife had pledged to resettle 25,000
to Canada. and their five children arrived in Syrian refugees in Canada, al-
The mayor says he was deeply B.C. in late December sponsored though it fell short of its initial
honoured to receive the trim and by Tima Kurdi, who has become plan to welcome 10,000 people
that Kurdi was also apprecia- an unofficial spokeswoman for by the end of 2015 and instead,
tive, expressing that he wants to people fleeing war-torn Syria. nearly 7,000 have arrived so far.
work in Canada and not rely on The Canadian government THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Robin
Call Crews piecing together ning to find a truck upside how long the truck was in
778-929-1607 details after truck crashes down and underwater. the river and that crews are
into Fraser river, killing two Doug Fraser of Chilliwack trying to determine what
Two men are dead after Search and Rescue says the caused the crash.
their vehicle veered off road vehicle left a gravel road The RCMP says weather
DRIVE AWAY TODAY! and plunged into the Fraser and dropped six metres likely played a role in the
River in Chilliwack. over an embankment and incident. The names of the
Rescue crews responded into the frigid waters. two men haven’t been re-
around 1:30 Sunday mor- Fraser says it’s uncertain leased. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada Monday, January 11, 2016 7
HISTORY
Library gets Stalin
daughter’s letters
Luke the letters were sent to British
artist Mary Burkett. The two
Simcoe
women initially discussed art,
Metro | Toronto
but quickly developed a deeper
friendship.
A new collection arriving at the “She seemed to feel a bond
University of Toronto library with Mary from the start and
reveals what it was like to grow she told her quite a bit about
up — quite literally — under her personal life and what it
one of the 20th century’s most was like growing up with her
famous dictators. father,” Dondertman said.
The Thomas Fisher Rare The correspondence was put
Book Library has just acquired up for auction after Burkett’s
a collection of letters written death, and secured by author
by Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only Rosemary Sullivan, whose re-
daughter of former Soviet lead- cent book, Stalin’s Daughter,
er Josef Stalin. is an intensely researched ac-
“Can you imagine having count of Alliluyeva’s life.
Stalin as your father?” said
the library’s director, Anne
Flames from a wildfire near Oliver, B.C., A fire crew battles a blaze in the La Ronge An air tanker drops fire retardant on a Dondertman. “She had
in August last year. area on northern Saskatchewan in July. hillside in West Kelowna, B.C. in July. an amazing and diffi-
JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS CONTRIBUTED/THE CANADIAN PRESS JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS cult life. Her mother
committed suicide
Wildfires draining when she was young,
members of her family
were disappeared, her
first lover was sent to
Siberia, and the list just
firefighting reserves goes on.”
Written towards the
end of Alliluyeva’s life,
In her later correspond-
ence, Svetlana Alliluyeva
often refers to British
PARKS artist Mary Burkett as her
Busier fire The agency’s annual fire re- Climate scientists have pre- “dearest warrior.”
port recorded 122 wildfires $14 million dicted that busier fire seasons COURTESY THOMAS FISHER RARE
seasons in 2015 that burned through will be one consequence of BOOK LIBRARY
4,600 square kilometres — sev- global warming and that will
predicted due
en times the area of the city of affect the parks, Weir said.
to warming Toronto. The yearly average is Tlahset scuomstm ofe fri.r Peafrigksh Ctinanga da “If climate change is going to IN BRIEF
82, and, in 2014, the amount of result in longer and drier sum-
reserves about $8 million a
park land burned in non-pre- year to fight fires. mers … we’re going to have a
Wildfires scorched a record scribed fires was 3,000 square longer fire season, which will New anti-nuke effort Line 9 heads for top court
amount of Canada’s national kilometres. result in more ignitions and Canada plans to kick-start The Chippewas of the
parks last year — the latest in a Most of the damage in 2015 Lightning strikes on tinder- larger fires. Climate change is a long-stalled international Thames First Nation is
number of long, hot summers occurred in a single park. Fire dry forests made 2015 the third likely to increase our fire load effort aimed at ridding the taking its fight against En-
that have almost entirely de- licked through 3,700 square big fire year in a row. Firefight- across Canada.” world of the key ingredi- bridge Inc., the National
pleted Parks Canada’s firefight- kilometres of Wood Buffalo on ing cost $14 million last sum- Parks Canada also set a re- ents needed for nuclear Energy Board and the At-
ing reserve. the boundary between Alberta mer and the reserve is pretty cord for prescribed burns in weapons. Canada’s United torney General of Canada
“We had a very busy fire and the Northwest Territories. much depleted, Weir said. 2015 which help restore a for- Nations ambassador to over the Line 9 pipeline —
year,” said director of fire man- Parks Canada reserves about If it becomes necessary, the est’s natural mix of plant spe- Geneva will spearhead the which runs between Sarnia,
agement Jeff Weir. “We had $8 million a year to fight fires. money would probably come cies and ages, and also helps creation of a Fissile Materi- Ont., and Montreal — to the
more wildfires than normal Any money not spent is rolled from funds earmarked for keep normal populations of al Cut-off Treaty or FMCT. Supreme Court of Canada.
and those fires burned larger into a reserve to be used in other ecological restoration animals in the park. THE CANADIAN PRESS THE CANADIAN PRESS
areas than normal.” busy seasons. projects, Weir suggested. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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GERMANY
IN BRIEF
Cologne attacks must be
France’s president, investigated: Minister
dignitaries honour victims
of extremist attacks in Paris
France’s President Fran- German authorities need to some of whom broke off into
cois Hollande and other quickly determine whether small groups that groped and
dignitaries held a spe- a string of New Year’s Eve robbed women.
cial ceremony Sunday to sexual assaults and robber- “If such a horde gathers
honour all those killed in ies in Cologne blamed largely in order to commit crimes,
Islamic extremist violence on foreigners may be linked that appears in some form to
around Paris in 2015 — a to similar offences in other be planned,” Justice Minister
year when the European cities, the justice minister Heiko Maas told the news-
way of life was targeted. said in comments published paper Bild.
The ceremony took Sunday. “Nobody can tell me that
place at Place de la Re- Authorities and witness- this was not co-ordinated or
publique, which has be- es say the attackers were prepared.”
come a symbol of French among about 1,000 people, The attacks are still being
solidarity since the at- mostly men, gathered at Co- investigated, but police have
tacks, which began Jan. logne’s central train station, said their focus is on suspects
7, 2015, with the Charlie of primarily North African
Hebdo killings. origin, which has put pres-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sure on Chancellor Angela
Merkel’s government and its
U.S. Islam advocacy group open-door policy to asylum A woman reads La Jornada newspaper in Mexico City on Sunday which shows a picture of
seeks apology from Trump seekers. Nearly 1.1 million drug lord Joaquin Guzman, a.k.a. “El Chapo,” right, shaking hands with actor Sean Penn.
An advocacy group is migrants arrived in Germany Authorities hope to question Penn about his interview. AFP/GETTY IMAGES
seeking an apology from in 2015 alone.
Republican presidential She announced a proposal Penn interview
candidate Donald Trump Saturday that would make it
after a Muslim woman easier to deport migrants who
standing in silent protest commit crimes, which still
at one of his rallies was needs parliamentary approval.
heckled and escorted Cologne police said Sun- led to El Chapo
out. CAIR national execu- day that 516 criminal com-
tive director Nihad Awad plaints had now been filed
said Saturday afternoon Police use pepper spray to with them in connection to
she hadn’t received any control protesters of the New the New Year’s attacks, about
response. Year’s Eve sex attacks on Sat- 40 per cent of which involve
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS urday in Cologne, Germany. allegations of sexual offences.
SASCHA SCHUERMANN/GETTY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO ity precautions, but also said that CRITICISM
Authorities as he flew to Mexico on Oct. 2
for the meeting: “I see no spy-
raided hideout ing eyes, but I assume they are Sean Penn’s interview
there.” He was apparently right. with Guz-
days after chat
A Mexican federal law en- man has
forcement official, speaking on prompted
Mexican officials say Sean Penn’s condition of anonymity, said the criticism
contacts with drug lord Joaquin Penn interview led authorities to through-
(El Chapo) Guzman helped them Guzman in the area of Tamazula, out the
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Afghan forces are struggling to are only eight or 10,” said Karim per cent of the province and
604-684-2325 man the front lines against a re- Atal, head of Helmand’s provin- threaten the provincial capital,
[email protected] surgent Taliban, in part because cial council. “It’s because some Lashkar Gah.
of untold numbers of “ghost” people are getting paid a salary Interior Ministry spokesman
www.issbc.org/english-now troops who are paid salaries but not doing the job because Sediq Sediqqi acknowledged the
but exist only on paper. they are related to someone problem and said an investiga-
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The nationwide problem has important, like a local warlord.” tion has been launched.
been particularly severe in the In some cases, the “ghost” “No one knows the exact
southern Helmand province, designation is more literal — numbers of the Afghan National
where the Taliban have seized dead soldiers and police remain Defence Forces,” an Afghan
vast tracts of territory in the 12 on the books, with senior po- official said on condition of
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mission and switched to train- He estimates 40 per cent of estimates put the number at
www.issbc.org facebook.com/issbc twitter.com/issbc ing and support. registered forces don’t exist, around 120,000, less than a
“At checkpoints where 20 sol- and says the lack of manpower third of what’s needed to secure
diers should be present, there has helped the Taliban seize 65 the country. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

10 Monday, January 11, 2016 Business
Long hours don’t kill relationships
STUDY shown that there is no link ing participants working in the researchers looked at the Instead of finding that work-
PUBLISHED
Dual-career with an unhappy relationship, academic professions such as hours participants worked, ing longer hours had a nega-
and in fact even the opposite teaching or law or in manager- their satisfaction with their tive effect on a couple’s rela-
couples make might be true. ial or technical positions such The study was published relationship, and their level tionship, the team found that
A team of researchers stud- as IT consultant or engineer. by SAGE in the journal of self-disclosure in their re- couples actually made extra
extra effort ied 285 couples in which both “Conventional wisdom and Human Relations in part- lationship, which measured effort with each other after
after work partners were pursuing their research seem to suggest that nership with the Tavistock their ability to express a need, work to make up for time lost
careers to look at a possible partners in dual-career couples Institute in the U.K. wish, or want to their partner. with their partners through
negative effect of long working have to decide whether they Participants answered three working long hours, leading
It’s a common belief that work- hours on their relationships. would rather risk their careers online questionnaires in total, the researchers to suggest that
ing longer hours can only cause The majority of the partici- or their romantic relationship. longer hours is hazardous for answering two questionnaires longer working hours could in
problems in your relationship. pants worked as academics at …Our research questions the all romantic relationship. ” to start and then the third six some cases even be beneficial
However new research has a university, with the remain- assumption that working To answer their questions months later. for a relationship. AFP
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