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Celebrating education THE RECORD The voice of the Eastern Townships since 1897 igh-tech at the Wales Home Page 5 WEEKEND EDITION 95 CENTS + TAXES PM#004(XX)7682 Friday, March 25, 201 Five-hour stand-off ends peacefully By Evan LePage ^ A five-hour stand-off between officers of the Sherbrooke Police Service SWAT team and a man threatening suicide ended peacefully with the latter handing himself over to police without incident.At around 10:30 a.m.on Thursday police were called to a residence at 336 Ball Street where a man in his fifties was reportedly barricaded in his home and talking about killing himself.“Patrol officers received information that there may have been a gun inside,” explained SPS spokesperson Martin Carrier.Police quickly established a large perimeter around the area, extending from Alexandre Street to Camirand Street, and evacuated four residences around where the suspect was located.“We also took steps with the school near-by to ensure not students went outside,” Carrier said, referring to the Sacré-Coeur school.“The school wasn’t in the danger zone, but we just wanted to be cautious.” Cont’d on page 5 Citizens dislike F-35 purchases Jets a hot topic at Dusseault public budget consultation EVAN LEPAGE Dusseault stated his personal belief that buying the F-35s might give other nations the impression that Canada had other intentions besides for peace missions, but admitted the military needed better equipment.The MP said the buying process should simply have been done more cautiously and responsiblyxxx Tt -L K< By Evan LePage e day after the province of Quebec filed presented its 2012 bud- get, Sherbrooke’s member of jets.public’s expectations from the upcoming federal budget.The most popular talking point on the night: the purchase of F-35 fighter parliament, Pierre-Luc Dusseault, held a public consultation to gauge the If we made a summary of the night, I think the F-35s caused a lot of discussion,” Dusseault said following the public consultation Wednesday night, which drew only about 15 participants.CON’T ON PAGE 3 ^ St.Matthew ^ .Passion ________ ykjm: ST MANOIR An evolving residence FOR SENIOR CITIZENS WWW.MANOIRSTFRANCIS.COM Stay young at heart ! 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Discover our 3 types oj evolving accomodation.Tel.819.562.0875 125 rue Queen, Sherbrooke pi Page 2 Friday, March 23, 2012 The Record e-edition There for you 24-hours-a-day 7-days-a-week Wherever you are Access the full edition of The Sherbrooke Record as well as special editions and archives.Add an online subscription to your print subscription for less than $2 a month, or purchase the online edition only for $55.Record e-subscription rates 1 year print: $120.plus tax 1 year print and web: $140.plus tax 6 month print: $63.plus tax 6 month print & web: $75.plus tax 3 month print: $32.plus tax 3 month print & web: $40.plus tax 12 month web only: $55.plus tax 1 month web only: $4.99 plus tax Web subscribers have access to the daily Record as well as archives and special editions.Subscribing is as easy as 1,2,3 when you go to www.awsom.ca Click Subscribe.Choose newspaper.Complete form and wait for an email activating your online subscription.Weather MJ / TODAY: SUNNY „ HIGH OF 11 LOW OF 1 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Gait in the second debate of the semester entitled ‘Man Up or Man Down: Is there a crisis of masculinity in the 21st century?’ Thief took The hard fought contest saw Team Pro-crisis square off against Team Nocrisis in debate, then question period format.Arguing that 21st century culture is constantly questioning what it means to be a man, and furthermore that demographic shifts (women becoming the primary earners and dominating the demographics of post-secondary education) was Dr.Christian Berco, professor of history and Taylor Johnston, President of the BU Students Representative Council.They point to ‘Old Spice’ advertisements where the narrator, buff with traditional manliness (assertive, tough), emphatically points to men watching, and claims that with a little bit of deodorant you could be a real man, ‘like (him]’.Opposing this hypothesis was Classics Prof.Jenn Cianca and Psychology student Bill Crooks.They countered by arguing that even though what it means to be ‘a man’ changes with history, at its core is male biology, which is constant.Furthermore, masculinity has historically, always been in question, and that in itself is one of masculinities greatest traits.Crooks and Cianca point out that the ‘men’ in crisis are Western and largely upper-middle class: that this dilemma may be more about the dissolution of‘patriarchal entitlement’ then a real rift in our definition of what it means to be a man.The debate was made possible by the Crossing Borders Research Cluster, specifically the Gender Axis.Even though the bar was open, the discussion remained civil, with both teams agreeing that gender was a largely socially constructed phenomenon: although that doesn’t make it any less important or relevant.The night proved to be both balanced and informative, with Team No-crisis side coming up victorious, by audience vote.To be fair though, both sides argued excellently, with the real winner being the pursuit of knowledge and truth.- Aaron Ries is the Communications Manager with the Bishop’s University Student’s Representative Council.You can e-mail him at src@ubtshops.ca woman home before robbing her Police have called on the public for help in identifying a suspect who took a woman back to her apartment and robbed her.On Jan.28, the victim was participating in a “Bal en Blanc” party, during an event which brought students from the faculties of kinesiology and physical education from multiple universities in Quebec to Sherbrooke for a weekend of activities.That night, the victim met the suspect during a party at the Delta Hotel.Near the end of the night, the victim reportedly does not remember much of what happened.She remembered being driven home by the suspect, but not what he looked like, the car he drove or even the roads they took to get home.At some point during the night the suspect stole numerous items from the victim's apartment and fled.One of the victim’s friends noticed her leaving the hotel with the suspect and was able to help 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Computer education network celebrates 10 years By Evan LePage It has been ten years since the AIDE-PAC network was formed and since that time the grouping of 18 organizations has educated around 10,000 Sherbrooke residents on how to use computers, programs and the internet.The community organization celebrated its tenth birthday with a press conference at the Carrefour de TEstrie Thursday, during which time Sherbrooke’s mayor, Bernard Sévigny, took the opportunity to salute the work AIDE-PAC has done thus far.“The role that this network plays in the Sherbrooke community is far more important than you could believe,” the mayor said.According to the Sévigny, as technology develops it risks creating a gap between those who are familiar with the products and those who are not.“The role the AIDE-PAC network plays is to mitigate those consequences and to bring back a section of the population that are stuck in the gap caused by the emergence of new information technologies,” he said.“It joins a clientele of females, young people, the elderly, and people with difficulties, members of the public who otherwise would not have access to computers and who would not have the capacities or abilities to be able to navigate online.” The president of AIDE-PAC, Mohamed Soulami, made a presentation which highlighted the positive response the organization has received from those who have benefitted from its teaching services.One former student spoke of how she was taught her the value of computer program Microsoft Excel, which she now uses for planning and organizing events.According to Soulami, the classes have a satisfaction rate of 98 per cent, something Sévigny said was a “testi- mony to its impact on the community.” In addition to programs like Excel and Word, AIDE-PAC teaches course on internet usage and specific email and website usage, including Facebook.Classes like these serve a valuable purpose in themselves, the mayor stated.“Obviously we’re talking about an inter-generational impact.Grand-par ents from anywhere talking to their grand-kids across the planet, that's fantastic," he said.“We’re talking specifically about integration, the fight against isolation.It’s extremely important.” The AIDE-PAC network, fimded by Industry Canada, unites 18 organizations in the Sherbrooke region, including Ser-covie and the Estrie Scouts.Formed in 2001, the network’s mandate is to provide internet access and courses in computer literacy to the people it serves, people who often lack the means to afford an internet connection and computer equipment at home.IVAN LEPAGE According to Mayor Bernard Sévigny, technology t risks rreuting u gup between those who are familiar with the products and those who are not.The AIDE-PAC network has for ten years worked to close that gap.Unhappy Citizens CONT’D FROM PAGE 1 Dusseault started the discussion off by raising the issue of the F-35 jets and questioning whether they were something the country truly needed.“Is the government going in the right direction with this?For the first time last week they seemed to back up a bit on this file, because we don’t know what the price is and we don’t know how many they will buy,” he said.“This is another element it will be important to follow in the next budget.” One citizen quickly picked up on the issue, stating “considering we already have enough equipment to destroy the planet 50 times over, I do not see how Canadians can need more weapons.The more money we put into the military, the more we create enemies.Pacifistic countries do not have enemies.” Dusseault stated his personal belief that buying the F-35s might give other nations the impression that Canada had other intentions besides for peace missions.“The F-35s are combat planes, attack planes, and it is not with them that we will strengthen our image as a peaceful nation,” he stated.That said, when asked how the NDP would protect Canada’s assets and Arctic territory without the planes, the MP said that they were not anti-military, they just felt that the Conservatives had rushed the buying process, committing money before even knowing the cost of the planes.“We think the process has gone much too fast and I think we should wait for the real numbers.Now it’s like a blind purchase,” he said.“We want to slow down the process and get our money’s worth.And possibly not buy 65 (jets) either." According to Dusseault, the NDP is expecting the federal budget, which is to be filed Mar.29, will contain significant cuts to services of five to 10 per cent, something he finds worrying.He cited employment insurance and the department of veterans’ affairs as examples of sectors that have already expert- Danville Trinity United Church foundation to meet An examination of the financial books and the choosing of new officers will lead the discussion topics at the annual meeting of the Trinity United church foundation next Monday evening (Mar.26).The foundation was started in 2008 to raise money for the maintenance and preservation of the 137 year-old church in the town square, situated at 43 Grove st.“We want to preserve the building and its historic architecture for the present and the future,” said foundation vice-president Michel Plourde, who is also a member of the Danville town council.“The church is an important symbol of Danville.” Plourde added the meeting is open to the public because the foundation is not just for people of the United church denomination.“Not all members of the foundation are members of the Trinity congregation,” he said.“So, everybody is welcome to attend the meeting and give their input.” The meeting will be held in the church basement, starting at 7 p.m.For more information, contact Plourde at 819-839-1394.- Submitted by Stephen McDougall enced cuts and where services would really suffer with further reductions to funding.Returning to the issue of the fighter jets, Dusseault questioned an expenditure of billions of dollars while simultaneously cutting money from public services.“We think we should instead spend that money on the services for veterans who really need them,” he said.A variety of budget issues were raised by citizens during the two-hour consultation.One man called for increased funding for arts while another asked for increased spending in the environmental sector, both stances Dusseault said he supported.On a more local level, the MP said his own priority for the budget would be the improvement of the Sherbrooke airport and the larger issue of increasing funding for rural regions.“The Sherbrooke airport is something I’m following closely and it’s an issue that comes up a lot.We saw tonight that it’s important for the majority of people,’ he said.“Personally I’m working a lot on this file and I will be trying to bring it as far as possible and to prioritize it.” Despite the low turn-out, Dusseault said he was happy that people were vocal with their concerns as it allows him to better represent their interests in Ot- EVAN LEPAGE tawa.“For me this was a time when I could hear what people had to say because when I am in Ottawa I’m there to represent people from Sherbrooke, that’s why I was elected.So if I don’t have these discussions with people 1 will have a harder time representing them,” he said, adding that “It would have been interesting to have more people turn out but in the future perhaps if we do something more precise, possibly on a particular law project, experts and people interested in the issue will come out.DART STARTS AT 1 P.M.Mixed doubles/ bong your own partner CANCER 7 games 301 $5./player For information Mary Dezan 819-823-1392 Saturday.April welcome! f r .rj Page 4 Friday, March 23, 2012 newsroom@sherbrookerecord.com The Record Animal shelter filling up; looking for families Gaston Smokey Moumou i 4 'fr- Wm$f' 1-J1 , " * » After taking in a large number of animals, the Eastern Townships SPA is nearing capacity, prompting the shelter to issue an urgent call for adoptive families.The local Society for the Protection of Animals is looking for good owners who are ready to make a lifetime com- mitment to one of the more than 65 cats and 28 dogs looking for new homes.With 50 dogs currently at the shelter, more than the amount of available pens, the need is especially great to place the dogs.Overcrowding is a common problem for most shelters but one that could be avoided if owners sterilized their pets, according to Eastern Townships SPA spokesperson Cathy Bergeron.Adoption fees cost $115 for a cat and $175 for a dog, and the animals come with health guarantee and have been vaccinated, de-wormed, micro-chipped, and most importantly, spayed or neutered.To learn more about the animals up for adoption, visit the SPA's web site at spaestrie.qc.ca, call 819 821-4727 (option 6) or visit the Sherbrooke shelter at 1139 Queen-Victoria Blvd.Lerakis Cormier I'd like a variable rate.tw ¦ f a'i 'd like a fixed rate.1 i\ HYBRID MORTGAGES, THE FLEXIBLE SOLUTION and protect your investment with Loan Insurance.Talk to your advisor.I! u m desjardins.com/home Desjardins Cooperating in building the future À—f—-*£- • V'V * .• $1.5 million to regional health care info assets The Quebec government has announced an investment of over $1.5 million into the maintenance of information assets of the health and social services network of the Es-trie region.“With the rapid development of information technology, it is important to have equipment such as computers and modern servers to meet the modem needs of health and social services facilities,” said minister responsible for the Estrie region Monique Gagnon-Tremblay in a statement.“We are investing considerable sums each year to ensure that information technology equipment is as efficient as possible, and to meet key objectives of safety, accessibility and stability of the network.” The province’s funding contribution, which will total exactly $1,567,931, was made by Gagnon-Tremblay Thursday on behalf of health and social services minister Yves Bolduc.Provincially, $31.1 million annually is put towards the mainteance of IT equipment.Generally, desktop computers need to be replaced every five years and laptops every four, according to a press release.In the Estrie region, an estimade 8,300 IT workstations exist in the health and social services sector.Robber - Cont’d from page 2 During the crime the suspect was wearing straight cut Levi’s jeans with a white t-shirt.The suspect reportedly looked like he did not take very good care of himself and had à few-day-old beard.Anyone with information that could help identify the suspect is being asked to contact detective Élisabeth Deschênes of the Sherbrooke Police Service criminal investigation unit at 819-822-6080 ext.4364.Justice I BELIEVE.I GIVE.and take 1 888 234-8533 www.devp.6rg 4* 4 *