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School worker charged
over relations with teen
Sexual exploitation. erous” times over the span
Quoted
of the relationship. In each
Police say woman gave
case, police say the victim
“I think this victim
student drugs, alcohol was given drugs and alcohol
realized that what was beforehand.
going on was inappro- The Child Abuse Unit
started investigating after
SHANE priate ... He’s been pro-
an internal investigation by
GIBSON vided with drugs and the WSD.
[email protected]
or alcohol so therefore “I think this victim real-
A female educational assist- ized that what was going
his decision-making is
ant from a high school in on was inappropriate,”
the Winnipeg School Div- impaired.” explained Hofley, who
ision has been charged after wouldn’t discuss whether
Police spokesman Const. Eric Hofley
police allege she used drugs the student was ever a will-
and alcohol to ply a 17-year- ing participant. “He’s been
old male student into a sex- provided with drugs and/or
ual relationship. ley. “The allegation is in alcohol so therefore his de-
Police said the events al- this situation that that was cision-making is impaired.”
legedly took place both dur- not the case.” A WSD spokesperson
ing and after school hours Neither police nor the said the accused has been
starting in March of last WSD would say what school put on administrative leave
year until October when the woman worked at or pending the results of a
T-SHIRTS FOR A CAUSE the victim came forward to whether any of the alleged trial.
school officials. events happened on school Sheryl Ann Dyck, 42, of
“Seventeen years of age property. Winnipeg, is charged with
is still within the school Hofley did say the ac- sexual exploitation, admin-
system and still expecting cused and the student had istering a substance with
RRC student Alexandra Martin shows off one of the T-shirts she’s made up for Winnipeg middle- and
that those employed are go- “a close working relation- intent to stupefy a person
high-school students. The students are working to help provide sanitary napkins for girls going to ing to be looking after their ship.” to have illicit sexual inter-
school in Nairobi, Kenya. See story, page 3. SHANE GIBSON/METRO best interests,” said police Investigators believe sex- course, and supplying li-
spokesman Const. Eric Hof- ual contact occurred “num- quor to a minor.
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City budget.
Police chief,
mayor work
together
Mayor Brian Bowman and
Police Chief Devon Clunis held
S a news conference Monday
to let reporters know they’re
still working together despite
a public tussle between the
city’s finance chair and a
W deputy police chief.
At last Thursday’s finance
committee meeting, Coun.
Marty Morantz (Charleswood-
Tuxedo) grilled Deputy Chief
Art Stannard over police
budgeting, asking if the city
has too many officers “hang-
E ing around.”
The rookie councillor
asked Stannard for a report on
what the force is doing to find
savings, a request Stannard
N said he couldn’t see through
because the service reports
through the police board, not
council.
The next day Stannard told
the police board he found Jordan Lobe of the Little Mountain Park Dog Club answers councillors’ questions during Monday’s protection and community services meeting. BERNICE PONTANILLA/METRO
Morantz’s line of questioning
Few reasons for park
to be “disrespectful.”
Bowman confirmed at
Monday’s press conference
that councillors are expected
to direct questions about
the Winnipeg Police Service to stay on-leash: Allard
through the police board.
Neither Bowman nor
Clunis would speculate on
whether this year’s city budget
would include a cut to the
police’s compliment. Little Mountain Park. That’s the question coun- Allard said Little Moun- president of the Little Moun-
SHANE GIBSON/METRO Councillor, dog club cil should be debating when tain is currently a “de-facto tain Park Dog Club, said his
it comes to Little Mountain dog park,” since the city group fully expects that the
vice-president believe Park, said Coun. Matt Allard doesn’t have the resources to master plan will recommend
after Monday’s protection enforce the on-leash and off- making this specific park off-
council should declare
and community services leash areas. leash.
park a completely committee meeting. “The entire site is being “All we’re saying is, ‘You
off -leash area The committee voted in used in that way,” said Al- know what, maybe we can
favour of a recommendation lard, who goes there with his get ahead of that and imple-
from the city’s administra- dogs. ment this now,’” Lobe told
tion to make only about a Allard said he’ll consider media after the meeting.
BERNICE quarter of the park — named bringing a motion forward to Both Allard and Lobe
PONTANILLA areas A and C, which include make Little Mountain com- argued it would be less ex-
[email protected] picnic and open space — off- pletely off-leash, especially pensive for the city to make
leash. since $100,000 for a master Little Mountain a designated
Should a city-owned park The other three-quarters plan for off-leash dog parks dog park.
just northwest of Winnipeg of the park, named Area B, in Winnipeg hasn’t been The report now moves on
Winnipeg’s police chief Devon that’s heavily used by dog is “an ecologically significant committed yet, meaning it to executive policy commit-
Clunis, right, and mayor Brian owners be made completely area,” according to the city, could be years away. tee and, if approved there,
Bowman. SHANE GIBSON/METRO off-leash? and would remain on-leash. Jordan Lobe, vice- would go to council.
City backs motion to learn why local 911 calls go to RCMP
A city committee has backed going to the RCMP instead Winnipeg are very close,” tion is provided by the RM
a motion to make sure pre- of Winnipeg police. said Browaty, adding that it of East St. Paul, so even the
cious seconds aren’t lost due Coun. Jeff Browaty, who was Transcona Coun. Russ splitting of services is not al-
to wrongly relayed emer- chairs the protection and Wyatt who first raised the ways completely clear.”
gency cellphone calls made community services com- concern after his constitu- Browaty said the goal of
on the edges of the city. mittee, said the motion ents ran into this problem. the study would be to “mini-
On Monday, members originated at the East Kil- “In some instances, 911 mize problems” in case of
of the protection and com- donan-Transcona commun- even does go different places emergency because “some-
munity services committee ity committee. — if you’re in East St. Paul times seconds are very cost-
endorsed a motion for the “The boundaries between and you call 911 inside the ly.”
Winnipeg Police Board, dir- populated areas of the bed- Perimeter Highway, ambu- The matter may be re-
ecting police to study calls room communities in the lances are provided by the solved with better technol-
that are being made within capital region and the way Winnipeg (Fire) Paramedic ogy, Browaty added. Coun. Jeff Browaty
the fringes of city limits but they border on the City of Service; however fire protec- BERNICE PONTANILLA/METRO BERNICE PONTANILLA/METRO
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Leadership challenger ADRIANA morning “brawl” between sev- now lives with permanent dis-
Theresa Oswald has said MINGO eral people outside a Garfield ability, jurors heard. BE SMART WITH YOUR SMARTPHONE IN
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families, while fellow chal- A woman accused of mur- the victims tried to leave the driver that struck Murdock. Thefts of mobile devices are on the rise in North America,
lenger Steve Ashton has dering a man by running him scene in their own vehicle, but The central issue the jury is
particularly smartphones and tablets. Remembering to be aware
promised a referendum on down with a van in Winnipeg’s the accused blocked the street to decide is one of intent, said
the tax. West End began her jury trial with the van, gunned the en- Baragar. of your surroundings while in any public place can signifi cantly
The governing NDP Monday. gine and twice rammed them, The trial will feature eight lessen your chances of becoming a victim. For instance, don’t
plummeted in opinion The woman cannot be iden- Crown attorney Sue Baragar witnesses, including three walk and text at the same time, you will be less aware of what
polls in 2013 after raising tified as she was 17 at the time told jurors in her opening ad- neighbours who called 911
is happening around you. Don’t leave your mobile device
the provincial sales tax to of the Aug. 20, 2011 crash that dress. and a child and family servi-
eight per cent from seven. claimed the life of Marcel Mur- The victims’ windshield ces worker who witnessed the unattended or in view of anyone in close proximity — it just
THE CANADIAN PRESS dock, 40, and seriously injured was smashed and steam event from across the street, takes a second for someone to steal your phone.
his son, Craig Hanslip, then 21. poured from the engine, caus- said the Crown.
Student helping Kenyan girls stay in class
It’s a very real hurdle facing “It’s not something we even 8 through 12 at 15 Winnipeg Giving back time
girls and young women going think about here ... but these public and private schools and
to school in Kenya that many girls were missing over 20 per groups from each school will
people would have trouble talk- cent of their classes because of hold bake sales this Friday to According to Martin,
ing about, but not Alexandra menstruation,” explained Mar- raise money for the Wasichana the Wasichana Fund has
Martin. tin, a student in creative com- Fund, a non-profit that provides provided 55,000 pads and
The 22-year-old Red River munications who designed a pads and pays for health educa- given back 256,000 hours of
College student is helping to program that’s getting students tion classes for girls in Nairobi. class time to girls in Nairobi
raise money for an internation- in Winnipeg involved as her Martin hopes her project since its founding in 2012.
al effort that provides sanitary final course project. “I’m trying both helps girls in Nairobi in
napkins to girls in Nairobi, to get people to think of them- the short term and, over the
where the cost of pads and a selves as global citizens, espe- long term, inspires another For more information, or to
lack of safe and clean facilities cially the high-school girls.” generation to speak up for donate, go to: givegirlsachance.
mean many stay home from Martin has held work- those not being heard around squarespace.com
classes once a month. shops with students in Grades the world. SHANE GIBSON/METRO
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Dentistry students head
Silicone. Woman pleads
guilty to bad injections
back to class amid probe
A Toronto-area woman who Details
injected silicone into the but-
tocks of nine women — in
some cases using syringes at- Marilyn Ely Reid pleaded
tached to a caulking gun — has guilty to eight counts of ag- Dalhousie University. and were referred to the uni-
pleaded guilty to aggravated gravated assault endanger- Dental clinic also versity’s human rights, equity
assault. ing life — one count was reopens after delay and harassment prevention of-
Marilyn Ely Reid, 48, was withdrawn — and is due fice. The union says the matter
arrested in November 2012 back in court Feb. 27. was dropped when the office
after a 28-year-old woman fell said complainants would have
ill after receiving alleged Bo- (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:38)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:268)(cid:209)(cid:315)(cid:317)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3) Students headed back to class to provide their names.
tox injections. Police said the (cid:17)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:315)(cid:274)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:229)(cid:266)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:3)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:229)(cid:575) at Dalhousie University’s dent- The university has launched
woman underwent surgery to (cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:575)(cid:628)(cid:627)(cid:575)(cid:317)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:550)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:305)(cid:302)(cid:3) istry school Monday, with an independent investigation
have the substance removed. (cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:292)(cid:251)(cid:305)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:3) some men ordered to study that will explore the environ-
Investigators at the time (cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:279)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:251)(cid:229)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3) elsewhere because of sexually ment, training and policies at
alleged Reid advertised but- (cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:209)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3) violent comments made on the dentistry school to deter-
tock, lip and muscle augmen- (cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:273)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:238)(cid:305)(cid:268)(cid:553) Facebook about their female mine if they contributed to a
tations and Botox injections classmates. tolerance for misogyny and
on a website called pmmain- Students wearing blue sexist conduct.
jection.com. she’d meet these people... at scrubs refused to comment as The Facebook page at the
Several other victims came hotel rooms in the GTA and they went into the school for centre of the controversy has
forward after her arrest. Toronto and then what she their first classes since the holi- been taken down. But accord-
Her lawyer, Calvin Barry, would do is, they’d pay her day break. The resumption of ing to the CBC, members of
said Monday several of the thousands of dollars and she’d school was delayed by a week the Class of DDS Gentlemen
women have had “serious inject them in the buttocks as the university dealt with the The Dalhousie University dentistry building is seen in Halifax on Monday. page on Facebook voted on
health issues” ever since the with a silicone-based ingredi- ongoing controversy. which woman they’d like to
ANDREW VAUGHAN/THE CANADIAN PRESS
procedure, which his client ent,” Barry said. Dalhousie University have “hate” sex with and joked
was not licensed to perform. “It’s a little shady when it’s president Richard Florizone The university also delayed saying the male students about using chloroform on
Reid administered the injec- happening in a hotel room and said Friday that 13 male dent- the reopening of a dental clinic should be expelled while women.
tions with syringes, Barry said. cash currency is being passed, istry students will have to at- at the school and stripped the others said they should be al- The CBC said in another
One of the women — none it’s not like it’s at a plastic sur- tend classes remotely after 13 male students of their clin- lowed to finish their studies. post, a woman is shown in a
of whom can be identified due gery … location,” he said, add- they were alleged to have been ical privileges there. The student union has said bikini with a caption that says,
to a publication ban — is still ing that the victims “kind of part of a Facebook group that Patients going to the clinic it reported complaints of sex- “Bang until stress is relieved or
unable to sit down, he said. knew what they were getting contained misogynistic com- Monday had mixed feelings ism in the dentistry program unconscious (girl).”
“The way it would work is into.” THE CANADIAN PRESS ments. about the incident, with some to the president last summer THE CANADIAN PRESS
Latimer can’t travel
abroad: Parole board
The lawyer for Robert Latimer Conviction
says his client is appealing
a parole board decision that
prevents him from travelling Robert Latimer was given a life farm near Wilkie, Sask., and
freely outside Canada. sentence for the 1993 second- piped exhaust inside.
A Federal Court judge degree murder of his 12-year-
ruled in September that there old daughter, who had cere- (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:50)(cid:209)(cid:302)(cid:255)(cid:273)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:317)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)
was nothing to indicate the bral palsy. He put her in the (cid:315)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:225)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:225)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)
60-year-old Saskatchewan cab of his truck on his family’s (cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:274)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:209)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:553)
farmer is a danger and should
be prevented from travelling
internationally. of reporting to authorities ing what judges have had to
The judge ordered the Par- with complete transparency. say about Mr. Latimer and the
ole Board of Canada’s appeal Lawyer Jason Gratl said fact that he doesn’t pose a risk
division to reconsider the Monday his client is being to society,” Gratl said.
case. deprived of reasonable parole In its decision, the board
But in November, the conditions. said that although Latimer is a
board said it wouldn’t lift the “I’m deeply troubled by the low risk to society, “a level of
restriction, ruling Latimer has pattern that’s emerging of the risk continues to be present.”
yet to show that he is capable Parole Board of Canada ignor- THE CANADIAN PRESS
Frederic Dion
It was the thought of his Dion, 37, made the trip to
Quebecer returns wife and two young daughters the Antarctic on skis with the
back in Quebec. help of wind-sail.
to Canada after solo “Kite-skiing for 24 hours He ended his voyage
trip to Antarctic in extreme conditions is a at Hercules Inlet on Jan. 3,
challenge I love,” he said after completing in 54 days and
arriving back in Montreal on six hours the crossing of
Frederic Dion’s biggest chal- Monday. Antarctica that he began on
lenge on his solo trip to the “Putting up a tent in a Nov. 10 from the Russian Base
Antarctic had nothing to do blizzard is something I can do Novolazarevskaya.
with the solitude, the bit- and have fun doing. But being All told, he covered 4,382
terly cold temperatures or the far from my children and wife kilometres in 54 days.
howling winds. was my biggest difficulty.” THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
International push. Probe
missing, murdered native
women cases: Rights group
An international body has Activists react
joined Canadian domestic
calls for a national inquiry
into missing and murdered Canadian activists who have
aboriginal women and girls. been pressing the federal
A report from The Inter- government for just such an
American Commission on Hu- inquiry welcomed the report.
man Rights (IACHR), an arm of
the Organization of American
States, says an inquiry or na- stand and to acknowledge
tional action plan is needed to in relation to the missing
get at the root of the problem. and murdered indigenous
The report, issued in women,” the report said. “This
Washington, followed an in- initiative must be organized in
vestigation the commission consultation with indigenous
conducted in Canada in 2013. peoples, particularly indigen-
The body spoke with govern- ous women, at all stages.” Three climbers found dead in B.C.
ment officials, opposition The report said aboriginal
politicians and native repre- women in Canada are mur-
sentatives in both Ottawa and dered or disappear at a rate A rescue-crew member heads to a helicopter in Pemberton, B.C., north of Whistler, on Monday to search for three missing ice climbers. The climb-
British Columbia. four times higher than their ers were eventually found dead in a crevasse about 300 metres below Joffre Peak. Police are not releasing the names of the victims at this time but
“The IACHR considers that representation in the popula- described two of them as a man and woman in their mid-30s from the Metro Vancouver area and the third as a woman in her late 20s who was an
there is much more to under- tion. THE CANADIAN PRESS international visitor. DAVE STEERS/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Mounties arrest a third
Taser death. Perjury case
against Mounties to proceed
man in alleged terror plot
An RCMP officer who stunned
Robert Dziekanski with a Taser
at Vancouver’s airport lost an
attempt Monday to dismiss a
perjury charge related to his
testimony at a public inquiry. Bound for India. with conspiracy to participate court appearance Feb. 12.
New laws may be coming
Const. Kwesi Millington in a terrorist activity with two Mohamed was scheduled to
Suliman Mohamed is
was among four officers who other Ottawa men. appear in court Tuesday mor-
confronted Dziekanski during facing terrorism-related On Friday, 24-year-old twins ning. But as of Monday, very The government is contem-
his fatal encounter with police charges, along with Ashton Carleton Larmond and few details were made public plating new laws in response
in October 2007. All four were Carlos Honor Larmond of Ot- about what the three were al- to the October 2014 attacks in
later charged with perjury over twin brothers Ashton tawa were charged with various leged to have done. which two soldiers — one at
their testimony given at a pub- and Carlos Larmond terrorism-related offences. The Mounties said they the National War Memorial,
lic inquiry two years later. RCMP Const. Kwesi Millington The RCMP says Carlos was would not be providing addi- the other in St-Jean-sur-Riche-
The Crown, which alleges DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS arrested at Montreal’s Pierre El- tional details, given that the lieu, Que. — were killed.
the officers colluded to lie to liott Trudeau Airport as he was matter was now before the
investigators and then per- But B.C. Supreme Court The RCMP swooped in on an intending to travel overseas for courts. (cid:580)(cid:3) (cid:39)(cid:302)(cid:3)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:268)(cid:296)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:255)(cid:274)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:225)(cid:305)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:225)(cid:3)
jure themselves at the inquiry, Judge William Ehrcke said the alleged terrorist conspiracy terrorist purposes. The Moun- Chief Supt. Jennifer (cid:221)(cid:254)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:229)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:302)(cid:292)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:251)(cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:274)(cid:3)
wrapped up its case against Mil- Crown had put forward some because one of the suspects ties did not say where he was Strachan, criminal-operations (cid:302)(cid:254)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:209)(cid:220)(cid:255)(cid:268)(cid:255)(cid:302)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:238)(cid:3)(cid:17)(cid:209)(cid:274)(cid:209)(cid:225)(cid:209)(cid:561)(cid:296)(cid:3)
lington late last year. evidence that, if true, could was about to get on a plane to headed. officer for the RCMP in Ontario, (cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:317)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:314)(cid:255)(cid:221)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:279)(cid:3)(cid:289)(cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:220)(cid:229)(cid:3)(cid:302)(cid:229)(cid:292)-
Millington’s lawyer then support a guilty verdict, though India, The Canadian Press has The Canadian Press has said the arrests underscore the (cid:292)(cid:279)(cid:292)(cid:3)(cid:296)(cid:305)(cid:296)(cid:289)(cid:229)(cid:221)(cid:302)(cid:296)(cid:3)(cid:279)(cid:314)(cid:229)(cid:292)(cid:296)(cid:229)(cid:209)(cid:296)(cid:553)
made an application to end the he cautioned that his ruling learned. since learned he was bound reality that there are individ-
trial and throw out the charge, had no bearing on whether The Mounties have charged for India, though it is unclear uals in Canada who have be-
arguing the Crown had pro- Millington would eventually be three young Ottawa men — in- if that was his final destination. come radicalized to a violent nations fear that citizens who
duced no evidence that could convicted or acquitted. cluding twin brothers — with Ashton, who played pickup ideology “and who are willing go abroad to take part in the
support a conviction. THE CANADIAN PRESS various terrorism-related of- hockey on a men’s team, was to act upon it.” Islamic State of Iraq and the
fences. arrested in Ottawa. The RCMP thanked Integrat- Levant’s guerrilla-style battles
Too cold for elephants? Lac-Mégantic On Monday, the RCMP Joseph Addelman, a lawyer ed National Security Enforce- could come home with intent
charged Suliman Mohamed, for the brothers, said Saturday ment Team partners from the to do harm. The latest arrests
21, with participation in the ac- they planned to vigorously dis- Ottawa Police Service and the have rekindled discussion
Edmonton Valley Payout not
tivity of a terrorist group. pute the charges. Ontario Provincial Police. about homegrown radicaliza-
Zoo under fire enough: Official Mohamed was also charged They are due for a second Canada and other western tion. THE CANADIAN PRESS
An international animal- The funds earmarked
rights group has named for those affected by the Man convicted of weapons charge claims racial profiling
Edmonton Valley Zoo to Lac-Mégantic train disaster
a “Hall of Shame” for not represent just a fraction of
moving its lone elephant, what’s needed, a town offi- A man convicted of a gun of- Court justice convicted Steele that police pulled the vehicle
Crown’s reaction
named Lucy, to a warmer cial says. A $200-million US fence takes his case to Ontario’s of concealing a loaded handgun over only because of the driv-
climate. In Defense of settlement was announced top court on Tuesday to argue under the front passenger seat er’s race.
Animals says the label is re- last week, with more than he was a victim of racial profil- of his mother’s car after being The Crown denies racial He says the officer’s re-
served for zoos that refuse half of the money going to ing. pulled over in Hamilton. There profiling had anything to do quest to help the driver find
to make changes within a various levels of govern- In a factum filed with the were four black men in the car. with the incident and says the vehicle’s insurance card —
reasonable time that would ment. About $50 million court, lawyers for Richard Court documents show his the officer’s behaviour was which led to the discovery of
benefit their elephants. is destined for relatives of Steele say his trial judge erred lawyer, Anthony Moustacalis, not unusual or racist. the gun under the seat — was
Activists say Edmonton’s the 47 people who died in in finding him guilty by failing says the gun should have been “bizarre” and did not amount
winter is too harsh for the the July 2013 disaster, but it to properly consider evidence excluded as evidence because to obtaining informed con-
elephant. THE CANADIAN PRESS could rise. THE CANADIAN PRESS of racial profiling. Const. Yvonne Stephens con- the vehicle. sent for the search.
In 2010, an Ontario Superior ducted an improper search of Moustacalis also maintains THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Rumours of death Crashed AirAsia jet U.S. military
months. located but had not yet
The network funded by surfaced. It could take up
Fidel Castro writes Flight data recorder Central Command
Venezuela, Cuba and other to two weeks to analyze all
letter to Maradona: allied government showed pulled up from sea the data on the so-called sites hacked
photos of Maradona with black boxes. Based on past
TV network
the letter signed by Castro, Investigators trying to fig- crashes, the information Hackers claiming to be
88. Telesur revealed noth- ure out why AirAsia Flight retrieved could be vital. working on behalf of
Fidel Castro on Monday ing about the contents of 8501 crashed into the Java The two separate Islamic State militants
sent soccer legend Diego the letter, but said it rebut- Sea on Dec. 28 might now devices — actually orange seized control of the Twitter
Maradona a letter written ted rumours he had died. have the tools they need to boxes designed to survive and YouTube sites of the
to quash rumours of the Telesur is broadcast on provide answers. extreme heat and pressure military’s U.S. Central Com-
Cuban leader’s death, state- state television in Cuba, On Monday the flight’s — should provide inves- mand on Monday, but the This screen grab made Monday
run television network where Maradona has been data recorder was pulled tigators with a second- Pentagon swiftly suspended shows the front page of the U.S.
Telesur reported. It was filming episodes of a tele- up from the bottom of the by-second timeline of the the sites and said no classi- Central Command twitter account
the first reported word vision show he hosts. shallow sea. The cockpit plane’s flight. fied material was breached. after it was hacked.
from Castro in nearly three THE ASSOCIATED PRESS voice recorder was also THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
France hunts for accomplices
to 3 dead extremist attackers
Mission to protect Anti-Islam rally Quoted
sensitive sites. Country
“It’s fair
mobilizes 10,000 troops German march
to say we
attracts 25,000 should
have sent
As many as six members of a
terrorist cell involved in the A weekly anti-Islam rally someone
Paris attacks may still be at in the eastern German with a
large, including a man who city of Dresden drew
higher profile.”
was seen driving a car regis- its biggest crowd yet on
tered to the widow of one of Monday, after organiz- White House spokesman Josh Earnest,
the gunmen, police officials ers declared it a tribute making a rare public admission of error on
said Monday. to the victims of the behalf of the Obama administration, on
the decision to let the U.S.’s ambassador
Two French police officials terror attacks in Paris. to France be the most senior government
told The Associated Press that Organizers said 40,000 official to attend Sunday’s anti-terror rally
authorities were searching people participated in the in Paris.
the Paris area for the Mini march, while Dresden
Cooper registered to Hayat police put the figure at “Doesn’t
Boumeddiene, the widow of more than 25,000 people the intelli-
Amedy Coulibaly. Turkish of- — still more than the
ficials say she is now in Syria. 18,000 who came last gence ser-
One of the 10,000 armed troops deployed to protect sensitive sites, including Jewish schools, patrols outside a Jewish
The French police officials week. vice there
School in the Marais district of Paris as children make their way home on Monday. JEFF J. MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES
spoke on condition of ano- follow
nymity because they are not
authorized to discuss details hoods — in the wake of the died Friday in clashes with with 12 people killed at the day and then killed four those who
of the investigation with the attacks that killed 17 people police. satirical newspaper Charlie people at a kosher supermar- have been released?”
news media. last week. Brothers Cherif Prime Minister Manuel Hebdo by gunmen the po- ket Friday before all three
France deployed 10,000 and Said Kouachi, as well as Valls said the manhunt is lice identified as the Kouachi attackers were slain in two Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
on why two of the gunmen in the attacks
troops to protect sensitive Coulibaly, their friend who urgent because “the threat brothers. nearly simultaneous clashes in France were not monitored more closely
sites — including Jewish claimed ties to Islamic ex- is still present” after the at- Authorities said Coulibaly with security forces around after serving their prison sentences.
schools and neighbour- tremists in the Middle East, tacks that began Wednesday killed a policewoman Thurs- Paris. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pakistani school reopens after Taliban massacre
Pakistani children returned heaped pressure on author- school. The youngest was shot Ceremony
on Monday to the school ities to end the stubborn in- in the head but survived after
where Taliban gunmen killed surgency that kills and maims the militants thought he was
150 of their classmates and thousands every year. dead. A ceremony was held at
teachers last month, clutching The massacre also horri- “A hollowness in my life is the school to mark its
their parents’ hands tightly in fied parents across the na- getting greater. I am missing reopening, and classes
a poignant symbol of perse- tion and prompted officials to my wife,” Shah said. He said are to resume on Tuesday.
verance despite the horrors implement tighter security at he had wanted to shift his Security was tight, part of a
they had endured. schools. children to a different school countrywide effort to boost
It was the first time the For Peshawar parents like or city but decided not to be- safety measures at schools
school had opened since the Abid Ali Shah, Monday mor- cause they still have to take in the wake of the attack.
assault, and security was tight. ning was especially painful exams this spring: “Every-
The nation has been reeling as he struggled to get his sons thing is ruined here, every-
from the Dec. 16 terrorist at- ready for school, something thing.” to school he did as well. Sitwat
Mohammad Baqair, who survived last month’s Taliban attack on a military- tack in Peshawar — one of his wife used to do. She was His older son, Sitwat Ali said both he and his brother
run school that killed his mother, flashes a victory sign on his way to the the worst Pakistan has experi- a teacher at the school and Shah, 17, said that when he have trouble sleeping and
Army Public School which was targeted by Taliban militants, in Peshawar, enced. The violence carried was killed in the violence. saw his brother break down often wake up, crying for their
Pakistan, Monday. MOHAMMAD SAJJAD/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS out by seven Taliban militants Both of his sons attended the in tears as they prepared to go mother. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Haiti slowly rebuilds
Nigeria
five years after quake Townspeople
exterminated
by Boko Haram
Survivors of an assault
Mixed progress. Some by Islamic militants that
Killed Magnitude
areas have been ‘built 316K 7.0 killed a large number of
civilians in Nigeria have
back better,’ but others described days of system-
look much the same atic violence in which
people were slaughtered
The 2010 earthquake killed an estimated A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Port-
“like insects.”
316,000 people and displaced 1.5 million au-Prince on Jan. 12, 2010.
The accounts were
more.
It’s been five years since the given by villagers who
ground shook violently in Some of the broken fled the carnage around
and around Port-au-Prince, ment was obliterated. Deso- white walls of the once-tow- the northeastern town of
the overcrowded capital late streets were filled with ering National Cathedral Baga. The killing unfolded
of Haiti, raising a cloud of rubble and the piercing still stand. The site has at- over several days after
dust over the smashed city sounds of anguish. tracted a few destitute Hai- Boko Haram seized a mil-
and outlying towns. Today, some hard-hit tians, still living in tarp itary base there on Jan. 3.
The devastating 7.0-mag- sites in Port-au-Prince have shelters. Amnesty International
nitude earthquake struck changed dramatically, and A trash-strewn market said there are reports that
at 4:53 p.m. on Jan. 12, most lots are cleared of rub- area in downtown Port- the death toll could be
2010, killing some 316,000 ble. The historic Iron Mar- au-Prince still looks ram- as high as 2,000, though
people, according to Haiti’s ket in downtown Port-au- shackle five years later, some witnesses cite lower
estimates. Prince, levelled by the 2010 though splintered power tolls in the hundreds.
Some 1.5 million Hai- quake, has been replaced lines have since been carted In Washington, U.S.
tians were left homeless, by a colorful new landmark away. State Department spokes-
and the country’s govern- with decorative minarets Some places have seen woman Marie Harf said
and a clock tower. more progress than others, Nigeria needed to move
Barriers The pancaked National but one thing is clear: Haiti forward with “credible
Palace, its collapsed domed still has a long way to go be- and peaceful elections”
roof a powerful image of a fore it can say it has finally on Feb. 14, despite the at-
Haiti is the poorest country government in ruins, has been “built back better,” tacks, but acknowledged
Top: people sell goods outside the ruins of the old Iron Market on Feb. 15, in the Western Hemisphere. since been demolished and the goal repeatedly stated it would be difficult.
2010. Bottom: the market on Jan. 10, 2015, after being rebuilt by Haiti’s its wreckage cleared from by reconstruction officials. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Mounties balk at paying
Business outlook
Keystone XL. Pipeline
Cheap oil dims
clears Senate hurdle Rogers to get their man
energy sector: BoC
The Bank of Canada’s
The Keystone XL pipeline has ate, controlled by Democrats business outlook survey
passed a major procedural — but this time the measure New fees. Dispute found companies in
hurdle in the United States has got 63 votes, three more Western Canada planned
simmering over who
Congress. than required to override a to reduce investments
The U.S. Senate has agreed filibuster. The Senate’s Bill should pay when the in equipment and hiring
to move forward on a bill that 1 now moves back onto the following the oil-price
force asks for help in
would force President Barack floor for additional debates, collapse, while Eastern
Obama to approve the con- which could lead to major investigating cases and Central Canadian
troversial Canadian oil infra- amendments. companies said they were
structure. But there’s one fly in the planning to invest more,
This is the first bill to ad- ointment for pipeline sup- The RCMP and many other particularly in manufac-
vance in the newly sworn-in porters: President Obama police forces are refusing turing. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Congress and represents a has already signalled he’ll to pay new fees imposed by
demonstration of the new veto the bill because he says Rogers Communications for Market Minute
power wielded by the Repub- it’s up to his administra- helping them track suspects
lican Party since the midterm tion, not lawmakers, to ap- through their mobile phones.
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court-ordered services and to A phone displays the RCMP website in this photo illustration. TSX
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Gros Morne. Artists push duty to society. Rogers says
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VOICES
FOR GRANDMAS & GEARHEADS ALIKE
Author says cycling community and cities need to do more to ‘normalize’ the idea of winter cycling, including building separated bike lanes and clearing snow from bike paths
YOUR Meanwhile, in Finland ...
RIDE
Colin Fast “There were families and people of
Cycling in the winter can work just as well for all ages out on bikes. But what really
grandmas as it does for gearheads; it’s all about opened my eyes was being at the gro-
having the right attitude and a little help from
cery store and seeing a grandma come
the city, according to Tom Babin.
Babin is a Calgary journalist, commuter cyc- out with a bag of groceries and pop
list and the author of Frostbike: The Joy, Pain it into her basket and ride off into the
and Numbness of Winter Cycling, which might
snow. You never see that in Canada.”
be the world’s first book on the topic.
“Staying warm is the easiest part of winter
Tom Babin, author of Frostbike: The Joy, Pain and Numbness of
cycling,” he said. “But there’s a perception out
Winter Cycling
there that you have to be a masochist or an ex-
treme athlete to do it, and I think that’s really
frightening a lot of people off.” every season.
A visit a few years ago to the small Finnish As for what gear cyclists should use, he said
city of Oulu in the dead of winter showed him that’s going to vary depending on weather con-
that year-round cycling can work for anyone. ditions and commuting routes. However, rid-
“There were families and people of all ages ing in the winter doesn’t necessarily require a
out on bikes,” he said. “But what really opened custom bike or special clothing. After years of
my eyes was being at the grocery store and see- experimenting, he has settled on an old moun-
ing a grandma come out with a bag of groceries tain bike he converted into a single speed. As
and pop it into her basket and ride off into the for clothing, he typically wears one layer less
snow. You never see that in Canada.” than what he’d put on to walk somewhere, and
To get there, he said the cycling community often wears his work clothes while riding.
and cities need to do more to “normalize” the “As Canadians, we’ve gotten bad at winter
idea of winter cycling. This includes building over the years, and we’ve forgotten what it’s
more separated bike lanes and clearing snow like to get outside and enjoy it, “ Babin said. “As
from bike paths. we start to embrace winter a bit more, it will get A man braves the snowy roads on his bicycle. A Calgary commuter cyclist and author tells Metro’s Colin Fast that the
“Cities that have gone down this road have easier. And riding your bike to work makes it a cycling community needs to work closely with cities to get Canadians on their bikes in winter. TORSTAR NEWS SERVICE
got their winter cyclist numbers up to where lot more fun.”
their summer numbers used to be,” he ex- Introducing Your Ride
plained. “We have proof that it works in other
winter cities, so it can work anywhere.” Colin Fast is a communications specialist and free-
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can actually be an advantage for maintaining avoided looking directly at his unused bike while ly transit column about how you get around Shoot us an email at
winter bike infrastructure compared to cities writing this column. Find him @policyfrog on town — be it by transit, bike, car or foot. [email protected].
that go through several freeze-thaw cycles Twitter.
Yes, violence abounds, but peace is on the increase
ROBSON Yet, we also live in an era that’s been de- people, then dropped steadily to just 1.44 in the first part of the 21st century, with roughly
FLETCHER scribed by Canadian-born Harvard professor 2013 — the lowest rate since 1966. three people killed per million, per year, in
[email protected] Steven Pinker as likely the least violent — All of this is continuing a long trend that war.
ever. has been observed over centuries by Manuel And it’s not just state conflicts, although
Last week, the world was shocked by the “Today, we are probably living in the most Eisner, a comparative criminologist at the those have historically claimed the most lives,
brutal attack on the Charlie Hebdo news- peaceful time in our species’ existence,” Pink- University of Cambridge. by a large margin. As Pinker observed: “Since
paper headquarters in Paris. er said, citing a plethora of historical and re- “Serious interpersonal violence decreased the end of the Cold War there have been fewer
Within the past few months there’s been cent data, during a speech at the TED confer- remarkably in Europe between the mid-16th civil wars, fewer genocides — indeed a 90 per
the deadly shooting on Parliament Hill, the ence in Monterey, Calif., in March 2007. and the early 20th centuries,” he wrote in a cent reduction since post-World-War-II highs.”
massacre at a school in Pakistan, a passenger By the end of that year, New York City — major study on the topic. None of this is to minimize the suffering
plane shot out of the sky over Ukraine. once known for its sky-high crime rates — Eisner focused largely on homicides and that so many people continue to experience
Last decade brought us the Sept. 11 attacks, had seen its fewest homicides since the NYPD crime — but, when it comes to large-scale vio- today. Civil war rages on in Syria. Boko Haram
the Iraq war, and the genocide in Darfur. started keeping detailed records in 1963. lence, the world also has become increasingly continues to slaughter and inflict unimagin-
All of this violence, all of this savagery, all Since then, the low-murder mark has been peaceful. able horror on the people of Nigeria. Terrorists
in real-time. broken four more times, in 2009, 2012, 2013 The number of people killed in armed con- continue their attempts to intimidate free so-
We live in an era in which the worst of hu- and 2014. flicts has plummeted in the past half-century, cieties. Murderers continue to kill men,
manity is live-streamed, live-tweeted, or live- Last year saw just 332 homicides in the according to the Vancouver-based Human Se- women and children.
broadcast (now in high definition!) for im- United States’ largest city, down from its stag- curity Report Project, which measured “state- The world, in many ways, is still a terrible
mediate consumption and maximum emo- gering peak of 2,245 murders in 1990. The based battle deaths” per million humans. place.
tional impact. The inundation of gruesome country, as a whole, has seen its murder rate In 1950, the rate stood at 236. By 1971, it But it’s getting better.
imagery, understandably, can make it seem cut in half in the last quarter-century. was 101. During the 1990s, it had dropped to
like the world is a frightening and increasing- Canada has followed a similar trend. Our about 15. Robson Fletcher is a senior reporter for Metro
ly violent place. murder rate peaked in 1975 at 3.03 per 100,000 But the most peaceful decade, by far, was Calgary.
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10 GOSSIP metronews.ca
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Gossip Stars shed their clothing
NED EHRBAR as Golden Globes venue
cranks up the heat
METRO’S TAKE ON
THE WORLD OF
If you thought the stars at
CELEBRITIES the Golden Globes looked
a little shinier than usual,
you’re not wrong.
Turns out the air condi-
tioning at the Beverly Hilton
E just wasn’t on Sunday night.
Couple that with the rain
that plagued Los Angeles all
weekend and you’ve got one
humid ballroom, illustrated
N by glistening presenters,
multiple men — like
Benedict Cumberbatch and
Matthew McConaughey — Benedict Cumberbatch
ditching their jackets, and
actresses furtively fanning out at his table, prompting
themselves. a visit from paramedics dur-
E
One attendee even passed ing the show. Fun times.
Is Beyoncé’s bump a baby
C
or just a saucy daughter?
It seems Beyoncé can’t even sand sculpture form.
S enjoy a simple afternoon of Beyoncé posted an
being buried in sand by Blue Instagram pic of herself
Harry Styles ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES UNLESS NOTED Ivy without everyone jump- under the sand, and set off a
ing to the conclusion that firestorm of speculation.
Harry is dating in style but
she’s expecting again. Maybe this really is her
But that’s probably way of announcing the
because her three-year-old news? Or maybe Blue Ivy is
wants to keep it secret daughter decided to give her just being extra-critical at a
a rather noticeable bump in surprisingly young age.
One Direction’s most likely Weekly, adding that the pair
solo artist, Harry Styles, has are “spending lots of time
earned himself another celeb- together” lately.
rity merit badge — this time But another source insists
for Victoria’s Secret model- we shouldn’t read too much
dating. Nice work, Style! into their quality time.
The floppy-haired “Harry is having a good
crooner has reportedly time being a young rock star,”
been getting quite cosy the second source says.
with Nadine Leopold as of “You will know he has a
late. girlfriend when he steps out
“Harry has been get- on the red carpet with one.
ting more serious with “Until then, he’s having
Nadine,” a source tells Us fun and enjoying life.” Beyonce INSTAGRAM
I guess that’s us told. Still,
Nadine Leopold congratulations? Chris Brown jokes, panics
as shots fi red at his show
Rowling twists tweet right back at Rupert
If social media is good for any- A recent Chris Brown show Vine of the moment
thing, it offers a fantastic platform in San Diego ended in of panic on his
for witty comebacks. chaos after gunfire rang official ac-
J.K. Rowling used it for just such out at a Fiesta nightclub count. My,
a purpose after Rupert Murdoch while the embattled singer how quickly
riled folks with his Charlie Hedbo- was on stage, according to his smile
related tweet insisting all Muslims TMZ. fades.
need to be held accountable for Video from the gig
the actions of the men behind last shows Brown noticing a
week’s attack in Paris. scuffle and making light of
Instead of just shouting back, it before shots were fired
Rowling turned his own twisted and his security sprang
logic against him, posting, “I was into action.
born Christian. If that makes Police sources say five
Rupert Murdoch my responsibility, people were wounded in
I’ll auto-excommunicate.” the incident, although no
And folks in the Twitter-verse suspects have been named.
seemed to agree with her, as her Brown, no stranger
tweet quickly earned more than to gunfire at his events, Chris
20,000 favourites, compared to didn’t seem that weirded Brown
J.K. Rowling Murdoch’s 3,000. out by it. He even shared a
