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This is the fourth story in a five-part series on the issues surrounding Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, investigating the history, science, Indigenous reaction, politics and economics of the controversial project. Read part one, part two, part three and part four.
There’s a lot riding on the federal government’s decision to take over the Trans Mountain pipeline twinning project from Edmonton to its terminal in Burnaby.
Kinder Morgan agreed to carry on with its construction plan as part of Ottawa’s offer to buy its Canadian assets, primarily the pipeline and its terminal, for $4.5 billion.
The federal purchase does not include the $7.4 billion construction budget, which is to be financed by Ottawa and Alberta. Kinder Morgan estimates that the first 20 years of construction and operation would generate $46.7 billion, including federal and provincial taxes paid. Over the same period, the company calculates that municipal tax payments over 20 years would total $922 million in B.C. and another $124 million in Alberta.
The Conference Board of Canada estimates the project would create the equivalent of 15,000 person-years of employment in construction and 37,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs each year it operates.
Benefits agreements have been signed with 19 communities, representing $8.6 million in infrastructure, education and training projects. Examples include $500,000 for improvements to Hope Community Park, $290,000 for trails and trades training in Barriere, $845,000 for community infrastructure and training in the Thompson Nicola Regional District, $390,000 for projects and training in Clearwater, $1.3 million to revitalize an Abbotsford golf course and $1.2 million for a new Vedder Greenway trail pedestrian bridge in Chilliwack.
There are another 43 “mutual benefit agreements” with Indigenous communities, 33 in B.C. and the rest in Alberta. Kinder Morgan says those agreements will see $400 million go to the communities, and agreements may be extended as the project proceeds.
Trans Mountain requires its contractors to have Indigenous monitors on its environmental inspection teams at all construction areas, advising on traditional land use and cultural values.
Beyond the direct jobs and community benefits agreements along the route, the project is a key step toward increased spill response capability on the B.C. coast. It also affects the supply of crude oil to southern B.C.’s last oil refinery and bigger refineries in Washington.
And then there are pending oil pipelines to the U.S., and another proposal to build a pipeline similar to the cancelled Northern Gateway pipeline across northern B.C.
Here’s a closer look at the implications.
What happens if there’s a spill
Spill response on the B.C. coast is the responsibility of Western Canada Marine Response Corp. (WCMRC), an industry-funded network of facilities and vessels that works with the Coast Guard to respond contain and clean up incidents.
As part of its Trans Mountain expansion, Kinder Morgan Canada committed $150 million to increased response equipment and bases, conditional on completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline twinning project.
That funding was suspended in April, along with all non-essential spending on the pipeline, with Kinder Morgan seeking assurances by the end of May that further delays and demands won’t be imposed on a project that has already received federal and provincial approval.
WCMRC plans include response bases at Burrard Inlet, on the Lower Fraser River, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Sidney, Beecher Bay in the Juan de Fuca Strait, as well as an offshore supply vessel to be based at Ogden Point in Victoria. Kinder Morgan’s conditions laid down by the National Energy Board require that those facilities be up and running nine months before the Trans Mountain expansion begins operation.
Ogden Point is Victoria’s cruise ship terminal, and may also be the location of a new spill response vessel financed by Kinder Morgan Canada if the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proceeds. (Western Canada Marine Response Corp.)
The project suspension puts all that work on hold, said Michael Lowry, communications manager for WCMRC.
“We were close to signing leases in a lot of these spots,” Lowry said.
“We had construction vendors all lined up, tender packages ready to go to start construction this summer.”
The goal of the response bases is to reduce the maximum response time for Vancouver Harbour from six hours to two. The six-hour maximum would then be applied to the entire southern B.C. shipping lane, where in remote places the response time can be up to 72 hours.
In November 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced an upgrade to marine spill response for the West Coast. It included two new large vessels capable of towing large freighters or other ships in distress, such as the U.S. tugboat and fuel barge that had run aground near Bella Bella on the remote B.C. coast.
“Canada has the longest coastline in the world, and it’s a poorly kept secret that we haven’t done enough to protect it,” Trudeau said after touring Vancouver harbour aboard a Coast Guard vessel.
Cleanup crew works on Burrard Inlet shoreline after a backhoe ruptured the Trans Mountain pipeline in July 2007. About 224 cubic metres of heavy synthetic crude was spilled, affecting a residential area, a creek and the inlet shore after some of the oil ran down a storm drain outfall. Approximately 95 per cent of the released oil was recovered. (Western Canada Marine Response Corp.)(Western Canada Marine Response Corp.)
That national project was not a direct response to the potential for increased tanker traffic. The B.C. government calculates that while all eyes are on the potential seven-fold increase in oil tankers, the Trans Mountain expansion represents only a six per cent increase in total shipping.
There has never been a spill of crude oil tanker cargo in B.C., after 64 years of Trans Mountain delivering crude to the Westridge tanker terminal at Burnaby, and daily Alaska tanker traffic past B.C. for nearly 50 years. Recent spills included a fuel system rupture of the freighter MV Marathassa in Vancouver harbour in 2015, spilling bunker fuel, a semi-refined product carried in large quantities by many ocean-going vessels.
Oil price and investment
Alberta oil is “landlocked,” as a U.S. protest network’s strategy first described it in 2008. Pipeline backers point to the discount on Western Canada Select, as Alberta heavy oil is called by traders, and West Texas Intermediate, the similar grade of U.S. crude.
Between 2012 and 2017, the price difference averaged $16.54 a barrel. As the Fraser Institute pointed out in a May report, The Cost of Pipeline Constraints in Canada, the 2018 price spread is $26.30 a barrel, which works out to an annual loss of $15.8 billion on Canadian oil.
Calculating the investment impact of cancelling third major pipeline project is less certain. The Justin Trudeau government effectively killed the Northern Gateway pipeline by banning crude tankers docking on B.C.’s North Coast, then added downstream greenhouse gas requirements to the Energy East pipeline from Alberta to the Atlantic coast that caused Trans Canada Corp. to abandon the project.
Energy East would have converted existing gas pipelines, moving Alberta oil to refineries that currently depend on imported oil from Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and other sources.
Oil refineries
With Imperial Oil’s refinery at Port Moody long dismantled, the last remaining source of refined fuels in southern B.C. is near the Trans Mountain Burnaby terminal. The Burnaby refinery was acquired from Chevron in April 2017 by Parkland Fuel Corp,, a Red Deer-based company that also owns Columbia Fuels on Vancouver Island.
The $1.5 billion purchase includes more than 100 Chevron-branded filling stations in B.C., marine fuelling stations and an aviation fuels business supplying Vancouver International Airport.
Trans Mountain, one of few pipelines in North America used for shipping refined fuels and crude oil in batches, also supplies the Parkland refinery. News of the Trans Mountain expansion prompted Parkland CEO Bob Espey to express his concerns to the B.C. and Alberta governments.
“Our company’s view is that any measure that restricts the supply of oil to British Columbia would be negative for both the economies and B.C. and Alberta,” Espey said in a statement. “We are committed to doing what we can to serve our customers and will continue to monitor the issue closely.”
The Cherry Point refinery in Washington State(BP)
Washington state’s five refineries, at Cherry Point, Anacortes and Ferndale, receive crude from the Trans Mountain pipeline as well as by tankers from Alaska. With Trans Mountain now over-subscribed, Alberta oil is moving by rail in greater volumes, winding down the Fraser Canyon to enter the U.S. at Bellingham.
A 2017 Washington state ecology department report says the volume of Alberta oil shipped by train to the state has more than doubled, from 7,000 barrels a day in 2012 to 15,000. That translates to 80 to 90 rail cars per week carrying Alberta heavy crude through B.C.
Other pipelines
Alberta’s oilsands crude is in demand in California and the U.S. Gulf Coast, where refineries are built to handle heavy oil such as Venezuela’s oilsands product. Some critics say much of Trans Mountain’s additional capacity would go south, rather than by Aframax-sized tankers across the Pacific to Asia.
Enbridge is working on its Line 3 replacement, from Hardisty, Alberta across Saskatchewan and into the U.S. Construction of the Saskatchewan and Manitoba sections is scheduled to start in the fall of 2018.
U.S. President Donald Trump carried out his campaign promise to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which faced similar international opposition as Trans Mountain does today. Keystone would run from Hardisty to Nebraska, strengthening Alberta’s historic ties to the U.S. petroleum industry.
Another project that could benefit from Trans Mountain’s expansion being cancelled is Eagle Spirit Energy, an Indigenous-led effort to build a pipeline across northern B.C. similar to Northern Gateway.
Eagle Spirit founder Calvin Helin has backing from the Aquilini Group, real estate developers and owners of the Vancouver Canucks. A lawyer from Lax Kw’alaams on the northwest coast, Helin has worked to secure Indigenous consent for a pipeline route that terminates at Grassy Point, in Lax Kw’alaams territory.
Where the Trans Mountain expansion is opposed by the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, Eagle Spirit may have consent for the Grassy Point terminal, which could accommodate larger crude carriers for Asian ports.
Another coastal option is a refinery proposal backed by Black Press chairman David Black, that was originally to be supplied by the Northern Gateway pipeline to a site near Kitimat.
The Trudeau government’s decision to ban crude oil tankers from the North Coast is being challenged in court by Eagle Spirit, but Black has since focused on an innovation that would see Alberta bitumen dried to a solid and shipped by rail hopper cars for processing.
In the event of a land spill, the product could be picked up without significant impact, Black said.
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The twists and turns in the saga of the Kinder Morgan pipeline just took a turn for the seriously weird today, but the path has never been clear.
The Alberta oil sands lie under thousands of square kilometers of boreal forest, wetland and muskeg. Bitumen is a viscous substance found in small concentrations amid the rock and soil. It is either mined out from huge open pits, or pumped out through in situ production, injecting hot water deep into the ground to loosen it. Either way, the resulting product highly polluting, very expensive to produce and of low value. Bitumen is a solid. To be refined, bitumen must undergo costly upgrading. Bitumen, being both low value and expensive to produce, would never have been developed without government subsidies, with the lowest royalty rates in the world at 1% and massive federal subsidies of several billion/year.
Before the 2008 global financial crisis, there were upgraders and refineries being planned. But when the recession hit, those investments, along with any new oil sands mines, retreated. When the economy recovered, oil sands expansion came back. But not the upgraders and refineries. Instead, for the first time, industry began to promote pipelines. Keystone was the first pipeline proposed to run north-south to take Canadian bitumen to other countries for processing.
Since bitumen is a solid, there is nothing logical about proposing to move it through a pipeline. Stirring in fossil fuel condensate (essentially naptha) creates a mixture sufficiently liquid to flow through a pipeline, without the expense of upgrading it to synthetic crude. The resulting mix of condensate (called diluent) and bitumen is called dilbit. And it is very challenging to clean up. The 2010 dilbit spill in Kalamazoo, Michigan was the first time regulators realized dilbit behaved very differently than conventional crude. The diluent is highly toxic and volatile. Diluent separated from bitumen and bitumen sank to the river bottom.
By the 2011 election, pipelines had become a political issue. Former prime minister, Conservative Stephen Harper, an Albertan who stood four-square for fossil fuel development, opposed any pipelines heading to the British Columbia coastline. Harper’s position was that Canada should not export bitumen to countries with lower environmental standards for refineries than Canada.
Justin Trudeau announced support for the Kinder Morgan pipeline. In doing so, he violated election promises to respect indigenous rights
Within months of that election, difficulties in gaining US permits for Keystone led to an entirely new position. With Harper’s support, Enbridge proposed a pipeline to Kitimat on the BC coast. In 2013, Texas-based Kinder Morgan asked to build a second pipeline more or less along the lines of the Transmountain pipeline purchased from a Canadian company from Alberta to Burnaby, not far from Vancouver BC. Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion would be 100% dilbit for export. It would increase tanker traffic, loaded with dilbit, seven-fold.
To grease the gears for pipeline approval, Harper gutted environmental laws. The resulting environmental review of the Kinder Morgan expansion was the worst in Canadian history. No longer reviewed by our environmental assessment agency, the pipeline was before the National Energy Board. Intervenor rights, such as cross examination of industry witnesses, were eliminated. Many intervenors withdrew alleging the process was “rigged.”
In the 2015 election campaign, Justin Trudeau pledged that no project could be approved based on such an inadequate process. Trudeau promised evidence-based decisions, respect for indigenous rights, the end to fossil fuel subsidies and an aggressive climate plan.
In 2016, the Liberals turned down the Enbridge pipeline due to the court ruling the previous government violated indigenous rights. Simultaneously, Trudeau announced support for the Kinder Morgan pipeline. In doing so, he violated election promises to respect indigenous rights, to base decisions on evidence, and to pursue real climate action. Having approved Kinder Morgan, he and his ministers became increasingly pro-pipeline.
Meanwhile fifteen different court cases were working through the Federal Court of Appeal. The new BC government raised its concerns about the threat of a dilbit spill and to survival of the endangered southern Resident Killer Whales. In March, I was one of the several hundred people arrested protesting the Kinder Morgan pipeline. As opposition built in British Columbia, Trudeau insisted the pipeline was in the national interest and must be built. On April 8th, Kinder Morgan upped the ante and demanded the federal government remove the uncertainty created by all the court challenges to the project by May 31st.
Astonishingly, the government announced on May 29th that the government of Canada will buy the existing Transmountain pipeline. Canada will pay $4.5bn for those existing assets, valued by Kinder Morgan in 2007 at $550m . As well, the Trudeau administration says it will get the controversial expansion pipeline built. Kinder Morgan had pegged those costs at $7.4bn, and that is just the beginning of federal liabilities. With this, Trudeau’s election promise to end fossil fuel subsidies is violated in spectacular fashion.
We await the court decisions. This battle is a long way from over.


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Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham chastised corporate advertisers who left her program over a tweet she made about Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg in March, charging they “gave in to the mob.”
Meanwhile on her nationally syndicated radio program on Monday, Ingraham praised the companies that stuck with her show, noting ratings for “The Ingraham Angle” are up significantly following the controversy.
In the March 28 tweet in question, Ingraham dinged the 17-year-old for “whining” about not being accepted to some California universities, including UCLA.
Hogg reacted to Ingraham’s tweet by calling on his over 700,000 followers on Twitter to pick one of her top advertisers and contact them.
CNN Money reported that the liberal group Media Matters gave Hogg the advertisers information.
According to The Wrap, many of the companies the high school student listed (and more) announced they were pulling their ads from Ingraham’s program, including Allstate, TripAdvisor, Bayer, Hulu, Liberty Mutual, Office Depot, Johnson & Johnson and Sleep Number.
One prominent advertiser that did not join the boycott was MyPillow. Further, Ace Hardware reversed its decision to stop advertising on “The Ingraham Angle” after only a week.
On her Monday radio program, Ingraham encouraged her listeners to support Ace Hardware, and pointed out, “Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, he’s selling so many pillows.”
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“They said no to the mob,” the FNC personality proclaimed.
She observed of her liberal opponents, who tried to chase her from the air: “They can’t argue with you so they demonize you.”
“OK, well, keep demonizing me,” she continued. “Go. Bring it on. Meanwhile, our ratings are sky high on Fox, by the way. And that’s my team, we have a great team, great television team, and we try to put on a good show every night. And a show that makes you think.”
Ingraham stated her show’s ratings are “up, up, up…,” including among the younger 18-34 demographic, which she said is up 47 percent since the boycott.
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The rankings for Monday’s night’s program had “The Ingraham Angle” in third place among all cable news programs, with over 2.7 million viewers. The show regularly wins its 10 p.m. Eastern time slot.
Fox News overall filled 7 of the top 10 slots, with MSNBC taking the other three.
According to Nielsen Media Research, “The Ingraham Angle’s” viewership is up nine percent from the program’s first quarter average, since the host’s return to the air earlier this month from a week long vacation following the Hogg controversy.
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Madison, WI – Transportation compliance service and technology solutions provider – Fleetworthy Solutions – today announces the release of its next compliance technology offering. Called ‘eFleet Hub’, the new product aims to help carrier fleets streamline and manage their data – data which typically comes from many sources – and rationalizes those streams of data in one space. Thanks to an intensive and thorough research and product development process, ‘eFleet Hub’ moves private and for-hire fleets to a Single Version of the Truth solution, offering a clear view of their compliance health status in a single, online dashboard.
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and that led to development of ‘eFleet Hub’. With so many providers of telematics, so many sources of fleet data to manage, and so many places to lose track of it all, we developed this new product to ease that pain. It is a piece of technology focused on simplifying a once tedious and time-consuming task for our customers.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Frank Broyles, who guided the University of Arkansas to its lone national football championship and later molded the overall program as its athletic director, has died at the age of 92.
Broyles died Tuesday from complications of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a statement from his family.
Broyles won almost 71 percent of his games as head football coach with the Razorbacks for 19 years.
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NEW YORK — A woman's son allegedly choked his mother's ex-boyfriend to death Monday after spotting the man beating her inside their New York City apartment, police said.
The 43-year-old ex-boyfriend showed up at the University Avenue unit in the Bronx around 4:30 a.m. to talk to the mother, police told WPIX. The two argued in the hallway, then he followed her into the apartment.
The man, who police didn't immediately identify Monday, then began beating the 37-year-old woman, officers said. Her 18-year-old son heard what was happening and rushed out of his bedroom.
The teen allegedly fought with his mom's ex-boyfriend, pulling him off of his mother before choking the man to death, police said.
Police sources said the mother, who had briefly passed out, woke up to the sight of her son standing over her ex-boyfriend.
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THERE'LL be no concessions made to Rockhampton's coastal neighbours when it comes to jobs at Adani: you're either in or you're out.
At least a third of people looking to get one of the 3300 construction jobs on offer at Adani's Carmichael coal mine will have to live within the council's boundaries.
Adani map. Rockhampton Regional Council
It's a move which Livingstone Shire mayor Bill Ludwig has condemned as "un-Australian" as he called on the government to step in and prevent the decision he described as discriminatory.
The strict boundaries have angered neighbouring councils, with Gladstone's acting mayor Chris Trevor saying the "postcode discrimination" left the region "filthy and dirty".
That council was one which provided letters of support in the initial stages of the bid, with support conditional on Gladstone workers being included.
However, Rockhampton Region mayor Margaret Strelow made it clear the bidding process quickly evolved into a shrewd commercial negotiation.
Cr Ludwig has fired back, saying it was a "sad day for political integrity and Central Queensland".
Livingstone Shire mayor Bill Ludwig. Amber Hooker
He said Cr Strelow had plotted with Adani to exclude Livingstone and Gladstone from the deal which secured 1700 jobs for Rockhampton.
Livingstone also provided a letter of support in March.
"It is unconscionable and un-Australian for Mayor Strelow to have knowingly deceived our communities by seeking our support without telling us, and now boasting, that at the same time she was secretly negotiating with Adani to exclude our communities being able to apply for jobs," Cr Ludwig said.
"We believe the Rockhampton Mayor has breached not only our communities trust and her code of conduct duty to act honestly and with integrity, but will also be in breach of 'post code' discrimination legislation.
"We can only hope that both the State and Federal Governments step in and say this type of discriminatory and divisive behaviour is totally unacceptable."
However, Cr Strelow said Livingstone had refused multiple requests to give financial backing to the bid.
Rockhampton and Townsville will be FIFO hubs for Adani's Carmichael Coal Mine. Rockhampton Regional Council
"We, on several occasions, offered Livingstone the chance to be a financial partner in the bid and that was declined and then it just became a pragmatic reality that with the sort of money we were putting on the table, we had to reinforce the permanent jobs, which we have done," Cr Strelow said.
"Mayor Ludwig's disingenuous comments don't pass the pub test.
"There were repeated approaches to Livingstone Shire Council to become a financial partner and they declined. Their letter of "support" actually supported Rockhampton providing the financial incentives for the airport but encouraged the FIFO workers to live in Livingstone.
DONE DEAL: Rockhampton Mayor Margaret Stelow with Adani Australia CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj sign the MOU regarding the Charmichael Mine FIFO hub at Rockhampton Airport on Thursday. Chris Ison ROK051017cadani3
"We didn't use it. My job is to look after the interests of Rockhampton Region Local Government area and we have paid $15.5 million to secure these 1,700 jobs.
"Our current ratepayers will get a return on this investment through jobs and Council's Budget benefits through new ratepayers.
"Gladstone asked for construction and engineering jobs and there are construction jobs available outside this deal.
"It was something I insisted on. Gladstone residents are eligible and in fact would be in the box seat.
"The residents of both Livingstone and Gladstone will see benefits from the opportunity our investment has provided on a wider scale and we certainly wish them well."

THE federal ALP is railing against taxpayer money being used to help Aurizon develop crucial infrastructure in Central Queensland to support the coal industry.
The office of Labor's spokesman for Northern Australia Jason Clare yesterday confirmed he stood strongly against taxpayers' money being used to help Aurizon's proposal to build a rail line linking proposed Galilee Basin coal mines to the Abbot Point port.
The Australian reports anti-coal activists say the Aurizon project would help Adani's controversial Carmichael Mine.
"The project should stand on its own without being propped up by taxpayers' money," Mr Clare said.
The move coincides with ALP federal leader Bill Shorten yesterday hardening his stance on the proposed Adani project in light of a Guardian Australia report that the mining giant submitted a falsified report about contamination of sensitive wetlands.
Adani has categorically refuted these claims.
Neither Adani nor the Queensland Government would comment further on the allegations with the matter now before the courts.
Federal Labor's anti-mining/Adani rhetoric comes as it faces a tough battle against the Greens in a crucial by-election in the inner-city Melbourne seat of Batman, where Adani is set to be a key issue.
The federal ALP's position has been seized upon by the Greens in Queensland who are ramping up the pressure on the Palaszczuk Government to follow the lead of their national colleagues.
During last year's Queensland election campaign, the Palaszczuk Government reversed its support for a proposed $1b loan from the federal Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.
However, the government hasn't said if it would back or veto a NAIF loan to Aurizon.
"All Queensland Labor have to do now is follow their colleagues' lead and rule out taxpayer funding for any new coal developments in the Galilee Basin," said Queensland Senator Andrew Bartlett, who recently visited Rockhampton.
The Greens have been joined by Rockhampton-based Minister for Northern Australia Matt Canavan in calling on the Queensland Government to provide clarity on its position on the proposed Aurizon project.
However, unlike the Greens, he's fully supporting future mining industry growth.
Senator Canavan said "thousands of jobs are on the line" as he called for the government to "come clean as soon as possible about what it intends to do about other possible investments in the Galilee Basin".
"Once again Labor sells out mining jobs for green votes," Sen Canavan said.
"Is it just a coincidence that Bill Shorten is pulling support for a Queensland mining project because he now faces a by-election against the Greens in Melbourne?"
Asked by The Morning Bulletin for its position on Aurizon's proposed rail project, a Queensland Government spokesman said:
"...there is no active application for a loan to Aurizon.
"Any further application that comes before Government will be assessed on its merits."
Meanwhile, Mr Shorten said if the claims against Adani falsifying information were true the future of the project was in doubt.
"The world coal market doesn't appear to be great economics for opening up the newest, biggest mine in the southern hemisphere," Mr Shorten reportedly said.


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Question: Finance Minister Bill Morneau talks pot bucks with provincial counterparts

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau can expect a lot of provincial hands reaching for the federal purse strings when he sits down with his counterparts in Ottawa today.
The issue of who should get the lion’s share of revenue from legalized cannabis is expected to be a major bone of contention.
The provinces and territories say they’ll have to bear the lion’s share of the costs associated with legalization, and therefore should get most of the revenue.
Among the expenses the provinces are likely to face are beefed up policing, increased road safety efforts, busier court systems and public awareness campaigns.
Morneau has said the federal government should get as much as half the tax revenue. Federal officials say Morneau’s argument will be that Ottawa has put aside more than $1 billion over five years toward the costs involved with legalization.
But provincial finance ministers like Ontario’s Charles Sousa are skeptical, and want the federal government to explain exactly what it’s paying for.

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Recently we tried to assess the health of the press galleries in Canada's provincial legislatures. As promised, here's more in that series.
First, the territories. We spoke to journalists and communications staff at the legislatures in Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut and we were told there are usually four legislative reporters in each place. That's on par with many provinces.
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Now on to coverage of municipalities – with some caveats. Unlike legislatures, most of Canada's city halls do not have formal press galleries. There is no list of people who have accreditation. For most cities, the only way to know is by keeping an eye on how many reporters show up to council meetings on a regular basis. So there is some guesswork involved. For that reason, we're not going to publish exact numbers of reporters who cover each city hall full-time, but we're going to show ranges. (With one exception.) Population numbers are sourced from Statistics Canada based on census areas, which don't always map exactly to a city's boundaries. And this is just a sampling of municipalities across the country – we did not count every single one.
And now on to the data...
Twenty-two reporters
Toronto, Ont. (population: 2.7 million). Note: Toronto is the only city we found with a formal press gallery.
About a dozen reporters
Hamilton, Ont. (population: 537,000).
Ottawa (population: 934,000).
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Six to eight reporters
Edmonton (population: 932,000).
Halifax (population: 403,000).
Quebec City (population: 807,000).
Victoria (population: 371,000).
Four or five reporters
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Calgary (population: 1.2 million).
Kelowna, B.C. (population: 152,000).
London, Ont. (population: 384,000).
Moncton (population: 109,000).
Vancouver (population: 631,000).
Winnipeg (population: 705,000).
Two, one or no reporters
Brampton, Ont. (population: 594,000).
Mississauga, Ont. (population: 721,000).
Moose Jaw, Sask. (population: 32,000).
Nanaimo, B.C. (population: 92,000).
Saskatoon (population: 315,000).
Surrey, B.C. (population: 518,000).
And for more on what happens when a community loses its newspaper, check out Marcus Gee's profile of Orillia, Ont., from the weekend.
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CANADIAN HEADLINES
Finance Minister Bill Morneau's council of outside economic advisers says the government should spend $15-billion retraining workers as part of adapting to technological disruption of the economy. "Canada must be prepared to navigate this change and volatility. It can no longer rely on the old formula for economic growth, which emphasized investments in machinery and equipment, and population growth," the report says.
Mr. Morneau insists that the Liberals have no plans for a Netflix tax as part of their cultural policy moving forward. Quebec has said that it will enact a levy on foreign online businesses if the federal government won't.
Provincial finance ministers, who are in Ottawa to meet with Mr. Morneau, say they want a higher share of the revenue that will come from legalizing marijuana.
Pierre Legault, a veteran government lawyer, has been nominated by the Prime Minister to be the watchdog for the Senate.
The House of Commons is working to get more simultaneous translation for Indigenous languages.
Voters in four provinces are casting ballots today in federal by-elections. The by-elections are in B.C.'s South Surrey-White Rock, the Newfoundland riding of Bonavista-Burin Trinity, Saskatchewan's Battlefords-Lloydminster, and east Toronto's Scarborough-Agincourt. The Surrey race has stood out as particularly competitive, with the Liberal and Conservative leaders both stopping by to campaign.
Alberta United Conservative Party Leader and former federal cabinet minister Jason Kenney is "cautiously optimistic" that he will win his provincial by-election on Thursday this week. He's not the only party leader running for the open seat in Calgary-Lougheed. Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan and Green Leader Romy Tittel are also vying to be the MLA for the riding.
B.C. Premier John Horgan will announce today whether his government will kill the Site C dam. The New Democrats came to power earlier this year on a promise to review the $8.8-billion project, and their power-sharing partners in the Green Party want the dam scrapped. But the government has been facing pressure to keep the massive construction project – and the associated jobs – while also worrying about the financial impact of killing the dam, which would mean writing off $4-billion that's already been spent.
The Site C dam's future could hinge in part on the positions of nearby First Nations; two oppose the project, while others have signed benefits agreement. The role those communities have in the government's decision has been shaped by a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling issued 20 years ago today. The Delgamuukw case confirmed Indigenous peoples have valid claims to ancestral lands and introduced the requirement for consent to resource development.
And Canadian energy firms are taking issue with the White House's decision to push coal energy and nuclear power.
Campbell Clark (The Globe and Mail) on the Liberal cabinet: "There are now a lot of scuff marks. Mr. Sajjan isn't hobbled running defence, but he's less valuable in selling the not-quite-as-advertized Liberal defence policy. Ms. Joly is no longer a glamorous representative in Quebec. Mr. Morneau will not be effective setting finance policy if his own Liberals doubt he can do the politics. And Mr. Trudeau is going to have to recruit again in 2018."
Heather Mallick (Toronto Star) on Kent Hehr, Minister for People with Disabilities: "The reasoning behind his appointment came from identity politics, which is fine so far as it goes. But it contains a flaw. The assumption that a disabled minister would understand all kind of disability is not true, just as women are not automatic sustainers of other women."
John Ibbitson (The Globe and Mail) on whether senators will hold up the marijuana legalization bill: "The costs of missing that deadline would be severe. Provincial governments are negotiating contracts with suppliers, who are ramping up production. Governments and private companies are signing leases for storefronts. Police forces are acquiring new equipment, and training officers to identify pot-impaired drivers."
Globe and Mail Editorial Board on Trudeau and China: "Canada has never had to deal with a problem quite like China. Managing its rise, and our relationship with this superpower that is both aggressively capitalistic and unapologetically anti-democratic, will be one of Canada's biggest challenges in the years to come. Does Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government understand this? Does it get that China is not just an economic opportunity, but also a threat to the world order this country helped build, and under which we have long prospered."
Barrie McKenna (The Globe and Mail) on protectionism (inside Canada): "The Comeau case offers a rare opportunity to force Ottawa and the provinces to do what they have repeatedly failed to do on their own – even as Canada decries rising protectionism in the United States and elsewhere. Canada faces enormous trade challenges in the world. But too often, we can't get beyond petty fights on the home front." (for subscribers)
Steve Ambler and Jeremy Kronick (The Globe and Mail) on the Bank of Canada: "As was widely expected, the Bank of Canada announced on Wednesday that it was not changing its target overnight rate. Despite the announcement reinforcing expectations, the emphasis on caution was enough to knock more than a half a cent off the value of the Canadian dollar before the end of Wednesday morning. With uncertainty on the horizon for 2018, the year promises to be a challenging one for our central bankers – one that will require market guidance."
Andrew Coyne (National Post) on CBC's funding model: "Though proposed as an antidote to advertising, public funding suffers from much the same basic problem: in either case, the broadcaster is accountable not to its viewers, but to someone else — advertisers or the government, whoever is paying the bills. The larger goal, then, should be for subscription fees to replace, not just advertising, but also the CBC's public subsidy. The beneficiaries from this would not only be taxpayers, but CBC viewers: subsidy is not only no longer necessary, but an impediment to quality — the kind that, we can now see, comes from a direct relationship with a passionate, paying audience."
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES
After the U.S. unilaterally decided to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital anti-Trump protests have sprung up across the Arab world, although violence has been limited. The Globe's Eric Reguly reports from the West Bank that the Palestinians are searching for allies in the aftermath of the decision. "Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries do not make us a priority for them," said Mahmoud al-Aloul, vice-chairman of Fatah, Palestine's ruling political party. "That's a problem for us, absolutely."
The New York Times has a deep dive into how Donald Trump's daily life has changed nearly a year into the presidency.
The race between Roy Moore and Doug Jones to be the next senator from Alabama is wrapped in struggles over the state's troubled history and its uncertain future, David Shribman writes. The outcome of the race could send a message about the national preoccupation with sexual predators and alter generations-old voting patterns in the most conservative region of the U.S. Alabama's senior senator, also a Republican, says he is not voting for Roy Moore.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered troops out of Syria, saying they succeeded in suppressing the Islamic State.
The United Kingdom and the European Union made significant progress on a Brexit deal, but tough talks are still ahead. Last Friday, the European Commission said that enough progress had been made on financial obligations, the Irish border and EU citizens' rights that negotiations could begin on the future of the trading relationship. European negotiators say they want to build a trade deal based on the one signed with Canada, known as the Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement, while the U.K.'s Brexit minister says he wants a deal that's "Canada plus plus plus."
South Korea has imposed new sanctions against North Korea in a response to its latest missile launch. Groups, including banks and companies, were added to sanctions lists and several individuals were also targeted in the largely symbolic move.
And in case you missed it the European Union and Japan have concluded negotiations on a free-trade agreement that would establish the world's largest open economic area.
Former Obama speechwriter Sarada Peri in The Globe on the bully pulpit: "Teddy Roosevelt was talking about more than influencing policy or even politics. He was illuminating a president's power to shape the nation's ethical framework – his power, in effect, to moralize. 'I suppose my critics will call that preaching,' he said, 'but I have got such a bully pulpit.' Mr. Trump offers no stable political affiliation, no hopeful vision for America, no compelling, or even coherent, agenda."
Konrad Yakabuski (The Globe and Mail) on Roy Moore:"For a few fleeting weeks it seemed even the GOP had a conscience. But the party ultimately could not resist the temptation of passing tax cuts for the rich and its leaders decided they could not sacrifice a reliable Republican seat in the Senate. Especially since they'll need it if Mr. Trump is to replace one of the remaining liberal judges on the Supreme Court and create a conservative majority that would reinstate abortion bans and uphold the Second Amendment right to bear arms and arms and arms. What's a little (more) hypocrisy when the stakes are this high?"
Elizabeth Renzetti (The Globe and Mail) on saying sorry in the public sphere: "Allegations of sexual misconduct against high-profile men have piled up in the past couple of months, followed in some cases by public apologies. These apologies, alas, often resembled Christmas crackers purchased at the dollar store: cheap, hollow and containing nothing of value at their core."


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Question: Tynwald to consider introducing £8.61 Manx living wage

Image caption The proposed Manx living wage would be 16 pence more than in the UK
The introduction of a Manx living wage will be considered in Parliament later this month, the government said.
Following a Tynwald motion in January, a Manx living wage has been calculated at an hourly rate of £8.61 - £1.11 more than the island's current minimum wage.
The government used the United Kingdom's standard methodology whilst taking into account higher expenditure on the island such as transport costs.
The living wage is a voluntary rate of pay that companies can choose to adopt.
The minimum wage is legally enforceable, on the other hand.
Policy and Reform Minister Chris Thomas said that while the government was committed to promoting a caring and inclusive society, the proposal to establish a living wage would need careful consideration.
A government spokesman said further work will be carried out, including consideration by representatives from the business community, the voluntary sector and the trade unions.
The living wage in the UK is £8.45.

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Residents of Newfoundland and Labrador saw more taxes and higher fees in 2016, and that's set to continue with the dawn of a new year.
The second round of increases came into effect Jan 1, as outlined in the 2016 budget, and includes everything from higher income taxes, the new book tax and dozens of new or higher fees from provincial parks, wildlife licenses and more.
Check out the full breakdown of all the changes below.
Provincial income tax
The start of the new year will see the final phasing-in of new income tax rates as outlined in the 2016 budget. Rates went up for all tax brackets during the second half of 2016, and effective Jan. 1 all brackets will again see an increase.
The breakdown is as follows:
1st Bracket ($0 - $35.148) will increase from 8.2 per cent to 8.7 per cent
2nd Bracket ($35,149 - $70,295) will increase from 13.5 per cent to 14.5 per cent
3rd Bracket ($70,296 - $125,500) will increase from 14.55 per cent to 15.8 per cent
4th Bracket ($125,501 - $175,700) will increase from 15.8 per cent to 17.3 per cent
5th Bracket (More than $175,700) will increase from 16.8 per cent to 18.3 per cent
To put it into context, someone who earns $32,000 a year will go from paying $1,902 in provincial income tax to now paying $1,972.
Someone who earns $54,000 a year will go from paying $4,705 in provincial income tax to now paying $4,973.
Someone who earns $90,000 a year will go from paying $9,772 in provincial income tax to now paying $10,449.
New book tax
As of Jan. 1, Newfoundland and Labrador will become the first province in Canada to put a tax on books.
Previously, a point-of-sale provincial HST rebate was applied on books, which meant the tax paid on books was only five per cent. However, the 2016 budget stated the rebate would be eliminated for all books sales except for public-sector organizations such as school boards and universities.
That means that readers in the province will now have to shell out 15 per cent HST on every book they buy.
The Newfoundland and Labrador government released a budget in 2016 that was filled with tax hikes, including many that didn't come into effect until 2017. (CBC)
Provincial fee increases
In 2016 nearly a third of government fees were increased, which the province says will bring in more than $19 million in revenue. While most hikes were already in effect at the end of the year, some of the changes did not take effect until Jan. 1.
The breakdown is as follows:
Provincial parks
Nightly vehicle entry fee will increase from $5 to $7
Daily vehicle entry fee will increase from $5 to $10
Annual vehicle entry fee will increase from $20 to $50
Nightly camper storage fee will crease from $3 to $10
Winter camper storage fee will increase from $100 to $300
Campsite rental fees (serviced and unserviced) will increase by 10 per cent
Adult entry permit for Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve (daily) will increase from $0 to $10
Family entry permit for Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve (daily) will increase from $0 to $25
Adult annual permit for Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve will increase from $0 to $20
Family annual permit for Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve will increase from $0 to $50
Adult guided tour fee at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve will increase from $0 to $20
Family guided tour fee at Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve will increase from $0 to $50
Commercial operator per person entry fee for wilderness and ecological reserves (excluding Cape St. Mary's) will increase from $0 to $3
Permit for scientific research and educational use in reserves and parks will increase from $0 to $5
Commercial operator per person entry fee for provincial parks (excluding T'Railway) will increase from $0 to $5
T'Railway statutory/easement/LTO utilities annual fee (Nalcor/NL Hydro/NF Power/Bell) will increase from $0 to minimum annual fee of $1,000 for up to one hectare (effective April 1)
T'Railway construction and use permit application fee will increase from $0 to $125 (effective April 1)
T'Railway temporary vehicle access permit application fee will increase from $0 to $125 (effective April 1)
Private sector initiatives program market value fee will increase from $0 to a percentage of market value of operator's infrastructure
Wildlife
Resident individual salmon licence will increase from $17 to $23
Resident family salmon licence will increase from $17 to $23
Non‐resident individual salmon licence will increase from $53 to $80
Non-resident family salmon licence will increase from $53 to $80
Non-resident family salmon licence will increase from $53 to $80
Non-resident Individual trout licence will increase from $8 to $12
Non-resident family trout licence will increase from $8 to $12
Guide licence will increase from $10 to $15 (senior fee will increase from $6.50 to $9.75)
Department of Finance
Inter‐Jurisdictional Carrier Multiple Trip International Fuel Tax Agreement, Annual registration/licence fee will increase from $25 to $100
Diesel permits will increase from $30, $60 and $90 for a one, two, three year permit to $120, $240, and $360 respectively (effective April 1)
Service NL
Pension plan regulation fees will increase from $7.50 for annual return filing to $10 per active member and new fee of $5 per inactive member
Corporate annual return fee will increase from $75 with 10 per cent discount for online filers to $100 with 10 per cent discount for online filers
Annual real estate agent's licence will increase from $300 to $400
Annual real estate salesperson's licence will increase from $100 to $200
Transportation and Works
Residential highway access permit will increase from $0 to $50
Commercial highway access permit will increase from $0 to $500
City of St. John's fees
As part of the program review process and Budget 2017 preparation, the City of St. John's has released a proposed list of fee changes for recreation programs, parking permits, tickets, Metrobus and inspection services, which took effect Jan. 1.
The breakdown is as follows:
Metrobus/GoBus
Metrobus/GoBus rates have been held at $2.25 per ride since 2008. As of 2017, rates will increase to $2.50 per ride. Metrobus/GoBus pass prices will also increase: details will be made available on metrobus.com.
Parking Permits and Tickets
Currently, the City of St. John's issues 4,000 parking permits to residents in the downtown area who do not have access to off-street parking. The current cost for a permit is $6 annually. Rates increase in 2017 from $6 a year to $15 a year for areas 1 through 12, with some special permits also increasing. However, rates for not-for-profit organizations will not be changed.
Monthly downtown (commercial) parking permit rates will increase by an average $30 per month in 2017 and again in 2018. These fees were approved by council in 2015.
There will also be ticket fine increases between $5 and $20 depending on the ticket infraction.
Recreation and Room Rentals


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Question: Florida school shooting suspect foretold intention in videos

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In chilling cellphone videos released Wednesday, the suspect in a February massacre at a Florida high school announced his intention to become the next school shooter, aiming to kill at least 20 people and saying “you’re all going to die.”
The three videos released by prosecutors were found on the cellphone of suspect Nikolas Cruz after the Feb. 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people and injured 17 others.
Cruz, wearing a ball cap, introduces himself in the first video and says he is “going to be the next school shooter of 2018.” He goes on to say that he wants to use an AR-15 to kill at least 20 people and specifies the high school in Parkland. The videos are undated, but on one he says, “Today is the day. Today it all begins. The day of my massacre shall begin.”
“When you see me on the news, you’ll all know who I am,” he says in another and then laughs. “You’re all going to die. … Can’t wait.”
In a second video, Cruz briefly discusses logistics, including that he will take Uber to campus about 2:40. He then says he’ll walk onto campus, go up some stairs, open his bag to take out his weapon and start firing. School surveillance video shows that was almost exactly what he did –the only difference being that he arrived at the school at 2:19 p.m.
In the third video, the camera apparently pointed at pavement, he talks about his loneliness, anger and hatred, and announces that the “day of my massacre shall begin.”
“I live a lone life. I live in seclusion and solitude. I hate everyone and everything. But the power of my AR you will all know who I am. I had enough of being told what to do and when to do,” he says. “I had enough of being told what to do and when to do. I had enough of being told that I’m an idiot and a dumbass. You’re all stupid and brainwashed by the political and government programs.”
He also referenced a former girlfriend, saying “I hope to see you in the afterlife.”
Cruz is charged with 17 counts of murder and 17 counts of attempted murder in the attack. His lawyers have repeatedly said Cruz would plead guilty if guaranteed a sentence of life without parole, but prosecutors refuse to waive the death penalty. Cruz, 19, is a former Stoneman Douglas student.
The Broward State Attorney’s Office released the video because under Florida law, with few exceptions, evidence becomes a public record when it is turned over to the defendant’s attorneys as part of the pretrial discovery process. Cruz’s attorneys say they did not request evidence such as video from inside the building where the massacre happened and autopsy reports so they would not become public and “further hurt and inflame the victims’ families and the community.”
“This is an awful case and today is more of that awfulness and further shows how severely broken a human being the defendant is,” Broward County Public Defender Howard Finklestein, whose office is representing Cruz, said in a statement.
Cruz spent several years at a school for children with emotional disabilities before being allowed to transfer to Stoneman Douglas. He spent several months there before being kicked out. His late mother also called 911 on him almost 20 times over the years and he had a history of killing animals then posting images on the internet and taking body parts as souvenirs.

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PARKLAND, Fla. (CNN) – The Broward County Sheriff says while people were being shot during the deadly school rampage, one of his armed deputies waited outside of the school.
“What I saw was a deputy arrive and he never went in,” Sheriff Scott Israel said.
The only armed police officer stationed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School resigned, amid revelations that he waited outside as the massacre unfolded.
Sheriff Israel says he should have gone in addressed the killer and then killed the killer.
Sheriff Israel says surveillance video shows the deputy Scot Peterson taking a position outside the building for four minutes as gunshots rang out but failed in his duty to stop the attacker.
“Devastated. Sick to my stomach. There are no words. These families lost their children. We lost coaches. I’ve been to the funerals. It’s just, there are no words.”
Peterson retired Thursday after being suspended without pay.
Records show he was recently nominated twice for Deputy of the Year.
Two other deputies now on restricted duty and are being investigated for how they handled tips warning about the killer.
Authorities announced that they have received twenty-three calls involving the killer and his family, starting in 2008 when the killer was just nine years old.
The most serious warnings began two years ago when an anonymous caller alerted police that the killer threatened “to shoot up the school” on Instagram and posted pictures of himself with a gun.
The Miami Herald reports that seven months later a peer counselor reported that the killer possibly ingested gasoline, wanted to buy a gun and attempted to commit suicide by cutting himself.
Days later an investigator for Florida’s Department of Children and Families determined that he was low-risk.
Later that month the family that initially took the killer in after his mother’s death and called the police to report a fight.
The family revealed this disturbing detail.
“He also dug in the backyard because he knew he was not allowed to bring it here and we found that he did… he was going to bury the gun there.”
The next day a tipster from Massachusetts called the sheriff’s office to report that the killer was collecting guns and knives.
The tipster told police he “will kill himself one day and believes he could be a school shooter in the making.”
Acting FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich said Thursday that proper protocols weren’t followed on a January tip about Cruz.
The FBI revealed last week that someone close to Cruz reported concerns, including information about Cruz’s gun ownership, his desire to kill people, erratic behavior, disturbing social media posts and the potential of him conducting a school shooting.


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Question: How Jacob Evans impressed the Warriors in summer league debut

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SACRAMENTO  The defense looked disciplined. The intensity stayed on full display. And the shot looked unorthodox.
All in all, Warriors rookie guard/forward Jacob Evans made his summer league debut in the Warriors 71-54 victory over the Kings on Tuesday with the qualities that made the Warriors select him with the No. 28 pick in the 2018 NBA Draft.
I thought for the most part that he was just solid, said Warriors assistant coach Willie Green, the teams summer-league head coach. I wanted to see him go out, play hard and play aggressive. He picks up things fairly easy.
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So much to become what Warriors second-year forward Jordan Bell called a good all-around player. Evans posted a team-leading 13 points and five rebounds. He often locked down his opponents on defense, became fiery with his teammates, opponents and officials. And his shooting, well that appears to need some work.
Evans shot 5-of-12 from the field. He went only 1-of-5 from 3-point range. And those heaves caught more attention because of an apparent hitch in his shooting stroke.
Evans swatted away that line of questioning as if he were defending his opponent.
I shot a pretty good percentage in college, Evans said. I feel like Im a pretty good shooter.
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Evans said he still shot the same way when he showed marked improvement with his outside shooting at the University of Cincinnati as a freshman (33.3 percent), sophomore (41.8 percent) and junior (37 percent). He mentioned he has dealt with what he called a minor hand injury. And he said that no one has ever brought up issues about his shooting form.
Evans coach, though, spoke as if he had already noticed something to fix.
He missed some shots and he needs to get into his shot a little bit, Green said. It came up short. But thats something we can clean up later.
Otherwise, Evans showed in 24 minutes what the Warriors front office observed when they scouted him on film and in person for the past two years.
The 6-foot-6, 210-pound Evans rarely allowed his opponent to drive past him. He called out rotations to his teammates. He collected two steals. When officials whistled him for his lone personal foul, Evans shared his misgivings.
No wonder Warriors forward Draymond Green vouched for Evans to the Warriors front office after following his college career and witnessing his pre-draft workout.
On the defensive end, its all about being tough and having heart and being smart. I feel like I have pretty good instincts on the defensive end playing in Cincinnati, Evans said. Thats what we pride ourselves on. Just being that tough guy.
Evans showed his toughness in another way.
With his 3-point shot attempts often clanking off the rim, Evans often drove to the basket and did not shy away from contact. He finished at the basket, attempted floaters and went 2-of-2 from the charity stripe.
I just try to get myself going, Evans said. I missed a couple early jump shots. So I just tried to get to the goal, get to the free-throw line and see the ball in the hoop in the game and just go from there.
Evans could not wait to show what he can do. He missed the Warriors summer-league opening win over Miami on Monday after injuring his right big toe during Fridays practice. After healing his toe for three days, Evans started off his NBA summer league debut on the right foot.
I love Jacob. Hes a great player and very feisty, Bell said. Hes a dog and does a little bit of everything.
That little bit of everything made a big impression on the Warriors.
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Question: Taylor Swift Performs ‘Reputation’ Tracks During Six-Song Set

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By Hayden Wright
Taylor Swift has kept a relatively low profile while her sixth studio album Reputation tops the charts and her fans gobble up a holiday helping of confessional new music. Over the weekend, however, Swift made an exception by performing at the Jingle Bell Ball in London.
Related: Taylor Swift Pens New Poem ‘The Trick to Holding On’
Her headlining set included a combination of hits from 1989 and Reputation including “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off” from the former. From the latter, Taylor performed “Gorgeous,” “Look What You Made Me Do” and “…Ready For It?” For good measure, Swift threw in a solo rendition of her duet with Zayn Malik: “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever.”
The performance followed almost a month after her November 11 appearance on Saturday Night Live. Other acts at the Jingle Bell Ball included Ed Sheeran and Liam Payne.
Watch Taylor perform “Ready For It,” “Gorgeous” and “Look What You Made Me Do” below:

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Question: Year-Long Digital Detox Left DC Woman Feeling ‘Grateful of Every Moment’

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Darla Bunting(WASHINGTON) — A Washington, D.C. woman has revealed that a year-long digital detox from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat has left her feeling “grateful of every moment.”
Darla Bunting had hundreds of Facebook and Snapchat friends, over 1,300 Instagram followers and more than 4,000 Twitter followers. But on Jan. 1 last year she announced in a blog post that she was giving the sharing platforms up for the next 365 days.
The education advocate told ABC News last year that she initially deleted the social media apps for a month on the advice of her pastor, but found the mini-digital detox wasn’t enough.
Now after an entire year, Bunting, 31, told ABC News: “I had different epiphanies over the course of this year. I feel so at peace.”
“I took away instantly that so many of us curate our lives for social media and so I removed all of that, removed the feeling of having to ‘snap’ every moment or Instagram every moment or every experience that’s going on in my life,” she said.
“When I began to cut out different things, I learned to have an attitude of gratitude,” Bunting added. “I became really grateful of every moment.”
Bunting joked that due to her …read more
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Question: Vandalized Hollywood sign briefly reads 'HOLLYWeeD'

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LOS ANGELES – No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn't your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read "HOLLYWeeD" for a few hours on New Year's Day.
Police were investigating Sunday after a prankster used giant tarps to turn two of the iconic sign's white Os into Es sometime overnight.
The vandal, dressed in all black, was recorded by security cameras and could face a misdemeanor trespassing charge, said Sgt. Robert Payan.
The person scaled a protective fence surrounding the sign above Griffith Park and then clambered up each giant letter to drape the coverings, Payan said.
The prank may be a nod to California voters' approval in November of Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana, beginning in 2018.
Hikers and tourists in the hills spent the morning snapping photos of themselves in front of the altered sign before park rangers began removing the tarps.
"It's kind of cool being here at the moment," Bruce Quinn told KABC-TV. "I thought we came to see the Hollywood sign, not the' Hollyweed' sign. But hey it's OK with me!"
While attention-grabbing, the prank was not exactly original. Forty-one years ago to the day — Jan. 1, 1976 — a college student similarly altered the sign, using curtains to make it read "HOLLYWEED."

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Question: 49ers ease Reuben Foster back into action after legal case

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers are easing linebacker Reuben Foster back into the system after he missed the start of the off-season program while dealing with a domestic violence case that was eventually dropped.
Foster was not allowed to participate in the off-season program until a judge ruled last week that he wouldn't have to stand trial on domestic violence charges. The judge determined there was no evidence that Foster ever hit his ex-girlfriend.
Foster rejoined the Niners last Thursday but has been held out of team drills as he gets back up to speed. He took part in individual drills during organized team activities but spent the time during team drills doing conditioning or watching teammates.
Defensive co-ordinator Robert Salah said there's no rush to get Foster back into team drills but added it won't take long for Foster to get back up to speed.

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Question: Military Helicopter Crash Kills One, Injures Two After A Hard Landing On Maryland Golf Course

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One person is dead and two others are injured following a military helicopter crash on a Maryland golf course Monday afternoon, according to CBS News.
Several U.S Army helicopters, a UH-60 Blackhawk, carrying three crew members, were flying over the Breton Bay Golf and Country Club in Leonardtown around 1:37 a.m., executing a routine training exercise when one of the helicopters seemed to be having issues.
Witness Bianca Melton, a Leonardtown resident, stated that one of the military helicopters “started to lower, and it started to spiral down, and it disappeared below the trees. It looked like it had flipped over, upside-down, and then we heard a big explosion sound.”
Kevin Bowen, a Breton Bay Golf and Country Club employee, said he saw the helicopter “flying kind of low” before spinning out of control.
Black Hawk military helicopter from Fort Belvoir crashes on St. Mary's County golf course https://t.co/q1rMJEOTCY — getliquidized (@getliquidized) April 17, 2017
Dorothy Harper lives across the street from the Breton Bay Golf and Country Club and she stated that she “was outside in my front yard when I saw the helicopter come over right across the street from my house. I saw pieces actually falling off the helicopter.”
Harper added that after the military helicopter crash in Leonardtown, she didn’t see any smoke or flames, only “pieces falling out of the sky.”
Another witness, Mike Harvey, a golf professional at Breton Bay Golf Course, who recounted the military crash stated that the “Black Hawk helicopter come over and he was kind of flying sideways, pretty low.”
“And then as we got out on the deck watching it, he got treetop level and all of a sudden we saw the tail spin up… and just spinning around and we heard him go down.”
Harvey went on to say that it is “very seldom” that they see U.S Army helicopters flying in Leonardtown, residents are supposedly acclimated to seeing “Navy and Marine Corps aircraft in the area.”
In a Facebook post, military officials wrote that the helicopter crashed onto a Leonardtown golf course after a hard landing, and added that the helicopter was the twelfth Aviation Battalion stationed at the Davison Airfield, Fort Belvoir in Virginia.
When emergency medical services arrived at the scene, two crew members—whose names have not been released—on board were transported to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, listed in critical condition, according to officials with the Military District of Washington.
A third unidentified crew member, a U.S Army soldier, was killed in the military helicopter crash at a golf course.
Officials initially stated that there were no fatalities in the military helicopter crash, but it was later ascertained that a soldier was killed.
In a news release, Major Gen. Bradley A. Becker with the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region and the U.S. Army Military District of Washington said, “We are deeply saddened by this loss within our community.”
“Our condolences go out to the families and friends affected by this tragedy, and our team is focused on supporting them during this difficult time.”
Military helicopter crash kills 1, injures 2 during training exercise in Maryland https://t.co/HqOJiBdhI6 pic.twitter.com/oaTHaASlxL — KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) April 18, 2017
The military helicopter crash comes weeks after an aircraft crashed in a suburban community of Clinton, Maryland, but the pilot—whose name was not released—was able to eject safely.
The pilot escaped with minor injuries, and he was released from a local hospital just shortly after arrival.
No one else was injured in the Clinton aircraft crash.
The cause of the military helicopter crash in Leonardtown is unknown, but according to the U.S Army statement, the team Army Combat Readiness Center, in Fort Rucker, Alabama will be at the Leonardtown helicopter crash scene on Tuesday to investigate.
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With the session nearly over, some of Governor Scott Walker’s top priorities may not get finished in the legislature. An Assembly special session will take up school safety. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steinke says it won’t work, if the Senate doesn’t vote on the same bill.
“Obviously, that would be problematic,” Steineke said. “We’re on the same page with the governor. We actually want to hold hearings on these ideas, and possibly add to the them, which is going to take some time.” Walker’s proposals include a $100 million grant program to pay for school security upgrades.
The Assembly Education Committee has scheduled a public hearing at 10 a.m. hearing Tuesday on the school safety bills. The state Senate is set to meet in for the last time in regular session on Tuesday, and will act on similar legislation. “I think it would be best for everybody involved, if we could come together around a common strategy to get these pieces of legislation done,” Steineke said.
Walker’s Lincoln Hills agenda and child tax credit may also hit a dead end in the Senate, if GOP leaders in both chambers fail to compromise.


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Question: AOL Instant Messenger Is Heading to the Technology Graveyard

AOL Instant Messenger, the trailblazing chat program beloved by 90s kids and people relieved they would no longer have to get up and talk to their co-workers in person, is officially heading into retirement, the company announced Friday.
The famous yellow running man logo is saying "TTYL" and sprinting to the technology retirement community effective December 15, where it will join the likes of fellow 1990s favorites GeoCities and Ask Jeeves.
An AOL Inc. Instant Messenger inflatable logo sits in the company's headquarters in New York in 2011. Bloomberg via Getty Images
Michael Albers, vice president of communications product at Oath, the newly formed brand encompassing Yahoo, AOL, and a portfolio of other Verizon-owned companies, praised AIM for creating a "cultural shift" but said in 2017, "the way in which we communicate with each other has profoundly changed."
"We are more excited than ever to continue building the next generation of iconic brands and life-changing products for users around the world," Albers said Friday.
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AIM was first introduced to the world in 1997 as a stand-alone download, and it quickly became a massive success, helping many 90s kids navigate the world of middle school and high school.
In many ways, it was a precursor to the social media world we know today. AIM could be used to catch up with friends, arrange group chats, and those all-important status messages served as a window into what a person was thinking, much like a tweet or a Facebook status update.
However, adoption changed as text messaging took over and newer, more mobile-friendly products came onto the market, including Google's GChat and Facebook's Messenger.
While chances are you haven't used AIM in a decade, spare a thought on this Friday for your first screen name, buddy list, and these all-too-familiar sounds.

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MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Public Health Department recently released the 2017 Miami County Community Health Assessment, making the 240-page document available to the public for an in-depth look at the health statistics for Miami County residents.
“It gives us a picture of what’s going in the community health-wise,” Miami County Health Commissioner Dennis Propes said.
With a mission statement of “Leading You to Better Health,” a committee of multiple agencies and organizations contributed to the document.
The health department’s last health assessment was completed approximately five years ago, but Propes explained that they are shifting their time frame to complete one every three years to coincide with assessments that hospitals will be completing.
Trends coming to light
The health assessment describes the health of Miami County residents by examining factors that can impact their health status, from social determinants to environmental factors and lifestyle choices. The social determinants help provide context for residents, looking at varying factors like neighborhood environment, economic stability, education, access to health insurance, and more.
Within the health assessment is recent data on numerous trends for Miami County residents, including birth rates, infant mortality, adult health, mental health, dental health, adult mortality, and health challenges.
When asked about trends that stood out to Propes and the team who compiled the assessment, Propes said, “The rate of pregnant women that smoke is a little disturbing.”
Smoking during pregnancy can increase the risk of an infant being born prematurely and/or with a low birth weight, which creates additional dangers, according to the health department. The health department found that 16.3 percent of mothers smoked during their pregnancy in 2014, citing information from the Ohio Department of Health. This is higher than the percentage for all of Ohio residents, which was 13 percent of all births in Ohio in 2014, and the national rate, which was 10.9 percent in 2014.
Another trend that stood out was in regard to the heroin and opioid epidemic, particularly how fentanyl is affecting Miami County.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reported that fentanyl-laced heroin has been linked to a surge of overdoses in Ohio. According to the health assessment, fentanyl and other similar substances are being found in counterfeit pills that were made to look like prescription pain relievers and sedatives, which is creating a higher risk of overdose and death for those who use heroin or prescription drugs laced with fentanyl.
Emerging drug use trends in Ohio also include the use of the potent animal opioid sedative carfentanil, which has been linked to a significant number of overdose deaths.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the number of drug overdose deaths are continuing to increase with more than six out of 10 overdoses involving an opioid. According to the health assessment, “While the percentage of unintentional drug overdose deaths involving heroin was generally lower in Miami County than for Ohio, the percentage of unintentional drug overdose deaths involving fentanyl was higher in Miami County than for Ohio in three out of four years,” from 2012 to 2015. The year 2015 was when Miami County was lower than the state of Ohio with 17.6 percent of unintentional drug overdose deaths being related to fentanyl use in Miami County versus 37.9 percent in Ohio.
Improvement plans on the way
From here, the health department plans to create an improvement plan to touch on the county’s weaknesses health-wise using data from this health assessment.
“We’re moving into the community health improvement plan phase,” Propes said.
The health department is forming three task forces under the three priority areas of, maternal and family health, chronic disease, and mental health and addiction. The health department identified improving those three areas as the key for the community to create “a foundation for people to be self-sufficient, and resourceful to minimize disease and substance abuse while increasing emotional health to attain lifelong wellness.”
“We’ll have community partners in all three of those areas,” Propes said. “Each of those task forces will come up with three or five objectives they want to meet in the next few years.” They will also come up with ways to address those priorities.
“The goal is to work with all of our community partners,” Propes said. He added that the health assessment is not just a document for health department, but it is a tool for both the health department and other groups and organizations in the community to work on improving residents’ health.
“This is just the first big step in trying to identify some areas that we can work on improving,” Propes said.
The health assessment is not all negative, though, as it does touch on positive elements where the county is doing better than some parts of the states, Propes added.
The improvement plan should be completed within the next three to four months.
The 2017 Miami County Community Health Assessment can be viewed online at www.miamicountyhealth.net. For more information, call the Miami County Public Health Department at (937) 573-3500.
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