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• EAST KOOTENAY REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Sept 24 Shannon Statham & Cody Kwiatkoski of Cranbrook, a daughter
Sept 26 Carley Fisher & Dayce Leach of Cranbrook, a son
Oct 18 Tanya Groleau & David Wendel of Cranbrook, a daughter
Oct. 21 Bethany Storey & Bryce Corner, of Cranbrook, a daughter
Oct. 30 Shayla Brissette & Jeff Johnson, of Kimberley, a daughter
Nov. 4 Samantha Young & Chris Franklin, of Cranbrook, a daughter
Nov. 12 Brenda & Layton Johnson of Cranbrook, a daughter
Nov. 15 Jenny Choy & Cliff Kilfoyle, of Kimberley, a son
Dec. 1 Lindsay Anderson & James Lewis of Cranbrook, a son
Dec. 7 Mylene Lefebvre & Jonathan Welsh of Invermere, a son
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hit the slopesOpening Day is upon us this Friday.
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restaurant make overheidi’s in Cranbrook wants to be a brew pub.
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Council says no to offset
purchaseMoney will be put aside until local
project found
C ArOLyN gr [email protected]
When the City of Kimber-ley signed the Climate Ac-tion Charter in 2007, it com-mitted to striving for carbon neutrality by 2012.
As most municipalities are now admitting, the goal was a good one, but unlikely to be achieved. While every effort was made to reduce emissions, reaching zero emissions is not possible
while buildings need to be heated, and fleets run, on fossil fuels.
The common approach was to reduce as much as possible, then measure an-nual emissions and pur-chase offsets to balance greenhouse gas emissions.
The RDEK voted just last Friday to purchase offsets in order to achieve carbon neu-trality.
The vote came before Kimberley City Council on Monday evening, with a re-port from Manager of Plan-ning Services Troy Pollock, outlining options.
CarbON OFFSEtS
See OFFSETS, Page 3
Redirecting, refocusing, coming
up to year end, Mayor says
C ArOLyN gr [email protected]
The City of Kimberley passed an amendment to the 2012 Financial Plan on Mon-day evening, the first amend-
ment for this particular bud-get year.
Chief Financial Officer Holly Ronnquist explained that the City does amend the financial plan at least once a year, sometimes twice, to keep the community in-formed of significant changes that have occurred affecting the financial plan.
There were three main reasons for the amendment, Ronnquist said;
1) to reflect changes in the 2012 capital budget including a transfer of $206,000 from the budget for repairs to the Civic Centre north wall to an upgrade for the Marysville Arena ice plant.
This particular item was questioned from the gallery. Kimberley resident Ian Ferrie said most towns were lucky to have one arena, not two.
“This money from a major repair in the main arena to a
second arena — $206,000 to repair a second arena?”
“We’ve got issues with the ice plant in Marysville,” said Mayor Ron McRae. “We are facing a shut down if we don’t repair it. At this point we don’t have sufficient funds for the Civic Centre north wall so it seemed prudent to use the money to repair the ice plant.”
See MADD, Page 3
CIty fInanCes
Financial plan amended
Photo contributed
Kimberley cross-country skiers are off to a great start this season, the latest success coming at the BC Cup event in Vernon last weekend. Pictured with their medals are left to right: annika ackermann, coach Paul freeze, Mackenzie MacLean and Molly Miller. see story page 5.
MADD’s Campaign 911
C ArOLyN gr [email protected]
Katryna Sigurdson of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers visit-ed Kimberley City Council this week, looking for support for MADD’s Campaign 911. Sigurdson would like Council’s sup-port in placing signs around Kimberley in the spring encour-aging people to call 911 if they suspect an impaired driver.
“We just want people to know that it’s okay to do that,” Sig-urdson told Council. “We’d like to put large, visible signs in key areas around town. We want to educate the public to recog-nize impaired drivers. The more calls that come in, the fewer impaired drivers on the roads.”
See FINANCIAL , Page 3
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Daryl C alDer
In the heart of the B.C. Rockies, beneath mag-
nificent snow-capped peaks, lay the bountiful green valleys of the East Kootenay. It is here we produce our famous, long-lasting and fragrant Christmas trees for both domestic use and export around the world.
The cool fresh air and brilliant sunshine of our mountain region creates ideal growing conditions for Natural Stand Christmas Trees. Every year an early frost nips the Interior Doug-las Fir forests and sets their deep green nee-dles.
This East Kootenay mountain secret seals freshness and fragrance into each tree.
As a result, the mountain Douglas Fir trees remain fresh and fragrant long after ship-ping and throughout the holiday season.
A B.C. Rocky Moun-tain Douglas Fir will bring the fresh, intense scent of the mountain forests to your holiday
hearth and home.Year after year, thou-
sands of natural stand Christmas trees are nat-urally regenerated and grown amid a mixed forest of all ages. Grow-ers space and prune the forest to encourage op-timum growth.
By using proven, sus-tained growth methods of forest management, many trees can be grown from the same rootstock. After a tree is harvested, one of the several branches left on the rootstock will slowly turn up and grow into a new tree. This common practice of regrowing new trees from estab-lished rootstocks is called “Limb Culture” and means long term benefits to the forest and shorter growing pe-riods for each tree, ben-efitting both producer and customer.
Natural Stand Christ-mas Tree lands harmo-nize wildland values and human needs. Our livestock and wildlife ranges are dramatically improved by Natural Stand silvicultural prac-
tices. Wintering bands of Elk, Sheep and Deer thrive on the enhanced pasture land. Nesting wild birds utilize the mixed age forests yet are unaffected by the fall tree harvest.
The Natural Stand Christmas Tree indus-try has a long and grow-ing tradition among the folks living in the valleys of the B.C. Rockies. For over 80 years, Native Stand growers have vis-ited the same forests to encourage and carefully
select natures finest Mountain Douglas Firs. Once the trees are cut, they are delivered to sites near the villages where they are inspect-ed and bundled to pro-vide a safe and protect-ed journey to destina-tions throughout North America and overseas.
Natural Stand tree production takes place in the ideal growing conditions of the East Kootenay valleys. Quali-ty management and care by tree producers
ensures a sustained yield of excellent, fresh and enduring trees. Year after year our cus-tomers have access to healthy, deep-green Christmas trees pro-duced in a mountain environment of thoughtful and respon-sible wildland steward-ship.
The Kootenay Christmas Tree Associ-ation reminds members of the public who wish to cut their own tree, to obtain a free permit from the Ministry of Forests. Avoid private land and power line right-of-ways in your quest for the perfect tree. Local trees are sold by our members at a number of Cranbrook locations. A cut tree will drink a considerable amount of water during the first several days when brought indoors, and for the next couple of weeks will provide fragrant enjoyment.
Submitted by Daryl Calder on behalf of the
Kootenay Christmas Tree Association.
The EK Christmas tree is king
Baling Christmas trees in a yard near Fort Steele.
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SpeCial to the townSman
How would you like to visit the ul-timate time ma-
chine? A place where every step takes you back 100,000 years in history. Well you can do it 7 p.m., Monday, Dec. 17, at the College of the Rockies when retired journalist Gerry Warner presents a slide show entitled “Con-templating the Grand Canyon.”
The travelogue, which is admission by donation, is part of the Friends of the Cran-brook Public Library fundraising series and shows the immensity and grandeur of the al-most 2 billion year old canyon considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
“In some ways I found the Grand Canyon more impressive than my trek into Everest base camp two years ago,” says Warner. “Everest is higher, but the Grand Canyon is on a scale that dwarfs even the world’s highest mountain.”
The great gash in the earth stretches more than 250 miles through the arid, red rock of Ari-zona’s Kaibab Plateau
and averages more than 20 miles wide and a mile deep. It took eons for the Colorado River to cut down to the metamor-phic rocks at the bottom of the great chasm which geologists estimate to be 1.8 billion years old, about a third of the age of the earth.
“The time scale is in-comprehensible, but the beauty of the canyon can be enjoyed by anyone whether they’re standing on the rim or hiking
through the rainbow col-ored rocks to the green ribbon of water below,” says Warner. “But it’s a hell of a climb out.”
The former Daily Townsman reporter took three days to hike the canyon, starting from the forested North Rim at 8,200 feet and hiking approximately 25 miles down and up again to gain the South Rim at 7,000 feet. Along the way, he met extreme runners who were doing
the rim-to-rim trip in one very long day, a dangerous practice strongly advised against by park management. “They’re welcome to do it. But I was there to take pictures and enjoy the scenery,” says Warner.
And what unforgetta-ble scenery it is, he says. “I’ll never forget the red and ochre cliffs towering like stone temples above the trail or the gigantic buttes and mesas that are like mountains
themselves rising from the canyon floor and the grey limestone walls of the inner canyon slop-ing down to the rushing green river. It’s a hum-bling experience.”
Warner also got a taste of the danger the Grand Canyon offers to anyone that drops below its rocky rim. Missing a sign on the canyon floor, he took a shorter but steeper trail and ran out of water before he made it to the top. Fortunately he didn’t need as much water because it was a cool, late autumn day. Other hikers that have done the same thing in the searing heat of sum-mer when temperatures climb above 45 C (120 F) haven’t been so lucky. More than 250 helicop-ter rescues take place every climbing season in the Grand Canyon.
Despite the busy Christmas season, peo-ple are advised to come early to the show which will take place in Lecture Theatre #250 with limit-ed seating. And the funds raised help the li-brary build its collec-tion, including travel books on famous world places like the Grand Canyon.
Travelogue features unforgettable Canyon
Panorama Point on the South Kaibab Trail.
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M A I N S T R E E T, M A RY S V I L L E
From Front PageThe best option ac-
cording to Pollock’s re-port was to purchase offsets at $25/tonne or less from the Kootenay Community Carbon Fund, which will pool resources from partici-pating local govern-ments to support select projects in Kootenay, Boundary and Colum-bia Basin areas. The cur-rent project carbon off-set purchases would support is the Dark-woods preservation project in the West Koo-tenay.
The City has budget-ed $32,000 in the finan-cial plan for carbon off-sets and Pollock told Council that 2012 emis-sions should be some-where around the 1353 tonnes produced in 2010. The City has re-duced emissions since then, Pollock said, but new facilities such as the Conference Centre have added to emissions.
“Darkwoods could be as little as $16/tonne with enough participa-tion,” Pollock said.
However, Council had a concern with pur-chasing Darkwood off-sets — while the project is in the Kootenays, it is hardly local.
“There is an appetite
to see how we could support local initiatives,” said Mayor Ron McRae, but he was in favour of purchasing from Dark-woods.
Not so Counc. Don McCormick.
“It’s impossible for any public organization to get down to zero,” he said. “The money needs to stay here. What is the value we are going to get for our $30,000?”
Also speaking against the motion was Coun. Kent Goodwin.
“I have a bit of trou-ble with offsets in gener-al. And I’m not sure Darkwoods is a good place to store carbon, given climate change and the likelihood of wild fires. I would like to see a project that would actually reduce emis-sions like methane cap-ture.”
What good was say-ing you’re carbon neu-tral if you’re not actually doing anything? Good-win asked.
Coun. Darryl Oakley said that, having read the Climate Action Charter, there was noth-ing in it that says it is le-gally binding to pur-chase offsets.
“I do not support spending one penny outside municipal
boundaries. The City has done some great things but it will never be carbon neutral. $33,000 is a big chunk of money and it needs to stay here.”
However, McRae and Coun. Hoglund and Rat-cliffe were concerned about the ability to ac-quire grants without participating.
“There is an uncer-tainty that exists in the province in terms of the whole program,” McRae said. “We don’t really know where the prov-ince sits. But this comes up as a criteria on many grant applications.”
Pollock said there was a strong value for Kimberley in being able to say it was carbon neu-tral.
“Nobody wants to see the money leave Kimberley,” Hoglund said. “But this is the only Kootenay project to buy carbon offsets. I do fear what will happen if we don’t buy, then City goes looking for grants.”
“At the RDEK the tone was we’ll do it this time, but this is the last time,” McRae said. “I think they will be look-ing for closer to home projects.”
“Having so few op-tions leaves one feeling
held hostage, especially when there is so little money,” McCormick said. “I just can’t support this.”
Coun. Goodwin pro-posed that the City set aside a reserve fund at $25/tonne of 2012 emis-sions.
“Two years from now when there is a local project, we’ll have dou-ble the money.”
He didn’t want to cap
the fund at the amount reserved in the financial plan because he said the whole idea was to reduce emissions. It had to be based on the amount the City produced, he said. He also said he wouldn’t tie the fund to a project within Kimberley’s boundaries because if the RDEK had a project like methane capture at the landfill, Kimberley could certainly support
that. Coun. Ratcliffe did
not agree.“The City did sign the
Charter,” he said. “We have major grant re-quests out there. I don’t like either, but I will sup-port it.”
“The whole idea of grants riding on it — I challenge that,” Oakley said. “It clearly says in the document that it’s not binding.”
“I agree,” said Coun. Bev Middlebrook. “I hope we are a Council that does think out of the box and take some risks.”
A vote was called and with only Hoglund, McRae and Ratcliffe vot-ing for offset purchases, the motion was defeated.
Kimberley will not purchase carbon offsets, but will put the money in reserve for a local proj-ect.
Should the City purchase
Darkwoods carbon offsets?
Coun. Albert Hoglund - yes
Coun. Jack Ratcliffe- yes
Mayor Ron McRae- yes
Coun. Kent Goodwin- no
Coun. Darryl Oakley- no
Coun. Don McCormick - no
Coun. Bev Middlebrook - no
Kimberley will not purchase carbon offsets
From Front PageOther capital chang-
es included reallocating savings from replacing shop doors and a truck purchase to the works shop roof and a tandem pup purchase; the pur-chase of a genie lift; rails to trails upgrades and repairs and a transfer from sewer capital to a non-capital sewer proj-ect on Deer Park Ave.
The amendment also reflects a number of minor transfers of bud-get dollars from one project to another, in-cluding adding $121,000 to revenue for the Pro-vincial Emergency Pro-gram reimbursement of costs for the Morrison Subdivision flood; and adding $147,000 in City expenses for the flood. This means the net cost to the City for the spring flooding was $26,000. $52,648 will be added to revenues for an HST
ITC rebate. $51,693 of this money will be put in a repair fund for the conference centre.
$56,000 is added to expenses for repairs to the slough on the Peak to Platzl trail. And $31,145 has been trans-ferred from the city hall repair and painting project to a report on the Morrison Subdivi-sion.
Finally, the amend-ment incorporates the recently completed 2013 capital budget into the financial plan, in-cluding $322,000 in wa-terline replacements and monitoring soft-ware; $509,500 for sewer fund projects including UV disinfection at the pollution control centre and sewer line up-grades; and general fund projects totalling $1,523,540 including re-placement of a 1988 dumptruck, storm
sewer projects; pave-ment and road proj-ects, electronic council equipment and soft-ware, building projects at the public works yard, 60 per cent fund-ing for city hall exterior repair and painting and
Kimberley Aquatic Centre projects.
The bylaw received first three readings Monday and will be ad-opted at a special Council meeting on December 17, 2012.
Financial plan amendment
From Front PageAll costs of the signs will be cov-
ered by MADD, they will just consult with the City and the RCMP on the best locations for them.
While Sigurdson says there is al-ways the chance that an observer may be wrong about a driver being impaired, it is a momentary inconve-nience, and the call is worth it if a drunk driver is stopped.
She shared ten signs of a possible impaired driver.
Driving unreasonably fast, slow or at an inconsistent speed
Drifting in and out of lanesTailgating and changing lanes fre-
quentlyMaking exceptionally wide turnsChanging lanes or passing without
sufficient clearanceOvershooting or stopping well be-
fore stop signs or stop lightsDisregarding signals and lightsApproaching signals or leaving in-
tersections too quickly or slowlyDriving without headlights, failing
to lower high beams or leaving turn signals on
Driving with windows open in cold or inclement weather
If You Observe a Potential Im-paired Driver
Call 911State your locationVehicle descriptionLicence plate number of vehicleColour of vehicleMake and model of vehicleDirection of travel for the vehicleDescription of driver
MADD says call 991 on impaired drivers
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Skis are tuned, passes purchased and all eyes turn to North Star Mountain for opening day this Fri-day, December 14, 2012.
It’s opening week-end at Kimberley Al-pine Resort, one of the most anticipated weekends of the year.
Although milder temperatures and rain plagued the end of No-vember and early De-cember, the Resort weathered it pretty well, says Area Manag-er Ted Funston.
“We’ve received ap-proximately 175 cm of snowfall at the top of the mountain, which is over five feet, and the recent cold tem-peratures have made for good snowmaking this week, so the skiing should be great.”
Resorts of the Rock-ies Vice President of Sales and Marketing Matt Mosteller says that last year was a re-cord one for snowfall at KAR, and is already over a foot ahead in total snowfall in the al-pine over last winter.
“With this incredi-ble snow and perfect winter temperatures, this Friday makes the epic launch of another skiing and snowboard-ing tradition at Kim-berley Alpine Resort.”
Locals have been hiking the hill in re-cent days to get a few
runs in and the gener-al consensus has been, “Awesome.”
“We are planning to have the Northstar Quad Chair, Easter Chair, Tamarack Chair, and Magic Carpet open, in addition to the base area facili-ties,” Funston said. “Guest services will be open late to 7 pm on Wednesday and Thursday this week to allow people to get their season passes ahead of time. We’re excited to get the 2012/13 season un-derway, and look for-ward to seeing every-one back up at the re-sort.”
One big event lo-cals won’t want to miss is free skiing and riding on Sunday, De-cember 16, 2012.
As a way of saying thank you to locals, residents of Canal Flats, Skookumchuck, Meadowbrook, TaTa Creek, Kimberley, Marysville, Wasa, Wy-cliffe, Moyie, and Cranbrook will ski for free. To receive a free lift ticket ,residents will need to show proof of residency such as: Drivers li-cense or photo ID ac-companied with utili-ties bill that shows proof of current ad-dress.
Also planned for Community Day is a charity barbecue for the SPCA. Burgers will be available for $2 and all money will go to the SPCA. Local resi-dents can go to Guest Services and receive a voucher that will enti-tle them to a ham-burger for only $2.
The Winter Sports School invites begin-ner Skiers or Snow-
boarders to a compli-mentary lesson. There will be a total of 20 Ski and 20 Snowboard spots available, with lessons taking place from 10:30am - 12:30pm and 1:30pm - 3:30pm. Space is lim-ited and guests must pre-register at Guest
Services.Lessons will in-
clude a voucher for free equipment rent-als at the Rental Shop. Please note that these lessons are for new skiers and snow-boarders only.
The McKim DJ club will be pumping up
the crowd from 11am - 3pm.
“Conditions are incredible at Kimber-ley Alpine Resort,” Mosteller said. “Don’t miss getting up this weekend to enjoy the light Purcell powder on the Easter Chair.”
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With the view of the Rockies to the east, the slopes of the Kimberley Alpine Resort are the place to be on a sunny winter day.
Downtown Cranbrook business wants to renovate to restaurant/
brewhouse
BARRY COuLTeR
A local restaurateur is seeking to take her busi-ness to a new level.
Heidi Romich appeared before City Council at its regular Monday meeting, Dec. 10, with some exciting news about her restaurant, Heidi’s on Ninth Avenue South in downtown Cranbrook, which she is seeking to renovate into a brewhouse and restaurant.
Romich was accompanied by her daughter, Marlies Romich, and David Deardsell, her partner in the enterprise. Deardsell operates the Noble Pig Brewhouse in Kamloops, where Marlies worked while going to school.
“It will be a bit of a new look for downtown,” Heidi Romich said, then showed a presentation of that new look. Both levels of the restaurant would be renovated, to provide a family-friendly area on one side — “a comfortable, multigenerational place to go,” she said.
“On the other side, we’d be taking out some of the walls, putting in varied seating, and maybe some garage doors (to facilitate) indoor and out-door dining.
“It’s very exciting — we want to provide quality food, quality beer and beverages on-site, keeping everything as local as possible.”
Romich added that the brewhouse was “not intended to be a nightclub, but a comfortable place for people to go after work and enjoy.”
David Deardsell also spoke to Council. Deard-sell is a Master Brewer, who studied his craft in Germany and England and who has worked throughout the world.
He said that having lived in Europe, “beer is not something that is frowned upon, but is part of ev-eryday life. In the two and a half years (since the Noble Pig opened) we’ve never had to call the po-lice, we’ve never had an altercation, and we’re probably one of the more successful restaurants in Canada.
“The fundamental belief that Heidi and I have is that food is the primary driver, but beer helps pay the bills.”
He added that he is already scoping out the housing situation in Cranbrook.
“I am fully committed to moving here, and get-ting the project up and running,” he said.
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Three young members of our KIXS team (Kimberley XC Skiers) along with head coach Paul Freeze spent last weekend racing at the Sovereign Lake ski trails in Vernon. This was the first BC Cup event of the sea-son, with athletes from across British Columbia and Alber-ta coming to com-pete.
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Mackenzie MacLean placed third 4 K classic and second in the skate race.
that skiers from Kim-berley are amongst the fastest in the west-ern provinces! Molly Miller placed first in her Bantam Girls cate-gory in the Saturday 2 km classic technique race, and third in the Sunday 2 km skate race. Mackenzie Ma-cLean placed third in her 4km classic race on Saturday, and sec-ond in her skate race on Sunday. Annika Ackermann placed first in the 4 km classic race on Saturday, and third in the skate race on Sunday.
The efforts of their summer training pro-gram, consisting of plenty of roller-skiing on the Rails to Trails, is paying off with these
excellent results. Our older Kimberley ski-ers, that are racing and training full-time at the Callaghan Valley Training Centre in Whistler, also did very well. They were com-peting in the Haywood NorAm Races that were held concurrent-ly with the BC Cup races in Vernon. Ste-fan Sander-Green placed fourth in the 15km classic race on Saturday, and 21st in the 15km skate race on Sunday. Colin Ferrie placed second in the 15km classic race on Saturday, and third in the skate race on Sun-day.
From Page 4Heidi Romich said she was pleased to appear be-
fore Council, if only to dispel the rumours that “I’m closing the restaurant, moving, selling to Earl’s, that I’m dead or in prison. I heard them all.”
The Councillors agreed that it was a most enjoyable presentation. Coun. Angus Davis inquired if the beer would be available offsite, which indeed it will be.
“We’re excited to something happening down-town,” Coun. Bob Whetham said. “It fits in well with downtown revitalization.
“And bringing culture to the consumption of beer is something that hasn’t been part of our traditions.”
Coun. Denise Pallesen asked about staffing levels. Deardsell said the Noble Pig employs 78 employees — 28 full-time with the rest being mostly students working part-time.
Romich said when the restaurant/brewhouse is up and running in Cranbrook, it will employ 55 to 60 staff, “a significant increase.”
Romich and Deardsell must now seek a special li-quor license from the provincial government. Victoria will forward this application to the City of Cranbrook, who will then seek public input on the proposal. Should everyone be agreeable to the proposal, the ap-plication will then go back to Victoria for approval.
Heidi’s planning brew pub
Cranbrook Chamber polls businessesBarry Coulter
A more collaborative approach between the City of Cranbrook and the local business com-munity is needed to im-prove Cranbrook’s over-all business climate and culture, a recent Cham-ber of Commerce survey has pointed out.
At Monday night’s regular Cranbrook City Council meeting, a sur-vey undertaken by the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce was presented by Presi-dent Lana Kirk and 2nd Vice President David Butler.
The survey came as a result of a “challenge” from Mayor Wayne Stetski to the Chamber board, at its 2012 plan-ning session — to identi-fy barriers to doing busi-ness in Cranbrook, and suggest recommenda-tions as to how those barriers could be re-moved.
The Chamber re-sponded by conducting a detailed survey among its membership, which was condensed into a number of common themes and recommen-dations.
“It became clear to us that the level of under-standing about what City departments do, and which City functions are in which departments, are less clear to business than they probably should be,” the survey notes summarized. “…
There seems to be a sense that — in general — there is not a culture of being open to, and supportive of existing and new businesses.”
Butler pointed out to Council that there are al-most 1,500 business li-censes in Cranbrook, which generate 37 per cent of the city’s total tax revenues.
In all, 295 businesses responded to the survey — 20 per cent — which the Chamber felt was a good rate of response, enough for a strong rep-resentative sample of the business community.
Respondents were asked for feedback on doing business in Cran-brook, with a focus on municipal, provincial and federal government agencies.
Butler pointed out that these types of sur-veys are often skewed towards the negative — those with negative ex-periences are more likely to respond that those with positive experienc-es.
“This is about doing doing business in Cran-brook, not about the City of Cranbrook,” he said. He said that businesses fully understood issues like the infrastructure challenges.
“One thing’s for sure — there are no magic bullets,” he added.
Feedback to the sur-vey was condensed to reveal a number of com-
mon themes:• The need to identify
“retail gaps,” and aggres-sively seek out new busi-nesses to fill those;
• The need for the City and the business community to work to-gether, to attract more business and drive the economic development strategy more aggres-sively;
• To focus on and en-courage new businesses in manufacturing, tech-nology, service and val-ue-added enterprises;
• More focus on tour-ism;
• Work to develop the College of the Rockies into a local university, and link its programs with the city’s economic development strategy;
• Work to become a transportation hub for the trucking industry, based on Cranbrook’s lo-cation in the province;
• More focus on alter-native energy;
• Develop a more ro-bust “buy-local” pro-gram.
As to removing barri-ers to business, the Chamber developed a number of proposed changes:
• Develop an “open for business’ culture in Cranbrook by creating higher levels of customer service both at City Hall and within the business community;
• Ensuring taxes and fees are competitive with other communities, and
conducting a review to determine how com-mercial property tax lev-els, DCCs and other fees stack up against other communities;
• Pushing for the Col-lege of the Rockies to be-come a university, to make sure there are more qualified, trained individuals available for businesses to hire;
• Making sure that the City’s economic devel-opment strategy — which is halfway through its term, Butler said — is still relevant. “Is it being successfully implement-ed? How are we tracking its progress? How do we expand our tax base, not our taxes?”
• Of particular note was the implementation of a business liaison po-sition with the City of Cranbrook; an individu-al or entity to help entre-preneurs navigate the myriad processes of the City departments — “for folks particularly in the smaller businesses,” But-ler said. “The mom and pop world.”
The survey conclud-ed with a number of rec-ommendations for the City to implement:
• Develop a training program for staff to en-sure high levels of cus-tomer service, proper training for staff on city policies, and to educate the public on each de-partment’s responsibili-ties;
• Hire a business liai-
son to help businesses navigate to processes necessary to start or ex-pand a business in the area;
• Take a more aggres-sive approach to the eco-nomic development strategy, focussing on specific areas where progress is possible, and having the City work in conjunction with the business community to help achieve strategic goals.
PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2012
I had an evil, Ikea fornuft-wielding monkey on one shoulder, and one in a shearling coat. One begging me not to write, with tears in his little monkey eyes, lip a-tremble. The
other monkey, red in colour, was jabbing at me, laughing maniacally, daring me to put my fingers to the keyboard to create the column that was writ-ing itself in my head.
It was nagging at me — begging for my satirical sense of humour to rip it apart — with every wag of his shearling coat, that monkey named Darwin made a vein throb in my forehead as I tried not to make fun at his expense.
But there he was, wandering through the Ikea in my famnig hjarta. I couldn’t help but joke about the now famous Ikea monkey.
So, dear readers, I apologize in ad-vance at my seemingly uncaring attitude, but I care! I do care! I care so much I have to laugh at the Ikea monkey!
Because his little ordeal into the big city reflected a human race that insists on capturing everything cute and making it a household pet, when that little baby mon-key only wanted to chill out with mom-ma-monkey in the jungle.
I love animals. I really do. I feel sorry for the little guy. He arrived at IKEA just like many of us do: terrified and lost at the
enormity of it all. I’ve been there, lost in the Ikea maze,
simply wanting a lerberg or strala, but having to go all the way through just to get a single pluggis.
I’ve been lost, I’ve found myself at the child care centre, wonder-ing if I should just turn myself in to the lost and found and hope my par-ents are less disoriented than I am and can locate me.
I’ve been that hopeless little monkey, staring out
the window of Ikea, thinking to myself, how did I get here?
So when I make fun, I do so with a sense of camaraderie.
My sister and I pondered back and forth that shearling coat. Where did he get it? Who makes such a tiny coat? But then I wondered even more, where the heck did this monkey come from in the first place?
Was he shipped there from Sweden, where monkeys are just as rare as Canada, along with a box of duktigs? The poor little gaffer! Or was the monkey simply shop-ping for a kvart to use while he lounges on his klappsta, perhaps browsing the Ikea catalogue for more at-home design ideas?
But then the update came in: Darwin had been seized by Toronto officials, and the fun was over. I was working on a zinger involving a swinging monkey and a lova,
when I read the headlines and my lip began to tremble.
Apparently the monkey may be infect-ed with a dangerous form of herpes. He was put in a holding area where staff are only approaching him in gowns and respi-rators.
This little monkey’s trials, found wan-dering sadly around IKEA — perhaps not satisfied with the knutstorps or sparsams — made a mockery of humans.
Darwin the monkey had in fact proved Darwinism by his very existence in the city of Toronto wearing a diaper and a fashionable shearling coat after escaping from a crate in his owner’s vehicle. The owners, who had been in possession of the monkey for a mere five months, had been outsmarted by a monkey.
The family has come out to say that they’re sad the monkey has been taken, but any person knows anthropoids can climb — leaving an animal in your SUV for long periods of time while you shop for cirkustalts is not conducive with pet own-ership of any kind.
As of Tuesday, the monkey had been put in an animal sanctuary, which really, is where a city-savvy monkey belongs.
God speed, Darwin. The little monkey will surely spawn a
fashion explosion of shearling coats, and hopefully more importantly (and serious-ly): an awareness to potential exotic pet owners to stick to a damn dog.
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Another year is almost over, ac-cording to our Gregorian cal-endar, and soon it will be time to celebrate the New Year.
Although New Year cele-brations date back about 4,000 years to ancient Babylon it was in Roman times that the date moved to January 1 in hon-our of the pagan god Janus, whose two faces look both forward to the coming year and backwards to the year past.
In Scotland New Year’s Eve is called Hogmanay, a word derived from one of several possible northern European lan-guages, and until the 1950s it was a more important celebration than Christmas. Still is, in some parts. Many Scots still go ‘first footing’, bringing a piece of coal or black bun and a bottle of whisky for good luck to their neighbours soon after mid-night. And, of course, we owe to the Scots bard Robbie Burns the now universal NYE song, ‘For Auld Lang Syne’.
My most memorable NYE was spent in Scotland. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to celebrate it. Having lost our way on a hike over Ben Lomond in the snow, my girlfriend and I spent the night huddled in the fire-place of a ruined croft chimney just below the summit, watching the flashlights of a search party too far away to holler, waiting for dawn to light our way down. Sure would have welcomed a bottle of whisky that New Year’s Eve.
Wednesday, December 12A White Christmas Revue
Green Door Productions will present ‘A White Christmas Revue’ this evening, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings from 6 to 9 p.m. at The Green Door in the Kimberley Platzl. Directed by Tylene Turner, this dinner theatre revue features Elizabeth Adler, Elli Gillen, Trevor Lundy and Jay Toner with songs from the movie. A festive cocktail hour will be followed by a 4-course traditional Christmas dinner and a sing-along. Tickets are $40, available at the Snowdrift Café. For more informa-tion contact Green Door Catering Compa-ny on Facebook or email [email protected] or call 250-427-7068.
It’s A Wonderful LifeCranbrook Community Theatre ‘s pro-
duction of the live radio show ‘It’s A Won-derful Life’ continues at the Studio Stage Door tonight through Saturday, each eve-ning at 8 p.m. Directed by Terry Miller the play features Jennifer Inglis, Peter Schalk, Sioban Staplin, Sean Swinwood, and David Popoff. Tickets are $13 CCT mem-bers/$15 non-member, available at Lotus Books or at the door if not sold out.
Memory TreeThe Cranbrook Kimberley Hospice So-
ciety invites you to hang a snowflake on the upside-down Christmas tree or on the pet memory tree in the Tamarack Mall in memory of loved ones. Volunteers will be
there to help you today through Saturday. For more information call 250-417-2019 or 1-855-417-2019 or e-mail [email protected].
3D Show At ArtrageousAn exhibition of pottery, ceramics, jew-
ellery, woodwork, wearable art, and other items continues at the Artrageous Gallery until January 5.
Friday, December 14Sculpting Christmas Ornaments
The final class in the Creative Kids after school art program from 2.30 to 4.30 p.m. today at Centre 64 will be on sculpting Christmas tree ornaments from fimo. For more information and to register call Christine at 250-427-4919 or email [email protected].
Saturday, December 15Fort Steele Christmas Fun
Christmas fun activi-ties continue today and next Saturday, December 22, at Fort Steele Heritage Town with sleigh or wagon rides, ice skating, lunch at the International Hotel, Father Christmas at the Lambi House for photo
ops, and a bonfire, all between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Fort Steele’s annual sleigh ride day follows on December 29 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
One Starry NightYou are invited to enjoy ‘One Starry
Night’ from 2 to 5 p.m. this afternoon at the Knox Church on 3rd Street South in Cranbrook. This is a re-creation of the first Christmas, including the Bethlehem mar-ketplace where you can taste food typical of that era, the inn at Bethlehem where you can craft an item from that time, and King Herod’s temple in Jerusalem guarded by Roman soldiers. Admission is free.
Tuck’s TroubadoursTonight Tuck’s Troubadours will be
playing classic country at BJ’s Creekside Pub beginning around 7.30 p.m.
Monday, December 17Hiking the Grand Canyon
The Friends of the Cranbrook Public Library present their third travelogue of the season tonight at 7 p.m. in the lecture theatre at College of the Rockies when Gerry Warner will describe hiking the Grand Canyon. Admission is by donation.
Live Outdoor NativityThe Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter
Day Saints will present a Live Outdoor Nativity at the Cranbrook LDS Chapel on 2nd Street North this evening and tomor-row evening at 7 and 8 p.m. with a live donkey, sheep, youth actors and music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It will be followed by Christmas caroling, hot chocolate and Christmas goodies.
Thursday, December 20Highland Dance Recital
The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers will host their annual Christmas Charity Recital this evening at 7 p.m. in the Heri-tage Inn Ballroom. Admission is by dona-tion to the Salvation Army. For more infor-mation contact Jane at 2580-427-8757 or email [email protected].
Affordable ArtContinuing until today at Key City Gal-
lery is the annual Affordable Art show and sale in which all artworks are priced at $300 or less.
Saturday, December 22Christmas Gift Show
The Christmas Gift Show in the Gallery at Centre 64 continues until today. It fea-turing a variety of beautiful artworks and crafted goods by Kimberley artists and ar-tisans Darcy Wanuk, Helen Robertson, Virginia Anderson, Lori Joe, John and Julie Ough, and Kyla Richardson, along with Sandy Kunze of Galvanized Art Gallery, Wyndell, Julie Gibbs of Sandpiper Studio, Windermere, Shelley Soles of Golden and Andrea Revoy of Blue Moon Pottery, Cres-ton. The show & sale is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and ad-mission is free.
Monday, December 31Hollers Dance Party
The Hollers will be playing for a dance party this New Year’s Eve at the Marysville Pub. Appetizers will be served all night and guests are invited to dress up for a black & white masquerade if they wish. Tickets are $30 each, $50 per couple, avail-able in advance from the pub which has limited seating.
Seniors Social DanceA New Year’s Eve Social dance will be
held at the Seniors Hall tonight from 8 p.m. to midnight with music by The Pace-makers, Lyle, Ken and Duncan. Admission is $15, which includes a lunch. There will also be draws and prizes. For reservations call 250-489-2720 or 250-489-4442.
Library ShowcaseThe display for the month of December
in the Cranbrook Public Library showcase is of handprints by Heather Buhler.
Saturday, January 5Banff Mountain Filmfest
Wildsight presents the Banff Mountain Filmfest at Key City Theatre at 7.30 p.m. this evening. Tickets are $25, available from the KCT box-office (250-426-7006), all proceeds going to support Wildsight’s local educational projects.
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UPCOMINGBC Government Retired Employees Association, Rocky Mtn Branch, will be holding their Christmas luncheon meeting at the Bavarian Chalet, Sam Steele Rm, Dec. 12 at noon. Guest will be Santa. FMI contact Jack Selman, 489-5930.Kootenay Christian Academy middle school band concert; Thursday, Dec. 13, 7:00pm. KCA Preschool campus, 629 6th St NW Cost: donation for Christmas hampers. FMI 250-426-0166Book Under Every Tree – until Dec 14th drop o� new or gift quality kids/teens/adult books at the Cranbrook Library and other drop o� locations in Cranbrook for CBAL’s project. Volunteers needed and fabric donations gratefully received. Katherine 250-417-2896 or [email protected] your family back in time to the � rst Christmas? Then reserve Saturday Dec 15, 2-5pm for One Starry Night! Free activities for ALL AGES! Knox Church, 2100 - 3rd St. S., Cranbrook. FMI: 250-426-7165Mount Baker Interact Club will be hosting an Amnesty International Write for Rights event on Thurs, Dec 13, 730 pm, - to raise awareness of four international cases of human rights violations. The night will end with a candlelight vigil recognizing the importance of international human rights. Donations will go towards the cost of sending the letters.December 16-Advent 3 and Special Gift Sunday You are invited to worship with Cranbrook United Church. Many of our congregants bring a small gift for the food bank, or the women’s shelter, or the men’s shelter on this Sunday. Service begins at 10:00 a.m. Live Outdoor Nativity with live donkey, sheep, youth actors and music from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Monday, Dec 17 and Tuesday, Dec 18th, Cranbrook LDS Chapel, 2210-2nd St. N., Cranbrook. Times: 7:00 & 8:00 p.m.2012 FREE FAMILY SWIM Wednesday, Dec. 19th, 6:00-7:00 PM is sponsored by Knights of Columbus.The Royal Stewart Highland Dancers will host their annual Christmas Charity Recital on Thursday, December 20 at 7:00 pm at the Heritage Inn Ballroom. Admission is by donation with all funds going to the Salvation Army Cranbrook. FMI contact Jane at 2580-427-8757 or email [email protected]. (www.rshd.ca)
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TRE VOR CR AWLEYSports Editor
It looked as though the Rockets were ready to fizzle, before they blasted off Tuesday night at Western Financial Place.
Down for 50 minutes of the game, Kelowna scored three unan-swered goals in a 3-1 come from behind victo-ry over the Kootenay Ice.
Tyson Baillie scored twice as the Rockets earned a win on their first of a five-game road trip throughout the Cen-tral Division.
The Ice, in turn, lost their second game in a row and will regroup be-fore hitting the road themselves for four games to close out their schedule before the Christmas break.
Wyatt Holfin stood in goal for the Ice, turning away 30 shots, while Jor-dan Cooke, who manned the crease for Kelowna, made 29 saves.
Kootenay had five power play opportuni-ties, scoring on only one, while the Rockets capi-talized once in three chances on the man-ad-vantage.
It was a homecoming for Rockets’ head coach Ryan Huska, who was
born in Cranbrook and raised in Trail. It was also the first time former Ice player Dylen McKinlay returned to his old barn after getting traded to Kelowna following train-ing camp in September.
“I don’t think we played our style in the first two [periods], but the third—definitely that us,” said McKinlay, who was held pointless, but got into some fisticuffs with Austin Vetterl early in the game. “We’re a working team, don’t try to be too fancy but if we don’t work we’re not going to be successful.”
Huska noted that his team seemed to get their feet under them in the final frame after a poor start.
“We were really slug-gish to start this game tonight, but I thought Kootenay played really well early on,” Huska said. “I thought we got our legs going as the game went on and for the first two periods, I don’t think we were nor-mally the team we usu-ally are. The third peri-od, I thought we were better.”
It was a scoreless first period, but both teams had their chances. Kelowna led the attack
with some early pressure but got into penalty trou-ble near the end of the period.
Erik Benoit nearly put the Ice on the boards when he split the Kelow-na defence and cut in all alone on Cooke, howev-er, the puck slid just wide of the post after he deked out the opposing net-minder.
Kelowna had their best chance when Carter Rigby drove to the net on a partial breakaway, however an Ice defence-man was able to get in the way and prevent a shot.
Kootenay took the lead less than two min-utes into the second pe-riod on the man-advan-tage, as Collin Shirley lifted the puck over Cooke just outside the crease.
Hoflin kept cool in-side the crease as the
Rockets worked to an-swer, even going full splits from post to post to make a succession of saves during a stint of heavy pressure by Kelowna.
However, things crumbled for the Ice in the latter half of the final period.
Tyson Baillie redi-rected a pass from the point while driving to the net on a Kelowna power play to pull even with 8:12 left in the game.
Roughly 90 seconds later, Colten Martin col-lected the puck in the high slot and fired a low shot under Hoflin’s glove into the corner of the net.
The Ice began gear-ing up for a big push in the final few minutes to look for the equalizer, but it was the Rockets who lit the goal lamp as Baillie got his second of the night after picking up his rebound on a wrap-around.
Benoit couldn’t have bought a goal during the night, as he was robbed again on another break-away by Cooke, who sprawled across the crease to get an arm on the Ice forward’s back-hand.
Jaedon Descheneau also missed the net by a hair after taking a feed from a teammate on a shorthanded two-on-none rush to the net.
The Ice were without defencemen Joey Leach (upper body) and Tan-ner Muth (upper body), while Brock Montgom-ery (upper body) was absent in the forward corps.
Kelowna was missing star forward Colton Scis-sons, who is currently recovering from an inju-ry, however, he would have been in Calgary at the national world ju-nior selection camp if he was healthy, anyway.
Kelowna’s manage-ment told McKinlay that there’d be high expecta-tions on him when he arrived, and the overage forward has responded while playing alongside Colton Scissons and Myles Bell, as he is tied for third in points on the team, with 27.
“It’s definitely easy when you got players of that calibre,” said McKin-lay, “and I think our role is to lead by example and be those workers every night and obvious-ly put some points up and help our team do anything to win.”
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MADRID, Spain - Ra-fael Nadal is ready to re-turn to competitive ten-nis, confirming Tuesday that he’ll play in an exhi-bition tournament in Abu Dhabi at the end of the month following a six-month break to re-cover from a knee inju-ry.
“Can’t wait to get back on court in Abu Dhabi at the end of the month,” the 11-time Grand Slam champion said on his Facebook page and Twitter ac-count. “I won the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in 2010 and 2011 - would love to get my hands on the tro-phy again this year!”
The 26-year-old Nadal began practicing on a court in his home-town of Manacor on the island of Mallorca on Nov. 20 under the su-pervision of his uncle and coach Tony Nadal and a physiotherapist.
The Abu Dhabi tour-nament starts Dec. 27 and will feature a six-man field that also in-cludes top-ranked Novak Djokovic and No. 3 Andy Murray of Brit-ain.
While Nadal had long been scheduled to play in the event, he was cautious in a radio inter-view last week about how quickly he could return to full fitness after such a long layoff.
Nadal has not played since a stunning sec-ond-round loss to then 100th-ranked Lukas Rosol at Wimbledon in June due to the partial tear of a tendon in his left knee.
The injury denied Nadal an opportunity to defend the Olympic sin-gles gold at the London Games and forced him to pull out of the U.S. Open and Spain’s Davis Cup final against the Czech Republic, which his teammates lost with-out him last month.
Nadal confirms he’ll return to
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Appeals overturn NFL suspensions in bounty caseBRET T MARTELAssociated Press
NEW ORLEANS — In a sharp rebuke to his successor’s handling of the NFL’s bounty inves-tigation, former Com-missioner Paul Tagli-abue overturned the suspensions of four cur-rent and former New Orleans Saints players in a case that has preoc-cupied the league for almost a year.
Tagliabue, who was appointed by Commis-sioner Roger Goodell to handle the appeals, still found that three of the players engaged in con-duct detrimental to the league. He said they participated in a perfor-mance pool that re-warded key plays—in-cluding bone-jarring hits—that could merit fines. But he stressed that the team’s coaches were very much in-volved.
The entire case, he said, “has been contam-
inated by the coaches and others in the Saints’ organization.’’
The team’s “coaches and managers led a de-liberate, unprecedented and effective effort to obstruct the NFL’s in-vestigation,’’ the ruling said.
Tagliabue oversaw a second round of player appeals to the league in connection with the cash-for-hits program run by former defensive co-ordinator Gregg Wil-liams from 2009-2011. The players initially op-posed his appointment.
Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma had been given a full-season suspension, while de-fensive end Will Smith, Cleveland linebacker Scott Fujita and free agent defensive line-man Anthony Hargrove each received shorter suspensions.
Tagliabue cleared Fujita of conduct detri-mental to the league.
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the first two [periods], but the third—definitely
that’s us.”Dylen McKinlay
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The Mount Baker junior girls basketball team is off to a tremendous start. They are currently 5 and 0 with a gold medal performance this past weekend in Kelowna. This tournament featured 12 teams, with Mount Baker being the only squad from outside the Okanagan region. After the final game was played, Mount Baker’s Charity Marlatt was named the defensive player of the tournament. Pictured above, in no particular order: Cassie Aston, Breanne Pocha, Sage Harris, Maddy John, Rae-lyn Pighin, Kendal Bostock, Josie Bannink, Morgan Tank, Chelsea Pelton, Char-ity Marlatt, Bobbi-Jo Colburn. Coaches are Joe Tank and Greg Colburn.
Donna SpencerCanadian Press
CALGARY — No goalie feels more pres-sure at the world junior hockey championship than Canada’s starter, says the man cultivating the next one.
Ron Tugnutt is the Canadian team’s goal-tending coach and has personally experienced that kind of pressure. In addition to a long NHL career, Tugnutt twice represented Canada at the men’s world cham-pionship.
“There’s a lot more pressure on our goalie than on the other teams,’’ Tugnutt said Tuesday at selection camp in Calgary.
When European teams win the semifinal, they’re thrilled at the prospect of “at least’’ a silver medal, but Cana-dian players aren’t in-terested in anything but gold, he explained.
“When we win the semifinal game, we’re only thinking one thing,’’ Tugnutt added.
With no incumbent from the previous world junior championship, a major subplot of selec-tion camp in Calgary this week is who will be Canada’s starter, backup and alternate at the 2013 world junior champion-ship starting Dec. 26 in
Ufa, Russia.In a new develop-
ment, Canada will take a third goaltender as in-surance against injury because of the travel time required to get to south-central Russia.
Malcolm Subban of the Belleville Bulls, Lau-rent Brossoit of the Ed-monton Oil Kings, Jor-dan Binnington of the Owen Sound Attack and Jake Paterson of the Sag-inaw Spirit are the four invitees. There’s little time for them to impress head coach Steve Spott as the 23-player team will be finalized Thurs-day afternoon.
Spott tried to damp-en speculation that Sub-ban, the younger broth-er of Montreal Cana-diens defenceman P.K. Subban, has the inside track on the starting job because he plays on Eu-ropean-sized ice at Bel-leville’s Yardman Arena.
After four years on North American ice, the world junior tourna-ment returns to a sur-face four metres wider with just over a half-me-tre more space between the back of the net and the end boards.
“Contrary to belief, there’s no starting job being given out, I can tell you guys that,’’ Spott told reporters Tuesday. “That’s going to be a re-
ally good subplot to this training camp, to see which guys we take over. That third goalie is a unique position. He may not see any action at all.’’
Tugnutt says Sub-ban’s big-ice experience is one check mark in his favour.
“I know myself as a goalie I struggled with the bigger ice,’’ Tugnutt said. ``I think it is an advantage for him just because it is a different visual. He sees it every day. But that’s not going to be the determining factor on what happens here.’’
Here’s a look at the four goaltenders invit-ed:
- Malcolm Subban: The six-foot-two, 201-pound Toronto native
has some of the flam-boyance of his older brother, according to Tugnutt. The first-round pick of the Boston Bru-ins posted a 15-7-3 re-cord with Belleville. “He’s extremely athletic. You think you have an easy goal and it’s taken away,’’ Tugnutt said.
- Laurent Brossoit: Calgary Flames draft pick led the Edmonton Oil Kings to a Western Hockey League champi-onship last season. Fills the net at six foot three and 200 pounds and is 12-4-2-3 so far this sea-son with the Oil Kings. “A big, strong physical kid who is great around his crease,’’ said Tug-nutt. “He’s got all the tools necessary to make to the next level.’’
- Jordan Binnington: Owen Sound Attack goalie has moxie. When he was left off the junior team that played a sum-mer series against Rus-sia, Binnington told Tugnutt “you’re making a mistake.’’ The St. Louis Blues prospect had a strong start to the sea-son with a 17-6-1-2 re-cord and 2.07 goals-against average.
- Jake Paterson: The lone 18-year-old in the bunch, Paterson plays behind a young Saginaw Spirit team and faces a lot of rubber. The De-
troit Red Wings draft pick lacks the interna-tional experience of the other three invitees. “From what I’ve heard, I’ve heard Malcolm is probably the No. 1 guy heading into camp, but I think it’s really up in the air as to which goalies are going to get selected to the team,’’ Paterson said.
Like a CFL quarter-back or the skip of a curling team, Canada’s goaltenders can get more blame and more credit than they deserve for the outcome a game.
But there is a sense that goaltending has
been a weak link for Canada at the last three tournaments with silver in 2010 and 2011 and bronze this year in Al-berta.
Jake Allen was pulled in a loss to the U.S. in the 2010 final in Saskatoon. Mark Visentin gave up five goals to Russia in the third period of the 2011 final in Buffalo, N.Y., and Scott Wedge-wood allowed four goals on 14 shots before leav-ing this year’s semifinal loss to Russia with an injury.
Before alarms sound over the state of Canadi-an goaltending, Tugnutt
points out the U.S. also switched goaltenders in that 2010 championship game, as did the Rus-sians in the semifinal in Calgary.
“It seems like the other teams are pulling their goalies too,’’ he said. “Don’t tell me ev-eryone else’s is better then ours. That’s not the case.
“People lose sight that these guys are 18, 19 years old. They’re learning their way and they’re feeling more pressure than they’ve ever felt in their lifetime. Even the calmest of guys will struggle with that.’’
Competition is open for Canada’s goalies at world juniors
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HAMILTON, Ont. — George Cortez paid the price Tuesday for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ disappointing season as the CFL team has re-lieved him of his duties as head coach and di-rector of football opera-tions.
The firing came just over a month after the Ticats wrapped up a dis-appointing 6-12 season.
“After a thorough evaluation of our orga-nization and our goals moving forward, we have determined that a change in direction is needed,’’ team presi-dent Scott Mitchell said in a release. “We want to thank coach Cortez for his contributions to the Tiger-Cats and wish him well in his future endeavours.
“We will immediate-
ly begin the search for our new general man-ager and head coach.’’
Cortez said he was surprised by the news, but seemed to be taking his dismissal well when he talked to reporters Tuesday.
“That’s the way things go,’’ he said. “We didn’t win enough games, and ultimately that’s what you’re judged on.’’
When asked if he would have done any-thing differently over his tenure in Hamilton, he relied dryly: “I would have won more games.’’
“I think we had a good plan of how we did things,’’ he added. “It was pretty much based on places I’d been in the past and how we’d done things successfully in the past, so I don’t do a lot of sec-
ond-guessing. Once you make a decision you move forward.’’
Cortez said he would like to return to coach-ing next year, possibly as an offensive co-ordi-nator. He said he hasn’t ruled out a return to the CFL’s head coaching ranks, but noted that as of right now job vacan-cies are hard to come by.
“I know obviously there’s going to be a job in Ottawa in a year or two, but as of right now there’s no jobs out there,’’ he said.
The Ticats also an-nounced that Bob O’Billovich, the team’s vice-president of foot-ball operations, has been offered a position within the organization as a consultant to the president and the foot-ball operations staff.
Hamilton Tiger Cats fire head coach George Cortez
“Contrary to popular belief, there’s no
starting job being given out, I can tell
you guys that. That’s going to be a really good subplot to this
training camp, to see which guys we take
over.”Steve Spott
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Keep reaching out to others, es-pecially if recent circumstances caused a problem or a stunned reaction. Focus on conversa-tions, yet maintain an even pace. You’ll cover a lot of ground if you let others open up. Detach if you have a strong reaction. Tonight: Take a risk. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) A partner continues to give you significant feedback. You might not like everything you hear, but at least now you know where someone is coming from. Share some special time with a friend who understands how to live life well. Tonight: Accept an invitation. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could be more in touch with your feelings than in recent months. An unexpected change of plans might be hurtful, but don’t take it personally. To your surprise, a meeting proves to be rather insightful. Tonight: Go with someone’s suggestion.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) You’ll accomplish a lot if you remain focused. The unexpect-ed walks hand in hand with a boss or someone you need to answer to. Let it go. What you learn from this experience could be quite instrumental. Tonight: Get some exercise. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) News gives you reason to frolic and celebrate. You could gain a deeper insight into your life. Opportunities come forward out of the blue when you have less energy to give. This pattern happens when you let go of the reins of control. Tonight: Let the fun begin. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Sometimes you are the source of your own pressure. The unexpected occurs, which en-courages a partner to reach out and express some of his or her concerns. You might feel over-whelmed, as you could have too much on your plate. Tonight: To the wee hours. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could be up for more ex-citement or a change of pace.
You might not need to look very far, either. An associate seems to have the right type of fire to light someone’s fuse. The result could be a type of combustion that you can’t control. Tonight: Relax. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might be surprised by what an unexpected situation brings. An associate or a matter involv-ing your daily life could take an interesting twist, which adds excitement, if nothing else. A discussion with a partner draws results. Tonight: Visit with a friend. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) You could be taken aback by someone’s efforts to make the day more to his or her liking. You might not be sure how another person will react. Stay open and fluid with the moment. Tonight: Be spontaneous. Plan a get-to-gether with friends and loved ones. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Reframe a situation in a differ-ent light. Don’t allow your high physical energy to affect your thinking, as it might make you
more nervous than need be. Take a midday walk to clear any tension. Tonight: Schedule some downtime for yourself. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A meeting could punctuate your plans. If you are single, you could meet someone who seems to have a magical qual-ity about him or her. Lighten up when dealing with people, and you are likely to have better conversations. Tonight: Where the crowds are. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Deal with others in a manner that makes them feel comfort-able. You might need to take the lead. Think through a situation with greater care. On the other hand, a holding pattern could create better results. Tonight: Buy a holiday gift or two on the way home. BORN TODAY Singer Frank Sinatra (1915), singer/actress Dionne War-wick (1940), politician Ed Koch (1924) ***
Dear Annie: My husband and I have been married for 20 years. We have two boys, and the oldest is non-verbal autistic. “Austin” can write, and he wears a talking device around his neck. He likes to shop and enjoys eating differ-ent things. But it makes me sad and angry when people stare at us. I have had strangers tell me I shouldn’t take
Austin out of the house, that I’m a bad parent if I don’t do a gluten-free diet and various other pieces of unwelcome advice. I know some peo-ple think we somehow caused this to happen, but we didn’t ask for this, and people need to realize what a miracle it is to have a child who is developmentally normal. We have one of each, and I feel blessed to say that. Our society doesn’t offer enough support to
families that are different. Our youngest son tries to make friends, and no one calls back. I have reached out to neighbors, and nothing happens. Support groups have meetings that are often held at times that don’t work for me, and worse, if you have different opinions about what causes autism, you are ignored. I will not give up hope that things can change, because we have come so far. Thanks for letting me vent. -- Sunshine Dear Sunshine: This must be so difficult for
you. There is no excuse for people who are rude enough to criticize your parenting or have the nerve to suggest that the boy be confined to the home. Ignore them. Professionals don’t know what causes autism. Some children respond to dietary changes, but not all. And we know that many people continue to believe that autism is a result of childhood vaccines, even though the original “research” is now considered question-able at best. We understand how much parents want to
protect their children and, in some cases, are looking to place blame. If the support groups in your area are not your cup of tea, please try the Autism Society of America (autism-society.org) or Autism Speaks (autismspeaks.org) for more opportunities to connect, perhaps online. Dear Annie: May I make another suggestion
for holiday gifts for teachers? When I worked in the counseling office at a high school, my most treasured gifts were the thank-you notes written either by the parents or the students. Mugs, scented candles and school-themed note pads can pile up in the closet, but those notes I will keep forever. Knowing your efforts are appreciated is priceless. -- Mrs. G. Dear Mrs. G: Thank you for giving our read-
ers a gift idea that costs nothing and brings so much satisfaction. Teachers have often told us how meaningful these notes are. Please, read-ers, if a teacher has meant something special to you, let him or her know. It’s one of the nicest gifts you can give. Dear Annie: I could not disagree more with
your comments to “Enough,” who said he would not date a woman he was not physically attracted to. You said this was a superficial rea-son, but his choice. I agree that it is his choice, but superficial? Not
at all. I have been there. I ended a relationship because I was not attracted to him “that way.” Hearing that he was shopping for an engage-ment ring didn’t change my mind. My family asked how I’d feel if he turned out to be my only option, and I said that was no reason to be with someone. Two weeks later, my now-husband asked me out. -- History Lesson Dear History: You are confusing attraction
with superficiality. It’s understandable not to continue to date someone you aren’t attracted to. But “Enough” refused to even meet women who didn’t match his criteria for beauty. This is superficial -- meaning the surface appearance is more important than what’s inside. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell
and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read fea-tures by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM
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Carly Rae Jepsen may be victim of hacking
C ANADIAN PRESSVANCOUVER —
Charges have been laid in a high-profile harass-ment case in which the alleged target was be-lieved to be Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen.
Vancouver Police Department are not confirming that the case involves Jepsen, but said today it comes after offi-cers received a report in March of the alleged ha-rassment of a local, well-known celebrity.
Police had said in July they were investi-gating Jepsen’s com-plaint of unauthorized use of a computer and theft of telecommunica-tions, and that their
probe had started in March.
A Vancouver Police release says Abbotsford, B.C., resident Christo-pher David Long faces five charges, ranging from identity fraud to
possession of stolen property, fraudulently obtaining telecommu-nications services, and unauthorized use of a computer.
Police say the 25-year-old surren-dered at the Abbotsford courthouse last Friday and has been released under several condi-tions, while awaiting a court date, Jan. 4, in that Fraser Valley city.
The spokesman would not confirm a website’s claim that the matter involved the al-leged theft of nude pho-tos of the 27-year-old singer from Mission, fa-mous for her num-ber-one song ``Call Me, Maybe.’’
Carly rae Jepsen
First Nations put economy ahead of land treaties
C ANADIAN PRESS
VICTORIA — Ten British Columbia First Nations have signed a deal they say puts eco-nomic development on their traditional lands ahead of land-claims treaty settlements.
The Nanwakolas group of First Nations from northern Vancou-ver Island and B.C.’s mid-coast say the agree-ment renews a deal signed three years ago with the B.C. govern-ment to cut bureaucracy between aboriginals
and government when it comes to land and re-source decisions.
Nanwakolas Council Society spokesman Dal-las Smith who attended a signing ceremony at the B.C. legislature, says the renewal agreement ensures smoother and faster approvals be-tween government, First Nations and industry.
He says the Nanwa-kolas are currently ne-gotiating a memoran-dum agreement with the B.C. forest industry that includes, jobs, reve-
nues and protection of culturally significant sites.
Aboriginal Relations Minister Ida Chong says the renewed deal streamlines sometimes difficult approval pro-cesses by permitting government and indus-try to negotiate directly with several First Na-tions at once.
Smith says the Nan-wakolas still believe in settling land-claims treaties but have chosen to explore development opportunities.
Chronic ship-source oil a greater risk to B.C. coast
DENE MooRECanadian press
PRINCE RUPERT — Chronic, ship-source dis-charges of oily effluent pose a larger problem than large-scale cata-strophic oil spills, lawyers for Nature Canada told the panel weighing the Northern Gateway pipe-line.
Chris Tollefson, law-yer for the non-profit conservation group, questioned a panel of company experts Mon-day — the opening day of the hearings in Prince Rupert, B.C. — about the company’s assessment of the project’s impacts on marine birds.
Tollefson said the area that would be tra-versed by 220 oil tankers
annually is home to hun-dreds of at-risk species, including the endan-gered marbled murrelet, great blue heron, and black-footed albatross.
``The literature says that the cumulative ef-fects of chronic oiling on marine birds is greater than the impact of cata-strophic oil spills. Would you agree that that’s what the literature says,’’ Tollefson asked Jeff Green, who was respon-sible for the project’s en-vironmental assessment for Enbridge.
Such chronic, or “mystery’’ spills, can be as large as tanker spills, Green agreed, but they occur in different regions and in smaller volumes, and behave differently.
The growing aware-ness of the problem has resulted in a call for in-creased surveillance and enforcement of laws that prevent ship-source dis-charges, he said.
``So, yes, it is a prob-lem. There’s absolutely no question it’s a prob-lem: oil and birds are not a good combination,’’ Green said.
But recreational boats, fishing vessels, urban runoff and sewage are sources of mystery oil, Green said, as well as natural seepage from off-shore oil deposits in the Pacific.
Authorized discharg-es are legally limited to an amount that does not have a significant impact on wildlife.
B.C. town grieves Clearwater teachersC ANADIAN PRESS
CLEARWATER, B.C. — School officials and police in the small B.C. Interior town of Clearwater say the deaths of a man and his pregnant wife — both teachers — are a tragedy for the families of the victims, the school district and the community of just 5,000.
Skye Buck and his wife Court-ney, who were both 30, were killed Sunday when their car skidded off an icy patch of Highway 5 and plunged 30 metres down an em-bankment into the North Thomp-son River, north of Kamloops.
Kamloops-Thompson School District Superintendent Terry Sul-livan said the couple will be sorely missed.
``It’s a terrible tragedy and we are struggling now to extend the depths of our sympathy for the family (and) for the community,’’ he said.
A friend of the couple, Lenka Moravcova, said Skye Buck had told her recently his wife was seven
months pregnant.``He said that he’s expecting a
little one shortly after Christmas in the New Year (and) we were joking that he should volunteer for the
Davis Cup if they happen to have (the baby) in Vancouver, and he said it will be very difficult because they will have a newborn,’’ she said.
Syke Buck was a basketball player who played professionally in Europe before becoming a math teacher at Clearwater Secondary.
Courtney was a Grade 1 teach-er at Raft River elementary school in the town.
RCMP Constable Leslie Smith said the deaths have shocked the community.
``They were prominent, well known throughout the whole Clearwater community,and it’s just such a tragic event at this time, and the entire community of Clearwater is grieving.’’
Sullivan says a critical response team has been sent to Clearwater to help students and staff at the high school and elementary where the two taught.
Skye Buck would have turned 31 on Tuesday.
10 years for man who sought to become suicide bomber
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CHICAGO _ A man who plead-ed guilty to a plot to attend a So-malia training camp with the dream of becoming a suicide bomber was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 10 years in prison.
Standing in orange jail clothes, his hands behind his back, 29-year-old Shaker Masri looked calm as a judge imposed the sen-tence for one count of attempting to provide material support and resources to a terrorist group.
``That you were willing to die in harming others is extremely dis-turbing to this court,’’ U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman told him. ̀ `There is a need to deter you, people such as Mr. Masri, from this type of behaviour.’’
Masri _ who was born in Ala-bama but has close family ties to Syria _ allegedly talked with an in-formant about killing a busload of U.S. soldiers and learning how to strap on a belt-full of explosives. He also allegedly spoke about ``heavenly rewards one would re-ceive for martyrdom,’’ according to a government presentencing fil-ing.
``Masri’s goal was to be a tool of indiscriminate murder,’’ the same filing said.
Masri was arrested in August 2010 hours before he was sched-uled to leave the country for a trip to Somalia, where he hoped to become a suicide bomber for al-Qaida and another terrorist group, al-Shabab, prosecutors have said. He had allegedly started talking to a confidential FBI infor-mant of his plans a little more than two weeks before his arrest.
After his arrest, investigators found a copy of Osama bin Ladin’s
manifesto, ``The Declaration of War Against the Americans’’ on his computer as well as the book ``The Islamic Ruling on the Per-missibility of Self-Sacrificial Oper-ations: Suicide or Martyrdom?’’
Masri allegedly admired Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric be-lieved to have inspired the 2009 Fort Hood, Texas, shootings and the attempted bombing of a jetlin-er approaching Detroit on Christ-mas Day in 2009. A U.S. drone at-tack killed al-Awlaki last year.
Shaker did display emotion once Tuesday, interrupting and asking to speak when a prosecutor said he hadn’t renounced his ide-ology. But after huddling with his lawyers, he stayed quiet. Asked later if he had any remarks, he said politely, ̀ `No thank you, your hon-our.’’
After his release from prison, Masri will be subject to 20 years of close supervision and monitoring, Coleman said. That will include restrictions on Internet access, she said.
Masri’s mother, who had at-tended her son’s hearings, died recently, and no other relatives were in court Tuesday. Escorted
by U.S. marshals, Masri was al-lowed to visit his mother in the hospital in October before she died.
He pleaded guilty to the one count as part of a July plea deal. His attorney, Thomas A. Durkin, said then that ̀ `there comes a time when the government makes of-fers that are difficult to refuse in the light of the potential conse-quences.’’
The plea agreement suggested a prison term of just under 10 years, the term the judge imposed. She could have disagreed with that recommendation, though that would have voided the plea deal.
Coleman noted Masri could have received a 15-year term. The judge said she accepted the lesser term for various reasons cited in the plea deal, including that Masri had spent much of his last two years in jail in solitary confine-ment and that his mother had re-cently died.
She asked attorneys, however, why they had listed civil strife in Syria as another factor justifying a lesser sentence.
``Some of his family live in Syria and it’s an added stress factor ... stress about how his family is faring,’’ Joshua Dratel, another of Masri’s attorneys, told her.
Leading up to Tuesday’s hear-ing, the defendant’s older brother
sought to soften Masri’s image, sending a letter to the judge
describing him as lively and kind, and as ``our
neighbourhood’sfavourite boy’’ when they were growing up.
``Older people used to love chatting with him, because he had a wild imagination and would tell fantastic stories,’’ Anas Almasri wrote.
“That you were willing to die in harming others is
extremely disturbing to this court. There is a need to
deter you, people such as Mr. Masri, from this type of
behaviour.’’U.S. District Judge Sharon
Johnson Coleman
skye and Courtney Buck, both 30, are presumed dead after their vehicle skidded off Highway 5.
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CAIRO — At the same time the IMF de-layed billions of dollars in urgently needed loans Tuesday, Egypt’s top general appealed for a meeting of “national unity” to try to ease ten-sions between secular-ists and Islamists locked in a bitter struggle over Egypt’s future.
But prospects of unity any time soon in Egypt remained dim late Tuesday as thousands of secularists and Islamists once again held rival ral-lies in Cairo to voice their support or opposi-tion to a draft constitu-tion that is to be put to voters in a national ref-erendum on Saturday.
Whether the talks that Col.-Gen. Abdel Fattah†al-Sisi has called will amount to anything was an open question. The Muslim Brother-hood, which supports the changes to the con-stitution, quickly an-nounced that it would attend. The opposition, which has denounced the proposed document because of its persistent references to Islam and its lack of protections for religious minorities and women, said it would decide if it will take part shortly before the meet-ing is slated to take place.
But getting the oppo-sition to agree among themselves on anything has so far proven prob-lematic. With at least eight different secular parties vying for atten-tion, there has not yet been a consensus on whether to boycott or take part in Saturday’s vote on the constitution, although a decision on that may finally come Wednesday.
The mood in Egypt,
which has been para-lyzed by months of demonstrations, re-mains volatile and the situation could quickly worsen if either side re-sorts to violence before or doing Saturday’s ref-erendum.
Perhaps the only thing preventing the kind of bloody, brawling confrontation that led to seven deaths last week has been that, since then, organizers have managed to keep the two rival protests several kilometres apart.
Adding to the gloom, the IMF held back loans that may eventually total more than $6 billion until at least January. The main reason was that embattled President Mohammed Morsi can-celled plans Tuesday to bring in tax increases the IMF had demanded in order for the govern-ment to begin to try to balance its books.
Crowds on Tuesday were thinner and tamer than those last week. But secularists gathered out-side the presidential pal-ace were as implacable as ever.
To mantra-like cries of “We will not vote, the whole process is wrong,” swarms of secularists easily passed through holes Tuesday in the concrete barriers that the army had set up to protect the palace from attack. Soldiers stepped aside, but tanks and ar-moured cars remained manned only a few me-tres away. Other secular-ists gathered in Tahrir Square where police ap-peared for the first time and used their cars to block some access routes to the square.
“It’s our country, our home. I will not leave. I will not surrender,” said Inas Selim, a 37-year-old
architect and mother of two, as she stood near the graffiti-splattered main wall of the palace.
Reports appeared Tuesday that backers of the Muslim Brother-hood had detained doz-ens of secularists over-night last week. Some of them alleged that they had been badly beaten.
“People who disagree with them are being ac-cused of blasphemy and are condemned as not being true Muslims,” said 28-year-old Tarek Mahmoud, a pharmacy factory worker who has been a fixture at secular-ist rallies. “How can we possibly trust such peo-ple?”
Still, for whatever reason, it has been obvi-ous for some, that oppo-nents of the draft consti-tution are no longer coming out into the streets since violence erupted.
“Maybe some people have lost hope because the referendum is going to take place whether there is a boycott or not,” said 40-year-old Bassel Adel, an engineer who was elected in the par-liamentary riding that includes the presidential palace. Since that parlia-ment was dissolved, Adel plans to run again for the opposition in fresh elections likely to take place in February.
“We have continued to try to maintain mo-mentum against the constitution during these final battles,” the engineer said. “One of the problems has been that our leaders in the National Salvation Front have not been doing what we need them to do at this point. They have not been out here with the people, giving them hope.”
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The lawyer leading the robocalls election case acknowledged Tuesday that he faces a challenge proving vot-ers were disenfran-chised without evidence that “there are ballots that aren’t in the ballot box.”
Steven Shrybman, the lawyer for eight vot-ers who want the Feder-al Court to overturn the election results in six ridings, told Judge Rich-ard Mosley that he is “up against the difficult task of proving the nega-tive.”
But Shrybman said the evidence shows that people across the coun-try were stopped from voting by misdirecting or harassing calls.
He urged the judge to consider the numer-ous complaints de-scribed in internal Elec-tions Canada emails and others itemized in sworn statements from agency investigators that detailed alleged voter-suppression calls reported in more than 240 ridings.
“There is no loaded gun,” he admitted. “We have not been able to adduce for this court electors who didn’t vote, let alone large numbers of them.”
Instead, Shrybman said the judge should consider similar stories from voters across the country that are consis-tent with those in the six cases before the court.
“It’s all of a piece,” he said.
Shrybman pointed to a voter in the Quebec
riding of RiviËre-du-Nord - not one of the ridings at issue - who complained to Elections Canada that he received three automated calls telling him his polling station had changed and who ultimately did not vote in the May 2, 2011 election.
This complainant, whose name was re-dacted from court docu-ments, is the first on the public record to say his franchise was affected by a misleading call, al-though an Elections Canada investigator has reported that some vot-ers in Guelph tore up their voting cards in frustration when direct-ed to the wrong poll.
For months - and as recently as during ques-tion period on Monday - the Conservatives have rebutted allegations about the robocalls scandal by claiming not a single person lost his or her franchise.
But to Shrybman, there is clear evidence of a countrywide effort to discourage voters.
“A person or person unknown engaged in fraudulent activities in-tended to affect the re-sults of the election in the six electoral districts at issue,” Shrybman told the court. “A direct as-sault has taken place on the first building block of the democratic soci-ety, the right to vote.”
To prove that, he said, it is not necessary to show who carried out fraudulent activities, merely that they took place.
“We don’t know who engaged in those activi-
ties and we are not ac-cusing the Conservative Party of Canada of con-spiring to defraud Cana-dian electors,” he said.
Shrybman took the judge through court documents from Elec-tions Canada’s investi-gation of voter-suppres-sion calls, starting with the investigation into the robocall that sent hundreds of voters to the wrong polling sta-tion in Guelph.
He characterized the efforts of the suspect identified as Pierre Pou-tine as “a clandestine and covert act to sup-press the vote.”
The suspect went to great lengths to disguise his or her identity, using a disposable “burner” cellphone, untraceable credit cards and a proxy server to disguise the In-ternet Protocol, Shryb-man said.
Given these efforts, Shrybman said there was no way for appli-cants to know at the time that the calls they say they received were anything but apparent mistakes.
It was only when they heard media re-ports in late February of this year that they real-ized the calls may have been part of a larger vot-er-suppression effort, Shrybman said.
Specifically, he re-ferred to journalistic “sleuthing” that turned up a sworn statement filed in an Alberta court in November 2011 as the first time the public learned of alleged vote-suppression calls.
Shrybman outlined complaints from voters
across the country who have reported to Elec-tions Canada that they received live calls and robocalls that told them that their polling sta-tions had moved when they had not.
He also reviewed in-formation from Elec-tions Canada emails re-leased under ac-cess-to-information legislation that show the Conservatives were warned during the cam-paign that voters were receiving calls from the party directing them to the wrong polling sta-tions.
Those emails were received by a lawyer for the Conservatives, whose name is redacted in the release, but who is believed to be Arthur Hamilton, the lawyer representing the Con-servative MPs in oppos-ing this suit.
The email was sent from Hamilton’s law firm in response to an email from Elections Canada warning about the calls. It said that “the calls being made by our candidates request the voter to confirm her or his polling location,” and asserted that the calls were not telling voters their polling sta-tions may have changed.
Shrybman repeated-ly pointed to this email as “inconsistent” with the evidence of an affi-davit from an executive at the call centre firm employed by the party. Responsive Marketing Group executive An-drew Langhorne assert-ed that it was the party, not local candidates, making the calls.
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