Lethbridge Herald, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 2006, Lethbridge, Alberta ONLINE EDITION t April HERALD INSIDE Pamela Anderson hosted the Junos Sunday See Page A7 for the big winners HERALD PHOTO BY CHRIS COLBOURNE Lethbridge Hurricanes goalie Justin Leclerc has a look of shock frozen on his face after Calgary Hitmen forward Jeff Schultz scored in The Hitmen beat the Canes 32 Sunday night to advance to the next round of the Western Hockey League SEE PAGE KIWANIS FESTIVAL WRAPS UP SHOWCASE CLOSES OUT SUCCESSFUL Man dies in explosion at TORONTO CP The heart of trendy Yorkville shopping district was shocked to a standstill Sunday afternoon HERALD PHOTO BY AMANDA FINK Emma Parkinson belts out Cruda Sorts by Rossini Sunday Parkinson sang at the senior vocal police shoot coyote after cyclist chased EDMONTON frightened cyclist on his way to work was forced to pedal with all his mettle when a coyote chased him through an open field in south Police had to shoot the coyote after it also tried to take on officers sent to investigate the call about Sunday Ken Hykawy said the cyclist was absolutely i Police officers who checked out the mans story quickly located the coyote in a grove of trees near two high a skateboard park and the Mill Woods Recreation Hykawy said when officers it charged and then took off a Police called wildlife officials who said the coyote was likely protecting a den or a jackrabbit it had killed and coyote was a full grown weighing between 20 and 25 Hykawy He went after an adult What if it had been an walking to the skateboard park he Hykawy said coyotes are common on the outskirts of the city and police generally do not bother with one man at a Tim Hortons Police ruled out initial reports that a man had entered the washroom shortly before the blast with explosives strapped to his with investigators saying the explosion was caused by gasoline or a similar Toronto police Staff Don Cole said Sunday Hes not a strapon bomber Cole It sounds to me like a guy who either wanted to do a torch job or commit A customer entered the washroom and noticed the smell of gasoline coming from the Coile The customer then saw the gasoline can and fled the washroom only moments before the he Toronto police Chief Blair described the incident as a fire rather than a He refused to specify whether it was deliberate or but said police were not looking for It appears that there has been a very hot and intense fire in an enclosed area within the Blair Until we determine precisely what happened in that cubicle and what caused those flames that took that mans I really cant The male who was pronounced dead at the has not been Tim Hortons spokesman Nick Javor confirmed the dead man was not an There were no other Blair Eunice a regular patron of the Tim Hortons said she spoke to employees shortly after it was One woman told her the blast was felt as a sudden shock through the CANADAS Signs of hope First session of Parliament should keep things simple OTTAWA CP afterglow of the election has a cabinet has been the agenda has been Now its time for Stephen Harper to start testing the shelf life of his minority government in the House of Com With just 125 of the 308 seats filled by the coming session wont be a cakewalk for the prime But there are signs he could have an easier time than predecessor Paul whose Liberal minority government spent most of its 18 months in power lurching from vote to vote before it finally With an eye to avoiding a similar Harper is trying to keep things simple and Once the formality of electing a new Commons Speaker is out of the way the Tories will lay out their legislative agenda in a throne speech Tuesday an event that may turn out to be notable largely for its lack of Its going to be shorter than most throne concise and said one Its going to set a clear direction and reflect the prime ministers will be no Harper has already said he wants to stick to five major priorities in his early months in Three will likely find wide support A new Accountability aimed at exorcising the ethical demons of the sponsorship scandal by reforming party lobbying patronage appointments and the Access to A crackdown on an area where Harper can expect some cooperation from the at least on key initiatives like toughening sentences for gun An effort to shorten health care waiting lists something easier said than but a goal shared by in principle by all The other two items on the governments agenda are more Harper has promised a new approach to child with tax breaks of a year to parents for each kid aged under But to finance that he will have to renege on billion the Martin Liberals promised to provincial governments to fund day care Harper bills his policy as a grassroots effort to put money into the hands of moms and dads and let them decide how to spend The Liberals say cancelling the payments to the provinces are an abdication of federal responsibility and promise to fight They also think Harper is vulnerable on the fifth element of his agenda a pledge to lop a point off the GST immediately and another point The wrinkle here is to afford the GST the Tories will have to repeal personal income tax reductions brought in under The Grits believe they have the makings of an early challenge to Harper on that Canadians will wonder why their personal income taxes went down last year but just for one year and now they have jumped back up says Ralph the onetime finance minister turned Opposition House The New Democrats dont like the Tory child care or tax plans although NDP Leader Jack Layton has spent as much time berating the Liberals lately as he has attacking The Grits first promised a national daycare system in Layton noted Sunday in a speech to his partys governing In his the fact that they never delivered during 12 years in power robs them of credibility on the The Liberals just dont get said Price Home delivery 50 cents daily B4 Seg Funds B5 City Comics A8 Classified 8610 Deaths B6 Entertainment A7 Living 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