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Edmonton only major airport in the country without public transit City, airport authority and passenger fares to fund pilot project Parking at Century Park, alignment with Leduc’s C-Line are things to address: Councillors HEATHER MCINTYRE

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Riding a bus to your flight is a step closer to reality for Edmontonians, as councillors yesterday said mon-

ey should be found in the 2012 budget to fund a pilot project to the Edmonton International Airport. “I think we need to this,” said Mayor Stephen Mandel. “I think

citizens want this.” The three-year pilot, should council approve the money in December, would operate from Century Park LRT station starting next May from 5 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.,

on the half-hour during peak periods, and hourly otherwise. Cash fare would be $5, or $100 for a monthly pass. Myron

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Keehn, VP of commercial development for the airport, said more than half of the airport’s 5,000 employees live in Edmonton, but also: “When people land, they expect transit.”

Tailback Out

Knee injury for Messam Eskimos without running back for West Final {page 23}

Amie Bursey adds wood to a stove at Occupy Edmonton. As some movements faced eviction yesterday, including Calgary, local protesters focused on health and ﬁre standards and held a support vigil for Occupy Wall Street. A barbecue is slated for Saturday to mark the one-month point for the group. SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO

Occupy movement in Edmonton standing its ground

Measles exposure Up to 1,000 may have been exposed: Authorities {page 4}

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news: edmonton LRT changes not enough for Chinese community Despite some revisions, the Chinese community still wants the city to shift the route of the downtown LRT connector from 102 Avenue to 102A Avenue. Following community input, proposed changes presented to a council committee yesterday include shifting the tracks for better access to the north side of the street, narrowing the tunnel entrance planned for between 95 Street and 96 Street, and adding a pedestrian crossing. City staff will return with a report on more possible changes in January.

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Food Network and HGTV regular Corbin Tomaszeski gives pointers to NAIT culinary student Justine Kueﬂer. The chef and star of Dinner Party Wars, Restaurant Makeover and Crash My Kitchen, returned to his alma mater for an alumni award yesterday.

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WCB hostage victims speak at hearing Two of Patrick Clayton’s hostages spoke at a sentencing hearing yesterday, saying the Alberta Worker’s Compensation Board has victimized them along with the gunman. Clayton pleaded guilty last week in the 2009 incident, during which he held nine people hostage for 10 hours on the WCB’s top floor. Nicole Ferguson, a former WCB admin assistant, escaped but still suffers from the experience and eventually lost her job. Fellow hostage and WCB claimant Randy Morrow said he feels compassion for Clayton, even though his actions were wrong. METRO

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A new website offers help to young people who live with a parent suffering from dementia. Scan code for story.

Father ‘snapped’ when autistic son ordered moved Eyes ‘glossed over’ when touring group home, inquiry hears Had moved to Alberta for access to better programs for children with disabilities A man who killed himself and his autistic son was defeated when the provincial government insisted on moving the out-ofcontrol child from a private facility to a group home. Deena Caputo told a fatality inquiry that her common-law husband, Jeffrey Bostick, was like a zombie when he toured the group home back on

Sept. 22, 2009. She said the home had magnetic doors to lock children in their rooms, and Bostick was horrified. “It’s like he snapped,” Caputo testified yesterday. “He didn’t say a word, not one word.” A week later, Bostick and his 11-year-old son, Jeremy, were found dead inside a barricaded bedroom in the basement of their

north Edmonton home. A cylinder of carbon monoxide was in the room and the door and air vent were sealed with duct tape and wet towels. Caputo detailed to the court the family’s constant fight to get help for the boy. “It was always a waiting list. It was always an availability issue,” she said. “It was like pulling teeth to

get any type of service.” She said workers who came to their home either couldn’t come back because of funding problems or refused to work with Jeremy because he was so violent. She said one doctor suggested that if the family couldn’t handle the child, they should put him up for adoption.

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Health authorities warn of mass measles exposure in Edmonton SHELLEY WILLIAMSON/METRO

Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk and Heather Klimchuk, minister of culture and community service, take questions from students at Glenora School yesterday.

Minister vows to ‘get it right’ with education act Lukaszuk addresses Grade 5 students and media on stalled Bill 18 Public forums slated for proposed law SHELLEY WILLIAMSON

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Despite the fact that Bill 18 was pulled from the fall Legislature’s books, a new version of the Education Act will be on the table by next spring, Alberta’s education minister says. Thomas Lukaszuk revealed public consultation plans yesterday, including one on Saturday in Edmonton. “I will be looking for input. We will encapsulate that input into the revised Bill 18, which will be tabled in the next session of the Legislature,” Lukaszuk told reporters at

The public education forums will have four themes: Making schools safe, making learning relevant, keeping students engaged and setting up students to succeed. Glenora School. The current act has not seen any changes of note in 23 years. “What meant safe in 1988 is a different concept today,” he said. “Cyberbullying, for example, was something you’d read in a science-fiction book. Now

it’s a reality.” Lukaszuk lauded the earlier proposed bill as a good framework, albeit lacking some key feedback. “I am confident when all of us participate in this process we will end up with a solid Education Act that will be adequate for educating our children for several years to come,” he said. The province plans to launch a website and encourage Twitter, Facebook, email and traditional mail feedback. Those interested in speaking at the meetings can register at education.alberta.ca/engage.

As many as 1,000 Edmontonians may have been exposed to measles, Alberta Health Services has confirmed. “We are asking all potentially exposed individuals to monitor their health for symptoms,” Dr. Marcia Johnson, AHS medical officer of health, said yesterday. Contact may have happened at Manulife Place office tower from Nov. 1 to 3, between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., and on Nov. 4 from 9 a.m. to noon; at Synergy Fall Social Event at Sutton Place Hotel on Nov. 3, from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.; and at the U of A Hospital emergency unit from 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 8 to 4:30 a.m. on Nov. 9. The infected person contracted the virus while overseas. “This case is a reminder

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of the importance of vaccination,” Johnson said. Those who may have been exposed, especially those who are not immunized or who have not had measles, should avoid contact with others and call Health Link. SHELLEY WILLIAMSON

The MMR vaccine protects against measles and mumps and is part of Alberta’s child immunization program. A highly contagious airborne virus, measles can stay active in an area for up to two hours after the infected person has left. Symptoms include fever, cough, runny nose, red eyes and a blotchy rash that appears three to seven days after first signs of fever. Severe complications include include pneumonia and inflammation of the brain and spinal chord. Though there is no cure, measles are preventable through immunization.

Charges in Alberta’s water scores minivan lousy grade hit-and-run

Two killed, one injured in house fire

The quality of Alberta’s drinking water got a C- in a report released yesterday by Ecojustice, noting that the province has nothing in place to protect water sources and has testing and treatment standards that haven’t changed in five years.

Two men from Ontario are dead and a third man is in hospital after a house fire east of Bonnyville early yesterday. Investigators believe a couch caught fire and spread throughout the house. They have launched an investigation. The men were all in their 20s. METRO

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Marco Beausoliel, 21, has been charged in the minivan hit-and-run early Sunday morning after coming forward to police on Monday. The incident at 130 Avenue and 50 Street put a male pedestrian, 25, in hospital. METRO

Impersonation prank backfires on teen driver A teen who allegedly posed as a police officer by driving behind a motorist on St. Albert Trail with flashing red and blue lights got an education he likely didn’t expect. Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk said he pulled over Monday when he saw what he thought was a police vehicle flash-

The age of the 18 driver who police say posed as an oﬃcer in an unmarked car with ﬂashing lights. ing its lights behind him. When Lukaszuk saw the occupants of the vehicle were two young males, he cornered them and waited for RCMP to

arrive. “I think they had a bit of a scare of their life and RCMP will handle this professionally,” Lukaszuk said, calling the incident “a total error in judgment” on the young men’s part RCMP said charges are under review against the St. Albert driver. SHELLEY WILLIAMSON

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Can’t ‘evict an idea’: Occupy T.O. JAMES MACDONALD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

A judge says Occupy Toronto protesters can remain in a downtown park while the merits of a city eviction order are argued in court. Occupy Toronto protesters went to court yesterday after receiving the eviction notices and are requesting an injunction against the eviction. The judge says the protesters can’t be removed

pending his decision following arguments on Friday, but added that no new structures can be erected in the park. As police looked on, bylaw officers threaded their way between tents and through the mud yesterday morning to put up the notices, which were quickly taken down. The protesters said the

city could not “evict an idea” whose time had come, and they said they planned to stay. But some demonstrators said they would leave rather than risk confrontation with police and possible criminal charges. The protesters took over the park several blocks east of Bay Street on Oct. 15. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Police apprehend a protester in Toronto.

Ouster raises doubts about Occupy’s future

New York City protesters gather to discuss options to sustain movement MARY ALTAFFER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Crackdowns against the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country reached the epicenter of the movement yesterday, when police rousted protesters from a Manhattan park and a judge ruled that their free speech rights do not extend to pitching a tent and setting up camp for months at a time. It was a potentially devastating setback. If crowds of demonstrators return to Zuccotti Park, they will not be allowed to bring tents, sleeping bags and other equipment that turned the area into a makeshift city of dissent. But demonstrators pledged to carry on with their message protesting corporate greed and economic inequality, either in Zuccotti or a yet-to-be chosen new home. “This is much bigger than a square plaza in

Judge’s ruling Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman denied a motion by the demonstrators seeking to be allowed back into the park with their tents and sleeping bags.

New York City police oﬃcers keeps a demonstrator aﬃliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement from entering Zuccotti Park yesterday in New York.

downtown Manhattan,” said Hans Shan, an organizer who was working with churches to find places for protesters to sleep. “You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.” State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman upheld the city’s eviction of the protesters after an emergency appeal by the

National Lawyers Guild. The protesters have been camped out in the privately owned park since mid-September. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Protester Darren Noftall holds up a sign at a National Capital Commission photo-op promoting the capital’s annual winter festival, Winterlude. SEAN MCKIBBON/METRO

While ice-hog mascots waved, oblivious to the protester behind them, NCC marketing chief Guy Laflamme deflected questions about the impending clash between his organization and the activists in Ottawa’s Confederation Park, one of the main venues for Winterlude.

The protesters “have not demonstrated that they have a First Amendment right to remain in Zuccotti Park, along with their tents, structures, generators and other installations to the exclusion of the owner’s reasonable rights ... or to the rights to public access of others who might wish to use the space safely,” Stallman wrote. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered the sweep because health and safety conditions and become “intolerable” in the crowded plaza.

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Reporters taken into custody NYC. Journalists have

been detained while covering Occupy Wall Street. N.Y. police didn’t have a count of how many journalists were arrested and didn’t immediately comment. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Occupy Wall Street protesters clash with police at Zuccotti Park after being ordered to leave their longtime encampment in New York, early yesterday. Police disperse protesters near the encampment at Zuccotti Park. At about 1 a.m. yesterday, police handed out notices from the park’s owner and the city saying that the park had to be cleared. A protester is arrested during a march on Broadway after police ordered demonstrators to leave the park.

Sanitation workers gather at the site to start the cleanup effort. Two protesters and their dog, who said they have slept with other protesters for the last 56 nights, sit along a police barricade at the edge of Zuccotti Park. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Memo warns of illegal firearms trafficking Federal minister quick to dismiss own department’s analysis on ending registry of rifles and shotguns THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE

Scrapping the requirement to register rifles and shotguns could fuel illegal firearms trafficking across the Canadian border, warns an internal federal memo.

It says the move would weaken import controls by eliminating a requirement for border officials to verify firearms coming into the country. “Such a loophole could

facilitate unregistered prohibited and restricted firearm trafficking into and through Canada,” says the declassified memo, originally marked secret. The memo was released

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Attack on royal website blocked LONDON. Scotland Yard’s cyber-crime unit helped fend off an attack on the official website of Britain’s royal wedding in April, the division’s chief said yesterday. Det. Supt. Charlie McMurdie told a cybersecurity conference that action was taken to safeguard the site, which received 15 million hits when Prince William married Kate Middleton on April 29. Asked for more information by The Associated Press, she said her unit had “been called in” to deal with an attack. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Literary gold rush for author TORONTO. Vancouver

Island native Patrick deWitt says he was plagued with doubt about his comic western novel The Sisters Brothers when it first entered the wild world of publishing. But that feeling is gone

Murderers executed in Ohio and Florida Two U.S. men were executed yesterday, one for killing his three sleeping sons, the other for killing a woman and her two daughters after they visited Disney World. In Ohio, Reginald Brooks of East Cleveland who fatally shot his three sons while they slept in 1982, shortly after his wife filed for divorce, was exe-

now that the story has struck book-prize gold, winning a $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction yesterday — two weeks after it landed the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. DeWitt’s novel, about two gunslinging brothers en route to California in the gold-rush era of the 1850s, was also nominated for the Man Booker Prize and the Scotiabank Giller. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Nazi victims eye litigation MIAMI. Thousands of aging Holocaust survivors in the U.S. want Congress to clear a path for them to sue European insurance companies they contend illegally confiscated Jewish life insurance policies during the Nazi era and have refused to pay an estimated $20 billion still owed. A hearing is scheduled today on a bill that would provide the survivors with access to U.S. courts and also force companies to disclose lists of policies held by Jews before the Second World War. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

cuted in with each of his hands clenched in an obscene gesture. In Florida, Oba Chandler was executed for killing an Ohio woman and her two teenage daughters in June 1989 as the victims returned from a dream vacation to Disney World. Brooks died first at 2:04 p.m. local time. At 66, Brooks is the oldest person put to death since Ohio resumed executions in 1999. Chandler, 65, was administered a lethal injection and pronounced dead at 4:25 p.m. local time yesterday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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of new vehicles sold in September increased 1.5 per cent to 134,389. Statistics Canada reports higher truck sales more than offset a decline in passenger-car sales. It says preliminary industry data indicate the number of new vehicles sold in October increased three per cent. Sales of trucks (which include minivans, sportutility vehicles, light and heavy trucks, vans and buses) grew 3.2 per cent to 78,995, accounting for a record 58.8 per cent of the month’s new-vehicle sales. Passenger-car sales dropped 0.7 per cent, their third straight monthly decline.

says the Employment Insurance system is broken and needs a more transparent, effective and equitable national framework. The report by a task force from the University of Toronto’s Mowat Centre says the EI system is complex, opaque and not easily understood by contributors. It says the current program has failed to keep up with societal and economic change. Too many are being left out of the social safety net, carrying an unfair burden or not achieving their potential, it says. The task force found only 46 per cent of the country’s unemployed received EI benefits last year, compared with 86 per cent in 1981.

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New route for oil pipeline Nebraska conducts own environmental assessment Cost and kilometres added to project undetermined EVAN VUCCI/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TransCanada Corp. says it has reached an agreement with the Nebraska government to change the route of its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline to avoid the ecologically sensitive Sandhills region. The Calgary-based pipeline giant said it supports Nebraska legislation that ensures the pipeline doesn’t cross the expanse of grass-strewn, loose-soil hills, and part of the Ogallala aquifer, which supplies water to Nebraska and seven other states. The 2,700-kilometre, $7billion US pipeline, if built, will carry crude from Alberta’s oilsands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast, traversing six states along the way. Some of the most heated environmental opposition to the pipeline has come from Nebraska, where

Rep. Tom Griﬃn speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington yesterday to urge President Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline.

many residents were concerned a spill from the pipeline could pollute water they rely on for farming and ranching. Last Thursday, the U.S. State Department heeded those concerns, announcing it would delay its deci-

sion on Keystone XL until early 2013 so that the company could come up with a new route. The U.S. State Department has final say on Keystone XL because it would cross an international border. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Route review Alex Pourbaix, TransCanada’s president of energy and oil pipelines, said he expects the review will add six to nine months to the Keystone XL schedule. But a State Department spokesman said that any new route would require a supplemental environmental-impact statement that likely would take more than a year to complete. State Department had already determined the best route — through the Sand Hills — in its final environmental-impact assessment, according to Pourbaix. Last month, Gov. Dave Heineman called a special session to discuss legislation that would give Nebraska the power to change the route TransCanada had the opportunity to discuss alternate routes with Nebraska legislators.

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Decision reverses plan to use limited-usage pricing models on smaller Internet providers choice of either charging the smaller Internet providers a flat rate per user or selling the ISPs a specific amount of capacity on their networks. “The net effect of it is that there will be no caps, no limitations, no metering of use for retail customers as a result of this CRTC decision,” CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein said. The regulator launched its review after a social media campaign launched by

the ISPs and an ensuing public backlash, as well as urging by former industry minister Tony Clement. Under the new capacity model for billing, a small ISP buys a certain amount of network capacity from one of the big providers, and if its customers unexpectedly increase their usage, their service could slow. “If they buy too little they have a problem with their end customers, if they

buy too much they pay for something that they don’t use,” von Finckenstein said. Industry Minister Christian Paradis said the government would study the decision carefully to ensure it stimulated competition and investment and allowed Canadians to choose. “Let me be clear: our government’s policy will always be to encourage competition, ensure consumer choice and minimize regulation,” he said in a

statement last night. Independent Internet service provider TekSavvy was pleased with the structure, but said the actual rates will increase costs for consumers. “The rates approved by the commission today will make it much harder for independent ISPs to compete,” TekSavvy CEO Marc Gaudrault said. “This is an unfortunate development for telecommunications competition in Canada.” THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Life is full of double standards, and here’s one of mine: I can admit I protect (and sometimes NEIL MORTON micromanage) my daughters, METRO 11 and 9, in a way I probably wouldn’t if I had boys. When I was dating my now-wife in high school — yes, high school sweethearts! — I used to snicker when she had to get home by midnight to turn off her dad’s alarm clock. If she didn’t beat the alarm, he said he’d go out looking for her, call police, call hospitals. I said I’d never be that kind of dad. I am that kind of dad. More so because I have girls. Why? Well, for one thing, I’m fully aware there are boys who will try to take advantage of them. Not all boys, but some. There are also predators/monsters in the real world and online, enormous pressures around drugs and alcohol, and bullying (in recent weeks, a 10-year-old Illinois girl, Ashlynn Conner, hanged herself after being bullied at school). I know these things apply to boys as well, but I just think the implications are compounded for girls. It’s not that I don’t trust my daughters. It’s that I “The extent of know what kids are like. I was one. Kids are kids, not our bad ‘social adults. They will make mismedia’ growing takes. They will make bad up: crank calls decisions sometimes. There are so many peer pressures. and rolled-up What I tell my girls is pieces of paper we’re instantly accessible (e.g. ‘Johnny whenever they’re in a bind. Text us, call us, tweet us — loves Sarah’) we’ll be there. No passed around questions. No judgments. class. Now (Well, questions will come there’s the quick later.) Mobile devices are a distribution of blessing for this generation, voyeuristic allowing kids to be much photos from a more accessible to their parents if they’re in harm’s party that go way. But adding social me‘viral ...’” dia to the mix does create more trigger points. The extent of our bad “social media” growing up: crank calls and rolled-up pieces of paper (e.g., “Johnny loves Sarah”) passed around class. Now there’s the quick distribution of voyeuristic photos from a party that go “viral” and Mean Girl tactics (“You’re fat,” “You’re ugly,” “You’re Stupid”) that don’t end in the schoolyard but continue on Facebook. We let our daughters use social media — there are many virtues to it — but monitor it very closely. Sure kids have to have some sense of forging an identify outside their parents. We will give ours some line. But my blinders will not be on. Denial and ignorance do no good. As parents, you have to anticipate and react. Particularly with girls. My angels won’t understand all the decisions we make until they have grown into women and parents. In the meantime, all we can do is protect them — and hopefully empower them at the same time.

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Trimming the cost of a haircut One Ohio barber has turned the price of a haircut on its head. After a mortgage crisis, macro-unemployment, stock-market tumbles and poor consumer confidence, Gregory Burnett is only charging people what they can afford for a haircut, according to the Canton Repository newspaper. After his usual back-to-school rush failed to show, he put up a sign that says, “TIMES ARE HARD WHAT CAN YOU PAY FOR A CUT.”

He has accepted as little as $5 for a regular $12 haircut, the newspaper reports. The owner of Old School Barber Shop said he named his shop for that mantra. “Old school is making something out of nothing,” Burnett told the Repository. The 56-year-old has been a working man all his life by doing service jobs: shining shoes, driving cabs, and for the last 25 years he has worked as a hairstylist and barber, the Repository says. And now that he has his own barber shop, he still shines shoes. Although it’s $5, and that’s nonnegotiable. METRO

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Much ado about penguins More than a dozen Canadians are still in the running to go on a tour organized by drummer Roger Taylor of the classic rock band Queen. Taylor is going back on the road - although he's not playing and neither are his former bandmates — to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the seminal rock act. He organized web auditions to find a five-piece cover band and three vocalists to perform classic Queen tunes. Lead singer, Freddie Mercury, shown, died in 1991. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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From March of the Penguins to Farce of the Penguins to the return of Happy Feet, it’s hard to toss a fish without hitting one at the movies But who is the most famous penguin of all?

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It was such a huge hit it inspired an R-rated parody, Farce of the Penguins. Featuring the voices of Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Alexander and Christina Applegate, it’s an R-rated spoof that imagines what sex-starved penguins might talk about on the 70 mile walk to their mating grounds. “I am tired of the club scene,” says one penguin. “So are the baby seals!” replies another. More family friendly was Madagascar, the story of four Central Park Zoo animals who get stranded on the island of Madagascar. The movie featured a large menagerie of characters, but the zoo’s penguins, Skipper, Kowalski,

Rico and Private, proved to be audience favorites. They have most of the movie’s best lines — on landing in Africa one of the flightless birds says, “Africa? That ain't gonna fly!” — and were featured in a short film, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, a TV series and video games. Probably the most famous penguin character in the movies is Oswald Cobblepot a.k.a. The Penguin, as played by Danny DeVito in Batman Returns. This super villain is human, but dresses like a penguin, eats raw fish and tries to conquer Gotham with an army of specially trained penguins.

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At the start of the animated penguin picture Surf’s Up, Cody Maverick (the voice of Transformer’s star Shia LaBeouf ) takes a shot at another cartoon tuxedoed bird movie. Asked if he has any other skills besides surfing. Cody sarcastically says, “Like what? Singing and dancing?” Of course, he’s referring to Happy Feet, the Oscar winning movie

Robin Williams wants everyone to know that he’s happy. When fans stop the actor-comedian to snap a photo with him on their cellphones, Williams says he usually always obliges but often finds people complain that something

about an Emperor Penguin who can’t find his soul mate the usual way — through song — so he uses his other talent — tap dancing. The musical penguins of Happy Feet shim shammed their way to huge box office in 2006, and will paddle and roll their way back into theatres again this weekend in Happy Feet Two. For a while, it seemed like you couldn’t swing a herring without hitting a penguin at the movies. March of the Penguins, a real-life look at the migration march of Emperor penguins to their traditional breeding ground, was a left field hit in 2005. The winner for Best Docu-

seems wrong with him, even though he’s smiling. “I think people always want zany, goofy (expletive) from me,” said Williams, who recently returned from a honeymoon to France with new wife, graphic designer Susan Schneider. “It takes a lot of

The musical penguins of Happy Feet shim shammed their way to huge box oﬃce in 2006, and will paddle and roll their way back into theatres again this weekend in Happy Feet Two. mentary not only out grossed all the nominees for Best Picture that year — it took in $77 million vs. $75 million for Brokeback Mountain — but also became the second highest grossing theatrical documentary after Fahrenheit 9/11.

energy to do that. If you do that all the time, you’ll burn out.” Williams, who underwent surgery to replace an aortic valve in 2009, is far from retirement, but he acknowledges that he’s taking it easier even though he’s playing two

separate parts in Happy Feet Two, out Friday. The funnyman reprises his roles as chivalrous Adelie penguin Ramon and bombastic rockhopper Lovelace in the follow-up to the 2006 Oscar-winning animated film. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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The grandiosity of gore The Walking Dead has thrust special effects wizards back into the spotlight Transforming ordinary humans into flesh-eating, mindless zombies for AMC’s monster hit The Walking Dead involves a fair bit of Hollywood magic, to be sure. But makeup master Greg Nicotero orchestrated his own remarkable transformation with a leap to the director's chair for the show's second season. The special effects wizard — whose diverse slate of movie projects include Inglourious Basterds, The Green Mile, Sin City, The Pacific and the Kill Bill series — helms an upcoming episode that marks a new benchmark in his gruesome career. The broadening appeal of horror and fantasy fare is helping gross-out geeks like him find notoriety in

the mainstream, and even snag high-profile projects of their own, he says. “I think what’s interesting about it is (we’re in) a situation where guys who love and respected the genre when they were younger are now wellplaced in the industry,” Nicotero says in a recent interview from the set of The Walking Dead. “Between (directors) Sam Raimi and Frank Darabont and Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez — we all had the same diet when we grew up, and that diet was loving to watch old Ray Harryhausen movies and reading Famous Monsters Magazine. It was just this kind of weird shared existence we all had when we were younger.”

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into detailed prosthetics, even as much of the industry is increasingly turning to computer-generated spectacles. “They can sometimes take six months to build an effect that will be on screen for three seconds,” Davies says of Nicotero and his partners. “These are sculptors, painters, artists, line craftsmen — it’s not just about sitting down and hitting a button and there it is. And I think you can feel that when you watch the shows.” Davies, whose other TV docs have included Zombiemania and Pretty Bloody: The Women of Horror, was fascinated by the reverence effects artists have for filmmakers who came before them. She notes Nicotero learned his craft from ‘80s splatter wizard Tom Savini (Friday the 13th, Day of the Living Dead). “It’s a process where you learn under the direction of another master and that doesn't exist in the film industry very much, or in any other industry in the arts as much.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Despite rumors that spread like wildfire on the Internet Monday evening, NBC’s Community has not been cancelled. The comedy show, which stars Joel McHale, was not on the NBC’s midseason renewal plans, but The Hollywood Reporter said that the show was not cancelled. After Community enthusiasts started to panic thinking the show was cancelled, Brain Stelter, a

“Community is deﬁnitely not cancelled.” BRIAN STELTER

New York Times reporter that covers television and digital media tweeted the following: “Community is definitely not cancelled. NYT's Bill Carter says, two cubicles over. ‘NBC says it’ll be off the air for only a brief time.’” While the show is on

NBC’s prime Thursday night slot, it's no secret it’s struggling. According to MSNBC.com the show’s most recent airing attracted 3.5 million viewers, which is just short of its season low. Community airs on Citytv in Canada. And for those who care to know, Prime Suspect was not cancelled either. MARY ANN GEORGANTOPOULOS FOR METRO NEW YORK

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Drake making sure to Take Care The Toronto rapper dishes on trying to prevent an album from leaking, A-list guest stars and balancing philosophy and party rhymes JAG GUNDU/GETTY IMAGES

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You have a lot guest stars on this album. There’s Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and even Stevie Wonder. I was surprised though that you didn’t have Stevie sing. Instead you just had him play his signature harmonica.

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When Drake found out his latest album, Take Care, had leaked online a week before its release, he took to Twitter and in a very practical tone wrote to his four million followers, “Listen, enjoy it, buy it if you like it...and take care until next time.” This pragmatic response is telling of Drake’s approach. On Take Care, he frequently raps about what he observes with a sense of both realism and optimism. This is present most in songs like, We’ll Be Fine, and HYFR, where he says, “I learned working with the negatives could make for a better picture.”

I think that the record, the way it was, was done already when he was listening to it. Vocally, we had tracked it out, and me and him have these other plans for a record where we sing together. We’ve been talking about it for a while now. And I thought this was more of an interesting way to incorporate him in the album, as almost like a musical contributor and a musical guide. He added some great things to that song and I thought that was cool as opposed to having a blatant feature.

Is it just a given that an album will always leak before it comes out, or do you actually try to ﬁgure out where the leak came from?

Nah. You know, my last album leaked like 28 days before it came out and that was kind of devastating. I don’t know necessarily know how it happened but I feel that if leaks are somewhat contained — like if your album leaks six or seven days before it’s supposed to come out — I never see it as detrimental or that damaging. First of all, I’m an artist that was birthed in the generation of leaks on the Internet, so I’m not really trippin’ when the album comes out a little bit before the release date. But when people get it like two to three or four weeks before, that’s when it’s hard. I mean, some music doesn’t even last two weeks anymore. People’s interest levels switch so quickly. I was cool with it though, to be honest, as cool as I could be. Obviously, I wish that they could all hear it at the same time, on the day that it drops, but I think that unfortunately with the access

There are a lot philosophical lines in these songs, like “jealousy is just love and hate combined.” Are these the type of things that you stow away for a while, just waiting to ﬁnd a place where they’ll ﬁt?

Drake says he wasn’t too bothered by the fact his latest album, Take Care, was leaked early.

that everybody has to music, I think that’s just unrealistic unless you drop solely digital, which affects your sales, so it’s a toss-up. You knew for more than a year that this album was going to be called Take Care. How did you decide that so early on in the process?

We came up with it when we were touring in Europe with Jay-Z, and we were all on the bus together and we came up with this name, and as the months went on, it just got stronger and stronger. It just started having more meaning, more impact, and

I started hearing it more and realized that it’s kind of an infectious title. I was pretty much sold on it. There was never a point where I was like, ‘Oh, I need a new album title’ or anything. So the song Take Care, came later?

Yeah, the song just sort of made sense when I heard the Gil Scott-Heron record (the song samples ScottHeron’s I’ll Take Care of You). The lyrics were right there, and obviously coinciding with the title was just like, ‘Oh, I’ll just make this the title track.’

Yeah, there are little pieces that I collect over the months, whether it be in passing conversation or from reading or movies. I pull from all kinds of references but I make them my own. I try to never directly take a quote verbatim. I try to make it apply to my life or make it work for me. A lot of it is just stuff we think about and talk about amongst each other, like me, 40 (Drake’s collaborator Noah 40 Shebib) and whoever else is in the studio. It just comes from hours of thinking and reflecting on life. I think one of my biggest things is to be quoted. I grew up reading quotes, studying what intelligent people had to say, what wise people had to say, so I think one of my biggest goals in life is just to be a quoted individual, and to be somebody whose words matter.

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The diva vs. the baby

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Patti LaBelle accused of screaming at a toddler and punching its mother

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“violently” threw-up. So far, LaBelle hasn’t responded to the allegations. She’s probably too busy not-babysitting to do so.

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If you are a baby and happen to come across singer Patti LaBelle, it’s best if you pull up your diaper, grab your rattle, and crawl right out of there. It was disclosed yesterday in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court that the singer screamed obscenities at a toddler and threw a punch at the baby’s mother (who also happens to be a school teacher) sometime this year. The mother, Roseanna Monk, is now suing LaBelle, who was living in her Manhattan apartment building while appearing on Broadway’s Fela. Apparently, this is what happened, accord-

ing to Monk’s lawyer, reports The New York Daily News: The 18-month-old toddler, named Genevieve, was “scampering” around the apartment building’s lobby when LaBelle, who is described as being in “full star regalia with oversize shades and a fur coat” became upset at the baby as she walked through. “‘What are you doing letting your kid run around like that?’ she reportedly yelled. And then, according to the lawyer yet again, ‘started screaming at my client, throwing water from a bottle at the mother’s face and the baby’s face.’” As if that wasn’t enough, LaBelle then took a swing at the baby’s mother. She then was shoved into a waiting car by her entourage and the baby

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Matthew Fox in hot water?

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An Ohio private bus driver who claims she was punched by Matthew Fox is asking that the actor’s lawsuit against her be tossed out. The former star of Lost slapped Heather Bormann with a countersuit earlier this month after she sued

And in other baby news... Christina Applegate might not want to have LaBelle as a guest star on her TV show Up All Night anytime soon. As she tells The View, having her nine-month-old daughter Sadie around was a priority when deciding to do the new NBC show. “My whole thing was, ‘I’m not doing this unless I can bring her.’ So they had to build me a room for her and it’s got her toys and a crib and she takes her naps there,” the actress explained. “That’s called a crazy mother who said, ‘No, I’m not doing anything unless I can be with my baby.’”

him for at least $75,000 US in damages. Fox also demanded a jury trial. Bormann’s attorney filed a motion Monday seeking to have Fox’s lawsuit dismissed, calling it frivolous. In her lawsuit, Bormann alleged that Fox struck her

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in the breast, groin, arm and legs after she stopped him from boarding her chartered party bus on Aug. 28. Fox was in Cleveland making a movie. Prosecutors declined to file charges in the case. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Escape the resort

The beach and a trashy novel are great for a few days, but when tanning gets old, you might want to see what’s outside the resort walls Puerto Plata’s It Zone has the answer ALL PHOTOS: STEPHEN KNIGHT

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We could all use a little quality time in the sun and a dip in the ocean, especially as another long Canadian winter approaches. But if you’re like some of the thousands of Canadian travellers who flock to this Caribbean island nation of 10 million people each year, you want the all-inclusive travel experience to be about more than just sitting around the resort all day with the latest Danielle Steel/John Grisham novel. That’s where the It Zone comes in. Launched in November by Nolitours (a member of Transat A.T. Inc.), the It Zone is designed for travellers to Puerto Plata who enjoy the home base of an all-inclusive resort — ours was the scenic Be Live Grand Marien — but who are eager to get in touch with the local culture, try some outdoor adventure activities and check out the nightlife beyond sports highlights at the hotel bar.

Eat A recent tour gave a group of Canadian journalists a close-up glimpse of life outside the perimeter, but first we had to fuel up with an intimate dinner at chef Rafael Vásquez Heinsen’s Mares Restaurant and Lounge. Vásquez Heinsen’s shaded backyard terrace serves as the main dining area, and the lobster is fresh from the ocean that day.

Monkey business The next day, a short drive outside Puerto Plata, in Sosua, is the Monkey Jungle, run by the husband and wife team of Chuck

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game of baseball, the national sports obsession, broke out using a stick and a ball of rolled-up tinfoil.

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Go big, or go home

Don’t just slurp frosty drinks by the pool while in Puerto Plata. Get a taste of the local culture with trips outside the resort walls.

and Candy Ritzen. The American ex-pats have hit on an innovative business model that contributes to the economy, creates jobs and provides some basic dental and health care to the local population. Monkey Jungle is home to 15 protected squirrel monkeys and six Capuchin monkeys, with a care provider who was formerly with the Toronto Zoo. You can walk through the squirrel monkey habitat and the curious simians just hop on your shoulders for a ride. It’s the first time I’ve literally had a monkey on my back. You can also zip-line through seven stations totaling 4,400 feet and, before the last zip, descend on a cable from a platform into a cave; sort of like zip-lining, but vertically. The Ritzens have a selfsustaining operation where they use the profits

from the zip-lining and monkey jungle activities to fund the health clinic on the premises.

Sustainable tourism The idea of sustainable tourism has also been taken up by tour companies. Transat A.T. Inc. partners with SOS Children’s Villages, which provides caring, village-style group

homes for orphaned, abused or abandoned children. We were given a tour of the village in Santiago de los Caballeros, about an hour from Puerto Plata. The smiling kids were curious, and a spontaneous

If it’s true you have to go big or go home, then Ocean World is a must-see before you head back to the frigid temps of the Great White North. Open since 2004, the massive ocean-side complex features interactive activities with dolphins, sharks and stingrays as well as exhibits with everything from tigers to toucans. In terms of size, the place filters six million litres of seawater an hour. And, if you like a touch of Las Vegas with your sun holiday, then Ocean World has you covered with its fullservice casino, disco lounge, and Bravissimo, a glittery song-and-dance revue with more costume changes than a Paris catwalk. Now put that book down, get up from the beach, and go!

A new 200-kilometre highway in the Dominican Republic, from the capital Santo Domingo to tourist hot spot Punta Cana, will make it easier for visitors to explore the Caribbean country. The divided highway, which has been under construction for the last four years, was completed earlier this year from Santo Domingo to La Romana on the south coast, significantly reducing travel times between the two cities. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The two sides of French Toast

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While this treat is usually drizzled with maple syrup, it can also be served in a savoury sandwich If you like sticking to classics, serve up a cinnamon spice version with apples

The classic Caesar calls for vodka and a celery salt rim, but go ahead and cross the Rubicon with some bold experimentation. Try making one with gin or tequila, add fresh horseradish or beef broth, and garnish with celery, spicy beans or even a chicken wing.

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• 10 slices (1/2 inch/1 cm thick) Italian loaf • 1/3 cup (80 mL) pizza sauce • 35 slices pepperoni • Half green pepper, thinly sliced • 3 mushrooms, thinly sliced (optional) • 10 slices mozzarella • 4 eggs • 1/3 cup (80 mL) milk • 2 tbsp (30 mL) freshly grated Parmesan cheese • 1 tsp (5 mL) dried oregano leaves • Pinch each salt and pepper • 1 tbsp (15 mL) butter

In large bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, cardamom, if using, nutmeg, ginger and cloves until well combined. In large non-stick skillet heat oil over medium heat. Dip bread, 2 slices at a time in the egg mixture. Place in skillet and cook about 3 minutes then ﬂip and cook for about 1 minute or until golden brown. Remove from skillet to a large platter; cover with foil and keep warm. Maple Syrup Apples: Meanwhile, in large non-stick skillet, melt butter over mediumhigh heat. Add apples and stir to coat with butter. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover and cook for 3 minutes. Un-

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work & education

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011

ways to give your career some direction

Erin Millar and Ben Coli walk students through their post-secondary journey in The Canadian Campus Connection We combed the MARISA BARATTA book to find top tips to help you improve your job prospects TALENTEGG.CA

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Career advice from a Headhuntress

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High-profile headhunter Wendy Doulton shares her top job-hunting tips with Metro Her Bravo special, The Headhuntress, gives an inside look into finding the best talent

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swer the question right, it’s to get the job that’s right for you,” she says. “It’s like a date: ‘Does he like me, does he like me?’ Well, do you like him? Do you want to have coffee and breakfast with him every day of your life?” Be positive

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Even if you don’t have the right answer to an interviewer’s question, get to the point — and don’t take your time. “Don’t skirt around the question. People do that all the time, even when they do have a good answer. And I think it’s because they have these things that they think they need to say.” And answer it honestly

It’s important to come across as genuine and put things out in the open before you get offered a position that isn’t right for you.

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Esks move on minus Messam Knee injury puts tailback out for season

Misses chance to play former team in West final

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The Edmonton Eskimos will be without linchpin running back Jerome Messam when they face the B.C. Lions on Sunday with a berth in the Grey Cup on the line. The 26-year-old tore the meniscus in his left knee in a violent collision in last weekend’s win over the Calgary Stampeders in the West Division semifinal. Messam confirmed yesterday that an MRI revealed the tear, which will keep him out for the season. “I'm disappointed, obviously,” said the six-footthree, 245-pound back from Brampton, Ont. “I wanted to be able to help my team, but it’s unfortunate that I have an injury so I can’t.” He was hurt on a helmet-to-knee hit in the third quarter of the Eskimos’ 3319 win at Commonwealth Stadium. Messam was moving upfield when Calgary defensive back Demetrice Morley dove in helmet first, twisting Messam's leg and sending him to the turf. “When I got up and tried to hobble off the field the adrenalin's going and I didn’t really feel the pain,” he said. “When I went home it swelled up a little bit, so I had to get the MRI. “I stayed optimistic, but the results came back that I had a tear.”

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The first real test of Edmonton’s season is finished and the results are ... well, OK, but certainly not jaw-dropping. The six-game road trip began with promising wins over Los Angeles and Montreal, sandwiched between a loss to Phoenix. Then came three straight thrash-

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Edmonton’s Jerome Messam tries to shake Hamilton’s Renault Williams in a September game.

Messam wouldn’t say if it will require surgery, but said he wants to get the rehab going immediately. It’s a double blow for Messam. He came to the Eskimos in a pre-season trade after he wore out his welcome in B.C. for fighting with teammates, going half-speed in practice, and smuggling a girl into his training camp dorm. “It’s tough,” he said of the missed opportunity to play his ex-teammates.

“I’m a vet. I’m not brand new to this league or to the game. I know what to expect and what teams are going to bring.” ESKIMO HUGH CHARLES, WHO WILL FILL IN AT RUNNING BACK WITH CALVIN MCCARTY IN THE ABSENCE OF JEROME MESSAM

“But that’s the way it worked out.” Messam embraced his second chance in Edmonton and ran for 1,095 yards and six touchdowns. He was the first Canadian since Sean Millington in

2000 to run for over a thousand yards. He sparked the Eskimos, a team that missed the 2010 playoffs, to a secondplace finish in the West and a berth against the Lions in Sunday’s West final.

“An important piece of our team is gone, but that’s the nature of football. Life goes on,” said Eskimos head coach Kavis Reed. “I’m concerned about Jerome’s recovery and the health of this team moving forward.” Reed said fullback Calvin McCarty and running back Hugh Charles, a late acquisition from Saskatchewan, will fill in for Messam. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The Baltimore Orioles are going retro in 2012, bringing back the cartoon bird for their caps as part of a uniform change for the upcoming season. The new cartoon bird head utilizes elements from the 1970 and 1983 versions. The home cap will feature the bird head on a white front panel with a black back and orange bill and button. The road caps will feature the bird on black with an orange bill and button. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ings at the hands of the NHL’s elite (Boston, Detroit, Chicago). The Blackhawks in particular showed the Oilers just how far they trail the West’s powerhouses and it’s actually a good wake-up call for a team that was playing excellent hockey during a very comfortable October schedule. Now comes the hard part. With two home games this week against the surprisingly scrappy Ottawa Senators and those same Blackhawks, Edmonton has a chance to regain some footing in the Northwest

Division and bank some important points — because the bear that is the road once again beckons after that. Dallas, Nashville and Minnesota are all playing well right now and are no guarantee to surrender points at home next week. The Kid Line of Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins survived the road trip, though Hall’s production declined. The Nuge’s faceoff-win percentage continues to creep up, though it’s still rough. The most important development of the road trip was the return of Ales Hemsky, who tallied points in his

first two games back from a shoulder injury and looked like his old dangerous, creative self against Chicago. The Czech veteran saw time with Hall and Nugent-Hopkins and given that Eberle continued to produce without his usual mates, the Oilers may have struck onto something huge here. Spreading the offensive load is crucial for this squad, particularly with so many young talents being counted on. Ryan Smyth’s resurrection as a point-pergame player this season and the steadying of Shawn Horcoff’s game only add to the delicious stew.

As early as it is, the question of whether or not the Oilers are a dark-horse playoff team can be raised. Bulletproof Nikolai Khabibulin is no longer unbeatable in net. The road, so far, has been tough on the young squad. Vancouver is behind Edmonton in the standings right now, but that won’t last for long. On the bright side, the penalty kill is still excellent — top 10 in the NHL and with Hemsky back, scoring balance gets better. I still wouldn’t bet on the Oilers making the playoffs, but they’re further from the basement for sure.

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NATI O N A L H O C K E Y LE AGUE

NFL

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W 11 11 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 8 8 7 6 6 4

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L OTL SL 4 1 2 6 0 0 5 0 1 3 1 2 4 2 1 6 1 1 5 0 3 9 0 1 7 0 0 7 0 2 7 0 1 7 1 2 9 2 1 9 2 1 8 2 1

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GA 43 42 45 33 51 61 42 66 38 55 45 45 60 63 47

Pts 25 22 21 23 23 22 21 19 18 18 17 17 15 15 11

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Away 5-3-0-2 6-2-0-0 4-4-0-0 5-2-1-1 6-1-1-0 5-3-0-0 7-3-0-0 4-5-0-0 2-2-0-0 3-6-0-2 4-4-0-0 5-3-0-0 3-6-2-1 2-5-2-0 0-4-1-1

Last 10 7-2-0-1 6-4-0-0 4-5-0-1 8-1-0-1 6-2-1-1 5-4-0-1 5-2-0-3 5-4-0-1 7-3-0-0 6-4-0-0 5-5-0-0 6-2-1-1 4-4-2-0 3-6-0-1 1-6-2-1

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Pts 25 23 22 21 21 20 19 19 19 19 19 17 15 15 7

Home 7-1-0-2 5-2-1-0 6-2-0-0 4-3-1-1 3-2-1-1 5-1-0-1 4-3-1-0 7-2-1-0 6-1-0-1 5-4-0-1 4-2-0-1 2-6-0-0 3-5-1-0 4-4-0-0 3-6-0-1

Away 4-3-1-0 5-3-1-1 5-4-0-0 5-1-0-1 6-3-1-0 4-5-0-1 5-2-0-0 2-4-0-0 3-6-0-0 3-2-1-1 5-6-0-0 6-3-1-0 4-4-0-0 2-4-1-2 0-7-0-0

Last 10 6-3-1-0 8-2-0-0 5-5-0-0 7-1-1-1 6-2-2-0 6-4-0-0 7-2-1-0 4-5-1-0 6-3-0-1 3-5-1-1 5-5-0-0 2-7-1-0 5-5-0-0 2-5-1-2 3-7-0-0

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WESTERN CONFERENCE d-Chicago d-Minnesota d-Dallas Phoenix Nashville Edmonton San Jose Detroit St. Louis Los Angeles Vancouver Colorado Calgary Anaheim Columbus

GP 18 18 17 16 17 17 15 16 17 17 18 18 17 17 17

W L OTL SL 11 4 1 2 10 5 2 1 11 6 0 0 9 4 1 2 9 5 2 1 9 6 0 2 9 5 1 0 9 6 1 0 9 7 0 1 8 6 1 2 9 8 0 1 8 9 1 0 7 9 1 0 6 8 1 2 3 13 0 1

d â&#x20AC;&#x201D; division leaders ranked 1-2-3 regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL (overtime loss) or SL (shootout loss) column. Last nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results Phoenix 3 Toronto 2 (SO) Ottawa 3 Calgary 1 St. Louis 2 Detroit 1 Nashville 3 Washington 1 Florida 6 Dallas 0 Minnesota 4 Columbus 2 Pittsburgh 6 Colorado 3 N.Y. Rangers 4 N.Y. Islanders 2 Boston 4 New Jersey 3 Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results Winnipeg 5 Tampa Bay 2 Buffalo 3 Montreal 2 (SO) Philadelphia 5 Carolina 3 Tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games All times Eastern Carolina at Montreal, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Chicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Anaheim at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games Columbus at Boston, 7 p.m. Montreal at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Florida at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Toronto at Nashville, 8 p.m. Colorado at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Washington at Winnipeg, 8:30 p.m. Ottawa at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Anaheim, 10 p.m. Detroit at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

COYOTES 3, MAPLE LEAFS 2 (SO) First Period 1. Phoenix, Doan 5 (Boedker) 1:54 2. Phoenix, Ekman-Larsson 4 (Chipchura, Torres) 5:18 Penalty â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ekman-Larsson Phx (boarding) 13:19. Second Period No Scoring. Penalty â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Lupul Tor (goaltender interference) 10:53. Third Period 3. Toronto, Komisarek 1 (Lombardi, Crabb) 2:08 4. Toronto, Kessel 13 (Kulemin, Gunnarsson) 4:41 (pp) Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Hanzal Phx (cross-checking) 3:14, Lupul Tor (hooking) 14:29. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; None. Shootout (Phoenix wins 2-0 Toronto (0) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kessel, miss; Kulemin, miss; Phoenix (2) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sullivan, goal; Vrbata, goal. Shots on goal Phoenix Toronto

10 12

13 7 9 11

5 5

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Goal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phoenix: Smith (W,8-2-3); Toronto: Scrivens (SOL,2-2-1). Power plays (goals-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Phoenix: 0-2; Toronto: 1-2. Referees â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Brian Pochmara, Tim Peel. Linesmen â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Scott Driscoll, Michel Cormier. Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,522 (18,819) at Toronto.

First Period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Scoring. Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Giordano Cal (slashing) 5:14, Smith Ott (boarding) 19:33. Second Period 1. Ottawa, Alfredsson 5 (Foligno) 18:44 2. Calgary, Kostopoulos 2 (Stajan) 19:46 Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Konopka Ott, Kostopoulos Cal (fighting) 3:03, Winchester Ott (holding stick) 3:17, Condra Ott (slashing) 4:13, Horak Cal (holding) 6:29, Lee Ott (interference) 8:56. Third Period 3. Ottawa, Butler 1 (Gonchar, Phillips) 9:50 4. Ottawa, Butler 2 (Winchester, Karlsson) 16:12 Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Karlsson Ott (hooking) 0:39, Hannan Cal (hooking) 3:02, Butler Cal (delay of game) 11:06, Smith Ott (slashing) 19:09. Shots on goal Ottawa Calgary

14 9 11 17

9 11

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Goal â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: Anderson (W,8-6-1); Calgary: Kiprusoff (L,7-7-0). Power plays (goalschances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ottawa: 0-4; Calgary: 0-6. Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 19,289 (19,289) at Calgary.

SCORING LEADERS Kessel, Tor Giroux, Pha Vanek, Buf D.Sedin, Vcr Kopitar, LA Pominville, Buf Seguin, Bos H.Sedin, Vcr Backstrom, Wash Lupul, Tor P.Kane, Chi Benn, Dal Stamkos, TB Ma.Hossa, Chi Skinner, Car Neal, Pgh Smyth, Edm Eriksson, Dal Pavelski, SJ Versteeg, Fla Jagr, Pha Spezza, Ott P.Sharp, Chi Michalek, Ott Franzen, Det M.Bergeron, TB Edler, Vcr Campbell, Fla Karlsson, Ott Gaborik, NYR Toews, Chi Elias, NJ T.Fleischmann, Fla Ra.Whitney, Phx Selanne, Ana

G 12 11 11 6 8 7 11 6 5 9 6 5 11 8 7 11 10 9 9 8 6 6 5 11 9 3 3 1 1 9 9 6 6 6 5

Last nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games not included

C FL P LAYOFFS DIVISION FINALS Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games All times Eastern

EAST Hamilton at Winnipeg, 1 p.m.

WEST Edmonton at B.C., 4:30 p.m.

99TH GREY CUP Sunday, Nov. 27 At Vancouver East vs. West champion, 6:30 p.m.

A 12 11 11 16 13 14 9 14 15 10 13 14 7 10 11 6 7 8 8 9 11 11 12 5 7 13 13 15 15 6 6 9 9 9 10

HOCKEY TRANSACTIONS CHL/RUSSIASUPERSERIES BASEBALL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE EAST New England N.Y. Jets Buffalo Miami

W 6 5 5 2

L 3 4 4 7

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .556 .556 .222

PF 259 215 229 158

PA 200 200 218 178

W L 7 3 5 4 3 6 0 10

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .700 .556 .333 .000

PF PA 273 166 186 172 115 166 131 300

W 7 6 6 3

L 3 3 3 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .700 .667 .667 .333

PF 220 225 212 131

W 5 4 4 4

L 4 5 5 5

T 0 0 0 0

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PF PA 208 233 216 228 188 234 141 218

SOUTH Houston Tennessee Jacksonville Indianapolis

NORTH Pittsburgh Baltimore Cincinnati Cleveland

PA 179 152 164 183

WEST

PT 24 22 22 22 21 21 20 20 20 19 19 19 18 18 18 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 16 16 16 16 16 16 15 15 15 15 15 15

Oakland San Diego Denver Kansas City

NATIONAL CONFERENCE EAST N.Y. Giants Dallas Philadelphia Washington

W 6 5 3 3

L 3 4 6 6

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .556 .333 .333

PF 218 223 220 136

PA 211 182 203 178

W 7 5 4 2

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PF 313 212 156 190

PA 228 196 233 237

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T Pct PF 0 1.000 320 0 .667 252 0 .667 237 0 .222 179

PA 186 184 187 244

W 8 3 3 2

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T 0 0 0 0

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SOUTH New Orleans Atlanta Tampa Bay Carolina

NORTH Green Bay Detroit Chicago Minnesota

WEST San Francisco Seattle Arizona St. Louis

Pct .889 .333 .333 .222

PF 233 144 183 113

Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s result Green Bay 45 Minnesota 7

WEEK 11 Byes: Houston, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Pittsburgh Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game All times Eastern N.Y. Jets at Denver, 8:20 p.m. Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Oakland at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Carolina at Detroit, 1 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. Jacksonville at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. Arizona at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Seattle at St. Louis, 4:05 p.m. San Diego at Chicago, 4:15 p.m. Tennessee at Atlanta, 4:15 p.m. Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 8:20 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21 Kansas City at New England, 8:30 p.m.

Mondayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s result At Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. OHL 6 Russia 3 Tonightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game At Regina All times Eastern Russia vs. WHL, 8 p.m. Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game At Moose Jaw, Sask. Russia vs. WHL, 8 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE

HOUSTON ASTROS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Agreed to terms with INF Scott Moore on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL NBA

MONDAY OHL 6, RUSSIA 3

At Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. First Period 1. OHL, Pearson 2 (Sproul) 3:59 (pp) 2. OHL, Heard 1 (Koekkoek, Hamilton) 5:20 (pp) 3. OHL, Spooner 1 (McKegg) 5:47 (pp) 4. OHL, McKegg 1 (Spooner, Thomas) 10:47 5. OHL, Sgarbossa 1 (Koekkoek) 11:33 Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Zheldakov Rus (slashing) 3:17, Naumenkov Rus (check to the head) 4:19, Kulikov Rus (interference) 5:38, Kulikov Rus (check to the head) 11:56, Ritchie OHL (hooking) 14:02, Strome OHL (tripping) 18:58. Second Period 6. OHL, Thomas 1 (McKegg, Spooner) 4:40 7. Russia, Antipin 1, 10:55 8. Russia, Kucherov 2 (Kartaev) 11:20 9. Russia, Apalkov 1 (Shavaleev) 19:27 Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Isangulov Rus (cross-checking) 5:04, Shavaleev Rus (high-sticking) 16:56, Sgarbossa OHL (delay of game) 19:48. Third Period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; No Scoring. Penalties â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Heard OHL (holding) 3:07, Petgrave OHL (cross-checking) 9:34, Potekhin Rus (interference) 17:45, Naumenkov Rus (hooking), Carrick OHL (holding) 18:16. Shots on goal OHL Russia

17 15 10 8

4 7

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Goal (shots-saves) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; OHL: Wedgewood (W,10-0)(12-12), Anderson (9:56 second; 13-10); Rus: Suchkov (7-4), Kostenko (L,1-2-0)(5:47 first; 29-26). Power plays (goals-chances) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; OHL: 3-7; Russia: 0-5. Attendance â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 4,011 at Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

AHL Last nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s results Abbotsford 4 San Antonio 0 Peoria 3 Hamilton 2 (SO) Portland 4 Adirondack 2 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton 3 Binghamton 0

FO OT B A L L CIS PLAYOFFS Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s games All times Eastern

UTECK BOWL

At Moncton, N.B. McMaster vs. Acadia, 6:30 p.m.

MITCHELL BOWL

Laval at Calgary, 9:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25

VANIER CUP

At Vancouver Uteck vs. Mitchell Bowl winners, 9 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA 76ERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Named Jeff Capel assistant coach. SACRAMENTO KINGS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Named Keith Smart and Bobby Jackson assistant coaches. Promoted Pete Youngman to director of sports medicine and Manny Romero to head trainer. Named Dwayne Wilson equipment manager.

FOOTBALL NFL

BUFFALO BILLS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Placed C Eric Wood and LB Chris White on injured reserve. Signed DE Kyle Moore off Detroitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s practice squad. Signed DB Josh Nesbitt from the practice squad. Resigned WR Tim Toone to the practice squad. OAKLAND RAIDERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Signed DB Terrail Lambert to the practice squad. WASHINGTON REDSKINS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Placed WR Leonard Hankerson and DE Kedric Golston on injured reserve. Re-signed WR Donteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stallworth and DE Darrion Scott.

CFL

TORONTO ARGONAUTS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Released WR Brandon Rideau.

HOCKEY NHL

DALLAS STARS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Placed D Alex Goligoski on the injured list. FLORIDA PANTHERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Rcalled LW Tim Kennedy from San Antonio (AHL). MINNESOTA WILD â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recalled C Casey Wellman from Houston (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Recalled D Frederic St. Denis from Hamilton (AHL). NEW YORK ISLANDERS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Assigned G Mikko Koskinen to KalPa (Finnish Elite League).

AHL

LEAGUE OFFICE â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Suspended Binghamton D Tim Conboy & Gwinnett F Nikita Kashirsky 2 games. HAMILTON BULLDOGS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Recalled D Olivier Malka from Wheeling (ECHL). HERSHEY BEARS â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Called up F Matt Pope from South Carolina (ECHL).

SOCCER MLS

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Named Jay Heaps coach.

SOCCER MLS PLAYOFFS MLS CUP

Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game At Carson, Calif. All times Eastern Houston vs. Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

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Engine

Cabin

Suspension

The 2012 ZL1’s supercharged 6.2-litre V-8 — a variation of the engines found in the Corvette ZR1 and Cadillac CTS-V — is mated to a six-speed manual transmission and dynos at 580 horsepower and 556 pound-feet of torque. This makes it the most powerful production Camaro ever built and, Chevrolet proclaims, will be the most powerful Chevy droptop ever. The ZL1 constitutes much more than just unbridled horsepower, but represents a thoroughly sorted out performance platform where nearly every component has been beefed up or completely redesigned to handle the engine’s hefty output.

Both driver and their front passenger should have no problems stretching out inside the Camaro’s generously sized cabin with its power-adjustable heated leather seats with grippy suede-like inserts. They’ll also appreciate the sounds from the dual-mode exhaust system that becomes freer flowing (and louder) when the driver opens the taps a bit.

The ZL1’s suspension employs GM’s Magnetic Ride Control, which uses special shock dampers that constantly vary the degree of firmness, according to road and driving conditions. There are also Tour (soft) and Sport (firmer) settings that the driver can dial in. Most of the remaining suspension components have either been strengthened or swapped out.

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By comparison

Mustang Shelby GT500 Base price: $60,700 Well turned-out high-performance coupe or convertible is ZL1’s main rival.

Dodge Challenger SRT8

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It’s your move, Mustang and Challenger. The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has got your number, or more correctly, has beaten your best horsepower numbers ... by a lot. How does the high-performance ZL1 coupe and convertible square with

Pony power General Motors’ greenification program of introducing fuel-sipping electrics, hybrids plus a couple of new ankle-biter sub-compacts? Well, the eco trend is definitely here to stay, but at the opposite end of the oil

barrel, GM’s cornerstone division isn’t neglecting its involvement in the muscle/ponycar bracket. Although relatively small, the pedal-to-the-metal gunfighter class remains unequivocal in its No Imports Allowed policy.

And in this club the numero uno bylaw states that horsepower rules and absolute horsepower rules absolutely, or at least until another club member ups the ante and overthrows the leader. The 2011 edition of the Chevrolet Camaro’s SS model was rated at 426 horsepower and was certainly nothing to be sneezed at.

But it couldn’t catch a cold next to the Dodge Challenger’s SRT8 392 that generated 470 horses from its 6.4-litre “Hemi” V-8 engine. That goes double for Ford Mustang-based Shelby GT500’s 550 ponies that emanate from a supercharged 5.4-litre V-8. With bragging rights on the line, you just had to know that Chevrolet would eventually retaliate.

Base price: $50,500 A Mopar fan favourite that’s no slouch in the power department.

Cadillac CTS-V coupe Base price: $73,000 Great-looking, ultraquick Caddy that shares its powerplant with the ZL1. WHEELBASE MEDIA

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iQute test

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Scion’s smart ‘city car’ lives up to its name LISA CALVI

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found a car that doesn’t need reverse gear. Really. The start and end points of a day in the Scion iQ were the same, essentially a circle. All day, I drove, manoeuvred, parked, stopped, started, accelerated and turned. There were wrong turns, tight turns, U-turns. Reverse gear? Not even once. Along a meandering and pretty shore road, my drive partner and I did everything we could to throw

our test vehicle into the tightest circles possible. And both of us giggled uncontrollably every time. The 2012 Scion iQ has a turning radius of just four metres and in the delicious Hot Lava colour, it matched my Kate Spade bag quite nicely, thank you very much. Thinking about spending the day in the world’s smallest four-seater, I have to admit that I was a little apprehensive since I’m almost six feet tall. Would I have to be pried out of the thing? Would I be sporting bruised temples, ankles, elbows and a pretzeled

The iQ might technically be a four-seater, but the rear space is likely better suited for stuﬀ rather than people.

spine? First off, it might technically have four seats, but the back is strictly for toddlers and passengers of the canine variety. If I dared suggest any of our three leggy daughters sit back there, I would get dirty looks and plenty of eyerolling. We most certainly were not in Alabama in mid-July, but, on our drive day, we were treated to an unseasonably warm day and the world’s smallest air-conditioning system handled it with aplomb. Scion, the youthful offshoot of its Toyota parents, boasts that the iQ, in direct competition with Italianheartstring-tugging Fiat 500 and Germany’s Smart ForTwo, has the flattest gas tank, no thicker than a can of soda and half as thick as standard gas tanks. The “iQute” also has the world’s first rear-window airbag, which is proper because if you’re in that back seat, you want to know that there’s something between grave danger and your head. I spent equal time in the

The iQ doesn’t weigh all that much, so the 94-horsepower engine feels stronger, relatively speaking.

driver’s seat and in the passenger seat of the iQ. The passenger’s side is interesting and innovative. There is no glove box. A drawer that slides out from under the seat takes care of that storage requirement. On the driver’s side, the seat and positioning are comfortable. Enough room for long legs and arms and plenty of head room for those days when my hair is oh-so-’80s. Acceleration is surprisingly rapid. Although the passing lanes on the winding roads of our driving route were short, the iQ didn’t hesitate. It felt confident and sure-footed while enjoying a small spurt of 115 km/h on the highway. You just have to keep in mind that 94 horsepower is 94 horsepower. The iQ doesn’t think it’s bigger than it is but, like the ad says, it is bigger than

you think. I like the Scion iQ’s micro size yet macro personality. When you’re in it, there is no sign of a Napoleon complex. The iQ is small and proud of it. I like the way the tires are jauntily pushed out to the edge of the vehicle. I like the smooth seat-gliding levers on either side of the passenger chair. And, even though I didn’t see them, I like the class-leading 11 airbags as well as the great fuel economy.

Which is the accessory?

Scion family

The fun and funky family of Scion cars has been on sale in North America since 2003 and in Canada for the last couple of years. The brand has made an impact, with 800,000 of its cuties roaming the roads. The three siblings of the iQ are the hatchback xD, the boxy but heartwarming xB and the sporty tC two-door coupe.

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Carbon clogging can cost you at the pumps

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Just like the arteries in your body, the workings of an engine can get blocked

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Engines work when gasoline enters a combustion chamber, where it’s ignited by a spark plug to extract its energy. The gasoline is sprayed in by fuel injectors, and the engine’s efficiency depends heavily on these injectors performing at their peak. This includes how clean the injectors are. “Carbon can clog the injectors and the spray pattern, and the efficiency of the fuel is impeded,” says Al Manji, managing director of MOC Distributors of Canada, a provider of chemicals and induction service for cleaning

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injectors. “Carbon is like a resistance substance in the car that makes it work harder. It’s like clogged arteries where the car isn’t ‘breathing’ or functioning as it should.” Carbon is a by-product of fuel combustion, and over time, it can build up on the injectors and on the back of the throttle

plate. This can mean small quantities of unburned gasoline left in the combustion chamber, which reduces the car’s fuel efficiency. Injectors have specific spray patterns to ensure that fuel is sent to the optimum area within the combustion chamber for maximum efficiency, but if the injector tip is clogged with carbon, “it’s like taking the tip of a garden hose and putting your thumb over it,” Manji says. “Fuel doesn’t go into the spray pattern that it

should. It causes hot spots, it sometimes causes pooling of fuel, and the fuel ends up dripping out of the injectors instead of being sprayed out. Any time that spray pattern is inhibited in any way, the car ends up suffering downstream.” If the injectors get too clogged, the engine could use more fuel, misfire or even stall, Manji says. Computer-controlled engine management systems are very finely tuned and can be altered by carbon build-up, which in turn results in the engine running poorly.

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sure) is much higher, and the need for a cleaner-running system is that much more important,” Manji says. “If it’s not running optimally, it can cause some serious issues in the system as well.”

Some engines use direct fuel injection, which sprays the fuel directly into the combustion chamber to be ignited by the spark plug. “It’s more efficient, but the spray patterns are much finer, the (fuel pres-

Hyundai hoping for a Super Bowl victory Automaker aims to raise brand awareness with five TV spots airing before and during big game broadcast off, plus two ads on the pregame show and two during the first and third quarters of the game. He wouldn’t say how much the Korean automaker is spending on the ads, which will compete with the most creative spots American companies have to offer during one of television’s highest-rated and most expensive sporting

Hyundai Motor Co. is hoping that five television spots before and during the Feb. 5 Super Bowl game will help to bolster its rising brand recognition and continue big sales gains from the past few years. North American CEO John Krafcik says the fastgrowing brand is working on a 60-second spot that will run right before kick-

events. Last year Super Bowl ads cost companies about $3 million for 30 seconds. Chrysler Group LLC’s two-minute spot featuring rapper Eminem was among those that created the most Super Bowl buzz last year, and it helped kick off what has been a strong sales year for the recovering company. The cinematic third-

quarter ad showed Eminem driving through Detroit and introduced a new car, the Chrysler 200 sedan, amid gritty scenes of the city. A voiceover talked about how the city has survived going through “hell and back.” Krafcik said Hyundai hopes to have standout spots as well, but it will focus more on a brand mes-

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stick shiftâ&#x20AC;? vehicles have been in steady decline. Currently they represent only about five to seven per cent of the North American new-vehicle market.

hat steep of a decline could suggest a zero market share might soon be in the cards. But it appears that the shifter survivor percentage has hardened into a small, dense core, very much willing and prepared to stand its ground â&#x20AC;&#x201D; like a cornered

groundhog, overly angry and muscled by steroid use. OK bad analogy, but you get my point. Stick shifts have had four traditional advantages: always cheaper, always more fun, always more fuel efficient, and always more zip (acceleration and top speed). But the new crop of automatic transmissions has turned the tables when it comes to efficiency and zip. Traditional-type automatic transmissions used to have three or four gears. Now they have more gears than most manuals. Chryslerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new automatic has eight. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re also seeing more use of the Constant Velocity Transmissions (CVT) and the twin-clutch transmission. The former has no gears, and as such, is compact, light, and can be tailored for optimum efficiency. The latter is hard to explain (for me at least), but makes uses of two

While the all-new 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera will feature one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most sophisticated twin-clutch automatic transmissions, it will also continue to embrace the â&#x20AC;&#x153;stick shiftâ&#x20AC;? religion â&#x20AC;&#x201D; this time with the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst seven-speed manual.

clutches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one for oddnumbered gears and one for even-numbered gears. It can go from gear to gear in the blink of eye, because the subsequent gear is already â&#x20AC;&#x153;pre-engagedâ&#x20AC;? and only needs a nod from a computer to get busy. They can shift faster than any human hand could, and their speed is increased by the fact that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need a suspension of torque to get their shift completed (hence no torque convertor). Twin-

clutch transmissions are rapidly becoming the transmission of choice for performance vehicles, even for such racey marques as Ferrari, BMW and Porsche. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our take rate on manual transmissions is way down,â&#x20AC;? says Laurance Yap, director of marketing, Porsche Cars Canada. He adds that, ironically, Europeans are leading the way with automatic transmissions. Europeans have historically snubbed their

noses at lazy automatics, but they have fallen in love with the sportier â&#x20AC;&#x153;twin clutchâ&#x20AC;? design. Across the 911 model line in Germany, for example, Yap notes that 75 to 80 per cent are sold with PDK. (PDK is a short form for the official name of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twin clutch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Porsche Doppelkupplung. Just try saying that correctly in German without hurting yourself.) The Canadian â&#x20AC;&#x153;take rakeâ&#x20AC;? for 911 models with

PDK is only 50 per cent. Go figure: we like manual transmissions more than the Autobahn enabled Germans. Which brings us back to our angry groundhog. Manual transmissions will continue to have a life, even in this era where they are technologically trumped, because they are simply more engaging and fun for a certain tribe of driver. The Cadillac CTS-V and the upcoming Mazda MX-5 are two examples of new vehicles that are making â&#x20AC;&#x153;statementsâ&#x20AC;? by offering a manual transmission â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they are signalling that they are ready to emotionally engage a driver so inclined. Actually, as vehicles become increasingly sophisticated and computerized, the manual transmission will have an increasing important role â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to regain some of that lost emotional connection to the mechanical beast within.

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Problems stated with the newer GM minivan powerplants seem few and far between — and are mainly sensor related. If the engine and transmission’s service requirements have been adhered to, if it runs smoothly and if no “check engine” lights are illuminated, you’re well on your way. Be sure to “feel” for any transmission slipping — and avoid any model that exhibits it. Avoid models with power sliding doors. These can be an expensive hassle when they fail.

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