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Monday, January 27, 2014 metronews.ca | twitter.com/vancouvermetro | facebook.com/vancouvermetro VANCOUVER NEWS WORTH SHARING. What’s a little fib Hundreds say BIEKSA PLAYS THE between family? farewell to search HERO IN OVERTIME leader Tim Jones HIS TWO GOALS LIFT THE CANUCKS Parents recall tricks they use to OVER THE VISITING COYOTES 5-4 protect their kids from their own Parade and memorial held in PAGE 21 bad habits PAGE 18 North Vancouver PAGE 4 ‘No one believes the risk is zero’ Oilsands. U.S. study Quoted increased production of oil- warns of risks and sands products,” the report says. unknowns in transport “Little research is It was written by six ex- of Alberta bitumen currently available perts at the University of regarding the behaviour Washington and supervised by Prof. Robert Pavia of the of oilsands products university’s School of Marine U.S. scientists are warning spilled into water, and and Environmental Affairs. that there are environmental how they weather in the “While there are many risks, regulatory holes and arguments about the level of environment.” serious unknowns regarding risk, no one believes the risk the shipment of Alberta oil- Excerpt from 2013 U.S. study is zero,” Pavia told The Can- sands products by pipeline, adian Press, adding that he rail and tanker. was speaking personally. “In The findings are in a 153- The study examined the my mind it’s not a question of page report from last Sep- different ways to transport Al- whether a spill will occur, but tember by the emergency berta’s bitumen, a molasses- how well-prepared we are for response division of the U.S. like crude oil, over U.S. land a spill once it does occur.” National Oceanic and Atmos- and water. Those included In the case of Northern pheric Administration. The rail, the proposed Kinder-Mor- Gateway, not only might unit has expertise in pre- gan Trans Mountain pipeline there be potential to harm DUO GET LUCKY paring for, evaluating and to Vancouver, the Keystone Washington State shores, responding to oil and chem- XL line to Texas from Alberta there could be hazards from ical spills in coastal environ- and Northern Gateway. tankers leaving Kitimat to ments. “Most oilsands products travel through the waters Enbridge, the company are transported to market of Alaska, near the Aleutian Musicians Thomas Bangalter, left, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk accept the best behind the proposed North- via existing and proposed Islands to Asia. ern Gateway pipeline to the pipelines; however, a sharp Both Canada and the pop duo/group performance award for Get Lucky onstage during the 56th Grammy Awards on Sunday B.C. coast, counters that most increase in the use of rail and United States need to renew in Los Angeles. Daft Punk led the pack with fi ve awards. More Grammy coverage, page 16. of the concerns raised in the marine transport can be ex- and expand efforts to reduce KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES report are out-of-date, over- pected while new pipelines any risks, Pavia said. stated or being resolved. are constructed to match the THE CANADIAN PRESS HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT PROGRAM The Health Care Assistant program is designed to provide students with opportunities to 110 develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to function effectively as front-line care-givers and respected members of a health care team. - CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: HOME SUPPORT, LONG TERM CARE, ASSISTED LIVING, SPECIAL CARE UNITS CALL 310.HIRE (4473) OR VISIT SPROTTSHAW.COM On January 28, for every text message sent or long distance call made by a subscriber*, Bell will donate 5 ¢ more for initiatives helping the millions of Canadians affected by mental illness. bell.ca/letstalk #BellLetsTalk *Regular long distance and text message charges apply metronews.ca NEWS 03 Monday, January 27, 2014 Investigation Police ID Kelowna man found dead RCMP have identified the Kelowna man found dead Saturday morning as 32-year-old Christopher Ausman. Ausman was found dead in a neighbourhood by Highway 33 and police N are treating his death as suspicious. Const. Kris Clark says he can’t reveal the cause of death, as it may comprom- ise the investigation. E THE CANADIAN PRESS Pulp mill Investigators to W examine cause of fi re in Kamloops NDP MLAs Harry Bains, left, Sue Hammell and Bruce Ralston call for the creation of a community court outside the North Surrey Recreation Centre on Sunday. LUKE BROCKI/METRO Authorities are investigat- Surrey in urgent need of ing the cause of a fire that broke out in a Kamloops S pulp mill. The city’s fire depart- ment was called to Domtar community court: NDP mill Saturday night after flames started burning around the electrical trans- former. Spokeswoman Bonnie Skeene says there were Growing pains. Mayor resources and unregulated with health and social servi- entity to conduct its sessions. no injuries and the flames Watts to discuss addiction recovery houses. ces since it opened in 2008. “It’s getting to the root were doused within a Now the New Democrats in- Galvanized by last month’s cause of those crimes, which couple of hours. issue with B.C. justice sist what’s missing is an al- killing of a 53-year-old hock- we know are mental health, She says no evacuation minister next month ternative system of justice, ey mom outside the Newton addictions, at-risk people liv- was necessary, though one that takes a problem- arena — in a random rob- ing at-risk lifestyles,” Watts production was halted for solving approach to address bery that took a brutal turn said in a phone interview. 12 hours. Mill safety has underlying causes of crim- —- the NDP is accusing the “Jail is not necessarily the been an ongoing issue The B.C. government should inal behaviour. provincial government of place for them.” since an explosion ripped fast-track the creation of a “Judge Thomas Gove, who broken promises to expand In an emailed statement, through a sawmill in Burns community court in Surrey presides over the Vancouver the pilot. B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Lake two years ago, killing to help that city’s at-risk resi- community court and for- Surrey Mayor Dianne Anton was noncommittal, two people and injuring 20 dents move their struggles mer attorney general Wally Watts said her council’s saying her office was study- more. with addiction and violence Oppal are on the record stat- crime reduction strategy has ing innovative justice initia- WorkSafe BC conducted beyond the revolving door of ing that the Vancouver com- long been working to enrich tives, including Vancouver’s a botched investigation that the overtaxed criminal jus- munity court has been suc- the city’s mental-health and Downtown Community produced evidence that tice system, said NDP MLAs cessful,” said Surrey-Green social services and that a Court, “to see if what we the Crown could not use at a press conference outside Timbers MLA Sue Hammell. community court is a wel- learn can be applied in other in court, leading Premier the North Surrey Recreation The Vancouver commun- come next step. communities.” Christy Clark to appoint her Centre Sunday morning. ity court pilot project, the To help move things Watts said she is sched- deputy minister to review Surrey is B.C.’s fastest- first of its kind in Canada, along, she said she is willing uled to discuss the matter the case. THE CANADIAN PRESS growing city and one chal- has helped some 1,500 of- to donate the use of council with Anton on Feb. 5. lenged by strained police fenders per year connect chambers for the would-be LUKE BROCKI/METRO 04 NEWS metronews.ca Monday, January 27, 2014 Apparent arson won’t spoil skater shrine: Supporters A lasting memorial. terials to a smoldering heap and charred the wall and Donors lining up to ceiling of the concrete park, help repair tribute to wiping out part of a mural commemorating Matasi’s slain Good Samaritan life. The park remains closed. “It’s a disappointing situa- MATT tion,” said park board com- KIELTYKA missioner Sarah Blyth, a [email protected] former member of the Van- couver Skateboard Coalition Skateboarders and the Van- and the Leeside stewardship couver Park Board promise group. to do everything they can to “We’ll do everything we restore Leeside Tunnel to its can to make it a usable space full glory after the unique again. This is a treasure, as skate spot was torched in an well as a memorial to Lee, for apparent arson last week. the city.” Part skate park, part street- The skating community art shrine, the covered area and volunteers had recently near Highway 1 and Hastings raised $25,000 to add features Street stands as a tribute to to the beloved park. Lee Matasi, who was killed The total cost of damage is on Dec. 3, 2005, while trying unknown, but Blyth is heart- to talk down a gun-wielding ened that donors are already stranger outside a nightclub. stepping forward and offer- But on Wednesday night, ing to replace any building two people apparently en- materials lost in the blaze. tered the tunnel and set fire Blyth and members of the to wood and tires being used Vancouver Skateboard Coali- to build a new quarter pipe. tion says police are actively The fire reduced the ma- investigating the fire. Char marks on the exterior of the Leeside Tunnel in East Vancouver on Sunday. The skate park was damaged in an apparent arson on Wednesday. JEFF HODSON/METRO Memorial for search-and-rescue leader draws a grateful crowd Hundreds of mourners bid a compassionate. started on 15th Street and final goodbye to search-and- “I feel privileged to not Lasting impact Forbes Avenue and ended at rescue leader Tim Jones at a only call him dad but my Centennial Theatre. “It’s unbelievable to parade and memorial in his best friend, my mentor and The Tim Jones Memorial honour in North Vancouver my colleague,” he said. “Dad, see the support of the Endowment Fund was creat- on Saturday. when the pager goes, we’ll be public and the different ed to provide tuition support The crowd included there.” for future paramedics and organizations.” family, friends, RCMP, search- Jones, a 57-year-old team search-and-rescue students. and-rescue members as well leader for the volunteer North Shore resident Brian Benson Because the seating in the as some of the many people North Shore Rescue, died theatre was limited, the pub- Paramedic Ron Glanville carries the remains of North Shore Rescue leader he had rescued. after a heart attack on his Helicopters flew around lic watched the service on big Tim Jones into a ceremony celebrating his life in North Vancouver on Jones’ son Curtis remem- way down from Mount Sey- the neighbourhood during screens set up outside. Saturday. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS bered his father as brave and mour last Sunday. the 90-minute parade, which SINDHU DHARMARAJAH/FOR METRO Bordeaux of beers coming to Vancouver Testing the adage that al- by-volume measure of 28 per place at flagship BC Liquor claims the labour of love has cohol sales thrive in hard cent. Store locations, but following been aged in everything from times, the BC Liquor Distribu- “This is not just any beer,” complaints from suburban bourbon casks to rum barrels, tion Branch is bringing in an said Tarina Palmer, spokes- and rural customers, manage- tasting noble hops and exotic American brew worth $150 a woman for the Liquor Distri- ment landed on a democratic spices. bottle. bution Branch. “There’s such approach for this release: the “This is kind of like a The branch has secured a wide variety of craft beers first-ever draw for a chance to Bordeaux for beer drinkers,” 84 bottles of Samuel Adams available on the market, but buy a single bottle. 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Vertical 2012 to great acclaim, promis- duce commercialized vertical parking lot.” ing the pesticide-free, local pro- gardens in every major North But Non-Partisan Associa- urban farm wilted before duce grown at the top of a five- American city within five years. tion (NPA) councillor George Af- it got off the ground storey parkade at 535 Richards But just over a year into that fleck said the writing has long St. would elevate the buy-local plan, the dream has died on the been on the wall and criticized movement to new levels. vine. Alterrus filed for bank- Vision Vancouver-dominated The plan was to sell the let- ruptcy Thursday. council for handing Alterrus The operators of a novel urban tuce and other leafy greens to “It’s disappointing to hear,” the city-owned land without farm have filed for bankruptcy local restaurants and grocers said Mayor Gregor Robertson, exploring other options for the amid accusations of poor judg- and pave the way forward for a major advocate for the ven- space. Now, he says, the city ment at city hall. high-density urban farming. ture. “Having Alterrus lease the (through EasyPark) is on the Alterrus’ VertiCrop verti- After Vancouver, the com- space generated more revenue hook for at least $13,000 in un- Alterrus’ urban farm was located at a city-owned parkade on Richards Street cal urban farm opened in late pany said it wanted to intro- for the city than when it was a paid rent. MATT KIELTYKA/METRO and used vertical trays to grow greens for local sale. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE Binning House. Advocate pushing to keep historic house open to the public It may look like a simple, The design single-storey, flat-roofed bungalow embedded into the hillside of West Vancou- When it was finished, it ver, but the early modernist looked like no other house home built by Canadian art- in Canada, boasting a flat ist Bertram Binning in 1941 roof sloped at 15 degrees, remains culturally significant large, open windows, an to this day, says a local herit- open floor plan and batten- age advocate. board — or vertical profile Binning House is, after all, — cedar siding, Weder said. a National Historic Site. And with its potential sale to a Vancouver businessman it was finished, the house by the financially troubled that sits on a quiet residential The Land Conservancy of B.C. street and offers ocean views now adjourned by a court, is significant for several rea- Adele Weder is urging locals sons, said Weder. to get educated and involved Binning, one of the coun- so the house remains open to try’s most important post- public use. war artists, built the home, “Learn more about the she added. The Land Con- house, get interested and let’s servancy described him as a look at a collaborative way painter and prolific sketcher that, you know, everyone can who was influenced by Pablo benefit from the house,” said Picasso and Henri Matisse Weder, who is also an archi- and was always interested in tectural writer and curator. architecture. Seventy-three years after THE CANADIAN PRESS Got a Starbucks gift card? New report. 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The vessels collided in “left the wheelhouse un- heavy fog 35 miles west of La- attended just prior to the col- Push, a small community on lision.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 07 Monday, January 27, 2014 Looking for love, and a free vacation The Bachelor Canada. a dozen women turned up for who notices the little things,” in the fall of 2014. Local casting call The Bachelor Canada’s first she said. She hopes that her Notably, no man was in attracts a dozen women casting call at the Opus Hotel outgoing personality will catch sight for the highly praised role in Vancouver on Saturday mor- the eye of producers, so she can of the bachelor, which is still up looking for a rose ning. receive her very own rose. for grabs. Sabrina Fetterkind’s mother Not all of the hopeful bach- “It’s obviously one of the SINDHU encouraged her to audition for elors and bachelorettes for most important roles on the DHARMARAJAH the open casting call, and the Season 2 were in attendance show, and you obviously need [email protected] 22-year-old believes she knows because some had appoint- someone who is quite good what she wants out of the ex- ments, according to executive looking, and someone who Whether it was for a free ad- perience. producer Clair Freeland, who has had some experience with Executive producers Claire Freeland, second left, and Sean De Vries hold a casting venture or for true love, about “I’m hoping to find a guy says the show is expected to air love,” said Freeland. call for The Bachelor Canada at the Opus Hotel Saturday. SINDHU DHARMARAJAH/METRO Greg Matters. Coroner’s inquest into fatal RCMP shooting resumes A coroner’s inquest will resume Why was the response by the Monday into the fatal RCMP RCMP such an aggressive one?” shooting of a former British The inquest has also raised Columbia soldier in treatment some other questions. at the time for post-traumatic A pathologist testified that stress disorder. Matters was shot twice in the Greg Matters was shot in the back — contrary to a public re- back by a member of the RCMP port released by the province’s emergency response team in Independent Investigations the driveway of the rural home Office, clearing police of any he shared with his mother wrongdoing. near Prince George on Sept. 10, “That seems at odds a bit 2012. He was being arrested for with some of the testimony,” assaulting his older brother. Ward said. The two weeks of testimony The jury also heard that before the inquest was ad- Matters was unable to work journed in December raised as due to his mental health strug- many questions as it provided gles and a back injury suffered answers about the death of the in Bosnia in 2001. He was living 40-year-old former peacekeep- with his mother and surviving er. “I have so many questions,” on a $123-a-month military says Greg’s mother, Lorraine pension when his sister, from Matters, for whom the inquest her home in Australia, finally has been emotional and troub- contacted an operational stress ling. injury clinic in Vancouver that The inquest heard last took him as a client. month that Matters was hon- The RCMP officers involved ourably discharged from the testified they were aware that military in 2009 after a 15-year Matters suffered from PTSD, yet career, and was already exhib- a helicopter and a team of offi- iting signs of PTSD then. cers dressed in head-to-toe cam- The seven men and women ouflage gear and armed with on the coroner’s jury heard M16s were sent to arrest him. that Matters had several run- Dr. Greg Passey, who oper- ins with police, beginning with ated the stress injury clinic and RCMP in New Brunswick when was treating Matters, testified he was based at CFB Gagetown. that RCMP did not allow him to He said officers ultimately speak to the former soldier as broke into his home and woke he was surrounded by police in him at gunpoint on a purported the hours before his death. “wellness check.” “It is my true opinion and After returning to British conviction that had I been able Columbia, Matters’ former to speak to Greg that night, I therapist complained to police could have talked him out,” he about threatening emails, and told jurors. he was charged and acquit- The jurors heard that Mat- ted of assaulting his brother. ters pleaded for help in the He was jailed for threatening years prior to the standoff that the head of the RCMP public night with RCMP. He sent a complaints commission over handwritten note to a court- the New Brunswick incident, appointed psychiatrist and was and later threatened to kill the doing well in his work with Pas- Crown lawyer in that case. sey. Questions remain about Members of the emergency why RCMP deployed the ERT response team are scheduled over “what, really, was a fairly to testify this week, as well as minor family dispute,” said the lead investigator from the Cameron Ward, the lawyer Independent Investigations Of- for Matters’ mother and sister. fice. “That’s the central question: THE CANADIAN PRESS 08 NEWS metronews.ca Monday, January 27, 2014 ‘We will try to find the strength to get through this’ L’Isle-Verte. Owner of No rush to judgment fire-ravaged seniors’ “We will wait for the inquiry because now we don’t home speaks about have the results of this evaluation and examination. tragic loss of life to After that, we will see if there are some new rules over 1,000 gathered at to adopt.” Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, who said she wants to see the results of commemorative mass the various investigations into the blaze before rushing to judgment on a solution. included Quebec Premier Pau- Sunday by bitter cold, poor The owner of a Quebec seniors’ line Marois and Liberal Leader visibility, blowing snow and residence that burned to the Philippe Couillard. “We will winds up to 90 km/h, provin- ground offered his condolences try to find the strength to get cial police Lt. Guy Lapointe told to the victims Sunday. through this.” a news conference. Speaking to a throng of re- A more formal commem- Marois arrived in L’Isle-Verte porters outside the church in orative ceremony, featuring on Sunday to see first-hand the L’Isle-Verte, Roch Bernier said more dignitaries, is scheduled results of the fatal fire, cutting it was not the right time to say for this Saturday. Sunday was a short a trip to Europe to deliver whether he would rebuild the chance for the tiny Quebec vil- condolences in the village of residence. lage to voice its collective grief, about 1,500. He said the mass, attended with priest Gilles Frigon calling The premier called the by more than 1,000 people, it “a first step toward healing.” brutal blaze “unacceptable” was a day for the victims, the Meanwhile, authorities said and said she hopes such a tra- missing and residents of the there was no change in the gedy never repeats. town. number of victims. Ten people She told a news conference Bernier received a standing have been confirmed dead that everything is being done ovation as he stood up to speak and 22 others are missing and to provide support for those at the mass. presumed dead after Thurs- who survived the fire and to “What you’re living inside, day’s blaze at the Résidence du give closure to those still await- A woman holding a picture of her husband, who died in last week’s seniors’ residence fire, arrives for a commemorative we are living it inside as well,” Havre. ing word on their loved ones. service for the victims on Sunday in L’Isle-Verte, Que. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS he told the gathering, which Searches were hampered THE CANADIAN PRESS Hundreds rally in Ottawa to ‘save Canada Post’ Around 300 protesters customers, this is an attack postage prices. The feds also Council president Sean Mc- marched through downtown on our whole country and plan to cut thousands of jobs Kenney told the hundreds Ottawa en route to the Prime everybody who lives in this over the next five years. huddled around him trying Minister’s Office (PMO) Sun- country,” said Ian Anderson, The plan doesn’t sit well to stay warm that the changes day to protest government president of the Canadian with Sid Ryan, the president will mostly affect “our elder- plans to end door-to-door mail Union of Postal Workers of Ontario Federation of ly, our disabled, our sick, our delivery. (CUPW) Ottawa local, to a roar Labour, who rallied the crowd seniors,” and said Canada Post Marching to the beat of of cheers. Sunday. CEO Deepak Chopra has been Bob Marley’s Get Up, Stand “We need to stop this cor- “This social program of “completely ignoring sugges- Up, the employees, most of poration and stop this gov- postal delivery has been in tions by others.” them from Montreal, blew ernment — it’s an attack on place for 150 years. It is one The CUPW plans to con- whistles and waved signs everybody.” of those social programs that tinue to protest the changes while shouting, “Save Canada The Crown corporation is unites our country, just like with door-to-door campaigns Post” as they converged at the eyeing $900 million in sav- the health-care system,” he and other crusades to drum PMO for the rally. ings every year by replacing said. “We’re not going down up even more support to save Billie the dog walks along with about 2,000 people marching through the “This is not just an at- foot delivery with commun- without a fight.” urban postal service. streets of Ottawa in support of the CUPW, which rallied outside Prime Minister tack on Canada Post and our ity mail boxes and increasing Ottawa & District Labour TREVOR GREENWAY/METRO IN OTTAWA Stephen Harper’s office Sunday. FRED CHARTRAND/THE CANADIAN PRESS Back in session Privacy Life’s a beach for Biebs next month’s budget the Ottawa and Washing- Eddy Vasquez was centrepiece of the winter ton will start sharing filming a show at the As Parliament Border officials Justin Bieber sitting. their citizens’ travel and Pacific Coast resort in returns, scandal, But New Democrats to share personal biographic data this sum- spotted relaxing Punta Chame, about 145 and Liberals believe the mer, means anyone from kilometres west of Pan- budget, expected info with federal in Panama amid ongoing RCMP inves- Canada travelling to or ama City, when he spot- to dominate tigation and potential government from the U.S. by land will DUI charges ted Bieber and members charges against Prime have his or her informa- of his entourage walking MPs return to Parlia- Minister Stephen Canadian border officials tion passed on to federal A Panamanian radio and along the beach. ment on Monday with Harper’s former chief of plan to share personal in- departments. TV host says Justin Bieber He and his crew took the spectre of the Senate staff and four senators formation obtained under The Canadian Border has been relaxing on a pictures of the singer and expenses scandal still will keep the government a new Canada-U.S. border Services Agency confirmed beach in Panama on a his companions, who got hovering over the gov- firmly mired in the Sen- data-exchange program the new practice and said vacation from the U.S., on personal watercraft ernment, which says it in- ate scandal, as it was for with other federal depart- data would only be passed where he faces DUI char- and travelled to a nearby tends to remain focused most of last year. ments. in accordance to stringent ges after being arrested island. on the economy, with THE CANADIAN PRESS The program, in which rules. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE last week. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 09 Monday, January 27, 2014 NSA engages in industrial spying: Snowden Interview on German In the interview, aired the NSA of doing with such the files. Sunday night on German information — he only said He also said U.S. govern- TV. Intelligence leaker public television broadcast- he didn’t want to reveal the ment representatives want- alludes to more er ARD, Snowden said if Ger- details before journalists ed to kill him, according man engineering company did. to a simultaneous German revelations to come Siemens had information Snowden also told ARD translation by the station. that would benefit the U.S., television that he was no Snowden referred to an arti- but had nothing to do with longer in possession of any cle he had read on Buzzfeed Former NSA contractor Ed- national security needs, the NSA documents, because he in which U.S. government ward Snowden claimed in a National Security Agency had passed them all on to representatives had told a new interview that the U.S. would still use it. a few selected journalists reporter that they wanted to agency is involved in indus- It wasn’t clear what and that he had no further kill him. trial espionage. exactly Snowden accused influence on the release of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden THE GUARDIAN FILE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Military info Seasick Whistleblower Outbreak aboard freed in Israel cruise ship Israel’s prison service says a U.S. health officials on If you can take a picture, former soldier who passed Sunday boarded a cruise hundreds of classified ship docked in the U.S. documents to a newspaper Virgin Islands to investi- reporter has been freed gate an illness outbreak after more than two years that has stricken nearly in jail. Spokeswoman 10 per cent of passen- Sivan Weizman said Anat gers with gastrointes- Kamm walked free Sunday tinal symptoms including morning. vomiting and diarrhea. Kamm began serving a Officials said that 281 prison term in 2011 after passengers aboard Royal being convicted of passing Caribbean International’s military information to a ship have reported getting reporter. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sick. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS End-of-life debate. Brain- dead, pregnant woman is taken off life support then you can deposit a cheque. Erick Munoz stands with an undated photograph of himself with wife Marlise and their son, Mateo. RON T. ENNIS/THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE The family of a brain-dead, She was 14 weeks pregnant CIBC eDepositTM. 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But the govern- to stop advance voting for next Activists say about 800 ment was unequivocal that week’s general elections, chain- families are trapped Assad’s future was assured in ing gates shut, threatening vot- the country led by his family ers and preventing hundreds of without regular access since 1970. thousands of people from cast- to food or medicine In Syria, the war continued ing ballots. as if there were no effort to stop A protest faction leader was it — gunfire and shelling in fatally shot in a confrontation Homs, between Assad’s forces near a voting centre that also Two days of face-to-face peace and rebels, and between the left 11 people wounded, the talks yielded a narrow and ten- al-Qaida-linked militants and city’s emergency services said, A Bangkok resident shows her tative agreement Sunday for Syrian opposition chief negotiator Hadi Bahra, left, and Louay Safi, Kurdish fighters, according to and isolated street brawls broke support to anti-government women and children trapped spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition, leave a meeting at the the Britain-based Syrian Ob- out in several parts of Bangkok. protesters outside a polling station in a blockaded Syrian city, and European headquarters of the UN in Geneva on Sunday. servatory for Human Rights. The chaos underscored in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday. the government said President SALVATORE DI NOLFI/KEYSTONE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The blockaded districts of the precariousness of Thai- WASON WANICHAKORN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bashar Assad had no intention Homs came under intense fire land’s fragile democracy, and of giving up “the keys to Da- and lose one week.” that activists blamed on the the increasing weakness of “It’s a sad day for democracy mascus.” The limited agreement to government, calling into ques- Prime Minister Yingluck Shi- when the right to vote ... is as- Quoted With little progress to show let women and children leave tion how any deals reached in nawatra’s elected administra- saulted by a political movement after months of international a blockaded part of the old city remote Switzerland could be “This is a red line. If some tion. Yingluck had called the that claims to be striving for pressure for the conference of Homs, under negotiation for implemented or verified in a Feb. 2 vote in a failed bid to reform and people’s empower- people think we are in Geneva, the UN mediator at least two days, fell far short chaotic civil war with dozens of ease months of street protests, ment,” Sunai Phasuk, a senior coming here to give them hoping to broker an end to of expectations and was called players that began as a largely but police did not disperse the researcher at Human Rights Syria’s civil war defended their into question by multiple re- peaceful uprising against Assad. the keys of Damascus crowds because of longstand- Watch, said of the protesters. pace. ports of government shelling. More than 130,000 people ing orders to avert violence, “Everything that happened to- they are wrong.” “I think being too slow is a The talks have yet to touch have died in less than three which many fear would give day shows they are striving for better way than going too fast,” upon the issue of a possible years, and millions of Syrians Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister the all-powerful army reason to the opposite.” Faisal al-Mikdad Lakhdar Brahimi said. “If you transitional government — have fled their homes. stage a coup. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS run, you may gain one hour their purpose according to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egypt. Presidential elections to come first, then parliamentary Egypt’s interim president El-Sissi announced Sunday that the country will hold presidential elections before parliament- The general has not ary polls, promising that a rise yet made a formal in “dark terrorism” won’t de- announcement. He would rail a transition to democracy have to quit his post as following a July 3 popularly defence minister before backed military coup. launching a campaign for The announcement, ex- the presidency. pected after weeks of specu- lation, comes as many think (cid:580)(cid:3) Under the new constitution, a president army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will run for president can serve a maximum of Protester commemorated after dying in Kyiv clashes two four-year terms. after leading the coup that toppled Islamist President Protesters carry a coffin of Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, one of two protesters who died of gunshot wounds on Wednesday, during a commemorative service Mohammed Morsi. in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday. Ukraine’s opposition called off a massive rally planned for Sunday because of the funeral for a protester killed in clashes with But Egypt remains dan- passage, or before the end of police last week, underscoring the rising tensions in the country’s two-month political crisis. The opposition contends they were shot by police in an gerously divided, as seen in April, with the parliamentary area where demonstrators had been throwing rocks and firebombs at riot police for several days. DARKO VOJINOVIC/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS clashes Saturday that pitted se- polls held before the end of curity forces and civilians who July. back the interim government There have been growing Congo Ferry disaster Somalia Seleka group against Morsi supporters, kill- calls for el-Sissi to run, with ing 49 people. There has also many among Egypt’s turmoil- Explosions kill Tourist boat sinks Commander Top rebels flee been a rise in militant attacks, exhausted public saying only including one on Sunday that a strongman can deal with the and wound many off Indian islands killed by missile the CAR killed three soldiers in the country’s myriads problems, country’s lawless Sinai Penin- like restoring stability and The United Nations A boat carrying local tour- A member of Somali Top members of the rebel sula. legitimizing the interim gov- peacekeeping mission in ists capsized Sunday in rebel group al-Shabab coalition loyal to Central In a brief nationally tele- ernment installed after Morsi’s Congo says explosions India’s Andaman Sea in the was killed Sunday by African Republic’s former vised speech, Interim President ouster. from an arms depot near Bay of Bengal, killing 21 a missile fired by a president fled the capital Adly Mansour said he will ask “The country needs a strong the diamond-mining hub people, officials said. suspected drone, a rebel under the protection of Egypt’s election commission to president, more than it needs of Mbuji-Mayi have killed Thirteen were saved, and commander said, blam- Chadian peacekeepers open the door for presidential a parliament or elected law- more than 20 people. A UN rescuers were looking for ing the U.S. for the strike. Sunday, witnesses said, candidates to register. Egypt’s makers,” said Omar Gamaled- statement says the explo- another 11 people believed The attack took place in suggesting the rebels’ de- newly adopted constitution din, a Cairo resident. “This is a sions injured 50 people. to be missing. a village called Hawai, he mise could be imminent. calls for the first election to good decision.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS be held within 90 days of its THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Monday, January 27, 2014 metronews.ca | twitter.com/vancouvermetro | facebook.com/vancouvermetro VANCOUVER NEWS WORTH SHARING. What’s a little fib Hundreds say BIEKSA PLAYS THE between family? farewell to search HERO IN OVERTIME leader Tim Jones HIS TWO GOALS LIFT THE CANUCKS Parents recall tricks they use to OVER THE VISITING COYOTES 5-4 protect their kids from their own Parade and memorial held in PAGE 21 bad habits PAGE 18 North Vancouver PAGE 4 ‘No one believes the risk is zero’ Oilsands. U.S. study Quoted increased production of oil- warns of risks and sands products,” the report says. unknowns in transport “Little research is It was written by six ex- of Alberta bitumen currently available perts at the University of regarding the behaviour Washington and supervised by Prof. Robert Pavia of the of oilsands products university’s School of Marine U.S. scientists are warning spilled into water, and and Environmental Affairs. that there are environmental how they weather in the “While there are many risks, regulatory holes and arguments about the level of environment.” serious unknowns regarding risk, no one believes the risk the shipment of Alberta oil- Excerpt from 2013 U.S. study is zero,” Pavia told The Can- sands products by pipeline, adian Press, adding that he rail and tanker. was speaking personally. “In The findings are in a 153- The study examined the my mind it’s not a question of page report from last Sep- different ways to transport Al- whether a spill will occur, but tember by the emergency berta’s bitumen, a molasses- how well-prepared we are for response division of the U.S. like crude oil, over U.S. land a spill once it does occur.” National Oceanic and Atmos- and water. Those included In the case of Northern pheric Administration. The rail, the proposed Kinder-Mor- Gateway, not only might unit has expertise in pre- gan Trans Mountain pipeline there be potential to harm DUO GET LUCKY paring for, evaluating and to Vancouver, the Keystone Washington State shores, responding to oil and chem- XL line to Texas from Alberta there could be hazards from ical spills in coastal environ- and Northern Gateway. tankers leaving Kitimat to ments. “Most oilsands products travel through the waters Enbridge, the company are transported to market of Alaska, near the Aleutian Musicians Thomas Bangalter, left, and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk accept the best behind the proposed North- via existing and proposed Islands to Asia. ern Gateway pipeline to the pipelines; however, a sharp Both Canada and the pop duo/group performance award for Get Lucky onstage during the 56th Grammy Awards on Sunday B.C. coast, counters that most increase in the use of rail and United States need to renew in Los Angeles. Daft Punk led the pack with fi ve awards. More Grammy coverage, page 16. of the concerns raised in the marine transport can be ex- and expand efforts to reduce KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES report are out-of-date, over- pected while new pipelines any risks, Pavia said. stated or being resolved. are constructed to match the THE CANADIAN PRESS HEALTH CARE ASSISTANT PROGRAM The Health Care Assistant program is designed to provide students with opportunities to 110 develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to function effectively as front-line care-givers and respected members of a health care team. - CAREER OPPORTUNITIES: HOME SUPPORT, LONG TERM CARE, ASSISTED LIVING, SPECIAL CARE UNITS CALL 310.HIRE (4473) OR VISIT SPROTTSHAW.COM On January 28, for every text message sent or long distance call made by a subscriber*, Bell will donate 5 ¢ more for initiatives helping the millions of Canadians affected by mental illness. bell.ca/letstalk #BellLetsTalk *Regular long distance and text message charges apply metronews.ca NEWS 03 Monday, January 27, 2014 Investigation Police ID Kelowna man found dead RCMP have identified the Kelowna man found dead Saturday morning as 32-year-old Christopher Ausman. Ausman was found dead in a neighbourhood by Highway 33 and police N are treating his death as suspicious. Const. Kris Clark says he can’t reveal the cause of death, as it may comprom- ise the investigation. E THE CANADIAN PRESS Pulp mill Investigators to W examine cause of fi re in Kamloops NDP MLAs Harry Bains, left, Sue Hammell and Bruce Ralston call for the creation of a community court outside the North Surrey Recreation Centre on Sunday. LUKE BROCKI/METRO Authorities are investigat- Surrey in urgent need of ing the cause of a fire that broke out in a Kamloops S pulp mill. The city’s fire depart- ment was called to Domtar community court: NDP mill Saturday night after flames started burning around the electrical trans- former. Spokeswoman Bonnie Skeene says there were Growing pains. Mayor resources and unregulated with health and social servi- entity to conduct its sessions. no injuries and the flames Watts to discuss addiction recovery houses. ces since it opened in 2008. “It’s getting to the root were doused within a Now the New Democrats in- Galvanized by last month’s cause of those crimes, which couple of hours. issue with B.C. justice sist what’s missing is an al- killing of a 53-year-old hock- we know are mental health, She says no evacuation minister next month ternative system of justice, ey mom outside the Newton addictions, at-risk people liv- was necessary, though one that takes a problem- arena — in a random rob- ing at-risk lifestyles,” Watts production was halted for solving approach to address bery that took a brutal turn said in a phone interview. 12 hours. Mill safety has underlying causes of crim- —- the NDP is accusing the “Jail is not necessarily the been an ongoing issue The B.C. government should inal behaviour. provincial government of place for them.” since an explosion ripped fast-track the creation of a “Judge Thomas Gove, who broken promises to expand In an emailed statement, through a sawmill in Burns community court in Surrey presides over the Vancouver the pilot. B.C. Justice Minister Suzanne Lake two years ago, killing to help that city’s at-risk resi- community court and for- Surrey Mayor Dianne Anton was noncommittal, two people and injuring 20 dents move their struggles mer attorney general Wally Watts said her council’s saying her office was study- more. with addiction and violence Oppal are on the record stat- crime reduction strategy has ing innovative justice initia- WorkSafe BC conducted beyond the revolving door of ing that the Vancouver com- long been working to enrich tives, including Vancouver’s a botched investigation that the overtaxed criminal jus- munity court has been suc- the city’s mental-health and Downtown Community produced evidence that tice system, said NDP MLAs cessful,” said Surrey-Green social services and that a Court, “to see if what we the Crown could not use at a press conference outside Timbers MLA Sue Hammell. community court is a wel- learn can be applied in other in court, leading Premier the North Surrey Recreation The Vancouver commun- come next step. communities.” Christy Clark to appoint her Centre Sunday morning. ity court pilot project, the To help move things Watts said she is sched- deputy minister to review Surrey is B.C.’s fastest- first of its kind in Canada, along, she said she is willing uled to discuss the matter the case. THE CANADIAN PRESS growing city and one chal- has helped some 1,500 of- to donate the use of council with Anton on Feb. 5. lenged by strained police fenders per year connect chambers for the would-be LUKE BROCKI/METRO 04 NEWS metronews.ca Monday, January 27, 2014 Apparent arson won’t spoil skater shrine: Supporters A lasting memorial. terials to a smoldering heap and charred the wall and Donors lining up to ceiling of the concrete park, help repair tribute to wiping out part of a mural commemorating Matasi’s slain Good Samaritan life. The park remains closed. “It’s a disappointing situa- MATT tion,” said park board com- KIELTYKA missioner Sarah Blyth, a [email protected] former member of the Van- couver Skateboard Coalition Skateboarders and the Van- and the Leeside stewardship couver Park Board promise group. to do everything they can to “We’ll do everything we restore Leeside Tunnel to its can to make it a usable space full glory after the unique again. This is a treasure, as skate spot was torched in an well as a memorial to Lee, for apparent arson last week. the city.” Part skate park, part street- The skating community art shrine, the covered area and volunteers had recently near Highway 1 and Hastings raised $25,000 to add features Street stands as a tribute to to the beloved park. Lee Matasi, who was killed The total cost of damage is on Dec. 3, 2005, while trying unknown, but Blyth is heart- to talk down a gun-wielding ened that donors are already stranger outside a nightclub. stepping forward and offer- But on Wednesday night, ing to replace any building two people apparently en- materials lost in the blaze. tered the tunnel and set fire Blyth and members of the to wood and tires being used Vancouver Skateboard Coali- to build a new quarter pipe. tion says police are actively The fire reduced the ma- investigating the fire. Char marks on the exterior of the Leeside Tunnel in East Vancouver on Sunday. The skate park was damaged in an apparent arson on Wednesday. JEFF HODSON/METRO Memorial for search-and-rescue leader draws a grateful crowd Hundreds of mourners bid a compassionate. started on 15th Street and final goodbye to search-and- “I feel privileged to not Lasting impact Forbes Avenue and ended at rescue leader Tim Jones at a only call him dad but my Centennial Theatre. “It’s unbelievable to parade and memorial in his best friend, my mentor and The Tim Jones Memorial honour in North Vancouver my colleague,” he said. “Dad, see the support of the Endowment Fund was creat- on Saturday. when the pager goes, we’ll be public and the different ed to provide tuition support The crowd included there.” for future paramedics and organizations.” family, friends, RCMP, search- Jones, a 57-year-old team search-and-rescue students. and-rescue members as well leader for the volunteer North Shore resident Brian Benson Because the seating in the as some of the many people North Shore Rescue, died theatre was limited, the pub- Paramedic Ron Glanville carries the remains of North Shore Rescue leader he had rescued. after a heart attack on his Helicopters flew around lic watched the service on big Tim Jones into a ceremony celebrating his life in North Vancouver on Jones’ son Curtis remem- way down from Mount Sey- the neighbourhood during screens set up outside. Saturday. DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS bered his father as brave and mour last Sunday. the 90-minute parade, which SINDHU DHARMARAJAH/FOR METRO Bordeaux of beers coming to Vancouver Testing the adage that al- by-volume measure of 28 per place at flagship BC Liquor claims the labour of love has cohol sales thrive in hard cent. Store locations, but following been aged in everything from times, the BC Liquor Distribu- “This is not just any beer,” complaints from suburban bourbon casks to rum barrels, tion Branch is bringing in an said Tarina Palmer, spokes- and rural customers, manage- tasting noble hops and exotic American brew worth $150 a woman for the Liquor Distri- ment landed on a democratic spices. bottle. bution Branch. “There’s such approach for this release: the “This is kind of like a The branch has secured a wide variety of craft beers first-ever draw for a chance to Bordeaux for beer drinkers,” 84 bottles of Samuel Adams available on the market, but buy a single bottle. 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Vertical 2012 to great acclaim, promis- duce commercialized vertical parking lot.” ing the pesticide-free, local pro- gardens in every major North But Non-Partisan Associa- urban farm wilted before duce grown at the top of a five- American city within five years. tion (NPA) councillor George Af- it got off the ground storey parkade at 535 Richards But just over a year into that fleck said the writing has long St. would elevate the buy-local plan, the dream has died on the been on the wall and criticized movement to new levels. vine. Alterrus filed for bank- Vision Vancouver-dominated The plan was to sell the let- ruptcy Thursday. council for handing Alterrus The operators of a novel urban tuce and other leafy greens to “It’s disappointing to hear,” the city-owned land without farm have filed for bankruptcy local restaurants and grocers said Mayor Gregor Robertson, exploring other options for the amid accusations of poor judg- and pave the way forward for a major advocate for the ven- space. Now, he says, the city ment at city hall. high-density urban farming. ture. “Having Alterrus lease the (through EasyPark) is on the Alterrus’ VertiCrop verti- After Vancouver, the com- space generated more revenue hook for at least $13,000 in un- Alterrus’ urban farm was located at a city-owned parkade on Richards Street cal urban farm opened in late pany said it wanted to intro- for the city than when it was a paid rent. MATT KIELTYKA/METRO and used vertical trays to grow greens for local sale. THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE Binning House. Advocate pushing to keep historic house open to the public It may look like a simple, The design single-storey, flat-roofed bungalow embedded into the hillside of West Vancou- When it was finished, it ver, but the early modernist looked like no other house home built by Canadian art- in Canada, boasting a flat ist Bertram Binning in 1941 roof sloped at 15 degrees, remains culturally significant large, open windows, an to this day, says a local herit- open floor plan and batten- age advocate. board — or vertical profile Binning House is, after all, — cedar siding, Weder said. a National Historic Site. And with its potential sale to a Vancouver businessman it was finished, the house by the financially troubled that sits on a quiet residential The Land Conservancy of B.C. street and offers ocean views now adjourned by a court, is significant for several rea- Adele Weder is urging locals sons, said Weder. to get educated and involved Binning, one of the coun- so the house remains open to try’s most important post- public use. war artists, built the home, “Learn more about the she added. The Land Con- house, get interested and let’s servancy described him as a look at a collaborative way painter and prolific sketcher that, you know, everyone can who was influenced by Pablo benefit from the house,” said Picasso and Henri Matisse Weder, who is also an archi- and was always interested in tectural writer and curator. architecture. Seventy-three years after THE CANADIAN PRESS Got a Starbucks gift card? New report. 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The vessels collided in “left the wheelhouse un- heavy fog 35 miles west of La- attended just prior to the col- Push, a small community on lision.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 07 Monday, January 27, 2014 Looking for love, and a free vacation The Bachelor Canada. a dozen women turned up for who notices the little things,” in the fall of 2014. Local casting call The Bachelor Canada’s first she said. She hopes that her Notably, no man was in attracts a dozen women casting call at the Opus Hotel outgoing personality will catch sight for the highly praised role in Vancouver on Saturday mor- the eye of producers, so she can of the bachelor, which is still up looking for a rose ning. receive her very own rose. for grabs. Sabrina Fetterkind’s mother Not all of the hopeful bach- “It’s obviously one of the SINDHU encouraged her to audition for elors and bachelorettes for most important roles on the DHARMARAJAH the open casting call, and the Season 2 were in attendance show, and you obviously need [email protected] 22-year-old believes she knows because some had appoint- someone who is quite good what she wants out of the ex- ments, according to executive looking, and someone who Whether it was for a free ad- perience. producer Clair Freeland, who has had some experience with Executive producers Claire Freeland, second left, and Sean De Vries hold a casting venture or for true love, about “I’m hoping to find a guy says the show is expected to air love,” said Freeland. call for The Bachelor Canada at the Opus Hotel Saturday. SINDHU DHARMARAJAH/METRO Greg Matters. Coroner’s inquest into fatal RCMP shooting resumes A coroner’s inquest will resume Why was the response by the Monday into the fatal RCMP RCMP such an aggressive one?” shooting of a former British The inquest has also raised Columbia soldier in treatment some other questions. at the time for post-traumatic A pathologist testified that stress disorder. Matters was shot twice in the Greg Matters was shot in the back — contrary to a public re- back by a member of the RCMP port released by the province’s emergency response team in Independent Investigations the driveway of the rural home Office, clearing police of any he shared with his mother wrongdoing. near Prince George on Sept. 10, “That seems at odds a bit 2012. He was being arrested for with some of the testimony,” assaulting his older brother. Ward said. The two weeks of testimony The jury also heard that before the inquest was ad- Matters was unable to work journed in December raised as due to his mental health strug- many questions as it provided gles and a back injury suffered answers about the death of the in Bosnia in 2001. He was living 40-year-old former peacekeep- with his mother and surviving er. “I have so many questions,” on a $123-a-month military says Greg’s mother, Lorraine pension when his sister, from Matters, for whom the inquest her home in Australia, finally has been emotional and troub- contacted an operational stress ling. injury clinic in Vancouver that The inquest heard last took him as a client. month that Matters was hon- The RCMP officers involved ourably discharged from the testified they were aware that military in 2009 after a 15-year Matters suffered from PTSD, yet career, and was already exhib- a helicopter and a team of offi- iting signs of PTSD then. cers dressed in head-to-toe cam- The seven men and women ouflage gear and armed with on the coroner’s jury heard M16s were sent to arrest him. that Matters had several run- Dr. Greg Passey, who oper- ins with police, beginning with ated the stress injury clinic and RCMP in New Brunswick when was treating Matters, testified he was based at CFB Gagetown. that RCMP did not allow him to He said officers ultimately speak to the former soldier as broke into his home and woke he was surrounded by police in him at gunpoint on a purported the hours before his death. “wellness check.” “It is my true opinion and After returning to British conviction that had I been able Columbia, Matters’ former to speak to Greg that night, I therapist complained to police could have talked him out,” he about threatening emails, and told jurors. he was charged and acquit- The jurors heard that Mat- ted of assaulting his brother. ters pleaded for help in the He was jailed for threatening years prior to the standoff that the head of the RCMP public night with RCMP. He sent a complaints commission over handwritten note to a court- the New Brunswick incident, appointed psychiatrist and was and later threatened to kill the doing well in his work with Pas- Crown lawyer in that case. sey. Questions remain about Members of the emergency why RCMP deployed the ERT response team are scheduled over “what, really, was a fairly to testify this week, as well as minor family dispute,” said the lead investigator from the Cameron Ward, the lawyer Independent Investigations Of- for Matters’ mother and sister. fice. “That’s the central question: THE CANADIAN PRESS 08 NEWS metronews.ca Monday, January 27, 2014 ‘We will try to find the strength to get through this’ L’Isle-Verte. Owner of No rush to judgment fire-ravaged seniors’ “We will wait for the inquiry because now we don’t home speaks about have the results of this evaluation and examination. tragic loss of life to After that, we will see if there are some new rules over 1,000 gathered at to adopt.” Quebec Premier Pauline Marois, who said she wants to see the results of commemorative mass the various investigations into the blaze before rushing to judgment on a solution. included Quebec Premier Pau- Sunday by bitter cold, poor The owner of a Quebec seniors’ line Marois and Liberal Leader visibility, blowing snow and residence that burned to the Philippe Couillard. “We will winds up to 90 km/h, provin- ground offered his condolences try to find the strength to get cial police Lt. Guy Lapointe told to the victims Sunday. through this.” a news conference. Speaking to a throng of re- A more formal commem- Marois arrived in L’Isle-Verte porters outside the church in orative ceremony, featuring on Sunday to see first-hand the L’Isle-Verte, Roch Bernier said more dignitaries, is scheduled results of the fatal fire, cutting it was not the right time to say for this Saturday. Sunday was a short a trip to Europe to deliver whether he would rebuild the chance for the tiny Quebec vil- condolences in the village of residence. lage to voice its collective grief, about 1,500. He said the mass, attended with priest Gilles Frigon calling The premier called the by more than 1,000 people, it “a first step toward healing.” brutal blaze “unacceptable” was a day for the victims, the Meanwhile, authorities said and said she hopes such a tra- missing and residents of the there was no change in the gedy never repeats. town. number of victims. Ten people She told a news conference Bernier received a standing have been confirmed dead that everything is being done ovation as he stood up to speak and 22 others are missing and to provide support for those at the mass. presumed dead after Thurs- who survived the fire and to “What you’re living inside, day’s blaze at the Résidence du give closure to those still await- A woman holding a picture of her husband, who died in last week’s seniors’ residence fire, arrives for a commemorative we are living it inside as well,” Havre. ing word on their loved ones. service for the victims on Sunday in L’Isle-Verte, Que. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS he told the gathering, which Searches were hampered THE CANADIAN PRESS Hundreds rally in Ottawa to ‘save Canada Post’ Around 300 protesters customers, this is an attack postage prices. The feds also Council president Sean Mc- marched through downtown on our whole country and plan to cut thousands of jobs Kenney told the hundreds Ottawa en route to the Prime everybody who lives in this over the next five years. huddled around him trying Minister’s Office (PMO) Sun- country,” said Ian Anderson, The plan doesn’t sit well to stay warm that the changes day to protest government president of the Canadian with Sid Ryan, the president will mostly affect “our elder- plans to end door-to-door mail Union of Postal Workers of Ontario Federation of ly, our disabled, our sick, our delivery. (CUPW) Ottawa local, to a roar Labour, who rallied the crowd seniors,” and said Canada Post Marching to the beat of of cheers. Sunday. CEO Deepak Chopra has been Bob Marley’s Get Up, Stand “We need to stop this cor- “This social program of “completely ignoring sugges- Up, the employees, most of poration and stop this gov- postal delivery has been in tions by others.” them from Montreal, blew ernment — it’s an attack on place for 150 years. It is one The CUPW plans to con- whistles and waved signs everybody.” of those social programs that tinue to protest the changes while shouting, “Save Canada The Crown corporation is unites our country, just like with door-to-door campaigns Post” as they converged at the eyeing $900 million in sav- the health-care system,” he and other crusades to drum PMO for the rally. ings every year by replacing said. “We’re not going down up even more support to save Billie the dog walks along with about 2,000 people marching through the “This is not just an at- foot delivery with commun- without a fight.” urban postal service. streets of Ottawa in support of the CUPW, which rallied outside Prime Minister tack on Canada Post and our ity mail boxes and increasing Ottawa & District Labour TREVOR GREENWAY/METRO IN OTTAWA Stephen Harper’s office Sunday. FRED CHARTRAND/THE CANADIAN PRESS Back in session Privacy Life’s a beach for Biebs next month’s budget the Ottawa and Washing- Eddy Vasquez was centrepiece of the winter ton will start sharing filming a show at the As Parliament Border officials Justin Bieber sitting. their citizens’ travel and Pacific Coast resort in returns, scandal, But New Democrats to share personal biographic data this sum- spotted relaxing Punta Chame, about 145 and Liberals believe the mer, means anyone from kilometres west of Pan- budget, expected info with federal in Panama amid ongoing RCMP inves- Canada travelling to or ama City, when he spot- to dominate tigation and potential government from the U.S. by land will DUI charges ted Bieber and members charges against Prime have his or her informa- of his entourage walking MPs return to Parlia- Minister Stephen Canadian border officials tion passed on to federal A Panamanian radio and along the beach. ment on Monday with Harper’s former chief of plan to share personal in- departments. TV host says Justin Bieber He and his crew took the spectre of the Senate staff and four senators formation obtained under The Canadian Border has been relaxing on a pictures of the singer and expenses scandal still will keep the government a new Canada-U.S. border Services Agency confirmed beach in Panama on a his companions, who got hovering over the gov- firmly mired in the Sen- data-exchange program the new practice and said vacation from the U.S., on personal watercraft ernment, which says it in- ate scandal, as it was for with other federal depart- data would only be passed where he faces DUI char- and travelled to a nearby tends to remain focused most of last year. ments. in accordance to stringent ges after being arrested island. on the economy, with THE CANADIAN PRESS The program, in which rules. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE last week. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS metronews.ca NEWS 09 Monday, January 27, 2014 NSA engages in industrial spying: Snowden Interview on German In the interview, aired the NSA of doing with such the files. Sunday night on German information — he only said He also said U.S. govern- TV. Intelligence leaker public television broadcast- he didn’t want to reveal the ment representatives want- alludes to more er ARD, Snowden said if Ger- details before journalists ed to kill him, according man engineering company did. to a simultaneous German revelations to come Siemens had information Snowden also told ARD translation by the station. that would benefit the U.S., television that he was no Snowden referred to an arti- but had nothing to do with longer in possession of any cle he had read on Buzzfeed Former NSA contractor Ed- national security needs, the NSA documents, because he in which U.S. government ward Snowden claimed in a National Security Agency had passed them all on to representatives had told a new interview that the U.S. would still use it. a few selected journalists reporter that they wanted to agency is involved in indus- It wasn’t clear what and that he had no further kill him. trial espionage. exactly Snowden accused influence on the release of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden THE GUARDIAN FILE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Military info Seasick Whistleblower Outbreak aboard freed in Israel cruise ship Israel’s prison service says a U.S. health officials on If you can take a picture, former soldier who passed Sunday boarded a cruise hundreds of classified ship docked in the U.S. documents to a newspaper Virgin Islands to investi- reporter has been freed gate an illness outbreak after more than two years that has stricken nearly in jail. Spokeswoman 10 per cent of passen- Sivan Weizman said Anat gers with gastrointes- Kamm walked free Sunday tinal symptoms including morning. vomiting and diarrhea. Kamm began serving a Officials said that 281 prison term in 2011 after passengers aboard Royal being convicted of passing Caribbean International’s military information to a ship have reported getting reporter. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS sick. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS End-of-life debate. Brain- dead, pregnant woman is taken off life support then you can deposit a cheque. Erick Munoz stands with an undated photograph of himself with wife Marlise and their son, Mateo. RON T. ENNIS/THE FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE The family of a brain-dead, She was 14 weeks pregnant CIBC eDepositTM. Now on our Mobile Banking App. pregnant Texas woman said when her husband found her Sunday afternoon that she has unconscious on Nov. 26, pos- Another way CIBC makes it easier to bank where, when and how you want. been removed from life sup- sibly due to a blood clot. port following a judge’s ruling Both the hospital and family that a Fort Worth hospital was agreed before Wallace’s ruling misapplying state law in the that Marlise Munoz meets the case. criteria to be considered brain- A statement sent Sunday dead, which means she is dead afternoon by lawyers for the both medically and under Texas husband of Marlisa Munoz says law, and that her fetus, at about she was disconnected from life 23 weeks, could not be born For personal and business accounts. support at about 11:30 a.m. alive this early in pregnancy. Visit cibc.com/edeposit. Judge R.H. Wallace had The case has raised ques- given the hospital until 5 p.m. tions about end-of-life care and ANDROID APP ON Monday to comply with his rul- whether a pregnant woman ing to remove Munoz from life who is considered legally and Google play is a trademark of Google Inc. App Store is a trademark or service mark of Apple Inc., support, which Erick Munoz medically dead should be kept registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are owned by CIBC or related entities. says is what his wife would on life support for the sake of a have wanted. fetus. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 10 NEWS metronews.ca Monday, January 27, 2014 Syria peace talks lead to Advance voting. Thai protesters force closure deal for city under siege of many polling stations Anti-government demonstra- tors swarmed dozens of polling The city of Homs. terms laid out when they were stations in Thailand on Sunday first conceived. But the govern- to stop advance voting for next Activists say about 800 ment was unequivocal that week’s general elections, chain- families are trapped Assad’s future was assured in ing gates shut, threatening vot- the country led by his family ers and preventing hundreds of without regular access since 1970. thousands of people from cast- to food or medicine In Syria, the war continued ing ballots. as if there were no effort to stop A protest faction leader was it — gunfire and shelling in fatally shot in a confrontation Homs, between Assad’s forces near a voting centre that also Two days of face-to-face peace and rebels, and between the left 11 people wounded, the talks yielded a narrow and ten- al-Qaida-linked militants and city’s emergency services said, A Bangkok resident shows her tative agreement Sunday for Syrian opposition chief negotiator Hadi Bahra, left, and Louay Safi, Kurdish fighters, according to and isolated street brawls broke support to anti-government women and children trapped spokesman for the Syrian National Coalition, leave a meeting at the the Britain-based Syrian Ob- out in several parts of Bangkok. protesters outside a polling station in a blockaded Syrian city, and European headquarters of the UN in Geneva on Sunday. servatory for Human Rights. The chaos underscored in Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday. the government said President SALVATORE DI NOLFI/KEYSTONE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The blockaded districts of the precariousness of Thai- WASON WANICHAKORN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Bashar Assad had no intention Homs came under intense fire land’s fragile democracy, and of giving up “the keys to Da- and lose one week.” that activists blamed on the the increasing weakness of “It’s a sad day for democracy mascus.” The limited agreement to government, calling into ques- Prime Minister Yingluck Shi- when the right to vote ... is as- Quoted With little progress to show let women and children leave tion how any deals reached in nawatra’s elected administra- saulted by a political movement after months of international a blockaded part of the old city remote Switzerland could be “This is a red line. If some tion. Yingluck had called the that claims to be striving for pressure for the conference of Homs, under negotiation for implemented or verified in a Feb. 2 vote in a failed bid to reform and people’s empower- people think we are in Geneva, the UN mediator at least two days, fell far short chaotic civil war with dozens of ease months of street protests, ment,” Sunai Phasuk, a senior coming here to give them hoping to broker an end to of expectations and was called players that began as a largely but police did not disperse the researcher at Human Rights Syria’s civil war defended their into question by multiple re- peaceful uprising against Assad. the keys of Damascus crowds because of longstand- Watch, said of the protesters. pace. ports of government shelling. More than 130,000 people ing orders to avert violence, “Everything that happened to- they are wrong.” “I think being too slow is a The talks have yet to touch have died in less than three which many fear would give day shows they are striving for better way than going too fast,” upon the issue of a possible years, and millions of Syrians Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister the all-powerful army reason to the opposite.” Faisal al-Mikdad Lakhdar Brahimi said. “If you transitional government — have fled their homes. stage a coup. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS run, you may gain one hour their purpose according to THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Egypt. Presidential elections to come first, then parliamentary Egypt’s interim president El-Sissi announced Sunday that the country will hold presidential elections before parliament- The general has not ary polls, promising that a rise yet made a formal in “dark terrorism” won’t de- announcement. He would rail a transition to democracy have to quit his post as following a July 3 popularly defence minister before backed military coup. launching a campaign for The announcement, ex- the presidency. pected after weeks of specu- lation, comes as many think (cid:580)(cid:3) Under the new constitution, a president army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi will run for president can serve a maximum of Protester commemorated after dying in Kyiv clashes two four-year terms. after leading the coup that toppled Islamist President Protesters carry a coffin of Mikhail Zhiznevsky, 25, one of two protesters who died of gunshot wounds on Wednesday, during a commemorative service Mohammed Morsi. in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday. Ukraine’s opposition called off a massive rally planned for Sunday because of the funeral for a protester killed in clashes with But Egypt remains dan- passage, or before the end of police last week, underscoring the rising tensions in the country’s two-month political crisis. The opposition contends they were shot by police in an gerously divided, as seen in April, with the parliamentary area where demonstrators had been throwing rocks and firebombs at riot police for several days. DARKO VOJINOVIC/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS clashes Saturday that pitted se- polls held before the end of curity forces and civilians who July. back the interim government There have been growing Congo Ferry disaster Somalia Seleka group against Morsi supporters, kill- calls for el-Sissi to run, with ing 49 people. There has also many among Egypt’s turmoil- Explosions kill Tourist boat sinks Commander Top rebels flee been a rise in militant attacks, exhausted public saying only including one on Sunday that a strongman can deal with the and wound many off Indian islands killed by missile the CAR killed three soldiers in the country’s myriads problems, country’s lawless Sinai Penin- like restoring stability and The United Nations A boat carrying local tour- A member of Somali Top members of the rebel sula. legitimizing the interim gov- peacekeeping mission in ists capsized Sunday in rebel group al-Shabab coalition loyal to Central In a brief nationally tele- ernment installed after Morsi’s Congo says explosions India’s Andaman Sea in the was killed Sunday by African Republic’s former vised speech, Interim President ouster. from an arms depot near Bay of Bengal, killing 21 a missile fired by a president fled the capital Adly Mansour said he will ask “The country needs a strong the diamond-mining hub people, officials said. suspected drone, a rebel under the protection of Egypt’s election commission to president, more than it needs of Mbuji-Mayi have killed Thirteen were saved, and commander said, blam- Chadian peacekeepers open the door for presidential a parliament or elected law- more than 20 people. A UN rescuers were looking for ing the U.S. for the strike. Sunday, witnesses said, candidates to register. Egypt’s makers,” said Omar Gamaled- statement says the explo- another 11 people believed The attack took place in suggesting the rebels’ de- newly adopted constitution din, a Cairo resident. “This is a sions injured 50 people. to be missing. a village called Hawai, he mise could be imminent. calls for the first election to good decision.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS be held within 90 days of its THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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