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St. Albert resident Dave Ranson poses in his driveway with his Suzuki DR650 motorcycle, which he plans to ride all the way to the southern tip of Argentina later this summer to raise money for spinal cord injury research. Story and photo, page 3.

BY THE NUMBERS

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That’s how many students attended the City Montessori School in Lucknow, India, during the 2011-2012 academic year, making it the largest school in the world in terms of the number of students, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. That’s a far cry from when the school was started in 1959, when Jagdish Gandhi and his wife Barthi opened it with a loan of 300 rupees ($63 US) and a grand total of five students.

Bike trek to raise spinal cord cash

because of its simple design and worldwide popularity, which should make it easy to find spare parts. Dave Ranson is going to the ends of the “It’s very reliable; it’s been in production earth — quite literally — to raise money for for a very long time. And it’s simple — airspinal cord injury reseatch. cooled, carbureted, it doesn’t have fancy alloy Ranson, who lives in Braeside, is getting set frames. It’s a steel frame, so if it breaks, it can to embark later this summer on a six-month be welded easily,” he said. motorcycle trip that Ranson has will take him from previously “I just like St. Albert to Ushuaia, made two-week Argentina, the treks adventure ... I want motorcycle southernmost point to California and to test myself.” in South America and Alaska, and a gateway to Antarctica, three-week trip Dave Ranson all in the name of to the east coast Prairies to Penguins raising $10,000 for the of the United Spinal Cord Injury States and Canada. Treatment Center (Northern Alberta) Society. Riding for long periods like that Ranson said that he’s always wanted to can definitely take a toll physically. go on long motorcycle trip like this, and the “You can get pretty sore if you timing was right this summer. spend a lot of hours on the bike — “I just like adventure. I like travelling, arms, shoulders, and your butt,” seeing new places, meeting new people,” he he said. “But hopefully I’ll just do said. “And I want to test myself. I just turned short days, 300 or 400 kilometres.” 50, and I just want to experience the world on While Argentina is accessible my motorcycle.” and Ranson won’t have to fly his bike In all, the trip will cover 30,000 kilometres anywhere to get started, he has done and take Ranson through 16 countries. three years of research to make this trip He decided to take on the challenge in possible, having to figure out logistics honour of his brother-in-law, who suffered to get around obstacles like the lack of a spinal cord injury in 2010 in a mountain a road between Panama and Colombia. biking accident, breaking two vertebrae. “If you get there and find there’s no “It was touch-and-go; his life was on the road, you could get across; you could fly it line. We didn’t know if he would walk again, across or there are many ships that could let alone move from the neck down,” Ranson do it,” he said. “But I wanted to make said. “It was a very shocking experience sure I picked the right boat. There are to go through. He had been very active in some sketchy boats.” mountain biking, a very active person. From Speaking of sketchy, Ranson’s route one minute to the next, things changed will take him through areas in Mexico dramatically.” and Colombia where most tourists Happily, though, Ranson’s brother-inwouldn’t dare tread. Ranson figures law has almost fully recovered today, and is some of that is overblown, but he’ll still walking, driving and doing daily tasks again. be careful. The money raised through the trip will go “I’m more concerned about toward purchasing a bionic exoskeleton for driving to Fort McMurray on SCITCS, which helps people with lower body [Highway 63] than I am about injuries walk again. driving through Mexico.” Ranson will be making the journey on a For more information on Ranson and his Suzuki DR650 motorcycle, which he chose trip, visit www.prairiestopenguins.com.

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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St. Albert resident Dave Ranson is planning to ride his motorcycle to the southern tip of South America later this summer to raise money for spinal cord injury research in the Prairies to Penguins ride.

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Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation ambassador Colby Tallick, 7, cuts the ribbon to kick off the Telus Walk for a Cure Sunday at the St. Albert 50+ Club. Despite rainy weather, there was a good turnout to help raise money to fight Type 1 diabetes.

Rathgeber fighting changes to CBC bill DANIEL PROUSSALIDIS Sun Media News Services

Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber is making a last-ditch attempt to save his private member’s bill on CBC and civil service transparency from “dubious” government amendments. “I trust that upon reflection members of this committee will reject proposed amendments, which remove C-461’s attempts at greater transparency,” Rathgeber told the Commons access to information committee Monday. Rathgeber’s bill would let the information commissioner investigate when the CBC rejects a request filed under the Access to Information Act, and would allow Canadians to learn the salaries of Crown corporation employees and civil servants making more than $188,000 annually. Government amendments were expected Tuesday to shield the CBC from the information commissioner and hide

compensation for all but the highest-paid mandarins who make up to $444,000 annually in salary and bonuses. Rathgeber has said that’s a non-starter. “Not a single witness has supported the government’s dubious proposition,” he said. Despite Rathgeber’s protest, committee member and Tory MP Brad Butt questioned the need for salary disclosure. “I’m trying to wrap my head around what the real public benefit value (is) of average citizens filing (access to information requests) all the time to find out what someone’s salary is at a medium level within the public service,” said Butt. Rathgeber said if the government insists on amendments, it should lower the salary disclosure level to $160,000 — the same salary that MPs are paid. Opposition MPs have raised questions about whether Rathgeber’s bill would harm CBC’s ability to operate. Rathgeber says he’d accept amendments to protect the public broadcaster’s freedom of expression and independence.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Hughes eyes priority shift in council run GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Reworking the City of St. Albert’s spending priorities is at the top of the list for the latest candidate to run for city council. A keen observer of local government for many years, Akinsdale resident Sheena Hughes announced Monday that she would seek one of the six spots on city council in this October’s civic election. Hughes said she decided to run for council after watching the current council make several decisions over the past term that she did not agree with and felt would erode the “small-town feel” that attracted residents in the first place. “We’re doing a lot of very large, pie-in-the-sky projects and committing tens of millions of dollars to them, and we’re doing that over giving us the essential services people would rather have,” she said. “The priorities need to change.” Hughes grew up in St. Albert,

graduating from St. Albert Catholic High School, and moved back to the city nine years ago to raise a family with her husband Randy. She has a bachelor of science degree in psychology from the University of Alberta, and worked managing information systems for the Alberta government for five years before becoming self-employed. She also serves on the board of directors for the St. Albert Community League. This is her first run at elected office at any level. While the election is slated for Monday, Oct. 21, Hughes said she wanted to get her name out now so she could start knocking on doors and listening to people. “I’m going to try and get out there as much as possible, and take this time I have to get out there and let them know what I represent, and actually take time to learn what is important to other people,” she said. “I have to not be afraid to talk to people, to really get to know them, be prepared to listen to

what they say and know what they’re saying is valid,” she added. Chief among Hughes’s concerns right now are the City’s spending priorities, which she said are out of whack. “There are communities out

“You can’t tell me we can’t do better.” Sheena Hughes City council candidate there that are doing much better at fiscal management than us,” she said. “Airdrie is similar to us — they are also a bedroom community to a major city, and has an 89-11 tax split just like we do. They’re very similar in many respects. The only difference is that they’re growing and we’re not. ... And their taxes are half of what ours are at the municipal level. “You can’t tell me we can’t do better at fiscal management when

I’m watching another community do it.” Such a rearrangement of priorities could free up resources to maintain green spaces and parks in St. Albert, which are another item that is high on Hughes’s list. “We need to look at maintaining what we have and preserving it, so that we can go out ... and play with our kids in the park,” she said, noting that she also wants to see city parks protected from infill development. “We need to have parks that are well-maintained and you want to be in to have that opportunity to really enjoy it.” Hughes would also like to see the City’s solid waste program revert back to weekly garbage pickup, saying the current biweekly pickup simply does not work for many families. “[The City] is touting it like it’s working for St. Albert, but I have family after family telling me that this current schedule is not working,” she said. “If you miss garbage pickup, you have

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St. Albert city council candidate Sheena Hughes says she wants to see a major shift in the City’s spending priorities.

four weeks in one bin, which is impossible. I’ve talked to people who go up and down their street regularly and beg their neighbours for garbage space in their bins.” Hughes’s campaign website is up and running at www. sheenahughes.ca.

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OPINION

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Wireless code a hollow win

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hen the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission came out this week with their new code of conduct for wireless phone companies, it seemed like a victory for all the Canadian cellphone users who have ever moaned or complained over by Glenn Cook the terms of their contracts or those ridiculous overage fees. But, no matter how big a victory it might seem like for the consumer, one gets that sinking feeling that, per usual, the phone companies will find some loophole, some way around these new regulations, and give their customers even more fodder for complaints. It was Monday when the CRTC introduced the new code, promising it would “establish consumer-friendly business practices for the wireless service industry” and “contribute to a more dynamic wireless market.” Among other things, the code allows for three-year contracts to be broken after two years with no penalty — about the time a wireless device usually becomes truly obsolete — permits phones to be unlocked after 90 days or immediately if paid for in full, and caps extra data charges at $50 a month and international data roaming charges at $100 a month. It all seems like good news for consumers, and thus far wireless companies have been somewhat receptive to the changes. But the new code of conduct doesn’t come into effect until December, and that will give phone companies plenty of time to poke and prod until, like NHL owners with a new salary cap agreement, they’ve found some kind of loophole, one that will allow them to pile charges on top of charges or somehow lock customers into terms longer than they intended or wanted. Really, it’s sad that something that the CRTC surely had the best of intentions with is met with this kind of skepticism, but that’s a reflection of the sad state of affairs that the wireless industry finds itself in these days. Pretty much everyone has their own cellphone horror story, or knows someone who does. Until the phone companies show they’re willing to play by these rules, that skepticism will carry on, and any victories for wireless customers will seem hollow.

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ocial isolation in seniors can have a variety of negative impacts on their health. It is necessary to combat isolation before it becomes an issue. According to a 2009 report from the Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council, an isolated senior can be defined as an individual over the age of 55 who has experienced the breakdown of his or her social networks and a loss of independence. Risk factors that cause isolation may include: • Solitary living arrangements and physical isolation from friends and family; • Health difficulties or mobility issues; • Low socio-economic status;

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• Barriers of language and/ or culture; • Lack of adequate transportation; • Loss of spouse; • Reduced social networks; and • Retirement. As people age and things in life change, they may find themselves having to make more of an effort to stay involved. Potential solutions for those facing some of the risk factors may include: • volunteering with a local community agency; • joining a club or group of peers with similar needs/

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interests; • making an effort to keep in touch with friends and family on a regular basis; • taking up a new hobby; • seeking information about transportation; • joining a support group; or • joining an exercise class. St. Albert has resources within the community to assist with seniors that have become or are at risk of becoming isolated. The Seniors Outreach Program at The St. Albert 50+ Club assists and supports individuals to identify and access available community resources. You can reach Tara at 780-459-0433 ext. 2 to access this service. The 50+ Club (7 Taché St.) also has information sessions, recreational

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activities, exercise and art classes and social activities to become involved in. Call 780-459-0433 for more info or drop in for a tour. The St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre (CIVC) can assist in finding the perfect volunteer placement. Call 780-4596666 for available volunteer opportunities. The St. Albert and Sturgeon Primary Care Network assists individuals to engage in community resources and to navigate the health care system. Please contact Lori at 780-418-6724 to learn more. — Val Niblock is a member of the St. Albert Seniors’ Working Group, which includes all senior service providers in St. Albert and area. Owned and operated by

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Local charities get stepping at Mayor’s Walk GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

More than 30 local charities are looking to make some big strides toward their fundraising goals next weekend. The 13th annual Roy Financial Mayor’s Walk for Charity kicks off at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 15, where participants can take part in a three-kilometre walk or a 10-kilometre run to benefit their favourite charities. Volunteer co-ordinator Lane Ganong said it’s very encouraging to see so many people

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come to show their devotion to their favourite organizations. “[Each charity] needs a minimum of three volunteers, but I have several charities that have offered more than that,” she said. “It’s a lot of returning people, the same people each year who come out and participate and head that [up] for their own charities.” Each charity has registered with the Mayor’s Walk organizers, with runners and walkers signing up to have the money they raise go specifically to their favourite charity. It’s a format that has stayed fairly unique to the Mayor’s Walk, and is integral to its

longevity and success. “It gives the smaller charities that you might not notice on a day-to-day basis the ability to come out and work together as a community,” Ganong said. “And it’s a great chance for community members to come out and support a great cause as well. Anyone can come out and walk and pledge for a variety of different causes.” This is Ganong’s third year being involved in the Mayor’s Walk, but even over that time, she said she has seen it grow and evolve quite a bit. That growth has necessitated moving the start line this year from the plaza behind

St. Albert Place to the Meadowview Ball Diamonds on Sturgeon Road. “There was a lot of congestion in parking with the opening of the market being the same day,” Ganong said, referring to the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce’s annual outdoor Farmers’ Market. “Now we have our own location and our own area there.” So far this year, 34 charities have signed up for the walk, ranging from the St. Albert Family Resource Centre to the Humane Animal Rescue Team and plenty in between. For more information on the Mayor’s Walk, visit www.royfinancialmayorswalk.com.

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• New Business Chapter Congratulations to Bruce Randall on his recent retirement from his economic development position with the City of St. Albert. Lots of hard work and commitment to our great city for over 30 years. He has seen many changes in his time. The city doubled in size during his tenure and the number of businesses grew from only 700 to over 2,300 since 1982. All the best, Bruce! Filling Bruce’s shoes is Joan Barber. Joan takes over the role as business retention and expansion manager, moving from her role in tourism. Growing our existing businesses is extremely important as it has been shown time and time again that it is easier to grow what you have rather than find new businesses. She is very understanding of the St. Albert market and is committed to the business community’s success. • Money for Growth Do you have an event that will attract an external audience and will drive economic development? Hotel rooms, restaurants, shopping and more! If you and your group have that idea, the City of St. Albert has a new fund for you. The Community Significant Event Stimulus Fund was created with almost $200,000 in seed money for approved events. This is a great opportunity for many and will put the focus of how the full community benefits on these events. More details can be found at www.stalbert.ca. • Soccer Community Grows On Friday, the St. Albert Impact U12 boys and girls teams will be playing a “Mini World Cup” tournament with mixed teams being put together to play short scrimmages against other “countries,” with 30 players from Mother Teresa Catholic Elementary School in Edmonton’s inner city. This is a school where 80 per cent of the student populations’ families are “in need.” St. Albert Impact players will be bringing a small gift bag for each player from Mother Teresa, filling a cloth or nylon

(reusable) lunch bag with some of the following suggested items: a book, movie passes or gift cards, deodorant, soap, a comb/brush, toothbrush/toothpaste, sunscreen, cap, hair ties/clips (girls), socks, soccer stuff, flip flops ... • Pecha Kucha Night #5 A great roster of speakers has been lined up for Pecha Kucha Night #5, presented by Grow St. Albert on Thursday, June 13, at the Enjoy Centre. Eleven-year-old Emma Richardson doesn’t settle on one location to perfect her art. She moves her easel amongst the rooms of her house to be around her family as she creates, and we will share in her art on June 13. After Becca Pati graduated, she wasn’t ready to “start” her life, so did what any ambitious 24-year-old might do — she took off for six months and lived in Australia. And she’ll drag us along on her travels. Not quite ‘Once upon a Time…’ but still Kurian Tharakan explores with our audience the power of a good story. Most teens make some extra spending money hauling around platters laden with food, Matti Thurlin learned to use his platters in a very different way and shares that gift with St. Albert youth. Dean Treichel brings the zoo to the Enjoy Centre and will provide our attendees the opportunity to experience wildlife in the natural world. Discovery has always peaked an interest in Cameron Vilcsak, but recently reading Stephen Hawking`s A Brief History of Time has pushed him toward the scientific end of discovery. Beauty is the one thing that is eternal; it expands beyond age, race, and gender. Vanessa Peynenburg will show us how beauty offers a means for every individual to express their inner self. Dirk Heinen manages one of the region’s busiest social networks — a literal hive of activity with some of the friendliest and misunderstood critters you’ll ever meet. Tickets are only $12 each and available on www.pknstalbert.com.

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Rain can’t put damper on spirits at Kids’ Fest GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Into every festival a little rain must fall, but even still, organizers of the International Children’s Festival are hailing this year’s edition a success. City of St. Albert cultural services director Kelly Jerrott said Monday that, even though there were rainy conditions for most of the festival’s five days in downtown St. Albert, the weather couldn’t dampen spirits. “Even with the weather, I think we had a really good festival,” Jerrott said. “We were lucky; the rain toward the end of the day on both days we had that heavier rain, so most of our school groups were in … The timing worked out

very well.” As of Monday, Jerrott didn’t have final attendance numbers nailed down, but did say that 23,000 tickets were sold for main stage performances, plus 17,000 tickets for site activities throughout the festival. “Plus Toddler Town was a big hit again this year, so we’re really excited with all of that,” she said. “We had so many school groups come in, and those were good numbers this year.” Jerrott chalked much of the festival’s success once again this year to the dedicated volunteers who helped make everything run smoothly. “We wouldn’t be able to do it without the volunteers, that’s for sure,” she said. “We had 850

volunteers doing all kinds of different things.” Jerrott was particularly proud the members of the festival’s youth ambassador team, who helped introduce acts and with other jobs. “The students who are involved in that program, they really are the leaders of tomorrow,” she said. While the sidewalk chalk has barely been washed away from this year’s festival, Jerrott and her team are already looking ahead to next year, lining up performers and coming up with new ideas. “We have to be almost more than a year ahead with the festival. We just can’t do a festival of that size and not be [that far ahead] if you want to keep up,” she said.

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Clockwise from top: Audience members put their hands in the air like they just don’t care at a Splash ‘N Boots performance in the Standard General tent; a pair of frogs from Mortal Coil take a break from their tea party to say hello to Sidney Strong, 6, of Morinville; a model CN train transports festivalgoers around the grounds; Will Stroet rocks the Enmax Outdoor Stage with his Backyard Band.

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Cuts decried at Legislature rally ALLISON SALZ Sun Media News Services

Over 1,000 opponents of Alberta’s cuts to programs that aid adults with disabilities rallied at the Alberta legislature Friday. The rally was the latest in an attempt to challenge plans by the provincial government to axe $42 million in funding to Persons With Developmental Disabilities programming. The PDD program provides funding for staff to help clients live independently, find and keep jobs, and participate in the community. Waving signs and chanting “No more cuts,” the crowd — made up of program recipients, friends, family and support workers — demanded the government slash elsewhere. One protester was Karen Tansem, 57, who lives with Down syndrome and currently

stays in a Lo-Se-Ca Foundation home, a not-for-profit that provides supports to adults with developmental disabilities. Her sister Lori Paniccia said the cuts will mean that the 24hour care that Tansem receives is in jeopardy, as are the everyday activities that her sister enjoys. “It’s just very upsetting. We, as a family, don’t know what we’re going to do when all of this happens,” she said. “She’s staffed. She has to be. She lives with a roommate. She has a great life. But that’s about to come to an end if these cuts come down July 1.” After a protest last week, the province said it would reconsider the cuts, only to come back and say it is pressing on. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith called the cuts “disgusting” and said if the government wants to slash the budget, it should look first to executive salaries and bonuses.

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Protesters rallying against cuts to the province’s PDD programs gather at the Alberta Legislature on Friday.

Oberle, providers clash over PDD changes

JACKIE L. LARSON Sun Media News Services

Tory government reassessments of the most vulnerable Albertans are meshing with $40 million in planned budget cuts to persons with developmental disabilities — despite increases to the $4.2 billion Human Services budget. Frank Oberle, Alberta’s PDD minister, hedged at first when asked last week about slashing to organizations service PDD clientele. The numbers fit the cuts, which fit a government hunch on how reassessments underway will end up. “They were given a figure based on where statistically we think the assessments are going to turn out and based on a provincial average of where we currently fund each of those categories of assessment,” Oberle said, adding that in some instances, reassessment is a plus for the PDD system.

“That may be a measure of success in our system because people actually do transition from very high needs to very low needs.” But Marie Renaud, executive director of Lo-Se-Ca Foundation in St. Albert, said PDD has miscategorized up to 70 per cent of the people they’ve reassessed. “These are gross errors, dangerous errors,” Renaud said, citing one Lo-Se-Ca client who has an illness in the autism spectrum. Bright, charming, he “presents well.” He’s also a documented pedophile whose violent behaviour has put caregivers in hospital. A government assessor recently re-classified him to “low needs/risk,” meaning less supervision. “It’s unethical, it’s too risky. The liability just gives you a headache,” said Renaud. The province told her to cut $567,358.25 — 12 per cent of the agency’s budget. Oberle called that a “worst-case number;” for Renaud, it’s 600 direct service support hours a week gone, or 15 full-time staff.

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Soapbox Derby ready to roll GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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Participants in last year’s Father’s Day Soapbox Derby certainly weren’t “dogging” it, nor will they be doing that when this year’s edition of the event kicks off on Sunday, June 15.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines — the fastest afternoon of the year in St. Albert is almost here once again. The Spirit of St. Albert (SOSA) Society and Rock’n August are gearing up for the third annual Father’s Day Soapbox Derby, to be held Sunday, June 16, starting at noon on St. Vital Avenue. SOSA executive director Cheryl MacKenzie said that the excitement is renewed each year as new racers enter the mix. “A number of riders retire, being 12 years old, and we have new ones coming in at six and seven, and we always have parents that are worried they’re not doing it right,” she said on Monday. “So right now, I’m in the middle of a week of pre-inspection inspections, people coming to visit me with their carts to make sure they’re doing it right. “It’s fun. It’s my favourite event.” While the registration deadline was May 31, MacKenzie said that they’re still accepting applications, and are hoping to be at around 80 to 85 racers this year, although that’s down from 2012. “I think people lose track of time; people are calling saying, ‘Oh my gosh, that was

last week!’” she said. “But anytime we have 80 racers, that is a 100 per cent successful event. The ones who come, they’re excited and they love it. That’s my goal.” The format for this year’s event is pretty much the same, although organizers are doing away with qualifications based on time, instead going with placement in heats to move on. The help of Rock’n August in organization and on race day is immense, MacKenzie said. “They’re my volunteer crew. The vast majority of my volunteers come from Rock’n August. And the guys love it. They’re just big kids, right?” she said with a laugh. “They see the tie-in. They’re about cars; they’re about the Rock’n August environment. This, for them, in the perfect tie-in to get kids interested in cars and everything that goes fast young in life.” She added that, now that it’s in its third year, it really feels like the derby is becoming an established event in St. Albert. “We don’t plan on this event going anywhere,” she said. “It’s going to stay in St. Albert, and we’re going to keep it going for years to come.” For more information on the Soapbox Derby, visit www.spiritofstalbert.com or www.rocknaugust.com.

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Trooper, April Wine to rock Rock’n August GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Classic rock and classic cars will come together once again in St. Albert as a pair of legendary Canadian bands hit Servus Credit Union Place this August. Organizers of the annual Rock’n August classic car festival have confirmed that both Trooper and April Wine will take the stage at Northstar Hyundai Arena on Friday, Aug. 16, as the finale to the festival, which runs from Aug. 6 to 10 at venues throughout St. Albert. Trooper is best known for hits like “Raise A Little Hell,” “The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car” and “We’re Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time),” while April Wine were on the charts in the 1970s with songs like “You Could Have Been a Lady” and “Just Between You and Me.” Trooper were last in St. Albert

in 2008, when they played the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition along with Dr. Hook and Vanilla Ice. The headlining bands will be joined on the bill by The Campus Thieves, who also rocked last year’s Rock’n August concert and feature former St. Albert Idol winner Ryan McGale on lead vocals. Last year’s Rock’n August festival attracted more than 50,000 people from across Western Canada and the northwest United States, and raised nearly $100,000 for the Alberta Diabetes Foundation. The 2012 Rock’n August concert also featured Harlequin and Doug and the Slugs. Tickets for the concert are $29 and $49 plus service charges, and go on sale on Friday, June 7, at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster. For more information about Rock’n August, visit the festival’s website at www.rocknaugust.com.

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Hockey arenas don’t faze Colin Mochrie GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Being outnumbered 900-to-1 is a harrowing thought, but Colin Mochrie isn’t worried. A veteran of TV shows like Whose Line Is It Anyway? and This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Mochrie and fellow improv comedian Brad Sherwood will be the only two on stage facing an audience of 1,800 when they perform at Servus Credit Union Place on Friday, Sept. 20. But he said those numbers don’t faze either of them. “We’ve had shows in outdoor arenas with Native American craft fairs around us. We can pretty much deal with anything, I think,” Mochrie said over the phone from Toronto last week. The configuration of the Northstar Hyundai Arena, however, might make things a bit more challenging. “Improv is meant to be an intimate art, usually,” he said. “We tend to do bigger houses, up to 2,000, in theatres, where there is almost that sense of intimacy — even though it’s a total lie. But an arena does make it a little more

challenging to get focused and hear people to help us out.” Mochrie and Sherwood are suggestions. But I think it should touring North America together work out.” throughout the summer and into But Mochrie hopes the venue 2014. The two have been friends is full of enthusiastic audience and have been performing together members eager to participate. for almost 25 years now, and “In a way, they’re an active Mochrie said participant in they’ve built up the show. The a lot of trust in show doesn’t that time. happen without “With Brad, I their suggestions totally trust him and input,” he when I’m on said. “They have Colin Mochrie stage,” he said. a vested interest Comedian “I know he’s in the show. watching my They want to back and he’s there to support my see you struggle at times, because ideas, he’s there to throw in ideas. that can be funny, but they also Even if I have no idea where he’s want to see you succeed with the going, I trust him enough to know, suggestions you’ve taken from if I follow him, I’m sure everything them.” will work out.” While suggestions are a big part That trust comes in especially of the show, Mochrie also said audience members will have plenty handy when one of them draws a blank onstage. of chances to get up on stage and “The beauty of improv, as play an even bigger role. opposed to standup [comedy], is “We bring up the audience in you’re never alone. So if you’re about 80 per cent of our games. not on top of your game, that’s Our show is more interactive when you tend to lean heavily on than [Whose Line] was,” he whoever you’re working with and said. “Because we don’t have a support their idea until you get moderator and it’s just the two back on your feet,” he said. “It’s rare of us, we need that everyone starts to suck at the same time, so it’s really nice to have a partner up there.” Mochrie got into improv for a very simple reason. “I’m pretty lazy,” he said with a laugh, “so I thought, ‘Great! An art form where I don’t have to learn anything, just make up crap. I can do that.’” Although Sherwood is not on board yet, Mochrie will be a featured player on the new version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, which is slated to start airing on the CW Network in the United States in July. The show reunites Mochrie with fellow Whose Line alums Wayne Brady and Ryan Stiles, while adding actress Aisha Tyler as host. “There is a little bit of worry when you try to revisit something that was so successful the first time around,” Mochrie said. “But the first show when Ryan and Wayne and I started to do it

“We can pretty much deal with anything, I think.”

again, it just seemed like we’d been doing it forever.” Between Whose Line, 22 Minutes and various other projects, Mochrie is a well-known name in Canada, but getting recognized in public is something he said is still pretty surreal. “People are generally very nice, but there is that part where — I

don’t know if it’s a Canadian thing — but I just went on television and made up stuff; glad you enjoyed it,” he said. Tickets for Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood range from $45 to $100 each, plus fees and charges, and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden Theatre box office (780-459-1542).

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Mandel ready for new talent JIM SLOTEK

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Howie Mandel, the Canadian judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, says he’s enjoying sharing the judge’s table with Mel B and Heidi Klum.

On the phone from San Antonio, during a break in filming of America’s Got Talent, Howie Mandel seems distracted at first, answering questions I haven’t asked him. There’s a woman’s voice in the background. Turns out he’s been responding to questions from new judge Heidi Klum and from me at the same time. “I’ve been sitting waiting for her, and there she is. Pretty soon we’ll be back on-set,” says Mandel, whose April stop in the Alamo City was the second of AGT’s 2013 tour (first stop was New Orleans). It’s a road show that would eventually encompass hundreds of acts auditioning across the country — to be followed by the show’s signature Vegas week. Live competitions begin July 23 from New York’s Radio City Music Hall. The perennially top-rated summer series — created by Simon Cowell — returned Tuesday with two new judges, supermodel Klum and former Spice Girl Mel B (Sharon

Community Band springs into action

The St. Albert Community Band is once again ready to “spring” into action. The band is holding their annual Spring Concert on Wednesday, June 12, at the Arden Theatre, starting at 7 p.m. Band president Gerry Buccini said both the SACB Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Angela Schroeder, and the Saint City Big Band, led by Tom Smyth, will have a wideranging repertoire on display that evening. But the piece he’s most looking forward to is called Africa: Ceremony, Song and Ritual. “There’s an ancient folk song from Ghana, and a chant to the god of thunder,” Buccini said. “You can imagine what it’s going to be

Osbourne was let go from last year’s trio). Apparently, the auditions are not shown in chronological order, since auditioners from San Antonio are featured in the season opener, along with ones from New York and Los Angeles.

“I keep asking myself how I got this job.” Howie Mandel America’s Got Talent judge So what does Toronto-born Howie do in his downtime in all those cities? “Mostly, I watch my cojudges change,” says Mandel. We’re guessing that doesn’t include co-judge Howard Stern. And what does Mandel’s wife think of him traipsing around the country with a supermodel? “My wife knows Heidi, and she watched me work with 26 hot models on Deal or No Deal. She’s great about it. Plus, she travels with me a lot. I don’t think it’s to keep an eye on me.

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“I’m loving Heidi and Mel. But it was so sad to see Sharon go. I’m still friends with her; I saw her this week and I’m on The Talk with her tomorrow.” As for the “talent,” Mandel says, “it’s just incredibly amazing. You name it, I’ve seen it. Things you’ve never even heard of before. It’s not just singers or dancers. It’s daredevils, the bizarre and the crazy. There are escape artists, people blowing themselves up with dynamite.” True enough, past winners of America’s Got Talent’s $1 million prize include singing-ventriloquist Cas Haley, opera singer Neal E. Boyd and an awfully cute animal act, Olate Dogs, last year. Earlier this year, Mandel kept AGT’s producers hanging on his decision to commit to a fourth season as a judge. He blames his indecision on his other show commitments, including the reality TV series Mobbed. “I honestly didn’t know what my commitment would be. But I’m thrilled to be back, and we’re just having a great time. I keep asking myself how I got this job.”

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including western film River of No Return starring Marilyn Monroe. Alberta Culture Minister Heather It seems filmmaker Christopher Nolan Klimchuk said it’s no surprise filmmakers has a soft spot for Alberta. keep choosing wild rose country for their Southern Alberta will be the backdrop projects and is pleased Nolan is returning to of a new film by The Dark the province for his latest one. Knight director slated to star “It indicates the talent we have Anne Hathaway and Matthew here in Alberta, number one, and McConaughey this summer, Sun part of it for me it just demonstrates Media has learned. all the hard work being done in this Sources say Nolan will begin industry,” she said. shooting part of his new sci-fi film “We know the diverse scenery we Interstellar in early August and will have in Alberta, you can look like begin preparations next month. you are filming back in the 1900s or Directed and co-written by you can look like you are filming in Christopher Nolan, the film also stars Jessica the future.” Nolan Chastain and Michael Caine, and As well, Alberta has no sales Director follows physicist Kip Thorne’s tax, the Alberta Multimedia theories of gravity fields, wormholes and Development Fund, and students at NAIT hypotheses Albert Einstein could never and SAIT working in digital technology who prove, according to its page on film site have the opportunity to get involved in film, imbd.com, she said. It’s not the first time Nolan has brought “We are just happy to have the work one of his films to the picturesque prairies. here and we know it’s our reputation in the In 2009, scenes from the blockbuster industry,” she said. “The world is watching Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Alberta for many ways and part of this is Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Ellen Page were building Alberta one production at a time.” filmed at Fortress Mountain, 124 km west of She said film production is an big Calgary. economic driver. “In the last five years, Television and film productions have it’s contributed about $400 million to the been flocking to Alberta since the 1940s, economy.”

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AD-ING IT UP Sometimes, a movie’s product placement is at least as memorable as the movie. Herewith, a handful of Hollywood’s classic logo notions: • ET: ThE ExTrA-TErrEsTrIAl: Who doesn’t know that E.T.’s favourite candy was Reese’s Pieces? Believe it or not, M&Ms had a shot at this one. The guy who said no was dipped in a candy shell and stuffed in a supply closet. • shE’s GOT TO hAVE IT: It was a unique case of product placement spinning off into an immortal ad campaign. In true B-Boy style, Spike Lee’s character of Mars Blackmon rocked a pair of Air Jordans in Lee’s 1986 debut feature. Not long after, it spawned decades of ads featuring Mars dutifully asking Jordan, “Is it the shoes?”

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Product placement is being taken to new levels in Hollywood movies these days. One example of that is the new movie The Internship, starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, a pair of middle-aged guys who try to jumpstart their careers at Google.

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JIM SLOTEK

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A world without brand-names would look pretty weird. It would look like ... well, the way movies and TV used to look. People ate soup labelled “Soup,” went to a fast-food place and ate a “Burger,” which they washed down with a “Cola.” For the sake of verisimilitude, I’m glad that much has changed. Still, nothing prepared me for the sight of a dissolute James Bond drinking Heineken in Skyfall instead of his usual martini (“I don’t normally drink beer, but when I do, it’s Heineken. Stay thirsty, my friends.”) And now that the gloves are off, and movie storyboards have a big “Your ad here” sign on them, it was unavoidable that we’d get movies where the actual plot was product placement. Movies like the comedy The Internship, in which Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play two anachronistic old dudes who, in an effort to restart their careers, land internships at Google. I’m guessing you won’t want to create a drinking game around each mention of “Google” in this movie. It almost makes me want to switch to Bing — which, incidentally, was the search engine Peter Parker used in The Amazing Spider-Man (raise your hands, both of you who use Bing). But the Amazing Spider-Man’s use of Bing did put me in mind of Apple, which, according to the business site Brandchannel, has been knocked to

second place by Mercedes-Benz in the tally of most product placements in No. 1 movies. A lot of hindsight has gone into how Apple went from a niche computer company to the giant ape it is today. But its early investment in Hollywood product-placement surely played its part. (Steve Jobs was a founder of Pixar, after all). In the ‘90s, when more people believed Elvis was alive than used Macs, any computer you saw onscreen invariably had an Apple logo (remember how Jeff Goldblum used a Powerbook to disable the aliens’ mothership in Independence Day?) As late as 2009, according to Brandchannel, more than half of all No. 1 films had a scene with an Apple computer or device in them (in Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol, most of the digital espionage was carried out with an iPad. This makes me feel a little embarrassed for only using it to read books and magazines and play Scrabble — although unlike Paul Rudd in This is 40, I don’t use it to play Scrabble on the toilet. Perhaps the least subtle computer metaphor in the last few years came in the lame Clint Eastwood movie Trouble With the Curve, in which feisty scout’sdaughter Amy Adams and her MacBook outmanoeuvered the fusty old talentscouts with their Dells and Toshibas. Still, betting the farm (or at least the plot) on a burgeoning technology firm doesn’t come without risk, considering that from inception to screen, we’re

usually talking two years or more. With The Internship, it was probably a pretty safe bet that Google would still be the only search engine that mattered by the release date. Not so with Judd Apatow’s Funny People, in which James Taylor and an A-list comic movie star (Adam Sandler) are hired by the deep-pocketed MySpace to play a company party. By the time the movie hit screens, MySpace was EmptySpace, and Facebook already had a half-billion “friends.” And thinking back to a long-ago movie that was also effectively a feature-length ad for an Internet service — the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan romance You’ve Got Mail (which also doubled as a Starbucks ad) — it occurs to me how quaint that film is now. There is an entire generation of new ‘Netizens who may never have heard the cheery baritone of the AOL guy enthusing, “You’ve got mail!” Of course, backing the wrong corporate horse isn’t limited to high-tech computer companies. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, we were presented with a future where shuttles with a Pan Am logo would be carrying people to the space station (where they could catch a connecting flight to the Moon). Pan American Airlines went out of business in 1991, a full decade before getting a chance to fulfill its destiny as the official airline of space. (The smart money for that title now is Virgin.) It’s something to keep in mind before the studios cut that deal making Black & Decker the official manufacturer of Thor’s hammer.

• CAsT AWAY: Tom Hanks again, as a FedEx executive who gets stranded along with a lot of stuff that just didn’t get there (including Wilson, the volleyball). To his credit, when he finally made it home from the island, he did go about returning people’s stuff. • TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TUrTlEs: Yeah, they were seriously jones-ing for pizza. But does anyone remember that their favourite pizza was Domino’s? Not sure what ‘za the Michael Bay reboot will endorse, but I strongly suspect that what appeals to a reptile might not be to all human tastes. • rIsKY BUsINEss and TOP GUN: What did both movies have in common, other than Tom Cruise? Tom Cruise in Ray Ban sunglasses. They became the shades of the ‘80s on the strength of those two hits. • PUlP FICTION: Don’t know about you, but all that “Royale with cheese,” talk made me actually want to eat a Quarter Pounder. • hArOlD & KUMAr GO TO WhITE CAsTlE: The irony is that the movie was shot in Canada, where White Castle has yet to expand. Still, when we went to New York, my teenager insisted we find a White Castle. • DIrTY hArrY: The .44 was a seldom-used firearm before Clint said, “I know what you’re thinking. ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

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Low $354,000/ High $510,000 Avg. days on market: 31

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Low $458,000/ High $825,000 Avg. days on market: 49

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Low $349,000/ High $1,567,082 Avg. days on market: 51

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

HEALTH

Eating your words JOANNE RICHARD Sun Media News Services

Are you going to be “bad” today? Maybe even “cheat?” Shame on you! Big fat bad words fill conversations, blogs and social network sites — “good day,” bad day,” “bad food,” “fat day,” “cleanse,” “cheating,” “controlled binge,” “free day...” The list goes on — and so too feasting on negative dieting language. It’s a word war out there and dieters have often lost the battle even before cutting out their first carb, exclaim experts. “The worst word is ‘cleanse,’ as if food is dirty. Ryan Seacrest calls his Saturday cheat day ‘fatterday,’” says Dr. Wendy Walsh, a New York author and human behaviour expert and author of The 30-Day Love Detox. “The whole notion of depriving oneself as punishment for overeating and not exercising enough immediately sets one up for failure,” says Walsh, adding that diets generally never work long-term, and possibly our terminology is part of the problem. “Blaming and shaming words do not empower women, but set them up for failure,”

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says Walsh. “A cheat day should clearly be called a reward day.” Debra Macleod agrees: Women’s body issues and a soulless pop culture continue to fuel the dieting industry and this kind of language. “A woman is meant to feel shame when she doesn’t measure up — or measure down — and words like ‘bad’ food or ‘cheat days’ reflect that.” Don’t expect positive, validating, or uplifting self-talk in the dieting arena, says Toronto psychotherapist Kimberly Moffit. “Negative language doesn’t just reduce dieters’ self-esteem, it actually reduces their chances of sticking to a diet or exercise plan because their words can become a self-fulfilling prophecy and they end up believing they are ‘undisciplined’ or ‘lazy’ or ‘worthless,’” says Moffit. Dieting words can set you up to make your body the enemy, adds B.C. dietician Natalie Brown of whiterockdietitian.com. “If one were to eat a ‘bad’ food, then they feel like they have failed and the same goes for ‘cheating.’ There needs to be more of a positive approach to getting healthy, adds Brown. “Choosing more appropriate vocabulary will more likely produce positive results… It really

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Negative language doesn’t just reduce dieters’ self-esteem, it actually reduces their chances of sticking to a diet or exercise plan, say a number of dieting experts. is a lifestyle change instead of a diet.” According to Debra Macleod, a Calgary relationship expert at marriagesos.com, the words we use to describe anything — whether food choices or life choices — greatly affect our emotions and behaviour. “I hear women talk about ‘free days,’ which are days that they can eat anything they want… It implies that you’re not free to enjoy food on the other days. Often dieters circle that date on their

calendar — whether mentally or actually — and will that day to come, almost to the point of food obsession, she adds. Bottom line: You don’t get a cheat day with food or with relationships, stresses Macleod. “You have to incorporate your health and happiness into the choices you make every day. An occasional piece of cake or plate of nachos isn’t cheating — it’s enjoying food with variety and in moderation, and that’s how you should see it.”

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Fit for the squared circle Babies who sleep on

CARY CASTAGNA Sun Media News Services

Cameron Toms’ business card describes him as a professional wrestler/entertainer. That’s not just a sideline for the 26-year-old Medicine Hat product. That’s how he ekes out a living. Toms, affectionately known as Cam!!kaze, has been taking his bumps and honing his skills with wrestling promotions throughout Canada and the U.S. for the past eight years. The rising indy star, who has had the opportunity to train under such wrestling legends as Harley Race, Dusty Rhodes, Rowdy Roddy Piper and Jake “The Snake” Roberts, is dedicated to taking his wrestling career as far as he can. And that’s why he takes fitness so seriously. “You’ve got to look like an athlete,” he tells Sun Media before a recent match in Edmonton with local promotion Revolution Pro Wrestling. “You have to look the part. There’s too many guys nowadays that come in (wearing) shorts and a T-shirt (with) little skinny Photo: Sun Media News Services noodle arms and way overweight. Pro wrestler Cameron Toms — better known as Cam!!kaze — knows keeping You’ve got to look like an athlete. fit is as big a part of the business as pulling off big moves in the ring. “And I’m not saying be a bodybuilder. But look like you can you should be trying to entertain is ultra-strict about his evening beat the person in the front row. them. It’s all facial expressions meal. Look like you can put up a fight and body language — a lot of “I cut out carbohydrates after and no one’s going to mess with body language in this business. six o’clock every day — all protein you.” It’s a giant show. But it’s the most after that,” he says. A muscular 210 pounds at six physical form of entertainment “You are what you eat. You can feet, Toms certainly looks like he you’ll find anywhere — bar none.” be training as hard as you want, can put up a fight. Toms, a graduate of WWE but if you’re eating crap, you’re not But for the Calgary resident, superstar Lance Storm’s Calgarygoing to look the part, that’s for who counts U.S.-based Ring of based Storm Wrestling Academy, sure.” Honor among the high-profile hits the gym five days a week. Despite his best efforts, Toms promotions he’s worked for, He sweats through a 27-minute has already had his fair share of cardiovascular conditioning is the cardio circuit that includes injuries in the squared circle. most important everything But he chooses to power aspect of his from squats through these temporary fitness regimen. and sit-ups to obstacles. “If you’re planks and “I say it all the time: not too tired, too pushups “for the everybody can do this. It is blown up, core and to just extremely physical on the body,” then you can’t get the blood he notes. Cameron Toms work properly. flowing and the “I’ve had two knee surgeries. My Professional wrestler You’re going heart pumping.” lower back is messed up. I have an to get sloppy. Toms, 8 mm partial tear in my rotator You’re going to end up hurting of course, also lifts weights, cuff. We’re beat up. We’re all beat somebody,” explains Toms, whose preferring to train like a up. We all have different injuries Cam!!kaze alter-ego is a babyface bodybuilder and isolate one and we work through them and (“good guy” character). muscle group per workout. we do the best that we can. “You can’t put the emotion To ensure all his hard work in “It (wrestling) doesn’t get the into the people if you’re too tired the gym is not for naught, Toms credit that it deserves. We are true and huffing and puffing when eats a relatively clean diet and athletes. No doubt about it.”

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SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – A University of Alberta researcher says putting babies on their backs to sleep — to try to cut the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) — doesn’t affect their ability to learn to roll over. Johanna Darrah, a professor of physical therapy, says infants develop the ability to roll much the same as they did 20 years ago when the “back to sleep” campaign was introduced, successfully reducing the occurrence of SIDS. Darrah’s research answers

fears that the campaign — which recommends putting babies to bed on their backs instead of their stomachs — would hurt motor development, specifically the ability to roll from tummy to back and vice versa. Darrah studied the rolling abilities and motor skills development of 725 Canadian infants ranging in age from one week to eight months and compared the results to a scale she developed 20 years ago. The journal Early Human Development published the findings.

“It’s the most physical form of entertainment.”

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Johanna Darrah, professor of physical therapy at the University of Alberta, interacts with Logan Quist (in plaid), four months, and Lucas Galinsky (stripes), six months, at a Terwillegar home in Edmonton on Monday. A campaign to put babies to bed on their backs to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome has not impaired infants’ rolling abilities, according to research.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

FUN & GAMES

KNOW?

This week in history and celebrity birthdays

JUNE 6, 1944

Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy, France, beginning the liberation of Western Europe during World War II on what would become known as D-Day.

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Hudson Stack leads the first successful ascent of Mt. McKinley, the highest point in North America at 20,320 feet.

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The first Porsche — a hand-built aluminum prototype labeled “No. 1” — is completed.

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JUNE 10, 1752

Benjamin Franklin demonstrates the electrical nature of lightning by flying a kite during a thrunderstorm.

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Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes and becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win horse racing’s Triple Crown.

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King Henry VIII of England marries his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. She was the first of Henry VIII’s six wives .

JUNE 12, 1994

Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman are stabbed to death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, Calif. The focus of the investigation soon turned to Nicole’s ex-husband, former NFL player O.J. Simpson, touching off one of the most highly publicized murder cases in U.S. history.

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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Evan Rites, 3, has his face painted during the International Children’s Festival Friday outside St. Albert Place.

ANSWERS: 1. Design removed from boy’s face; 2. Earring added to face painter; 3. Wristband changed to pink; 4. Writing removed from T-shirt; 5. Butterfly logo added to chair.

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Thursday, June 6, 2013

BUSINESS

CRTC creates new code for wireless THE CHANGES • Option to cancel wireless contract after two years without penalty, even if signed for a longer term • $50 monthly cap on data overage charges • $100 monthly cap on international data roaming charges • Can return cellphone within 15 days if unhappy with service • Cellphones can be unlocked, or taken to another provider, after 90 days or right away if paid in full • Changes don’t say how much a carrier can charge to unlock a phone • New rules apply to new contracts for cellphones and personal mobile devices starting Dec. 2

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CASSANDRA DRUDI Sun Media News Services

Finally, Canadians can hang up on cellphone contracts after two years without penalty. Also gone? Those eye-popping roaming charges, which will be capped at $100 a month on international data charges. It’s all part of a new code for the wireless industry, brought down Monday by the Canadian RadioTelevision and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), and taking effect Dec. 2. “Every day, Canadians rely on wireless devices while in their homes, at their jobs, at school or travelling abroad,” CRTC chairperson Jean-Pierre Blais said in a release Monday. The new rules, he said, “will contribute to a more dynamic marketplace by making it possible for Canadians to discuss their needs with service providers at least every two years.” Canadian consumers have long complained about the excessive wireless charges they pay, especially in contrast to Americans. Consumer advocates hailed the new code as a much-needed change. “We’re glad to have it after all these

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years,” said John Lawford, executive director of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre. Lawford said the billing caps slapped on data use and roaming are the code’s most important feature. That’s “where we see people having the most fear in opening their bills, and it shouldn’t have to be that way,” he said. “That’s just a good baseline to keep people from being gouged.” The option to dump a cellphone contract after two years without penalty is a shift in CRTC thinking, said Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law. Earlier drafts of the code didn’t

contain the two-year cancellation provision, which Geist says will likely result in two years becoming the standard length of wireless contracts. Both Geist and Lawford said the code could have gone even further to protect consumers. The rules were developed in collaboration with the wireless industry and with public consultation. Confusing cellphone fees have long been on the public radar. In April, Ontario said it would soon propose legislation to require wireless companies to disclose to customers up front how much a contract will cost and what’s included in the price.

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Pipeline options still open after B.C. blocks Gateway

DAVE LAZZARINO Sun Media News Services

The B.C. government has set up a major roadblock to a pipeline to the Pacific. But for those hoping to see Alberta bitumen flow west, not all options are exhausted yet. A formal rejection of the $6-billion Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s north coast was issued Friday to the joint review panel that will be recommending to the federal government whether to issue a permit for the pipeline to be built. Critics of Alison Redford’s government took little time to place blame for the rejection on poor communication and relationship building. “The Redford government’s poor environmental record is hurting our economy,” said Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman in a press release. “It gave too much ammunition to opponents of Northern Gateway.” MPSSCS4775680MPSE

But language in the rejection itself tells another story. According to the document written by lawyers for the B.C. government, the biggest element missing in the pipeline proposal is Northern Gateway Limited Partnership’s (NG) lack of environmental disaster preparation. “It is not clear from the evidence that NG will in fact be able to respond effectively to spills either from the pipeline itself, or from tankers transporting diluted bitumen from the proposed Kitimat terminal,” reads one of the points in the 99-page document that will be presented to the panel in

an oral argument June 17. “‘Trust me’ is not good enough in this case,” it goes on to say. The document doesn’t rule out a pipeline entirely, however. Further down, it says if the panel does recommend approval of the pipeline they must “impose clear, measurable and enforceable conditions that require NG to live up to the commitments it has made.” The response from the Alberta government remained consistent despite the suggested rejection. “B.C., like Alberta, wants to ensure that our energy development is

responsible and safe,” said Alberta’s minister of environment and sustainable resource development, Diana McQueen, in a press release. “This is an ongoing, federallyregulated review and I expect that the concerns brought forward by the government of British Columbia will be discussed and addressed through that forum.” Opposition leader Danielle Smith responded in somewhat supportive language, calling on Redford to put aside personal differences with B.C. Premier Christy Clark and get the pipeline approved.

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Workplace mental health in spotlight today JOANNE RICHARD Sun Media News Services

If you’re not yourself today, you’re not alone. “Mental health issues affect all Canadian workplaces and many of us haven’t felt ourselves at work at one time or another. According to a recent study, half a million Canadians miss work every day because of mental health issues, making this an issue we can no longer ignore,” says Jeff Moat, of Partners for Mental Health. Often workers suffer in silence and fear judgement. In fact, two in three Canadians would not have an open discussion with their boss about a mental illness, reveals a new study. To help drive change and a supportive

workplace, today (Thursday) has been declared a national day of action — Not Myself Day @ Work. According to Moat, companies and organizations are being encouraged to get involved and shine a spotlight on workplace mental health by hosting various events and activities to engage managers and employees to learn more about mental health issues. Partners for Mental Health is leading the initiative as part of their mandate to create healthier work places by transforming the way Canadians think about and support mental illness. “The inherent stigma mental health issues foster in the workplace causes many to feel the need to be silent due to the possibility of discrimination and lack of support they

currently feel in the workplace,” adds Moat, of partnersformh.ca. According to Courtney Taylor, the greatest challenge in managing a mental illness on the job is pretending you don’t have one. Taylor, 30, has suffered from anxiety and panic attacks her entire life. She has also suffered two major depressive episodes since being in the workforce. “My anxiety is with me all of the time, regardless of where I am.” There simply came a day when Taylor needed help and had no choice but ask for help — “panic attacks can be very frightening, and they are easier to face with someone at your side. “Luckily for me, my manager was very understanding and my workplace places a lot of importance on work-life balance,”

says Taylor, who works for a publishing company. A lot of stress has been alleviated since opening up about her mental health issues, she says. “I don’t have added anxiety because I’m fighting so hard to keep others from seeing me struggle at times.” You’re not alone, stresses Taylor. “It’s amazing what people have shared with me since I began putting myself out there and sharing my own personal struggle with mental illness. It’s okay to speak out, and to ask for help. You need not be ashamed.” She advises employers to educate management on the topic of mental illness, as well as create an environment where it is safe to speak out. “Have resources available for those who want them, and most importantly, don’t be afraid to talk about it.”

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Our volunteer advocates provide victims of crime and tragedy within St. Albert with Crisis intervention, Information and referrals. Our volunteers receive extensive training and support in this role. Experience in the human services industry is an asset however GREAT volunteer advocates come from ALL walks of life. If you are interested in more information about volunteering with St. Albert Victim Services please call, or e-mail! MPSSCS4775676MPSE

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The Enjoy Centre is looking for people with ﬂexible availability, including weekends and evenings, to ﬁll the following permanent positions:

NOW HIRING

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The St Albert Leader is currently looking for adult carriers for door to door newspaper deliveries within your community. Invest only a few hours of your time Thursday afternoon/evenings and earn an average of $300/mo., directly deposited every two weeks. Reliable transportation is required.

PHONE: 780-458-4353 EMAIL: stalbertvs@gmail.com

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• Flexible hours to fit your day and only one day per week! • Add to your RRSP’s • Take a Cruise

Sales S ales P People eople Assistant A ssistant Sales Sales Manager Manager Apply to Tim Nadeau, General Manager via email: tim@westendnissan.com

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ATTENTION

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Disposal of 200 Disposal of 227 Bank Repos, Bank Repos, Lease Returns and Other Used Lease Returns Vehicles for ONLY Used $77 Then and Other Start Making Payments!! Vehicles!!

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Sale Conducted by St.Albert Dodge