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St. Albert Public Schools Kindergarten Our Kindergarten open houses start January 31st! Check our ad in this issue for dates and times or check our website at www.spschools.org. District Administration Office, 60 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue
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kindergarten INFORMATION EVENINGS, OPEN HOUSES and SCHOOL TOURS HALF AND FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN*
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When you register your children with St. Albert Protestant Schools, you’ll start them on a path of adventure, learning and creativity that will last a lifetime. Opportunities in academics, sports, fine and performing arts, community service projects, extracurricular activities and more await your children at our schools. Choose from our English, French Immersion, Logos Christian Education or Cogito programming for your children – each program prepares students for Grade 1 and provides the foundation for success. We also offer different scheduling options to accommodate your family’s lifestyle – choose from our regular half-day Kindergarten programs, our full-day every-day programs, or our full-day, alternating day programs.
Please join us for our open houses and school tours, or call your neighbourhood school to arrange a visit any time.
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Elmer S. Gish School 75 Akins Drive 780-459-7766
Kindergarten Information Evening/Open House/ Cogito and Global Programs: Feb. 13, 6:00–8:00 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Keenooshayo School 40 Woodlands Road 780-459-3114
Open House: Feb. 5, 6:30 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Leo Nickerson Elementary School/École Elémentaire Leo Nickerson 10 Sycamore Avenue 780-459-4426 English, French Immersion and Logos Christian programs available. Kindergarten Information Evening/Open House: Feb. 11, 6:30–8:00 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Muriel Martin Elementary School/École Elémentaire Muriel Martin 110 Deer Ridge Drive 780-458-0205 English and French Immersion programs available. Kindergarten Information Evening: Feb. 6, 7:00 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Robert Rundle School 50A Grosvenor Boulevard 780-459-4475
Kindergarten Parent Meeting: Jan. 31, 6:30 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Ronald Harvey School 15 Langley Avenue 780-459-5541
Kindergarten Parent Information Evening: Feb. 12, 7:00 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Sir Alexander Mackenzie School 61 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue 780-459-4467
Kindergarten Information Session: Feb. 6, 6:30–8:00 p.m. (Library) School Tours: Call school for an appointment.
Wild Rose School 58 Grenfell Avenue 780-460-3737
Kindergarten Information Evening/Open House: Feb. 12, 6:30–7:30 p.m. School Tours: Call school for an appointment. Please note: As Alberta Education funds only the regular program, families must pay extra for the full-day every-day option.
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Connor Deighton (5) of the St. Albert Sabres and Michael Di Lullo of the Maple Leaf Athletic Club battle for the puck along the boards during their consolation round matchup Saturday morning at the John Reid Memorial Bantam AAA Tournament, which was held over the weekend at Servus Credit Union Place. The Sabres finished with a 1-2 record in pool play to finish third in their division, and they lost this game to MLAC 4-3. The team from the North Shore Winter Club in Burnaby, B.C., took home the tournament championship with a 3-2 win over Edmonton’s Southside Athletic Club Lions.
COVER
With all the orcs, dwarves, wizards, hobbits, elves and other inhabitants of Middle Earth that show up in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings saga, you’d think Charles Ross would have a tough time keeping them all straight in his head. But the Canadian actor says that’s not the case. See story, P. 12.
BY THE NUMBERS
248,799
That’s how many “Likes” the Edmonton Oilers had accrued on Facebook as of Tuesday afternoon, along with 180,036 followers on Twitter. More than 2,000 of those “Likes” are new since the end of the National Hockey League lockout was announced on Jan. 6. On Sunday, Jan. 13, when the Oilers used Twitter to announce a game of shinny hockey at Hawrelak Park with the hashtag #ShinnyMob, the club gained 1,100 new followers and 951 mentions on Twitter that day alone.
Green off to Korea for SO Worlds GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
For Larry Green, it’s not whether he wins or loses, it’s how much fun he has. Green, who was born in St. Albert, is one of 11 Special Olympics athletes from Alberta who are leaving today (Thursday) for Pyeongchang, South Korea, to compete in the Special Olympics World Winter Games. Green will be competing in alpine skiing in Pyeongchang, including downhill, giant slalom, super G and dual slalom. But he said he’s not looking to be really competitive; he just wants to meet some new people and make new friends. “For me, basically, it’s just a matter of going and having fun,” Green said, noting that any medals he brings back will just be icing on the cake. Pyeongchang will also host the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Green was named to the Canadian team in May after qualifying through the 2012 Special Olympics National Winter Games, which were hosted by St. Albert, Jasper and Strathcona County. Since then, Green has hardly been able to wait for this day to come.
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Larry Green (left) and his mom Terry are off to Pyeongchang, South Korea, as Larry competes in the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games. “It’s come way quicker than I thought,” he said. “I’ve been looking forward to this ever since I can imagine.” Green’s mother, Terry, and his aunt will make the trip to Korea with him. Terry will also be regularly sending information to his sister Amanda back in Canada, who will be updating a blog at larryssodream.blogspot.ca throughout the competition. Green said that his family has been incredibly supportive of his Special Olympics career and his trip to Korea. “My mom is super supportive of me. Like my dad, she’s been there since day one,” he said. “Same
goes for my sister.” He’s also getting a lot of support from his co-workers at the Fabricland location on Stony Plain Road in Edmonton. Outside of work, Green has been training hard, running 50 laps at the Jamie Platz YMCA in southeast Edmonton “every time I go,” he said, as well as hitting the slopes several times a week. “And around here at Fabricland, I lift heavy things for the girls,” he joked. Outside of work and training, though, Green also does several school visits for Special Olympics around the Capital Region, where he said they always get a great
response. “We always get a standing ovation,” he said. “It’s hard to believe, but it’s true.” “I get to meet new people and I get to see schools I’ve never seen before.” Green himself attended Vital Grandin, Albert Lacombe and Bertha Kennedy elementary schools in St. Albert, as well as Vincent J. Maloney Catholic Junior High School — where his mother still works as a teacher assistant — before graduating from Bellerose Composite High School in 1996. He started competing in Special Olympics in 1992. The 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games start Tuesday in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and run until Tuesday, Feb. 5. Canada is sending a total of 102 athletes to the games, along with 39 coaches and mission staff. Athletes will compete in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, short track speed skating, figure skating and floor hockey. For more information, visit the games’ official website at www.2013sopoc.org and official Facebook profile at www.facebook. com/SpecialOlympicsKorea2013, or follow their official Twitter account at @Korea_2013.
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Firefighters to freeze for MD GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
Several St. Albert firefighters are getting ready to once again freeze their boots for a good cause. Members of St. Albert Fire Services are gearing up to kick off their annual fundraising campaign for Muscular Dystrophy over the next couple of weeks, the highlight — or lowlight, depending on the weather — of which is a threenight campout on the roof of Fire Station No. 2 on Boudreau Road from Feb. 5 to 8. This is the third year firefighters have camped out to raise money. Last year, temperatures were rather mild, but in 2011, they battled wind chills reaching nearly –40 C. But Fire Services member Greg Harvey said he’d rather see the conditions they faced the first time around. “We’re hoping for cold weather again this year. It was like a winter vacation in February last year,” he said. “The cold weather gets a little more pity towards people who are out there for four days,” he added. In 2012, the department raised more than $42,000 once all the coins were tallied up — well beyond their goal of $15,000. “This city, person for person, donates more than anyone in Alberta,” Harvey said. “I think we were second overall in the province last year for what we raised, just behind Edmonton. So that’s a feat in itself.” This year, St. Albert firefighters have again set a modest goal of $20,000. “We’re just always unsure of
City to file appeal on bong shop bylaw ruling
aspects are more important or at least as important.” Judge Terry Clackson’s The City of St. Albert ruling was released on Friday, won’t see its attempts to Jan. 11. In it, he said that the put the clamps on drug bylaw was “about criminal paraphernalia shops go down law, a power which is plainly without a fight. beyond the competence of the The City municipality.” announced Friday Clackson added that it would appeal that the bylaw had a Court of Queen’s “the look and feel of Bench ruling that morality legislation.” was released last “What was plainly week that found in the mind of the amendments to the City was illegal business licensing narcotics. The bylaw intended amending bylaw Patrick to crack down on has the look and Draper bong shops in St. feel of a statement City manager Albert overstepped that ‘this kind of municipal thing isn’t going to government boundaries. happen in my City’ and it is “The City has decided to plainly designed to address appeal the ruling because the perceived enforcement we find that the Justice difficulties associated with failed to consider that these the Criminal Code provisions regulations form part of a relating to items which comprehensive and legal might be considered drug system of business licensing,” paraphernalia,” he wrote. city manager Patrick Draper The legal challenge was said in a press release. initiated by the owners of “Under the Constitution, Chad Smoke Shop 420 Ltd. the power to regulate in October after the shop was businesses through licensing inspected and ticketed under is clearly a provincial power, the bylaw in May 2012. and in Alberta, this power is Amendments to the bylaw delegated to municipalities included spelling out a range through the Municipal of “restricted products,” Government Act,” City from grinders to digital solicitor Gene Klenke added weigh scales to detoxifying in the same release. “Aspects products, and not allowing of the bylaw complement a business to sell more than federal jurisdiction, and our three such products in their view is that the municipal store.
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Whether it’s freezing or fair, members of St. Albert Fire Services will once again be out collecting donations for Muscular Dystrophy Feb. 5 to 8. what we can actually expect ... but ideally we’d like to beat Edmonton, so we’ll see if the people of St. Albert can help us with that,” Harvey said. They’ll have a little help meeting that goal, though, as deputy premier and St. Albert resident Thomas Lukaszuk will join the firefighters atop Fire Station No. 2 for an hour or so on Thursday, Feb. 7. “We’re looking very much forward to that. The past couple of years, we’ve had our city councillors, and we just wanted to amp it up a little this year,” Harvey said. “We asked the deputy premier to join us, and he without question said yes, absolutely. It’ll be treat for us to have someone of that stature up there.” Aside from the campout, firefighters will also be serving dinner at Eastside Mario’s tonight
(Thursday), with all tips going to the fundraising campaign. They will also be hosting their annual boot drive at the Safeway in Inglewood Towne Centre on Saturday, Feb. 2, and an online silent auction will be conducted between Feb. 1 and 28 at www. stalbertfirefighters.com. Over the years, St. Albert firefighters have had the chance to visit with kids suffering from muscular dystrophy, and Harvey said those encounters really drive home why they’re working so hard to raise money. “When we get visits to the hall from kids that we’re fundraising for, it makes you pause and think about it for a second — this is what the real cause is for,” he said. “When you get to see those people, it really moves all the people out there, and kind of amps it up to fundraise even more.”
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City takes final steps on industrial lands
eventually approved. Not everyone who had their say St. Albert Leader Monday was on board with the changes, After years of debate and several delays — either. Sturgeon County councillor Tom including a fire alarm at St. Albert Place — Flynn came before council to express his St. Albert city council finally voted Monday municipality’s objections to the designation, afternoon to designate slightly more than including joint servicing, new density 600 acres of land for industrial use. requirements, environmental concerns The fire alarm sounded just after 5 p.m. in Lois Hole Centennial Provincial Park Monday as councillors were getting set and Carrot Creek, and the proximity of to open up the public industrial development hearing on the issue, to multi-lot subdivisions delaying proceedings like Silver Chief and by about 10 minutes. Fairhaven. But, after getting the “Industrial all-clear to return to [development] has the chambers, council got potential to greatly Malcolm Parker down to business and impact upon Sturgeon City councillor unanimously approved County and its residents amendments to the through possible land use Municipal Development Plan and the conflicts, a lack of information or dialogue Intermunicipal Development Plan needed to on servicing and effects on adjacent land set aside the land along St. Albert’s western values,” he said. boundaries for light industrial use. Flynn also noted that Sturgeon County “It’s time to move forward and get on with has repealed the IDP, but the City of St. economic development in the community,” Albert continues to recognize it and use it said Coun. Malcolm Parker. for planning purposes. The designation was previously delayed City senior planner Carol Bergum said in November when the changes were not that is because “there are a number of items unanimously approved by the Capital within the IDP that still provide important Region Board’s CAO subcommittee, thus direction to us, in terms of greater detailed pushing back a scheduled public hearing. information about future development in The amendments had to be pushed to a full our own lands, that is not provided in any board meeting on Dec. 13, where they were other documents.”
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“It’s time to ... get on with economic development.”
As well, Jim Pennell of Genstar Developments reiterated concerns that he brought forward when the matter last came before council in April, including the rolling topography of the land in question and the cost of servicing the land. “We estimate it would be $10 million to bring services over from where they are at this point in time. That number hasn’t gone away,” he said. “Who is going to step up and fund those types of dollars?” But councillors pushed forward Monday, not wanting to further the City’s reputation as not being business-friendly and wanting to bring on more non-residential taxes quicker. “The development industry and the business community in St. Albert are
looking to St. Albert council to continue this process and move forward, and not run the risk that we will tarnish our image and potentially chase developers away,” city manager Patrick Draper said. Aside from the MDP amendments, council also approved a motion to have Draper work with his counterpart in Sturgeon County on a process to resolve intermunicipal planning issues between the two jurisdictions and report back by March 4. “Despite the fact we’ve had disagreements in the past with regard to IDPs and MDPs, I feel there’s a strong opportunity for us to go forward and work together in the region,” said Coun. Cam MacKay, who proposed the motion.
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Tourney takes hockey to streets
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Kyle Hawrysz, left, of the St. Albert Chiefs trips over Brody Malo of the St. Albert Rangers during their Minor Hockey Week tilt at Terwillegar Recreation Centre in Edmonton on Sunday.
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When his kids gave their approval, Rob Brown knew he was onto something. The former National Hockey League player and current St. Albert resident is among the group spearheading the first-ever Road Rage Street Hockey Tournament hits the streets on May 25 and 26, with the south parking lot at Servus Credit Union Place being turned into a hockey haven for kids from seven to 14 years of age. “We all talked to our kids and asked them if they would be interested, and they jumped at it,” Brown said. “It was just a bunch of dads putting together something that they feel their kids could have fun in.” Brown added that, despite similar events in the Capital Region, he feels St. Albert is the perfect place to host a tournament like this. “We want to make it community-oriented. We want to get to the schools and have all the kids in the schools know about this. We want people to be able to walk around the site. We don’t want it to just be a bunch of kids playing hockey; we want it to be bigger than that,” he said. Brown said the group — which also includes locals Dave Ridd, Geoff Giacobbo and Rob LeLacheur — was inspired to put on the tournament after seeing that their kids’
love of hockey doesn’t end when winter does. “Seeing our kids get excited when it gets nice out, and they grab their sticks and go out and play road hockey — my son just loves it nowadays,” he said. “We started talking about it one day and thought it would be kind of neat to have a street hockey tournament in town.” And seven to 14 years old is the perfect age group for a tournament like this, he added. “That’s an age group where kids are able to play and understand the game and go out there and have fun,” Brown said. “We didn’t want to have age groups that are too old and would make it too serious. Our big thing is fun.” Part of that is keeping the registration fees affordable at $280 for a team of seven, or just $40 per child. “You don’t want to price yourself out to the point where only a select few can afford to come,” Brown said. “We looked around and what other ones charged, and tried to do it accordingly.” The tournament does fall on the same weekend as this year’s Rainmaker Rodeo and
Exhibition, but Brown feels the two events can be complementary, not competing. “There’s so much going on at any time in St. Albert and in Edmonton that you can’t find a weekend when there’s only one thing,” he said. “It might be more of, let’s take the kids to the rodeo on this day, and then the road hockey tournament this day — you can make it an entire weekend where it’s just a family-oriented weekend.” “The only thing that scares me,” he added with a laugh, “is that, being a St. Albert native, I know the Rainmaker makes rain a lot of times. So maybe this will offset that a little bit.” So far, several sponsors have been lined up, including St. Albert Source for Sports, ATB Financial, Servus Place and the St. Albert Leader, but Brown said they’re looking for more before the orange ball drops. “We’ve just started getting going on this,” he said. “This has gotten off much quicker and much faster than we ever expected. … It looks like it’s going to be pretty cool.” For more information on the tournament and to register, visit www. roadragestreethockey.com.
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What’s next for industrial land?
Here’s what people are saying about #StAlbert on Twitter:
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ust like when you have a birthday but you don’t feel any older, things didn’t feel a whole lot different after city council met on Monday afternoon. It was a little anticlimactic, in fact, when councillors voted Monday to finally designate more than 600 acres of land by Glenn Cook for light industrial use from among what was annexed from Sturgeon County in 2007. But, make no mistake — even though there was no thunderous boom or beam of light from the heavens, it was a momentous occasion, the culmination of six years of judicial wrangling and redrawing lines on maps. Of course, now that that is all behind us, the question still remains: Now what? Well, the easy answer to that is to market it. As one councillor put it back in April, you’ve got to have bread on the shelf in order to make a sale. So St. Albert has the bread on the shelf; the City now has to make sure everyone knows it’s there so they’ll come and buy it. That’s where the City’s new economic development department comes in. This is where executive director Guy Boston and his charges will truly earn their keep. They seem to have laid out a good plan before council in the weeks leading up to Monday’s vote, and now that it’s official, it’ll be up to them to execute it. The tougher answer to the “Now what?” question is to mend fences with Sturgeon County. It was evident from both the County’s opposition to the changes at the Capital Region Board level and from Coun. Tom Flynn’s presentation to council Monday that there is a rift between the two municipalities. It was heartening, though, to see that, despite moving ahead with the industrial land plan, the City seems to have taken the first step and extended something of an olive branch, or at least an invitation to sit down and talk about how to make the process better for the future. And that’s something that we’ll all be able to benefit from.
@Bob_Stauffer I always get sad thinking about John Reid. He scored one of the most important goals in the St Albert Saints history #tooyoung
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t’s a pretty cool week here in St. Albert. I don’t mean the weather either, or I would have used the words “friggin’ chilly.” Our city is set for some serious growth. As the desgination for the new industrial lands was just approved, there is now more industrial land than the city has ever had in its history. Add to that the fact that our economic development folks have just taken possession of their sharp new offices in the Perron District, on Sir Winston Churchill Avenue, and are ready for the lineup of businesses wanting to do business in St. Albert — at least that is what we are all hoping for and are working hard to make happen. Also this week, this
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LeLACHEUR Leader publisher My City Saturday is the Chamber of Commerce’s yearly gala event, where the new executive for 2013 will be sworn in. This is a great example of how a St. Albert event can be built from scratch and grown to a very sizeable event. The Chamber never had the dinner prior to 2008, and I remember clearly the hesitation in starting it. Around 100 came out for that first dinner, and now it has grown to a size that can fill the Moonflower Room of the Enjoy Centre, with many future growth
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opportunities ahead. When presenting the St. Albert business community to the surrounding region, this event has done amazing things in upping our presence and is really great to see! It also wasn’t long ago when the Chamber tried to eke out 80 or so attendees at the mighty sum of $12 for their monthly luncheon. At triple the price, the room was packed with close to 200 for this week’s economic outlook luncheon at the Sturgeon Valley Golf and Country Club. It seems that the bigger problem the Chamber has now is finding venues of the larger size that can host their lunches — which is a good problem to have. The race is now on to see which volunteer chair of
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the Chamber is going to have the pleasure of holding the seat as they cross the 1,000-member mark. I’m sure we’ll see that soon. The Grow St. Albert events continue to, well, grow. That includes a sold-out room last week for their third Pecha Kucha Night. Don’t know what Pecha Kucha is? Mark your calendar for Friday, March 15 and go check it out. Lots of fun and community building and networking. It looks to be a great year ahead. While there is lots of work to do — by the City, the business community and the residents — it is evident that there are many great things on the go. It is good to look ahead with an optimistic smile. Especially when it’s so friggin’ chilly right now! Owned and operated by
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Monday was housekeeping day at St. Albert city council as councillors dealt with a number of motions that stemmed from the recently completed 2013 municipal budget process. Council approved four motions in total, all of which followed up on matters that came up during budget deliberations, but none of which should cost the City of St. Albert any extra money. The first motion was to develop a strategy for the construction of a community support centre that would house several community organizations, like the St. Albert 50+ Club and the Sturgeon Foundation, by June 1. Mayor Nolan Crouse, who put forward the motion, said that administration has been doing a lot of work on this matter behind the scenes, but he wants to bring it out into the open before the next municipal election in October. “A community support centre has been identified as an important need,” Crouse said. “But it has a significant capital and operating
cost. ... This has a lot of moving parts, and I think what we should do is make sure there’s a report coming to council and to the public in the next few months so we have an understanding.” The second motion was to have City administration provide an updated capital cost estimate for the park-and-ride project on the south end of St. Albert, in the Transportation Utility Corridor, by April 16. The original cost estimate for the project was $30 million, but that did not take into account levies, servicing fees, permit fees and other matters that still need to be negotiated with the City of Edmonton. The cost could also fluctuate due to a geotechnical investigation of the site and under which municipality’s engineering standards the project is built. The third motion was to develop a remediation strategy for the old public works site in Riel Park, which is now privately owned. When it was sold in 2000, instead of removing salt-contaminated soil, the City opted to disclose the contamination on the land title and continue monitoring the groundwater at a cost of $15,000 to $25,000 a year. But the
contamination levels have not decreased, and still exceed guidelines in water seeping out near the Sturgeon River. The strategy, due back to council by June 1, will look at costs for the remediation project — estimates have jumped from $500,000 to $800,000 — and methods over both short- and long-term timelines. The fourth motion was to move forward with developing the terms of reference for a light rail transit functional alignment study, which was approved in the budget at a cost of $500,000. The study will look at what route the LRT should take through St. Albert and where it should terminate in the north end of the city, as well as passenger demand estimates, station locations, structure requirements and traffic impacts. The terms of reference are scheduled to come back to council by April 16. A fifth motion from Coun. Cam MacKay that was included on Monday’s agenda to implement a zero-based budget policy was not put on the table for debate, as MacKay said he needed to work further on the details of his proposal after reading a report from City administration on the practice.
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Sports are helping bring a new language to life for numerous local students. École La Mission, a francophone school located in St. Albert’s Heritage Lakes subdivision, followed suit with other local schools and opened their own sports academy this past fall, and principal Claude Viel says it’s going “super.” “The kids are having a blast,” he said. “There’s no complaining; they haul their equipment around with no problem. A lot of them are starting to recognize that their endurance in sports in changing. A lot of them have mentioned it’s helping them out in their community sports.” But the benefits are not only seen on the field or the ice; they’re also evident in the classroom. “Academically, they always come in a little more alert,” Viel said. “When they come in from the sports academy at around 10:30 a.m., they’re wide awake and they’ve got energy in their bodies. They’re ready to go in their classes.” Last month, the academy students travelled to Legal to play students from the hockey academy at École Citadelle in what they dubbed the “Classique
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pushed even more, and it allows the other ones — the intermediate or beginner students — to have an initiation in a sport and obtain that extra coaching they would not normally get in a community sport.” The major modules covered include track and field, hockey, baseball and golf, although students have opportunities to try out lots of other sports, like wall climbing, curling, lacrosse and fencing, throughout the year. Viel adds that very little gets lost in translation when it comes to sports. “We are living in Alberta, and everything in the community is in English, but part of the challenge is to teach the kids the proper vocabulary they need to know to be able to play in French,” he said. Even though the academy isn’t quite halfway through its first year, Viel has given the green light for next year, and hopes the success continues into the future. “With the positive feedback I’ve got so far from the students and the parents, it’s certainly something we’ll continue next year,” he said. “We were hoping at the beginning of the year to have at least 10 students registered in the program, and now we’ve got 23. ... I don’t think there will be any difficulty getting our maximum next year.”
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One actor rules them all at Arden Theatre GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
Charles Ross says he has no trouble keeping all the voices in his head straight. Ross is the comedic mind behind One Man Lord of the Rings, his one-person retelling of J.R.R Tolkien’s classic fantasy tale, which hits the stage at the Arden Theatre on Wednesday, Jan. 30. He has a vast array of orcs, dwarves, hobbits, elves and wizards to portray on stage, but Ross said he’s got it down pat. “By the time I got to Lord of the Rings, it was much easier to get my head around keeping things separate,” he said. “With Lord of the Rings versus, say, Star Wars, Star Wars doesn’t have a lot of unique characters; their voices don’t sound a
lot different. It’s just a lot of humans running around. “Lord of the Rings has a lot of humans, but a lot of monsters, so it was easy to keep things separate because the people that performed them were so varied. So I find it easy to keep them distinct.” It also means he often has to fight with himself, flinging his body across the stage to mimic the battles from the books. “When touring Lord of the Rings, particularly, I do not need to go to the gym. It just takes it out of me,” he said. “I’ve had to, over the years, find different ways of padding myself. I wear elbow pads, knee pads, a football girdle with a lumbar pad and pads on the sides. It’s great — I feel like the Michelin Man and I’ve learned to throw myself around more.”
Prior to performing Lord of the Rings by his lonesome, Ross honed the craft of the one-man show by taking the Star Wars trilogy on his own. He said the idea to take on such epic stories on his own somehow seemed easier than trying to make it as an actor in the small Canadian theatre industry. “I tried writing my own stuff, and it went moderately OK. But it was weird; the idea of doing Star Wars on stage solo was the one that peaked everyone’s interest,” Ross said. Ross grew up on a farm outside Prince George, B.C., and, along with watching Star Wars on home video, he read the Lord of the Rings books many times when he was younger. While the Lord of the Rings movies stretched out for nearly nine hours, Ross
doesn’t have the luxury of that time on stage — or the memory to fill it, he admitted. But he still manages to touch on the major plot points. “When I sat at the computer, I tried to write down my favourite bits, but also bits I could remember that actually told the story,” he said. “I couldn’t remember every line. I couldn’t remember every scene. I couldn’t even remember exactly whether one scene came before another. It really is my own particular version of the show. ... My theory was, whatever I could remember off the top of my head should, in theory, be what the average person can remember, if they’ve seen the films. I’m just trying to spark the memories that are hopefully already there in people’s minds.” The reactions from hardcore Lord of the Rings fans, Ross said, is like preaching to the converted, but he is far more interested in the reaction from casual fans of the genre. “They get to watch me try to tell the story in kind of an eight-year-old kid’s exuberant kind of way, and it is geared toward telling people who don’t know the story the story,” he said. “But for people who are super into Lord of the Rings, that’s almost another dimension. You get to come out and
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Charles Ross tackles Lord of the Rings all by himself on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Arden Theatre. meet or see some of the people who are avid fans, and they’re getting every single little bit of the show.” But having had Sir Ian McKellen, who plays the wizard Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings movies, personally endorse the play goes a long way in that regard, as well as bolstering Ross’s spirits during the legal wrangling that would allow him to take the show on the road. “Having his seal of approval, so to speak, or his thumbs up, gave me a lot of wind in my sails. The legal
process can take so long and it can be quite draining if you think you’re not on the right trail,” he said. “But because he loved it as much as he did and he tried to help me basically in any way he could, it buoyed me up, and I was able to hold on five years until all the legal Is dotted and Ts crossed.” One Man Lord of the Rings, starring Charles Ross, comes to the Arden Theatre on Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 each and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden box office (780-459-1542).
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Radio just one weapon in SIIINES’ arsenal GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader
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It’s like déjà vu all over again for Travis Nesbitt and Morgan Gies. At one time, the pair of Paul Kane High School graduates toiled away to get their band, Social Code, off the ground. Today, they’re doing it all over again, this time with their new band, SIIINES. “It’s a rush starting from scratch again in a lot of respects,” Nesbitt said. “I mean, I guess it wouldn’t be scratch, because there’s still a bit of the fanbase and some relationships. But it’s cool, though. “I think that’s the best part, that Morgan and I were able to strip everything down and go, ‘What did we like? What didn’t we like?’ And let’s just do what we think worked.” Of course, the musical landscape is a little different these days, meaning they’re using some different methods to get noticed, like shooting a video for every song they release and working to get them to go viral. “The spin counts are going up and up and up every week,” Nesbitt said. “I was never a part of anything on a grassroots marketing level other than playing shows,” Gies added. “We always had a team of people that did it for us. It
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feels fresh and different and exciting, and it’s as creative as writing or making videos.” SIIINES is Nesbitt, Gies and DJ Gina Giorgio. The electro-rock group was formed last year after Social Code members decided to go their separate ways. While they’ve taken the experimental route with their promotion thus far, one traditional avenue the band has taken is through good old-fashioned radio, as SIIINES has been named Band of the Month for January on Sonic 102.9. “To me, the most important thing is it’s the first mainstream way that SIIINES is being taken to the world,” Nesbitt said. “We’re doing a lot of internet things, which is great and is showing a lot of results, but this is the first mainstream, in-your-car, driving-home-from-work debut for the band.” He added that, when they submitted their tape to the station, there was never any worry that what they were doing was too electronic for modern rock tastes. “It’s never really been about having to be on radio or it has to be one thing or the other,” Gies said. “There are so many possibilities now that you try to take the pieces and put them all together, as many of the pieces as you can, and hopefully you gain some yardage that way.” In fact, Gies felt that musical tastes seem
to be trending toward electronica, with more synthesizer and turntables showing up on rock radio. “Music and tastes are cyclical, so now there’s this resurgence of dance music, and because of the Internet and the voice it gives people, it shows all those niche areas and brings them to the forefront, to people’s views,” he said. “But if you listen to modern rock, it still has Mumford and Sons and all sorts of non-electronic bands. [The Internet] has just given a voice to those things that might not have had it before.” Band of the Month honours come with not only a regular spot in the Sonic airplay rotation, but also a showcase concert on Thursday, Jan. 31, at the Starlite Room in downtown Edmonton. That’s a larger venue than the usual Pawn Shop on Whyte Avenue, which Gies said is a bit “daunting,” but Nesbitt is mainly hoping for a good time. “The bands that are playing are friends — we’re really conscious of that,” he said. “That’s what this band is about: what we want and the world in which we want to live.” The Band of the Month showcase also features Jay Sparrow, Axe & Smash and Death By Robot. Tickets are $12 each and available at Blackbyrd Myoozik, Brixx Bar or through Ticketfly.com.
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L E G A C Y What is your Legacy? Ask many people and most will say that they want to leave some sort of legacy in life. Some might not be so willing to say it out loud, but many are thinking it. Everyone wants to be remembered — and everyone wants to leave a positive impact in our great community. The St. Albert Leader is proud to offer this special feature entitled Legacy. While many do want to leave their legacy in life, many are uncertain of what, where or how to do so. This feature showcases local non-profit organizations, allowing them to elaborate on their causes, their programs and more.
charitable giving a great resolution for ’13 MicheL KeLLy-gagNoN Sun Media News Services
If you haven’t settled on a New Year’s resolution for this year, allow me to suggest one: charitable giving. According to the 2007 Canada Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, almost 23 million Canadians donated a total of $10 billion that year. Almost 12.5 million gave the gift of time by volunteering, while 84 per cent of Canadian adults provided direct help to others living outside their households. Why do so many people give money, time and assistance to others? There are many good reasons to give, not least of which is how it will make you feel. Simply put, giving makes people happier. According to a 2009 working paper by Harvard Business School and University of British Columbia researchers entitled Feeling Good about Giving, charitable giving “leads to similar brain activity in regions implicated in the experience of pleasure and reward.” In addition, students asked to commit “random acts of kindness” report increased happiness levels compared to control groups. Of course, giving is also good for recipients. It can provide the needy with food, shelter, human warmth or medical care. Or it can take the form of scholarships for deserving students. Or it can allow researchers to pursue their investigations,
increasing the store of human knowledge and leading to life-enhancing discoveries and inventions. Despite the power of free markets to increase our wealth and well-being, people can fall on hard times through no fault of their own, and the benefits of wealth creation may not materialize for them until much further down the road. Thus, private charity has an essential role to play in filling such needs. And without it, the rhetoric for ever-expanding and ever-more intrusive welfare state schemes can only gain ground. Personally, I donate to several charities. My favourite is Kiva.org, a non-profit organization that helps fight poverty around the world. Kiva connects lenders and borrowers around the world through a global network of microfinance institutions, encouraging entrepreneurship and self-reliance. Since it was founded in 2005, Kiva has granted almost $400 million in loans from nearly a million lenders, and has a spectacular 99 per cent repayment rate. But whatever your favourite cause, consider giving in 2013, or consider giving more. It will be good for you, good for the recipients, and good for society. Michel Kelly-Gagnon is the president of the Montreal Economic Institute (www.iedm.org). The views reflected in this column are his own.
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Researchers from Harvard and UBC say that charitable giving “leads to similar brain activity in regions implicated in the experience of pleasure and reward.”
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We Can Help Individual Counselling, Group Support, Violence Prevention Education, Family Support, Elder Abuse Support All our Services are FREE
WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF A PERSON’S LIFE? WHAT IF YOU COULD DO IT IN YOUR OWN COMMUNITY? People everywhere have the same hope: to live peacefully and to take care of themselves and loved ones. Your support allows you to play a vital part in the rebuilding of lives, hope, and community. Your donation to the Stop Abuse in Families Society can be used for the following: $250 provides Group Counselling for one evening $100 funds the development of a detailed safety plan for a family fleeing domestic violence $50 pays for one hour of individualized counselling for a man, woman, or youth dealing with family violence $25 funds purchases for our resource centre, books, pamphlets, brochures, and other educational items To make a donation please call 780-460-2195 or go to stopabuse.ca and click on Donate Now. Thank you for your support Charity # 12097-1304 RR0001 The goal at the SAIF Society is to raise $120,000 in individual donations and keep expenses under 30%. For more information on donating and receipting please go to www.cra.gc.ca/charities or contact Doreen Slessor at 780-460-2195 for more information.
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STURGEON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INVESTING TODAY FOR A HEALTHY TOMORROW
At the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation, we’re proud of the role our hospital has played in the growth and development of the City of St. Albert, Sturgeon County and North Edmonton. Our region offers one of the best standards of living in our province and our country and we feel fortunate to be one of the cornerstones that have made our community what it is today. At the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation, we are encouraged by the advancement in health care and how our hospital has enhanced the personal well being of everyone in our community. Our passion, hard work and fundraising efforts help grow our organization’s reach and keep donations dollars within our community and families. The Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation raises funds to support the four key areas within the Sturgeon Community Hospital including: • Enhanced family care • Purchase of leading edge medical equipment • Support of further innovation • On-site and community education
Choose to become a Friend of the Foundation. Thanks to the generous support of our community, the residents of St. Albert, Sturgeon County and North Edmonton receive some of the finest health and personal care in our country. As we move towards the future, we look forward to upholding our highest level of service and growth into new areas of care for our community. Of course, we couldn’t do it without you – and we thank you for your commitment to the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation. Discover a giving program that works best for you. You may direct donations to specific programs, equipment or the area of greatest need. Donations are all sizes are deeply appreciated. · Annual campaign · Gift Every Month program · Corporate sponsorship · Memorial and Tribute donations · Planned Giving · Sponsor a Brick · Special Events/Third party events · Volunteering
Celebrate the Life of Someone Special When you honor the memory of a loved one or celebrate an achievement with a donation to the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation you are making a truly meaningful tribute as so many people benefit from the health programs this gift supports. Your gift will be promptly acknowledged and the designated person or family will be notified of your gift. The amount of your gift is not disclosed. Planned Giving Established through sound estate planning, planned gifts provide the donor with the satisfaction of knowing that his or her gift will act as a personal legacy to enrich the lives of others for generations to come. Many planned giving options exist including the following: • Bequest by wills • Endowments • Gifts of Life Insurance • Gift Annuities • Outright Gifts of Cash
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Building Homes. Building Hope. Habitat is a Hand Up not a Hand Out!
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ll of us want to leave a purposeful legacy that will have a lasting, positive impact on our community. Habitat for Humanity provides a meaningful way to allow your legacy to stand embodied in the home of a hardworking family, whom you have provided with a “hand up” into a future full of dreams and potential. A legacy gift to Habitat empowers families to stay rooted in your community and provides an avenue for a secure future. There are many families that find it difficult to remain in St. Albert. They were born and raised and work in St. Albert, and they want to raise their children in the city that they love, but they are out of reach of a traditional mortgage. Your gift helps close that gap b y providing a family with a “hand up” into home ownership, which results in a more promising future for a family and your community.
Habitat homes are completely funded through donations, gift-in-kind materials and volunteer labour before a family receives keys to their home. This allows our charity to reinvest every family’s mortgage payment back into building more homes in St. Albert. Your gift is used over and over to help build more homes! It is a true legacy that will live on long past the donor’s life. Your children and grandchildren will be able to drive past the home and remember the legacy that you left in your community. A gift to Habitat is not solely a financial contribution. You can choose to be hands-on at the build site by pounding nails with family and friends. You also have the opportunity meet the family that will benefit from your gift and even work alongside them on the build site!
When given a “hand up,” many families improve their financial situation and are able to transition into a traditional mortgage. Habitat has the first right of refusal when the family decides to move on – we buy the home back and yet another Habitat family benefits from your gift! So your legacy lives on through a home that will be an affordable home to families for generations to come.
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Charities can turn to social media for sharing messages about their organizations and drumming up interest for donations and volunteer work.
Social media can help charities spread message METRO CREATIVE SERVICES – Social media has largely changed the way people communicate with one another. People can now instantly share thoughts and opinions with people on the other side of the globe. The prevalence of social media has also made it easier for charities to share a mission statement or message — like a call to volunteer or submit a donation. The global reach of social media is impressive. Sources including Google, Mac World, Socialnomics and Pingdom cite some amazing statistics with regard to the reach of social media, including: • One in every nine people on Earth is on Facebook. • People spend 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook. • YouTube has generated 450 million unique users who visit every month. The site also boasts 92 billion page views per month. • Twitter handles around 190 million tweets per day. • Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million, doing so in just 16 days. • During an average 20-minute period registered in 2010 on Facebook, there were 580,000 wall posts, 2,716,000 photos uploaded and 10,208,000 comments posted. While individuals do not necessarily use social media to research non-profit organizations
or make donations, social media is an effective and low-cost method for soliciting people for volunteerism and even fundraising. People also turn to social media sites to find out information about the efforts of certain charitable organizations or to hear more from people who benefited from an organization’s services or actions. To enable information flow to people via social media, nonprofits should create a social media presence. One of the easiest ways to do so is to start a Facebook fan page or establish a Twitter following. Because people may become annoyed by organizations that constantly try to push products or solicit donations via social media, it is important to balance out the content shared with fans. Keep the ratio close to 80/20, which means there should be 80 per cent of generic informative information offered with 20 per cent of donation/ volunteerism messaging. To keep people coming back for more, you will need to engage them on a level that goes beyond simply asking for help. Publish information on topics that are interesting, some of which pertains to the charitable organization itself and some that is just newsworthy. People are very interested in the personal stories of “survivors” or those
helped by organizations. Offering testimonials or tales from these people will lend credibility to your non-profit as well. Social media also helps to make anyone who is using it feel more connected on a personal level than a corporate website or an information hotline. It may reduce inhibitions about contacting a charity if it seems like the organization’s members are willing to “chat” via social media. Experts advise that charities should use social networks as a way to connect with users through real stories, conversations and interactions. Communication isn’t always most effective when information is disseminated strictly by organizations. A good portion of donations and volunteerism is initiated by individuals who have a stake in a specific cause. For example, a mother to autistic children may encourage Facebook friends to participate in a specific fundraising walk or make a donation to a charity of choice. Because of this personal appeal, this type of outreach may be one of the most effective ways charities put social media to use. Non-profits and other organizations should not overlook the effectiveness of social media to share a special message in a relatively short amount of time with people around the world.
METRO CREATIVE SERVICES – When movie producer David Gundlach passed away suddenly from a heart attack in October 2011, few people knew he intended to leave his massive personal fortune to a local charity in his hometown of Elkhart, Ind. Gundlach gave away all of his $125 million to the Elkhart County Community Foundation. One doesn’t have to be a famous movie producer or sports star to donate assets to charity in wills. Individuals sometimes make the choice to leave a portion of their estate to a favorite charity to create a legacy that helps the unfortunate. Such a decision may surprise family members, so it may be wise to discuss plans when drafting wills and ensuring that the correct method of bequeathing estates to charities is followed. When a will is written, it is typically in a person’s best interest to consult with an estate-planning attorney prior to making any decisions. When working in conjunction with a financial planner, an attorney can help you grow your estate and ensure your assets will be distributed according to your wishes. When writing a will that includes charitable donations, be very precise in the wording and specify your wishes and intents so they are carried out correctly. Just like feisty family members, charities can be quite aggressive in their pursuits of funding, particularly if they have reason to believe that money will be coming their way as part of a person’s will. In order to prevent unnecessary battling among attorneys, it is best to have all of your wishes clearly explained and spelled out so the people and organizations who matter the most to you receive the money — and that you’re not simply funding legal bills.
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Donating an estate to charity means leaving a legacy after death.
Leaving money to a charity can have financial advantages for the other benefactors of your will. A bequest to a charity reduces the size of your estate, meaning less money is subject to estate taxes. While you cannot benefit from an income-tax deduction while you are alive, you will cut down on taxes afterward, which would normally take away money that was left to family and friends. Despite the advantage to bequeathing money to a charity, it is not something that is very common. According to Russell N. James III, a professor at Texas Tech University who conducted a study that analyzed 20,000 Americans over the age of 50 from 1995 to 2006, only around 9.5 percent of those who donated more than $500 a year to charity planned on making a charitable bequest after their deaths. Donating a portion or all of your estate to charity can be a way to leave a legacy and support an organization that has special meaning to you.
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The Discoveries Employment Program support individuals in finding paid employment within the community. Through a series of vocational assessment, skill development, and job coaching, results in individuals working independently within their community. The employment specialist works with the employee to ensure a smooth transition into the work environment. Gained employment typically cultivates further responsibility within the individual and a great sense of pride.
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Rush goalie ripped under all those pads
than him, maybe just broader shoulders, but he’s a little bit more ripped.” Bold, who also has a background in nutrition and sports Underneath all the bulky padding that Aaron Bold wears as supplementation, has most recently been training clients at starting goalie for the National Lacrosse League’s Edmonton GoodLife Fitness in Mississauga, Ont. Rush, there’s one chiselled physique. But this season, his second with the Rush, Bold will be one But what else would you expect from a pro athlete who of six team members living in Edmonton full-time — in stark moonlights as a personal trainer? contrast to many players in the league whose homes are a “That’s pretty much how it is,” Bold, 27, says of the razorplane ride away. sharp condition he maintains year-round — not just for photo While in Edmonton, Bold plans to do some personal shoots. training in his spare time. Bold’s shirtless torso, from his barn-door shoulders to his Throughout the season, which began Sunday at Rexall abs of steel, is featured in the 2013 Edmonton Rush calendar. Place, the all-star netminder will be working out himself up “It (the calendar photo shoot) was really to three times a week, focusing on sportsfun and it just brings the team together a specific plyometrics, along with foot speed little bit more. It’s team-building,” he tells and agility work. He’ll also toss in some Sun Media. “And it’s going for a good cause high-intensity interval training, such as (breast cancer research). I actually had a 30-second sprints, as well as some strength really good friend that was diagnosed with training. It’s a mixture of anaerobic and breast cancer and I helped her through it.” aerobic exercise, which pays dividends Aaron Bold Look for Bold’s glistening pecs and biceps during an explosive 60-minute lacrosse Edmonton Rush goalie in April (his birth month). Glistening? game. “We had baby oil,” laughs the native of “The players have got it a little bit harder Victoria, B.C., who weighs 210 pounds at six-foot-two. “I did than myself, but if we’re tired on defence and the opponents my own oil. I didn’t need anybody else to do my oil. I was get offensive resets, I’m holding a squat sometimes for a good with that.” minute and a half, jumping back and forth and moving And No. 77 is good with giving his teammates fitness advice all over the place,” he notes. “Sometimes, yeah, it’s pretty whenever they ask him. But Bold, a.k.a. “Boldy,” points out demanding. The only time I get a chance to relax is when our that he’s not the only resident fitness expert on the team. guys are on offence on the other end, but my head’s still in the “(Rush defenseman Chris) Corbeil, he’s ripped, too. Me and game. I never lose sight of the ball. I’m always fixated on the him are probably some of the more in-shape guys,” he notes. ball.” “Corbeil’s a little bit more shredded. I’m a little bit stockier Those two-minute TV timeouts, which are called every five minutes, can come as a welcome relief, he admits. Bold’s keys to fitness success include accountability, hard work, motivation, perseverence and a positive mindset. “The mind is a powerful tool,” he adds. The calendar boy hopes to open his own training studio one day soon. In the meantime, he recently completed his firefighter-related certification in Texas and is in the midst of applying to the fire departments in Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. “The first one that snags me (is where) I’m going to go,” he says. Bold already has a leg up on other firefighter applicants. He’s got calendar experience.
CARY CASTAGNA Sun Media News Services
“I didn’t need anybody else to do my oil.”
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When he’s not between the pipes (left), Edmonton Rush goalie Aaron Bold is a personal trainer — and it shows.
Prices cut on some generic drugs after provincial negotiations
SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Provinces have agreed to new price caps on six widely used generic drugs, and hinted more might join the list, in an effort to reduce costs for both private and public health plans. Prices of the six drugs will be capped at 18 per cent of their brand-name equivalent, an interprovincial policy group said on Friday. That’s a change from the previous 25 to 40 per cent cost versus the brand name prices. “We all know medicine is costly. We know someone who has struggled with those costs whether they are in a drug plan or not in a drug plan,” Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said after the
announcement Friday. “This is a start. There’s a lot more work that can be done on generics.” Wall, who co-leads an interprovincial health care working group behind the initiative along with P.E.I. Premier Robert Ghiz, said he and Ghiz would discuss next steps with health ministers this spring. “We’ll say, let’s move again on the next tranche of generics, perhaps, but let’s engage with industry. Maybe it’s not a price point — maybe industry has some ideas,” he said. “So I don’t think we’ll rule anything out.” The working group said in July that it would start by cutting the costs of three
to five generic drugs, but Wall said they made more progress than expected. The province of Quebec is not participating in the initiative, although Quebec already matches its prices to the lowest rates available elsewhere in Canada. The first group of six drugs accounts for 20 per cent of public spending on generic drugs in Canada, the provinces said in a statement, saving up to $100 million on public drug plans alone. They include medications to treat high blood pressure, high cholesterol, acid reflux and depression. The new rates will take effect in all participating jurisdictions by April 1.
The agreement is the first co-ordinated effort in a broad push by individual Canadian provinces to cut the prices they pay for generic drugs. The changes began in Ontario and spread, to varying degrees, across the country. Canada has a reputation for relatively cheap branded prescription drugs. However, a flurry of studies in the mid2000s found its generic drug prices were unusually high. But the initiative to lower them further could come at the expense of pharmacy chains. Shoppers Drug Mart stock dropped five per cent on Friday afternoon after the announcement was made public.
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The Challenger space shuttle explodes just 73 seconds after lifting from Cape Canaveral, Fla. All seven crew members died, including Christa McAuliffe, 37, a high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire.
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Alta. remains biz-friendly GLENN COOK Alberta is maintaining its reputation as one of the most business-friendly provinces in Canada, according to the provincial government and a new report. MMK Consulting recently released its Business Regulatory Benchmarking Report, which compared four Canadian provinces — Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Ontario — in 10 key areas. Of those, Alberta came out on top in occupational health and safety, in provincially regulated freight transportation, and in business insolvency and restructuring. “The report reinforces that Alberta remains one of the best jurisdictions in Canada to develop, sustain and expand a business thanks to our streamlined regulatory environment,” said Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education and St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan in a press release issued Monday. “To ensure that we build on our already business-friendly regulatory environment, we will continually assess our performance and strive to make Alberta the most competitive jurisdiction in Canada across the board.” In the report, expert assessors ranked the provinces’ performance in key areas that affect economic effectiveness. They also provided insight into what each province does well and how they can all improve and learn from each other. The Alberta government is also working on developing a new website to give small business owners in the province onewindow access to information on provincial regulations, as well as a chance to give feedback on new or existing regulations. This website should launch later this year. “Albertans will be able to easily find online and in one place all the information they need about provincial regulations that affect them,” said deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk.
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Year of the snake looks good for local business
KEVIN MAIMANN Sun Media News Services
The Year of the Snake looks good for business, according to the vice-president of the Edmonton Chinese Bilingual Education Association (ECBEA). Stephen Tsang says Chinese Zodiac animals are often paired with one of the five elements, and 2013 is the year of the water snake — a symbol of strong business prospects among other things. “The element of water is always associated with wealth and money and business in Chinese. So being a water snake generally means the coming year will be good for business, because it is generally floating up of money into the world,” he said. “So that’s a good sign.” Zodiac followers born in the Year of the Snake can look forward to an especially prosperous 12 months. Tsang says the snake is characterized by intelligence, intuitiveness, persistence and elegance. “They’ll probably have a better chance to make a little bit more money, they will probably get a promotion at work, or they if they (plan to) veer into some sort of business venture, it’s probably a good time to do it,” Tsang said. “Having said that, one of the particular
characteristics of a snake is they quite often jump in too fast without even thinking. That’s the nature of a snake ... That’s something that you need to be conscious about.” With Chinese New Year approaching Feb. 10, says the zodiac is used more as encouragement to strive toward certain goals than a literal projection of what’s to come. He laughs when asked if zodiac projections tend to hold true in his own life. “Yes and no. There are times when it seems to do it justice, but there are times when it doesn’t,” he said. “We look at these as more, if you think things positively, quite often it will actually help you to move towards that direction.” Tsang says the New Year traditionally marks the time of year when farmers in Asian countries finish their harvest and get to catch up with family and friends. This year, celebrations will take place throughout the city on the second and third weekends of February. “It’s just like our Christmas. It’s always a good time for families to get together,” Tsang said. The ECBEA will host a free Chinese New Year celebration at City Centre Mall Feb. 16 with prizes, carnival games, a parade and other family-friendly activities.
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One is armed with a university degree and is working in a job that’s not for her. Another has been in the workforce for a number of years and needs to upgrade his skills in order to achieve a much-desired promotion. Both need to upgrade their qualifications, but neither wants to quit their day job. They’re both also typical of students who pursue certificate programs. “Some may have decided to pursue additional education after learning in a performance review about ways to enhance their career or move within the organization,” says Judith Russell, continuing education registrar at the University of Calgary. “Some may have started at an entry-level position
and use continuing education to enhance and build their careers.” For others, continuing education is a means to another end, fulfilling requirements to keep their professional designation in good standing. Some pursue a certificate for pure personal satisfaction. At George Brown College in Toronto, general-interest programming is on the decline while the number of students taking courses to try and improve their employability is on the rise, says Kathleen Abbott, associate dean of the centre for continuous learning. There’s plenty to consider when choosing the certificate program right for you: • What skills do you bring to the table? Take inventory of your transferrable skills and knowledge. “Adult students looking to
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“If your goal is to improve yourself in your current job, speak to your employer and find out if a specific certificate would help your prospects. Some time with a career advisor can be helpful,” she says. Some students opt to take just one course to test the waters to see if that field or industry is what they’re interested in before pursuing a full certificate, says Russell. • Are you seeking a professional designation? Many certificates are recognized by external bodies, such as the Certified General Accounting or the Human Resources Professional Association. “If courses are also recognized by a third-party licensing organization, they carry more weight for the student looking to use their certificate to get further employment or improve their employment,” says Abbott.
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2009 Jeep Wrangler Sahara
L42238A
2008 F250 SD L42371A
2005 RAM SRT-10 VIPER TRUCK 29,000 kms, L45140B
2008 RAM 1500 QC 53,000 kms, Z9855
2010 RAM 1500 QC 40,000 kms, M4234A
49,777 $ 16,980
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29,997 $ 20,998 $ 24,975
2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee Diesel 45,000 kms #Z9866
29,899
$
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19,877
$
L42372A
2011 RAM 3500 LARAMIE DIESEL
Stk# St k#M4 k# M457 M4 576A 57 6A Stk#M4576A
2008 Lexus RX350
28,891
$
2007 Dodge Nitro
2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Low Kms #L42368A
13,860
$
37,950
$
2008 Jeep Liberty Limited #M4594A
17,882
$
2009 Toyota Sienna
2008 Jeep Patriot Sport
#M4567A
#L45222A
15,931
$
18,886
$
2012 Chrysler Town & Country #Z9858
29,875
$
25,000 kms #Z9876
28,900
$
2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Leather Loaded #Z9875
Local Vehicle #M4273A
2009 Dodge Grand Caravan #L4591A
14,975
$
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