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Arrest bombs out |
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Written by Canadian Press
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Saturday, 09 January 2010 |
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Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig was back on his farm in northwestern Alberta on Saturday after a night in jail following his arrest in relation to pipeline bombings in British Columbia.
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Life in the fast lane |
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Written by Sherri Gallant
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
The recipe for a disastrous pileup on Whoop-Up Drive Thursday had ingredients: a pinch of morning ice-fog, a temperature of -35 C, road-salt mixture thwarted by extreme cold and motorists mixing it up at high speed.
“The temperature got so low and nobody saw that coming,” said Kevin Viergutz, operations manager for the city’s transportation department.
“With the ice fog, it made the surface of the road just like a pebbled curling rink. We had been sanding it constantly but it was so cold, nothing would make it stick, and the traffic would just blow it off.”
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El Niño, please! |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 |
If you thought last year brought the winter without end, and if you believe this year’s already shaping up to be worse, take heart — that whiff of warmth in the air Friday morning should be El Niño, coming to the rescue.
El Niño is a warm flow of Pacific air more prominent in some years than others, and as it sits off the west coast of the Americas, it shifts the flow of air over North America. In southern Alberta, that means weather significantly drier and warmer than normal, and without the usual strong Chinook winds.
Thursday’s low of -35 felt like -41 with the wind chill, and it was still -22 under deceptively sunny skies by 2 p.m. But Martin Belanger, manager of briefing services for The Weather Network, said we should get out of bed this morning to temperatures closer to zero, or about -2. What’s more, it should continue to warm up for the next several days.
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Casson calling it quits |
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Written by Sherri Gallant Lethbridge Herald
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Wednesday, 06 January 2010 |
It was the word “friends” that brought tears to the eyes of Lethbridge MP Rick Casson Wednesday, in announcing that after 12 years, he won’t be seeking a sixth term in Ottawa.
“I wish to thank the thousands of people, family, longtime friends and those who became friends,” Casson said, choking up for a moment, “who willingly helped during and between elections.”
Casson, a Conservative who’s served southern Albertans as a county councillor, mayor and MP for a total of 32 years, decided in July together with his wife Jeanene that at age 61, it’s time to call it a day. He exchanged letters to that effect with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and decided to give the riding association plenty of time to set up the nomination process before the next election.
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City man appeals murder conviction |
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Written by Lethbridge Herald
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
The Lethbridge man sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of George Shawnee Many Shots in the summer of 2008 is appealing his conviction and seeking a new trial.
A jury found Bradley Francis Gray guilty in late November after deliberations that lasted less than two days.
His lawyer, Balfour Der, indicated an appeal was likely after the jury delivered its verdict and, true to his word, the appeal was filed Dec. 18.
The grounds of appeal, according to court documents, are that the judge erred in his charge to the jury by failing to properly explain how credibility and reasonable doubt should be applied.
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