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Glass ceiling too strong NUMBER OF WOMEN ON ALBERTA CORPORATE BOARDS LOWER THAN NATIONAL AVERAGE: REPORT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A report suggests the number of women who sit on corporate boards in Alberta is less than half the national average, although their presence is slowly increasing. The study commissioned by the Alberta Securities Commission was done by the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business.
It says women make up 6.6 per cent of corporate board members in the province and 8.9 per cent for companies in Alberta listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. An Alberta government website says women’s representation on corporate boards in Canada is 14.5 per cent. Catalyst, a non-profit group, estimates women’s share of board seats on Canadian stock index companies at 21 per cent.
Loren Falkenberg, associate dean of research, said the report aims to shed light on Alberta boardrooms in the hope the data will get corporate leaders to think differently about who they hire. “I think there is room for more women to serve on boards,” she said Tuesday. The data reflects the large number of energy, mining and other resource industries in Alberta.
Falkenberg said the numbers are an improvement on the past and are trending upward. The report said 22 per cent of all new board directors to Alberta TSX-listed companies this year are women and 29 per cent of corporations have at least one woman board member.
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REFUGEE CRISIS
‘This is real life’ POLITICAL REFUGEE RAISING AWARENESS ABOUT SITUATION FACING ASLYUM SEEKERS BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Thirty-eight years ago Ethel Suarez came to Red Deer as a political refugee. Her journey in 1974 began much like many of the Syrian refugees who today are fleeing their homes from a bloody civil war. Not knowing what was on the other side, she and her husband crossed the Uruguay River to reach Concordia in Argentina in 1974. Her three young children stayed with her mother in northern Uruguay until it was safe to join them six months later. It was their only option because if the couple stayed they would have been thrown in jail or worse because of their political beliefs. “This is no movie,” said Suarez, 70. “This is real life. I saw it 38 years ago. Being a refugee is the same today in
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Ethel Suarez and her family came to Canada in 1977 as a refugee from Uruguay, after a military coup forced people to leave the country because of their political beliefs. 2015. I thought being a refugee would not happen anymore and the situation is getting worse. Some people are de-sensitized and they do not realize we are human people.” Frustrated by the misconceptions about refugees in light of the Syrian
crisis, Suarez wanted to dispel the misunderstandings and bring more awareness to the reality of what life is like for refugees who seek a safe haven. For three years, she and her family stayed in Buenos Aires where they lived in fear and under the threat of being picked up or sent back to Uru-
guay. Eventually it was just too much and like many of their friends they were forced to seek help from the United Nations.
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Ilegal police search brings drug trial to abrupt end BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF An accused drug trafficker walked free from a Red Deer court on Tuesday after a judge ruled police searched his pickup illegally. Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Wayne Renke said police violated Michael Jackson’s constitutional right to privacy by searching his truck without a warrant on Nov. 24, 2013. Jackson, who celebrated his 53rd birthday on Tuesday, understandably, looked relieved and shook his lawyer’s hand. The court heard that Jackson’s
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truck had been sitting in a secured bay at the Rocky Mountain House RCMP detachment. It was taken there after Jackson hit a pedestrian, who later died, on Hwy 11 during the evening of Nov. 22. The Rocky Mountain House man was not charged in relation to the fatal accident. However, his truck was seized by police to be examined by a collision analyst later as part of a fatality investigation. Two Rocky Mountain House RCMP officers testified in court on Monday that they had been trying to track the source of a faint unexplained marijuana smell in the vehicle bay on a Sunday when they turned their attention
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to the truck. That led to one of the garbage bags in the back being opened. That search uncovered marijuana buds carefully doubled-wrapped in garbage bags and vacuum-sealed in plastic. Realizing what they had unexpectedly uncovered, police later got a search warrant and eight double-wrapped bags containing nearly 78 kilograms of marijuana buds were seized. Jackson was charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking. In reading his decision, Renke pointed out the police officers themselves didn’t think they had grounds
for a search warrant on the basis of a faint marijuana smell. There was also no thought given to bringing in a police “sniffer dog” to try to track down the source of the odour. Federal Crown prosecutor John Lee had argued that Jackson could expect little or no right to privacy connected with his truck considering it was in police custody. Further, the police had no intention of deliberately undertaking a search without necessary authorization — “it was simply a step they took that perhaps overstepped the line,” argued Lee.
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Ontario manhunt ends with arrest A shooting triggered a manhunt that ended with the arrest of a suspect in the deaths of three women. Story on PAGE C2
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