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Earle Genik, warehouse manager of the new Costco store at 1075 St. Albert Trail, is welcoming customers to the store with open arms. The long-awaited wholesale store opens its doors to the public today (Thursday) at 8 a.m.

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Home-based business owners have long had to deal with the stigma that they merely lounge around in their pajamas all day, but many are working hard to make significant contributions to the local economy. We salute them and other small businesses in St. Albert with our Small Business Week section, which starts on page 24. (Special thanks to Cloud Nine Pajamas.)

BY THE NUMBERS

38.13%

That was the voter turnout figure from Monday’s municipal election in St. Albert. That works out to 18,138 ballots cast out of 47,571 eligible voters. That’s nearly a four per cent increase over turnout for the 2010 municipal election.

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Senior struck in crosswalk dies GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

An 85-year-old St. Albert woman was killed Monday morning after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing the street. St. Albert RCMP were called to a crosswalk on Boudreau Road near the Sturgeon Community Hospital at about 10 a.m. Monday after receiving reports that the woman had been hit. Police say she was crossing the street on foot between the hospital and the Summit Centre when she was struck by the car, which was on Boudreau Road. At that point near St. Albert Trail,

Boudreau Road heads east, but soon curves and heads south. The woman was transported to hospital in Edmonton, but passed away at about 1 p.m. Cpl. Laurel Kading of the St. Albert RCMP said it was not clear in the investigating officers’ reports if the woman was taken to the Sturgeon first before going into Edmonton. “On occasion, hospitals may direct ambulances

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to go direct to other places, but I don’t know if they actually made a stop at the Sturgeon first or not. ... It really depends on their triage,” she said, adding that the detachment was having problems with its phone lines Monday. RCMP are still notifying next of kin, and are not yet releasing the woman’s name. The driver of the vehicle involved in the collision was a

78-year-old woman also from St. Albert, police said Tuesday. A traffic collision reconstructionist is helping St. Albert RCMP as they continue to investigate the collision. Road conditions, weather conditions and alcohol were not factors. St. Albert Victim Services are also providing support to those affected. Kading said that charges have not yet been laid. “[Officers are] still investigating and taking statements,” she said. “There were a number of people they were trying to get statements from.”

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School board trustees ready to hit the books again

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The big exam is over, but for those elected to school trustee positions in St. Albert, class is about to Joan get back in session. Crockett Along with mayor Catholic trustee and councillor positions, electors voted in new trustees for both St. Albert Public Schools and Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools on Monday, returning five of six incumbents between the

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two boards while electing three new faces. For the public board, incumbent Merrin Nuc was the odd person out in a six-person race for five trustee spots. Incumbents Cheryl Dumont and Gerry Martins will be back for another term, and will be joined by newcomers Sheri Wright, Glenys Edwards and Kim Bugeaud. “It’s fantastic. I’m looking forward to it,” said Martins, who is entering his fourth term as a trustee. “We’ve got some new people on the board, and I’m looking forward to working with them.” On the Catholic side, all three incumbents

— Joan Crockett, Dave Caron and Rosaleen McEvoy — were re-elected, and they’ll be joined by Serena Shaw to make up St. Albert’s four seats on the seven-person board. The other spots will be filled by Brendan Kaup and Noreen Radford, both acclaimed in Morinville, as well as Legal incumbent Cathy Proulx, who fended off a challenge from Tom Turner by just four votes. “I’m happy to be re-elected. I feel like I started a job, and I have a few more ideas I want to put in place,” Crockett said. Both Crockett and Martins have clear

ideas about the first item of business they want to bring forward when they get back to work. “I want to put forward having a student nonvoting member on our Gerry board,” Crockett said. Martins “I think we have to Public trustee work with the City [of St. Albert] to look for future school sites that will accommodate schools ... I’m looking forward to working with the City on that,” Martins said.

Wes Is More… thankful than words can say for your support! Congratulations to the mayor and my newly elected fellow Councillors. I look forward to serving you with honesty and integrity during my four year term. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially my wife, Marilyn. Contact Wes • Phone: 780-915-9622 • Twitter: @wes_brodhead • Blog: www.wesbrodhead.ca

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Nolan Crouse (left) watches results roll in with supporters at the St. Albert Inn and Suites on Monday evening. Crouse won his third term as mayor of St. Albert with 55 per cent of the vote.

Crouse wins 3rd term GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Nolan Crouse was still the first to cross the finish line on Monday evening, but the gap between him and his opponent was much closer this time around. Crouse was re-elected to his third term as mayor in Monday’s municipal election, gathering about 55 per cent of the 18,138 votes cast. That’s a smaller margin of victory over challenger Shelley Biermanski than when the two squared off in 2010 and Crouse got 67.8 per cent of the votes. But Crouse wasn’t reading too much into the numbers on Monday evening. “I think the community still has the confidence and faith that I’m going to be the right person as mayor,” he said during a gathering at the St. Albert Inn and Suites. Meanwhile, Biermanski felt she was closer to winning than many thought she would be. “Last time, I was virtually unknown, and this campaign was a lot stronger campaign,” she said. “I think that, if I would have had a little different strategy, I would have had it.” Biermanski was not only disappointed to come up short once again in her bid for the mayor’s chair, but also in the rest of the council race. “Only two people that I would have voted for are on council,” she said, referring to Sheena Hughes and Cam MacKay. Those two will be joined on council by Cathy Heron, Wes Brodhead, Tim Osborne and Gilles Prefontaine. Crouse said he was excited to get going with the new team.

“They’re pretty young ... I don’t know what the average age is there, but it’s probably right around 40,” he said. “It’s a young team; I’ll be the oldest, which isn’t something I was on my first council.” While the entire municipal election in St. Albert was punctuated by some nasty campaigning over the past four weeks, Crouse was eager to put that behind him and move forward. “We will very quickly get on with the agenda,” he said. “Some of the negative campaigning, it just gets forgotten so quickly that it won’t matter. What you’ve got to do is build a new team, and we will build a new team and move forward. We’ve got the ability to do that.” Biermanski is ready to move on as well, indicating that she likely would not run for mayor again. “There’ll be way too much mess to clean up after another four years,” she said. Crouse said his first order of business would be to meeting one-on-one with the new councillors. “My very first priority is making sure I spend some time with each councillor and going through what’s important to them and trying to figure out how to build a team quickly,” he said, adding that the new fouryear terms for municipal officials may require thinking differently about certain issues. He was also excited about the prospect of working with new Edmonton mayor-elect Don Iveson. “I think Don has so much upside in terms of being the mayor,” Crouse said. “I think he’s going to provide leadership for a long time.”

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Three newcomers in, one out on council GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The names at the top of the St. Albert city council list stayed the same, but the ones below shuffled quite a bit on Monday night. As they did in 2010, Cathy Heron and Cam MacKay finished first and second in the race for the six seats on city council in Monday’s municipal election. But the rest of the slate doesn’t look quite as familiar. One incumbent, Wes Brodhead, kept his seat, finishing fifth in voting. But another, Malcolm Parker, was voted out of office. Three new faces will be on council when it reconvenes next month: Sheena Hughes, Tim Osborne and Gilles Prefontaine. Heron said that topping the list once again and being the only candidate to break the 10,000-vote mark was an endorsement of her work over the past term.

“It means I didn’t screw up. Over the past three years, I must have done something right,” she said. “It’s a nice affirmation of the first three years. I can move forward doing the same thing for the next four years.” Meanwhile, MacKay said he was humbled to be re-elected and happy at the gains he was able to make. “I’m second to Cathy, but I gained 1,500 votes and she stayed the same, so I’m catching up,” he said. Heron had 9,904 votes in 2010 and 10,268 in 2013, while MacKay had 7,565 in 2010 and 9,101 in 2013. For their parts, both Osborne and Prefontaine were ecstatic to win a council seat on their first try. “You don’t know, going into [election night], how it’s all going to turn out, but obviously I’m really happy with results and I’m happy to be part of council,” Osborne said, adding that

the campaign was “gruelling.” “I’ve grown up here, I love this community, and obviously that resonates with residents,” Prefontaine added. “They want this community to remain a vibrant, unique, special place.” While there was a lot of mud slung over the four weeks of the election campaign, the successful candidates were looking ahead and ready to find common ground. “At the end of the day, I look at our council today, and I see people than can actually work together and can bring the city forward,” Prefontaine said. “That’s the most important thing.” “I hope we can move forward without any camps or any alliances,” Heron added. Osborne

said he thought there was a “good mix” on council. “There’s some experience, some new people, a wide range of viewpoints. I think that’s healthy for the city,” he said. The new councillors will have a steep learning curve ahead of them, and they will go through orientation sessions and then jump right into budget deliberations starting next month. But all were excited to get going. “I’m going to try and get a better seat in council chambers than I had before,” MacKay said with a laugh. “I’m just going to sit back and reflect, and thank the residents of St. Albert for re-electing me. I’m going to do my best.”

Iveson prevails in Edmonton mayoral race JEFF CUMMINGS Sun Media News Services

A very fresh face — one touting Edmonton’s “confident swagger” — will soon occupy the mayor’s office at city hall. Edmonton voters elected 34-year-old Don Iveson, who secured 61.9 per cent of the vote for mayor, the highest amount in the city’s history. “I just got off the phone with (Mayor Stephen Mandel) and we are getting to work tomorrow,” Iveson told the crowd of 300 people gathered Monday night inside the Matrix Hotel. Iveson won with an overwhelming victory, sidelining would-be council contenders Karen Leibovici and Kerry Diotte. “There is a new sense of optimism in our city,” said Iveson, one of the youngest mayors in Edmonton’s history.

“This is the best place to take a risk — in the city of Edmonton. “Our promises to you are based on your ideas. There is a confident swagger in Edmonton.” Iveson said one of the first items he wants to tackle is to find new ways to celebrate Edmonton’s thriving aboriginal community. “(This) is part of the prologue to Edmonton’s stories,” said Iveson. “The vision we share isn’t mine, it’s ours.” Iveson first entered city politics when he was 28 years old, upsetting then-councillor Mike Nickel by a wide margin in the 2007 election. Iveson, a former community league president in Malmo Plains, helped establish the universal transit pass as director of an advocacy department for the University of Alberta. Work to make Edmonton a better city starts Tuesday, vowed the new mayor.

“Nothing is going to be easy,” said Iveson. “(There) is a lot of work to do in the years ahead.” “When we get this city right, anything is possible.” Iveson has said his youthful experience was an easy sell for voters. He stressed that the last four mayors in Calgary — including Ralph Klein and Naheed Nenshi — were all in their 30s when first taking the reins. Throughout his campaign, Iveson has promised to ease the city’s reliance on property tax revenues. Instead, he has vowed to focus on finding “innovative” efficiencies within city services and considering hikes to certain user fees. Iveson also wants to find efficiencies within city services, including installing LED street lighting that could save the city hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

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Edmonton mayor-elect Don Iveson speaks to supporters on Monday evening at the Matrix Hotel.

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CITY COUNCIL • CITY COUNCIL • CITY COUNCIL • CITY COUNCIL • CITY COUNCIL • CITY COUNCIL

MAYOR

VOTING RESULTS F I N I S H

Nolan CROUSE (9,900 votes) Shelley BIERMANSKI (8,061 votes)

L I N E

Cathy HERON (10,268 votes)

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Cam MacKAY (9,101 votes)

F I N I S H

Sheena HUGHES (7,128 votes) Tim OSBORNE (6,946 votes) Wes BRODHEAD (6,879 votes)

L I N E

Gilles PREFONTAINE (6,375 votes)

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Malcolm PARKER (5,884 votes)

F I N I S H

Bob RUSSELL (5,779 votes) David CLIMENHAGA (5,535 votes) Ted DURHAM (4,926 votes)

L I N E

Gareth JONES (4,745 votes) John GOLDSMITH (4,420 votes) Mark CASSIDY (4,390 votes) Roger BRADLEY (4,370 votes) Hughena BURKE (2,365 votes) Norm HARLEY (2,294 votes)

18,138 votes counted 47,571 eligible voters 38.13% voter turnout

• F I N I S H L I N E

Please note: These results are unofficial. Official results will be declared by the City of St. Albert at noon on Friday, Oct. 25.

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lright, St. Albert, we can breathe again. The dust has settled, the municipal election campaign is over and, love them or hate them, your mayor and councillors for the next four years have been decided. There were a lot of numbers thrown around over the past four weeks, but by Glenn Cook in the aftermath of Monday’s vote, there are only a couple worth taking another look at. The first such number is 38.13 — the percentage of eligible voters that actually turned out to vote in this election. That’s actually up about four percentage points from 2010, but with the packed forums and the flurries of social media activity leading up to election day, many people were expecting that number to be a lot higher. Then again, the highest turnout in recent history — 46.13 per cent — came in 2004, when there was the plebiscite on building what would become Servus Credit Union Place also on the ballot. Without a single polarizing issue dominating the discussion like that this time around, perhaps expectations should have been lowered accordingly. The other number, though, to keep in mind is 10. That was roughly the spread in percentage points between Nolan Crouse (55 per cent) and Shelley Biermanski (45 per cent) in the race for the mayor’s chair — a spread that shrunk considerably between 2010 and 2013. A win is a win for Crouse — as Lucien Bouchard famously asserted in the run-up to the 1995 Quebec referendum, all you need is 50 per cent plus one — but he would do well to pay attention to that number. The narrower gap between him and Biermanski is a clear indication that a significant number of folks in our city — at least the ones who voted — want to engage in a new conversation. In fact, although more total ballots were cast this year, Crouse gathered fewer total votes (9,900) than he did in 2010 (10,778). In the months ahead, council has a busy agenda, jumping headlong into budget deliberations. But through it all, and the rest of this four-year term, Crouse should keep that number 10 in mind, and prove to residents why it should increase rather than decrease if he decides to run again in 2017.

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Steep learning curve ahead of new council On behalf of council, I say, “Thank you St. Albertans for putting your faith in the seven of us to provide council leadership through 2017.” I know I speak for all of us when I say we are truly humbled and grateful. To former councillors Malcolm Parker, Len Bracko and Roger Lemieux, we wish you all the best and thank you for serving our community on council the last number of years. As we look ahead, there is a tremendous amount of work to be done in a very short period of time. Just to share some thoughts from “inside,” there are some key activities that your council will be involved in. First, some team building is required; getting to know one another on a personal

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My City level and how we need to work together for the greater good of St. Albert and the region. We need to have discussion on our governance role, our role within the community and how to work together with the city manager and staff in the policy matters of importance. Second, there is training for all of us on processes, policies, governance, protocols, law and general city business. The corporation is complex, wide and deep. As such, the learning curve is immensely steep. Third, the 2014 budget will be tabled in front of council and the community on Nov.

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12 and deliberations will begin late November after over two weeks of review. This will set in place the first budget by this council, making adjustments to tax and utility rates if deemed necessary. Fourth, there needs to be time set aside to address the various initiatives that this council wishes to embark upon. This includes a review of election platform matters, carry-forward items from the previous council and a variety of other planning processes that are to set in motion City initiatives for the betterment of the community. Parallel to all these key internal matters, there are important committees where council members need to begin attending and begin contributing to. Those committees include everything

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from environmental to regional bodies’ participation. In addition to committee work, there is an important Alberta Urban Municipalities Association convention in Calgary in November that many members will attend; meeting with colleagues from around the province to learn from and discuss matters of common interest. To my fellow St. Albertans, you have elected a very young, highly intellectual and a very educated council. You have elected a diverse council on several fronts. Our job is now to come together, permitting individualism, yet agreeing on the common matters that need addressing. Our job is to demonstrate to the community that we are doing the best job we can do. We will do just that. Owned and operated by

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Lapidary club ready to rock GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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Local gem and stone enthusiasts are ready to “rock” St. Albert once again this weekend. The sixth annual Edmonton Tumblewood Lapidary Club show and sale takes over the St. Albert 50+ Club on Saturday and Sunday, with collectors from all over the Capital Region showing off their rocks, fossils, jewelry, crystals and much more. ETLC president Dean Chesterman said that, although members have just come back from the club’s summer hiatus, they’re eager for the show. “Basically people found a whole bunch of stuff over the summer, so they’re into the shop, making things, doing the stuff the club does, so it’s a good start to the year for us,” Chesterman said. This being the sixth year for the show, it just keeps getting bigger and better. “We were able to have a couple new vendors join us this year, because we rearranged the space in the hall,” Chesterman said. “We’ve

started buying new tables and made up name tags to add a bit of pizzazz to the place.” There will also be demonstrations by lapidary artists in disciplines like faceting, beading, wire wrapping and chain maille. The club has strong ties to St. Albert, with many members hailing from the city and monthly meetings held in the basement at Gemport Jewelry on St. Anne Street, where they also maintain a fully equipped lapidary shop. Chesterman himself said he has been collecting rocks for as long as he can remember, and has been involved with the ETLC since 2007, where he enjoys interacting with other lapidary enthusiasts and having access to the shop. “In school, my desk used to be called the ‘Rocky Mountain Desk,’ because it always had rocks in it that I was picking up in the field,” he said. “I’ve always been interested — geology was my second choice when I got into university.” The Edmonton Tumblewood Lapidary Club’s annual show and sale runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Results around the region TOWN OF MORINVILLE

*HOLMES, Lisa . . FINGLER, Sheldon . FOSS, Carrie . . . . NAUGHTON, Christa

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STRATHCONA COUNTY CARR, Roxanne . . . . 50.9% OSINCHUK, Linda . . . . . 49.1%

CITY OF EDMONTON

IVESON, Don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62.2% LEIBOVICI, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.4% DIOTTE, Kerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.5%

STURGEON COUNTY FLYNN, Tom . . . . . . 64.3% RIGNEY, Don . . . . . . 35.7%

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KRISCHKE, Greg . . . 77.3% RAHMANI, Mahnaz . . . 22.7%

HOUSTON, Stuart. . . . . . . . . . . . .64.8% SAUNDERS, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35.2%

Substance found again near river

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City of St. Albert officials are scratching their heads once again after a mystery substance was found for a second time near the Sturgeon River. The Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s environment and sustainability department was alerted around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20, to the presence of a grey substance near a stormwater outfall adjacent to a trail by Riel Recreation Park. This is the second time a substance has been found at this location, the first being on Sept. 25. The City said in a press release that the water quality in this case appears to have the same appearance and smell as the samples collected in September. Both the environment and sustainability department and public works are investigating this latest incident. Both Environment Canada and Alberta Environment were notified, and samples were sent for rush analysis. The samples taken from the previous incident were identified as having high levels of metals, but the substance did not reach the Sturgeon River. The public works department has inspected the stormwater lines that lead to this particular outfall where the spills were noted using a tracked camera. They were able to determine that the substance appears to be coming from somewhere within Rayborn Crescent, but they are continuing to investigate to pinpoint the exact source of the release.

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Officials excited to see end of the road for Ray Gibbon Dr. going to be some impact, but probably not a lot.” He added that it could also take away some With the third stage of Ray Gibbon Drive traffic from downtown St. Albert, but he poised to open early next month, officials thought it was the right blend. with the City of St. Albert The construction of are excited to cross the two lanes from Giroux finish line. Road to Villeneuve Mayor Nolan Crouse was Road fulfills the City’s joined by Finance Minister commitment to the and Spruce Grove-St. Albert project; any additional MLA Doug Horner on lanes and joining Nolan Crouse Wednesday, Oct. 15, for a the road back up the St. Albert mayor small ceremony honouring Highway 2 fall under the the collaboration between province’s jurisdiction. the City and the Alberta government on the Crouse said he hasn’t talked with anyone in entire Ray Gibbon Drive project, including the Alberta government on that matter for a Stage 3, which runs from Giroux Road to while, but it does show up in provincial longVilleneuve Road. term transportation plans. Crouse said later in the week that he was “I think there’s going to be as much excited to see what was a 20- to 30-year pressure to widen Ray Gibbon Drive as there initiative that started when its namesake was is to lengthen it,” he said. “I think what’s in the mayor’s chair come to an end. going to happen over the next 20 to 30 years “I’ve been on council nine years, and I’ve is that it’ll just evolve.” seen all the phases, and I’m just thrilled to be able to see the end of it from the City’s point of view,” Crouse said. He added that the road is vitally important to St. Albert, both for driving economic Walk Ins Welcome development on the city’s western limits, as well as alleviating traffic congestion on St. Present this coupon and recieve Albert Trail. “From an economic development point of view, we had to stick our neck out,” he said. “And secondly, it’s sitting at about 15,000 vehicles a day while St. Albert Trail is about 60,000. That’s 75,000 vehicles. That’s a lot of vehicles. Obviously, 15,000 compared to 60,000, that tells you there’s definitely a need for it. I don’t know where we’d be right now if we weren’t moving traffic in this way.” However, Crouse expects the third stage of the road to have a lesser impact on traffic Expires December 2014 numbers than the first two have had so far. “Some of this new traffic is going to feed 18 Muir Drive (Next to Taco Time) the north and bring the north in, as well as 780.569.5363 bypass the community,” he said. “There’s

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“I’m just thrilled to be able to see the end of it.”

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Redford weighs in on municipal elections MATT DYKSTRA Sun Media News Services

Edmonton’s new council members received congratulations from Premier Alison Redford, while taxpayers are watching mayor-elect Don Iveson with “extremely cautious” optimism. As the polls closed Monday night, Redford said she wanted to congratulate all of the candidates who ran for public office. “To the successful candidates, I wish all of you the best in your upcoming term. Whether you are a newly elected official or a veteran returning to a post, I look forward to working with all of you as we continue to build Alberta for all four million Albertans — and the next million who will arrive in the next decade — by investing in families and communities, living within our means and opening new

markets,” said Redford. Redford praised candidates for the “courageous step” of running in the election and thanked their families, campaign teams and volunteers. “Whether you sought to serve as a mayor, reeve, councillor, or school trustee, Alberta Liberals want to thank you,” said Liberal leader Raj Sherman. “Whether or not you were successful in being elected to public office, you made a difference by your participation in the democratic process. You should be very proud.” Derek Fildebrandt, Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), said he is looking forward to seeing how Iveson leads council on spending. “We’ve had a rough ride with Mayor (Stephen) Mandel. He gave free money to a billionaire,” said Fildebrandt,

referencing the infamous downtown arena deal with Oilers owner Daryl Katz that was a major topic during the mayoral campaign. Fildrebrandt said they don’t see eyeto-eye on all issues, as Iveson previously indicated he would not pledge to hold the line on tax increases to the rate of inflation. He said taxpayers should look forward to Iveson’s leadership with “extremely cautious optimism.” “I think he’s an intelligent man,” said Fildebrandt. “But we certainly have reservations. His candidate survey indicates that taxes are going to go up

significantly over the next four years.” “I hope other councillors and the CTF will be able to persuade him not to go down that track. I don’t think voters want that.” Iveson has a chance to reconnect with the provincial government after a turbulent relationship with the outgoing Mandel. In April, Mandel famously went on the attack during his state of the city address before 2,000 people at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon to decry the provincial government’s recent budget cuts. Mandel fired a broadside at Advanced Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk, saying he expected more from Edmonton’s MLAs than their passive acquiescence to the provincial Tories’ cuts to post-secondary spending in their March budget.

New law may be Quanto’s legacy DAVE LAZZARINO Sun Media News Services

A proposed law may become the legacy of Edmonton city cop dog Quanto, killed in the line of duty mere weeks ago. Quanto’s Law, mentioned in this week’s federal throne speech, would hit anyone who harms or kills a police service animal with harsher penalties. “We didn’t know a lot about what was going to be mentioned in the speech. We knew there was going to be something that would be obviously around the loss of Quanto,” said Edmonton city police Acting Staff Sgt. Troy

Carriere on Friday. Carriere and Edmonton city police Const. Matt Williamson were invited to Ottawa to watch Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s throne speech after Williamson’s police service dog, Quanto, was fatally stabbed on Oct. 7. What they heard surprised

them both. Harper spoke of the introduction of Quanto’s Law, a piece of legislation that, if passed, would set harsher sentences for those who harm or kill a police animal. “I know for myself, and obviously for Matt, who is still going through clearly a difficult time with the loss of Quanto, it personalized the situation and what happened on Oct. 7,” Carriere said. “It certainly doesn’t bring complete closure to what happened but it’s definitely a start.” The legislation suggests a maximum indictable offence with

a sentence of five years in prison for anyone who kills a service animal or a summary offence of 18 months and a $10,000 fine. It also includes language that can be used to find restitution for the hundreds of hours and money put into training the animals. “You hope that the law creates a deterrent so that this doesn’t happen. But there’s always going to be an element of people out there that that’s not going to affect. We need a punishment piece,” explained Carriere, who expects the bill to pass through the House of Commons.

The legislation also promises to properly define a police service animal, which can include dogs used for search and rescue with police searches, cadaver dogs that are hired by police and horses in cities like Toronto or Calgary where city police have mounted units. For Carriere and Williamson, the announcement had a more personal significance. “When you spend 11, 12 hours a day with this dog and he stands in there with you in some pretty tough situations, it’s difficult to really articulate what that bond is between handler and dog. It’s a special situation,” said Carriere.

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AHS CEO Eagle resigns MATT DYKSTRA Sun Media News Services

Alberta Health Services president and CEO Dr. Chris Eagle is resigning from his leading role at the provincial health conglomerate.

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The move comes just weeks after an extensive management restructuring at AHS under former administrator and now deputy health minister Janet Davidson. For his part, Eagle said the decision was “personal and very difficult” as he’s spent the last three years leading AHS. “This has been by far the most challenging and rewarding work of my career,” said Eagle in a news release Thursday. “But it is time for fresh eyes and fresh energy at the helm of AHS.” Eagle will take some “muchneeded” vacation time before he formally leaves AHS on Oct. 20, 2014. AHS says Eagle won’t receive severance and an international search for a new CEO will start immediately. Duncan Campbell was appointed as acting CEO and president in the interim. Campbell has been serving as vice president, administration and chief financial officer and has previously filled in for Eagle. AHS administrator Dr. John

Cowell said he supports Eagle’s decision. “I have known and worked with Dr. Eagle in various capacities for many years and have seen first hand the positive contribution he has made to health care delivery in Alberta,” he said. “I will miss the opportunity to work alongside him at AHS.” “On behalf of government, I thank Dr. Eagle for his service to our province and personal commitment to the care of Albertans,” Health Minister Fred Horne in a statement to media. While higlighting “significant strides” for clinical care such as the openings of several clinics and services across the province, he said it’s also time to address challenges. “Including the growing and aging population, the vulnerable sub-population of Albertans who account for only six per cent of our population but require 60 per cent of AHS’s clinical resources, the creation of clinical information systems that provide the most up-to-date, relevant

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Local reaction mixed to Canada-EU trade deal MATT DYKSTRA Sun Media News Services

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Alberta’s grain and meat producers will be the first to benefit from burgeoning trade access to Europe, but dairy farmers feel their cheese is at risk. An agreement in principle was reached in the Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations on Friday which will see Alberta beef, pork and grain producers gain greater access to Eurpoean markets at reduced tariffs or no tariffs at all. Verlyn Olson, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said his ministry has been following the CETA negotiations very carefully and he would be speaking with federal Agriculture and AgriFood Minister Gerry Ritz about the effects on Alberta. Olson said beef and pork

producers “are very happy.” “This is an opportunity for all of our agricultural industries to find some new markets in Europe,” said Olson, noting beef producers will see “50 times” their current access by shipping to Europe’s 560 million people. “The bottom line for them was the numbers had to be commercially viable so there has to be reasons to go into production and supply a market that has certain requirements in terms of what they want to see in the product. We’re hearing it is commercially viable. “I know there’s some concern on the dairy side, but the numbers are relatively small and other parts of the country may be affected much more so than us.” The Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) say the proposed agreement will put small Canadian cheese producers out of business as European producers will gain additional

access to Canada’s fine cheese market when they already have 32 per cent market share. “This deal would displace our local products with subsidized cheeses from EU and risk our small businesses being shut down or put out of business,” said a statement from the DFC. “This potential deal is a loss for Canadian dairy farmers and industry. It would take income from Canadian dairy farmers and their communities and give it to the European industry.” Alberta Milk estimates it could cause a drop in production equal to shutting down 250 dairy farms across the country. Olson said he raises his eyebrows at the numbers and will wait for a final agreement to be reached. Olson refused to speculate as to how the deal could affect retail prices for agricultural products but said a reduction in tariffs will likely lead to more competitive products.

Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013

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Danser mixes blues, Bible in Arden show GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The Mississippi Delta and the Alberta prairies have more in common than you think, according to Kat Danser. Though she’s based out of Edmonton, blues guitarist and singer Danser — who takes the stage at the Arden Theatre in St. Albert on Friday, Nov. 1 — studied her craft in Mississippi with some of the greats of the genre, and said there’s a reason why the blues resonate here in the Great White North, a continent away from their birthplace in the southern United States. “We in Alberta are no strangers to hard times. Maybe not right now, but when the oilfield crashes, that’s hard times in Alberta,” she said. “Even with the floods [in southern Alberta] this past year and those kinds of things, when you have natural disasters, that’s what the blues is built on.” In fact, a few years ago, Danser received a Canada Council grant, left her 22-year career as a caregiver, and travelled to Mississippi for six months, learning from blues legends like David “Honeyboy” Edwards and KoKo Taylor. Today, she is still learning, doing graduate research in ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta. “It’s given me a language to describe what I’m doing,” she said, “and I think it’s really helpful, as an artist, to have a social context for your music, but also to understand the historical rootedness of it. You

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“We in Alberta are no strangers to hard times.” Kat Danser Singer-songwriter Danser’s route to the stage is a long and winding one. While she loved music as a child in Saskatchewan, she was always discouraged from singing because of her contralto voice, which was deeper than most women. That love of music never died, though, and in her 30s, she picked it back up again and exploded onto the Edmonton blues scene with her 2007 CD, Somethin’ Familiar. Danser is currently touring in support of her latest CD, Baptized by the Mud, on which she injects a healthy dose of gospel into her blues songs, as well as reprising a few gospel standards. Blues and gospel go hand in hand, she said, and she’s very comfortable injecting a little

religion into her music. “I like to refer to it and ‘blues spirituals,’ but people relate to it as gospel music. But I’m not dogmatic, so when I think gospel, I think the Biblical gospel, the book itself,” she said. “For me, it’s about blues spirituals and trying to be a better person so that, whatever’s coming after we pass on, we’ve at least done our very best since being here and living life. “Part of what blues offers is a realistic look at the problems of life. Part of what spirituals, or what people think of gospel music, offers is hope in alleviating that pain.” The response to the new CD have been “massive,” Danser said. “It’s definitely my best album so far,” she said. “We sold out of all our albums in Vancouver; we just played there on the 18th.” Danser will be joined at the Arden by guitarist and producer Steve Dawson his Vancouver-based band, which Danser couldn’t say enough good things about. This is the same band that helped record Baptized by the Mud in what seems a fitting way for a blues album. “We practiced the songs twice, then we hit the record button, and what you hear is what you get,” she said. “That’s exactly the way it happened in the studio — which was actually a garage. It was really fun.” Kat Danser hits the stage at the Arden Theatre in St. Albert on Friday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $28 each plus service charges, and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden box office.

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Local musician all smiles for first album GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Jason Medwid is full of smiles after releasing his first-ever CD. Under the name The Smile Syndicate, the St. Albert resident recently released the album, entitled Lovestorm, which has been a weekend project for the husband and father of two for the past four years. “I’m very excited. It’s been a long project, and I work full-time for a big computer company, so it’s been something where I’ve had to work on it for two- and three-hour chunks here and there,” Medwid said. And it’s not like he could enlist any help, either — Medwid plays every instrument on the whole album, and does all the singing, which was a new venture. “Those four years included learning how to sing with a proper vocal coach, and I had to record everything at home in my basement, learn how to do that properly and how to mix it all together properly,” he said. “It’s a little surreal that it actually is finished.” In addition to that, Medwid has come up with a whole fictional history of his band, dating back 17 albums to the 1970s. The idea came about when he did the same thing with another band in the 1990s. “It was just a way to be creative in a funny way,” Medwid said. “It was basically for laughs.” A lifelong Rush fan, Medwid would play along with albums, but eventually he

decided to get out of his basement and play with other human beings. But even though he failed to catch on with a local band, the creative spark was still there. “I just kind of realized, ‘I can do this,’” he said. “I started writing songs, and then went from there.” The album is an eclectic mix of styles — as it is described on CDBaby, it’s filled with “anthemic hooks, funky grooves, WeirdTechno, neo-Up With People stomp, [and] post-apocalyptic romantic cocktail jazz.” Medwid said he tried at first to decide on a style, but he quickly found himself colouring outside the lines and pushing himself out of his comfort zone. “I realized that seemed to do better when I tried to go in a more melodic, accessible, poporiented direction. But I grew up listening to progressive rock — Rush, Yes, King Crimson, that kind of thing — so, from that, I decided I could do something different,” he said, adding that he tried to be “fun and non-cynical” on every song. “I just sort of set myself up with a puzzle or a problem to solve with a song. For example, the jazz song ‘World War 9,’ that was set out as, ‘I don’t really know how to do a song like that, so let’s see if I can pull one off.’” So far, the response to the album has been positive. The album was posted to Reddit over the weekend, where it quickly rose to the No. 3 spot in the /r/music subreddit,

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After toiling away on weekends for four years, local musician Jason Medwid — recording under the name The Smile Syndicate — is pretty excited to have his first CD out there. gained 10,000 listens, lots of positive feedback and even a few sales. “Multiple people are reporting back to me that the songs are getting stuck in their heads,” he said. “I’ve shared it with people I know who have kids, and their kids are really responding to it.” “It’s been gratifying,” he added. “After being in the basement for so long and working on it for so long, you’re never really sure if what you’re doing is actually good or not. You’re just trying to do it the best way you can. Now, I’m getting feedback from people who aren’t my wife, aren’t my immediate family, and they’re responding really positively, too. It’s really

encouraging.” With this album out, Medwid said he’ll likely make another music video or two before moving on to a new EP and continuing with the band’s fictional history. “I’m going to take it year by year, going into detail about what happened to the band,” he said. “I’m just trying to make music people will find fun and want more of, and build a whole world around it, so that it makes it more interesting and fun,” he added. You can check out Lovestorm on CDBaby and iTunes, and get more information on The Smile Syndicate at www.thesmilesyndicate.com.

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Irish dance in spotlight at Unity in Diversity GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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A little bit of luck is allowing one local Irish dance troupe to strut their stuff at this year’s Unity in Diversity celebration. The 20th annual concert, organized by the Baha’is of St. Albert, is being held at the Arden Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 2, and the dancers from the Scoil Rince Mahoney school of Irish dance in St. Albert will be there, bringing their high energy dancing to the large crowd that the concert usually attracts every year. “The last few years, it’s always fallen on the weekend of our Oireachtus, which is our big major competition, the qualifying rounds for worlds and nationals … It’s the weekend after the Unity in Diversity concert this year,” said head instructor Lori Mahoney Smyth. Scoil Rince Mahoney is based out of Zero Gravity Dance in Riel Business Park. Mahoney Smyth said that performing at the concert alongside dancers and entertainers representing so many

February for over 35 years by the different nationalities will be a Edmonton Irish Sports and Social great experience for her young Society. dancers. The popularity has dropped “I think it’s good to show the off somewhat, though, as different cultures and how they can co-operate and get along with the popularity of shows like Riverdance and Lord of the each other,” she said. “Especially Dance has waned. Plus, Ireland — there’s kind of Mahoney Smyth figures, a history there.” those shows made Irish Smyth herself has dancing look a little too been dancing since effortless. she was six years old, “I think they think and has been teaching it’s a lot easier than it since 1982, with a few is,” she said. “They don’t breaks in that time. She realize that the people has spent all that time doing Riverdance are teaching in St. Albert Lori or north Edmonton, Mahoney Smyth all national and world and has had students Irish dance teacher champions who have been dancing for 10, 12 compete in national and years and put in a lot of work. It’s international competitions. not just a six-week learn-to-dance She said that Irish dancing is program.” still very popular in the Capital While some kids can pick Region. up Irish dancing fairly easily, “I don’t necessarily have Mahoney Smyth said the ones all Irish kids doing it; I’ve got who want to go further, to different nationalities,” she said. nationals or to worlds, do face a “It’s pretty strong. In Edmonton, tough choice at a certain point in there are probably seven teachers their careers. in our little area.” “It gets reach a stage where they She added that Edmonton has been home to the longest-running really have to work,” she said, “and some of them don’t have that Feis, or Irish dance competition, work ethic.” in Western Canada, put on every

Art imitates life for Arnett in The Millers

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If you think Will Arnett may need therapy after you see him in his new sitcom The Millers, well, you’re too late. “It feels like every week when we’re shooting, I say, ‘God, this is something that has happened to me with my parents, as embarrassing as it might be,’” says Arnett, whose character in The Millers has parents played by Margo Martindale and Beau Bridges. “Like in one episode my character Nathan goes to see a therapist because he’s trying to figure out why he’s so stressed out. And I remember when I was a kid, I had to go talk to a guy who basically was kind of a guidance counsellor-type dude, a therapist-type guy, and my parents were like, ‘We want you to go see this guy and he can help you figure things out, blah blah blah.’ “And I remember on the drive home in the car, my mom saying, ‘I can’t believe you told that guy all your deepest thoughts about stuff.’ And I was like, ‘Wait, I thought you told me to talk to him.’ And that’s what happens in the show. It’s so legit.” The Millers, which airs Thursdays on

CBS and Global, definitely begins with a funny premise. Unbeknownst to his parents Carol (Martindale) and Tom (Bridges), Nathan (Arnett) has just been divorced. When the old folks find out, Tom — newly liberated in the knowledge that being happy actually might be an option — walks out on Carol, to whom he has been married for 43 years.

“He’s not as dumb as Gob, but he’s also not as confident.” Will Arnett Actor The bad news for Nathan and his sister Debbie (Jayma Mays) is that each parent will be moving in with one of them. Arnett has remained loyal to the network-sitcom genre, although his signature character — Gob Bluth of Arrested Development — now has moved online with Netflix. Nonetheless, Arnett followed the network era of Arrested Development with sitcoms Running Wilde and Up All Night, and now The

Millers. That Gob-style voice and demeanor is a comic super-power Arnett possesses. So is it hard for him to keep that in check for a more grounded sitcom role? “I’m going to counter that with, I do have that kind of bombast when that’s what is called for, but I don’t agree with you that I have that all the time,” Arnett says. “I certainly don’t have it in my natural day to day. “I know what you’re saying. Playing Gob Bluth, certainly there are moments that call for it. But then if you go back and watch it, there are lots of moments where Gob doesn’t have that. There are moments he has with his dad, with Michael, with Lucille, there are moments with everybody where he kind of drops that thing. “So I see what you mean, but when I’m doing The Millers, it doesn’t really come up because this part never calls for it. Nathan Miller lives in reality and he’s kind of a nice guy. He’s not as dumb as Gob, but he’s also not as confident.” It’s actually Carol and Tom who are the extreme characters in The Millers, not Nathan. Will Arnett is fine with that. TV audiences should be, too, future therapy opportunities notwithstanding.

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Will Arnett sees some similarities between Gob from Arrested Development and Nathan in The Millers, but a lot of significant differences, too.

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Voice Pope’s ‘last big shot’ JANE STEVENSON Sun Media News Services

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Chloe Bennet plays computer hacker Skye on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC and CTV.

Bennet a special agent

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Chloe Bennet’s character on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is the most socially adept computer nerd I’ve ever seen. Okay, I know I’m going to get angry emails about that observation. Not all computer nerds are socially awkward, I get it. But work with me here. If you’ve seen Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. — which airs Tuesdays on ABC and CTV — you must have a general sense of what I’m talking about. “Oh yes, thank you,” agrees Bennet, who plays Skye. “I’m no Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, with my wonky haircut or anything.” Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a comic-book-inspired TV series starring Clark Gregg as Agent Phil Coulson, who has assembled a small group of highly qualified individuals to investigate the new, the strange and the unknown. Coulson’s team consists of Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), Melinda May (Ming-Na Wen), Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge). Bennet’s Skye is an expert computer hacker, and also the audience’s entry point into this strange world. “I definitely think we are seeing a lot through Skye’s eyes,” Bennet says. “Lots of explanation happens through Skye. She definitely comes in and just mixes it up a bit.” The Skye character also gets to deliver a lot of the humour in the show. “Everyone says it’s a one-hour drama,

but I think it’s so funny,” Bennet says. “And that’s so Joss (Whedon) and Jed (Whedon) and Maurissa (Tancharoen, co-creators). That speaks about how our set is, too, it’s such a fun environment. “Joss is known for, make it dark, make it have meaning, make it maybe scary and serious, but then make it funny, you know? Make us laugh, put a joke in there. Because people like to laugh, and some of the situations that we get into are so ridiculous, there have to be jokes made about it.” Skye is both a neophyte insider and a cynical outsider when it comes to Agent Coulson and his crew, so she gets to walk both sides of that street tonally. There clearly is some sexual tension between Skye and Grant. And in a bratty kid kind of way, Skye gets to rattle Coulson’s chain, too. In last week’s episode, when Skye referred to Agent Coulson as “A.C.,” he looked at her warily, but with no real anger, and said, “What’s wrong with Agent Coulson, or just Coulson?” Skye answered, “Nothing, I guess. A.C. is just way cooler.” In a nutshell, that’s Skye’s influence on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. “It has been a dream come true, this character,” Bennet says. “Skye really is the most fun to play, because she is a badass with her computer, but then she also has serious people skills and can get into situations and parties and certain things and just kind of go and pretend. She’s an actress.” Not all actresses are computer nerds, though, and vice versa. That’s what makes Chloe Bennet’s Skye a very special agent.

Cassadee Pope now truly understands the power of television. The 2012 winner of the third season of The Voice just released her debut solo country album, Frame By Frame, and it debuted impressively at No. 9 in the U.S. and No. 16 in Canada. (On the country charts it was No. 1 and 2, respectively). After a couple of years of slugging it out with the pop-punk band Hey Monday and opening for the likes of Fall Out Boy, the 24-year-old L.A.based singer — who co-wrote all 13 tracks of Frame By Frame with writers in Nashville — couldn’t be happier. “I definitely thought (The Voice) was my last big shot,” says Pope, who was signed to an imprint of Big Machine Records — home to Taylor Swift — in Nashville after her Voice victory. “It was definitely make it or lose everything kind of thing ... I’ve been around the block, as you’ve said, but I definitely haven’t ever had this level of success and I’m seeing it grow and grow in front of my eyes ... I love being able to see all my hard work paying off. It’s crazy. I’m able to soak it in and let it all hit my hard. Like it’s just unbelievable.” We caught up with Pope, who tours Canada in January and February opening for homegrown country star Dean Brody, during a promo stop in Philadelphia. Q. How much of a boost was The Voice to your profile? A. A lot of people, especially my old band’s fans didn’t think I needed the show and they were like, ‘Oh, you’re already famous.’ And it was such a silly thing to hear because I wasn’t and I still don’t consider myself famous. ... Right before The Voice I had gone solo from my band and I tried to do it on my own independently with no label or management or anything and it was just not working out and people didn’t care. Q. How much is your Voice coach Blake Shelton still involved in your career? A. He’s been very encouraging. He’s proud about the album and he’s tweeted about it and he’ll text me and I’ll text him and just check in so he’s very much still a friend. He probably will be for a long time I hope.

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Singer Cassadee Pope.

Q. Have you met Taylor Swift? A. I have met her (at the ACMs.) She actually came up to me and said she used to be a fan of my band which awesome. And then we saw each other again at the CMT Awards and we just hung out a little more than night and got to know each other and we get a long really well. ... It’s cool. It’s fun to be able to talk to her about my journey and kind of get some insight on how she felt when she was going through all the things I’m currently going through. ... I remember having extreme anxiety before my album was coming out and I just asked her if that was normal. And she was like, ‘If you’re not anxious and you’re not nervous, then you don’t care enough. So that’s a good sign.’ So she’s been really really great. She’s a good friend. Q. How did the Brody opening slot come about? A. Dean Brody’s actually on Big Machine so that’s the connection there. And I just got an offer to open for him and we actually had spoken about collaborating on a song but it didn’t work out. But I love his music and it was just a really good chance for me to have some exposure. Q.I understand you had cameo on the 2009 TV movie Degrassi Goes Hollywood? A. I played myself alongside along (Fall Out Boy’s) Pete Wentz. It was kind of like his clever way of promoting their headliner tour coming up at the time and my band was opening for them ... We were actually shooting that in L.A. I remember they had ketchup chips which I’m love with and I can’t find anywhere unless I’m going to Canada. So it’s one of my favourite things about Canada.

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SMALL BUSINESS WEEK 2013 Celebrating small businesses and their contributions to St. Albert’s economy

Home-based biz not all lounging around GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Working at home isn’t all about sitting in front of your computer wearing pajamas and slippers. In fact, home-based businesses are contributing to the economy more than ever. There are almost 1,000 home-based businesses registered with the City of St. Albert, and they’re all working to overcome misconceptions and stereotypes. “A lot of people don’t take you seriously when you work from home; they think you watch TV all day or something,” said Jodie McFadzen, owner of Penzen Ltd. and winner of the Home-Based Business of the Year award at the 2011 St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce Small Business Week Awards of Distinction. Penzen Ltd. has been putting together architectural, mechanical and electrical maintenance manuals, as well as bookkeeping. Given that most of her work is in the male-dominated construction industry, the stereotype of working from home isn’t the only thing she had to overcome. “Being a woman in a construction industry, the guys don’t take you seriously because they think you don’t know what you’re talking about,” she said. “I had to prove myself there, and prove to the general contractors that it’s more beneficial to contract this part of their projects out, as opposed to have someone on staff.” She has been running her business for the past eight years or so. “When I started the company, I had gone on [maternity] leave, and my goal was to be able to stay home with my kids. I didn’t want to have to go back to work and have them in daycare,” McFadzen said. “I wanted to think of an idea I could do from home, so I pondered many ideas.” Meanwhile, Cheryl Joseph of Get Organized Business Management Systems — the 2012 winner of the Home-Based Business of the Year award — said that working out of her home was a natural fit for her, and it’s easier to do in her line of work than some others. “I have a couple of clients who I’ve met once — one of them, I’ve done their books for going on three years, and I’ve met them once,” she said. “Technology is so good

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Home-based businesses aren’t all about lounging around in your pajamas all day — many operators are making big contributions to the local economy. nowadays. They literally mail me their stuff every month through Canada Post, and I send them their financial statements through email. Once a year, I deliver their stuff to their accountant.” Get Organized does bookkeeping for other companies. Joseph has been in the field for almost 26 years, but running her business for 15. The City’s economic development department gives home-based businesses the option to be listed in its online directory, and has several tools on its website at www. cultivatebusiness.ca that could be useful to home-based business operators, like surveys and census data. The department also holds regular free or low-cost seminars and webinars for business owners, and can refer people to programs through other organizations like the Northern Alberta Business Incubator or Business Link.

Those programs and seminars contribute to the flexibility that many home-based business operators enjoy and wouldn’t trade for the world. “It’s the independence and the ability to call my own hours,” Joseph said. “It usually means you work more hours, but you can decide what those hours are.” That’s especially useful when, like both ladies, you’re trying to strike a balance between work and family life. “With them being so little — the one was only eight or nine months — there would have been no way for me to spend as much time with them and watch them grow if I was working in an office,” McFadzen said. The other challenge, though, is getting the word out about yourself on a limited budget, but Joseph said good work speaks for itself. “A lot of it is word of mouth,” she said. “Once you start getting established, one person likes how you do their books, they

know a person who needs a bookkeeper. After a while, I’ve gotten to know a lot of accountants, and some of their clients need a bookkeeper. Even on that end, the overhead is very low in terms of what I need to spend to get the business.” In terms of the future, McFadzen said she’s at a bit of a crossroads, where she has enough work to possibly hire another person, but she’s not sure whether that means moving the business out of her home. “Rent’s too expensive ... but to find someone to work out of your home, you’ve really got to trust them,” she said. Meanwhile, Joseph is content to keep plugging away from home. “I don’t see it in the foreseeable future. It’s not a plan,” Joseph said. “There are other busy areas of my life where I don’t want to put myself in a position where I have to manage an office or manage other staff. I just prefer to do it on the scale that I have it.”

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The business of art

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For the trio behind Mural Mosaic, funding can be the missing piece of the puzzle, not creativity. For years, Lewis Lavoie, Paul Lavoie and Phil Alain have been creating and coordinating Mural Mosaic masterpieces all over North America, from their hometown of St. Albert to Quebec to Utah. But recently, the trio set up a campaign on crowdfunding website Kickstarter for one of their personal projects, hoping to raise the money to finish from the fans they’ve gained along the way. “[It’s about] tapping into your social networking tools and people you’ve dealt with in the past — we’ve got a lot of artists we’ve worked with, a lot of communities we’ve worked with — and hoping these seeds we’ve planted in the past are going to come back and help you in the future,” Alain said. The project is called King of Kings, and consists of 195 individual paintings of great leaders from history — from Roman emperors to U.S. presidents — that come together to form a portrait of Jesus Christ. It’s been over five years in the making, often being pushed to the back burner when another mural was commissioned. “Lewis has been painting every spare

moment he has on this mural, but we have so many other projects that take us away from the King of Kings project,” Alain said. “That’s where Kickstarter comes into play. The funding allows us that flexibility to focus on the project.” Alain said that Mural Mosaic has never asked for a government grant for their artwork, and given the religious nature of this particular project, corporate sponsorship likely isn’t in the cards, so they turned to Kickstarter. “We just thought we’d like to be supported by the public, by people who are really excited about the project,” he said. As of Wednesday — just six days after the campaign started — Mural Mosaic had already collected almost $7,000 of its $15,000 goal from 50 backers. Alain said they spent about six months researching Kickstarter, determining how best they can succeed on the site. Part of that was coming up with incentives for backers at various donation levels, which range from bookmarks and stickers to prints packaged with original art panels or full mural reproduction kits. “You’re going to have the group that’s super-excited about your project and wants to buy into it, and then the people who just want to support you. You’ve got to keep those levels in mind,” Alain said. “And then there’s people

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The Mural Mosaic team recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds to finish King of Kings, a portrait of Jesus Christ that has been five years in the making. you want to appeal to for the extremes, I guess — the people that always want the best they can possibly get out of something they’re really excited about.” Crowdfunding initiatives through sites like Kickstarter may very well be the future of funding for art, music and other creative projects, he added. “It definitely has potential that way,” he said. “We’ve discovered quite a few art projects online, for sure. I don’t know for sure, but if definitely is an alternative, because there’s only so much public funding you can find.” The Mural Mosaic team is in a unique position of being full-time artists. Alain said

it’s a tricky balance between creating and watching the bottom line, but the projects they need to do wind up paying for the ones they want to do. “You could go back to the 9-to-5 jobs and be unhappy in what you’re doing, or you can find a way to make a living doing what you love,” he said. “You may take on a job that’s less appealing as far as an art project goes, but it helps pay the bills so you can do the art projects you want to do. “I’d rather be doing an art project than something I don’t want to be doing to make ends meet.” The King of Kings Kickstarter campaign runs until Dec. 16.

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BMI not a good surgery indicator: U of A CATHERINE GRIWKOWSKY Sun Media News Services

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The findings of U of A researchers Raj Padwal (left) and Arya Sharma confirm what many have long suspected — that body mass index (a calculation based on height and weight) is not the best way to prioritize patients for bariatric surgery.

Bariatric surgery — you’re doing it wrong. That’s what a University of Alberta study found after looking at 15,000 patient records from men, women, smoking status, and diabetes. The study could change the clinical practice. Currently, patients are chosen for surgery based on their body mass index (BMI), when the priority should be for male smokers with diabetes. Instead, the lowest risk group — female non-smokers without diabetes — are the first to undergo surgery. Arya Sharma, lead researcher on the study, said using size alone is missing the boat. “If we have to decide who should get the surgery first, it should be based on who has the highest risk of mortality,” said Sharma. “We looked at thousands of patient files and many different parameters, and surprisingly enough it came down to three things — if you’re a male, smoker and have diabetes, you have the highest risk.” Patients with diabetes were twice as likely to die than their obese, non-diabetic counterparts. Smoking increased the likelihood of

death by 1.6 times, while being male increased the risk of death by 1.5 times. Each year, 350,000 bariatric surgeries are done around the world. With a wait list of 100,000 people and only 500 surgeries performed a year, the measure will come into play when determining who should get the surgery, Sharma said. He added there are other factors considered not related to death that may cause pain or discomfort to the patient such as osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and fatty liver disease. Sharma added women are more likely to go for the surgeries because there is a greater societal pressure on them to lose weight. While men are more cavalier about their weight, they’re the ones who should be going under the knife he added. Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry researcher Raj Padwal said the simple predictor will help physicians. “It’s simple math that will predict a patient’s risk of death. For example, if you’re a middle-aged, male smoker with diabetes, your risk of dying in 10 years is 10 times higher than a young, female, non-smoker who doesn’t have diabetes — irrespective of BMI,” Padwal said. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research funded the study.

U of C researchers get big boost from BMO to study obesity

RENATO GANDIA St. Albert Leader

Researchers at Alberta Children’s Hospital got a big boost from a generous donor last week with a $1.5 million gift to combat obesity. BMO Financial Group donated the money to help fight the growing obesity epidemic among Canadian children. U of C professor Dr. Raylene Reimer has been investigating obesity for more than 13 years and the grant will help advance her research. Reimer, who’s research area is nutrition and chronic diseases, has found that prebiotic fibre can help regulate appetite control and weight in adults. “This donation is really important in terms of allowing the research that we’ve done in adults and translating it now to the pediatric population,” she said. “With this grant, our team will now be able to determine if the

same can be applied to children and incorporated into the guidelines for pediatric obesity management. “If so, this will be a huge breakthrough and offer practical solutions for kids struggling with weight issues here in Canada and around the world.”

“This will ... offer practical solutions for kids.” Dr. Raylene Reimer U of C researcher The donation establishes the BMO Financial Group Endowed Research Fund in Healthy Living. Robert Hayes, BMO vicepresident of Alberta-Northwest Territories Division, said his company hopes the funding will pay dividends by helping kids live healthier, happier lives. “This is truly one of the most

important gifts BMO has bestowed in the province to ensure a high quality of life for our growing population,” he said. In a presentation, Reimer said in 1978 some 15 per cent of Canadian children were obese. That figure has more than doubled today with 31.5 per cent of kids between five and 17 years old battling weight problems. Reimer said those kids are prone to having heart disease, cancer, diabetes and other illnesses as they mature. They need to change their eating habits, participate in daily physical activity and adjust other social, biological and environmental factors that contribute to their health problems, she added. Petra O’Connell with Alberta Health Services said due to the growing problem of obesity in the world it’s imperative that researchers find new ways to help children and families in order to prevent future health problems.

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U of C researcher Dr. Raylene Reimer shows a prebiotic fibre that helps obese adults lose weight. With a $1.5 million donation from BMO Financial Group, Reimer and other researchers are going to test if it works for kids.

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Dr. Levi Harrison is under no illusions about his own mortality. He’s just not that interested in aging. “I stopped aging at 28,” the 49-year-old orthopedic surgeon and fitness expert tells Sun Media in a phone interview from his office in Los Angeles. “I’m not participating. I’m not aging anymore. I’m done with that. I just want to feel good.” To stave off the ravages of time and remain as youthful as humanly possible, Harrison relies on two old standbys: Regular exercise and good nutrition. Yup, no earth-shattering revelation there. But Harrison — a fit 160 pounds at fivefoot-nine — is a stickler for sticking to his regimen. “Exercise is non-negotiable. It’s a lifestyle. You have to love it,” he explains. “And if you love exercise, it’ll love you. It’ll love your body back.” Without a doubt, Harrison can be classified as an “exercise lover.” He works out every day. Every. Single. Day. On weekdays, he allots 60-90 minutes to sweat it out. On weekends, he shows his body even more love with workouts of up to two hours in length.

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To keep his routine from getting old, Harrison does everything from CrossFit and swimming to jogging and hiking. “I rotate my workouts,” he says. “I pride myself on allowing my body to do different things. I think it’s important to crosstrain.” Along with regular exercise, good nutrition is also non-negotiable for Harrison. “You can eat whatever you want, but you have to be consistent about not eating large quantities of food and not eating late at night,” he adds. “A lot of people eat because food is available. I remind folks that if you don’t buy it, you won’t eat it. … The ice cream, yogurt, chips, cakes, candies and fried foods just didn’t magically appear. They got there because they were bought.” Harrison recommends organic fare — especially fresh fruits, nuts, vegetables and grains — for the biggest bang for the buck. “Half the plate should be filled with fruits and vegetables,” he notes, “the other half with your protein and your starches. It’s real easy.” For Harrison, host of an Internet-based radio show, it’s about “honouring the body.” That includes maintaining a positive mindset. “You are what you think,” he adds. “So you have to watch what you’re thinking.”

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PETS Mission Ridge Animal Hospital A Cat Friendly Practice

Taking your feline to the veterinarian doesn’t have to turn into a cat-astrophe, at least at one clinic in St. Albert. The Mission Ridge Animal Hospital recently received its Cat Friendly Practice (CFP) designation Dr. Katherine Takacs & Tibby from the American Association of Feline Practitioners, making it the first clinic in the Capital Region with such a designation. “For us, it was something I felt was important to achieve, just to elevate the standard of car for cats,” said Dr. Katherine Takacs, the vet at Mission Ridge Animal Hospital who spearheaded the effort to get the CFP designation. “I’ve always been passionate about feline medicine my whole life,” she added, “so it was exciting when I read about the program.” While Takacs said the practice was always cat-friendly, there were a few changes that need to be made to earn the CFP designation. One of the exam rooms was set aside for cats only, with shelves mounted high on the wall for cats to climb. As well, some cat grass was planted in the room, and a special diffuser was installed that releases synthetic pheromones that are supposed to have a calming effect. “I truly believe it works, because we have lots of cats come in here and their owners are like, ‘Wow!’” Takacs said. “They’re rubbing against everything and they’re happy.” As well, the clinic tries hard to get cats into the room as soon as possible after coming in, so their carriers are not on the ground and they are not stressed out by other animals sniffing around, MPSSCS4925142MPSE

Harrison also honours his bod by not smoking, not drinking and not doing drugs. It’s all detailed in his book, The Art of Fitness: A Journey to Self Enhancement, which was published earlier this year. “I’m the first othopedic surgeon and physician in America to ever write a (fitness) book and to do all the exercises in the book,” he notes. “It has never been done before. There have been a few people in medicine who’ve written books, but they don’t show how to do the exercises because they’re not really fit themselves. Often they’ll talk it, but they don’t live it. My book, The Art of Fitness, was really about letting people know that fitness is a lifestyle.” Harrison, who released a workout DVD in August, strives to make fitness accessible and non-threatening to the masses. Getting fit doesn’t have to be difficult, says the good doc. “There’s no stress about it. You just have to take the body that you have and do the best that you can with it,” he advises. “The goal here is to make small, sustainable steps so you can have long-term benefits.” Long-term benefits like, for example, aging gracefully. “I don’t think we all have to get old and

and appointments are typically longer so cats can come out of their carriers and get acclimatized to the room before the vet comes in. It’s all aimed at making visits to the vet less harrowing for cats and their owners, hopefully meaning they get checked out more often. “We’re trying to address both the client’s stress and the feline’s stress, and finds ways we can decrease,” Takacs said. She added that studies have found that 39 per cent of cats are

only taken to the vet if they’re sick, and 60 per cent of cat owners feel like their cat hates going to the vet. “Cats are excellent at hiding the signs of illness and pain, so we need to inform clients by bringing them and talking to them,” Takacs said. Mission Ridge Animal Hospital is located at 51 Liberton Dr., and can be reached by phone at 780-458-3833. Check out their website at www.missionridgevet.com.

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Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013

Oreos as addictive as morphine

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Not only that, exposure to the cookies also activated “significantly more” neurons in the brain’s so-called pleasure centre than to the drugs. “Our research supports the theory that high-fat/ high-sugar foods stimulate the brain in the same way that drugs do,” said Prof. Joseph Schroeder, who oversaw the student-led experiments. “It may explain why some people can’t resist these foods despite the fact that they know they are bad for them.” Perhaps just as surprising: the rats broke the Oreos apart and ate the middle first.

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Oreos are as just as addictive as morphine — and even more pleasurable — according to a new study out of Connecticut College. Researchers put hungry rats in a maze and gave them two separate tests: a choice between rice cakes and the cream-filled cookies; and a choice between a shot of cocaine or morphine, and a shot of saline. Then they measured how long the rats hung out in different parts of the maze and found the rodents spent as much time near the cookies as they did near the drug injection spot.

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Sold Listings: 11

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Low $344,000 / High $479,900

Low $287,000 / High $606,000 Avg. days on market: 37

$393,185

Sold Listings: 16

Active Listings: 19

Sold Listings: 21

Average list price:

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Low $319,900 / High $459,900

Low $269,800 / High $675,000 Avg. days on market: 36

Low $369,900 / High $1,095,000

Low $410,000 / High $743,000 Avg. days on market: 54

Active Listings: 16

$369,652

$392,243

$395,356

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BRAESIDE Active Listings: 8

Sold Listings: 14

Active Listings: 12

Sold Listings: 17

Average list price:

Average sale price:

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Average sale price:

Low $304,900 / High $539,900

Low $282,000/ High $450,000 Avg. days on market: 42

Low $364,900 / High $689,900

Low $351,000 / High $490,000 Avg. days on market: 40

$366,925

$352,835

$450,361

$411,105

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OAKMONT Active Listings: 19

Sold Listings: 14

Active Listings: 9

Sold Listings: 33

Active Listings: 20

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Low $379,900/ High $499,900

Low $295,000 / High $587,500 Avg. days on market: 48

Low $488,800 / High $2,499,000

Low $478,000 / High $2,500,000 Avg. days on market: 75

Low $399,900 / High $1,395,000

Low $400,000 / High $1,234,194 Avg. days on market: 46

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$393,422

$1,008,044

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Active Listings: 26

Sold Listings: 29

Active Listings: 4

Sold Listings: 6

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Low $349,900 / High $1,248,800

Low $300,000 / High $775,000 Avg. days on market: 48

Low $357,900 / High $585,000

Low $340,000 / High $475,000 Avg. days on market: 53

$659,634

$446,120

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$462,724

$423,400

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Active Listings: 37

Sold Listings: 43

Active Listings: 4

Average list price:

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Active Listings: 4

Sold Listings: 8

Average list price:

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Average sale price:

Low $389,900/ High $929,900

Low $390,000/ High $770,000 Avg. days on market: 51

Low $279,900 / High $649,800

Low $324,900 / High $487,000 Avg. days on market: 24

Low $349,999 / High $689,000

Low $306,000 / High $432,000 Avg. days on market: 23

$591,693

$524,975

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Active Listings: 1

Sold Listings: 7

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Low $405,000 / High $405,000

Low $342,000 / High $435,000 Avg. days on market: 30

$405,000

$376,842

$417,375

Sold Listings: 8 $370,987

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WOODLANDS Active Listings: 8

Sold Listings: 6

Average list price:

Average sale price:

Low $379,900 / High $538,000

Low $361,000 / High $586,500 Avg. days on market: 37

$443,162

$415,166

*The above area market averages represent the trailing 3-month averages, except where otherwise indicated, of single-family homes only as of the Friday prior to publication week. Data is provided by CRAIG PILGRIM of RE/MAX Real Estate (St. Albert), member of the Real Estate Association of Edmonton. Data does not include condos, townhomes or apartments, and does not differentiate between styles of homes. All efforts are made to ensure data is accurate for information purposes, but please consult a licensed real estate agent for additional market information.*Did you know source: City of St. Albert website, St. Albert 2012 Census MPSSCS4928000MPSE

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Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013

‘Bionic man’ goes on display in Washington

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – A first-ever walking, talking “bionic man” built entirely out of synthetic body parts made his Washington debut on Thursday. The robot with a human face unveiled at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum was built by London’s Shadow Robot Co to showcase medical breakthroughs in bionic body parts and artificial organs. “This is not a gimmick. This is a real science development,” museum director John Dailey said. The six-foot-tall (1.83-meter), 170-pound (77-kg) robot is the subject of a one-hour Smithsonian Channel documentary, The Incredible Bionic Man, which aired Sunday. A “bionic man” was the material of science fiction in the 1970s when the television show The Six Million Dollar Man showed the adventures of a character named Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was rebuilt using synthetic parts after he nearly died. The robot on display at the museum cost $1 million and was made from 28 artificial body parts on loan from biomedical innovators. They include a pancreas, lungs, spleen and circulatory system, with most of the parts early prototypes. “The whole idea of the project is to get together all of the spare parts that already exist for the human body today — one piece.

If you did that, what would it look like?” said Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and host of the documentary. The robot was modeled after Meyer, who was born without a hand and relies on an artificial limb. He showed off the bionic man by having it take a few clumsy steps and by running artificial blood through its seethrough circulatory system. “It, kind of, looks lifelike. Kind of creepy,” said Paul Arcand, a tourist who was visiting from Boston with his wife. The robot has a motionless face and virtually no skin. It was controlled remotely from a computer, and Bluetooth wireless connections were used to operate its limbs. The bionic creation’s artificial intelligence is limited to a chatbot computer program, similar to the Siri application on the Apple iPhone, said Robert Warburton, a design engineer for Shadow Robot. “The people who made it decided to program it with the personality of a 13-yearold boy from the Ukraine,” he said. “So, he’s not really the most polite of people to have a conversation with.” Assembly began in August 2012 and took three months to finish. The robot made its U.S. debut last week at New York’s Comic Con convention. It will be on display at the museum throughout the fall.

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Berlolt Meyer speaks during The Incredible Bionic Man arrival at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., where he will be on display through the fall.

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51 Disorganized 52 King of Israel 53 Cartoon chipmunk 54 Cass of 60's music 55 Hog fat 56 2002 film, "We ___ Soldiers" 57 ID card item 60 Deighton of spy books 62 Son of Odin

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The fastest known mammal muscles belong to bats, which use the muscles to send out echolocation calls. (discovery.com)

Patrick Leonard Sadjak — better known to TV game show fans as Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak — is born in Chicago.

OCT. 27, 1858

Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City. Roosevelt would go on to be the 26th president of the United States.

OCT. 28, 1967

Actress Julia Roberts — best known for her roles in movies like Pretty Woman, Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s Eleven — is born in Smyrna, Ga.

OCT. 29, 1929

Black Tuesday hits Wall Street, as investors trade more than 16 billion stocks in one day on the New York Stock Exchange. Billions of dollars are lost, sending the industrialized world into the Great Depression.

OCT. 30, 1995

Quebecers vote to remain part of Canada by a margin of 50.6 per cent to 49.4 per cent.

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Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013

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Employees at Crackmasters Windshield Repair and Replacement in St. Albert stand in front of a display of Autotex pink wiper blades. For every blade sold, a donation is made to the Canadian Breast Cancer Society. Last year, the shop raised more than $5,000 for the cause. The blades come in different styles and are available in black with a pink ribbon, or in full pink.

Condo complex boasts eco amenities GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

A new condominium complex boasting innovative eco-friendly features is hoping it will stand out among other developments in St. Albert. The sales office for Sage Gardens officially opened over the weekend in Erin Ridge North, near the site of the new Costco warehouse store. But officials with the project gave a little sneak preview on Thursday, Oct. 17, and said it’s one of the most unique projects they’ve ever worked on. “We are excited about the opportunity to execute the unique vision and features of these condominiums ... We are proud of what they’re planning and the partnership we’ve engaged in,” said Dwayne Stewart, partner with Pacific Rim Services, the firm building the complex. The complex, which is owned by Vision Investment Properties, will consist of 214 units ranging from one to three bedrooms (600 to 1,100 square feet), with prices starting at $225,000. Construction is expected to start in spring 2014, with the first units being occupied

in late fall 2014. One of the most unique features of the complex will be its rooftop terrace and year-round winter garden, which will encompass about 2,000 square feet. “It’ll be a year-round warm environment where there’s always growing,” Stewart said. Even the individual units feature eco-friendly materials and techniques that support the vision of Sage Gardens being a healthy and sustainable building. “All the materials were chosen with those aspects in mind,” said interior designer Katrina Walker. “We’re really avoiding things that have off-gassing like MDF [medium-density fibreboard] and petroleum products, and lowVOC [volatile organic compound] products.” Some of the carpeting is made from recycled materials, and manufacturers with environmentally friendly factories were chosen. Canadian-made products have also been sourced wherever possible. The units have been laid out to maximize access to natural light, and most will include private enclosed sunrooms. The building

will also feature a 3,000-squarefoot daycare facility and a physiotherapy clinic. Mayor Nolan Crouse was at the sneak preview, and while he was excited at how the project would reinforce St. Albert’s botanical brand, he was more excited about the variety it would inject into the local housing market. “I really appreciate the builder taking a chance on units of that size,” he said. “... The work the entire community has done at trying to have more diverse housing stock will ultimately pay off if we see more developers and builders like [Pacific Rim Services and Vision Investment Properties].” Find out more about Sage Gardens at www. sagegardensliving.com.

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Vision Investment Properties managing director Tom Napiontek unveils a rendering of Sage Gardens during a sneak preview event on Thursday, Oct. 17.

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way colleges can help address the skills mismatch. Franklin also applauds college and industry partnerships. In Peterborough, It’s a topic that has rightfully garnered a Ont., Fleming College’s strong focus on the lot of attention and stirred heated debate: the environment is driven by the community’s country’s skills mismatch. Simply put, good commitment to environmental jobs can’t be filled because people seeking sustainability. work don’t have the right education and/or Don Lovisa, president of Durham College skills. in Oshawa, Ont., says he’s often contacted The problem is expected to get worse by companies that can’t hire the staff they as technology and innovations continue need and are looking to the college for to transform the economy and create solutions. “We’re hearing right across this increasing demands for a more highly country from manufacturers and all types skilled workforce. of companies that they Stakeholders are can’t get the skilled calling on businesses, trades they need.” governments and The skills mismatch educators to develop is a complex issue that a meaningful strategy requires a complex that encourages young solution. “I think society Max Blouw people to pursue higher in general must place Council of Ontario Universities education and training. far greater value on the Colleges want to play skilled versus university an instrumental role in the Ontario Youth education,” says Lovisa. “We see quite a Jobs Strategy that was approved in June number of university graduates coming as part of the Ontario budget, says Linda to college for something that’s applied in Franklin, president and CEO of Colleges nature and they get employment. We have to Ontario. “Frankly, this is exactly why encourage our young people to get back into colleges were created some 25 years ago,” she the skilled trades.” says of career-focused training. Though university degrees have been One way to bridge the gap, she believes, is criticized by some as irrelevant, the to help university graduates translate their Association of Universities and Colleges of theoretical knowledge into specific skills that Canada quickly came to their defense with match jobs. Over the last few years, there has a document entitled Canada’s skills gap: 11 been a 40 per cent increase in the number of quick facts. university grads completing a post-graduate It points to a CIBC report that found college certificate in a particular discipline, most jobs in high demand in Canada such as marketing or sales. “That growing require a university degree. “Many of our combination of university and college is programs are very jobs related, including becoming quite powerful,” Franklin says. such professional programs as dentistry and Working with employers to ensure engineering,” says Max Blouw, chair of the curriculum is relevant is yet another Council of Ontario Universities (COU).

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“We’re educating them for a succession of jobs.”

“The debate is much more around the criticism of students who get an arts degree or a basic science degree and are working as baristas. That dialogue fails to recognize something quite fundamental — the BA or BSc doesn’t necessarily prepare you for a specific job but it prepares you for a flexible approach to learning, to engagement with problems, to analyse and to be articulate in criticism and coalition building.” The AUCC points to an employment survey that found today’s employers are seeking employees with global awareness, critical thinking skills, problemsolving abilities and strong communication and interpersonal skills — all of which are developed and honed through a university education. “The work world is not nearly as predictable or as stable as it was even 10 or 15 years ago,” says Blouw. “When we educate people we’re educating them for a succession of jobs rather than a single or first job that will last a lifetime.”

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