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Jimmy Miller, the Cranbrook Royals and the 1974 Allan Cup
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Brent Carver honoured for lifetime achievement
Cranbrook — and Canada’s — greatest stage actor recognized with Governor General’s Performing Arts Award B A R RY CO U LT E R
One of Canada’s greatest stage actors — and certainly Cranbrook’s greatest actor — has been recognized for his career and body of work with the Governor Gener-
al’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. “One of Canada’s most versatile actors, Brent Carver is known for the sensitivity, emotional honesty and
charisma he brings to every role, from Shakespeare classics to new Canadian works, and from intimate cabaret performances to blockbuster musicals,” the Governor General’s Per-
forming Arts Awards website announced last week. “In a career spanning over 40 years he has dazzled audiences and critics across Canada, the United States and the UK.”
Carver spoke to the Townsman last week about his winning the award. “I was quite surprised by it,” he said. “I feel kind of encouraged to keep going.” Lifetime achievement
aside, there are many who think that at this stage of his career, an actor like Carver would be in his artistic prime. “I hope so,” he said. “I left Cranbrook in 1969, and I was performing all through school, of course, then I started — luckily — making a living at it, around 1971 or so. “I feel really grateful that I’ve been able to make a living at it.” Toronto has been Carver’s home for many years, but his roots in Cranbrook are deep. And he appreciates the vibrancy of the local theatrical communities, students and adults.
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Hedley’s Cranbrook concert postponed BARRY COULTER
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The Cranbrook Health Care Auxiliary’s new board of directors gathered at the East Kootenay Regional Hospital on Monday, April 7. Over the past three years, the CHCA has committed $1.9 million to purchasing equipment for the hospital. Interior Health orders equipment previously approved by the CHCA membership, and as the equipment arrives the CHCA releases the money to pay for it. Front row, left to right: Bonnie Close, Betty Wardle, Kate Fox, Jean Motherwell, Jim Kennelly. Back row, left to right: Linda Riffel, Karen Clark, Pat Bailey, Helen Luke, Karen Wreggett, Melanie Dodgson. Missing from the photo is Elaine Moggey.
Jumbo municipality budget makes waves $200,000 per year for five years is just pro forma document, says Mayor Deck C A R O LYN G R A N T
Those trying to make political points with the new budget for the Jumbo Resort Municipality are simply making something out of nothing, says the mu-
nicipality’s mayor, Greg Deck. Jumbo has hit the news again in recent days as a Ktunaxa Nation challenge to the development was rejected by the B.C. Supreme
Court and news came out of a budget which includes $200,000 in government grants per year for five years. Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdon-
ald brought the budget up in the Legislature last week. “There is no other place in British Columbia where you have a mayor and a council looking after a community of zero people.
The mayor doesn’t even live there, right? The mayor has walked through there, perhaps. But he doesn’t live there, and they don’t hold their meetings there because there’s no building.”
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An anticipated rock concert that was due to take place tonight, Tuesday, April 8, has been postponed. A brief press release from the promoter, Live Nation, said the postponement was because of illness. “Due to illness, the Hedley concert scheduled for April 8 at Western Financial Place in Cranbrook has been postponed,” the release said. “(Promoter) Live Nation and Hedley are working to find a new date for the concert and will release information as it becomes available. “VIP package holders will be contacted by Maple Music to make arrangements as soon as possible.” The release said the bands concerts in Victoria and Abbottsford, scheduled for Thursday, April 10, and Saturday, April 12, respectively, were to go ahead as planned.
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The Kootenay Ice have certainly captured the imagination of hockey fans in Cranbrook with their inspiring series against Calgary. Forty years ago this weekend the Cranbrook Royals were the darlings of hockey fans in the East Kootenay as they hosted the Allan Cup Finals at the Cranbrook Arena against the Barrie (Ontario) Flyers who had a number of old pros and retired NHLers on their squad. The Flyers actually were from Toronto but played out of Barrie. The Cranbrook Royals were led by outstanding forward Jimmy Miller, who had amassed 57 goals that season in the Western International Hockey League. Gifted with great skating ability and an accurate slap shot, Miller was a fan favourite in Cranbrook, which had not had a bona fide superstar on the team since Ron “Spike” Huston had gone on to the NHL from the Royals a few years before. Local boys who played in the Allan Cup and still live in Cranbrook are Ray Goss (defence), Bobby Murdoch, Marvin Ferg, Brian Dickie, Billy Martin, Ed Legare and Jim Miller (forwards). Trainer Bill DeLuca, and Royal President Jerry Wiebe are here as well. Royals goalie Wayne Doll was a standout in the nets during the Royals’ Allan Cup series. “Dolly” still lives in town. The 1974 Allan Cup held in Cranbrook was a complete sell-out — many hockey fans who could not get into the rink had to catch the games on CKEK Radio with Ken White. Jimmy Miller was involved in a very strange play that would ulimately cost Cranbrook the Allan Cup. Jim (who could skate with the best of them) sprang free on a breakaway, and was bearing down on the Barrie netminder — former Leaf Gerry Mac-
Namara — when the Barrie defenceman threw his stick at the puck and knocked it off of Miller’s stick. Inexplicably, the referee, who was from Kimberley, did not call a penalty shot, nor did he even blow his whistle. The play came back into Cranbrook’s end, and as it always seems to happen in hockey, a goal was scored by Kent Rhunke of Barrie, which sank the Cranbrook Royals then and there. The Allan Cup was going east, a trophy as old as the Stanley Cup and just as hard to win too. Hockey fever was certainly rampant in the spring of 1974, much how it is these days with the Kootenay Ice, who are chasing their own dream, the 2014 Memorial Cup. Their current playoff opponent are the Medicine Hat Tigers — Rob Niedermayer’s Junior team. Jimmy Miller was an outstanding hockey player before he even came to the Cranbrook Royals. He was an All-American left winger in 1971 and 1972 for Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, before returning to Canada, and was inducted into the NCAA Hockey Hall of Fame (2002) in Minnesota. Jimmy and his wife Sophie attended his induction ceremonies. The Cranbrook Royals had three players who could really shoot the puck: Billy Martin (all time leading scorer in the league with 470 goals), Ron Spiker Huston and Jim Miller. Eddie Lukan, who ran the Cranbrook Arena snack bar with his wife Shirley, mentioned to me that Jimmy would unload his slap shot just after crossing the blue line and had a knack for picking the top corner, glove or blocker side, time and time again. Some people just have that gift. Most of the Cranbrook Royals circa 1974 have become ardent Kootenay Ice support-
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Gala marks excellence in Cranbrook business Hundreds of people gathered at St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino on Saturday, April 5 for the Cranbrook and District Chamber of Commerce’s Evening of Excellence. Photos by Sally MacDonald
Heidi Romich (right), the Heid Out, won Business Person of the Year, presented by Maureen Foxworthy, Banking Association of Cranbrook.
Mike Peabody of the Downtown Business Association presented the award for Olympic ice climber Gord McArthur (centre) was named Newsmaker of the Year, Company of the Year (1-15 employees) to presented by Karen Johnston, Cranbrook Daily Townsman, and Jason Caven, Jim Denise Pallesen, Nutter’s Foods. Pattison Broadcast Group.
Home Hardware won the Company of the Year Award (16-plus employees. Dawn (left) and Martin Torgerson accepted the award from Avana Djendem, St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino.
Max Dressler accepted St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino’s award for Marketer of the Year, presented by Karen Johnston, Kootenay News Advertiser.
Jan Brandon-Stone of the Painted Crate (right) won the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, which was presented by Janice Alpine, Community Futures East Kootenay.
Laurie Goodlad (centre), Muriel and Jane’s General Store, won Retail Business of the Year, presented by Cristina Borgogelli,Tamarack Centre, and Chad Jensen, Baker Street Professional Centre.
Leona Lim accepted the award for Most Improved Business Image for Key City Gymnastics, presented by Murray Shellborn, Koocanusa Publications.
Lisa Barnes of Max’s Place won the Customer Service Excellence Award, presented by MC D’Arcy Kennedy and sponsored by Columbia Basin Trust.
Mike Adams (left) of the Sam Steele Society accepts the Tourism Excellence Award from David Walls, College of the Rockies.
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Carver recognized for School board urges lifetime achievement good faith bargaining
Brent Carver with a group called the Art of Time Ensemble,” Carver added. “They’re a beautiful orchestra — strings and woodwinds — so it’s going to be quite an interesting project and I’m looking forward to that. “But since December I haven’t been that busy, and over the years I’ve learned that six months of not busy is six months of not working — hopefully you use it for study time and all that stuff. “Sometimes you’re working, and you can’t take a particular job because they overlap, or whatever.” Carver has an impressive résumé of stage credits, from stages all over Canada, New York, Stratford, Los Angeles and London. Some of his performances include Don Carlos, High Life,
SD5’s board of trustees is asking the B.C. government to keep teacher negotiations out of the court room Sally MacDonald Townsman Staff
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and legislation. Our hope, like every other District, is that the Province and the BCTF will win an agreement at the bargaining table with some old fashion, sincere, meaningful and good faith bargaining. Another strike mandate returns our schools and personnel to the pressure cooker of tension. The cost to taxpayers in this ongoing battle will not only be measured in dollars but in irreparable harm to human relationships in our schools and in our rural communities.” The letter, signed by board chair Frank Lento, takes a strong position. “Our Board will not take the complacent path that there will be no impact or disruption to schools and adopt a wait and see approach until all stays and all court avenues are exhausted. Rather, we will choose the prudent and responsible highway of preparing and planning for a negotiated settlement that reflects Griffin’s decision or the actual impact with the additional finances required to implement the January 27, 2014 decision.” The letter concludes: “We must be assured by government, our educational gatekeeper, that all impacts will be funded. Our schools and communities need it. Our students deserve it. Our parents and taxpayers expect it.”
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“I was there in 2007 — I performed at the Key City Theatre with a number of students who were there at the time, and also a number of alumni of the drama program,” he said. “It was great to be part of that. It’s a vibrant (acting) community, with lots of passion. “I hope they always feel fulfilled in what they’re doing, and love what they’re doing. That’s the gift of it all.” In a notoriously fickle profession, Carver has kept himself fairly busy. He recently finished a Broadway production of Romeo and Juliet in New York, with Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. Carver played Friar Lawrence. The production was made into a feature film. “It’s a new thing that they’re doing, called Broadway HD, and they’re recording Broadway shows — you film a couple of performances, just before the show closes, with nine or 10 cameras, then you put it out. “It already played in (movie) theatres in North America in February and March. Then it will be out on DVD.” Starting in June or July, Carver said, he will be appearing in a Stephen Sondheim musical called “Company,” the plot of which revolves around Bobby (a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage), the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends. “And I’m going to be working
Tartuffe, The Story of My Life, Vigil, Larry’s Party, The Elephant Man, Cyrano de Bergerac, Richard III, Man of La Mancha, As You Like It, Jesus Christ Superstar, Fiddler on the Roof, Elizabeth Rex, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Foxfire, The Pirates of Penzance, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Parade, and Kiss of the Spider Woman (for which he won the Tony Award). His cabaret show, Brent Carver in Concert, sold out at Soulpepper’s 2013 Winter at the Young series. He is a founding artist of Toronto’s Theatre 20. Film and TV appearances include Lilies, The Tale of Teeka, Ararat, The Event, Deeply, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Elizabeth Rex, Young at Heart, Twice in a Lifetime, and The Wars. Carver’s awards and honours include a Toronto Arts Award, Tony Award, two New York Drama Desk Awards, Theatre World Award (New York), four Dora Mavor Moore Awards, two Genie and four Gemini Awards, ACTRA Toronto Award, Sterling Award (Edmonton), and City of Cranbrook Award. The Lifetime Artistic Achievement award recognizes artists for their outstanding body of work and enduring contribution to the performing arts in Canada. These national awards are presented in the categories of theatre, dance, classical music, broadcasting, popular music and film. Nominations for this category are open to the public.
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What’s new at the Cranbrook Public Library New to the Library is our Gadget Bar, which consists of an iPad Air, a Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, a Kobo Arc, and a Surface Pro 2. Instructions on how to use one of these tablets can be had by booking a one-on-one session with our program coordinator Jenna. She can be contacted at 250-426-4063, or via
email at jmadsen@cranbrookpubliclibrary.ca. Tablet-Time group sessions are held Wednesdays at 2 p.m. A missing girl sets off a chain reaction of emotional events in Joyce Carol Oates’ latest novel ‘Carthage.’ Fans of all things nerdy and geeky will be pleased to know we now
have the award-winning series ‘The Big Bang Theory’ on DVD—complete seasons 1 through 6. Preschool Story Time is this Wednesday at 11 a.m., 1:15 p.m., and 6:30 p.m., and Toddler Story Time is 10 and 11 a.m. Both will be all about spring! Bibliocommons is
now live on our website—a vastly improved way to navigate around our catalogue, providing much easier access to the Library’s website and catalogue. Please note the library will be closed over the Easter Holidays from Friday, April 18 through Monday, April 21. We will open again for regu-
Controlled burns set for April Submit ted
The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations is planning to conduct two prescribed burns in the East Kootenay in April. The timing of the burns is dependent on weather and site conditions. The first burn is tentatively scheduled for this week, and will be conducted about five kilometres west of Lake Koocanusa, next to Newgate Road in the Bare Mountain region. This 432-hectare controlled burn is part of the provincial government’s strategy to restore and maintain forest and range ecosystems.
The second fire is scheduled to occur within the next two weeks about five kilometres northeast of Fort Steele, west of the Wildhorse River in the Brewery Ridge area. Smoke and flames from this 200-hectare fire may be visible to residents of Fort Steele and from Highway 95. Trained wildfire personnel will carefully monitor and control these fires at all times. The burns will proceed only if weather conditions and fire behaviour will allow for quick smoke dissipation and low to moderate fire intensity. If conditions are not suitable, the burns may not occur this year. These areas are a part of a
multi-area ecosystem restoration prescription held by the Rocky Mountain Natural Resource District. Both fires will help re-establish appropriate ecological conditions, maintain habitat for wildlife and reduce the amount of forest fuels in these areas. The goal of these burns is to mimic naturally occurring ground fires and reduce the amount of combustible material in open forest areas. Removal of forest fuels helps reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfires. Fire can also discourage insect infestations and help native, fire-adapted plant species to reproduce.
Jumbo budget makes waves Continued from page 1 “We come to government transfers, and in each of the years, it’s $200,000 transferred from this ministry to this ridiculous creation that has no investor, no prospects of moving forward. Yet the government is going to invest $1 million over the next five years.” - Hansard transcripts from March 25, 2014. However, Deck says the budget document is simply a pro forma document prepared by the treasurer to meet the requirement that all municipalities must have a five-year financial plan prepared. “Jumbo contracts with the Village of Radium for administrative services,“ Deck said. “It uses a little bit of administrative time, a bit of the treasurer’s time. “The treasurer is a good treasurer and one of the obligations under the Act is to file a fiveyear financial plan. In it you include what you know of revenues. Every community in the province receives a basic operating grant and that
was put in as known revenue. We have no assessable property. With a ski hill much of the land remains provincial and lodges and other buildings are assessable. We don’t have buildings, the developer hasn’t been able to meet that threshold for various reasons.” Deck says the basic operating grant far exceeds what is being spent at present and the resort municipality is not allowed to run a surplus. “We have to show a balanced budget. The budget document thing is a pro forma thing.
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Council didn’t even discuss it. The treasurer was just doing her job. Now it’s being picked up by some folks but there is nothing to it.” Macdonald doesn’t agree. “Real communities get this grant, not fake ones,” he said. “There are a whole host of things communities like Kimberley need and they are being told there is no money. When you see money being wasted, it’s particularly galling. This council is holding five to ten minute meetings once a month. There’s not even an investor — none of it makes sense at the most
basic level. “People are being asked to pay more and more for Hydro, for medical service premiums and then you watch the government just waste money in this way, to a project that people in this area have never supported.” As for the Jumbo Resort municipality not spending the $200,000, Macdonald says they have already spent $250,000. “And what value did we receive for that? We ask and we are told, ‘don’t worry, common sense will prevail’. Well, it hasn’t so far.”
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The mysterious fate of Flight 370 The world is on the verge of finally locating Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean west of Australia last month. This week, two search vessels have recorded “pings” that could be coming from the Boeing 777’s black box transmitter —just days before the battery on the boxes was expected to run out, silencing the aircraft forever. Today marks a month since the doomed flight was reported missing, and all over the world people were aghast at the idea that in the technology era of the 21st century, an airplane can simply disappear. The 777 is a reliable aircraft: prior to this event, it has only be in one fatal crash since it was placed in service in 1995. That incident, in San Francisco in 2013, is thought to have been caused by pilot error. Just to recap, Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur for Beijing just before midnight local time on March 7. Not long after, air traffic control in KL spoke to the pilot, who signed off for the night as the plane left Malaysian air space. There was no indication that anything was amiss. What happened in the airplane shortly after, we may never know for certain. The subsequent investigation has found that the vastly experienced pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, turned the plane around soon after that last communication. With search efforts now focused on the deep and turbulent Indian Ocean west of Australia, officials believe the plane flew until it ran out of fuel, and then crashed
into the sea. 239 people were on board. All are presumed dead. Theories range from the wild and controversial to the tragic and desperate. The theory that rings the most true to me — and of course, with all news stories reported to the extent of this one, we must all make up our own minds Sally — is that of Canadian pilot MacDonald Chris Goodfellow. Goodfellow suggests that Zaharie Ahmad Shah would have known the location of every airport in the vicinity should something have gone amiss during the flight, and would have turned the plane to the Langkawi aiport, with an approach over water and no obstacles for an easy landing. Goodfellow’s theory is that an electrical fire took out the communications on the plane, and prompted the pilot to turn the plane. But, he suggests, the crew may then have been overtaken by smoke or the cabin may have been depressurized, causing a loss of consciousness or proving fatal for those onboard. The plane was then left to fly itself until it crashed. Although Hollywood may have us predisposed to look for the most dramatic explanation to major catastrophes, in real life it is often the most ordinary theory that proves to be true. For those of us who fly long-haul often — I can’t even count the number of times I’ve flown on a 777 — this entire story is terrifying. It’s easier not to think about what may have happened inside that cabin —
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whether passengers were aware, whether they lost consciousness around the same time, and such horrible thoughts that will torment the friends and family of the lost for many, many years. Perhaps because it’s such a horrible tragedy, many people have chosen to focus on one question: how is it possible in 2014 for an airplane to go missing? I have an app on my smartphone that shows me on a map the location of a plane in flight. Last Christmas, when my sister-inlaw’s flight from Vancouver was unable to land in Cranbrook because of fog, I watched on the map as it approached the Kootenays, then I watched as it turned and headed back to Vancouver. So how did air traffic control “lose” Flight 370? Apparently once planes fly over the ocean, radar is no longer able to track them. Instead, pilots use high-frequency radio to “check in” at certain recording points. Air traffic control knows the plane stopped communicating between two of those points. Similarly, GPS would have told the pilots where the plane was, but with the communications system knocked out, the crew would not have been able to report that to anyone on the ground. Whatever happened to Flight 370, whatever caused it to disappear over the South China Sea, the world has learned a difficult lesson. Even with all of the safety precautions surrounding air travel, the worst still can and does happen. And that is a realization that won’t leave any of us in a hurry.
Sally MacDonald is a reporter at the Cranbrook Daily Townsman.
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Digital wave is just beginning What’s Up?
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ave you got one of the new B.C. driver’s licences yet? By now most drivers have the one with the unsmiling black and white mug shot, to conform to passport standards so it could be used for border identification with the magnetic swipe strip on the back. About one million of us now have the newest version, with a credit-card style digital chip that proves your residence and eligibility for our famously “free” medical care. The motor vehicle office started issuing them about a year ago, as five-year licences expire. They replace the old “CareCard” that has no expiry date. Over the years there were more than nine million CareCards issued, twice the population of B.C., as people held onto their access to our defenseless, overworked medical system from wherever they moved to. Positive identification is only the start for this card. Each will be assigned a password that gives access to online medical records, so when patients show up at an ER, their eligibility is confirmed and any previous conditions or medications are accurately matched. (Note that medical information is not stored on the card, just an access code that goes with the password.)
Patients will be able to call up their own files at home, book medical appointments and even renew prescriptions, which is where the efficiency comes in. In-person visits for routine prescription renewals are a cash cow for today’s doctors, generating guaranteed billings but often little or no health benefit. Most people will still think of it as a driver’s licence, but it’s intended as an all-purpose government BC Views ID. If you don’t drive, you are spared the $75 licence Tom renewal fee, and within a Fletcher couple of years the cards will start providing online access to a wide range of government services. Andrew Wilkinson, minister of technology, innovation and citizens’ services, says a public consultation has shown most people are comfortable using a system they already trust for their banking. By the end of 2015, Wilkinson says about two million people will have the new cards, roughly half of B.C.’s population. Application forms converted to online access will include student loans, birth, death and marriage certificates, voter registration and even criminal record checks. All this will be costly to set up, but the savings from having customers do their own data entry are well known, as any
banker or supermarket owner can tell you. “You can understand that if you’re in the vital statistics office and this can all be done from places like Telegraph Creek and Horsefly remotely, that actually saves them a lot of money,” Wilkinson said. “There will be conversion of existing services where you have to go into an office and wait around and fill out forms. Those will be converted to online services.” It also means a decline in the number of government office jobs, and the potential for further outsourcing of services, as we have seen with Medical Services Plan administration and the back-office functions of BC Hydro. Some older readers won’t be thrilled to hear about this. They don’t want a “smart phone,” just a phone. But they will also see their great-grandchildren becoming adept with tablet computers before they can even speak. Seniors will get the hang of it pretty quickly, and their lives will become easier. • A correction to last week’s column on the Agricultural Land Commission. I erroneously said regional panel members were appointed from outside the region. They are local residents, and the new legislation formalizes a cabinet appointment process for them. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.
The return of the dictators “I prefer death to surrender,” said Pakistan’s former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, on 1 April to the special court that is trying him on five counts of high treason, but it’s a reasonable guess that he’d prefer exile to either of those options. The real puzzle is why he ever left his comfortable exile in England in the first place. In theory Musharraf, who seized power in Pakistan in 1999 and finally gave it up under great pressure in 2007, could face the death penalty if he is found guilty, but in practice he is protected by the Important Persons Act, an unwritten law that operates in almost every country. High political office is a club, and the members look after one another. Nevertheless, Musharraf is being greatly inconvenienced by the trial, and last week the Taliban nearly got him with a roadside bomb near Islamabad. Doubtless he missed Pakistan, but what bizarre calculation could have led him to go home and put himself in the hands of his many enemies? Musharraf said he was coming home to run in the 2013 election, which was delusional in the extreme. There was little reason to believe that many Pakistanis would want to vote for him after living under his arbitrary rule for eight years. There was no reason at all to think that he would not be disqualified from running in the election and put on trial for grave crimes. Yet Musharraf is not alone. Other ex-dictators, far nastier than him, have succumbed to the same delusion and gone home convinced that they would be welcomed back. Another recent case is JeanClaude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who took over as Haiti’s dictator at 19 when his father “Papa Doc” died in 1971 and ruled it
until he was overthrown by a popular revolt in 1986. Haiti was the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere when he took power, and still the poorest when he lost it, but he took an alleged $120 million with him into exile in France. His dreaded Tonton Macoute militia murdered thousands and drove hundreds of thousands into exile, and many of them were massacred in the revolution that ended his rule, but he lived on in Paris in great luxury. Eventually Duvalier’s spendthrift ways and an expensive divorce got him into financial difficulties, Gwynne but just going back to Haiti was not going to fix that. Yet Dyer he went home in 2011, after a quarter-century in exile. He said he was “just coming to help,” whatever that meant, but he arrived just as the recently elected president was facing charges of election-rigging, which led some to speculate that Duvalier still had political ambitions. He was arrested and charged with embezzlement, human rights abuses, and crimes against humanity. Three years later the courts are still pursuing him on those charges, but in the meantime he is frequently seen lunching in the bistros of Petionville, and has even been welcomed at the same events as the current president, Michel Martelly. It’s safe to say that he will not die in jail. And then there was Jean-Bedel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, later known as Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire. He was a brutal soldier who had served in the French colonial army, and seized power from his country’s first president (a cousin) in 1966. For the next thirteen years he ruled the country with great violence and practically bankrupted it.
The mass murder of schoolchildren and rumours of cannibalism finally moved the French to intervene militarily and overthrow Bokassa in 1979 while he was travelling abroad. He was sentenced to death in absentia in 1980 for the murder of many political rivals – but he returned from exile in Paris in 1986, seemingly confident that he would be welcomed with open arms. He was put on trial and sentenced to death again – in person, this time. But the following year his sentence was commuted to life in prison, and in 1993 he was set free. In 2010, President François Bozizé issued a decree rehabilitating Bokassa and calling him “a son of the nation recognised by all as a great builder.” Two things are odd about this phenomenon of ex-dictators confidently returning to the scene of the crime. One, obviously, is their belief that they are still loved (as if they ever really were). But that is less strange than it seems, for during their time in power very few people dared to tell them anything else. What’s much more curious is the fact that the countries they misruled eventually find it necessary to forgive them. They do this not so much out of sympathy for the man who committed the crimes, but rather out of a need for the nation’s history not to be merely a meaningless catalogue of blunders and misdeeds. Musharraf may have come back a bit too early to benefit from instant forgiveness, for some of the people he hurt have not yet retired. But he will not face really serious jail time or the death penalty, because Pakistan’s army would not permit it. And he will be forgiven by Pakistan’s historians and myth-makers in the end, because somehow or other the history has to make sense. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London
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Cranbrook athlete Gord McArthur works his way around some obstacles at a climbing demonstration at the Olympic Park during the Sochi Games in February.
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Local climber savours Olympic experience TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor
Getting ready to hit the climbing wall at the Sochi Games will be an enduring memory for Gord McArthur. “That moment of looking up as I’m tying in my rope and seeing the crowd in front of me was wild. Totally wild,” said the Cranbrook native, who was in Russia to represent Canada in the demonstration of ice climbing during the Winter Olympics. McArthur, along with the rest of the climbers in the UIAA world cup family, showcased their sport on the world’s biggest stage during the Games in a bid to get it included into the Olympic program. “We didn’t compete for medals, but we had to put on a show everyday, just like the other athletes did. We had to perform at our best,” said McArthur. “We had hundreds and hundreds of people watching us, sometimes thousands, everyday, for two weeks. “It was just an amazing experience. There were a lot of ups and downs, for sure, but the fact that we got to represent our sport in front of the world of sport—the people who celebrate sport—was a dream come true.” Because ice climbing was a demonstration sport, it wasn’t a formal part of the program, but the UIAA—the governing body of competitive climbing—took over to run the show. “As athletes we all got together and got creative in how we did do some of our performances, which was really cool. We became a really big family there, despite the language barriers,” said McArthur. “There were athletes from Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Canada, US, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain. “So there was a lot of different languages and we all just came together and became a family and a team and performed like that, which was one of the best experiences, and we got to share this amazing opportunity together.” The structures included a 60-foot tower with three walls of ice, along with a main wall that competitors would climb all day, every day. “Our venue was certainly a spectacle,” added McArthur. “People would stop by and go, ‘Whoa.’” The Games were split between the sites in the city proper
family and friends—as well as catch some other Olympic events, such as a men’s hockey game between the Czech Republic and Sweden. “I met some of the figure skaters, met some of the hockey players, I met some luge and bobsledders, they’re all amazing athletes, not because they’re the best, but because they pour so much into their sport and I can relate to that,” McArthur said.
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Gord McArthur represented Canada at the Sochi Games.
and the alpine events in the mountains. The ice climbing demonstrations were in the Olympic Park in the city, which is right on the coast of the Black Sea and temperatures rose high enough for a few days that the athletes were getting sunburned. “We were sweating to death in our pants, in our longsleeve shirts and long underwear thinking it’s going to be winter,” laughed McArthur. He spent most of his days on the climbing wall, but there was also some free time here and there were he was able to visit Canada House—a gathering place for Canuck athletes,
On the World Cup tour Before and after the Olympics, McArthur was hard at work on the World Cup tour, criss-crossing Europe and Asia in six different competitions over two months. After the world championship wrapped up in Ufa, Russia, McArthur finished the season in 13th overall. “It was awesome,” McArthur said. “Last year I think I was 30-something overall, and I was pretty happy with that, but to jump 20-something spots in the rankings, I was really happy with that ending.” The world championship followed two months of travelling with stops in South Korea, Romania, Switzerland, France and Russia, not to mention a competition in Italy that was cancelled due to an avalanche. McArthur said heading to Ufa for one last competition after the Olympics was one of the toughest parts of the season. “It was a long haul, because it was [something] every weekend, then the Olympics, then after the Olympic high, we still had to get our game faces back on and go to the world championships,” he said. “That was probably the hardest part, because after the Olympics, everybody just wanted to go home.” Not only were all the athletes mentally drained, but the Ufa climbing structure was difficult and there some tough variables that everyone had to adjust to, McArthur added. But he persevered to finish 15th in the semifinals, which landed him into 13th overall to end the season. “To get a ranking of 13th in the world—the world’s a big place, so I’m really happy with that result, there’s no question,” he said.
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McArthur home after world cup season ends CONTINUED from page 8 His improvement comes after many months of dedicated physical and mental training, which was apparent during one competition in Romania. In the same competition a few years ago, McArthur watched a Russian climber— one of the best in the world— fall early in his qualifier, which wasted a minute of his five-minute time. However, the competitor brushed himself off and tackled the route again, finishing it in less time than most of the others climbers who never fell off the structure. When McArther got started in the Romanian qualifier this year, he fell early. “I now had only four minutes left on the clock, but I climbed probably the best I’ve ever climbed and topped out,” he said. “I just flew through the whole route. It was flawless. “To perform like that under that pressure, that was probably the one that stood out the
most, because that’s the mental toughness that I’ve been working on.” Though he is living out his dream of competing on the world cup circuit and at the Olympics, there are challenges that come along with it, some expected and others not so much. For example, his climbing gear was stolen from his car during a stop in France. He went grocery shopping after a training session and discovered his bag—which contained his gear and his cellphone—was missing. “Instantly, I knew someone stole it,” McArthur said. Climbing gear isn’t just generic equipment, it’s specific and modified by each individual user. Offers poured in to use borrowed gear from his fellow competitors, but Petzl—one of his sponsors—was able to come through and provide the necessary equipment. Other kinds of challenges were more familiar to him due
McArthur grateful for community support TRE VOR CR AWLEY Sports Editor
After being on the road for the first few months of the new calendar year competing on the ice climbing world cup circuit, Gord McArthur is back home in Cranbrook. As an athlete competing against the best in the world in his particular sport, McArthur has needed—and received—all kinds of support, including financial help and sponsorship from the Cran-
brook and Kimberley community. “It’s kind of hard to single out businesses and people because so many business and so many people came together to help me in this adventure, this dream,” said McArthur. “That I’m unbelievably grateful for, just how well this community came together to support me. “Those people will know who they are and I can’t say thank you enough for that.”
to his years of experience on the world cup tour, like being away from home for so long and missing his wife and two young daughters. “I can’t count on one hand how many times I looked at Expedia to get a flight home, even just to call it quits,” McArthur said. “Whether it be halfway though the season or at the end of the season, there were many occasions where I wanted to pack it in and come home. “But at the same time, those are the occasions where you have to bear down and remind yourself why you’re there and remind yourself that those who support you are still supporting you.”
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ARLINGTON, Texas - No conference wanted them. Several teammates and their coach left them. The NCAA kept them out for a year. UConn won it all anyway. Shabazz Napier turned in another all-court masterpiece Monday night to lift the Huskies to a 60-54 win over Kentucky’s freshmen and a national title hardly anyone saw coming. Napier had 22 points, six rebounds and three assists, and his partner in defensive lock-down, Ryan Boatright, finished with 14 points. Napier kneeled down and put his forehead to the court for a long while after the buzzer sounded. The senior guard was wiping back tears when he cut down the net. “You’re looking at the hungry Huskies,” Napier told the crowd and TV audience. “Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens when you banned us.” Yes, it is only a short year since the Huskies were barred from March Madness because of grade problems. That stoked a fire no one could put out in 2014. UConn (32-8) never trailed. The Huskies led by as many as 15 in the first half and watched the Wildcats (29-11) trim the deficit to one with 8:13 left. But Aaron Harrison, Kentucky’s big-moment shooter in the last three games, missed a 3-pointer from the left corner that would’ve given the ‘Cats the lead. Kentucky never got closer. Associated Press
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TAMPA, Fla. - The Tampa Bay Lightning have signed general manager Steve Yzerman to a four-year contract extension. The Lightning have made the playoffs twice in four seasons under Yzerman’s watch, reaching the Eastern Conference Final in 2011. Tampa Bay has already qualified for this season’s playoffs and is currently in third place in the Atlantic Division. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to continue the process we started four years ago and would like to thank (owner) Jeff Vinik for entrusting me with the responsibility of leading the Tampa Bay Lightning,” Yzerman said in a statement. “I’m very excited about what lies ahead for our organization and truly enjoy working with a fantastic group of people in Tampa Bay.” Canadian Press
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll see a definite improvement from yesterday, as far as people’s moods go. You are capable of unusual understanding, so use those skills today to help someone get past a restriction. This person will not be able to thank you enough. Tonight: Ever playful. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Stay on top of a domestic matter, regardless of what happens. You could feel overburdened by an offer that actually could be more of a problem than a solution. You could have difficulty telling the other party “No thank you.” Start practicing. Tonight: Happy at home. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Handle a situation before it gets too overwhelming. You have a lot to do, but know that a partner will lend a hand. Express your determination by tapping into your ingenuity. Be more forthright with a child or new friend. Tonight: Out and about.
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Swollen Members’ Madchild looks forward to upcoming Cranbrook show Arne Pe tryshen Townsman Staff
Swollen Members will be coming to Cranbrook later this month on their Brand New Tour. Madchild will join Boston rapper Slaine, from La Coka Nostra and Supreme Villain. The band will perform on Saturday, April 26 at the Cranbrook Eagles Hall. Since 2009 when Madchild and Prevail joined forces again after a four-year hiatus, Swollen Members have released three full-length albums, a greatest hits collection and launched their own respective solo careers. The group has also released a follow-up to their critically acclaimed “Monsters in The Closet” album. And recently, their album “Beautiful Death Machine” peaked at the number two position on the Canadian Billboard Charts Top 200. On Friday, the Townsman was able to speak to Madchild by phone from Vancouver. He said he is looking forward to the tour and the stop here in Cranbrook on Saturday, April 26. “We’re very fortunate and lucky to have the loyal fan base that we have, and I think we always bring a lot of energy to the show,” he said. Madchild said that energy seems to come out no matter where he tours. “I just got back from touring Europe, and touring Canada, and touring America. And it’s all really sort of the same thing. I guess we bring the same people out wherev-
er we go. Whether it’s Europe, Australia or B.C. in Canada or Los Angeles in America. We attract the same people. It’s really funny, but it feels like the same vibe everywhere we go, to be honest.” He said the big difference is in the places where they are still building their brand. Madchild is featured in three separate albums coming out this year. “We have the new Swollen Members record Brand New Day coming out, then I have my album Superbeast. I believe the Supervillain album with Slain and myself will be coming out this year, but it could be next year. I don’t know.” Slain is also releasing an album this year entitled King of Everything Else. “It always becomes a funner show when we add some of the new songs, we try to switch it up a bit,” he said. “We play classics from Lady Venom and Fuel Injected all the way up to the new album. We like to switch it up and play some songs from the whole discography.” Madchild is also setting up an independent record label and was in L.A. last week. He was also down there shooting a new video. “We focus on the enjoyment and celebration of life,” he said. “That’s part of the whole thing of Brand New Day. I honestly don’t look at it as getting older; I look at it as getting better. I used to be a little bit worried about getting older but now I realize I’m having the best time of my
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Swollen Members are releasing their new album Brand New Day. Madchild, right, will be representing the group at the Eagles Hall in Cranbrook on April 26, along with Slaine. life. It’s just a great time period in life where we’re at. Artistically, mentally, spiritually.” That has helped him to focus on the positive things and do what he loves to do – make music. “A lot of artists, I’m definitely not the first one and I’m sure I won’t be the last, sort of fall on their face, but the point is getting back up and dusting yourself off and moving forward,” Madchild said. He has had a long road of recovery from addiction to prescription medicine. He said there has been a big change in the Canadian hip hop scene over the years. “We were probably one of the first groups to get sort of world wide recognition as far as Canadian hip hop,” he said. “We never sort of broke mainstream outside of Canada, but we’ve always been a worldwide known underground hip hop group, which I think Can-
ada is proud of and we’re proud of.” He said then Drake broke open the flood gates and suddenly a Canada hip hop star is mainstream. “He is one of the top, and I think that is a huge thing for Canadian hip hop,” he said. “So hopefully guys like us helped sort of build the road a little bit.” He also said guys like Kardinal Offishall helped as well. Madchild said when he was in L.A. last week he was listening to Shade 45, a local hip hop station and there is a DJ freestyling on the show from Canada, representing Toronto. “I thought, this is so cool, I’m listening to a guy who I thought was American, but he’s from Canada out touring and on Shade 45 and nobody’s blinking,” he said. “This obviously told me that we’re finally at a time where the border is now invisible
and good is good. I think it’s a great time for Canadian hip hop.” He also noted that he thought all the Juno nominees were great artists this year. Madchild will be moving to L.A. in a month to work on the record label and as an artist. “Don’t get me wrong, I am proud to be Canadian, and I’ll always love Vancouver and represent where I’m from. But I just feel like it’s just the next move. I’m no spring chicken anymore. I’ve got a lot of talented friends and great people in the business down there. I’m pretty excited. Plus it’s sunny all the time.” He added though that he will always keep a place in Vancouver as well and will be back and forth. He also added that it really means a lot to them that the fans support them. “We’re so lucky that, in a time when it’s so easy for people to download music for free, that people still buy our albums,” he said. “We can’t express how much we appreciate that. It means the world to us and it shows the industry that underground hip hop is still alive and important.” The Cranbrook show is on Saturday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Cranbrook Eagles Hall. Tickets are available in advance at The Choice for $25 plus tax, or at the door for $30. There are also a limited number of VIP tickets available for $50. The show is for ages 19 and over.
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Normally, when one thinks of the term ‘Hanson Brothers,’ many thoughts turn to the Flaxen Saxons known as Isaac, Taylor, and Zac — they of 1997’s “MMMbop” infamy. And with Hanson’s recent renaissance resurging into modern pop-culture consciousness, we asked lead guitarist Tommy Hanson (of the punk band The Hanson Brothers) if this public confusion causes them problems. “Well, they have a craft beer on the way, as does our own Johnny Hanson. A battle will be fought in a distant tun. Perhaps both bands will see action in the mash pit.” The Hanson Brothers are the well-known humorous musical side-project formed by Vancouver’s prog-punk legends NoMeansNo (Rob Wright – bass, vocals; John Wright – drums, vocals; Tom Holliston – guitar, vocals). Taking their band name and crazed stage presence from the
goon-squad moronic sibling characters in the 1977 sports-comedy film Slap Shot (and taking their sound from the first three or four Ramones albums), these particular Hanson Brothers have been offering the Wright Brothers some welcome lunkhead relief for 30 years straight. The Hanson Brothers love to dumb it down, and self-consciously provide an outlet for the band members to over-indulge in their adolescent love of the Ramones (as well as their lifelong love of ice hockey). And the Hansons proudly strut their high-sticking, take-no-prisoners stuff at the Byng Roadhouse on Thursday, April 17. Tommy “Holliston” Hanson was asked if there was more zany fun to be had with the Hanson Brothers, as opposed to NoMeansNo: “The Hansons are a lot of fun, and it’s a good show... but no one in this band is inherently zany, or marketably quirky.”
Regardless, the Hanson Brothers have released three studio albums (1992’s Gross Misconduct, 1996’s Sudden Death, and 2002’s My Game), a live album (2008’s It’s a Living), and have four songs featured on the 2000 Sony PlayStation game NHL Rock the Rink. Not bad for a band which has always been a side project. Since the band’s entire modus-operandi is taken from a 37-year-old comedy, Tommy Hanson was asked if he still finds the film enjoyable. “I think Slap Shot is a great movie, a classic. It’s very well-cast. I was always a fan of Paul Newman. He was one of the very few actors I would follow. And Strother Martin. And George Roy Hill directing. The movie feels like it made itself. And what a great script!” The Hanson Brothers rock the Byng Roadhouse (21 Cranbrook St. S.) Thursday, April 17, with special guests The Bison Brothers; showtime 9 p.m.
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Quebec Liberals win massive victory
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MONTREAL — The Quebec Liberals won Monday’s provincial election with a majority government in what could be a devastating blow to the sovereignty movement. Philippe Couillard’s party won or were leading in about 75 of the province’s 125 ridings, outstripping the Parti Quebecois and the Coalition. Couillard also won his own riding of Roberval with a crushing victory over PQ incumbent Denis Trottier. The PQ formed a minority government in September 2012 when it won 54 seats with 32 per cent of the popular vote. The PQ had hoped to capitalize on identity politics, as it did in 2012, by making its secular charter the focus of the campaign. But that plan was derailed when star candidate Pierre Karl Peladeau, his fist pumped, announced just days after PQ Leader Pauline Marois called the election he had left the business world for politics so he could build an independent Quebec for his children. Couillard repeatedly asserted during the campaign that a PQ majority government would mean another referendum, which polls constantly suggest is something a majority of Quebec-
ers do not want. Marois’s future as PQ leader may now be uncertain given she was unable to deliver the majority government she had so desperately wanted when she called the election in early March. Monday’s results were being watched closely not only in Quebec but the rest of Canada as they will offer a vital view to where the country’s national unity debate is headed. Pundits said a Liberal win had the potential to put the sovereignty issue on ice for a generation. The 33-day campaign had been considered as one of the nastiest in decades. Voters had complained in the weeks leading up to the vote that bread-and-butter issues had received little attention as politicians fired potshots over the possibility of another sovereignty referendum or challenged each other on ethics. Marois, whose party formed a minority government in the 2012 election, was hoping to win a majority of the province’s 125 ridings — a scenario that could eventually lead to another referendum. Pundits warned, however, that a PQ loss could set the sovereigntist agenda back years. Marois was the first of the main leaders to vote Monday.
Philippe Couillard is the new premier of Quebec. “It is a beautiful day,’’ she told reporters after she cast her ballot in the riding of Charlevoix-Cote-deBeaupre, northeast of Quebec City. “I am very serene at this moment. I trust Quebecers will choose a good government to lead them and I am confident about tonight.’’ Recent opinion polls, however, indicated the momentum was with the Liberals, with surveys giving them a shot at taking power when the votes were counted. Couillard, who trained as a neurosurgeon, was asked
Monday whether it was more stressful performing brain surgery or trying to become Quebec premier. “They’re pretty different but in some ways they’re quite alike,’’ he replied after
voting in his riding of Roberval, a few hours north of Quebec City. “We are fortunate to live in a democracy where we vote for our government every four years — or sometimes more often . . . . I’m happy about the campaign we had. I’m confident about the result but it’s now time for citizens to speak. Politicians have spoken enough.’’ The PQ had hoped to capitalize on identity politics, as it did in 2012, by making its secular charter the focus of the campaign. But that plan was derailed when star candidate Pierre Karl Peladeau, his fist pumped, announced just days after Marois called the election he had left the business world for politics so he could build an independent Quebec for his children. Couillard repeatedly asserted during the campaign that a PQ majority government would mean another referendum, which polls constantly suggest is something a majority of Quebec-
ers do not want. Marois’s defence was that Quebecers were voting only for a government Monday and not on whether there would be another referendum. She reiterated throughout the campaign she would hold a plebiscite only when she believes Quebecers are ready for one. At dissolution, the PQ had 54 seats, while the Liberals had 49. The Coalition had 18, Quebec solidaire two and there were two Independents. Nineteen per cent of the six million eligible voters cast a ballot in advance polling. As of 5:30 p.m. Monday, the percentage of Quebecers who had voted stood at 52.8 per cent, including the advance polling. In the 2012 election, 53 per cent of eligible voters had cast a ballot as of 5:30 p.m., including the advance polling. Turnout at the end of the day was 74.6 per cent.
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NEWS Inuit land claims group organizing giant sealfie to protest Ellen’s Oscar selfie C ANADIAN PRESS
IQALUIT, Nunavut — A group that oversees Inuit land claims is organizing a giant photo op to counter the celebrity selfie taken by Ellen Degeneres at the Oscars last month. Degeneres donated $1.5 million of the money raised by the star-studded picture to the Humane Society of the United States, an organization that fights seal hunting. In response, Inuit across Nunavut have been using social media to post “sealfies’’ — pictures of themselves wearing sealskin clothes, standing beside freshly killed seals or looking forward to enjoying a tasty seal meal. The land claims group Nunavut Tunngavik says it supports the movement and will operate a sealfie photo booth in its offices in Iqaluit this Thursday.
More Canadians hanging up on traditional phones and cutting traditional TV C ANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL — More Canadians are abandoning traditional telephones and TV services, reflecting a growing trend prompted by changing lifestyles, according to a new study. The Convergence Consulting Group said Monday that by the end of this year it expects 26.3 per cent of Canadian households will be going without landline telephones and relying solely on wireless telephone service. That is up from 22.5 per cent in 2013. Households are also increasingly abandoning traditional TV in favour of programming from other sources such as Netflix and other online serCANADIAN PRESS/AP/Ellen DeGeneres vices, Convergence said in predictThis image shows actors front row from left, Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, ing that even more Canadians will Meryl Streep, Ellen DeGeneres, Bradley Cooper, Peter Nyong’o Jr., and, secturn away from traditional TV serond row, from left, Channing Tatum, Julia Roberts, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, vices this year. Lupita Nyong’o and Angelina Jolie as they pose for a “selfie” portrait on a cell “We forecast Canadian TV phone during the Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2014. cord-cutter households will reach 665,000, or 5.7 per cent, by year-end It is also organizing a and organizations using harvested humanely 2014,’’ according to the study. giant sealfie in Iqaluit on their wealth and influ- and to tell people otherFrom 2011 to 2013, Convergence ence to spread further wise is a complete lie.’’ Friday afternoon. estimates that 458,000, or 3.9 per In statements on her The land claims misinformation about cent, of households relied solely on group says it wants to ed- our way of life. Their ig- website, DeGeneres Netflix and other non-traditional TV ucate people about Nun- norance is appalling,’’ calls the seal hunt “one services. Tunngavik of the most atrocious avut’s sustainable and Nunavut “We’re mobile and we want things vice-president James and inhumane acts humane seal harvest. RPGP RN Individualized Program Ad - Jan Zacharias 10.33in x 7in High weWide want them, ’’ Brahm Eiley, against animals allowed - Sizewhen Eetoolook said. “This is another per- 0426 - 02 Press Readyare PDF by any government.’’ co-founder of the Toronto-based “Seals in Canada fect example of people CMYK
consulting group, said in explaining the switch. “This is a very different market right now. We live in a different era.’’ Eiley said low-cost “all you can eat’’ voice packages on mobile phones have contributed to households dropping their landline phones. Traditional TV service providers — cable, telecom, satellite and IPTV — are also facing negative subscriber growth this year as viewers find alternatives and the market matures, Eiley said. The study estimated that Canadian TV service providers will lose a total of 32,000 subscribers overall in 2014. Convergence Group said that just 2,000 Canadian TV subscribers were added in 2013, down from additions of 37,000 in 2012. Netflix, which came to Canada in late 2010 and costs about $8 a month, is a prime example. Canadian Netflix, which has less content than its U.S. counterpart, had an estimated three million subscribers last year, up from 2.2 million in 2012, Eiley said. However, traditional TV still brings in the most revenue per user for service providers at $65 a month, compared with $45 per user for Internet service, Eiley said.