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Hockey great Wayne Gretzky lights the outdoor Vancouver 2010 Olympic cauldron at the conclusion of the Olympic Opening Ceremony in Vancouver Friday evening.

Flame burns bright Bethany Lindsay

blindsay@nsnews.com DESPITE some technical difficulties, a quintet of prominent Canadians lit the Olympic flame in unison on Friday, ending days of speculation about the identity of the final torchbearer.

Basketball star Steve Nash joined hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, speed-skater Catriona Le May Doan, skier Nancy Greene and “Man in Motion” Rick Hansen to light the flame in a ceremony that was slightly tarnished by a supporting pillar that refused to rise from the ground at BC Place.

Betty Fox, mother of Terry Fox, was a favourite to carry the final torch, but instead she helped bring in the Olympic flag.

The three-hour ceremony featured a moment

of silence for 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who died during training on Friday. As the athletes paraded into the stadium, the Georgian team was given a standing ovation.

The ceremony included musical performances

by Bryan Adams, Nelly Furtado and Sarah McLachlan, as well as interpretive dance and light shows on a grand scale, depicting Canada’s landscape — from ocean to prairie to mountain.

North Vancouver’s James Zinck was part of the cast for a tribute to the Canadian traditions of fiddling and tap-dancing featuring Ashley MacIsaac. Zinck said that he started rehearsing his role in December.

“We probably spent about 20 to 30 hours a

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blindsay@nsnews.com AS the 2010 Winter Olympic Games finally open, there are still a few options for last-minute ticket hunters with a little extra cash.

Leading up to the games, prime tickets for selected high-demand events were available in weekly VANOC auctions, the last of which will end Sunday. Bids for four seats at the gold medal game in men’s hockey were at $18,500 by Friday afternoon and still climbing.

Tickets are still being resold by their original buyers on the official VANOC website, vancouver2010. com. On Friday, few tickets were available for most competitions, but seats at the opening and closing ceremonies were still up for grabs, and ticket holders still have time to post their seats for sale.

Tickets sold through VANOC’s resale system are reprinted and then issued to buyers; once sold, the seller’s ticket will be invalidated. Any tickets that aren’t sold by 24 hours before the event’s start will be cancelled, but sellers can remove their postings for unsold tickets at any point before then.

Buyers of resold tickets for Vancouver events can pick

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Welcome to our world The North Shore News will be publishing the Games Daily every day up to and including Sunday, Feb. 28.

Each issue will have stories about our local athletes, Canada’s medal successes, local features and scores of photographs from the North Shore’s five Celebration sites.

The Games Daily will be available each afternoon at the Celebration sites: Lonsdale Quay; Lynn Valley Town Centre; Grouse Mountain; Park Royal Shopping Centre; Spirit Square, West Vancouver. It can also be found in nearby Games Daily drop boxes.

You won’t have to go there to find a copy, though. Readers can check out the Games Daily before it hits the street by clicking on the Games Daily link at www.nsnews.com.

Take A Trabi to the Games Rolf Becker may well have chosen one of the most challenging ways to get to — and around — Vancouver:

by Trabant.

The famous, some say infamous, East German car is powered (if that’s the right word) by a 26 horsepower engine and has been out of production since 1991.

Nevertheless Becker has been to every Olympics in a Trabi since 1989.

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We’re ready for the 2010 Winter Games.

TransLink has added transit services across the board for the Games to help you get to where you want to go. These include more frequent SkyTrain service, extra SeaBus sailings, special West Coast Express evening and weekend trains, plus more buses offering more connections—including extended late-night service on many routes. All Games venues in Metro Vancouver are served by major transit routes from various parts of our region.

Visit TravelSmart2010.ca to plan your Games transit travel.

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Cauldron stays The Olympic and Paralympic cauldron, set ablaze by a squad of Canada’s most prominent athletes yesterday, will be displayed permanently after the Games in Jack Poole Plaza, near Canada Place.

The plaza will officially be dedicated to the founding chairman of the VANOC, who passed away only hours after the Olympic torch began its journey in Greece.

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Rolf Becker and the latest of his many Trabants await the start of the Games. Becker has been to every Games in the inconic but unreliable Trabi since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

Downhill Hopes Manuel OsborneParadis and Robbie Dixon ready to fly

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The Olympics or bust

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blindsay@nsnews.com “WHAT do you call a Trabi on a mountain?

A miracle,” according to quirky German traveller Rolf Becker, using an affectionate nickname for his East German-made Trabant compact car.

Becker’s beloved Trabi rolled off a ship in the North Vancouver port on Monday to mark the beginning of his 11th Olympic visit — he’s been to

every Games, both summer and winter, since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989.

“I have been with this car on all continents,” he said.

His trips are sponsored by companies that pay to plaster advertisements on the Trabi, and Becker estimates that he spends only about a third of each year at home in Germany.

He’ll be staying in an RV parked at the port during his two-week visit to B.C. When asked why he follows

the Games so faithfully, Becker said, “Sometimes I ask myself this question too. But it is so good to see different people. I enjoy this.”

And people enjoy him, too.

While attending events, Becker wears a signature costume made up of a black bowler hat, red scarf and black vest. “The athletes enjoy me. I am the mascot of the German team,” he said.

The Trabi, unfortunately, missed the most recent

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Summer Games in Beijing, China, because it didn’t have legal licence plates. “They stopped us at the border between Mongolia and China.”

Becker has a raft of jokes about his small, less-thanpowerful Trabant, which has been out of production since 1991 and boasts a 26-horsepower, two-stroke engine. “How much time does

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Slow but steady wins the race From page 3

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Manuel Osborne-Paradis’ training run was hampered by fog.

Robbie Dixon flies down Whistler mountain Wednesday. Dixon posted the second-best run Thursday.

Downhill hopes are high Benjamin Alldritt

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balldritt@nsnews.com Two of the North Shore’s top medal contenders woke up this morning ready to get right into the Olympic action.

Manuel Osborne-Paradis and Robbie Dixon are both downhill skiers and both want nothing more than to be the first Canadian to win gold on home soil.

Expectations run high for the duo after Dixon posted the second-best time in training,

only nine hundredths of a second off the lead. OsborneParadis was well back in 22nd place after fog and failing light complicated his run. Officials cancelled further practice runs later Friday as the weather closed in.

Training times are not necessarily a clue to competition results, however, as racers often use the opportunity to experiment and familiarize themselves with the course.

But neither OsborneParadis nor Dixon really needs

an introduction to the Dave Murray Downhill course in Whistler. The two North Vancouverites, who now share a house in Calgary, grew up racing on the course and already have thousands of runs under their combined belts.

Their shot at Olympic glory will cap an extremely successful season for both skiers.

Osborne-Paradis, 25, already has three podium finishes in World Cup skiing this year, and a pair of gold medals gracing his mantelpiece. Originally

from Deep Cove, he arrived in Whistler ranked third in the world in the downhill skiing discipline. This is his second Olympic appearance, having competed in Turin in 2006.

Dixon, also 25, is already enjoying a career season. He has posted four top-eight times in downhill on the World Cup circuit so far and one fifthplace finish in Super G. The Edgemont Village product boasts a 16th-place rank in downhill going into his Olympic debut.

Although Whistler has not been plagued by the same uncooperative climate as the Cypress Mountain venue, weather conditions will be a factor both in race scheduling and possibly the final results. The racing surface and visibility can both change rapidly as snow and fog roll across the mountains.

Downhill is the longest and fastest of the alpine skiing events. Competitors get a single run down the 3,105-metre course, featuring more than a kilometre of vertical drop. The quickest time takes the title.

Racers can reach speeds of up to 130 kilometres per hour.

Both will be back on the slopes Feb. 19, in the Super G..

it take a Trabi to accelerate from zero to 100 kilometres per hour?” he asks. The answer: “In the same day.”

But he also brags about the car’s nimble handling. This summer, Becker participated in a rally across Europe and Africa, and his tiny Trabi survived a treacherous trip into Timbuktu, Mali — a potholed journey that drivers in Hummers and other SUVs declined to even attempt.

“We do not drive with the brain of a four-by-four driver.

We look for the holes and we go around,” Becker said.

Becker grew up in communist East Germany, where he made a living as a busker. “I graduated as an engineer . . . but this was not for me.”

Instead of pushing paper behind a desk, he decided to hit the streets with a windup organ and a Borscht Belt comedy routine. His act led Becker to the first of more than a dozen records in the Guinness Book of World Records for grinding his organ for 48 straight hours. He said he did it to deflect some of the heat after the East German government expressed displeasure with some political jokes he included in his routine.

“If I’m famous, I’m a little bit immune,” Becker reasoned.

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VANOC warns of invalid tickets From page 1

Games lovers take on protest

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them up at the main ticketing centre at Robson Square or at the box office of the event venue.

VANOC is warning ticket buyers that resale is only authorized through the site and official vendor Jet Set Sports, and dealing with other vendors could end in purchasing invalid tickets.

“There is a high degree of risk that any such products obtained from unauthorized parties will be recognized as invalid. VANOC recommends that you not deal with these unauthorized parties,” according to the committee’s website.

Despite those warnings, Craigslist was flooded this week with Olympic tickets for sale. On Friday, a single ticket to the men’s gold medal hockey game was selling for $3,500, compared to the official VANOC price of $775.

Although fraud is clearly a concern for tickets sold through Craigslist, one online seller offering a pair tickets to the opening ceremonies at $1,200 each promised to attend the ceremonies and walk into BC Place with the buyer to prove the tickets’ validity.

VANOC is also suggesting that ticket holders who are unable to attend events can donate their tickets to the Celebrate 2010 program, which was set up to distribute tickets to needy families.

Channelling Ken Dryden This goalie keeps an eye on the action in a pond hockey game on artificial ice at the City of North Vancouver’s Civic Plaza, part of Wednesday’s Olympic Torch Relay celebrations.

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week, so it’s quite substantial,” he said.

While neither he nor most of the cast were paid, the time commitment was worth it, Zinck said. “Just to be part of something like this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

City of North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto attended a dress rehearsal for the opening ceremony earlier this week, and then ponied up another $500 to watch the real deal last night.

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He said he thinks the show is worth seeing twice in person, but predicted people watching at home would not be disappointed either.

“I think it’s going to be just as exciting on TV. You can tell that it was made for TV,” the mayor said.

He said he particularly loved the acrobatic re-enactment of Olympic mountain sports, which featured performers strung by wires from the ceiling. “It’s pretty phenomenal.

You can’t even see the wires,” Mussatto said.

WEST Vancouverite Jason Dussault led a crowd of pro-Olympic protesters through downtown Vancouver Friday, chanting, “You say protest, we say party.”

The crowd met antiOlympic protesters at the Vancouver Art Gallery. “No punches were thrown, but a couple times there was some tussles,” Dussault said, estimating that a crowd numbering about 500 faced off with about 600 protesters.

“If anything got really heated, I got some big guys with me, and those guys would get in between.”

Dussault, a clothing designer, said that he wanted to rally Olympics supporters and counter the protests planned for Friday. The demonstration started with a page on Facebook, and snowballed as the group grabbed people off the street.

“I pulled it off. I’m super proud of myself,” said Dussault.

— Bethany Lindsay

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Keep your eyes on the tube for the following events scheduled for today: 5:30 PM TSN: Short Track Speed Skating, Men’s 1,500 m finals, women’s 500 m qualification and 3,000 m semifinals.

MIDNIGHT CTV, Sportsnet, TSN: Highlights of today’s competition.

MSNBC: Women’s hockey: Canada vs. Slovakia.

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4 AM The Today Show will be filmed in the Chalet Atrium until 8 a.m. Today’s guests include NBC sports anchor Alan Abrahamson, Dave Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men’s Health Magazine and Bob Sung, coordinator of Wok Around Chinatown.

8 PM Twenty-year-old singer/songwriter Shea Alain of Yellowknife will be performing a two-hour set of his sensitive and introspective music, described as easy listening.

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Held on The Cut.

Park Royal The ice skating canal Noon is built on a section of Main Street in The Village at Park Royal. The rink is about 1,828 square metres in size. Skate rentals can be found in the pedestrian area between Whole Foods and Cactus Club.

Catch all the Noon action from the Games on the big screen with the CTV Live Feed broadcast, showing daily.

Drinks, including 4 PM beer and wine, will be available for thirsty shoppers and skaters until 10 p.m. each night.

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11 AM Mad Hatter and Alice in Wonderland.

Hockey shots, 10 AM “Kurling” co-hosted by Curling B.C. and the North Shore Winter Club, Biathlon and Wii Sports will be available all day.

As the curtains lifted on Day 1 of the Games, the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili left some scratching their heads about broadcasters’ decision to air the footage. Here’s an insert from the #van2010 thread on Twitter yesterday. enniscath: I knew the Olympic coverage would make me cry, but thought I would cry tears of joy and pride, not sorrow. wfehler: Shame on the media for sensationalizing that poor young man’s death.

Stop. Showing. It. In. Slow. Motion.

Meanwhile, the case of the mistaken Fox made Today Show host Meredith Vieira meat for tweets. mattbleasdale: LOL epic fail. NBC reports Michael J Fox’s mom Betty is fav to light torch because the actor ran across Canada for Cancer.

Noon

Jerry the Moose will chat with kids and parents about the beauty and importance of parks in B.C.

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Acrobatic daredevil juggler Piper McKenzie will keep the audience on their toes.

4 PM Vancouver Indie band mix up folk, jazz and rock on the Main Stage.

11 AM 11 AM Molly the Mountaineer will be on hand to talk to children about mountaineering on the North Shore.

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CTV: Women’s 3,000-metre speedskating; Skiing: women’s super combined, nordic combined.

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CTV: Freestyle skiing: men’s moguls; Figure skating: pairs short program; Men’s luge; Medal ceremonies.

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8 PM

Bobby Bruce’s talent for impersonating Neil Diamond has led him on a global tour with Legends in Concert.

He’s performed in Las Vegas, South East Asia, Australia and now he’ll hit the stage in West Vancouver.

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8 PM Singer/songwriter Shea Alain of Yellowknife will be performing.

Brooklyn-based DJ Ayres 10 PM will be spinning everything from hip hop to house, bass, reggae, rock and roll and classics in Altitudes Bistro until 2 a.m.

The ice skating canal Noon is built on a section of Main Street in The Village at Park Royal. The rink is about 1,828 square metres in size. Skate rentals can be found in the pedestrian area between Whole Foods and Cactus Club.

Catch all the Noon action from the Games on the big screen with the CTV Live Feed broadcast, showing daily.

Drinks, including 4 PM beer and wine, will be available for thirsty shoppers and skaters until 10 p.m. each night.

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11 AM Singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Roger Schmidt will be performing country hits at WinterFest.

9 AM

Cloudy with showers. High: 8 degrees Celsius; low: 4 degrees Celsius.

Probability of precipitation: 70 per cent.

Put on 2 PM your dancing shoes and get ready for some Rotunda dance lessons followed by a performance by Rotunda Chinese dancers at 4:30 p.m.

Singer and 10 AM puppeteer Norman Foote creates songs, stories and props to delight the eyes and ears. His concerts are filled with entertaining stories from his own youth.

n international 6:30 PM specialty act for more than seven years, Miss Molotov and her fire fingers will be heating things up on the main stage.

Playing hits from the 5:30 PM ’50s to the present, The Hitmen is a six-man band that combines musicianship, vocal harmonies and a playful sense of humour.

The Games may have started but don’t forget about Valentine’s Day.

Scattered showers.

High: 3 degrees Celsius; low: -1 degree Celsius.

Probability of precipitation: 70 per cent.

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Probability of precipitation: 60 per cent.

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Photos clockwise from top left: Daniel and Alisa Goman wear their colours on the opening day.

North Shore kids Nova Dexter and Sam Norman sit under the flag at West Vancouver’s Spirit Square.

Maria Porubanskaya (left) and Violetta and Elena Kobzeva show their enthusiasm for Canada’s Games.

Sammie Berg and Rob Perdue show their support for Canadian athletes.

Nicole Spencer (left), Neda Bieber and Paniz BahmanNezhad wear their hearts on their sleeves — and their foreheads.

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Andrew Messenger and Zara Dina came down to the Spirit Square to watch the Opening Ceremonies.

North Shore residents Tiffany Kanak and Hailey Boehner flash their smiles.

Lily Landy and Christine Grigorian volunteer at the West Vancouver Spirit Square.

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Photos clockwise from top left: Mark and Pam Roma are all smiles after the Opening Ceremonies.

Chris Campbell (left), Bev Laird and Jacqueline Scott didn’t forget to bring their official mittens.

The dress code was red for Carley Laleune, Trevor St. James and Phil Saxe.

Taylor Watson and Jennifer Love greet their guests with a pair of smiles.

Eight-year-old Kate and 11year-old Macy Ducoeur came all the way from Idaho to see the Olympics open from West Vancouver.

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Vincent and Aleksandra Taylor came out to watch the 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremonies.

There was no shortage of Canadian red in the closets of Kelci Roper (left), Hannah Locke and Derek Sabourin.

Scott Ducoeur enjoys the Opening Ceremonies with his boys Jack (left), 9, and Joe, 5.

Craig McLachlan and WendyJo Kennedy are eager for the Games to start.

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Sandy and Gary Bellamy are excited to watch Team Canada play hockey.

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Fawn Brown (left), Justine Frese and Lisa Strychar cheer on Canadian athletes.

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Juliette and Fanny Sachet share their smiles.

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Photos clockwise from top left: Jorge Gonzalez and 11-year-old Camilo check out the Opening Ceremonies.

Jake Wetmore and his threeyear-old son Oliver dress in national colours.

Eleven-year-old Kiana Mackay of North Vancouver and ten-yearold Paige Lietzmann of Walnut Grove cheer on Canada.

German couple Michael and Anja Fahlke cheer on Germany’s athletes as they’re introduced in the Opening Ceremonies.

Bob McCormack, co-chair of the Lynn Valley Festival and torch bearer through Lynn Canyon and Ida Paddock, a volunteer with the Mounties, enjoy the show.

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Birthday girl Makenna Lietzmann, 8, and Nicole Gillingham celebrate.

Edward Leung and Kinta Maeda share their excitement.

Nico Tonino (left), Christopher Zepedeo and Alex Watson share a laugh.

Joe Sweeney (left), Kyle Petersen and Ryan McRae hang out for the Opening Ceremonies.

Marcela Spadavecchia and daughter Maya, 2, are cheering on the Czech Republic and Canada.

Hannah Potyok, 4, and her father Michael can’t wait to watch men’s hockey.

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Photos clockwise from top left: Mat Burke (left) and his daughter Elaina, 3, watch the Opening Ceremonies on the big screen.

Chatal Wyman (left), Ashkan Mehjoo and Keiko Patterson enjoy the show.

Trish and Bob Martin hang out in the food court.

Thomas Vallin, a visitor from France, waves his Canadian flag.

Cara Elrod (left) and Elizabeth Ross relax at the Quay.

Alisha Burke (left) and 20month-old Thomas take in the festivities.

Charlotte Brockman of Saskatoon and Marwan Al-Shami from Jordan visit North Vancouver for the Games.

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Morgan Lazenby (left) and Shannon Connel grab some dinner for the show.

Kris Law (left) and Kayla Katzuk are looking forward to watching speed skating and skeleton events.

Neil Vokey and Laramie Ferguson are excited for the competitions to start.

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NO PAYMENTS FOR

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MSRP Starting from

18,598

$

plus doc fee of $295

1,000

$

Price Reduction Limited Time Offer

0

%

PURCHASE FINANCING FOR UP TO

60 MONTHS

ON SELECT 2010 LANCER MODELS

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2010 LANCER SE Tearing up the road with features including†: • Fuel efficient 2.0L 152 hp 4-cylinder engine • 5-speed manual transmission or CVT • Power windows, mirrors and keyless entry • Bluetooth® hands-free phone pre-wiring • Front, side, side curtain & driver’s knee airbags

• Cruise control • Ground effects package • Heated front seats • Active Stability Control • 16" alloy wheels

• Steering wheel mounted audio controls • MP3/Auxiliary audio input jack • Air conditioning • Fog lamps

NORTH SHORE MITSUBISHI 725 MARINE DRIVE, NORTH VANCOUVER

604-983-2378

www.northshore-mitsubishi.ca

Smart customers always read the fine print. † Features listed are standard on 2010 Lancer SE. Technical data, equipment and options are based on the latest information at time of printing and are subject to change without notice. Vehicle may not be exactly as shown. ◊/¥ For all purchase financing offers, customers must sign contract and take delivery from dealer by March 1, 2010. All offers available only through participating dealers to qualified retail customers in Canada and are only on approved credit. See participating dealer for details. ◊ Purchase financing at 0% APR available through Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal for up 60 months on all new 2010 Lancer DE and SE models and up to 48 months on 2010 Lancer GTS models (Lancer Ralliart and Lancer Evolution models excluded). Financing example: 2010 Lancer DE (CL41-A C05) with an MSRP of $18,478 financed at 0% over 60 months equals $308 a month with a cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $18,478. MSRP includes up to $1350 in freight, up to $100 in air tax, and up to $30 in environmental handling fees. Taxes, PDI, PPSA, registration, insurance, licensing, administration fees, documentation fees, other dealer fees, and any additional provincial government fees are not included. 2010 Lancer GTS model shown with an MSRP of $25,078. ¥ No payments for 90 days. Offer applies to purchase financing offers on new 2010 Mitsubishi models through the Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal. Interest charges (if any) will not accrue during the first 60 days after purchaser signs contract for a participating vehicle. After the first 60 days interest (if any) starts to accrue and the purchaser will repay principal and interest (if any) monthly over the term of the contract. * Whichever comes first. Regular maintenance not included. See dealer or mitsubishi-motors.ca for warranty terms, restrictions and details. Not all customers will qualify. ** Best backed claim does not cover Lancer Evolution and Ralliart models. See dealer or Mitsubishi-motors.ca for Education Edge terms, conditions, and other details. ® MITSUBISHI MOTORS, BEST BACKED CARS IN THE WORLD are trade-marks of Mitsubishi Motors North America, Inc. and are used under license.

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