WEDNESDAY NOV. 10 2010 VOL.6 Nº151 Max. 8 Min. 5 Recycle me STYLE TIPS ON WEARING COZY SWEATERS THIS FALL P19 VANCOUVER Buses for Games not green P4 The “greenest Games ever” claim for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler may be inaccurate based on some simple math. WORLD Obama returns home – sort of P9 U.S. President Barack Obama pays a state visit to Indonesia, where he spent four years as a child when his mother married an Indonesian man. Stolen SPORTS Canucks shutout treasure in Montreal P28 SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS’ Carey Price and the Montreal Canadiens blank the Canucks 2-0 in CENTURY-OLD CEREMONIAL La Belle Province Tuesday to snap MACE TAKEN BY THIEVES P5 Vancouver’s six-game winning PHOTO CARMINE MARINELLI streak. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 10 2010 › NEWS 3 Are you a wine lover? If so, the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation is offering 10 It was cold and drizzling in Vancouver Tuesday, but visitors to Grouse people the opportunity to taste several fine wines, including the 1973, ’74 Mountain stepped straight into a winter wonderland. The North Shore and ’75 Chateau Cheval Blanc. The tickets are being auctioned through mountain opened its outdoor skating rink and experienced some light eBay, search “Fine wine tasting event to benefit the Dr. Peter Centre.” snowfall. Meanwhile, snowmaking crews start preparations Wednesday for Proceeds help the Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver. The final day of bidding is the coming ski season, which is expected to start early this year. Wednesday. – QMI AGENCY – QMI AGENCY Three-year-old sees dad gunned down MATT KIELTYKA QMI Agency To kill somebody is atrocious … but to do it when there’s a small child in the vehicle is just Homicide investigators say a Police investigate after a man was shot three-year-old boy’s life was « absolutely, without a doubt, unacceptable. » and killed in front of his three-year-old put at risk as his father was — IHIT spokesperson Cpl. Dale Carr son in New Westminster Monday shot dead in New Westmin- evening. PHOTO CARMINE MARINELLI ster Monday night. Team spokesperson Cpl. Dale ther was the victim of a tar- Nelson Ramirez Guerrero, Carr. “Thankfully, he was not geted hit. 33, is dead after a gunman ap- harmed in the gun battle.” “The killer was here to kill proached his vehicle and Carr hopes the shocking cir- Mr. Ramirez,” he said. opened fire near the intersec- cumstances spur the com- Ramirez isn’t known to local tion of 10th Street and Corn- munity into action. authorities, but has been con- wall Street around 8 p.m. “To kill somebody is atro- victed of fraud in the U.S. Police were not only cious … but to do it when Investigators are trying to shocked to find the victim’s there’s a small child in the ve- delve into Ramirez’s local dead body outside his car hicle is just absolutely, with- connections to see if he has when they arrived on scene, out a doubt, unacceptable,” he any links to organized crime. but were flabbergasted when said. “This little boy came “Whether he’s involved in they found the toddler sitting very close to being actually in- drugs, gangs, organized crime in the back of the shot-up car. volved in the homicide. [The … we just don’t know,” Carr “The victim was dropping community] needs to step up said. his son off at his mother’s res- and come forward with any Anyone with information is idence when the shooting oc- information.” asked to call the IHIT tip line curred,” said Integrated Carr said investigators have at 1-877-551-IHIT or Crime Homicide Investigation “no doubt” the 33-year-old fa- Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. √ TRAVEL AWARDS The Rocky Mountaineer must run on Native kids face huge risks: B.C. rep golden rails, because the Vancouver-based luxury train travel company walked away with two prestigious accolades from SANDY BUEMANN children. QMI Agency the World Travel Awards for “World’s Leading Travel Experi- [Aboriginal children] are just not doing as well Righting this injustice could ence by Train” – for the fifth year – and “World’s Leading Lux- The plight of aboriginal chil- in school, their health, their family well-being, be as simple as making sure ury Travel Product of the Year.” The World Travel Awards are dren in B.C. amounts to a their housing situation. » aboriginal children have widely recognized as the Oscars of the tourism industry. “humanitarian crisis,” ac- « enough fruit and vegetables cording to B.C.’s Representa- — Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond to eat or that they come to tive for Children and Youth. school well rested, according “They are just not doing as to Turpel-Lafond. √ FOUND DEAD Homicide √ VSB PLANS An Ipsos- well in school, their health, aboriginal children ages six Turpel-Lafond said she has She said this disparity investigators say they’re fairly Reid public opinion poll to be their family well-being, their to 14 living off reserve were seen children living in over- comes from systemic racism confident a 35-year-old man conducted on the state of ed- housing situation,” said Mary as likely as their peers to be crowded, noisy homes and and the legacy of aboriginal ucation by the Vancouver found dead in his rural home Ellen Turpel-Lafond, who doing well in school. The re- infants getting passed “from reserves, adding that there School Board is a public rela- Monday afternoon died as a spoke on the issue at UBC on sults were based on the par- parent to grandparent to aun- are low expectations placed result of “foul play.” Karver tions stunt, said NPA trustee Tuesday. ents’ knowledge of their tie to child welfare system.” on aboriginal children. Jesse Morford died at his Ken Denike. The poll – start- home in the 5900 block of ing Nov. 12 – will question re- There are many systemic child’s schoolwork, including She said many of these “The first thing is to really Ross Road in Chilliwack. Can- spondents on funding and changes that place children report cards. issues are federal and an norm excellence for aborigi- vass crews searched the priorities, explained VSB chair at risk from the get-go, she The same year saw 49 per independent statutory officer nal children, to assume that property for clues Tuesday Patti Bacchus. Results will fac- said. cent of off-reserve aboriginal is needed in the Parliament they can learn and achieve and an autopsy is scheduled tor into long-term planning for However, according to a children under six living in of Canada to promote better like everyone else at a high for Wednesday. the district. 2006 Statistics Canada study, low-income families. outcomes for aboriginal standard.” " " ( &( ) (& (% $& % ( *%& &(*(& + + *%( //" && % ( ( % ( *%& &(% ( - !# ( &( &*(+ &((& ( - . )// (% )// * %. )// . )//! (% $& % ( *%& % * (& , ,%( ( - && & ( - ( ( &( (% %+& *& % %+ %&(% ( & % ( *%&&# % (* (& (% % & $ $!! ### 4 WEDNESDAY › NEWS NOVEMBER 10 2010 David Legal affairs columnist Don’t leave it to discretion ith more than 2,500 people in the province already ticketed and towed, and projected provincial revenues of $10-20 Wmillion in fines, you’d think the province would be celebrating their new drinking and driving policy. Their new law allows police at roadside to seize cars and issue thousands in fines without judicial oversight. It has been a massive success. Maybe too successful. Yesterday, Solicitor General Rich Coleman begged police forces to use more “discretion” in applying the law. “You give someone a new tool,” he commented, “and they think they have to use it.” With thousands of scofflaws identified in just the first few weeks of im- plementation and front page headlines about a drunk driver who killed a beautiful four-year-old girl in the same week, you’d think the issue would be a political gold mine for the governing party. It hasn’t been. A map simulation shows the locations where The restaurant industry is annoyed that customers VANOC’s Olympic buses were retrieved from. The total distance covered in bringing in buses and have no idea what the new .05 blood alcohol standard then returning them would extend 127 times means, and as a result, they aren’t enjoying a glass of around the equator. ILLUSTRATION wine with dinner. The civil libertarians are annoyed the new law applies criminal penalties without inde- pendent oversight of potential police abuses or mis- takes. Even the police are annoyed, with the head of the police association saying that police don’t want to be judge, jury and executioner; that the law is wasting Not so much ‘Green Games’ police time with volumes of paperwork; and that the law isn’t catching those that are causing the death and BOB MACKIN √ OLYMPIC BUSES GOING THE DISTANCE West Coast Sightseeing of destruction. QMI Agency Burnaby (18) were the only The Solicitor General concedes the law may need More than 1,000 buses from Biggest round trip double-digit providers from the some tweaking. around North America used at distance, in kilome- host province. The 263 vehicles Unfortunately, the solution the Solicitor General pre- the 2010 Winter Olympics and tres - Express Trail- from a list of 32 Canadian com- sents to solve the problem of the law working exactly Paralympics were driven a 10,280 ways, Orlando, Fla., panies on a Jan. 26 list traveled as planned is asking police to use “discretion” in apply- combined 5.1 million kilome- 1,361,822.4 km. ing the law. In other words, exactly the opposite of tres to and from Vancouver. Buses supplied VANOC urgently sought what is fair, just and right under our legal system. British Columbia Passenger by Brewster, more buses from around the By not articulating what the rules are that let one .05 Transportation Branch tem- Banff, Alta.