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Thursday, April 12, 2012

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April 20th, 21st, 22nd Show hours:

St. Albert & District Chamber of Commerce proudly presents the Lifestyle Expo & Sale, taking place April 20-22, 2012 at Servus Place located at 400 Campbell Road in St. Albert. There is something for everyone at this year’s Expo, including the opportunity to visit and shop at all the amazing displays set up by our exhibitors. Visit our Pure Horticulture Botanical Arts Experience, an area which will inspire you to welcome spring with its displays devoted to gardening products and services. This feature area will also include Horticulture Workshops, two of which will be presented on April 21st by Jim Hole of the Enjoy Centre. For the little gardeners, we have the interactive Potting Zoo and new this year, our Little Sprouts Snapshots photobooth. Enjoy a delicious treat from the concession area while you watch live entertainment on our stage in Hall 2. We have a wide range of performers this year, including the popular St. Albert Idol, the Pet Fashion Show and always a crowd favourite, the Baby Crawl. If you’re still looking for more activities, check out our kid-friendly Bouncers, the Future Shop 3D Gaming Centre, and our Kid’s Korner devoted entirely to “cultivating the kid” in you. The Kid’s Korner will be hosting a variety of fun-filled activities from movies, to face painting, glitter tattoos and even magic tricks. Support your local business community by attending this year’s Lifestyle Expo.

Friday: April 20th 2:00 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday: April 21st 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Sunday: April 22nd 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Friday, April 20th

Keep up with all the latest Lifestyle Expo news by checking the Twitter hashtag: #lifex2012 Or check out our Expo Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/stalbertexpo

Horticulture Workshops

* Food Allergies and Celiac Disease: 4:00pm-5:15pm -- Don Brigg, Edmonton Celiac Chapter * Garden Entertaining 101:

Saturday, April 21st

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Gold:

6:30pm-7:45pm -- Cory Christopher, First Choice Tree Nursery & Garden Centre

* Gardening Myths: 11:00am-12:15pm -- Jim Hole, The Enjoy Centre * Cool Green Living: 1:00pm-2:15pm -- Jim Hole, the Enjoy Centre

Sunday, April 22nd * Ponds & Water Features Done Right: 12:00pm-1:15pm -- Wayne Boettger, Patio Magic Inc. * Garden Design 101: 2:00pm-3:15pm -- Cory Christopher, First Choice Tree Nursery & Garden Centre MPSSCS4150983MPSE

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Silver:

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Bronze:

Arts & Heritage St. Albert, Discover Hearing Quantz Law Group, Save on Foods - St. Albert North & Village Landing, St. Albert Dairy Queen Dream Team, St. Albert Botanic Park

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

City auditors suggest Lead changes in final report the

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GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

News . . . . . . . . . 3 Opinion . . . . . . . . 8 Entertainment . . . . . 12 Fashion . . . . . . . . 16 Health . . . . . . . 17 Technology . . . . . 18 Business . . . . . . 20 Homes . . . . . . . 22 stalbertjobs.com . . . 23

The City of St. Albert received its final audited financial statements back on Tuesday afternoon, along with a few suggestions on how to improve efficiencies within the corporation. Auditors Deloitte and Touche LLP presented the statements to a meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance Tuesday, along with 13 recommendations based on what they observed while working alongside City staff. One that stirred up a fair bit of discussion was the addition of an internal audit function. While some councillors thought St. Albert was too small to keep an internal auditor on staff, the auditors said it was the process that was important. “One benefit, whether it’s in-house or outsourced, in the direct line of communication to this committee or to council,” said Rachel Gosse of Deloitte and Touche. As council warmed to the idea, it was suggested that the City could partner with other municipalities to perform such audits.

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Chloe Fulton, 13, a student at Vincent J. Maloney Junior High School, was crowned Miss Teen St. Albert-World, and will compete in the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant this July in Toronto. In the meantime, she hopes to promote literacy. Story, page 6.

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Concerns were also raised about inconsistencies in the City’s purchase order system and lack of policy around the receipt of goods. While this so far has not resulted in any assets being misappropriated, the auditors suggested a much more stringent ordering system with clear segregation of duties, to make sure the same person who initates the order cannot approve it or authorize payment. “People have been developing purchase orders after the fact because they thought they had to,” Gosse said. “You need to take a look at your policy and make sure you’re ... acheiving the control objectives you’re looking for,” she added. Other recommendations ranged from the frequency that computer passwords are changed to the documentation of business processes. This was Deloitte and Touche’s first year acting as the City’s auditors. Staff also presented the committee with a draft copy of the City’s 2011 annual report Tuesday. Once approved by city council, the document will be available to stakeholders both in hard copy and on the City’s website.

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Cherry-Oto-Fire of the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers calls off a jam during the team’s home opener against the Calgary Cut Throat Car Hops Saturday at Servus Credit Union Place.

Mayor makes pitch to keep Steel in St. Albert

$25 mil

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

That’s how much 36-yearold former Silicon Valley CEO Ben Nelson has landed in seed money for a new venture: creating an elite global online university from scratch. Nelson is hoping to attract top students around the world to the school, dubbed the Minerva Project.

The mayor of St. Albert was feeling good after making a presentation to the Alberta Junior Hockey League on why the St. Albert Steel should stay in town. Nolan Crouse made his presentation in Edmonton Friday morning, speaking before a committee made of six AJHL governors who are investigating Steel owner Greg Parks’s formal request to relocate the team to Whitecourt, 175 kilometres northwest of St. Albert, for the 2012-2013 season. “The individuals in the room totally understood both sides. They were very professional, very understanding, as well as

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Terry Fox dips his artificial leg into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, officially starting his crosscountry Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research.

presented first, followed by the hockey people who sit on the boards of other organizations,” he mayor. Crouse said the team representatives may have also said after returning to his office gone back into the meeting to Friday afternoon. “They have answer further questions. sympathy for both sides. Crouse said he They see the importance presented the current of a hockey team to a contract between community, but they the two sides, the also see the need for a history of attendance group such as the Steel over the Steel’s five to get engaged in the seasons at Servus community and be able Credit Union Place, to raise money.” Both Crouse, on behalf financial statements, Nolan of the City of St. Albert, correspondence between Crouse and the Steel, represented St. Albert Mayor the two sides, and the by Parks and governor offer the City made to the Kelly Smith, made their Steel last month. pitches to the committee — He also told the committee that the City was willing to go far to which is chaired by AJHL board keep the team, but not too far. of governors chair Greg Wood — on Friday. Parks and Smith “I told them, if it required

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Don Briggs - Edmonton Celiac Chapter FRI, APR. 20, 4:00-5:15 PM Food Allergies & Celiac Disease Cory Christopher

First Choice Tree Nursery & Garden Centre FRI, APR. 20 • 6:30-7:45 PM • Garden Entertaining 101 SUN, APR. 22 • 2:00-3:15 PM • Garden Design 101

me putting a group together to keep the Steel here, I’ll put a group together. If it requires me working with Greg Parks to see if we can iron out the final parts of the deal, we’d do that. I’ll do whatever,” he said. “But I’m not going to hand over more taxpayer dollars beyond what’s already been committed to in our current offer. Council has decided what the limit is in terms of support, and I honour that commitment, that support. Now the league has to determine if it’s a good enough deal or not.” There was no decision made by the time Crouse left the proceedings, though, and he later noted in an email that they could take up to the end of April to make a decision if necessary.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

YOUR COUNCIL NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, April 16, 3:00 p.m. Council Chambers St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

To Do: complete the municipal census

Agenda Highlights

The complete agenda package is posted to www.stalbert.ca

Do the census online -- it is easy, convenient, secure and confidential.

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You just need the Unique Access Code that was mailed to you to access the online census questionnaire.

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Community Services Advisory Board Priorities Municipal Governance Review Municipal Taxation Policy Outside Agency Budget Guiding Principles Election 2013 – Potential Internet Voting Pilot 5:00 p.m. Public Hearing o Bylaw 7/2012 – Ville Giroux ASP (formerly Northwest Urban Village) o Bylaw 8/2012 – Am. 86 to Land Use Bylaw 9/2005 (Ville Giroux text amendment)

Census data is valuable for planning community programs and services, and ensures that St. Albert receives maximum government funding.

You can address Council on these or any other issues. Public appointments are heard at the beginning and end of each Council meeting. Call 780-459-1500 to register.

Wednesday, April 18, 6:00 p.m. Council Chambers St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

LIBRARY BOARD Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m. Forsyth Hall, Library St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

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Households that do not complete the census online will be visited by an enumerator starting May 7.

READY SET GO

Council meetings are televised on SHAW TV Channel 10 from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., webcast live and archived: stalbert.ca

SUBDIVISION & DEVELOPMENT APPEAL BOARD

Did you lose the access code? Questions? Contact a City of St. Albert Census Official by email (census@st-albert.net) or by phone (780-459-1500), between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

PUBLIC SALE OF LAND Notice is hereby given that under the provisions of the Municipal Government Act, the City of St. Albert will offer for sale, by public auction, in the East Boardroom, Third Floor, St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert, Alberta on April 25, 2012 at 2:00 p.m., the following lands:

Lot or Unit 18 14 83 10 16 55 1 200 40

Block 18 4 12 27 8 17

Plan 4448TR 9120300 CD6837 4708RS 2924TR 7922714 9322459 0324687 0724052

Each parcel of land offered for sale will be subject to a reserve bid and to the reservations and conditions contained in the existing certificate of title. Redemption of a parcel of land offered for sale may be affected by certified payment of all arrears of taxes, penalties and costs at any time prior to the date of the Public Auction. Terms: 10% deposit and balance payable within 30 days of the date of the Public Auction. G.S.T. will apply to all applicable lands.

The City of St. Albert may, after the public auction become the owner of any parcel of land that is not sold at the public auction. The lands are being offered for sale on an “as is, where is” basis and the City of St. Albert makes no representation and gives no warranty whatsoever as to the adequacy of services, soil conditions, land use districting, building and development conditions, absence or presence of environmental contamination, vacant possession, or the developability of the lands for any intended use by the successful bidder. No bid will be accepted where the bidder attempts to attach conditions to the sale of any parcel of land. No terms and conditions will be considered other than those specified by the City of St. Albert. The minimum reserve bid cannot be lower than the market value estimate predetermined by the City Assessor. The successful bidder shall be required to execute a Sale Agreement in a form and substance acceptable to The City of St. Albert. No further information is available at the auction regarding the lands to be sold. Dated at St. Albert, Alberta April 4, 2012 Director, Assessment and Taxation Services

SPRING ROAD CLEANING BEGINS The City of St. Albert has started the annual spring-cleaning of roads and boulevards. Daytime Operations Residential Street cleaning will commence the week of April 16, 2012. Signs will be placed at the entrance to your neighbourhoods to advise you of this activity. The Public Works Department appreciates you removing your car from the street when they are in your neighbourhood, so that a thorough job can be done cleaning your street. All residential areas are scheduled to be completed by the week of May 7, weather permitting. Night Time Operations Arterial boulevard cleaning and street sweeping will start the week of April 10, 2012. All arterial roads are scheduled to be

completed by the week of May 7, weather permitting.

2012 Residential Street Sweeping Schedule

Night-time sweeping over the last two seasons has proven to be very successful on arterials, so we’ll be sweeping during the night this season as well. Night-time sweeping allows crews to operate more safely and efficiently when cleaning boulevards. Night-time sweeping operations encounter less traffic volume and are therefore safer and less disruptive to traffic flow. Night-time operations also allows crews to complete sweeping much earlier than daytime operations.

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Night-time crews will be working between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. Please note there may be some noise disruptions for those residents backing onto arterial roadways for a short period of time. Residents’ patience and understanding is greatly appreciated.

Akinsdale Kingswood Forest Lawn Northridge Oakmont Erin Ridge Lacombe Estates Lacombe Park Ironwood Deer Ridge Sturgeon Woodlands Parkwood/Pineview Braeside Heritage Lakes Grandin Mission

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Bourke cracks U18 national team

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Troy Bourke is making his first trip to Europe, but he likely won’t get much time for sightseeing. Bourke — who, although his hometown is listed as Onoway, Alta., made his way through the St. Albert minor hockey system — was named last week to Hockey Canada’s national under-18 team, which will compete starting today (Thursday) in the International Ice Hockey Federation World U-18 Championship in Brno and Znojmo, Czech Republic. “I heard Prague’s a pretty nice city, pretty old, and my dad told me it’s pretty sweet, so I’m just going to take it all in and enjoy the experience,” said Bourke, a forward with the Prince George Cougars of the Western Hockey League who turned 18 on March 30. This is also the first time Bourke has made a full-fledged national team, and he said it feels “awesome.” “I didn’t have the greatest start to my year this year, but I finished strong, and obviously they noticed that a little bit,” he said. “It’s a pretty big opportunity for me, and I’m pretty excited about it.” Last year, Bourke was cut from the team that travels to the Czech Republic to compete

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in the annual Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament. But he said that only served as motivation to come back stronger this year. “It was definitely heartbreaking for me; I wanted to be there like every other kid did. It would have been nice to make that team,” he said. “But I just took that as motivation throughout the year, came out with a bit of a slow start but finished strong, and I’m pretty pumped to represent Canada here.” Bourke is the only Cougar on the squad, and only one of four forwards from the WHL. But he said that, no matter where they came from or what league they played in, the players wasted little time finding chemistry with one another. “They’re all good guys, so it’s easy to get along with them on the ice and off the ice,” he said. “I don’t think it really matters where you’re from; they’re all good players. And if you’re on the ice, you can pretty much create chemistry with whoever they put you out with.” The Canadians are in a pool with the host Czechs, Denmark, Finland and their perennial rivals, the United States. Bourke said that, no matter the level, games against the U.S. are always ones to get psyched up for. “We played the U.S. in U-17, and I remember we came back and went to

overtime and lost, so we’ve got to get some redemption on those guys,” he said, referring to playing for Team Canada Pacific at the 2011 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge in Winnipeg. “I’m for sure looking forward to playing them.” This past season, the Cougars finished at the bottom of the WHL Western Conference standings, but Bourke continued to shine, notching 19 goals and 23 assists in 68 regular season games. “Twenty games in, I wasn’t producing like I wanted to,” he said. “But as the season wound down, I kind of brought my A-game and tried to lead the boys on a playoff run. It came short a little bit, but we came close, and I think from the start to the finish, I got quite a bit better.” But, as much as he has progressed in Prince George, Bourke hasn’t forgotten where he came from, either, giving a lot of credit to the St. Albert minor hockey system for getting him where he is today. “Sandro Pisani and [Geoff Giacobbo], they were huge for me,” he said. “They progressed me as a player, definitely, and helped me become the player I am now. I give a lot of credit to them.” Team Canada opens the World U-18 Championship today (Thursday) at 8 a.m. Mountain time against Denmark.

Photo courtesy Western Hockey League

Onoway’s Troy Bourke has earned the right to don the Maple Leaf at the U18 World Hockey Championships in the Czech Republic.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Teen queen wants to promote reading Doug

Horner

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

It was first time lucky for Chloe Fulton. Fulton, a 13-year-old student at Vincent J. Maloney Junior High School, recently claimed the title of Miss Teen St. Albert-World at the Alberta regional finals of the Miss Teen Canada-World competition in Calgary in mid-March. What’s more impressive, though, is that this was the first time she had ever entered a beauty pageant. “I was pretty happy when they said there was no experience necessary,” laughed Fulton, who has now gained entry into the Miss Teen Canada-World pageant this July in Toronto. Aside from the trip to Toronto and the chance to earn the national title, Fulton said being Miss Teen St. Albert-World means much more to her. “It means I’m a role model for everyone in St. Albert. They can look up to me, and if they need help with anything, they can talk to me,” she said. “I’m really honoured to represent my city, and I hope to get more involved in the community.” At age 13, Fulton was the youngest participant at the Alberta competition, but she said she held her own despite a lack of experience. “Some of the 19-year-olds, they were as tall as me — I’m pretty tall,” she said with a laugh. “The girl that won Miss Teen Alberta[-World], her sister was Miss Teen Fort Saskatchewan[World] last year, so she had more experience, because her sister told her what was going on and what she needed to know beforehand; she had more time than the weekend to prepare. So that was kind of intimidating. But I was really proud that I did well.” Fulton first became interested in the pageant when she was searching for modelling opportunities. “I’d just always been interested in that kind of industry, and I thought [the pageant] might be able to get me into modelling,” she said. Making it this far has been quite the process, as Fulton first had to apply for an interview, then had the interview with the director of the pageant over Skype. Once she passed that, she was invited to the pageant in Calgary. “That was a weekend thing, and they thought us what to do during the pageant — how to walk, how to be interviewed,” she said. From that pageant, there were 13 finalists chosen to go through to Toronto, each earning the title specific to their municipality. There was also one girl crowned Miss Teen Alberta-World, Lindsay Fraughton of Fort Saskatchewan. Fulton inherits the title of Miss Teen St. Albert-World from Vanessa Peynenburg. During her reign last year, Peynenburg

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Chloe Fulton, 13, was crowned Miss Teen St. Albert-World in Calgary last month.

championed awareness of eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Fulton’s charitable focus, meanwhile, is literacy, and she hopes to use her title to raise money and awareness for the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation. “There are lots of worthy charities out there, but I wanted something that was really close to me,” she said. The Indigo Love of Reading Foundation was founded in 2004 to address the underfunding of public school libraries across Canada. Since then, they have provided $10.5 million to 110 schools across the country. “I believe that everyone should be reading,” Fulton said. Although Fulton has the crown of Miss Teen St. Albert-World to wear for the next year, she must also balance those responsibilities with those of school and dance training. “Schoolwork always comes first for me. ... I always do my homework first, then I get started on whatever I need to do for the pageant, getting sorted out with sponsors,” she said. As for the future, Fulton jokes that her dream has always been “to be a celebrity,” but more realistically, she has her sights set on being a lawyer. “Criminal justice is really interesting and intriguing,” she said. “Fighting for what’s right has always been important to me.” Fulton is currently looking for sponsors to help cover the costs of her trip to Toronto in July to compete in the Miss Teen CanadaWorld pageant. If you’d like to help out, you can email her at missteenst.albert-world@live. ca.

Alberta is facing another major economic boom. We need to prepare now, more than ever, for this opportunity. Albertans not only expect first rate schools, hospitals, and infrastructure, but we also need to invest in our province so that we can accommodate tens of thousands of new Albertans each year. Our own constituency needs a new urgent care centre in Spruce Grove and we must expand the Sturgeon Hospital. As a province we need to work collaboratively with the federal government to achieve immigration outcomes that make sense for Albertans.

I have served this constituency since 2001. In that time I have learned a lot about the needs of my fellow community members and worked hard to deliver results. I would be honoured to represent you again and to help lead our province to Alberta’s bright future.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

OPINION

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Time to laud volunteers

Here’s what people are saying about #StAlbert on Twitter:

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nlike Christmas or Easter or Thanksgiving, or even Administrative Professionals Day, you won’t find National Volunteer Week printed on most calendars. But, for many people and organizations, it’s just as important an occasion. by Glenn Cook This year, National Volunteer Week kicks off on Monday, and is a chance to give the volunteers who make all our lives easier and better. It has been proven time and time again that volunteerism runs deep in St. Albert. Any time a community event or organization puts out the call for volunteers, they come a-runnin’. It could be the RunWild marathon, the Special Olympics National Winter Games, or just a school bake sale — you can bet that there will be volunteers there with bells on. One subsection of volunteers who might get overlooked or underappreciated from time to time are the coaches with local minor sports organizations. However, the City of St. Albert is giving them some of the recognition they are due with the first-ever Coaches Building Youth Award. Information on this award can be found at www.stalbert.ca/coachesaward or by calling 780-459-1756. For the rest of St. Albert’s volunteers, recognition is coming not only during National Volunteer Week, but also during the St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre’s annual Volunteer Citizen of the Year and Leaders of Tomorrow ceremony on Saturday, May 5. But, while that ceremony will honour only a select few of those who freely give their time and effort to make our community a better place to live, every single volunteer in this city deserves some sort of recognition. A coffee, a hug or even a simple “Thank you” — they are small, simple gestures, but they mean so much. Volunteers don’t do what they do for the recognition, but that doesn’t mean they don’t deserve some, whether it’s National Volunteer Week or any other week of the year.

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Education still the focus after 40 years

y connection to St. Albert started in 1969 when I was hired to teach physical education at Sir George Simpson School. I had been teaching in rural Alberta, and, like many others, wanted to live and work closer to Edmonton. For many years, I was a “reverse commuter,” driving from Edmonton to St. Albert to work. St. Albert Protestant Separate School District was just over 10 years old at the time and building a new school every two or three years. There were only two teachers over 30 on the Simpson staff. When I first taught here, all of the teachers, in both districts, belonged to the same ATA Local, so we got to know our colleagues throughout St. Albert. Many of these connections remain to this day and we continue

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TRETTLER Protestant Schools chair My City to keep in touch though the St. Albert and Area Retired Teachers’ Association. I am always impressed at the bonds that were made between and among staff members, as we worked together. There were no restaurants in St. Albert at that time, and the only available food was at the Klondike Drive-In. It was located where the Village Tree Mall is today. If I had to stay for an evening, such as for parent/ teacher interviews, then I had to pack an extra lunch. It is certainly a different St. Albert today, with many restaurants throughout the city.

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Eventually, Ron and I moved to St. Albert and have enjoyed becoming more involved in the community, but my own focus continues to be on education. When I retired, I was encouraged to seek election as a school trustee, and was fortunate to be elected. This has enabled me to continue my passion for education in Alberta. Instead of my focus being in the classroom and at one school, I now have a district perspective. In fact, much of my time and energy is spent keeping up with provincial initiatives and trying to understand their impact on our students and schools. In my travels around the province and interaction with other boards, I believe that we have a world-class education system in St. Albert. Our teachers and schools

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are forward-looking, and competition between districts has made us more responsive to parents and the community. It is a treat when former students re-introduce themselves and let me know what is happening in their lives. For me, a main focus of the education system is to ensure that students are prepared for the future and able to live successful lives. Many students have returned to St. Albert to raise their families, and this is an endorsement of the calibre of education available and the sense of community. St. Albert has been a part of my life for over 40 years, and I am delighted to be a part of such a vibrant, caring, dynamic city. It is an honour to serve on the school board and continue to be involved in the education of our young people. Owned and operated by

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Senate candidates facing uphill battle

“You’re not going to get Senate reform in Ottawa unless Alberta is leading the fight on it ... It’s not Senator-experts-top-down-willWhile sniping between party leaders and tell-you-what-you-should-do; it’s folks who MLAs getting shoved while doorknocking will travel around Alberta and reflect their dominate the headlines, there is another views in Ottawa,” Marciano said, adding that race flying under the radar in this provincial Wildrose senators would also advocate on election. behalf of the energy industry. A total of 10 candidates are vying to be “I’d like to see the Senate focus on big, the next to possibly represent Alberta in the tough, hard-to-tackle issues — the kind of Canadian Senate, and they are looking for issues that governments that are busy getting Albertans’ votes to achieve their goal. elected every two to four years don’t want to But first, they have to let Albertans know tackle, can’t tackle, because they can’t solve the race is even going on. them fast enough,” Tannas added. “It’s one of the best-kept secrets [in the Meanwhile, Bracko wants to push hard province],” said St. Albert city councillor for seniors and for provincial co-operation Len Bracko, who is running for Senate as an in Ottawa, especially a seniors’ property tax independent candidate. “There’s not clear deferral program, like has been implemented information on it. People in Alberta. are confused.” “I want to see this “In meeting people happen right across one-on-one, it’s difficult, Canada, as it would again because you have to spend reduce the costs for the the first few minutes aging population,” he said. explaining that, hey, when Unlike other candidates Len Bracko you go to vote for your in this election, who only Senate candidate MLA, you’re going to get have to concentrate on one this extra ballot to vote riding, Senate candidates for Senate,” added Scott Tannas, one of three will have their names on ballots from one end candidates running under the Progressive of the province to the other, meaning their Conservative banner. “People are surprised, campaigns have a lot of ground to cover in really. Ninety per cent plus are surprised.” just four weeks. Senate nominee elections have been held “You’ve got to pick a strategy and say, ‘Who in Alberta in 1989, 1998 and 2004. Although are we going to focus on?’” Tannas said. the results have largely been ignored by prime “Some Senate candidates may be focused on ministers when they make new appointments ethnic groups; others are focused in the cities. to the Upper House, Prime Minister Stephen I’m a small-town guy who has built a business Harper did appoint Bert Brown — who got in small-town Western Canada, so that’s the most votes in the 2004 election — when where I’m particularly comfortable.” an Alberta seat opened up in 2007. Stan Bracko, though, doesn’t see it as a chore. Waters, who got the most votes in 1989, was “That’s what I love to do,” he said. “When also appointed to the Senate in 1990 by thenI was an MLA, I travelled the province, prime minister Brian Mulroney. to different communities, and meet with Alberta senators Brown, Tommy Banks [different groups] from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. I love and Joyce Fairbairn are all set to hit the doing that.” mandatory retirement age of 75 in the next Meanwhile, the Wildrose candidates are three years. pooling resources and travelling together on So far, the candidates have been busy not their campaign. only shaking hands and listening to issues, Marciano and Tannas also have the but also gathering 1,500 signatures for their advantage of running under their respective nomination papers — “Plus good insurance, party’s banner. in case some of them are not valid,” Bracko “In many ways, parties are a shorthand for quipped — which they are not allowed to do a set of beliefs,” Marciano said. “When folks until the writ is dropped. see somebody running under Wildrose, they “Once we get candidates locked onto the know it’s going to be someone who believes in ballot — on day 15 this time, because of limited government, in fiscal responsibility, the [Easter] holiday — then we’ll be able to accountability and democratic openness. It engage some of them in debate and start makes it easy that way.” getting their attention,” said Vitor Marciano, But, for Bracko, not being affiliated with a a candidate for the Wildrose Party. party is freeing. The issues that these Senate candidates “I can serve Albertans; I don’t have to serve are running on vary greatly from what MLA the party,” Bracko said. “That’s the biggest candidates are focusing on, and most of them advantage, and that’s what Albertans are focus on the Senate itself. wanting.”

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Lukaszuk scuffle goes to Edmonton cops

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There’s always two sides to every story. But in the case of Edmontonian Al Michalchuk versus Progressive Conservative Thomas Lukaszuk, there’s only one videotape. Preparing to be interviewed by detectives at an Edmonton police station Sunday, Michalchuk held up a disc, entitled “Al versus The Education Minister.” In the two-and-a-half minute video taken from Michalchuk’s surveillance cameras Saturday evening, the two men are seen engaged in a brief conversation before Michalchuk takes a step towards Lukaszuk — who lives in St. Albert — and off camera. It’s here, during a period of 30 seconds, that an alleged assault of the education minister takes place. On the tape, you can only see Michalchuk’s back as his arms move forward to “nudge” or “punch” Lukaszuk from his property. Reached at his home during Sunday morning Easter brunch, Lukaszuk said Michalchuk became confrontational as soon as he recognized the Tory incumbent. “The moment he looked at my face it was obvious he knew who I was because his smile instantly fell off his face,” said Lukaszuk, who said he was told to “Get the

f--- off my property.” While Lukaszuk maintains he was “open-hand punched and pushed” from the property, the 67-year-old retiree maintains he did nothing wrong and it was Lukaszuk who was confrontational. “He lied like hell when he first told the police I kicked him and punched him,” said Michalchuk, maintaining he only took Lukaszuk by the elbow and “nudged” him off his porch. The surveillance footage released Sunday pokes holes in both men’s tales. Michalchuk said Lukaszuk originally spent 10 minutes hounding him at the door, but the video confirms it’s closer to two minutes. Michalchuk agreed the time seemed longer to him when he initially spoke to reporters. Lukaszuk’s version of events, however, changed between interviews. He initially told reporters he was struck in the back and kicked while leaving, but later told CTV News he was forced to back away down the driveway so Michalchuk couldn’t hit him from behind. He also said Michalchuk followed him outside and right to the sidewalk, screaming about property rights. The video, however, shows Michalchuk never left his front porch. “I’m thoroughly disgusted by the fact

that this fellow who’s running for reelection can turn around and lie to the police, saying that I assaulted him,” said Michalchuk, who feels his reputation is under attack. “He’s a loose cannon, that boy.” Michalchuk has chronic asthma, two shot knees, a torn-up shoulder and is dying from non-alcohol-related liver failure. He finds it ridiculous that he’s being accused of assaulting anyone. The spat sparked a political frenzy over Twitter, with Sun News host Ezra Levant tweeting that Lukaszuk’s new slogan should be: “Fighting for Albertans. And occasionally with them.” “I have to tell you Ezra (Levant) is concerning me because he’s a lawyer himself and obviously has no knowledge of what happened,” Lukaszuk said. While Premier Alison Redford told media she was “dismayed” by the situation, Lukaszuk said he hasn’t talked with Redford about it yet. For his part, the Tory just wants to let the police investigate and move on with his campaign. “You can’t allow this attitude to throw you off your campaign,” Lukaszuk said. “At the end of the day, elections are a pretty serious event.” Police spokeswoman Clair Seyler said the accusations are still under investigation.

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Pothole patrol ready GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert’s pothole patrol is getting ready to roll out this spring. As the snow melts and potholes begin to pop up all over city roadways, director of public works Glenn Tompolski said on Tuesday that crews are getting ready to head out and start permanent repairs over the next couple of weeks. “We’ve just been patching pothole using temporary product because the weather has been such that it needs to warm up a little more before we can start doing any kind of permanent [repairs],” Tompolski said. “We’ll be ramping up here as we sort of finish off our spring cleanup over the next two to three weeks — as weather permits.” Although the winter was mild and dry, Tompolski said some extra spring moisture has made this an “average” spring for potholes.

“Although we had mild weather, we had a fair amount of freeze-thaw cycles, and I think, for the most part, up until probably Christmas, although we had moderate freeze-thaw, we didn’t have much moisture,” he said. “When we got a little snow, they started developing.” Potholes are caused by moisture in the ground freezing and expanding, opening up cracks in the pavement, as nighttime temperatures still often dip below zero in the springtime. The rest of the City’s spring cleaning program is going smoothly, Tompolski added, with nighttime sweeping starting this week and residential sweeping starting next week. The City’s Report-a-Pothole program is still going strong, and people can report potholes by calling the public works department hotline at 780-418-6066 or by visiting the City’s website at www.stalbert. ca/report-a-pothole.

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Country singer Dean Brody will headline the Small Town Saturday Night concert in Legal on April 28.

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – As country music fans gear up for this summer’s annual Big Valley Jamboree (BVJ) in Camrose, they are already celebrating in Legal. Legal beat out four other finalists — Bashaw, Bonnyville, Devon and High River — after more than 100,000 total votes were cast in the BVJ and Travel Alberta Small Town, Saturday Night contest. The contest was to choose the host site of a concert headlined by Canadian country music artist Dean Brody and a songwriters circle consisting of Samantha King, Duane Steele, Shane Chisholm and Tim Hus, hosted by Alberta’s own Aaron Lines. Big Valley’s Master of Ceremonies Danny Hooper will MC for the event April 28. The winner was announced at the Growing Rural Tourism Awards Dinner April 3 at the Camrose Regional Exhibition.

Drivers getting distraction message

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

While Edmonton drivers aren’t getting the message about distracted driving, local RCMP say St. Albert drivers are getting it. St. Albert RCMP traffic services Cpl. Don Murray said this week that, somewhat surprisingly, most St. Albert drivers are

resisting the temptation to make a call or compose a text message while behind the wheel. “By and large, the majority of the public are being compliant,” he said. Murray said that, during two 90-minute traffic operations over the course of the last month targeting distracted drivers, St. Albert RCMP have only given out a

total of four tickets. Over the course of the first three months of 2012, the detachment recorded just 28 violations. “It’s not as prevalent as we suspected it is,” Murray said. Meanwhile, the Edmonton Journal reports that police in that city gave out 379 tickets in the month of February alone. A ticket carries a $172 fine.

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ENTERTAINMENT Fundraiser to benefit jam host Screenplay GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Musicians from across the Capital Region and across many genres are coming together later this month to raise some money for a friend in need. Friends are getting together on Sunday, April 29, at the Century Casino Showroom (13103 Fort Rd., Edmonton) to show their support for jam musician and host Fred Larose, whose recent health problems have prevented him from working for a couple of months now. Mark Ammar, who hosts jam sessions at LB’s Pub on Akins Drive in St. Albert on Tuesday nights, said Larose is a wellknown figure in music circles around the entire Capital Region, including here in St. Albert. Larose has been part of the jam scene in St. Albert since about 2003, most notably hosting an open stage at LB’s on Thursday nights with Gordie Matthews and Kenny Skoreyko, which has seen plenty of famous faces grace the stage such as Marley Scott and Adam Gregory. He also hosted an open stage with Rusty Reed at the Blind Pig

in downtown St. Albert for a time. Ammar said that Larose has been a big influence on him personally as a host. “He’s been a good buddy through the music scene, really,” Ammar said. “I’ve been doing the jam out here [in St. Albert] for almost nine years now, and that’s where I sort of met him. He was quite an influence on my hosting skills; he’s a great host. I used to really enjoy his camaraderie with the audience. He’s just one of the bubbliest, nicest people you’d ever find in the music business.” The show starts at 3 p.m. and features a full slate of musicians, including The Rusty Reed Band, Hot Cottage, The Raults, Myrol, Jimmy Guiboche and Joe Picolo. “I think they can expect a hell of a show, if they want a great music show,” he said. There will also be a silent auction and 50/50 draws throughout the event. “The whole idea of this benefit is to get him a couple months’ worth of wages while he’s doing treatment ... He’s lost out on a lot of gigs,” Ammar said. Tickets for the fundraiser are $30 each and can be picked up at LB’s Pub (23 Akins Dr.) Tuesday through Saturday.

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Costello puts new spin on tour A: No. Nothing. I’m just concentrating on the next show. It hasn’t been easy to find time to write. There’s been a lot going on away from the stage, like my father’s passing. That’s not something where I would sit down and get 10 songs out of Everyone’s that. I think it honestly could be years before I do a winner at an that again. I don’t doubt new songs will arrive. Elvis Costello But I don’t lose sleep over when that might happen. show these days. That’s not unusual; I’ve had periods where I’ve Including the man gone years without writing. Everybody thinks I’m himself. tremendously prolific. I’m not, actually; I just work His Spectacular Spinning very fast when I do work. Right now, I don’t have a Songbook Tour — which lets record contract and I don’t particularly want one. fans use a giant onstage roulette Q: It doesn’t seem like you particularly need one wheel to pick the band’s set list — is these days. a treat for both the A: I don’t know that it’s musicians and audience, necessarily the most rewarding he says. way of putting music in front of “I never anticipated the public right now. Not for me it people liking it as much isn’t anyway. as they have,” admits Q: Criticizing your label the 57-year-old singerover the $250 price tag of the songwriter, about to embark on Elvis Costello Spinning Songbook box set Musician his latest Canadian tour with his probably didn’t help. Imposters. A: Ironically, my guess “We have a lot of songs, so is that the release probably when we play, people always go, ‘You didn’t play wouldn’t have been noticed at all if I hadn’t done this one.’ This way, they have a hand in deciding.” that. I probably got the record more attention by From the Vancouver home he shares with wife saying that. I really did think the price was a joke Diana Krall and their twin sons, the loquacious when they said it. It really took me aback that we rocker discussed the future of music and why were so much on a different page. It kind of broke nobody should hold their breath for his next my will to work with that corporation anymore. album. Q: So what is next? Q: This sounds like equal parts concert, carnival A: Well, I think it’s a tremendously exciting time and game show. because anything is possible. You could say, ‘I’m A: It’s like a vaudevillian presentation of rock not going to record for a year,’ and then the next ’n’ roll. My alter ego in this show is Napoleon year you could make 12 releases, because there’s Dynamite, which was my character long nothing stopping you. But these days, the lack of before they made that movie. any kind of shop where you can find records means Q: It’s been about 18 months since your last you’re better to just cut out the middleman and not studio album. Is anything new in the works? record at all, and just play.

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The good, the bad and the cancelled for next season BILL HARRIS Sun Media News Services

You have to cancel some things. But you can’t cancel everything. TV audiences are more fragmented than ever, which merely means there are choices galore. However, U.S. broadcast networks with under-performing schedules don’t have the option of a “clean sweep,” since no one has 15 or 18 good new shows in development. So heading into the annual “renew/cancel” period for scripted comedies and dramas, some things might stick that don’t deserve to stick. And some of your personal favourites might get dumped, even if creatively, they don’t deserve to die. It’s about numbers and time slots and potential and praying to the TV gods and who’s sleeping with whom. Consulting our cloudy crystal ball, here’s a breakdown of where things currently stand: SAFE (already renewed or a strong bet to return): American Dad, Blue Bloods, Bones, Castle, Criminal Minds, CSI, Family Guy, Glee, Grey’s Anatomy, Grimm, Happy Endings,

Hawaii Five-0, How I Met Your Mother, Last Man Standing, Law & Order: SVU, Mike & Molly, Modern Family, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, New Girl, Once Upon a Time, Person of Interest, Raising Hope, Revenge, Smash, Suburgatory, Supernatural, The Big Bang Theory, The Cleveland Show, The Good Wife, The Mentalist, The Middle, The Office, The Simpsons, The Vampire Diaries, 30 Rock, Touch, Two and a Half Men, 2 Broke Girls. It’s odd to list all these shows and realize just how many there are. It sometimes feels as if most of the TV schedule changes every year, but that isn’t the case.

their prospects will become clearer with more time.

ON THE BUBBLE (could go either way): Awake, Bob’s Burgers, Body of Proof, Community, Cougar Town, CSI: Miami, CSI: New York, Fringe, GCB, Gossip Girl, Harry’s Law, Missing, Nikita, 90210, Parenthood, Parks and Recreation, Private Practice, Rob, Rules of Engagement, Scandal, Unforgettable, Up All Night, Whitney. Personal favourites include Community, Cougar Town and Parks and Recreation, and it’s too much to ask that all three would return. Keep in mind that shows such as Awake, GCB, Missing and Scandal debuted recently, so

ALREADY AXED (we hardly knew ye): Allen Gregory, Charlie’s Angels, Free Agents, How To Be a Gentleman, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, Man Up, Pan Am, Prime Suspect, Terra Nova, The Firm, The Playboy Club, Work It. Some of these were on the air for such a short period of time, it’s tough even to remember them.

BYE-BYE (miracles notwithstanding): A Gifted Man, Alcatraz, Are You There, Chelsea?, Bent, Best Friends Forever, Breaking In, Hart of Dixie, Napoleon Dynamite, Ringer, The Finder, The River, The Secret Circle. It’s sad Alcatraz didn’t connect with more viewers, since it was a workable and entertaining mix of serial/ procedural. Ringer was enjoyable for a while, but having Sarah Michelle Gellar play twins just got too confusing.

LAST STANDS (at least they get/got a series finale): Chuck, Desperate Housewives, House, One Tree Hill. One Tree Hill still was on the air this year? Who knew?

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Plaskett picks up the Scraps for new CD JANE STEVENSON Sun Media News Services

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Canadian singer-songwriter Joel Plaskett has kept a hectic schedule in making his new album.

Record, mix, master, release for airplay, and ultimately digitally sell a song a week, for 10 weeks. That was the ambitious agenda that veteran indie East Coast musician Joel Plaskett, along with Joel Plaskett Emergency drummer Dave Marsh and bassist Chris Pennell, set for themselves earlier this year. The 10 songs would ultimately make up Scrappy Happiness, the latest JPE album, which was released in its entirety on March 27 with a cross-Canada theatre tour starting Friday in Victoria and wrapping up with a two-night stand at Toronto’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre on May 18 and 19. Scrappy Happiness follows Plaskett’s last solo album, the 2009 triple disc Three. “I wanted to do something different from the last record, which was very composed and epic,” said Dartmouth, N.S.,-based Plaskett, 36, in Toronto recently as he launched Canadian Music Week with a high

(literally) profile JPE gig atop the CN Tower. “I got the idea for this record partly from being commissioned by the CBC to write a song for the (2009) (Great) Canadian Song Quest. A couple years ago I wrote a song for the Cabot Trail and I had to turn it around really, really fast and I delivered it at the last possible moment of the deadline and it was on the radio the next day. And I thought it was really neat how quickly something, if there’s a mandate and a deadline and an avenue in which to release it, can go out to the public. And I was like, ‘Why doesn’t this happen with bands all the time?’” Plaskett had already written all the tunes but gave himself, Marsh and Pennell a weekly deadline of Thursday at noon to starting recording a song and finish it for delivery to Rich Terfry’s Radio 2 Drive program on CBC for airplay, and to iTunes for digital sale the following Tuesday. “I wouldn’t do every record like this, don’t get me wrong, but there’s a lot to be learned from having

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deadlines and to let it go and to get it out there while it’s fresh,” said Plaskett. “I stand behind all the songs. There’s some recordings I’d probably change. Some turned out better than others in terms of mixes and all the technical stuff and even my vocal performance or whatever. But I’m a firm believer if the song is good, people are going to hear that, first and foremost. Words and melody.” As for the tone of Scrappy Happiness — named for a line from the record’s opener, “Lightning Bolt,” about life moving fast, so people should find happiness even if its imperfect — the band, in Plaskett’s words, is “rocking out again.” It makes it harder for him as a singer and musician on the road but, in the end, it’s worth it. “It’s fun,” he said. “It’s more work for me, like I have to cover more on guitar, and the singing is more intense ’cause when we’re rocking I have to get up and above the band. And that is the hardest part about getting back into full swing on a rock show level. My trepidation is always of a physical one because

I’m not the strongest guy and the songs -- the fact that they’re loud and rocking -- are lyrical so I have to deliver. Sometimes I wish I could just play guitar.” The Joel Plaskett Emergency plays the Winspear Centre in Edmonton with Frank Turner on April 19.

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FASHION

New shoes put spring in your step HEATHER TOSKAN Sun Media News Services

While it may be a tad early for barelythere sandals and flip flops, it’s time to let loose in fun and colourful spring shoes. You don’t necessarily have to kick your stilettos to the curb, but spring is shaping up as a season of bright colours paired with shoes that can keep you moving in style. “High heels are fine for short periods in the evening, but unless you want to walk around looking like a Kardashian, wedges are the way to go,” says British-based shoe designer Patrick Cox. “They give height and shape to the leg, but you can still run around and look hot.” The former Edmonton native’s shoes have been favoured for years by a slew of international celebs and fashion designers, including Lady Gaga, Madonna, Vivienne Westwood, Elton John, John Galliano and others. “Wedges, fabulous flats and pumps with hidden platforms are among the top three must-have spring shoe styles,” says Crissi Giamos, director of public relations for Town Shoes in Toronto. “Flatforms are the new platforms,” says Giamos, referring to the trendy flat style perched atop platform soles. Many spring shoes are multi-coloured with trendy colour blocking. “This season shoes feature lots of colour and are clean, modern, bold and graphic. Shy away from distressed, vintage looks,” recommends Cox. “Wedges are a must this season, especially those made of wood,” says Anna Trappe, a marketing manager at Ecco Shoes. According to Trappe, rope trimmed

and designer-inspired woven leather shoes and oxford flats are tapping their way into spring this year. “Oxford flats pay homage to the 1920s and support the boyfriend look in the most elegant and classic way,” says Trappe. Oxford flats and other laceup styles

inspired by the past also get the nod from internationally respected shoe designers such as Vancouver’s John Fluevog. “I was inspired by a romantic, turnof-the-century feeling when I designed my current spring shoe collection,” says Fluevog, whose shoes are all handmade. “While inspired by the past, many of my styles are colourful and incorporate modern

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details such as laser cut and printed patterns.” According to Fluevog, raw natural edges, oiled and matte finishes and an evolution towards pointy-toed styles all carry currency. The rubber soles and uniquely curved mid-height heels that have become a Fluevog standard remain important on many of the designer’s styles, although flat, stacked, Cuban and wedged heels also stand tall. “Shoes should have a wow factor but they must also feel good. These are not shoes for shrinking violets. They’re shoes that are made for walking so you can be both comfortable and fashionable,” says Fluevog. Spring is showing shoes that marry comfort with style, as loafers, deck shoes and ballet flats all take a spin. “I recommend a metallic leather ballerina flat to go with everything, that can be dressed up and dressed down for day and night. Details to look for include cushioned, soft leather lining — and an elasticized edge for a perfect fit,” recommends Donato D. Michelle, a spokesperson for Blondo Shoes in Quebec City. Spring is looking bright, with vibrant colours such as fuchsia, orange, red, cobalt blue, lilac, turquoise and green stand alone or come together. Patterned shoes and those with laser-cut motifs are also on tap with floral, polka dotted, snake and tribal prints all vying for attention. If dramatic soles are not to your liking, you can still step out in style in understated colours such as nude, blush and soft tan.

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HEALTH

Marriage good for the heart? differed from the (single) people even before SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES — Could saying “I they married,” says DePaulo. “If they did, do!” be the best thing you could ever do for then marriage may have had nothing to do your ticker? with the results. A new study from the American “Take smoking, for example,” she says. Sociological Association claims married “The press release says that married people people stand a better chance of recovering from heart surgery and surviving in the long- probably smoked less because their spouse ‘controlled’ that behaviour — probably code term than those who are unmarried. for the suggestion that wives nagged their According to the study, married adults husbands until they quit. are three times more “But — as the authors likely than single adults admit in passing in the to recover from heart published article — they surgery. have no way of knowing “We found that whether the people who marriage boosted survival got married and stayed whether the patient was married were already Bella DePaulo a man or a woman,” says Author less likely to be smokers sociologist Ellen Idler of when they were single. Atlanta’s Emory University If so, a nagging spouse is in a statement from the irrelevant,” DePaulo says. American Sociological Association. The authors of the study, DePaulo points Call it the “strong protective effect of out, admit that, once the differences in marriage.” The study also shows patients who survived smoking rates are taken into account, there are no longer any significant long-term more than three months after surgery were differences in survival between the currently approximately 70 per cent more likely to die married and the currently unmarried. within the next five years if they were single. “Another factor that is routinely included What, then, is to become of all the single in studies like this but was not included in ladies — and gentlemen? this study is financial means,” DePaulo says. Bella DePaulo is not particularly “There was no measure of income or wealth concerned. The author of Singled Out: How or even access to health insurance or quality Singles are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and of health insurance. Largely, as a result of Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After and Singlism: What It Is, Why It Matters and How so much discrimination, unmarried people are generally less well off financially than To Stop It has heard this kind of talk before married people are. and finds it unconvincing. “Maybe they could not afford to fill all of “We don’t know if the married people

“Marriage may have had nothing to do with the results.”

their prescriptions or see doctors as often. Maybe they were less likely to have generous health care plans — or any health insurance at all.” It’s also worth considering that those in stressful or emotionally and mentally damaging marriages are, in all likelihood, less healthy in the long-term. The ASA’s study does not say whether or not those in their sample groups were happily married. It would be fascinating to see this same study repeated with those who report a less-thansatisfying married life. DePaulo says what singles really need is to have the same quality of care from physicians as married people, the same financial resources and the same access to health insurance (this is an American study). And maybe those are the factors that really matter, more so than marriage. In sickness or in health, overall life satisfaction is likely what urges people keep on keeping on. Marriage may play a part. But, as DePaulo points out, it very well may not. It’s best to not allow this talk of married people living longer and healthier lives to prompt you to take a walk down the aisle. That is, unless your heart is really in it.

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Good news this Daffodil Month: You can fight the war against cancer before it even starts. A report, published a few weeks ago in the journal Science Translational Medicine, says that more than half of all cancer is preventable. And doing so doesn’t mean you have to eat a ton of broccoli, drink twig tea or swallow strange supplements. “We actually have an enormous amount of data about the causes and preventability of cancer,” Dr. Graham A. Colditz told Eureka Alert, a science news service. The epidemiologist, who is the associate director

of prevention and control at the Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis, co-authored the study that showed that many lifestyle choices play a significant role in causing cancer. In his popular book The Emperor of All Maladies, cancer physician Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote that cancer “is stitched into our genome. Mutations accumulate in these genes when DNA is damaged by carcinogens, but also by seemingly random errors in copying genes when cells divide.” The DNA damage by carcinogens can be prevented, he explains. And today, we know how more than ever before. It’s no news that smoking is responsible for at least a

third of all cancer cases -- but not many of us realize that it’s not just lung cancer that is linked to smoking but also cancers of the bladder, kidney, head and neck. Strong research also indicates that more exercise and less alcohol can lower the risk of breast cancer. And melanoma, a deadly skin cancer whose rates have risen 2.5 per cent annually in women and 2.3 per cent in men since 1999, can be prevented by wearing sunscreen and avoiding tanning beds. According to researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, as many as a third of all cancers are linked to lifestyle factors that include unhealthy diets, inadequate exercise and obesity.

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TECHNOLOGY

The entertainment of tomorrow — today STEVE TILLEY Sun Media News Services

Like Brad and Angelina, Tom and Katie or Brigitte Nielsen and Flavor Flav, entertainment and technology have always been strange — and strangely compatible — bedfellows. Without the clever people who invented film cameras and projectors, there would be no movies. Without the printing press, there would be no novels. If some smart guy hadn’t thought up television, there would be no, well, television. But technology is in a state of constant flux, and as tech evolves, it drags entertainment along with it, changing the way we experience our stories and our music and our art. Usually for the better. Usually. To get an idea of how technology affects the way people relate to entertainment, we asked you how you watch TV, how often you go to movies, how you buy your music (if you pay for it at all), whether your books are paper or digital, what kinds of video games you play and more. Your answers were enlightening, proving that some of us still cleave to traditional ways of consuming entertainment, while others live

on the bleeding, digital edge. But that’s entertainment today. What about tomorrow? Five years from now, sitting in front of a 2-D television to watch Game of Thrones at 9 p.m. on a Sunday could seem as quaint as people gathering around a radio for the latest Captain Courage serial. Not too long from now, books will be made of paper-thin digital screens, computers will compose amazing original music based on your mood and superstar celebrities will be self-made instead of anointed by Hollywood. Or maybe nuclear armageddon will befall us, and the future of entertainment will be watching cockroach races in the irradiated ruins of our cities. But assuming the apocalypse remains on hold, and using where we are now as a jumping off point, here’s my own take on how technology will impact and, if we’re lucky, improve the way entertainment is created and delivered to our eyes, ears, hands and hearts in the next few years. I’m no analyst or soothsayer or quoteunquote industry expert, but I’ve spent many years with my gaze intently focused on the spot where fun and technology meet. Time to mix them up a bit.

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An audience in Taiyuan, China, watches Titanic 3D with special 3D glasses. he more easily and affordably we can recreate the big-screen movie experience in our homes, the harder it is for multiplexes to lure us from our well-worn couch grooves to sit in a theatre among the unwashed masses — roughly half of whom will text their friends every five minutes during the movie to ensure we’re distracted by their blindingly bright smartphone screens. Changes to behind-the-scenes technology in both filmmaking gear and movie theatres is quietly continuing, and by the end of this year roughly two-thirds of all movie theatres worldwide will use digital projectors and hard drives instead of reels of film. Most North American chain cinemas have already undergone the switch. But those aren’t the things people notice, by and large. We like the stuff that really makes it worth shelling out those big bucks for a cinema ticket. We want IMAX and 3-D, reserved seats and better surround sound, two-person minicouches and food and beverages brought to us at the touch of a button. While digital projector technology continues to improve, watch for theatre chains to further incorporate these new kinds of premium, social features as a way to lure people away from their LED screens and 7.1 surround sound at home. Big-screen 3-D will eventually move beyond a novel but sometimes off-putting gimmick to a subtler, richer and less distracting format, and sophisticated motion simulator chairs will become more widespread, giving movies an interesting tactile oomph. So will methods of socially energizing audiences, such as Cineplex’s preshow trivia game in which players buzz in via a smartphone app to win prizes. Eventually, this kind of interactive, communal participation might bleed over into the movie itself, as we experience films inside full-sensory, 360-degree domes in which audiences influence the plotline. “Press A to make John McClane Jr. blast the terrorist with his disruptor pistol, or B to spare the guy’s life.” But Hollywood ultimately doesn’t care whether you watch a movie in a cinema or at home, as long as you pay. Blu-ray will hold its edge in the near term for those who want hours of extras, but more and more of us will opt to stream movies directly to our high-definition living room screens through a growing number of services, with an ever-shortening window between theatrical and home release. Eventually, there will be no window at all. We’ll simply decide whether we want to see a new movie as a social event on a giant screen with other people and there’s still something to be said for that — or at home, sitting on the couch with our honey. Just make sure your significant other texts someone every five minutes. To keep the experience authentic.

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henever I travel and turn on a TV in a hotel room, I become temporarily flummoxed when I can’t find the “guide” button on the remote. How am I supposed to tell what show this is? How do I know what’s on next? What do you mean I can’t pause this while I go take a

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shower? No technology has changed our TV viewing habits as much as digital video recorders (more widely referred to as personal video recorders, or PVRs), allowing us to build our TV viewing habits around our own schedules. In a few years, the idea of rigid TV programming tied to a big glowing box in the living room will be gone entirely. Television will just be another form of digital entertainment to be gobbled up in whatever way suits us best, whether it’s piped over an Internet connection to a wafer-thin 3-D screen hanging on the wall or beamed over ultra-fast mobile data connections to our high-definition smartphones. (In Canada, our draconian data costs mean we’ll be slower to adapt and adopt, at least until providers

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lade Runner is still a fantastic movie. “Sexual Healing” is still an amazing song. North and South is still a gripping novel. And all three can be enjoyed in the same way today that they were enjoyed in 1982, the year they were released. But a video game developed in 1982 is a nostalgic artifact that looks laughably out of date by today’s standards. It can still be fun, but the rapid pace of gaming evolution means the gap between the games of yesterday and the games of tomorrow is a chasm of Grand Canyonesque proportions. Video games today range from blockbusters that rake in more than a billion dollars (such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3) to tiny, independent gems that use gaming as an innovative storytelling medium (the Canadian-made To the Moon) to simple social diversions (the mobile monster hit Draw Something.) As a new wave of video game consoles debuts between the end of this year and early 2014 — first with Nintendo’s Wii U, followed by the next iteration of Microsoft’s Xbox and Sony’s PlayStation — we’ll see more emphasis placed on finding new ways to make players think, feel and connect with one another, rather than on just massaging their eyeballs with pretty graphics. Today’s fairly crude motion-sensing controllers and voice commands will evolve into systems by which we interact naturally with our virtual worlds without flapping our arms around and knocking over drinks, lamps and relatives. The Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 is a small step in that direction, but accurate, uncompromised detection of our movements and voices will come in the next generation or two of gaming devices,

along with biometric sensors, voice-analyzing software and face-scanning cameras that will allow virtual characters to interact with us in stunning new ways. All of a sudden, Bowser knows when you’re scared. And once every game console is jacked into the ultra-high speed Internet of a few years from now, discs will disappear and visuals will be processed by powerful remote computers, allowing for a higher degree of graphical fidelity than any single piece of gaming hardware could ever produce. The castle guards in Elder Scrolls IX won’t have to tell you they took an arrow to the knee — you’ll just look down and see the scar.

ot so long ago, you could have some fun by showing kids vinyl records and cassette tapes to see if they could identify what they were. More often than not, you’d get puzzled stares. Today, it’s not that young kids don’t recognize these outdated media formats so much as they don’t grasp the concept of music having a physical form, period. Records? Tapes? CDs? What do these have to do with my iTunes collection? The music industry has been in a state of much-publicized upheaval for many years now, and walking into HMV to get a new CD has long been replaced with buying the album from iTunes, streaming it through a subscription-based online music service, or — for the morally infirm — downloading it for free from a shady website. While there will still be vinyl pressings and limited CD releases and ironically literal mix tapes, music today is almost entirely digital and incorporeal. It’s how we access it that’s changing, as our music collections move off our computer hard drives and into the cloud, available anywhere, anytime, by most any device that can go online, from your smartphone to your Smart Car. Like the lumbering dinosaur it is, the music industry has had trouble adapting to this digital era. The ease with which music can be pirated has badly wounded the business (and has been a harbinger for what’s happening now with movies), but the industry is discovering that if you make music accessible, unfettered and affordable, there are still millions upon millions of people who will happily pay for it. Flexible and innovative music labels — along with artists who know how to connect with fans through social media — are finding success in the post-CD age. A digital music outlook by CompaniesAndMarkets. com sees sales going rising $7.4 billion US in 2010 to $20.1 billion in 2015, led by subscription services such as Rdio and Slacker. Then again, you might just want to make your music yourself. Today, anyone with the $4.99 Garage Band iPad app can create a pretty decent-sounding multi-instrument track, thanks to the application’s ridiculously intuitive computer-assisted tools. Give it a few more years and computer-generated music — that is, original tunes cooked up on the spot according to algorithms that understand the structure of songs and what pleases the human ear — will go from a cool curiosity to an accepted alternative.

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to connect to the Internet, allowing us to access all kinds of information, content and even apps. These so-called connected TVs exist now, but the technology still needs polish. Naturally, an even sharper form of highdefinition TV will debut within a few years, to be followed by the first commercially viable home hologram projectors later this decade (no, seriously.) In the shorter term, 3-D will quietly become a feature of every new TV sold, and eventually we won’t need glasses for the 3-D effects anymore. Maybe then, 3-D content will take off and become relevant. Because I can’t wait to watch Community in 3-D and behold the glory of Annie’s, um, smile.

raise data caps and lower fees.) So when I watch season eight of Community - a guy dream, right? - I’ll simply tell my TV to play the latest episode, without worrying about when or how it was “broadcast” or if I remembered to record it. It’ll just be there waiting, as long as I’m prepared to pay for the convenience. And when I say tell, I mean tell. TV manufacturers are already beginning to introduce voice command technology into TVs (watch for Apple to do this better than the rest, once the rumoured “iTV” sets start to appear), and in a few years the idea of pushing buttons on a remote will seem adorably quaint. As will televisions that just dumbly display video. Within three years, every new TV will have the ability

Thursday, April 12, 2012

BUSINESS

Aging workforce may force wage boost SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – The aging of Canada’s population will put upward pressure on wages as the pool of available workers shrinks, and global aging might over time lead to lower interest rates, Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Jean Boivin said last week. Aging will also affect the potential of the economy, meaning the level of activity at which it can operate without inflationary pressures, and this is something the Bank of Canada needs to assess, he said. The high level of household debt in the country makes it even more crucial that individuals adjust their savings behavior and plan over a longer horizon, he said in a speech in Toronto. “As our society ages, we can either accept a lower standard of living or we can try to be proactive and adjust ... The stakes are high and we cannot afford to ignore them,” Boivin said. “There is no free lunch in that context; something will have to give and someone will have to pick up the tab, so the least we can do is accept this fact and ensure that the bill remains small and that the burden is shared fairly.”

The mechanism for upward pressure on wages would be that with relatively fewer people left in the work force, employers will compete to attract talent. Taken in isolation, he said, the scarcity of labor relative to capital could be expected to lead to higher wages and lower returns on capital in advanced economies, and eventually to persistently lower global interest rates.

“There is no free lunch in that context.” Jean Boivin Bank of Canada Improved productivity, if any, would offset the downward pressure on rates. But Canada’s tepid growth of productivity and potential output has preoccupied the central bank. Boivin said the latest estimate was for Canada’s potential output to grow by 2.2 per cent in 2014, and without the decline in working age population it would be 0.2 percentage points higher. “Aging is projected to continue

to subtract from potential output growth until the end of the current decade,” he said. He said Canada faced three options to avoid drastic declines in living standards or shifting too much burden on the next generations: more work, greater productivity and higher savings. Without endorsing last month’s federal budget, he said policy steps could foster the needed adjustments and this was the objective of some of the measures in the budget. The budget raised to 67 from 65 the age of eligibility for payments to seniors under its Old Age Security program, and hiked the age of retirement to 65 from 60 for new federal employees, starting next year. Boivin also highlighted the important contribution of immigration to dealing with the aging problem. The budget announced plans to eliminate a backlog of stale applications by foreign skilled workers so that immigrants whose skills are in greater current demand can enter Canada faster. He said a key challenge was to remove the barriers that keep educated and skilled immigrants from working in their fields.

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The aging of the population will force wages up as the workforce shrinks, says a Bank of Canada official.

Canadian companies confident for ’12: Bank of Canada JESSICA MURPHY Sun Media News Services

Canadian businesses have some new spring in their steps. The Bank of Canada’s spring survey of Canadian companies found a growing confidence that 2012 holds promise of higher sales than previously expected. According to the survey, 58 per cent of firms expect a boost in sales over the next twelve months. In

January, when the central bank last released its business outlook survey, 37 per cent of firms were expecting greater sales. Companies have been eyeing improved expectations for the U.S. economy and a stabilizing global financial situation, and so many are considering boosting investments in new machinery, equipment and hires. Still, despite a more positive outlook and the 82,300 mostly private sector jobs the economy

created in March, the survey notes the percentage of companies that said they’re facing labour shortages is below the numbers seen before the 2008 recession. And firms are also predicting higher oil prices will create a drag on the economy. Next week, the Bank of Canada will announce whether it plans to keep Canada’s key interest rate at a near-historic low. It’s held the rate at one per cent since September 2010.

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“We retain our expectation that the bank will wait until next year before raising interest rates,” TD Economics’ Leslie Preston said on Monday, echoing the expectations of many analysts. The Bank of Canada will also release its monetary policy report — a quarterly report on inflation and growth in the Canadian economy — next week. The bank polled 100 Canadian firms between Feb. 21 and March 15.

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82,000 jobs added in March JESSICA MURPHY Sun Media News Services

Canada’s economy added 82,000 jobs in March, ending a four-month slump in the labour market, Statistics Canada’s new figures show. Most of the jobs created are full time and many are in the private sector, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.2 per cent from 7.4 per cent. “This represents the single biggest monthly jump in national job creation since September 2008,” TD Economics analyst Sonya Gulati said. Analysts had predicted just moderate job growth in March. Gulati said the shift in growth to the private sector bodes well for the coming months as the government starts to

hand out pink slips to public sector workers. The federal government plans to cut 19,200 jobs over the next three years through attrition and layoffs. Despite the big jump in March, Gulati said the market was simply catching up after either weak growth or job losses in recent months, and that job gains over 2012 will likely even out to an average of between 10,000 and 20,000 a month. Gains in March were spread across a host of industries, including health care, culture and recreation and public administration. The natural resources industry — the fastest growing in the country — continued to see strong demand for labour. Modest increases were also seen in Canada’s manufacturing sector.

Most of the jobs were created in Ontario, Quebec and Manitoba. Canadian youth are still struggling to find work. The unemployment rate for 15- to 24-year-old is 13.9 per cent, remaining essentially unchanged since July 2009. Job growth in Canada had been soft in recent months, with February’s job report showing a stalled labour market. Still, unemployment edged down that month to 7.4 per cent from 7.6 per cent because many Canadians had stopped looking for work. Canada’s weak job numbers in recent months have been overshadowed by growth in the U.S. labour market. In February, the U.S. economy created 227,000 jobs, with its unemployment rate remaining at 8.3 per cent.

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SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a two-year-old photo-sharing application developer, in its largest-ever acquisition just months before the No. 1 social media website is expected to go public. The price was stunning for an apps-maker without any significant revenue, even when measured by the lofty standards of Silicon Valley, where startup valuations have soared in recent years. It highlights the rising stakes in the social networking market in which services such as Facebook need to constantly excite consumers with new features and mobile applications. By acquiring Instagram — in a deal announced days after the startup closed a funding round that valued it at $500 million — Facebook may also have sought to absorb a potential rival or at least prevent it from falling into the hands of a major competitor

like Twitter or Google Inc. “Anytime you see a social platform that’s growing that quickly, that’s got to be cause to be nervous,” said Paul Buchheit, a partner at the start-up incubator program Y Combinator and a co-founder of FriendFeed, which Facebook acquired in 2009. “It would be better to have bought Twitter at this stage,” he said of Facebook. “So if you’re thinking this could be the next Twitter, it could be a smart thing to do.” The Instagram application, which allows users to add filters and effects to pictures taken on their iPhone and Android devices and to share those photos with their friends, has gained about 30 million users since it launched in January 2011. Instagram says that as of the end of 2011, its users had

uploaded some 400 million photos or about 60 pix per second, suggesting the sort of activity that Facebook seeks as it tries to wring revenue from mobile devices. Instagram launched its Android app just last week, garnering more than one million downloads already. As Instagram’s popularity has shot up in recent months, the company’s leadership has mulled possible strategies to expand the service into a fully featured social network — much like a photo-driven, stripped-down version of Facebook, Twitter, or even Path, a company insider said. Instagram is “a property that would have been amazingly valuable to not just Facebook; certainly Twitter was in the hunt as well,” said Lou Kerner, founder of the Social Internet Fund. “I’m sure Google was

interested as well. So to some degree an acquisition like this is both offensive and defensive. It would be a highly leveragable asset for anybody who wanted to compete against Facebook.” Instagram, with roughly a dozen employees based in San Francisco, closed a $50 million funding round last week from investors including Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners, according to a source familiar with the matter. The funding valued the company, founded in early 2010, at $500 million, it said. Facebook, which is expected to raise $5 billion via the largest Silicon Valley initial public offering by May, will acquire Instagram’s entire team. “This is an important milestone for Facebook because it’s the first time we’ve ever acquired a product and company with so many users,” Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said in a blog post. “We don’t plan on doing many more of these, if any at all.”

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Newfoundland’s oil regulator laid three charges against Suncor Energy Inc, Canada’s biggest oil company, on Wednesday related to a spill of synthetic drilling fluids in 2011 from a Suncor rig operating in the East Coast province’s waters. The Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board said it laid the charges after 26,400 litres (7,000 gallons) of drilling mud, which is used to maintain well pressure while drilling, spilled from Suncor’s Henry Goodrich rig in March 2011. The Henry Goodrich was drilling a well in the Jeanne D’Arc Basin in the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of St. John’s, N.L. Suncor is charged with causing or permitting a spill into an offshore area; failure to ensure that drilling fluids were stored and handled in a manner that would have prevented pollution; and failure to ensure that drilling fluids were handled in a way that did not create a hazard to safety or the environment, the regulator said in a release. The charges carry penalties of up to $1 million Cdn each. Sneh Seetal, a spokeswoman for the company, said Suncor takes the charges seriously but declined comment on them. “As the situation is before the courts it would be inappropriate for me to provide further comment,” she said.

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Say OK to parquet, which now comes in ultra-modern patterns.

We love the look, feel and wearability of hardwood flooring in our homes. Today’s hardwood is sexy, colourful and versatile and there is surely a wood species, pattern, finish and colour palette for every style and genre of design. Designers today are blessed with a plethora of options when it comes to hardwood flooring and I love the opportunities these choices bring to the proverbial design table. At a surfaces show in Asia this week, I found some fabulous new floors and I just have to share them with you. Plank hardwood is, of course, still our standard and will never go out of fashion, but now watch for opportunities to further distress the planks and create the look of old, weathered ship boards. I love the blues, grays and blacks that come through on this flooring and I

can see it laid in several of my own job sites. Another plank standout for me was the thin board, half-inch strips of wood planks laid tight with no bevel. The finished result is a refined, elegant and timeless floor that I loved and I can see it my next show suite. Taking planks to the next level were several companies who have started to print patterns and designs onto the planked floors. Super decorative and fun for spare bedrooms, dens and perhaps even the family room. While I love the look and feel of plank flooring, I have to admit, for me, the standout is parquet. I’m thrilled at the opportunities that exist today with parquet. Unlimited colour options and ultra-modern patterns make this a must-have in chic homes this year. I adore the unique patterns available and I love the mix of wood species and colouring in the floor design. I also love that

it is engineered which enables us to lay it overtop radiant floors. Worried that modern parquet may go out of style? Don’t be. Real materials, such as wood and stone, quality products and well-designed and proportioned choices will always be in vogue. I also think it’s imperative to create standout features, unique to your home. This is a worthwhile investment and an opportunity for great design — floor art, if you will. Wood flooring offers a room warmth and timeless elegance. It lays the groundwork for all the fabulous furniture, accessories and soft goods you will decorate with, although you won’t want to cover up these beauties. If you’re renovating or building a new home, take the time to research all the wood possibilities that are out there. That’s how you create a home that is truly and uniquely fabulous — and we all want to live with fabulous!

Know what’s eligible so moving isn’t a ‘taxing’ experience LINDA WHITE Sun Media News Services

Moving can be an expensive venture, but you may be able to deduct some moving expenses on your next federal income tax return, including the costs of transportation and packing. Many people are simply unaware of the many expenses they may be eligible to claim. “I find the knowledge pretty weak and rightfully so — tax is a very tough game,” says Kim Moody of Moodys LLP Tax Advisors in Calgary, Alta. and chair of the board of governors for the Canadian Tax Foundation. “People most often think about the obvious, such as the moving truck, but there are a lot more eligible moving expenses.” Generally speaking, if you’re moving at least 40 kilometres from your current residence for a new job or to start a new business in Canada or to attend post-secondary school full-time (whether or not in Canada), you can deduct some expenses you’ve incurred to move yourself, your family and your possessions to the new location. Moody shares some of those eligible expenses:

TransporTing your belongings This can include anything from hiring movers and purchasing packing supplies to hauling your household items and storage costs. Meal expenses You can claim meal expenses for up to 15 days of transit using either a detailed or a simplified method. With the detailed method, keep your receipts and claim the actual amount spent. Using the simplified method, you can claim a flat rate of $17 per meal up to a maximum of $51 per day. Vehicle expenses You can use the detailed or simplified method to deduct your vehicle expenses. With the simplified method, simply deduct anywhere from 47.5 to 63.5 cents per kilometre driven, depending on the province or territory where the move began. With the detailed method, keep: • All receipts from operating and ownership during the tax year. Operating expenses include fuel, oil, tires, insurance, maintenance, licensing fees and repairs. • Ownership expenses, including depreciation, provincial tax and finance charges • A record of the total number of

kilometres travelled during the year of the move, as well as those driven specifically for the move. “The differences between the two methods tend to be fairly nominal,” says Moody. “It often comes down to whether it’s easier to keep your receipts or to use the simplified method.” TeMporary lodging The cost of lodging near the old or new residence for members of the taxpayer’s household for a period not exceeding 15 days is eligible.

residence, such as legal fees and real estate commissions. Mortgage prepayment or discharge fees incurred on the sale are also eligible but any money spent for work done to make the property more saleable or any loss incurred on the sale is not. “One expense people don’t think about too often is the cost of cancelling a lease by virtue of which the taxpayer was the lessee of the old residence,” Moody says. legal docuMenTs “The cost of revising legal documents to reflect the address of the taxpayer’s new residence, such as replacing a driver’s licence, non-commercial vehicle permits or connecting or disconnecting utilities, can be moving costs as well,” Moody

cosT of MainTaining kim your old residence Moody You can claim up to $5,000 to Tax Advisor maintain your old residence if it sat vacant while you moved, says. provided you made reasonable efforts If your costs have been reimbursed by to sell it. This can include deductions your employer, your moving costs must for interest, property tax, insurance be reduced by the amount received unless premiums, and heat and utility expenses. the reimbursed amount is included as income elsewhere on your tax return. cosT of selling your old Still, it’s worthwhile to talk to your residence, breaking a lease accountant and claim what you can. “A When your old residence is sold as a lot of the costs add up so why not get the result of your move, you can claim legal taxman to help finance some of that cost fees for the purchase of a new residence, to the extent that you can,” Moody says. as well as costs related to selling your old

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STALBERTJOBS.COM Handling inappropriate questions CHARLES STRACHEY Sun Media News Services

Dear Working Wise: What questions are employers allowed to ask during a job interview? I was recently asked if I was planning on having a family soon. I also heard some employers in the U.S. are asking for Facebook passwords. Can they do that? Signed, Concerned Dear Concerned: There is no law that specifically forbids an employer from asking for your Facebook password, but the request would likely be deemed unreasonable under Alberta’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta has cautioned Alberta organizations about using social media to perform background checks, because it is very easy to violate PIPA. For more information, visit http://oipc.ab.ca and read Guidelines for Social Media Background Checks. And, no, employers are not allowed to ask you if you are planning to have children. Private information

like that is protected under the Alberta Human Rights Act for businesses under provincial jurisdiction. Some employers might not be well-informed about this provincial legislation and may unknowingly ask inappropriate questions. You should prepare for this possibility so you are not caught off-guard in an interview. Generally, any information that could intentionally or inadvertently be used to discriminate against you cannot be asked. Employers should only be asking you for information that is relevant to your ability to do the job. Employers cannot ask about your: • gender, marital status, family status, next of kin, marriage plans or childcare arrangements; • source of income, unless it concerns your former employment; • maiden name or name origin; • age or date of birth — but they can ask if you meet the minimum age requirement for the job, if applicable; • previous address, unless it meets a business purpose acceptable under the Act; • birthplace or ancestry; • height or weight; • sexual orientation;

• membership in organizations unrelated to your work; • current or past health problems, Workers’ Compensation Board claims, or any absence due to stress or mental illness; • citizenship or languages not required for the job; • religious beliefs, customs and holidays that you observe; • military service outside Canada, unless there is an acceptable business-related purpose. Employers cannot request a photo, which could reveal factors such as race and gender, except in certain circumstances such as a modeling or entertainment position. If an employer requires a photograph for business-related purposes, they can ask for it after an offer of employment has been made. Employers can ask: • if you can fulfill workrelated requirements, such as working night shifts or lifting heavy items; • for any previous names you have had if the information is needed to complete reference checks or verify your past employment or education; • if you are legally permitted to work in

Alberta. There are a few ways to handle inappropriate questions. First, you could write “not applicable” on the application form, politely refuse to answer the question, or tactfully let the employer know the question is inappropriate. Second, try answering the question and then discussing the underlying concern that has prompted the question. For example, an employer who inappropriately asks about your family plans might be wondering if you will be absent frequently. In this case you could address the underlying concern by talking about your excellent attendance record and your ability to do the job. The final option is to simply answer only the underlying concern. However you choose to answer, be professional, diplomatic and honest. After you are offered the job and accept it, the employer can ask you for information required for benefit coverage and for employment records. If you have a question about a specific situation or think you might have a complaint, contact the Alberta Human Rights Commission.

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