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at’s the estimated value of goods seized from criminals by the Alberta government’s Civil Forfeiture Oce (CFO) over the past four years since it was established. Most of that gure is comprised of cash, cars and homes.

Over those same four years, the CFO has seized nearly 400 vehicles — including Hummers, BMWs, Escalades and even Lamborghinis — and as many as 100 real estate properties.

Faith Gault (le), a Grade 7 student at Sir George Simpson Junior High School, uses a cellphone to ask a question to International Space Station commander Chris Hadeld (right) on Tuesday aernoon. Despite a few technical glitches, students at the school had the chance to connect with the Canadian astronaut via a ham radio connection. See story, page 3.

Students at a local junior high school got an out-of-this-world experience this week.

Nearly 180 students at Sir George Simpson Junior High School gathered in their cafeteria Tuesday aernoon to listen in as the school was connected to the International Space Station and some of them had a chance to ask questions of Canadian astronaut and station commander Chris Hadeld via a ham radio connection.

e questions ranged from the eects of pressure in space to what Hadeld would bring back with him if he had the chance. One student even asked how Hadeld was spreading Canadian culture among his fellow astronauts.

“I’ve been playing Canadian folk music,” Hadeld replied. “I’ve been playing Stompin’ Tom Connors and music from a bunch of dierent writers, [like] Gordon Lightfoot.”

Students managed to get in about eight questions in English, French and even Russian.

“It was pretty cool,” said Grade 9 student Charlea Erickson. “It was very interesting, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”

Grade 8 student Caleb Sorenson asked Hadeld what he would be doing for a living if he wasn’t an astronaut. e answer was a combination of university professor and test pilot, which didn’t surprise Sorenson.

“I thought he was going to [say he’d] be a pilot,” he said.

e chat almost didn’t launch, though, as technical problems and atmospheric static held things up past the scheduled 2 p.m. start time.

But when Hadeld’s voice came over the cafeteria speakers, there was relief all

around.“We had done two separate dry runs

on this — running the lines, testing the cellphones, calling in, checking the audio. We were like, we’re good,” said teacher Tony Rafaat, who organized the chat.

“We thought maybe it was on the other end. ... When we had the x, which was a cellphone, it was like, hallelujah.”

Rafaat is an amateur radio operator, and heard

about the chance to link up with Hadeld through the amateur radio community in Alberta.

“I wrote up our application and submitted it, and I think they liked our combination of bilingualism — or trilingualism — at the school, and maybe the fact that I had my amateur radio license,” he said. “Who knows — maybe someone put in a good word for us.”

Space science is part of the Grade 9 curriculum, so Rafaat is hoping that the students came away from the chat more enthused about that subject.

“Science is exciting, and the sky is not the limit, as Chris Hadeld says,” he said. “We can reach out with our technology — with VHF radio, old school — and make contact with a cra that’s going 25,000 kilometres an hour. What I want them to take away is that [science] is exciting and it is doable.”

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e 2013 edition of the St. Albert Lifestyle Expo and Sale was a rousing success, according to ocials with the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce.

Chamber chair Lynn Carolei said that the annual show — which took place this past weekend at Servus Credit Union Place — saw good crowds over all three days.

“I think it was probably one of our best-attended expos yet,” she said. “We got great feedback from the vendors that were here. All in all, it was a big success.”

While the weather — which saw a little snow and temperatures around freezing, giving people a reason to get out of the house and start thinking about spring

— may have played a part in the show’s success, Carolei said she was surprised at the number of visitors from outside St. Albert.

“What amazed me, from people coming to my booth,

was how many people from out of town came in,” said Carolei, who owns Sublime Swim and Sunwear in the Village Landing shopping centre. “I was talking to people from Lloydminster, some from Morinville and points north.”

With this year’s show in the books, Carolei is already looking ahead to next year’s, which she’ll

play a big part in as the Chamber chair from the previous year usually heads up the Lifestyle Expo committee each year.

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Aer stepping down as executive director of the Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert at the end of 2012, Paul Moulton has resurfaced in another high-prole position in the Capital Region’s arts community.

Moulton was introduced Monday as the new executive director of the Edmonton Arts Council, the body that advises and supports the City of Edmonton in cultural planning and policy matters.

Moulton said he was doing a good job of keeping his expectations in check until he got a call telling him he was the EAC’s rst choice.

“en I got really, really excited,” he said with a laugh. “I wasn’t sure how excited I was until they oered me the job. en I realized, what an extraordinary opportunity.”

e EAC also allocates funding to artists, organizations and festivals in Edmonton — a total of $13.5 million in 2013 — and owns and operates TIX on the Square, which sells more than $1.5 million in tickets for local arts events each year.

“We are looking forward to working

with Paul,” said Anne Ferguson-Switzer, a member of both the EAC board of directors and the EAC’s executive director hiring committee, in a press release. “He brings with him a diverse and rich background in the arts and a strong record as a leader. Paul knows this community and has demonstrated his commitment to arts and culture in Edmonton in both his professional and personal life.”

Moulton ocially takes over the executive director position in early May. Until then, he said, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn the ropes from outgoing executive director John Mahon.

“It’s just a nice, steady transition to absorb as much information as possible,” he said. “e board already has a strategic plan in place with some strong initiatives. ... It’s a nice big challenge with lots of really engaging, interesting work.”

Mahon is leaving the EAC aer 15 years to pursue other interests, including his activities as a musician and a teacher.

Moulton rst heard about the opening when Mahon announced he was leaving last year. And not even a planned trip to the southern United States for almost three months couldn’t derail the interview process when the committee had whittled their choices down to two.

“I ended up sitting on a hill in my trailer in Las Cruces, N.M., for about an hour and a half on a cellphone — which is not an easy way to do an interview,” he laughed.

But, in the end, the committee liked what Moulton had to say and oered him the job.

“Somewhere between Las Cruces and Phoenix, I got the call, and I was just ecstatic,” he said.

Moulton le his position with the AHF in December 2012, citing contentious negotiations with the City of St. Albert over a new partnership agreement. at agreement was announced in January and took eect on April 1.

e new position is a bit of a homecoming for Moulton, as he served as the rst chair of the EAC board when it was rst established in 1996.

“Even then, it was pretty intriguing what the Arts Council was up to, because it took over responsibility for all the fund allocations the City of Edmonton used to make, to festivals and arts organization and individual artists,” he said. “Over the years, the organization has grown that grant fund base pretty enormously. ... Keeping the existing piece going and looking where we might take this is really exciting.”

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e past year has just own by for Insp. Kevin Murray.

e commander of the St. Albert RCMP detachment took over his post about one year ago, and in that time, even though the community and the detachment are bigger than what he was used to, he said it has all gone by very quickly.

“I just can’t believe where the year has gone,” Murray said. “With any transfer, any new position, there’s a period of time where everything’s new — new people, new processes, new policies. at’s not just with the RCMP, but also with the City [of St. Albert], how they operate and how they interact with the RCMP.”

But, over that time, he has found St. Albert to be a great community and the local detachment to be one that was already running quite well.

“It has a lot going for it. e sta here are tremendous,” Murray said. “You try to make small changes. It’s not like, when you arrive, anything’s broken ... I didn’t turn the place upside down.”

He added that his dealings with elected City ocials have also been very positive, especially with Mayor Nolan Crouse.

“I’ve never met anybody more passionate about their community,” Murray said.

When Murray was preparing

to come to St. Albert from his previous post in Port Alberni, B.C., he noted that drug use, trac and youth issues were the big areas to tackle.

A year later, those three areas are still priorities.

“Every community has youth

issues, and drugs aren’t going away,” he said.

One thing that surprised him, however, was the number of domestic violence calls the St. Albert detachment received, but he chalked some of that up to the work of local agencies in breaking down stereotypes and getting people to report such crimes when they happen.

Speaking of agencies, Murray said he’s impressed with the social agencies St. Albert has to support police — like the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society and the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village — as well as the auxiliary constable program, St. Albert Citizen’s Patrol and St. Albert Victim Services.

“e one thing I was impressed with right o the bat, and continue to be impressed with, is the level of volunteerism in St. Albert,” he said. “I was indoctrinated with that very shortly aer I got here. ... Just to see the commitment from [those] organizations, that tells me you’ve got a pretty healthy community.”

Right now, the biggest challenge facing the detachment is moving

some personnel and equipment into the old Management Information Group building at 50 Bellerose Dr., which he said is going to create some challenges around communications and processes.

“We’ll have to gure out how we’re going to handle le ow and things like that,” he said, “but more importantly for me is the communication of the units and making sure everyone is still working together and knows what’s going on administratively and operationally.”

Looking further down the road, though, Murray said he wants to focus on over the upcoming year is a targeted strategy for crime reduction, which is a goal police departments are always striving for.

“It’s not new. It’s new in the sense of putting a really structured framework around it for St. Albert — what we want to do, how we want to approach that,” he said.

“Crime reduction is all about targeting the 10 per cent that are doing 90 per cent of the crime. ... We’re going to be very much more intentional about how we do that,” Murray added.

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eing a city councillor is usually a great job. But, unfortunately,

there are times when we are put in no-win situations. e current debate over the City of St. Albert’s new animal bylaw — and specically the issue of requiring dogs to be on leashes the majority of the time — is one of those situations.

On one hand, there are the dog owners who want to be able to have their dogs run free and play fetch and get much-needed exercise. On the other hand, though, there are people who are fearful of dogs and need to know they are being kept under control so they will not jump up or bite.

And no matter what a revised animal bylaw says, one of those sides would feel it swung too far in the opposite

direction.I own a dog, and my wife

is the biggest animal lover I know, but even we agree that dogs need to be on leashes in most public areas. at sentiment matches up with what I’ve been hearing from people who have been calling me or emailing me or stopping me on streets. It may be that your dog is usually well-behaved, but there is no way knowing how it will react in a new situation. ey are still animals, and you can’t trust them.

In reality, though, once the bylaw comes into eect,

municipal enforcement ocers are not going to go out and ticket people right away when they have a leash longer than two metres or can’t produce a plastic bag for picking up poop. e bylaw is rst and foremost an education tool.

In fact, if a business case came forward for it, I would support the addition of one ocer to the local municipal enforcement department who would be solely dedicated to educating people on the animal bylaw and only writing tickets aer multiple warnings. is could be extended to other bylaws and nuisances as well, like people who don’t store their garbage bins properly or park their cars too close to an intersection. When people are measured — whether it’s on

the job or on bylaw matters like these — we always perform better.

One thing I was disappointed not to see in the bylaw, though, was the licensing of cats. Why should a cat be able to roam freely, but a dog cannot?

Passing the new animal bylaw is pretty much a fait accompli. e rst two readings passed by an overwhelming majority, and there is likely little that could come forward before it is debated again that would change enough minds on council.

But, in the end, it’s not about handing out tickets. It’s about educating people to become better, more responsible dog owners. And that’s a situation in which we all win.

he case of Allyson McConnell just keeps getting sadder and sadder.

It was already unspeakably tragic when McConnell drowned her two sons — Connor, who was two years old, and Jayden, who was just 10 months old — in the bathtub of her home in their home in Millet, Alta., just 40 kilometres south of Edmonton, in 2010. It was even worse when McConnell was sentenced to only 15 months in jail aer being convicted of manslaughter and aer time served waiting for her trial was taken into account.

But the saddest aspect of the whole case has come to light in the last week when McConnell became eligible for statutory release aer serving two-thirds of her sentence — just 10 months — and was to be deported to her native Australia, even while Crown prosecutors had lodged an appeal of her original sentence.

Is it bureaucratic bungling, as the nger-pointing between the Alberta and federal governments over the case would suggest? Or is McConnell’s case so unique that provisions have not been built into our justice system to deal with it and others like it?

Either way, 10 months in jail is clearly not a punishment that ts the heartbreaking crime of taking away the lives of two young boys. It is not a punishment that gives any consolation to the boys’ father and his family, who deal with their heartache every single day. Seeing the woman who took Connor and Jayden’s young lives set free and sent back to Australia only rubs salt in those wounds.

Instead of nger-pointing, provincial and federal governments need to work together to gure out a way to close the loopholes and keep criminals in Canada if appeals have been led but not yet heard.

It may too late to apply any such new rules to McConnell — who, if the Crown wins its appeal, would likely be the subject of a long, drawn-out extradition — but they need to be in place so that this incredibly sad situation does not play itself out again in our country.

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Other levels of government may be feeling the pinch, but the City of St. Albert isn’t getting squeezed.

City manager Patrick Draper presented a report to city councillors Monday evening at a regular meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance, saying that, despite the Alberta government dealing with multibillion-dollar decits and the federal government making changes to several programs, the City shouldn’t feel too many adverse eects.

At the provincial level, Draper said that the biggest impact would come through the Municipal Sustainability Initiative. at program is split into capital and operating portions, and it’s only the latter — through which the City gets about $900,000 a year, mostly going toward St. Albert Public Library operations — that will be aected.

“We will need to work through, over the next three years, how to account for the loss of that $900,000,” Draper said, noting that the library is not at any risk of closing its doors because of the change.

e operating portion of the MSI will be phased out over three years and replaced with a regional collaboration grant.

“is is ... a grant you have to apply for, so we don’t automatically get it,” Draper said. “It is for projects where municipalities co-operate on projects of mutual interest.”

e City gets about $11.6 million per year from the capital portion of the MSI.

Meanwhile, on the federal level, the Municipal GST Rebate and the Gas Tax Fund were combined into the new Community Improvement Fund, with the Gas Tax Fund now being indexed at two per cent annually and its eligibility expanded to include culture, sport, tourism and recreation projects.

Also, the Building Canada fund, which was set to expire in 2014, has been renewed for another 10 years, and the P3 Canada Fund was renewed and increased to $1.25 billion over the next ve years.

ere were lots of peaks and a few valleys for the City of St. Albert in 2012, according to city manager Patrick Draper.

Draper presented the City’s annual report to the regular meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance Monday aernoon, saying that the year was punctuated by mostly ups, but also a few downs.

“It’s always amazing to look back over a previous year and realize how much was actually accomplished on behalf of the residents of St. Albert,” he said.

Draper highlighted a number of continuous improvement projects that the City has undertaken in the past year, including ones centred around asset management, an analysis of overtime work, a review of information technology needs in the St. Albert Public Library, the

optimization of civic oce space, and the review of records and information management.

Draper also highlighted several of the City’s environmental initiatives, including the new solid waste program, which has helped cut the amount of garbage St. Albertans are sending to the landll by almost half over the last ve years and contributed to signicant increases in recycling and organics collections.

Water consumption per capita in the city is down to 257 litres per day, putting the city well on track to meet its goal of 200 litres per person per day by 2020.

e City also saw an increase in total website visits — with transit, swimming schedules and employment being some of the most popular destinations — and a decrease in motor vehicle accidents involving City employees and days lost to injury.

One of the few lowlights in the report,

though, was the City’s employee attrition rate, which increased again in 2012 and is something Draper will keep a close eye on this year.

“is is a bit of a vexing number for the City. It is higher than some surrounding communities are experiencing,” Draper said. “I’d like to say it’s because of our high-quality employees being taken by other municipalities, but there are a myriad of reasons that lead to [a high] attrition rate.”

e number of business licenses issued in the city stayed fairly steady between 2011 and 2012, as did the value of residential construction projects.

But, while the report looked back on 2012, Draper was already looking forward to 2013, with several initiatives already on the go for the year, including reviews of corporate reporting and public engagement practices, website rationalization, and a review of advertising spending.


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e Alberta government is making good on its promise to reimburse the City of St. Albert for Ray Gibbon Drive.

e provincial transportation ministry announced Monday that it is handing over the nal installment of $17.2 million to pay back the City for the construction of Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive, which is currently being built from Giroux Road to Villeneuve Road.

Mayor Nolan Crouse said Monday aernoon that he is overjoyed with the news.

“ere was always this question of whether or not we were going to be paid back, and we’ve had it in dribs and drabs … ere was this road to nowhere and this rhetoric around, ‘e road’s not needed,’ and, ‘It won’t get paid for,’” Crouse said. “But all along, I had to continue to provide the faith to council. e province was telling me all along, MLAs and ministers, that the money’s forthcoming and you will get paid, and it won’t be 10 or 20 years from now.”

In February, St. Albert city council approved internal borrowing to front the $17.2 million needed for the road, which would have saved more than $1 million in

debt servicing and interest costs. Prior to that, councillors had planned to borrow $15.9 million from external sources, with the remainder coming from government grants.

e total cost of construction and land acquisition for all three stages of Ray Gibbon Drive is $75,748,600, with the City on the hook for $38,969,000 of that. Prior to Monday, the provincial government had already paid back $19,554,600 of their portion, leaving $17,225,000 owing.

“We made the commitment to the community that we would get Phase 3 built, and we’ve done it. And we’ve done it without going into debt,” Crouse said. “I’m proud. I’m proud of the provincial commitment. I’m proud of our sta for getting it done. And I’m proud of three councils I’ve been on that made it happen.”

Making it happen was a time-consuming venture, though, as Crouse said he has spent a good deal of his time making sure the wheels were still turning on the deal.

“I can’t even tell you the number of letters I’ve sent and the meetings [I’ve had],” he said. “I’ve probably been in 20 to 30 meetings with the province on this, just lobbying and explaining it, going over

the math, making sure the numbers are right, making sure the ministers are OK.”

Over the past couple of years, as the Alberta government has hit hard times and tabled decit budgets, Crouse admitted that he was nervous that the Ray Gibbon Drive reimbursement was something that would get pushed to the back burner. But, he said, provincial ocials reassured him this day would come.

“e ministers — as well as [Spruce Grove-St. Albert MLA] Doug Horner — were saying, ‘Nolan, just trust us. We’ve made a commitment to you. e premier made a commitment to [former mayor Paul] Chalifoux, and we will meet our commitments,’” he said. “And they came clean today.”

“Our focus over the next few years is expanding market access through work on our core transportation network and through maintaining our infrastructure investments,” said Alberta Transportation spokesperson Jeanna Friedley. “Ultimately, this is a key corridor in Alberta; it’s a core transportation corridor for the entire province. So it’s important to us that it be upgraded to the appropriate provincial standards.”

e opening of Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive is currently slated for early August.


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e Canadian Progress Club SILKS are going Greek for their upcoming annual fundraiser.

e SILKS — which stands for Service In Love, Kindness and Strength — are the women’s arm of the local service club, and they are gearing up for their seventh annual Guilty Pleasures event, which takes place on Friday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Centre (14230 133 Ave.) in Edmonton.

SILKS member and event organizer Joan Guillemette said that this year’s event will have a distinctly Mediterranean air this year with hors d’oeuvres from that part of the world and entertainment from tribal fusion belly dancers Bedouin Beat.

“It’s more of a tribal dancing than the Egyptian,” Guillemette said. “e Egyptian is usually sinuous and done [solo], where this has more more jumping, and they wear feathers, shells and beads. It’s not quite as traditional.”

Of course, as in past years, those hors d’oeuvres and decadent desserts will be served up by men in tuxedos, and Guillemette said there are plenty of male volunteers willing to get dressed to the nines for the event.

“ey all phone and want to be on the list,” she said. “Last year, our oldest guy was 78 or so. We were short one guy; someone got sick or got sent out of town, so this guy stepped in, and he was thrilled because, look at how much attention he’s getting.”

is year, the event will be emceed by CTV Morning Live host Rob Williams, who the organizers are excited to have even if they don’t watch him on TV that oen.

“I don’t get up that early in the morning to watch those shows!” Guillemette said with a laugh, adding that it’s a switch from Mayor Nolan Crouse, who has emceed the event for the past few years.

e evening will also feature a fashion show from Edmonton designer Laura Dreger, rae draws, a silent auction and a photo booth.

Other Progress Club events have raised money for Camp Warwa, Uncles and Aunts at Large and Special Olympics, but the Guilty Pleasures event will also raise funds for the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society in St. Albert.

Guillemette said that adding in SAIF as a beneciary was partly due to attending the society’s Red Shoe Gala last year and hearing a speech from the mother of Jessica Martel, a woman who was murdered in Morinville in 2009 as she tried to get out of an abusive relationship.

“To listen to her, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house,” she said. “We’d been talking to Doreen [Slessor] from SAIF for a couple of years, knowing that they’d like to build a shelter, but that’s huge money. But we thought we could put our money in and help with counselling.”

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ere will be no perks for industrial and commercial developers considering calling St. Albert home, at least for the foreseeable future.

On the advice of the St. Albert Economic Development Advisory Committee, city councillors voted Monday evening at a regular meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance to not implement a program of investment incentives at this time, and to have City of St. Albert sta continue to monitor market conditions to determine if and when such a program might be needed in the future.

“We have had overtures from developers in town looking for something that’s unique and special for them, but that needs to be managed very carefully, because that’s a Pandora’s box that opens,” City economic development executive director Guy Boston told councillors.

e three incentives the City

was considering included:

of dedicating land to municipal reserves;

energy eciency incentive.Boston said that, given a

number of changes in the non-residential development landscape over the last few months, the incentives were deemed unnecessary.

Some of those changes include:

schedule and targeting a fall 2013 opening;

development in Erin Ridge North;

South Riel, with plans to develop within two years;

along the city’s north boundary for residential development;

land in South Campbell; and

city, including being named the second-best city in Canada to live

in by MoneySense magazine.Boston said that, in addition,

SAEDAC felt that recent zoning changes, the creation of the City’s economic development division and the potential for the incentives to be negatively received by existing businesses also worked against the idea.

“ey also indicated in their letter that they have a history of not working or being underutilized, and that they sometimes can cheapen the image [of the city],” he said.

He also noted that SAEDAC was actually in favour of the cash-in-lieu incentive, but some councillors were glad to see it was being taken o the table as well.

“With all our discussions the last couple of months about dog parks and bike parks, we’re constantly looking for [municipal reserve], so I’m glad we’re not giving it away,” Coun. Cathy Heron said.

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Five teachers from St. Albert schools have been recognized as some of the best in Alberta.

e provincial education ministry announced on Monday the semi-nalists for the annual Excellence in Teaching awards, which includes more than 100 educators from across Alberta who have demonstrated creativity and innovation in the classroom.

ose recognized from St. Albert include:

“It’s an honour to publicly recognize educators who impact students in such a meaningful way,” said

“Everything they do is focused on student success. ese semi-nalists embody the vision and direction that thousands of Albertans shared with us through Inspiring Education and they deserve our recognition for that.”

Out of the more than 100 semi-nalists, 20 teachers will be selected to receive an Excellence in Teaching Award at a dinner and ceremony with the education

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e moment Harrison Ford rst pops up in 42, you can’t help but notice that you almost didn’t notice it was him.

As Branch Rickey, the barrier-busting Brooklyn Dodgers GM who took a stand against racism with his 1947 signing of Jackie Robinson, Ford bears little resemblance to his usual leading man self — and that’s precisely the way he wanted it.

“It would have been no service to the lm (for the audience) to wake up in the Jackie Robinson movie and say, ‘What the (expletive) is Harrison Ford doing here?’” explains Ford.

“I didn’t want anybody’s history with the kinds of characters I’ve played or the kinds of movies I’ve made to muddy the waters in this very clear stream.”

To facilitate the intended disappearing act, Ford shaved his hairline back to accommodate a wig, covered up that trademark scar on his chin, donned a fat suit (his idea) to help dene his walk and adopted the very distinctive manner and timbre of Branch’s speech.

Later, during a press conference with Robinson portrayer Chadwick Boseman and director Brian Helgeland, he’d joke that the main reason for taking on a real-life character for the rst time in his career was the rare opportunity, at age 70, to play somebody younger — Branch was 65 when the movie begins.

But now, amidst an impressively curated, private collection of baseball Americana housed in a non-descript building in an industrial section of downtown Los Angeles, Ford oers a more serious reason for signing on.

“What was oered me was a rich and emotional environment to work in and amazing actors to work with,” shares Ford.

“It’s very important for us as human beings and a nation to reect on our behaviour, that there were some rough patches of road to go through and how many of the bumps were just temporarily patched potholes that still need to be attended to.”

As a kid growing up in Chicago in the ’40s and ’50s, around the same time Robinson was making history, Ford admits to having little awareness of the racial divide that was running

through the country.“My parents were very liberal, old-time

democrats and they had a deep commitment to social justice,” reects Ford. “I never saw them exhibit any kind of racial recognition or behaviour that caused me to understand that there was any dierence between people of dierent colour skin or dierent backgrounds.”

He adds, it wasn’t until a little later, when he began to frequent his local public library and read books about Lincoln, Jeerson and Washington, that he began to get a better picture of the true lay of the land.

“It was learning about Lincoln,” continues Ford, “and the emotional power of what he did in respect to slavery, even an unsophisticated fairy-tale version of it which I read as a child, that made me think deeply about social injustice.”

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In the middle of Tuesday’s comedy special Howie Mandel & Germ-Free Friends, Howie interacts with the audience at Montreal’s Just For Laughs gala — much to his chagrin.

He brings up an audience member who, immediately upon reaching the stage, feels an urge to blow his nose on national TV, pops the tissue back in his pocket, and puts out his hand for Howie to shake.

Mandel is taken aback, and the audience screams — all the louder because of the comic’s now-public longtime struggles with OCD and paralyzing germophobia.

“Could you believe that guy? Oh my God, that freaked me out,” Mandel says over the phone during a taping break from judging America’s Got Talent in San Antonio. No, it wasn’t a set-up. “It was just another indication of how every time I’m on stage, I’m really living in the moment.”

e fact that a condition that was once a secret shame is now boldly emblazoned in the title of a CBC special, speaks to a complete turnaround in Mandel’s life and career.

“I did carry it as a curse for 40-some-odd years,” he says, “and then I got it together. I don’t know if it’s something I wear proudly, I’m just pretty open about it.” Is he a role model for others with similar conditions? “So they tell me,” he says. “But it was wonderful that I got an opportunity to remove some of the stigma.”

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder casts some kind of shadow over everything he does. He produced and hosted the reality-TV series Mobbed, in which ash mobs were set up as backdrops to marriage proposals, reunions, apologies, etc. Funny he’d do a show in which crowds gure prominently, we oer.

“Although, you’ll notice I’m never really in a crowd, I’m in the control room, so it’s not really an issue,” Mandel says of the series, which may live on in a series of specials.

Meanwhile, he admits, “Life is a crowd, that’s what my life is. If I had my druthers I’d be locked in a room like Howard Hughes at the end, naked, pissing into a bottle.”

One crowd he doesn’t nd intimidating is his America’s Got Talent judges. San Antonio was his second port of call (aer New Orleans) in a judging road show that will begin its new season on NBC June 4. Howard Stern remains on the panel, but Sharon Osbourne has been replaced by a tandem of supermodel Heidi Klum and ex-Spice Girl Melanie Brown. (Asked what’s

the most exciting experience in his current talent-hunt, Mandel quips, “Watching my fellow judges change.”)

“It was so sad to see Sharon go. I’m still friends with her. I saw her this week and I was on e Talk with her. I’m loving Heidi and Mel, though.”

As for AGT, he adds, “Really, you name it, I’ve seen it. ings you’ve never even heard of before. It’s not just singers or dancers. It’s daredevils and bizarre, crazy things. Everything from escape artists to people blowing themselves up with dynamite.”

As for Germ-Free Friends — showcasing a handful of international comics, as well as Mr. D’s Gerry Dee — he says, “it’s always exciting coming back to my roots, to Canada and Montreal. Just For Laughs is still a mecca of comedy.”

And it’s another gig. When he’s not on location for a TV show, Mandel is on the road, usually accompanied by his wife, Terry. His kids are grown, but they’re never far from dad’s screen image.

“ey never miss me on TV, they’re big fans.”

Photo: CODIE MCLACHLAN, Sun Media News Services


Barbara Przybilla, 71, walked through the freshly fallen snow in a pair of sturdy boots to feed chickadees on a frigid January day at her Leduc County home.

Instead of the familiar “chickadee-dee-dee” she heard a crack as she fell to the ground. Her femur snapped. Her right leg pointed east, the rest of her pointed west.

“I’ve never had anything like it — it’s excruciating,” she said. “It was a clear break right through.”

She screamed for her husband to carry her into the house. e wait for ambulance would be too long in the –20 C weather.

A myriad of pre-operative treatments are given to the 30,000 Canadians who fracture their hip each year.

Doctors now have evidence to show not all nerve blocks are created equal, according to new research at the University of Alberta.

Dr. Saifee Rashiq, director of pain medicine at the University of Alberta, said sometimes doctors use many nerve blockers and anesthetics with no idea of which works the best.

“In many cases, elderly people who break their hips are dead within three months,” he said.

“Unfortunately, for many elderly people, it’s a beginning of the end.”

Hip joints are dierent than other parts of the body, with many nerves running to the joint. Until recently, doctors did not know if nerve blocks helped for patients and used general anesthesia, or a spine anesthesia.

e research nds blocking three or four essential nerves is as eective as blocking

all of them.e network meta

analysis found two nerve blockers were best — one that reduced delirium and the other that was better for pain management.

In delirium, patients become confused,

disoriented, frightened, pull at IVs, refuse food and drink, and don’t recognize their families. It’s not only distressing — it can be fatal.

Ultrasound technology means doctors can nd nerves with greater accuracy.

Still, more research needs to be done.“It’s hard to imagine why one block

would do better for pain and one would be better for delirium,” Rashiq said. “I think that’s a weakness of the research.”

Przybilla had surgery the day aer her fall. When given the choice of full anesthetic or a nerve block and a spinal anesthetic, she went with the nerve block.

Just over two months later she should be using a walker, but she is walking easily with a cane.

As for the chickadees, they have to look for food elsewhere.

Photo: IAN KUCERAK, Sun Media News Services

A new report suggests nearly half of Canadian baby boomers either have high blood pressure or will develop it within the next few years.

e report, by Hypertension Canada, warns this “will have serious ramications for health and the country’s health-care system.”

Already, 23 per cent — or about 2.2 million baby boomers — have been diagnosed with hypertension, or high blood pressure. Another 23 per cent are pre-hypertensive, meaning they have elevated blood pressure and will likely develop full-blown hypertension within a few years.

e problem is particularly dire in Newfoundland and Labrador, where 34 per cent of boomers have high blood pressure, followed by New Brunswick (28 per cent); Nova Scotia (27 per cent); Saskatchewan (25 per cent); Ontario (24 per cent); Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta (23 per cent); P.E.I. (21 per cent); and B.C. (20 per cent).

Hypertension Canada spokeswoman Dr. Beth Abramson said this should be a “wake-up call” for boomers, since hypertension is a major contributor to heart, renal and cerebrovascular disease. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 34 per cent and a man’s by 44 per cent.

But the good news is it’s both preventable and treatable. e key is that boomers need to change their lifestyles by getting more exercise, eating healthier foods, drinking less booze and avoiding tobacco.

“is can only happen if the governments at all levels start implementing policies to ensure that Canadians have access to healthier foods and live in communities that actively support physical activity,” Hypertension Canada spokesman Dr. Janusz Kaczorowski said.

Some of the report’s suggestions include putting warning labels on unhealthy foods and using taxes to recover the costs of diseases caused by unhealthy foods.

With the rate of diabetes nearly doubling over the past decade, the Canadian Diabetes Association has released its updated guidelines for how to prevent and manage the disease.

A committee of 120 health professionals reviewed the most up-to-date scientic data to come up with new recommendations.

Among them, the CDA says everyone over 40 should be screened for type-2 diabetes every three years — even more frequently for those with risk factors for the disease — and the A1C test, which measures average blood-glucose, should be included in screening. Formerly used as a long-term monitoring tool, the A1C is now considered by many diabetes experts to be the gold

standard.An A1C level of 6.5 per cent or

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ere are a number of recommendations specic to First Nations people in Canada, who are among the highest risk and who experience a “substantial care gap” in medical care compared to non-First Nations people.

Some people already living with diabetes may benet from taking heart medications as a preventative measure, the guidelines say, since heart disease is a major cause of death and disability for those with diabetes.

e CDA says one in three Canadians will have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020.

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A trip to the London Olympics is showing some signs of paying o, according to Deputy Premier omas Lukaszuk.

Lukaszuk joined executives from tech company Siemens at Government House in Edmonton Monday to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that outlined the company’s plans to move their energy headquarters from Oakville, Ont., to Calgary.

“Innovation will secure markets for the products we sell now and lead to new products that we will be selling in the future,” said Lukaszuk before signing the MOU.

He said the partnership allows Alberta to have access to Siemen’s research abilities and attempt to be involved in them through Alberta post-secondary institutions.

e deal comes as a result of talks Premier Alison Redford had with Siemens executives during her trip to the London Olympics.

Despite being lauded as a potential boon to the province, few details could be oered on exactly what the agreement will bring.

“It would be dicult right now to put a dollar value on it,” said Lukaszuk when asked what the MOU means for the province. He said the next step is to involve post-secondary institutions and other research institutions to see what role the company can play in developing research.

“e importance is having Siemens right here on the ground, being familiar with the work that is being done and being able to lend their expertise in research, development, commercialization and also bring some of the technology that they have pattened throughout the world to our province.”

Lukaszuk said the pending deal had nothing to do with the budget passed a few weeks ago, but said the deal oers the potential for Canada to revive its applied research abilities.

“It is a very important step towards focusing in Alberta on applied research,” he said, adding that focus is not meant to be in at the expense of pure research.

“We know, frankly, as a country, we are not as competitive as we should be on the applied research side of the ledger and then commercialization of innovation that comes from applied research.”

Siemens president Robert Hardt alluded to a possible growth in jobs the move could bring Albertans.

“It’s a multibillion-dollar business we have here in Canada. Growth of employees and employment comes with growth of business,” said Hardt, adding it is “too early to quantify” the actual impact.

He said they have technology that can lower emissions for oil producers as well as increase eciency for live systems used by oil companies.

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Aer reports surfaced that the Royal Bank of Canada is replacing Canadian employees with foreign workers, one expert says the blame lies with the government’s temporary foreign worker program, not the bank.

Richard Kurland, a Vancouver-based immigration lawyer and policy analyst, said the program allows foreign workers to be paid 15 per cent less than the salary allotted for Canadians.

“I testied to the House standing committee on this point and I recommended

there be a 15 per cent premium on wages to foreigners, because that’s the incentive to hire local,” he said. “But, they did the reverse.”

News broke Sunday that RBC was cutting 45 information-technology jobs, lling those positions by outsourcing work to India through a company called iGATE.

In a bizarre statement that led to more questions than answers, RBC cited cost-savings and eciency, but reiterated “RBC has not hired temporary foreign workers to take over the job functions of current RBC employees.”

Speaking to the CBC Monday, RBC CEO Gordon

Nixon said the bank “does not hire any temporary foreign workers.”

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley has since asked for a review of the government’s process for approving foreign work permits.

Opposition parties, meanwhile, were livid, accusing the government of creating policies that cost Canadians their jobs.

While Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said all companies abusing the temporary foreign worker program should “have the book thrown at them,” NDP MPs accused him of helping companies navigate the book “in support of this action.”


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Experts say the electric industry will need 45,000 new employees within a ve-year period, representing nearly half of the industry’s current national workforce. Some of these new employees will replace aging baby boomers; all will be on the leading edge of next-generation infrastructure.

“e industry has begun a transformation and will see a lot of expansion, replacement and refurbishment of much of the electricity infrastructure over the next 20 years,” says Michelle Branigan, CEO of Electricity Human Resources Canada.

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like job with like,” Branigan says. “Changing technologies mean that the jobs of tomorrow will require dierent skills sets and increased partnerships with educational institutions to ensure programs meet the needs of employers will be critical.”

Power-station operators, power-system operators, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, utility engineers, millwrights and industrial mechanics are among the professions in highest need.

While the electric industry must compete with other industries for talent, it oers a great breadth of jobs — from power-line technicians to managers — and promises employment security. “Renewable-energy providers can promise green jobs and fast growth with rapidly

changing technologies,” says Branigan.At the same time, the industry is

a respected training partner, with a strong tradition of supporting licensing and certications, and building pathways for new graduates and apprentices into occupations requiring specialized knowledge and skills. Now the industry has a major stake in the continued certication of technology occupations that are changing with transition, Branigan notes.

“ough new courses and certications are appearing, colleges and universities have identied technology and equipment costs as a primary barrier to expanding needed programs,” she warns. “e electricity industry is well positioned to make a case for new investments in post-secondary training and apprenticeship.”

Aer retiring, Wendy Lee worked as a consultant before deciding to broaden her volunteer experiences, which included a stint with the Vancouver Olympic Games. at position brought the world to her doorstep; this time the world was her oyster and she found herself lending a helping hand in Jamaica.

e B.C. resident turned to Cuso International (www.cusointernational.org), an international development organization that works to reduce poverty and inequality through the eorts of skilled volunteers who collaborate with local groups on projects in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and Asia.

“I thought about volunteering internationally because I had nothing to hold me back,” says Lee. She landed a position as an organizational development adviser with the National Volunteer Centre, a edgling organization in Jamaica. “I saw that I could help.”

Her job included preparing grant applications and funding proposals. “It wasn’t about taking work away from a Jamaican but to build capacity and share knowledge so when I le they’d have structures and hopefully increased capacity to carry on the work,” says Lee.

She made several trips home over her 16-month placement, which wrapped up in December. While there, she lived on a local salary provided by Cuso, made “lifelong” friends and saw parts of the island tourists rarely see. “I was learning as much as I was

giving, if not more,” Lee says.e average age of a Cuso volunteer is

42. “We have people from all walks of life and all ages — from their 20s to their 70s,” says Sean Kelly, head of communications and a past volunteer in the Caribbean and ailand. “ey have something in common: skills and experience in

everything from health and business to education and environment.”

Cuso is not a “voluntourism” organization. “Most of our placements range from one-and-a-half to two years, though some highly-skilled, strategic placements range from three to ve months,” Kelly says. “If you’re working on a

project with long-term, deep development goals, it can take some time to get into the swing of things and really understand the project, especially if there’s a language barrier.”

Cuso works collaboratively with partners in the ird World and focuses on six development goals: secure livelihoods and natural resource management; education; participation and governance; HIV and AIDS; disability; and health. “e important thing is building capacity. An education specialist, for example, may help build curriculum,” Kelly says.

“Our volunteers have a deep commitment to oering their skills and perspectives on a project they think will help reduce global poverty or help towards environmental sustainability,” he says.

Some are new university grads but many others are recently retired and have the energy and desire to help out. “We also get mid-career people whose job is ending and who want to volunteer before returning to the workforce,” says Kelly. “Some organizations allow employees to take a leave of absence to volunteer and maintain that employee’s position.”

Last year, Cuso supported 600 volunteers in 40 countries. “e best of our volunteers are very open and exible and understand that they’re going to learn a lot,” Kelly says. “It’s a chance to test your limits. Oen you don’t have the resources you’re used to and need to be very resourceful, creative and be able to think on your feet. A lot of people come back with new skills and perspectives, as well as a deeper understanding of the world.”


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