Metro Calgary - January 25, 2011

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
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Calgarian
Flaming. Success
in Moscow
on edge
At least 35 people killed and 180 wounded in blast
at capital’s busiest airport Travel, commuting plans
questioned in wake of airport explosion
The suicide bombing in Moscow yesterday
has a former Calgarian living in the city re- After the blast
thinking her plans and left questions for a
local team planning to head there today.
Wanda Love, who lived in Calgary from Security Former Calgarian Wanda Love said
2000-2005, currently resides in downtown there was an increased police presence at
Moscow and frequently uses the city’s sub- Moscow subway stations hours following
Calgary Flames’ Curtis Glencross, left, celebrates his goal with teammate Matt Stajan way station to get around. the attacks.
during first period NHL hockey action against the Nashville Predators in Calgary She is now considering altering her Speed-skating The Canadian national long-
last night. The Flames won 3-1, making it their third consecutive win. plans for the days ahead out of concern track speed-skating team is scheduled to
More coverage, page 20. more attacks could occur. compete in Moscow at a World Cup event
“I was planning to take it (the subway Jan. 28-30.
Flames win three in aJEF F MrCINTOoSH/CANAwDIAN PRESS this) morning to meet a friend,” Love said.
“And I had planned to use it Wednesday to said officials were busy gathering informa-
go shopping, but the two malls I wanted to tion yesterday afternoon before making a
visit are both in areas which were close to final decision.
riots last month, so I may need to rethink “We have informed the athletes that we
that plan.” are looking into it and will let them know
While Love kept close eye on travel ad- about the next steps,” she added. Croteau
Trial for alleged Calgary-Currie
visories from within Moscow, the Canadi- said the Canadian team was awaiting word
an national long-track speed-skating team, from the International Skating Union —
‘honour killing’ MLA jumps over
which trains in Calgary, was weighing the the sport’s governing body — but had
potential dangers of heading to the capital been told by an organizing committee in
for a World Cup competition this Moscow that the event was going ahead.
Father accused of slamming Dave Taylor switches to weekend. JEREMY NOLAIS
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SE transit KATIE TURNER/FOR METRO
project up
to province
The cost of creating a
southeast transitway is up
in the air, although one al-
derman said he’s confident
the province will through
with the money.
During a committee
meeting last week, it was
decided that $73.4 million
news
of $225 million in
provincial Green Trip fund-
ing would be allocated to
the southeast.
Council decided yester-
day to submit their propos-
al to the province without
specifying any dollar
figures.
“I would have certainly
preferred an actual definite
figure amount, but we
know it’s there,” said Ald.
Shane Keating, one of four
aldermen who pushed News on the move
heavily for southeast tran- Mayor Naheed Nenshi speaks with media last night. The mayor said that council believes in Enmax’s direction
sit funding. but that elected officials need to be more clear in defining what they expect of the company’s board.
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Insp. Dean LaGrange content at
said police have found inac- Enmax CEO Gary Holden resigned on Friday Mayor said he believes m.metronews.ca
curate readings of up to negotiations for Holden’s severance package are currently taking place
120 km/h in gridlock traffic On the web at
when testing the new cam- metronews.ca
eras.
These comments came KATIE After the meeting, Ald. said he’s been calling for a Veiled vacation?
as Edmonton prepared to TURNER Andre Chabot said Holden strategic review of Enmax
return $12 million to driv- [email protected] worked hard to promote for some time and that a
ers who were caught Enmax and the City of Cal- meeting will be taking 1 Recent reports indicate
because of a glitch in the Council will meet with the gary. place “soon.” Gary Holden took a trip
new cameras. Enmax board in the com- “The CEO Gary Holden “I’ve been clear that I to the French Riviera in
“I don’t know why they ing weeks to discuss the — he lived and breathed think there were some de- 2008 on the dime of a
did push ahead with it,” La- company’s governance Enmax,” said Chabot. “He ficiencies and oversight at software company.
Grange said of Edmonton’s procedures, but one alder- was all about looking out the council and at the
decision to use the new man said the former CEO for what was in the best in- board level in the past, and 2 Following yesterdya’s Are inflation-
cameras. wasn’t in the wrong. terest of the corporation, I want to make sure that meeting, Ald. Andre
He added the new mod- Council was filled in on and his departure is a re- we have a design that recti- Chabot said Holden dis- related
els are cheaper to operate. the recent developments sult, I guess, of some un- fies those.” cussed the trip with the problems
There are currently 28 of the company during an fortunate decisions he Nenshi said the meeting former chair of the En- coming sooner
models of the old cameras in-camera meeting yester- made.” will be a wide-ranging dis- max board but not with than expected?
in Calgary. JEREMY NOLAIS day. Mayor Naheed Nenshi cussion of several issues. any other members. Allan Small
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Calgary gives DECISION. A provincial Follow us on
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rie MLA, announced yest- “Crossing over from lice and EMS personnel attend the hearing of
serday he will join the party A to party B is politi- have a strong lead over Dustin Paxton, a man ac-
Alberta Party, becoming cal but this is about start- their Edmonton counter- cused of torturing his
the party’s first legislative ing something new,” said parts in the Life Blood roommate last year.
member. Taylor. Donor Challenge Paxton’s lawyer Jim
“It was a good philo- When asked if he will running this month. Lutz expressed concern
sophical fit,” said Taylor, run for the party’s leader- The aim is to see that people’s postings on
who had been sitting as an ship, Taylor said he would which city can donate social networks would
independent since leaving like to take time to get ac- the most blood over the deny his client a fair tri-
the Alberta Liberal Party customed to his now role course of a month. Cur- al. The hearing will run Mementoes tell tale of tragic
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Bomber kills 35
BRITISH COLUMBIA but a rescue crew had
trouble getting to the site
Alberta because of low light,
snow conditions and dif-
man dies in
ficult terrain. at Moscow airport
When rescuers
avalanche
reached the site
yesterday, the man from
An avalanche has killed a Grande Cache, Alta., was
47-year-old Alberta snow- dead.
mobiler in northeast B.C. Three other Alberta IVAN SEKRETAREV/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The RCMP say the slide men died in avalanches Suspected terrorist’s head was
came down Sunday near in B.C. and Alberta a
recovered, says local news agency
Albright Ridge, west of week ago.
Tumbler Ridge, hitting a The Canadian
total of five people. Avalanche Centre has is- Terrorists struck again in “Terrorists simply
Two of his companions sued a special warning the heart of Russia, with a do not give up
dug him out and about the high risk of suicide bomber blowing
when one avenue is
performed CPR while the slides in much of B.C. himself up in Moscow’s
other two went for help, THE CANADIAN PRESS busiest airport and turning closed, and that’s
its international arrivals why I say, we make
terminal into a smoky,
Woman ‘sorry’ one mistake and a
blood-spattered hall of dis-
membered bodies, scream- terrorist might be
ing survivors and successful.”
for kidnapping
abandoned suitcases. VIC TOEWS,
No one claimed responsi- PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER
bility for the blast at Do-
A North Carolina woman from Harlem Hospital dur- modedovo Airport Committee spokesman
who raised a child snatched ing an interview Sunday af- yesterday that also wound- Vladimir Markin said.
from a New York hospital ter she surrendered to the ed 180 people, although Is- Canadian Foreign Affairs
more than two decades ago FBI and Bridgeport, Conn., lamic militants in the Minister Lawrence Cannon
has admitted kidnapping police, a criminal com- southern Russian region of issued a strong condemna-
the baby after her own at- plaint prepared by FBI Chechnya have been tion of the attack and added
tempts to have children Agent Maria Johnson said. blamed for previous attacks that he was not aware of
failed, saying in a statement Pettway surrendered just in Moscow. any Canadians killed or in-
she was “truly sorry,” the days after a reunion be- Artyom Zhilenkov, a 35-year-old driver, speaks after the Yesterday’s attack was jured in the blast.
FBI said in court papers yes- tween the child she raised blast at Domodedovo airport in Moscow, yesterday. “The most likely carried out by a “We condemn these
terday. — now 23-year-old Carlina guy standing next to me was torn to pieces,” he said. suicide bomber and “at- cowardly acts of terrorism,”
Ann Pettway confessed White — and her biological Zhilenkov was splattered by other victims’ flesh and blood. tempts were being made to Cannon said in the state-
to taking the baby in 1987 mother.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS identify him,” Investigative ment. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
Trial begins for
father accused
of honour killing
Falel Almaleki moved to Phoenix from Iraq His
daughter refused to enter an arranged marriage at age 17
PEORIA POLICE DEPARTMENT FILE
There is no doubt that an chance while visiting a
Iraqi immigrant ran over state Department of Eco-
and killed his 20-year-old nomic security office in
daughter and injured her Peoria on Oct. 20, 2009, his
boyfriend’s mother in a rage overflowed.
suburban Phoenix, Ariz., Falel Almaleki left the of-
parking lot in October fice, got in his Jeep and
2009, a prosecutor and de- waited for his daughter to
fence attorney agreed yes- emerge, Reckart said. Then,
terday. “he revved and raced that
But whether it was a car right out of the parking
rage-fuelled intentional act spot in a premeditated act
that equals first-degree and ran them over.”
murder or an accident Falel Almaleki Not so, defence attorney
caused by an angry father’s Elizabeth Mullins told the
split-second decision — will 16 men and women on the
be the subject of much de- failure to obey him. She panel. What happened was
bate as jurors hear evidence told jurors in her opening an accident, Mullins told ju-
in the coming weeks. statement in his murder tri- rors, when Almaleki saw
Prosecutor Laura Reckart al that he believed she had the older woman and made
told them that Falel Almale- dishonoured the family by a “catastrophic” decision to
ki was increasingly in- becoming too Westernized. spit on her to show his dis-
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
What Hollywood
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has to offer in 2011
There are plenty of options out there for filmgoers Superhero movies aren’t going away scene
anytime soon Tinsel town also shows its love of sequels, animated films, 3-D and aliens
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METRO WORLD NEWS IN LOS ANGELES
With 2010 behind us, and
the Oscars and the Razzies
getting ready to sort out
the best and the worst
from last year, it’s time to
look ahead at what we’re Oprah Winfrey
excited about for 2011. So says she's
what’s on tap? For one The Adjustment Bureau learned she has a
thing you can expect more stars Matt Damon and half-sister she
comic book adaptations, Emily Blunt. never knew
with Marvel putting two about.
more parts of its eventual Winfrey
Avengers movie out into The guys from The Hangover are back for another adventure. announced on
the world. But more than The Oprah Win-
anything else, 2011 looks frey Show that
to be filled with the ghosts The sheer number of Spy Kids 4: All the Time in Kumar Christmas (Decem- aired yesterday
of franchises past, with a sequels coming out in the the World (August 19), Fi- ber 23). Of course, the that a
dizzying number of se- next 12 months is nal Destination 5 (August most attention will be on Milwaukee
quels ready for release. dizzying: Scream 4 (April 26), Piranha 3-DD (Septem- the finale that is Harry Pot- woman named
15), Pirates of the ber 16), Paranormal Activi- ter and The Deathly Patricia
For the fanboys Caribbean: On Stranger ty 3 (October 21), Happy Hallows — Part 2 (July 15) discovered that
While superheroes will be Tides (May 20), The Hang- Feet 2 (November 18), Mis- and the beginning of the the two were
out in force with Thor over 2 (May 26), Kung Fu sion Impossible: Ghost Pro- end of the Twilight series, half-sisters.
(May 6), X-Men: First Class Panda 2 (May 27), Cars 2 tocol, another Sherlock The Twilight Saga: Break- The woman
(June 3), The Green (June 24), Transformers: Holmes movie (December ing Dawn — Part 1 Thor leads the charge of says she had
Lantern (June 17) and Cap- Dark of the Moon (July 1), 16) and A Very Harold & (November 18). superhero movies in 2011. been searching
tain America: The First for years for the
Avenger (July 22), the most identity of the
exciting comics-to-screen Neil Patrick Harris leads an lish-language edition of mother who
jump is Cowboys and all-star cast in bringing The Girl With the Dragon gave her up for
Aliens (July 29), starring The Smurfs (August 3) into Tattoo (December 21). Matt adoption in
Harrison Ford and Daniel the real world, and Steven Damon and Emily Blunt go 1963. She says
Craig as, well, cowboys. Spielberg brings one of Eu- on the run in the thriller she learned in
Fighting aliens. What’s not rope’s great animated The Adjustment Bureau 2007 that
to love? And speaking of characters to the big (March 4), based on a short Winfrey was her
aliens, the Comic-Con screen with The Adven- story by Phillip K. Dick. half-sister. On
crowd gets to cheer itself tures Of Tintin: The Secret And Damon shows up her program,
on in Paul (March 18), in Of The Unicorn (December again in Stephen Soder- Winfrey says she
which Shaun of the Dead 28). And Martin Scorsese bergh’s Contagion (Octo- learned about
stars Simon Pegg and Nick The Smurfs come to the big screen in August. breaks new ground with ber 21), about a team of Patricia last No-
Frost come across an extra Hugo Cabret (December 9), doctors dealing with the vember.
terrestrial (voiced by Seth about a 12-year-old outbreak of a devastating Winfrey says
Rogen) on their way to the action with Sucker Punch mind-bending effects. Parisian orphan in the disease. And for folks look- she was nine
annual San Diego geek- (March 25), about a group 1930s. ing for a laugh, James years old and liv-
fest. of young women (Vanessa For the kids Franco and Danny McBride ing with her fa-
Hudgens, Jenna Malone, The new year has some For the grown-ups... head back to medieval ther when her
For the fangirls Abbie Cornish) in a mental high-quality kids enter- There’s plenty to entertain times to rescue a princess mother had the
After 300 and The Watch- hospital who escape to a tainment on tap, including adults as well, as David in Your Highness (April 8). daughter and
men, director Zack Snyder fantasy world filled with some titles that might Fincher follows up The So- (Note, all release dates are gave her up for
is letting the girls in on the guns, explosions and make parents nostalgic: cial Network with an Eng- subject to change.) adoption. She
says she never
even knew her
mother was
Twilight: Eclipse rakes in the Razzie nominations
pregnant.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NED the hugely popular Twi- racked up nominations for and the City 2, who share a
EHRBAR light franchise, tied with all three of its stars, with single nomination. Jack
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METRO WORLD NEWS IN LOS ANGELES Last Airbender for the nod for worst actress while Gerard Butler (The Bounty
most nominations, with Robert Pattinson and Tay- Hunter) and Ashton Kutch-
Nominations for the 31st each film up for nine dubi- lor Lautner go head-to- er (nominated for both
annual Razzie Awards, cel- ous honours, including head for worst actor. Killers and Valentine’s Day)
ebrating the worst in film worst picture. Also up for Stewart’s competition in- are also up for worst actor.
for 2010, were announced worst picture is The Boun- cludes Jennifer Aniston for As is tradition, the Razz-
yesterday, just ahead of the ty Hunter, Sex and the City The Bounty Hunter, Miley ies will be handed out in Robert Pattinson and tRaleka lw uoprlhde waviathl iOnp trealhev, iLsaiorrny
highly anticipated Acade- 2 and the Twilight parody Cyrus for The Last Song, Hollywood the night be- Kristen Stewart are both and now Regis exiting
my Award nominations. Vampire’s Suck. Megan Fox for Jonah Hex fore the Oscars, this year up for Razzies.
Eclipse, the third film in The Eclipse crew also and all four stars of Sex on Feb. 26.
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011
Willis loses Clooney not looking GETTY IMAGES
Kevin Smith
as a fan
to get married again
Director Kevin Smith is no
longer a fan of Bruce
Willis after making last
year’s commercial flop, George Clooney an- marriage to Talia Balsam a source says. “She
Cop Out, together, he says nounced that he won’t be from 1989 to 1993. But it thought she was going to
in an interview with come- getting married again turns out this was news to be the girl who would fi-
dian Marc Maron. Smith during an interview with Clooney’s girlfriend, Elisa- nally get George to settle
says he felt particularly let Piers Morgan on CNN. betta Canalis, according down and put a ring on it.
down by Willis’ lack of “I’ve proven how good I to Popeater. She was totally sur-
promotion for the film. was at it,” Clooney said, “Elisabetta had no idea prised.” Clooney deosn’t plan to tie the knot again.
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