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Bikers cruise down the Circumferential Highway during the Red Knights Motorcycle Club 9-11 memorial ride yesterday.
A quiet, sombre ceremony and an engine-roaring motorcycle rally helped mark the 10th anniversary of 9-11 yesterday in HRM. U.S. Consul General Anton Smith delivered a plaque in thanks for Halifax’s generous hospitality to the 8,000 stranded passengers who landed here 10 years ago. Air travel across North America was quickly restricted after terrorists used airbuses as bombs on Sept. 11, 2001. “We thank the people of Halifax,” it is written on the plaque. “We are eternally grateful.” Dignitaries, as well as representatives from police and fire services, attended the ceremony at the Halifax Stanfield International Air-
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port’s observation deck yesterday morning. “Nine-eleven reminds us of the work we need to do to make the world a better place and it also reminds us of the parts of the world that are already exceptionally good,” Smith said. Smith reflected on the people who lost their lives on Sept. 11, as well as the soldiers killed in the
past 10 years, including the nearly 160 Canadian soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan. “You continue to stand by us as partners and allies and we continue to face our attackers,” Smith said. Premier Darrell Dexter said it felt like one of the “threads in the fabric of our society” became unraveled that day 10 years ago. “It was amazing that in the face of unimaginable inhumanity, Nova Scotians, Canadians and people around the world showed our American friends that there is still hope,” he said. Marking the anniversary in their own way, over 100 motorcyclists escorted several fire trucks and members of the Red Knights, a motorcycle group for firefighters and their families, from Dartmouth Crossing to Africville yesterday.
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Commit to Burnside corridor: Report $3.7M Municipal staff say Halifax regional council should commit the total active transportation capital budget for 2013-14 to one project connecting the Burnside Industrial Park to Bedford. A staff report to be presented to council extols the merits of committing $1 million to enter into a partnership with the
province to construct an active transportation corridor parallel to the Burnside Drive extension. The province would provide the space for the corridor and cover the engineering and construction costs. In exchange, the municipality would pay the Department of Transportation and Infrastruc-
ture Renewal for the cost of earthwork and subgrade preparation, estimated at $1 million. The municipality would also be on the hook for longterm maintenance and operations, the cost of which is not yet known. “If the commitment for the earthworks and subgrade preparation are not committed now, the cost
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As part of the 2011-12 budget, $3.7 million has been earmarked for active transportation projects over the next five years.
will be significantly more at a future date with no
contribution by (TIR) and no provision for the corridor on the railway structures,” the report says. The $1-million figure represents the total budget for the municipality’s active transportation fund for 2013-14, meaning no other projects could be undertaken that year. ALEX BOUTILIER
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Halifax regional council will consider a new official name for the municipality. Coun. Gloria McCluskey is set to ask municipal staff to “explore alternatives” to the Halifax Regional Municipality. McCluskey’s motion includes one suggestion: Greater Halifax. “I think residents would accept Greater Halifax. I know a lot of them would not accept just Halifax,” McCluskey yesterday. “We are Greater Halifax. That’s what we are. ... There will be people who disagree, naturally, but I would accept that.” At a meeting on Feb. 9, 2010, councillors put off discussion of a name change until the results of the next district boundary
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“They keep talking about the name Halifax Regional Municipality being too long and so on and so forth. So I’m suggesting Greater Halifax.” COUN. GLORIA MCCLUSKEY
review. Nova Scotia’s armslength regulator, the Utility and Review Board, ruled in July that the municipality must redraw the boundaries to include 16 districts, down from the
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current 23. The municipality is required to submit the proposed new districts to the UARB by Oct. 21. McCluskey disagreed
that the public should be brought into the discussion about the name of the municipality. “They didn’t have any input into amalgamation.
They didn’t have input into calling it the Halifax Regional Municipality,” McCluskey said. “So we’re going to change everything, are we?”
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Several new cars were severely damaged after a fire on a car transporter early yesterday morning.
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A mechanical failure on a car-transporter truck led to a massive fire on Highway 118 early yesterday morning. The driver escaped the fire and wasn’t injured, but all eight cars on board the transport were heavily damaged. RCMP officers got the call just before 4:30 a.m. The car transporter was in the northbound lane of
Highway 118 past Exit 13E. An RCMP spokesman said investigators believe the fire started when a bearing in the wheel heated up. Halifax Regional Fire Platoon Chief Steve Martin said fire crews had to use four vehicles because it’s an unserviced area with no water sources nearby. “They were all engulfed,” Martin said. “It was trying, but they got it done.” It took about an hour for crews to put out the fire.
A crane arrived around 8:30 a.m. to lift the cars onto a flat-bed tow truck. Police and the Department of Transportation kept one lane of traffic flowing while the crane did its work. There were delays for motorists heading toward Halifax Stanfield International Airport and Fall River yesterday morning.
Quick cleanup The entire scene was cleared by 11:30 a.m.
Four years ago, Carol Rolfe’s son took his own life. The need to talk about the issue of suicide — and to help prevent other parents from having the same experience — moved Rolfe to get involved with World Suicide Prevention Day. Now she’s the co-coordinator of a march to mark the day in Halifax. “Six weeks after he died, I attended this walk for the very first time,” said Rolfe yesterday. “I realized we need to create more awareness around suicide prevention and support for those who have lost someone to suicide.” Over 100 people gathered at Victoria Park yesterday to take part in the
Police officer faces sex assault charge A Halifax police officer has been charged with sexual assault. Halifax Regional Police issued a statement late Friday saying the RCMP laid the criminal charge against Const. Andrew Morris after an incident at 1:30 a.m. on Grafton
“I had people behind me, supporting me through this. Because feeling alone (and) doing it, I probably wouldn’t have had the strength.” CAROL ROLFE, MARCH CO-ORDINATOR walk, now in its fifth year. One attendee was Halifax Regional Police Chief Frank Beazely, who lost his son Frank to suicide in 2006. “There’s a personal piece to it, but (suicide is) also something I see in my day-to-day duties,” said Beazely. “We have about 400 people attempt suicide or commit suicide a year in (the Halifax Regional Municipality). So it’s a big issue, and I think it’s an issue that should be talked about.” Talking about the trauma can be difficult, but march co-coordinator Laurel Walker said it’s important to overcome the
Street. Police say a woman reported that a man had touched her inappropriately. Morris was arrested at the scene without incident. Police say the 43-yearold was off duty at the time. Morris, who has served with the Halifax Regional Police for three years, has been suspended from his job and is to appear in provincial court on Nov. 15. THE CANADIAN PRESS
stigma and bring the issue out in the open. “I’ve dealt with depression myself, I’ve lost a friend to suicide, and I still find it difficult to admit to it once in awhile,” said Walker. “But I find once you’ve shared your story, other people share their stories back. And that is really powerful.”
Walk route The walk travelled from Victoria Park, down Spring Garden Road to Barrington Street, and ended at Grand Parade, where there were information booths and speeches.
Standoff ends peacefully A man and a woman exited their home peacefully early Saturday after a brief standoff. Halifax Regional Police Staff Sgt. Barb Saunders says police went to a home on Purcell’s Cove Road just before midnight to a complaint that a rifle was being pointed out of the house toward a neighbour. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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The union that represents workers at an embattled Cape Breton paper mill says one of the factory’s newsprint machines was idled early Saturday. Archie MacLachlan, the first vice-president at Local 972 of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers union, says he’d received word that as of 8 a.m. the paper machine — one of two at the plant — had stopped producing paper at the NewPage mill in Point Tupper. He says it’s the first stage in an indefinite shutdown that will eventually lead to the idling of both machines and the layoff of up to 600 workers directly employed at the mill. “I had a chance to talk to folks on the paper machine and they did shut down,” he said in a telephone interview from Port Hawkesbury. “They’re going through a process of draining all the storage tanks and flushing out the lines so they’ll be ready to restart whenever they get the call to fire her back up.” The company was grant-
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“I had a chance to talk to the folks on the paper machine and they did shut down.” ARCHIE MACLACHLAN,
Premier Darrell Dexter announced on Friday a $15-million plan to help keep the mill’s woodlands operation intact. The seven-point plan includes stockpiling wood for future use, an expansion of the province’s silviculture program, up to $3.5 million to develop specialized forestry training programs, and enlisting a world-market specialist to conduct a study on newsprint and high-gloss paper to ensure the mill’s future viability. Dexter said the plan will employ about 500 people in the Port Hawkesbury region.
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ed protection from creditors on Friday and the court-appointed monitor said a search is underway for a new owner to operate the plant. The NewPage mill has operated in Nova Scotia since the early 1960s, and is a mainstay of the community on the Strait of
Canso. MacLachlan says the indefinite closure is difficult for workers’ families as they await word on whether a new buyer can be found to restart the plant. “The pain is in the uncertainty,” he said. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Another milestone for Bluenose The whiskey plank has been attached to the famed schooner Bluenose II, traditionally the last piece of lumber to be joined to the hull. Heritage Minister David Wilson, along with local
officials and craftsmen, gathered on the Lunenburg waterfront on Friday for the event. The restoration of the replica is being funded by the provincial and federal governments.
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Hockey players honoured Thousands of people packed a central square in Prague yesterday to honour the memory of the three Czech hockey players who died in a plane crash that killed a total of 43 and wiped out a leading club in the top Russian league.
British man shot dead at Kenya resort Armed men shot dead a British man and kidnapped his wife from a beach resort in northern Kenya near the border with lawless Somalia, officials in the East African nation said yesterday. Police Commissioner
Major Czech hockey stars — including Jaromir Jagr, Patrik Elias and Dominik Hasek — coaches and officials attended a memorial ceremony organized by the Czech hockey federation at the Old Town Square for Karel Rachunek, Jan Marek and Josef Vasicek. They helped the Czech national team win the gold medal at the world championships in 2005 and 2010. Vasicek was on the Carolina Hurricanes’ 2006 Stanley Cup team. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mathew Iteere said the couple arrived at the resort on Saturday after visiting Kenya’s Masai Mara reserve. He said they were the resort’s only guests. Iteere said attackers were able to enter their dwelling easily as the door was just a piece of colourful cloth hanging from a rod. He said police believe the husband resisted and was shot. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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B.C. toddler returned Three-year-old boy found unharmed in his own home after 911 call
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The family of a three-yearold boy abducted from his bed in Sparwood, B.C., has thanked “the person” who returned him home safe and sound. The weeping parents of Kienan Hebert appeared before the media yesterday, hours after police found the boy following an anonymous 911 call. “To the person who returned Kienan to our family, I’d like to say thank you,” the boy’s father, Paul Hebert, sobbed. “It was the right thing to do. I thank God that Kienan was returned unharmed.” RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said medical personnel assessed the boy and found him unharmed, in good spirits and happy to be reunited with his family. Paul Hebert had difficulty speaking.
Tammy Hebert and her husband, Paul, talk to reporters yesterday in Sparwood, B.C., after their son, Kienan, inset, was returned to their home unharmed.
“Kienan is happily home, he’s playing with his brothers and sisters,” he wept. “Thank you, thank you.” Moskaluk said the most
troubling thing was that the caller, believed to be convicted sex offender Randall Hopley, 46, told police they could find Kienan in his own home.
“Taking the child undetected and then placing him back undetected certainly is a chilling prospect,” Moskaluk admitted. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Anti-U.S. protests mar anniversary The Sept. 11 attacks spawned many conspiracy theories around the world, especially among Islamists who allege American or Israeli involvement. Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, a vitriolic critic of the West, wrote on his blog that Arab Muslims are incapable of “planning and strategizing” such attacks. He added “it is not unthinkable” for former U.S. president George W. Bush to have lied about who was responsible. In Pakistan, about 100 supporters of an Islamist political party staged antiU.S. protests in Islamabad and Multan to mark the anniversary, holding up banners that repeated conspiracy theories. In Karachi, another 100 people protested the war in Afghanistan, launched in response to the attacks.
A few dozen demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in London, with one group setting fire to a depiction of a U.S. flag during a minute’s silence held to mark the moment when the first hijacked airliner hit the World Trade Center. A small group of Muslims staged a counter-demonstration nearby. The Taliban marked the anniversary by vowing to keep fighting against U.S. forces in Afghanistan and saying they had no role in the Sept. 11 attacks. Hours later, a Taliban suicide bomber in a large truck blew it up at the gate of a NATO combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan, killing two civilians and injuring 77 U.S. troops. None of the U.S. injuries were life-threatening, the Atlantic alliance said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in the attacks at the World Trade Center, pauses at his son’s name at the north pool of the 9-11 memorial before the 10th-anniversary ceremony at the site yesterday in New York.
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Sept. 11 anniversary marked worldwide Formal ceremonies paid tribute to the nearly 3,000 who perished from more than 90 countries A mother in Malaysia greeted her dead son. Mourners in Tokyo stood before a piece of steel from Ground Zero, remembering the 23 bank employees who never made it out alive. A decade after 9-11, the day that changed so much for so many people, the world’s leaders and citizens paused to reflect yesterday. For some people, the pain never stops. In Malaysia, Pathmawathy Navaratnam woke up yesterday in her suburban Kuala Lumpur home and did what she’s done every day for the past decade: Wish her son Vijayashanker Paramsothy “Good morning.” The 23-year-old financial analyst was killed in the at-
Terror arrests In a reminder that threats remain, Swedish police said four people were arrested yesterday in Goteborg on suspicion of preparing a terror attack.
tacks on New York. “He is my sunshine. He has lived life to the fullest, but I can’t accept that he is not here anymore,” said Navaratnam. “I am still living, but I am dead inside.” In Japan, families gathered in Tokyo to pay their respects to the 23 Fuji Bank employees who never made it out of their World Trade Center office. A dozen of the workers who
died were Japanese. Sydney resident Rae Tompsett, 81, said she’s never felt angry over the murder of her son Stephen Tompsett, 39, a computer engineer who was on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center’s north tower when it was hit by a hijacked plane. “No, not anger,” she said. “Sorrow. Sorrow that the people who did this believed they were doing something good.” The retired schoolteacher and her husband Jack, 92, were among more than 1,000 people who packed Sydney’s Roman Catholic cathedral St. Mary’s for a special multifaith service. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Premium puts dent in wallets Import tariffs can be as high as 18 per cent Hockey parents go south of the border to buy equipment that is 20 to 45% cheaper Shopping in Canada means paying more for goods such as running shoes, hockey skates, pyjamas and pantyhose.
It’s a fact of consumer life that buying in Canada means paying more than you would south of the border, with a so-called Canadian premium on everything from running
shoes to hockey skates, from pyjamas to pantyhose. Even the stronger loonie hasn’t been able to overcome obstacles that include high import tar-
iffs, a number of higher fixed costs and, admittedly, the fact that retailers in Canada can simply get away with charging more. “The people who should win from a stronger Canadian dollar are consumers,” said BMO’s deputy chief economist, Douglas Porter. “They don’t feel that way.” Tariffs on most goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico were phased out under trade deals signed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
But there are still import duties paid on some goods not covered by these trade agreements as well as a range of clothing and sporting goods that come from other countries. There’s also the cost of doing business in Canada, which adds to the price of goods, from bilingual labelling to transportation, payroll taxes and real estate, said marketing professor Ken Wong of Queen’s University. THE CANADIAN PRESS
Job woes on the mind Jobs, or more aptly a lack thereof, will be top of mind among traders this week. In the U.S., Americans are waiting to find out if Congress will pass President Barack Obama’s jobcreation act. North of the border, Canadians will be warily watching for signs
An ambitious project to centralize the federal government’s far-flung data centres will take at least a decade and require up to $278 million in new spending, an internal report concludes. The findings raise questions about whether the far-reaching plan will help eliminate the federal deficit by 2014, as promised by the prime minister, or simply aggravate Ottawa’s money woes in the short term. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Last week, SilverBirch Hotels, the Vancouver-based company that owns the Citadel Halifax hotel, announced plans to flatten it. The company intends to replace the venerable downtown landmark with a $60-million, triple-tower, hotel-apartment complex it says will generate “a lot more” street-level activity in the northern downtown while conforming to HRM by Design — and legislation protecting views of the harbour from
Citadel Hill. Ironically, a plan to redevelop the original two-storey Citadel hotel 40 years ago triggered the debate that led to creating those still-controversial views. By the late 1960s, preservationists were winning the battle to protect the city’s historic waterfront from the wrecker’s ball, but they seemed to be losing the war “When the first to preserve Citadel Hill’s iconic harbour views one of three viewbigger-than-theirs bank blocking Scotia tower at a time. Square towers When the first of three view-blocking Scotia Square began to rise began to rise from from the earth in towers the earth in 1969, Haligoni1969, ans finally began to question the build-it-biggerHaligonians higher-better dreams of finally began to downtown developers. question the The debate galvanized build-it-biggeraround the next proposed development. Ralph higher-better Medjuck, a bright young dreams of lawyer-developer, wanted downtown to plunk an 11-storey addition above an existing lowdevelopers.” rise hotel he owned on Brunswick Street. Over the objections of staff and protests from residents, a divided city council ultimately voted 7-3 — yes, Virginia, there really was a time when there were just 10 councillors —in favour of the project. But the motion carried a crucial rider: Staff had to come up with a proposal to protect harbour views in future projects. Three years later, a talk-tired —“I am so sick of this damn view from Citadel Hill I could scream,” screamed alderwoman Margaret Stanbury at one point —but no longer divided council voted unanimously to preserve 10 specific views protecting 300 acres of prime downtown. Preservation activist Elizabeth Pacey later called it “a sweeping achievement in the pioneer field of environmental protection legislation.” Thanks to the Citadel Hotel. When SilverBirch’s new hotel opens in 2013, it will have a different name. Company president Steve Giblin says they considered maintaining it, “but we feel Citadel Hill — that’s where the name belongs, and it really doesn’t belong on a hotel.” Perhaps. But we must at least preserve the memory of the vital role the old Citadel played in shaping today’s downtown.
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Cartoon by Michael de Adder Letters RE: The Lessons of September 11, 10 Years On, published Sept. 9-11 You have failed to mention the hundred of thousands of civilian casualties, the millions of displaced persons, and the vast economic, agricultural and emotional devastation inflicted by our hands on others (namely Iraqi and Afghani civilians) in this “war on terror.” I guess we have not yet learned the lesson to look beyond ourselves. I was also wondering how the thinking that the U.S. depends on Middle Eastern oil and how it supports Israel is delusional thinking? It is a fact that the United States has a certain level of dependence on oil from that region of the world and it is also a fact that the U.S. supports Israel in various ways. Since this premise is true, it is not “delusional” to believe that these factors were implicated in the events of 9-11. I am simply writing to point out the elephant in the room. As Noam Chomsky said, “If you want to stop terrorism, don’t participate in it.”
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Not till they’re a little older Officials in South Carolina are moving a school bus stop that was near a strip club after parents complained. WPDE-TV reports that children had to wait in the parking lot of a strip club in Atlantic Beach to catch the school bus. Misty Umphries, a mother who waits at the stop with her children, says she had to explain to her fouryear-old the meaning of “topless.” Horry County transportation direc-
tor Jim Wright previously said the stop was the central point of four blocks it needed to accommodate. Wright was concerned that moving the stop to a community centre that parents suggested would require some children to walk farther. District officials have since decided to create two bus stops in the area. Neither is at the strip club. A mother of three, Windy Price, told WPDE-TV that the bus stop shouldn’t be where it is. “I don’t want my children being picked up behind that. I’m not knocking what they do, but I just don’t think it’s appropriate,” she told the local news station. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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CIBC RUN FOR THE CURE TAKES PLACE ON OCTOBER 2 In 1996, Mike Stevenson, Senior VicePresident for Western Canada, CIBC, signed up for the CIBC Run for the Cure in Kelowna, it was important to support CIBC’s involvement in the event and it was a good cause. But on race day, a note “I’m running for my mom” on a runner’s bib hit a nerve and led Stevenson to a more heart-felt commitment. “I realized
just how real it is and how this disease affects so many people.” That emotional connection is one that many Canadians have felt... and acted on. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure today is the largest single-day volunteerled event raising money and awareness for breast cancer in Canada. Last year, close to 170,000 participants raised $33 million to fund research, education and awareness programs. Runs will be held in 59 communities across Canada this year on Oct. 2. Participants will run or walk (most participants actually walk) a 5k or 1k, and it will no doubt be fun, exciting and, at times, emotional.
THINK PINK On Sept. 13, onlookers will likely stop in their tracks as several hundred breast cancer survivors march around Banker’s Hall in downtown Calgary. “The survivors’ parade always sends a powerful message of hope to the community as it raises the awareness of breast cancer and the CIBC Run for the Cure,” says Nicole Davis, Senior Manager, CIBC Western Region. The parade is just one of many activities taking place during Think Pink Week to generate excitement and awareness around the upcoming CIBC Run for the Cure. While most CIBC branches across Canada will be decorated in pink and hold bake sales (think pink cupcakes) and encourage donations in other ways, there will be lots of other fund- and awarenessraising activities too. In Commerce Court, in Toronto, for example, there will be an area set up with healthy food displays, a breast cancer awareness booth and other information.
In Montreal, an evening gala with dancing and music will be held. Sophie Blouin, Senior Manager, Eastern Region, says 1,000 guests are expected to raise $80,000. In Dartmouth, a first-time event will provide information to passers-by. There will be refreshments such as pink lemonade as well as a raffle for a Ford Mustang! CIBC branches in Edmonton and Vancouver will have afternoon barbecues and feature different speakers including survivors. “Think Pink Week lets people come out and make a difference in the fight against breast cancer,” says Glen Trueman, CIBC Branch Manager, Charlottetown. The city is always decorated with lots of Think Pink banners and signs during the week. “It gives all of us in the different branches the opportunity to work in our communities to increase awareness for a cause we’re all fighting for very heavily.”
Teams and other groups of family and friends, some with kids in strollers and dogs, will walk the route together. Some will wear pink wigs or boas; others will carry pink balloons and banners. There will be lots of survivors walking too (and wearing a different colour). Somewhere near the start line participants will post poignant messages for loved ones and others, on the Wall of Hope. “My kids sign the Wall of Hope in the Durham, Ont. run every year,” says Kevin Dove, Senior Director, External Communications, CIBC. “And we always look up previous years’ messages. My wife’s mother died of breast cancer at an early age. For my kids, participating in the run is a
TIME TO STEP UP WHO ARE YOU RUNNING FOR? This year’s CIBC Run for the Cure participants are being encouraged to not only write the person’s name on their bibs but to have it on their shoes too! It’s a unique and fun campaign, says Diane Gordon, Vice-President, National Development, CBCF – Central Office. “We’re encouraging people to paint their own shoes, whether it be running shoes or stilettos or anything you want to paint, to show as an expression of who are you running for.” Check out this video for information on how to paint and decorate your shoes:
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connection to a grandmother they don’t know.” At the end of the day, everyone is running for someone. “Someone in our office was diagnosed with breast cancer last August,” says Colette Ferron, General Manager for CIBC in Toronto, and Run Champion for some 80 branches in the city. “This year, I’m sure a significant number of CIBC employees will be wearing her name.”
The newest run location is outside of Canada – in Kandahar. Check out runforth cure.com/site/ TR?fr_id= 1370&pg=entry to sponsor someone on the team!
BUDDY HOLLY THINKS PINK TOO! For four years running, the Charlottetown Festival in P.E.I. has generously offered one of its performances as a special awareness show for the CIBC Run for the Cure and breast cancer research. This year Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story has been renamed Buddy Thinks Pink for one night only. “The hope is that Buddy Holly himself is in the lobby after the show to help collect donations from patrons as they leave,” says Glen Trueman, CIBC Branch Manager in Charlottetown. “It’s a tremendous awareness piece for us and draws a lot of attention.” The show is at the Confederation Centre of the Arts.
“THE CIBC RUN FOR THE CURE IS NOW PART OF THE FABRIC THAT MAKES UP OUR ORGANIZATION,” says Veni Iozzo, Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Strategy, CIBC. That’s not hard to believe when you consider the run started in 1992 and CIBC has been title sponsor for 15 years and a national sponsor prior to that. In that first year in Toronto, about 1,500 participants raised $83,000. In 1993, the run expanded to Vancouver and that’s where CIBC employees got involved showing their support for a colleague who was living with breast cancer. That participation spread across the country and inspired CIBC to become a corporate sponsor. “This is really a grassroots program. It started with the passion of a few employees and it drove our corporate sponsorship,” says Iozzo. The strength of the partnership and the deep commitment has evolved over the years, says Diane Gordon, vice president, National Development, CBCF – Central
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MAKING THE MOST OF A BAD SITUATION Office. “We’re up to raising $33 million last year… what it takes to have something like that happen is a really true close partner like CIBC who makes it a part of their corporate culture to provide that support in helping to make it grow.” Team CIBC is responsible for team
registrations, the Pink Collection, training branch employees on donation procedures and contributing to run planning. But all year it supports fund- and awareness-raising. For example, the Pink Tour is a mobile education campaign that stops in different towns and cities. CIBC also partners with St.
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so at least 50 per cent of what the consumer gives is going back to the cause, which is the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.” CIBC Pink Collection hangtags identify the products and the cause, and they also show the suggested contribution amount. “We’re not selling these products… they’re a ‘gift’ with contribution. And, people usually contribute that amount we suggest if not more.” CBCF is involved in this program right from selecting the products. Last year, $1.66 million was raised through the Pink Collection campaign.
When CIBC management in 2007 decided to put the kibosh on fund-raising with pink products by individual branches, there was an uproar by employees. “So we decided to create a collection, which we called the Pink Collection,” says Angela Sarino, Senior Manager of Cause Sponsorship, CIBC. “It provides a fun way of interacting with people, and it’s easier, I think, for people to raise money when they have something they can give back in exchange.”
CIBC works with suppliers to create products and takes ideas to its employees for their input too. “There are regional taste differences but mostly we want to make sure our employees, who are the face of this campaign, are confident in promoting the products as well.” It’s also imperative to the program that the most possible money is going back to CBCF. “The unit cost of each product must be 50 per cent or less of what we think we can get for it,” says Sarino, “…
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More than 13,000 CIBC employees (and their friends and families) volunteer for CIBC Run for the Cure.
NEW CIBC AWARDS ENCOURAGE STUDENTS TO GET INVOLVED TOO! “There are so many things that helped fuel the growth (of the run) over the years,” says Diane Gordon, Vice President, National Development, Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation – Central. “This year, for example, CIBC introduced the Post-Secondary Student Challenge awards program.” The program will award 15 education awards totalling $150,000, to top student fundraisers across the country. Also, the top fundraising school in each region will be recognized. The overall goal is to encourage students to participate in the run in a meaningful and fun way. It will also build awareness of the importance of taking steps to reduce risk of breast cancer by leading healthy lifestyle. For more information, visit
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Contagion has infected enough moviegoers to catch the top spot at the box office. Studio estimates released yesterday show that the Warner Bros. pandemic thriller coughed up $23.1 million in its first weekend. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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A ‘violent’ Drive to remember Film garnering positive reactions
Gosling and film’s director forge union
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For a guy who plays a stunt driver that moonlights as a getaway driver in Drive, Ryan Gosling says he didn’t get a whole lot of time behind the wheel in the film. “I drove myself to set and I drove myself home,” he says with a laugh. But seriously, though. “I went to driving school, and I did a lot of the driving. But the cool stuff, I didn’t do,” he says. “But it was one of the best prep experiences I’ve ever had, because I’d basically just show up to this big parking lot, and there’d be a new Camaro or a new Mustang and we’d just ride it to the rims until it was smoking or it wouldn’t go anymore, then we’d just go home and they’d tow it away and call us when it was fixed.” Drive was something of a meeting of the minds for Gosling and the film’s director, Nicolas WindingRefn. “We set out to make a violent John Hughes movie, and I think that’s what we did,” Gosling says. The movie wouldn’t have happened if REO Speedwagon hadn’t come on the radio during a drive the actor and director shared one night while discussing the project. “So something happened in that car, and Nicolas and I were sharing the same dream and we spent the whole movie trying to figure out how that
Canadian Ryan Gosling stars in Drive.
was possible.” Gosling and WindingRefn’s shared dream apparently worked out great, as the actor and director are jumping into more projects together already. They’re now developing a remake of Logan’s Run — a project previously kicked around by a number of filmmakers, including Bryan Singer. And they’re getting ready to shoot a film about Thai kickboxing. No, really. “I’m going to start fighting soon. We start in January,” Gosling says. “I don’t know what he’s calling it
Gone too far As a producer on Drive as well as the star, Ryan Gosling played a major role in shaping the finished product with director Nicolas WindingRefn — which meant making some tough decisions. “The hardest scene to cut was the scene where Albert Brooks actually chokes a guy out on camera and he passes out.
yet. But that’s the fun of working with Nicolas. You discover it every day. That’s why he likes to
That was amazing,” Gosling remembers. “I talked to Albert that night, and I said, ‘Hey Albert, how’d the scene go?’ And he goes, ‘Ah ... I actually knocked the guy out. I choked him out. Is that bad?’ You can watch it on camera. You watch the guy’s eyes roll into the back of his head and falls to the floor. Everyone thought he was acting, but he wasn’t.”
work chronologically, so that the movie is evolving naturally.” With Drive already get-
Kim Coates: Strictly Canadian ANNE BRODIE
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He’s one of TV’s toughest guys, a Canadian living and working in L.A. Kim Coates is the epitome of those dangerous characters he’s played so often. Coates is the biker outlaw club sergeant-at-arms Alex “Tig” Trager in the acclaimed F/X series Sons of Anarchy, which revs up on F/X Canada in November.
Coates was in Toronto this week to launch the new season and his latest film, the hockey comedy drama Goon, at the Toronto International Film Festival.
cast at times but so did De Niro, Oldman and my buddy Costner. I got typecast and I fought against it, but now I’ve learned to embrace it. But I don’t see you on Glee.
You do “bad” so very well. Where do all these shadings of bad come from?
I don’t know. I have this big nose and cheekbones and blue-eyed tough guy look and I was on hockey skates as a kid. I got type-
Seriously, I’ll shock you and be in a musical comedy, The Boy from Saskatoon! I can sing and I can dance. It’s all about the script. Do you still feel Canadian?
I’m Canadian! You can take
the boy out of Canada but you can’t take the Canada out of the boy — I go to Saskatoon once a year and I have a cabin in B.C. where my wife and kids and I enjoy ourselves. Canada is my home. The Sons of Anarchy is an amazing series, done on the Sopranos template but with its own lawless flavour.
That’s good — we’re gutsy. The Sopranos worked so well. They were bad boys
ting such positive reactions wherever they take it, there’s even been talk of a sequel — even if it was originally just in jest. “We were joking for a while — but maybe it’s not a joke — that it would be a prequel called Drive 2 where it’s about Bernie and Ron Perlman,” he says. Of course, like the first film, any possible Drive followup needs to start elsewhere, Gosling explains. “I did hear that James Sallis was writing some kind of a sequel, so I think we have to defer to him first,” he says. JASON MERRITT/GETTY IMAGES
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but there was always someone badder than them and it’s the same in the biker world we live in.
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Canadian-born actor’s career keeps boldly going in new directions You might say William Shatner’s entire career could be summed up in three words: Weird or What? That’s also the title of the show he hosts on History Television, returning for a second season tonight at 10 p.m. ET. The series examines the unexplainable. Why do large rocks appear to “skate” across a desert, or skinny young teens suddenly have the ability to lift cars in an emergency? Is there a psychic connection between dolphins and humans? Besides the return of Weird, he’s also been busy with a new book and CD, receiving honours and, as always, feeding his horses and dogs. The Weird or What? schedule is a pretty gentle
gig. Cameras roll into his house and garden and capture the TV icon setting up one of three stories per episode and then asking viewers, “Was that weird, or what?” It’s the kind of show the endlessly curious Shatner would watch even if he wasn’t hosting it. “There are so many mysterious things out there that stagger us and beggar our imaginations,” he says. “Quantum physics is showing up just how strange and unpredictable the universe really is.” The two-time Emmy winner received an honorary doctor of letters from McGill University, his alma mater in June. He also received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award
for a lifetime of artistic achievement in May. So do all these lifetime awards mean Shatner is finally ready to wind down his career? Bite your weird or what tongue. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Biebs wants to be a young dad
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Lady Gaga reportedly has a new man in her life: Vampire Diaries actor Taylor Kinney, according to Radar Online. The two met when Kinney was cast in the video for Gaga’s new single, You and I. Things seem to have gotten more serious, according to a source who spotted the pair out at a seaside bar in California recently. “It was just casual at first, but things are getting pretty hot and heavy,” the source says. “I couldn’t tell it was her at first. It just looked like some hot couple making out, but then I realized it was Lady Gaga. Everyone went nuts. She was so sweet too — she even signed some autographs.”
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Everything we know, we learned from the movies Here are a few flicks that may help your kid to prepare for the new semester
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Back to School An old fart (Rodney Dangerfield) returns to college because…well, there’s no real plot reason. QUOTE: “I think I’m attracted to teachers,” says Rodney. “Yeah, I took out an English teacher.
Billy Madison
Dead Poets Society A crew of prep-schoolers (including a young Ethan Hawke) struggle with academic and parental pressures, finding relief in the wise words of their English teacher (Robin Williams). QUOTE: Says the prof:
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” LESSON LEARNED: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day! GOOD FOR: Ages 13 and up. There’s a suicide, but it’s an instructive one. Some good lessons for dads, too.
Over a few months, an immature goofball (Adam Sandler) repeats grades one through 12, to impress his dad and inherit a hotel company. QUOTE: “I don’t know,” says Billy, “I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes.
Rushmore A precocious youth (Jason Schwartzman) acts wise beyond his years — until he falls in love with an older woman and finally flails. A divorcing man (Bill Murray) is his best friend and competition.
The Graduate
Mean Girls You’ve either been one — or been tortured by one. Lindsay Lohan plays the new girl, seduced by the popular kids until she finds out how shallow they really are. Screenplay by Tina Fey. QUOTE: “If only you knew how mean she really is... You’d know that I’m not
Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman) finished high school. What’s next? An affair with an older lady. QUOTE: “It’s like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don’t make any sense to me,” cries Benjamin. “They’re allowed to wear hoop earrings, right? Yeah! Two years ago she told me hoops earrings were ‘her’ thing and I wasn’t allowed to wear them anymore.” LESSON LEARNED: Be yourself, even if you have to sit at the nerd table. GOOD FOR: Ages 11 and up. Show it to your little girls before they becomes one of the Plastics.
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Three high schoolers, led by the ballsy Ferris (Matthew Broderick), skip school and truly live. QUOTE: “I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to
That didn’t work out at all. I sent her a love letter... She corrected it!” LESSON LEARNED: If you apply yourself, you can do anything. GOOD FOR: 14 and up. Warning: This film contains sexual content and bad jokes like the above. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out” LESSON LEARNED: Responsibility. It’s sometimes more fun than drinking. Because it may lead to scoring the hot teacher. GOOD FOR: Who are you kidding? Your child has seen this already, like, 10 times. QUOTE: Says Max: “My top schools where I want to apply to are Oxford and the Sorbonne. My safety’s Harvard.” LESSON LEARNED: Act your age. GOOD FOR: Those 14 and up. Unless your kid is like Max. In which case, 8.
being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up.” LESSON LEARNED: It’s OK to feel lost. GOOD FOR: Ages 13 and up. Assuming they’ll sit still for a movie made before 1992. determine the course of my life,” says Cameron. “I’m going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it.” LESSON LEARNED: Carpe Diem! Again! GOOD FOR: Never let your kids see this movie. God forbid they get minds of their own.
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Take the lentil dip plunge From the grain fields of Saskatchewan to specialty stores across Canada, camelina oil enhances the taste of food Try it in this tasty dip THE CANADIAN PRESS H/O
Roasting garlic makes it wonderfully mellow, which you want for this Roasted Garlic and Red Pepper Lentil Dip recipe rather than the pungent flavour it has when fresh. Camelina oil has a slight nuttiness and is not overly heavy, so it is an ideal addition to dips and dressings. Serve the dip with slices of baguette, crackers or raw vegetables. It’s also great mixed into rice or quinoa salads.
Ingredients: • 50 ml (1/4 cup) camelina oil, divided • 6 to 8 cloves garlic • 1/2 sweet red pepper • 500 ml (2 cups) cooled, cooked red lentils • Salt and pepper, to taste
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As a young boy growing up in India, Radhe Gupta was already thinking like a businessman. “If I needed one dollar for school, I’d borrow three. “One for school, one for a cushion for myself and the third dollar I would lend to someone that needed it.” Gupta has turned that simple business practice into a multimillion-dollar real estate company in Ed-
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Put your money where your heart is Former Dragon’s Den co-star W. Brett Wilson invests in new series
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Former Dragons' Den costar W. Brett Wilson says he's proud of his work on the CBC-TV business investment series, and he's thankful for what the show did to raise his brand. But the Calgary-based businessman and philanthropist feels his new Slice series Risky Business falls more in line with his personal principles than Dragons' Den ever did. “I had said publicly, 'If I'm going to do more TV, it has to celebrate entrepreneurship,”' said Wilson, who split from Dragons' Den last February after contract talks failed. “For me, Dragons' Den isn't living up to the potential of celebrating entrepreneurship. It's raising the profile but we're not really doing all that we could do and that's really the lost op-
The nice guy Business without the bite On Dragons' Den, Wilson was known as the generous and nice one, striking more on-air deals (60 of them, 30 of which closed) than the rest of the firebreathing bunch.
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the Bank. Investment opportunities on the Canadian version include house and car flips, a pool tournament, a poker gala and a charity event. Wilson — who is chairman of Canoe Financial and Prairie Merchant Corporation — said he invested $150,000 to $200,000 of his own money during the 13 episodes of the show. The co-founder of FirstEnergy Capital Corp., can't reveal the results from the deals made on the show, but said “there's been some winners and there's been some not-winners.” “I hate calling them losers, but there are some deals that haven't worked out and that's just reality. Frankly, we're not going to pretend that it isn't real. It has happened.”
ment to pick and then strikes his own deal with the entrepreneur they reject. After the 30 days is up, Wilson meets up with the investors to assess the results of each of their deals. “What the show's doing is opening people's eyes to all the other things you can do that are real business, real opportunities,” Wilson said during a break from shooting the show at a mansion just west of Toronto this summer. “The investors are coming to the show with a whole range of dreams, if you will. In one case, someone wants to help their father buy a retirement home in southern Florida. Another, they want to start saving for a child's education.” Risky Business is based on the British TV show Beat
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Jesse Mills has earned himself the No. 1 quarterback job with the Saint Mary’s Huskies. Head coach Steve Sumarah said yesterday the 18-year-old first-year pivot would be the starter for the team’s next game against Université de Montreal on Sept. 17 thanks to his play in a 55-14 drubbing of the Mount Allison
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Mounties in the season opener on Friday night at Huskies Stadium. “We think he did enough to earn it,” Sumarah said. “He didn’t turn the ball over. He’s still green, but that’s OK. We know he’s got a tonne of upside. He just needs to keep playing and that will make him better.” Sumarah used a quarter-
back-by-committee approach in the season opener, with Mills and veterans Jack Creighton and Mackenzie Blewett all getting snaps. But by game’s end, it was Mills, fresh out of Citadel High School, posting the best numbers and helping lead a second-half charge that saw the Huskies erase a 14-5 half-
time deficit. Mills finished eight-of16 for 108 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. “It’s a big role and there’s a lot of responsibility to being a quarterback,” Sumarah said. “But I’m pretty confident he can handle it or I wouldn’t put him in that situation.” PHILIP CROUCHER
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Head coach Dominique Ducharme will take it. The Halifax Mooseheads kicked off their 2011-12 QMJHL season by splitting a pair of weekend road games — beating the Prince Edward Island Rocket 6-5 in a shootout on Friday then surrendering four third-period goals in a 7-3 loss to the Bathurst Titan on Saturday. “It’s OK … we’ll take that,” the team’s first-year bench boss said. “I think it’s the start of the learning process of becoming a winning team — of being able to go back-to-back (games) on the road.” Missing seven regulars to either injuries or NHL training camps, the Mooseheads watched captain Cameron Critchlow score the shootout winner in the vic-
“It was far from perfect, but I think they competed and just ran out of gas.” HALIFAX HEAD COACH DOMINIQUE DUCHARME ON THE MOOSEHEADS’ OPENING WEEKEND
tory against the Rocket, who tied the game with 16 seconds remaining in regulation time. Against the Titan, Halifax trailed 3-2 going into the third and then watched Bathurst score four times in the final 20 minutes to blow the game open. Ducharme said they “ran out of gas” against the Titan as some players took on added responsibilities with the missing skaters.
“We overplayed some guys and at one point I think a lot of our mistakes were coming because some guys were on the ice too much,” he said. A real bright spot for Halifax was the play of highly touted rookie Nathan MacKinnon. In his first two QMJHL games, MacKinnon finished with five assists and scored in the shootout against P.E.I. “He had a really strong game on Friday night — not only offensively but he played well also in our zone in key times,” Ducharme said. “On Saturday, obviously, being 16, second game in two days, it was a tougher start but he got better as the game went on.” The Mooseheads are now off until Friday when they host the Titan in their home opener at the Metro Centre at 7 p.m.
Smith’s sixth pro stock title sets new Maritime standard MATT JACQUES PHOTOGRAPHY
Wayne Smith sits in a class all his own. The Timberlea driver finished fifth in the Carquest Maritime Pro Stock Tour’s season-ender Dartmouth Dodge 200 at Scotia Speedworld on Saturday night to clinch the tour points title. The title was Smith’s sixth, setting a new Mar-
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driver Greg Sewart. “It’s a big accomplishment — nobody’s done it yet,” he said. “It’s pretty cool that we have done it for the first time.” Craig Slaunwhite of Terence Bay took the checkered flag on Saturday night, followed by Enfield’s Shawn Turple. PHILIP CROUCHER
Halifax Mooseheads forward Matthew Boudreau scored against both the P.E.I. Rocket and Bathurst Titan on the weekend.
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Dal squads go 1-1 to open soccer season AUS. The Dalhousie Tigers men’s and women’s soccer teams split their weekend games to kick off the new Atlantic University Sport season. In men’s action, the Tigers blanked the Mount Allison Mounties
1-0 at Wickwire Field yesterday, one day after falling to the visiting Prince Edward Island Panthers by the same score. The Saint Mary’s Huskies played the Panthers to a 0-0 draw in their season opener yesterday at Huskies Stadium. In women’s action, the Tigers blasted the Mounties 4-0 yesterday, after falling 2-1 to the Panthers on Saturday. The Huskies lost 2-0 to U.P.E.I. METRO
The Halifax Mooseheads have named 20year-old forward Cameron Critchlow the team’s captain for the 2011-12 season. Critchlow is no stranger to the C. He held the position last season with the Lewiston Maineiacs. Defencemen Trey Lewis and Steve Gillard will serve as alternate captains. A third alternate captain is being rotated among the remaining roster.
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Ravens get some payback After losing to Steelers in last year’s playoffs, Baltimore blows them away in season opener
Defenders Lardarius Webb and Jarret Johnson of the Ravens hit Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in Baltimore yesterday.
The Baltimore Ravens had just beaten their bitter rivals in record-breaking fashion, and some of the players felt inclined to put some perspective on their 35-7 manhandling of the defending AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers. Although their blowout victory yesterday provided some payback for January’s playoff loss, coach John Harbaugh said the Ravens are focused on this season. And Baltimore could not have started it any better. Joe Flacco threw three touchdown passes, Haloti Ngata led an inspired defence that forced a teamrecord seven turnovers, and the Ravens rolled to a win. “The whole thing about ghosts, demons, monkeys on your back — that’s not real to us,” Harbaugh said. Ray Rice ran for 107 yards and scored twice for the Ravens, who took an early 14-0 lead. It was a rematch of last season’s second-round playoff game
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Ryan Fitzpatrick threw four touchdown passes, two of them to journeyman tight end Scott Chandler, and the Buffalo Bills romped to a season-opening 41-7 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. Brian Urlacher had an interception and returned a fumble for a touchdown, Jay Cutler threw for 312 yards and two scores, and the Chicago Bears pounded
Matt Ryan and the Atlanta Falcons 30-12. Matthew Stafford threw for 305 yards and three touchdowns to help the Detroit Lions beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27-20 for their fifth consecutive victory dating to the final month of the 2010 season. The Indianapolis Colts looked lost without Peyton Manning and the Houston Texans took advantage, as Matt Schaub threw for 220 yards and a touchdown in a 34-7 rout.
that the Steelers won 31-24. That day, the Ravens let a 21-7 halftime lead slip with three third-quarter turnovers. At halftime yesterday, Baltimore’s Ray Lewis spoke up. “They were saying, ‘We’ve been here before,’” the linebacker said. “No, we haven’t been here before. This is a whole new year.” This time, the Ravens got three takeaways in the
third quarter to turn a 21-7 advantage into a rout. Ben Roethlisberger, who had won seven straight against the Ravens, was 22 for 41 for 280 yards and threw three picks. “I guess they were waiting for this one,” Roethlisberger said. “It’s not the way you want to start it for us, obviously, (but) I’d rather this be a Week 1 loss than a Week 13, 14, 15 loss.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
In other action yesterday:
Bautista, rookies carry Jays to victory Jose Bautista’s sacrifice fly in the seventh inning brought home the winning run as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the Baltimore Orioles 6-5 yesterday. Bautista’s RBI capped a three-run seventh that also saw rookies David Cooper and Adam Loewen of Surrey, B.C., belt solo homers for Toronto at Rogers Centre. Joel Carreno (1-0) pitched the seventh for his first major-league victory as Toronto won the rubber match of the three-game series. Loewen, who once pitched for the Orioles before injuries ended that phase of his career, had two hits, including his
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there are things you need to discuss wait until later in the week. Taurus April 21-May 21 The less you reveal about your plans the better. Gemini May 22-June 21 Keep a cool head and don’t let the pressure get to you. Cancer June 22-July 22 It may be annoying that family members don’t seem that interested in what you are up to but they have their own lives to deal with. Leo July 23-Aug.23 Make every
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Virgo Aug. 24- Sept. 22 Not everyone merits your help but it will pay you to be kind even to those who do not deserve it. Libra Sept. 23-Oct. 23 Face up to reality today, no matter how unappealing it may be. Scorpio Oct. 24-Nov. 22 You will find it hard to stay focused today as the full moon pulls you first this way then that. Sagittarius Nov. 23-Dec. 21 Be honest with friends and col-
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