The Vancouver Sun from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 17

The-ncoiverSln Vv4 The 30-metre dragon makes its way along the seawall surrounding the Second Beach Pool during Sunday's Walk With The Dragon fund-raiser around Stanley Park. IAN SMITHVANCOUVER SUN SECTION MAIN! ND mm. mm i A AND BRITISH COLUMBIA CITY EDITOR: VALERIE CASSELTON 604-605-2125 MONDAY, JULY 22, 2002 MOUNTAIN SURVIVAL. lU I WOODEN ACTORS Dummies hang out at special-effects moguls movie party, Malcolm Parr); Page W) Merritt residents see a brighter future despite a struggling ulW resource economy and government cuts, PagcB7 7 -V 4 B.C. UPDATE Citytv Vancouver starts today Znaimer confident 30-year-old formula will work in Vancouver By MICHAEL McCULLOUGH "ou may have driven past the repainted stu I 1.

dio by now, or seen the little teaser ads on TV. But today when you turn on Channel 13, it will all look different. COURTESY OF BCTVGLOBAL Shane Ertmoed is seen on this RCMP videotape being interrogated. Jury sees video confession On July 18, a jury watches a dramatic videotaped confession to police by accused child killer Shane Ertmoed. He describes how he lured Heather Thomas, 10, of Surrey to his Cloverdale townhbuse two years ago, murdered her and tried to cover up the crime.

Ertmoed's lawyer is arguing the confession is false. Doctors' agreement B.C. doctors vote July 16 to accept an agreement negotiated earlier this year with the provincial government, setting the Today is the day CKVU television rebrands itself Citytv Vancouver, injecting yet another new look into an already confused Lower Mainland television market. From the fat-lettered logo on down, it's loud, it's proud, and it's all on a background of hipster black, in contrast to the wholesome whites and low-octane colours we're used to seeing on network television from both sides of the border. But as Citytv executives are quick to point out, it's more than just changing the look.

They promise to change the way television is presented on the West Coast. It will be less formal, less scripted, more verite. It will have a new morning talk show, an overhauled evening news show with an "unbuttoned perspective" (tonight's newscast features a one-on-one interview with Pamela Anderson in her Los Angeles home) and more movies. The breaks between programs will be as important as the programs themselves. It will move away from "appointment television," toward what Citytv co-founder Moses Znaimer calls And how did the station arrive at this concept? It didn't draw it out of market research or set its marketing team off on a brainstorming retreat.

It took the brand, lock, stock and barrel, straight out of the Toronto market where it was born 30 years ago and plunked it down in Vancouver. 0 5" 'i A 'V I 'i 'v 1 i LJ stage tor a bid to repair relations between physicians and Liberal politicians damaged by a dispute that saw thousands of operations cancelled. Air India fraud claim RCMP are reviewing allegations that two adult children of accused Air India bomber Inder-jit Singh Reyat made fraudulent claims for legal aid payments while they worked for his defence team. Gil McKinnon, a former member of the defence team, went public July 12 with his claim that Didar and Prit Reyat submitted claims for double the hours they actually worked on the case. Survivor's licence revoked The Langley man who miraculously survived eight days trapped in nis wrecked car near Williams Lake last year Pi See GLOBAL SHRUGS Bll Breakfast show is first up By ALEX STRACHAN You may be too busy outdoors enjoying summer to notice, but as of today, the latest, local incarnation of Citytv will finally flicker into being.

After years of bidding to break into the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley TV market, Toronto's upstart urban-oriented, culturally diverse Citytv will bring its brand of taking-it-to-the-streets news and information programming to Canada's second-largest English-speaking municipality, in the channel position formerly occupied by CKVU 13. Citytv's co-founder and CHUM-City president and CEO Moses Znaimer says Citytv's job will be to reflect Vancouver, to serve as a mirror by providing programming that's local and an integral part of the loses his dn ver's licence a "5 The provincial of Motor Vehicles took awav loe Joe Spring NICK DIDLICKSPECIAL TO VANCOUVER SUN Monika Deol will work for Citytv Vancouver as a night news anchor on CityPulse Tonight, which airs at 11 p.m. Spring's licence July 9, claiming he suffered brain damage from his ordeal in May 2001. Libin attacker sentenced D.ude Lenon, 24, is sentenced July 4 to just over six years in jail as the "leader of the pack" that attacked Joel Libin, leaving the 17-year-old so badly injured he had to relearn how to walk and talk. See COMEDIC CO-HOSTS Bll Vancouver Aquarium population grows by one baby beluga By GWENDOLYN RICHARDS Lenon's two accomplices, also from the Musqueam reserve in Vancouver, are already serving 18 months under house arrest.

Gill gets six years Peter Gill, who had an affair with Gillian Guess while she was a juror at his murder trial, is sentenced July 2 to nearly six years in jail for obstruction of justice. Aquarium executive director John Nightingale said the crowds that gathered around the pool to watch the birth were quiet as Aurora went through four hours of labour. "They stifled a cheer when the baby popped out," he said. Staff knew the baby was close to arriving when they noticed a drop in Aurora's progesterone levels last week. Then, on Thursday, she stopped eating a sign the birth would be soon.

Around 2:30 p.m. Saturday, the baby's tail popped out, signalling the start of labour, and the baby beluga was born at 6:40 p.m. The new addition is over a metre long and weighs between 50 and 60 kilograms, Nightingale said. The baby remains nameless. Nightingale said the aquarium will probably hold a naming contest, but hasn't planned anything yet.

Volunteers and trainers are taking notes on the new beluga's breathing and his attempts at nursing. While he's managed to latch on a few times, by Sunday afternoon, he still hadn't managed to feed. Nightingale said it usually takes about 24 hours for baby belugas to begin nursing. While staff keep a watchful eye, Nightingale said there are See MOTHER AURORA B2 It's a baby beluga boy. The Vancouver Aquarium's 14-year-old beluga, Aurora, gave birth to her second calf Saturday evening under the watchful eye of aquarium staff and about 200 visitors who had some lucky timing.

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