St. Albert Leader Jan 23, 2014

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When you register your children withSt. Albert Public Schools, you’ll start them on apath of adventure, learning and creativity that willlast a lifetime. Opportunities in academics, sports,fine and performing arts, community serviceprojects, extracurricular activities and more awaityour children at our schools.

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Sir Alexander Mackenzie School61 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue 780.459.4467Kindergarten Information Session: February 12, 6:30–8:00 p.m. (Library)

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That’s how many pounds of asphalt mix City of St. Albert public works crews have used so far this year to patch potholes that have sprung up on local roads as a result of the warm temperatures we’ve received so far in January and the freeze-thaw cycle of water on the roads. For more on this story, see page 3.

Three years after their last award-winning CD, the band Tupelo Honey — several members of which are originally from St. Albert — are back with their new album, Brave New World, with the first single, “Halo,” getting a great response on radio and M3. We talk with lead singer Dan Davidson on page 16.

Unseasonably warm weather in January

is hitting the City of St. Albert’s

public

works department with a double whammy.

While public works crews are still busy clearing residential streets around the city, the constant freeze-thaw cycle brought on by temperatures hovering around the freezing mark is resulting in potholes popping up on roads much earlier than usual, and crews have

already laid down four tons of new asphalt

this

year to patch them.“The majority of our crew have

been working consecutive days. We’re actually having to force people to take (time) off and rotate crews, because they’ve been working steady, for sure,” said Tony Lake, operations manager for the public works department.

Despite the increased workload, though, Lake said the number of potholes that have opened up isn’t much more than usual.

“We’re not concerned about it being abnormal. There are no red flags

out there,” Lake said. “We’re doing it within our

current operations.”That also means

the number of potholes reported by residents is also about on average.

“It’s not anything that we wouldn’t consider par for the course or routine operations,” Lake said.Lake encouraged

residents to call the City’s pothole hotline

at 780-418-6066 or fill out the online form at stalbert.ca/

pothole for the fastest service.

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You can’t spell W.D. Cuts without CTS — or at least you won’t be able to anymore soon.

Alberta Finance Minister and Spruce Grove-St. Albert MLA Doug Horner was at W.D. Cuts Junior High School on Monday morning to announce a major modernization project for the school worth more than $10 million, the biggest point of which will be the addition of Career and Technology Studies (CTS) classrooms for subjects like industrial arts and home economics.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to re-energize this building,” said W.D. Cuts principal Mike Tod.

Horner said these types of CTS courses will benefit students as they transition into high school and beyond.

“We know places like Bellerose and other high schools have these areas, so it’s a good way to get the kids used to this kind of option,” said the minister, whose riding includes the Lacombe Park subdivision where W.D. Cuts is located. “These are things that are extremely important for kids today as they move into the workforce.”

“It’s always a question when moving

from Grade 6 to 7; the interest has always been there,” Tod added. “It just makes our options that much more dynamic.”

St. Albert Public Schools also offers its hockey academy and recreational sports academy through W.D. Cuts.

A total of 70 school modernizations are being announced across Alberta to go along with about 50 new schools.

St. Albert Public Schools board of trustees chair Gerry Martins was “tremendously excited” with the announcement and the opportunities it would bring.

“This is a great day for our school district, a great day for this particular school and a great day for all our students,” he said.

Meanwhile, St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan was also at the announcement, having been one of the first students through the doors of W.D. Cuts when it first opened in 1978.

“I literally saw the school being built, and I was fortunate to attend W.D. Cuts for Grades 7, 8 and 9, and it was just an incredible educational experience here,” he said. “Now to be part of this announcement really is a thrill.”

Khan agreed with Horner about the importance of CTS classes in junior high

schools.“I have a son who is in Grade 10 and a

daughter who is in Grade 7, so I’m living it right now,” said the former minister of enterprise and advanced education. “... It’s incredibly critical at this age to open some windows, open some doors that might set the course for their lives.”

Other parts of the school will also be modernized, including the addition of six to eight portable modular classrooms.

“Portables today aren’t the portables from when I went to school,” Horner said. “These are pretty nice units — which is why it takes so long to get them.”

The renovation has been a long time coming; it has been one of the public board’s top priorities for almost two decades now.

“We’ve been talking about this ever since I’ve been on the board, and I’m now in my 10th year,” Martins added.

Currently, there is no set timeline for when the modernization will be complete — “I’ll leave that up to the board and the design engineers,” Horner said — but all involved are anxiously looking forward to that day.

“From our point of view, the sooner the better,” Martins added.

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A local classic car show is looking for a new place to park itself.

The Autorama show, which is put on every May by the St. Albert Cruisers car club, normally takes place in the parking lot of St. Albert Centre

However, the show now has to find a new home after being told by the mall that they wouldn’t be able to use the lot anymore.

However, club officials are optimistic they’ll find a suitable location in time.

“The show is going to go on — I’ll put it that way,” said Blair Art, who heads up the Autorama organizing committee.

Officials with St. Albert Centre declined to comment, saying it was an internal decision.

Autorama is a fundraiser for the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society, raising a little over $4,000 in 2013.

The show was already scaled back from more than 200 to about 150 cars last year as construction took up much of the parking lot at St. Albert Centre. The club had prior notice that it could be forced to move, but official word only came in early January.

“We’re looking at various situations,” Art said.

He added that it’s not so much space for the classic cars that’s a big hurdle; instead, it’s having enough parking for the people who want to come down and have a look at the cars.

Autorama is held on the last weekend of May, the same date as the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition.

Art said that, while the idea of changing the date was toyed with to open up possible venues, the club wants to stick to tradition.

“That’s been the traditional date, and when we discussed changing the date, if you move a week ahead or a week back, you run into other situations that are problematic,” Art said. “We’re trying to keep the date; people are used to the last Sunday in May.”

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Council voted Monday to approve urban design guidelines for downtown St. Albert, which is the final outcome of one of

the operational projects outlined in the DARP Implementation

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The guidelines provide direction for developers

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Council voted Monday on a motion put forward by Coun. Sheena Hughes to review how much of utility project

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Coun. Tim Osborne moved Monday to have administration review the existing process for choosing school sites and make recommendations for revisions

moving forward.

The report from administration is due

back by May 30.

Mayor Nolan Crouse moved Monday to have City staff move ahead with the sale of City-owned land at 150 Carleton Dr. at market value and

with timeframe conditions. The title to the land was not transferred to PJSJ Holdings after that developer

did not meet conditions of the sale.

The City will undertake to sell the land parcel in the first quarter of 2014.

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t. Albert has seen modest population growth in the last

few years. As we look at new residential and commercial development, the next 10 years will give us the opportunity to frame the community we all want to live in.

Like many St. Albertans, my husband and I were attracted to the city as the best place to start and raise our family. We are so happy we chose to make St. Albert our home. Like many people, we were busy raising our kids, I was working in downtown Edmonton, and my husband was teaching at a school north of St. Albert. We were fortunate to earn enough to pay the bills and have a little extra for savings and to help those who are less fortunate.

Looking back, I realize that my views of St. Albert were

pretty narrow, and I only saw the reflection of our own lifestyle. I was not aware of the large number of families and individuals who were struggling. For the last six years, I have had the honour of working as the executive director for the St. Albert Housing Society. Each day, I increase my understanding of impact of the complex times we live in and an understanding of today’s reality where the cost of land and housing construction out strips the financial means of many households.

Housing is affordable,

according to the CMHC, when a household’s monthly housing cost is less than 30 per cent of gross household income. Across Canada, 15 to 20 per cent of households are exceeding the affordable housing threshold, and renter households have the greatest disparity of income to cost.

Statistics Canada recently reported that St. Albert is no exception. The 2011 census reported that 44 per cent of our renter households are exceeding the affordable income-to-housing-cost ratio and 19 per cent of all St. Albert households pay more than 30 per cent of their income on housing. The census also said that, while the average annual household income in St. Albert is over $121,000, there are 4,335 St. Albert households with a gross income less

than $50,000. Lower-income households with children have the largest income-to-housing-cost deficit.

With the opening of several new apartment complexes in St. Albert, no relief in rental rates is expected. The 2013 rental market survey reported a five per cent annual increase in rental rates and a vacancy rate of only 1.2 per cent. The new rental apartments coming on stream are renting two-bedroom apartments for $1,425 per month and are affordable for households earning over $57,000 per year.

St. Albert is a beautiful and caring community. Support from the community and all levels of government is needed to ensure that individuals and families of all ages, all abilities and all incomes can have an affordable place to call home.

ockey players are notorious for their trash talk. Perhaps more than in any other sport, a few well timed and well

thought out words can really get under an opponent’s skin.

Ultimately, though, talk is cheap. Actions have to back up those words, whether that’s dropping the gloves or scoring goals.

The same could be said for the front offices of National Hockey League teams, including the Edmonton Oilers.

This week, Oilers owner Daryl Katz issued an open letter to the team’s fans, bemoaning the team’s performance this year as they look set to miss the playoffs for the eighth straight season. He said that “it hurts” and said it was “frustrating,” not only for himself, but for “our fans, for our players and staff, and for everyone in our community who shares a common bond around a game, a team and a city that we love.”

Somewhat predictably, Katz’s words have thus far rung hollow with the Oilers’ fanbase, with many simply brushing it off as lip service from an owner who knows he’ll have an arena that’s mostly full regardless of the product that’s put on the ice.

Certainly, Katz’s time as owner has not been stellar. With underperforming draft picks, questionable free agent signings, threats to move the team to Seattle and a revolving door at the head coach and goaltender positions, it’s easy to see why fans have become jaded.

But the letter also shows just how passionate Katz is about the team. Other owners in the league would hide from view, content to let the season just slip away. Katz, meanwhile, opened himself up to public comment — and possibly ridicule — by issuing the letter, and he has thick enough skin to take whatever comes his way.

Ultimately, though — as mentioned before — talk is cheap. The real test of Katz’s commitment to building a winning team will come not in how many letters he writes, but what he does in the offseason. Whether that’s a shakeup in the front office or finally cutting bait on some players who just aren’t lving up to their potential, it will be the actions that Katz and the rest of the Oilers front office takes that really matter to fans.

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A local service club is once again hitting the ice to raise money for a number of different charities.

On Saturday, Feb. 1, the St. Albert chapter of the Canadian Progress Club is hosting its Pond Hockey Championship at Lacombe Lake Park, the fourth annual edition of the event that has grown from eight teams to 40 over its short history.

In fact, the event has grown so fast that tournament co-chair Keir McIntyre has had to trade in his skates and stick for a clipboard.

“I (played) in the first year, but it has just grown so much,” said McIntyre, who co-chairs the tournament with his brother Brody. “We need so many volunteers now, so I need to be running around all day making sure things are going fine.”

But the tournament is drawing so many high-calibre players, he added, that he might be more content on the sidelines.

“I’ve seen some of the players playing this year, and we’re getting some ex-pros, some guys who played in Europe, so maybe I don’t want to play anymore,”

McIntyre said with a laugh. “I can’t keep up with those guys.”

As well, the organizing committee recently got word from St. Albert native Jarome Iginla that he would send an autographed Boston Bruins jersey to raffle off during the event.

All the money raised through the pond hockey tournament goes to Uncles and Aunts at Large and Camp Warwa — charity forunded by the CPC in 1974 and 1980, respectively — as well as the CPC Children’s Charitable Society, Special Olympics Alberta, the Cross Cancer Institute and the Transitions Rehabilitation Association.

But one charity the CPC just recently brought on board is the St. Albert chapter of KidSport, which McIntyre said is a perfect fit.

“We try to find charities to involve

ourselves with that coincide with our events, and KdSport is a good one when you’re talking about pond hockey,” he said.

While the Pond Hockey Championship has certainly grown in terms of the number of teams participating, it is also growing this year in terms of the number of sponsors and events happening off the ice.

Hudson’s Taphouse is setting up a massive beer gardens this year, and Sarasota Realty is inviting initation- and novice-level St. Albert Minor Hockey Association teams to come down to get a free sleigh ride, hot chocolate and team photo.

“Obviously we’re growing the hockey side of it, but we really want to grow the community side of it as all,” McIntyre said.

It’s things like these that draw new players in and keep players coming back to the tournament every year.

“Every single team who has played in it, more or less, is back every year,” McIntyre said. “Starting from eight teams and having no venue down there to what have now — 40 teams, the sleigh rides, the major sponsors ... it has grown leaps and bounds.”

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The Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation is hoping to see both old and new friends at their annual fundraiser coming up in a couple of weeks.

The foundation is hosting its 22nd annual Friend Raiser Gala at the Enjoy Centre in St. Albert on Saturday, Feb. 8, and executive director Katrina Black is confident it will once again be a success.

“We would not be where we are today without (our supporters),” she said. “We truly do have an amazing community — not just St. Albert, but also Sturgeon County and north Edmonton. All the people that the hospital serves, they’re very good back to us.”

Last year, the gala “came home” to

St. Albert, moving to the Enjoy Centre after several years of being held in various Edmonton hotels.

Black said the response last year was overwhelming, with more than 400 people turning out.

“It was hugely successful. It was our most successful event to date,” she said. “We raised $256,000. It was an amazing night.”

But Black is aiming even higher this year, hoping to raise $280,000.

The event will feature CFCW radio host Danny Hooper as master of ceremonies, along with a champagne reception, a three-course gourmet dinner and live and silent auctions.

The money raised by the foundation goes to purchase enhanced equipment above and beyond the basic budget at the Sturgeon Community Hospital.

This year, the foundation’s wish list includes:

provide fast pathology diagnosis during a surgery;

gastroenterologists perform complicated procedures and improves visualization into the patient’s stomach;

continuous intravenous infusions;

which enhance safe and effective wound healing; and

of-the-art infection control systems

for handling contaminated material.“We made a commitment to the hospital

this year to raise $400,000 to purchase these very necessary equipment pieces,” Black said. “So we’re hoping, by everyone attending, we will meet our goals.”

Lexus of Edmonton is also returning as the gala’s title sponsor.

Tickets to the Friend Raiser Gala can be purchased by calling the Sturgeon

Community Hospital Foundation office

at 780-418-7361.

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Despite a drop in service levels over the past few years, the City of St. Albert and Alberta Health Services will renew their agreement to have AHS provide emergency medical services in the city.

City councillors voted during an in-camera portion of their meeting Monday to move ahead with the five-year contract.

“The contract is not going to address all of our concerns regarding service levels,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. “However, Alberta Health Services is committed to working with the City to provide the best possible services to our residents and we have agreed to move forward.”

Some of the details of the contract have not yet been worked out between the two sides. The City expects to release more details of the agreement once it is finalized.

“This is good news. A new long-term EMS contract will ensure residents continue to receive high-quality emergency medical care,” said Rick Trimp, AHS interim CEO for population health and province-wide services, in a statement. “I would like to thank the City of St. Albert for their diligence and patience while we worked toward a new contract.

“Patient care is our top priority. We share that goal with the City of St. Albert and the St. Albert Fire Service. Together, we will continue to provide timely high-quality EMS care to city residents, and those in neighbouring communities.”

Local firefighters are again going to great heights to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

For the fourth year in a row, members of St. Albert Fire Services are taking part in the Muscular Dystrophy Rooftop Campout, which will see them climb atop Fire Hall No. 2 on Boudreau Road on the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 5, not to come down until the afternoon of Saturday, Feb. 8.

As well as the campout, firefighters will be serving up dinner for patrons at Eastside Mario’s in St. Albert on Tuesday, Jan. 28, with all tips going to Muscular Dystrophy. Firefighters will also be at the Safeway in Inglewood Towne Centre on Feb. 1 and 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for their annual boot drive.

An online silent auction will also be held from Feb. 1 to 18 at www.stalbertfirefighters.com.

Last year, the campaign raised $47,000, well above the firefighters’ goal of $20,000. This year, they have set a goal of raising $20,000. Money raised goes to research, support services and the purchase of mobility equipment.

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Thousands of kids on hundreds of teams took to ice rinks across the Capital Region last week to celebrate minor hockey last week. And a St. Albertan was in charge of it all.

Marvin Babiuk is the chair of Quikcard Edmonton Minor Hockey Week, the annual week-long tournament that takes over arenas each January and sees teams across all age and skill levels battle it out for bragging rights.

It’s a lot of work for Babiuk, hut he said it’s all worth it to see how much joy players — and their parents — get out of the game.

“The biggest success is seeing the smiles on the kids, seeing the smiles on the parents, and the cheers regardless of whether the team won or lost the game,” he said. “Just to see that energy on the ice, I think that’s really special.”

This year marked the 51st

edition of the tournament, and saw 539 teams play 771 games over 10 days, with the finals taking place Saturday and Sunday at the Terwillegar Recreation Centre.

Trying to keep all of that organized can be a logistical nightmare, but Babiuk said it all comes together with the help of more than 3,200 dedicated volunteers.

“We also have a very strong committee that manages (everything from) the ice allocation to keeping scores to communicating with all the arena managers,” he said. “It is a daunting task, but when you have that many committed volunteers that want to run this

tournament, it does run quite smoothly.”

While 2014 was Babiuk’s first year as the chair of Edmonton Minor Hockey Week, he has been involved with the tournament in various roles as far back as 1999, before he even had kids of his own.

“It was just because of the love of the game,” said Babiuk, who also looked after sponsorships this year. “It took me back to childhood; that’s what gravitated me toward this tournament. One thing that’s been really special to see is how the tournament has evolved and grown, and to the tournament now from a parent’s perspective.”

And it’s that love of the game that will likely keep him in the Minor Hockey Week fold for many years to come.

“It’s like The Godfather — you try to leave, but it brings you back in,” he said with a laugh. “I certainly don’t have any intentions of stepping away, because you get a lot out of being involved in this tournament.”

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“You’ll see us before movies start … for a month in Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton,” said lead singer Dan Davidson, “so we really want to make sure we’re capitalizing on the big punch and making sure our numbers are really strong off the bat.”

Plus, it’ll be pretty cool to see himself and his bandmates — guitarist Brad Simons and Tyler Dianocky, bassist Steve Vincent and drummer Greg Williamson

— larger than life on the silver screen.

“It costs a lot of money to make us look cool, but 60-foot screens help,” Davidson laughed. “Plus we’re running YouTube ads. You know when you’re watching a YouTube video and there’s that annoying guy you have to click away from? I’m going to be the annoying guy.”

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garnered the band a number of awards, and one of the songs was even used in CTV’s coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, so Davidson said there was some pressure to follow it up with something even better.

“I liked Caught Up in the Excess a lot, but I think that, as we toured that record and played it and promoted it, I felt we were all growing as writers, and our musical style was not 100 per cent zoned into where Caught Up in the Excess was anymore,” he said. “That’s where I felt the most pressure, to come up with the best music we’ve really done, something that’s really us.”

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A local company is hoping the release of its first full-length feature film will help it blaze its own trail in the movie-making world.

Located in St. Albert’s Campbell Business Park, Lone Maverick Entertainment offers everything from wedding DJ services

to corporate video production. But the company is truly hoping to make a splash with the release of its first full-length film, Cold Lights, which is now available on YouTube and is described on the company’s website as “part mystery, part comedy, and part science-fiction, Cold Lights celebrates life while paying homage to classic films like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Alien and, more recently, Super 8.”

While the company is still working with tight budgets, the whole team believes Cold Lights is just the beginning of something much, much larger.

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The movie was shot over 28 days in September 2012, and was released on YouTube about a year later.

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Of course, that much feedback has been possible because of Lone Maverick’s decision to release the movie free of charge to the Internet.

“For us, it was more like, how do we build a portfolio piece?” Rideout said. “I know we’ve been able to attract other actors who want to work with us in future projects as a result.”

The Lone Maverick team consists of Rideout, Chaulk and actor Graham Wardle. Rideout has been in the film and TV industry for eight years now, but Lone Maverick is his chance to really put all aspects of his education to work.

“I’ve always been interested in getting into the production side and creating a company that’s able to create content and entertainment first and foremost,” he said.

Rideout met Chaulk — who has owned a string of successful businesses and has always been interested in acting and motivational speaking — about a year ago, and the two realized they complemented

each other very well.“When I met Marcus, I was very

intrigued with the movie industry. I was very intrigued with acting. One of my goals is to do a bit of acting in the long run,” Chaulk said. “But I also thought that, everything I usually put my hands into, I’ve been very successful at. So I thought, if we could build a company that had the values I had and the vision I had — and all three of

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“We’re big fans of making movies you’d pay $12.50 to see in a movie theatre,” Rideout added.

While Cold Lights was shot in and around

Calgary, and both Rideout and Chaulk originally hail from Newfoundland, the company is committed to working out of St. Albert, and possibly even shooting some of their films here, depending on how co-operative the local government is.

“It may be in our best interest to do something in a different location or different areas, because we may be held up on that here. But I don’t 100 per cent know that yet, because I haven’t tried to cross that bridge with them yet,” Chaulk said. “... But we’re hoping we can work with some businesses, and some of the stuff will fit for

some of our shoots. We’d love to feature St. Albert in some of our stuff.”

Still, the Lone Maverick team has their next feature ready to shoot, which Rideout describes as a horror-comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead.

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�e provincial government wants to reduce Alberta’s reliance on coal-�red electricity generation, but opposition members say the governing Tories lack the political will to phase out the fossil fuel.

During an all-party MLA forum at the University of Alberta last week, Donna Kennedy-Glans — Alberta’s newly-appointed Associate Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy — said the Progressive Conservative government is committed to “doing something” to reduce coal.

“We’re a market-based environment. We have to do this in a way that means the lights don’t go o� and that’s what I care about,” she said, adding any possible coal phase-out would need to make sense economically, socially and environmentally.

�e pressure is on, as the federal government has a 2020 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to

17 per cent below 2005 levels, aiming to cut 214 megatonnes in emissions. Coal-�red electricity is responsible for 11 per cent of Canada’s total greenhouse gas emissions.

Kennedy-Glans said 52 per cent of the Alberta’s deregulated electricity market currently comes from coal.

“And yes, we all want to reduce that, but if we turn all those plants o� in the next 10 years, we have to be able to �ll that gap. I don’t think that makes good sense,” she said, adding clean coal is still an option.

“I think that’s a conversation we need to have.”

�e forum was hosted by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) alongside the Centre for Health Promotion Studies EcoPath and the Asthma Society of Canada.

CAPE says research shows coal-plant pollution contributes to over 100 deaths

and over 4,000 asthma episodes in Alberta each year, costing the province about $300 million in the health care system annually.

Alberta NDP environment critic Rachel Notley said the government needs to adopt an aggressive policy to get rid of coal.

“If we are going to go to the rest of the country and the rest of the world and request the social license for the production and growth of the oilsands ... It seems to me that there’s no good reason for us to tie ourselves to an electricity production mechanism that is the dirtiest in the world,” she said.

Joe Anglin, Wildrose environment and utilities critic, said the Wildrose

supports the decommissioning of coal plants for environmental, health and e�ciency reasons. He said the party has a plan to make up the di�erence with natural gas and hydroelectric.

“Also a big part of this has to be the renewable energies,” he said. “How do we get there? How do we invite more investments into renewable energy and supplement and advance what we want to do?”

Liberal health critic Dr. David Swann said the government needs to look into subsidizing non-renewable energies.

“Let’s create a level playing �eld for what we know is healthier and much more sustainable,” he said.

Her year-long experiment is up, but don’t expect Jennifer McCurdy to stop shopping local anytime soon.

In early 2013, McCurdy, the member services director at the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce, challenged herself to shop locally as much as possible for the entire year while keeping a blog of her experiences at blog.stalbertchamber.com.

But, while the year is now done, McCurdy doesn’t expect to go back to her old ways anytime soon.

“I found that it got easier and easier as the year progressed. It’s really become second nature now,” she said.

In fact, she has even converted a few friends to her shop-local-�rst philosophy.

“I found there was a bit of a ripple e�ect,” she said. “Friends of mine, whenever they are shopping now or going to make big purchases, they consciously think about trying to keep it local.”

McCurdy started up the blog a�er trying to do her Christmas shopping locally in 2012. �is Christmas, though, she said she made all of her purchases locally, save for a particular high chair for her grandchild.

She was even able to keep up her philosophy on a couple of trips out of the country.

“Even then, I realized you can take shop local on the road, in the sense that, when you’re shopping locally there, you can make decisions about, ‘Am I supporting their local economy?’ and ‘Am I buying things I could actually purchase back at home?’” McCurdy said.

“I really cut down the amount that I purchased when I did go away, to the point where I had a couple of customs o�cers not really believe that I only had $50 worth (of goods) a�er being away for two weeks.”

One thing that did surprise her, though, was that, when a larger chain store was out of a particular item, they would encourage her to buy it online rather than try to bring it into the local store.

“�at was sometimes a little disappointing, but it’s just the way the systems are set up, I think,” she said.

Still, while McCurdy doesn’t feel as guilty shopping outside St. Albert since the calendar �ipped over, she said that shopping local is something that has become ingrained in her.

“It’s changed the way I shop, and it’s changed the way my family shops,” she said.

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We all love a good story. The story of how two people met, or a dramatic story unfolding on the silver screen. But what’s the story of your business?

Say you’ve got a new widget, or maybe an exciting business service. You know your company has the goods, but the customers aren’t flocking in droves like you thought they would.

In today’s world of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Yelp reviewers, and traditional word of mouth, consumers have more opportunities than ever to tell their stories of interacting with businesses. That also gives your business more chances to tell your story, too. The age of nameless, faceless corporate identities is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

Your accounting company might be very special, but no one will know that if you aren’t telling your story. If you aren’t sure where to begin, then start from the beginning. Your customers should know who you are and how your company started. Did you quit ballet school when you discovered your love of numbers? What makes you unique is what will pique the interest of your potential customers.

A strong narrative doesn’t have to stop at where you started from. Social media provides a great amount of power to today’s consumers, but Facebook and Twitter are strong platforms for businesses, too. For a new business with a small marketing budget, this might be the ideal way to demonstrate how you get the job done on a personal level.

Anecdotes about team successes and client relationships can go a long way toward a good impression. When a dozen accounting firms are offering similar services, customers turn to a company whose values match up with theirs.

Use those customer stories to your advantage, too. Doing an excellent job for a customer will often lead to a positive review or recommendation, either online or offline. We all know that the advertising world is oversaturated and most ads aren’t making an impression on customers, but an account of your top-notch work, from your mouth or the client’s, just might.

Everyone appreciates a good story – what is yours going to be?

Brittany Kustra is the communications co-ordinator for the Northern Alberta Business

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Extreme weather events including flooding in Alberta and an ice storm that hit Ontario and Eastern Canada cost Canadian insurers a record $3.2 billion in losses last year, an industry group said on Monday.

The report by the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), an umbrella group of Canadian property and casualty insurers, follows warnings from industry players that premiums will have to rise to cover a rising number of catastrophic claims events.

The bulk of the loss stemmed from June floods that shut down the oil industry hub of Calgary and decimated some smaller communities. That flood, which the IBC said was Canada’s costliest natural disaster ever, cost insurers $1.74 billion.

A smaller flash flood in Toronto in July resulted in $940 million in damages, while an ice storm that hit Toronto and other parts of Ontario and Eastern Canada in December cost insurers $200 million in damage to homes, it said.

“Canadian communities are seeing more severe weather, especially more intense rainfall. This overburdens our sewer and stormwater infrastructure, resulting in more sewer backups in homes and businesses,” Don Forgeron, chief executive of the IBC, said in the report.

The losses come in the wake of four straight years of natural disaster losses exceeding $1 billion, the group said.

Julie Dickson, head of the country’s main financial services regulator, in September called 2013 and “annus horribilis” for the property and casualty insurance industry, citing the floods, as well as the derailment and explosion of an oil-laden train that killed nearly 50 people and destroyed part of the town of Lac-Megantic, Quebec, in July.

In November, Intact Financial Corp., the country’s largest property and casualty insurer, said it expected to boost homeowners insurance premiums by between 15 and 20 per cent in most provinces to deal with higher claims.

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