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Fire. Daughter of victim tells inquest more needs to be done for mentally ill The daughter of a B.C. woman killed in an arson two years ago says more services are needed to help mentally ill people and their families, particularly in the evenings and weekends. A coroner’s inquest is examining what happened when 59-year-old Colette Salemink died in a fire set by her son, who was later found not responsible because of schizoaffective disorder. Salemink’s daughter, Plastic-paved road
City paves streets with recycled milk jugs The city of Vancouver isn’t paving the streets with gold, but it is using plastic. The city is experimenting with a new blend of asphalt that’s made from recycled plastic recovered from items in household blue boxes. The Canadian Press/CKNW
Erica, told the inquest there aren’t enough resources available to people whose family members have mental illness, particularly outside of business hours. Erica Salemink says there are few options other than asking the police to take a mentally ill person to the hospital, and that left her mother without meaningful help in the final weekend before the fire. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Contract killer dies in prison A man convicted in a contract killing gone wrong in Victoria more than 25 years ago has died in prison. Gordon Pawliw, 65, died of natural causes in Abbotsford last Saturday. Pawliw and two other men killed Dianna Van Dooren at her home in Duncan in 1986, in a drugrelated hit that targeted her husband. The Canadian Press
metronews.ca WEEKEND, November 16-18, 2012
‘Celebrating the end of the world in a different way’ Plenty of time left. A local astronomer says the Earth still has plenty of time before the sun boils it up Kate Webb
kate.webb@metronews.ca
A long time ago, on a server not so far away, some conspiracy theorists started an Internet hoax that a planet called Nibiru was headed toward Earth, and that this was what the Mayans had figured out when they ended their longcount calendar. “Conspiracy believers believe it’s happening on Dec. 21, but at the Space Centre we’re kind of celebrating the end of the world in a different way,� says astronomer Raminder Samra, who is giving a talk about the end of the universe at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre this Saturday. The wacked-out theory has given experts a chance to dis-
This is one of four historic Mayan manuscripts that still exist in the world and that suggests modern civilization will come to an end on Dec. 21. It currently sits at the Saxon State Library in Dresden, Germany. Astronomer Raminder Samra says the earth still has two billion years before it comes to an end. Getty Images
cuss the real end of the world — the point at which the sun will expand into a burning “red giant,� swallowing Mercury and Venus whole and heating Earth to uninhabitable temperatures. Samra says that will happen in about two billion years, leaving plenty of time for the fruits
of your loin’s fruits to escape in a pimped-out robot space pod. The story gets even more interesting after that, he adds, when questions are raised about the fate of the universe. “It’s going to expand so much that everything will be so far away from each other that you won’t see any more
galaxies in the night sky,� the UBC graduate explains. “The universe will become a very cold, dark place.� Samra says he feels just fine about it. “The time scales are kind of mind-boggling. It’s going to be trillions of years or quadrillions of years.�
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