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JANUARY 28, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 12
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MICHAUD BACK AT WORK TIM PETRUK
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The Kamloops Mountie who was shot during a traffic stop more than a year ago has returned to work. RCMP Supt. Brad Mueller said Jean-Rene Michaud is back on the job — but not back on patrol. “All I can comment on is that he’s started back at the detachment, obviously working in an admin capacity CPL. JEAN-RENE and graduMICHAUD ated hours at this point,” he said. Mueller said he couldn’t comment on if or when Michaud would resume full-time hours. Earlier this month, a lawyer representing Kenneth Knutson, charged with attempted murder stemming from the shooting, said a guilty plea will be entered on March 17. Michaud was shot in the early-morning hours of Dec. 3, 2014, while conducting a traffic stop in Batchelor Heights. Knutson was arrested later that day.
Official Tournament Mark This manual provides you with tools and guidelines to ensure the tournament logo type (tournament mark) for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship appears in a consistent manner that is appropriate to IIHF standards in all communications. These standards should be followed as closely as possible, however it is understood that requirements for unspecified applications may arise.
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The official tournament mark will appear prominently on all official communications and marketing materials pertaining to the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship.
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The tournament mark has bilingual (English/French, horizontal only), English (horizontal and vertical), and French (horizontal and vertical) versions. The bilingual version of the official tournament mark should be used in cases where both English and French are being used in the communication.
Suspect in murder arrested on breach charge English (horizontal)
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A suspect in the murder of a 30-year-old man outside a North Kamloops sushi restaurant last week has been taken into custody, KTW has learned. The 32-year-old was arrested on Tuesday and charged with breach of probation. He is being held in custody on that charge. KTW is not publishing his name because no charges have been laid relating to the murder.
Just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 22, emergency crews were called to the 400-block of Tranquille Road for a reported stabbing. A 30-year-old man had been injured in an altercation outside Hatsuki Sushi. He was rushed to hospital, but died hours later. The owner of Hatsuki Sushi told KTW an intoxicated trio — two men and a woman — became involved in an argument outside his restaurant. Moments later, he said, a bleeding victim entered seeking refuge. Employees and customers called
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911. The name of the victim has not been released. Kamloops Mounties say the attack 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Logonoting Guide was not random, the suspect and victim knew each other.
Second homicide of 2016
Kamloops Mounties are now investigating the city’s second homcide of the year. Police confirm a suspicious death Tuesday in a Valleyview motel is a homicide. At about 11:30 a.m., a 49-year-old man was found dead at the 4 Seasons
Motel in the 1700-block of the East Trans-Canada Highway. The original 911 call reported a person in cardiac arrest. Tuesday’s death follows the slaying in North Kamloops last Friday. Police say the two homicides are isolated incidents, with nothing to indicate connection. “Both investigations are active, ongoing and are progressing,” Cpl. Cheryl Bush said. Anybody with information on either death is asked to call Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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UPS AND DOWNS AT FULTON FIELD WHAT IS: • Vancouver: seven flights a day with Air Canada • Calgary: four flights a day with Air Canada and WestJet • Prince George: one flight a day with Central Mountain Air • Vancouver: one flight per week with Central Mountain Air WHAT WAS: • WestJet adds Edmonton service daily starting in February 2015 and ending in March 2016. • WestJet adds an Edmonton service three flights a
week in spring 2010; lasts 25 days. • WestJet adds flight to Vancouver starting in November 2013 and ending in February 2014. • WestJet adds flight to Vancouver in late 2009; ends in spring the next year. • Horizon Airlines offers seasonal service to Seattle for Sun Peaks ski market, operating from 2003 to 2008. • Pacific Coastal Air flights to Vancouver from October 2007 to July 2009.
The collapse of oil is directly responsible for the loss of WestJet service between Edmonton and Kamloops, according to Kamloops Airport manager Fred Legace. The Calgary-based airline announced Monday it will discontinue flights to Alberta’s capital on March 5. It will shift aircraft capacity to more viable markets in Eastern Canada. “We look at our service based on supply and demand,” WestJet vicepresident Richard Bartrem said. “With the downturn in the economy, we’re seeing less demand for travel to and from the energy markets and into areas across Canada. We’ve decided that we would move some of that capacity into markets where we’re
seeing less of that impact so that we’re actually using the fleet as effectively as possible while minimizing the effect on the guest.” Bartrem said the decline in traffic has been “noticeable enough” to warrant changes, but did not specify how big of a drop the airline saw in affected markets, including Kamloops. Legace said the Edmonton flight that began less than a year ago started out with high passenger counts, but the continued plunge in oil prices resulted in a loss of workers commuting to Edmonton and then to Northern Alberta’s oil sands. When the first passengers arrived in February 2015 to a red-carpet welcome that included Sen. Nancy Greene Raine, oil was trading at twice today’s levels. See END OF FLIGHTS, A7
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