GROW UP! When it comes to sex, TV is trying to shed its bad reputation
JAYS CLINCH FIRST DIVISION TITLE SINCE 1993
PAGE C6
PAGE B1
Red Deer Advocate THURSDAY, OCT. 1, 2015
www.reddeeradvocate.com
Your trusted local news authority
Pirate Party raids riding BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF
FEDERAL ELECTION
Arrrgh! One of four Central Alberta ridings will be hearing from an unusual but legally registered party in the federal election — the Pirate Party of Canada.
In total, 19 candidates within the four Central Alberta ridings were officially confirmed by Elections Canada on Wednesday to run in the Oct. 19 election.
The main established parties — Conservative, Liberal, NDP and Green — are represented in all four of the ridings, which include Red Deer-Lacombe, Red Deer-Mountain View, Battle River-Crowfoot, and Yellowhead. But there are also two candidates running for the Libertarian Party of
RUNNING FOR TERRY
Canada and one for the Pirate Party. Fahed Khalid, who indicated he would run under the Democratic Advancement Party of Canada, in Battle River-Crowfoot, is not on the official candidate list.
Please see CANDIDATES on Page A2
Mother fined for assault on son BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF
costs for industry. About the same percentage agreed Alberta’s targets should align with those required to keep global warming under 2 C. Two-thirds suggested the government’s priority should be on diversifying the economy, rather than making business easier for oil and gas companies. Still, most want the oilsands to survive. Nearly three-quarters said the industry should remain at its current size or grow larger. The survey comes as Alberta’s NDP government prepares its overall plan for climate change. An expert panel is expected to deliver recommendations in November in advance of a major international summit in Paris.
A former Bentley-area mother won’t go to prison for punching her young son in the face decades ago. Red Deer provincial court Judge James Glass fined the 63-year-old woman, who now lives in Turner Valley, $3,500 and put her on probation for two years. She is barred from having any contact with her two sons and two daughters, who are already estranged from she and her husband of 43 years. The woman admitting to punching the boy during a three-day trial in June and was convicted of assault causing bodily harm. Despite often-lurid testimony of alleged abuse from her other children in 1980s and 1990s, she was acquitted of 17 other charges assault, assault causing bodily harm and sexual assault. The judge ruled that testimony was unreliable or uncorroborated and much of the alleged abuse could be considered disciplinary in nature as the law stood in the day. Neither the woman nor her four children, aged between 33 and 40, can be named under a court-ordered publication ban. That ban was still in place on Wednesday despite requests from the four siblings to have it removed at a recent court appearance. In sentencing, Glass said a jail sentence would have been “out of proportion” to the crime she was convicted of considering the former licensed practical nurse has no criminal record. Crown prosecutor Ed Ring asked for a sentence of 60 to 90 days and 12 months of probation, pointing out the severity of the victim’s injuries and that she was in a position of authority. Defence lawyer Dave Inglis pointed out the offence happened decades ago — between 1980 and 1988 — and all involved had moved on with their lives. At the time of the offence, the mother was under pressure from raising children and doing farm work, often on her own because her husband was working.
Please see CARBON TAX on Page A2
Please see ASSAULT on Page A2
Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff
National Terry Fox School Run Day was Wednesday, and the staff and students at Grandview Elementary School in Red Deer took to the school field together to commemorate the and remember Terry Fox and his run. Many other schools in Red Deer, Central Alberta and across the country are raising funds for the Canadian Cancer Society and doing their own Terry Fox Runs.
Albertans support carbon tax and are willing to pay it: survey BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Half of Albertans who participated in a new survey supported a carbon tax and were willing to pay it. The poll, released Wednesday, found that number held even if the tax were applied to individuals as well as companies. “It doesn’t surprise me,” said Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute, a clean energy think-tank that commissioned the poll from Ekos Research. “There’s always a strong constituency around responsible development and addressing greenhouse gas pollution and it seems to be getting stronger.” The survey found support for a car-
WEATHER Mainly sunny. High 21. Low 5.
FORECAST ON A2
bon tax was about even throughout the province at 52 per cent in Edmonton and 56 per cent in Calgary. Support fell to 38 per cent in the rural south. Percentages went even higher if the money collected were to go to a specific purpose. About three-quarters of respondents said they would approve a carbon tax if it were used to fund technology to help the energy sector reduce emissions. Two-thirds said the tax would be OK if the money were used for public transit and energy-efficient buildings. About half linked their approval to lowering income taxes, as British Columbia did with its carbon tax. The survey of 1,800 Albertans in late August and early September found 53 per cent support for tougher climate change policies, even if they increased
INDEX Four sections Alberta . . . . . . . . . . . . A3 Business . . . . . . . D4-D5 Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . A5 Classified . . . . . . D1-D2 Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . D3 Entertainment . . . . . . C6 Sports . . . . . . . . . B1-B4
Pint-size superhero spurs rise in donations SpiderMable is being credited with another amazing feat — spurring dontions to the Children’s Wish Foundation.
PLEASE RECYCLE
Story on PAGE A3
YOU WAIT FOR IT... WE DO IT!!
OUR FIFTH ANNUAL DRIVE THRU WINTERIZING EVENT FRIDAY/SATURDAY 8AM - 5PM SUNDAY 9AM - 4PM Don’t unhook your RV - just drive through our ENJOY HOT DOGS service bays and have your winterizing completed while AND REFRESHMENTS you wait.
1890 - 49th Avenue, Red Deer
403-343-1464
1-800-242-2593
vellner.com
ONLY
6995
$
7190745J1,15
OCTOBER 2, 3, 4 AND 16, 17, 18