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David Billings works on a chocolate sculpture yesterday at Urban Fare. The sculpture, which commemorates Vancouver’s 125th anniversary, features the Olympic Cauldron, Canada Place and North Shore Mountains.

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Carving a place in Vancouver’s history is a pretty sweet deal

Vancouver and Rogers’ Chocolates are celebrating their shared 125th anniversary by creating 30,000 limited edition tins recognizing the city’s history. The anniversary tin — which includes 15 pieces of Rogers’ most popular creations and features a historic photo of Gastown, taken a week before the great fire of 1886 — will be available in select stores across the province. Mayor Gregor Robertson said funds raised will help pay for the city’s 125 celebrations, including Summer Live at Stanley Park in July. The city also pledged to donate partial proceeds to the United Way.

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Colorado police say iPhone left in stolen truck led to capture of major car-burglary suspect.

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Today’s byelection pits premier against former director of B.C. Civil Liberties Association MATT KIELTYKA

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Voters will decide today whether Premier Christy Clark deserves a seat in the legislature.

The 192nd byelection in British Columbia’s history pits the unelected Liberal leader against NDP challenger David Eby, the B.C. Green party’s Francoise Raunet, B.C. First’s Danielle

Alie and independents Eddie Petrossian and William Gibbens for the VancouverPoint Grey seat vacated by former Premier Gordon Campbell.

Despite taking heat for avoiding debates and being accused of coasting on her popularity, Clark insists the race between her and Eby, the former director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, is a tight one.

“I think it would be reversing the tides of history

Riding The seat was vacated when Gordon Campbell resigned March 15.

The riding has 41,181 registered voters.

because the government hasn’t won a byelection in over 30 years,” Clark said this week, joking that

breaking that curse would bode well for the Canucks’ Stanley Cup curse.

Clark promised she would continue to focus on the economy and create jobs if elected.

The NDP, meanwhile, has put all its provincial muscle in the race.

New leader Adrian Dix has been campaigning hard on Eby’s behalf during a grassroots campaign focused on the environment, transportation and

engaging youth.

Yesterday, Eby pleaded with potential Green voters to back him. “(The) byelection is going to be a very close race, and Green voters will be the key to the outcome,” he said. “The only way to stop Christy Clark in this byelection is to vote NDP.” Both candidates — with their political lives on the line — will be anxiously awaiting the results after the polls close at 8 p.m.

Evacuations continue in Brandon, Man., as the swollen Assiniboine River rises dangerously.

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Other injection site to back Insite in Ottawa CONTRIBUTED

Operators of Vancouver’s other — and lesser known — supervised injection program will share their harm-reduction model with Canada’s highest court as a high-profile federal appeal to shutdown Insite gets underway in Ottawa tomorrow.

“It would be unconscionable for health-care providers such as us and Insite to send people back out on the street,” said Maxine Davis, executive director of the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, an intervener in the case.

“While the outcome is specifically about Insite, we also provide a supervised injection service.

We want to share with the court our experience and why it is important.”

While Insite, the supervised injection site in the Downtown Eastside, has

The Dr. Peter Centre in Vancouver’s West End.

been a lightning rod for controversy since it opened, the Dr. Peter Centre has quietly operated a small, supervised injection program for almost a decade in Vancouver’s West End. The program, which launched 18 months ahead of Insite, is integrated into a broad range

of services that includes hot meals, art and music therapy and counselling.

In March, Dr. Perry Kendall, B.C.’s provincial health officer, published a report recommending that supervised injection services (based on the Dr. Peter Centre model) be integrated into public health clinics across the province to reduce HIV infection.

“Once many of those basic issues in your life are being taken care of on a daily basis, you can actually begin to reflect on your life and what you may want to do to move forward in a way that is healthy,” Davis said.

The federal government brought the appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada after a pair of defeats in B.C. courts.

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Crying foul Wife of city’s over premier’s Prince of Pot spending marks 1 year

Searchers still hope to find Penticton man

The NDP has accused Premier Christy Clark of using government staff and resources to organize events during her campaign in today’s Vancouver-Point Grey byelection.

The opposition party has asked Elections B.C. to investigate the allegations, and also look at the use of Clark’s Twitter feed on the Premier’s Office website.

Searchers are holding out slim hopes for a Penticton man still missing in the Nevada wilderness four days after his 56-year-old wife was found in the couple’s stranded van.

There’s been no sign of her husband, Albert, who went looking for help on foot after their van got stuck on a backcountry road several weeks ago.

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It’s been a year since “Prince of Pot” Marc Emery was ordered extradited to the United States by the Canadian government.

“It’s hard, knowing what he goes through. Marc helped millions of people through his political activism and philanthropy, yet he suffers ... for those actions,” his wife, Jodie Emery, said in a release yesterday. METRO

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UFCW Canada Local 1518 president Ivan Limpright, right, and lawyer Chris Buchanan outline allegations against the Mexican consulate at a press conference in Vancouver yesterday.

Mexican consulate blacklisting farm workers, union says Union claims farm workers denied entry into Canada since joining Leaked documents from consulate filed to B.C. Labour Board MATT KIELTYKA

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The union representing seasonal farm workers is taking legal action against the Mexican consulate in Vancouver for allegedly blacklisting “union supporters.”

The United Food & Commercial Workers allege Mexican seasonal workers that unionized at Floralia Farms and Sidhu Nurseries in Surrey have been barred from re-entering Canada under the Canadian Season Agricultural Workers Program.

In fact, they say they have leaked documents proving the Mexican consulate in Vancouver allegedly blacklisted the employees.

“What appears to be taking place is dangerous, it’s outrageous,” said Ivan Limpright, the president of UFCW Canada Local 1518.

“When I saw the evidence I was appalled.”

The union has hired lawyer Chris Buchanan and filed an official complaint — along with the leaked consulate documents — with the British Columbia Labour Board.

Mall crash caused by Craigslist robbery A Craigslist transaction gone wrong caused a car to crash into the entrance of Lansdowne Centre in Richmond last Thursday, RCMP said.

Officers have determined the victim, who contacted the suspect through Craigslist, invited the man into his vehicle to negotiate

Buchanan says a whistleblower from within the consulate has also come forward to provide evidence at the upcoming hearing.

“The union’s allegation, if proven, will allow the labour relations board to stop the consulate from blacklisting or preventing workers from returning to Canada,” said the lawyer.

“In our view, the board has sufficient jurisdiction to stop the unlawful action that’s allegedly occurring.”

Buchanan expects the Labour Board to hear their complaint sometime this summer.

a price on two iPads.

The suspect then allegedly brandished a knife and demanded money. The victim hit the gas and crashed through the mall entrance, striking a bystander — who suffered minor injuries.

Police are warning the public to exercise caution when engaging in Craigslist transactions.

“Unfortunately this situation could happen to anyone. (In) this day and age people should not take for granted the fact you’re dealing with a stranger on the other end of the computer,” said Const. Tammy-Lyn Walker. PHYLICIA TORREVILLAS

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Developer pledges review after fire Safety plan will be evaluated to see how fire may have been prevented DARRYL DYCK/THE CANADIAN PRESS

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All safety policies and procedures will be reviewed before rebuilding starts on a controversial development in Richmond that burned to the ground last week.

While the cause of the May 3 fire at the under-construction “Remy” development, near Cambie and Garden City roads, is still under investigation, Oris Development Corporation’s Dana Westermark said his team will do everything in its power to prevent another catastrophe during the six-storey wooden buildings’ vulnerable construc-

tion phase.

“Of course we are going to review all of the polices and procedures. That’s only natural after something like this,” said Westermark.

Crews at the Remy had an extensive fire safety plan in place during construction, according to the developer. The massive fire that engulfed the site — which would have been home to two residential buildings and a daycare — occurred late at night when no one was on the premises.

Westermark said an array of 24 surveillance cameras shows “no indication” of a security breach.

Meanwhile, some interest groups continue to ques-

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tion the safety of wooden structures contentiously allowed to exceed the previous limit of four-storeys by the B.C. government. The Cement Association of Canada is calling for a provincial review of building codes and wants additional fire safety measures put in place. But Wester-

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Deliberate flooding may drown farmland

Cake. Boss Dairy Queen marks the 30th year of making birthday ice-cream cakes in Canada by setting the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest icecream cake, weighing in at 10,130.35 kilograms, in Toronto yesterday.

Brandon city official says 300 homes could be affected by controlled release Agriculture minister says no guarantee of total compensation Enforcing leave Police were patrolling Brandon’s south side to ensure residents from about 400 homes were obeying orders to leave.

Natural gas lines were shut off to homes due to fears that flood water could shift pipes and break them.

Evacuees have been given up to $29.90 a person each day and told to stay at a hotel or relative’s home.

Returning home was only allowed in order to retrieve medication or check on sump pumps.

Lourens Arendse was grading and bagging onions on his prosperous vegetable farm in south-central Manitoba as recently as Monday afternoon.

By yesterday morning, he was frantically loading sandbags into his truck to try to protect his property from the leading edge of a controlled release from the Assiniboine River.

While the province says 150 homes could be impacted by the release, at least one municipal official says as many as 300 houses and some of the province’s most fertile farmland could be swamped.

In Brandon, city crews, volunteers, army reservists

Man blames genital defect in HIV murders A man convicted of murder through HIV transmission said an undescended testicle is why “he hid sexual information about himself all his life,” forensic psychiatrist Dr. Philip Klassen told

an Ontario court yesterday.

The Crown is seeking a dangerous offender designation for Johnson Aziga, 54, convicted in 2009 of two counts of first-degree murder.

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Decisions involving the release, which could start today, were made within hours on Monday, said Kam Blight, reeve of the Municipality of Portage la Prairie.

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and then plans changed as of 11 o’clock last night.”

Blight said the province’s decision to deliberately flood the area, was made because of the consequences of an uncontrolled rush of water through a burst dike.

But many are wondering if it couldn’t have been another region to take one for the team.

Manitoba announced it would open barriers and allow the Assiniboine to spill over a 225-squarekilometre area to relieve pressure on downstream dikes. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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10,000 kg with icing on top

Hundreds of people turned out yesterday in Toronto to witness the construction of the world’s largest icecream cake. The cake was solid ice cream in the centre, with 90 kilograms of sponge cake on the outside, 136 kg of icing and crushed Oreos on top.

NDP says diploma flub a staff error The NDP is apologizing for a biography that stated a rookie MP obtained a diploma from an Ontario college — when, in fact, she hadn’t.

The party defended Quebec MP-elect Ruth Ellen Brosseau on yesterday, say-

ing a staffer modified her online biography without her permission.

“We’re sorry for this error and regret the harm done to Ms. Brosseau,” NDP spokesman Marc-Andre Viau wrote in an email.

The NDP said Brosseau never told them she had earned a diploma, and only stated that she had studied there, adding that the single mother is two credits shy of completion.

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Manitoba is spending $400,000 to encourage its residents to be counted, and other provincial ministers have made public appeals. The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) last week encouraged all public servants to participate, to help ensure the proper implementation of public services.

The reeve of Hanover, Man., recently warned residents that the municipali-

ty could lose $112 for every person who doesn’t fill out the census.

Canada’s Jewish federations are dipping into their funds to encourage Jews to take the time to fill out the questionnaires.

Jewish organizations have access to a special census campaign tool kit in English, Hebrew, Russian and Spanish.

“If you are asked to complete the NHS, it is urgent that you do so and proudly identify yourself as Jewish. By doing so, you will help to establish a strong Jewish population presence in Canada,” reads one campaign poster.

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Tabloid story of a Nazi-themed orgy led ex-car racing boss to appeal to European Court of Human Rights Ruling: Freedom of speech trumps privacy

Swiss adventurer Yves Rossy is seen during his flight over the Grand Canyon in Arizona on Saturday.

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Rocket Man blasts off A Swiss adventurer has completed a flight over the Grand Canyon in his custom-built jet suit. Yves Rossy was airborne for more than eight minutes Saturday.

An ex-car racing boss who sued a tabloid over a story about his sadomasochistic orgy with dominatrixes lost his privacy case yesterday in the European Court of Human Rights — a ruling applauded by free speech advocates.

Max Mosley won a lawsuit against Britain’s News of the World tabloid for its 2008 front-page story claiming he, the president of the

governing body overseeing Formula One racing, had an hours-long Nazi-themed orgy with five women.

Mosley, the son of a former fascist leader, acknowledged the orgy but denied the Nazi theme.

Despite winning sizable damages and legal costs, Mosely didn’t stop fighting.

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Like many parents, Angela Gamble-Schell was blindsided when, last August, doctors diagnosed her 12year-old daughter Alysha with pineoblastoma, a malignant brain tumour.

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Alysha’s illness required her to remain near the hospital while she underwent tests, radiation and highdose chemotherapy.

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Food processor George Weston Ltd. says wholesale buyers have been resisting price increases it started charging earlier this year to help offset the rising cost of ingredients it uses to make breads and other products.

The company has said that climbing commodity prices, plus the higher cost of gasoline, could have a $65-million effect on its bottom line this year. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Skype CEO Tony Bates, left, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer shake hands during a news conference in San Francisco yesterday.

$8.5-billion US takeover deal is largest in the software firm’s history Microsoft’s $8.5-billion US purchase of Skype is the biggest deal in the software maker’s 36-year history, but it also means a billion-dollar payout for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, a major stakeholder in the popular Internet telephone service.

Buying Skype would give Microsoft a potentially valuable communications tool as it tries to become a bigger force on the Internet and in the increasingly important smartphone market. Microsoft said it will marry Skype’s functions to its Xbox game console, Outlook email program and Windows smartphones.

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About 170 million people log in to Skype’s services every month, though not all of them make calls.

The CPPIB paid $300 million for a 15 per cent stake in Skype in 2009 when the majority of the service was sold off by eBay Inc. for about $2 billion US to an investor group that also included Skype’s original founders. EBay kept the remaining 35 per cent interest in the company.

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When was the last time you broke the law?

If you’re like the average Brit, it was probably the last PAUL SULLIVAN time you got into the car: METRO Running a red light, texting, speeding, not wearing your seatbelt, parking in the handy handicapped spot, or bumping into someone’s car and skulking away from the scene of the accident without leaving contact info.

Nor is the average Brit’s criminal activity restricted to the automobile. In a recent gocompare.com survey of 3,000 ordinary felons, 28 per cent admitted to taking drugs and another 34 per cent confessed to having sex in public — no word on whether or not they were wearing their seatbelt at the time.

The not-so-veddy proper British break the law an average of 21 times per year.

When they’re not having “When they’re sex in public (probably in their cars, where they not having sex appear to do everything in public but drive), they’re (probably in downloading illegal music their cars, where or failing to pick up after their pooch. they appear to Here in the colonies, it do everything can’t be much better.

Because in England, everybut drive), one is jammed together; they’re there’s a surveillance camdownloading era every six feet, and if illegal music you even think about or failing to pick breaking the law, they’ve got you on video. Here in up after the New World, there’s their pooch.” plenty of wide open space to evade detection.

Speaking of confessions, I’m probably guilty of every violation on the survey, although I can’t remember the last time I had sex in public and don’t know how to download music illegally (without getting a virus). But the spirit is willing.

There’s comfort in numbers. According to the survey, 79 per cent of Brits violate the speed limit. And that’s only because traffic is bad.

Are people getting worse or are there just too many laws? The spokesman for the survey company thinks Brits are so used to breaking the law on a daily basis they hardly notice. And he thinks it’s much worse than 21 times per year. Most people don’t know, for example, that it’s illegal to ride your bike on the sidewalk or fail to pick up after your cockapoo.

It’s just too easy to break the vast array of unenforceable laws that allegedly govern our behaviour. The solution — to pass more laws in an attempt to bludgeon us into submission just feeds our criminal intent.

So it’s kind of hilarious when Stephen Harper says he is going to get tough on crime and we all nod our heads in solemn accord. Right.

And by the way, how many laws did HE break yesterday?

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have always been a supporter of NDP policy and continue to agree with many of their principles.

However, the recent articles outlining their intended efforts to strengthen Quebec’s language laws upset me.

Every position in federal and provincial governments does not require French language skills.

Many people know someone who was Jack paid to atLayton tend mandatory French language training and never uses it.

Many university educated anglophones are excluded from jobs and careers because of current policy. The language restrictions need to be relaxed, not get more stringent. I have no problem with advancing bilingual candidates where a position truly warrants it, since speaking two languages is certainly an asset. I feel so strongly about this issue that the NDP has lost me as a supporter.

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Rome rejects rumbling rumours Italian officials are going to extraordinary lengths to try to debunk an urban legend predicting a devastating earthquake in Rome today.

The country’s civil protection department has posted an information packet on its website stressing that quakes can’t be predicted and Rome isn’t particularly at risk.

The national geophysics institute will open its doors to the public

today to inform the curious and the concerned about seismology.

The effort is all designed to debunk a purported prediction of a major Roman quake on May 11, 2011, attributed to self-taught seismologist Raffaele Bendandi, who died in 1979. The only problem is Bendandi never made the prediction, says Paola Lagorio, president of the association in charge of Bendandi’s documentation.

Lagorio insists there is no evidence in Bendandi’s papers of any such precise a prediction and blames unidentified forces who want to “frighten people and create this situation of panic that is attributed to a prediction Bendandi never made.”

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Coming off the critical raves — plus awards and nominations — he received for The King’s Speech, Australian actor Geoffrey Rush is easing back into his pirate drawl to once again play Capt. Barbossa opposite Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Metro sat down for a one-on-one with the Oscar winner.

I hear you snuck into one of the press screenings to catch the film.

Canada gets to celebrate an over-the-top royal wedding of its own this week thanks to South Park.

The foulmouthed animated series spoofs the nuptials of Will and Kate on Wednesday with a special episode all about a Canuck royal union.

This ceremony features “the prince of Canada,” who is “aboot” to wed a princess in a televised ceremony watched by “literally thousands.”

The episode airs Wednesday on the Comedy Network and repeats Friday.

I thought I wanted to hold off until [the premiere at] Disney Land and do all of that stuff, but there are three journeys in this film that are on individual ships, so I only knew everything that happened to Barbossa and the Royal Navy on the Providence, but I had no idea how they’d shot the mermaid stuff, how they’d done the Queen Anne’s Revenge. It was fantastic; it was really thrilling.

What do you think of how Barbossa has progressed from the first film?

It’s an enjoyable thing. I think we would’ve run out of validity for him being part of the storyline if he’d remained only the kind of dark, black-hearted mercenary villain from Part One. And within the story, in the DAN STEINBERG/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Sarah Ferguson tells Oprah Winfrey it was ‘difficult’ not to be invited to royal wedding

Al Pacino arrives at the HBO Emmy party.

Geoffrey Rush plays Captain Barbossa in the fourth installment of The Pirates of the Caribbean.

trilogy and now in Part Four, they’ve brought in Cutler Beckett from the East India Trading Company as a kind of corporate villain adversary for Jack Sparrow, and there’s been Davy Jones and now we’ve got Blackbeard. That’s given Barbossa room to move.

With two more films planned for the series, where do you see him going?

guys could get together, they would be the best kickass team in the world. Because Jack’s got an extraordinary daring, improvisational, “take the crises as they come and deal with them” (attitude), and Barbossa fancies himself as a rather brilliant strategic long-termplanning mastermind. But they’re always at odds, completely.

Johnny and I were saying, you know, if only these two

Are you familiar with the phrase “EGOT”?

I’ve been made aware of it. I know it came up in a 30 Rock episode.

It means winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.

You have three. Do you have any plans to try to win a Grammy?

(laughs) Oh, well, you know. I had no thought way back even of being honoured by the Academy with an Oscar, and I remember thinking, “It’s highly unlikely that I’ll

end up doing anything for American television, so where would an Emmy come from?”

Let alone a Tony, because — particularly with Exit the King, taking an Australian production to Broadway, there was no precedent for that.

But the Grammy thing, I don’t know. I’ll have to put out a rather boring album of poetry or something. (laughs) You know, it’s not keeping me awake.

Pacino’s gotta be in Gotti Al Pacino is telling a new mob family story in the crime saga Gotti: Three Generations.

Pacino will play Gambino crime family underboss Neil Dellacroce, an associate and mentor to John Gotti Sr. (John Travolta), says the film’s producer, Fiore Films.

Gotti reunites Pacino with Levinson, who directed the actor in his role as Dr. Jack Kevorkian in last year’s TV movie You Don’t

Know Jack, for which Pacino won an Emmy. Levinson also was a producer on Pacino’s 1997 crime drama Donnie Brasco and cowrote his 1979 court saga And Justice for All. The cast also includes Lindsay Lohan, Joe Pesci and Travolta’s wife, Kelly Preston.

“There’s this whole thing about fathers and sons that plays through this piece,” Levinson said of the film, based on the life

story of Gotti’s son, John Gotti Jr. “You had a huge character in John Gotti, who’s basically old school and believed in the structure of that whole system, and the son at a certain point in time basically begins to reject it and wants out of it.

He says, ‘I can’t live my life this way,’ so I think that’s a real conflict,” said Levinson.

Fiore Films made the announcement yesterday in

Cannes, where the 64th Cannes Film Festival opens today.

“Al Pacino is one of the finest actors of all time and will bring an unsurpassed level of reality and excitement to the film,” said Marc Fiore, the company’s CEO. The big casting question left is who will play Gotti Jr. “My guess is it’s going to be someone that we may not really know,” Levinson said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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hat role do Paul Bettany, Robert de Niro, Rowan Atkinson and Max von Sydow share? Mr. Jennifer Connelly, the Oscar winner, Mr. Bean, and the legendary Swedish superstar all have one part in common; they have all played priests on the big screen.

In this weekend’s postapocalyptic action horror film, Priest, Bettany plays the title character, a warrior pastor hunting the vampires who kidnapped his niece. Based on MinWoo Hyung's graphic novels, the movie also features Christopher Plummer as the Monsignor, described by the leg-

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endary Canadian actor as “a horrible priest gone wrong — a lovely, stylish villain.”

In the Barry Levinson film, Sleepers, De Niro was Father Bobby, a Hell’s Kitchen priest who lies in court to prevent four of his parishioners from going to jail for killing a sadistic prison guard.

Atkinson played Father Gerald, a new vicar performing his first marriage ceremony in Four Weddings and a Funeral. The tongue-tied priest has some of the film’s funniest lines, including, “In the name of the father, the son and the holy goat. Er... ghost.”

Probably the most famous movie celebrant is Father Lankester Merrin, as portrayed by Max von Sydow in The Exorcist and the Exorcist II: The HereticVon. Sydow is one of the few actors to have played both God in The Greatest Story Ever Told and the Devil in Needful Things. But, it his first film and the iconic line “The Power of Christ compels you!” that is most memorable.

Fresh directors take the spotlight at Cannes Only 49 of more than 17,000 films selected for screening JÉRÔME VERMELIN

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Who said Cannes is a private club? The 64th Cannes Film Festival, which opens today, is full of fresh new talents with seven first time directors, two of them candidates for the famous Palme d’Or. “It’s a happy coincidence,” says Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux. “We didn’t choose young directors on purpose, but it turned out they deserved to compete with the likes of Pedro Almodovar, Nanni Moretti or Lars Von Trier.”

Among the newcomers is Australian writer Julia Leigh with her first film, Sleeping Beauty. This erotic tale of a young call girl, who forgets about her clients in the morning, stars Emily Browning, the lead actress in Hollywood blockbuster Sucker Punch.

Another first time director is Austrian Markus Schleinzer, a former casting director of Palme d’Or winner Michael Haneke.

His movie, Michael, may create strong controversy since its main character is a pedophile murderer.

Other fresh directors are French actress Maiwenn, who will present Polisse, a cop movie with French rapper JoeyStarr; the Danish Nicolas Winding Refn, who brings, Drive, his first American film starring actor Ryan Gosling; and Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, with We Need to Talk About Kevin, the portrait of a teenage sociopath.

Could they win the Palme d’Or? It happened in the past. Martin Scorsese with Taxi Driver in 1976, Steven Soderbergh with Sex, Lies and Videotape in 1989, Australian Jane Campion in 1993

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The best part of going to a big music festival is discovering new artists and different styles of music, says rapper Kyprios.

The West Coast hip-hop artist will be backed by 10piece band The Chaperones — complete with horn players and a DJ — as he delivers his seamless blend of rapping, singing and harmonizing at this year’s Live at Squamish festival. “(In a) festival atmosphere generally people are already in a good mood … and I’m hoping that we get to rock ‘em,” said Kyprios, one of the founding members of Juno-nominated Sweatshop Union.

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Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver have separated, according to the Los Angeles Times.

“At this time, we are living apart while we work on the future of our relationship,” the couple says in a statement.

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The producers behind the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise didn’t let the series’ name limit them when it came to locations for the latest film, sending Johnny Depp’s loveable Capt. Jack Sparrow around the world in search of the fabled Fountain of Youth, from London to Hawaii and, of course, to the Caribbean.

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The film starts with a highspeed carriage chase through 18th century London, something difficult to recreate in 2011. But while in England’s capital, check out some of the film’s exterior locations, including the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich and Hampton Court Palace, once the home of Henry VIII, which stood in for St. James Court.

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Palominito Beach in Puerto Rico is just one of the great locations that was used for shooting of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

tine waters off the coast of Oahu, with the crew making landfall on Kauai.

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Joining Tracy will be fellow Canadians James Hinchcliffe of Toronto and Alex Tagliani of Lachenaie, Que. The Indy race is just one of the premier events taking place in Edmonton this summer.

The festival season kicks off with The Works Art and Design Festival from June 23 to July 5.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the largest art and design festival of its kind in North America and will showcase the work of artists from around the world in more than 250 exhibits, workshops and performances in sites in and around the downtown core.

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al Street Performers Festival from July 8-17 in Churchill Square, beside the glass pyramid roof of City Hall.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a pass-the-hat payment system for the impromptu crowds expected to watch an international band of jugglers, acrobats, hip hop musicians and sword swallowers.

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30. Downtown visitors with a sweet-tooth or simply with a taste for adventure can sample food from a variety of city restaurants set up in booths in Churchill Square.

The Edmonton Folk Music Festival hits the stage from Aug. 4 to Aug. 7 in Gallagher Park, just south of downtown. Music lovers can recline on blankets on hillside and soak in the sounds. Confirmed artists for this year include k.d. lang and Joe Louis Walker.

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Breakfast bruschetta Strawberries and ricotta make this a sweet variation ASSOCIATED PRESS

Traditional tomato bruschetta has become so ubiquitous you can even buy jars of prepared toppings and pre-toasted bread.

So we decided to reinvent it as a breakfast or dessert item.

Instead of starting with garlic-rubbed toast, we take slices of baguette and slather them with low-fat, yet creamy part-skim ricotta cheese.

If you like, you could vary the recipe by using reduced-fat cream cheese or even thick Greek-style yogurt.

We then top them with sliced strawberries and a drizzle of honey — reminiscent of the tomatoes and olive oil from traditional versions.

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Ilene Shioguchi is one of them. Between classes, course work and constant deadlines, the first-year Ryerson student feels as if she never had the chance to exercise.

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“When our back is against the wall, that’s when we show great resilience ... We’ll see what we’re made of.”

POWER FORWARD KEVIN GARNETT, WHOSE BOSTON CELTICS TRAIL THE MIAMI HEAT 3-1 IN THEIR SECONDROUND NBA SERIES, WITH GAME 5 TONIGHT IN SOUTH FLORIDA.

“This is not a team that you let your guard down against.”

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Kesler playing like playoff MVP RICH LAM/GETTY IMAGES

Selke Trophy finalist ‘driving our bus’ in playoffs: Canucks coach Ryan Kesler can let his motor idle for a few days.

The gritty centre is the engine that helped drive the Vancouver Canucks over the Nashville Predators into the NHL Western Conference final. Kesler and his teammates will now have some time to relax and repair after the league announced Game 1 of the next series won’t begin until Sunday (CBC, 8 p.m.) at Rogers Arena.

“It will be good to get some practice time and really get some down time,” Kesler said yesterday. “Rest and recovery is going to be key because it’s not going to get any easier going forward. We need to have everyone healthy and everyone going.”

The Canucks will play in the conference final for the first time since 1994. It’s only the third time in the franchise’s 40-year history the team has advanced to the third round.

Kesler set the tone for Monday night’s 2-1 victory in Game 6 by crashing into Predator goaltender Pekka Rinne early in the game, then assisted on both of Vancouver’s goals.

During the series, Kesler had five goals in three games. Two of his goals were game winners, one in

“We made a couple steps forward.

Everything that people said we couldn’t do, we did this year.”

PREDATORS COACH BARRY TROTZ

overtime. He was on the ice for 11 of Vancouver’s 14 goals and finished the series with 11 points.

When the Canucks looked lost, it was Kesler that led the way. He killed penalties, was rock solid on defence and delivered some bruising hits.

“He was driving our bus,” said coach Alain Vigneault. “He played real strong. We need him to continue, without a doubt.”

Kesler’s name has been mentioned as a potential playoff MVP. Nashville coach Barry Trotz even compared Kesler to Hall of Famer Mark Messier.

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The Canucks’ Ryan Kesler screens Pekka Rinne of the Predators in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals.

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Avery’s same-sex stance draws criticism New York Ranger Sean Avery’s support for same-sex marriage has drawn fire from a hockey agent.

“Very sad to read Sean Avery’s misguided support of same-gender ‘marriage.’

Legal or not, it will always be wrong,” said a tweet

from Todd Reynolds, vicepresident of Uptown Sports Management, whose clientele includes Chris Neil, Cody McCormick and Mike Fisher.

Avery stated his support in a video that is part of the New Yorkers for Marriage

Sports in brief

Man City edges past Spurs

Equality campaign.

After his initial tweet, Reynolds continued.

“To clarify. This is not hatred or bigotry towards gays. It is not intolerance in any way shape or form. I believe we are all equal.”

SOCCER. Manchester City qualified for the Champions League for the first time, beating Tottenham 1-0 yesterday on an own goal by Peter Crouch in the 30th minute.

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Ochocinco now rodeo bound NFL. Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco, who earlier this year had a tryout with Sporting Kansas City of MLS, has accepted a challenge from Professional Bull Riders chief operating officer Sean Gleason to ride a bull at the Lucas Oil Invitational this weekend in Duluth. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Wings heading back to San Jose Detroit climbs back from 3-0 hole to force Sharks to decisive Game 7

A scrum erupts in Sharks goalie Antti Niemi’s crease in Detroit last night.

Henrik Zetterberg and Valtteri Filppula scored less than two minutes apart in the third period, and the Detroit Red Wings rallied again for a 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks last night, forcing a decisive seventh game after trailing 3-0 in the second-round series.

San Jose must defend home ice tomorrow night to avoid becoming the fourth NHL team to lose a series after leading 3-0. San Jose’s Logan Couture scored early in the third period, but Zetterberg tied it with 9:22 remaining, and Filppula scored the winner with

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Darren Helm added an empty-net goal. Every other game in the series was decided by one goal.

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With the Nashville Predators in their rear-view mirror, the Vancouver Canucks are moving on to the Western Conference final. But if they are to take another step closer to the Stanley Cup by winning four more games, Vancouver better be prepared to play much tighter and more disciplined.

In the six games against the Predators, you could see the Canucks slowing down. Perhaps it was the result of a patient Nashville team that forced Vancouver into a more “float like a butterfly” approach, but the Canucks weren’t moving as swiftly or hitting as frequently by Games 5 and 6.

But what’s most alarming is how Vancouver seemed to be developing

Vancouver’s physical edge seemed to wane over the course of the second round against Nashville.

some bad habits of miscommunication or flat-out lazy play in their defensive zone. A number of times toward the end of the series, Vancouver defencemen weren’t going hard on loose pucks behind the net and, when they did gain possession, took too long to make a decision or flung the puck meekly up the boards for an awaiting Predator to intercept.

That’s bad enough against Nashville, but since the Preds lack a serious offensive threat, most of these giveaways didn’t end

up coming back to bite the Canucks.

In the West final, however, they’ll be facing a league powerhouse that preys on giveaways.

There’s a reason it took this long for Nashville to get past the first round and why Detroit and San Jose are consistent winners.

Vancouver’s blue-line has been one of the team’s biggest strengths all season, even if the entire topsix hasn’t played together once yet. They did a good job against Chicago and started well against

Nashville, but it almost seemed as though they were looking past the second round as that series went on. Mistakes could be covered up against the Predators, but all that’s about to change.

To be sure, the Canucks have to re-wire, re-generate and re-install the vigour that launched them to a 30 first-round series lead against Chicago and reemerged in Game 7 of that series.

As the No. 1 seed the Canucks will be favoured once again, but if they keep going as they did in the last half of the Nashville series, they’ll quickly find out who the real Cup contenders are — and they won’t be from British Columbia.

The playoffs are all about stepping your game up to a new level and it’s something Vancouver did successfully in Game 7 against Chicago. But after not really having to hit that gear against Nashville, the Canucks have to prove to everyone all over again why they are the team to beat in this post-season.

three goals of Game 5 to win 4-3.

The Red Wings are the second team this season to erase a 3-0 series hole.

Chicago did it in the first round before losing Game 7 at Vancouver.

Skating with confidence and desperation, the Red Wings outshot San Jose 4525, but they were on the verge of elimination after Couture batted a rebound out of midair and the puck trickled past goalie Jimmy Howard with 16:06 remaining. The puck barely crossed the goal-line before Howard covered it with his glove, but the goal stood af-

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Zetterberg tied it by deflecting a wrist shot by Niklas Kronwall past goalie Antti Niemi, and the Sharks never regained momentum. Filppula put Detroit ahead, converting a nice cross-ice pass by Pavel Datsyuk.

The Red Wings outplayed the Sharks from the start. At the midway point of the first period, Detroit had an 11-1 edge in shots, to the delight of the home crowd that had given the Red Wings a standing ovation when they took the ice.

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Kia’s designers have done a pretty good job at loping off the sedan’s trunk and integrating the new rear end of the Forte5.

The lines remain crisp and purposeful from all angles, accentuated by the blacked-out door pillars and wrap-around taillights.

From the back though, the Forte5 appears suspiciously similar to the Subaru Impreza, a vehicle that automaker unabashedly refers to as a wagon. No wonder there’s confusion out there.

The most important measurement for any practical hatch is the volume of stuff it can carry.

With the rear seat folded flat, the Forte5 can swallow a fair chunk of groceries; more than the Toyota Matrix or Mitsubishi Lancer Sportback but not as much as the Hyundai Elantra Touring or the diminutive (but surprisingly spacious) Honda Fit.

Common to all Forte body styles is the twoengine lineup. The base LX and EX models run with the 156-horsepower 2.0-litre fourcylinder, while a 173-horsepower 2.4-litre four-cylinder belongs to the fancier SX. Fuel economy with the base engine and automatic transmission is rated at 5.5 l/100 km city and 8.0 highway. Those impressive numbers are sufficient to propel the Forte5 to the head of its compact wagon/hatchback class.

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The term “fuel economy” has always brought with it the “economy car” stigma, but there’s a definite shift going on in 2011: good on gas can also mean a good car.

Maybe even a great car.

As if Kia was trying to prove the point, buyers now have a highly versatile Forte5 as well as the sedan and two-door “Koup” to choose from.

The Korea-based automaker refers to the Forte5 as a hatchback, but there’s little to differentiate it from most typical wagons. Some might argue that the rear opening must be virtually vertical for a wagon to be called a wagon,

while others believe the amount of storage space is the ideal determining factor.

In any event, if Kia prefers calling the Forte5 (obviously not bothering to differentiate between passenger doors and rear-access cargo openings) a hatchback, then so be it.

In any event, the fourdoor Forte5 uses the same basic platform as the sedan and both cars are equal in width and in distance between the front and rear wheels.

However, the Forte5 is actually shorter in overall length by about 19 centimetres and is trimmer by about 23 kilograms as a result.

Whether entry level or loaded to the hilt, the Forte5 is a handsome, practical and affordable hauler.

Base price: $16,000 Now more appealing with significant interior upgrades for 2011.

Kia Forte5

Mitsubishi Sportback

What you should know about the 2011 Kia Forte5: Kia keeps on ratcheting up the quality of its interiors.

Although there’s still plenty of plastic, the inside is both visually interesting and plenty functional.

Kia somehow managed to dial a bit more passenger space into the Forte5, likely due to a slightly higher roofline.

Types: Four-door compact hatchback.

Engine (hp): 2.0-litre DOHC I4 (156); 2.4-litre DOHC I4 (173).

Transmission: Six-speed manual; six-speed automatic (opt.).

Market position: Compact hatchbacks and wagons appear to be gaining in popularity as more buyers seek smaller and thriftier vehicles that offer the maximum in versatility.

Point: Extra-long comprehensive and powertrain warranties give the Forte5 an edge.

Stats: L/100 km (city/hwy) 5.5/8.0 (AT).

Base price: $21,600 Lancer offshoot adds extra trunk room.

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LUXURY HYBRIDS ARE THE NEWEST, OLDEST WAVE

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Flared jeans are coming back. This time I’ll take a pass. I suffered enough. I wore them all through high school in the 1970s, combined with long, centre-parted hair.

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ut some things are definitely worth reviving. A case in point is luxury and high-performance cars, augmented with electrical power.

They’re hybrids, yes, but hybrids on the other side of the spectrum from Toyota Prius.

The Prius and its ilk are all about fuel efficiency.

The cache of a luxury/performance hybrid, however, is three-fold: increased power, increased fuel efficiency, and the fact that this power and efficiency is only possible through exclusive and expensive technology not everybody can afford.

Like how many people will be able to afford the crazy new hybrid that Jaguar just announced?

Based on the C-X75 concept the British automaker displayed at the 2010 Paris auto show, production versions will be restricted to just 200 examples, at

The Porsche GT3 R Hybrid is an example of a modern, high-performance car, augmented with electrical power.

700,000-plus British Pounds each?

I believe that translates to over $1 million Canadian dollars, but I’m not sure, as I have been trying to stay away from math ever since Mr. Runstedtler’s Grade 10 calculus class.

Porsche is on to its third hybrid. By fall, we should see the $108,700 Panamera S Hybrid, which shares the same V6-electric powertrain as the Cayenne S Hybrid.

The other hybrid is a race car — the 911 GT3 R Hybrid. When the Panamera S Hybrid was first shown in North America, at the recent auto show in New York, it was accompanied by a replica of Porsche’s — and probably the world’s — first gas-electric hybrid.

Ferdinand Porsche was just 24, when he engi-

This is a replica of Porsche’s first gas-electric hybrid, the Semper Vivas, which was built in 1900.

neered and built the 1900 Semper Vivas, as a member of the Austrian coachbuilding firm Jacob Lohner.

Only one example was ever built, and it didn’t survive.

The Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, com-

missioned restorer, Hubert Drescher, to recreate the car, from only one known picture, and several sketches.

I had a chance to speak to Mr. Drescher, at the New York show, and he noted there is not one original

part on the car. It was completely re-created.

But the horn and the two 1.7-litre, single-cylinder De Dion Bouton engines are exactly the same vintage and type used on the original car. He found the engines at a flea mar-

ket. Good score.

The engines drive the rear wheels, and power a dynamo that juices the massive battery pack and the two enormous electric motors fitted to the front wheels.

The Semper Vivas can go 35-40 km/h on a flat road, pretty heady stuff for 1900. But a hill climber it is not. It weights almost two tons.

Gas was pretty cheap and abundant in 1900.

The young Ferdinand Porsche was not looking for electricity as a transportation salvation fuel, as some do today.

He was simply looking for ways to satisfy his — and the collective’s — desire for powerful, high-performing automobiles.

Like another visionary, Yogi Berra, once opinioned: “It’s like déjà-vu all over again.”

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TM The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. â&#x20AC; Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2011 Accent L Sport 3 Dr 5-speed/2011 Tucson L 5-speed/2011 Santa Fe 2.4L GL 6-speed/2011 Sonata GL 6-speed/2011 Veracruz GL FWD with an annual finance rate of 0%/0%/0%/0%/0% for 84/72/84/72/84 months. Bi-weekly payment is $83/$140/$142/$156/$189. No down payment is required. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,495/$1,760/$1,760/$1,565/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2011 Accent L 3 Dr 5-speed for $15,094 at 0% per annum equals $179.69 per month for 84 months for a total obligation of $15,094. Cash price is $15,094. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,495. Registration, insurance, PPSA, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. â&#x20AC;ĄPurchase or lease a 2011 Accent/2011 Elantra Touring/2011 Sonata/2011 Tucson/2011 Santa Fe/2011 Veracruz model during May 2011 and you will receive a preferred price Petro-Canada Gas Card valid for $0.30 per litre savings on each litre of gas up to a total of 1,000/1,000/1,000/1,200/1,200/1,200 Litres. Based on Energuide combined fuel consumption rating for the 2011 Accent L 3 Dr 5-speed (6.7L/100km)/2011 Elantra Touring L 5-speed (7.7L/100km)/2011 Sonata GL 6-speed (7.8L/100km)/2011 Tuscon L 5-speed (8.9L/100km)/2011 Santa Fe 2.4L GL 6-speed (9.0L/100km)/2011 Veracruz GL FWD (10.8L/100km) at 15,200km/year [yearly average driving distance (Transport Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Provincial Light Vehicle Fleet Statistics, 2008)]. This card is valid only at participating Petro-Canada retail locations (and other approved North Atlantic Petroleum locations in Newfoundland).

This card has no expiry date. Petro-Canada is a trademark of SUNCOR ENERGY INC. used under license. Petro-Canada is not a sponsor or co-sponsor of this promotion. Eligibility for the card is subject to conditions and exclusions. Offer not available on 2011 Elantra, 2011 Genesis Coupe, 2011 Genesis Sedan, and 2011 Equus models. Ę&#x2C6;Fuel consumption for 2011 Accent 3Dr (HWY 5.7L/100KM; City 7.3L/100KM)/2011 Sonata GL 6-speed manual (HWY 5.7L/100KM; City 8.7L/100KM)/2011 Tucson L (HWY 6.5L/100KM; City 9.1L/100KM)/2011 Santa Fe 2.4L 6-Speed Automatic FWD (City 10.4L/100KM, HWY 7.2L/100KM)/2011 Veracruz GL FWD (HWY 8.5L/100KM; City 12.7L/100KM) are based on EnerGuide fuel consumption ratings. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. â&#x20AC; â&#x20AC;ĄOffers available for a limited time and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. â&#x2C6;&#x17E;Based on the December 2010 AIAMC report. Ď&#x20AC;Based on the April 2011 AIAMC report. Ç&#x2122;Based on projected sales figures incorporated into Table 28 of the United States Environmental Protection Agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Fuel Economy Trends report. This comparison is limited to the top 14 highest-volume manufacturers in the U.S. based on the 2010 model-year fleet. BluetoothÂŽ word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc., and any use of such marks by Hyundai is under license. â&#x2C6;&#x2020;See your dealer for eligible vehicles and full details of the Graduate Rebate Program. â&#x2014;&#x160;Accent 7 year/120,000 km warranty consists of 5 year/100,000km Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage and an additional 2 year/20,000km coverage under the Hyundai Protection Plan. Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions. Coverage under the Hyundai Protection Plan is subject to terms and conditions. Please contact your local dealer for all details. â&#x20AC; â&#x20AC; Hyundaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.

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