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three-man raceA candidate has stepped forward to run for the BC Conservatives.

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bad decision

reconsiderAnti-cull groups say provincial government should reverse decision on hazing permit.

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prOudLy SErviNg kimbErLEy ANd ArEA SiNCE 1932 | Vol. 81, Issue 73 | www.dailybulletin.ca

Drive-by shooting accused receives six years

Dustin Plourde pleaded guilty on April 15 and was sentenced for firing a shotgun at a home

in Kimberley

SALLy mACdONALdTownsman Staff

The man charged over a drive-by shooting in Kimberley on April 4 has been sentenced to six years prison.

Dustin Fagen Plourde, 28, pleaded guilty in Cranbrook Provincial Court on Monday, April 15 to unlawfully discharging a firearm, posses-sion of a firearm contrary to an order, and possession of a prohibited or restricted fire-arm with ammunition.

See ACCUSED, Page 5

Photo courtesy KAr

The weather may have been somewhat of a mixed bag at this year’s Spring Splash, held at the Kimberley Alpine Resort on April 6 and 7, 2013, but that didn’t stop crowds from turning out for the year end party. Above, the Dummy Downhill. See more on page 4 of today’s Bulletin.

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The BC Coroner’s Service has confirmed the identity of a Kimber-ley woman who was reported miss-ing Sunday, April 14, and found de-ceased in a golf course retaining pond in Marysville the next day.

Kimberley RCMP were notified of a missing person Sunday, April 14, just before 6 p.m.

Deborah Marie Blais, 55, had gone for a walk with the family dog earlier in the afternoon at Bootleg

Gap Golf Course. Later, people on the course discovered the dog strug-gling in the retaining pond, rescued it and returned it to its home. When Blais did not return, family and friends began searching for her.

The RCMP and Search and Res-cue were called in, and they, along with a police dog, initiated a search of the area.

According to RCMP, it became ev-ident that Blais may have fallen into the retention pond. The RCMP Dive

Team was requested. The next day, Monday, April 15,

the dive team located the women, deceased, in the pond. The Coro-ner’s Service said the pond is about three metres deep, and held a week’s worth of water for 27 holes.

Search and Rescue teams from Cranbrook, Fernie, Creston and Sparwood assisted in the search. Victim Services is assisting the fami-ly, friends and coworkers with this tragic loss.

Missing woman located at local golf course

chris Newel Photo

The RCMP Dive Supervisor at the golf course pond.

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As anyone who has been outside in the last two weeks knows, the weather has been un-seasonably cold lately. Warmer weather is on the way; likely things will be looking up by the weekend.

Doug Lundquist, warning preparedness meteorologist for Envi-ronment Canada, said the whole pattern is quickly moving for an-other change, and ex-pects that by the week-end the region should be seeing daytime high temperatures getting closer to a normal sea-sonal high of around 15 degrees.

The weather took a downturn soon after

the unseasonably warm Easter weekend. A high pressure front descended upon B.C. from Alaska and drove the temperature down into the cold snap we’ve been seeing.

Lundquist estimates that by this weekend, temperatures could reach a high of 15 on Saturday and 14 on Sunday.

“It’s the nature of weather; we have ups and downs over time,” he explained. “What happened is right after that really strong high pressure on Easter, we had a flow come more out of Alaska, so it changed from this warm ridge of high pressure bringing in warm air from the

southwest, to flow coming off Alaska, bringing freezing air from Alaska over the Pacific and then down over B.C.”

The last 30 days have been 0.7 degrees below average and the last 90 days have been 0.2 degrees above aver-

age. “What’s happening

is not outside of what could happen for this time of year (for the Kootenay region),” Lundquist said. “I wouldn’t want to talk about the prairies, be-cause I think they’ve had it a long time, but for us here in B.C. it’s been up and down.”

He said though the weather will be looking up by the end of the week, residents should be wary.

“It’s definitely not tire-off time if you’re planning on travelling, especially if you’re trav-elling through the pass-es,” Lundquist said, adding that even a trip to Kimberley could warrant keeping the

winters on. “On the val-ley bottom it melts fair-ly quickly. You wouldn’t have to go too high and it could be an issue.”

He said the pattern is definitely closer to the end.

“It’s not entirely im-possible that we may see some record lows,” he said.

On the long-range forecast, Lundquist said there is a high probability that the temperature will once again be above average – in the high teens.

“But to look beyond a week in this kind of weather pattern, the re-liability of the forecast goes down,” he said.

For up-to-date fore-cast, go to www.weath-eroffice.gc.ca.

Barry Coulter photo

You have to be hardy in Canada in April. A gathering of regional high school students opened the soccer season this weekend at Mount Baker Field. But while Friday was pleasant, Saturday brought snowy conditions to test the teams, such as Kimberley’s Selkirk Secondary and Fernie Secondary School (above). Mount Baker Secondary, Creston and Invermere were also represented.But further soccer action should be played in more springlike conditions, as the weather appears to be turning for the better.

Weather looking up come this weekend“I wouldn’t want to

talk about the prairies, because I

think they’ve had it a long time, but for us here in B.C. it’s been

up and down.”Doug Lundquist

Environment Canada

Sally MaCDonalD photo

After months of construction, the addition to the Regional District of East Kootenay office in Cranbrook was officially opened on Friday, April 5. Local dignitaries cut the ribbon on the new board room prior to its first board meeting. Pictured, left to right: ?aq’am (St. Mary’s Band) Chief Jim Whitehead, Kootenay Columbia MP David Wilks, RDEK board chair Rob Gay, Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett, Kootenay East Regional Hospital District board chair John Kettle, New Dawn Developments’ Chad Jensen, RDEK building manager Dan McNeill, and RDEK building inspector Sanford Brown.


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“Have you been voting for Cranbrook’s folk rock band The Good Ol’ Goats during their quest for the

CBC Music Searchlight Competition title?”

Next week’s poll: “Do you agree with the provincial government decision to deny Kimberley a permit for a trial

deer hazing?”

Log on to www.dailybulletin.ca to make your vote count.

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Get to know your provincial candidatesThe Bulletin presents weekly words from the candidates in the Columbia River Revelstoke riding; BC Liberal Doug Clovechok

and NDP incumbent Norm Macdonald. If you have a question you’d like to ask the candidates, email it to [email protected]. This week’s question: The BC Mayors Caucus is asking for stable, predictable, long term infrastructure funding in British

Columbia. What do you think is the best way to realize this goal?

Since 2001 our government has participated in many fed-eral-provincial infrastructure programs and invested hun-dreds of millions into commu-nity infrastructure. A good share of that money has come to Kimberley, for the Paralym-pic Training & Conference Centre, skate board park, high-way improvements, Rails to Trails, to name a few.

Overall, the province has provided $3 billion in new funding for local governments that they weren’t getting under the NDP. In fact, the NDP re-duced funding to local govern-ment by $800 million during their time in government.

We established the one-stop Rural Secretariat to assist municipalities and regional districts in applying for fund-ing programs and gave munic-ipalities 100 per cent of all traf-fic fine revenues. They were getting 10 per cent under the NDP. We also doubled small community grants, which means hundreds of thousands

to small towns like Kimberley. We established the Auditor General for Local Government to work with municipalities with the mandate of finding creative and innovative oppor-tunities ensuring our tax dol-lars are being used in the most effective and efficient way as possible.

As your MLA, I will work with municipalities and our MP seeking long term and in-novative mechanisms that ad-dress infrastructure issues that

begin with improved asset management plans. By receiv-ing the necessary supports from provincial and federal governments, municipalities can either begin to develop new or enhance existing plans that will in turn help prioritize needs over wants. Models like this have been very successful in ensuring investments are made at the right time mini-mizing future repairs, rehabili-tations and ongoing costs.

Infrastructure should not be seen as something that gov-ernments have to spend on but something they should in-vest in. Infrastructure is about productivity, economic per-formance, rising real incomes, and strengthening the social safety net for Canada’s seniors, families, and children.

I look forward to working on this issue with you starting May 15th.

[email protected]

Municipal governments are the least funded, de-spite being the most heav-ily called upon level of government. Their coffers are comparatively small but the variety of projects and programs they are tasked with supporting is almost endless.

In recent years the pro-vincial government has moved toward a trend of dropping support for pro-grams and facilities they previously funded, which then forces municipal gov-ernments to pick up the slack and fill in the gaps. This challenge, faced es-pecially by rural munici-palities, is one that I un-derstand well from my time as a councilor and mayor in Golden.

Local governments de-pend mainly on property taxes and grants from more senior levels of gov-ernment for their reve-nues. While I can’t prom-

ise that will change in the short term, having a local representative in govern-ment will mean easier ac-cess to much needed pro-vincial resources.

Infrastructure funding for specific projects like the Mark Creek flume up-grades or provincial sup-port for long term plan-ning processes like urban

deer mitigation, interface forest fire management and city watershed protec-tion, would be readily available.

The BC Liberals have removed services that other communities have, including the hospital, courthouse and employ-ment centre. These clo-sures put pressure on the municipality and the tax-payers within it.

As an MLA at the heart of an NDP government a provincial relationship with the City of Kimberley can produce immediate results and reduce the fis-cal burden on the city’s taxpayers.

I look forward, like most I speak to in Kimber-ley, for a change in gov-ernment. The NDP will make that change for the better, one practical step at a time.

Doug Clovechok, BC Liberal Norm Macdonald, NDP

Norm Macdonald

Decision ‘political, shocking’ coalition says

C AROLYN GR [email protected]

While the Humane Treatment of Urban Wildlife group and the BC Deer Protection Coalition have not ap-plauded every move made by Kim-berley City Council in its efforts to

manage the urban deer population, they are very much in favour of Kim-berley’s plan to attempt an experi-ment in deer hazing.

Representatives for both groups are responding very strongly to the denial of Kimberley’s request for a permit to do an experimental aversive conditioning trial for a period of 48 hours.

Groups call for reversal of hazing decision

BC Conservatives to run in Columbia River RevelstokeThird candidate

enters raceC AROLYN GR ANT

[email protected]

The race for the MLA’s seat in Columbia River Revelstoke is no longer between two men.

Earl Olsen of Fair-mont Hot Springs has announced that he will be running for the BC Conservative Party. Thus far, according to the Party’s website, they have 46 candidates run-ning.

Olsen has owned property in Fairmont since 2006. Prior to semi-retiring in 2011, he was a partner, in a company operating large printing compa-nies in Edmonton and Calgary, Alberta, Since

moving to the valley he has worked as an ac-countant, as well as spending much of his time, volunteering as a Fireman/First Re-sponder in the Colum-bia Valley.

Earl holds a designa-tion of Certified Gener-

al Accountant and has many years of business, financial and manage-ment experience. His career encompasses private and public sec-tor management re-sponsibilities as well as small business owner-ship. When time per-

mits Earl loves to spend time outdoors, kayak-ing, touring on his trike and also enjoys working with wood. Earl is mar-ried to Joan and togeth-er they share three chil-dren and five grandchil-dren.

As a newer resident of BC, Earl is hoping that his fellow citizens recognize the need for real change and seize this opportunity to elect a government dedicat-ed to fiscal responsibili-ty and the betterment of its citizens. He promises to represent the inter-ests of the riding and to always have a listening ear.

Watch the Bulletin later this week when we sit down with Earl Olsen for an interview.

Earl Olsen, BC Conservative Party

See HAZING, page 5

Tuesday, april 16, 2013 daily bulletin

Community snapshot - spring splash 2013

Photos courtesy The Real Mackenzie Photography and Kimberley Alpine Resort

The Splash Pond, the Dummy Downhill, great music, good friends - the year end party at Kimberley Alpine Resort


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19 - 24th Avenue South, Cranbrook BC V1C 3H8Phone: 250-489-2791 Toll Free: 1-888-478-7335

Email: [email protected] Website: www.rdek.bc.ca

RDEK Public Hearing Notice

The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) Board of Directors is considering an application by Haworth Development Consulting Ltd. for a property owned by Carmelo Daprocida to amend the Rockyview Official Community Plan and the Cranbrook Rural Zoning Bylaw. If approved, the amendments will amend the OCP and Zoning designation of the subject property to accommodate a 17 lot subdivision. The subject property is located at the end of Lakeview Drive in the Jim Smith Lake area as shown on the attached map. Bylaw No. 2427 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Rockyview Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 2255, 2010 - Amendment Bylaw No. 7, 2012 (Daprocida / Jim Smith)” will amend the designation of the South Half of the East Half of District Lot 7794, Kootenay District from RR, Rural Resource to SH, Small Holdings, MH, Medium Holdings and OSRT, Open Space, Recreation and Trails. Bylaw No. 2428 cited as “Regional District of East Kootenay – Cranbrook Rural Zoning Bylaw No. 1402, 2001 - Amendment Bylaw No. 28, 2012 (Daprocida / Jim Smith)” will amend the zoning designation of the South Half of the East Half of District Lot 7794, Kootenay District from RR-60, Rural Resource Zone to RR-1, Rural Residential (Estate) Zone, RR-2, Rural Residential (Small Holding) Zone and P-2, Parks and Open Space Zone.A public hearing will be held at: Regional District of East Kootenay

19 - 24th Ave S Cranbrook, BC Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 7:00 pm

The Board has delegated the holding of this hearing to the Directors for Electoral Area C and the City of Cranbrook. If you believe that your interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaws, you may prior to the hearing:• inspect the Bylaws and supporting information

at the RDEK office in Cranbrook from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, excluding statutory holidays;

• mail, fax or email written submissions to the addresses/numbers shown below; or

• present written and/or verbal submissions at the hearing.

Submissions cannot be accepted after the public hearing.All written submissions are public information pursuant to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.This notice is not an interpretation of the Bylaw. For more information, contact Tracy Van de Wiel, Planning Technician, at 250-489-0306, toll free at 1-888-478-7335, or email [email protected].

BylawS 2427 & 2428Bylaw Amendment - Jim Smith Lake

Coalition decries hazing decision Kimberley campaign

office to openC AROLYN GR ANT

[email protected]

Kimberley residents are invited to join NDP MLA Norm Macdonald this Thursday, April 18 as he opens his campaign headquarters at 177 Wall-inger Avenue, the same address as his headquar-ters in the last provincial campaign.

“Campaigning doesn’t have to be boring,” said Macdonald, who will be in town to celebrate the grand opening of his party’s provincial election office on Thursday afternoon. He noted food and refreshments will be served, along with a plate of food-for-thought.

Macdonald, campaigning for a third consecu-tive term, will be outlining his platform, discussing his party’s plans for government and how both of those align with issues that are important to peo-ple in Kimberley.

“There is a real appetite for a change in govern-ment throughout the province,” Macdonald said, “but not just change, it’s about change for the bet-ter.”

The office will be staffed by volunteers and open for the duration of the provincial campaign.

The kickoff event is scheduled to run between 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.

From Page 1Crown counsel Lynal Doerk-

sen told Judge Grant Sheard that around 11 p.m. on April 4, RCMP were called to a home on Ar-chibald Street in Kimberley after the residents heard a shot fired at the front door.

There were two women and a nine-month-old baby inside the home but they were unharmed.

Police saw bullet holes through the window in the front door. Witnesses reported seeing the shots fired from a dark blue Neon, but RCMP could not lo-cate the vehicle.

Two hours later, at 1 a.m. on April 5, the residents of the home called to say the shooter had re-turned, this time firing at the kitchen window.

The shots had penetrated one pane of the double-paned win-dow, but not the second.

The residents of the home told the police they were unclear why their home was targeted.

Soon after the second shot was fired, police located a vehicle matching the description outside a home on Wallinger Avenue, and arrested two people who were leaving the vehicle. They found a sawn-off shotgun inside the vehicle.

Five charges were laid against Plourde, while Randy Boehner, 26, was charged with breach of probation. He pleaded guilty on Monday, April 8 and was sen-tenced to 70 days in jail.

The pair told police that Plourde shot at the residence be-cause he mistakenly believed it was home to members of a drug gang.

Plourde’s defense counsel Rick Strahl told the court that Plourde had moved to Kimberley from Strathmore, Alberta, three months ago. Since then, Plourde felt he had been threatened by people in Kimberley involved in the drug trade who felt he was a threat to their business.

After drinking a large amount of vodka on April 4, Plourde de-cided to take action “in a crazy, no-thought manner”, Strahl de-scribed.

Both Crown and defense agreed that a six-year sentence was appropriate.

Plourde addressed Judge Sheard before the judge consid-ered sentencing.

“I know I made a mistake. I’m not trying to minimize the seri-ousness of what I did. I’m thank-ful nobody was hurt, in particular the kids. Whatever reason I had

doesn’t make it right and I realize I have to pay for what I did. I carry a lot of weight at this point. I’ve had time to sit and think about what I did,” said Plourde.

Plourde has a criminal record in Alberta. He was last convicted of robbery and aggravated as-sault in 2007.

Judge Sheard considered for about half an hour before sen-tencing Plourde to a global sen-tence of six years. He was given six years for unlawfully discharg-ing, one year for possession of a firearm contrary to order, and three years for possession of a prohibited or restricted firearm, with the sentences to be served at the same time.

The judge also placed a life-time ban on Plourde of possess-ing a firearm, crossbow or am-munition, and ordered Plourde to provide a DNA sample.

Judge Sheard also recom-mended Plourde serve his sen-tence at a facility other than Kent Institution, as Plourde believed he would be threatened there.

Because Plourde pleaded guilty, the Crown ordered a stay of proceedings on a second charge of unlawfully discharging a firearm, and a charge of breach of probation.

Accused gets six years

From Page 1Calling the reasons

given for denial — that hazing would not be al-lowed under the Permit Regulations — ‘an ex-cuse’, spokespersons for the groups are calling on the provincial govern-ment to reverse their de-cision before the com-ing election.

“This is very disap-pointing” said Sherry Shrieves-Adams resi-dent of Kimberley, Co-Chair, Humane Treat-ment of Urban Wildlife and spokesperson for the BC Deer Protection Coalition. “The whole idea of hazing is to change deer behaviour by moving them out of town and making it un-comfortable to stay in town. It is a viable alter-native to culling. The current government downloads the respon-sibility for managing deer to our community and then ties our hands when we want to try ap-proaches that have worked elsewhere.”

The Humane Treat-ment of Urban Wildlife Committee has spoken to Kimberley Council many times, and to other East Kootenay Councils as well, re-

questing that they look into non-lethal methods of population control.

Shrieves-Adams also sits as a community rep-resentative on the Kim-berley Urban Deer Committee.

Colleen Bailey, from Cranbrook, Chair, Hu-mane Treatment of Urban Wildlife and spokesperson for the BCDPC, who has been in the forefront organiz-ing against culls in many East Kootenay commu-nities, finds it frustrating that the government continues to approve culls while denying non-lethal methods.

“The BC Liberal gov-ernment rewards our Council (Cranbrook) with a kill permit when all Cranbrook has really done is kill deer,” said Bailey. “Kimberley Council is leading other municipalities in imple-menting a comprehen-sive human/deer con-flict prevention program and yet the Liberals punish Kimberley by denying the hazing per-mit. Ministers Thomp-son and Lake should take note that the urban deer killing game has become intensely politi-cal and divisive and that

there are consequences for their decision.”

“The Ministry of For-ests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations denied the permit be-cause of the Wildlife Act’s Permit Regula-tions,” said Liz White, Leader of Animal Alli-ance Environment Vot-ers Party of Canada and a spokesperson for the BCDPC. White, from To-ronto, travelled to Kim-berley and spoke to Council this past winter. “We strongly disagree. We believe that the per-mit was denied for polit-ical reasons and be-cause the Ministers failed in their due dili-gence to find out how hazing is actually done. Both the Act and the Regulations allow the Liberal government to issue a permit to the City of Kimberley for the purpose of hazing deer. Ministers Steve Thomp-son and Terry Lake should intervene before the election writ is dropped and issue the permit immediately. This issue will not go away during the elec-tion.”

White says it is a shocking decision and she feels especially bad

for Mayor McRae, Council and the Urban Deer Committee, who she says have been lead-ing the way in dealing with urban deer.

“This is a community that has done a tremen-dous amount of work on managing deer. I don’t know of any community in British Columbia that has done what Kimber-ley had done. Lots of communities have es-tablished anti-feeding bylaws, but Kimberley is actually enforcing it, and doing the educa-tion. They’ve done the ground work and the number of people feed-ing deer has dropped substantially. They are changing the bylaw for fence height, so people can keep deer out. They are looking at incidental feeding of deer through fruit trees and certain flowers. Signs are going up. They are imple-menting an incredibly comprehensive pro-gram.

“Hazing is a good program. Everybody ac-knowledges that with clover traps you can have a conflict with an animal but you may not get that animal. So what’s the point? Hazing

can target individual an-imals or groups of ani-mals.

“Here is a city that has really tried to put a whole package together and the province says ‘sorry, you can’t do it’. I think it’s shocking.”

The groups have for-warded the pertinent part of the Wildlife Act, which they say provide a mechanism to allow a hazing permit, to the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Re-source Operation, the Minister of Environ-ment and Kimberley City Council, but have not heard back.

Mayor Ron McRae indicated last week that the City would be asking the government to look at their decision again. McRae also said that hazing was only part of the overall deer man-agement plan. Culling was still on the table as well, he said.

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

As the B.C. NDP launched its elec-tion campaign last week with a package of income tax hikes, higher

than those in the B.C. Liberals’ election budget of February, a third party leader confirmed his own plan to increase per-sonal and business income tax rates.

It’s not readily apparent from his re-cently released “fiscal framework” document, but B.C. Conservative leader John Cummins told me his plan to phase out B.C.’s car-bon tax does indeed in-clude raising income tax rates that were lowered to make the carbon tax “reve-nue neutral.”

I reached Cummins in Prince George, where he was continuing his aggressive courtship of northern B.C. with an an-nouncement that federal gas tax reve-nues would be redirected to a new fund for locally determined road improve-ments. Earlier he vowed to study the de-plorable state of northern ambulance service.

Cummins has more good news for the north: that’s where a regionally phased elimination of the carbon tax would begin. It’s also the area of thinnest popu-lation, meaning the impact on the B.C. treasury would be less. This is, after all, a tax budgeted to bring in $1.2 billion in the current year.

The B.C. Conservatives continually re-mind people that the carbon tax falls dis-

proportionately on rural, remote and par-ticularly northern folks who face long distances, long winters, and public transit options ranging from slim to none. This has ceased to be much of an issue for the urban B.C. majority, who are focused on bridge tolls, ferry fares and the like.

The B.C. Conservatives decry the pop-ulation decline of rural B.C., with international im-migration almost exclusive-ly going to big cities, while temporary foreign workers increasingly fill agricultural and industrial jobs in the Interior. The party’s still-evolving platform echoes the NDP’s call for

more skills training and increased com-pletion rates for trade apprentices.

Cummins is in favour of the proposed Northern Gateway oil pipeline and the massive buildup of infrastructure needed to add liquefied natural gas to B.C.’s ener-gy export mix. He sees that enormous industrial expansion as the path to shift population growth beyond the south of the province.

Cummins is surprisingly cool to one industrial project, the proposed Site C dam on the Peace River, calling himself undecided. He also sounds skeptical about the B.C. Liberal plan to extend B.C.’s electricity grid and use that to de-velop further independent power.

This sounds to me like political posi-tioning rather than economic analysis.

An anti-Site C independent candidate has significant support in Peace River North, creating a three-way struggle for a key B.C. Conservative target.

The B.C. Conservative platform also totals up the billions in long-term elec-tricity contracts with private power pro-ducers and suggests the price for this clean energy has been set too high. This is another echo of the NDP’s vague posi-tion.

So if the B.C. Conservatives are gung-ho on oil and gas and think the carbon tax is a mistake, do they think there should be any effort to mitigate green-house gas emissions?

Cummins sidestepped that question, preferring to talk about conventional air pollution, whether it’s in the Fraser Valley or as a byproduct of a northern industrial boom.

As a long-time former Reform and Conservative MP, Cummins is acutely aware that the urban media will leap with extra vigour on any perceived gaffe of the right wing. Should a Conservative let slip that he’s skeptical about global warming, or worse, express a rustic view on social issues, all Hell would break loose.

The B.C. Conservatives have started with the most detailed, costed platform of any party. Don’t count them out.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press

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“Work expands to fill the time avail-able for its completion,” wrote Cyril

Northcote Parkinson in 1955, and instantly created a whole new domain in the study of human affairs. “Parkinson’s Law” was one of the most profound insights of the past century, but he didn’t go far enough. There is a media corollary that doesn’t get nearly enough attention.

It is this: “International confrontations expand to fill the media space avail-able.” There is a lot of media space available nowadays, and a striking shortage of truly terrifying international threats, so the few modest ones that do exist are magnified to fill the scary news quota.

That’s why you hear so much about the North Korean nuclear threat, the Iranian nuclear threat, and the international ter-rorist threat. Unless you live in South Korea, or Israel, or lower Manhattan, none of these “threats” will ever disturb the even tenor of your life — and even if you do live in one of those places, it is still very unlikely.

The very unlikely did happen in lower Manhattan once, twelve years ago, but it is very, very unlikely to happen there again. Nevertheless, 9/11 is used to justify an on-going “war on terror” that has provided long-term employment for several million people and justified well over a trillion dollars in “defence” spending over the past decade.

Which brings us to another law, the Shirky Principle: “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the

solution.” In other words, armed forces, intelligence services and those parts of the foreign policy establishment that have prospered from “fighting terror” will in-stinctively preserve that threat. They hunt down and kill individual terrorists, of course, but they also keep coming up with new terrorist threats.

Moreover, fighting ter-rorists does not justify air-craft carriers, armoured divisions, and planes like the F-35. Those branches of the armed forces need the threat of wars in which weapons like those might be at least marginally rele-

vant.Credible threats of high-intensity war-

fare are scarce these days, so you have to be creative. There is, for example, a remote possibility that the inexperienced young man who now leads North Korea might be paranoid enough, and the generals who supervise him stupid enough, to attack South Korean forces somewhere. That might lead to a major war in the peninsula.

The probability that this would lead to the use of nuclear weapons in the Korean peninsula is vanishingly small. The likeli-hood that it could lead to the use of nuclear weapons elsewhere is zero. Yet this con-frontation is getting as much coverage in the Western mass media as the Berlin crisis did in 1961 — and the Asian media gener-ally follow suit.

The same is true for the alleged Iranian nuclear threat. Iran is probably not plan-ning to build nuclear weapons, and there is no chance that it would launch a nuclear

attack on Israel even if it did build a few. Israel has hundreds of the things, and its response would destroy Iran. Yet the Israe-lis insist that it might happen anyway be-cause Iranians are crazy — and both West-ern and Arab media swallow this non-sense.

Fifty years ago, during the Berlin crisis, a single misstep could have led to ten thou-sand nuclear weapons falling on the world’s cities. Bad things can still happen when politicians miscalculate, but the scale of the potential damage is minuscule by comparison. Yet our credulous media give these mini-crises the same coverage that they gave to the apocalyptic crises of the Cold War.

Hence Dyer’s Corollary to Parkinson’s Law: International confrontations expand to fill the media space available. Little ones will be inflated to fill the hole left by the disappearance of big ones. The 24-hour news cycle will be fed, and military bud-gets will stay big. You just have to keep the general public permanently frightened.

That’s easy to do, because people in most countries know very little about the world beyond their immediate neigh-bours. They’ll believe almost anything the media tell them — and most of the media go along with the official sources because scare stories sell a lot better than headlines about the remarkably peaceful state of the world.

Humbert Wolfe’s judgement almost a century ago still applies everywhere:

“You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist

But given what the man will do un-bribed, there’s no occasion to.”

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In little more than a year, the 41-year-old eldest son of Pierre Trudeau has moved from the fringes of the Liberal

party to its head, from neophyte to Great Hope in one extended leap. His pride of place is undisputed. He won overwhelm-ingly, on the first ballot, with 80 per cent of the vote.

Justin Trudeau now has an unprece-dented opportunity to remake a major federal party in his image. The wind at his back is considerable. So are the potential pitfalls in his path.

Until recently, Trudeau was often dis-missed as a pushover, with little more than good looks and a famous pedigree to his credit. Over the past six months, as polls showed his popularity surging, the punditocracy has moved incrementally from open disdain, to bet-hedging, to heralding a Liberal revival. The latter will not last – unless Trudeau proves to be as effective a leader as he is a campaigner.

Unlike Jean Chretien in 1990 and Paul Martin in 2003, or for that matter Stephane Dion and Michael Ignatieff in 2006 and 2009, respectively, Trudeau owes few debts within the party. His donor base is broad and loyal to him per-sonally. There is no close rival who must be appeased. Retired astronaut Marc Garneau might have been that person, but he dropped out. Martha Hall Findlay and Joyce Murray each have loyal but small followings.

For Trudeau, all of that is to the good. Now for the deadfall traps.

Because of his youth and relative inex-perience — he won two hard-fought local elections in his Montreal riding of Papin-

eau, but beyond that the political resume is a blank canvas — Trudeau will be del-uged with advice from the party’s veter-ans, many of whom still consider him a whippersnapper in short pants.

Trudeau’s popularity itself can be-come his worst enemy.

Unlike, say, the Conservative and New Democratic parties, the Liberals have historically been porous and undisci-plined in their communications, particu-larly when dissing the leader from the shadows. Trudeau will need to engage his veterans, showing them the respect they will consider their due, without allowing himself to be ruled by them. Should that delicate process go awry, the anonymous backbiting will begin.

Second: Though Trudeau has not pre-sented a detailed platform, he has made promises about how he will form policy. He has committed to drawing in all Cana-dians – not just Liberals – in generating a platform for 2015.

Such openness is vital, if the party is to come back from the near-dead: Recent Liberal history is strewn with well-mean-ing planks — from Dion’s Green Shift to Ken Dryden’s national daycare plan to Martin’s Kelowna Accord – that failed to connect. Trudeau cannot, if he is true to his word, simply recycle these ideas. But a devoted core of Grit partisans, includ-ing key members of the caucus, still be-lieve in them and will expect him to do just that. Solving that problem will re-quire skill.

The spotlight will be like nothing he’s ever experienced, even in a lifetime spent in the glare.

Perhaps most important, Trudeau’s

popularity itself can become his worst enemy. There is a risk of him peaking too early, with an election two years away, and of his success itself becoming an ex-cuse for avoiding the intellectual over-haul the party desperately needs.

If that were to happen, the “move-ment” he has launched will be primed for a hard fall. For as long as Justin Trudeau personally is the alpha and the omega of the new Liberalism – which he is for the time being, without question – the entire edifice is little more than a cult of person-ality, vulnerable to any missteps or mis-takes he may make. And he will certainly make some. Only solid pillars of popular, needs-based policy can provide him with a lasting base.

In the House, he will need to be steady, sensible and workmanlike – a far cry from his demeanor little more than a year ago, in the famous “piece of s—” incident. The spotlight will be like nothing he’s ever experienced, even in a lifetime spent in the glare. The Conservatives and the NDP both can be expected to turn every twitch and fumble to their advantage.

So, a triumph? For Trudeau it is, abso-lutely. But the ebullience may be short-lived. For he’s just now, finally, stepping into the ring. In the years ahead there will be moments when he wonders, as he did in round one of the famous punch-up with Senator Patrick Brazeau, whether he’s made a terrible mistake.

How he recovers from those moments will tell the tale.

Michael Den Tandt is a columnist with Postmedia News

Gwynne Dyer

The real test for Trudeau begins now

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

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EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers fired general manager Steve Tambellini Monday, saying the window of opportunity is short with their young guns and that Tambellini wasn’t getting it done.

Tambellini, in his fifth season as GM, was replaced by former Oiler coach and vice-president Craig MacTavish.

“I’m an impatient guy,” MacTavish told a news conference at Rex-all Place, sitting beside Kevin Lowe, the Oilers president of hockey op-erations.

“We’re at the stage in

terms of the cycle of our hockey club right now that we have to do some bold things. We have to expose ourselves to some semblance of risk to try and move the team forward in a rapid fashion,” said MacTav-ish.

“We’ve got primary pieces here but we’ve got to add some depth to help these young players.”

MacTavish was the Oilers coach from 2001 to 2008, then left hockey to acquire an MBA at Queen’s University. He returned to the Oilers last summer as the se-nior vice-president of hockey operations.

With Lowe and Mac-

Tavish at the podium was former Oilers assis-tant GM Scott Howson.

Howson was recent-ly fired in February as GM of the Columbus Blue Jackets and now takes over MacTavish’s old role as senior vice-president of hock-ey operations.

Tambellini was not at the news conference.

The announcement came after the Oilers were expected to com-pete for a playoff spot in the lockout-shortened 2013 NHL season, but instead are all but math-ematically eliminated from the post-season.

Heading into NHL action Monday night, the Oilers were 12th in

the Western Conference standings with a 16-18-7 record, eight points behind eighth-place Detroit.

“I for one really had hoped that we’d be a little more advanced than we are now,” said Lowe.

“And because ca-reers are short and op-portunities for achieve-ment don’t come along very often, we feel strongly that it is im-portant that we make some changes right now.”

Lowe said a decision on Tambellini was in the works for awhile, but said the team’s cur-rent five-game losing streak, including a list-

less 4-1 loss Saturday to the Calgary Flames, didn’t help.

“Losing five in a row, how we lost, where we are - all those things go into the decision,” said Lowe.

“If we’re going to do something, then why wait.”

It has been seven miserable years for the Oilers since they pushed the Carolina Hurricanes to a seventh and deciding game in the 2006 Stanley Cup fi-nals.

The team hasn’t made the post-season since and three previ-ous seasons have seen the Oilers at or near the bottom of the NHL.

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Reyes won’t need surgery on his sprained ankleC ANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO - Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes won’t need surgery on his sprained left ankle but is still expected to miss three months, general manager Alex Anthopoulos said.

Reyes visited a specialist in Charlotte, N.C., on Monday who confirmed the diagnosis of a severely sprained ankle. Reyes was injured when he slid awk-

wardly into second base in Fri-day’s game at Kansas City.

Anthopoulos said Reyes will be in a cast for two weeks and then in a walking boot for an additional two weeks, meaning he won’t be ready to begin rehab activity for at least a month.

Reyes was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday. The Blue Jays called up shortstop Munenori Kawasaki from tri-

ple-A Buffalo to replace him on the roster.

Reyes was acquired from the Miami Marlins in a 12-player trade last November. The four-time all-star is batting .395 with one homer and five RBIs this season.

Also Monday, Blue Jays slug-ger Jose Bautista was not in the starting lineup for the opener of a four-game series against the visiting Chicago White Sox.

Bautista is fighting a cold and is resting a sore back. An-thopoulos said the veteran right-fielder will likely return to the lineup Tuesday night.

The Blue Jays are in the mid-dle of a 20-day stretch without an off day.

Bautista missed a few games earlier this month with an ankle injury. He has three homers and six RBIs in nine games this year.

Bruins game against Senators postponed in aftermath of

Boston bombingsBOSTON - The NHL says Monday night’s game

between the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins at TD Garden has been postponed in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

No makeup date has been scheduled.The league says it “wishes to express its sympa-

thy to all affected by the tragic events that took place in Boston earlier this afternoon.”

Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the marathon on Monday, killing two people, injuring 23 others, and sending authorities rushing to aid wounded spectators. A senior U.S. intelligence offi-cial said two other explosive devices were found nearby.

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Jackie Robinson’s ballboy in 1947 to throw out 1st pitchMIAMI - The ceremonial first pitch at Monday’s

Marlins-Nationals game will be thrown out by Nor-man Berman, who was the ballboy for the Brooklyn Dodgers the year Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s colour barrier.

The 84-year-old Berman lives in nearby West Palm Beach. He has been a Marlins fan since their first game in 1993, and he was the Dodgers’ 19-year-old ballboy in 1947.

Berman saw up close the challenges Robinson overcame as depicted in the new movie “42,” with opponents relentlessly taunting and heckling the Dodgers rookie.

Berman’s only season as ballboy was in 1947, and he watched Robinson and the Dodgers reach the World Series. Berman said Robinson befriended him, played catch with him and gave tips on how to make a double-play pivot.

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Kesler scores twice to lead Canucks 5-2 over PredatorsNASHVILLE - Ryan Kesler scored two goals and

Roberto Luongo made 36 saves to lead the Vancou-ver Canucks to a 5-2 win over the Nashville Preda-tors on Monday.

Derek Roy, Jason Garrison, and Alex Burrows also scored for Vancouver, which has won five of its past six.

Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, and Jannik Hansen each had a pair of assists.

Nick Spaling and Bobby Butler scored for the Predators, who have lost a franchise-high seven consecutive games. They have won just once in their past 11 games.

Monday’s loss eliminated the Predators from post-season contention. Nashville had qualified for the playoffs in seven of the past eight seasons.

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Peyton Manning kicks o� 2013 quest for Super BowlENGLEWOOD, Colo. - Peyton Manning returned

to Broncos headquarters Monday, starting volun-tary workouts with his group of receivers, which now includes Wes Welker, formerly the top target for Tom Brady and the New England Patriots.

The 37-year-old quarterback was working with his receivers a week ago at Duke, where the quarter-back’s former college coach, David Cutcliffe, ran a mini-camp of sorts with Manning, his brother, Eli, and an assortment of Broncos and Giants receivers.

After taking two months away from football - about a month more than he’d hoped for - Manning said it’s hard to gauge the way his arm feels this time this year compared to last. He conceded he wasn’t sure if he’d ever get back to where he was before the neck surgeries that cost him the 2011 season.

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The bowling team that will represent B.C. at the national championships includes a Cranbrook resident, Dave Gourley, who is making a foray back into the sport. Left to right: Darren Ried, Mike Elder, Larry Richet, Kim Chadwick (coach), Matt Eisenhauer, Dave Gourley.

Local bowler qualifies for nationalsAfter a three-year hiatus from the sport, Dave Gourley is off to the Canadian championships

Tre vor Cr awleySports Editor

Though he’s taken a three-year break from the sport of bowling, Dave Gourley is back.

The Cranbrook bowler has made an im-mediate impact, bowl-ing his way into the na-tional 5-pin champion-ships in the team event, after his crew won the event at the provincial level in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.

Gourley made it through zones in Ver-non, and competed in the singles category at provincials as well, nar-rowly coming in second place.

“Our men’s team—it was pretty well ranked number one,” said Gourley. “We were fa-voured to win. I guess, over the years, a lot of the older guys who have bowled, said our team that we had was proba-bly the best team on paper that they’d ever seen come out of the province.”

The team will head to St. Johns, Newfound-land, to represent B.C. and compete in nation-als at the end of May.

“From what I’ve heard at nationals, our team and the Alberta team are favoured to win—they got a pretty

good men’s team out of Alberta,” Gourley added.

Not bad for a guy get-ting back into the sport after stepping away from the lanes a few years ago. Gourley has bowled his entire life and made a name for himself as a nation-al-level competitor, but he decided he needed a break.

“I’ve bowled on TSN and CBC, made lots of money with the bowling and stuff like that,” said Gourley.

“…I stopped about three and a half years ago; I just got tired of it and wanted to do things with my kids and lost

interest, and then my girlfriend this past year talked me into getting back to the competitive side.”

Gourley joins five other bowlers that will face other teams from each province and terri-tory across the country.

Five members of the team compete during a match, while the sixth is used as a spare if some-one struggles.

The lead bowls against his lead coun-

terpart on the other team, second bowls against the second, and so on and so forth down the line. The winner of the individual match ups within the two teams earns a point, while an overall team victory results in three points.

From the round robin, like hockey, the first place team faces the last place team, second place plays the second last team.

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PITTSBURGH - Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby skated before the team’s practice Mon-day.

Crosby wore a pro-tective mask while skating with injured teammates James Neal and Paul Martin.

Coach Dan Bylsma said there is no timeta-ble for Crosby’s return, but called it a positive step for the NHL’s lead-ing scorer.

“I would say a foot in the water,” Bylsma said. “I didn’t go out there and see how hard he did go, but I know he was just out for basical-ly a skate. He got out there for a little bit of exercise and to get on the ice.”

Crosby, whose 56 points are four ahead of Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos and Martin St. Louis, has not played since being struck in the face by a puck on March 30. The Pen-guins have gone 4-2 without him and re-main atop the Eastern Conference standings with two weeks left in the regular season.

Neal hasn’t played since being diagnosed with a concussion fol-lowing a hit from New York Rangers defence-man Michael Del Zotto on April 5. Bylsma called Neal “symp-tom-free” but added that the winger will not be rushed back.

“It’s definitely good to see guys on the ice and skating,” Bylsma

said. “I think it bodes well for their situation.”

Centre Evgeni Malkin, who missed Saturday’s 3-1 win over Florida with an upper body injury, could play Wednesday against Montreal.

The reigning NHL MVP is dealing with a lingering shoulder issue that can make it difficult for him to take a full shot without pain. He could have played against the Panthers if the game was more sig-nificant and he thinks he will be ready to play against the Canadiens.

“I feel good,” Malkin said. “We have a couple days off and skate today and I have little bit of injury, but we still have time until the next game.”

Sidney Crosby skates before practice, no timetable for return

King improves to 3-0 at world senior

curling eventC anadian PressFREDERICTON -

Canada’s Cathy King remains unbeaten at the world senior curl-ing championships.

King’s rink from St. Albert, Alta., cruised to an 11-3 win over Ja-pan’s Mikiko Tsuchiya on Monday to improve to 3-0 and atop the round-robin pool.

“There’s always room for improve-ment,” said third Caro-lyn Morris. “Anytime you miss a shot, there’s room for improvement.

“But I like our cohe-siveness. We’re very much a team that sticks together through missed shots and made shots. We have each other’s backs.”

Canada stole four in the fifth end en route to the victory.

The world senior event is being held in conjunction with the world mixed doubles championship.

Morris is the Cana-dian team’s most expe-rienced player but this marks the first time that she’s played in the event representing her native country. Morris

played for Scotland four times, winning gold in 2005 and silver in 2003 when her fami-ly was living there for business reasons.

Curling success runs in Morris’s family. Her son, Sean, is a for-mer world junior champion represent-ing Canada in 1994. Se-an’s wife, Cori, won an Olympic silver medal in 2010 playing lead for Cheryl Bernard’s Cana-dian team.

Morris’s daughter, Kim, won the Scottish women’s title in 2006 and played in the world championship event in Grande Prairie, Alta. And Kim Morris’s hus-band, Tom Brewster, won silver medals at the 2011 and 2012 world men’s competi-tions.

The Canadian team returns to the ice Tues-day to face New Zea-land’s Liz Matthews (1-1).

Rob Armitage of Red Deer, Alta., im-proved to 4-0 in the men’s tournament with a 6-4 win over Austra-lia’s Hugh Millikin (4-1).


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Dear Annie: I grew up in an extremely dys-functional family. I have an older sibling who has hated the rest of us for the past 45 years. Family gatherings are extremely un-comfortable events. Inappropriate barbs lead to physical fights, young children cry while the adults pretend nothing is amiss, family members spy on one another, there is lots of back-stabbing, and some relatives are ignored while others are fawned over. My mother allows her adult children to treat one another like animals and refuses to get involved in the chaos. I am tired of this and will no longer let my children witness these destructive be-haviors. Please let other parents know they should work to make their home a welcom-ing and loving environment. Is there any-thing I can do to counteract the hostility at these gatherings? -- Too Old for Hate Dear Too Old: You cannot force your par-ents and siblings to behave in a civilized manner. The pattern in your family seems fairly well set, and no one else has much in-terest in changing it. You are smart to realize that your choice is to stay or leave. Calmly explain to your family why you are walking out (or not attending), and make no apologies. We commend you for recogniz-ing this dysfunction and not transmitting it to your children. But please consider letting the children see some of the relatives one-on-one, under your supervision. Kids are extremely tolerant of aberrant behavior in family members and can understand “this is how Grandma is” without emulating her. Dear Annie: “Michael” and I are a young gay couple pondering marriage. Gay mar-riage is not performed in our state, and we realize it would not be recognized here. It’s the principle of the thing. A courthouse venue seems the most fea-sible, and I am wondering whom to invite. Michael’s parents and siblings would most certainly be there, but I don’t know what to do about my side. I have no siblings, and my parents are divorced. Mom is fully sup-portive, but my father doesn’t know I’m gay. I would prefer not telling him in order to avoid a conflict. My father would probably never find out that Michael and I are married if I don’t tell him myself. But if he did learn about it, he’d be upset. Then again, he’d also be upset to learn that I’m getting married. Should I tell him? Also, because my guest list is limited, should I invite best friends? -- A Ring on It Dear Ring: We think you should tell your father, not only because keeping secrets can erode relationships, but also because you should not be hiding who you are. If you are mature enough to marry, it’s time to handle the fallout from your father. As for your guest list, invite those people you want to have as witnesses to your union, provided you can afford to do so. Dear Annie: This is a response to “Feeling the Void in Indiana.” It was pretty brazen of him to claim to speak for all men when he said we feel incomplete without sex. I’ll admit that is true for a lot of men, but certainly not all. I’m a healthy 30-year-old man with all the normal biological urges. I also haven’t been in a romantic relationship in years and am completely sexually inactive -- and I feel fine about it. That’s because I put my energy into other things like working out and enjoying outdoor activities. And I have a few friends who are as OK without sex as I am. Sex is not the be-all and end-all of hu-man existence. As a last note, any man who cheats on his wife or girlfriend is a cad, whatever feeble excuses he comes up with. -- Abstinent and OK with It Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Creators Syn-dicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2013 CREATORS.COM

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O u t s i d e the snow is falling and beginning to

accumulate. This despite the

fact that in less than two weeks it

will be May. The flakes are fat and

being driven sideways by what would be, if the

sun were out, a spring breeze.

Dog Taylor joins me at the window but only looks out for a moment, then she steps away and moves stiffly to her dog bed. She circles three times trying to find that comfortable sweet spot her old bones crave, then flops down with an unintended groan.

The air, methinks, smells slightly of disappointment.

To a young dog like myself, winter is a season full of opportunity and possibility. For a white-faced senior like Taylor, however, it is the season of discomfort and restriction. The cold, the ice, and the snow make aging joints ache and keep her inside. Our human recognizes this and limits the length and strenuousness of our walks when Taylor comes along, which is almost always.

A few weeks ago, however, our alpha human decided it was time to head up into the mountains on a backcountry ski trip. This would entail breaking trail in deep snow for quite some distance, a physical ordeal now beyond Taylor’s abilities.

Our man went to great lengths to hide from Dog Taylor that we were going on an adventure without her. In an attempt to spare her the anguish of being left behind, he smuggled his pack and skis into the truck the night before, when she wasn’t looking. He even had his boots and coat set out by the seldom-used basement door so she wouldn’t see him at the closet and wonder where he was going. It was — as are many human attempts at fooling their dogs — an effort in futility.

Taylor, with wisdom acquired over years of human observation, has become an astute reader of two-legger body language. That combined with the fact that guilt has a scent and our alpha human positively reeked of it, had made her very aware that something was up. She was disappointed but at the same time relieved. She decided not to make a fuss, so as not to cause the human even more angst. She was afraid that if he felt any worse the guilty smell would never come out of the furniture.

So it was that we boys headed out into the wilds, he plodding on skis and skins, I romping on ahead, unfettered by such modern contrivance. It turned out to be a brilliant but exhausting day.

We returned to the truck after having travelled over 10 kilometres through a winter wilderness all dressed in its formal white attire. The snow had been deep and sticky, the trail steep and long. I had plodded for kilometres covered in a weighty vest of icy dingle-balls and then raced after my man as he flew back down the mountain on his skis. I was — no pun intended — dog tired.

The next day my muscles were stiff and sore. When I dropped down on to my bed an unintentional groan rose up from deep in my chest. Taylor, who was laying beside me, turned her white face my way and lightly thumped her tail on the floor. Her way of saying, “Winter is hard Boulder …but don’t worry. Spring is coming.”

Photos and word processing by Dan Mills

Humans are silly: Boulder wonders if his human knows how goofy he looks with his skis behind him like that.

Boulder watches the flakes fall and cover up

what had been spring.

Tough sledding: Boulder struggles

to make his way through the

deep stuff.

Things are looking up: Beneath the new frost-ing that now covers these larch trees are the tender green needles that will soon burst forth heralding another spring.

White as snow: Taylor patiently wades through the depths of winter.

Dingle all the way: Ice dingle-balls built up on Boulders coat making playing in the snow a lot more uncomfortable.

Off LeashThis despite the

fact that in less than two weeks it

will be May. The flakes are fat and

being driven sideways by what would be, if the

Off LeashAn unrestrained dogumentary.


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bombs exploded in the packed streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 80 in a terrifying scene of shattered glass, billow-ing smoke, bloodstained pavement and severed limbs, authorities said.

A senior U.S. intelli-gence official said two other explosive devices were found near the end of the 26.2-mile course.

At the White House, President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.’’

There was no word on the motive or who may have launched the attack, and police said no suspect was in custo-dy. Authorities in Wash-ington said there was no immediate claim of re-sponsibility.

“They just started bringing people in with no limbs,’’ said runner Tim Davey, of Rich-

mond, Va. He said he and his wife, Lisa, tried to keep their children’s eyes shielded from the gruesome scene inside a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners, but “they saw a lot.’’

“They just kept filling up with more and more casualties,’’ Lisa Davey said. “Most everybody was conscious. They were very dazed.’’

The twin blasts at the race took place almost simultaneously and about 100 yards apart, tearing limbs off numer-ous people, knocking spectators and at least one runner off their feet, shattering windows and sending smoke rising over the street.

Some 23,000 runners took part in the race, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathons. One of Bos-ton’s biggest annual events, the race winds up near Copley Square, not far from the land-mark Prudential Center and the Boston Public

Library. It is held on Pa-triots Day, which com-memorates the first bat-tles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775.

Boston Police Com-missioner Edward Davis asked people to stay in-doors or go back to their hotel rooms and avoid crowds as bomb squads methodically checked parcels and bags left along the race route. He said investigators didn’t know whether the bombs were planted in mailboxes or trash cans.

He said authorities had received “no specif-ic intelligence that any-thing was going to hap-pen’’ at the race.

The Federal Aviation Administration barred low-flying aircraft from within 3.5 miles of the site.

“We still don’t know who did this or why,’’ Obama said, adding, “Make no mistake: We will get to the bottom of this.’’

A few miles away from the finish line and

around the same time, a fire broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library. The police commissioner said it may have been caused by an incendiary device but didn’t appear to be related to the bombings.

About four hours into the race and two hours after the men’s winner crossed the line, there was a loud explo-sion on the north side of Boylston Street, just be-fore the photo bridge that marks the finish line. Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later.

By that point, more than 17,000 of the run-ners had finished the

race, but thousands of others were farther back along the course.

The Boston Police Department said two people were killed. Hos-pitals reported at least 82 injured, at least eight of them critically.A se-nior U.S. intelligence of-ficial said the two other explosive devices found nearby were being dis-mantled. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the findings publicly.

A woman who was a few feet from the second bomb, Brighid Wall, 35, of Duxbury, said that when it exploded, run-

ners and spectators froze, unsure of what to do. Her husband threw their children to the ground, lay on top of them and another man lay on top of them and said, “Don’t get up, don’t get up.’’

After a minute or so without another explo-sion, Wall said, she and her family headed to a Starbucks and out the back door through an alley. Around them, the windows off the bars and restaurants were blown out.

She said she saw six to eight people bleeding profusely, including one man who was kneeling, dazed, with blood com-

ing down his head. An-other person was on the ground covered in blood and not moving.

Competitors and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos. Authorities went onto the course to carry away the injured while race stragglers were re-routed away from the smoking site.

Runners who had not finished the race were diverted straight down Commonwealth Avenue and into a fami-ly meeting area, accord-ing to an emergency plan that had been in place.

Bombs explode at Boston Marathon finish line

Boston GloBe

Police in Boston react after an explosion rocks the area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Monday, April 15.

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OTTAWA — Newly elected Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he’s not surprised the Con-servatives have reached into his past in a bid to sabotage his political fu-ture.

Less than a day after

he was chosen to lead his party, the Conserva-tives unveiled a suite of attack ads criticizing his judgment and experi-ence.

They include com-ments he made about Quebec in 1999 as well as footage of a charity

event in which he danced and pretended to strip-tease onstage.

Trudeau called the ads awkward and a source of bemusement.

He says because he’s had a microphone in his face since he was a child, there’s likely plen-

ty in his history his polit-ical opponents will try and use against him.

And he says he hopes the use of the footage from the Canadian Liver Foundation fundraiser will end up generating more positive attention for the charity.

Conservatives take on Trudeau brand in first volley of attack ads

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