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Rally against sexual violence BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Eight-hundred Tweets and statements condemning sexual violence lined the paths of City Hall Park on Thursday afternoon. Matt McKellar, who organized the Red Deer Rally Against Sexual Violence, and volunteers copied the social media messages following the firing of CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Millions of people from all over Canada and the world have responded to the issue of sexual violence through #BeenRapedNeverReported with their own stories. Rally volunteers planted the messages in the
snow to demonstrate the magnitude of the violence. “It’s reached the point where individuals need to speak up,” said McKellar, 31, of Red Deer, who revealed that he was a survivor of sexual violence. “We need to actually have this conversation. It’s so repulsive, that’s often why we can’t have it.” A few people stopped to talk to McKellar and a couple supporters during the three-hour rally. McKellar said it’s too much for most survivors to attend such events. He said he was ashamed and angry for a long time. According to his research, one in six men and one out of four women will experience sexual violence. “These are shocking numbers. “Everyone is looking at Canada saying if this is
such a problem, what are you going to do about it?” McKellar said. Patricia Arango, executive director Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre, said that in September and October, the centre had a total of 67 new clients. “That is a lot. This means we need to work together and do something and talk more about sexual assault. It’s serious,” Arango said. But it’s always up to the victim to decide if they want to report an assault, she said. “Many of them are not ready and prefer to stay quiet and live without saying anything. It will come out when they are ready.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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Judge expected to hand down verdict next Thursday BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The fate of a Red Deer man who killed his father two years ago will be announced in a Red Deer courtroom next week. Defence counsel Patty MacNaughton argued in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Thursday that Aaron Timothy Guilbault, 33, was suffering from a mental disorder and cannot be held criminally responsible for killing his father, Timothy Bruce Guilbault, 58, a former Red Deer city councillor. Crown prosecutor Maurice Collard said expert witnesses called by the defence failed to prove, on the balance of probabilities, that Guilbault’s mental illness had rendered him incapable of appreciating the nature of his actions or understanding that killing his father was morally wrong. Aaron Guilbault was arrested in Stettler on Nov. 5, 2012, after his sister, Caroline, found their father’s body in the entry of a family cabin in Red Lodge Estates, west of Bowden. In an agreed statement of facts presented at the outset of his trial, Collard stated that Timothy Guilbault had died two days earlier after being beaten with an aluminium baseball bat. Addressing Justice Monica Bast in court on Thursday, Collard said he concedes that Guilbault was mentally ill at the time of the attack, but does not concede that the illness was of such a nature that Guilbault could be absolved of criminal responsibility. He asked Bast to ignore the testimony of a psychiatrist who examined Guilbault. Two experts, a psychologist and a psychiatrist, took part in assessing Guilbault’s mental health after his arrest. Collard said he could find nothing in the psychiatrist’s evidence to indicate that Guilbault had been properly tested to determine whether he was faking symptoms to avoid prosecution. He pointed to evidence in the psychiatrist’s report indicating that Guilbault was assessed as an intelligent child and gifted in some respects, with the ability to manipulate others to his own ends. The report includes a comment that malingerers may become defensive when challenged about their symptoms, and then discusses Guilbault becoming defensive while being examined by the psychiatrist.
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Distribution of harm reduction kits opens lines of communication BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The distribution of harm reduction kits by the Central Alberta AIDS Network has increased steadily over the last four years. The organization has averaged 36,667 new needles distributed per month over the last six months. In April 2011, there were 10,385 new needles given out. “The trend has always been increasing,” said Jennifer Vanderschaeghe, CAANS executive director. Harm reduction kits come in different forms, but generally consist of new needles, pipes or other drug-related equipment. Vanderschaeghe said they’re provided for people who fall in the gap where drug abstinence has failed and before treatment has started. This gap leaves them vulnerable to diseases such as hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS, as well as overdoses. “Harm reduction is a type of addictions work,”
said Vanderschaeghe. “As an agency we live in this place where we recognize there will probably always be people who use drugs and their health care is an issue. They deserve respectful, judgment-free support around their health.” According to statistics tracked by CAANS, 337 different people access the organization through the needle exchange. Of those, 149 people use predominantly injection methods for their drug use, 121 predominantly smoke and about 67 that use both interchangeably. About 40 per cent of those people are women and 60 per cent are men. “Given that the (general) population is usually around 51 per cent women, it means we’re not seeing some of the women we should be seeing,” said Vanderschaeghe. In the six-month period, CAANS connected 14,630 times with people who used drugs — or 80 people a day, every day.
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From the left, Erin Pettifer as Rosa Bud/Deidre Peregrine, Warren Stephens, playing Clive Paget/ John Jasper, and Robyn Jeffrey as Alice Nutting/Edwin Drood in the Red Deer College production of ‘The Mystery of Edwin Drood.’ During every performance at the Red Deer College Arts Centre, theatregoers will decide how the melodramatic plot unfolds. Please see related story on page D1.