16, JULY 2013 MORNING NEWS E. TIME

16,July 2013      CANADA     NEWS

**Stephen Harper is girding for the next election with a huge cabinet shuffle that enlists and promotes younger ministers, He’s kept the core of his economic team intact. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said he believes nothing has really changed. It is clear that the only minister who has any power in this government is the Prime Minister. **

**Court delays in Alberta have been reduced thanks to streamlining measures introduced by the province. Three months after the measures were introduced, the initiatives have made significant progress in cutting down judicial delays, Justice Minister Jonathan Denis said Monday. Prosecutors have proceeded by direct indictment in three high-profile Edmonton-area cases recently. Statistics provided by Alberta Justice showed the average time to go to trial in provincial court dropped slightly in June 2013 over the previous year in Edmonton and Calgary. Preliminary inquiries have historically been used to determine if prosecutors have enough evidence to proceed to trial. Eliminating preliminary inquiries may save time in provincial court, but DePoe predicted it will result in longer dockets in the province’s superior trial court.**

**Weather warnings  blanketed Saskatchewan on Monday, but by the end of the day the deadly weather had missed many centres. Environment Canada confirmed tornadoes had reportedly touched down southeast of Regina near Kronau and Gray, west of Yorkton and north of Humboldt sometime between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. There were also unconfirmed reports of a tornado near Hague.**

16,July 2013      US    NEWS

**Differences between the Senate and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives have centered on border security and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants, And bill the Senate passed in June includes ambitious measures to eliminate green card backlogs and create a new merit program, based mainly on education and job skills, to expand and streamline future legal immigration. None of several smaller measures recently approved by House committees deal with fixing the visa system, and a bipartisan House bill similar to the Senate’s has stalled. Congress has imposed caps on the number of visas issued to each country each year. As a result, immigrants from some countries can wait a decade or more to get their visas after approvals. Most foreigners are waiting outside the United States.**

**The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first medical scan that can help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children by measuring the frequency of two standard brain waves known as theta and beta waves. Diagnosing ADHD is a multistep process based on a complete medical and psychiatric exam, said Christy Foreman, director of FDA’s Office of Device Evaluation, in a statement. The American Psychiatric Association states that it affects 3 to 7 percent of school-aged children.**

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28, JUNE 2013 MORNING NEWS W. TIME

28,June 2013    CANADA   NEWS

EDMONTON

**Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has postponed a tour of Alberta’s oilsands region because of the recent floods in the province. He was to tour an oilsands plant in the Fort McMurray area this weekend and visit a First Nations community at Fort Chipewyan. Kennedy, who says the oilsands have serious implications for human health and the environment.**

**Alberta brought in only two-thirds of the $11.2 billion in non-renewable resource revenue it originally counted on in 2012-13 after a grim fiscal year that started out full of pre-election optimism. In the end, Alberta collected $7.6 billion in non-renewable resource revenue, taking a $2-billion hit from bitumen, $219 million less from crude oil and $268 million less in natural gas royalties than budgeted. Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner released the final tally of the province’s revenue and spending as of March 31, 2013, at an informal press conference outside the Calgary Police Headquarters.**

VICTORIA

**Economic growth is declining, the debt is rising and the downward trend is reflected in home sales, retail sales and job creation, Finance Minister Mike de Jonghe said. De Jong said the budget introduced Thursday in Victoria reveals changes in B.C.’s economic forecast since last February, when he tabled a financial plan that was never passed because the legislature adjourned for the May 14 election campaign. “The next 12 to 18 months are going to be tough. It’s going to be tough,” de Jong said. The government is also shrinking its surplus forecasts until 2015-2016.
The government believes the development of LNG projects represents a trillion-dollar economic opportunity that could create 100,000 jobs and help the province pay down its debt, which currently is at more than $62 billion and forecast to rise. Natural-gas revenues are forecast to reach $397 million this year, up from $169 million last year.
De Jong said the government is facing a prolonged period of belt-tightening, but it is going to put in place fundamentals that will ensure an economic recovery, including the development and export to Asia of liquefied natural-gas from northwest B.C. **

YUKON

**The board of the Great Northern Ski Society voted on Wednesday afternoon to begin to dissolve. Whitehorse City Council voted unanimously Monday night to reject the society’s most recent request for over $620,000. The society needed the cash  infusion to keep doors open over the summer. It had a projected shortfall of nearly $270,000 for this year. The city has offered to buy the chairlift. The ski hill will close down on July 2.**

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VANCOUVER

**A month after his party suffered a shocking electoral upset, British Columbia New Democrat Leader told party members that he takes responsibility for the debacle.**

**Make Music Vancouver: 150 musical acts perform an a free street festival expected to draw 30,000 to the historic district Friday, Make Music Vancouver runs from 5 to 10 p.m. on Water Street.**

EDMONTON

**Premier Alison Redford declared the flood of 2013 the largest in provincial history Sunday and said the damages and costs will almost certainly top the Slave Lake fires of 2011. Redford pledged support for all who needed it and announced a special team of MLAs had been assigned to co-ordinate cleanup efforts in southern Alberta’s most sodden communities.**

WHITEHORSE

**Arctic foxes are seen in their enclosure at the Yukon Wildlife Preserve north of Whitehorse. There will be lynx, Arctic fox and lamb feeding times, rehabilitation centre visits and children/family-oriented tours from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday for the free annual open house**

**A lightning storm through the northern part of the territory resulted in a number of new fires Thursday, The most significant of the new fire activity is a 60-hectare blaze about 37 kilometres southeast of Dawson City.**

Recent major floods across Canada

Southern Alberta
June 2005
Flooding hits southern Alberta , swamping nearly 50 communities. Areas hardest hit include Calgary, High River, Okotoks and Sundre — thousands are evacuated and four people are killed.

June 2010
Major flooding hit Medicine Hat, Irvine, Walsh and area.

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21, JUNE 2013 EARLY EVENING NEWS E. TIME

21,June 2013        CANADA    NEWS

**Calgary flooding: Canadian Forces sending 1,200 troops to southern Alberta, About 600 were on the ground in Calgary, High River and Cochrane by mid-morning and another 600 would leave Edmonton and head south at noon local time. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi says the flooding situation in his city is under control as much as it can be for now. Alberta Premier Alison Redford warns that people downstream of Calgary still “have not yet felt the full force” of flooding.**

**The City of Calgary on Bridge closures status:
*All bridges on the Elbow River under review for possible closure
*All pedestrian bridges on the Elbow and Bow Rivers – being reviewed by Maintenance / to be closed
*16 Avenue NW, between Sarcee and Home RD (over Bow River)  – closed
*Baines Bridge (at the zoo)  – closed
*Centre St bridge under-deck  – closed
*Pedestrian deck under LRT bridge to Sunnyside  – closed
*4th AV Flyover – closed
*Old Langevin Bridge  – closed
*Shouldice Bridge – closed
*85 ST Bridge, between 48 AV NW and Bearspaw Dam RD NW – closed  **

**Calgary flooding: Prime Minister Stephen Harper to tour flood damage, Harper spokesman Andrew MacDougall tweeted that the prime minister was flying to his hometown of Calgary “to tour flood damage” with Premier Alison Redford, who also lives in the city and represents a constituency there.**

21, June 2013      US    NEWS

**GARFIELD – N.Jersey Transit’s Bergen County line could be suspended in both directions through the evening rush hour after a train hit a struck truck early this afternoon. Bergen Line train service was suspended in both directions shortly after the accident around 12:15 p.m. on Friday. **

**Before Berlin, The President Obama set his steep downward trajectory by squandering the most precious post-election months on gun-control. Speaking at Berlin’s, President Obama called for a one-third reduction of the world’s nuclear stockpiles. Arms control is impossible until it is unimportant. This is because arms control is an arena of competition in which nations negotiate only those limits that advance their interests. Precisely for this reason the President Obama speaks about arms. **

**As President Obama nominates a new FBI director, the bureau is coming under rising pressure from lawmakers to explain the limits of its recently disclosed drone fleet. Civil liberties-minded senators on both sides of the aisle have fired off sharply worded letters and statements in recent days criticizing the FBI for deploying surveillance drones without clear guidance on how to protect privacy rights.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the latest to scrutinize the bureau, sending a letter on Thursday to outgoing Director Robert Mueller asking a string of questions about his agency’s drone use, I am disturbed by the revelation that the FBI has unilaterally decided to begin using drone surveillance technology without a governance policy, and thus without the requisite assurances that the constitutional rights of Americans are being protected,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky wrote. FBI spokesman Paul Bresson clarified earlier this week that the aircraft are only used in “very limited circumstances to support operations where there was a specific operational need.” He cited an example of a hostage situation in Alabama earlier this year where a drone helped law enforcement. He said they are only used to conduct surveillance “on stationary subjects.” And the bureau must obtain FAA approval first. **

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21, June 2013       CANADA     NEWS

ALBERTA

**Torrential rains and widespread floodingthroughout southern Alberta on Thursday washed out roads and bridges. Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is urging residents affected by flooding evacuation orders to ‘gather your valuables and go.
The City of Calgary has declared a State of Local Emergency. Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued practically hourly.
The affected communities are as follows:

Beltline
Bonnybrook
Bowness
Bridgeland Industrial Area
Chinatown/Eau Claire
Cliff Bungalow
Deer Run
Discovery Ridge
Downtown/East Village
Elbow Park
Erlton
Inglewood
Hillhurst
Mission
Montgomery
Quarry Park
Rideau
Riverbend
Riverdale
Roxboro
Stanley Park/Elboya
Sunnyside

Residents facing evacuation are advised to find accommodation with friends or family for a minimum of 72 hours. Reception centres have also been set up at Southland Leisure Centre and at Acadia Recreation Complex for those looking for alternate accommodation. Emergency responders are going door to door in these communities and Calgary Transit is on standby to help evacuation efforts. People are advised to take critical personal items such as glasses or infant needs along with identification.
From City Transit on C-Train service
Due to rising water and flooding risk, Calgary Transit CTrain service is being limited to those areas not impacted by potential flooding, effective immediately.
In the south, CTrain service will run between Somerset and Heritage stations.
In the northwest, train service will operate between Crowfoot and SAIT stations.
On the west line CTrain service will operate between Kerby Station and 69 Street Station.
In the northeast the CTrain service will run between Franklin Station to Saddletowne Station.
CTrains will operate in both directions between the identified stations.
Service will be augmented by shuttle buses where possible.
These safety measures are being taken to eliminate risk to citizens by operating trains through areas where there is imminent flooding in tunnels and at switches in the inner city.
Calgary Transit apologizes for the inconvenience and thanks you for your understanding.**

**The value of the Ontario government’s signature green energy deal with Samsung has been slashed by $3.7 billion as the province reduces the amount of electricity it will buy from the South Korean company.**

**Navy veterans will not be able to wear their uniforms at memorials and special events after the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa issued a new nation-wide standing order last week.**

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20, June 2013         CANADA    NEWS

CALGARY

**A rainfall warning remains in effect for Calgary and surrounding areas, including Okotoks, High River, Airdrie and Cochrane. A low pressure system is gradually moving its way through southern Alberta and bringing with it lots of wet weather.**

**Dr. Herb Emery, the program director of Health Policy at the School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary said everyone agrees that a good portion of the health spending is avoidable if Canadians had better nutrition, exercised and stayed in good health. What we’re seeing is that people aren’t healthy and you just leave it to their choices with no support, it turns out a lot of them will get obese, a lot of them will have nutrition deficiencies coming through how they’re eating, and they’re getting sicker,” says Emery. Canadians in poor health require about $10,000 more in services annually and people in good health can help control the public health-care budgets, by requiring fewer services as well as hospital and doctor visits.  The cost of hospitals and doctors in our country continue to increase annually without much improvement in access and availability. **

VANCOUVER

**The political landscape leading up the 2014 civic election is shifting as a new party that includes community activists, former politicians and a retired judge is gearing up to take a run at city hall. The Electors’ Action Movement of the Lower Mainland Association, or TEAM, says it has almost 100 members and plans to run a mayoral candidate in the 2014 race as it battles the ruling Vision Vancouver, the NPA and COPE.**

**It would cost up to $55 million to demolish the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts and replace them with a new link from Georgia Street to existing roads in Northeast False Creek. The tab for such a project climbs to more than $130 million when costs are calculated to modify existing streets, parks, utilities, build more parks and conduct soil remediation on what were former industrial lands. Approximately $1 million has been spent to date on the planning and engineering work related to the removal of the viaducts. But city staff wants two more years and $2.4 million to spend on a “work program” to examine the bigger picture of what removing the viaducts will mean for the neighbourhood and surrounding communities. The next opportunity for council to make a final decision on the viaducts’ fate may not come before a new council is elected in the fall of 2014. If the council of the day decides the viaducts should be demolished, it could take up to six years before they come down.**

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18, JUNE 2013 MORNING NEWS W. TIME

18, June 2013       CANADA   NEWS

   CALGARY

**Alberta workers may earn the highest incomes in the country, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s rosy for small and mid-sized companies. According to ATB Financial’s second quarter Business Beat Survey, 67 per cent of provincial business owners say finding and retaining experienced or skilled labour is a problem and 37 per cent say they simply can’t meet salary demands. These high-wage expectations are forcing owners to adapt and create new ways to not only get staff, but retain them as well.
For example, one Calgary-based company offers employees a continental breakfast, hot lunch and on-site fitness. Small and mid-sized businesses make up 99.9 per cent of businesses in the province.**

TORNADO WARNING

**Meteorologists are tracking a rotating severe thunderstorm kilometres north of Rosemary. This thunderstorm is moving to the southeast at 25 KM/H and has the potential to produce a tornado, large hail, heavy rainfall and strong wind gusts. Communities in the storms path include Duchess and Patricia.**

**If you see a funnel cloud, swirling debris near the ground, flying debris, or any threatening weather approaching, take shelter immediately.

Vehicles, mobile homes, cottages, boats and any tents or trailers are unsafe. Seek shelter in a location like a bathroom, interior closet, stairwell, basement or the lowest level in the building. Stay away from windows or outside walls, as they offer little protection.
Environment Canada continues to monitor the situation closely. Please continue to monitor your local media or Weatheradio for further updates. If you would like to report severe weather, you can call 1-800-239-0484 or send an email to storm@ec.gc.ca. **

**Skills training is a central element of Economic Action Plan 2013. There are too many jobs that go unfilled in Canada because employers can’t find workers with the right skills. Meanwhile, there are still too many Canadians looking for work.
Economic Action Plan 2013 introduces key measures to connect Canadians with available jobs by equipping them with the skills and training they need to obtain high-quality, well-paying jobs. It is also helping businesses in vital sectors find the talent they need to remain competitive domestically and internationally.**

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VANCOUVER

**The Canadian Cancer Society is calling on the B.C. government to tighten its anti-smoking regulations, in an effort to cut the smoking rate from 14 to 9 per cent over the next five years. The campaign comes on the 50th anniversary of the landmark declaration by Canada’s Health Minister Judy LaMarsh that “smoking is a contributory cause of lung cancer”. **

**Law enforcement vessels manned by Canadian and American crews have been approved to pursue criminals over maritime borders between the countries.Officials said Monday the measures are needed to crack down on criminal gangs taking advantage of each country’s separate jurisdiction and inability to continue hot pursuits over the border.Sailors from the U.S. Coast Guard and RCMP officers made the joint announcement at the Canada-U.S. border in Surrey on Monday.”We’ll see RCMP and U.S. Coast Guard boats on waters with joint crews,” said U.S. **

**Vancouver police have netted 22 rifles, six handguns and four shotguns as part of a program that allows people to surrender their illegal or unwanted firearms without the risk of weapons charges.Police say 686 rounds of ammunition were also turned in during the first 17 days **

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13, JUNE 2013         CANADA    NEWS

EDMONTON

**Former city councillor Mike Nickel announced Wednesday he’s trying for a comeback as a candidate, this time for Ward 11.**

**Coun. Jane Batty announced Monday she’s retiring after 12 years on city council. The Ward 6 councillor, first elected in 2001, said she talked to her two daughters over the weekend and decided to make way for new blood in the central Edmonton district.**

**All four oilsands mining companies working in Alberta failed to meet standards set in 2009 requiring them to reduce toxic tailing ponds, according to a new report from the province’s Energy Resources Conservation Board.**

**Alberta’s growing group of midwives has signed their first formal compensation deal, a three-year agreement hailed as the final step in recognizing the profession as an integral part of mainstream health care.**

  Shaw, Blackhawks beat Bruins in triple overtime in game 1 of Cup Final .

CALGARY

**A new program aims to cut Calgary’s high school dropout rate in half in the next five years. **

**City police want to remind Calgarians of the dangers of drinking and driving and are using a tragic example to drive the point home in a new campaign.**

**Wolf chases Banff motorcyclist on local highway **

YUKON  AND  NORTHEASTERN  

**Close to 50 of Whitehorse’s policy wonks and politicos gathered Tuesday evening at the Yukon Arts Centre to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Yukon Act and muse about the territory’s future. **

**More than seven months after being elected, city council members have adopted what’s essentially been deemed a roadmap for its term that will run until October 2015.**

**SWEET SOUNDS – Shanti Bremer with Sweet Lowdown performs last Sunday in the Yukon Arts Centre Gallery during the annual Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival.**

**A new alliance of charter air companies plans to bid for lucrative charter business in western Nunavut. Kitikmeot Air Ltd. announced June 12 the conclusion of a long-term contract that will see Nolinor Aviation of Montreal provide aircraft for charters from bases in Cambridge Bay**

                   

**The Iqaluit fire department got the city’s approval June 11 to expand its firefighter training grounds, with councillors approving a motion that helps clear the way for an upgrade to a facility where firefighters can train.**

**Telesat Canada, the satellite communications company, will make a donation to the Inuit Broadcasting Corp.‘s Nunavut Media Arts Centre fundraising campaign.**

**INUVIK – Celebrating teacher longevity is among the more pleasant tasks for Stan Anderson in his role as chairperson of the Rankin Inlet District Education Authority. **

VANCOUVER

**Westside-Kelowna residents will be lining up at the polls again, less than two months after they decisively voted in former MLA Ben Stewart.**

**B.C. New Democratic Party MLA Spencer Chandra Herbert was re-elected in Vancouver-West End by almost 5,000 votes Tuesday night after campaigning to address affordability and trans rights.**

**Sixteen more accused rioters are now charged nearly two years after the night of downtown mayhem that followed the Vancouver Canucks’ 2011 Stanley Cup final loss. A total of 229 people have now been charged with crimes including participating in a riot and 149 of them have pleaded guilty.**

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12, June 2013        CANADA    NEWS

ALBERTA

**The satndoff between the Tory government and the superboard it put in place to run’s Alberta’s health-care system is one more sign that AHS needs to be scrapped, say critics.**

**Crews are cleaning up and investigating after a pipeline leak in northwestern Alberta. An unknown amount of water that had previously been used in an oil well spilled June 1 from a line owned by Apache Canada Ltd., near the hamlet of Zama City. **

Alberta mtn.’s1 (Photo credit: bbob)

** FORT MCMURRAY – Residents are trying to clean up the damage after high waters on the Hangingstone River flooded this northern Alberta city’s downtown core and evacuated  residents. **

EDMONTON

**Hundreds of Edmonton high school students walked out of class Tuesday to gather at the Alberta Legislature in protest of budget cuts to education.**

**The city has axed the idea of a sandy beach in Hawrelak Park and will move forward with a $2.9 million design for a water play area instead. The budget for the beach project outlined in a report presented to the city’s Community.**

CALGARY

**A high-stakes showdown erupted Tuesday between the Redford government and Alberta Health Services board after directors refused to spike executive bonuses.**

**Olympic hockey star and University of Calgary student Hayley Wickenheiser received her bachelor of Kinesiology degree.**

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11,June 2013      CANADA   NEWS

VANCOUVER

**The Transportation Safety Board is expected to recommend Canadian rail carriers adopt a new system of automated signalling and braking to help prevent runaway trains and fatal derailments. 5:01 AM ET**

**More than 11,000 cyclists who were issued tickets in Vancouver over the past five years for not wearing a helmet refused to pay their $29 fine.**

**Gregor Robertson wants Vancouver to become a high-tech oasis; by 2020, the greenest and cleanest, most sustainable patch of urbanity in the world.**

CALGARY

**City council voted Monday in favour of developing the Paskapoo Slopes, despite advocates arguing against it.**

**The city has hired a new top bean counter, Kathy Palmer new city auditor.**

**Mounties and search and rescue crews will continue Tuesday morning to look for two young men, including one from Alberta, missing since early Sunday along a B.C. forestry road.**

EDMONTON

**The City Centre Airport redevelopment is in jeopardy unless the city reaches a deal to take over land where the province stores and flies its airplanes **

**The city auditor has found serious problems with the operations of a group set up to improve the quality of life for aboriginal Edmontonians.**

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