Getting air
Kyler Toutant gets some air as he slides down
Operation Red Nose delivered almost 1,000 safe rides
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
Almost a thousand drivers chose the red nose during the holiday season but an alarming number of people chose the red lights of the RCMP instead.
Operation Red Nose is a volunteer-based community safety service run by the Rotary Club of Prince George Nechako in partnership with ICBC and the Prince George RCMP.
With one phone call, anyone who believes themselves to be possibly impaired can get a ride home with an Operation Red Nose team that also delivers your vehicle at the same time.
We’re quite happy with how New Year’s Eve unfolded.
— Andrea Johnson
During the four weekends of the holiday season, 802 rides were provided plus another 157 safe trips home on New Year’s Eve itself.
It was the fifth-busiest Operation Red Nose year in the program’s 21-year history in Prince George.
The feat was carried out by 24 road teams at the peak of Dec. 31 action. Overall, the campaign ran on the dispatching, driving and navigating of 197 volunteers.
“We’re quite happy with how New Year’s Eve unfolded,” said Andrea Johnson, Operation Red Nose spokesperson, who profusely thanked the volunteers for nine nights of dedication.
“The longest wait times (on New Year’s Eve) were one hour at most and our teams managed to keep up with the demand for rides we experienced from midnight to 3 a.m. We appreciate the patience of everyone who called us for a ride as our volunteer teams navigated their way through the snowy weather.”
The delivery of driver and vehicle is made by donation, with all proceeds raised going to amateur sports organizations in the community, channeled through the Rotary club.
— see ‘FORTY-FIVE PERSONS, page 3
Record-breaking year for Judy Russell Presents
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff
It was a record year for Judy Russell Presents.
In 2018, the local live entertainment company put on more shows in a single year than ever before. They also saw the biggest public reaction at the box office. All of their events did strong sales numbers, no downturns in the bunch and a couple of them could have been held over were it not for the fact the cast and crew are all comprised of community volunteers.
The February production of Cabaret rang up ticket sales and critical acclaim en route to major talent buzz for lead actors Shelby Meaney (as Sally Bowles) and Owen Selkirk (as The Emcee).
After that high-profile stage victory, Judy Russell Presents went in a direction less travelled by the veteran production company. They assembled a cast of actors that staged the all-dramatic play 12 Angry Jurors and entered it in the Central Interior Zone Drama Festival.
For a team focused almost exclusively on presenting musical theatre events, this was a departure and an experiment that seems to have worked on a number of levels.
It established connections with local community performers who aren’t prone to participate in musical theatre but are hungry to work with a script.
It provided a meaningful project to rising directoral talent Anna Russell.
The show won four of the 13 awards at the May festival. From there, it was an easy transition to the company’s big sum-
mer blockbuster, Legally Blonde. Meaney once again led the cast to score a second wave of acclaim in the same calendar year. Again, the critics and the fans agreed on the show’s entertainment value. They weren’t finished. As always, the company presents a holiday favourite during the Christmas season. Every second year, in keeping with its ballet fundamentals, they do The Nutracker. This was one of their off-years for that, so instead they did A Christmas Carol starring Gary Chappel
as Scrooge. It was the third time staging this seasonal favourite – again, more of a drama than a musical – and the public gave it a strong response during the thick of the Christmas rush. Judy Russell Presents is a branch of Enchainement Dance Centre, which is also linked to the Performers North Entertainment Company not-for-profit society, the Russell Audio-Visual sound and lighting company, Central Interior Tickets and the Prince George Playhouse.
In addition to these formal productions, the team also presented a pair of recitals for their dance students, a fundraiser show for Performers North, a trip to the BC Annual Dance Competition held each year in Prince Rupert, a pair of student shows for School District 57, a suite of six numbers for the Festival of Trees event to raise funds for the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation, plus readying the in-house dancers for their own local competitions, classes and exams.
“All my life I’ve tried to live by the words ‘go for it’ but now at this stage of my life I look back and it’s ‘gone for it, so now what?’” Judy Russell said. “What does ‘go for it’ look like going forward? We have done so much, and other people in the city have done so much, that nothing is automatic anymore. Is it time to push for bigger and better or is it time to coast a bit? And what is bigger? What is better? How is that actually defined?”
It may be Judy Russell’s name on the company, but there are three generations of Russell (and Murray) family actively working under the production umbrella, plus raising the very young fourth generation.
There is also a large contingent of dancers, backstage crew, administration and operation personnel, plus many others who support the effort.
“I am truly appreciative of the support from my family, team and community,” Russell said. “We do have a true team going on, and that’s how I managed to survive –and I use that term loosely – a year with a record number of productions and projects.”
None of it would be possible, she said, if the public didn’t respond positively to the offerings on stage. Some shows sell better than others (The Producers and Les Miserables are particular standouts) but her shows now come with a timetested assurance of artistic quality. That is seen not only in direct indications like ticket sales but also in signs like how many Prince George performers leave for professional positions across Canada and other places in the world.
— see PRINCE GEORGE, page 3
the hill in Rainbow Park Thursday morning.
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Owen Selkirk is surrounded by dancers during rehearsal for Judy Russell’s presentation of Cabaret in February.
Ducks on ice
Ducks on open water on the Nechako River Thursday afternoon.
Locally-produced film getting recognition
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
Stephen King, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and some local creators shared a successful year together. It was a case of a movie making history within history.
For the first time, a feature-length film project radiated from here to the awards podium at international film festivals. The Doctor’s Case was a short story written by King, the monarch of horror and drama. He wrote it as a homage to Doyle and the famed fictional detectives Sherlock Holmes and his associate Dr. Watson.
The story was a favourite of James Douglas, one of the senior managers at Barkerville who saw prime potential to combine his two passion professions – acting and archiving. With the help of the Dollar Baby Program – a stringent but enabling licensing process for turning Stephen King stories into films by aspiring directors – Douglas was able to use Barkerville, Craigdarroch Castle and Emily Carr House as eye-popping sets for the making of the movie.
“One of the things I love most about this film is how it gets to showcase three national historic sites that are within British Columbia,” Douglas said during the filming process.
Three heralded screen actors stepped into these Victorian backdrops: William B. Davis (The X-Files, Robson Arms), Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Ray Donovan), and Michael Coleman (Once Upon A Time, Hipsterverse). They were joined by a supporting cast and crew dominated by local names from the Prince George and Barkerville communities like J.P. Winslow as Holmes, Andrew Hamilton, Stewart Cawood, Michelle
Leiffertz, Shawna Berry and Danette Boucher among others on the performance side.
The crew side included notable local names like Jeremy Breaks, Ken Hiwatt Marshall and Marie Lui handling the music; and a production team led by Jana Phillips, Kyle Bachman, James Feragen, Kim Feragen, Brent Marshall and operational executive producer Norm Coyne.
The film was screened locally to wide fanfare but proving The Doctor’s Case had appeal beyond its home region was where it really made its impressions. It gained acceptance to an international collection of festivals and then it won awards.
“Our festival run for The Doctor’s Case saw us screen upwards of 30 times and garner 10 awards from all over North America and helped us shine a light on the great things happening in northern B.C. film,” said Coyne.
“We are, as of today, working on a brand new feature film project,” he said. “It isn’t a sequel or a prequel or anything like that, it is unrelated to The Doctor’s Case, but it is directly related in that the teamwork done for that film is what caused this new project to be possible. It’s our next step, as a team. And we also have a series in development that is also unrelated in subject matter but only possible because of the industry that came together around The Doctor’s Case. It takes volunteers, it takes investors, it takes experience, and it takes a lot of professionals in a lot of different fields to make a project happen but once it does, there is a momentum that springs forward off of that.
Prince George is now getting in on that.”
This is where The Doctor’s Case has so far travelled:
• Julien Dubuque International Film Festival (where the film officially made it’s world pre-
miere) in Iowa
• Moonrise Film Festival (Wells)
• Tri-Cities International Film Festival (Washington state)
• Penti-Con (Penticton)
• World Con 76 (San Jose)
• International Sound & Film Music Festival (Croatia)
• Diamond In The Rough Film Festival (San Jose)
• Royal Starr Film Festival (Detroit)
• Northern FanCon (Prince George)
• Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo
• Open World Toronto Film Festival (where it won the trophy for Best Story and Screenplay: story by Stephen King and screenplay by James Douglas)
• Cariboo Chilcotin Film Festival (Williams Lake)
• Kew Gardens Festival of Cinema (where it won for Best Editing) in New York
• Adrian International Film Festival (Michigan)
• Filmplaya Festival (Playa del Rey)
• Mid Tenn FilmFest (where it won Best Actor in a Feature: Michael Coleman, and Best Feature Film) in Tennessee
• New Hope Film Festival (where it won for Best Period Film) in Pennsylvania
• Comicpalooza (where it won Best Costumes: Michelle Lieffertz, Best Actress: Denise Crosby, and Best Cinematography: Ian Macdougall and Stuey Kubrick) in Texas
• Regina International Film Festival & Awards
• Festival of Cinema NYC in New York
• Festival of Time (where it won for Best Feature and Best Cinematography) in Edmonton
• Cinema CNC Film Festival (Prince George)
• Jasper Short-Film Festival (upcoming in 2019)
Snowed In Comedy Tour returns
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff
It has been more than a decade since the snow started to fall on the Canadian comedy landscape.
The Snowed In Comedy Tour has been shoveling across the nation since 2009 and once again this minifestival of big laughs has local dates.
On Saturday, the gang of comics performs a pair of shows in Prince George, followed by a show in Quesnel on Sunday. This year’s lineup includes Dan Quinn, Paul Myrehaug, Pete Zedlacher and Debra DiGiovanni for all the performances in these parts. They will do a set at 7 p.m. then another at 10 p.m. at the Prince George Playhouse. The first is listed as sold out, so getting tickets will have to be done by personal networking. A scant number of tickets were reportedly available for the 10 p.m. show, as of Thursday afternoon.
The Quesnel gig still has tickets available for the 8 p.m. event at The Occidental. All four of these comedians has a personal list of career power-points, and together they form what has become the most successful annual comedy tour in Canada. The lineup alters a little depending on dates and locations, because the junket goes to 65 Canadian destinations and in the recent past has also ventured to other countries to spread the joy and the jokes.
Umbrella weather
‘Prince
George loves supporting its local performers’
— from page 1
It is also seen when musical theatre shows come to town on professional tours and the local audience can see a narrowing gap between these and the all-local productions.
“ I think people in Prince George have generally decided that live productions are fantastic,” Russell said. “The more the merrier. I really believe to be true that the more there is to do, the more likely people are to do it on a regular basis and make a habit of it. Every month in this city there are a couple of great things to go see, sometimes a whole lot of great things, and that makes people plan it out and think it through and be involved.
“There is a very big appetite for the live performing arts in Prince George,” she added. “And Prince George loves supporting its local performers. If there’s a P.G. connection to it, it makes the P.G. audience proud, and the more connection there is, the prouder they are. I include myself in that.”
Will 2019 break another record for Judy Russell Presents?
It is set to be a year for The Nutcracker so that strongly suggests what is coming next winter, but will there be another drama in May for the community theatre festival? Will there be a summer blockbuster? Will Russell ever return to an outdoor production as was done for past mega-events like Jesus Christ Superstar, West Side Story and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum? Will there be a classic on the agenda like Cabaret was or will it be a Broadway newcomer title like Legally Blonde was?
“We are coming off a really big year. To some degree we are tired, but to some degree we are energized,” said Russell. “It’s not all on a few people anymore, the team is bigger and getting more experience all the time. All I can say right at this moment is, we have some announcements coming soon and we can’t wait to do what we do for the community we love.”
— from page 1
Those who opted to drive themselves while impaired ran into a formidable police presence.
The region’s dedicated enforcement campaign ran from Nov. 30 to New Year’s Day.
More than 2,000 drivers were checked by police and, according to the statistical results, it was a necessary focus.
Inside the City of Prince George alone (more enforcement was focused on the roads and highways of the broader region), 45 impaired drivers were taken off the road, five of them at the Criminal Code level.
In addition to the suspensions and charges for impairment, 18 drivers were prohibited or suspended and now face new consequences, 20 more had no valid license, 29 vehicles were uninsured, nine drivers were charged for driving without due care and attention plus eight more for distracted driving, 69 drivers were speeding and a loaded firearm was found in one of the vehicles.
“All of the above numbers are a concern for police and show that some road users still choose to ignore laws,” said Prince George RCMP Cpl. Craig Douglass.
“Forty-five persons made the choice to drive while impaired to do so, putting other road users at increased risk. Eighteen drivers knew they were prohibited or suspended from driving, yet were caught driving. Nearly 50 people were caught driving without a valid licence or without valid insurance, a seemingly innocent mistake until you’re involved in a collision and that mistake changes your life forever.”
Sgt. Matt Labelle, in charge of the Prince George RCMP’s Municipal Traffic Enforcement Section, said the holiday results were “big numbers” so there would be no letting up by local police.
“Although the holidays are over, our attention will remain on those drivers that do the most harm in our community,” Labelle said.
“Please make good decisions about your driving habits and help us make our roads safer.”
Throughout January and February, the Prince George RCMP’s Traffic Services Section will be conducting enforcement at high collision intersections, will target prohibited and suspended drivers and will continue to address impaired driving.
CITIZEN PHOTO BY BRENT BRAATEN
Another snow storm from city hall
Toughest job in Prince George this week?
Without question, the staff at the service centre at city hall, answering calls from residents about snow removal.
In just three days this week (Tuesday being the New Year’s Day holiday), 380 calls were made to city hall about snow removal and it’s fair to guess most of the calls weren’t praise for a job well done. Unfortunately, the folks answering the phones at city hall are the people with the least power to do anything about it. They can simply create a service request file and pass it along.
On Wednesday morning, The Citizen asked the city by email for a detailed breakdown of where the snow removal equipment (both city and contractor) was and which streets were done from Friday, Dec. 28 at noon to Jan. 2 at 9 a.m. in order to compare the clearing activities to the route priorities to see if city protocol was followed.
Late Thursday afternoon, Michael Kellett, the city’s senior communications officer, sent a non-response response that basically regurgitated the previous media releases sent out by the city. Those releases state the number of plows, graders, loaders and other machines that were working during the various shifts and they were clearing Priority 1 and Priority 2 streets.
“In terms of the location of snow removal equipment at a given time, I would refer you to www.princegeorge.ca/snow, which includes detailed information about the City snow and ice control procedure, which was approved by City Council in 2014, and
Late Thursday afternoon, Michael Kellett, the city’s senior communications officer, sent a non-response response that basically regurgitated the previous media releases sent out by the city.
includes information about priority routes, timelines, etc.,” Kellett wrote. “The City regularly provides this information to residents to give them a rough idea of where equipment is going and when. Crews will sometimes opt to plow certain priority one routes, such as downtown streets, at night in order to lessen traffic disruption.”
In other words, The Citizen’s request was ignored. Which specific streets was all that equipment working and when?
The frustration with the snow removal after last Friday/Saturday’s hefty snowfall is warranted because it’s clear the city didn’t meet its own service level standards.
According to the snow information posted on the city’s website, Priority 1 and Priority 2 streets will be cleared within 48 hours (two days) after a snowfall of 7.5 cm or more in 24 hours. The remainder of city roadways will be cleared within 72 hours (three days) after Priority 1 and Priority 2 streets are completed if more than 12 cm of snow falls. Did the city meet its own targets?
Mostly yes, but with some glaring omissions. But it’s impossible to give a further
answer without a proper answer from the city.
On Monday at 5 p.m., more than 30 hours after the snow stopped falling, Westwood and Ferry (Priority 1) and the entire light industrial area east of Queensway (Priority 2) remained untouched and they certainly weren’t the only ones, if posts to social media and The Citizen’s website are any indication.
Furthermore, the word “cleared” in the snow removal policy suggests that these Priority 1 and 2 routes will be fully open to all traffic, rather than Priority 1 four-lane streets like Fifth Avenue, 15th Avenue, Massey Drive and Queensway still operating with just two lanes in several areas due to windrows piled up in the middle.
On one hand, the snow removal crews and contractors should be praised for the fine work they did do but it’s also their job to do fine work. Since they clearly failed in several areas by the city’s own measurement, it is entirely appropriate for residents to point out those failures and demand to know why that level of service pledged to residents in writing on the city’s website wasn’t met.
Residents were far more forgiving in February 2018 because the city was slammed with two significant snowfalls over the course of three days. The second storm reset the clock for the city and local drivers accepted this. While there were still the complainers, most people understood when it took nearly a week for a city plow and front end loader to get to their quiet cul de sac. They understood the windrows on the major routes. So even though the city didn’t fully meet its service level for snow removal then, there was a clear reason why.
Internet censorship will never work
Regulating speech is difficult even under the best of conditions, and the internet is far from the best of conditions. Its patchwork system of regulation by private entities satisfies no one, yet it is likely to endure for the foreseeable future. By way of explanation, consider a case in which authority is (mostly) centralized and the environment is (mostly) controlled: my own. I am a professor, and if a student regularly made offensive remarks in class, I would meet with that person and try to persuade him or her to desist. If the person continued, I would at some point seek to ban the student from my class, with the support of my university. Yet this solution is not as straightforward as it seems. Maybe it’s good if you trust my judgment, but it is not readily scalable. It only works because such incidents are so rare. I can’t be effective in my job if I need to spend my time regulating and trying to modify the speech of my students. And this approach becomes all the more unwieldy when adopted by internet platforms.
A few years ago, private regulation was a much smaller issue than it is today, even if offensive material posted on Facebook or YouTube invariably prompted a takedown order.
The problem with these systems is that they were too hospitable to bad actors. The Russian govern-
ment, for instance, used multiple internet platforms to try to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election. If platforms are perceived as hospitable to bad actors, including enemies of America and democracy, those platforms will start to lose their legitimacy in the eyes of both the public and its elected representatives. An alternative approach is for platform companies to regulate by algorithm. For instance, if a posting refers to Nazis and uses derogatory terms for Jews, the algorithm could ban those postings automatically. That may work fine at first, but eventually the offensive posters will figure out how to game the algorithms. Then there is the issue of false positives – postings that the algorithm identifies as offensive but aren’t. The upshot is that human judgment will remain a crucial supplement to any algorithm, which will have to be fine-tuned regularly. As these processes evolve, each internet platform will not be consistent or fair across its many users, as some will get away with being offensive or dangerous, while others may be censored or kicked off for insufficient reasons. Facebook recently has devoted a lot of resources to regulat-
ing speech on its platform. Yet undesired uses of the platform hardly have gone away. Furthermore, the need for human judgment makes algorithms increasingly costly and hard to scale. As Facebook grows bigger and reaches across more regions and languages, it becomes harder to find the humans who can apply what Facebook considers to be the proper standards.
I’d like to suggest a simple trilemma. When it comes to private platforms and speech regulation, you can choose two of three: scalability, effectiveness and consistency. You cannot have all three. Furthermore, this trilemma suggests we won’t ever be happy with how speech is regulated on the internet.
One view is that the platforms are worth having, so they should appease us by at least trying to regulate effectively. Another view is that we’d be better off with how things were a few years ago, when platform regulation of speech was not such a big issue. The problem is that once you learn about what you can’t have –speech regulation that is scalable, consistent and hostile to bad agents – it is hard to get used to that fact. Going forward, we’re likely to see platform companies trying harder and harder, and their critics getting louder and louder. Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University
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The Friday/Saturday 35 cm snowfall was significant but it didn’t break any records (which are measured in calendar days, as opposed to 24-hour periods). In the days afterwards, it was followed by seven centimetres of light snow that didn’t meet the 7.5 cm “snow event” standard and then light and/or freezing rain for the past few days. Yet on Thursday afternoon, a full five days after the snow stopped falling, crews were reaching some residential streets for the first time. In other words, not only was the city unable to meet service levels for clearing Priority 1 and 2 streets, it also failed to meet the standard for the lowest priority streets. Are these service levels unreasonable? If so, they should be reviewed and changed to set more acceptable standards, both in the amount of time needed to do the job and in the amount of roadway expected to be cleared.
If the service levels are reasonable, however, then what went wrong? Were crews and equipment improperly dispatched, both in terms of timeliness and to the areas they were sent to clear?
Asking these questions, holding individuals accountable if mistakes were made and expecting better in the future is essential. Taxpayers should be able to trust service level expectations set by government. Furthermore, fire trucks, police cars and ambulances need to be able to respond quickly to emergencies. Major streets cleared of snow are simply convenient for most drivers but they can be a matter of life and death for first-response crews. Hopefully in the coming days, some real answers will be forthcoming from city hall. Editor-in-chief Neil Godbout
A vehicle to reconciliation
In my position with the New Car Dealers Association of B.C., I travel the province frequently and meet with many people on a host of industry and automotiverelated issues. During a recent trip to Terrace, I had an opportunity to spend time with Lucy Sager to hear about what she describes as the best “accidental project” of her life. It’s such a special story, I feel the need to share it with readers.
Let me explain. As someone who has spent much of her life in the Northwest and has had direct involvement in the resource industry, Lucy has been witness to a disturbing trend. Although increasing investment opportunities, including LNG are making their way to the region, there is a barrier to many Indigenous people gaining employment – a valid driver’s license. It’s required to travel to and from work which in many cases may be a remote or isolated community – and it’s also a requirement of working on a job site.
and understanding next steps in operating their own schools. To be clear, Lucy is not selling franchises. She is passing on her knowledge and development model that allows indigenous communities to train themselves.
In some Indigenous communities, as few as five per cent of the population have a valid driver’s license and in many the number is less than 50 per cent.
What began as a venture to help give people a tool they will need for employment, has become something much bigger. As Lucy tells it, “I realized something very special was happening. I started to see on their faces, how important this initiative was. In some cases, this is the most fulfilling thing they have accomplished – and it’s not just young people. We have experienced people in their 40s and 50s who have never driven themselves off of the reserve and now they are doing so for the first time.
For many this may seem like an issue that is inconsequential, so I will try and put this in perspective.
In some indigenous communities, as few as five per cent of the population have a valid driver’s license and in many the number is less than 50 per cent.
Instead of bemoaning the situation, Lucy explored the prospect of bringing in driving instructors from elsewhere, but that was cost prohibitive – so instead, she started the process of developing what is today the All Nations Driving Academy.
Word began to spread.
The Haisla Nation called and has now established its own driver training program. Other Indigenous communities also started calling and this month, some 21 Indigenous communities along Highway 16 will be engaged in driver training programming
“In a remote or isolated community, having a valid driver’s license is essential to accessing food, proper nutrition for your child, seeing a doctor. It’s also vital in an emergency, fleeing an abusive relationship or having an alternative to hitchhiking on a dangerous stretch of highway.
“In your heart you can’t help but ask how did we miss this? At the same time, it’s like we have handed individuals the key to freedom that we are all meant to have. It can’t help but touch you and in some ways I hope it is part of a healing process.”
After spending time with Lucy, and hearing from some of those who have been personally touched by the project spearheaded by her, I can’t help but imagine the prospects and potential impact, if applied on a broader level. Blair Qualey is the president and CEO of the New Car Dealers Association of B.C.
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Family recovering after carbon monoxide poisoning in car
ABBOTSFORD (CP) — Police say a woman and her five-year-old child have been released from hospital one week after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning in a car. The woman’s three-year-old child remains in hospital in stable condition and is expected to be released early next week.
The woman and her two children were found unresponsive in the car on Dec. 26 in a rural area of Abbotsford. Investigators have found the vehicle came to rest against a guard rail when the driver pulled over to the side of the road.
Assistant fire Chief Craig Bird said in a statement that vehicular poisoning by the colourless and odourless gas is most commonly caused when cars are left running in an enclosed space. He said exhaust fumes leaking into the passenger compartment is a less common but equally dangerous cause of the poisoning and recommends bringing your vehicle to a certified mechanic for inspection if you suspect a leak.
Clothing donation bins sealed after death of trapped man
VANCOUVER (CP) — The District of West Vancouver is shutting clothing donation bins and looking at options to either make them more secure or remove them following the death of a man on Dec. 30. In a post on the district’s website, West Vancouver said it is making the changes to ensure such a tragic accident doesn’t happen again.
A 34-year-old Vancouver man was found stuck in the opening of a donation bin near Ambleside Park on Sunday and he couldn’t be revived by paramedics. The notice directs residents to deliver donations to a Salvation Army thrift store or contact one of several groups able to pick up donated goods from their home.
At least seven people have died in such bins in Canada since 2015.
Grinchy thief charged
NANAIMO (CP) — Police have a man in custody and a charge has been laid after wrapped gifts were taken from under a tree on Christmas morning at a home in Nanaimo. The RCMP said a father, his wife and their two boys, aged 10 and 14, were sleeping when the man heard a noise downstairs, then found the refrigerator door open, cupboards ransacked and gifts and stockings gone. Police said officers found some open gifts strewn down the street from the family’s home, but other items, such as two new iPhones, Xbox games and gift cards, were not found.
Police said 20-year-old Justin Redmond Feusse of no fixed address was charged with break, enter and theft.
Crown tells jury to accept undercover confession of B.C. girl’s murder
Camille BAINS Citizen news service
VANCOUVER — The confession and later statements of a British Columbia man leave no reasonable doubt he abducted, sexually assaulted and killed a 12-year-old girl in 1978, a Crown counsel told jurors Thursday in British Columbia Supreme Court.
Gordon Matei said in closing arguments that Garry Handlen’s detailed admission to an undercover RCMP officer in Minden, Ont., in November 2014 was not coerced and was motivated by his belief he would escape prosecution.
“He was relieved to divulge a secret that he had been carrying with him for 36 years,” Matei said.
In the videotaped confession shown in court, the supposed boss of an organized crime group tells Handlen police have DNA evidence against him as well as accounts from witnesses but an ailing man would take the blame if Handlen provided information about the crime.
Handlen, who had been the subject of an undercover operation for about nine months, says he grabbed Monica Jack at a pullout on a highway in Merritt, threw her bike into a lake and forced her into his camper before strangling her, then burned her clothes and left her body behind a log on a hill.
Jack’s skull and some bones were found 17 years later.
Handlen also agreed to go to British Columbia’s Interior and show members of the crime group the spot where he said he’d snatched Jack.
The court heard he pointed out one of 17 pullouts along a highway that looked like one he’d remembered but had some doubts about whether it was the same one.
The Crown presented a videotaped recording of Handlen in a vehicle with another undercover officer as the two drive along a highway and he is asked if he’d heard any media reports indicating where Jack may have last been seen.
“I’m the only one that knows that stuff, nobody else does,” Handlen says.
“You heard it,” Matei told jurors, adding: “That’s because he raped, he abducted and he killed Monica Jack.”
Handlen has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of Jack.
Matei said Handlen did not want to stop at the pullout or elsewhere in Merritt because he believed witnesses could identify him years later, even though
the undercover officer had deceived him about having been seen on May 6, 1978, the day Jack disappeared.
“If he didn’t do anything what’s he concerned about?” he asked jurors.
He said Handlen wasn’t a “yes man” who would have admitted to a “horrible crime” that he didn’t commit.
The fictitious crime group, for which Handlen did jobs like repossessing vehicles, did not provide inducements that would have had him confess to something he didn’t do, Matei said.
Handlen also had a partner of 30 years, lots of work, including as a handyman, that met his financial needs and had a wide circle of friends so wasn’t dependent on the connections he’d made with members of the group, Matei said.
“He was convinced that the police were going to get him and he knew he had done it.”
While Handlen told some “tall tales,” such as saying he’d played semi-professional lacrosse for a team in New Westminster, rappelled down a rope from a
helicopter and went water skiing on one ski, his confession had a “ring of truth,” Matei said.
“He’s not on trial for boasting,” he said, adding Handlen’s lies were intended to make himself seem better.
“To confess to killing a 12-year-old girl is not going to make Mr. Handlen seem better than he was,” Matei told the jury.
“Don’t leave your common sense at the door when you go into the jury room.”
Crown counsel Mark Sheardown said Handlen told the undercover boss he’d been smoking marijuana and drinking before he killed Jack but his confession suggests everything he did up until then was part of his intention to kill her.
“Consider all the things that you’ve heard,” Sheardown told jurors.
“Does it make sense that he would have confessed to those things unless they were true? The Crown’s submission is that his confession was truthful and reliable and you should be satisfied of that beyond a reasonable doubt and find him guilty as charged.”
Garry Taylor Handlen is charged in the homicides of 11-year-old KathrynMary Herbert in 1975 in Abbotsford and 12-year-old Monica Jack near Merritt in 1978.
Back to the hardwood
UNBC basketball teams resuming their Canada West seasons
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff tclarke@pgcitizen.ca
The shock of losing their undefeated status and national ranking among U Sports women’s basketball teams is now behind them.
It’s time for the UNBC Timberwolves to get back to what they were doing, playing winning basketball again.
The T-wolves (6-4) will try to shake a four-game losing streak tonight (6 p.m.) at the Northern Sport Centre when they take on the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack in the first game of a weekend doubleheader.
UNBC was a perfect 8-0 in the preseason and reeled off six straight wins – their best-ever start in seven seasons of university basketball in the Canada West conference. The Fraser Valley Cascades brought them back to earth with a pair of close decisions Nov. 22-23 in Abbotsford, winning 7266 and 74-71. The T-wolves then traveled to Saskatoon to face the Saskatchewan Huskies and lost convincingly, 83-47 and 92-60, to head into the month-long break.
Kamloops-based squad will be trying to shake a two-game losing streak. Fifth-year player Michelle Bos has set the tone for TRU with a team-leading 16.6 point average.
“We know TRU is a good team, we’ve played a lot against them, they are our longtime rivals,” said Shchepotkin. “They have three players (guards Bos and Kanesha Reeves and forward Emily Vilac) who are fifth-year and one fourthyear (guard Leilani Carney) and we know them pretty well. We have been pretty good playing against them recently.
“It seemed like we were tired –we played a very good team and it wasn’t our best game for sure and it’s good we had a break so everybody could prepare for the second half and hopefully show our game,” said T-wolves women’s head coach Sergey Shchepotkin.
“We’re still in a good position and it’s probably our best record before the break so we are optimistic. We just hope to show teamwork and good defence, first of all.”
Fourth-year guard Maria Mongomo leads Canada West, averaging 21.9 points per game, and senior forward Vasiliki Louka is the league’s top rebounder, averaging 13.5 per night and her 22 steals ranks eighth-best in the conference. Third-year homebrew forward Madison Landry is also having a career year, good for 16.2 points per game, and the T-wolves are getting plenty of mileage out of fifth-year point guard Emily Holmes and second-year guard Alina Shakirova, who specialize on the defensive side of the court. The WolfPack (3-7) ranks 14th out of 17 in Canada West. The
“It’s always good to start on home court and it’s good that we’re starting two weeks here, I hope it will give us a good push.”
Both T-wolves teams begin the new year with 10 games left in a 20-game schedule. They’ll host the Manitoba Bisons next weekend in a twogame set, then travel to Alberta and UBC, ending up at home Feb. 1-2 against Lethbridge. Of those opponents, in both the women’s and men’s leagues, just Alberta and UBC sport winning records to start the second half of the season.
The UNBC men (6-4) are eighth in Canada West and need to finish at least 12th to make the playoffs. They gained a split in Saskatoon, rebounding from a 83-63 setback to win the following night 98-80. After a month without an opponent they played two exhibition games last weekend in Victoria, losing to the Vikes 80-78 and 82-76.
“A couple of close losses – they weren’t well-played games by either side coming off the break,” said UNBC head coach Todd Jordan. “We played them to break some of the rust off before we get back into league play.”
The T-wolves-WolfPack men’s tilt starts tonight at 8.
“It’s obviously a big weekend for us and TRU, we’re both right in the mix of things and I think it’s going to have a big impact on playoff implications so we’ll need to be sharp,” said Jordan. “We’ve shown signs of being able to compete with almost anybody, for us it’s about consistency. Can we put together the type of energy and defensive performances we need on a night-in, night-out basis to beat the better teams in our league
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on a consistent basis? That’s the next jump we need to make as a group.”
T-wolves guard Jovan Leamy has climbed to fifth in Canada West scoring, averaging 19.8 points per game, while forward Vaggelis Loukas has been a force under the hoop, tied for second in Canada West with 9.4 rebounds per game. Vova Pluzhnikov, a third-year native of Ukraine, has been a steady producer on offence, putting up 12.6 points per game.
Jordan wants to see his team improve its shooting significantly over the next 10 games.
“From the three-point line I think we’re shooting 28 per cent and I think we’re a better-shooting team than that,” said Jordan. “A couple of our better shooters have been a bit cold from outside and we’re hoping we can get those guys into a better rhythm in the second half.
“But we’ve found some ways to win games with our defence and doing other things and that’s the sign of a veteran team.”
T-wolves seniors Loukas, Leamy, Anthony Hokanson and James Agyeman have just 10 regular-season games left in their university careers.
Spruce Kings glad to have Ahac in uniform
Ted CLARKE Citizen staff
Layton Ahac earned himself a B on his NHL Central Scouting report card in November. After distinguishing himself as one of the top defencemen in the World Junior A Hockey Challenge a month ago there’s no reason to believe his marks have fallen. He was a key figure on a Canada West team that won bronze at the eight-team tournament in Bonnyville, Alta., three weekends ago and has been a model of consis-
tency among his peers throughout his second BCHL season with the Spruce Kings.
Assuming he retains his Bprospect status for the NHL draft in June in Vancouver, the 17-yearold Prince George Spruce Kings defenceman won’t have far to go to hear his name called. Ahac lives just across the Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver.
“With Ahac you maybe don’t know what you have until he’s gone and we certainly saw how big of piece he is back there when he left for the World Junior A Challenge,” said Spruce Kings
head coach Adam Maglio, whose team kicks off a three-game road trip tonight in Merritt.
“He plays in all situations so you get a guy who quarterbacks the power-play unit and goes out there first on a (penalty kill) and plays at the end of games. There’s a bunch of minutes you lose when he’s gone so it’s really nice to have him back. He’s a big boost to our team.”
Canada West lost in a shootout to the U.S. in a semifinal playoff and went on to beat the Czechs 3-1 in the bronze medal game.
Forward Joe Davis and guards Derek Rhodes and Michael Rouault are the glue that holds the WolfPack together. Rhodes leads TRU, averaging 14.3 points. Six-foot-eight post Enrico Nuno and guard Tyus De Vries, who made the Canada West All-Rookie team last season, could also pose problems for the T-wolves. Anton Bilous, who transferred from Western Texas College, has hit for 12.7 points per game.
The teams met in the preseason, Sept. 18 in Kamloops, and UNBC won 117-114 in triple overtime.
Ahac drew assists on the first two Canada West goals in the medal game.
“He got better as that tournament went on and his minutes increased, especially in that bronze medal game, and I think he’s pretty happy with how he played,” said Maglio.
“Going into his draft this year, that tournament is pretty heavilyscouted by the NHL guys and I think it was a good showing for him overall and we’re proud of him.”
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Tyrell Laing of the UNBC Timberwolves goes high for a shot against the Trinity Western University Spartans on Nov. 16 at the Northern Sport Centre. The T-wolves, after a break in their Canada West schedule, are back in action tonight and Saturday against the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack.
Youth baseball taking swing at online registration
Frank PEEBLES Citizen staff fpeebles@pgcitizen.ca
Registration is now open for the city’s youth baseball league.
The process is changing this year for signing up kids to the Prince George Youth Baseball Association (PGYBA). Instead of sitting at public locations making people line up to fill out forms, it can all be done from the comfort of your online device at whichever time of day suits you.
“The only in-person registration being held will be at the first evaluation on March 2 and we will only be accepting cash or cheque. PGYBA encourages you to register online,” said league registrar Amanda Langevin.
The Registration tab on the PGYBA home page leads parents through the process.
board of directors.
“We had 541 registered players but we had to cap teams in all divisions because of the limited field space,” said league president Carmen Martin, who noted that growth is especially immanent in the two oldest age brackets, bantam (age 1415) and midget (age 16-18).
“It’s really exciting to see those numbers growing, with more players staying on to play longer,” Martin said. There were two full midget teams this past season for the first time in years, one of which was the region’s Knights all-star team that went on to win both the B.C. provincials and the four-province Western Canadian double-A championship.
It’s really exciting to see those numbers growing, with more players staying on to play longer.
— PGYBA president Carmen Martin
That portal will allow interested families to sign up players for the WinterBall program as well, which got underway this week at the Northern Sport Centre at UNBC and has room for some more players to join.
It is also the portal potential coaches need to use to let their names stand for that position, even if it isn’t a final decision in your mind. Moms, dads, grandparents, former players, anyone interested in possibly leading a team for the two-month season of house-level baseball is directed to same Registration tab.
“We ask if you are wanting or able to coach or assistant coach please register online as this eliminates the missed applications. Please make sure you have a criminal record check done before the season starts,” said Langevin.
At the winter AGM for the league, it was disclosed that PGYBA had defied the usual national trend. When the Blue Jays aren’t doing well, there has been a statistical slump in the number of young players joining baseball. Not so in Prince George. In some of the age categories there were wait-lists and the only thing holding back league expansion is the number of playing fields, a hurdle the City of Prince George is working to overcome with the PGYBA
Ovechkin scores 30th but Blues win
The feedback about returning midgets, bantam players aging into the midget division, and new midget-level players indicates there may be enough players in that age category to field both a double-A and a single-A team under the Knights banner, plus some left over for house-level recreational play.
The bantam double-A Knights won silver at both the B.C. Minor Baseball Association and B.C. Amateur Baseball Association (similar names, but different leagues) championships, with a single-A bantam Knights team also on the road playing rep games around the province.
Having such competitive depth at the bantam level, plus a championshipgrade midget program underway means the immediate future of the upper age groups is bright, and in only a few years the odds are strong that quality players in numbers will ooze into the city’s adult recreation league as well.
“PGYBA is hoping to be able to allow for some growth in PGYBA and in order to do so we will be utilizing our fields as much as possible,” said Langevin. “With this, please keep in mind that this will bring some weekend games and practices for the older divisions.”
Baseball families new and experienced are reminded to frequently visit the PGYBA website for the latest league news.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Alex Ovechkin scored his 30th goal of the season but the St. Louis Blues came back to beat the Washington Capitals 5-2 on Thursday night.
Ovechkin’s first-period goal snapped a six-game drought and tied him with Mike Gartner as the only players in NHL history to begin their careers with 14 straight 30-goal seasons.
Pettersson leaves in loss
Citizen news service
MONTREAL — Carey Price shared his key for success after Thursday night’s 2-0 win over the Vancouver Canucks.
Price returned from a lower-body injury that caused him to miss three games, and made 33 saves for his second shutout of the season.
“Rest is a weapon,” said Price.
Canadiens defenceman Jordie Benn added: “Those glove saves, they make me giggle on the bench that’s for sure. He was solid.”
It was a tough night for the Canucks after losing rookie Elias Pettersson to a lowerbody injury in the second period.
Pettersson, who was named an all-star Wednesday, was injured after getting tangled with fellow rookie and Habs forward Jesperi Kotkaniemi. Pettersson’s right knee was caught between Kotkaniemi’s legs as they both fell to the ice. The Swede stayed down on the ice before getting to his feet and going to the dressing room. He did not return to the game.
“I’ve watched it a lot of times,” Canucks head coach Travis Green said. “It’s not a dirty play by their player at all. (Pettersson) gets hooked a little bit. Petey pushes back on him and leans back. Probably tries to give him a bit of a reverse hit and two young guys fall to the ice... It’s not a penalty.”
Green didn’t provide an update postgame, but said Pettersson will stay with the team when it heads to Toronto to face the Maple Leafs on Saturday.
“I don’t think it was anything intentional. I don’t think we need to make a big deal out of this,” said Jacob Markstrom, who made 25 saves in the loss.
Benn and Jonathan Drouin supplied the Montreal (22-14-5) offence.
Joel Armia also returned to the Canadiens lineup after missing the last 25 games due to a knee injury. The Finn also picked up an assist in his return.
Markstrom was quick to heap praise on his counterpart at the other end of the ice.
“(Price) had a real good game tonight,” Markstrom said. “They took advantage of their scoring chances they got and got two past me. It’s a tough loss.”
Pettersson had a breakaway opportunity, but the Swede slid into the post and failed to get a shot on Price as the game stayed scoreless for the first 12 minutes.
Benn opened the scoring with his third goal of the season at 11:50 of the first.
Kotkaniemi held the puck along the boards before feeding a wide open Benn, who took a moment before firing a top-shelf goal past Markstrom.
“It looked like it was going in right away,” Benn said. “There was a good hole there, good net-front presence.”
Minutes after Pettersson’s injury, Drouin scored his team’s second of the night as he burst up the wing for his 13th of the season, matching his total from all of last season.
“We created a turnover in the defensive zone,” Drouin said. “Max (Domi) made a good stretch pass.”
The Canadiens will play against the Nashville Predators Saturday at Bell Centre.
Cents tough on home ice
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Tonight in Merritt, the Kings face a solid Centennials team (23-13-1-1) that sits third in the tough Interior Division. The Cents are 15-5 at home this season playing in their small rink. The Kings will then travel to Duncan to play the Cowichan Valley Capitals Saturday (6 p.m. start) followed by a 2 p.m. Sunday encounter with the IslandDivision-leading Grizzlies in Victoria.
“There’s not a lot of time between games and we need to be ready – every team we play doesn’t play the night before so we have to elevate here to be ready,” said Maglio.
Winger Cory Cunningham is sick and did not make the trip south. Otherwise the Kings are a healthy bunch, well-rested after a week off for Christmas. Kings defenceman
Dylan Anhorn is expected to play tonight in his first game since suffering a concussion Dec. 1 at home against Langley. That injury forced Anhorn to miss the Canada West team tryouts in his hometown of Calgary and kept him sidelined for five BCHL games. Anhorn, like Ahac, shoots left and his return will ease the burden on the right-hand shots who had to fill in on the other side.
The Kings haven’t played since Dec. 21 in Surrey, when they beat the Eagles 3-0.
This is the fifth three-game weekend away from home for the Spruce Kings in 2018-19, with four and possibly five more three-in-threes upcoming in the next two
months. Including a yet-to-be-determined makeup date for a missed Dec. 20 game in Langley (power outage in arena), the Kings have 13 road games left and eight at home. The Kings (25-9-1-2) still sport the BCHL’s best record, sitting first overall one point ahead of the Chilliwack Chiefs (2611-0-0) their Mainland Division rivals. Each team has played 37 games of a 58-game schedule. The Interior Division-leading Penticton Vees (24-11-1-2), now 38 games into the season, are two points behind the Spruce Kings.
Dustin Manz has taken over from Ben Brar as the Spruce Kings’ leading pointgetter. Manz was on a tear in December, scoring eight goals and three assists in six games. The 19-year-old Lake Superior State recruit now has 21 goals and 22 assists for 43 points, 12th in the BCHL scoring race. Brar, 20, is not far behind with 41 points and leads the Kings with 23 goals. He’s getting close to committing to an NCAA scholarship for next season.
Logan Neaton has been the stingiest and winningest goalie in the league. He sports a BCHL-best 1.87 goals-against average and a 21-5 record. His .915 save percentage is tied for third and he has two shutouts. The 20-year-old Neaton committed a few weeks ago to UMass-Lowell.
The Kings have allowed just 76 goals in their 37 games, a 2.05 average. The nextclosest team, Penticton, has given up 95 goals for a 2.50 average.
DeRozan plays big against Raptors
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — DeMar DeRozan
had his first career triple-double with 21 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists and the San Antonio Spurs welcomed back Kawhi Leonard with thunderous jeers in a 125107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Thursday night.
Leonard scored 21 points on 8-for-13 shooting, but the anger the Spurs’ fans showered on him seemed to impact the MVP candidate. Leonard had to take a step back at the free throw line and compose himself amid chants of “Traitor! Traitor!” and “Quitter! Quitter!” from the capacity crowd that adored him during his seven seasons in San Antonio.
Leonard forced his way out of San Antonio in a trade that yielded DeRozan and Jakob Poeltl from Toronto for Leonard and Danny Green.
Leonard was booed heavily from the moment he walked onto the court for warmup. The boos continued during a pregame video tribute and player introductions, whenever he touched the ball and as he walked off the
court following the lopsided loss. DeRozan and the Spurs dominated the battle of former teammates, leading by as many as 28 points in snapping the Raptors’ three-game winning streak. LaMarcus Aldridge scored 23 points for San Antonio, Bryn Forbes added 20, Derrick White 19 and Rudy Gay 13. The night belonged to DeRozan, though as he became the first San Antonio player with a triple-double at home since Tim Duncan in 2003. After leading by as many as 26 points in the first half, San Antonio opened the second half on a 12-0 run to take a 79-51 lead. The crowd erupted during a sequence of plays when Leonard had the ball tipped away, which led to a slam dunk by White. That possession was followed by Leonard being unable to corral an alley-oop pass, which led to DeRozan tossing in a runner and being fouled by Serge Ibaka. DeRozan made the free throw amid chants of “MVP! MVP!” – something Leonard heard during his time in San Antonio.
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Elias Pettersson of the Vancouver Canucks lies on the ice after getting tangled with Jesperi Kotkaniemi of the Montreal Canadiens during Thursday’s game in Montreal. The Canucks lost 2-0.
Griffin expected to be in Seahawks’ lineup
Tim BOOTH Citizen news service
RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks are a little healthier than it appeared at the beginning of the week heading to Dallas for its NFC wild-card game against the Cowboys. Seattle wrapped up practices at home on Thursday with the news that starting cornerback Shaquill Griffin is expected to be available against the Cowboys, while starting guard J.R. Sweezy will be a gametime decision.
Only two players landed on Seattle’s final injury report – fullback Tre Madden is doubtful, and Sweezy is questionable – a drastic improvement from the beginning of the week that saw seven players sit out practice on Tuesday due to a variety of injuries.
“We made it through the week and we’re feeling pretty good about that. It just helps everybody feel good and excited about moving forward,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.
Griffin was the biggest unknown as the week progressed after an ankle injury suffered in the first half of Seattle’s Week 17 win over Arizona. After not practicing the first two days this week, Griffin was a full participant on Thursday and absent from Seattle’s final injury report.
With Griffin appearing to be ready to play, the focus will turn to Sweezy and if Seattle’s offensive line can be entirely intact. Sweezy suffered a sprained foot in the first half of Week 16 against Kansas City. Carroll has described the injury as being a three to four week recovery, but said Sweezy feels confident he’ll be able to play against the Cowboys.
“He’s got to run and stay in control of all of the movements he’s got to do and feel OK about it, and then we’ve got to sense his confidence that he feels good about it,” Carroll said. “He’s telling us everything like he would. He’s got to show us.”
If Sweezy can’t go, Seattle would start Ethan Pocic for a third straight game at guard. Pocic started Week 16 against Kansas City at right guard after Jordan Sim-
mons suffered a season-ending knee injury, but switched to left guard after Sweezy was hurt. Pocic started last week against Arizona at left guard, but Seattle’s reshuffled line struggled against the Cardinals, allowing six sacks.
Whether Sweezy plays or not, Seattle’s offensive line will have D.J. Fluker back at
right guard, allowing Germain Ifedi to slide back to right tackle after playing guard last week. George Fant will return to his role as an extra offensive lineman used in certain formations.
Sweezy would also become the latest Seattle player not to participate in practice during the week but be able to play on the
weekend. Fluker, Jarran Reed and Bradley McDougald are among those that have done that in recent weeks.
“The challenge is to stay with it all the way throughout and not be distracted by the rehab and the concerns and the wonder of whether you’re going to make it or not,” Carroll said.
Gonzalez, Reed, Bailey finalists for hall induction
Citizen news service
First-time eligibles Tony Gonzalez, Ed Reed and Champ Bailey are among 15 modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2019. They will be joined in balloting on Feb. 2 by Steve Atwater, Tony Boselli, Isaac Bruce, Don Coryell, Alan Faneca, Tom Flores, Steve Hutchinson, Edgerrin James, Ty Law, John Lynch, Kevin Mawae, and Richard Seymour. Although
previously eligible, Flores – who coached two Raiders teams to Super Bowl titles – and longtime defensive lineman Seymour are finalists for the first time. Also being considered for induction are senior committee nominee Johnny Robinson, a star safety for Dallas/Kansas City from 1960-71, and contributors finalists Gil Brandt, former personnel director for the Cowboys and now the NFL’s top draft consultant, and Broncos owner Pat Bowlen.
A maximum of eight new members can be elected, five from the modern-era group. Inductions are Aug. 3 in Canton, Ohio. Gonzalez played 17 seasons with the Chiefs and Falcons, but never made a Super Bowl. No matter: he holds the career record for tight ends with 1,325 receptions, second only overall to Jerry Rice, and gained more than 15,127 yards while scoring 111 touchdowns. His string of 211 straight games with a catch lasted
from 2000-13. Reed spent 12 seasons with the Ravens, Texans and Jets, winning an NFL title in 2012. He’s one of two players to lead the NFL in interceptions three times (2004, 2008, 2010) and was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2004. Bailey played 15 seasons with Washington and Denver and was a three-time All-Pro. Considered one of the game’s best cover cornerbacks, he had a career-high 10 interceptions in 2006.
Underdogs to battle in world junior semifinals
VANCOUVER (CP) — A pair of upsets has created a battle of the underdogs in the semifinal round of this year’s world junior hockey championship.
Switzerland and Finland are still in medal contention after posting surprising wins over last year’s champion and runner-up. Both teams punched their tickets to the playoffs with stunning victories over junior hockey powerhouses on Wednesday. Switzerland blanked Sweden 2-0 and Finland squeaked out a 2-1 overtime win against Canada.
But neither team thinks it will be easy to get to the gold medal game.
“What I’ve seen so far, we’ll have a tough opponent against us,” Finnish coach Jussi Ahokas said Thursday.
The Finns have a lot of skill, including a trio of NHL players and 17-year-old Kaapo Kakko, who’s expected to go high in this year’s draft. Controlling the puck and getting those guys to the front of the net will be key to beating the Swiss, Ahokas said.
“We have to know when we have to act fast and when we have to control it. But the
biggest thing is that we have to get the netfront guys more involved, get some tips in,” he said. “And of course we have to drive to the net even harder.”
Finland hasn’t taken a medal from the tournament since winning it all in 2016.
The drought has been even longer for the Swiss – the nation’s only world juniors medal was a bronze in 1998.
Russia and the U.S. will clash in the other semifinal. Both teams are coming into the semis confident after posting convincing wins in the quarterfinals.
Lynch, a standout safety for Tampa Bay and Denver, becomes a finalist for the sixth straight year. Coryell, who coached the high-powered offences of the Cardinals and Chargers in the 1970s and ’80s, is a five-time finalist. In all there, are three safeties, two cornerbacks, two offensive tackles, two coaches, one guard, one centre, one tight end, one running back, one wide receiver and one defensive lineman as finalists.
The U.S. beat the Czechs 3-1 while Russia trounced Slovakia 8-3. U.S. coach Mike Hastings said last year’s bronze medalists will have to play “a full 60 minutes” to chalk up a similar victory against Russia.
“The one thing they can do is they can stress you in many different ways,” he said. “You look at their ability to score on the power play.” Russia has the best power play in the tournament so far, putting up five goals on 16 chances.
Seattle Seahawks twin brothers, outside linebacker Shaquem Griffin, left, and cornerback Shaquill Griffin celebrate after a win against the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 10 in Seattle.
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Pegi Young dead at 66
NEW YORK (AP) — Pegi Young, who with fellow musician and then-husband Neil Young helped found the Bridge School for children with speech and physical impairments, has died. Young died of cancer Tuesday in California, according to spokeswoman Michelle Gutenstein-Hinz. She was 66. Additional details about her death were not immediately available.
Pegi Young first conceived of the California-based school in 1986 after she and her husband struggled to educate their son Ben, born with cerebral palsy. Over the next three decades, the Youngs helped stage all-star concert benefits, with guest performers including Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie and Tom Petty.
The Youngs divorced in 2014 after 36 years of marriage, a breakup Pegi Young addressed candidly in her 2016 album Raw. Her previous recordings include Bracing for Impact and Foul Deeds.
Gender inequality remains a problem
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite widespread attention over gender inequality in film, a new study finds that the number of female directors in the top 250 domestic grossing movies last year dipped
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to eight per cent.
That was down three percentage points from 2017, according to the 21st annual Celluloid Ceiling report released Thursday by the Center for the Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. It was even below the nine per cent level achieved 20 years earlier in 1998.
The study’s author, Martha Lauzen, says such “radical underrepresentation is unlikely to be remedied by the voluntary efforts of a few individuals or a single studio.”
Researchers found slight gains for women in other roles. In 2018, women comprised 20 per cent of all directors, writers, producers, executive directors, editors and cinematographers in the top 250 films. That’s up three percentage points from 2017.
Long-awaited return
April Wine frontman gets stolen guitar back after 46 years
Aly THOMSON Citizen news service
HALIFAX — April Wine frontman Myles Goodwyn has a lot of catching up to do with his 1962 Gibson Melody Maker.
The beloved guitar – heard on the Halifax-based band’s 1972 hit You Could Have Been a Lady –was stolen that same year.
But on New Year’s Eve, Goodwyn got it back.
“It’s a chunk of life to lose, and all the records and all the success and 20 million records and all the things that we did – the great tours and the great recording moment –she missed them all,” said Goodwyn in an interview.
“So for this thing to come out of nowhere is unbelievable. How could that be kept a secret for 46 years? It’s remarkable.”
The 70-year-old musician and songwriter purchased the Melody Maker in 1968 in Cape Breton, and played it on the band’s debut self-titled record April Wine and on their sophomore album On Record.
In 1972, Goodwyn learned that a truck carrying the band’s equipment crashed in Montreal.
“I was told there was a lot of damage, that my guitar was destroyed. I wanted that guitar back. I wanted the pieces to see if I could fix it, salvage it, but I kept getting the run-around,” he said.
“After a few weeks of that, they said look, it’s not here. It was thrown out along with other things that were demolished. And I had to accept that.”
Goodwyn said he only had a few photos with the guitar that helped launch the iconic Canadian rock band’s illustrious and enduring career. One photo shows the rocker with long curly hair and wearing a white bejewelled shirt that was open, exposing his bare chest and a loosened tie.
“I’ve openly lamented that guitar for years,” he said. It was one of a kind – Goodwyn had modified it to change the sound to suit his musical ear.
“It’s a terrible feeling to think it’s gone, because you become really attached to it,” he said.
“I don’t want to say it’s like a child or a loved one. That’s a little bit extreme. But it’s kind of like that... It’s losing something that was very, very important to you that meant something to you more than to anybody else, and it hurts, and there’s grieving.”
Fellow band member Brian Greenway, who had a look at the band’s damaged equipment at the time of the crash, had even validated the claim that the Melody Maker was demolished, saying that he thought he saw it amongst
The last fella had it in his house as a conversation piece. That’s like putting an animal in a cage.
— Myles Goodwyn
the wreckage.
“I was convinced that the guitar was destroyed,” said Goodwyn. Flash forward to this Christmas Eve, a man named Doug from Victoria reached out to him on Facebook, saying he thought he had the cherished instrument.
“I followed up on it and sure enough, the guitar was mine. They sent me a picture of it and there’s no question, it’s a very unique guitar after what I had done to it,” he said.
Doug sold it to Goodwyn, and it arrived on New Year’s Eve.
He said the first thing he did was check the neck and electronics, and then plugged it in and strummed its six strings for the first time in more than four decades.
“It’s like I put it in the case yesterday,” said Goodwyn, surmising
that it had not been played for all those years, given its pristine condition.
“It sounds the same... The last fella had it in his house as a conversation piece. That’s like putting an animal in a cage.”
Goodwyn said he hopes to learn more about the 1962 Gibson Melody Maker’s 46-year journey, saying there’s “a story that needs to be told.”
He also had a message to second-hand retailers and people using buy and sell websites across the country: if you suspect something has been stolen, report it. Goodwyn is the last original member of April Wine, marking its 50th anniversary this year.
He plans to use the 1962 Gibson Melody Maker during the recording of his new album, a follow up to Myles Goodwyn and Friends of the Blues.
But don’t expect to see the guitar at one of his upcoming shows –unless he’s close to home.
“I can drive around the Maritimes and use it and I will if April Wine comes to town,” said Goodwyn, who also has a home in Montreal.
“But I am not putting it on a plane. I will never risk letting that guitar get away from me again. Never, ever.”
Restored Pompeii gladiator building open to public
Citizen news service
ROME — A 2,000-year-old building where Roman gladiators in Pompeii trained for combat has opened to the public eight years after its collapse following rainfall.
The Pompeii archaeological site said the public can tour the Schola Armaturarum on Thursdays. Experts will explain their painstaking restoration of frescoes that decorated the site where gladiators trained before combat in the ancient Roman city.
Its opening was hailed by Italy’s culture ministry as the “symbolic place of Pompeii’s rebirth,” following years of dismaying news that various ruins had crumbled
amid modern-day neglect of the sprawling, once-flourishing city that was destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
The building, which has been previously excavated some 100 years ago, had also suffered heavy damage from Second World War Allied bombing. A few years later, reinforced concrete was used to build a protective cover.
A park statement said prosecutors investigating the 2010 collapse didn’t pinpoint responsibility. But it said there were several “probable” interlaced factors that were aggravated by days of heavy rain. Those factors included probable malfunction of a drainage system, the weight of
the postwar addition of cement and iron and “lack of a planned system of monitoring and maintenance.”
Restoration work after the collapse did, however, bolster knowledge about the building’s use, with archaeologists saying it appears to have served as a home to an ancient military association, which sometimes hosted banquets there.
Excavations carried out in part to shore up the structure revealed areas, apparently used by servants, to prepare for such banquets, as well as amphorae, or storage jugs, containing oil, fine wine and fish sauce imported from Crete, Sicily, Spain and Africa, the archaeological park said.
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Myles Goodwyn poses with his 1962 Gibson Melody Maker, which was stolen in 1972.
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Women’s magazines are dying
Glamour, Redbook, Seventeen, others look for second life online
Lavanya RAMANATHAN Citizen news service
In late November, Glamour came to the same conclusion reached by so many other women’s magazines these days: after 80 years in mailboxes and grocery store checkouts, it will stop publishing its glossy monthly, ending with the January issue. For Glamour, print is officially dead, the inexorable “pivot to digital” now complete.
Teen Vogue, a junior version of the fashion bible, was already there. Self, purveyor of 1,000 ways to say goodbye to your back fat, disappeared from the racks in 2017. Seventeen, once a lifestyle primer for high school girls everywhere, now will publish only special issues, and Redbook, one of the “seven sisters” of magazines for suburban housewives, is hightailing it to the web as well.
The magazine industry as a whole has been belt-tightening for years thanks to a print advertising famine, eliminating costly paper copies while trying to establish a beachhead on the internet. Yet women’s publications somehow feel much more endangered than the rest, especially now that even the woke online upstarts that once aimed to replace them – sites like the Hairpin, Rookie and the Toast – are themselves turning off the lights.
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markets today
TORONTO (CP) — North American markets were whipped lower Thursday after Apple’s warning about weaker holiday sales particularly in China signalled that trade tariffs could take more a bigger bite out of corporate earnings. Market movements including large swings from one day to the next signal that sentiment remains fragile, says Mike Archibald, associate portfolio manager, AGF Investments Inc.
“I think this is probably the first major downgrade that we’ve seen for fourth-quarter earnings, although I suspect this isn’t the last one,” he said in an interview.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 660.02 or 2.8 per cent in the second trading day of the year to 22,686.22. The S&P 500 index was off 62.14 points at 2,447.89, while the Nasdaq composite lost 202.43 points at 6,463.50 with Apple falling by 10 per cent.
Canada’s main stock index posted a triple-digit decline as the S&P/TSX composite index closed down 134.41 points to 14,212.75 after hitting a low of 14,155.27.
“It’s a bit of a nasty day out there again and until we kind of get a footing around the proper number to use for earnings estimates next year I think we’re likely to still see some of this volatility in the market.”
Archibald said the weaker outlook for China and weak U.S. manufacturing numbers released Thursday will put pressure on the presidents of the world’s two largest economies to make a deal faster to stop some of the economic uncertainty.
The weakening will also likely slow the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes, which will weaken the U.S. dollar.
“I think that’s part of the reason why you’ve seen Canada hold up relatively well in the first couple of days of this year because the commodities complex, particularly gold and oil, have acted fairly well in the context of a bit of a weaker U.S. dollar,” he said.
The Canadian dollar traded at an average of 74.02 cents US compared with an average of 73.50 cents US on Wednesday. Despite losing ground, the TSX held up better than U.S. markets as gold and oil prices increased. The February crude contract was up 55 cents at US$47.09 per barrel and the February natural gas contract was down 1.3 cents at US$2.94 per mmBTU.
From Ladies’ Home Journal (still hanging in there, but downgraded to a quarterly) to email-based Lenny Letter (extinguished this fall, after a wild three years), these publications helped mold tastes, define mainstream feminism (as well as femininity) and give talented female journalists a leg up into highflying media careers.
Their demise feels like a loss – but is it?
For generations, women’s magazines filled a complex cultural niche, adopting the voice of a concerned big sister to chide women into keeping up with the current hemlines – but also the current headlines. One Sassy cover touted a piece explaining why Israelis and Palestinians would never achieve peace and another on why women really ought to pout more.
You could read a somber article about abusive boyfriends, or kill time with a quiz about your flirting style. The glossies were relatable, visually pleasing and useful all at once – a tactile, addictive habit.
“You could tear out the page and say, ‘This is the haircut I’m going to bring to my hairdresser,’” says Lisa Pecot-Hébert, an associate professor of journalism at the University of
Southern California’s Annenberg School.
“There was just something about a glossy, to read and engage with.”
Even if you didn’t subscribe, dog-eared copies of Marie Claire and Good Housekeeping and Seventeen found their way to you – at the doctor’s office, at a friend’s apartment, in a middle-school classroom. For every copy of a thick glossy that landed in a mailbox, there was usually not one but several readers. It was the homemaking magazines, beginning with McCall’s and the Ladies’ Home Journal in the late 1800s, that spurred the craze for women’s tips and advice. Glamour, initially a Hollywood gossip rag, followed in 1939. Seventeen, which offered the same formula for the not-quite-yet-a-woman set, dispatched its first issue in 1944. Cosmopolitan homed in on a female audience in 1965, when Helen Gurley Brown took the helm of the dusty literary magazine and unveiled a brand intertwined with sex and feminism; among the first stories she edited was one about the pill.
“At a time when mainstream media didn’t pay attention to issues that mattered to women, they were a place that could bring attention to those things,” says Harriet Brown, a Syracuse University magazine journalism professor whose own career took her, briefly, to Redbook. In their heyday, these publications also offered a pipeline for the nation’s best women journalists. Joan Didion worked for Vogue in the 1960s. Susan Orlean and Gloria Steinem
wrote for Glamour. These publications gave us iconic editors like Anna Wintour.
But their formula is everywhere these days.
What women’s magazines once delivered to readers – the girlfriend-style advice, the gospels of orgasms and equal pay, the reminders to always be dieting – can now be found many places online, from the #fitspo posts on Instagram to junior-feminist sites like Jezebel, which has elbowed in on coverage of pop culture, #MeToo and the workplace. Makeup bloggers and YouTube influencers now dictate the Next Big Lipstick Colour and how to get that no-makeup makeup look. Culinary sites like Food52 have cornered what the lady rags used to call “cookery,” with none of the gendered notions about who does the cooking. And low-stakes, cheerfully unscientific personality quizzes? Now, there’s BuzzFeed for that. And, of course, some of stuff you once loved can be found online under the same old banners of yore, as legacy titles try to find new life as web products.
Cosmo’s website lures more than 19 million unique visitors a month, according to comScore, and Glamour can attract more than six million. But some fear for what will be lost in the transition.
The old magazines “had fact-checkers on staff,” said Andrea Bartz, a novelist who worked at five such magazines, all of which have folded their print editions. “They had a team of people whose job was to verify every detail in the magazine.”
Getting from good to great takes work
The ice on my neighbourhood skating rink is good, but it’s not great, and that is totally my fault. There have been years where the ice has been fantastic and people from all over the city would come and skate on the rink. It even got nominated for best outside ice rink in the city one year.
But we won’t win any awards this year. For the past 14 years I have looked after the ice with my neighbour Byron, and this year we got off to a late start. I wasn’t motivated, I felt tired and I didn’t put in the effort it takes to make it good. As a result, while kids are skating throughout the city on other skating rinks, ours has barely been skated on.
We have probably all seen the same thing happen with businesses. For years you support a business and it’s thriving, there are new products and services, there is a buzz about the place, but then after years of success, things start to slip. It’s hard to put a finger on what the reason for the decline is, but you know that it’s struggling.
You see it in the faces of the employees, the products or services seem stale, and the leadership appears really fatigued. The business might still be good, but it’s definitely not great. So, what is the cause of business decline and what do we need to do to fix it?
When I used to work on the floor of my health food stores serving people who came in because they were mentally fatigued, had no energy and were physically in decline, they all wanted to know the same thing. How do I fix it? What is the magic pill that is going to make it all better again?
The truth is that there is no easy fix for healing a business or a body. However, when we
get ourselves in alignment with our true purpose, suddenly there seems to be much more energy to get those things done that will make the biggest differences.
In a struggling business, we need to get to the core of our existence. We need to understand what it is we do that really adds value to our customers even if that moves us away from our historic roots.
In 1971, Darwin Smith became the CEO of Kimberly Clark, a paper company that had its own paper mills. Within months, he made the decision to close down its mills and use that money to buy Kleenex and Higgins. There were people who thought he was crazy, but Smith knew that the path that the company had been following for decades was doomed to mediocrity. What had worked in the past doesn’t always work in the future. The result was that while his competitors continued to struggle, Kimberly Clark thrived.
Jim Collins, in his classic book Good to Great, found after five years of research that companies able to make the shift from good to great had several key characteristics. They had leadership that was down to earth and more concerned about the company than their own success. They got the right people on the team first and then decided what needed to be done to be successful. Just like Kimberly Clark, the companies that became great didn’t
hold on to core businesses that didn’t have a bright future.
Companies that move from good to great have a culture of entrepreneurship and discipline. They are not afraid to say no to opportunities that don’t fit their core business. Technology is not the driving factor in their success and they keep working towards the goals of the company when times get tough.
It takes great leadership to keep a company on task and on track and turn it around. It also takes great leaders with guts to make the tough decisions to eliminate the functions, people, and business that doesn’t work anymore within an organization. However, when leaders can work through those pain points and create a vision for the future that inspires their team to get onboard, companies that have been struggling can indeed thrive again.
The ice on my neighbourhood rink will be good soon and hopefully even great if we are disciplined and keep working towards that goal. However, in all honesty, the effort Byron and I put in to making a great ice rink is nothing compared to the effort required in turning a company around. When you make the decision to take your organization to the next level, your leadership and belief in the vision is paramount to your success.
Turning companies around is possible. I have seen it happen and the outcomes are stunning for the leaders and the team.
Do you have what it takes to get your organization from good to great?
Dave Fuller, MBA, is an award-winning business coach and the author of the book Profit Yourself Healthy. Email your “from good to great” business challenge to dave@profityourselfhealthy.com.
“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” — Mark Twain
DAVE FULLER
Business Coach
Vogue editor Anna Wintour arrives at a White House state dinner in 2011. The heyday of women’s magazines has passed, with many shutting down or moving online.
