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COVER
Monjeloco Jeans owner Nora Furber is getting ready to feel the heat as she enters the Dragons’ Den next month. The local entrepreneur auditioned for the CBC show on Feb. 16, and will make her pitch to the panel of five venture capitalists in late March. See story, P. 18.
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7,257 kg That’s how much the world’s largest lightbulb weighs. The bulb is located on top of the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower, which is located on the site of the inventor’s laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. The bulb itself is 13 feet tall and is illuminated at night. The tower itself is 131 feet tall.
Development ‘about to explode’ GLENN COOK St. Albert is “about to explode” with growth, particularly in the commercial and industrial sectors, according to City of St. Albert officials. The City’s economic development department hosted their annual Business Breakfast on Tuesday morning at the Enjoy Centre, and executive director Guy Boston told the packed room that St. Albert is poised to blow their yearly averages for commercial and industrial growth out of the water in the next few years. That includes the scheduled May opening of the new Target location in St. Albert Centre — itself adding more than 150,000 square feet of retail space — and a new shopping centre in Erin Ridge North that will be anchored by a “well-known big box retailer” that he couldn’t yet name due to a pending deal. “But just so you know, at this place, you can go buy ketchup by the case,” Boston said. The Erin Ridge shopping centre, he added, will also be able to house numerous medium-format tenants, and while it has attracted leasing attention from national brands, the City wants to make sure local businesses will have room to expand there. Boston also highlighted the South Riel lands, where there is room for substantial retail development. On the industrial side of things, Boston was very excited about the recent purchase of land in South Riel by Great West Life, on which the development of 1.3 million square feet of industrial space could begin as early as next year, as well as the prospect of development on lands
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The Target location at St. Albert Centre is one of many retail projects coming onstream in the next few years.
around Apex Casino in Campbell Park South. “The casino is planning and hope to move very quickly on nationalbrand hotel in that area,” Boston said. Of course, there’s also the 617 acres of employment lands recently designated as industrial by city council, which Boston said is a main focus of the City’s economic development team. “This is a blank slate. This is going to be the single largest industrial development in the history of St. Albert,” he said. The one thing linking all these lands together, Boston added, is the regional transportation network that has expanded in recent years with the opening of the northwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive and the first two stages of Ray Gibbon Drive. “I cannot understate the influence this has had on the city of St. Albert ... We are now connected to the region and the province like never before,” he said. Speaking of transportation, Alberta Transportation Minister Ric McIver was in the audience for the breakfast, and said seeing what St. Albert has planned was very exciting.
“Listening to this, I’m excited about St. Albert’s future, and you should be too,” said the former Calgary alderman. Another exciting part of St. Albert’s plans is the development of a Smart City Centre of Excellence master plan, which will map out how the City can leverage technologies like smartphones and wireless internet to create efficiencies. “It was [technology companies] who identified opportunities for technology solutions to address some of the big urban problems around operations and resource management, such as traffic, transit, utilities, energy and public safety,” city manager Patrick Draper said, adding that St. Albert has already implemented some Smart City principles without knowing they were Smart
City principles, like using video cameras at signalled intersections to regulate traffic flow. “This is an idea governments around the world have taken to.” Draper also said that residents have spoken loud and clear that they want the City to move ahead with an aggressive economic development plan, and there are two “critical success factors” that will need to be achieved: focus and alliances. Mayor Nolan Crouse added that the City is serious about economic development, and staff are willing to work with landowners to either develop their land or sell it to someone who will. “We have set the stage more than any time in our history for economic development,” he said. “There is money to be made here.”
N GUY BOSTO
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Trail crash kills one GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
A young man is dead after a collision on St. Albert Trail Saturday evening. At around 8:20 p.m. Saturday, St. Albert RCMP were called to the intersection of St. Albert Trail and Hebert Road after reports of a two-vehicle collision there. They said that it appeared a Chevrolet SUV turning left from southbound St. Albert Trail onto Hebert Road collided with a northbound 2003 Acura sedan.
As a result of the crash, one person is deceased, a 20-year-old male passenger who was in the northbound Acura. The driver of the Acura was injured and taken to hospital. “As far as whether alcohol was a factor or speed, we haven’t ruled any of those out yet. We’re still investigating,” said St. Albert RCMP media liaison Const. Janice Schoepp. The Acura wound up wrapped around a nearby light standard. Police, fire and EMS crews were on scene until about 12:30 a.m. Sunday cleaning up.
Photos: IAN KUCERAK and CODIE McLACHLIN, Sun Media News Services
Above: St. Albert Fire Services crews work at the scene of a fatal collision at the intersection of St. Albert Trail and Hebert Road on Saturday evening. Left: A memorial of flowers is taped to a traffic light pole at the intersection for a 20-year-old male who died in the collision.
RCMP warn of vehicle break-ins GLENN COOK
GLENN COOK
St. Albert Leader
St. Albert RCMP are warning residents about a spike in the number of vehicle break-ins over the last two weeks. RCMP said in a press release Monday that, over that period, they have received more than 100 reports of mischief to vehicles and thefts from vehicles from every corner of the city. In some cases, police said, windows have just been smashed, while in others, belongings have been taken. The majority of incidents have occurred at night and involve vehicles parked outside, either on the street or in driveways. Local RCMP are reminding motorists to remove valuable items from their vehicles, and to report any mischief or thefts to the local detachment. Meanwhile, St. Albert RCMP have also released a sketch of a suspect wanted in connection with an attempted break-in in the Lacombe Park subdivision. Around 9 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, a white male was seen trying to break into a residence in the 100 block of Larose Drive. He is described as around 50 years old, five-foot-10 and 200 pounds, clean shaven with short brown hair. He was wearing a beige jacket and a brown backpack at the time of the incident. Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
Routine traffic stop nets stolen property St. Albert Leader
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A composite sketch of a suspect St. Albert RCMP are looking for in connection with an attempted break-in at a home in Lacombe Park in January.
Some eagle-eyed police officers and a routine traffic stop led to the recovery of a stash of stolen property last week. St. Albert RCMP say that, on Friday, Feb. 15, members of the local detachment’s drug unit noticed a suspicious vehicle parked at a motel in the city. They ran the license plate and found that it was not associated to any vehicle. The drug unit officers passed on the information about the 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora to members of the St. Albert RCMP traffic section, and later in the day, they stopped the vehicle as it was travelling southbound on St. Albert Trail. The driver of the vehicle, Tarik Jace Ziehbart, was found to be driving with a suspended license, while officers also determined the car was neither registered nor insured. But that was just the start of the trouble for Ziehbart, as a subsequent search of the vehicle turned up a bevy of stolen property, including a Canadian Forces issue combat helmet and
backpack, laptop computers, tablet computers, cellphones and a 12-gauge shotgun. Police also found a number of break-in instruments and garage door openers in the car, along with a can of bear spray in the glove compartment. Ziehbart now faces a long list of criminal charges, including: • Possession of a firearm without being the holder of a license; • Unauthorized possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle; • Careless storage of a firearm; • Possession of a firearm obtained by commission of an offence; • Possession of a weapon for the purpose dangerous to the public peace; • Possession of break-in instruments; • Two counts of possession of stolen property under $5,000; • Driving while unauthorized; • Driving a motor vehicle without insurance; and • Operating an unregistered motor vehicle. Ziehbart made his first appearance in St. Albert provincial court on Monday.
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#EllenforBikeathon trending at Bellerose
of days.” The show has taken notice, with one of its executive producers tweeting back to Students at Bellerose Composite High the school on Thursday, Feb. 21. School are hoping to get the attention of “Obviously he didn’t make any sort of one of TV’s most popular personalities in commitment whatsoever, other than to time for their annual cancer fundraiser. make a donation to the Alberta Cancer BCHS students have created the hashtag Foundation through the Bike-A-Thon,” #EllenforBikeathon on Twitter and are Mangat said. “He also shared that link tweeting feverishly to get it trending and to the donation page when he tweeted us hopefully bring daytime talk back.” show host Ellen DeGeneres Local businesses, politicians and to their 10th annual Bikemedia outlets have also gotten in on the A-Thon, which will run act, retweeting the hashtag over and from March 6 to 8. over again. The swell in support for Over the past nine years, the school the hashtag has caught has raised about $700,000 for cancerschool officials by surprise. related charities, and they are shooting “A little bit, yes,” said to hit the $1-million mark very BCHS assistant principal soon. This year’s proceeds Jyoti Mangat. “It was will go to the Alberta entirely grassroots; Cancer Foundation and the kids said, ‘Let’s the Kids with Cancer see if we can get Society. Ellen to come to Mangat said our Bike-A-Thon,’ that the students and, as we tend at Bellerose are to do, we said, very proud of sure, let’s go for the event, with S E it. And then it R it being the E N E G ELLEN DE kind of went nuts highlight of the in the past couple year for many.
GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
“For our school, it’s really where this notion of being a Bulldog [comes together],” she said. “It’s a place where 800 kids are all in it together; they’re all doing the same thing for the same reason, and that’s quite remarkable. “And it goes across the grades; it’s not something that is dominated by only Grade 12s. It is absolutely encouraged among our Grade 10s and 11s. They’re as full participants as anybody else.” During the 48-hour event, teams of students take turns riding stationary bikes in the school’s cafeteria. Many come up with clever names and colourful costumes for their teams, while also outfitting their bikes with televisions and video games. The event also coincides with the school’s open house for prospective students every year. This being the 10th year for the BikeA-Thon, Mangat said there is at least one special event planned. “This year, we’re definitely having an Alumni Night,” she said, noting that it is planned for Thursday, March 7, “just because it would be overwhelming to have that many people also showing up for our open house. We needed to spread the love around for a couple of days.” For more information on the Bellerose Bike-A-Thon, visit bchs.spschools.org.
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SAIF marks 25 years
mission-focused.’” Also changing and evolving in those St. Albert Leader eight years has been the community’s A quarter of a century after starting up, attitude toward domestic violence. St. Albert’s Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) “It’s reported more often, so it looks like Society is still setting the bar high. more of it is occurring, but more of it is The society, which works to eliminate being reported,” she said. “That stigma is family violence, celebrated its 25th being minimized. It doesn’t matter who anniversary this past month. The exact date you are, where you come from, what your when Ireen Slater officially registered SAIF gender is, what your income is — family as a non-profit society was Feb. 10, 1988. violence can affect you.” “In the non-profit world, it’s huge to Over the past 25 years, SAIF has provided last 25 years,” said individual counselling to current SAIF executive 2,500 people, and group director Doreen Slessor. counselling to another “Sustainability, it’s so estimated 750 people. hard in the non-profit Also, over the past 15 world. If you’ve made years, SAIF education it to 25 years, I think it programs have reached Doreen Slessor shows you have a worthy 6,000 children per year. SAIF Society cause, you’re making Over the years, SAIF a difference in your has not only raised their community, and people use your agency own funds through their Red Shoe Gala and resources. — the 2013 edition of which is scheduled “Twenty-five years is like 100 years; it’s for April 19 — but they have also received like counting dog years in the non-profit generous support from a large number of world.” community groups and businesses. Slessor has worked with the SAIF Society Slessor said that’s a testament to the work since 2005, and even over that time, she has the society does. seen the society change and evolve quite a “I always tell people, if you’re doing good bit, including a course correction that many work and people trust you, trust what non-profits are reluctant to make. you’re doing with the money, the money “In 2005, 2006, the agency started to will flow,” she said. “When people phone get ‘mission drift,’ where you’re trying us up and say, ‘My daughter had a birthday to do everything and be everything for a party and asked for donations to SAIF,’ community, and it really started to drift us or a family you know can’t even afford to away from our mission,” she said. “In 2007- pay their bills sometimes gives us $20 ... 2008, the board at the time did something it means they trust the work you do and really tough that a lot of boards don’t have you’re going to be good stewards of their the gumption to do, and they stayed true to money.” the mission, restructured the programming For more information on the society, visit and said, ‘We don’t do anything if it’s not www.stopabuse.ca.
GLENN COOK
“In the non-profit world, it’s huge to last 25 years.”
Blades of steel Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leader
Participants in St. Albert Catholic High School’s annual Hockey Marathon carve up the ice on Friday afternoon. The event raised money for Free the Children Canada.
NABI seeking out young entrepreneurs for summer camp
GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
While some kids are paddling canoes and roasting marshmallows this summer, others will have the chance to take part in a different kind of summer camp in St. Albert. The Northern Alberta Business Incubator has partnered with Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., to bring their Entrepreneur Academy to St. Albert, an intensive weeklong course designed to give kids entering Grade 11 or 12 in September 2013 some valuable experience in starting up and running their own businesses. NABI executive director Dar Schwanbeck said it’ll be a great experience, and he hopes the
students who participate get as much out of it as he did a similar experience in his youth. “When I was 15 years old, the Kiwanis Club sent a busload of us kids off to an entrepreneurship camp in Missoula, Mont.,” Schwanbeck said. “It became a lifelong experience.” The camp is scheduled to take place from July 7 to 12. There is room for 50 students in the camp, two-thirds of which Schwanbeck hopes to draw from St. Albert. There is a $75 registration fee per student, and students will have to write a 250-word essay as part of their application. The idea for the camp stemmed from Purdue University working with Wendy Kennedy, creator of the So What? Who Cares? Why You? commercialization toolkit,
think about a new product or to adapt her system for young service, how to evaluate it and people. NABI has been using So What? how to pitch it, putting in long Who Cares? Why You? for many days with business mentors and years, and Schwanbeck coaches. said he’s been watching At the end of the week, the progress of the new the students will pitch program “out of the their business ideas to corner of my eye” for a a panel of judges, with while now. cash and scholarship “We want to prizes going to the best plant the seeds of one. entrepreneurship,” he “My goal is to offer said. “They may be an elite program to Dar math students, science the community,” Schwanbeck students, maybe they’ve Schwanbeck said. NABI studied business — While there are many future leaders, future resources available to businesspeople. That’s what we’re young entrepreneurs in St. Albert after here.” like Junior Achievement or high During the week-long camp, school programs, Schwanbeck said this camp will be more students will receive a couple of intensive and more focused days of instruction on how to
on business than on financial literacy. “This is about 35 to 50 hours of very concentrated investment of their time. You don’t get to start unless you’ve demonstrated a commitment at the beginning,” he said. “Our hope is that we’re going to graduate 50 kids who have had a very in-depth personal experience where a lot of other programs, kids are sent to them and there isn’t the level of intensity that this boot camp will offer.” NABI is currently looking for sponsors for the academy to help cover the costs of tuition for the campers. Opportunities range from $1,000 to $15,000. For more information on the Entrepreneurship Academy, visit www.nabi.ca.
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OPINION
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LRT study will guide decision
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here are a lot more questions than answers when it comes to light rail transit running through St. Albert, but it would be best for both residents and local government officials to get the answers before making up their minds either way. On Saturday, the City of St. Albert by Glenn Cook hosted a town hall meeting on LRT, which covered the progress that the City of Edmonton has made so far in building its LRT system — including the northwest line planned from NAIT to St. Albert’s doorstep — to what it could look like if trains ran from that doorstep to the northern city limits. As with any town hall meeting, it seems, there were more opponents of the idea out on Saturday. The cost, they said, was just too much, and the city’s population just can’t provide the ridership LRT needs. The proponents, however, felt that there’s still a social need, especially with the number of workers and university students who live in St. Albert and commute into Edmonton, and felt it would help tie St. Albert into a larger regional transportation network. No matter which side you’re on, though, there’s a game-changer coming down the pike in the form of a functional alignment study. Though it was much maligned during the last municipal budget, mainly for the $500,000 price tag, this study will provide much-needed answers to the questions out there. The study may need to be updated later on, if LRT goes ahead. But that’s a big “if,” and the study is also badly needed right now to determine if that “if” becomes a “when.” The other big “if” in all of this is if the provincial and federal governments come through with the funding to make LRT feasible. And the impression given Saturday was, if they don’t, then the project won’t go forward. St. Albertans may not trust city council to stick to that, but with a project this big, moving ahead without a clear mandate from taxpayers would be political suicide. Before that mandate is given one way or the other, the decision must be informed, and the functional alignment study will give everyone the information they need to truly determine where they stand.
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School funding must look beyond barrel
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ducation, it seems, is always in the news. This week, much of my time was spent talking with Alberta’s school boards about the possibility of a provincial deal with our teachers. On Tuesday, we learned that the deal would not go through and boards will go back to bargaining locally with their teachers. Whatever your views are on provincial bargaining or this particular deal, I think one thing we can all agree on is that funding for education and all its complexities needs to be predictable, sustainable and certainly adequate. Starting in 2011, Alberta’s school boards collectively began talking about the need to move toward a more stable form of funding. If we fund education, Alberta’s biggest
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HANSEN ASBA president My City investment, on the merits of how oil and gas are doing, then how on earth will we sustain that funding if those revenues are severely reduced? The message was heard loud and clear as the election of last spring unfolded. It seemed a good ideal to work from. It made sense — so much sense that the premier promised school boards that for the next three years education would be funded predictably. While the amounts were modest — one per cent, two per cent, two per cent, for three years — at least school boards knew what
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revenues they were dealing with. Welcome to 2013. The finance minister has given us the bad news that the bitumen bubble is playing a huge role in our province’s finances and, at the end of the day, we may be $6.8 billion short. So we ask: What does this mean for education in Alberta and other ministries counting on funding to deliver services to our children? We know now that the predictable funding promised by the premier won’t be realized, and our budgets will be leaner than we thought. To complicate things further, local negotiations are going on in 62 different school boards. There are school boards that have reserves dedicated to certain projects and programs that have been
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planned for very carefully — all this to enhance the education of our kids. Under these fiscal restraints, what will happen to these reserves? School boards now await budget day on March 7 with some nervousness. We can no longer count on a planned amount of money; all we can do is hope and pray that the education budget will at least be frozen and not negatively impacted. I predict we will be feeling the same way next year and the year after — unless we look at a new, less volatile way of funding K-12 education. There will have to come a time when funding for programs that directly impact the lives of Alberta’s children will have to be based on something other than the price of oil. Owned and operated by
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WHY IT MATTERS
THE VOTE
Ray Gibbon Drive Financing
The Standing Committee on Finance has recommended that Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive be financed internally and fully repaid once provincial funds are received.
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“Do we have confirmation that the province will confirm that they will honour our request?”
Chamber of Commerce Lease
The City of St. Albert is proposing leasing the entire Tourism Building to the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce as a result of the City of St. Albert Business Development Division vacating the building.
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“If we allow them to sublet, what we’ve in fact done, if we allow them to sublease at market rates, is to give them a business opportunity at the expense of the St. Albert taxpayer. How are we going to protect the St. Albert taxpayer under those circumstances?” — Wes Brodhead
Heritage Management Plan
COUNCIL NOTES • FEBRUARY 25, 2013
The Heritage Management Plan will guide the City of St. Albert’s stewardship of its historic resources. It provides direction for the identification and preservation of historic sites within the City of St. Albert.
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WHAT’S NEXT
NOTABLE QUOTES “We have received a number of assurances from the province that they recognize what their commitment is to this particular project.”
– Malcolm Parker
— City manager Patrick Draper
FEEDBACK
Rather than securing a loan, the City will internally finance the $15.9-million provincial portion of the project, with a projected savings of roughly $1 million.
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The building will be leased to the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce at a rate of $11 per square foot.
“How important is it for the City to maintain an inventory list of all of these sites, many of which will never ever be designated, and there’s going to be a cost attached to that that we probably won’t have money for?” — Malcolm Parker
Administration will begin developing a bylaw that will be used for the designation of a Municipal Heritage Resource for private property owners.
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ALBERT LACOMBE SCHOOL 50 Gainsborough Ave. Phone: (780) 459-4478 Open House: March 5 at 7 p.m.
J. J. NEARING CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 196 Deer Ridge Dr. Phone: (780) 418-6330 Contact the school to arrange a tour
BERTHA KENNEDY CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SCHOOL 175 Larose Dr. | Phone: (780) 458-6101 Contact the school to arrange a tour ÉCOLE FATHER JAN 15 Mission Ave. | Phone: (780) 458-3300 Contact the school to arrange a tour ÉCOLE MARIE POBURAN 100 Sir Winston Churchill Ave. Phone: (780) 458-1112 Open House: February 12 at 7 p.m. Discovery Day: March 13
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Time to plan for LRT is now, town hall hears GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
The entire Capital Region could be on track for big things if planning for light rail transit keeps going full speed ahead, residents at a town hall meeting were told Saturday. Almost 80 people turned out to St. Albert Catholic High School on Saturday morning for the meeting on LRT hosted by the City of St. Albert, which covered everything from the City of Edmonton’s plans to extend their lines to St. Albert’s doorstep to how an LRT system through St. Albert might look. Edmonton city councillor Don Iveson was on hand for the meeting and told the crowd that, from both a municipal and a regional point of view, even if trains aren’t running to St. Albert for another 40 years, the time to lay the groundwork for LRT is now. “Let’s all work together on the next billion-dollar, five- to 10- to 15year project is a region LRT network, which provides the backbone of an integrated transit system for the whole region,” said Iveson, who chairs the Capital Region Board’s transit committee. He added that Capital Region
municipalities need to start thinking collaboratively and taking on projects like transit as one. “We are all really part of one regional economy,” he said, “and we need to think regionally about infrastructure, think regionally about economic development and think regionally about growth. If we all go off in separate directions, it isn’t going to achieve as much as if we work together.” Officials estimated Saturday that LRT in St. Albert could carry passengers to downtown Edmonton in 30 minutes and to the University of Alberta in 40 minutes, and could handle between 42,000 and 45,000 boardings each day. But not everyone at the meeting was on board with the idea. Most of the opponents felt that St. Albert’s population would not be able to provide enough riders to make it worth the money that would be spent. Officials said that such concerns would be addressed in the upcoming LRT functional alignment study, which will get started in September and should be complete by 2015. The functional alignment study — which was approved in the 2013 municipal budget at a cost of
Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leader
Edmonton city councillor Don Iveson talks with former St. Albert mayor Richard Plain after a town hall meeting on LRT on Saturday. $500,000, to come out of the City’s LRT reserve — will not only look at ridership estimates, but also possible routes through St. Albert, possible station locations, traffic impacts and structural requirements like bridges or tunnels. Another sticking point for many was the overall cost, and concerns were raised about how much money would be available through other levels of government should the economy turn sour again in the near future. “We need to make a strong case for the scarce dollars that are available,” Iveson said. “Because the
dollars are scarce is not a reason not to ask.” Coun. Len Bracko said that twothirds of the cost of LRT through St. Albert should be covered by the Alberta government, and another 25 per cent through the P3 Canada Fund, leaving only eight per cent to be covered by the City. Some attendees also asked for the matter to be put to a public vote before the final go-ahead is given. The town hall also touched on the Campbell Road Park and Ride station, which is envisioned as the end of the line for the northwest Edmonton LRT line.
City introduces e-billing for utilities customers GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
The good ol’ hockey game Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leader
Lacombe Lake was abuzz with activity on Saturday with the Canadian Progress Club’s annual Pond Hockey Championship, which raised money for Camp Warwa, Uncles and Aunts at Large, and the Special Olympics.
That station will cost about $30 million, two-thirds of which is anticipated to be covered by provincial GreenTRIP funding. The land, located south of Anthony Henday Drive in the Transportation Utility Corridor, would be leased by the province to the City of Edmonton, then subleased to the City of St. Albert, at no charge. “This is getting closer and closer every day. I’m surprised at how fast it’s coming,” said Coun. Cathy Heron. The park-and-ride facility will cover 12 hectares and have enough parking stalls for 1,600 vehicles. It will have 22 bays for buses and a building with washrooms for patrons and drivers. When asked if motorists would be charged to park their vehicles at the station, city manager Patrick Draper said that the provincial government currently wants it to be free of charge, but negotiations are ongoing. “If there’s no charge for the land, then they’re asking that there be no charge for parking,” Draper said. “Their view is that, if there is a charge for parking, then the province should be entitled to some revenue for the land.”
The City of St. Albert is hoping to save a few more trees by having residents and business owners take advantage of a new service. As of Wednesday, the City is offering electronic billing for utility accounts, providing customers with secure online access to their account information 24-7, including a five-year history of billing and utility transactions and a graph comparison of average consumption over the past 13 months. “The City of St. Albert is extremely pleased to offer this new online service,” said City manager of financial operations and reporting Ed Kaemingh in a press release. “It gives residents and business owners the opportunity to go paperless, be more environmentally friendly and enjoy the ease and
convenience of e-billing.” Utility customers will receive a private access code with their February and March bills that they can use to register online at www.stalbert.ca/online-services. People who get their bills in March can receive their codes early by calling the City’s utilities department at 780-459-1520 (option 2). The City is hoping for a 20 per cent adoption rate among its 20,000 total utility customers. The City began looking at e-billing in 2011 when there was a threat of a postal strike, which would have prevented utility bills from being delivered to customers. It will also help the City manage increasing postage costs. Currently, the City offers several other services online, including program registration, business and dog license renewals, parking and alarm bylaw fine payments, and viewing residential property assessments.
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Wilderness Youth Challenge Program founder Lee Eskdale (right) gives instructions to a young camper during a recent excursion into the backcountry.
Campers answer call for youth program GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
A St. Albert man is hoping to find a few people willing to give up their creature comforts for the benefit of at-risk youth. Lee Eskdale is a St. Albert resident and the founder of the Wilderness Youth Challenge Program, which gives at-risk youth from 12 to 21 years old the chance to take on a four-day solo camping challenge in the backcountry of Western Canada. Now Eskdale is looking for others to share that solo camping experience from March 15 to 17 at Elk Island Park and collect pledges to raise money for the WYCP during their second annual Call of the Wild fundraiser. “It’s the same kind of gear, same food, same basic distancing [as the youth experience],” Eskdale said. “... That’s the deal. We’re going to go base camp, hike them out just like we would a youth, set them up the same way and run the lines the same way.” Last year, four Edmonton Police Service officers braved the cold mostly to raise awareness for the program, but Eskdale has extended the invitation to anyone who wants to join this year. “We have five soloists — that’s excellent because we’re still a month away,” he said with a laugh. “I was really surprised. I was surprised anyone would [do it]; it’s kind of nuts.” The money raised will go toward the WYCP, as they look to offer programs in the winter as well as the summer. The WYCP started in 2006 when Eskdale — a former member of the Canadian Forces and a volunteer search-and-rescue worker — was volunteering at the Hope Mission in downtown Edmonton, driving their van and seeing the issues youth were facing on the street first-hand. “We found out there’s a real strong relapse problem. … [A] change in direction is a relapse flag,” he said. “When you talk to any streetfront worker, they’ll tell you the kid does great until they’re ready to go home, or ready to go to work, or school — as soon as
there’s a change in direction. So we thought, OK, we need something to trip that up.” The program takes youth who are referred through the justice system and through support workers into the backcountry, all in an attempt to prevent them from relapsing. “We set up a base camp and we support the base camp for four days. The first day, the youth set up their own sites; right off the hop, they cook their own meals, with guidance,” he said. For the first four days, the youth take certified courses in first aid, predator awareness, basic survival and Leave No Trace principles. On the fifth day, the young people are taken out into the wild and set up about a mile apart from each other for their fourday solo camping excursion. “They’re fully outfitted with meals and everything they need. They do laundry at least once, and they shower every day,” Eskdale said, adding that there are other tasks they are expected to perform, like making a spoon to eat with, a walking staff, an emergency stretcher and a hydro mill to collect water. Each young person has a community sponsor, to whom they write a letter of acknowledgement on the last day of their solo campout. The program also follows up with youth for a year after they leave the program. Eskdale is very clear in stating that the WYCP is not about treatment or mentoring — it’s about risk management. “We don’t take a psychologist or a social worker with us to deal with their issues. They’re expected to be out of the box for 10 days, and they’re expected to be focused on risk management to be safe,” he said. That means some kids don’t make it through the whole program and have to go home. “Just about every challenge, we have lost one or two youth. One we did last year, we had three in one shot who left in one day,” Eskdale said. For more information on the WYCP and the Call of the Wild fundraiser, visit www. wycp.org and www.thecallofthewild.ca.
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Night of Artists makes triumphant return
GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
After taking a year off, local artist Phil Alain is bringing one of his most successful creations home. Alain is the creative force behind the Night of Artists event, which, after going on hiatus for 2012, will return to St. Albert at the Enjoy Centre from March 14 to 17. “I took a year off to deal with my kids,” Alain said with a laugh. “I had my second child last year, and I wasn’t sure how busy my life was going to be. I was actually going to call it quits with Night of Artists, but when [the Hole family] said they wanted to start it up in St. Albert, I thought, ‘Well, that’s where I started it 16 years ago, and it would be great to come back.’” Night of Artists is actually four nights of live artist demonstrations, concerts and even a fashion show, all meant to celebrate Capital Region arts. “There are going to be probably 300 original artworks on display,” Alain said. “There’s going to be a silent auction of 30 original paintings ... there’s going to be lots of live entertainment.” The first Night of Artists event was held at the St. Albert Community Hall in 1997, featuring Alain’s paintings, a friend playing piano and his sister
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Phil Alain stands next to a couple of the paintings up for silent auction at the Enjoy Centre as part of Night of Artists. Bids have already opened on the paintings, and they’ll close at the event’s opening gala March 14. singing in front of a crowd of about 150 people. In the years since, the event outgrew any venue in St. Albert — that is, until the Enjoy Centre opened and the Hole family approached him about starting up an arts festival in the facility. “They wanted to create an arts event to honour Lois Hole; her legacy was that she really wanted to support the arts,” Alain said.
“So they asked if I’d help set up a new arts festival in St. Albert. So basically we’re taking the template of what I’ve done with Night of Artists over the years and starting up a whole new event.” Painters participating in the event include Alain himself, Lewis Lavoie, Rick Rogers and Memory Roth. “There’s some beautiful stuff on
Never had a friend like him Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader
Mike Klatchuk plays the Genie and Josh Aubin plays the role of Aladdin in Richard S. Fowler Junior High School’s production of Disney’s Aladdin Jr., which ran at the Arden Theatre on Thursday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 22.
display,” Alain said. The fashion show will feature designs by Laura Dreger, while some of the music will be provided by Pulse, a group that blends Japanese taiko drums with cellos and keyboards. In addition to all that, Grow St. Albert will be hosting Pecha Kucha Night St. Albert No. 4 on Friday, March 15, in conjunction with Night of Artists.
Pecha Kucha Night is a evening of presentations by various speakers, who have 20 slides of 20 seconds each. This time around, all the speakers will have presentations related to the arts, and Alain said it will be a great fit into the weekend of festivities. “It gives the story behind the art, which is really nice to add to the weekend,” he said. “People can come out and actually get the background on how things get going.” The event is a fundraiser for the Lois Hole Hospital for Women at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton. And while that’s an obvious benfeiciary for the owners of the Enjoy Centre, Alain said he’s fully on board too. “It really ties into the legacy Lois Hole left behind. She was such an advocate for the arts,” he said. “So the fact we can do this big art exhibit in St. Albert — where the Hole family has been a key part of the community — and to be able to give back to what Lois Hole left as a legacy through the hospital, it’s a perfect fit.” Alain added that he doesn’t have a set goal for the amount of money he wants to raise, but has other goals. “Our goal is to make this an annual thing that keeps growing over time,” he said. For more information about the Night of Artists, visit www. nightofartists.com.
Fundraiser hits stage
GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
Music fans will be rocking out for a good cause next week at the Celtic Knot Pub in St. Albert. On Friday, March 9, the pub — located at 388 St. Albert Trail — will play host to Edmonton rock-pop band Rend as they play a fundraiser for Little Warriors, an organization that works to educate on and prevent child sexual abuse. Rend is made up of singer/ keyboard player Carol-Lynne Quinn, drummer Charis Logan, bassist Jeff Quinn, guitarist Steve Roe and synthesizer player Nate Glubish. They released their debut album, No Lines, on Feb. 25, 2012,
and recently released a music video for their single “Battlecry.” They were also recently nominated for a 2013 Edmonton Music Award under the Female Artist of the Year category. Little Warriors is currently raising funds to build the Be Brave Ranch, a safe and secure place of healing for victims of child sexual abuse. So far, they have raised $1.4 million of their $3.4-million goal. Tickets for the show are $10 each, and you can get more information on tickets by texting 780-399-1544 or 780-292-5863. They are also available for sale (cash only) at This and That in Morinville, located next to No Frills.
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Taylor tickets gone Swift-ly DAVE LAZZARINO Sun Media News Services
Jack the Giant Slayer not a typical reworked fairytale STEVE TILLEY Sun Media News Services
Once upon a time, there was a fairytale movie directed by a very smart man, starring a bunch of actors people were quite fond of. But before the movie could come out, it was beaten to the punch by some other fairytale movies that were ugly and mean and bad. So we’re left to wonder: will Jack the Giant Slayer live happily ever after? Or will people flee from it, fearing what’s come before? In theatres Friday, Jack the Giant Slayer follows the adventures of a young farmhand named Jack (Warm Bodies’ Nicholas Hoult) who unwittingly grows a beanstalk that connects the human world and the domain of the giants. When the runaway princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson) is kidnapped by the man-like monsters, Jack teams up with a squad of the king’s forces, led by the noble knight Elmont (Ewan McGregor) and the king’s slippery advisor, Lord Roderick (Stanley Tucci) to climb the beanstalk and get the girl. Directed by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, X-Men), Jack the Giant Slayer rumbles into theatres on the heels of several other recent reworkings of classic fairy tales, including Red Riding Hood, a pair of Snow White movies (Mirror Mirror and Snow White and the Huntsman) and last month’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Thing is, none of those other films were particularly good. Some, in fact, were outright awful. But McGregor maintains that Jack is different in that it doesn’t try to be too adult. “Often in family movies, there are
moments where you’re embarrassed for your kids, or there’s a joke for the parents’ benefit that’s a little inappropriate for children,” says McGregor, himself the father of four daughters aged two to 17. “This is really clean. It somehow embodies the spirit of what I think a fairy tale should be,” he says. “The giants are people-eaters; it should be quite frightening. But at the same time, it’s not the kind of frightening that’s going to give your child nightmares.”
“It’s not ... going to give your child nightmares.” Ewan MacGregor Actor For the record, we disagree — the behemoths in Jack the Giant Slayer could scare the crap out of very young kids. But maybe being scared by imaginary monsters in a movie isn’t such a bad thing. “They’re important for kids’ development, in a way,” he says. “These kinds of imaginings of scary things put their fears in a make-believe land where they’re safe, and they can explore their fears. I can’t wait to show my kids this film.” During the actual shooting, of course, the giants were nothing but imaginary. The actors often found themselves pretending to be menaced by a tennis ball on a long stick, standing in for computer-generated giants to be added later. But the actors at least had some idea
what they were up against. “They motion-captured all of the giant’s performances before we shot, so we were able to look at the monitors before we started to see what we were acting with,” McGregor says. The 41-year-old Scot is perhaps one of the least typecast actors working today, from his breakout performance as a heroin addict in Trainspotting to a sexually omnivorous rocker loosely based on Iggy Pop in Velvet Goldmine to a lovestruck poet in Moulin Rouge. He’s coming off two hot movies — the disaster drama The Impossible and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, for which he earned a Golden Globe nomination — yet one wonders if his green-screen work in Jack the Giant Slayer might come in handy again soon if, let’s say, someone asked him to reprise another old role — one from a galaxy far, far away. With all the talk of Star Wars sequels and spinoffs under Disney’s new ownership of George Lucas’ empire, would McGregor consider picking up the lightsaber to become Obi-Wan Kenobi again? “Of course I would, yeah, of course,” he says. “If they wanted me for the films I’d be very happy to talk to them about it.” McGregor says he hasn’t heard a peep about Star Wars since Lucas phoned him the night before the Disney deal to give him a courtesy heads-up, but if Star Wars: Episode VII or these rumoured Han Solo and Boba Fett spin-offs have plots that somehow intersect with ObiWan’s life, he’s there. “It was a fun role to play, and I’d rather it was me than someone else, if they need him.”
If you were thinking of getting your hands on tickets to see Taylor Swift in Edmonton, think again. Tickets for both of Swift’s shows scheduled for June at Rexall Place went on sale Friday morning and, within minutes, there wasn’t a pair of seats to be found. “It was a matter of a few minutes for the bulk of them,” said Brett Fraser, director of live entertainment for Northlands. Fraser said single tickets took a little longer to sell because Taylor Swift fans don’t tend to go to her concerts without company. The seven-time Grammy award winner’s concerts were announced Feb. 13 after Northlands put out a tweet hinting at a big ticket show coming to town. The hype paid off as all 28,000 tickets were sold out shortly after going on sale. “The demand completely outweighs the supply,” said Fraser, adding they would have had no problems selling tickets if they added two more shows. “Her support is really strong. It’s just going to be a huge show.” Ticket prices were priced up to $126 but after they sold out, they went up considerably. Listings on Edmonton Kijiji had tickets priced at more than $200 apiece, but the real markup was seen on online ticket seller StubHub where a lot of eight tickets were priced at almost $7,500 — not quite $1,000 each. Singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran, who appears in a critically acclaimed duet on Swift’s latest album, will be a special guest on the tour which comes to Rexall Place June 25 and 26.
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Mascots, Food, Music. It’s going to be a party.
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There are five differences between these two photos. Can you spot them all?
ACROSS 1 Swirling current 5 Fiber follower 10 Short message 14 Tackle box item 15 Ship's freight 16 Tied, as a score 17 Little bit 19 Dime division 20 Tidal movement 21 Suspect's story 22 Short and to the point 23 Skeleton site 24 Fall blossom 25 Kind of US bomber 28 Bearded bloom 30 "Peggy Sue" singer 31 Early comic strip "Happy ______" 35 Iridescent gem 36 James Dean's final film 38 Fiddle with a fiddle 39 Regretful 41 Ziti or rigatoni 42 Neuter a horse 43 Biker's wear, often 45 Dried coconut 48 Big chill of long ago 50 Out in the sticks 51 Social level 52 Urban transit 55 Situated on 56 Male attendant 58 Fly swatter material 59 Playful water animal 60 Wild about 61 Mice, to owls 62 Flashy flower 63 Kitten's cry
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ANSWERS: 1. ‘O’ removed from goalie’s jersey; 2. Puck changed to green; 3. Glove changed to yellow; 4. ‘CCM’ logo removed from goalie stick; 5. Stick removed from left side of frame\.
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Gov’t website aims to cut down red tape
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A provincial task force set up to cut red tape for Alberta businesses may seem like an oxymoron. But a new website is hoped to hurry the process along. Deputy minister Thomas Lukaszuk helped unveil the new online support page for Alberta businesses Monday, saying the province is looking for feedback in order to streamline regulations. “We want to make sure that we continuously evolve our regulations,” said Lukaszuk, who also serves as the chair of the regulatory review secretariat. The website is accessible through the Alberta government’s main web page and offers two main features: the ability to find existing regulation all in one place and the ability to comment on those regulations and suggest some needed changes. The number of regulations in place has been reduced in the past few years by a third, but there are still 1,100 that businesses have to potentially wade through. Lukaszuk said the goal is not a numerical one. “It’s not a game of mathematics,” said Lukaszuk, adding the numbers of regulations are as important as their effectiveness. “It’s always appropriate that businesses are not overburdened with laws and regulations but at the same time make sure that our interests as Albertans are protected.” Self-proclaimed serial entrepreneur Greg Gazin said he believes the website will be a positive tool for existing and potential business owners. “The links to resources is something that everyone needs all the time, but being able to access the regulations, I think that’s incredible,” said Gazin, who sees the feedback option as particularly beneficial. “Now that I know that someone’s listening, that’s awesome,” he said.
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Monjeloco Jeans owner Nora Furber will get the chance to convince the Dragons on the CBC show Dragons’ Den to buy a stake in her business when she pitches to them next month.
Entering the Den
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A St. Albert entrepreneur is going to get the chance to slay some Dragons, and maybe make a little money doing it. Nora Furber, owner of Monjeloco Jeans on Perron Street, found out Tuesday that she has been selected to make her pitch on the CBC show Dragons’ Den, asking five of Canada’s wealthiest business barons to buy into her vision. “I was very excited [to get the call] because finally we’re going to take this product where all of Canada can see it,” she said. Dragons’ Den auditions were held in Edmonton on Saturday, Feb. 16. Furber is very confident about her chances of landing a deal. “I totally believe my product is something they will be very interested in, because it’s something new in Canada,” she said. She said her jeans are unique because their cut can flatter just about any woman’s figure. “In the back, they tuck in and lift, and give a perfect round butt,” Furber said. “What a bra does for your breasts, these jeans do for your butt.”
Furber wants to ask the Dragons for money to do some advertising and marketing of her product. “My idea is to do some advertising, to have the product known by every single woman in Canada,” she said. “The idea I’ll take to the Dragons is that there will be no more flat butts in Canada.” But even if she doesn’t land a deal, the exposure of just being on the show will be a huge boost, Furber said. “We’re very excited. We’re a team of girls that have been here from the start,” she said. Furber’s line of jeans is inspired by the beaches of Brazil, but the fabric is harvested and the jeans are sewn in Colombia, where she originally hails from. “I’m using a factory of about 275 women, and these women are all single moms,” she said. Furber came to Canada nearly 30 years ago, and has been living in St. Albert ever since, although she only opened her shop downtown in the past couple of years. “It’s been amazing. I think St. Albert has really taken to the jeans, and they love it,” she said. Furber will make her pitch in Toronto in late March.
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Execs widening Alta. income gap
How honest are you at work? CAROLE KANCHIER Sun Media News Services
CheCk your lie quotient
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Alberta’s 99 per cent are “spinning their wheels” in the provincial economy as Canada’s highest-paid business executives are widening the income gap by finding work in Edmonton and Calgary, warns Edmonton’s chief economist. “There’s an illusion that the rising tide of economy lifts all boats,” said Edmonton’s chief economist John Rose while addressing a crowd at the Economics Society of Northern Alberta last week. “But that’s not the case.” Income tax figures from Statistics Canada show Alberta is hiring more high-paid executives in the private business sector than any other province, said Rose. Based on a 20 per cent sample of income tax forms from across Canada, Calgary is the number one employer of the top one per cent income earners, followed closely by Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton. Rose said the “eye-opening” trend shows that the income share to the remaining 99 per cent is lower in Alberta — a side effect of the province’s growth since 1982. Despite a strong economy with low unemployment, the average worker’s ability to consume hasn’t increased at all in the last 30 years, said Rose. Adjusting for inflation, paycheques to Edmontonians have barely increased since 1982 and Calgarians actually earn five per cent less today than they did in 1982. “In Edmonton, it’s a little up, but pretty much flat,” said Rose. “All the growth that we’ve seen in the provincial economy hasn’t paid off in terms of income gains for the bottom 99 per cent of the population.” The trend is worrisome, he added, as several international studies have shown that the more equitable economies in countries like Finland and Sweden actually produce more steady, stable longterm economic growth. Rose said the gap between income share could be closed by policy changes like instituting increased taxes on capital gains for the one per cent. It would also benefit the economy to increase the access and quality of Alberta’s post-secondary institutions. “Part of the reason individuals in the business services sector are being so well rewarded at the top is because of their qualifications and skills,” Rose explained. “Our changing technology and economy is placing a greater demand for those people, so their salaries are going up.” The provincial government also has to reduce their reliance on natural resource revenues, said Rose.
(Answer yes or no.) 1. I’ve lied on my resumé or fudged reports. 2. I’ll fib to avoid arguments. 3. I fail to disclose pertinent information. 4. I’ve cheated on school or employment tests. 5. I’d tell a face-saving lie to protect my career. 6. I exaggerate the truth or tell white lies to avoid hurting someone. 7. I lie to better serve clients or employer. 8. I’ve stolen office supplies or padded expense accounts. 9. I lie to serve my employer. 10. I’ve copied software or used the Internet on company time. Scoring: one point for each yes. Six or higher suggests you could enhance truthfulness.
Lying is stressful, and stress harms health and accelerates aging. Frequent lying and fear of exposure keeps your body’s “fight or flight” response on. Your hypothalamus sets off an alarm system, which prompts your adrenal glands to release hormones. Long-term activation of this system may result in health conditions like heart disease and depressed immune system. Lying damages a person’s self-respect and credibility. Dishonesty also affects
company productivity. Using company time and stealing small items add up. Honest employees pay for others’ lack of integrity through stricter rules. Children learn to lie. Cheating on school exams is no longer the crime it was. Many students don’t view cheating as theft. Where schools fail to show disapproval of students’ cheating, unethical behavior is encouraged. The same message is given when parents cheat on taxes or conduct other unethical behaviours, Children learn all methods for achieving goals are justified. We fib because we need to appear competent, want to avoid hurt or conflict, desire to protect our jobs, or not rock the boat. Some workers may lie about a sick child to protect themselves from taking another business trip. Political and business leaders have lied for centuries. Recent studies conducted by Paul Piff, social psychologist, at University of California-Berkeley, found that selfinterest tends to spur the elite to lie and cheat. Some workplace situations facilitate lying. William Shakespeare offered sage advice: “Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.” Here are additional suggestions. • Admit to the problem. Lying is a learned survival strategy that can be unlearned. Make yourself accountable to a trusted friend or counsellor. Explore ways to restructure behaviour. • Meet emotional needs honestly. We all have needs for security,
recognition and others. Think about times you lied and identify needs you were trying to satisfy like wanting respect or challenge. Identify ways by which you can honestly meet these needs and conduct yourself accordingly. When you sense yourself crafting a lie, ask yourself, “What’s the worst that can happen if I’m truthful?” • Be genuine. Sincerely express yourself. Behave consistently, predictably. Ensure your words and subsequent actions are congruent. Honour commitments. Do what you say you will do. • Laugh at yourself with other people. Just saying “Could I be any worse at managing my paperwork?” out loud rather than denying your problem can help on the road to recovery. • Avoid situations that tempt dishonesty. If your boss tells you to fib, gently decline saying you’re uncomfortable with the idea, or offer an alternative solution. If you find yourself in many compromising situations, move on. • Communicate accurately, openly, and transparently. Be explicit, direct, and clear about your motives. State what you need or expect. Don’t assume others know what to do. Be honest up front. Don’t exaggerate your ability to meet expectations.
— Dr. Carole Kanchier is a registered psychologist, coach, speaker, and author of Questers: Dare to Change Your Job and Your Life. www.daretochange.com.
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