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Red Deer Advocate TUESDAY, JULY 28, 2015
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‘My son is free’ MOTHER WANTS SOME GOOD TO COME OUT OF HER ADOPTED SON’S DEATH BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Filled with compassion and forgiveness, the adoptive mother of a Red Deer teen killed in Calgary last week reflected on how those who committed the act must feel. “I feel so terrible for the family and those boys
who have to live with this for the rest of their lives,” said Lynda Marance. “My son is free. “Can you imagine that boy when he woke up the next day and found out he killed somebody? I forgive them.” Levi Marance, 18, was killed on July 19 in Calgary. He was found by Calgary Police Service at about 1:30 a.m. that morning in medical distress. He was transported to Levi Marance hospital, but died a short time later.
A very protective, compassionate person he looked after his big blended family. Lynda, 70, said she has seven adopted kids and has guardianship of an eighth. “He was extremely protective of anybody that knew him,” said Lynda. “Anyone that knew him, they’d call him basically their father. It didn’t matter who you were, he’d protect you. “My husband died when Levi was seven, and he took on the role of protecting us. He was very compassionate and very loving.” Levi always supported his sister’s dream of going to Ghana to do some work for an orphanage and bring some much needed medical supplies.
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Fentanyl seized during traffic stop in Lacombe
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A woman was taken to hospital with unknown injuries Monday morning in Rimbey. Rimbey RCMP, EMS and firefighters were called to a crash between a truck and a tanker truck at 51st Street and 50th Avenue shortly after 11 a.m.
Lacombe Police Service seized 40 hits of an illicit drug that is taking lives at an alarming rate in the province. It was the first time fentanyl has shown up within city limits. The green pills were seized along with 26 grams of cocaine and several individual baggies of marijuana at a traffic stop on 50th Avenue in west Lacombe. Six deaths related to fentanyl were recorded in Red Deer between 2011 and 2013. So far this year an estimated 50 people have died from Fentanyl the street drug in Alberta. In 2014, there were 120 deaths. Police chief Steve Murray said he is very concerned about what he calls “an evil nasty drug.” “If you look at the death rate of users, it is alarming,” said Murray. “Like any other street drug, this has the potential to kill. It has a demonstrated history of killing people.”
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Power outages fixed to drive up electricity prices, commission says BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — TransAlta Corp. deliberately timed outages at power plants in Alberta at peak times in order to drive up electricity prices, the province’s utilities commission said in a ruling Monday. The Alberta Utilities Commission conducted hearings after the province’s market surveillance administrator alleged that the Calgary-based company manipulated the electricity market by shutting down coal-fired power plants in late 2010 and early 2011 to drive up power costs during periods when demand was high. “The commission concludes, based upon clear, cogent and convincing evidence that TransAlta could have deferred each of the above described outages
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to off peak hours but chose instead to take them during peak or super-peak hours so as to maximize the benefit to its own portfolio,” the commission said in its decision. “In other words, the timing of the outage was determined by market conditions rather than by the need to safeguard life, property or the environment.” The commission also found that TransAlta breached a regulation by allowing its energy trader Nathan Kaiser to use privileged information related to plant shutdowns so that the company could benefit in the market. “TransAlta knew, or should have reasonably known that Kaiser had information regarding the capability of Sundance 1 and 2 to produce electricity that could reasonably be expected to have a material impact on market prices and would give him an ad-
vantage over market participants who did not have that information,” the commission found. But the commission said Kaiser established a defence of due diligence based on repeated assurances from senior TransAlta management that he could direct trades despite possessing information that wasn’t public. The commission also found that the market surveillance administrator did not prove allegations that TransAlta’s compliance policies, practices and oversight were inadequate and deficient. In a release late Monday, TransAlta said it has received the decision and will be reviewing the ruling. It said it’s response could “include the possibility of an appeal to the Alberta Court of Appeal.”
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Wildlife hospital on brink of extinction Injured animals in Central Alberta may be sent elsewhere for care if the Medicine River Wildlife Centre hospital closes. Story on PAGE A2
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