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Countdown to our redesign includes a daily history lesson You’re not seeing things. redesigned Journal, including a brand-new of a typeface or font called Big Caslon. This Front-page Today’s front page features a “masthead” masthead and an array of new content. look made its fi rst appearance on the fi rst day — the title on the front page — from the fi rst Every day between now and then, we’ll The Evening Journal was published: Nov. 11, year of The Journal’s existence, 19261903. - Cloisterfeature mastheads Black from di erent eras of our 1903. By 1908, our name had changed to The It is the fi rst in a week-long series that will history at the top of this page. Edmonton Evening Journal, but the typeface ashback culminate next Tuesday, March 20, with a Today’s masthead is a hand-drawn rendition remained in place for another year. THE EVENING JOU NAL. Nugent-Hopkins stick TaylorMade1904 - Big Caslon/tweekedNaked yoga sheds clothes, egos BUSINESS / E1 FAMILY&FITNESS / F2

ESTABLISHED 1903 Breaking news at edmontonjournal.com TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012 Mom’s mental state key to trial Allyson McConnell Committee Beaumont welcomes Man in Motion searched computer on topic of death pay for before drowning sons JANA G. PRUDEN Journal Staff Writer Tory MLAs WETASKIWIN On the morning of Feb. 1, 2010, halted Allyson McConnell sat down at the computer set up on her dining room table and searched the question, Reimbursements “How long does it take to die from strangulation?” by Opposition ‘stunts,’ By the end of the day, McCon- nell had killed her two children, Redford charges drowning 10-month-old Jayden and 2-1/2-year-old Connor in the KAREN KLEISS bathtub of the family’s bungalow Journal Staff Writer in Millet. EDMONTON After that, McConnell drove into Edmonton and threw herself o an Premier on Monday overpass into tra c. ordered Conservative MLAs to stop At a trial that began in Wetaskiwin accepting committee pay until a sal- Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday, ary review is complete. Crown prosecutor She hasn’t, however, asked govern- Gordon Hatch said ment MLAs to refund money they there is no question were paid to sit on a committee that that McConnell has not met since 2008. killed her children. Wildrose MLAs The only questions, will return the $40,000 she was Hatch said, are paid for sitting on the committee and why, and whether Wildrose MLA will she had the intent return his $4,000 in pay. required to be con- McConnell Liberal Leader victed of murder in has also pledged to refund the her sons’ deaths. money. McConnell, 33, appeared pale and Redford dismissed the reim- gaunt in court, her eyes rimmed with bursements as a political “stunt,” dark circles as she sat slumped in the while government house leader prisoner’s box. called it “grandstand- She kept her eyes most often on the ing.” fl oor throughout the proceedings, “I fi nd it terribly interesting that and showed no visible reaction when a number of people in this house, she occasionally glanced at the law- who today have come up with a yers, her mother and sister, or at the convenient stunt to try and polarize family of her in-laws, sitting in the an issue, are people who were fully courtroom. aware of what they were receiving McConnell spoke only once, a bare- for payment and did nothing about ly audible whisper as she confi rmed it until today,” Redford told the leg- her name. Her lawyer, Peter Royal, islature. BRUCE EDWARDS, THE JOURNAL entered not-guilty pleas on her “We will do exactly what I’ve com- The 25th anniversary relay marking Rick Hansen’s around-the-world fundraising journey for spinal cord injury research behalf to two counts of second- mitted to doing, which is to have an stopped at Ecole Secondaire Beaumont Composite High School on Monday. Hansen addressed students and joined degree murder. independent commission make a medal-carrier Seanna Paul on her portion of the relay. To see video of Rick Hansen, go to edmontonjournal.com/video. Photographs of the crime scene recommendation to not only how To see more photos of his visit to the Edmonton area, go to edmontonjournal.com/photos. Story / A3. show a house fi lled with children’s government members are paid, but toys, the walls lined with pho- all members in the legislature.” tographs of the family in happy Redford promised to review MLA times. compensation during the Conser- According to an agreed statement vative leadership race last summer. of facts entered by the defence and After she became premier, she set Opposition opens  re Crown, McConnell and her husband, up an independent commission to Curtis, had separated in 2009, and review MLA pay. Curtis McConnell began divorce The commission, led by retired proceedings in December of that Supreme Court justice Jack Major, at health-care town hall year. He had moved out of the fam- is expected to report back with ily home and was living with his recommendations at the end of parents. April. KEITH GEREIN around for decades, such as long Forensic computer analyst Dwayne “We will take that recommen- Journal Staff Writer edmontonjournal.com waiting lists and inadequate sta ng. Pilling testifi ed about Internet activ- dation seriously (and) accept EDMONTON To see a video of the town It was four against one, as the oppo- ity on Allyson McConnell’s computer, those recommendations,” Redford hall meeting, go to sition leaders blasted Horne for his including multiple searches about said. In a preview of upcoming provin- edmontonjournal.com government’s failings to make suf- suicide, sleeping pill overdoses, The standing committee on privi- cial election debates, Health Minister fi cient progress on the problems. fi rearms and “electrocution by hair leges and elections made headlines took on four party lead- Horne said the Redford govern- dryer in the bathtub.” There was also last week when it was revealed that ers Monday night in a town hall dis- morale, some of the most emotional ment was on the right track, adding a search with the question: “How 21 MLAs are paid $1,000 a month cussion on the future of health care exchanges of the night erupted when that people need to stop looking for a long can you go without food and for sitting on the committee. in . a member of the audience asked if “magic fi x” to complicated issues. water?” Amid continuing care, the use any of the parties had “the political See MLA PAY / A5 of health technology and worker will” to fi x problems that have been See TOWN HALL / A2 See DROWNINGS / A2 Alberta mini-dinosaurs  ll large evolutionary gap

RANDY BOSWELL border — were unearthed years leptoceratopsid family unfolded in the group on this continent.” Postmedia News ago. Cretaceous-era Canada. Other researchers involved in the But researchers led by Canadian “These dinosaurs fill important discoveries are paleontologist David A team of five scientist Michael Ryan, now cura- gaps in the evolutionary history of Evans of the Royal Ontario Museum Canadian scientists tor of vertebrate paleontology at small-bodied, horned dinosaurs and University of Toronto, legend- has identified two the Cleveland Museum of Natural that lack the large horns and frills of ary dinosaur hunter Philip Currie of new species of dino- History, recently distinguished the relatives like triceratops from North the , University saurs from the famous two fossils from similar “leptocer- America,” said Ryan, an Ottawa- of Toronto scientist Caleb Brown, fossil beds of southern atopsid” species known from Canada born scientist affiliated with Car- and Don Brinkman of Alberta’s Alberta, including one that and Asia. leton University and the Canadian Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeon- points to the pivotal North American They concluded the borderland Museum of Nature, in a summary tology. evolution of a family of pint-sized, specimen — a two-metre-long, of the study. It was Currie who, in 1995, dis- plant-eating creatures related to the 90-kilogram animal, Gryphocer- “Although horned dinosaurs origi- covered the fossilized jaw of a pre- triceratops. atops morrisoni, which lived about nated in Asia, our analysis suggests viously unknown species of horned Partial remains of the two creatures 83 million years ago — is one of the that leptoceratopsids radiated to dinosaur at a site in Dinosaur Pro- — one from Dinosaur Provincial Park oldest of its kind, suggesting that North America and diversifi ed here, vincial Park.

SUPPLIED: JULIUS CSOTONYI east of and the other from key evolutionary developments with the new species, gryphocer- Photo illustration of a Gryphoceratops a site near the Alberta-Montana and a major diversification in the atops, being the earliest record of See DINOSAURS / A2

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