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Rehtaeh was 17 when she took her own life in April after nearly two years of bullying following an alleged rape at a party when she was 15.

Police re-opened the investigation amid public outrage a week after Rehtaeh’s death, citing “new and credible” information.

Nova Scotia Justice Minister Ross Landry said he’s pleased the public came forward with information. “I look forward to how this all unfolds,” Landry said. “I respect ... that due process and justice will be followed.”

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“It was hard … to watch my beautiful, loving, intelligent daughter just completely shatter and fall apart right in front of my eyes.” Glen Canning, Rehtaeh Parsons’ father

Two young men are facing child pornography charges in the case of Rehtaeh Parsons, nearly two years after her parents allege the teen was gangraped at a party and a photo of the incident was shared via social media.

“A young girl … experienced the harsh nature of a world of people wanting to do harm and using social media to do it,” said Halifax Regional Police Chief Jean-Michel Blais at a news conference Thursday evening.

“We hope that today’s arrests help the community to heal,” added Halifax RCMP Chief Supt. Roland Wells.

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Open city data

A new contest in HRM? Appsolutely

There’s no app for coming up with ideas, so HRM is asking residents to give it their best shot.

The municipality has launched the first phase of the inaugural open-data app contest, Apps4Halifax.

“What this is basically doing is going out to people who have an interest in information and have suggestions as to how we could make it more useable,” said Mayor Mike Savage on Thursday.

“We’re saying to them, ‘Tell us what we can do with this.’”

The five-month-long contest will move through several phases, starting with ideas submission.

Residents are asked to submit ideas based on the municipal data released as part of HRM’s Open Data pilot project.

“I think of apps around transit, one that allows us to know where the bus is,” said Savage. “Perhaps an app that, as you’re driving into town, you could find out what parking spaces are available.”

In the next phase of the contest, local developers will be asked to create an app, using either citizen ideas or their own, using at least one data set from Open Data.

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Next century may see more wildfires: Study Smoke billows from a raging wildfire near Spryfield in May 2012.

HRM ablaze. Nearby forests can be a major risk for rural property owners, scientists say CLARK JANG

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A new study shows that the effects of climate change and expanded urban development could increase wildfire risk in the Halifax Regional Municipality over the next century.

The research, conducted

by Dalhousie University scientists, was presented before the city’s environment and sustainability standing committee on

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Thursday.

Ellen Whitman, who coauthored the report, says the research draws attention to the increasing risk of wildfires where urban development is mixed amongst forested regions, known as the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).

“If you look at your house and it transitions into a forest there, those are the communities that are at risk,” she said.

WUIs are at greater fire risk due to the presence of fuels such as decorative landscaping and a proximity to naturally occurring fire regimes.

The study shows fire weather — conditions that influence fire behaviour, ignition and suppression — will increase over the next 100 years.

Last year

• 22 – number of wildfires in Halifax county • 352 – number of wildfires in Nova Scotia • 817 – number of hectares burned by wildfires in Nova Scotia

The frequency and severity of storms, a shift in tree-species composition, and the severity and duration of insect outbreaks can all fuel an increased fire risk.

The research also states that there’s a delicate balancing act of priorities between reaping

the benefits of urban forests and preventing wildfire hazards by removing vegetation.

“If you’re in urban fringe, wildfire risk may outweigh the significance of the benefits from those trees,” said Whitman.

Even though Nova Scotia’s tendency for wildfires is relatively small compared to the rest of Canada, Whitman says the municipality needs to actively manage WUI areas.

“There’s an opportunity to make homeowners aware of how to mitigate risk and manage fuels on their property,” said Whitman. “There could be changes to zoning and building codes, but generally just to be aware of that increasing risk over time.”

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City urged to embrace the joy of giving for Parade of Lights Downtown. Business group calls for better event funding The Downtown Halifax Business Commission is hoping HRM comes through with a special Christmas present this year: Enough money to cover services for the Holiday Parade of Lights.

The parade brings thousands of people into downtown Halifax each year, but the commission, as the organizing body, must pick up the tab for city services like street closures and policing.

“It seems a little bit ridiculous that it’s so expensive,” said Paul MacKinnon, executive director of the commission, on Thursday.

Last year the commission received a $17,000 grant

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The staff report is expected to come back this fall.

from HRM, which covered all but $5,000 of the municipal costs.

“Next year, that (grant) could be cut down to 10 or five (thousand) or waived,” MacKinnon said. “We never

know year to year.”

As most businesses don’t get a big revenue boost during the parade, and sponsorship is hard to find, MacKinnon said it’s important for HRM to support the popular event.

“This is a real impediment, and do you want to do something about it?” he asked, noting smaller events like a Natal Day festival on Argyle Street have

folded because of the complications and fees.

He also said Halifax is one of only a few Canadian cities that doesn’t waive municipal costs for parades.

Coun.

Waye Mason passed a motion through HRM’s transportation standing committee Wednesday, asking staff to look into a simpler street-closure policy and using volunteers to control traffic during

events.

“You cut that (police) cost by $100,000 to $150,000....

It’s a huge deal,” Mason said.

Mason said that parades and festivals are great moments for residents to enjoy themselves and show some civic pride.

“Boy, do we need them.

So there you go, we should support them,” Mason said. haley ryan/metro

Singing her heart out Christine Campbell belts out a song as part of the Tunes at Noon concert series at Grand Parade on Thursday. Concerts will continue Wednesday to Friday at noon throughout August. jeff harper/metro

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Dartmouth. Three Fairview. Arrests men hit with drugs, made in violent weapons charges break-in, robbery Three men are facing charges after a police search turned up drugs, body armour and weapons in Dartmouth.

Officers carried out a search warrant at a home on Regal Road at 6:30 Wednesday morning and seized crack cocaine, body-armour vests, ammunition, drug paraphernalia, a knife, two

loaded firearms and stolen property.

Three people were arrested at the scene and held in custody overnight.

Robert Bass-Manette, 25, Fahad Salman Shalaan, 22, and Dhari Salman Shalaan, 22, have each been dealt multiple weapons and drugs charges. metro

Halifax Regional Police have two men in custody after a violent home invasion and robbery in Fairview.

Around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, officers went to a home on Frederick Avenue after getting reports of a man who’d been beaten up.

Police say the man was in his home when three other men came in, attacked him

and stole some of his belongings.

The victim was able to identify two suspects. Police tracked them to the Gaston Road area and arrested two men from Dartmouth.

They’re facing several charges, including breakand-enter, assault and robbery. metro

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Hundreds attend Rocky Jones’ funeral Truro. Supporters come from across Nova Scotia and Canada to honour human-rights fighter The Colchester Community Funeral Home overflowed Thursday as family and friends celebrated the life of Dr. Burnley Allan “Rocky” Jones.

Hundreds of people filled the chapel, the basement and overflow rooms throughout the funeral home.

Jones, 71, passed away on July 29 after a series of heart attacks.

Stan Barrett travelled from outside Toronto to say goodbye to his “dear friend.”

“Rocky was one of my heroes in Canada and an inspiration for some of my own work

on racism,” said Barrett, an anthropologist who met Jones in 1965 at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

Barrett met the well-known lawyer and civil-rights activist when he returned from West Africa through what was then known as Canadian University Service Overseas.

“That started a long, long friendship with Rocky,” he explained. “When I worked at the

University of Guelph, they had agreed to my idea to award him an honorary doctorate (of law).

“I consider Rocky to be the most effective and dedicated advocate of social reform in Canada. He dedicated his life to that,” said Barrett.

A graduate of Dalhousie law school, Jones was a strong advocate for minority rights and social reform.

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Human-rights activist Dr. Burnley Allan “Rocky” Jones. metro file Straight of Canso

Roman Catholic diocese says church review underway in four counties The pastoral planning director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish says a review of parishes in four counties is underway.

Father Donald MacGillivray says all 48 parishes will be reviewed in the Strait of Canso region.

A similar review in Cape Breton County wrapped up earlier this year and

resulted in eight churches closing in the Sydney, Glace Bay and Northside areas.

MacGillivray says the review will focus on how many churches are needed, but says closing churches will be a last resort.

He says review committees have been set up in Antigonish and Guysborough counties, while church officials are still in the process of establishing committees in Inverness and Richmond counties.

MacGillivray says he’s not sure how long the review will take.

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Muskrat Falls. Inuit groups ask for judicial review of project Two Inuit groups in Labrador are challenging a key part of the Muskrat Falls hydro project now under construction on the Lower Churchill River.

The Nunatsiavut Government and the NunatuKavut Community Council have filed requests for judicial review in Halifax.

They’re asking the Federal Court to revisit a decision by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to grant permission to begin work on a dam without properly consulting them.

Nunatsiavut president Sarah Leo says the project will damage recognized Inuit lands and cause potential health issues.

She says such concerns were

recognized by a federal-provincial environmental assessment panel but have not been accommodated.

NunatuKavut president Todd Russell, whose group has no federally recognized land claim, says the province has failed to adequately consult his members.

The authorization to start building the dam was granted to provincial Crown corporation Nalcor Energy, which declined comment as it reviews the court applications.

No one from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans or Natural Resources Canada could be immediately reached for comment. The Canadian Press

The Lower Churchill River has become a site of contention as construction of the Muskrat Falls hydro project gets underway. metro file

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U.S. authorities indict friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Conspiracy charges. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison.

Two friends of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were formally accused Thursday for allegedly trying to throw away fireworks and other items police say they found in Tsarnaev’s dorm room before his capture. Authorities later found some of the items in a New Bedford landfill, the federal indictment says.

Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19 and nationals of Kazakhstan, face charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. The two, who were in the U.S. attending college and shared an apartment, have been detained since they were charged in a criminal complaint in May. Both are scheduled for arraignment Tuesday.

Tazhayakov’s attorney, Arkady Bukh, said his client did nothing wrong and he’s tried for months to convince authorities to drop the case.

“For me, this sounds like a witch hunt,” he said. “And this is the same view (my) client has.” Kadyrbayev’s attorney, Robert Stahl, said his client never knowingly took evidence

This courtroom sketch shows Dias Kadyrbayev, left, and Azamat Tazhayakov in front of Magistrate Marianne Bowler at the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston.

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from Tsarnaev’s dorm room.

Tsarnaev, 20, is accused in the April 15 blasts at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured more than 260. He was captured April 19 in the Boston suburb of Watertown, after he was found hiding in a dry-docked boat, hours after a shootout with police.

He’s pleaded not guilty.

The indictment says that night Kadyrbayev put the backpack with the fireworks and jelly in a garbage bag, and tossed the bag in a trash bin outside the apartment.

The next morning, they allegedly watched as a garbage truck emptied the bin.

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Southern California wildfire injures five and destroys at least 10 homes Firefighters battle a rapidly spreading wildfire on Thursday in Southern California that has destroyed at least 10 home and forced some 1,500 people to flee. Five people have been injured, including a man near the origin of the fire who suffered serious burns. Jae C. Hong/The associated press

Moscow. Man confesses to Bolshoi Theater attack: Interfax news The Interfax news agency says the man accused of an acid attack on the artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater has confessed his guilt and requested that the two other defendants be exonerated.

Yuri Zarutsky is accused of accepting money from dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko and carrying out the attack on Sergei Filin. A third man, Andrei Lipatov, is accused of driving Zarutsky to and

from the scene of the crime.

Interfax said Zarutsky confessed his guilt in court on Thursday, saying that he initiated the attack.

If tried as “a group acting in collusion,” the men face up to 12 years in prison, as opposed to eight if they are tried individually.

“They are trying to break down the ‘group’ and the ‘collusion,’” Filin’s lawyer Tatiana Stukalova told Interfax. the associated press

Zanzibar, Tanzania. Two British women attacked by acid throwers: Police Assailants on the East African island of Zanzibar threw acid on two British women volunteers teaching at a primary school on the Tanzanian island, police said Thursday.

The attackers, riding on a small motorcycle, threw the acid on the women’s faces and arms as they were walking, said Mkadam Khamis, a police commander on the island. The attack took place Wednesday night in a tourist area of the city.

The women were transferred to Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, for medical treatment.

The alleged attack against the women is at least the third acid attack in Zanzibar since last year.

“We are looking (for) the attackers, and we are expanding our police networks in and outside the country to make sure we apprehend them,” said Khamis. the associated press

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Background check of Brazeau missed address conflict A background check of Patrick Brazeau by officials in the Prime Minister’s Office ignored or overlooked the conflicting addresses now at the heart of an RCMP probe into the senator’s finances.

Brazeau was claiming aboriginal tax status, and his driver’s licence and passport showed his address as his former fatherin-law’s house on the Kiniw Zibi Mika First Nation reserve in Maniwaki, Que. Police, however, allege he was actually living in Gatineau, about 90 minutes away, directly across the river from the national capital. the canadian press

LGBT rights

Baird dismisses criticism by women’s group Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is brushing off criticism of Ottawa’s defence of sexual minorities’ rights in foreign countries, saying the vast majority of Canadians support the government’s stance.

His comments come in response to an attack from a conservative women’s group, which accused Baird of using taxpayers money to promote “his own personal agenda.”

REAL Women of Canada took issue with Baird recently saying the Harper government worked behind the scenes to persuade Russia not to follow through with a controversial antigay law. the canadian press

Sandy Hook

Newtown kids to stage musical with big help Over 100 children from the Newtown, Conn., area are putting on a musical this weekend with the help of Broadway professionals.

The students have spent the last five weeks working with actor John Tartaglia,

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director Michael Unger and others on Seussical the Musical, which is being put on by the 12.14 Foundation, which was established after the Dec. 14 massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The proceeds go to the foundation, which intends to build a performing arts centre in Newtown in memory of the 20 children and six educators who were killed. the associated press

Terrifying father-son glacier trip ends with a hug Harrowing adventure.

Carefully practising safety precautions helps dad rescue son from tragic fate Jeremy nolais

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Raymond Cossette had taken three steps across a snow bridge when it “disappeared” beneath his feet.

The 32-year-old Alberta man was six kilometres up a glacier on Mount Robson, an hour northwest of Jasper, Alta., with his father Robert. The elder Cossette had flown in from Gatineau, Que., for an annual father-son climbing trip.

But now Ray was freefalling down a crevasse, dropping at least 18 metres before the rope tethered to Rob topside began to tighten. When he hit a pack

of deep snow roughly 25 metres below, Ray sank up to his neck.

“I was actually relatively calm, I was just waiting for the rope to catch,” said Ray. “If (Rob) had given me two or three feet more slack, I would have been buried down there essentially.”

Up above, the force of Ray’s fall had swept Rob right off his feet. He’d already crossed the snow bridge with no problems, but now was being dragged back toward the hole.

Rob had carefully gone over safety precautions with his son the night before, practising knots until he got them right. He managed to anchor himself and went to work securing knots to stabilize the rope, but he couldn’t hear Raymond initially and feared the worst.

“Nobody wants to lose their son ... nobody has a death wish,” he said.

But Ray had managed to

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“Nobody wants to lose their son ... nobody has a death wish.”

Robert Cossette

pull his shovel out and went to work digging himself out. Once free, he turned to the ice-climbing equipment in his pack but the frozen walls were too thick to dig into. Instead, Ray used a technique he’d practised by tying a rope to beams in his garage and shimmying up it.

When Ray reached the top, two hours after his fall, his father wrapped him up in a big hug.

The Robson glacier trip was over, but the father-son pair couldn’t stay off the mountains for long, teaming up for an “easy summit” on Thursday. On future glacier climbs, they plan to add a third person to the rope.

Rob Cossette, left, and son Ray make a habit of trekking up some of Alberta and B.C.’s most daunting mountains. Ray is crediting his quick-learning father with saving his life after he plunged 25 metres into a crevasse Sunday.

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Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA

animal flesh.”

Is it meat?

“It is real meat — it’s flesh. It’s muscle cells, when you’re eating it you’re eating

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Is this bull?

Grill-gotten gains

Meat never past its stemcell-by date The world is our oyster, er, better yet, meat market A T. rex steak? A woolly mammoth taco? How about your grouchy old boss served up (quite literally) on a silver platter?

In theory, we could someday be eating it all without hurting anyone or anything — taken straight from stem cells lovingly nurtured in a petri dish and dished up on your dinner table.

Maastricht University in the Netherlands is at the root of what could become a modern food marvel. A team there has unveiled a hamburger (valued at $340,000) that was grown in a lab instead of cut from a cow.

And, experts say, that’s only the start of where this could all wind up.

Simply put, if this whole thing shakes out, stem cells from pretty much anything we can get our hands on could be cultivated, grilled and enjoyed — depending on how strong your stomach is, of course.

For some, meat grown from stem cells instead of harvested from animals is an answer to the age-old problem of killing one creature for another’s enjoyment. To others, the whole idea just seems ridiculous

Would you eat it?

“I don’t need to try it; it doesn’t interest me personally. If someone made a bet, (something like) Canada would go vegetarian today to eat it, I’d do it. If it helped to reduce suffering, I’d do it on a bet.”

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Michael Kuijpers, Vegan Activists of London, Ont. Is it meat?

“Yes.” Would you eat it?

“I don’t think so because it was grown from stem cells.… I support it (though) — any alternative that would help decrease the demand for animal products is a great thing.”

Dr. Greg Kelly, biology professor, Western University Is it meat?

“I’d say it’s meat.…

You’re bathing the cells in growth factors, nutrients, things the cells need to grow.”

Would you eat it?

“Sure, why not? I mean I’m not a big fan of veggie burgers, but it’s an alternative. It’s what you put on it that makes it tasty.”

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Niki Hambalek, owner of the Hungary Butcher in London, Ont. Is it meat?

“No. I would call it artificial meat.

How could you call it beef ? That’s lying, right?”

Would you eat it?

“Not at all. I wouldn’t even consider it. I don’t see any difference in cloning or doing this. How is it going to affect my health in 10 years?”

Paul Sharpe, cattle farmer, Sharpe Farms near Guelph, Ont. Vinod Sharma, president of United Hindu Congress of Canada Is it meat?

“It is not naturalgrown food.”

Would you eat it?

“Absolutely not....

First of all, Hindu (people) don’t eat beef. Secondly, we are totally against any kind of production of artificial meat for human consumption.”

Is it meat?

“No. Is it very interesting? Yes. It’s a topic of conversation, yes, but is it the same thing to me? No.” Would you eat it?

“Sure, I would eat it, and I’m sure it’s not going to kill me. I’m not afraid of that. Would I eat it on an ongoing basis? No.”

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Big dig unearths layers of London’s history Crossrail line. Britain’s biggest construction project is also largest archeological dig in London for decades Jewelry, pieces of ships, medieval ice skates, centuries-old skulls — work on a new railway line under the British

capital is bringing centuries of buried history to light.

In London’s busy business core, archeologists have struck pay dirt, uncovering everything from a chunk of Roman road to dozens of 2,000-year-old horseshoes, some golden 16th-century bling — and the bones of longdead Londoners.

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More than 100 archeologists at 40 excavation sites have found everything from mammoth bones dating back 68,000 years to a Tudor manor house, medieval ice skates, an 800-year-old ship and an 18th-century shipyard.

metres deep, the distance be-

tween today’s street level and sidewalks in Roman times.

The Crossrail line is providing archeologists with a chance to dig down through those centuries and beyond.

The railway will run across London with a central 21-kilometre section underground.

That has meant tunnelling beneath some of the city’s oldest, most densely populated sections. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

An archeologist brushes dirt off an ancient skull found Wednesday during building of a new rail line in London. Alastair Grant/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

California still dreaming?

Climate change impacting forests, animals: Report Coastal waters off California are getting more acidic.

Conifer forests on the lower slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains have moved to higher elevations over the past half-century.

Climate change is affecting natural resources in California, a report released Thursday by an arm of the California Environmental Protection Agency found. The findings are an update to a 2009 report that documented how a warming California is

impacting the environment, wildlife and people.

Among the known impacts: Butterflies in the Central Valley region are emerging from hiding earlier in the spring; glaciers in the Sierra Nevada have shrunk; and spring runoff from snowmelt has declined, affecting Central Valley farmers and hydroelectric plants.

Expect more heat waves, wildfires and higher sea levels as the state warms, the report said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Ice, ice, baby — the heat is on A polar bear lies in water to cool himself in rare, extreme heat reaching 38 C at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, believed to be the hottest day in Poland so far this year.

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Road safety. Herzog teams up with AT&T for short film on texting and driving

After a deadly train derailment in Quebec last month, Sun News Network’s Ezra Levant pondered if eco-terrorism was to blame. “Blocking trains is the new favourite tactic of Canada’s environmentalists, anarchists and self-styled Indian warriors,” Levant said. The channel will not be part of a basic-cable package, the CRTC ruled Thursday. screengrab/sunnewsnetwork.ca

CRTC turns down Sun News’ basic-cable bid Television. However, telecom regulator says it plans to review rules for news channels

Sun News Network says it will stay on the air while the CRTC reviews the way news channels are regulated in Canada.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica-

tions Commission on Thursday rejected the network’s bid to be carried on basic cable, casting fresh doubts on the future of the controversial upstart broadcaster.

But the CRTC also says it will review the regulations for news channels in Canada.

“The diversity of voices is an essential component of our society, particularly as they relate to news and information in the Canadian broadcasting

system,” CRTC chairman JeanPierre Blais said in a statement.

“Television news channels provide an important public service by ensuring that Canadians are exposed to different opinions and perspectives on matters that concern all citizens. We are concerned that, under the existing rules, Canadian news services are not being given a pride of place in our broadcasting system.”

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In his documentaries, Werner Herzog has examined grizzly bears, plane crash survivors, cave paintings and death row inmates. For his latest project, the filmmaker is exploring the dangers of texting while driving in From One Second to the Next, a 35-minute short film that emotionally recounts how lives have been forever changed by the issue.

“I knew I could do it because it has to do with catastrophic events invading a family,” said

Herzog, 70. “In one second, entire lives are either wiped out or changed forever. That kind of emotional resonance is something that I knew I could cover.”

The documentary, which tells the stories of both victims and perpetrators, is available to watch at ItCanWait.com and will be distributed by AT&T to more than 40,000 high schools, as well as hundreds of safety organizations and government agencies.

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Werner Herzog’s film about texting and driving can be seen at ItCanWait.com. istock

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seats without anyone noticing? . Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post from the ‘Sppeling’ be. Twelve-year-old Thomas Hurley Grahams to whom it belonged for 80 years. The III misspelled the final Jeopardy! answer sale came as a surprise to many, so when Post Co. ‘Emanciptation Proclamation,’ which judges CEO Donald E. Graham was asked why he would deemed unacceptable. The commotion caused sell his family business so suddenly, he said, by this completely overshadowed the fact that “Look, I’m old. It’s a newspaper, and the guy had the real winner not only had the answer spelled $250 million.” Touché, Donny. correctly, but that his record-breaking score of $66,000 meant that Thomas had zero chance of Global warming. A new study revealed worriwinning anyway. But maybe I’m just ‘nipticksome statistics from 2012. Rising sea levels ing.’ and melting ice reached alarming levels. Temperatures were only slightly affected but have Grand slam. It was a big week for 38-year-old THE METRO LIST been increasing at a rate of about 1.5 C per decAlex Rodriguez who returned to baseball ade over the last 50 years. In short, I may not have Mike Benhaim this week after his second hip surgery in four to worry in my lifetime, but we should all probyears. A-Rod also received a suspension for drug metronews.ca ably stop having kids. use, which he is appealing on the basis that, at his age and stage of his career, pretty much anything would qualShark week. Headlines read “Dead shark found on NYC subify as “performance-enhancing.” way.” Firstly, do we need the word ‘dead’ here? Or is it not enough that in a densely populated city, someone could enter a Birthday suit. When asked if she was uncomfortable with the station with a three-foot-long stinking sea creature, wait for the nudity and risqué sexuality in playing the role of Linda Lovetrain, drag it in before the doors close, and place it under a row of lace, Amanda Seyfried shrugged and said, “It’s a costume really.

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Just a naked body. We all look the same.” Umm, no, but that’s why I love Amanda Seyfried.

The Bachelorette. If I understand this correctly, Desiree told the final bachelor, “I publicly declared my love for another contestant who told me he didn’t feel the same (just last week), and it made me realize I was in love with you all along.” Ah, the romantic story we all long to tell our kids, and it’s all on video.

Cheers!

This week in music. In 1975 The Bee Gees hit No. 1 in America with Jive Talkin’, which was the group’s second U.S. chart-topper on the road to many more. They were also the first known white people to ever use that phrase.

Piano in the dark. The Canadian music community suffered a loss this week when James Gray died of a sudden heart attack.

James was just 52, and played keyboards for the Rheostatics, Vital Sines, and Blue Rodeo. Among the countless artists who had the pleasure to work with Gray, he will be fondly remembered. His death leaves a gaping hole in the music community. As for me, I thank him for the songs he Follow The Metro List on leaves behind.

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Once also used by military in WWII

Brompton Road underground station, now disused, in central London, is up for sale for about $31 million.

The station is near to the historic Brompton Oratory church and the ritzy Harrods department store. It opened in 1906 but turned out to be too close to other stations to attract many passengers, and was closed in 1934.

Brompton Road station is being sold by the Ministry of Defence, which bought the building in the 1936, when it became an army anti-aircraft headquarters, protecting London from German bombers during the Blitz.

The ministry, which is selling several properties and laying off thousands of soldiers in a cost-cutting drive, says the building has been declared

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“surplus to requirements” and will be put up for sale next month. The site includes a station building covered in the distinctive oxblood-coloured tiles of London Underground’s Piccadilly Line. The ministry said the interior includes “a drill hall, garages, offices and mess,” as well as elevator shafts and underground passages — though not the subway tunnels, which remain in use and belong to London’s transit operator.

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• Brompton Road is one of several abandoned subway stations in London. Many are derelict, although Aldwych station has been preserved as a location for filming period dramas, and the former Hyde Park Corner station building was a restaurant and jazz club until it closed in 2010.

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Set in 2154, humanity has split into two sections, the one per cent, who live on an Eden called Elysium that hovers high above Earth, and the 99 per cent who toil on what’s left of our planet. The one per cent have it all plus medical care that can cure any ailment. On earth Max (Matt Damon) is an ex-thief who has always dreamed of living in Elysium and is now working a straight job to save enough to buy a ticket. When he’s exposed to a lethal dose of radiation he makes a deal with a crime boss (Wagner Moura) who hires him to do a job for a one-way ticket to Elysium. Metro’s Liz Brown sits in for Mark Breslin.

• Richard: ••••• • Liz: ••••• Matt Damon is convincing as a downtrodden guy with a dream in Elysium. CONTRIBUTED

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Back to the future?

Elysium. District 9 director’s return to the big screen isn’t as sci-fi fresh as his debut Richard: Liz, director Neill Blomkamp’s big screen debut, District 9, was a fresh slice of sci-fi with a real beating heart.

He brings that same kind of humanity to Elysium, but it doesn’t feel quite as fresh this time around. It’s exciting, has some great action and ideas and everybody’s boyfriend Matt Damon, but for all that, it feels much more standard than I hoped it would be. What did you think?

Liz: Richard, Elysium isn’t as fresh because it’s District 9

with prettier faces. There’s an unfair class system, a guy who undergoes a grotesque transformation and the same dusty shanty towns. I even thought Blomkamp recycled footage from District 9 -— the Los Angeles of 2154 looks oddly like the Prawn camp outside Johannesburg. But a shredded Matt Damon is a nice addition to the somewhat tired story.

RC: I should make it clear that I liked most of this movie. I think the setup is interesting, even if it is reminiscent of everything from Oblivion and even WALL-E, and for the first hour it does what great sci-fi should do, comment on the human condition. But then it becomes an ordinary bash-’em and beat-’em action movie with sentimental and mawk-

ish overtones. It’s not bad, and, in fact, at times is pretty great, just not as great as I expected.

LB: While the story was meh, for me, the bash-’em-up scenes were great. Watching Matt Damon and a deranged Sharlto Copley tangle in some mortal combat was a lot of fun. I thought Copley — who was the wimpy Wikus in District 9 — really stole the show in his role as a rogue secret service agent.

RC: Copley is entertaining, chewing through the scenery like he hasn’t eaten in a week.

Damon also impresses. He’s believable as both the sensitive guy with a dream and the lethal, half-cyborg warrior capable of opening a can of futuristic whoop ass on everyone in his way. Jodie Foster is

nicely cast as the ice cold Donald-Rumsfeld-style villain, but I found her perfect diction really distracting. Every word she says seemed to have its own finely honed shape to the point where I almost had a hard time understanding what she was saying.

LB: Foster wasn’t the only one with distracting diction. I found the fast-talk in this film impossible to understand. I’m still not sure of the finer points of the Earthling plan to invade Elysium and maybe Matt Damon missed them too, judging from the way things go terribly wrong. He really got a raw deal didn’t he? Only Damon could take on a lethal radiation dose, sketchy Tijuana-style surgery and a few beatings and still save the day.

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After narrowly qualifying for the Wings Around the World Rally, Dusty (voice of Dane Cook), a singlepropeller crop duster with a fear of heights, recruits the help of retired Navy Corsair Skippy (voice of Stacy Keach) to teach him how to win. Unfortunately the race’s reigning champ Ripslinger (Roger Craig Smith) feels threatened by Dusty and conspires to dash his high hopes. Planes plays like an airborne Cars, but has a definite direct-to-DVD feel about it. There are good messages about the benefits of honesty and hard work, but the dull story never takes flight.

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Possessing a terribly incongruous mix of tones, I’m So Excited feels like a rare misstep for feted Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar. A malfunction puts a passenger plane in jeopardy as it prepares for an emergency landing. Inside a trio of campy male flight attendants do their best to put all at ease, often through drink and drugs. At first the bawdy one-liners are a refreshing change from Hollywood’s recent parade of awkward, mean-spirited comedy. But the jokes and the sexual innuendo soon grow thin.

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Objection! My destiny is to act — preferably with Matt Damon Josh Blacker. ‘I didn’t want to be a lawyer ... I wanted to be a person pretending to be a lawyer,’ the Elysium star says Kate Webb

Metro in Vancouver

It took Josh Blacker a few years of working as a litigator to realize that law was not nearly as dramatic a career path as he had hoped it would be.

The Vancouver actor, now 40, had pictured himself making passionate, nuanced arguments in front of a judge, but in practise his days in court were rare, and when he did go he found the script he had to follow was boring.

“I think what happened was I watched an episode of L.A. law, and thought, ‘That would be fun,’ and then realized later on that, in fact, I didn’t want to

be a lawyer,” he told Metro in a recent phone interview from L.A. “I wanted to be a person pretending to be a lawyer.”

In 2004 he packed up and moved from Calgary to Vancouver to pursue his other lifelong dream, acting, which paid off big time when he was cast in Elysium: Oscar-nominated writer/director Neill Blomkamp’s blockbuster sci-fi followup to District 9.

Set in the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.

Starring opposite Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, Sharlto Copley, Diego Luna, Brandon Auret, and Alice Braga, Blacker plays Crowe, a South African mercenary sent to protect Elysium.

Blacker happens to have been born and raised in South Africa, so when he found out Blomkamp was casting a South African for the film, he says he felt he was destined to play the

Josh Blacker stars opposite Matt Damon and Jodie Foster in Elysium, opening in theatres Aug. 9. Contributed

part. It is also the type of role in which he was comfortable and experienced, having appeared on a number of Vancouver-shot sci-fi TV shows such as Supernatural and Stargate: Atlantis.

“Most of the time I play some pretty bad dudes,” he said. “I’ve played marines and convicts and mercenaries and occasionally some guy that maybe you’re not sure about that lives next door.”

Blacker said working with Damon and Foster was a

“dream come true” and called his feature film debut the most amazing experience of his career to date.

“He’s exactly as you would expect him to be,” he said of Damon. “He’s grounded and warm as you would expect him to be, and he has a really great sense of humour. He’s just a terrific guy and you can understand why he’s one of the most bankable stars out there.”

Elysium opens in IMAX and theatres nationwide on Aug. 9.

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Thu 12:35-3:50-6:50-9:15 Turbo (G) , Fri-Thu 12:35-6:50 Turbo 3D (G) , Fri-Thu 4-9:55 We’re the Millers (STC) Digital, , Wed-Thu 1:30-4:20-7:20-10:15 The Wolverine (STC) Digital, , FriThu 12:05-3-6:10-9:15 The Wolverine 3D (STC) , Fri-Thu 12:15-3:15-6:35-9:40 World War Z (14) Dolby Stereo, FriTue 4:20-9:55

Imax 190 Chain Lake Dr. Elysium: The IMAX Experience (STC) , Thu 10:15 Pacific Rim: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) , Fri-Wed 12:45-3:45-6:45-9:45 , Thu 12:45-3:45-6:45

Oxford Theatre 6408 Quinpool Rd. The Way Way Back (STC) Fri 6:30-9 Sat-Mon 3:45-6:30-9 Tue-Thu 6:30-9

Park Lane 5657 Spring Garden Rd. 2 Guns (STC) , Fri-Thu 1-3:55-7-9:50 20 Feet From Stardom (STC) , FriThu 1:15-4:15-7:10-9:55 Andre Rieu Live in Maastricht 2013 (STC) Wed 7 The Conjuring (14) , Fri-Tue 1:204:05-6:50-9:40 , Wed-Thu 1:25-4:056:50-9:20 Despicable Me 2 (G) Fri-Tue 3:45 Wed 1 Thu 1:05-3:45 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) Fri-Tue 1:05-6:20 Elysium (STC) , Thu 10 The Heat (14) Fri-Tue 3:40-9:10

Pacific Rim (PG) , Fri-Tue 12:45-6:15 , Wed 3:30 , Thu 6:15 Pacific Rim 3D (PG) Fri-Tue 3:258:50 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (STC) , Wed-Thu 3:40-9:10 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (STC) , Wed-Thu 12:55-6:25 R.I.P.D. (STC) Fri-Tue 9:20 Red 2 (STC) No Passes, , Fri-Tue 1:10-6:30 The Smurfs 2 (STC) , Fri-Tue 4-9 , Wed 6:35-9 , Thu 4-9 The Smurfs 2 3D (STC) , Fri-Tue 1:30-6:35 , Wed 1:30-4 , Thu 1:306:35 We’re the Millers (STC) No Passes, , Wed-Thu 1:20-3:50-6:55-9:40 The Wolverine (STC) No Passes, , FriTue 12:50-9:30 No Passes, , Wed-Thu 12:45-9:30 The Wolverine 3D (STC) No Passes, , Fri-Thu 3:35-6:40

Lower Sackville 760 Sackville Dr. 2 Guns (STC) , Fri-Tue 3-6:40-9:20 , Wed-Thu 6:40-9:20 The Conjuring (14) , Fri-Tue 2:506:50-9:35 , Wed-Thu 7-9:35 Despicable Me 2 (G) , Fri-Tue 2:40-7 , Wed-Thu 6 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) , Fri-Tue 8:50 Grown Ups 2 (STC) , Fri-Tue 2:106-9:30 The Heat (14) , Fri-Tue 6:10-9 , WedThu 8:40 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (STC) , Wed-Thu 6:20-9:10 The Smurfs 2 (STC) Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Fri-Tue 2:25-8:40 Dolby Stereo, , No Passes Wed-Thu 8:50 The Smurfs 2 3D (STC) , , No Passes Fri-Tue 6:20 , , No Passes Wed-Thu

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Dartmouth Crossing 145 Shubie Dr. 2 Guns (STC) Digital, , Fri-Thu 1:054:05-7:20-10:20 The Conjuring (14) Digital, , Fri-Thu 1:30-4:30-7:40-10:30 Despicable Me 2 (G) Digital, , FriThu 12:55-7:25 Despicable Me 2 3D (G) , Fri-Thu 3:55 Elysium (STC) Digital, , Thu 10 Grown Ups 2 (STC) Digital, , Fri-Thu 1:25-4:25-7:35-10:15 The Heat (14) Digital, , Fri-Tue 12:153:15-6:50-9:50 Digital, , Wed-Thu 12-3-6:15-9:10 Pacific Rim (PG) Digital, , Fri-Tue 9:20 Pacific Rim 3D (PG) Digital, , Fri-Tue 6:35 Digital, , Wed 10:05 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (STC) Digital, , Wed-Thu 3:45-9:35 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 3D (STC) , Wed-Thu 12:45-6:35 Planes (STC) Digital, , No Passes, Thu 7 Planes 3D (STC) , No Passes, Thu 9:20 R.I.P.D. 3D (STC) , Fri-Tue 10:05 Red 2 (STC) Digital, , Fri-Tue 123-6:15-9:10 Digital, , Wed 6:15-9:10 Digital, , Thu 10:05 The Smurfs 2 (STC) Digital, , Fri-Tue 12:45-3:45 Digital, , Wed 11-1:15-7:10

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It amounts to the most epic bathroom break in TV history Interview. Bryan Cranston on Walter White’s future in Breaking Bad’s final season and the nature of his character Meredith Engel

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If you’re not caught up on Breaking Bad, you might want to stop reading here.

But if you are caught up, you know that last season’s cliffhanging finale ended with DEA agent Hank Schrader picking up some very special reading material while on the toilet — evidence to incriminate his brother-in-law, Walter White, for orchestrating the drug ring Schrader has had his eyes on since the first season.

While you might have been waiting with baited breath to find out what hap-

pens when Hank comes out of that bathroom, Bryan Cranston tells Metro he wasn’t.

“I didn’t ask for the whole year,” says Cranston, who has played the series’ lead Walter White since 2008.

He says he only got the script about two weeks before the episode began shooting. “I don’t need to have a lot of information in my head.”

Fans won’t have to wait much longer to discover what happens next, as the series returns for its final eight episodes beginning Sunday.

Cranston himself was mum about the series finale when we spoke to him last month.

But he did share plenty of insight into a series he calls a “cautionary tale,” about a man whose hunger for power just couldn’t be satiated.

How many people know the ending right now?

Maybe about 20. It’s gonna go up to about 200. … There are several things that happen, as you might guess, in

is a teacher, and a well educated man, and he cannot provide for his family.” … We are telling this story in that manner that is resonating with people because it’s not about drug manufacturing or drug usage; this story is about decisions that people make and the slippery slope that (can) happen.

Breaking Bad returns for its eight final episodes starting Sunday. The long-awaited showdown places Hank Schrader in direct conflict with the villainous hero, Walter White. Frank Ockenfels/the associated press

the last eight — many twists and turns that you will gasp at.

Why do you think people

from all walks of life really connect to this show?

Well, I think because it’s honest. We’re exploring sociopolitical relationships.

Some people were gleaning that, “Oh, this is a condemnation of the medical care system in the United States, because here’s a man who

Are you happy with Walt’s ending?

I’m very pleased. You know, there was apprehension of reading the last episode because once you read the last episode, there’s no more episodes to read — it’s just like, whoa, I don’t want it to end. But I can honestly say that fans of our show will be very pleased, very satisfied with the outcome. It’s very Breaking Bad — unapologetic and very appropriate. We cover it all. I can tell you this: There’s not going to be a sense of, “Wait a minute, what?” That’s not going to be the case with Breaking Bad.

Breaking up with Breaking Bad is hard to do Vince Gilligan, the Breaking Bad creator, is having trouble remembering to talk about things in the past tense.

“I say this in present tense but it’s all past tense now, which makes me sad anew,” he says with a laugh while talking about crafting the finale to his groundbreaking, award-winning series,

Breaking Bad. As Gilligan is adjusting to a life not spent chronicling the transformation of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) from a mild-mannered, cancer-ridden high school chemistry teacher to a ruthless meth kingpin, here’s a glimpse of what’s been on his mind.

He knew when to say when: I had some very, very polite discussions. I never had any arguments, but I had Bryan Cranston say, “Are you sure you want to end it?” I had Sony and AMC say, “Are you sure you want to end it?” And it all came from a place of enthusiasm for the show and a desire for it to continue, and

I have those same feelings of enthusiasm and desire. I wanted the show to go on forever for reasons of creative satisfaction and personal satisfaction. But it wasn’t that hard of a decision to end it.

I wanted it to end on a high note.

He doesn’t know what

A dealer with a conscience is still a dealer

Aaron Paul plays Jesse Pinkman on Breaking Bad. getty images

Aaron Paul has won two Emmys for his acting chops, so it’s no surprise he was able to fool us into believing that the cast of Breaking Bad had filmed 12 different endings for the critically acclaimed series and that he was unsure which would make it to air.

But jokes aside, Paul says he does know how his character, the drug-dealer-witha-conscience Jesse Pinkman, ends his run in these final eight episodes, and that he’s happy with the trajectory.

“As a whole I’m very pleased,” he tells Metro, say-

ing that it’s hard to discuss his character’s final moments without giving anything away.

Also a challenge for the actor: Admitting that the series has come to an end.

“I think (I’ve) kinda moved past the mourning, or maybe not — maybe I’m just in denial,” he says with a laugh.

While he won’t reveal too much about the show’s final season, he does tell fans to expect the same level — if not more — of darkness they’ve come to expect from the show’s previous episodes.

And now, with the end approaching, everything’s at a heightened pace.

“I think the very first episode of the final eight, that’s a violent punch to the throat,” Paul says.

“You would like to think that he is the moral compass,” Paul says of his character.

“But if you really think about it, he was a drug dealer and he’s a murderer. ...

You hope that Jesse kinda comes out of this, but you know, who knows?”

Meredith Engel/metro world news

you’re saying about him: I have this phobia about Googling myself. I’ve never done it, and I don’t intend to start.

I think my fear is I’m too interested, and if I started to look up fan reactions on the Internet, it would be a sort of rabbit hole that I would disappear down.

Ned Ehrbar/metro world news

Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan. getty images

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It’s her wedding and she’ll have it when she wants to Jennifer Aniston is fed up with the tabloids reporting that she and fiancé Justin Theroux have called off their wedding.

“Well, there was no wedding planned,” an exasperated Aniston says while visiting The Talk, a daytime chat show.

“Do you realize that the

majority of all of those tag rags are loaded with absolute false information? They like to create the stories because it’s not interesting, the story of, ‘we’re really happy and in love and feel like we’re married and eventually we’re going to get married when we find the time.’ I don’t think there’s a rush.”

METRO DISH OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES The Word

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Beyoncé, and more celebs who chopped their hair off The unthinkable has happened. Beyoncé, who pretty much runs the world right now, with her inexplicably voluminous waves flowing in her hip-shaking wake, has gone for the chop. She posted photos to her Instagram today of the bleached-blond do, immediately dividing her five million plus followers. In recognition of this monumental moment, we reflect on other celebrities who have divided the world with their haircut.

Anne Hathaway The Les Mis star has never had the best luck with public opinion in the first place, but when she cut off her hair for the role of Fantine, things got messy.

Alongside the usual haters you actually had Hathaway joining in herself, saying she looked like her “gay brother” and claiming to be “inconsolable.”

Emma Watson Hermione without her signature bushy long hair is almost as shocking as Beyoncé without her iconic locks.

Rihanna When Rihanna first went for the crop it signalled the end of the Pon de Replay era and the beginning of the provocative singer as we now know her.

Miley Cyrus What better way to wave her Disney days goodbye than with a bleached pixie cut? The new, punked-up Miley was probably a bit of a surprise to her pre-teen fan base. She’s still working on making her image click.

Carey Mulligan Until the whole Beyoncé situation plays out, we can safely say the British actress is the greatest success story when it comes to the crop. After a peroxide dye left her hair stunted, she turned the problem into a solution by sporting a chic boyish style that has now become synonymous with the Gatsby star.

Britney Spears OK, so it wasn’t exactly a tasteful haircut, nor was the decision made with much rational thought.

But if there has ever been a game-changing hair moment (yes, such a thing exists), it has to belong to Britney. The Leave Britney Alone video garnered more than 46 million hits and its creator now has a Wikipedia entry. At least someone won. metro

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Plenty of potential owners interested in Devils: Source

Sailing trio, swimmers cap marathon week From left: Greg Simms, Corinne Peters and Devan Dube, members of the RNSYS, pose for a photo in front of Lac Magog. LEN WAGG/PHOTO COMMUNICATIONS NOVA SCOTIA

Canada Summer Games. Nova Scotia bumps medal tally to 12 in national event ANDREW RANKIN

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They went into the Canada Summer Games among the elite young sailors in the country, and they didn’t disappoint on Thursday afternoon in Sherbrooke Que. First it was Corrine Peters from the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, who captured

silver in the female laser radial class. Shortly after that, her fellow RNSYS members Greg Simms and Devan Dube struck bronze in the 29er event.

Peters, who just weeks before the Games competed at the Youth Sailing World Championship in Cyprus, was ecstatic about her first Summer Games medal.

“After the youth worlds I was just trying to get my feet back on the ground and to just keep up my momentum,” she said. “I came here to win a medal and I’m so happy to be going home with one.”

Used to ocean training, the 18-year-old had to adjust to trickier, unpredictable lake

Third in the nation

“We made a few mistakes that cost us, but we’re just happy to be coming home with a medal.”

Devan Dube on his bronze finish

conditions.

She went into her last of 12 races over six days on Thursday having won five of them, which guaranteed her an overall top three finish. “I went into today hoping to win silver, and I did.”

After capturing the 29er Canadian championships held in Kingston last month, Simms and Dube came short of their

goal of a gold or silver medal.

After a disastrous run on their second of six days of sailing, which set them back 10 points from the pack, they clawed back to an eventual third-place finish.

“We’re still third in the country,” said Dube.

Claire McNally of Bridgewater earned her second medal of the games with a bronze performance in the 200 metre individual medley; Para division. New Glasgow’s Tim Ferris collected his fifth medal of the Games, earning a bronze in the 50M freestyle; Special Olympics division. Sean Berrigan of Dartmouth struck bronze in the 50M backstroke.

A person familiar with the negotiations says several groups are vying to buy the financially strapped New Jersey Devils, and a deal should be completed by the start of the NHL season.

The source spoke to The Associated Press Thursday and requested anonymity because the negotiations between Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek and the groups are still active.

Philadelphia 76ers owner Josh Harris heads one group trying to buy the three-time Stanley Cup champions and Calgary billionaire Bill Gallacher is another, although the source said multiple groups are bidding on the deal that includes the operating rights to the Prudential Center. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sochi Olympics

Russia says they will respect rights Urging critics of Russia’s new anti-gay law to “calm down,” the country’s sports minister said Thursday that the rights of all athletes competing at next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi will be respected.

Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko did insist that athletes would “have to respect the laws of the country” during the Feb. 7-23 games in the Black Sea resort in southern Russia.

The law, signed by President Vladimir Putin in June, bans “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations” and imposes fines on those holding gay pride rallies. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Canuck Pospisil closing in on tennis giants Men’s Rogers Cup. B.C. native pulls off an upset as Brit Andy Murray falls in straight-sets shocker Vasek Pospisil and Milos Raonic will play in the quarterfinals of the men’s Rogers Cup. Pospisil was overcome with

emotion after he came out on top of a tight match with fifthseeded Tomas Berdych to win 7-5, 2-6, 7-6 (5) before a roaring crowd of supporters on Thursday at the $3.49-million US tournament.

It was the Vernon, B.C., native’s first career win over an opponent ranked in the top 10.

Raonic, meanwhile, didn’t even break a smile after a 7-5, 6-4 win over sixth-seeded Juan

PGA Championship.

Late bloomer Hearn one stroke off lead at Oak Hill David Hearn huddled with Mike Weir at the Canadian Open about learning from near-misses.

Weir, the 2003 Masters champion, is now 43 and settling in as a mentor to his younger countrymen. Hearn may be just coming into his own as a pro golfer at age 34.

Less than a month after losing in a playoff at the John Deere Classic for his best finish on the PGA Tour, Hearn shot a 4-under 66 on Thursday in the first round of the PGA Championship. That put him a stroke off the lead, tied with Lee Westwood behind Jim Furyk and Adam Scott.

The last time the PGA was played at Oak Hill 10 years ago, Weir was coming off his Masters title and was in contention heading into Sunday.

The course is about 2 1/2 hours

Leading the pack

Even with a bogey on the final hole, Jim Furyk seized the clubhouse lead with a 5-under 65 Thursday before storms halted the opening round at Oak Hill. Masters champion Adam Scott joined Furyk at the top when play resumed.

• Tiger Woods made a mess of his final hole, finishing with a double bogey and a disappointing 71.

east of Hearn’s hometown of Brantford, Ont. — best known as the hometown of Wayne Gretzky, who has also imparted athletic advice to Hearn. the associated press

David Hearn lines up a putt on the 13th hole of the PGA Championship’s first round on Thursday. Charlie Riedel/the associated press

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Martin Del Potro, the Argentine veteran who was coming off a victory last week in Washington.

In Friday’s quarter-finals, Pospisil will face Nikolay Davydenko, who downed fellow Russian Alex Bogomolov Jr. 6-4, 6-3.

Raonic, of Thornhill, Ont., will take on Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis in the quarters after he upset Wimbledon champion

Andy Murray 6-4, 6-3.

Murray went down to a shocking 6-4, 6-3 defeat at the hands of Gulbis, whom Murray had beaten in all five of their previous meetings.

On centre court, fourthseeded Rafael Nadal improved to 45-3 this year — best on the ATP Tour — with a 7-6 (6), 6-4 victory over 15th-seeded Jerzy Janowicz on Thursday.

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Vasek Pospisil celebrates after defeating Tomas Berdych at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Thursday. Graham Hughes/the canadian press

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Pirates riding strange winning tide For 20 years, the Pittsburgh Pirates couldn’t win. Now, it seems they cannot lose.

Russell Martin’s pinchhit single with two outs in the 10th inning lifted the Pirates over the Miami Marlins 5-4 Thursday for their fifth straight win.

Martin delivered his fourth game-ending hit at PNC Park this year for the NL Central leaders.

Wayne Gretzky wipes away tears during a press conference to announce his being traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings at a press conference in Edmonton on August 9, 1988. Ray Giguere/the canadian press

Bettman: Great One gave NHL ‘credibility’ in U.S. Hockey in the U.S. NHL commissioner says Gretzky brought credibility to hockey south of the border Hockey fans of a certain age tend to remember where they were on Aug. 9, 1988, when the Oilers traded Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was working for the NBA 25 years ago and doesn’t recall exactly where he was.

His most vivid memory came a couple of weeks later when he saw the Aug. 22 Sports Illustrated cover that featured Gretzky and Lakers star Magic Johnson.

“Remember thinking at the time that that demonstrated a huge step forward for hockey and its credibility,” Bettman

told The Canadian Press on Thursday. “It was obviously something that, in the annals of sports, was one of those seminal events that gets a tremendous amount of attention because of its import and impact.”

Sports Illustrated’s cover read, “Great move, Gretzky.” At the expense of the Oilers and their fans, it also turned out to be a great move for hockey in the United States, which benefited from expansion and an infusion of players at the youth level.

“People paid attention to hockey in places where they might not have focused on it as much, and it was clear there was a great deal of interest in the game,” Bettman said.

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“It was the reaction of people to the game,” Bettman said of the cause and effect.

“Wayne’s presence in L.A. and the success the Kings had demonstrated that hockey had credibility in so-called newer or non-traditional markets.”

The Pirates celebrate Thursday’s win over the Marlins in Pittsburgh.

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“We’re like the Miami Heat,” Pittsburgh star centre fielder Andrew McCutchen said. “We play better in the second half of games.”

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