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War veteran finds closure The Porter’s Lake veteran who won a bruising class-action lawsuit against the federal government will attend his first Remembrance Day ceremony in years on Sunday — and he’ll be wearing his service medals when he does. Dennis Manuge launched a lawsuit in 2007 over the government’s practice of reducing long-term disability benefits by the amount of their monthly Veterans Affairs disability pension payment. The suit covered thousands of veterans across Canada, and in May, a federal judge rejected the government’s argument that the pension represented income. Manuge said Thursday he’ll be thinking of those veterans — some of whom were losing more than $3,000 a month — when he attends Sunday’s cenotaph ceremony at Oyster Pond. “The biggest thing that I can tell you is the pride I feel that 7,200 class members and their families’ lives have been directly and positively impact-
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ed,” he said. The former vehicle technician battled depression during the lawsuit — which cost the federal government $750,000 — and said it was just too hard to attend Remembrance Day ceremonies. But with a hearing to finalize a settlement set for January, he says it’s time to rejoin the crowds. “I’m just excited to get back out there and publicly express my support for those who provided the freedoms that allowed me to do what I did,” said Manuge. Manuge returned his service medals to then-governor general Michaelle Jean in 2009 to protest the government’s response to the lawsuit. He had them returned over the summer, and they’ll be officially re-presented to him by MP Peter Stoffer on Friday at the Lower Sackville legion. Ruth Davenport/Metro
Dennis Manuge, lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit between disabled veterans and the Government of Canada, attends a news conference in Halifax on May 29. Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian PRess file
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IBM Canada will soon be administering the province’s computer-data system as part of the information-technology giant’s plan to bring 500 new jobs to Halifax over the next eight years. Under the 10-year agreement, the company will be paid $8.4 million a year to run the system, a cost that would be adjusted annually for inflation. If the company reaches the job target, it will get a $12.4-million payroll rebate from the province. Premier Darrell Dexter made the announcement on Thursday at the Nova Scotia Community College Waterfront Campus in Dartmouth. The 75 people who run the SAP program system that contains provincialbudget, procurement and payroll information have been offered two-year pos-
John Lutz, right, president of IBM Canada, talks to Premier Darrell Dexter on Wednesday morning during the contract announcement at the Nova Scotia Community College waterfront campus in Dartmouth. JEFF HARPER/METRO
itions with IBM Canada. Of those employees, 60 positions are unionized. Dexter said those people would be given the option to continue being employed with the government. “They can choose if they like to go to work and to have a career with a global leader in IT, or they can choose to stay with the public service,”’ Dexter said. “So it is really the
best of all possible worlds for them. Someone would have to explain the downside of that opportunity.” The partnership could generate $130 million in employee wages and more than $18 million in direct tax revenue over the life of the contract. IBM Canada president John Lutz said his company would be offering a similar
pay and benefits package to what SAP employees receive. But he said it’s too early to estimate what the average salary for those employees will be. He also couldn’t guarantee the estimated 500 jobs would be filled by contract’s end. “That will depend on our success in the marketplace,” he said. “We’ll have to fit the supply with the demand.”
Thursday was the second day in a row Premier Darrell Dexter made a significant job announcement for Halifax, leading to speculation these are pre-election goodies. On Wednesday, Dexter announced that Calgary-based engineering firm Projex Technologies Ltd. will get up to $11.4 million in provincialgovernment funding over five years if the company brings 440 engineering jobs to Halifax by 2016. “I’m sure there are any number of ways you can try and tea-leafread into what it is we are doing,” Dexter said. “The fact of the matter is we’re growing the economy. We are investing in good jobs and creating opportunities for Nova Scotians.” ANDREW RANKIN/METRO
‘The public sector in this province is for sale’: Jessome The province has set a dangerous precedent by deciding to privatize what should be a public service, says the president of the union representing SAP employees. “The public sector in this province is for sale and people working in it should be nervous,” said Joan Jessome, head of the Nova Scotia Government and General Employees Union. “Just come and meet with government and promise you’re going to create jobs, you can have any publicservice job you want here.”
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The province has pledged to offer SAP employees the option of staying with the government or signing with IBM.
But Jessome says so far only five positions have been offered to the 62 employees she represents. She says 38 government em-
ployees are waiting to fill positions in other departments. “They have serious concerns about a private forprofit company trying to deliver this service as well as we do,” she said. “Job security is not one of IBM’s strong suits. They’re offering two-year job security. What happens after those two years?” Liberal Leader Stephen McNeil says he’s also concerned about how well IBM could protect sensitive government information. “I’m worried about the
private information of Nova Scotians being m a n a g e d by an outside c o m p a n y , ” Joan Jessome speaks he said. to reporters in her “ T h i s office on Thursday. deal was JEFF HARPER/METRO not put to the privacy commissioner until after the fact.” ANDREW RANKIN/METRO
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The HEAT is on. Another wanted criminal caught and locked up And then there were eight. Halifax police’s High Risk Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) has nabbed another person from its outstanding warrant list. Police say Derrick Bernard Nugent was arrested without incident in Halifax on Wednesday night. Nugent, who was wanted for assault with a weapon, uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death and mischief, was due in Halifax provincial court Thursday. On Nov. 2 in Dartmouth, police caught Tremaine Daniel Colley, who was Get-in-jail-free card?
Man asks for default jail time over fines A 64-year-old Sydney man with a long history of alcohol abuse is seeking to convert more than $16,000 in outstanding fines into a jail term. Bernard Alexander MacLellan, of no fixed address, made
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Richard Florizone named Dalhousie’s next president Ready to step up. His experience with academia, government and industry is intended to broaden the university’s reach RUTH DAVENPORT
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wanted at large for breach of probation. Halifax police’s latest 10-person HEAT list was issued on Nov. 1. metro a brief provincial court appearance Thursday requesting he be able to serve default time rather than pay the total amount of outstanding fines which equals $16,388.63. MacLellan is currently serving a two-year less a day sentence in the Cape Breton Correctional Centre having been convicted of arson earlier this year. Cape breton post
New Dalhousie University president Richard Florizone. contributed
Dalhousie University has named its next president. The university’s Board of Governors announced Thursday that Richard Florizone, currently a vice-president with the University of Saskatchewan, will take over from Tom Traves on July 1. Florizone said Thursday he’s pleased and honoured by the appointment, and his first plan of action is to embark on 100 days of listening. “I believe strategy and vision really come both bottom up and top down,” he said. “They have to come from listening to faculty, staff, students, but also external partners … about the future of Dal.”
Florizone has held several consultant’s positions in the private sector. He’s currently on secondment as a senior adviser to the International Finance Corporation on public-private partnerships. Florizone said Dalhousie, like most universities across North America, is facing some financial challenges, but he’s confident there’s a “strong willingness” among donors and foundations to invest in research and solutions to some of the world’s current “grand challenges.” He said his experience in academia, government and industry will help broaden Dalhousie’s base of support and attract a new generation of researchers to Nova Scotia. “I think we can be great engines of innovation and economic growth, and that’s not just talk, it’s borne out in fact as you look around the world at what universities have achieved,” he said. “So I see us as part of the future and part of the solution for the province, the question is simply how do we build the partnerships to realize some of that.”
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One local MP says he’ll cover about 450 kilometres travelling to cenotaphs and wreathlaying ceremonies in HRM on Sunday. Sackville-Eastern Shore representative Peter Stoffer makes a point of visiting as many legions and hugging as many veterans as possible every Nov. 11. “I want to be able to personally say thank you and meet the veterans,” said the NDP Veterans Affairs critic Thursday. “I’ve always said, for the men and women that serve our country, every day is Remembrance Day.” Stoffer says he’ll travel from North Preston to Ship Harbour to the Halifax Waterfront and out to Waverley during his travels on Sunday.
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A military personnel lays a wreath at the Halifax Cenotaph during a Remembrance Day service at Grand Parade in 2011. Metro file
The following is a list of some Remembrance Day ceremonies and events around HRM Sunday. Events begin at 11 a.m. unless otherwise stated.
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Halifax Grand Parade Citadel 21-gun salute Camp Hill Cenotaph Point Pleasant Park Fish Hatchery Park Cenotaph, Bedford
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Legion Property, 1166 Rocky Lake Dr., Waverley Sullivan’s Pond Cenotaph, Dartmouth Cole Harbour Place Cenotaph
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Because Remembrance Day falls on a Sunday, government offices, banks and schools will be closed on Monday. Malls, grocery stores and the NSLC will be closed on Sunday but will resume normal business hours on Monday. Municipal solid waste collection will be provided as usual on Monday. The Otter Lake waste processing and disposal facilities will be closed on Sunday. Metro Transit buses and ferries will operate on a holiday schedule. The Alderney ferry will sail every 30 minutes, from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 p.m.
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Group wants province to take lead on MV salvage A community group is calling on the province to take the lead in salvaging the MV Miner before a second winter on the shoals of Scatarie Island turns an eyesore into a navigational hazard.
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“I think it’s incumbent on us to plan for the worst-case scenario,” said Sean Howard, an executive committee member of the Main-a-Dieu Community Development Association. “We were pretty lucky last winter and we’ve had a tremendous stretch of weather, with a few exceptions, the whole time the ship has been shoaled there.” Cape Breton Post
Osama parody video in poor taste: MacKay Canadian Forces. Filming took place at Nova Scotia military base in 2010 A video showing a Canadian Forces officer with his face in brown makeup pretending to be Osama bin Laden’s brother is in poor taste but does not reflect the wider military community, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday. MacKay issued a statement in response to a video made in 2010 that features an unidentified military member stationed at 14 Wing Greenwood wearing a fake beard and turban, boasting that he worked with the leader of alQaida. The CBC says it was leaked a copy of the video, which shows the officer calling a woman a “silly infidel,” saying he drives a taxi and then later yelling at someone offscreen to get away from his car bomb. MacKay said an investigation into what happened was launched as soon as the Defence Department became aware of the video’s existence.
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New charges have been laid against a woman believed to be the mother of a man charged in a Truro kidnapping and assault case. Kathy Madelyn Nash, 56, is accused of being an accessory after the fact, among other charges. Truro Daily News
Community in transition
New CB mayor wants everyone to be heard An era of inclusiveness in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality is underway according to members of the team helping Cecil Clarke transition to mayor. Derek Mombourquette,
Joyce MacDougall and Tony Mozvik are the volunteer members of the team assisting Clarke in reviewing issues facing CBRM. “He wants everybody in this community who has something to say to be heard, whatever the venue may be,” said MacDougall, the former president of the Sydney and Area Chamber of Commerce. cape breton post
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“I know the contents of this video do not represent the wider military community and its leadership.” Defence Minister Peter MacKay
“Two years ago, certain members of the Canadian Forces stationed at CFB Greenwood filmed a video intended for their colleagues that featured inappropriate content and poor taste,” MacKay said. Capt. John Pulchny, a spokesman at 14 Wing Greenwood, said the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service is trying to determine who made the video and whether any military rules were broken. Pulchny said at least one officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force was involved in the production of the video, which was shown at a formal dinner at the Nova Scotia airbase. The Canadian Press
It’s looking grey here, but get ready for a sunshine boost A fishing boat cruises a foggy Halifax Harbour on Thursday morning. After several wet days, the forecast is calling for plenty of sun over the weekend. Jeff Harper/metro
Psychiatrist. Doctor loses licence for having sex with patients A psychiatrist who once worked in Nova Scotia has had his licence revoked after he admitted he had sex with two patients. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia released its decision Thursday after an investigation into Bolarinwa Olutosin Oluwole, who was a
staff psychiatrist at the Yarmouth Regional Hospital. The governing body says in March 2010 and September 2011, three patients filed complaints of sexual misconduct, two of which involved sexual intercourse. The college says Oluwole signed an agreement in Au-
gust of this year admitting to the allegations. Oluwole now lives in Ontario. Also Thursday, the CPSNS issued interim restrictions on a Truro doctor while it investigates an unspecified allegation. The governing body says Dr. Martin Dzierzanowski,
who works at the Colchester Regional Hospital, is not allowed to perform any surgeries requiring conscious sedation or general anesthesia until further notice. But the surgeon may continue with his office practice and perform endoscopies. The Canadian Press
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Walked into T.O. shelter. Mystery continues into ID of woman with possible Halifax ties It’s been two months since Linda appeared in a Toronto shelter with no idea who she is or where she came from. Toronto police are again asking people throughout the country to look at Linda’s picture to see if they recognize her and can fill in the blanks. The woman, who police have estimated is between the ages of 55 and 60, walked into a downtown Toronto shelter on Sept. 5, claiming to know nothing other than her first name. Since then, the only major piece of information Linda has told investigators has to do with Barrington Street and Spring Garden Road in Halifax. Forgetting who you are is more common in soap operas than in real life, University of Toronto Scarborough psychology professor Steve Joordens said. “Somebody having an enduring loss of memory, especially one that doesn’t seem to be related to a concussive sort of situation, is pretty
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rare,” he said. Brian Levine, a senior scientist at the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest who studies memory disorders, said people can sometimes forget things as a way of protecting themselves from remembering psychological trauma. Anyone with information about the woman’s identity is asked to contact police at 416-808-5400, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416222-TIPS (8477), or online at www.222tips.com. torstar news service
New Brunswick. Woman found dead in ditch was pregnant: RCMP Police in New Brunswick have identified the body of a woman found in a ditch near Fredericton — and they’re also confirming the woman was seven months pregnant when she died. The RCMP say the death of 26-year-old Alicia Dawn Boone is considered suspicious, but they still don’t know how she died. An autopsy is being conducted. The remains were found Tuesday shortly before 1:30
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Tire on Yonge Street — putting on about 50 sets of winter tires daily. “It all builds once November hits,” said Paul Studley, manager of the Halifax Coast Tire location. “It used to be the first Monday or second Monday after Thanksgiving, but now it’s once November hits.” It’s not law in Nova Scotia to have winter tires, but
Halifax Regional Police recommend you do it. They’re also emphasizing the importance of driving according to conditions, as even though it’s been a warm November, wintertype weather can strike unexpectedly. This was the case Wednesday night as drivers faced periods of freezing rain in the early evening hours.
“When the snow starts to fall, we’re advising people to slow down,” said police spokesman Const. Pierre Bourdages. “It takes time to adapt to the changing conditions and you never know if the road has black ice, if the roads are slippery or icy. It all affects your ability to stop safely and prevent collisions.” At OK Tire on Wright Avenue in Dartmouth, manager Brent MacNeil says they’ve been going “straight out” for a few weeks now, and don’t expect it to stop anytime soon. “People think it’s going to be a rough winter,” he said.
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Nor’easter brings new misery to U.S. East Coast after Sandy Still in the dark. More than a foot of snow falls on parts of New Jersey, causing further power outages The New York-New Jersey region woke up to wet snow, hundreds of cancelled flights and more power outages Thursday after a new storm pushed back efforts to recover from a superstorm that left millions powerless and dozens dead last week. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said losses from Superstorm Sandy in New York state could total $33 billion. The new storm did not bring a second wave of flooding that some had feared. “We lost power last week, just got it back for a day or two, and now we lost it again,” said John Monticello of Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey. “Every day it’s the same now: Turn on the gas burner for heat. Instant coffee. Use the iPad to find out what’s going on in the rest of the world.” But the new storm didn’t appear to rouse exhausted residents of the country’s most densely populated re-
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Major airlines cancelled about 600 flights around the U.S. Thursday, according to flight tracking service FlightAware. • Affected airports. The
majority were in the New York area, although airports in Boston, Philadelphia, D.C. and elsewhere were affected.
gion to a new chorus of complaints. Except, perhaps, on this week’s presidential election. Valdimir Repnin emerged Thursday morning from his powerless Staten Island home with a snow shovel in his hand, and a question: “Who won? Obama?” he asked. The region’s greatest challenge remains finding emergency housing for tens of thousands of people, in some cases for the long term. “We are going to have to look at a ground-up redesign,” Cuomo said of the power and fuel supply systems. “With power outages, you paralyze the nation, and chaos ensues.” The Associated Press
A U.S. marine from the 8th Engineer Support Battallon out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., carries a hose to pump out floodwater from a street after a nor’easter, Thursday, in the Queens borough of New York City. The region’s greatest challenge remains finding emergency housing for tens of thousands. Mario Tama/Getty Images
Liberals rejoice at notion of the dawning of a new America
Seattle revellers celebrate early election returns favouring Washington state Referendum 74, which legalized gay marriage. the associated press
The United States has long been considered among the most conservative countries in the Western world, particularly when it comes to the importance of religion to its citizens and the distaste for the type of social safety net Canadians and Europeans so cherish. But with the re-election of President Barack Obama this week on the overwhelming
support of women, minorities, gays and young Americans, progressives are declaring the dawning of a liberal America. Same-sex marriage is now the law in several states. A movement towards the decriminalization of marijuana is on the horizon. Wisconsin elected Tammy Baldwin to the U.S. Senate, the first openly gay member of the chamber.
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“This election was very clearly a demand not to turn the clock back. ” Douglas Brinkley, professor at Rice University
Groups that voted in droves for Obama are swelling in numbers — Hispanics and
Asian-Americans, in particular. In 2011, minority births surpassed white births for the first time in the United States, and white men are now a dwindling minority. Indeed, by 2042, the majority of Americans won’t be white. Tuesday polls suggested a historic number of Americans who describe themselves as liberal. the canadian press
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Draft. Palestinians take first step to raise UN status to non-member observer state
In this Tuesday photo, a Syrian rebel stands in the ruins of a private house, destroyed by shelling and fighting, in the Old City of Aleppo, Syria, now controlled by the Free Syrian Army. Monica Prieto/the associated press
Assad will ‘live and die’ in Syria Civil war. Syrian Quote President Bashar Assad vows in rare interview “I am Syrian, I am made in Syria, and I will live and die in Syria.” he won’t be forced President Bashar Assad into exile and will die Syrian in an interview with Russia Today in his homeland The bravado sounded familiar. Like the leaders of other countries swept away by Arab Spring uprisings, Syrian President Bashar Assad vowed to never be forced into exile and to die in his homeland. Assad dug in his heels even as world powers move to boost the opposition in Syria’s civil war — the latest turn in a nearly 20-month-old crisis so over-
whelming that even the Red Cross says it can no longer cope. “I am not a puppet, I was not made by the West for me to go to the West or any other country,” Assad said in an interview with Russia Today, which posted excerpts Thursday on its website. “I am Syrian, I am made in Syria, and I will live and die in Syria.” The rare interview — in which the 47-year-old president
spoke in English with his words translated into Arabic — was posted online two days after British Prime Minister David Cameron suggested that Assad could be allowed safe passage out of Syria if that would guarantee an end to the civil war. The full interview will be broadcast Friday, the TV station said. It was not clear when or where it took place. Assad was seen in a grey suit and tie,
casually talking and also walking with RT’s reporter outside a house. Assad has made only a few appearances public since the revolt began in March 2011. Last month, state TV showed him praying on the floor of a Damascus mosque for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. As the two sides battle for the upper hand, civilians are bearing the brunt of the crisis. Peter Maurer, the head of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross, said the civil war has been in a downward spiral for months. “We can’t cope with the worsening of the situation,” Maurer said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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The Palestinians took the first step toward raising their status at the United Nations from an observer to a nonmember observer state Thursday by circulating a draft resolution to the 193 U.N. member states and asking for their support. The Palestinian observer mission said no decision has been made on when to submit the draft resolution to the U.N. General Assembly for a vote. Arab League foreign ministers are expected to discuss the draft and the timing of its submission at a meeting in Cairo on Nov. 1213, a Palestinian diplomat said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. A letter from the observer mission accompanying the draft resolution asks U.N. members to support “the enhancement of the status of Palestine in the United Nations General
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The draft resolution being circulated by the Palestinians would bring change. • Status. Approval of the
resolution would elevate the Palestinians to the same status as the Vatican.
• Draft. The draft resolu-
tion states that to date, 132 nations have recognized “the State of Palestine.”
Assembly to be considered by the assembly at a date to be announced in the near future.” There are no vetoes in the General Assembly and the resolution is almost certain to be approved by the world body which is dominated by countries sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. the associated press
Israeli military. Explosivefilled tunnel explodes on Israel-Gaza border A large, explosive-filled tunnel blew up near soldiers on the Gaza-Israel fence late Thursday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said shortly after the incident. The explosive-filled tunnel was intended to kill, or to try kidnap soldiers and was one the largest that Israeli forces had seen in years, said Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich in a late-night call with reporters. “We definitely see it as a very severe event. The amount of explosives were very big,” Leibovich said. “A kidnapping attempt is a possibility. Killing soldiers is a possibility.” She said one soldier was
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“The amount of explosives were very big.” Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich in a late-night call with reporters.
lightly wounded and a military vehicle was blown away some 20 metres. It was not clear how many soldiers there were; how far they were from the blast, nor how many kilos of explosives were detonated. The spokeswoman said military officials would convene Friday to discuss their response. the associated press
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Filmmaker gets jail time for probation violations The man behind an anti-Muslim film that led to violence in many parts of the Middle East was sentenced to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter, then issued a provocative statement through his attorney. The sentence Wednesday was the result of a plea bargain between lawyers for Mark
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Basseley Youssef and federal prosecutors. Youssef admitted that he had used several false names in violation of his probation and obtained a driver’s license under a false name. He was on probation for a bank fraud case. Shortly after Youssef left the courtroom, his lawyer, Steven Seiden, came to the front steps of the courthouse and told reporters his client wanted to send a message. “The one thing he wanted me to tell all of you is President Obama may have gotten Osama bin Laden, but he didn’t kill the ideology,”
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Seiden said. Asked what that meant, Seiden said, “I didn’t ask him, and I don’t know.” Federal authorities initially sought a two-year sentence for Youssef but settled on a oneyear term after negotiating the plea deal with Youssef’s attorneys. Prosecutors said they wouldn’t pursue new charges against Youssef and would drop the remaining probationviolation allegations against him. Youssef was placed on four years’ probation and must be truthful about his identity and his future finances. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Arizona gunman gets life in prison for Jan. 2011 rampage Giffords’ shooter sentenced. Loughner pleaded guilty; gets seven life sentences
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A man whose 2011 shooting rampage killed six people and wounded 13 others, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was ordered Thursday to serve seven consecutive life sentences, plus 140 years in federal prison. Jared Lee Loughner, 24, pleaded guilty under an agreement that guarantees he will spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. He avoids a federal death sentence, although state prosecutors could still decide to try him. Giffords, partially blind, her right arm paralyzed and limp, came face-to-face with Loughner at the sentencing, standing beside her husband as he spoke of her struggles to recover from being shot in the head. “Her life has been forever changed. Plans she had for our family and her career have been immeasurably altered,” said astronaut Mark Kelly, both he and his wife staring at the shooter inside a packed courtroom. “Every day is a continuous struggle to do those things she once was so good at.” One by one, survivors of the attack at a Giffords political event approached the podium to address Loughner, each turning toward him where he sat with his attorneys. “You took away my life, my love and my reason for liv-
Jared Lee Loughner U.S. Marshals Office/the associated press
ing,” said Mavanell Stoddard, who was shot three times and cradled her dying husband in her arms as he lay bleeding on the sidewalk after shielding her from the spray of bullets. Loughner’s parents sat nearby, his mother sobbing. Some victims, including Giffords, welcomed the plea deal as a way to move on. It spared them and their families from having to go through a potentially lengthy and traumatic trial and locks up the defendant for life. Both sides reached the deal after a judge declared that Loughner was able to understand the charges against him. After the shooting, he was diagnosed with schizophrenia and underwent forcible psychotropic drug treatments. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canadian Forces. Military investigates racially-charged video A video showing a Canadian Forces officer with his face in brown makeup pretending to be Osama bin Laden’s brother is in poor taste but does not reflect the wider military community, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Thursday. MacKay issued a statement in response to a video made in 2010 that features an unidentified military member stationed at 14 Wing Greenwood wearing a fake beard and turban, boasting that he worked with the leader of alQaida. The CBC says it was leaked a copy of the video, which shows the officer calling a woman a “silly infidel,” saying he drives a taxi and then later yelling at someone offscreen to get away from his car bomb. MacKay said an investigation into what happened was launched as soon as the Defence Department became
aware of the video’s existence. “Two years ago, certain members of the Canadian Forces stationed at CFB Greenwood filmed a video intended for their colleagues that featured inappropriate content and poor taste,” MacKay said. Capt. John Pulchny, a spokesman at 14 Wing Greenwood, said the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service is trying to determine who made the video and whether any military rules were broken. Pulchny said at least one officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force was involved in the production of the video, which was shown at a formal dinner at the Nova Scotia airbase. He said the video was ordered destroyed, and investigators may look into how copies of it survived. the canadian press
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Social financing. Feds consider private funding to improve lives of needy The federal government wants to tap into a “gold mine” of private-sector funding to finance its social programs — a new approach the New Democrats are dismissing as little more than budget cuts in disguise. Human Resources Minister Diane Finley launched a “call for concepts” on Thursday, asking businesses, not-for-profits and the volunteer sector to come up with fundamentally new ideas for jointly financing improvements in the lives of the needy. The launch is a tentative step into the realm of social financing — an approach that is being tested in the United Kingdom and the United States. It invites private-sector investors to provide up-front money and then collect a return on projects that government traditionally pays for, such as homelessness or hunger. “It’s our first official step in inviting your ideas to the table that can help shape future social policy in Canada — in a new way,” Finley told a Toronto forum. “It’s time for us to unleash individual initiative so that those who are motivated can
Not impressed
The Opposition NDP immediately attacked the idea, accusing the Conservatives of privatizing social services for ideological reasons, based on a model that has flopped in other countries. • “What they’re proposing is a public-relations exercise to justify new cuts to services for Canadians,” said Nycole Turmel.
help others, and those who need help are given the opportunity to take more responsibility for themselves.” The government wants to collect ideas until the end of the year and then, if all goes well, put out a call for proposals or identify pilot projects. Eventually, Finley foresees a broader “social partnerships” strategy. “It’s really community leaders who can best understand their local challenges, identify solutions and get results,” Finley said. the canadian press
At least 2 dead in blaze at industrial plant
Elliot Lake collapse
Mall owners lose bid to have legal bills paid The owners of a mall that collapsed in northern Ontario were denied funding on Thursday to participate in the public inquiry into the tragedy. In his ruling, Commissioner Paul Belanger said Bob Nazarian and his son Levon Nazarian had not shown why Ontario taxpayers should pay their legal bills. the canadian press
Toxic explosion. Massive fire was one of two in Quebec Thursday, as another raged in Old Montreal Two people were reported killed as of press time as an explosion loud enough to be heard for kilometres ripped through an industrial plant Thursday, triggering a fire that produced a thick, dark cloud of toxic smoke. The blast and fire sent 19 other people to hospital, some with severe burns. The two victims were found in the rubble of the decimated processing plant. The incident occurred in Quebec’s Eastern Townships at the Sherbrooke facility belonging to Neptune Technologies & Bioressources, which produces health products, such as Omega-3 derived from marine life. Martin Carrier, a Sherbrooke police spokesman, said more than 100 people in Sherbrooke and surrounding suburbs phoned within a minute.
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Emergency crews are shown outside Neptune Technologies and Bio Resources in Sherbrooke, Que., Thursday, where a large explosion at the plant sent a number of people to hospital with serious injuries. Graham Hughes/the canadian press
“They heard the explosion,” Carrier said. “It was a big noise. A lot of black smoke. You could see it everywhere in the city.” It was the first of two major fires Thursday in Quebec. Hours later, flames were skipping off a rooftop in Old
Montreal as emergency crews were called in to deal with a blaze a block away from the famous Notre-Dame Basilica, close to the Montreal La Presse newspaper which had to be evacuated. There were no reports of injuries in the Montreal fire. the canadian press
Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae is calling for a public inquiry to get to the root of the tragedy that befell Ashley Smith, the troubled teen who choked to death in her prison cell as guards stood watch. And he wants the inquiry to go beyond the particulars of Smith’s death to expose the general inability of the prison system to cope with mentally ill offenders. the canadian press
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Cross to bear. Winning medal a tough battle
Victoria Cross Medals recipients Cpl. Lionel Clarke, Sgt. Maj. Frederick Hall and Lt. Robert Shankland are displayed after an unveiling at the National War Museum in Ottawa, Monday. Fred Chartrand/the canadian press
Canadians are a humble bunch. Maybe too humble. Within a few weeks, Gov. Gen. David Johnston will bestow a final batch of bravery decorations on Canadian troops who fought in southern Afghanistan, but the list likely won’t include the nation’s highest battle honour: the Victoria Cross. The notion that Canada will exit its first major shooting war in 60 years without such recognition has some asking what a Canadian soldier must do to win the honour. The stringent process that sees a nomination pass through no less than three committees of senior officers ensures that selection is based on merit. Even still, throughout the war
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The last of Canada’s 94 Victoria Crosses were handed out during the Second World War, at a time when the British still oversaw the award on behalf of Commonwealth nations. The Canadian version was created in 1993, but the actual medal was not struck until 2008.
in Afghanistan, there were quiet murmurs within the ranks about why some of the 17 Stars of Military Valour, the country’s second-highest decoration handed out to date, were never considered worthy of elevation to the Victoria Cross. the canadian press
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The truth comes out in candid WWII doc The real story. Documentary uncovers facts behind the WW2 mission dramatized in Quentin Tarantino’s action flick Inglorious Basterds
In Quentin Tarantino’s Second World War action flick Inglourious Basterds, a ragtag group of Jewish-American soldiers agrees to go on a dangerous mission hunting Nazis behind enemy lines. The deadly mercenaries are tasked with collecting 100 scalps apiece on their way to take out the Germans’ top military leaders. Not surprisingly for a Tarantino film, it’s cartoonishly over the top and not at all historically accurate. But there was just enough truth there for Canadian director Min Sook Lee to latch onto for The Real Inglorious Bastards, which airs Thursday on History.
She had previously helmed the similar documentary The Real M*A*S*H and was asked by History to produce another show with a compelling reallife tale that somehow mirrored the Tarantino film. “I’m not a Tarantino fan — I hadn’t seen the film, I wasn’t familiar with the story,” she admits in an interview. “So I had to watch the film and then start looking around for something that was similar in real life — and that took a while.” She eventually came across the story of Operation Greenup, a covert mission ordered by the U.S. military’s Office of Strategic Services. Jewish refugees Hans Wijnberg of Holland and Fred Mayer of Germany joined the U.S. army eager to help the Allied effort against Nazi forces. They met at an OSS training camp while learning guerilla warfare. “It felt like I had my chance to do what I set out to do — kill Nazis,” says Mayer in the documentary. “That’s why all the Jewish boys joined.”
A scene from the TV documentary The Real Inglorious Bastards, which examines truths from Quentin Tarantino’s garish Second World War film Inglourious Basterds. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, GAT Media
They parachuted onto a glacier in Germany so they could gather intelligence on the Brenner Pass, the main supply route into Italy. They landed in deep snow, without skis, and after a long journey they reached a small hamlet, where they claimed to be members of a German alpine unit. “These missions had a
high rate of failure, they didn’t really know what they were doing, there was a lot of making things up as they went along,” says Sook Lee. Through interviews and dramatic re-enactments, the documentary covers how the men then based themselves in safehouses and began sending information back to the U.S. while posing as Germans. the canadian press
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Aftershock fear as Guatemala earthquake death toll tops 50 7.4 magnitude. Quake caused terror over a wide area; damage reported in all but one of the country’s 22 states Guatemalans huddled in the cold streets of an earthquakeravaged town without communications or power on Thursday, one day after the worst temblor since 1976 shook nearly the entire country, killing at least 52 people and leaving another 22 people missing. President Otto Perez Molina said the powerful 7.4-magnitude quake that hit Wednesday morning off the Pacific coast affected as many as 1.2 million people. He said a little more than 700 people were in shelters, with most opting to stay with family or friends.
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“They have no drinking water, no electricity, no communication and are in danger of experiencing more aftershocks.” President Otto Perez Molina speaking at a news conference
The president said therehad been 70 aftershocks in the first 24 hours after the quake, some as strong as magnitude 4.9. Damaged homes will be among the biggest problems the country will face, Perez added. Guatemalans fearing aftershocks huddled in the streets of the mountain town of San Marcos, the most affected area, where at least 40 people died. It was the strongest earthquake to hit Guatemala since a 1976 temblor that killed 23,000. the associated press
On Thursday rescue workers carry away the body of a person found buried in San Marcos, Guatemala. Alex Cruz/El Periodico de Guatemala/the associated press
Scaffolding tragedy mars Linkin Park concert
An injured woman, second from left, holds her arm as she walks with medical personnel, second from right, after she and others were injured during a concert by Linkin Park in Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday. the associated press
A spokeswoman for the South African city of Cape Town says one person died after scaffolding collapsed in high winds outside a Linkin Park concert, injuring 19 other people. Kylie Hatton said Thursday a woman died after being taken to the hospital. She said 19 people were injured, with 12 hospitalized, after the temporary advertising structure collapsed outside the Cape Town Stadium. She said police are investigating. The American rock Parasailing
band said in a statement: “We wish to express our deep sadness and concern for those injured and our heartfelt condolences to the family of the fan who died as a result of her injuries.” The band said they had no relationship with the sponsor or entity responsible for the structure. Hatton says the structure had been certified as safe by structural engineers before concert day. Linkin Park’s concert tour will continue.
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Anton Groenewald with the city of Cape Town says that 12 of the 19 people injured were being treated at a hospital. • The concert series for the American rock band band will continue. • Linkin Park will perform in Johannesburg Nov. 10.
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Lawyer charged with laundering
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A boat captain in the U.S. Virgin Islands has been charged with causing the death of a woman who was killed while parasailing. Kyle Coleman is accused of misconduct, negligence and inattention. Authorities said he took Bernice Kraftcheck and her daughter on a parasailing tour in 2011 as wind conditions deteriorated. The tow line broke as the women were hoisted into the air. Kraftcheck died. the associated press
A Texas lawyer and former Carnegie Mellon University trustee has pleaded not guilty to laundering more than $600 million for a Mexican drug cartel. Marco Antonio Delgado waived his arraignment Thursday, essentially entering a not guilty plea, during a hearing in El Paso. His lawyers plan to seek Delgado’s release on bond. Prosecutors say Delgado conspired to launder the cartel’s drug profits. the associated press
French authorities are trying to figure out whether a man arrested in the West African nation of Mali who was en route to Islamist combatants is the same person charged in Paris with a terror-related offence. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, is one of three extremist groups who have taken control of the northern half of Mali. The group is made up of foreign fighters. They moved into Mali in March. the associated press
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Blacklist aims to deter phone theft Database. Phones to go on an electronic list in Canada in a move to deter thieves, protect personal data Canada’s wireless carriers are targeting smartphone theft by setting up a database that will blacklist lost
or stolen phones to prevent them from being reactivated. The move would also help protect personal data on such devices, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association said Thursday. Smartphones are worth $600 to $700 and can be resold on the black market, noted association president Bernard Lord. “With this database, it
makes that a lot less attractive because the buyer of the stolen phone will not be able to connect to any network in Canada,” Lord said from Ottawa. “It eliminates the incentive for stealing a device.” The idea is also to reduce the black-market value of a smartphone in the eyes of criminals, Lord added. Once consumers call their wireless carrier to report
their smartphone lost or stolen, the device’s internal identification number goes on the electronic blacklist. Lord said even though more smartphones are lost than stolen, law enforcement officials have raised concerns about the issue. The database for the Canadian wireless industry will be up and running by September 2013 and Canada’s carriers will also be contrib-
Canadian wireless carriers are combatting theft with a stolen phone database. Mario Tama/Getty Images FILE
uting to an international database to help prevent smartphone theft, he said. However, consumers who have their smartphones lost or stolen are “not off the hook” for paying their smartphone contracts. A website will also be set up by the association to help consumers protect their smartphone data and help protect themselves from theft. the canadian press
Museum. Forgotten fossilized horn leads to new dinosaur discovery A piece of a fossilized reptilian horn that sat in an Ottawa museum for decades has led to the discovery of a new dinosaur species the size of a rhinoceros that roamed Alberta 80 million years ago. Pieces of skulls from the recently named Xenoceratops were originally dug up
from rocky sediments in southern Alberta sediments in 1958. However, a pair of paleontologists rediscovered the bones a decade ago and gradually pieced together the sweeping neck plate of the four-footed, horn-headed giant. THE CANADIAN PRESS
A model of a Xenoceratops dinosaur is shown in a handout photo. Julius Csotonyi/the canadian press
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Celebrities do it. Presidents do it. Now even the Pope will do it. The Vatican spokesman said Thursday that Pope Benedict XVI will start tweeting from a Twitter account. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Canada’s market for generic erectile-dysfunction drugs was thrown open for business Thursday after the Supreme Court of Canada invalidated the Viagra patent held by Pfizer. THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Why walk on sunshine when there’s water? Students participate in a Walk on Water event at Florida International University in Miami on Thursday. Participants walked on water wearing shoes they built as part of a class assignment. They had to make it across an roughly 53-metre lake to get an A. The first student to do so also won $500. Alan diaz/the associated press
The Thracians loved their bling-bling, too Bulgaria. A team of archaeologists has discovered a tomb containing gold, a tiara and other treasures Archaeologists say they have unearthed an almost 2,400-year-old golden hoard in an ancient Thracian tomb in northern Bulgaria. The treasure was found on Thursday near the village of Sveshtari, 400 kilometres northeast of the capital of Sofia, team leader Diana Gergova said. She said that among the artifacts, dating back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century B.C., were gold jewelry and applications for horse trappings, a tiara with reliefs of lions and fantasy animals, as well as
An archaeologist shows an artifact that was found in a 2,400-year-old Thracian tomb. impactpressgroup/the associated press
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She’s da bomb for making ’em and breaking moulds Newfound freedom. Veteran recalls excitement of being on forefront of emerging female workforce and military service Rosanna Haroutounian For Metro
Second World War veteran Helen Rapp said she doesn’t want young Canadians to forget the women who served in war. “We opened the door for women who are in the military now,” she said. “That is what we’re really very proud of.” In 1941, Rapp left her hometown of Schumacher, Helen Rapp’s Ont., to work certificate of qualificain a munition at the Directorate of tions factory Signals in Ottawa, 1944. in Hamilton. contributed “There was a catch, though,” said Rapp. “I couldn’t go without my mother because I was only 15.” Her mother worked in the cafeteria, while Rapp helped make barrels for bofor guns. “I went out in overalls, with my hair tied back, to this station,” said Rapp, recalling she was met at the station by an older man and five younger men,” said Rapp. When the younger men started whistling, the older man stood up for her.
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Factory girls for their soldier boys As husbands, sons, brothers, and fathers were called out to fight on the front lines, some women also thrust themselves into unknown territory by joining munitions factories in the 1940s to supply the men with the weapons they needed for battle. For some women at the time it was their first job. For others, it was a moral decision to leave their homes and families behind to provide for the war effort. Women quickly learned their ways around the factories to create weapons such as cannons and ammunition while grappling with the fear of what the war may bring. At the same time, however, it also gave women newfound freedom from social constraints at home. JOE LOFARO/METRO IN OTTAWA
Helen Rapp’s (born Helen Villeneuve) tradesman qualification certificate, 1946. contributed
Helen Rapp in Ottawa, 1944. contributed
“There was a catch, though. I couldn’t go without my mother because I was only 15.” Second World War veteran Helen Rapp On leaving her hometown in 1941 to work in a munitions factory in Hamilton.
Helen Rapp in Ottawa, 1944. contributed
“He said, ‘There’ll be none of that. She is a member of this crew. You treat her properly.’” Rapp said she nicknamed him Fibber McGee after a character from a radio program. Rapp said she made friends with four girls from Prince Albert, whose apartment was as busy as “Grand Central Station.” The girls would visit the dancehall to meet soldiers training at Hamilton’s Commonwealth Air Training Plan. “You never, ever, did not have a date,” said Rapp, laughing. Rapp said one air force trainee from England, Jeff, was a great dancer who
taught her the jitterbug. “He never swung me over his head, but we just loved to dance,” she said. Rapp worked in the factory until 1942. At 16, she pretended she was 18 so she could enter the Canadian Women’s Army Corps in Ottawa, where she lives today. She worked in Ottawa as a section sergeant of the directorate of signals. “The government wanted women in the military, but our mandate was only until 1946, and then you were out” she said.
Certificate allowing Helen Rapp to wear the War Service Badge, 1946. contributed
“But they did learn that we could do just about any job they imagined.”
Veterans speak about what was once taboo Helen Rapp, a veteran of the Second World War, says that while soldiers are more open to sharing their wartime experiences, the Canadian government can still do more to support veterans. “The majority of men never talked,” said Rapp, who served as a section sergeant at the Directorate of Signals in Ottawa from 1942 to 1946. “When they came home, they got into civilian clothes, and that was the end of it.” She said that was an improvement from the First World War, when soldiers were shot when they couldn’t handle the stresses of war. “It was called shell-shock,” she said. “They thought, ‘You’re just putting this on. You don’t want to fight.’” Rapp said that when she visits classes to talk about her experiences, she asks students whether they have relatives who served in the military. “They say, ‘Oh yes, my granddad was, or my uncle, but they never talked.’ And they didn’t,” said Rapp. “They just wanted to forget the bad stuff.” She said veterans are more likely
Helen Rapp’s medals from left: The Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, the War Service Medal, the Confederation Medal, a Golden Jubilee Medal and a Diamond Jubilee medal awarded earlier this year. SEAN MCKIBBON/METRO in ottawa
to share their experiences with each other. “You look at these old fellas and these old gals and ask, ‘Where were you posted? What did you do?’” said Rapp. “There’s a bond there.” Rapp’s husband Jerry Bowen, a veteran of Canada’s navy and armed
forces, agrees. “The fellows who were with you at the time have an understanding others don’t,” said Bowen. “Whenever we get together, we have a good talk.” Rapp said that while Veteran’s Affairs Canada is better-equipped to identify and deal with soldiers suffering
from post-traumatic stress disorder, recent cuts are putting the department under strain. “They should never have cut back the services that they did,” said Rapp. “They haven’t in the (United) States. They cut back every department but Veteran’s Affairs, and we were hoping they would do the same here, but (Defence Minister Peter) MacKay decided no.” The Union of Veterans’ Affairs Employees predicted in January that the government’s plan to cut $226 million from the Veterans Affairs budget in the next two years would result in 500 job cuts by 2015. “They’re short-staffed now,” said Rapp. “Where before someone was looking after five or six people, their load is more now.” Rapp said part of the reason she speaks to other Canadians is to ensure they know that veterans should be valued. “We want to show them that we were there. We made history.” Rosanna Haroutounian/for metro With files from Torstar News Service
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...and she puts the boom in wartime bombshells Paying tribute. Bomb Girls actress honoured to salute women like one she portrays in TV series jessica smith
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Growing up studying history, Charlotte Hegele learned all about the men who fought the Second World War. It was only years later, reading the script of Bomb Girls, that she really learned about the women. “I think a lot of young people blur history together and they don’t realize that there are specific pockets of time where extraordinary things happened,” said Hegele. “It’s so important that we tell women’s stories.” Hegele plays Kate Andrews, a young woman who flees from her abusive father, a tyrannical street preacher, to Toronto, where she works at Victory Munitions. The main characters on Bomb Girls are inspired by the real Canadian women who worked in munitions factories. They built bombs that could explode with one false move, in factories they believed could be a target for an attack on Canadian soil. “On World War II, when I was in school, we spoke so much about men,” she said. “We, assumed, for whatever reason, that women during war would just be sitting at home Quoted
“Some American viewers have been confused because one of the events that happens in the first season is Pearl Harbor, but it doesn’t happen until the end. And of, course, Pearl Harbor is the reason the States got involved in the war to begin with… It’s nice to know that we’re not just telling the women’s story, but the Canadian story, because it’s unique.” Matt Barnes/ Global
Actress Charlotte Hegele
A screen grab from the first episode of Bomb Girls. Global Real factories behind Bomb Girls series • One of the real factories Victory
Munitions is based on is the Defence Industries Limited plant, which built munitions for the Allies and led to the founding of the Town of Ajax. The other was the General Engineering Company of Ontario (GECO) plant in Scarborough.
• The cast is currently shooting season
taking care of the family waiting for their man to come home, waiting for the soldiers to come home, when, in fact, their place in society became pivotal to the success of the Allies.” Bomb Girls shows why the war was pivotal for women, how they went to work when their country needed them to and never turned back. “It’s hard for me to imagine how it really would have been, how it really would have felt to be a woman at that time — but I think that women were just itching to be given equal opportunities as men,” Hegele said. “It must have been not just liberating but exciting to be able to do jobs — jobs they actually kept.” For Hegele, telling stories about Canadian history is “an important public service” that she learned from her grandfather. Dr. Joseph Walmsley was a medical officer who fought in Dieppe. When he returned, he would speak at school Remembrance Day ceremonies. “He would come in with his medals — it was a very proud moment, to see him come and speak in his full uniform,” she said. “I wasn’t just proud that he was the speaker, it was because he was so proud. It was a moment for him to give some per-
two, set to air in 2013, at the set on Brown’s Line in Etobicoke. • The new season will include Rosie
O’Donnell as guest star. She will play “Dottie” in Episode 209.
• You can watch the first
season of Bomb Girls online at: globaltv.com/bombgirls.
spective for young people and understanding of what he actually did.” Meeting her inspiration Hegele has had the chance to meet some of the real Bomb Girls who are the show’s inspiration. Her first time
was at the show’s premier in Ottawa. She recalls thinking so much about her character during the filming and then realizing, at the premiere, the impact Bomb Girls would have on the real women who lived that story. “It was really scary,” she said. “At that moment I thought, ‘Okay, I really hope we did them justice and we created something that was respectful and honoured their accomplishments and that they would be proud to watch.” “The original Bomb Girls seemed moved,” she said. “At the time of the war, perhaps, it didn’t seem for them that they were doing anything extraordinary because it was what their country needed them to do and they were just doing what they could do. But it’s really important for our country to know now about the sacrifices they made.”
Actors stay warm Tuesday on the exterior set of the Victory Munitions Factory in the Bomb Girls TV show, which is mostly filmed in the Toronto area. Dave Starrett/For Metro
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Go it alone, or go to an adviser? Depends on your comfort level Investing. This is the third of a three-part series on getting into the stock market
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Bryan Borzykowski For Metro
It’s never been easier to get into the stock market. You can invest online, through an adviser and at your branch. You can buy stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, fixedincome and more. Investing is so simple that it can be overwhelming. Where do you start? What should you buy? How much do you need? Novice investors will likely want to start with an adviser. They understand the market and know which products are the best. It’s also their job to make your money grow, which is hard for most people to do on their own. Some financial planners, such as bank-based advisers, are free, though others can be
Novice investors will probably want to start with an adviser, says columnist Bryan Borzykowski. Istock
expensive, depending on what you want them to do. Many charge a flat fee that includes investing and developing a financial plan. As well, advisers typically invest in mutual funds, which come with a hefty management ratio. Usually, a mutual fund company will take around two per cent of someone’s invested assets to cover expenses. If you don’t know what you’re doing, though, it’s worth pay-
ing for the advice. Savvier investors often buy securities online. Every bank has its own web-based brokerage, but there are other firms, such as Qtrade, Interactive Brokers and Questrade, that offer similar services. Do-it-yourself investors often buy stocks and exchangetraded funds — a basket of stocks that track a specific index — that don’t come with the same management fees as
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mutual funds do. (Stocks don’t come with any management costs.) There is a trading fee, but, depending on how often you trade, it can be negligible. Per trade costs range between $6.99 and $29.99 — it depends on the bank and how often you buy and sell — but it’s often cheaper than buying mutual funds with an adviser. Once you figure out how you want to invest and with what products, you need to decide what type of account to use. Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP) are still the most popular investment account, as you only have to pay tax on the total account balance when you
withdraw, likely in retirement. Tax-Free Savings Accounts, which were introduced in 2009, are giving the RRSP a run for its money. Whatever you invest in a TFSA grows tax-free. While you don’t get a tax refund, like you do when you invest in an RRSP, you don’t have to pay the CRA when you withdraw. There are also non-registered accounts that offer preferential tax treatment on capital gains — the difference between what you bought a security for and what it’s sold for — and dividends. Most people turn to non-registered accounts after maxing out their RRSP. See what I mean about choice? It’s amazing anyone invests in the stock market at all. But don’t get flustered; investing really is easy. Check out your bank’s online brokerage account to see what DIY investing has to offer, or talk to a financial adviser for more hands on help. Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based financial writer and the author of Building Wealth All-inOne for Canadians for Dummies. Contact him at bryanborzykowski.com or follow him on Twitter @bborzyko.
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Open wallets. Canadians will shell out more this holiday season: Survey A BMO holiday outlook suggests Canadians’ spending spirits have improved this season, with the bank projecting an average 15 per cent jump in holiday spending over last Christmas. The Bank of Montreal’s 2012 Holiday Spending Outlook finds that survey respondents plan to spend an average of $1,610 this holiday season, up from $1,397 in 2011. Shoppers surveyed say they plan to shell out an average of $674 for gifts this year, compared to an average of $583 last year. The top reasons for spending more are having more people to shop for and being better off financially. Spending on trips is also projected to increase, while amounts allocated for enterMarket Minute
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A girl plays with the Breast Milk Baby doll, which has attracted controversy south of the border. Berjuan Toys/The Associated Press
We’ve got dolls that wet, crawl and talk. We’ve got dolls with perfect hourglass figures. We’ve got dolls with swagger. And we’ve got plenty that come with itty bitty baby bottles. But it’s a breastfeeding doll whose suckling sounds are prompted by sensors sewn into a halter top at the nipples of little girls that caught some flak after hitting the U.S. market. “I just want the kids to be kids,” Bill O’Reilly said on his Fox News show when he learned of the Breast Milk Baby. “And this kind of stuff. We don’t need this.” What, exactly, people don’t need is unclear to Dennis Lewis, the U.S. representative for Berjuan Toys, a family-owned, 40-year-old doll maker in Spain that
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At $89 US a pop, Breast Milk Baby dolls aren’t cheap. After unsuccessfully peddling them to U.S. retailers large and small, the company now has them listed at half price on their website in time for the holidays this year.
can’t get the dolls onto mainstream shelves more than a year after introducing the line in the U.S. “We’ve had a lot of support from lots of breastfeeding organizations, lots of mothers, lots of educators,” said Lewis, in Orlando, Fla. “There also has been a lot of blowback from people who maybe haven’t thought to think about really why the doll is there and what its purpose is. Usually they are people that either have problems with breastfeeding in general, or they see it as something sexual.” The Associated Press
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Call your hockey parody. Hockey blogNeil Morton ger Harrison Mooney metronews.ca co-wrote and stars in a hockified version of Robyn’s hit Call Your Girlfriend on YouTube called Call The Union. His hilarious plea to the NHL and NHLPA to get a deal done went viral. It features Mooney in a Vancouver Canucks jersey dancing and singing rather poorly. This might be just the jolt the NHL needed. Watch the vid at metronews.ca. Most retweeted tweet, ever. “Four more years” was the simple yet concise three-word tweet that came out from @BarackObama Tuesday night, along with a picture of Barack and Michelle in a warm embrace. It was retweeted nearly 800,000 times — the highest number ever. President of the United States for another term — and King of the Twittersphere, too. Need help? Call @justinbieber. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie took to tweeting Justin Bieber to get the word out about Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund: “.@justinbieber my girls are big fans. Will u help us spread the word about NJReliefFund? For more info: http://tinyurl.com/anufbos #WeWillRebuild.” Biebs, always helping causes, obliged, retweeting to his nearly 30 million followers. Falcons 8-0. The Atlanta Falcons were once one of the laughingstocks of the NFL, but their franchise can now do no wrong. With a star QB in Matt Ryan, they are halfway to a perfect season this year after beating the (hapless) Dallas Cowboys 19-13 on Sunday. Even if they don’t go unbeaten, a Super Bowl appearance is definitely in their sights — if they beat da Bears! How to use paparazzi. As Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and his girlfriend were leaving a lunch spot in L.A., trailed by paparazzi, he made a makeshift sign encouraging passersby to “Text Red Cross to 90999” for Hurricane Sandy victims. My genius idea: Every celebrity should do this while being trailed by the paps — have a sign handy to promote a philanthropic cause. Mo bro! I’m proud to be growing a stache for the first time ever — well, since the excitement of facial hair in Grade 8. It’s for Movember Canada, of course, which raises money and awareness for men’shealth issues such as prostate cancer and mental illness. Give at ca.movember.com or donate to me personally at mobro.co/4648193. Thanks! Extreme Cougar Wives. A program airing later this month on TLC called Extreme Cougar Wives features couples with wide-ranging age differences, including 65-year-old Stephanie, who is in love with 28-year-old Octavio. While this “cougar” thing may have hit its tipping point now, all the power to these women. If men can date way younger women — creepy! — then why not turn the tables? Etiquette expert. If etiquette confuses you, like in my case (I get confused over when not to wear plaid) what better place to turn than Canadian etiquette expert Karen Cleveland. She tackles all things etiquette on her blog — mannersaresexy.com — from the traditional — how to bring your own wine to a restaurant — to the taboo — why your company should have topless meetings (as in, sans mobile devices). Trail Blazer, not. A new iPhone app called Trail Blazer that’s geared toward kids stars a buffalo who bikes and snowboards past northern Alberta landmarks while avoiding obstacles and collecting coins. Oh, and the game is made by Syncrude, one of Canada’s largest producers of oil from Alberta’s oilsands, and includes feelgood, pop-up messages about the company. Follow The Metro List on Game over. Twitter @TheMetroList the list
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Biker-gang raids shopping mall This amazing image shows the dramatic moment a gang of robbers made their escape on motorcycles in a shopping centre. Six people riding three motorbikes and carrying axes drove into Brent Cross Shopping Centre in north London, England. Professional photographer Rick Treister, 48, managed to snap this picture with his cameraphone.
“It was like a Hollywood film. I would never have imagined someone would do that in a shopping centre. It was like a scene out of James Bond.” Rick Treister, photographer Treister was on his way to the Apple store in Brent Cross Shopping Centre when he heard the sound of screaming and breaking glass. He managed to get one picture of the robbers as they passed him at full speed.
Details of robbery • Panic in the shopping
mall. Eyewitnesses said the thieves sped into the first floor of the shopping mall and headed for the Fraser Hart high-end jewelry store before smashing windows to get at the valuables on display. Shoppers began to panic as the robbery took place, with many people running for the exits. Some shops would not let customers leave while the incident was underway, witnesses said.
• Bikes abandoned. The
motorbikes used in the robbery were found abandoned in Mill Hill, north London, 15 minutes after the robbery took place. Flying Squad detectives from the capital’s police department have released footage of the theft taking place, to help in appeals for witnesses and information. So far, no arrests have been made. • Not an isolated incident. The smash-and-grab incident came a day before a pawnbroker’s store was targeted about three kilometres away by another motorbike gang.
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RICHARD CROUSE AND MARK BRESLIN
Why we still love Liz Rewind. In celebration of the Lohan-led TV movie Liz & Dick, the Reel Guys pick their faves from the ‘greatest movie star of all’ Richard: Mark, I know we’ll get to the good Liz Taylor films in a second, but I’d like to start with Boom! a strange movie about a much-married booze hound (Liz wearing Vegasinspired Kabuki gowns!) and a penniless poet (Dick) who romances her in the final hours of her life. This one fails on virtually every front, except that in its awfulness it has a campy charm, and for the ones who get the joke, great entertainment value. Mark: Boom? Richard, you are
perverse! But I have to admit that even Taylor’s better films veer toward camp. Look at Butterfield 8, which I consider her essential mid-career movie. She plays an amoral man-eater who’s a borderline prostitute. The movie has the greatest line Liz Taylor ever committed to celluloid, “Mama, face it, I was the slut of all time!” Although the movie is badly dated, it makes a strong case for the return of the negligee. RC: I guess I like anything with Liz and Burton. Like The V.I.P.s. As if having Liz and Dick on screen wasn’t enough star power The V.I.P.s adds in Orson Welles, Maggie Smith and a host of other early ’60s A-listers. The melodramatic story is set on one night at the Heathrow Airport first class lounge. Liz looks amazing in this, but for me the highlight
is Welles’s sleazy movie producer who’ll do anything— including marrying someone he hardly knows — to avoid a whopping tax bill. MB: It must be some kind of meta-theme in Taylor’s work: fat old guys stealing the movie from The Most Beautiful Woman In The World. Burl Ives has the same effect in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. When he’s onscreen, you forget about Taylor, which is quite a feat. Liz is a good little scene chewer in this adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ mediocre play. Lots of scenes occur in the bedroom, giving her ample opportunity to dress and undress. RC: Burton was Liz’s most famous co-star, but she frequently co-starred with Montgomery Clift, who once said, “She feels like the other half
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The Reel Guys will wait to pass judgment on Lindsay Lohan’s portrayal of Elizabeth Taylor (opposite Grant Bowler as Richard Burton) in Lifetime’s Liz & Dick, but with the TV movie airing this month, we thought we’d take the opportunity to have a look at the real deal; the movies of the lilac-eyed La Liz.
of me.” Check out Suddenly Last Summer or A Place in the Sun to see their chemistry. MB: To my mind, Taylor was just a movie star until she played Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. Brilliantly directed and guided by Mike Nichols, she revealed herself to be a great actress as well.
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Helen Hunt appears in The Sessions as you’ve never seen her before Barenaked lady. Actress takes on role that requires full frontal nudity to help tell the story of a sexual surrogate
therapist. … I think it seemed to be that over time, it grew into a real vocation. Speaking of your own vocation, I think at different points in a person’s career there are things you’re willing to do and there are things you’re not willing to do. What made you feel ready to do the nudity now? The first thing is reading a good story. It’s so rare that you read a story you haven’t heard a hundred times and a character that I’ve seen in life or in a movie — just an utterly new person to create. And then [it’s] a feeling of like, it’s getting late, what am I gonna wait for or worry about? Just jump in.
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There’s not much that Helen Hunt hasn’t done in Hollywood. An actress since age nine, she has appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, had a hit sitcom and she’s written, directed and produced plenty more. But Hunt heads into the great unknown with The Sessions, in which she portrays real life sexual surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene. Cohen-Greene worked with Mark O’Brien, whose childhood struggle with polio left him paralyzed from the neck down. While the fullfrontal nudity required of the role left Hunt craving “sweat-
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pants and a hamburger” at the end of the day, the beautiful story was well worth the sacrifice, she tells us. Obviously one of the most fascinating things about this movie is your character’s job as a sexual surrogate
for those who have physical handicaps. What was the most interesting aspect of what she does? To me, the most interesting part was just her spirit, her vibe, her unabashed slightly loud, no-bulls—t Boston accent, her excited way of talking
about sex. That was a cocktail I had never seen before. Did you come to understand how she came into that profession? She says a little about it in the movie. Basically she was born a very sexual person, which
I hadn’t heard anybody say in a movie … She found out that there was such a thing as surrogacy and there was an entire association devoted to training people and making sure they watch out for their own weirdness affecting the other people, which is like any
What was it like to see The Sessions finally in the theatre? Do you hate watching yourself? It’s not the easiest thing in the world, I don’t ever look at anything after. Now that I’ve seen it, I won’t be seeing it ever again in my whole life.
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Midnight’s Children Director. Deepa Mehta Stars. Satya Bhabha, Shahana Goswami, Rajat Kapoor
••••• Deepa Mehta, one of Canada and India’s premiere filmmakers, melds history and mysticism in her adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel, set against the 1947 partition of India. Two boys born at the exact moment of India’s independence from the British Empire are switched by a nurse — a poor boy put in a rich family and the rich with an itinerant musician. There are numerous insights into India, its culture and incredibly rich modern history. Anne Brodie
The Man with the Iron Fists. RZA turns his love of the martial arts film genre into a directing gig with his first feature film Olivia morrow
Metro World News in New York
There’s not much that RZA, more formally known as Bobby Fitzgerald Diggs, can’t do. Starting out as the leader of the popular hip-hop group the WuTang Clan, he has since climbed his way up the ladder producing, acting and screenwriting. Now, he adds director to his resume. RZA finally showed his baby, The Man with the Iron Fists, to the world last week, but not before facing a few obstacles, including chronic loneliness and cultural discrepancies, along the way. RZA said one of the hardest things about making the mar-
RZA says he paid homage to his favourite martial arts flicks in his new movie. handout
tial arts film was spending over 150 days in a foreign country without his family. “The different vibe was just a lonely situation really, not only not seeing any blacks in China, but not seeing no whites either,” he
says. “My wife wasn’t able to come over because of the duties of home ... so I was really lonely, everybody else’s wives came over, everybody had love ... There was a week where Jamie Chung came in to be Lady Silk
and I just started like looking at her like that was my woman (laughs).” Although he’s no stranger to the industry, RZA said he faced many difficulties as a first-time director. “You’ve
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got to think, first of all, even having the level of talent, trust me, and to have a mutual trust back and forth was a challenge because I’m not just playing with just any Joe Schmoe. (I’ve) got some of the best in the world coming to represent with me and you want to protect that,” he says. Having watched all the kung fu classics throughout childhood and even naming his band after the film from the genre — Shaolin and Wu Tang — RZA said he made sure to include cues from his favourite martial arts flicks in his film. “It was very important to pay homage to those things that inspired (me), especially Bruce Lee. I consider Bruce Lee a minor prophet,” he says. “In the Qur’an it teaches us that we have major prophets and we have minor prophets, so Abraham, Moses and Jesus would be major. But then you have minor prophets that only live for small periods of time and inspire people in their own small ways. I feel Bruce Lee was like that.”
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Twilight star a child no Lautner Transforming in the spotlight. Taylor Lautner talks spending his formative teen years as the world’s most famous werewolf Ned Ehrbar
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Taylor Lautner started the Twilight franchise when he was 15 years old, and in the five years since he’s become an international celebrity. The end of your teenage years can be awkward enough as is, but being under the media spotlight adds a whole different level of discomfort. “It’s amazing how much a 15-year-old to a 20-yearold grows up and matures just regularly. Going through this, it definitely was at an accelerated rate,” he says. “[The scrutiny] definitely added to it. It was the part of it that we never predicted.”
The first lesson Lautner had to learn was to not just hide from the world. “When something like that happens to you, you tend to [withdraw],” says Lautner, who became a tabloid staple when rumours about him dating Taylor Swift circulated in 2009. “The worst thing you can do in that situation is just lock yourself up inside your house and not do anything and just be scared. You just have to think about things more and maybe just plan more in advance, but you don’t want to change who you are and everything you do just because of it.” Of course, he did have to make some changes because of his fame — like where he spends his free time. “I haven’t been to a mall in a while and I haven’t been to a theme park in a while, but I figure out how to get into movie theatres,” he says. “I do [wear a disguise], but they don’t work at all for some reason, and I don’t know why. I think I literally just have to put prosthetics on because literally I put a baseball hat on, glasses,
Looking ahead
So where does Lautner go from here? Certainly the Twilight franchise has given him a leg up over other 20-year-old actors, but his first non-franchise entry, last year’s Abduction, was a critical and commercial failure. Lautner’s plan to avoid another stinker, he says, is to diversify. “I’m looking forward to doing something different for myself and challenging myself,” he says. “I don’t want to do the same thing over and over again. My goal is to challenge myself to a wide variety of roles and genres of film.”
pull the hat down, I look in the mirror and I’m like, ‘All right, you are set. You don’t look anything like yourself.’ And the second I step outside, it’s almost like I’m wearing nothing.”
Michael Sheen. It’s not easy being the bad guy, according to Twilight actor Michael Sheen has had a relatively easy schedule in the Twilight series, “flitting in and out” as the villainous Aro, as he puts it, while the rest of the cast has taken on a more strenuous time commitment. But that doesn’t mean he’s
gotten off easy. In fact, Sheen takes issue with the old adage that playing a villain is more fun for an actor. “I suppose people think, ‘Oh, it’s so much more enjoyable to play villains and it’s so much more enjoyable
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to play that kind of thing,’” he says. “It’s hard work. I find it hard work, anyway. Maybe other people find it easier. But it’s not something that you just kind of enjoy when you’re doing it in the same way. “Because if you enjoy it too much yourself, I think people just feel it’s self-indulgent. You want the audience to enjoy it, which is the point. You can’t enjoy yourself too much. It’s work.” ned ehrbar/mwn
Taylor Lautner has come a long way since the first Twilight film. handout
What’s a Cullen to do? Life after Twilight. The actors share their post-Twilight plans The actors who portray the Cullen family in the Twilight series have had the luxury of a steady gig for five years now — something of a rarity for a film actor. But that’s all over now. So, who’s ready for life after Twilight and who’s not? We checked in with the Cullens. Kellan Lutz: “I’ve been working on my clothing line for
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Jackson Rathbone: “I’ve been focusing on my production company, trying to get projects launched. It’s a learning process as a producer just as much as I constantly learn as an actor. I do have hopes to direct. And I always make independent music through my record label, Happy Jack Music.” Ashley Greene: “We’re all thankfully working. I’m doing this movie, CBGB, right now that’s very independent. Everyone involved is a well-oiled machine. It’s just fun...” Ned Ehrbar, MWN
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Argo (14) Fri-Thu 1:20-4:20-7:3010:20 Cloud Atlas (14) , Fri-Thu 1:30-6:30 Coldplay Live 2012 (STC) , Wed 7:15 Flight (STC) , Fri-Thu 12:40-3:507:10-10:10 Fun Size (STC) , Fri 1:15-3:30 , SatWed 1:15-3:30-6:25 , Thu 1:15-3:30 Here Comes the Boom (PG) , Fri-Tue 12:20-3:15-6:15-9 , Wed 12:20-3:15-9 , Thu 12:20-3:15-6:15-9 Hotel Transylvania (G) , Fri-Thu 1:25 Hotel Transylvania 3D (G) , Fri-Thu 3:40-7:30-9:40 Looper (14) Fri-Wed 12:10-3:05-7:2010:15 Thu 12:10-3:05-10:15 The Man With the Iron Fists (STC) Fri-Thu 1:40-4:05-7:40-10:05 Paranormal Activity 4 (14) , Fri-Tue 12:05-3-6:30-9:05 , Wed 12:05-3-9:05 , Thu 12:05-3 Pitch Perfect (PG) , Fri-Thu 1:354:30-7:25-10:20 Seven Psychopaths (18) , Fri 10 , Sat-Wed 9:20 Silent Hill: Revelation (18) , Fri-Thu 10:20 Sinister (14) , Fri-Wed 12:15-3:107:50 Skyfall (14) , Fri-Sun 12-1-3:10-4:156:20-8-9:30 , Mon-Thu 1-3:10-4:156:20-8-9:30 Taken 2 (14) Fri-Thu 12:25-3:206:35-9:45 Twilight Marathon Breaking Dawn Part 2 2012 (STC) Thu 12:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (STC) , Thu 10-10:15 Wreck-It Ralph (STC) , Fri-Thu 12:50-3:30-6:40-9:10 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (STC) , Fri-Thu 1:10-4-7:15-9:50
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Lawrence of Arabia 50th Anniversary Event: Digitally Restored (STC) Sun 12:30 Wed 6:30 Midnight’s Children (STC) Fri 6:209:20 Sat 3:15-6:20-9:20 Sun 6:20-9:20 Mon 3:15-6:20-9:20 Tue 6:20-9:20 Thu 6:20-9:20
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Argo (14) , Fri 4-7-9:45 , Sat-Sun 12:40-4-7-9:45 , Mon-Tue 4-7-9:45 , Wed 4-6:45 , Thu 4-7-9:45 Cloud Atlas (14) , Fri 3:45-7:30 , Sat-Sun 12-3:45-7:30 , Mon-Thu 3:45-7:30 Flight (STC) , Fri 3:30-6:35-9:40 , Sat 1-3:30-6:35-9:40 , Sun 12:15-3:306:35-9:40 , Mon-Wed 3:30-6:35-9:40 , Thu 3:30-6:35-9:30 The Man With the Iron Fists (STC) , Fri 4:15-7:10-9:25 , Sat-Sun 12:20-4:15-7:10-9:25 , Mon-Thu 4:15-7:10-9:25 The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest Live (STC) Sat 1:55 Paranormal Activity 4 (14) , Fri-Tue 9:20 , Wed-Thu 9:35 Pitch Perfect (PG) , Fri 4:05-6:45 , Sat 12:50-6:45 , Sun 12:50-4:05-6:45 , Mon-Tue 4:05-6:45 , Wed 4:05-7 , Thu 4:05-6:45 Silent Hill: Revelation (18) , Fri 4:20 , Sun 1 , Mon-Thu 4:20 Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (18) , Fri 7:20-9:55 , Sat-Sun 4:20-7:20-9:55 , Mon-Tue 7:20-9:55 , Wed 9:55 Skyfall (14) No Passes, Fri 3:40-6:50-
10 No Passes, Sat-Sun 12:30-3:406:50-10 No Passes, Mon-Wed 3:406:50-10 No Passes, Thu 3:40-6:50-9:40 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (STC) No Passes, , Thu 10 Wreck-It Ralph (STC) , Fri 3:50 , SatSun 12:10 , Mon-Thu 3:50 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (STC) , Fri 6:309:10 , Sat-Sun 3:50-6:30-9:10 , MonWed 6:30-9:10 , Thu 6:40-9:10
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Argo (14) Dolby Stereo, Fri 9:20 Dolby Stereo, Sat-Mon 2:50-9:20 Dolby Stereo, Tue-Wed 9:20 Cloud Atlas (14) , Fri 7:15 , Sat-Mon 2-7:15 , Tue-Thu 7:15 Fun Size (STC) , Sat-Mon 2:40 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Dolby Stereo, Fri 7-9:25 Dolby Stereo, SatMon 2:05-7-9:25 Dolby Stereo, TueWed 7-9:25 Dolby Stereo, Thu 7-9:50 Hotel Transylvania (G) , Sat-Mon 2:45 Hotel Transylvania 3D (G) Dolby Stereo, Fri-Wed 6:30-9:35 Dolby Stereo, Thu 6:30-9:05 Paranormal Activity 4 (14) Dolby Stereo, Fri-Wed 7:10-9:30 Dolby Stereo, Thu 7:10-9:45 Pitch Perfect (PG) Dolby Stereo, FriThu 6:45 Skyfall (14) Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Fri 6:35-9 Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Sat-Mon 2:15-6:35-9 Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Tue 6:35-9:15 Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Wed 6:35-9 Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Thu 6:35-9:30 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (STC) , , No Passes Thu 10 Wreck-It Ralph (STC) , No Passes, Sat-Mon 2:30 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (STC) Dolby Stereo, No Passes, Fri-Thu 6:50-9:15
Dartmouth Dartmouth Crossing 145 Shubie Dr., Dartmouth Crossing 902-481-3251
Alex Cross (14) Dolby Stereo, Fri 4:30-7:10 Dolby Stereo, Sat-Mon 12:55-7:10 Dolby Stereo, Tue-Wed 4:30-7:10 Dolby Stereo, Thu 3:55-7:15 Argo (14) Digital, , Fri 3:15-6:15-9:10 Digital, , Sat-Mon 12:25-3:25-6:159:10 Digital, , Tue-Thu 3:15-6:15-9:10 Cloud Atlas (14) Digital, , Fri 3:407:25 Digital, , Sat-Mon 12-3:45-7:25 Digital, , Tue-Wed 3:40-7:25 Digital, , Thu 3:40 Flight (STC) Digital, , Fri 3:45-79:55 Digital, , Sat-Mon 1-4:05-7-9:55 Digital, , Tue-Thu 3:45-7-9:55 Fun Size (STC) Digital, , Fri 3:10-6:10 Digital, , Sat-Mon 12:10-6:10 Digital, , Tue-Thu 3:10-6:10 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Dolby Stereo, Fri 9:35 Digital, , Dolby Stereo Sat-Mon 9:35 Dolby Stereo, Tue-Thu 9:35 Hotel Transylvania (G) Dolby Stereo, Sat-Mon 1:10 Hotel Transylvania 3D (G) Digital, , Fri 3:50-7:20 Digital, , Sat-Mon 3:40-7:20 Digital, , Tue 3:50-7:20 Digital, , Wed 4:10-7:20 Digital, , Thu 3:50-7:20 Lawrence of Arabia (STC) Dolby Stereo, Sun 12:30 Dolby Stereo, Wed 6:30 The Man With the Iron Fists (STC) Digital, , Fri 4:05-6:45-9:20 Digital, , Sat-Mon 1:20-4:10-6:45-9:20 Digital, , Tue-Thu 4:05-6:45-9:20 The Met Opera Series Live (STC) Dolby Stereo, Sat 1:55 Paranormal Activity 4 (14) Digital, , Fri 9:05 Digital, , Sat-Mon 3:05-9:05 Digital, , Tue-Wed 9:05 Digital, , Thu 3:10-10:20 Pitch Perfect (PG) Digital, , Fri 4-6:40-9:25 Digital, , Sat 12:20-3:106:40-9:25 Digital, , Sun 6:40-9:25 Digital, , Mon 12:20-3:10-6:40-9:25
Digital, , Tue 4-6:40-9:25 Digital, , Wed 3:25 Digital, , Thu 3:25-9:25 Silent Hill: Revelation (18) Dolby Stereo, Fri 9:40 Dolby Stereo, Sat-Mon 3:50-9:40 Dolby Stereo, Tue-Thu 9:40 Skyfall (14) Digital, , No Passes, Fri 3:30-6:50-10:15 Dolby Stereo, No Passes, , Digital Fri 4:20-6:209:45 Digital, , No Passes, Sat-Mon 12:05-3:30-6:50-10:15 Dolby Stereo, No Passes, , Digital Sat-Mon 12:354-6:20-9:45 Digital, , No Passes, Tue-Thu 3:30-6:50-10:15 Dolby Stereo, No Passes, , Digital Tue-Thu 4:20-6:20-9:45 Taken 2 (14) Digital, , Fri 4:25-7:159:45 Digital, , Sat 7:15-9:45 Digital, , Sun-Mon 1:30-4:10-7:15-9:45 Digital, , Tue-Wed 4:25-7:15-9:45 Digital, , Thu 4:10-9:45 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (STC) Digital, Dolby Stereo, No Passes, Thu 10-10:15 Wreck-It Ralph (STC) Dolby Stereo, Sat-Mon 12:50 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (STC) Digital, , Fri 3:20-6:30-9:15 Digital, , Sat-Mon 3:45-6:30-9:15 Digital, , Tue-Thu 3:20-6:30-9:15
Truro Truro 20 Treaty Trail, Millbrook 902-895-8020
Cloud Atlas (14) Digital, , Fri 8 Digital, , Sat-Mon 2:30-8 Digital, , Tue-Thu 8 Flight (STC) Digital, , Fri 6:30-9:35 Digital, , Sat-Mon 2:35-6:30-9:35 Digital, , Tue-Wed 6:30-9:35 Digital, , Thu 6:35-9:35 Fun Size (STC) Digital, , Sat-Mon 2:50 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Digital, , Fri 6:50 Digital, , Sat-Mon 2:55-6:50 Digital, , Tue-Thu 6:50 Hotel Transylvania 3D (G) , Fri 7-9:15 , Sat-Mon 3-7-9:15 , Tue-Wed 7-9:15 , Thu 6:55-9:15 Paranormal Activity 4 (14) Digital, , Fri-Wed 6:55-9:05 Silent Hill: Revelation (18) Digital, , Fri-Thu 9:25 Skyfall (14) No Passes, , Digital, Fri 6:40-9:50 No Passes, , Digital, Sat-Mon 2:45-6:40-9:50 No Passes, , Digital, Tue-Wed 6:40-9:50 Digital, , No Passes, Thu 6:40-9:50 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (STC) , , Digital Thu 10 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (STC) , Fri 6:45-9:20 , Sat-Mon 2:40-6:45-9:20 , Tue-Thu 6:45-9:20
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Alex Cross (14) Fri-Sun 9:10 Tue 9:10 Thu 9:10 Argo (14) Fri 6:40-9:35 Sat-Sun 3:056:40-9:35 Mon 3:05-7:30 Tue 6:40-9:35 Wed 7:30 Thu 6:40-9:30 Cloud Atlas (14) Fri 7:15 Sat-Mon 3:15-7:15 Tue-Thu 7:15 Fun Size (STC) Sat-Mon 2:35 Here Comes the Boom (PG) Fri 6:45 Sat 3-6:45 Sun 6:45 Mon 3-7:40 Tue 6:45 Thu 6:45 Hotel Transylvania (G) Fri 9:30 SatSun 2:55-9:30 Mon 2:55 Tue 9:30 Hotel Transylvania 3D (G) Fri-Sun 7 Mon 7:05 Tue 7 Wed 7:05 Lawrence of Arabia 50th Anniversary Event: Digitally Restored (STC) Sun 12:30 Wed 6:30 Paranormal Activity 4 (14) Fri-Sun 7:05-9:15 Mon 7:20 Tue 7:05-9:15 Wed 7:20 Thu 7:05-9:15 Skyfall (14) Fri 6:30-9:20 Sat-Sun 2:306:30-9:20 Mon 2:30-6:30 Tue 6:30-9:20 Wed 6:30 Thu 6:35-9:40 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (STC) Thu 10 Wreck-It Ralph (STC) Sat-Mon 2:45 Wreck-It Ralph 3D (STC) Fri-Sun 6:55-9:25 Mon 7 Tue 6:55-9:25 Wed 7 Thu 6:55-9:25
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It took Calvin Harris 18 months to ‘make music and have fun again’ New album. Scottish DJ talks about how he walked away from band life Aleksandra Sagan Metro World News
Calvin Harris had one concept in mind when working on 18 months — his latest album, which debuted in the second spot on iTunes in Canada last week — to focus on other singers’ voices. “I just wanted to take the pressure off being a singer and a band guy, which wasn’t working out for me at all,” the
Scottish DJ said while sitting on a couch in his room in a posh Toronto hotel. “I just wanted to make music and have fun again.” After a gig in 2010, Harris said he told his band mates that he never wanted to sing or perform with a band again and that he was going to be making some changes.
Instead, inspired by other dance music, he started working on songs for 18 months. The album is named after the length of time it took to produce the tracks, he said of the obscure title. He wrote the song Bounce and asked singer Kelis to perform the vocals. “I’m still indebted to her
for doing that,” he said, adding that Kelis was reluctant because she thought it was a weird song. Kelis’ vocals on the song let other artists know he was interested in collaborations. Eventually, 18 months became a labour of many voices, including Rihanna, Ellie Goulding and Dizzee Ras-
cal. We Found Love — his mix with R&B sensation Rihanna — became an instant hit. It topped music charts in 16 countries, including Canada. Still, Harris said he is happy he stuck with his roots, since most of the featured artists on his album are from the U.K.
Untangling the Webb of a musician Songwriter. Jimmy Webb has been the man behind numerous hits for well over a generation Jonathan Donaldson
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Although he’s not extremely famous, songwriter Jimmy Webb is widely considered to be one of the greatest songwriters of the rock-era.
That’s because unlike Lennon/McCartney, Smokey Robinson, or even Carole King, Webb was a pure songwriter whose greatest moments came at the hands of others. But whether it was Sinatra performing Didn’t We, the 5th Dimension doing the delectably light Up, Up and Away or Glen Campbell’s own poignant readings of Wichita Lineman and By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Jimmy Webb’s uncanny knack for marrying lyric to melody always shines through.
This week, the MFA features two performances from Webb in their Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lecture series, featuring not only the singer and his piano, but also anecdotes and Q&A. He’s now in his mid-60s and still active on the recording scene: 2010’s Just Across the River features careerspanning remakes with vocalists from Lucinda Williams to Jackson Browne and Volume 2 is on its way. Webb now finds himself in the unique position of be-
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“I try to make people laugh and let them see that.” Jimmy Webb On his performance style
ing a professor emeritus on the art of songwriting. He is the chairman of the National Songwriter’s Hall of Fame, sits on the ASCAP Board of Directors and his
1999 book Tunesmith is still critically regarded as the best book on songwriting. “I don’t do stand-up, but I do sit-down, because I am at the piano,” says Webb on his own performance style, which he has worked hard to continually improve over the years. “I try to make people laugh and let them see that, as horrible as the prospect is of exposing one’s self as completely as songwriters do, that there is a funny side to it as well!”
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Calvin Harris walked away from being a band musician and stepped into the role of DJ. handout
Theatre might be Evil, but Palmer’s seeing a halo on Kickstarter New album. Amanda Palmer receives 1.2 million pre-orders for her latest effort before even releasing a song Linda Laban
Metro World News
A compliment makes a gal feel like a million bucks, and there’s no greater compliment than, well, a million bucks, which is what Amanda
Palmer received via her fanfueled Kickstarter fundraiser for her new album, Theatre is Evil. “I got $1.2 million in preorders,” corrects Palmer. She’s speaking from New York, where she’s rehearsing with her band. “It doesn’t mean I have a million dollars. It does mean that business is good.” There’s no denying the validation when fans shell out before hearing a single note of music, though. “It’s a big symbolic gesture on the part of my fans that
tells me they have an enormous amount of faith in me. But this is the relationship I have developed ... which isn’t about music. It’s about art and love and creating a community. The music is a bit of a red herring.” Palmer catches herself and laughs at her last statement. “Well, if I weren’t a performer, none of this would be happening,” she adds. “I’m not interested in having fans and admirers. I don’t want to be a pop star. I’m among those artists who use art and music to connect.”
Theatre is Evil
For Amanda Palmer, calling an album Theatre Is Evil is like Snoop calling a project I Don’t Like Marijuana. • Quote. “I do love theatre, the title is highly ironic,” says Palmer. “But I struggle with the current manifestation of the theatre world. It’s dying a strange death and hopefully experiencing a rebirth.” Amanda Palmer has built a solid relationship with her fans. Shervin Lainez
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Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. all getty images John Travolta
Pattinson and Stewart ‘live together again’ While the reunion between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson hasn’t become official yet, the Twilight costars are practically living together again, according to Us Weekly. Sources say
Travolta defended by long-time friend Alley
Pattinson has been spending his nights lately at Stewart’s new $2 million home despite his own being nearby. “They basically live together again,” a source says.
Cyrus: I’m only having one marriage (and one divorce) Taylor Swift
Why do Taylor’s relationships fail? Ask her friends Taylor Swift’s troubled love life is legendary — and the inspiration for many a hit song for the singer. But to hear her friends tell it, Swift herself is to blame for the fact that none of her relationships last. “All Taylor wants is to be loved,” a
source close to the singer tells Us Weekly. “She’s a prisoner of her work. It takes up all of her time. She overworks relationships. She puts so much pressure on them, it ultimately kills the deal. Then she’s baffled as to why it didn’t work.”
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Miley Cyrus went on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to clear up a few things regarding that whole “I’m having three marriages” rumour (apparently spread by father Billy Ray) that’s been going around. “There is some rumour going around that I’m having, like, 47 weddings. I’m not,” Miley told Ellen on Thursday. “I’m having one
wedding. That’s my day and whatever I want on that day will be about me and that moment.” But that doesn’t mean the wedding will be anytime soon, as the 19-yearold is working on her career. “I’m so focused on my record. … I kind of don’t want to be in between touring and trying to plan all that, because I didn’t really realize until I got a wedding planning book what you have to decide on,” she said. “Like, I don’t care what colour the napkins are, to be honest. I really don’t care.” Smart girl: Hosting three weddings sounds like a logistical nightmare. Does that mean guests have to give her three presents? Do they have to do the Electric Slide three times? And does it mean she would (inevitably) have to have three divorces?
John Travolta has been fending off a lot of accusations about his sexuality lately, with several male masseurs suing the star for sexual harassment and assault this year, but he has at least one ally in his corner — longtime friend Kirstie Alley. “I know John with all my heart and soul, and he’s not gay,” the actress tells
Barbara Walters in an interview, calling Travolta the “greatest love of my life.” Alley has her own theories for the persistent speculation about Travolta’s sexuality. “I think in Hollywood, if someone gets famous enough, and they’re not out doing drugs and womanizing, what do you say about them?”
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Light side of Aussie wine LIQUID ASSETS
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If there’s one thing I learned from visiting a gazillion wineries across Australia in record time is that there’s more to Down Under than red wines. While they’ve become synonymous with the dark, spicy goodness that is shiraz; the thick, meaty fruit of Cabernet Sauvignon; and more recently, plump, fruit-forward pinot noir, the Aussies make darn fine white wines too. I think it was me who said that you really have to wrap your lips around reds before you can fully appreciate whites. Oz’s New World climate is a perfect home for the development of white wines with rich, flowing personalities that, more often than not, massage unique flavour profiles from familiar fruit. Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc and riesling are the big three whites in Australia — with pinot grigio making some major in-roads, as is the lesser know viognier. Yet another expat French varietal from the Rhone Valley, viognier’s plush, white pepper character and lightly tropical style is well represented in Yalumba’s 2011 Y Series Viognier ($15.99 to $17.99) from South Australia. It’s a great wine to pair with a wide variety of cheeses, along with grand roast poultry dinners, and Thai and Asian cuisine. PRICES REFLECT THE RANGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. SOME PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE IN ALL PROVINCES.
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Add colours and textures to your table Asian Beef with Crisp Vegetables. Stir-fry is a tasty and easy way to serve up protein, vegetables and grains on one plate ROSE REISMAN for more, visit rosereisman.com
Beef stir-fry is an all-time favourite for the family, especially the kids. It’s the one way I make sure my kids are getting their protein, vegetables and grains. Be sure not to overcook the vegetables. Use the best quality steak, such as rib eye, sirloin, filet or New York. You can serve this over rice or rice noodles. The colours and textures of this dish give it great eye appeal.
1. Sauce: Whisk stock, brown Ingredients • 3/4 cup beef (or chicken) stock • 1/4 cup packed brown sugar • 2 tbsp low-sodium soy sauce • 2 tbsp rice vinegar • 2 tsp sesame oil • 1 tbsp cornstarch • 2 tsp finely chopped garlic • 1 1/2 tsp finely chopped ginger • 12 oz boneless grilling steak • 2 tsp vegetable oil • 1 1/2 cups chopped broccoli • 1 1/2 cups thinly sliced red bell pepper • 1 1/2 cups snow peas • 1/4 cup chopped cilantro or parsley • 1/4 cup chopped green onions • 2 tbsp chopped toasted cashews (optional)
This recipe serves four. RYAN SZULC, FROM ROSE REISMAN’S FAMILY FAVORITES (WHITECAP BOOKS)
sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, sesame oil, cornstarch, garlic and ginger in a bowl. Set aside.
2. Lightly coat a large, nonstick
skillet with cooking spray and place over high heat. When the skillet is hot, brown the beef for 3 minutes, or until it’s browned but still rare. Remove from the
pan, let rest for 5 minutes, then slice thinly.
3.
Respray the pan. Heat the vegetable oil, then add the broccoli, red pepper and snow peas. Cook for 3 minutes. Return the beef to the pan. Stir the sauce and add to the pan. Stir-fry for 2 minutes or until the sauce is
thickened and bubbly and the beef is done to your liking. Be careful not to overcook.
4.
Place on a serving platter and garnish with cilantro or parsley, green onions and cashews (if using). ROSE REISMAN’S FAMILY FAVORITES (WHITECAP BOOKS) BY ROSE REISMAN
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Caramel Apple Pie. A modern take on tradition
Marzipan carrots complete Carrot & Chocolate Cupcakes 1. In bow, using electric hand
mixer, beat butter with all but 15 ml (1 tbsp) of brown sugar until fluffy. Add egg yolks, vanilla and almond extract; beat again. Stir in carrots. Set aside.
2. In separate bowl, sift flour,
cocoa powder, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and nutmeg. Fold into butter mixture, alternating with buttermilk, making 3 additions of flour mixture and 2 of buttermilk. Fold in chocolate chips.
3.
In a third bowl, beat egg whites until frothy. Beat in remaining 15 ml (1 tbsp) brown sugar until stiff. Gently fold into batter until just blended.
4. Divide among 12 paper-lined muffin cups. Bake in a 190 C
1. In a large, deep skillet over
(375 F) oven 25 minutes or until tops are springy to the touch. Let cool completely on rack.
5. Icing: In a bowl, beat butter,
icing sugar and cocoa powder for 1 minute or until fluffy and smooth. Beat in buttermilk and vanilla until smooth. Spread over cooled cupcakes.
6. Decoration: Knead marzipan
medium-high heat, toss the apple slices with the vinegar. Cook until the apples are tender, about 10 minutes.
to soften. Tint with food colouring by combining one part red food colouring to two parts yellow to make orange. Form into 12 small carrot shapes. Roll edge of small knife around each carrot, making light indentations. Make hole in top of each carrot with toothpick; press carrot greens (leaf) into hole. The
2.
Transfer the apples and any juices in the pan to a large bowl. Set aside.
3.
Return the skillet to the heat. Add the caramel candies, half-and-half, apple pie spice and salt. Heat, stirring constantly, until melted and smooth.
Canadian Press/ Foodland Ontario
Ingredients
4.
Pour the caramel mixture over the apples and stir until well coated. Spoon the applecaramel mixture into the graham cracker crust.
• 125 ml (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature • 250 ml (1 cup) brown sugar • 3 eggs, separated • 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) almond extract • 250 ml (1 cup) coarsely grated carrots • 375 ml (1 1/2 cups) allpurpose flour • 125 ml (1/2 cup) cocoa powder • 7 ml (1 1/2 tsp) cinnamon • 5 ml (1 tsp) baking soda • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) baking powder • 1 ml (1/4 tsp) nutmeg • 250 ml (1 cup) buttermilk • 75 ml (1/3 cup) semisweet chocolate chips Icing • 125 ml (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, room temperature • 250 ml (1 cup) icing sugar • 150 ml (2/3 cup) cocoa powder • 50 ml (1/4 cup) buttermilk • 5 ml (1 tsp) vanilla Decoration • Half pkg (227-g/8-oz pkg) marzipan • Red, yellow food colouring
5.
Sprinkle the top with the cookies, peanuts and chocolate chips. Serve immediately. The Associated Press
Ingredients • 6 baking apples (such as Fuji or Gala), peeled, cored, sliced • 1 tbsp cider vinegar • 14-oz package caramel candies, unwrapped • 1/2 cup half-and-half • 1 tsp apple pie spice • Pinch salt • 9-inch prepared graham cracker crust • 1/2 cup crumbled shortbread cookies • 1/4 cup chopped toasted peanuts • 1/4 cup mini chocolate chips
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1. In saucepan, melt 15 ml (1 tbsp) of butter. Whisk in flour and salt. Gradually whisk in milk until smooth. Bring mix to simmer over medium heat, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened. Remove from heat. Add 300 ml (1 1/4 cups) Ingredients • 45 ml (3 tbsp) butter or margarine, divided • 22 ml (1 1/2 tbsp) all-purpose flour • 2 ml (1/2 tsp) salt • 300 ml (1 1/4 cups) milk • 425 ml (1 3/4 cups) shredded cheddar cheese, divided • 75 ml (1/3 cup) finely chopped onion • 250 ml (1 cup) sliced mushrooms • 12 eggs
of cheese, stirring until melted. Set aside.
2. In frying pan, melt remain-
ing 30 ml (2 tbsp) butter. Add mushrooms and onion; sauté until tender.
3.
Whisk eggs. Add eggs to mushroom-onion mixture. Cook until eggs are just set but still a little wet. Stir cheese sauce into egg mix. Spoon mix into a greased 23-cm (9-inch) square baking pan or 2.5-l casserole. Sprinkle remaining 125 ml (1/2 cup) cheese over top. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
4. The next morning, uncover and bake in a 180 C (350 F) oven until heated through and cheese is melted, 20 to 25 minutes. The Canadian Press/ Egg Farmers of Ontario
This recipe makes 12 cupcakes.
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Herb-crusted sweet potatoes. A satisfying and unique crunch
1. Heat the oven to 350 F. Coat
a large casserole dish or a 9-by13-inch baking pan with cooking spray.
2. Place the potatoes in a large
saucepan and add enough water to cover by 1 inch. Add 2 teaspoons of salt and bring to a boil. Cook until firm-tender, 12 to 15 minutes. Drain the potatoes, then spread them in an even layer in the prepared casserole dish or baking pan.
3.
In a small bowl, combine 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon black pepper, the panko, thyme, rosemary and sage. Sprinkle over the sweet pota-
toes. Drizzle the melted butter over the crumbs and bake for 30 minutes, or until golden brown and tender.
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Give boring squash new life with a spicy peanut coating The trouble with butternut squash is that we tend to be pretty unimaginative in how we prepare it. As such, the results often are fairly lacklustre. Most people just steam and mash it, giving it the appearance of mashed potatoes. Others go for roasting. Here is a recipe that effortlessly delivers tons of flavour and a nice presentation without a ton of effort. To get those results, turn to a relatively new ingredient — powdered peanut butter. It appeared on the market several years ago, but only now is getting any attention. It is exactly
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Ingredients • 4 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices • Salt and ground black pepper • 1 cup panko breadcrumbs • 1 tbsp chopped fresh thyme • 1 tbsp chopped rosemary • 1 tbsp chopped fresh sage • 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter, melted
Ingredients • 5 lb butternut squash, peeled and seeded • 1/4 cup olive oil • 1/2 cup powdered peanut butter • 1 tbsp garlic powder • 2 tsp smoked paprika • 1 tsp chili powder • 1 tsp ground cumin • 1 tsp kosher salt • 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
as it sounds — peanut butter that has had nearly all of the fat extracted. The resulting fine powder has deep, rich peanut flavour, but can be used in ways conventional peanut butter cannot, such as in dry spice rubs. Mixed with a handful of seasonings, the powdered peanut butter creates a rich flavouring that works well with the natural sweetness of the squash. To find powdered peanut butter, check the natural foods aisle at the grocery store. If you strike out, get online. It’s widely available from web retailers.
1. Heat oven to 350 F. Coat 2 rimmed baking sheets with cooking spray.
2.
Cut peeled and seeded squash into bite-size pieces, then place in large bowl. Drizzle squash with olive oil, then toss to coat evenly. Set aside.
3. In a small bowl, mix togeth-
er the powdered peanut butter, garlic powder, smoked paprika, chili powder, cumin, salt and pepper. While using a silicone spatula to toss the
This recipe serves eight. matthew mead/ the associated press
squash, sprinkle the seasoning mixture over it, continuing to toss until all of the squash is well coated.
4. Transfer the squash to the prepared baking sheets, using the spatula to scrape the oil
and seasonings from the bowl. Arrange the squash in an even layer, then roast for 25 minutes. Use a spatula to flip the squash, then roast for another 20 minutes, or until lightly browned and tender. the Associated Pres
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Have a few gaps in your schedule you’re looking to fill? Whether you’re hoping to dance, drink or just relax, check out these hot upcoming events.
This weekend: Jian Ghomeshi Be still my nerdy, beating heart. Awardwinning broadcaster, writer, musician and producer Jian Ghomeshi is coming to Halifax this weekend in support of his debut book, 1982. Finally taking his talent on air to page, Ghomeshi recounts the events of a standout period in his life. With a book signing to follow, Ghomeshi takes to the Spatz Theatre, Saturday at 8 p.m. so don’t miss a chance to listen to one of the best interviewers of our time. Visit sonicconcerts.com.
Anaal Nathrakh Morbid Entertainment & Red Tentacle present Anaal Nathrakh Friday night at Gus’ Pub. Hallmarked by breathtaking musical ferocity, inventiveness and breadth, married with a mercurial, intensely misanthropic and sharp intelligence, Anaal Nathrakh’s sound is imbued with a palpable sense of menace that is virtually unmatched in metal. Come breathe in the soundtrack for armageddon, the audial essence of evil, hatred and violence and the true spirit of necro taken to its musical extremes. Doors open at 9:30 p.m. Visit exitnow.com.
NHL Legends of Toronto
Flavours of Nova Scotia
I. Miss. Hockey. So much so that I’m willing to promote an event that involves Toronto Maple Leafs alumni. Sure, it happens on Monday, but anything that promotes professional hockey is worth a shout out. In support of Children’s Wish Foundation, NHL Legends of Toronto are coming to the Halifax Forum including Gary Leeman, Al Iafrate and Bill Derlago. Ticket packages go up to $80, but include a reception and a chance to duck into the dressing room during intermission. Visit ECDevents.com.
A unique opportunity to improve and maximize our local economy by bringing in local products, Flavours showcases the wide variety of what the people in our region can offer, like organic cheese, free-range chickens, freshly picked apples, locally brewed ales and top wines. While you enjoy the local scores, you can experience the wonderful entertainment, including events such as a bartending showcase, chef’s demonstrations and great music. Visit flavoursofnovascotia.ca.
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On stage: Buddy Wasisamie and the Other Fellers
Open now: Tempo Food and Drink
Who put what in the where now? Buddy Wasisamie and the Other Fellers bring true Newfoundland sound to the Rebecca Cohn stage Friday and Saturday night. These guys change their stage show for every major tour to keep it fresh as fish just pulled from the ocean. A guaranteed fun family show for young and old, from the mainland or those from the rock. Relax, sit back and enjoy some good ol’ music! Visit artscentre.dal.ca.
Tempo, the newest addition to Delta Barrington, is a multidimensional restaurant that caters to a broad scope of patrons — from the busy downtown professional to the young, hip and trendy who are looking for a quick, creative, and affordable meal in a comfortable and contemporary setting. Unlike other downtown dining options, Tempo is an ideal choice for an upbeat downtown dining experience.
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Mooseheads wary of the jinx
Mooseheads forward Nathan MacKinnon JEFF HARPER/METRO
Huskies looking to fell Axemen in AUS final Loney Bowl. Run game, defence will be key for Saint Mary’s in championship game against Acadia MATTHEW WUEST
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The Saint Mary’s Huskies offence has been lighting up the scoreboard the past two weeks. But doing it against the Acadia Axemen with an Atlantic University Sport football title on the line will be a whole different story. The Huskies, who have put up 98 points over the past two weeks in wins over the St. Francis Xavier X-Men and Mount Allison Mounties, are hoping to keep the good times rolling in the Loney Bowl against the Axemen on Saturday at 1 p.m. in Wolfville. But getting it done against Acadia has been a struggle to date. The Axemen have won all three head-to-head meetings this season while limiting the Huskies to just two offensive touchdowns. “If we want to win, we have to score,” said Huskies receiver Kevin Wuthrich, who has four touchdown catches in the past two games. “We’ve moved the ball OK on them, but you’re looking to do more and create more points, more first downs and increase time of possession,” added Huskies head coach Perry Marchese. Quarterback Jean Legault has done a good job “managing the game” the past two weeks, according to Marchese, but the Huskies have a run-first game plan for Saturday.
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Melvin Abankwah, an AUS all-star, and Michael Dawes have combined for 1,216 yards on the ground this season while the Huskies have averaged 261.5 rushing yards over the past seven weeks. “I don’t think it’s gonna surprise anyone that we’re gonna come out running the football,” Marchese said. The Huskies got some bad news on Thursday night when they found out two of their brightest stars won’t be able to play on Saturday because of injuries. Receiver/returner Jahmeek Taylor (leg) and defensive end Rob Jubenville (neck) will both be on the sidelines for what could be the last game of their fiveyear careers. Jubenville’s absence is a big blow to the Huskies’
defence, which has allowed the fewest points in the conference this season and has made all three games against the Axemen close. Two of the three losses were decided by single-digit margins. Acadia has been led all year by a devastating aerial attack, with quarterback Kyle Graves finishing with an AUS-leading 2,012 yards and 14 touchdowns and receivers Tyler Renaud and Mike Squires finishing 1-2 in receiving yards and touchdowns. “It’s not a hard game to figure out what’s gonna happen,” Marchese said. “We’re gonna run the ball on offence and they’re gonna try to stop it. They’ll throw the ball on offence and we’re gonna do our best to stop it. It should be an epic battle.”
AUS Awards •
Lineman of the Year. Rob Jubenville of Saint Mary’s led the AUS in sacks, forced fumbles and tackles for losses.
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SMU’s offensive lineman Matt Albright won the Student-Athlete Community Service Award while linebacker Joe Taplin won Volunteer of the Year.
Rob Jubenville
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Nationally televised games haven’t been kind to the Halifax Mooseheads this year, but they’re hoping they’ll put those struggles in the past on Friday night. The Mooseheads, who lost their first game since September on Sunday to the Rimouski Oceanic, visit the Gatineau Olympiques on Friday at 8 p.m. in a game televised on Sportsnet. They’ve been on Sportsnet twice in 2012, losing 7-4 to the Chicoutimi Sagueneens on Jan. 13 at the Metro Centre and getting embarrassed 9-0 by the Rimouski Oceanic on April 27 in last year’s QMJHL semifinals. “There are distractions, there’s excitement, but it’s not our first time playing a game on (national) TV now,” said Mooseheads general manager Cam Russell. “The butterflies should be over. It’s time to get back to business and play it like it’s any other game.” The first-place Mooseheads, 16-1-0-1, were looking for their franchiserecord-tying 15th straight win on Sunday before surrendering a 5-1 lead and losing 6-5 in a shootout. The Olympiques are the only team that has beaten the Mooseheads in regulation this season, hammering them 6-1 at the Metro Centre on Sept. 28. The Mooseheads wrap up a four-game, 10-day road trip on Saturday at 5 p.m. against the Victoriaville Tigres. MATTHEW WUEST/METRO
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Newcomer Smith says ‘trust’ the key to success NBL Canada Year 2. Former Lightning guard joins a team with heavy turnover
Home openers • The Rainmen play their
first games at home this season on Saturday and Sunday.
• They host Saint John Mill
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Rats on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Moncton Miracles on Sunday at 2 p.m.
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Eddie Smith knows a thing or two about winning championships. The new Halifax Rainmen guard has won four titles in the past five years in three different leagues and is one of the most proven big-game players in all of minor-professional basketball. Winning, to Smith, boils down to much more than highscoring all-stars and X’s and O’s. “It takes continuity. It takes team chemistry. It takes trust,” he said. “It’s hard to build trust if it’s a revolving door (of players). You’ve got to have an anchor, a nucleus to grow from.” Smith won his championships with the Lawton-Fort Sill Cavalry in the Continental Basketball Association and the Premier Basketball League as well as last season with the National Basketball League of Canada’s London Lightning. Those teams dominated with a core of a half-dozen play-
Eddie Smith dribbles up the court during a Rainmen pre-season game. Jeff Harper/Metro
ers that stayed together a while. Smith, seeking a change of scenery after leading the Lightning past the Rainmen in last season’s NBL Canada final, arrived in Halifax and joined a team with heavy turnover. The Rainmen have just two returning players — guard Joey Haywood and forward Darnell
Hugee — and are coming off a season that saw them put 23 players in uniform, a franchise record. The 29-year-old Smith — Halifax’s oldest and most experienced player — said it’s too early to say whether the Rainmen can build the chemistry and trust required to win
a championship. “You can only do your job, come to work, and if the meshing happens, it will happen,” Smith said. “You can’t force that issue.” If the Rainmen do win the first championship in franchise history, Smith will play a big role. He was sixth in NBL Can-
ada scoring last season with 17.2 points per game and has a reputation for hitting difficult shots in big moments. “I’ve always been a gamer,” said the Springfield, Ill., native. “I just always have a will to win. Those shots are like regular shots to me. I feel like I’m going to hit them 100 per cent of the time.” Smith hasn’t exactly endeared himself with fans at the Metro Centre over the years, but now he’s wearing a Rainmen jersey, he said the city has given him a warm welcome. “I put a lot of daggers in this team,” he said. “But most of the fans that do remember me say, ‘I’m glad you’re playing for us, not against us.’” Smith said he expects a few “heartaches” and “speedbumps” along the way with a young team, but ultimately, he’s here to win — again.
Thursday’s game
Halifax pulls out first win despite poor shooting The Halifax Rainmen are winless no more. The Rainmen posted an 87-83 victory over the host Moncton Miracles in National Basketball League of Canada action on Thursday night to avoid an 0-3 start to the season. Halifax dropped its first two games of the season last weekend in Ontario, first 111-105 to the Windsor Express, then 107-89 to the defending league-champion London Lightning. Shooting guard Brandon Robinson led the way for Halifax, netting 22 points and hauling down eight boards. Three other Rainmen finished in double figures for scoring. Joey Haywood had 21 points, Josiah Turner 11 and Hillary Haley 10. Overall, Halifax finished a dismal 25 per cent from the field on 24 of 95 shooting. They held a 35-34 advantage at the break. Former Rainmen Tyrone Levett had 23 points and seven rebounds to lead Moncton, which opened its season with a 99-83 win over the Montreal Jazz on Sunday at the Moncton Coliseum. Metro
Meet the Rainmen 2012-13 roster 12 Darren Duncan
28 Hillary Haley
04 Joey Haywood
01 Darnell Hugee
02 Paul Nelson
21 Quincy Okolie
Position: Point guard Measurements: 5-11/165 Hometown: Long Island, N.Y.
Position: Small forward Measurements: 6-7/210 Hometown: Fort Washington, Md.
Position: Shooting guard Measurements: 6-1/175 Hometown: Vancouver
Position: Power forward Measurements: 6-7/225 Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Position: Centre Measurements: 6-11/250 Hometown: Ridgewood, N.J.
Position: Power forward Measurements: 6-8/225 Hometown: Palm Beach, Fla.
05 Brandon Robinson
06 Tyler Richards
08 Eddie Smith
23 Joel Smith
32 Antoine Tisby
03 Josiah Turner
Position: Shooting guard Measurements: 6-5/185 Hometown: Lake Wales, Fla.
Position: Shooting guard Measurements: 6-2/175 Hometown: Halifax
Position: Shooting guard Measurements: 6-3/190 Hometown: Springfield, Ill.
Position: Small forward Measurements: 6-4/210 Hometown: Lompac, Calif.
Position: Centre/Forward Measurements: 6-8/238 Hometown: Kansas City
Position: Point guard Measurements: 6-3/190 Hometown: Sacramento, Calif.
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How hockey assists are helping turn up the Heat Roundball revolution. Canada’s pastime has helped rev up offence of defending champs
Luck strikes twice on ground Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck celebrates his touchdown run against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Thursday, in Jacksonville, Fla. The rookie QB rushed for two TDs as the Colts beat the Jaguars 27-10. Mike Groll/The Associated Press
There’s nary a pair of skates visible in the Miami Heat locker-room, no bucket of pucks in the practice facility and no Zamboni following the team around, either. Still, there’s at least one hockey principle that’s in the mind of the reigning NBA champions so far this season. With emphasis on ball movement, the Heat are currently into what’s known as “hockey assists” — essentially, the pass that sets up the pass that sets up the score. It’s not an NBA statistic, but Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is working it into his team’s rep-
Blue Jays sign infielder Izturis to 3-year deal The Toronto Blue Jays signed infielder Maicer Izturis to a $10-million US, three-year deal Thursday and acquired righthanded reliever Jeremy Jeffress from the Kansas City Royals for cash considerations. Izturis, a 32-year-old native of Barquisimeto, Venezuela, appeared in 100 games for the Los Angeles Angels last season. He posted a .256 average with two home runs, 20 RBIs and 17 stolen bases in 19 attempts. The Blue Jays said the deal
Making room
The Jays also designated left-hander Scott Maine for assignment to make room on the 40-man roster.
was for $3 million annually. The contract includes a $3-million team option for the 2016 season with a $1-million buyout. Izturis spent eight years
with the Angels after breaking into the majors in 2004 with the Montreal Expos. In 791 career games, the five-foot-eight, 175-pound switch-hitter has a .273 average and a .337 on-base percentage. Jeffress, a 25-year-old native of South Boston, Va., did not record a decision in 13 relief appearances for the Royals last season. He allowed 19 hits over 13 1/3 innings and posted a 6.75 earned-run average. the canadian press
ertoire regardless. “If anything, it’s a compliment to the game of hockey,” Heat centre Joel Anthony said. “We’re recognizing the different types of ways they reward players for making the extra pass. Hockey acknowledges it a lot more. There’s no stat for it in basketball, but we still acknowledge that.” Anthony would seem to be the resident Miami expert in this field. After all, he hails from Montreal. “That extra pass, it means a lot for us,” Anthony said. Miami’s ball movement this season is beyond statistically impressive. In their four wins so far, the Heat have 109 assists against only 43 turnovers. Even with their lone loss taken into account, the Heat assist-toturnover ratio of 1.98-to-1 led
Heat players, from left, Chris Bosh, LeBron James, Ray Allen and Dwyane Wade enjoy a laugh during a pre-season game against the Hawks on Oct. 7 in Atlanta. Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images file
the NBA entering Thursday’s games. As a team, Miami reached the 25-assist mark only 12 times in 66 regular-season games last season. This year, the Heat have
gotten there four times in five games. “It’s all about getting somebody the better shot,” Dwyane Wade said. The Associated Press
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Breaking down semifinal Sunday CFL Extra Points
Dan Toth halifax@metronews.ca
East semifinal Edmonton (7-11) at Toronto (9-9), Sunday, 2 p.m. (TSN) Backroom intrigue is the last thing the Edmonton Eskimos need right now, but they stirred it up with the firing of GM Eric Tillman earlier this week. Rumours persist that Tillman is now destined for Toronto and a similar role with the Argos, triggering all kinds of denials from Hogtown, where Tillman traded Esks star quarterback Ricky Ray last offseason. The swap not only
The Eskimos travel to Toronto and the Roughriders visit the Stampeders as the CFL’s second season gets underway this weekend. Photos by The Canadian Press/Torstar News Service
created controversy in Edmonton but a huge credibility gap for the league should Tillman be reunited with Ray in T.O. Since the crossover format’s introduction in 1996, it is just the seventh time a team has headed to the other division for a CFL semifinal, and history is not on Edmonton’s side. Only B.C. in 2009 advanced to the East Division final. This Sunday’s semifinal favours the Argos not only for Ray’s presence at the helm, but East Division most outstanding player candidate Chad Owens will likely make an impact on special teams and offence. To succeed, Edmonton will need a dominant performance from Fred Stamps, who recovered from an early season slump to finish second among CFL receivers.
Season series: The Esks beat the Argos both times the teams met in 2012, but much has changed since those encounters. Not only has Ray returned to all-star form, Edmonton’s muddled QB situation has left everyone second-guessing whether they should start veteran Kerry Joseph or youngster Matt Nichols. Steven Jyles, acquired in the Ray swap, is an afterthought. Pick: Toronto by 5
West semifinal Saskatchewan (8-10) at Calgary (12-6), Sunday, 5:30 p.m. (TSN) The Calgary Stampeders are the CFL’s hottest team, but you can’t help but think they get a chill when pondering Sunday’s opponent. Despite a four-game win streak, history suggests almost anything can happen when the Roughriders visit McMahon Stadium. Since winning the 2008 Grey Cup, Calgary has lost two West finals to Saskatchewan and w a s
thumped 33-19 in the West semifinal last fall in Edmonton. The Stamps have suffered playoff losses in each of their last four post-season encounters with the Riders, dating back to 2007. Additionally, Saskatchewan minimizes Calgary’s home-field advantage more than any other team as thousands of Riders fans are expected to turn up at McMahon Stadium, as usual. The Riders locked down practice early this week, leaving media miffed and conspiracy theorists suggesting the coaching staff has cooked up something special to upset the Stamps. The biggest shock may have come days before the opening kickoff, when the Stamps chose Drew Tate
as their starting quarterback ahead of Kevin Glenn, who led the team most of the year as Tate rehabbed a shoulder injury. Season series: The Roughriders and Stampeders met three times, with Calgary taking two of three games. The Stamps won the first two, highlighted by a stunning comeback overtime win in Week 4 that handed the Riders their first loss of the year. However, the Riders claimed the final regular-season encounter. Pick: Calgary by 2.
Talks roll on in NHL labour dispute Lockout. With all regular-season games cancelled through Nov. 30, negotiations have reached a critical and delicate stage The NHL and NHL Players’ Association will meet for a fourth straight day in an attempt to salvage a shortened season. Key negotiators from the league and union, includ-
ing NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA executive director Donald Fehr, met for more than five hours Thursday and indicated talks will continue on Friday. “I don’t really have much to say,” said Bettman. “We met with the players’ association the last three days and we’re planning on meeting again tomorrow. But I’m not going to discuss the negotiations or the substance of what we’re talking about. I really don’t think that would be helpful for the process.” Fehr was similarly tight-
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lipped. “All I can say is that we discussed a wide range of topics relating to the issues
between us,” he said. “I really can’t say more than that at this point.” Little is known about exactly where talks stand. Sources told The Canadian Press that the NHL responded to a pair of union proposals on Thursday and one suggested it was a good sign the sides still planned to keep talking. On Wednesday, the NHLPA tabled new offers regarding revenue sharing and the league’s “make whole” provision, with the union suggesting a system where the players’ share in revenue
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May 22 - June 21 The right things seem to be happening at just the right time and today’s Venus-Jupiter link will certainly bring good news concerning a partnership or relationship. One-to-one relationships are under excellent stars.
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June 22 - July 23 You have never been one to put dollars and cents above other things but over the next few days you must focus more on your financial situation. Could you be earning more? Yes. Should you be spending less. Double yes.
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July 24 - Aug. 23 Your heart will rule your head today and that will lead to some seriously fun times. Friendships and social activities must come first, at least for a while. Contacts you make now will bring long-term benefits.
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Aug. 24 - Sept. 23 There are times when it all seems to come together, and this is one of them. Both at home and at work, things will fall into place with no input from you, and that’s nice. All you have to do is enjoy them.
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Sept. 24 - Oct. 23 This is potentially one of the best days of the year as your ruler Venus, currently in your sign, links with luck planet Jupiter. Make a wish and expect it to come true, because it most likely will. Go on, ask for something outrageous.
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Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 It’s time to get serious about your aims and ambitions. Something you visualize over the next few days is potentially more than just an idle daydream. Handled the right way, it could be your future – and that future is bright.
Sagittarius
Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 You may be tempted to say what you think people want to hear but that would be a mistake. The planets urge you to be honest, even if it means hurting a loved one’s feelings. They’ll thank you for it one day.
Capricorn
Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Go out of your way to be nice, even if people are not nice to you. Someone in a position of authority thinks you are ready for bigger and better things, and if your manner is positive, a promotion is likely.
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Across 1. Spanish cheer 4. Sandra Bullock drama with ‘The” 7. Sudbury prov. 10. The ---- Ones 12. Eggs 13. East Indian nanny 14. Survivor locale 15. Apiece 16. “Auntie ----“ 17. Fever 20. Bible pt. 21. Whose Line – It Anyway? 22. Actress Davis 25. Trades 29. ---- We There Yet? 30 Consume 31. Magnate 34. Say yes to the --36. Noble 37. Over achiever (abbr.) 38. In a minute (3 words) 45. Burn plant 46. Wheel of Fortune purchase (2 words) 47. Folk ---49 Aroma 50. O.J. Simpson judge 51. Mix 52. The --- Patrol 53. Computer key 54. Eye
Down 1. Sash 2. Drama starring Matthew Fox 3. Fashion magazine 4. Negative (sl.) 5. Always 6. “Gone with the Wind” plantation Yesterday’s Crossword
Jan. 21 - Feb. 19 You may or may not be on the move over the next few days but even if you stay close to home, you will certainly be looking at the world in a different way. You have never been one to follow the herd.
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How to play Fill in the grid, so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There is no math involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.
Pisces
Feb. 20 - March 20 Today’s Venus-Jupiter link will emphasize the generous side of your nature, which is rarely far from the surface. Do what you can for people in need but don’t bankrupt yourself in the process — that won’t help them or you. SALLY BROMPTON
7. Actor Sharif 8. ---- that Tune 9. ---- Young and the Restless 11. Devil 13. Humor 18. Parent/teacher assoc. 19. – the season 22. Chatter 23. Time frame 24. Ever (poet.) 26. Actor J. Cobb
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The Hyundai names, logos, product names, feature names, images and slogans are trademarks owned by Hyundai Auto Canada Corp. †Finance offers available O.A.C. from Hyundai Financial Services based on a new 2013 Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Elantra GT GL 6-Speed Manual/Accent 4-Door L 6-Speed Manual/Sonata GL Auto/Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto with an annual finance rate of 2.95%/2.95%/2.95%/0%/2.95% for 84/84/84/24/84 months. Bi-weekly payment is $96/$116/$88/$430/$165. No down payment required. Cost of Borrowing is $1,689/$2,051/$1,118/$0/$2,925. Finance offers include Delivery and Destination of $1,495/$1,495/$1,495/$1,565/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. Financing example: 2013 Sonata GL Auto for $22,314 at 0% per annum equals $430 bi-weekly for 24 months for a total obligation of $22,314. Cash price is $22,314. Cost of Borrowing is $0. Example price includes Delivery and Destination of $1,565. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. ▼Fuel consumption for 2013 Elantra Sedan L 6-Speed Manual (HWY 5.2L/100KM; City 7.1L/100KM)/2013 Elantra GT GL 6-Speed Manual (HWY 5.3L/100KM; City 7.8L/100KM)/2013 Accent GL 6-Speed Manual (HWY 5.3L/100KM; City 7.1L/100KM)/2013 Sonata GL Auto (HWY 5.6L/100KM; City 8.7L/100KM)/2013 Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto (HWY 6.7L/100KM, City 10.1L/100KM) are based on Manufacturer Testing. Actual fuel efficiency may vary based on driving conditions and the addition of certain vehicle accessories. Fuel economy figures are used for comparison purposes only. †♦Friends & Family prices for models shown: 2013 Elantra Limited/Elantra GT SE Tech 6-Speed Auto/Accent 4-Door GLS 6-Speed Auto/Sonata Limited/Santa Fe 2.0T Limited AWD is $22,944/$26,214/$19,264/$27,339/$39,009. Prices include Delivery and Destination charges of $1,495/$1,495/$1,495/$1,565/$1,760. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. ♦Friends & Family Selling Prices are calculated against the selling price less all factory to dealer price adjustments (including Friends & Family price adjustments). Friends & Family Selling Prices include Delivery and Destination. Registration, insurance, PPSA, fees, levies, charges, license fees and all applicable taxes are excluded. Delivery and destination charge includes freight, P.D.E., dealer admin fees and a full tank of gas. ‡Factory to dealer price adjustments (including Friends & Family price adjustments) are calculated against the vehicle’s starting price. Total Factory to Dealer Price adjustments of $1,750/$1,675/$425/$3,250/$1,150 available on 2013 Elantra L 6-Speed Manual/Elantra GT GL 6-Speed Manual/ Accent 4-Door L 6-Speed Manual/ Sonata GL Auto/Santa Fe 2.4L FWD Auto include all Friends and Family Price Adjustments. Factory to dealer price adjustments are applied before taxes. Offer cannot be combined or used in conjunction with any other available offers. Offer is non-transferable and cannot be assigned. No vehicle trade-in required. †♦‡Offers available for a limited time, and subject to change or cancellation without notice. See dealer for complete details. Dealer may sell for less. Inventory is limited, dealer order may be required. ▲Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). ††Hyundai’s Comprehensive Limited Warranty coverage covers most vehicle components against defects in workmanship under normal use and maintenance conditions.
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