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Man sentenced to life for 1992 Pass murder |
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Written by Sherri Gallant
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
On a sunny July day in 1992 in the Crowsnest Pass, Michael Desmarais shot sightseer Gordon Mills in the back, using a handgun he’d stolen three days earlier in a break-in.
Taking Mills’ credit cards and cash, Desmarais headed east in the dead man’s Bronco, buying gas with Mills’ credit card twice, then sneaking across the U.S. border south of Willow Bunch, Sask. Before he was arrested a month later in North Carolina, Desmarais had killed and robbed again — this time a 72-year-old American man in North Dakota. He was still driving Mills’ Bronco, which had stolen U.S. plates on it.
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Proroguing a Harper power play, SACPA told |
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Written by Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald
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Thursday, 11 February 2010 |
With Parliament shut down, expect to see a lot of Stephen Harper during TV coverage of the Winter Olympics.
But his cabinet ministers have been ordered to keep a low profile, a Lethbridge crowd learned Thursday. An Alberta political scientist described that as one way the control-oriented prime minister hopes to turn the Games — and his decision to prorogue Parliament — to his political advantage.
Will that pay off?
“It depends on whether our hockey team wins gold,” suggested Duane Bratt, a political science and public policy professor at Mount Royal University.
But taking time off for the Olympics was just one of Harper’s reasons for adjourning Parliament at his convenience, Bratt told the Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs. He was also hoping to sideline debate over Canadian soldiers’ treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan and to appoint more Conservatives to the Senate and its key committees.
“Without a doubt, this was a partisan move by the prime minister,” he said.
Parliament has been prorogued more than 100 times since 1867, Bratt pointed out. But few of those moves have stirred Canadians’ anger like last winter’s closure — reluctantly approved by the governor general — or this year’s announcement just before New Year’s Eve.
Harper has been described as a control freak, but Bratt said Canada’s prime ministers have become increasingly powerful since the days of Pierre Trudeau.
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Stolen drugs could be deadly, police warn |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier, Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 10 February 2010 |
Picture Butte RCMP are concerned someone could end up dead by mishandling some veterinary antibiotics which were stolen this week from a local feedlot.
A drug called Micotil, used to treat respiratory problems in cattle but which is lethal to humans, was among several drugs stolen early Tuesday in a break-in at the unnamed feedlot north of Picture Butte. Micotil is a brand-name version of the veterinary drug tilmicosin.
“The most probable scenario is that the people who took it are in the cattle business,” said Const. Geordie Erickson.
But police went public about the drug’s hazards to humans, he said, just in case those who stole it don’t know what they’re dealing with and try to use it or sell it to others.
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Tories ignore critics in budget |
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Written by Dave Mabell Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 09 February 2010 |
It’s business as usual for the big-spending Conservatives.
The Ed Stelmach government has proven it’s listening to ordinary Albertans, says a veteran political observer. But it seems to be ignoring warnings from the Wildrose Alliance.
“I really thought they’d be more worried about their critics on the right,” says Peter McCormick, political science professor at the University ofâLethbridge.
“This is a non-response to the fiscal conservatives’ concerns.”
Premier Ed Stelmach’s new finance minister, Ted Morton, tabled a record $38.7-billion budget Tuesday, including a deficit of $4.7 billion. Some critics — including the Canadian Taxpayers Federation — had called for massive cutbacks to trim more than $6 billion from this year’s spending.
“This is business as usual” for the Conservatives, McCormick said Tuesday. Apart from Ralph Klein’s first three years as premier, he pointed out, Alberta’s Conservatives spend more year after year.
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Demolition eyed for downtown eyesore |
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Written by Gerald Gauthier, Lethbridge Herald
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
City council is convinced it has the legal hammer to force the demolition of the Atrium Building — a perennial downtown eyesore — unless the B.C. owner decides to do something with it soon.
Council members unanimously approved a resolution Monday which directs City Solicitor Doug Hudson to take the necessary steps to have the aging eyesore in the 300 block of 7 Street South demolished at the owner’s expense. Armed with that mandate, Hudson is to contact officials with the numbered company in Abbotsford, B.C. that owns the property and deliver what amounts to an ultimatum: develop it or demolish it.
“This is my enough-is-enough resolution,” Ald. Rajko Dodic, a lawyer by profession, told his fellow council members while introducing the resolution he prepared after examining provisions in Alberta’s Municipal Government Act.
“The purpose of this is to do something.”
The concrete structure has sat in a state of partial construction for about 28 years. Hudson is to determine the owner’s intentions for the building and report back to council April 6.
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