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CALGARY – A judge had harsh words Friday for a world-renowned Alberta ski resort as she fined it $2.1 million for recklessly cutting down endangered trees five years ago.
Lake Louise Ski Resort pleaded guilty last December to taking down a stand of trees, including 38 endangered whitebark pine, along a ski run in 2013.
“There is a cumulative impact on the whitebark pine with potential risk of undermining the survival of the species in the decades to come,” said Judge Heather Lamoureux.
Lamoureux noted the trees were cut in a national park, the resort failed to ensure its employees knew the whitebark pine was endangered and the trees that were destroyed were all healthy.
“The Crown has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the actions of (Lake Louise Ski Area) and its employees were reckless given their knowledge of the constraints of operating a commercial ski hill in a national park,” she said.
Lamoureux gave the resort a year to pay what amounts to about $55,000 a tree.
A spokesman for Lake Louise said the resort will probably appeal the fine, which is almost double what it had expected.
Dan Markham said the judge appears to have ignored evidence at the sentencing hearing that suggested cutting down the 38 trees would not have any impact on the overall whitebark pine population in Canada.
“It was clearly presented in court and admitted by the prosecutor that there was zero impact at any level of whitebark pine that were cut,” said Markham, director of brand and communications at Lake Louise.
He said steps have been taken to ensure no other whitebark pines are cut down. They include better staff education and marking the 7,000 whitebark pines within the resort area.
Prosecutor Erin Eacott said the Crown had asked for the substantial $2.1 million fine to send a message.
“In a national park, it’s even more aggravating, so you need a significant deterrent to make sure that people who are working in parks and people who are visiting parks are protecting our species,” said Eacott.
The five-needle whitebark pine is considered crucial because it provides food and habitat for animals, as well as helps stabilize steep subalpine slopes.
The tree exists at high elevations in western North America at or close to the treeline. They have been growing on the continent for 100,000 years and can grow to be between 500 and 1,000 years old.
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I dislike sitting at my family seudas as my brothers, brother-in-law and their spouses talk more about wine and whiskey than the Shabbos or Yom Tov we are celebrating.
And the Oohs and Ahhs and comments as each one puts down a fancy bottle at the table.
Is there any hope to curb the new drinking generation?
Wine gladdens the heart of man.
What would you like for them to talk about instead, if they stop talking about alcohol?
Well what type of wines and whiskys are we talking about?
Wine yes whiskey is too much % it doesnt gladden it makes anormal person off balance if you drink a cup like you would wine.
Talking about it doesn’t increase its alcohol content.
I guess I’m not a man.
I do like a bit of wine now and then, but I certainly don’t talk about alcohol at meals. However, I have never been drunk in my life (yes, I know that I’m a rasha for not fulfilling the mitzvah of getting drunk on Purim) and I have no intention of ever doing so.
Alcohol is Hashem’s gift to man. Not only does moderate drinking make one happy, it is also a miracle drug, good for the brain, the heart, and everything else. But the cup is מלכות, which contains within it a negative side, אף וזעם, that comes out when one drinks without control. One must use the power of the intellect...
Yes, clearly this is accessible to all.
Any obsession is unhealthy, but being a fan of something is usually fine. Think of this like sports or foodies. Some healthy insight of conversation is fine.
Rather than just focussing on what you enjoy, consider asking them to explain what makes for a better wine. Try to learn a bit, to appreciate this from a torah perspective. Hashem gave us these gifts, let’s see if we can channel them. I have often found that showing that I am interested in what others are interested in...
If they only the discussion on Shabbos, that too is a mitsvah. They are saving their best and most expensive drinks to drink kle-kavod Shabbos.
If they drink during the week, as the goyim do, you have good reason to be annoyed.
People who have alcohol abuse problems don’t talk about alcohol, they just drink it. So there’s really no issue here.
It’s like war vs. diplomacy. The fighting starts when the talking stops.
People keep a conversation going by talking about things that aren’t very important. If they’re talking about alcohol at the table, alcohol is serving the purpose of being an appropriate form of small talk for the occasion. Men usually prefer talking about drinks over food because food is typically homemade, which mean...
Adam Harishon sinned by drinking wine, according to some view, so we say lechaim that it should bring us life for both worlds.
“Nonpolitical”, yes. It is accessible to all. What do you think is so difficult about directing the negative aspect of alcohol to negative things? That is what we have brains for.
calling it as i see it.
i encourage to talk about it at the table or with individuals during the week. just express in a nice way how you feel about it. one should be able to express his thoughts and feelings without fear. but it must be in a respectful way. not knocking them but rather just saying how you feel about it.
There is a great discussion in Parshas Shemini among the rishonim about the ills of drinking.
Wisconsin needed OT but escaped against Ohio State with a 73-67 victory while earning a No. 4 seed in the Big Ten tournament.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Wisconsin coach Greg Gard and his players will enter the Big Ten tournament seeded No. 4 and armed with a double-bye.
The path the Badgers used to get there Sunday was part stunning, part infuriating and part remarkable.
After shooting just 35.5 percent in the opening half, the Badgers hit 6 of their first 7 shots to open the second half, built a 23-point lead with 16 minutes 5 seconds left in regulation; saw the Buckeyes use a 27-5 run to forge a 63-63 tie on C.J. Jackson's shot with 36 seconds left; and then withstood a pair of three...
"From my view, it looked like it was getting ready to go in," UW senior Khalil Iverson said of Woods' shot. "But luckily it didn't."
Iverson then scored back-to-back baskets midway through the overtime period to give the Badgers a 67-64 lead, one they built on by hitting 6 of 11 free throws in the extra period.
"One thing we could control is that we’ve got five more minutes," sophomore guard Brad Davison said when asked about the vibe in the huddle before the start of overtime. "New life. New game. At that moment, those five minutes were the only thing that mattered.
"I think it would have been really easy for us to put our tails between our legs, put our heads down and get blown out in overtime."
With a double-bye, UW is set to open the Big Ten tournament at approximately 2 p.m. Friday in Chicago against either fifth-seeded Maryland or the winner of the first-round game between No. 12 Rutgers and No. 13 Nebraska.
UW (22-9, 14-6 Big Ten), which has finished in the top four of the league 17 times in the last 18 seasons, recorded its eighth road victory of the season.
The Badgers probably wouldn't have escaped with a victory if not for the magnificent play of Iverson.
He helped UW build a 26-16 halftime lead with 10 points, seven rebounds and one assist in 14 minutes. He finished with 22 points, on 10-for-14 shooting, 14 rebounds and one assist. Iverson, according to a UW official, had no double-doubles in his first 130 college games. He has two in his last two games.
"He was terrific today," Gard said. "He has been great the last month…I’ve watched his approach. I’ve watched the look on his face, the look in his eyes."
Senior Ethan Happ, who tweaked his right ankle in the opening minute of the game and was wearing an ice bag on it afterward, acknowledged he was gassed in the overtime. Yet he contributed 18 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists.
"It’s going to tough watching the film," Happ said. "But the take-home message is we got what we came here to do done.
"It is a little concerning that we gave up that huge lead and weren’t able to close but we finished fourth in the Big Ten and that’s what we came here to do."
Davison, 2 for 13 from three-point range and 4 for 22 overall in the previous three games, hit 3 of 6 three-pointers and 4 of 9 shots overall for 14 points. He hit two free throws to give UW a 71-67 lead with 25.9 seconds left in the game.
D'Mitrik Trice added eight points and Brevin Pritzl added six and four rebounds, though Trice hit just 2 of 8 three-pointers and 2 of 11 shots overall.
Jackson led Ohio State with 22 points. He banked in a three-pointer to spark the 27-5 to close regulation but the Buckeyes (18-13, 8-12) suffered their third consecutive loss, all without suspended center Kaleb Wesson (14.6 ppg, 6.7 rpg).
"I think in some cases, backs are to the wall," Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said of his team's late surge, "and in some ways, there is more of a freedom you play with."
UW held a 58-36 lead before Jackson's big three-pointer. In their final 13 possessions of regulation, the Badgers hit 1 of 8 shots, 3 of 4 free throws and suffered four turnovers.
"We made some mistakes defensively, got out of character offensively in terms of shot selection and pace of play and turnovers," Gard said. "We’ll learn a lot from the tape. But as I told the guys, we’ve got to be a lot better than that or we won’t dance long this month."
A mob of Israeli settlers assaulted an elderly Palestinian man from the Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem Saturday evening.
Ahmad Mahmoud al-Qaq said his father, 63, was in Harat al-Sharaf square in the Old City walking home, when four settlers obstructed his way and started to punch him in the face. He sustained bruises in his face.
The attackers stopped beating al-Qaq and fled the scene after they saw a group of Palestinians, the son added. He said his father was taken to a medical center in Silwan to treat bruises sustained on his face and possible eye injury.
Settlers routinely carry out acts of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, but are rarely held accountable. In 2014, there were at least 329 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN.
Over 200,000 settlers live in predominantly Palestinian East Jerusalem.
Settlers in that neighborhood often receive the protection of private security guards contracted by the state.
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When 200 decommissioned Javelin Destroyers went up for sale for $2,500 each, they sold out in less than a minute. For interstellar mercenaries in the United Empire of Earth Navy—or for the avid users roleplaying as them in Star Citizen, the space sim video game created by Chris Roberts—that deal was hard to resist.
But given that the Star Citizen may not be released for years, buyers of the Destroyers—and all those other fans who have collectively donated $100 million on the game’s crowdfunding page—are just supporting a dream. Each donation, whether $96 (the average amount) or $22,500 from superfans like Wulf Knight, allows for ...
So, is Roberts, who pioneered the space sim genre with Wing Commander in 1990, a snake-oil salesman or the savior of real PC gaming? Is the crowdfunding strategy a viable alternative to the restrictions of big studio productions, or a long con? WIRED’s Chris Baker investigates.
In “The Pleasure of Reading,” Antonia Fraser has brought together essays by “43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them.” Each mini-memoir is further supplemented by an annotated list of that author’s 10 favorite books. Do I need to say that the resulting anthology, now expanded from the or...
Beyond its obvious delightfulness, there’s one further reason to buy a copy of “The Pleasure of Reading”: Its sales assist the British “Give a Book” charity — www.giveabook.org.uk — which promotes reading among disadvantaged children, prisoners and other groups.
Barry opens with a brief portrait of the near-legendary Martin Stone, now living in Paris and said to be the greatest book scout of our time. Stone eschews the Internet and claims to have bought almost nothing from eBay. Mostly, he visits flea markets, estate sales, neighborhood bookstores, junk shops — any place there...
Barry includes tales of one astonishing find after another — a 500-year-old “Nuremberg Chronicle” that surfaced in Utah, a Jack Kerouac bibliography annotated by Kerouac himself, a copy of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” inscribed to Lord Byron and even, so its owners argue, Shakespeare’s own 16th-century dictionary. Dav...
Barry keeps her tales lively, yet they are, perhaps unavoidably, somewhat similar: An unlikely book turns up in an unlikely place, or an unfamiliar item, picked up on a whim, is found to be a pearl beyond price. These days, though, it seems that many of the people she interviewed now poke around online more often that ...
Roberto Calasso, the learned author of “The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony” and “Ka,” is also the publisher of Italy’s distinguished Adelphi Editions. In “The Art of the Publisher,” he reflects on what the book business means to him.
“Along with roulette and cocottes, founding a publishing house has always been one of the most effective ways for a young man of noble birth to fritter away a fortune,” he begins. In fact, Adelphi has been successful in large part because of the overriding vision of its founders. From the start, Roberto Bazlen, Luciano...
Calasso repeatedly emphasizes the importance of what he calls “form,” something close to the notion of “brand”: Each Adelphi title not only represents “knowledge without which our lives would simply be poorer,” it also functions as a chapter in the single composite work made up of all the firm’s books. To achieve such ...
Fraser, Barry and Calasso’s miscellanies all belong to that sometimes cutesy, but usually captivating genre, “books about books.” In this case, any of the three would make a welcome gift for a passionate reader or collector.
RUSTON – Louisiana Tech defensive coordinator Blake Baker gathered all of his defenders around shortly after the team’s second scrimmage ended Saturday and had them do pushups inside hot, steamy Joe Aillet Stadium.
As a whole, it performed solidly for much of the afternoon, but the defense didn’t live up to its standards, allowing five total touchdowns and a few more big plays to the offense, while not generating enough turnovers or swing plays during the roughly 100 plays where the first the first-team offense faced the twos on ...
While the Bulldogs defense may not have checked off all the boxes on its checklist, Ferguson and company made its mark throughout the scrimmage. They unleashed a disruptive attack that added up to two takeaways, a forced fumble by redshirt junior defensive end Charles Adeola that was recovered by redshirt junior tackle...
Six different defenders recorded a sack, led by Ferguson who amassed three as he continues to look like the 2016 version of himself where he collected a school record 14.5 sacks, taking full advantage of the second-string offensive line.
With starters Michael Rodriguez and Drew Kirkpatrick out due to a mild concussion and knee injury, respectively, on the offensive line, Louisiana Tech head coach Skip Holtz showed him the group was not game ready.
“It’s more knowledge of assignments and what to do,” Holtz said. “Some of the young guys it’s technique. It was sloppy, the penalties. We had a tackle not line up on the line of scrimmage, had a big play and that brought it back. Foolish penalties are what we got to eliminate.
With the line dealing with a couple of injuries and redshirt junior Jaqwis Dancy out with a chest injury, Holtz and offensive coordinator Todd Fitch wanted to see how the running backs would step up. Redshirt sophomore Israel Tucker and JUCO transfer Justin Henderson rotated snaps with the ones and both impressed. Hend...
“Justin Henderson gets better every day. He’s a big, physical back and it was nice to see him run the ball, break tackles and hold on to the ball. He’s only going to get better,” Holtz said. “I’ve seen huge improvements from him each week.
Ball security was one of Holtz’s main talking points coming out of the first scrimmage and his quarterbacks managed that aspect better. Starting junior quarterback J’Mar Smith went 9-for-13 for 94 yards, but is still looking for his first scrimmage touchdown of the fall.
The News-Star asked about Wren leaving the team and Holtz confirmed the wide receiver had been granted his release.
The Bulldogs return to practice Monday morning.
When Hal Hartley’s feature debut The Unbelievable Truth was released in 1990, it proved a minor revelation. For a generation of college-aged young people raised on John Hughes movies—Generation X, basically—Hartley immediately became the new arbiter of cool, with Adrienne Shelly as his alternate-universe Molly Ringwald...
Nevertheless, The Unbelievable Truth was the beginning of something more lasting, both in terms of Hartley’s career as a doggedly independent filmmaker, and in a quirky sensibility that others would co-opt, badly. Though it was a rough draft for many strong films Hartley would produce in the early-to-mid ’90s—Trust, Si...
A Hartley discovery—and muse, for a while—Shelly stars as a rebellious high-school student whose preoccupation with nuclear holocaust seems at times sincere, and at others, an excuse for not moving forward with her life. She unceremoniously dumps her longtime boyfriend, a preppie/jock type who dresses for success, and ...
The Unbelievable Truth deconstructs a classic story of teenage rebellion, with Burke cast as the dangerous James Dean type, and Shelly as the girl whose attraction to him arises from a general impulse to defy what’s expected of her. For his part, Burke is amusingly honest about his crimes—he admits to killing a man aft...
Key features: Typical of Hartley, the 17-minute piece “Years Later: The Unbelievable Truth And Its Consequences” is like a meta-featurette, built around interviews with Hartley, the late Shelly, Burke, and future favorites Martin Donovan and Thomas Jay Ryan.
The Parramatta Eels have stood down forward Peni Terepo on the eve of the season over an alleged drunken incident on a flight from Tonga to Auckland en route back to Sydney.
Parramatta forward Peni Terepo has been stood down over allegations of being drunk and abusive on a flight from Tonga to Auckland.
Terepo has become the latest NRL player to give the game a black eye during an off-season which has been disastrous for the game’s image.
It’s believed Terepo on Saturday was on a flight from Tonga, where he had been visiting family over the weekend, en route back to Sydney.

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