Metro Vancouver - January 30, 2015

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WEEKEND, January 30-February 1, 2015
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Furlong wants
sexual abuse
suit dismissed
Court. Accuser went student records for Immaculata
and that records show she was
to a different school attending St. Joseph’s School in
at time of alleged Smithers.
When Furlong’s lawyers
crimes, says lawyer
interviewed West in 2014 as
part of pre-trial proceedings,
she was asked to list the schools
A B.C. judge has reserved a deci- she had attended but Immacu-
sion on whether to throw out lata was not among them, ac-
a sexual-abuse lawsuit against cording to the application.
former Vancouver Olympics She was unable to initially
CEO John Furlong. remember the name of the
Grace West filed the suit school she attended where
in 2013, alleging Furlong sex- she said the abuse occurred,
ually abused her while he was Furlong’s lawyers say, adding
a teacher at Immaculata School that after a break she said the
in Burns Lake in 1969 and 1970. school’s name was Immacu-
Furlong’s lawyer has ap- lata.
plied to have West’s lawsuit dis- Records for St. Joseph’s
missed, arguing that she went School show that a Jessie West
to a different school at the time with the same birth date and
12 NORTH SET TO SOAR of the alleged abuse. father’s name attended from
B.C. Supreme Court Judge 1966 to 1970, according to the
Miriam Gropper reserved her court documents, which also
decision after a hearing on the say that West went by Jessie —
application Thursday. It was her middle name — until she
Charles Bar employees Krystal Mosionier, right, and Chelsea Harding are ready for Super Bowl Sunday. And according to a new Insights
not immediately clear when was 16 years old.
West poll, so is the rest of Vancouver, which has adopted the Seattle Seahawks as its own team in recent years. Super Bowl coverage, she will deliver her ruling. Furlong has vehemently
pages 4, 32, 33 & 34. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/FOR METRO The application claims that denied the allegations.
West’s name does not appear in THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Health
Measles outbreak
prompts offi cials to
urge vaccination
With spring break looming,
a B.C. health authority is
urging parents to vaccinate
their children in the wake
of a recent outbreak of
measles at Disneyland. N
Fraser Health spokes-
woman Tasleem Juma said
the disease outbreak serves
as a reminder for people
to check their immuniza-
tion status before going on E
vacation.
“We do live in a very
small world,” she told Met-
ro. “People are travelling all
the time, and there’s always W
a risk of illnesses crossing
borders and countries.”
More than 30 per cent of
children in the Vancouver A rendering of the 26-storey Cadillac Fairview tower proposed for the parking lot between the historic Waterfront station and The Landing building. CONTRIBUTED
area have not been vaccinat-
Design panel rejects
ed by their second birthday
as per the recommended
immunization schedule, ac- S
cording to Fraser Health.
Last March, a measles
outbreak in the Fraser Val-
ley region saw more than Waterfront tower
400 patients require hos-
pitalization in one month,
according to Fraser Health.
The health authority
recommends children
receive vaccinations at two, Urban development. it’s been described as “a hor- al that makes changes to the through the development
four, six, 12 and 18 months ror” by Vancouver’s former courtyard around the build- permit board and do not need
Decision likely won’t
of age, with a follow-up top planner — doesn’t mean ing and the lowest five floors a public hearing.
immunization known stop the building’s there will never be a tower but keeps the tower’s height The development per-
as a booster at age four. on the parking lot between and density the same. mit board meeting, origin-
eventual construction
Juma said children are not Waterfront Station and the “My gut feeling is we’re ally scheduled for March,
considered fully protected 110-year-old Landing build- not going to see significant will be rescheduled when
against vaccine-preventable ing. changes,” he said. the architects redesign the
diseases until they have EMILY The panel doesn’t really One of the difficulties with tower. The new design must
completed the recom- JACKSON have a problem with the the proposal is that the site, be presented to the Gastown
mended immunizations. [email protected] tower itself, said panel chair an excellent spot for tourists Heritage Advisory Committee
“The best way to protect Ryan Bragg, an architect and to take photos of the North and the Vancouver Heritage
yourself and your children The city’s urban-design panel principal at Perkins+Will. Shore mountains, is per- Commission before the board
is to get immunized,” she has rejected the proposal for “It’s not that the build- ceived as public space even meeting, wrote the city’s as-
said. a tower sandwiched between ing is in the wrong place, it’s though it’s a private parking sistant director of planning
The measles outbreak two historic buildings on the how it comes to the ground,” lot. Anita Molaro in an email.
that originated in Disney- edge of Gastown. Bragg said Thursday. “The “It’s a big change for “Timing is entirely in the
land has grown to 95 cases, But their decision to deny real issue was with the public people who think, ‘Oh, we’re applicant’s hands in terms
mostly in California. the controversial 26-storey of- realm and where the pedes- going to lose this,’” he said. of the need to redesign in
THANDI FLETCHER/METRO, WITH fice building designed by B+H trians are going to be.” The site is already zoned accordance with the urban
FILES FROM THE CANADIAN PRESS Architects and Adrian Smith He expects the architects for an office tower, so the design panel’s comments,”
+ Gordon Gill Architecture — will come back with a propos- proponents only need to pass Molaro wrote.
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WEEKEND, January 30-February 1, 2015
B.C.’s support for Seahawks
rivals that of hometown teams
Super Bowl. Survey Raising the 12th man flag regular gathering spot for
shows Seattle NFL team NFL fans, and its Super Bowl
screening party has been
has plenty of support A blue-and-white flag back- sold out for weeks now.
north of the border, but ing the Seattle Seahawks “If the Seahawks play, we
in Sunday’s Super Bowl has get comparable level of fans
nobody is going to ‘walk joined the Maple Leaf in the coming in as we do for hock-
away’ from the CFL skies above British Colum- ey games,” said Hannan.
bia’s capital. Vancouver will “Vancouver has really taken
follow suit Friday morning on the Seahawks as their
by raising a Seattle Sea- adopted team. The fan base
MATT hawks flag on the ceremon- and passion has been great
KIELTYKA ial pole at city hall. for business.”
[email protected] THE CANADIAN PRESS Insights West vice-
president Mario Canseco said
As if the sudden flood there seems to be enough
of blue-and-green re- sider themselves “occasion- love from sports fans to go
galia throughout the al” or “playoff” followers of around.
city wasn’t a giveaway, a the Seahawks. Support for the Lions
new poll has found that While Vancouver Can- remains strong, and the
Seattle Seahawks support ucks support still reigns Whitecaps have seen double-
from Vancouverites rivals supreme, the love for the digit growth in terms of sup-
that of hometown teams. Seahawks is comparable to port since they joined Major
Insights West asked Brit- that of the BC Lions (30 per League Soccer in 2011.
ish Columbians about their cent of respondents consider “We’re not seeing a situa-
adopted team ahead of the themselves fans, 38 per cent tion where the Seahawks’
Super Bowl and found that followers) and the Vancou- success is making anyone Charles Bar employees Krystal Mosionier, right, and Chelsea Harding are ready for Super Bowl Sunday.
21 per cent of respondents ver Whitecaps (15 per cent walk away from three-down JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO
consider themselves either fans, 30 per cent followers). (CFL) football,” he said.
“hard core” or “regular” fans That’s no surprise to Chris Given the rise in Sea- on Sunday. just five per cent for the New sporting Patriots gear at the
of the NFL franchise south of Hannan, general manager of hawks fandom in B.C., it’s The poll found 63 per England Patriots (32 per cent Charles on Sunday could be
the border. Gastown’s Charles Bar. also no surprise who British cent of respondents are root- are undecided or don’t care). feeling mightily outnum-
Another 23 per cent con- The bar has become a Columbians are cheering for ing for Seattle, compared to Those “few brave souls” bered, Hannan laughed.
UBC acquires 13th-century document signed by 2 popes
The UBC library’s newest by Pope Innocent IV in 1245, ments of its kind in Canada. from an antiquarian book
addition is anything but joins the UBC Library’s rare “UBC has acquired some- and manuscript seller in
new. books collection. thing really exceptional,” London, England last May.
The university an- It has also been digitized. said Richard Pollard, of the Library conservator
nounced on Thursday that The document, signed by UBC’s department of Hist- Anne Lama then carefully
it has procured a document Pope Innocent and 13 car- ory in a statement. “It’s very restored the document, pla-
that’s nearly 800 years old dinals (one of which would useful as a representation of cing it in a humidification
that’s been signed by not become Pope Nicholas III) medieval documents gener- chamber to soften thick
one, but two Catholic popes. and sent to the Italian con- ally.” creases caused by being
The medieval Papal bull, vent of San Michele in Tren- The bull was purchased folded for centuries.
UBC Library has acquired a medieval Papal bull. COURTESY UBC a legal decree issued in Latin to, is one of the oldest docu- for approximately $15,000 MATT KIELTYKA/METRO
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WEEKEND, January 30-February 1, 2015
Crime Crime Court
of a home on Vancouver’s closed amount of cash. Canada Day fireworks display
West Side on Jan. 15. The The first robbery police when a five-metre-long
84-year-old robbed, Serial robber strikes Trial date set
homeowner answered and recorded was Dec. 1 in speedboat crashed into a
beaten by man he the man told him he was again in B.C. Princeton, B.C. Eight days for fatal 2010 houseboat, killing Brown
working as a gardener in later the man was 200 and injuring eight of the 16
tried to help boat crash
the area and that his car had A serial bank robber struck kilometres north where he people aboard both vessels.
been towed. He asked to bor- again, this time in north- held up a Vernon financial The Crown is scheduled to
Vancouver police have row $6.70 for bus fare, which eastern B.C. RCMP issued a institution. Between Dec. 19 A man charged after a fatal call as many as 50 witnesses
arrested a man suspected the homeowner gave him. warning this week saying the and Jan. 21, the same person boat crash on B.C.’s Shuswap to testify in the B.C. Supreme
of robbing and beating an The man returned again man robbed eight banks over held up banks in High River, Lake is expected to go to trial Court trial that is also set to
84-year-old man who had the next day and asked for an eight-week period in Alta., Alta., Merritt, B.C., Swift in mid-February. hear from Reinbrecht.
tried to help him. more money. The home- Sask. and Man. Current, Sask., Lethbridge, Leon Reinbrecht is If he is found guilty, the
John Edward Barker, 54, owner refused the third RCMP in Dawson Creek Alta., Claresholm, Alta., and charged with criminal defence is expected to file
was arrested last Sunday and time, but the man grabbed say a man fitting the same Langley, B.C. negligence causing death and a constitutional challenge
charged with possession of the victim’s wallet and fled. description walked into Police have released criminal negligence causing based on alleged trial delays
stolen property, according A violent struggle ensued a bank on Wednesday, photos of the man entering bodily harm in the death of by the Crown. Reinbrecht was
to police. Police allege a and the victim sustained cuts produced a firearm and the banks and are asking the 53-year-old Kenneth Brown. charged in December 2011
man, believed to be Barker, and bruises. demanded money. public to help identify him. The accident occurred following a 17-month investi-
knocked on the front door THANDI FLETCHER/METRO He left with an undis- THE CANADIAN PRESS at the end of the July 2010 gation. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Boater says pleasure crafts
not responsible for dirty water
Metro Vancouver. was frequently banned at Sun- city, we’ve got to take care of
set Beach and West Vancouver it,” he said.
Medical officer raised
beaches. He questioned whether the
concerns about small While Patheiger absolutely sewage treatment plants that
vessels dumping waste agrees that boats shouldn’t serve the region can handle
be allowed to dump closer to the volume of waste due to the
shore, he believes the few hun- population influx.
dred people who moor their But Metro Vancouver’s gen-
EMILY
boats in transient locations eral manager of liquid waste
JACKSON
around town are “such a minor services Simon So said the
[email protected]
contribution to the problem.” wastewater treatment plants
Local boater Adrian Patheiger “We’ve got a massive grow- are perfectly able to handle the
doesn’t want the transient boat- ing population of people, waste.
ing community to get a bad rap we’ve got dog feces all over the Every year they do more
for the unusually bad water beach,” he said from the Creek- than 150,000 tests of discharges
quality around Metro Vancou- side dock on Thursday. “It’s not to ensure the treated wastew-
ver last summer. just the boats coming, but how ater is compliant with provin-
Patheiger, who has an- many people are moving here cial standards. Last year, the
chored his boat in False Creek every year … you just know the plants were 99.8 per cent in
frequently over the past two water didn’t look as clear as it compliance, So said. The un-
years, was surprised when a usually does.” usually high E. coli levels could
Vancouver Coastal Health med- There’s no dumping allowed have been caused by warm and
ical health officer raised the in False Creek, Patheiger said, dry weather, the number of
alarm about boats in response and while he acknowledged beach users, dogs, geese and
to Transport Canada’s proposal some people break the rules, boaters, he said.
to let small vessels dump un- he and other responsible boat The Lions Gate and Iona
treated sewage closer to shore. owners have black water tanks Island wastewater treatment
The health authority is onboard to hold sewage until it plants must, however, undergo
concerned looser rules could can be dumped at a pump sta- upgrades by 2020 and 2030 re-
lead to beach closures after tion. spectively to meet federal stan- Boater Adrian Patheiger with his dog Brinx on the dock in front of the Creekside community centre. Patheiger has
a summer where swimming “We live in a world-class dards. frequently anchored his boat in False Creek over the past two years. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO
Lengthy condo parking dispute results in sale of unit
A Port Coquitlam couple’s couple’s condo suite was or- more petitions in court and lost in legal fees. “This power is constitution- have the jurisdiction to order
dispute over a parking spot re- dered sold to remedy the con- again, with the court eventually A B.C. Supreme Court judge ally protected as a core aspect the sale of the appellant’s prop-
sulted in a years-long legal bat- tinuing contempt for failing to ruling Mrs. Bea was a vexatious finally ruled last year that the of a superior court’s inherent erty.”
tle that ended this week with pay fines imposed by a strata litigant, which resulted in the only way to put an end to the jurisdiction to punish for con- “It’s incredibly unfair,” the
a judge ordering their suite be council. court registry refusing to accept continuing contempt-of-court tempt,” ruled Appeal Court Jus- strata council’s lawyer, Phil
sold after the couple was re- The dispute first arose in any more filings or court docu- orders was to make an order for tice Nicole Garson and Justice Dougan, said of the court case
peatedly found in contempt of 2006 when the strata corpora- ments. seizure and sale of property, to Anne MacKenzie. dragging on for so many years.
court. tion assigned a parking spot The Beas repeatedly dis- be handled by the strata coun- In a dissenting ruling, Ap- The Beas’ suite is only worth
Cheng-Fu Bea and his wife to Cheng-Fu Bea, which he obeyed that order and were cil. peal Court Justice Richard about $170,000, he said, so the
Huei-Chi Yang Bea recently refused to park in, resulting subsequently found in con- Once again, the condo Goepel disagreed with his judi- other condo owners will have
appealed the contempt find- in $1,000 worth of fines for tempt of court. owner appealed. But the Ap- cial colleagues. In his opinion, to pay the remaining court bills.
ing made by the B.C. Supreme breaching the condo complex’s The matter resulted in 51 peal Court this week upheld “the court’s inherent jurisdic- The split decision gives the
Court judge but lost once again. parking bylaw. court appearances before 37 the lower-court ruling, finding tion to sentence for contempt appellants an automatic right
In a 2-1 ruling at the B.C. Bea’s wife, who owns the different judges, which cost the the court-ordered sale was fit was limited by the provisions of to appeal to the nation’s high-
Court of Appeal, the contempt couple’s condo, took the matter small 31-unit Port Coquitlam punishment to remedy the con- the Supreme Court Civil Rules, est court, the Supreme Court of
finding was upheld and the to court and lost. She filed two complex an estimated $250,000 tempt. and the chambers judge did not Canada. NEAL HALL/METRO
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WEEKEND, January 30-February 1, 2015
Students raise a stink about garbage
Environment. Capilano Capilano University students bage that actually shouldn’t important to recycle and … is to drive that number down to
are getting ready to talk trash be there,” facilities director Su- that the lack of knowledge is 25 per cent.
University’s waste audit on Tuesday for the university’s san Doig told Metro. “We had the main cause of unsuccessful New to this year’s audit is
aims to drive down annual waste audit. no idea how much garbage recycling,” she said in an email an “e-waste” component where
About 200 students and staff we would create in a day that interview. “Most importantly it community members can drop
amount of organics
will don safety gloves and aprons should have actually gone into changed my habits.” off old electronics like comput-
being tossed into trash to sort through a day’s worth of an organics waste stream.” Since the first waste audit in ers, telephones, smart devices,
garbage, the equivalent of about Capilano student Biljana 2011, Doig said the university cables and batteries.
a half-ton, in a bid to boost Radovic, who helped organize has seen the amount of organic Capilano University’s waste
awareness of recycling habits. this year’s event, said sorting waste being thrown into the audit takes place Tuesday from
THANDI “The idea is to look at who through garbage at past audits garbage drop from 69 per cent 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. behind the Capilano University students sort
FLETCHER we are as consumers and what was an eye-opening experience. to 40 per cent. Sportsplex at 2055 Purcell Way through garbage at a waste audit
[email protected] are we throwing in the gar- “It taught me why it is so This year, Doig said the goal in North Vancouver. event in 2013. CONTRIBUTED
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roundup of its top fraud cases abandoned and torched.
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One of those cases in- traced the incident back to
volved a woman who was a the owner, finding that the
passenger in a vehicle that truck had serious mechanical
was rear-ended by another problems prior to the arson.
vehicle. They also used his cell-
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Two in custody Worker died after
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Two men are in custody
after a shooting earlier this
week in Langford on south- The B.C. Coroners Service
ern Vancouver Island. says a man who died
Saanich police arrested at his workplace in the
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WEEKEND, January 30-February 1, 2015
Missed Coupland art? Google it
Technology. Street View Online
posts online, 360-degree
tour of popular exhibit Check out the virtual tour
at: www.google.com/cul-
turalinstitute/collection/
EMILY vancouver-art-gallery
JACKSON
[email protected]
Augaitis believes that nothing
There’s no need to worry if you can replicate the actual experi-
missed Douglas Coupland’s ence of being in the same room
wildly popular exhibit at the with artwork, she said the vir-
Vancouver Art Gallery this sum- tual tour is the next best thing.
mer — all you need to do is “It exposes the exhibition
Google it. to a wider audience,” she said.
For the first time, the Goo- “I think all of these different
gle Street View team brought dimensions are kind of ways to
its cameras to the gallery and, keep the ideas active and out
after months of behind-the- there in the world.”
scenes digitizing works, has Coupland is one of the first
posted an online, 360-degree Canadian artists to have his
tour of the exhibit titled “every- work featured on Google Street
where is anywhere is anything View. The exhibit was a perfect
is everything.” fit for the virtual forum consid-
Internet visitors can “walk” ering how Coupland’s work ex-
through the exhibit in the or- plores our culture’s obsession
der it was intended, zoom in with technology.
on pieces they like and click on “Coupland is obviously very
descriptions of individual art- interested and very keen on
works. (To quote one of Coup- technology and how it’s used,
land’s art pieces in the exhibit: how it changes the brain even,”
“Mind = Blown.”) Augaitis said. “He was very
While chief curator Daina keen to experiment with this.” Douglas Coupland at his exhibit at the Vancouver Art Gallery on May 29, 2014. JENNIFER GAUTHIER/METRO FILE
Home where B.C. dad killed his children ordered destroyed
The home where a British Col- mother. A resolution passed by council’s radar for some time and the city has received many Not criminally responsible
umbia man killed his three city council Tuesday said the and also raised the question complaints about its dilapidat-
children nearly seven years ago owners have until March 15 to “who would live there?” ed condition since 2012.
has been ordered destroyed by destroy and remove the home. “It was very difficult on the The city unsuccessfully tried Schoenborn was found not
a city in the province’s Interior. Neither the mayor nor the neighbourhood to continue to over the past few years to have criminally responsible for the
Allan Schoenborn stabbed chief administrative officer re- have a reminder of a terrible the owners remedy the situa- deaths, has spent the subse-
his daughter and then smoth- sponded to emailed requests tragedy,” he said. tion, it added, before declar- quent years at a Vancouver
ered his sons at their Merritt for an interview Thursday even- The resolution passed by ing the property a “nuisance” forensic hospital, and was
home in April 2008, leaving ing, but Coun. Kurt Christo- council said the home was un- under the Community Charter. denied escorted absences.
Allan Schoenborn METRO FILE their bodies to be found by their pherson said the issue was on inhabitable and abandoned THE CANADIAN PRESS
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sharing among federal Tim Hortons merged with 2012 to 2014 lay out the poor
departments and agencies, Burger King under Restau- living conditions on Manitoba
Prime Minister Stephen authorize CSIS to disrupt or About 350 employees lost rant Brands International late Federal government docu- reserves. The 2014 report
Harper will unveil Friday de- diminish threats earlier in their jobs at Tim Hortons this last year and the new owner ments show Manitoba is one noted that, at 28 per cent, the
tails of an omnibus bill that an investigation, deter and week in cuts focused mainly was widely expected to cut of the worst places for First province has the lowest high-
will enact two new laws, and order the removal of online on the company’s headquar- staff. Nations people to live in school graduation rate for
make amendments to the content that promotes terror- ters and regional offices. Part of Ottawa’s stipula- Canada and the worst among First Nations in the country.
criminal code, the CSIS Act, ism, enhance “no-fly” rules A spokeswoman said that tions in approving the mer- the provinces. Another update dated
the Immigration and Refugee for airline travelers deemed a all affected employees had ger restricted the company Internal reports from Ab- September 2013 notes that
Protection Act among others. risk, and lower the eviden- been notified and the layoffs from laying off more than 20 original Affairs and Northern 25 per cent of First Nations
It’s not clear whether the tiary threshold to issue peace were within commitments per cent of employees across Development show Manitoba children live in poverty. In
Conservatives are prepared to bonds — court-ordered re- made to Industry Canada to its offices nationwide, said natives are more likely to Manitoba, it said, 62 per cent
boost the budgets of national strictions on a person’s liberty maintain certain job levels. Industry Canada representa- grow up in poverty, drop out of aboriginal children live
security agencies. However, and communications. In total, roughly 15 per tive Jake Enwright. of school, live off social assist- below the poverty line.
the Official Opposition insists TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE cent of the 2,300 employees TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE ance in dilapidated housing THE CANADIAN PRESS
$13 million lost in seven seconds
Lottery. Supreme Ifergan argued the delay cost deadline but the ticket with
him dearly and that he should the fateful numbers burped out
Court decides against be entitled to one-half of the seven seconds after the cut-off.
hearing Joel Ifergan’s windfall — but the Supreme Ifergan alleged the trans-
Court disagreed. action was concluded on time
argument that a delay
On Thursday, the country’s and that both tickets were in
in processing his Super highest court ruled it wouldn’t the system at 8:59:47. What cost
hear his case against Loto-Que- him, he says, is the 10 seconds it
7 ticket cost him dearly
bec, effectively ending Ifergan’s takes for a ticket to emerge.
$100,000 legal battle. He’d al- “The contract was crystal-
ready lost in Quebec Superior lized at 8:59 p.m.,” he said.
A lot can happen in seven Court in 2012 and in the Que- “How they process their thing,
seconds. Just ask the Quebec bec Court of Appeal in 2014. that’s their problem, not mine,
man who says that brief period “My crusade is up, I’ve done and I end up being penalized.”
cost him $13.5 million. all I can, I spent enough money Ifergan says the Quebec lot-
Joel Ifergan bought two lot- going to the Supreme Court,” tery board works differently
tery tickets in May 2008, but the Ifergan said in a telephone from its provincial counter-
one with the eventual winning interview. parts.
combination popped out of the “If they decide that the “In the rest of Canada, they
terminal seven seconds after Crown corporations are above shut down at 9 p.m. and you
the 9 p.m. deadline. contract laws and the Con- can’t buy a ticket,” he said. “But
As Ifergan discovered the sumer Protection Act, well everything in their system prior
next day, his Super 7 ticket had then good luck to us. I’m ex- to 9 p.m. gets processed and you
all the right numbers but was tremely disappointed, but I get a ticket, even if it comes out
actually dated for the following think what’s more important is five minutes later.”
week. A delay in Loto-Quebec’s the Canadian people should be Ifergan was out for ice cream
computer system caused a lag worried.” and made a split-second deci-
in the issuing of the ticket for As the 9 p.m. deadline sion that evening to buy a few
that night’s $27-million jackpot, loomed on May 23, 2008, Ifer- Quick Pick tickets at a local con-
which was ultimately awarded gan made the purchase: The venience store. Joel Ifergan stands beside a copy of his lottery ticket Thursday at his home. Ifergan claims he is owed $13 million for
to another person. first ticket came in before the THE CANADIAN PRESS having the winning numbers, but the ticket was printed seven seconds after the deadline. RYAN REMIORZ/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Top soldier defends troops directing airstrikes in Iraq
Canada’s top soldier says he that those tactical air control- themselves under fire on the say that they support the
authorized troops to help Iraqi lers would be able to develop 6By t3he n%umbers front lines three separate troops more than the other,” ISIL
security forces to target Islamic techniques that would allow times, despite a mission lim- NDP foreign affairs critic Paul
State fighters, but denies that them, in the relative safety ited to advising and assisting Dewar said. Chief of Defence Staff Tom
can strictly speaking be called of their advise and assist pos- Iraqi troops. “This is about our job as Lawson said 80 per cent of
a “combat” role. itions, to be able to help the A new poll shows support remains strong For the opposition, Can- parliamentarians … We’re Canadian special forces’ time
Speaking before a parlia- … Iraqi security forces bring for CF-18 air strikes in Iraq. The poll, released ada’s role in the fight against trying to get some honest an- in Iraq is spent in classrooms
mentary committee on Thurs- weaponry of coalition bomb- by Forum Research, found that 63 per cent the Islamic State has not been swers and some transparency. and training Iraqi forces. But
day, Chief of Defence Staff ers to bear,” Lawson explained of Canadians somewhat or strongly approve defined, no budget has been What’s the cost of the war? he said that the trainees are
Tom Lawson told MPs that his reversal. the Conservatives’ decision to send six CF-18 released — Nicholson refused You know, we went down this through basic skills, and are
Canadian Forces have operated “So in fact I provided them, fighter jets for airstrikes in Iraq. to give cost estimates again on path in Afghanistan when we looking to fight ISIL.
within their noncombat man- within the advise and assist Thursday — and no clear goal slept-walked into Kandahar
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18 airstrikes. ahead with that, well within tremists. stroying” the self-proclaimed sion, without proper parlia- (cid:315)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:268)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:305)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:266)(cid:229)(cid:289)(cid:302)(cid:3)
Lawson told the commit- the mandate given to us by the For the government, the caliphate has been outlined. mentary oversight.” (cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:238)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:315)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:229)(cid:3)
tee he “had not anticipated” government,” he said. mission has “evolved” since it Frustration among oppos- NDP defence critic Jack Har- (cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:255)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:274)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:279)(cid:273)(cid:220)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:273)(cid:255)(cid:296)-
Canadian special forces would Lawson, flanked by Defence was approved by Parliament ition MPs was evident, in the ris has asked Speaker Andrew (cid:296)(cid:255)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:50)(cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:553)
be in a position to safely direct Minister Rob Nicholson and — without the support of the face of Conservative back- Scheer to look into whether
airstrikes when he ruled them Foreign Affairs Minister John opposition NDP and Liberals benchers suggesting they’re in- Prime Minister Stephen Harp-
out last October. Baird, found himself in the — late last year. This evolution, sufficiently behind the troops er and Nicholson misled the not accompany Iraqi forces to
“What I had not anticipated middle of a war of words about for the Conservatives, explains for asking those questions. House of Commons when they the front line.
at that time in October was the precise role of Canada’s why Canadian soldiers found “This isn’t about who can stated Canadian troops would TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE