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Connaught skaters are competing at this week’s Canadian Championships in Kingston. Page 14
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Dangerous offender designation sought Keith Fraser
The Province
Kirsten Brazier, left, takes to the air in one of her many pilot roles, along with a young, aspiring aviator. In a bid to break the stereotype of males in the aviation and aerospace industry, Brazier founded The Sky’s No Limit — Girls Fly Too! event three years ago, which entices girls and women to consider a career in and around flight. Photo by Scott Lough
The sky’s no limit
Richmond’s own Amelia Earhart unsure why so few women learn to fly Alan Campbell
Staff Reporter acampbell@richmond-news.com
From wheels to floats and skis to skids, Kirsten Brazier is a rare breed who’s crisscrossed Canada more times than she cares to remember during her 20 years in the cockpit of all manner of flying machines. Rare — because she’s a woman; a female pilot no less. Brazier is frequently on the receiving
end of double-takes when she tells people what she does for a living, despite being in possession of airline transport ratings for both aeroplanes and helicopters — in other words, just about the only contraption she’s not qualified to take to the skies in is the space shuttle. The public’s reaction is hardly surprising, given that, out of 24,505 professional pilots in Canada, only 1,356 of them, less than six per cent, are women and out of 19,601
aircraft engineers, only 560 are women. And Brazier recognizes that heavilyweighted statistic feeds into people’s expectations that, every time they visit an airport, they anticipate looking out of the window at their flight gate to see men refueling the aircraft, inspecting the fuselage or going through pre-flight checks in the cockpit. Unlike other previously male-dominated see PILOT › page 7
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A man convicted in the deaths of two teenage girls after a night of drinking and drug-taking at his home in Richmond should be declared a dangerous offender and receive an indefinite jail sentence, a prosecutor argued Monday. In February 2013, Martin Tremblay was found guilty of two counts of criminal negligence causing the deaths of Kayla Lalonde, 16, and Martha Jackson, 17. The teens died after Tremblay, who had plied them with alcohol and drugs while they partied at his Richmond home at Westminster Highway and Smith Crescent, failed to call for help when they suffered Martha Jackson, 17, overdoses. above, overdosed at Tremblay has a lengthy the home of Martin criminal record, including Tremblay, below. convictions for sexually assaulting five girls 10 years ago. Crown counsel Michaela Donnelly told Justice Bruce Butler that Tremblay has a history of targeting girls from broken homes and often of aboriginal descent. Donnelly noted that Tremblay’s behaviour has been “aggressively persistent” and he deserves to be put behind bars indefinitely. The hearing is expected to run for several weeks.
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