Ontario mom faces $2M libel suit for website about problems in neighbourhood
By MIKE OLIVEIRA

(CP) - A stay-at-home mother of three who created a website to alert the government about allegedly dangerous environmental problems in her southwestern Ontario neighbourhood is facing a $2 million libel suit by one of the developers she reported on.

Louisette Lanteigne of Waterloo, Ont., said she grew sick of what she saw during construction in her new subdivision and what appeared to be questionable building practices and labour-code violations.

She said she was constantly keeping her kids and their friends out of trouble, as they would keep running into hazards around their neighbourhood. She petitioned city council and got help but new problems would appear as quickly as the old ones got fixed, she said.

“They call me an environmental activist, but I see myself as more of a mom who’s just trying to be heard,” said the 36-year-old mother of three girls aged 21 months, nine and 12.

“My kids were at risk and nobody helped me, and I’m worried about other kids too, that’s the bottom line,” she said in a telephone interview, breaking into tears. “Nobody protected me and now I’m getting sued.”

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This is outrageous. Another attempt by a big corporation to silence those willing to speak out when the corporation doesn’t do right. Louisette, here’s hoping you prevail. If there’s anything you need, let me know!

Here are some photos of Hannah at this weekend’s hockey practice. They’ve got their jerseys now, and she’s sooo happy to be number 5, since her favorite player Derek Landmesser is number 55.

And here she is with a serious case of helmet head.

Don Parsons scored the game winner and Guy St. Vincent made 24 saves as the Memphis RiverKings defeated the Bossier-Shreveport Mudbugs 3-1 at the DeSoto Civic Center Friday night. Parsons’ power play goal, his 7th of the season, at 16:26 of the third period was a redirection of a Derek Landmesser shot and broke a 1-1 stalemate.

Landmesser then followed three minutes later with an empty net goal from his own blue line to finish the deal.

Jeremy Wray, who left the game in the second period due to injury, opened the scoring with the only goal of the first period at 16:51. The unassisted goal was his second of the season. Scott Sheppard scored his team-high eighth goal of the season on the power play in the second period to tie the game at one. Thanks to St Vincent and some timely Memphis defense, it would be the only goal scoring the Mudbugs would get. St. Vincent made key stops all game long and held the second highest scoring team in the league well below their 4.25 goals per game average. Andrew Martin was almost equally solid, saving 22 of 24 shots in the loss for Bossier-Shreveport.

The RiverKings went one for eight with the power play while Bossier-Shreveport went one for six. Both teams had 25 shots, with Memphis holding the important third period advantage 12-7.

Memphis halted a brief two-game losing streak and in the process handed the Mudbugs their third straight defeat after beginning the season 5-0-1. It was the RiverKings first victory over Bossier-Shreveport this season after two close losses.

The RiverKings travel to Wichita for a Sunday 5:05 p.m. game against the team with the most points in the CHL. The RiverKings and Thunder can be heard on Sports 56 WHBQ (AM 560) with the pre-game beginning at 4:45.

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Rayz thump ‘Kings 7-4, Beaudry chased out in 1st
The Corpus Christi Rayz broke open a 1-1 game with four goals in the final 5:30 of the first period boosting them to a 7-4 victory over the Memphis RiverKings Thursday night at the DeSoto Civic Center. Rayz veteran Bernie John had a goal and 3 assists and Josh Miskovich had a pair of goals to help the Rayz end a 2-game losing skid and send Memphis into one.

The Rayz struck first on Miskovich’s first of the night, an unassisted goal that came after a turnover in the Memphis end, at 9:36 of the first. Dorian Anneck’s fourth of the season tied it at 14:23 on the power-play, but what began just 13 seconds later would quickly snowball into a 5-1 first intermission lead for the Rayz. Derrick McIver scored with 5:22 left on the clock and by the time it read :29, John, Randy Murphy and Shawn Legault had scored to make it 5-1. That’s 4 goals in a span of 4:53.

Memphis outscored Corpus 3-2 in the final two periods on two goals from Ryan Campbell and another from Travis Banga, but it just wasn’t enough to overcome the Rayz.

Miguel Beaudry, who was pulled after the fifth goal, took the loss in the nets while the Rayz’ Brent Zelenewich was the winning goalie with 36 saves on 40 shots. The RiverKings out-shot their opponents for just the second time this season, finishing with a 40-31 advantage.

Corpus Christi improved to 4-3-0 while Memphis lost their second straight and fell to 2-4-0 with Bossier-Shreveport coming to the DeSoto Civic Center tomorrow (Friday) night at 7:05.

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This is too cool! It’s a movie made with Roller Coaster Tycoon 3, made to emulate Space Mountain. Warning: one of my coworkers said she needed a Dramamine to watch it!

Space Mountain Movie

Tonight we’re taking on the Corpus Christi Rayz at 7:05 here at the DCC. Here’s hoping we turn things around and kick some ass!

Looks like it filled up before I ever had a chance to get there!

He saved me yesterday with the van fiasco, and then last night was sweet as could be. He has his moments. Just wish I could make him feel half as good as he makes me feel.

Will got a slow start “getting into it” with Hannah and hockey, but he is definitely on board now! He’s gungho as ever! Last night we spent more than an hour at Sports Authority getting her hockey sticks. He had to make sure they were just right for her. He spoke to a few of our hockey loving friends and I think he got her taken care of. I’ll be sure to take more pictures of her at practice this weekend, with her new fancy gear!