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3/20/2010 Calgary man is the only fatality in second BC avalanche 12:50pm Revelstoke RCMP say they have accounted for everyone who was in the area of a second deadly avalanche in the region in a week. A 30-year-old Calgary man was buried by the slide and killed in the category four snow slide at eagle pass mountain while another was hurt. Mayor David Raven says a check of parking lots and access roads finds no indication there could be more victims. "From what they're telling me, i don't know if there are any further people in there. They've accounted for everyone who was at the trail heads and roads going in, so there's every reason to believe, as search and rescue and RCMP do, that there's no one left in there. This latest avalanche occurred not far from last weekend's boulder mountain slide. (ro, qr) Details...
3/20/2010 Join Together Alberta hosts one last rally before budget is finalized 12:39PM A group who is desperate to effect some change in the minds of MLA's rallied at the Legislature Saturday. Join Together Alberta says while the government may be increasing health care spending, spokesman Bill Moore-Kilgannon says there will be cuts to other areas such as post secondary education. He says, "The costs are going to be increasing, programs are going to be shut down. And, I find it really troubling that the government has cut the grants to low-income families, and students from northern Alberta who traditionally have very low participation in post secondary education. These things we need to invest in, not be cutting at this time in our economy". The rally comes just before the third and final reading of the provincial budget on Thursday. (jg) Details...
3/20/2010 Dubnyk nets 1st career win 11:46pm It took eleven starts, almost 800 minutes between the pipes and three shootouts, but Devan Dubnyk is finally a winner. Edmonton's rookie netminder stopped Detroit forward Valtteri Filppula in the third round of a shootout after Ryan Potulny and Gilbert Brule had beaten the guy at the other end to lift the Oilers to a 3-2 win, his first career NHL victory. It seemed like it was Dubnyk's night right from the start when the Oilers went up 2-0 in the first five minutes of the game, but an all too familiar storyline began to unfold in the third period. With the score 2-1, Edmonton was outshot 17-3, and with just 0.2-seconds remaining in the game, Detroit's Brian Rafalski tied it up. With no goals scored in overtime, it came down to the shootout though, and Dubnyk came up big when it mattered most. "I'm going to have to sit down for a bit after that one," said a relieved Dubnyk after the game. "When that last goal went in I just tried to [think] don't flinch, don't think back, don't say 'I wish that could have not happened - you could say all these things, I just tried to ... Details...
3/20/2010 Downtown apartment fire 11:20pm No injuries reported after an apartment fire Friday evening east of the downtown. Fire crews were called to an apartment complex at 101st Avenue and 116th Street around 9:30pm after a resident reported smoke in his suite. Fire crews quickly put out the blaze and are trying to determine how it started.  (gm) Details...
3/19/2010 Close call collision at MIllwoods gas station 8:20pm Edmonton police say it could have been worse, a lot worse! photos by: Edwin Germann This after a white SUV came landed on top of an Orange taxi cab on the city's south side. Standing on a residential street corner normally packed with children across from a school, EPS Sergeant Maurice Brodeur described the situation. "Just prior to 5 o'clock, a vehicle at a high rate of speed just missed the curb at Millwoods Road and 80th Street, came flying across the grassy area, and was headed straight for the 7-11 store and pump area. There was a minivan parked getting fuel, and the driver, thank god, was in the store, when that vehicle crossed somewhat climbed the cab and took out one of the gas pumps with fuel spilling everywhere." Brodeur says fire crews did a great job containing the fuel spill while two people in the SUV were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Charges of impaired driving causing injury, and dangerous driving, are now pending against the driver.(td, ro) Details...
3/19/2010 Police charge 55-year-old man in attempted abduction 5:10pm A man in Whitecourt is facing serious charges after witnesses call police about what looked like an attempted abduction. RCMP Staff Sargeant Rodney Koscielny says early Wednesday night people spotted a man approaching an eight-year-old girl in a field. He says this seemed odd so the witnesses approached the pair and after a brief conversation they became more suspicious and called the police. Koscielny says the picked up a suspect. "The male that we've charged at this time is Donald John de Montagne, a 55-year-old male who has just recently moved to Whitecourt from Mayerthorpe." Koscielny says this is an exceptionally unusual incident in the community of Whitecourt. He says the community is concerned and investigators are taking this file ver seriously. Officers are also following up with an education campaign.(td, ro) Details...
3/19/2010 New report suggests huge jump in LRT ridership 5pm Two more LRT stations at McKernan/Belgravia and South Campus meant way more LRT riders than planners anticipated. Numbers released by Edmonton Transit show adding two new LRT stations this past year has meant a big jump in ridership. Transit service director Ken Koropeski says those two new stations saw daytime riders total just over 19-thousand. The next two new stations at Southgate and Century Park come on line on Sunday April 25th and Koropeski says they can't forcast how many more riders they'll get because of those additions.(sj, ro) On the Web: Parking Ride Usage Report Details...
3/19/2010 Mother's killer pleads guilty 1:30pm A young man who stabbed his mother to death is pleading guilty to manslaughter. The plea from Rostislav Soukonnik comes at what was to be his arraignment Friday on a charge of second-degree murder. The accused was 20-years-old when mother Maia Soukonnik, 60, was killed in her home, in a complex at 90th Avenue and 184th Street during the early morning hours of November 13th, 2008. A sentencing hearing is scheduled to take place June 1st.(bp) Details...
3/19/2010 College of social workers feels Albertans aren't taxed enough 12:25pm The Alberta College of Social Workers has proposed a new policy framework to the provincial government. It was prepared by the Parkland Institute. Dianna Gibson, the institute's research director, says Albertans aren't taxed enough.   "We had stated that progressive taxes with increased progressivity at the top end," says Gibson. "But, more than that, Alberta has by far the lowest taxes -- far, far lower than most other jurisdictions, and taxes could be raised in many areas and still be the lowest in the nation. Our corporate tax, at 10 per cent, is far below the 12-16 per cent range of other provinces."   They propose raising other taxes as well, like with liquor.   The college claims the boom only helped those at the top, and did nothing to help working families. (sj, bp, ccg) On the Net: ACSW.ab.ca Details...
3/19/2010 Join Together Alberta rally at the 'Ledge this weekend 12:12pm The provincial budget is pretty much set and Join Together Alberta expects it will pass with little trouble on March 25th. However, that's not stopping the public interest group from criticizing the provinces cuts to public services. Join Together's Bill Moore-Kilgannon points out while services are on the chopping block, subsidies to the oil and gas sectors are on the rise. Protesters will march from both the Shaw Conference Centre and Grant MacEwan downtown, arriving at the Legislature at 1pm, Saturday. Join Together is hoping to draw attention to the even more cuts planned for next year. (ms, ccg) On the Net: JoinTogetherAlberta.ca Details...
3/19/2010 Shelters deal with funding cuts 11:00am Several on-reserve women's shelters got a shock this week when Indian and Northern Affairs Canada informed them their funding is being cut. It came without warning.   Sandra Ermineskin, the executive director of the Ermineskin Women's Shelter in Hobbema, says her shelter is slated to lose $60,000, leaving it with a budget of just under $500,000.   "One of the impacts that we're going to feel at the Ermineskin Women's Shelter is the groceries," says "Because our shelter is continuously full."   To cope, the shelter will be looking at cutting supplies, and laying off one staff member.   Jan Reimer, the provincial co-ordinator of the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters, says the council has received a one-year reprieve because the cut has been put off to the 2011-2012 fiscal year. However, she says the rollback is just as devastating. (sj, bp, ccg) On the Net: ACWS.ca: Maskwaci - Ermineskin Women's Shelter Society Details...
3/19/2010 Man convicted in New Year's fatal in Calgary deported to India 11:47am A man convicted for a hit-and-run that killed a Calgary woman and seriously injured two people after a new year's party has been deported. The Canadian Border Services Agency confirms that Samrat Dhuna was sent back to his native India earlier this week. An agency spokeswoman says Dhuna has been barred from ever returning to Canada. He had been serving a 10-year sentence for slamming his van into a group of new year's revellers outside a bar in 2006. Raminder Dhadda, who was 24, was killed and two people were seriously injured. Dhuna was recently granted day parole, which allowed immigration officials to begin deportation proceedings. (Calgary Sun, ccg) Details...
3/19/2010 Whitecourt Mounties lay child abduction charge 10:35am A 55-year-old man is now charged after someone tried to pick up a young girl near a school playground in Whitecourt. Donald John Demontigny is charged with abducting a person under 14. RCMP say people in the area noticed something suspicious was going on between the the girl and a man in his fifties. They removed the girl from the area and called police. It didn't take long for officers to make an arrest. Demontigny is scheduled to be in court on April 13th. (BD, ccg) Details...
3/19/2010 SCOC dismisses Edmontonian's murder appeal 10am The conviction for a young Edmonton man, who murdered his pregnant friend nearly five years ago stands... Now, Jared Baker, 24, has exhausted his last avenue for appeal, after the Supreme Court dismissed the case Friday morning. Reasons for the decision were not immediately made known by the SCOC. Baker was hoping the country's highest court would overturn his conviction on the basis of a mental disorder. He was high on crystal meth, when he shot and killed Olivia Talbot, 19, in November of 2005. In 2007, a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Baker was not the father of the unborn child.(bp) Details...
3/19/2010 A creepy morning call for Calgary's ERD 9:25am It was almost as big as a fire hose ... Calgary firefighters responded to a call from an apartment in the 6700 block of Elbow Drive S.W. early Friday, after a tenant found something slithering behind his television. Fire crews captured an eight foot long python. No word yet on how the snake got into the apartment or how long it had been there. The snake has since been taken to a 24-hour animal hospital. (CHQR, ccg) Details...
3/19/2010 Catholic icon dies 8:08am An Edmontonian who had an impact on many young -- and not so young people -- in the city has passed away. Photo: Lori Nagy Father Michael Troy, a well-known local priest, teacher, and sportsman, has died at the age of 92. 630 CHED News confirmed Friday morning that he died about 1:30 a.m.   Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, Father Troy came to Toronto in 1958. In 1964, Troy came to Edmonton to teach first at Archbishop MacDonald High School, and in 1970, he went to St. Joseph's College. Education and sports were life long keys to the man. He liked to get young people involved in sports.   "It gives them the spirit of competition," said Troy. "They learn respect for other people, to admit you make mistakes."   And, he was a hands-on man when it came to schooling.   "I've always believed in practical education," he said. "That's one of the troubles in our education -- we train everyone to be executives and nobody to do the work."   Father Troy will be remembered with both the basketball tournament, arena, and school named after him. (crn, bp, ccg) On the Net: WCR.ab.ca: Fr. Michael Troy at 90 (Article from Oct. ... Details...
3/19/2010 Man pleads guilty after church fires 6:45am A young man will learn his fate in May, after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a pair of church fires in Wetaskiwin last fall. Peter Terrence Jones, 23, has pleaded guilty to two counts of break-and-enter to commit arson. Sentencing is set for May 13th. Jones was charged after fire destroyed the First United Church in October, and heavily damaged the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. (bp) Details...
3/19/2010 Nexen/Shell project makes 'significant' oil discovery in east Gulf of Mexico 6:59am Oil and gas producer Nexen Inc. (TSX:NXY) says it and partner Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) have made a ``significant'' oil discovery in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Calgary-based Nexen says the find at the Appomattox project has ``excellent reservoir quality.'' It's the third discovery in the area, following other oil finds at the nearby Shiloh and Vicksburg sites. Nexen and Shell say they will conduct further testing at Appomattox later in the year Nexen has a 20 per cent interest in Appomattox and Shiloh and a 25 per cent interest in the Vicksburg site. Shell is the operator for all three discoveries. (The Canadian Press, ccg) On the Net: NexenInc.com: Nexen Announces Significant Discovery at Appomattox in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico Details...
3/19/2010 Hundreds homeless after Calgary apartment fire 4:35am UPDATE: Hundreds of people are homeless after a massive fire destroyed much of a four-story condominium complex in southwest Calgary.     The blaze at a 159 unit building on Millrise Drive, sent massive, dark grey clouds of smoke into the sky Thursday. One firefighter was injured and taken to Rockyview Hospital, where he was in stable condition. Deputy Fire Chief Len McCharles said the fire appears to have started on a balcony and when crews arrived about 12:15 p.m., it had spread into two suites, crawling its way up into the attic space where it quickly spread. McCharles said it's too early to tell the extent of the damage, which appeared to be mainly confined to the top floor, noting water damage to some suites untouched by fire may be extensive. Photos provided to CHQR by: Steve Jones About 170 residents had checked in Thursday night at a city-operated emergency rescue centre at nearby Southview Alliance Church where Disaster Services personnel were assessing their needs. (aw, ccg, CHQR, Calgary Sun) Details...
3/19/2010 Calgary man pleads guilty to killing puppy 1:41am A Calgary man has pleaded guilty to clubbing a puppy to death. Jacob Rabeau, 21, will be sentenced on May 7 for animal cruelty for fatally striking Shea, a four-month-old Husky, on Aug. 2, 2007. Crown prosecutor Richelle Freiheit said Rabeau was urinating in an alley behind Shea's owner's home when the puppy ran towards Rabeau ``in an excited state.'' Court heard Rabeau thought the puppy was going to bite him so he went to his car, got a wooden bat or two by four out of his vehicle and swung it, hitting the pup in the head. Justin Kotulak noticed his pup had escaped from the yard, found him injured in the alley and picked him up, and the dog died in his arms. Defence lawyer Willie de Wit said Rabeau was initially concerned for his safety, but overreacted by using a piece of wood to strike the animal.   (aw/Calgary Sun) Details...

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